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of Ga., Walker of Mo., Washington, Weaver, | reported to each house an agreement—being the Wheeler of Ala., Wilkinson, Wilson of Minn., law as it stands-and the report was concurred Wilson of W. Va., Wise-102. in without division.

February 20-The Committee of Conference

The act was approved February 22, 1889.

IV.

THE CHINESE QUESTION.

NAYS-Messrs. Aldrich, Berry, Chace, Cullom, Davis, Dawes, Dolph, Hiscock, Jones of Nev., Mitchell, Payne, Plumb, Sawyer, Spooner, Stewart, Stockbridge, Teller, Turpie, Vest, Wilson of Iowa-20.

[For previous action, see McPherson's HAND- | Sherman, Voorhees, Walthall, Wilson of Md. BOOK OF POLITICS FOR 1888, pp, 148, 193; his -19. HAND-BOOK OF POLITICS FOR 1886, pp. 105, 177-184; his HAND-BOOK OF POLITICS FOR 1884, pp. 138-144; his HAND-BOOK OF POLITICS FOR 1882, pp. 4, 92-107; his HAND-BOOK OF POLITICS POR 1880, pp. 39-45; his HANDBOOK OF POLITICS FOR 1876, pp. 52, 87, 207, 211, 216; his HAND-BOOK OF POLITICS FOR 1874, p. 119; his HISTORY OF RECONSTRUCTION, 478, 479, 619,]

To Prohibit Chinese Immigration.* IN HOUSE-FIFTIETH CONGRESS, SECOND

SESSION.

1888, September 3—Mr. SCOTT, by unanimous consent, introduced this bill, which was read, briefly debated, and passed without a division:

"Be it enacted, &c., that from and after the passage of this act, it shall be unlawful for any Chinese laborer who shall at any time heretofore have been, or who may now or hereafter be, a resident within the United States, and who shall have departed, or shall depart, therefrom, and shall not have returned before the passage of this act, to return to, or remain in, the United States. "SEC. 2. That no certificates of identity provided for in the fourth and fifth sections of the act to which this is a supplement shall hereafter be issued; and every certificate heretofore issued in pursuance thereof, is hereby declared void and of no effect, and the Chinese laborer, claiming admission by virtue thereof, shall not be permitted to enter the United States.

"SEC. 4. That all the duties prescribed, liabilities,penalties and forfeitures imposed, and the powers conferred by the second, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth sections of the act to which this is a supplement, are hereby extended and made applicable to the provisions of this act.

"SEC. 4. That all such part or parts of the act to which this is a supplement as are inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed."

IN SENATE.

September 7-Mr. GORMAN moved to refer the bill to the Foreign Affairs Committee, which was rejected-yeas 19, nays 20:

YEAS-Messrs. Bate, Brown, Call, Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt, Gorman, Gray, Hampton, Harris, Hoar, Jones of Ark., Platt, Pugh, Reagan, *For proposed treaty with China, ratified with amendments, see HAND-BOOK FOR 1888, pp. 193, 194. The newspaper statement of September 1, 1888, that this treaty had been rejected by China, proved to be incorrect. The authorities of China postponed the treaty for further deliberation. Nothing has since been done-EDITOR.

The bill was then passed--yeas 37, nays 3: YEAS-Messrs. Aldrich, Allison, Bate, Berry, Blair, Cameron, Chace, Coke, Colquitt, Cullom, Davis, Dolph, Gray, Hampton, Harris, Hiscock, Jones of Ark., Jones of Nev., Manderson, Mitchell, Morgan, Paddock, Pasco, Payne, Plumb, Reagan, Sawyer, Spooner, Stewart, Stockbridge, Teller, Turpie, Vest, Voorhees, Walthall, Wilson of Md.—37.

NAYS- Messrs. Brown, Hoar, Wilson of Iowa--3.

Mr. BLAIR moved to reconsider this vote. September 17-This motion was rejectedyeas 20, nays 21: YEAS

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Messrs. Bate, Blackburn, Blair,

Brown, Call, Cockrell, Edmunds, Evarts, George, Ark., Morgan, Pasco, Pugh, Sherman, Wilson Gorman, Hampton, Harris, Hoar, Jones of of Iowa, Wilson of Md.-20.

