DUTIES ON WOOL AND MANUFACTURES OF WOOL.

JULY 29, 1912.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. UNDERWOOD, from the Committee on Ways and Means, submitted the following

ADVERSE REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 22195.]

The Committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 22195) to reduce the duties on wool and manufactures of wool, with the amendment of the Senate (in the nature of a substitute), having had the same under consideration, report back with a recommendation that the House disagree to the amendment of the Senate.

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62D CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 2d Session.

THE EXCISE TAX.

JULY 29, 1912.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. UNDERWOOD, from the Committee on Ways and Means, submitted the following

ADVERSE REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 21214.]

The Committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 21214) to extend the special excise tax now levied with respect to doing business by corporations to persons, and to provide revenue for the Government by levying a special excise tax with respect to doing business by individuals and copartnerships, with the amendments of the Senate, having had the same under consideration, report back with a recommendation that the House disagree to the amendments of the Senate.

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MEMORIAL TABLET TO PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIERS.

JULY 29, 1912.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

Mr. TOWNSEND, from the Committee on the Library, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 22594.]

The Committee on the Library, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 22594) permitting the State of Pennsylvania to place a bronze tablet in the corridor of the National Capitol at Washington to the memory of the 530 Pennsylvania soldiers who reached Washington on the 18th day of April, 1861, for the defense of the National Capital, report it to the House with the following amendments:

In lines 3, 4, 5, and 6, page 1 of the bill, strike out all the words after "That" in line 3 down to and including the words "a place" in line 6, page 1, and substitute therefor "authority is granted to the State of Pennsylvania to place in a Federal public building in Washington."

Strike out the article "the" in line 1, page 2 of the bill, and substitute therefor the word "these."

Strike out the words "passed through the mob of Baltimore and" in lines 9 and 10, page 2, of the bill.

After the word "Pennsylvania" in line 18, page 2 of the bill, insert a comma in lieu of the period, and add the following words: "and shall be of a design to be approved by the Commission of Fine Arts."

On April 15, 1861, President Lincoln issued a call for volunteers, and this force of 530 men from Pennsylvania responded at once, and were recruited from the following organizations: The National Light Infantry and the Washington Artillerists, both of Pottsville, Pa.; the Ringold Light Artillery, of Reading, Pa.; the Logan Guards, of Lewistown, Pa.; and the Allen Infantry, of Allentown, Pa.

These troops left their respective homes for Harrisburg, the place designated for the assembling of the first Pennsylvanians to take the field. On the morning of the 18th of April, 1861, after being sworn into the service of the United States, these five Pennsylvania companies left by train for Washington, arriving at 6 o'clock in the

evening of that day, three days after the call went forth, and were escorted to the Capitol by order of the Secretary of War.

It was the early response of these troops to the call of the President that moved the House of Representatives to pass a resolution of thanks, which records for all time the loyalty and patriotism of these Pennsylvania soldiers. This resolution was passed at the extra session of Congress, which convened on the 4th of July, 1861, and reads as follows:

THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES,

AT THE FIRST SESSION,
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

July 22, 1861. Resolved, That the thanks of this House are due, and are hereby tendered, to the 530 soldiers from Pennsylvania who passed through the mob of Baltimore and reached Washington on the 18th day of April, last, for the defense of the National Capital. GALUSHA A. GROW, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Attest:

EM. ETHERIDGE, Clerk.

The bill simply provides that permission be granted to the State of Pennsylvania to place in the corridor of the Capitol a bronze tablet containing an extract from the above resolution as a permanent memorial to the patriotism and valor of these soldiers.

The State of Pennsylvania has taken cognizance of this matter, as appears from the following resolution:

No. 43.

IN THE SENATE, April 24, 1911.

Resolved, That the Congress of the United States be, and it is hereby, petitioned to permit the placing of a tablet on the wall of the corridor adjoining the Senate Chamber, inscribed with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the Thirtyseventh_Congress thanking the 530 soldiers from Pennsylvania who reached Washington, D. C., on the 18th of April, 1861, in defense of the Capital. Approved, the 27th day of April, A. D. 1911.

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JOHN K. TENER, Governor.