Excerpt from Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, Being the Third Session of the Fifty-Third Congress: Begun and Held at the City of Washington, December 3, 1894 Begun and held at the Capitol, in the city Of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on the third day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, being the Third Session of the fifty-third congress, held under the Constitution of the Government of the United States, and in the one hundred and nineteenth of the Independence of said States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.