Mr. KAHN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for the passage of the bill which I send to the Clerk's desk.

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from California [Mr. KAHN] asks unanimous consent for the consideration of the following bill, of which the Clerk will read the title. The Clerk read as follows:

A bill (H. R. 22029) to incorporate the Congressional Club.
The SPEAKER. Is there objection ?

Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, is there a request for unanimous consent for consideration?

The SPEAKER. The Chair understands that it is for consideration and passage.

Mr. WILLIAMS. If it is for consideration and passage, I shall object. I will make no objection to a request for unanimous consent to consider the bill.

A. McLain, of Mississippi; Mrs. James T. Lloyd, Mrs. Joshua W. Alexander, Mrs. Edgar C. Ellis, Mrs. David A. De Armond, Mrs. Richard Bartholdt, Mrs. Joseph J. Russell, and Mrs. Thomas Hackney, of Missouri; Mrs. Charles N. Pray, of Montana; Mrs. Norris Brown and Mrs. John F. Boyd, of Nebraska; Mrs. Francis G. Newlands, of Nevada; Mrs. Frank D. Currier, of New Hampshire; Miss Kean, Mrs. Frank O. Briggs, Mrs. Henry C. Loudenslager, Mrs. Charles N. Fowler, Mrs. William Hughes, Mrs. Le Gage Pratt, Mrs. Eugene W. Leake, and Mrs. John J. Gardner, of New Jersey; Mrs. Chauncey M. Depew, Mrs. Charles B. Law, Mrs. George E. Waldo, Mrs. William M. Calder, Mrs. W. Bourke Cockran, Mrs. Herbert Parsons, Mrs. J. Van Vechten Olcott, Mrs. Francis B. Harrison, Mrs. William S. Bennet, Mrs. D. S. Alexander, Mrs. John E. Andrus, Mrs. George W. Fairchild, Mrs. James S. Sherman, Mrs. Michael E. Driscoll, Mrs. John W. Dwight, Mrs. Sereno E. Payne, Mrs. Peter A. Porter, Mrs. Edward B. Vreeland, and Mrs. William H. Ryan, of New York; Mrs. John H. Small, Mrs. Charles R. Thomas, and Mrs. Robert N. Page, of North Carolina; Mrs. Porter J. McCumber, of North Dakota; Mrs. Robert L. Owen, of Oklahoma; Mrs. Joseph B. Foraker, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Mrs. J. Eugene Harding, Mrs. Timothy T. Ansberry, Mrs. Edward L. Taylor, jr., Mrs. Matthew R. Denver, Mrs. Ralph D. Cole, Mrs. G. E. Mouser, Mrs. Albert Douglas, and Mrs. James Kennedy, of Ohio; Mrs. Willis C. Hawley and Mrs. William R. Ellis, of Oregon; Mrs. Joel Cook, Mrs. J. Hampton Moore, Mrs. William W. Foulkrod, Mrs. George W. Kipp. Mrs. Benjamin K. Focht, Mrs. Daniel F. Lafean, Mrs. George F. Huff, Mrs. J. Davis Brodhead, Mrs. Joseph G. Beale, Mrs. Nelson P. Wheeler, Mrs. William H. Graham, Mrs. John Dalzell, Mrs. James Francis Burke, and Mrs. Andrew J. Barchfeld, of Pennsylvania; Mrs. George P. Wetmore and Miss Granger, of Rhode Island; Mrs. Robert J. Gamble and Mrs. William H. Parker, of South Dakota; Mrs. Robert L. Taylor, Mrs. William C. Houston, Mrs. Thetus W. Sims, and Mrs. Finis J. Garrett, of Tennessee; Mrs. Charles A. Culberson, Mrs. Jack Beall, Mrs. Rufus Hardy, Mrs. A. W. Gregg, Mrs. John M. Moore, Mrs. Albert S. Burleson, Mrs. Robert L. Henry, Mrs. Oscar W. Gillespie, Mrs. James L. Slayden, and Mrs. John N. Garner, of Texas; Mrs. Reed Smott and Mrs. George Sutherland, of Utah; Mrs. David J. Foster, of Vermont; Mrs. Charles C. Carlin, of Virginia; Mrs. William E. Humphrey, of Washington; Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, Mrs. Nathan B. Scott, Mrs. Harry C. Woodyard, and Mrs. James A. Hughes, of West Virginia; Mrs. Robert M. La Follette, Mrs. Henry A. Cooper, Mrs. James H. Davidson, Mrs. Elmer A. Morse, and Mrs. John J. Jenkins, of Wisconsin; Mrs. Frank W. Mondell, of Wyoming; Mrs. N. G. White, Mrs. Vespasian Warner, Mrs. J. B. Henderson, Mrs. Silas Hare, Mrs. Thropp, Mrs. H. S. Irwin, and Mrs. Z. L. Tanner, of the District of Columbia, and all such other persons as may from time to time be associated with them and their successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, by the name of "The Conpleasure, and elect officers and agents, and may take, receive, hold, and perpetual succession, may use a common seal, and alter the same at convey real and personal estate necessary for the purposes of the association.