NAYS- Messrs. Allison, Berry, Chandler, Coke, Dolph, Farwell, Frye, Hearst, Hiscock, Platt, Plumb, Spooner, Stewart, Stockbridge, Jones of Nev., Manderson, Mitchell, Payne, Teller, Vest, Walthall-21.

The bill was approved by President CLEVELAND, October 1, 1888.—[In announcing his approval, President CLEVELAND recommended which such Chinese laborers as shall actually that "some provision should be made under have embarked on their return to the United States before the passage of the law this day approved, and are now on their way, may be permitted to land, provided they have duly and heretofore issued permitting them to return in lawfully obtained and shall present certificates accordance with the provisions of existing law.”]

For the Registration of the Chinese

Population.

IN HOUSE-FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, FIRST

SESSION.

1890, March 17-Mr. McKENNA, from the Committee on the Eleventh Census, moved to suspend the rules and pass this bill, which after debate was agreed to, without a division: AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for taking the Eleventh and subsequent censuses," approved March 1, 1889. Be it enacted, &c., that the seventeenth sec

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and found and adjudged to be one not lawfully entitled to be or remain in the United States, such person shall be removed from the United States to the country whence he came or be imprisoned in a penitentiary for a term not exceeding five years. A certified copy of the judgment shall be the process upon which said removal shall be made, and it may be executed by the marshal of the district, or by any officer having authority of a marshal under the provisions of this section: Provided, That the court may imprison any Chinese person against whom a judgment of deportation has been rendered until such judgment can be executed as herein provided. And in all such cases the person who brought or aided in bringing such person into the United States shall be liable to the Government of the United States for all necessary expense incurred in such investigation and removal; and all peace officers of the several States and Territories of the United States are hereby invested with the same authority, in reference to carrying out the provisions of this act, as a marshal or deputy marshal of the United States, and shall be entitled to like compensation, to be audited and paid by the same officers.

tion of an act entitled "An act to provide for | States court, and when convicted upon a hearing taking the Eleventh and subsequent censuses be so amended as to authorize and require the Superintendent of Census to enumerate the Chinese population in such manner and with such particulars as to enable him to make a complete and accurate descriptive list of all Chinese persons of either sex who may be found in the United States at the time of taking the census, and that the said Superintendent of Census be, and he is, further authorized and required to give to each Chinese person so enumerated in the census an engraved certificate, to be duly numbered and registered in the Census Office, which shall contain all the particulars necessary to fully and accurately identify the Chinese person to whom such certificate shall be issued, and such certificate, when produced by any Chinese person and found to appertain and belong to the holder thereof, shall be the sole evidence of the right of such Chinese person to be and remain in the United States, Provided, That said certificate shall, under no circumstances, be evidence in favor of any Chinese person to enter the United States. A duplicate record of said certificate shall be filed and permanently preserved in the Census Office. Chinese children shall be enumerated and certificates of identification prepared and issued to parents or other person having such children in charge in such manner as may be prescribed by the Superintendent of the Census. Provided, That if the Chinese person to whom a certificate shall have been issued, as aforesaid, lose the same he shall, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, on proof of such loss, receive a certified copy of the duplicate copy on file in the Census Office, which certified copy shall have the same force and effect as the original which was issued to him.

"SEC. 2. That for the purpose of obtaining the particulars necessary for the registration and the issuance of the certificates herein provided for, the Superintendent of Census, if he shall deem it expedient so to do, may withhold the schedules of inquiries relating to the enumeration of the Chinese from the enumerations of the several subdivisions and may charge the collection of this information upon experts and special agents without respect to locality, in the same manner as is provided for in section eighteen of the aforesaid act, both as to their authority and the rates of compensation.

"SEC. 4. That any person who shall sell, transfer, or otherwise dispose of his or her certificate, or knowingly and falsely alter or substitute any name for the name written in any certificate herein required, or forge such certificate, or knowingly utter any forged or fraudulent certificate, or falsely personate any person named in any such certificate, and any person other than the one to whom a certificate was issued, who shall falsely present any such certificate, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisoned in a penitentiary for a term of not more than five years.

