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experimenting with methods for avoiding any unnecesimry loss INDIAN .APPROPRIATIO~ DILL. to the fruit ruise1·s · to the Committee on Agriculture. . :Mr. Sl\IOOT. I mo1e that the Senate proceed to llie consid· By 1\lr. FORNES': Petiti-0n of Cleveland Typographical Union, eration of the conference report on House bill 2G 74, the Indian No. rm, Cleveland, Ohio, fayoring the passage of legislation mak• appropriation bill. . · ing it unlawful to circulate any malicious statement, oral or The motion was agreed to; and the Senate re urned the con·. printed, for cash consideration or for ga~. that can not be sideration of the report of the committee of conference on the substantiated; to the Committee on the Judiciary. cli agr eing vote of the two Houses on the amendments of the By Mr. GOLD FOGLE: Petition of the New York State Con~ Senate to the bill (II. R. 26874) making appropriation for the ference on Taxation, Binghamton, N. Y., faYoTing the passage current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, of legislation to ~"tend the work of the Censu Department; to for fulfilling treaty stipulations with yarious Indian tribe , and the Oommi ttee on the Census. for other purpose , for the fi. cal year euding June 30, 1014. Also petition of the Employers' Liability Assurance Corpora Mr. FALL. l\fr. President-- tion (Ltd.), of London, England, by Edmund Demght, re ident Mr. GA..\IBLE. If the Senator from New Mexico will yie1d manager, New York, pr-0testing again.~ the pa snge of_t~e work to me for a few moment , I desire, with his courte:3·, to take men's compensation bill; to the Comnnttec on the Judicm~y .. the floor. Also, petition of the American "ood Preser•ers' A so?iati?n, l\Ir. FALL. Certainly; I yield to the Senator with the mH.ler· Baltimore, Md., protesting against the passage of legislation tanding that I am to continue my remark . . placing a duty on coal-tar creosote; to the Committee on Ways Mr. GA-'1BLE. l\Ir. President, I desire to call the attention and l\feans. of the Senate briefl'y to the presumed subject of objection in the Also petition of the Joint Commi ion on Social Ser•ice of conference report on the Indian appropriation bill now pend the P;otestant Episcopal Church, New York, favoring the pa - ing before the Senate. Although much time has been con urned. . age of House bill 27281, providing for an eight-hour day· for the in llie di cussion by the Senator from New :Mexico, no specific women of the District of Columbia; to the Committee on Labor. reference so far has been made to any amendment therein or .Al.,o, petition of D. Auerback & Sons, New York, fayoring the any objection interposed to a ingle proYi ion in the bill or pa.,sage of legislation for the abolition of the tariff on almonds, item contained therein. ' walnuts, and filberts; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Tlle Indian appropriation act for the fiscal year entling June By Mr. LEWY: Petition of the Associated Chambers o~ Com 30, 1913 contained the following prov· ion : merce of the Pacific Coast, of San Francisco, Cal., fayormg the For tile relief and settlement of the Apache Indians now confined as pa sage of the bill making an appropria~ion for the purpose of pri oners of war at Fort Sill Military Reservation, Okla., on lands experimenting with methods for preventing 1;1Illlecessary loss to to be selected for them by the Secreta.ry of the Interior and the Secre tary of War, 200,000, to be expended under uch rules and regula the fruit raiser ; to the Committee on Agriculture. tions as the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretilry of Wat· m· y Also, petition of the general executive committee of t~e n::n prescr·ibe. • ''ay Business Association, favoring the passage of legIBlatlon l\Ir. Pre ident, the foregoing is the law now in force. The for the adoption of the national budget as a method for con measure agreed to in conference and now pending before the trolling the receipts and expenditures of the National Govern Senate contains the follpwing relatiYe to the ame subject mat ment · to the Committee on Ways and Means. ter. I a sume this to be the subject of differ nee, although noth Ily' Mr. MOTT.: Petition of