Mr. KAHN. I appeal to the chivalry of the gentleman from Mississippi not to object. [Laughter.]

The SPEAKER. The Chair is not laying a trap for the gentleman.

Mr. WILLIAMS. I understand that.

The SPEAKER. The Chair will be perfectly frank with the gentleman.

Mr. WILLIAMS. Nor is the Chair attempting to bargain with the gentleman from Mississippi; but the Chair wants to know whether "in the opinion of “ the gentleman from Mississippi" there will be a yea-and-nay vote. It is the opinion of "the gentleman from Mississippi" that upon this particular bill there will not be a roll call, because it would cause a great deal of domestic unhappiness in Washington if there were. [Laughter.]

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present consideration of the bill? [After a pause.] The Chair hears none. The Clerk will report the bill.

The bill was read as follows:

A bill (H. R. 22029) to incorporate the Congressional Club. Be it enacted, etc., That Mrs. James Breck Perkins, of New York; Mrs. John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi; Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts; Mrs. Julius Kahn, of California; Mrs. Champ Clark, of Missouri; Mrs. Joseph Dixon, of Montana; Mrs. J. Sloat Fassett, of New York; Mrs. William M. Howard, of Georgia; Miss E. P. Wood, of New Jersey; Mrs. A. A. Wiley, Mrs. Richmond P. Hobson, and Mrs. O. W. Underwood, of Alabama; Mrs. William B. Cravens, of Arkansas; Mrs. W. F. Englebright, Mrs. Duncan E. McKinlay, Mrs. Joseph R. Knowland, Mrs. James C. Needham, and Mrs. S. C. Smith, of California; Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, Mrs. George W. Cook, and Mrs. Robert W. Bonynge, of Colorado; Mrs. Morgan G. Bulkeley, Mrs. Zalinski, Mrs. Nehemiah D. Sperry, and Mrs. Edwin W. Higgins, of Connecticut; Mrs. Harry A. Richardson, of Delaware; Mrs. Frank D. Clark and Mrs. William B. Lamar, of Florida; Mrs. Alexander S. Clay, Mrs. James M. Griggs, Mrs. Charles L. Bartlett, Mrs. Gordon Lee, and Mrs. Thomas W. Hardwick, of Georgia; Mrs. Weldon B. Heyburn and Mrs. Burton L. French, of Idaho; Mrs. Albert J. Hopkins, Mrs. James R. Mann, Mrs. William W. Wilson, Mrs. Frank O. Lowden, Mrs. Joseph V. Graff, Miss Cannon, Miss Mattis, Mrs. Henry T. Rainey, Mrs. Benjamin F. Caldwell, and Mrs. Pleasant T. Chapman, of Illinois; Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, Mrs. John H. Foster, Mrs. Jesse Overstreet, and Mrs. Edgar D. Crumpacker, of Indiana; Mrs. J. P. Dolliver, Mrs. John A. T. Hull, Mrs. Walter I. Smith. Mrs. James P. Conner, Mrs. Elbert H. Hubbard, Mrs. William E. Fuller, and Mrs. Brayton, of Iowa; Mrs. C. Curtis, Mrs. Daniel R. Anthony, Mrs. Charles F. Scott, and Mrs. James M. Miller, of Kansas; Mrs. Ollie M. James and Mrs. Ben Johnson, of Kentucky; Mrs. Arsène P. Pujo, of Louisiana: Mrs. Eugene Hale, Mrs. Llewellyn Powers, and Mrs. Charles E. Littlefield, of Maine: Mrs. Isidor Rayner, of Maryland; Mrs. W. Murray Crane, Mrs. Charles G. Washburn, Mrs. Charles Q. Tirrell, Mrs. Samuel W. McCall, Mrs. John W. Weeks, and Mrs. Augustus P. Gardner, of Massachusetts; Mrs. William Alden Smith, Mrs. Gilbert Wilkes, Mrs. Edward L. Hamilton, Mrs. Gerrit J. Diekema, Mrs. Samuel W. Smith, Mrs. Joseph W. Fordney, and Mrs. George A. Loud, of Michigan; Mrs. Halvor Steenerson, of Minnesota; Mrs. Thomas Spight, Mrs. Eaton J. Bowers, and Mrs. Frank

