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'383.0 ~Congressional .Record--Senate September '383.0 ~CONGRESSIONAL .RECORD--SENATE SEPTEMBER. 21 REFERENCE OF EXECUTIVE :M.ESSAGES •. - I PROMOTION IN THE PHILIPPINE SCOUTS _ The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair refers to _the appro­ To be major priate comiriittees sundry Executive inesSa.ges received from the Capt. James Cadmus McGovern, Philippine Scouts, from Sep- President of the United States. tember 15, 1929. RECESS Mr. SMOOT. I move that the Senate take a recess until 12 SENATE o'clock noon to~morrow. SATURDAY, Septemher ~1, 19~9 The motion was agreed to; and (at 5 o'clock and 22 minutes p. ru.) the Senate took a recess until · to~morrow, Saturday, (Legislative day of Mon4ay, September 9, 1929) September 21, 1929, at 12 o'clock meridian. - . The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, on the expiration of the recess. Mr. JONES. Mr. President, I suggest the absen~e of a NOMINATIONS quorum. Exec-utive nominations received by the Senate September 20 The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will call the roll. ( leoislatitve day of September 9), 1929 The legislative clerk called the roll, and the following Senators PuBLic HEALTH SERVICE answered to their names : Allen Fletcher Jones Sackett Asst. Surg. James B. Ryon to be passed assistant surgeon in Ashurst Frazier Kean Schall the Public Health Service, to rank ·as such from October 14, 1929. Barkley George Kendrick Sheppard Black Gillett Keyes Shortridge (Doctor Ryon has passed the examination required by law and Blaine Glenn La Follette Simmons the regulations of the service.) Blease Goff McKellar Smoot Borah Goldsborough McMaster Steck To BE CHIEF OF THE l\fiLITIA BUREAU Bratton Gould McNary Steiwer Brock . Greene Metcalf Swanson Brig. Gen. William Graham Everson, National Guard of In­ Brookhart Hale Norris Thomas, Idaho diana, Brigadier General Reserve Corps, . to be Chief of the Broussard Harris Nye Thomas, Okla. Militia Bureau of the War Department with the rank of major Capper Harrison Oddie Vandenberg Cat·away Hastings Overman Walsh, Mass. general from June 29, 1929, for·a period of four years from date Connally Hatfield Patterson Walsh, Mont. of acceptance, vice .Maj. Gen. Creed C. Hammond, Chief of Couzens Hayden Phipps Warren the Militia Bureau, · whose term of office expired June 28, Cutting Hebert Pine Waterman Deneen HefHn Ransdell Watson 1929. Dill Howell Reed APPOINTMENT, BY TRANSFER, IN THE ARMY Fess Johnson - Robinson, Ark. TO ADJUTANT GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT Mr. FESS. My colleague [Mr. BURTON] is detained from the Senate by illness. I will allow this statement to stand for the Capt. Cheney Litton Bertholf, Infantry (detailed in Adjutant day. General's Department)', with rank from July 1, 1920. - Mr. SCHALL. My colleague the senior Senator from l\Iinne­ PROMOTIONS IN THE ARMY . sota [Mr. SHIPSTEAD] is still ill. This announcement will stand To be oolonela for the day. Mr. HARRISON. I desire to announce that the Senator from Lieut. Col. Arthur Poillon, Cavalry, from September 11, 1929. Mississippi [Mr. STEPHENS] is necessarily detained from the Lieut. Col. Francis Wiley Glover, Cavalry, from September 14,' Senate tiy il1ne s in his family. I will let this announcement 1929. stand for the day. ' Lieut. Col. Alexander Bacon Coxe, Cavalry, from September Mr. FLETCHER. I wish to announce that the Senator from 15, 1929. Florida [Mr. TRAMMELL] is necessarily detained from the Sen· Lieut. Col. Timothy Michael Coughlan, Cavalry, from Sep­ ate by illness. I will let this announcement stand for the day. tember 16, 1929. 1\fr. SHEPPARD. I desire to announce ' that the Senator I..~ieut. Col. Leonard Lyon Deitrick, Quartermaster Corps, from from South Carolina [Mr. SMITH] is necessarily detained from September 16, 1929. the Senate by illness in his family. I will let this announcement To be lieutenant colonels stand for the day. Mr. GFJORGE. I wish to announce that the Senator from Maj. Clarence Andrew Mitchell, The Adjutant General's De­ Utah [Mr. KING] is necessarily detained from the Senate by partment, from September 11, 1929. illness. I will let this announcement stand for the day. Maj. John Roy Starkey, Field Artillery, from September 14, The VICE PRESIDENT. Seventy-four Senators have an­ 1929. swered to their names. A quorum is present. Maj. Joseph Edward Barzynski, Quartermaster Corps, from September 15, 1929. ORDER FOR RECESS-BUSINESS OF THE SESSION Maj. Bloxham Ward, Infantry, from September 16, 1929. l\Ir. DILL obtained the floor. Maj. Thomas Hixon Lowe, The Adjutant General's Depart­ Mr. WATSON. Mr. President, will the Senator yield? ment, from September 16, _1929. The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Washing. ton yield to the Senator from Indiana? . To be majors Mr. DILL. I yield. :~r Capt. Robert Washington Brown, Infantry, from September Mr. WATSON. I ask unanimous consent that when · the 11, 1929. Senate concludes its business to-day it shall take a recess Capt. Charles Lowndes Steel, Infantry, from September 14, untilll o'clock next Monday morning. 