the Emanuel Congregational incr so far in the speech submitted by the Senator from New '01rnrcll, Watertown, N. Y., favoring th~ pas age of th~ Kenyon l\lexico alludes to the provision. "red-licrht" injunction bill for the clean.mg up of Washmgton ~or For continuing the relief and settlement of the Apache Indians now the ina~guration; to the Committee on the District of C?l~brn. confined as prisoners of war at Fort ill Military Re ernttion, Okla., By l\Ir. J. l\I. C. SMITH: Petition of the widows of _en-~ War on lands in Oklahoma to be selected for them by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of War. 100,000, to be expended under soluiers of Albion, l\Iich., favoring the passage of legIBlation to such rule and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior and the increase the pension of widows of Civil War soldiers to 20 per Secretary of War may prescribe, and to bo immediately available. month; to the Committee on Inv~lid Pension~. . . I omit the proviso, because it ha no relation to the ubject Al o, petition of citizens of Kalamazo?, l\I1ch., fay?rmg the matter now under con ideration. passage of House bill 25685, for the labeling and taggmg of all l\lr. Pre ident, the objections made are indicated l>y the am nd· <>'OOds and articles intended for sale under interstate commerce; ment offered to the Indian appropriation bill as affecting this par to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commer~e. . ticular provi ion when the ame was under con ideration before By l\1r. WILLIS : Petition ?f Cleveland TypograJ?h1c~l Umoi:, the Senate by the enator from New l\Iexico [Mr. A'fRO .. ], as Ko. 53, Cleveland, Ohio, fa1ormg the pas.,age of legislati?n mak follows: fa"' it unlawful to circulate any malicious tatement, prmted or Protiided That no part of the 100,000 hereby appropriated, nor of or~l. for cash con ideration or for gain,_ ~at can not be sub the 200,000 appropriated by the act approved April U. H>l:t, makin~ appropriation· for the current and contingent expen es of the BuI" au of stantiated ; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purpose , for the fiscal year endin"' June 30, 1913, which was authorized to be expended for the relief and ettlement of the Apache Indians now confined as prisoners of war at Fort Sill Mili SENATE. tary Reservation, Okla., on lands to be selected for them by the ecre tary of the Interior and the ecretary of Wa~· to be expended under TuESDAY, /JJ m·ch 4, 1913. such rules and regulations as the Secretary of me1 Interior and the 'cc retary of Wai· may pre cribe, shall be u ·ed for the purpo e of trnns· (Legislatit·c day of Monday, March 3, 1913.)" porting or making settlement of said Apache Indians. pri oners of war at Fort Sill Military Reser>ation, Okla., within the tate of ·cw The Senate reas embled at 9 o'clock and 30 minutes a. m., Mexico or State of Arizona. Tue ~ day, March 4, 1913, on the expiration of the recess. I understand the objections are made on account of tlle PUBLIO HEALTH SERVICE. danger, real or apprehended, to the people of New Mexico if any fr. Sl\IOOT. As in·executive session, I report on three ap of the Indians now confined at Fort Sill, Okla., are remo\eer in the administration of thi important branch of the Federal Yation. Eighty-eight of the number elected to remain in the sel"'i'ice and to the well-l>eing and betterment of the Indians. State of Oklahoma. I exceedingly regret the mea ure could not so far recci.ve tlle The sum appropriated la t year was t<> be experrdoo in the con ideration its importance de e1\es on account of the pro purchase of lanlls for homes, and in the remoYal of those thus cedure under the rules of the Senate which the Senators of electing to do so, aud also in equipping them and pro\iding the New Mexico ha'le iIIYoked. If there be just criticism of the m an of self-support. bill, if its provisions are improper and unjust or harmful, let It is my understanding, ~Ir. PresiUent, that practically all the defects be pointed out to the Senate and have them cor of the $200,000 has been used or hypothecatecl in carrying out rected; but the bill should not be defea too by a filitiuster or the provisions of the act of a year ago. by the unwarranted consumption of time at this