"SEC. 5. That the preceding sections shall not apply to Chinese diplomatic or consular officers or their attendants, who shall be admitted to the United States under special instructions of the Treasury Department, and be entitled to remain without production of other evidence than that of personal official identity, when such identification is required.

"SEC. 6. That any Chinese person enumerated and furnished with a certificate as provided in section one of this act, who wishes to depart "SEC. 3. That any Chinese person subject to from the United States, shall surrender to the enumeration on the first day of June, 1890, who collector of customs at or near the port or place shall fail or refuse for the period of ninety days of his or her departure the certificate issued to from said first day of June, to comply with the such person as aforesaid, and the certificate so provisions of this act in submitting himself for surrendered shall be immediately canceled and such enumeration and in obtaining the certificate transmitted to the Census Office, where the same of identification herein provided, and all Chinese shall be filed and recorded in such manner as to persons found thereafter in the United States show such cancellation on the duplicate record without such certificates of identification, shall be of such certificate. The collector of customs to deemed to be unlawfully in the United States, whom such certificate is surrendered shall allow and may be arrested upon a warrant issued upon the party surrendering the same to depart from a verified complaint filed by any party on behalf the United States, and, under such regulations of the United States, by any justice, judge or as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, commissioner of any United States court, return- he shall issue to such departing Chinese person able before any justice, judge, or commissioner | a departure permit, to be taken up and returned of a United States court, or before any United to said collector by the person or company trans

porting such Chinese person from the United States.

"SEC. 7. That in case any departing Chinese person is unable to produce his or her certificate by reason of the loss of the same, the collector of customs, upon being satisfied of such loss by competent proof, shall allow such person to depart, in the manner prescribed in section six of this act, and he shall report such departure to the Census Office, with such particulars of identification as will enable the proper officer in charge of the Census Office to show such departure on the duplicate record, as in the case of the cancellation and return of a certificate as hereinbefore provided.

"SEC. 8. The collector of customs shall keep a record of all departing Chinese persons, in such form as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, setting forth all the particulars necessary to identify such persons, and collectors of customs and their deputies are hereby authorized and empowered to administer oaths whenever they may deem it necessary or proper to do so, and take from any person an oath, affirmation, affidavit, or deposition in any matter or proceeding relating to the identification of Chinese persons or their right to be or remain in the United States, or liability to be deported therefrom under any law of the United States. Any person who shall willfully and corruptly swear falsely in any such oath, affirmation, affidavit, or deposition, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars and not more than two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment at hard labor for not less than one year and not more than five years.

IN SENATE.

1890, April 16-Mr. HALE moved to amend section 3 by striking out the words " five years" and inserting "one year."

Mr. EVARTS moved further to amend section

3 by striking out the words "or be imprisoned in a penitentiary for a term not exceeding five years," and inserting the words "and may be detained in custody not more than six months from his arrest for the purpose of said removal from the country;" which was rejected.

The motion of Mr. HALE was agreed to. 1890, April 16-Mr. WILSON of Iowa moved to add to section 6 these words:

"Provided, That nothing contained in this act shall in any wise interfere with the transit across the United States of Chinese en route from a point outside of the United States to another point outside of the United States, under such regulations for insuring prompt transit of such Chinese through and their prompt departure from the United States as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury."

Which was agreed to-yeas 29, nays 22: YEAS-Messrs. Allison, Call, Casey, Coke, Colquitt, Cullom, Daniel, Dawes, Dixon, Evarts, Faulkner, Gibson, Gorman, Gray, Hampton, Harris, Higgins, Hiscock, Hoar, McMillan, Morrill, Pettigrew, Pugh, Quay, Sherman, Spooner, Vance, Walthall, Wilson of Iowa-29.

NAYS-Messrs. Allen, Berry, Chandler, Davis, Dolph, Hale, Jones of Ark., Jones of Nev., Mitchell, Moody, Morgan, Payne, Plumb, Sawyer, Squire, Stewart, Stockbridge, Teller, Vest, Voorhees, Washburn, Wilson of Md.-22.

