Disapproving Connection of any European
Government with a Ship Canal across
the Isthmus of Darien or across
Central America.

Holmes, Hopkins of N. Y., Howard, Hudd, | report without division; and the bill was apHutton, Johnston of Ind., Jones, Kelley of Pa., proved February 20, 1889. Kennedy, Kerr of Iowa, Ketcham, Laffoon, Lagan, Laidlaw, Landes, Latham, Lee, Long, Macdonald, Mansur, Mason, Matson, McAdoo, McClammy, McComas, McCormick, McCreary, McKinley, McKinney, McMillin, Merriman, Milliken, Moffitt, Moore of Tex., Morrill, Newton, NICHOLS, Norwood, Oates, O'Donnell, FIFTIETH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION. O'Neill of Pa., O'Neill of Mo., Osborne, Outhwaite, Owen of Ind., Parker, Patton, Payson, 1889, January 7-This joint resolution (S. Peel, Perkins, Perry, Peters, Phelps, Plumb, 122): Resolved, &c., That the Government of Posey, Pugsley, Rayner, Richardson, Rockwell, the United States will look with serious concern Rowell, Russell of Mass., Rusk, Sawyer, Scott, and disapproval upon any connection of any Scull, Seymour, Simmons, SMITH of Wis., European Government with the construction or Spinola, Spooner, Springer, Stephenson, Stew control or any ship-canal across the Isthmus of art of Tex., Stewart of Vt., Stone of Ky., Stone Darien or across Central America, and must of Mo., Struble, Symes, Tarsney of Mich., Taul-regard any such connection or control as injuribee, E. B. Taylor, Thomas of Ky., Thomas of ous to the just rights and interests of the United Ill., Thomas of Wis., Townshend, Vance, Van- States and as a menace to their welfare. dever, Wade, Walker of Mo., Weaver, Weber, West, Wheeler of Ala., Whiting of Mass., Wick ham, Williams of Ohio, Woodburn, Yardley, Yoder-178.

NAYS-Messrs. Allen of Mich., ANDERSON of Iowa, Anderson of Miss., Anderson of Kans., Baker of Ill., Bland, Boothman, Breckinridge of Ark., Breckinridge of Ky., Brewer, Buckalew, Butterworth, F. Campbell, Candler of Ga., Cheadle, Clements, Cobb, Culberson of Tex., Cummings, Finley, Forney, Fuller. Gest, Glass, Grimes, Hare, Harmer, Henderson of Ill., Holman, Hooker, HOPKINS of Va., Jackson, Johnston of N. C., Kilgore, La Follette, Lane, Lanham, Lehlbach, Lind, Maish, Martin of Tex., McKenna, McRae, Montgomery, Morgan, Nelson, Penington, Randall of Pa., Rogers, Rowland, Sayers, Seney, Shively, Stewart of Ga., Stockdale, Thompson of Ohio, Tracey, Turner of Ga., Wilson of Minn., Wilson of W. Va.-60. February 7-The Senate concurred in the

SEC. 2. That the President be, and he is hereby, requested to communicate this expression of the views of the Government of the United States to the governments of the countries of Europe.

Was passed-yeas 49, nays 3:

YEAS-Messrs. Aldrich, Allison, Bate, Berry,
Brown, Chandler, Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt,
Cullom, Davis, Dawes, Dolph, Edmunds,
Eustis, Evarts, Farwell, Faulkner, Frye,
George, Gibson, Gorman, Hale, Hawley, Hoar,
Ingalls, Jones of Ark., Manderson, Mitchell,
Morgan, Morrill, Paddock, Palmer, Payne,
Platt, Plumb, Pugh, Quay, Ransom, Saulsbury,
Sawyer, Sherman, Spooner, Stewart, Teller,
Vest, Walthall, Wilson of Iowa, Wilson of
Md.—49.

NAYS-Messrs. Blackburn, Hampton, Vance
IN HOUSE.

-3.

No vote was reached.

VI.

REFUNDING THE DIRECT TAX OF 1861, SECOND SESSION, FIFTIETH CONGRESS.

[For previous votes, see HAND-BOOK FOR | State of South Carolina, under the said acts of 1888, pp. 64, 65, 173, 174.]

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-SECOND SES

SION, FIFTIETH CONGRESS.