lute hour of · Au application wa made by the Secretary of War and the the se~sion with a discourse under a wide range without even Secretary of the Interior for an additional appropriation of a single suggestion, Mr. President, a to any objections to this 100.00-0 to carry out the provisions contained in tile Indian particular mea. ure against which the attack has been presum appropriati-on act of August 24, 1912, as the amount heretofore auly directed. I ha Ye no knowledge con~erning it as to whether proYided had pron~d insufficient. it had relation to some other provi ion of the bill undisclosed. The appropriation now carried i for the specific purpose, as Mr. President, I will not take the time of the Senate to go tated in the bill itself, to buy lauds in the State of Oklahoma, into any further statement. I simply desired to put into the and not one dollar of the appropriation can be used in trans REoonn my own position, and I feel I owed a duty, not only to porting any of the Indians to New Mexico. myself, but to the collllilittee. :\Ir. President, it is represented, 1\Ir. President, I have been Yery much interc-teletter spent a yast amount of time and labor in the preparation of this do not share such apprehensions. bill: We hoped it might be, and we believe it is, largely satis ::ur., President, I insist on the consideration of the pending factory to the individual Members of the Sen.ate and the House. question. .After great labor and time an agreement in conference was The PRESIDEN'..r pro tempore. The Senator from S-0uth reached upon a.ll the disputed amendments contained in the bill, Dakota asks that the pa.per sent by him to the de k be read. aggregating 131. Without objection the Secretary ''ill read a reque ted. We sought in tlle preparation of this particular provision of The Secretary read as follows : Hie bill to meet the conditions anEl Paso Sto1·c, floor of the Senate, through unanimous consent, as a joint M. Wohlgemuth, Charles Utter. Robt. H. Zindel, Alva resolution by the junior Senator from Minnesota [:Mr. CLAPP] P. Sitton, Cha.s. Anderson, W. J. Pace, C. .A. Miller, M. McDonald, C. Cii.zare ·, The Tularosa Bargain House, embodying all the provisions of the proposed amendment. I E. P. Cooper, John Meadows, Joel Nailor, W. H . Skid aro: urned this would be satisfactory to the Senators, and I more, Nie Bruzuelas, J. H. Wohlenberg, Isaac Otis, . uppo ed it was offered to meet the wishes and at the sugges J. L. Johnson, F. V. Hilburne, II. S . Harris, Woodfo1·d Clark, Francisco Gallego~ Gin-0 Brusuela~ Isaac Car tion of the Senators from New Mexico. But the Senator who tajal, Luis Telles, J. G. uonzale , Palace .t5a.rber Sh-Op, bad occupied the floor in opposition to the conference report Eusebio Br·usuela, Eulogio Saenz, Augu tin Duran. l'an and who has delayed its consideration interpo ed an objection filo Romero, James Reagan, Manuel Brusuelas, Joseph to its consideration, for what purpose or for what object I do W'ohlgamuth. not pretend to tate. Mr. GMIBLE. I desire to thank the Senator from :Xcw Mr. President, this measure was carefully and thorough1y !\Ie:x:ico for the courtesy he has extended me in yielding to me. considered by the committees of the two Houses. It has had the .l\Ir. FALL. The Senator is under no obligation, .Mr. Pr~i consideration of both House and Senate. "re feel the Senate dent, to thank me. I am rather under obUgation to him that should huye an opportunity at this time to pa s its deliberate he has sought nt this stage of the hearing upon this case to judgment upon it. For the reason there is a provision in the present his sicle of it. I say his side of it, because I think it measure that doe not happen to suit or to satisfy one or two is purely his side or that of some few of the members of the Senators, should the Senate as a whole, under the procedure Committee on Indian Affairs which has been presented. invoked here, be precluded from di po ing of the measure and I should like to have the attention of the Senator, if he will J)ermit the bill to fail? girn it to me. I hacl intended, Mr. President, pur ning the As far as I am concerned, Mr. Pl'esident, I haye sought to course which I had rnm·ked out with reference to the order in keep the conference report before the Senate for its proper and which I would present my a.rgument against this bill, but ns full consideration, in compliance with the rules and p1·ocedm·e the Senator has sought to convey the idea avpa1-eutly tbat this of this body. A.s far as I am concerned, if the representati\es is a mere filibuster and nothing more, I houJd like to ask rhe 4834 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN ATE. ~lARCH 4,
