TABLE

OF THE

REPORTS MADE BY THE COMMITTEES

FOR THE

FIRST AND SECOND SESSIONS OF THE FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.

Subject.

COMMITTEE ON PRIVILEGES AND ELECTIONS.

On the credentials of Hon. Charles H. Bell, claiming a seat in the Senate
as a Senator from the State of New Hampshire. First session....
On the memorials relating to the election of Hon. John J. Ingalls, a Sen-
ator from the State of Kansas, by the legislature of that State...
On the memorial of Henry M. Spofford, claiming to be entitled to the
seat in the Senate from the State of Louisiana now occupied by Will-
iam P. Kellogg....

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS.

On the bill (S. 850) to provide a commission for the adjudication of dam-
ages to the Norwegian bark Atlantic by collision with the United
States steam sloop-of-war Vandalia, and for payment of any award
made by said commission

On the memorial of Sam C. Reid, on the behalf of the captain, owners,
officers, and crew of the late United States private-arined brig Gen-
eral Armstrong, their heirs, executors, &c...

On the bill (H. R. 270) for the relief of Charles Dougherty..

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE.

On the bill (S. 62) for the delivery to Samuel Lord, jr., receiver, of cer-
tain bonds now in the Treasury of the United States. First session..
On the bill (S. 618) for the relief of Herman Holman and Crawford Fair-
banks..

On the bill (S. 324) for the relief of Somerville and Davis..

On the bill (S. 17) for the relief of Albert Towle, postmaster at Beatrice,
Nebraska

On the bill (H. R. 2188) for the relief of Thomas Kearney.

On the petition of Lamsford B. Yondell and others. (To accompany bill
S. 1004)

On the bill (H. R. 2649) to authorize the Comptroller of the Currency to
issue $500 in new notes to the national bank at Pontiac, Ill., to re-
place a like amount which have never been signed

On the bill (H. R. 710) for the relief of Jackson Grubb, of McMinn
County, Tennessee

On the petition of Thomas Hastie.

On the bill (H. R. 393) for the relief of W. B. Farrar
On the bill (S. 436) for the relief of Charles Clinton

On the bill (H. R. 2802) for the relief of the owner of the bark Grape-
shot

On the bill (S. 1353) for the relief of Naud G. Taylor & Co.
On the bill (S. 1090) for the relief of John D. Defrees

On the bill (H. R. 2797) for the relief of certain citizens of Lynchburg,
Va., &c..

On the bill (H. R. 2567) for the relief of E. K. Snead and his sureties...
On the bill (S. 1628) for the relief of Harry I. Todd.....
On the bill (S. 759) for the relief of G. W. Thompson

Subject.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS.

On the bill (S. 1424) in relation to permanent and indefinite appropria-
tions.....

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE.

On the bill (H. R. 2006) in relation to the importation of neat cattle for
breeding purposes.

On the bill (S. 856) extending the provisions of section 2997 of the Re-
vised Statutes of the United States to the port of Omaha, in the
State of Nebraska.

On the bill (S. 828) extending the privileges of sections 2990 and 2997,
inclusive, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, to the port of
Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri...

On the bill (S. 829) extending the provisions of section 2997 of the Re-
vised Statutes of the United States to the ports of Kansas City and
Saint Joseph, in the State of Missouri....

On the bill (S. 1192) to authorize the city of Winona to construct, op-
erate, and maintain a wagon-bridge across the Mississippi River at
A Winona..

On the memorial of Merrick, Fowler and Esseltyne, and other business
men and firms of Michigan

On the bill (S. 1610) asking for the erection of a light-house at the en-
trance of Little Traverse Harbor on Lake Michigan

On the bill (S. 1593) authorizing the Richmond and Southwestern Rail-
way Company to build bridges across the Pamunky and Mattaponi
Rivers

On the bill (S. 938) authorizing the Astoria and Winnemucca Railroad
Company to construct bridges across Young's Bay or River and Lewis
and Clarke's River..

On the bill (S. 1723) authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue
-an American register to the bark Annie Johnson....

COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS.

On the joint resolution (S. Res. 15) requiring the assembling of a court
of inquiry in the case of Thomas Worthington. First session...
On the bill (S. 243) to authorize the Secretary of War to release certain
lands of the United States to the people of the State of New York.
First session..

On the bill (S. 53) making appropriation for the erection of suitable
posts for the protection of the Rio Grande frontier..

On the bill (S. 54) to enable the Secretary of War to purchase land to
enlarge and protect the San Antonio Arsenal

On the bill (S. 744) to amend the one hundred and third Article of War.
On Executive Document No. 54. (To accompany bill S. 106).
On the bill (S. 105) for the relief of John Gault, jr...

On the bill (S. 128) for the relief of Edward Shields and others.

On the bill (H. R. 2803) for the relief of Doddridge and Davis.

On the bill (S. 296) for the relief of Edward P. Vollum....
On the bill (S. 401) for the relief of Peter Meagher.

On the bill (S. 137) to aid in the completion of the soldiers' and sailors'
monument at Chalmette National Ĉemetery, Louisiana...

On the memorial of the legislative assembly of Montana Territory for
the establishment of a cavalry post at or near Henry's Lake in that
Territory

On the resolution (S. Res. 8) correcting the military record of Wickliffe
· Cooper, deceased

On the bill (S. 332) authorizing the appointment of William English to
a second lieutenancy in the Army..

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On the bill (S. 188) correcting the military muster-in of James G. How-
ard

On the bill (S. 159) to provide for the sale of certain portions of the Fort
Leavenworth military reservation...

On the bill (S. 317) for the relief of Capt. J. B. Campbell.
On the bill (S. 747) for the relief of Harlow L. Street.

On the bill (S. 517) for the relief of Francis S. Davidson.

On the bill (S. 731) for the relief of Maj. Junius T. Turner.

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On the bill (S. 198) for the relief of Capt. Bird L. Fletcher..

1

On the memorial of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Montana
in relation to military telegraph..

1

On the joint memorial of the Nebraska legislature praying for the estab-
lishment of a military post...

1

On the bill (S. 219) relating to certain brevet appointments..

On the memorial of Alexander S. Brownlow

On the petition of William B. Guthrey

On the bill (S. 377) for the relief of Robert Ewing.
On the bill (S. 1100) for the relief of Solomon Morris..
On the bill (S. 426) for the relief of Patrick Sullivan.

On the bill (S. 1-7) for the relief of Samuel Castleman..

On the bill (S. 773) making appropriations for a military wagon-road
from Niobrara, in Nebraska, to Fort Robinson, in said State..
On the bill (S. 754) to authorize the relocation and improvement of the
military wagon-road from Sidney, Nebraska, via Fort Robinson, &c..
On the bill (S. 194) for the disposal of Fort Harker military reservation.
On the bill (S. 193) to provide for the disposition of the Fort Larned
military reservation

On the bill (S. 2) for the relief of Mark Walker......

On the bill (S. 556) to authorize the President to appoint Sergeant John
Dolan a second lieutenant and place him on the retired list..
On the bill (S. 80) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to ascer-
tain and report to Congress the amount of money expended and in-
debtedness assumed by the State of Kansas in repelling invasions and
suppressing Indian hostilities...

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....

On the bill (S. 50) for the relief of James A. Barr..

On the memorial of Beverly Kennon...

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143

On the bill (S. 389) for the relief of Peter Phillips..

145

On the bill (S. 390) authorizing the President to restore Capt. Dunbar
R. Ransom to his former rank in the Army

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146

On the bill (S. 388) for the relief of Jacob B. King.

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147

On the bill (S. 131) for the relief of John W. Chickering.
On the bill (S. 214) for the relief of Robert W. Dunbar

On the bill (S. 223) to authorize the restoration of Calvin T. Speer to
the rank of second lieutenant United States Army, and to pay him
arrears of pay..

On the bill (S. 533) providing for the retirement of First Lieut. Walter
F. Halleck with the rank and pay of lieutenant-colonel...
On the letter of the President of June 5, 1879, transmitting the proceed-
ings of the board convened by his orders on the case of General Por-
ter....