1888, December 12-The bill (S. 139) passed in the form reported by the Judiciary Committee (see p. 174 of HAND-BOOK FOR 1888), with the addition of these new sections:

"SEC. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to such person as shall in each case apply therefor, and furnish satisfactory evidence that such applicant was at the time of the sales hereinafter mentioned the legal owner, or is the heir at law or devisee of the legal owner of such lands as were sold in the perishes of St. Helena and St. Luke's, in the

Congress, the value of said lands in the manner following, to wit: to the owners of the lots in the town of Beaufort, the value assessed thereon for taxation by the United States direct-tax commissioners for South Carolina; to the owners of lands which were rated for taxation by the State of South Carolina as being usually cultivated, or capable of cultivation, $10 per acre for each acre thereof returned on the proper taxbook; to the owners of all other lands, $1 per acre for each acre thereof returned on said taxbook: Provided, That in all cases where such owners, or persons claiming under them, have redeemed or purchased said lands, or any part thereof, from the United States, they shall not receive compensation for such part so redeemed

or purchased, but they shall receive whatever | McKenna, McKinley, Merriman, Moffitt, Mor. amounts were paid by them to the United States rill, Morrow, Nelson, NICHOLS, Nutting, for such redemption or purchase: And provided O'Donnell, O' Ferrall, O'Neall of Ind., O'Neill further, That in all cases where said owners of Pa., Osborne, Outhwaite, Patton, Payson, have heretofore received from the United States Perkins, Perry, Peters, Phelps, Plumb, Post, the surplus proceeds arising from the sale of Pugsley, Rockwell, Romeis, Rowell, Rowland, their lands, such sums shall be deducted from Russell of Conn., Rusk, Ryan, Sawyer, Scull, the sum which they are entitled to receive under Seney, Seymour, Shaw, Sherman, Simmons, this act. Snyder of W. Va., Sowden, Spooner, Steele, "SEC. -. That in all cases where persons, Stephenson of Wis., Stewart of Vt., Struble, while serving in the Army or Navy or Marine Symes, E. B. Taylor, J. D. Taylor, Thomas of Corps of the United States, or who had been Ill., Thomas of Wis., Thompson of Ohio, honorably discharged from said service, pur- Thompson of Cal., Tillman, Townshend, chased any of said lands under section II of the Turner of Kans., Vandever, Wade, Warner, act of Congress approved June 7, 1862, and such Weber, West, White of N. Y., Whiting of lands afterward reverted to the United States, it Mass., Wickham, Wilber, Wilkins, Wilkinson, shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treas- Williams of Ohio, Yardley, Yoder-178. ury to pay to such persons as shall in each case apply therefor, or to their heirs at law, devisees, or grantees, in good faith and for valuable consideration, whatever sum was so paid to the United States in such case. "SEC. That before paying any money to such persons the Secretary of the Treasury shall require the person or persons entitled to receive the same to execute a release of all claims and demands of every kind and description whatever against the United States arising out of the execution of said acts, and also a release of all right, title, and interest in and to the said lands. "SEC. That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $850,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay for said lots and lands, which sum shall include all moneys in the Treasury derived in any manner from the enforcement of said acts in said parishes, and not otherwise appropriated.

"SEC.. That section 1063 of the Revised Statutes is hereby made applicable to claims arising under this act, without limitation as to the amount involved in such claim."

Yeas 178, nays 96, (not voting 50):
YEAS-Messrs. Adams, Allen of Mich.,
Anderson of Kans., Arnold, Atkinson of Pa.,
Baker of N. Y., Baker of Ill., Bayne, Belden,
Biggs, Bingham, Boothman, Bound, Boutelle,
Bowden, Bowen, Brewer, Brower, T. H. B.
Browne of Va., Browne of Ind., Brown of Ohio,
J. R. Brown of Va., Buchanan, Bunnell, Bur-
rows, Butler, Butterworth, F. Campbell, Camp.
bell of Ohio, T. 7. Campbell, Cannon, Caswell,
Cheadle, Clark of Wis., Cogswell, Compton,
Cooper of Ohio, Cothran, Crouse, Cutcheon,
Dalzell, Darlington, Davenport, Davis, De
Lano, Dibble, Dingley, Dorsey, Dunham,
Elliott, Farquhar, Felton, Finley, Fitch, Flood,
Ford, Funston, Gaines, Gallinger, Gear, Gest,
Gibson, Grosvenor, Grout, Guenther, Harmer,
Haugen, Heard, Hemphill, Henderson of Iowa,
Henderson of N. C., Henderson of Ill., Her-
mann, Hiestand, Hires, Hitt, Holman, Holmes,
Hopkins of Ill., HOPKINS of Va., Hopkins of
N. Y., Houk, Hovey, Hudd, Hunter, Jackson,
Johnston of Ind., Kean, Kelley of Pa., Kennedy,
Kerr of Iowa, Ketcham, La Follette, Laidlaw,
Latham, Lee, Lehlbach, Lind, Lodge, Long,
Lyman, Macdonald, Mahoney, Mansur, Mason,
Matson, McClammy, McComas, McCullogh,