Senator, for instance, if l.te knows what n.mendment 77 injected I want to say, sir, that this fight here made has been made, into tlii bill by his committee means? and is being made as it is, for the purpo e of comincing the ~lr. GAl\IBI.. EJ. I think it is self-e:\.'J)lanatory. It is extend Senate Oommittee on Indian Affairs that when a matter purely ing the time of payment. affecting my State is concerned I shall have something to say :Mr. FALL. Of what? about what legislation is enacted for that State affecting no Ir. GAl\IBLE. .As I recall it, extemling for one year the other State in the Union. time of payment on lots in the town of Lawton. Now, Mr. President, the Senator say that this conference Mr. FA.LL. Tl.te nortll addition to the town of Lawton. Is committee could not adopt certain measures-that it ould not the Senator aware that a provision in a former bill in practi legislate. I want to cull the attention of the enator and of cnlly the identical language has been inve tigated? the other Members of the Senate to legislation enacted by them. ::\Ir. GAMBLE. Mr. President the amendment was proposetl A little item to which I lla•e alreadv directed the Senator· upon the floor of the Senate, as I recall it, by the Senator from attention is a matter of legi lation brot'.'tght in without objection Oklahoma [l\fr. OWEN], with the statement that it had been from him, but, so far as . any legislati\e record is concerned in favorably reported by the Oommittee on Indian Affairs of the connection with this proposed removal, it began, in o far a · t>nate, that it had passed the Senate, as I recall it, and Ulat it thi body is concerned, witll a return of a conference report on had tlle f3.-rnrable report of the Secretary of the Interior. If August 13, 1912. . I am not mistaken the measure was drawn and submitted by Mr. Pre ident, with reference to the remoYal of the .Apache the ecretary of the Interior. _ Indians from Fort Sm to New Mexico or any other place, the l\lr. FALL. The Senator has no per onal knowledge of it. Con"res of the United tates, prior to the uringinrr in of tlli'"' l\Ir. GAMBLE. I have no personal k:nowle<.lO'e of it. conference report, had not enacted one word of legi lation. Mr. FALL. I supposed so. l\Ir. President, the Senator has Neither the Senate nor the House had pas ed upon any . uch attempted to ·how that the objection, so far as tlle Senators proposition, and, without authority from either Hou e, the con from New Mexico are concerned, to this measure-at least as ference committee of the two Hou es on the 13th day of Angu t to the removal of the Apaches from Fort Sill to Mescalero last yea~· brought in this report, among other things : is not well founded. The Senator has seen fit to refer to a That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to remo\e to anu re olution which was proposed to be offe1·~d in an executive e tabli h on the Mescalero .Apache Indian Re ervation, in New Mexico, all persons now held as .Apache prisoners of war on the Fort Sill Mili e ion of this body by one of the memuers of the committee. tary Reservation, in Oklahoma, who may de ire to go to said "lie calero The Senator has_ not stated, however, that which I think he Apache Re ervation. will rememher-th~t the Senator from New l\Iexico who. made * * * * * the objection at the time to the consideration, afterwards, on That thf' Indians of the banen proper consideration of the resolution offered, and if that to the propo ed remoYal of these Indians to New l\Iexico hnd were er been allotted in everalty to the Me calero them and the committee of conference refused to limit the use of the seh·e . Then read the wordinO' of the approprfation a.nu show otJ1Pr $200,000 of exactly the same appropriation of which the me how it is po ible, legally, for any portion of thi $200,000 $100.000 as expres ed in the bill itself is a limitation. to IJe expended in acquiring lands upon which to .