1929. The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection? Capt. Manuel Benigno Navas, Infantry, from September 16, Mr. HEFLIN. Mr. President, I suggest to the Seillltor 1929. from Indiana that we ought to meet at 10 o'clock each morn­ Capt. Enrique Manuel Benitez, Coast Artillery Corps, from ing instead of 11. September 16, 1929. Mr. SMOOT. We would be glad to do so. DENTAL CORPS Mr. HEFLIN. We could then have about seven hours a day in which to work out the legislation before us. To be majors Mr. BLAINE. Mr. President, reserving the right to object, Capt. Roy Albert Stout, Dental Corps, from September 12, I think that some consideration should be given to the pro­ 1929. po al of the Senator from Indiana. I suggest that when we Capt. Roy L. Bodine, Dental Corps, from September 13, 1929. come to a consideration of the schedules relating to rates of Capt. Fernand() Emilio Rodriguez, Dental Corps, from Sep- duty the Members of the Senate ought to have some oppor· tember 14, 1929. tunity to study and investigate not only the amendments Capt. James Jay Weeks, Dental Corps, from September 15, proposed by the Finance Committee but the entire tariff bill. 1929. The committee have- not furnished any report which divulges Capt. Thomas Joseph Cassidy, Dental Corps, from September any information or facts in relation to their conclusions. The 17, 1929. Tariff Commission in its summary has given little assistance Capt. Wayne W. Woolley, Dental Corps, from September 17, to the Congress in its deliberations upon the bill. 1929. I am perfectly willing to try the plan of holding sessions Capt. Howard Austin Hale, Dental Corps, ~om September 18, from 11 o'clock in the morning until a reasonable hour in the 1929. after!!oon, but I am unwilling to give unanimous consent until 1929-· ~-- -· ... CONG~ESSION AL RECORD-·· · SENATE -3831 ~ we have some assurance as to what the program may be. The the afternoon. .I know the Senator can nof give any absolute tariff is an intricate problem. A bill is handed to us which I,'Uaranty as to that, but, at least, he can give u§' _some assur­ consists of hundreds of pages, many hundreds of paragraphs, ance, and I feel quite willing to accept his suggestions and and many thousands of items. It is utterly impossible for assurances along that line, without any .formal agreerne.1,1t on Members to attend the sessions of the Senate long hours dur­ the part of the Senate. ing the day and then have the session continue into the night Mr. BRATTON. Mr. President, will the Senator from Wash- ~ and still have any time left for the preparation of amend­ ington yield to me? ments and the gathering of the necessary material and informa­ Mr. DILL. I yield. tion and facts in support of the proposed amendments. Mr. BRATTON. I should like to ask_the leader of the major- i I understand, and it is generally understood, that the ma­ ity what are his plans with reference to a morning hour'! I , jority membership of the committee do not propose to enter am perfectly willing that the Senate shall me~t at 11 o'<·lock , upon 'any extensive debate on the bill, and that suggestion or in the morning, or earlier, if necessary, but there are some other ~ intimation is justified in the face of the fact that the majority matters pending aside from the tariff bill in which some of us members of the committee in reporting the bill did not furnish are interested. I have particular reference to a resolution to the Senate with any information supporting their proposed provide an investigation into certain features of interstate air changes in the law. They merely furnish a statement of their comme1;ce. That resolution is lying on the table at the present conclusions. If that situation is to obtain in the consideration time, and under the parliamentary situation it can not be con­ of the tariff bill, I can very readily see how the majority sidered until we shall have a morning hour. l think the reso­ membership of the Finance Committee may grind down the lution is of sufficient importance for me to ask the leader of the physical endurance of Members of the Senate. majority when he contemplates giving us a morning hour? I want · to sene notice now that if the screws are put on a Mr. WATSON. Mr. President, replying to my friend the little too tightly, if it is proposed to drive the tariff bill through Senator from New Mexico [Mr. BRATI"'N], and also making without adequate and full consideration, I think there are response to the Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. BLAINE], I wish sufficient Members of the Senate who are willing to undertake to say that the majority members of the Finance Committee a debate to the extent that the measure will not pass until that have tried to be just as kind and considerate in dealing with full consideration is given, even at the expense of being charged the minority as was possible under the conditions.
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