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pleasure not unmxad with pain present their petition
and the presentation has been accompanied with the mani
fesaon Of feeling than becomes the performance OF
public duty this floor, am it will be ascrbed TO
right will conclude, s by reading 10 the Senate
extract OF letter enclosed with the petition, with the sim
gle remark, that 1t was wrtten in behalf Of the by Ma
jo Harvey Brown, gallant officer, with whom had the
pleasure OF being associated many years the staff OF
former commanding general Of the army 1t dated at the
National Palace, in the city Of Mexico the s of October
two months after the petition signed


81 would also call to your notice the melancholy fact that
many Of the officers who have signed this petition have since
gorouy fallen in the service of their country, leaving des-


tute widows and helpless orphans. And being dead, they
now emphatcally speak, saying .We have offered up
our lives to country and call upon her to pro-
vide decent competence for bereaved widows and ahe
less children


Is il much Mr. President ask that these petitions
with the attached them, may be printed know
is not the practice of the Senate TO print petitions But
these something As far they go, they are lists
of the gallant living and the honored dead in Mexico.
make the motion TO print.


The memorials then referred the Committee Mi
litary Affairs, and ordered to be printed.