Mr. STEWART moved to lay the bill on the table; which was agreed to-yeas 51, nays 2:

"SEC. 9. That to enable the Superintendent YEAS-Messrs. Aldrich, Allen, Allison, Berry, of Census to comply with the foregoing require- Blair, Call, Chandler, Coke, Colquitt, Cullom, ments, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, Daniel, Davis, Dawes, Dixon, Evarts, Faulkner, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is Gibson, Gorman, Gray, Hale, Hampton, Harris, hereby appropriated, in addition to any monHearst, Higgins, Hiscock, Hoar, Jones of Ark., eys which may have been or may be appro-Jones of Nev., McMillan, Mitchell, Moody, Morpriated for purposes of the Eleventh Census; rill, Payne, Pettigrew, Plumb, Pugh, Quay, Sawthis sum to be immediately available upon the yer, Sherman, Spooner, Squire, Stewart, Stockpassage of this act, and to be paid out of any bridge, Teller, Vance, Vest, Voorhees, Walthall, money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- Washburn, Wilson of Iowa, Wilson of Md.—51. priated." NAYS-Messrs. Dolph, Morgan—2.

V.

THE NICARAGUA CANAL BILL.

IN HOUSE-FIFTIETH CONGRESS, SECOND

SESSION.

1889, January 4--Pending S. 1305 to incorporate the Maritime Ship Canal Company of Nicaraugua - which passed the SENATE February 27, 1888-yeas 38, nays 15:

YEAS--Messrs. Aldrich, Allison, Blair, Brown, Chace, Chandler, Colquitt, Cullom, Daniel, Davis, Dolph, Edmunds, Evarts, Farwell, Frye, Gorman, Gray, Hale, Hearst, Hoar, Ingalls, Manderson, Mitchell, Morgan, Paddock, Payne, Platt, Plumb, Pugh, Sabin, Saulsbury, Sawyer,

Sherman, Spooner, Stewart, Teller, Turpie, Wilson of Iowa-38.

NAYS-Messrs. Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Coke, Faulkner, George, Gibson, Hampton, Kenna, Pasco, Reagan, Riddleberger, Vest, Walthall, Wilson of Md.-15.

Mr. HOLMAN moved to add at the end of the

first section the following proviso:

"Provided, however, Thet nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to commit the United States to any liability whatever for or on account of said company, nor shall the United

States be held in any wise liable or responsible in any form or by any implication for any debt or liability in any form which said company may incur, nor be held as guarantying any engagement or contract of said company, or as having assumed by virtue of this act, or otherwise, any responsibility for the acts or proceedings of said company in any foreign country, or contracts or engagements entered into in the United States. And this proviso shall be printed on every bond, contract, certificate of stock, or other obligation issued by said company."

Which was agreed to-yeas 135, nays 36, (not voting 152):

of the amount of capital paid and received shall be authorized or issued until such paid capital shall amount to the sum of $5,000,000. No part of the capital stock paid in shall be at any time withdrawn or returned to the stockholders, or in any manner diverted from the proper uses of the corporation. Every person violating or aiding in the violation of the foregoing provisions shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $10,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding five years, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court."

Which was adopted-yeas 102, nays 75, (not

YEAS-Messrs. Abbott, Allen of Mich., Allen of Miss., ANDERSON of Iowa, Anderson of Ill., Anderson of Kans., Baker of Ill., Barnes, Biggs, Blanchard, Bland, Bliss of N. Y., Blount, Catchings, Cheadle, Cobb, Conger, Cowles, Culberson of Tex., Cummings, Cutcheon, Davidson of Fla., Dockery, Elliott, Enloe, Finley, Forney, Fuller, Gibson, Glass, Grimes, Grout, Hare, Harmer, Henderson of Ill., Holman, Holmes, HOPKINS of Va., Houk, Howard, Hutton, Johnston of Ind., Johnston of N. C., Kerr of Iowa, Kilgore, Laffoon, La Follette, Laidlaw, Lane, Lanham, Latham, Lee, Lehlbach, Lind, Macdonald, Maish, Mansur, Martin of Tex., Mason, McKenna, McMillin, McRae, Moore of Tex., Morrow, Nelson, Newton, O'Donnell, O'Ferrall, Osborne, Outhwaite, Payson, Peel, Penington, Perkins, Pid-' cock, Rice, Robertson, Rogers, Rowland, Ryan, Sayers, Seymour, Shaw, Shively, Sowden, Spinola, Springer, Stewart of Tex., Stewart of Ga., Stockdale, Stone of Ky., Struble, J. D. Taylor, Thompson of Cal., Townshend, Turner of Ga., Washington, Wheeler of Ala., White of N. Y., Wilkinson, Wilson of Minn., Wilson of W. Va.-102.