NAYS-Messrs. Abbott, Allen of Miss., Anderson of Miss., Bacon, Bankhead, Barnes, Barry, Blanchard, Bland, Blount, Breckinridge of Ark,, Breckinridge of Ky., Bryce, Buckalew, Burnett, Bynum, Candler of Ga., Carlton, Caruth, Catchings, Chipman, Clardy, Clements, Cobb, Collins, Cowles, Cox, Crain, Crisp, Cummings, Davidson of Fla., Dockery, Dunn, Enloe, Foran, French, Glass, Grimes, Hatch, Hayes, Herbert, Hooker, Howard, Hutton, Johnston of N. C., Jones, Kilgore, Lagan, Landes, Lane, Lanham, Lawler, Maish, Martin of Tex., McAdoo, McCreary, McKinney, McMillin, McRae, McShane, Mills, Montgomery, L. Morse, Neal, Norwood, Oates, Peel, Penington, Phelan, Randall of Pa., Richardson, Robertson, Rogers, Russell of Mass., Sayers, Shively, SMITH of Wis., Spinola, Springer, Stewart of Tex., Stewart of Ga., Stockdale, Stone of Ky., Tarsney of Mich., Tracey, Turner of Ga., Vance, Walker of Mo., Washington, Weaver, Wheeler of Ala., Whiting of Mich., Wilson of Minn., Wilson of W. Va., Wise, Carlisle, Speaker-96.

February 16-A Committee of Conference reconciled the differences between the two houses and modified the HOUSE amendment above so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 4. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to such person as shall in each case apply therefor, and furnish satisfactory evidence that such applicant was at the time of the sales hereinafter mentioned the legal owner, or is the heir at law or devisee of the legal owner of such lands as were sold in the parishes of St. Helena and St. Luke's, in the State of South Carolina, under the said acts of Congress, the value of said lands in the manner following, to wit: To the owners of the lots in the town of Beaufort, one-half of the value assessed thereon for taxation by the United States direct-tax commissioners for South Carolina; to the owners of lands which were rated for taxation by the State of South Carolina as being usually cultivated, $5 per acre for each acre thereof returned on the proper tax-book; to the owners of all other lands, $1 per acre for each acre thereof returned on said tax-book: vided, That in all cases where such owners, or persons claiming under them, have redeemed or purchased said lands, or any part thereof, from the United States, they shall not receive com

Pro

The bill was not reached in the House of

Frye, George, Gorman, Gray, Hale, Hampton, NAYS-Messrs. Blair, Call, Coke, Edmunds, Harris, Hawley, Hearst, Hiscock, Hoar, Jones of Ark., Pasco, Reagan, Saulsbury, Vest Ingalls, Jones of Nev., Kenna, Morgan, Mor--9. rill, Palmer, Payne, Platt, Plumb, Quay, Ransom, Riddleberger, Sabin, Sawyer, Sherman, Representatives, and therefore fell. Spooner, Stewart, Stockbridge, Teller, Walthall, Wilson of Iowa-45.

VII.

THE DES MOINES RIVER LANDS BILL.

[For previous action on this question, see HAND-BOOK FOR 1888, pp., 64, 126; HANDBOOK FOR 1886, pp. 183-185.]

IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-FIFTIETH
CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION.