On the bill (S. 56) for the relief of Edward Braden and J. W. Angus.
On the bill (S. 965) for the relief of D. T. Kirby

On the bill (H. R. 1153) to restore to the public domain a part of the
military reservation known as Fort Ripley reservation, in the State of
Minnesota

On the bill (S. 952) for the relief of James Burk.

On the bill (S. 290) authorizing the Secretary of War to issue wall-tents
to the superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute...
On the bill (S. 287) for the relief of the heirs of Charles B. Smith..
On the petition of Mrs Flora A. Darling..

On the bill (S. 876) for the relief of Edward Corselius and seven other
persons

Subject.

On the bill (H. R. 2902) to place William Gaines, late ordnance sergeant
United States Army, on the retired list....

On the resolution (S. Res. 3) to authorize the Secretary of War to sell or
lease to the Port Huron and Northwestern Railway Company a por-
tion of the Fort Gratiot military reserve, &c..

On the letter of the Secretary of War dated January 5, 1880. (To accom-
pany bill, S. 1205)..

On the bill (H. R. 2771) to construe an act granting condemned bronze
cannon to the Soldiers' Union, of West Virginia...

On the bill (S. 98) to provide for the settlement of accounts with certain
railway companies therein named...

On the bill (S. 474) for the relief of William McGovern.

240

On the bill (S. 1075) to authorize Dr. Daniel M. Apple, of the United

States Army, to receive pay for discharging the duties of physician to
the Mescalero Apache Indian Agency, New Mexico.

On the bill (S. 613) for the relief of Jacob D. Jones

273

On the bill (S. 944) for the relief of John Grierson.

275

On a resolution of the Senate. (To accompany bill S. 1331, authorizing
a retired list of non-commissioned officers, &c.).

On the bill (S. 1031) for the relief of Edward T. Benton..
On the bill (S. 1087) for the relief of John F. Clancey

On the bill (S. 710) for the relief of Henry P. Seymour and others...
On the bill (S. 853) to pay members of certain military organizations

therein named.

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293

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294

On the bill (S. 933) for the relief of Lieut. Edward S. Farrow..
On the bill (H. R. 3783) to remove the charge of desertion from the mili-
tary record of Jerry Foley

On the bill (H. R. 1305) abolishing the military reservations of Fort
Abercrombie, Fort Seward, and Fort Ransom, all in the Territory of
Dakota, &c

On the bill (S. 916) to authorize the United States to secure a title to
certain military and timber reservations embraced within the limit
of Fort Union military reservation...

On the bill (S. 1008) for the relief of W. A. Winder

On the case of M. W. Saxton...

On the bill (S. 313) for the relief of Jacob E. Burbank..
On the bill (S. 489) for the relief of James P. Worrell.

On the bill (S. 129) authorizing the restoration of the name of Thomas
H. Carpenter to the rolls of the Army, and providing that he be placed
on the list of retired officers...

On the bill (S. 93) to authorize the restoration of Charles N. Warner to
his former relative rank and position in the Army..
On the bill (S. 664) for the relief of Lieut. Col. Schuyler Hamilton...
On the bill (S. 821) fixing the compensation of enlisted men in the Sig.
nal Service, United States Army

On the petition of Perry E. Brocchus. (To accompany bill S. 1395).
On the bill (H. R. 3347) to authorize the Secretary of War to furnish
four pieces of condemned ordnance for the soldiers' monument at Ma-
rietta, Ohio

On the bill (S. 1036) for the relief of Edmund T. Ryan..
On the petition of Ernst Hein. (To accompany bill S. 1484).
On the bill (S. 1058) for the relief of Walker A. Newton...
On the bill (H. R. 4439) to remove the disabilities of Sergeant P. P.
Powell.

On the bill (H. R. 3966) to carry into effect the resolution of Congress
adopted on the 29th day of October, 1781, in regard to a monumental
column at Yorktown, Virginia, and for other purposes....
On the resolution (S. Res. 79) directing the Secretary of the Treasury
to adjust and settle the accounts between the United States and the
State of Florida...