YEAS-Messrs. Abbott, Allen of Mich., AN-voting 146):
DERSON of Iowa, Anderson of Miss., Anderson
of Ill., Anderson of Kans., Atkinson of Pa.,
Baker of Ill., Barnes, Biggs, Blanchard, Bland,
Blount, Boothman, Bound, Brower, Brown of
Ohio, Buchanan of N. J., T. J. Campbell, Can-
non, Catchings, Cheadle, Chipman, Cobb,
Conger, Cowles, Cox, Crain, Crisp, Culberson
of Tex., Cummings, Cutcheon, Darlington,
Davenport, Davidson of Fla., Dockery, Dunn,
Enloe, Finley, Fitch, Ford, Forney, Fuller, Gear,
Gibson, Glass, Grimes, Grout, Hall of Pa., Hare,
Harmer, Haugen, Heard, Henderson of Ill.,
Hermann, Holman, Holmes, HOPKINS of Va.,
Houk, Howard, Hutton, Jackson, Johnston of
Ind., Johnston of N. C., Kilgore, La Follette,
Lane, Lanham, Latham, Lee, Lehlbach, Long,
Macdonald, Maish, Mansur, Martin of Tex.,
Mason, Matson, McAdoo, McComas, McCreary,
McKenna, McKinley, McMillin, McRae, Moore
of Tex., Morrow, Nelson, Newton, Oates,
O'Donnell, O' Ferrall, O'Neall of Ind., O'Neill
of Pa., Osborne, Outhwaite, Patton, Payson,
Peel, Penington, Peters, Pidcock, Post, Rayner,
Rice, Robertson, Rogers, Rowell, Rowland,
Ryan, Sayers, Scull, Seymour, Shaw, Sowden,
Spinola, Springer, Steele, Stewart of Tex.,
Stewart of Ga., Stone of Ky., Struble, Thompson
of Cal., Tillman, Tracey, Townshend, Turner
of Kans., Turner of Ga., Wade, Walker of
Mo., Weaver, Wheeler of Ala., Wilkins, Wood-
burn, Yoder-135.

NAYS—Adams, Allen of Mass., Baker of N.
Y., Bankhead, Bayne, Bliss of N. Y., Browne
of Ind., Burrows, Cogswell, Crouse, Davis,
Farquhar, Grosvenor, Hayden, Hiestand, Hires,
Hopkins of N. Y., Kean, Kerr of Iowa, Landes,
McCullogh, Nutting, Plumb, Reed of Me.,
Russell of Mass., Sawyer, SMITH of Wis., Stock-
dale, E. B. Taylor, J. D. Taylor, Thomas of
Wis., Thompson of Ohio, Vandever, West,
White, Wilson of Minn.-36.

Mr. WILSON of Minnesota moved to add the following words after section two:

"SEC. 3. That no certificate for stock shall be issued till at least 10 per cent. of the same shall be fully paid for in money at the par value of said stock, and the money deposited in the treasury of said company, and said stock so subscribed shall not be assignable until the whole of the same shall so be paid in, and no payment on account of the capital of said company shall be made except in money, and said company is hereby prohibited from returning or repaying any part of the money so paid. No bonds in excess

NAYS-Messrs. Adams, Allen of Mass., Atkinson of Pa., Bacon, Baker of N. Y., Bankhead, Bayne, Boothman, Bound, Breckinridge of Ky., Browne of Ind., Brown of Ohio, Burrows, T. J. Campbell, Cannon, Chipman, Cogswell, Cox, Crain, Crisp, Crouse, Darlington, Davenport, Davis, Dunn, Fitch, Gear, Grosvenor, Hall of Pa., Hayden, Henderson of N. C., Hermann, Hiestand, Hires, Hopkins of N. Y., Hovey, Kean, Ketcham, Landes, Lodge, Long, Matson, McAdoo, McCreary, McCullogh, McKinley, Nutting, Oates, O'Neall_of_Ind., O'Neill of Pa., Owen of Ind., Patton, Peters, Post, Reed of Me., Rowell, Russell of Mass., Scull, SMITH of Wis., Spooner, Stahlnecker, Steele, E. B. Taylor, Thomas of Wis., Thompson of Ohio, Tillman, Tracey, Turner of Kans., Vandever, Wade, Walker of Mo., Weaver, West, Wilkins, Woodburn-75.