SEC. 2. That the object of the club is to promote acquaintanceship among its members, to facilitate their social intercourse, and to provide a place of meeting which may help to secure for them the advantages of life in the national capital. And, in pursuance of said object, it may have a constitution, by-laws, rules, and regulations to carry out the same, and shall have power to change and amend its constitution, by-laws, rules, and regulations at pleasure: Provided, That such constitution, by-laws, rules, and regulations, or amendments thereof, do not conflict with the laws of the United States or of any State.

SEC. 3. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act.

The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading; and being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time and passed.

On motion of Mr. KAHN, a motion to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed was laid on the table.

LAWS AND ORDINANCES OF PORTO RICO. Mr. PARSONS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to consider and agree to the resolution which I send to the Clerk's desk. The Clerk read as follows:

House resolution 303.

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, requested to transmit to the House of Representatives for its information the laws and ordinances of Porto Rico and the military orders and decrees affecting Porto Rico referred to in section 8 of the act approved April 12, 1900, entitled "An act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes."

The SPEAKER. Is there objection?

Mr. WILLIAMS.

Mr. Speaker, I understand this is a request for unanimous consent to pass the resolution? The SPEAKER. It is. Mr. WILLIAMS. I object.

ASSAY OFFICE AT SALT LAKE CITY.

Mr. HOWELL of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules, discharge the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures from the further consideration of Senate bill 642, the Senate committee having reported a House bill, and pass the same. The House bill has been reported by the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and is identical with the provisions of the Senate bill, and the House bill is on the Calendar. The SPEAKER. Has the gentleman the original Senate bill? Mr. HOWELL of Utah. The Senate bill is in the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures. The SPEAKER.

sion of the bill.

Well, the gentleman had better get posses

Mr. BURLESON. There is an original Senate bill on the desk.

BROTHERHOOD OF ST. ANDREW.

The SPEAKER. Wait a minute until the other bill is found. In the meantime the Chair will again submit the request of the gentleman from Maine [Mr. BURLEIGH] for the consideration of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew bill, the title of which was read to the House. The Clerk will report the bill:

The Clerk read as follows.

A bill (H. R. 16757) for the incorporation of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew.

Be it enacted, etc., That James L. Houghteling, of Winnetka, Ill.; John E. Baird, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Edmund Billings, of Boston, Mass. William C. Sturgis, of Colorado Springs, Colo.; J. C. Loomis, of Louisville, Ky. Samuel S. Nash, of Tarboro, N. C.; John W. Wood, of New York, N. Y.; H. C. Turnbull, jr., of Baltimore, Md.; Frank J. Weber, of Detroit, Mich.; Francis H. Holmes, of West Orange, N. J.; Robert H. Gardiner, of Gardiner, Me.; H. R. Braden, of Berkeley, Cal.; W. A. Gallup, of North Adams, Mass.; H. D. W. English, of Pittsburg, Pa; E. C. Browne, of Omaha, Nebr.; Mahlon N. Kline, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Courtenay Barber, of Chicago, Ill.; E. C. Day, of Helena, Mont.; C. C. Payson, of Brookline, Mass.; Frank V. Whiting, of Cleveland, Ohio; G. Ward Kemp, of Seattle, Wash.; Robert S. Hart, of Baltimore, Md.; Bert T. Amos, of Washington, D. C.; A. M. Hadden, of New York. N. Y.; S. H. Riker, of Lansingburg, N. Y.; A. A. Talmage, of Los Angeles, Cal.; J. G. Bragaw, jr., of Washington, N. C.; F. W. Rollins, of Concord, N. H.; T. K. Robinson, of Vicksburg, Miss.; C. M. Lovsted, of Honolulu, Hawaii; A. L. Fellows, of Denver, Colo.; James H. Falconer, of New York, N. Y.; B. F. Finney, of Savannah, Ga.: John M. Locke, of Orange, N. J.; W. B. Dall, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; E. H. Bonsall, of Philadelphia, Pa.; William A. Cornelius, of McKeesport, Pa.; George R. Robinson, of Kirkwood, Mo.; Ivanhoe S. Huber, of Shamokin, Pa.; J. L. Houghteling, jr., of Winnetka, Ill.; Robert E. Anderson, of Richmond, Va.; George T. Ballachey, of Buffalo, N. Y.; George H. Batchelor, of Memphis, Tenn.; Edwin Belknap, of New Orleans, La.; W. B. Dent, of Washington, D. C.; E. A. Fusch, of Nashville, Tenn.; A. A. McKechnie, of St. Paul, Minn.; J. H. Radtke, of Milwaukee, Wis., and their associates, who shall be members in good standing of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew at the time when this act takes effect, and those thereafter associated with them and their successors, be, and they are hereby, incorporated and made a body politic and corporate of the District of Columbia under the name of "The Brotherhood of St. Andrew." And by that name they and their successors may have perpetual succession, may use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure, and elect officers and agents, and may do business and take, receive, hold, and convey real and personal estate necessary for the purposes of the society.