1888, December 5-This bill (H. R. 1368) passed without division:

To quiet title of settlers on the Des Moines River lands, in the State of Iowa, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted, etc., That all the lands improperly certified to Iowa by the Department of the Interior under the act of August eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, as referred to in the joint resolution of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, for which indemnity lands were selected and received by the State of Iowa, as provided in the act of eighteen hundred and sixty-two, are, and are hereby declared to be, public lands of the United States: Provided, That the title of all bona fide settlers under color of title from the State of Iowa and its grantees, which do not come in conflict with prior bona fide pre-emption or homestead claimants, are hereby ratified and confirmed and made valid: Provided further, That the claims of all persons who, with intent, in good faith, to obtain title thereto under the pre-emption or homestead laws of the United States, entered and remained upon any tract of said land prior to January, eighteen hundred and eighty, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, are hereby confirmed and made valid in them, or their heirs, and upon due proof thereof, and payment of the usual price or fees, where the same has not been paid, shall be carried to patProvided further, That the title of all bona fide claimants under color of title from the State of Iowa and its grantees, or the United States and its grantees, which do not come in conflict with persons who, with intent, in good faith, to obtain title thereto under the pre-emption or homestead laws of the United States, settled upon the said lands prior to January, eighteen hundred and eighty, are confirmed and made valid.

ent:

SEC. 2. That it is hereby made the duty of the Attorney-General, as soon as practicable and within three years after the passage of this act, to institute, or cause to be instituted, such suit or suits, either in law or equity, or both, as may be necessary and proper to assert and protect the

title of the United States to said lands, and remove all clouds from its title thereto; and until such suits shall be determined, and Congress shall so provide, no part of said lands shall be open for settlement or sale except as hereinbefore provided. And in any suits so instituted, any person or persons in possession of or claiming title to any tract or tracts of land under the United States involved in such suits may, at his or their expense, unite with the United States in the prosecution of such suits.

IN SENATE.

1889, February 8-The bill passed without division.

February 21-President CLEVELAND returned the bill with his objections.

1889, March 1-On passing the bill over the veto, the yeas were 147, nays 104, (not voting 72):

YEAS-Messrs. Adams, Allen of Mass., Allen of Mich., Allen of Miss., ANDERSON of Iowa, Anderson of Kans., Arnold, Atkinson of Pa., Baker of N. Y., Baker of Ill., Bayne, Belden, Bland, Booher, Boothman, Bound, Boutelle, Bowden, Bowen, Brewer, Brower, T. H. B. Browne, J. R. Brown, Brumm, Buchanan of N.. J., Bunnell, Burrows, Butler, Bynum, Campbell of Ohio, T. J. Campbell, Cannon, Caswell, Cheadle, Chipman, Clark of Wis., Cogswell, Conger, Crain, Crouse, Cummings, Cutcheon, Dalzell, Dockery, Dorsey, Dunham, Finley, Fuller, Funston, Gaines, Gallinger, Gay, Gear, Gest, Greenman, Grosvenor, Grout, Guenther, Harmer, Haugen, Hayden, Heard, Henderson of Iowa, Henderson of Ill., Hermann, Hiestand, Hires, Hitt, Holman, Holmes, Hopkins of Ill., Hopkins of N. Y., Hunter, Jackson, Johnston of Ind., Kennedy, Kerr of Iowa, Laffoon, La Follette, Lanham, Lehlbach, Lind, Lodge, Macdonald, Matson, McComas, McCormick, McCullogh, McKenna, McKinley, McKinney, Merriman, Morgan, Morrill, Morrow, Nelson, O' Ferrall, O'Neill of Mo., Osborne, Owen of Ind., Patton, Payson, Perkins, Peters, Pidcock, Plumb, Posey, Post, Pugsley, Rockwell, Romeis, Russell of Conn., Ryan, Sayers, Scull, Seney, Seymour, Shively, SMITH of Wis., Snyder, Spooner, Steele, Stephenson of Wis., Stone of Mo., Struble, Tarsney of Mich., Taulbee, J. D. Taylor, Thomas of Ky., Thomas of Ill., Thomas of Wis., Tillman, Townshend, Turner of Kans., Vance, Vandever, Warner, Washington, Weaver,

Weber, Whiting of Mich., Whiting of Mass., | law, Landes, Lane, Latham, Lawler, Lynch, Wickham, Williams of Ohio, Yardley, Yoder, Maish, Mansur, Martin of Tex., McClammy, Yost-147.

