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On the petition of John Caleb..

Subject.

On the bill (S. 804) equalizing pensions.

On the bill (H. R. 3438) granting a pension to Mary E. Grosvenor..
On the bill (S. 862) granting a pension to Margaret S. Hastings.

On the bill (H. R. 2456) entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An
act to revise, consolidate, and amend the laws relating to pensions,'
approved March 3, 1873,".

On the bill (H. R. 3689) granting a pension to Bernard Sailer..

On the petition of James S. Herron and others, asking that a pension be
granted to Fannie M. Herron....

On the bill (S. 893) granting a pension to William C. Grun.

On the bill (H. R. 1403) granting a pension to John Baker.

On the petition of citizens of New Jersey, praying that a pension be
granted Rhoda Hart....

On the bill (H. R. 1275) granting a pension to William D. Boyd.
On the bill (H. R. 1947) granting a pension to George Holmes..
On the bill (H. R. 1234) granting a pension to Mary S. Prince..

REPORTS MADE BY THE COMMITTEE ON REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.

On the memorial of Susan Dayton Anderson

On the memorial of Osceola C. Green

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On the bill (S. 598) to refund to the State of Georgia certain moneys ex-
pended by said State for the common defense in 1777..

On the petition and papers of Madame A. Don Bernard, née de Roche-
fermors..

On the memorial and papers of Mrs. Rebecca Frances Bailey
On the memorial of Samuel L. Gouverneur, grandson and administrator
de bonis non of James Monroe, late President of the United States,
praying compensation for services rendered by him during the war of
the Revolution...

REPORTS MADE BY THE COMMITTEE ON CLAIMS.

On the bill (S. 56) for the relief of George Wright.

On the memorial of the Walnut Grove Gold-Mining Company.

On the petition of Dr. Edward Jarvis..

On the memorial of William H. Vesey

On the claim of Julius Frank....

On the petition of Clement Watte, of Saint Cloud, Minn.

On the petition of William Mason

On the bill (S. 185) for the relief of M. S. Hellman

On the bill (S. 63) for the relief of Perez Dickinson.

On the bill (S. 48) for the relief of loyal citizens of Loudoun County, Virginia."
On the petition of Silas and Seth Hurd, Ezra C. and James Blackman

On the bill (S. 171) for the benefit of the legatees of Asbury Dickins, de-
ceased....

On the memorial of T. T. Garrard and others.

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On the bill (S. 384) for the benefit of the Louisville and Bardstown Turn-
pike-Road Company.

On the bill (S. 273) for the relief of Butler, Miller & Co., and Hawkes,
Miller & Co., of Ohio

On the bill (H. R. 1575) for the relief of Richard H. Swift.

On the petition of the Agricultural and Mechanical Association of Lex-
ington, Ky....

On the bill (H. R. 1956) for the relief of Willard Davis.

On the petition of Mrs. Caroline M. Purviance and Francis Wyeth.

On the petition and papers of James and Emma S. Cameron

On the memorial of the board of trustees of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at Arlington Heights, commonly known as Hunter's chapel...
On the bill (S. 228) for the relief of Bigler, Young & Co ...

On the petition and papers of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Com-
pany of New York...

On the memorial of Mrs. Ellen Call Long

On the memorial of Anderson & White..

On the bill (S. 113) for the relief of the trustees of Wildey Lodge, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd-Fellows....

On the memorial of Jesse Warren and Joseph A. Moore...

On the memorial for the relief of the trustees of the German Evangeli-

On the bill (H. R. 2332) for the relief of S. D. Hicks, administrator of R.

Subject.

On the petition of Peter Reitz and W. S. Babcock

On the petition of Commodore Edward Middleton.

On the bill (H. R. 2348) for the relief of Rev. George Morrison.

On the bill (H. R. 2100) for the relief of Martin Hoff, Caspar Doerr, and
George Gebhart, of Saint Louis, Missouri

On the petition and papers of Nathaniel P. Harben.
On the bill (S. 416) for the relief of Belle E. Hammond.
On the bill (S. 142) for the relief of Nathaniel McKay.

On the petition and papers of Washington Crossland.

On the bill (H. R. 2800) for the relief of Benjamin Crawford

On the petition and affidavits of George W. Dawson..

On the petition of William H. Dempsey.

On the petition of Alexander Kennedy.

On the bill (H. R. 1193) for the relief of the estate of Cornelius S. Under-
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On the bill (H. R. 1297) for the relief of T. T. Crittenden
On the bill (S. 382) for the relief of William L. Adams..

On the petition of G. B. Tyler and E. H. Luckett..

On the memorial of Sallie A. E. Baley.

On the petition of Jearum Atkins

On the petition and papers of Thomas Hughes

On the bill (H. R. 2349) for the relief of Burke & Gunkle

On the bill (H. R. 104) for the relief of James Coats

On the bill (H. R. 2891) for the relief of Mrs. Louisa Eldis

On the petition of Mrs. Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

On the petition of Angeline Logan

On the memorial of Robert Lowry

On the petition of Robert Spaugh

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On the bill (S. 295) for the relief of the trustees of the Methodist Epis-

On the petition of William S. Mitchell.