·ettle these :\Ir. President, I want to say now, once for all, in perfect good Apaches on the 1Ie calero reserve. humor that neither of the Senators from New Mexico wus con The chairman of the committee e>idently know but little of sultetl 1 as to this matter; that they have ne--ver been cons1ilted the content of thi bill, unle for of the Indians on the other. som Senators-particularly the Senate Committee on Indian .Mr. GAl\IBLE. Mr. Pre i<.lent-- Affairs-to realize that New l\lexico is no longer a dumping The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Doe the Senator from N"ew gronnd for political backs to be appointed by some aUE. that the Congress has abandoned Federal control of the Niagara Mr. JONES. Mr. President-- R~~ . The PRESIDE~~ pro tempore. Does the Senator from New The House unanimously passed this resolution; and but for 1\Iexico yield to the Senator from Washington? conditions '\\hich are '\\ell understood, I am sure the i·esolution ~Ir. FALL. For what purpose? '\\Ould ha\e passed in the Senate by a very large majority. .A ~Ir. JONES. To enable me to offer a Senate re olution, and bill or resolution will be introduced ill the Senate on the very have it referred to the Committee to Audit and Conh·ol the first day of the next session asserting Federal control. Contingent Expenses of the Senate. I exceedingly regret the situation, because the passage of this l\Ir. FALL. Yes; I yield for that purpose. act in 1906 saved the Falls and the rapids below the Falls from Mr. JONES. I offer the resolution which I send to the desk. the spoliation which was in progress. I am sure there ,-nu be The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Washing- the most careful scrutiny of the course of the government of ton offers a reSGlution, which will be stated. the State of New York and of the incoming administration as The Secretary 'read the resolution ( S. Res. 499), as follows : regards their action for the preservation of the Falls. I am Resolved, That the Committee on the Distr:tct of Columbia, by sub sm;e it is right to say that the people of this country earnestly. committee or otherwise, be, and it is hereby! authorized and directed desire that the Falls be saved, in order that this great wonder. to investigate the conduct of the District police and police department this spectacle which has been admired by so many millions of of the District of Columbia in connection with tbe woman's su1Irage parade on March 3, 1013, and ascertain whether said police or police people, may be preserved for future genentions. depa1·tment was negligent in protecting the participants in said parade Not only will there be scrutiny with reference to the course from interference, insult, and indignity, and submit its report and of the adminIBtration of the State of :New York, but there will recommendations as soon as possible; and said committee shall have authority to summon witnesses, administer oaths, take testimony, be equal attention to the com·se of the incoming administration. employ stenographers, and incur such expense as may be necessary to To-day the party which has been out of power fot· a long time make such investigation, such expense to be paid out of the contingent takes the reins. In that inevitable reaction which is sure to fund of the Senate on vouchers tberefor signed by and approved by the chairman of said District of Columbia Committee. arise against those who have the responsibilities of government, and especially in the fierce light of the criticism which ·s iu The PRESIDEXT pro tempore. The resolution will be re vogue to-day, the people will demand tha. t tbe incoming adminis ferred to the Committee to .Audit and Control the Contingent tration take action for the preservation of the Falls. If they Expenses of the Senate. are neg]ected, I verily believe condelililll.tion will be visited upon Ur.