On the letter of the Secretary of War in answer to Senate resolution of
March 4, 1878. (To accompany bill S. 1490).

On the petition of Robert P. Wilson. (To accompany bill S. 1520),
On the bill (S. 1154) for the relief of the legal representatives of William
O. Redden...

Subject.

On the letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication
from the Commissioners of the Soldiers' Home, in Washington, D. C.
(To accompany bill S. 1550)

On the resolution (S. Res. 71) directing the restoration of the official
letter-books of the executive department of the State of North Caro-
olina..

On the bill (S. 74) for the relief of Lieut. Frank P. Grass..

On the bill (S. 390) authorizing the President to restore Capt. Dunbar
R. Ransom.

On the bill (S. 1135) authorizing the Secretary of War to adjust and
settle accounts for arins with the State of South Carolina
On the bill (S. 131) for the relief of John W. Chickering..
On the bill (S. 965) for the relief of D. T. Kirby.

On the bill (S. 254) authorizing the President to place the name of Her-
man Biggs on the list of retired officers of the Army..

On the bills (S. 192 and S. 577) to correct the dates of certain quarter-
masters of the United States Army, &c....

Views of the minority on same. (Part 2).

429

On the bill (S. 160) for the relief of H. A. Myers.

445

On the bill (S. 230) for the relief Capt. C. H. Briggs.

On the bill (S. 504) to correct the military record of William H. Terry
On the bill (S. 229) for the relief of Thomas S. Bridges

447

448

On the petition of Jabez Matthews...

456

On the petition of George W. Graham

458

On the bill (S. 1039) to authorize the restoration of William McGee to
the rank of second lieutenant in the Army.

On the bill (S. 147) to authorize the President to restore Bernard Reilly,

On the bill (S. 1124) for the relief of the heirs of D. C. Smith.

On the bill (S. 904) for the relief of Maj. J. W. Candee..

On the bill (S. 1336) for the relief of John Reed

On the bill (H. R. 5894) to authorize the sale of Fort Logan, Montana
Territory, and to establish a new post on the frontier

On the bill (H. R. 3351) for the relief of Rev. Paul E. Gillen.

On the bill (S. 758) for the relief of James M. Bacon...

On the bill (S. 149) for the relief of John Gotshall

On the bill (S. Res. 84) to furnish a bronze statue of General Daniel Mor-
gan to the Cowpens centennial committee of Spartanburg, S. C
On the bill (S. 529) to provide for the better care and protection of
quartermasters' supplies....

On the bill (S. 258) authorizing the Secretary of War to detail an offi-
cer of the Army to take command of the expedition fitted out by
Morrison and Brown to search for the records of Sir John Franklin's
expedition, &c......

On the bill (S. 96) to authorize the Secretary of War to deliver to A. B.
Rhett, T. Pinckney Lowndes, and others four Napoleon guns, with
caissons and harness, now at Greensborough, N. C., for use of the Ma-
rion Artillery, Charleston, S. C..

On the bill (S. 1710) for the relief of William H. Gill

On the bill (S. 1488) to provide for promotions in the Army of the
United States.

On the bill (S. 1288) to authorize the President to restore D. M. Page to
his former rank in the Army, and place him upon the retired list..
On the bill (S. 1455) authorizing the President to appoint John W. Hoff-
man a second lieutenant in the United States Army..

On the bill (H. R. 1128) for the relief of James N. Ruby...

On the petition of William S. Hansell and Sons. (To accompany bill
S. 1769)..

On the bill (S. 1645) for the relief of Lieut. John A. Payne..
On the bill (S. 366) for the relief of David W. Stockstill..
On the bill (S. 1660) for the relief of William P. Chambliss.
On the bill (S. 1300) for the relief of Lowell A. Chamberlin.
On the bill (S. 1311) for the relief of Edward Byrne...
On the bill (S. 1150) for the relief of Carlile Boyd...
On the bill (S. 1306) for the relief of Henry Starr