NAYS-Messrs. Abbott, Anderson of Miss., Anderson of Ill., Bacon, Bankhead, Barnes, Blount, Breckinridge of Ark., Breckinridge of Ky., F. Campbell, Candler of Ga., Carlton, Caruth, Catchings, Clements, Cobb, Compton, Cothran, Cowles, Cox, Crisp, Culberson of Tex., Davenport, Davidson of Ala., Davidson of Fla., De Lano, Dibble, Elliott, Enloe, Fisher, Flood, Forney, French, Gibson, Glass, Grimes, Hall of Pa., Hare, Hatch, Hemphill, Henderson of N. C., Herbert, Hooker, Hudd, Hutton, Johnston of N. C., Ketcham, Kilgore, Lagan, Laid

McCreary, McRae, Mills, Montgomery, Moore of Tex., L. Morse, Newton, Norwood, Oates, O'Neall of Ind., O'Neill of Pa., Outhwaite, Parker, Peel, Penington, Perry, Phelps, Ran|dall of Pa., Rice, Richardson, Robertson, Rogers, Rowland, Russell of Mass., Sawyer, Scott, Shaw, Sherman, Simmons. Sowden, Springer, Stewart of Tex., Stockdale, Stone of Ky., Tracey, Turner of Ga., Walker of Mo., West, Wheeler of Ala., White of N. Y., Wilkinson, Wilson of Minn., Wilson of W. Va., Wise-104. The bill thereupon fell.

VIII.

MISCELLANEOUS VOTES IN THE FIFTIETH
CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION.

Public Lands.

FIFTIETH CONGRESS-SECOND SESSION. 1889, March 2-The report of the Committee of Conference on S. 2511 to provide for the disposal of certain public lands under the provisions of the homestead laws, being the act as it is-was agreed to in the HOUSE, yeas 245. nays 7 (Messrs. Breckinridge of Ky., Bryce, Fuller, Landes, Lynch, Weaver, Wickham), and in the SENATE without a division.

8, 1888, reported March 2, 1889, inability to agree on one point and an agreement on others, but the report was not considered. [See post.

Supplement to the Interstate-Commerce
Act.

[The effect of the report was to leave out of the bill House amendment No. 3, which relates to the transportation of oil in barrels and tankcars, and also to leave out of the bill amendment No. 7, which confers upon State courts concurrent jurisdiction with United States courts to hear and determine all cases arising under the interstate-commerce act.]

FIFTIETH CONGRESS-SECOND SESSION. 1889, March 2-The report of the Committee of Conference on the disagreeing votes. [The HOUSE Conferees agreed to the report of the two houses was agreed to in the HOUSEunder protest, not being satisfied with the lim-yeas 213, nays 4 (Messrs. ANDERSON of Iowa, ited concessions made, and added: "They Hall of Pa., Lynch, O'Neall of Ind.), and in strenuously insisted upon the repeal of the pre- the SENATE without a division. emption and timber-culture laws and the commutation clause of the homestead law, and earnestly insisted that all the public lands of the United States adapted to or valuable for agriculture should be disposed of only under the provisions of the homestead law, and that in view of the policy adopted by the present Congress looking to the reclamation of the desert lands, they are firmly of the opinion that the desert-land law should be repealed or greatly modified to prevent fraud and speculation; but as none of these objects could be accomplished, they have agreed to the recommendation that the proposed changes of the law should be accepted, still indulging the hope that the important reforms in the public lands system which have been so earnestly urged by the House for many years past, securing the remaining public lands adapted to agriculture to actual settlers, will be enacted into law while there is still remaining a portion of the once great public domain."]

For previous record, see McPherson's HANDBOOK OF POLITICS FOR 1886, pp. 211, 212, and his HAND-BOOK OF POLITICS FOR 1888, p. 64. -EDITOR.

Forfeiture of Land Grants.

On the preceding day, March 1, pending the question of a second conference,

Mr. SHERMAN moved that the SENATE recede from its disagreement to this amendment of the HOUSE (numbered 3): "Provided however, That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier, subject to the provisions of this act, to carry refined oils and other petroleum products, cotton-seed oil, and turpentine for any shipper, in tank or cylinder cars, who shall own, lease, or control the same in any manner, except upon the condition that said carrier shall charge the same rate for the transportation of said products in wooden packages or barrels, in car-load lots, as in said tank or cylinder cars, the said tank and cylinder and said wooden packages and barrels being carried free in each case."

Mr. HARRIS moved to lay that motion on the table; which was agreed to-yeas 34, nays II: YEAS Messrs. Aldrich, Blair, Brown,

The Committee of Conference appointed July Butler, Call, Cameron, Chandler, Cullom,