· BRISTOW. Mr. President, a resolution was introduced those who fail to ~arry out the provisions of this act or to pur yesterday by the senior Senator from Minnesota [1Ur. NELSON] sue a policy similar to that enunciated in it. upon the same subject. To wha: committee was that referred? I again state that, in view of the opposition which hn ue l\fr. NELSO:N. It should have been Teferred to the same com veloped here to the passage of the resolution, it is very c1ear mittee. that it can not pass, and I regard it as futile to make further The PRESIDENT pro ternpore. The Chair will- suggest to effort for its consideration. the Senator from Minnesota that that was simply a resolution directing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to call DEFICIENCY APJ>ROJ;>RllTIO!ii BILL. upon the chief of police for a report. · Mr. WARR~ submitted the follomng report : Ur. NELSON. Yes. The PRESIDE..VV pro tempore. Th.at resolution was agreed The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the to. This seems to be a broader resolution. two Houses on the amendments of the S nate to the bill (H. R. l\lr. NELSON. This is a resolution of investigation. 28858) making app1:opriations to supply deficiencies in appro The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Yes. priations for the fiscal year 1913, and for prior years, nnd fo1· Mr. JO"NES. Mr. President, I simply desire to say that the other purposes, having met, after full and free conference ha ye papers this morning are filled with accounts of what oc. . 4836 OONGRESSIO:NAL RECORD- EN ATE: " ~!AR H 4,· ---- That the House recede fl'oru its disagreement ·to the ·amend relation to the snrTey propo ition and the other to the home ment of the Senate numbered 13, and agree to the same with stead matter. :ln amendment as follows : In lien of the sum named in said Mr. W ATIREX. The homestead ·matter.i agreed to and i!l the amendment insert ",'2,000,'' and in lines G and 7 of said amend bilJ. "What is the other one? . , ment strike out the words "one year's" and in ·ert in lieu U r. JOi\TES. The other. Qne is as t~ the money arnilable for thereof " six months" ; and the Senate agree to the nme. land surYeys in the local surTeyor generals' offices. That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend l\Ir. W AHilEX. That is included .in the bill. .· ment of the Senate numbered 16, and agree to the same with -1\Ir. JO:XES. I tllank the Senator for the. ill.formation. an amendment as foll-0ws : Iu lieu of the nm named in said The PilESIDE.XT pro tempore. The question i · npon a "'ree- amendment in ert "$100,000 " ; and the Senate agree to fue ing to the conference report. . same. The conference report was agreed to. . . That the House recede from its disagreement to tlle amend ment of the Senate nuruberecl 2!>, and agree to the same with an OI:DER OF Il1ISI~ ES • amendment as follows : In lieu of th~ sum namecl in ·aid amend l\Ir. .i\l cC .i\lllER. l\lr. President, I move .. that th~ . ·~at ment insert "$1,7GO " ; and the Senate agree to the same. proceecl to the consideration of Senate. bill 23;1.1 That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend M:r. Sl\fITH of Georgia. ::Ur. President-.- ·- · . ment of the Senate numbered 30, and agree to the same with an The PRESIDE.XT· pro tempore. Does the ~enator )-i.elLl to the amendment as follows: At the end of the matter inserted by Senator f rom Georgia? · said amendment insert ", to continue available during the fiscal l\Ir. McCUMBER. I vield . year ·1914 " ; and the Senate agree to the same. .i\Ir. SMITH of Georgia. The Senat<;>'r from _ ~en- :\lexico ha That the Hou e recede from its disagreement to the amend the floor, Mr. President. ment of the Senate numbered 31, and agree to tl1e same with an .Mr. FALL. .i\fr. President- - amendment as follows: In line 5 of the matter inserted by said Mr. S.MITH of Georgia. The • enator from New .Mexico has amendment, after the word "aYailable," insert the following : the floor. "until the close of the fiscal year 1914"; and the Senate agree Mr. FA.LL. I yiellled to the Senator from Wyomin" imp1y to the same. fo r the consierecl 4G. and agree to the •tme with an kind, but in ju tice to the chairman of the committee and to 1 amendment as follows : In lieu of the sum named in snid amend myself I do not think I should yield for a motion to displace ment insert " $1,000 " ; and tllc Senate agree to the ame. the bill under consideration. If tllat is the purpose of the Sena- That the Hou e