SEC. 2. That the sole object, of said corporation shall be the spread of Christ's Kingdom among men. And, in pursuance of said object, it may have a constitution, by-laws, rules, and regulations to carry out the same, and shall have power to change and amend its constitution, by-laws, rules, and regulations at pleasure: Provided, That such constitution, by-laws, rules, and regulations, or amendments thereof, do not conflict with the laws of the United States or of any State.

SEC. 3. That said corporation shall have the right to hold its meetings and meetings of its council at any place within the United States as may be best suited or most advantageous to the carrying out of the purposes for which this corporation is formed.

SEC. 4. That this act shall take effect and said corporation be established when this act shall have been accepted by vote of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew at any of its annual conventions held within three years from November 30, 1907, and a copy of such vote attested by the secretary of said convention and filed in the office of the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia shall be sufficient evidence of such acceptance. The officers of the corporation shall be elected and its constitution and by-laws adopted at the annual convention of the Brotherhod of St. Andrew at which this act is accepted, acting in accordance with the constitution of said brotherhood as it then exists. SEC. 5. That Congress may at any time amend, alter, or repeal this

act.

Mr. BURLEIGH. Mr. Speaker, the bill was unanimously reported by the Committee on the District of Columbia and approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present consideration of the bill? [After a pause.] The Chair hears none.

The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading: and being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time and passed.

Mr. HEFLIN. Mr. Speaker

The SPEAKER. The Chair had reason to suppose there would be objection.

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Mr. HEFLIN. I was going to move to suspend the rules. move to suspend the rules and pass H. R. 21847. It is a bill to prevent falsifications in the collection and compilation of agricultural statistics and the unauthorized issuance and publication of the same.

The SPEAKER. The House is waiting for a bill the original of which was with the committee and will soon be here. The Chair, to be entirely frank with the gentleman, at this time at least can not recognize the gentleman to move to suspend the rules.

Mr. HOWELL of Utah. The committee has the original Senate bill.

Mr. WILLIAMS. Is it in order to call for the regular order? The SPEAKER. This is the regular order. We are trying to find a bill.

Mr. WILLIAMS. The regular order can not be trying-I suppose you mean, rather, praying. I submit there is nothing before the House by the Speaker's confession.

The SPEAKER. Well, when one sheep was lost it was in order to try to find it, even out on the mountain.

Mr. WILLIAMS. It may have been for the Almighty, but not for the Speaker.

The SPEAKER. After all, it is well to get as close to the Great Father as possible. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Michigan.

BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON TRANSIT COMPANY.

Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the Senate bill 3405 as amended. The Clerk read as follows:

A bill (S. 3405) to amend an act to authorize the Baltimore and Washington Transit Company, of Maryland, to enter the District of Columbia, approved June 8, 1896.