Mr. BLAND moved to add the following words to section six (amendment 13):

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Congress hereby reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act, and to regulate the toll or tariff rates for the transportation of persons or property by this company or its assigns." Which was adopted-yeas 82, nays 81, (not voting 161):

YEAS-Messrs. Abbott, Allen of Mich., Allen

of Miss., ANDERSON of Iowa, Anderson of Miss., | Patton, Payson, Peel, Perkins, Peters, Phelps,
Anderson of Ill., Anderson of Kans., Atkinson Pidcock, Plumb, Post, Pugsley, Rayner, Reed
of Pa., Baker of N. Y., Baker of Ill., Barry, of Me., Rice, Richardson, Robertson, Rowell,
Biggs, Blanchard, Bland, Boothman, Cheadle, Rowland, Russell of Mass., Sawyer, Scull,
Conger, Cowles, Culberson of Tex., Dockery, Seymour, SMITH of Wis., Spinola, Spooner,
Dunn, Enloe, Finley, Fuller, Glass, Hare, Springer, Stahlnecker, Steele, Stewart of Tex.,
Harmer, Haugen, Henderson of Ill., Holmes, Stewart of Ga., Stockdale, Struble, E. B.
HOPKINS of Va., Houk, Howard, Hutton, Taylor, J. D. Taylor, Thomas of Wis., Thomp-
Johnston of Ind., Johnston of N. C., Kerr of son of Ohio, Thompson of Cal., Tillman,
Iowa, Kilgore, La Follette, Lane, Lanham, Tracey, Townshend, Turner of Kans., Van-
Latham, Lee, Lehlbach, Lind, Lodge, Mansur, dever, Wade, Walker of Mo., Washington,
Martin of Tex., McKenna, McMillin, McRae, Weaver, West, Wheeler of Ala., White of N.
Moore of Tex., Morrow, Nelson, O'Donnell, Y., Wilkins, Wilkinson, Wilson of Minn.,
O' Ferrall, Osborne, Peel, Penington, Perkins, Wilson of W. Va., Woodburn, Yoder-160.
Peters, Pidcock, Rayner, Robertson, Rowland,
Scull, Seymour, Shaw, Shively, Simmons,
Springer, Steele, Stewart of Tex., Stewart of Ga.,
Struble, Thomas of Wis., Thompson of Cal.,
Townshend, Turner of Ga., Walker of Mo.,
Washington, Weaver-82.

NAYS-Messrs. ANDERSON of Iowa, Anderson of Kans., Baker of Ill., Bland, Blount, Clements, Cobb, Culberson of Tex., Cummings, Enloe, Finley, Forney, Gest, Glass, Grimes, Hare, Holman, Houk, Jackson, Johnston of N. C., Kilgore, Lehlbach, Lind, Martin of Tex., McRae, O'Ferrall, Penington, Rogers, Sayers, Shively, Sowden, Stone of Ky., Turner of Ga.—33.

The Senate disagreed and a Committee of Conference was appointed.

NAYS-Messrs. Adams, Allen of Mass., Bankhead, Barnes, Bayne, Bliss of N. Y., Blount, Bound, Breckinridge of Ky., Browne of Ind., Brown of Ohio, Burrows, T. 7. Campbell, Chipman, Cobb, Cogswell, Cox, Crain, Crouse, Cummings, Darlington, Davenport, Davidson of February 1-This Committee reported an Fla., Davis, Elliott, Farquhar, Funston, Gear, agreement. The amendment relating to the Grimes, Grosvenor, Grout, Hall of Pa., Hayden, issue of stock was modified so that the company Hiestand, Hires, Hitt, Holman, Hopkins of may issue stock "to the just value of property N. Y., Hovey, Kean, Kennedy, Ketcham, necessary in the construction of the canal and for Landes, Mason, Matson, McAdoo, McCreary, work and labor done in connection therewith, as Oates, O'Neall of Ind., O'Neill of Pa., Outh-well as for the concessions acquired from Nicawaite, Owen of Ind., Patton, Phelps, Plumb, raugua and Costa Rica." Post, Reed of Me., Richardson, Rogers, Russell of Mass., SMITH of Wis., Sowden, Spinola, Spooner, Stahlnecker, Stockdale, Stone of Ky., E. B. Taylor, J. D. Taylor, Thompson of Ohio, Tillman, Vandever, West, Wheeler of Ala., White of N. Y., Wilkins, Wilkinson, Wilson of Minn., Wilson of W. Va., Woodburn, Carlisle, Speaker-81.