recede from its di agreement to the amend tor, I nm sure be will realize that I can not y~eld . · ment of the Senate numlJerecl 47, and agree to tlle same with an 1\Ir. McCUMBER. l\Ir. rresillent, I fully under tand that tlle amendment as follows: In lien of the sum named in said Senator would feel nry much di appointed to haYe the Indian amendment insert "$1,000 "; ane the Committee on the J udiciary who are Member · elect of the glad to haTe the. Senator withhold his request for a little while, Hou e to the Sixty-third Congress, or a majority of them. until at any rate. I am making an attempt to make a record at thi the meeting of the first session of the Sixty-third Congre~ s, and point. the Committee on the Judiciary during the first session of that l\lr. l\IcCU:\IRER. For an hour and thirty-five minutes ? Congress are authorized to expend for experts, accountants, and Mr. FALL. I expect to occupy the floor, nnJe it i ao-reey its title. after FelJruary 13, 1911, such interest to be ayailable under Mr. CULLOM. I ask unauimou con ent for tllc pre ent con annual appropriations by Congress for cash per capita payments sideration of the bill. to the Ute Indians entitled, or for expenditure for tlleir benefit, By unanimous consent the bill \Ya . read the second time ut in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, $3,305,237 .rn " ; length and considered ns in Committee of the Whole, as follows :· and the Senate agree to the same. Whereas on Au.~ust 2, 188i, John l\lc1.Iurdie, an employee of the cus· F. E . WARREN, tomhouse at chicago, Ill., while in the discharge of his duties, was IlOBERT J. GAMBLE, instantly killed by the sudden moving of an elevator cable while the 0 . A. Cur.BER ox, deceased · was in the act of stepping oveL' -same : 'Iherefore B e i t e11actecl, etc., 'l'hat the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is 1f a.1wgcr on the part of th e c11atc. het·eby, authorized and directed to pay out of any. money in the Trea ·• J OHN J . FITZGER.ll.D, ury not otherwi e appropriated, the ·um of • 720 to Maria hldfurdic, 0. L . BARTLETT. widow, and the heir at law of the sai~ ;John Mcllurdie. . Ma11agCI' on tltc vart of tlle llousc. Mr. BURTOX. What is the amount carried by th ii' hill? l\fr. CULLOM. SeYen hundred and twency {lollars ;, that i ·all. Th PHESIDENT pro tempore. The question is u11on agree Mr. BURTON. A year's·saltu·y? · ing to tbe conference r"cport. .i\fr. CULLOM. A year· • salary.-· .·· . · ~ir . JONES. Ur. rr e ~itleut, I tried to watch the reading of :Mr. BURTON. All .rigllt. . . '. ' . the repot·t, but I \Yant to ask the chairman n question about it. The bill was r.eported to the ·seirnte without ameu<.lment,: I rould not catch, from the reading of the report, what action ordered to a third reading. reacl tlle third tiwe, rmd passctl. had heen taken upon amendments numbered 31 ancl 32, one in The preamble was agreed to. 1913. CONGRESSIOXAL RECORD-SEN.L.i\_TE; .4837- ~ .
INDUN APPROPRIATION lHLL. Yet these are the Ind.inns "\\ho nre so we1l ci"dlizetl and nch Tlle Sennte, as in Committee of tlie Whole, resurneu the con Christian gentlemen that t11ey de ·e1Te in the eyes and. i the sideration of the conference report on the l>ill (H. n. 26874) opinion of the honorable Secretary or' War to r:rnk with the "\\hite man or aboYe him. He .says they are; very much higher making appropriations ~or the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs for fulfilling treaty stipulations grade Indian thnn is the Me calero. I presume he desires to willi Yarious Indian tribes, and for other purpo es, for the send them as missionaries to the Mescaleros to assist in their fi cnl year ending June 30, 1914. ciyilization; and yet the Secretary of the . Interior, to whose Mr. FALL. Mr. President, I do not know exactly how the charge these Indians are proposed to be deliYered, says that record of this discussion ·will appear. Therefore, I must refer they h~ Ye deteriorated· mentally, morally, and physically ; tlla t back for a moment to the statement made by the chairman of they. will not work; that they are lazy; that they are retro this committee, which so plainly sho"\\s his entire lack of gradmg; and that they ham allo"\\ed to run to waste the tillable knowledge