On the petition of John J. Q. Jones

On the petition of Andrew Clark

On the petition of Joseph Wilson..

On the bill (S. 657) for the relief of John J. Anderson.

On the petition and papers of Jeremiah Beatty..

On the memorial of John W. McClure..

On the petition of John Montgomery

On the petition of J. Kinney, administrator, &c., of the State of Mis-
souri....

REPORTS MADE BY THE COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

On the case of the Metropolitan police force of the city of Washington,
District of Columbia, for the 20-per-cent. increase of the salaries
allowed by the joint resolution of February 28, 1867 ..

On the bill (H. R. 3025) to authorize the Washington City and Point
Lookout Railroad Company to extend their railroad to the city of
Georgetown..

REPORTS MADE BY THE COMMITTEE ON PATENTS.

On the bill (H. R. 555) for the relief of McClintock Young..
On the petition of Eliza Wells, administratrix of Henry A. Wells, de-
ceased, for the extension of letters-patent for an improvement in ma-
chinery for making hat-bodies.
On the memorial of A. G. Batchelder and Alsie F. Thompson, praying
for a further extension of the patent granted July 6, 1873, to Henry
Tanner, as assignee of said Batchelder and Lafayette F. Thompson, for
an improvement in car-brakes.

On the bill (H. R. 3424) for the relief of Thomas and William L. Winans.
On the petition of Allan B. Wilson

REPORTS MADE BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.

Ou the joint resolution (S. R. 6) providing for the protection of the statue
of Thomas Jefferson

On the resolution to inquire into the expediency of suspending the ex-
penditure of all appropriations for public buildings not yet com-

menced

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On the resolution inquiring as to the amount of gas consumed and paid
for by the Government at Washington, its illuminating power, cost,
On the bill (H. R. 1706) to authorize the opening of Wight street through
the grounds of the United States marine hospital at Detroit, Michigan.
On the resolution in relation to the affairs of the Washington Market
Company......

REPORTS MADE BY THE COMMITTEE ON TERRITORIES.

On the bill (S. 44) to establish the Territory of Pembina............

On the bill (S. 591) granting the right of way to the Seattle and Walla-
Walla Railroad and Transportation Company.

On the bill (S. 570) to organize the territory of Oklahoma..

REPORT MADE BY THE COMMITTEE ON RAILROADS.

On the bill (S. 331) providing for the construction of the Portland, Dalles
and Salt Lake Railroad Company......

REPORTS MADE BY THE COMMITTEE TO AUDIT AND CONTROL THE CON-
TINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE.

On the motion of Mr. Hamlin, that hereafter no order or requisition for
stationery for the use of the reporters' gallery of the Senate shall be
issued by the presiding officer of the Senate, which reference was ac-
companied with instructions to your committee to report to the Senate
when the practice of furnishing stationery to the reporters' gallery
began, the cost of stationery furnished, and whether such practice
should not be discontinued........

On the resolution offered by Senator West, as follows: Resolved, That
the Secretary of the Senate be, and he is hereby, directed to pay John
Kay and William L. McMillen each full compensation as Senator for
the unexpired term for which they were elected, as shown by their
respective credentials, until the 4th of March, 1873

REPORTS MADE BY THE COMMITTEE ON PRINTING.

On the letter of the Second Auditor of the Treasury, transmitting copies
of all accounts received at his office from persons charged with the
disbursements of moneys, goods, or effects for the benefit of the In-
dians, in obedience to the act of June 30, 1834..
On the memorial of Joseph L. Pearson and others

On the numbers and the distribution of the public documents, bills, or
reports printed by the Congressional Printer.

On the letter of F. & J. Rives & George A. Bailey, proprietors of the
Globe, charging the Congressional Printer with being a defaulter to
the Government in his paper accounts, and with other malfeasance
in office

REPORTS MADE BY THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION-
ROUTES TO THE SEABOARD.

On transportation between the interior and the seaboard, by Mr. Win-
Com
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Supplement to the above..
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On the bill (S. 178) to provide for the construction of the Fort Saint Philip
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on the bill (S. 577) for the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi
River.
The subcommittee appointed by the Select Committee on Transportation-
Routes to the Seaboard, having had under consideration a resolution
adopted by the Senate March 24, 1873, directing such select committee
to inquire and report to the Senate as to the nature and extent of the
obligations subsisting between the railroad companies and the postal
service of the country, and whether any and what additional legisla-
tion is necessary to guard the postal service against interruption or
injury by hostile action on the part of any or all of said railroad com-
panies, begs to submit the following report

REPORTS MADE BY THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE TO INQUIRE INTO
THE AFFAIRS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

On the affairs of the District of Columbia....
(parts 1, 2, and 3)
On the message of the President relative to "one feature of the bill en-
titled 'An act for the government of the District of Columbia, and for
other purposes'

On the resolution of the House of Representatives to inquire whether
the officers or employés of the United States, or any officers or em-
ployés of the District government, have been engaged in any con-
spiracy to defeat or hinder the investigation ordered by Congress into
the affairs of the District, and particularly in this connection to in-
quire into all the circumstances connected with the late robbery of
the safe in the office of the United States attorney for the District of
Columbia

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