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parts thereof, as fully and to as great an extent as the 

 same can be done with advantage to the Government. 



The amendment was opposed as introducing 

 into the appropriation bill what should be in- 

 dependent legislation ; but it was adopted April 

 14, by the following vote: 



YEAS Aldrich, Allison, Bowen, Butler, Cameron 

 of Wisconsin,' Conger, Dolph, Frye, Garland, Hale, 

 Harrison, Hawley^ Hoar, Jones of Florida, Logan, 

 McMillan, Miller of California, Mitchell, Morgan, 

 Morrill, Pike, Platt, Eiddleberger, Sabin, Sawyer, 

 Sewell, Wilson 27. 



NAYS Bayard, Beck, Brown, Coke, Colquitt, Far- 

 ley, George, Groome, Hampton, Harris. Jackson, Mc- 

 Pherson, Pugh, Bansom, Slater, Vancej Van Wyck 

 18. 



ABSENT Anthony. Blair, Call, Camden, Cameron 

 of Pennsylvania, Cockrell, Cullom, Dawes, Edmunds, 

 Fair, Gibson, Gorman, Hill, Ingalls, Jones of Nevada, 

 Kenna, Lamar, Laphatn, Mahone, Manderson, Maxey, 

 Miller of New York, Palmer, Pendleton, Phimb, 

 Saulsbury, Sherman, Vest, Voorhees, Walker, Will- 

 iams 31. 



The Senate passed the amended appropria- 

 tion bill the same day, and the House non-con- 

 curred in the amendments, with the exception 

 of one for the armament of new vessels. Two 

 conference committees were appointed in suc- 

 cession, and both failed to come to any agree- 

 ment, so that the appropriation bill was not 

 completed. To remedy this failure, a bill was 

 brought forward in the House and passed July 

 6, making temporary provision for the naval 

 service. The bill is as follows : 



Be it enacted, etc., That for the purpose of provid- 

 ing for the expenses of the naval service for the six 

 months ending Dec. 31 , 1884, there is hereby appro- 

 priated out of any money in the Treasury not other- 

 wise appropriated one half, or 50 per cent., of the 

 sums of money and for like purposes, and continuing 

 the same provisions relating thereto, as were appro- 

 priated for the purposes of the fiscal year ending June 

 30j 1884, by the act entitled u An act making appro- 

 priations for the naval service for the fiscal year end- 

 ing June 30, 1884, and for other purposes," approved 

 March 3, 1883, except as hereinafter declared, subject 

 to the limitations and conditions in respect to the dis- 

 bursements of the appropriations hereby made that 

 were imposed by said act and the other laws of the 

 United States upon or in respect to appropriations 

 made by said act : Provided, That nothing is appro- 

 priated by this act " for special ocean-surveys and 

 the publication thereof," or "for the purchase and 

 manufacture, after full investigation and test in the 

 United States, under the direction of the Secretary 

 of the Navy, of torpedoes adapted to naval warfare or 

 the right to manufacture the same," and for the fix- 

 tures and machinery necessary for operating the same. 



That the clause under the heading of "Bureau of 

 Yards and Docks," commencing " For general main- 

 tenance of yards and docks," is amended so as to ap- 

 propriate for the six months herein provided the sum 

 of $110,000. 



That under the heading of " Increase of the Navy " 

 in said act, in lieu of the paragraphs thereunder pre- 

 ceding the heading of " Naval Academy " there is 

 substituted the following : 



For continuing work upon the three new steel 

 cruisers and one dispatch-boat authorized by act of 

 Congress approved March 3, 18S3, as follows : Chica- 

 go, $349,133.45; Boston, $231,853.28; Atlanta, $231,- 

 853.27 ; Dolphin, $108,660 ; in all, $921,500 ; the four 

 pivot-guns of the Chicago to be mounted on Clark's 

 deflective single-gun turrets or V-shields of the same 

 weight as is now allowed for the mounting and armor 

 protection of the guns : Provided, That it shall not 



change the contract entered into by the Government 

 for the construction of said vessels. 



For completion of steam machinery and boilers, 

 with necessary fittings for sea-service of steel cruisers 

 and dispatch-boat, under contract with John Eoach, 

 as per act approved March 3, 1883 : United States 

 steel cruiser Chicago. $220 000 ; United States steel 

 cruiser Boston, $155,000 ; United States steel cruiser 

 Atlanta, $155,000; United States dispatch-boat Dol- 

 phin, $90,000 ; in all, $620,000. For completing 

 equipment, outfit of three new cruisers, and one dis- 

 patch-boat, now in course of construction, $78,600. 

 For navigation outfit of the four new steel cruisers, 

 $30,000. For ordnance outfit of the three new steel 

 cruisers and one dispatch-boat, $500,000. 



Nothing herein contained shall be construed as ap- 

 propriating money for or authorizing the continuation 

 of work upon the double-turreted monitors Monad- 

 nock, Terror, Amphitrite, and Puritan ; and any un- 

 expended balance now remaining of the appropria- 

 tions contained in said act, approved March 3. 1883, 

 for engines and machinery for the said double-tur- 

 reted monitors, shall be covered into the Treasury, 

 except such part thereof as may be required under 

 existing contracts made for the engines and machine- 

 ry of the three last-named monitors. 



The Senate passed this measure the same 

 day, with an amendment, from which it receded 

 on the non-concurrence of the House, and 

 July 7 the bill was returned with the approval 

 of the President. 



Admission of Territories as States. May 13, 1884, 

 the House of Representatives took up the con- 

 sideration of the following measure, as report- 

 ed from the Committee on Territories : 



Be it enacted, etc,, That hereafter no Territory shall 

 form a constitution or apply for admission as a State 

 into the Union until it snail contain a permanent 

 population equal to that required in a congressional 

 district in order to entitle it to representation in the 

 House of Eepresentatives. 



The objections to the measure were put suc- 

 cinctly by Mr. Kasson, of Iowa. He said: 



" There is one very serious objection, and, I 

 think, a very sufficient one, to this bill. It im- 

 poses one sort of restriction upon the future 

 action of Congress in admitting under a consti- 

 tution satisfactory to it any Territory as a State 

 into the Union. That can not bind Congress. 

 This bill goes on the theory that it can bind 

 Congress, and it attempts to bind the people. 

 My second objection is that it is wrong. It is 

 in spirit unconstitutional, inasmuch as it denies 

 to the people of a Territory the right to peti- 

 tion in its highest form. That highest form is 

 the assemblage of the people of a Territory of 

 this Union to consider their interests and de- 

 clare the conclusion they have come to in the 

 embodied form of a constitution, and to pre- 

 sent it to the Congress of the United States. 

 My great objection to the form in which the 

 bill provides for certain results is that it pro- 

 hibits the people, who are pro tanto sovereign 

 in the Territories, from embodying their rights 

 in the form of a constitution and presenting it 

 here with their petition to be admitted as a 

 State of the Union." 



The considerations in favor of the measure 

 were summed up in the short statement of Mr. 

 Potter, of New York, who said : 



" Mr. Speaker, I can not quite agree that this 



