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while the thousands whose voices can not be heard here do not get one 
dollar, although they pay the taxes the same as everybody else, that 
go to make up the common fund? 
It may be right, Mr. President, it may be just, it may be generous, 
but to me it is the most absolute injustice that was ever practiced by 
any Congress of the United States to take that which does not belong 
to them, to take that which belongs to others, and give it to favorites 
who can bring influence to bear upon us while the others go without 
a dollar. It can not get my vote. If the Senator calls that ungener- 
ous, then I must submit to it, but I never have voted for such an appro- 
priation and I never shall. 
The Prestpinc OFrricer (Mr. C. F. Manperson). The question is 
on the amendment proposed by the committee. 
Mr. Berry. Mr. President, I am going to ask for the yeas and nays 
on agreeing to the amendment. 
Mr. J. C. Spoonrr. The Senator can get that by reserving the 
amendment. 
Mr. Berry. If the Senator from Iowa will agree that I can reserve 
the amendment and have a yea-and-nay vote on it in the Senate, of 
course that will be satisfactory. 
Mr. Spooner. The Senator has that right. 
The Presrpine Orricer. That is the right of the Senator, without 
an agreement. ; 
Mr. Auuison. I will see that the Senator has the right to have a 
yea-and-nay vote in the Senate on this amendment. 
Mr. Berry. Very well; that is all I ask. 
The Presipine Orricer. It is the right of a Senator on demand. 
The question is on the amendment proposed by the committee. 
The amendment was agreed to. 
March 2, 1891—House. 
Senate amendments to the sundry civil bill for 1892 (H. 13462) 
agreed to. 
March 3, 18917. 
Sundry civil act for 1892. 
For payment to the daughters of the late Joseph Henry, Secretary 
of the Smithsonian Institution, for valuable public services rendered 
by him, $10,000. 
(Stat., XXVI, 963.) 
SOCIETY OF SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 
April 9, 1890—Senate. 
Mr. G. F. Hoar introduced bill (8. 3471) to incorporate the Society 
of Sons of the American Revolution. 
Be it enacted, etc., That David D. Porter, of the District of Columbia; William H. 
Arnoux, and James Otis, of New York; W. Seward Webb and Theodore 8. Peck, of 
Vermont; Timothy Dwight, Lucius P. Deming, and J. Coddington Kinney, of Con- 