On the passage of the bill as amended the yeas were 160, the nays 33, (not voting 130): YEAS-Messrs. Abbott, Adams, Allen of Mass., Allen of Mich., Allen of Miss., Anderson of Miss., Anderson of Ill., Atkinson of Pa., Bacon, Baker of N. Y., Bankhead, Barnes, Barry, Bayne, Biggs, Bliss of N. Y., Boothman, Bound, Breckinridge of Ky., T. H. B. Browne, Browne of Ind., Brown of Ohio, Buchanan of N. Y., Burrows, Campbell of Ohio, T. 7. Campbell, Cannon, Catchings, Cheadle, Chipman, Cogswell, Conger, Cowles, Cox, Crain, Crisp, Crouse, Cutcheon, Darlington, Davenport, Davidson of Fla., Davis, Dockery, Dunn, Elliott, Farquhar, Felton, Fitch, Ford, Fuller, Funston, Gear, Gibson, Grosvenor, Grout, Guenther, Hall of Pa., Haugen, Hayden, Heard, Henderson of N. C., Hermann, Hiestand, Hires, Hitt, Holmes, HOPKINS of Va., Hopkins of N. Y., Hovey, Howard, Hudd, Hutton, Johnston of Ind., Kennedy, Kerr of Iowa, Ketcham, Laffoon, La Follette, Laidlaw, Landes, Lane, Lanham, Latham, Lee, Long, Macdonald, Mansur, Mason, Matson, McAdoo, McComas, McCreary, McKenna, McKinley, McMillin, Moore of Tex., Morrow, Nelson, Newton, Nutting, Oates, O'Donnell, O'Neall of Ind., O'Neill of Pa., Osborne, Outhwaite,

SEC. 3 was modified so as "to require 10 per cent. of all certificates of stock issued for cash to be deposited in the treasury of said company, and to leave it in the power of the owners of the stock so issued to assign the same; and further to require at least the sum of $1,000,000 to be deposited within twelve months in the treasury of the company.”

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The amendment 13 was modified so as to read, that Congress shall at all times have the power to alter, amend or repeal this act, when in its judgment the public good may so require."

The said canal is to be commenced in good faith within three years and in default thereof this act shall be null and void.

February 6-The report of the Conference was adopted in the HOUSE-yeas 178, nays 60, (not voting 84):

YEAS. Messrs. Abbott, Adams, Allen of Mass., Anderson of Ill., Arnold, Atkinson of Pa., Baker of N. Y., Bankhead, Barnes, Belden, Bliss of N. Y., Bound, T. H. B. Browne, Browne of Ind., Brown of Ohio, J. R. Brown, BRUMM, Bryce, Buchanan of N. J., Burnett, Burrows, Butler, Bynum, T. 7. Campbell, Cannon, Carlton, Caruth, Caswell, Catchings, Chipman, Clardy, Cogswell, Collins, Compton, Conger, Cooper of Ohio, Cothran, Cowles, Cox, Crisp, Crouse, Dargan, Darlington, Davenport, Dav idson of Ala., Davidson of Fla., Davis, Dibble, Dingley, Dockery, Dorsey, Dunham, Dunn, Elliott, Farquhar, Felton, Fitch, Foran, Ford, Funston, Gallinger, Gay, Gear, Gibson, Glover, Grout, Guenther, Hatch, Haugen, Hayden, Hayes, Heard, Hemphill, Henderson of Iowa, Herbert, Hermann, Hiestand, Hires, Hitt,

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