Be it enacted, etc., That the Baltimore and Washington Transit Company, of Maryland, a corporation created by the laws of the State of Maryland, and authorized by act of Congress to extend its line into the District of Columbia by an act approved June 8, 1896, be, and is hereby, authorized and required to further extend its line of street railway within the District of Columbia over, along, and upon the following-described route: Beginning where Third street NW. (as said street is designated on the map of the first section of the highway extension plan of said District) intersects the present line of the raway of said transit company; thence south on said Third street to Kennedy street; thence west on said Kennedy street to Colorado avenue; thence southwesterly along said Colorado avenue to the intersection of Fourteenth street NW.: Provided, That said company shall not construct its said railway over, along, or upon any portion of the aforementioned route which is not now a public highway of the District of Columbia until it shall have obtained, by dedication or condemnation, title to a right of way not less than thirty feet in width along such portion of said route as is not now a public highway; and before it shall have authority to lay tracks in said right of way it shall dedicate the same to the District of Columbia as a public highway.

SEC. 2. That the said transit company shall be empowered to construct, maintain, equip, and operate a single or double track street railway over said line, with all necessary buildings, switches, machinery, appliances, appurtenances, and other devices necessary to operate the same by electricity, compressed air, storage battery, or other motive power, to be approved by the Commissioners of said District: Provided, That if electric power propulsion is used upon said extension or on any other portion of the line or lines of said company no portion of the electrical circuit shall be through the earth, but a return circuit of proper capacity and located similarly to the feed-wire circuit shall be provided for the electrical current, and that wherever the trolley system is used each car shall be provided with a double trolley, and that no earth connection shall be made with any dynamo furnishing power for the road. That section 4 of the act entitled "An act to authorize the Baltimore and Washington Transit Company, of Maryland, to enter the District of Columbia," approved June 8, 1896, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, however, That said railway shall be constructed of good material, with rails of approved pattern, and in a neat and substantial manner, subject to the supervision and approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; the standard gauge to be used and the surfaces of the tracks to conform to the grades of the streets established by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and where the tracks lie within the streets of the District of Columbia the same to be payed between the rails and two feet outside thereof with such material and in such manner as shall be approved by the said Commissioners, and kept in repair by the said railway com

pany.

SEC. 3. That within sixty days from the approval of this act the company shall deposit $1,000 with the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia to guarantee the construction of its railway within the prescribed time. If this sum is not so deposited, this charter shall be void. If the sum is so deposited and the road is not in operation as herein prescribed, said $1,000 shall be forfeited to the District of Columbia and this charter shall be void.

SEC. 4. That failure or neglect to comply with any of the provisions of this act, except as hereinbefore provided for, shall render the said corporation liable to a fine of $25 for each and every day during which such failure or neglect shall continue, which penalty may be recovered in the name of the District of Columbia by the Commissioners of the said District in any court of competent jurisdiction: Provided, however, That unless the line of the said railway shall be completed, with cars running regularly thereon for the accommodation of passengers, within two years from the date of the passage of this act this charter shall be null and void.

SEC. 5. That the said company, in conjunction with the Capital Traction Company, may receive a rate of fare not exceeding 5 cents for each passenger for one continuous ride over the route aforesaid and the route of the said Capital Traction Company within the District of Columbia, or any part thereof, and shall sell tickets at the rate of six for 25 cents.

SEC. 6. That all the powers, rights, duties, and limitations imposed by the act of Congress authorizing said Baltimore and Washington Transit Company to enter the District of Columbia, approved June 8, 1896, shall be applicable to the extension of the line of said company as proposed herein except as said act may be amended by the provisions hereof, it being the intent that said original act shall be applied to this extension in the same manner as if said extension had been included in the original act.

SEC. 7. That the privileges herein granted are granted on the express condition that cars shall be run under such rules as may from time to time be made by the District Commissioners, and any violation of which shall be a misdemeanor, and for any such violation said corporation shall be liable to a fine of not less than $50 and not to exceed $200. SEC. 8. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act.

The SPEAKER. Is a second demanded?
Mr. SIMS. I demand a second.

The SPEAKER. Under the rule the second is ordered. The gentleman from Michigan [Mr. SMITH] is entitled to twenty minutes and the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. SIMS] is entitled to twenty minutes.

Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, the amendment to

The SPEAKER announced his signature to enrolled bills of the following titles:

S. 1385. An act to authorize the sale and disposition of a portion of the surplus and unallotted lands in the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian reservations in the States of South Dakota and North Dakota, and making appropriation and provision to carry the same into effect;

S. 2295. An act to extend the time within which the Washington and Western Maryland Railroad Company shall be required to complete the road of said company, under the provisions of an act of Congress approved March 2, 1889, as amended by an act of Congress approved June 28, 1906; and

A bill (S. 642) to establish an assay office at Salt Lake City, State of Utah.

Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to establish an assay office of the United States at Salt Lake City, in the State of Utah; said assay office to be conducted under the provisions of the act entitled "An act revising and amending the laws relating to the mints and assay offices and the coinage of the United States, approved February 12, 1873; that the officers of the assay office shall be an assayer in charge, at a salary of $2,500 per annum, who shall also perform the duties of melter; chief clerk, at a salary of $1,500 per annum; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to rent a suitable building for the use of said assay office, and there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $20,000 for salary of assayer in charge, chief clerk, and wages of workmen, rent, and contingent expenses.

The SPEAKER.

Is a second demanded?

Mr. WILLIAMS. I demand a second.

The SPEAKER. Under the rule a second is ordered; the gentleman from Utah [Mr. HOWELL] is entitled to twenty minutes and the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. WILLIAMS] is entitled to twenty minutes.

Mr. HOWELL of Utah. Mr. Speaker, the object of this bill is to extend to the producers of the precious metals of Utah the same privilege that is granted by the Government to the producers of the precious metals of every important mining State in the West. There are mints or assay offices in California, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Colorado, and South Dakota, yet Utah, one of the great mining States, has never been given the benefit and convenience of an assay office. Salt Lake City is the center of one of the richest mining regions in the world and the metropolis of the intermountain country. In addition to the constantly increasing output, now over $20,000,000 annually of gold and silver produced in the State of Utah, the valley of the Salt Lake has become the most important smelting section of the whole country. Large quantities of ores from Nevada and other surrounding States are shipped to the smelters in the vicinity of Salt Lake City for reduction.

Mr. STEPHENS of Texas. I wish to ask the gentleman a question. Can the gentleman inform the House how many smelters are tributary to this point where he asks for an assay office?

Mr. HOWELL of Utah. There is the American Smelting Company, the Boston Smelting Company, the Utah Copper Company, and several other smaller smelting companies in the vicinity of Salt Lake City.

Mr. STEPHENS of Texas. What is the output of bullion contributary to Salt Lake City?

Mr. HOWELL of Utah. In 1906 the latest official figures given state that there was an output of $12,900,000 in gold and silver; but from unofficial but reliable sources the output of gold and silver in 1907 exceeded $20,000,000.

Mr. STEPHENS of Texas. Now, where does that bullion have to be shipped to and where is it being shipped to from Salt Lake City?

Mr. HOWELL of Utah. To San Francisco, to Denver, to New York, St. Louis, or Philadelphia.

Mr. STEPHENS of Texas. If you had an assay office there would that create at that place a market for the bullion?

Mr. HOWELL of Utah. It would enable the producers to have the same facilities that are afforded by the assay office connected with a mint.

Mr. STEPHENS of Texas. And that would be of great benefit to the men engaged in mining?

Mr. HOWELL of Utah. Undoubtedly it would be of great benefit to those who are engaged in the production of the precious metals.

Mr. STEPHENS of Texas. These smelters do custom work, and that custom work belongs to the independent miners, does it not?

Mr. HOWELL of Utah. They purchase the ores from the producers. I do not think that there is any extensive custom

ASSAY OFFICE AT SALT LAKE CITY.

Mr. HOWELL of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules, to discharge the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures from the further consideration of the bill S. 642, and pass it. I will state that the committee have reported a House bill identical in terms with the Senate bill.

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Utah moves to suspend the rules, discharge the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures from the further consideration of the bill indicated, and pass the same.

panies to purchase the ore after sampling.

Mr. STEPHENS of Texas. Some of the smelters do custom work, do they not?

Mr. HOWELL of Utah. There may be some; I am not familiar with that fact. I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. STEPHENS of Texas. That is the usual custom. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman reserves the balance of his time.

Mr. TAWNEY. Is it not a fact that no smelter in Utah or in any of the precious-metal States does custom work to any extent whatever? All of the smelters buy the ore and settle direct with the miners, do they not?