of the subject under immediate discussion-who lands which ha>e been giyen them. . - . the e Indians are, where they came from, "\\hat their present l\Ir. President, I submit that the Senate Committee on Indian condition is, whether· they are civilized, semici'rilized, or de .Affairs, the honorable Secretary of War, the honorable Secre generates-in order to show that ·the two departments of the Gov tary of the Interior, '\Yith an due deference to the respectiYe ernment haying to do with the·se particular Indians possess the members of the committee and to the gentlemen named haye same character or quantity of kno"\\ledge or less knowledge shown in this bill and in the reports to "\\hich I ha.Ye referred upon the subject than that tlisplayecl by the committee; and I ~hat they are absolutely at sea, to say the lea.st, upon the sub say that with all due deference to the committee. I want to Ject upon which they are desiring the Senate to legi late. place, as I haYe said, in parallel columns statements from the MESS.A.GE FRO:l.1' THE IIOUSE. Secretaries of the War Department and of the Interior Depart . .A m~s age from the House of RepreseutatiYe.s, by J. O. South, ment, respediYely, concerning these Indians along ide the state its Chief Clerk, announced that the House had pa sea. the fol ment of tho chairman of the committee upon the same subject. lo"\\ing bills, in which it requested the concurrence of the i\lr. President, the Secretary of War of the United States bas Senat.e: bad, or his department has had, charge of the Fort Sill Apaches H. R. 21849. An act for the relief of Felix l\lorO'an · si~ce 1886.. The Secretary of the Interior apparently, boweyer, RR. 2 098. An act to authorize the constrncti~u ~f a bridue0 prior to the passage of any resolution by the Congress of the across the Sabine RiYer at Orange, Tex.; and United Stutes providing for the remoni.l of tllese Indians, of H. R. 28840. An act authorizing the construction of a bridue hi own accord, or animated possibly by the de •ires of some acros. the S~. John RiYer, bet"\\een the town of Yan Ruren, 1\1;., one else, llad been investigating the subject of the Fort Sill and the parish of St. Leonards ProYince of Xew BrtlllS"\\ick Apnclle while they ,yere yet in the hands of the Secretary of Dominion of Canada. ' ' ~~ . 'l'he Secretary of ·war is supposed to kno"\\ more about these E~ROLLED nILL SIGNED. Inc.Jinns than the head of any other execntirn department. The me sage also announced that the Speaker of. the llouse Under date of December 28, 1912, rcfcning to these Indians at h.ad signed the follo"\\ing enrolled bills, and they were thereupon Fort Sil1, the Secretary of War over his signature, not acting by signed by the President pro tern pore: any assistant, in answer to a protest submitted by both Sen S. 8G40. An act granting pensions and increase of pensions to ator. from New Mexico upon this subject-and I call the atten certain oldiers and sa4ors of the Regular Army and Nayy and tion of Senators to this communication-says: of "\\ars other than the CivH War, and to certain "\\ido"\\s and Ilefe.rring to yom letter of December 20 on the subject of the removal dependent relatiYes of such soldiers and sailors· of the Apache prisonet·s of war at l•'ort Sill, Okla., I !lave the honor to H. R. 156i. An act for the relief of Maria 1\lci\l~rclee · say that these Indians have been a heavy charge on the War Depart ment ·ince 1 86, and they could legally l>e cared for olely under the H. R. 26680. An act making appropriations for the lea is la ti rn. status of prisoners of war. executiv~, and judicial expenses of the GoYernment for the fiscai year endlll1£ June 30, 1914, and for other purposes; I -should like to call the a tteution of the chairman of the com mittee to this: H. R. 2 n8. An act m.aking appropriations to supply deficien cies in appropriations for the fiscal year 1913 and for prior Only a very few of those who were on the warpath in 1886-26 years ago- arc now alive, and they at·e superannuated. The others are women years, and for other purposes ; and and children or sons of tbe ahove, wbo, having been educated and grown !!· R. 28840. An act authorizing tlie construction of a railroad up in civilization, are more like white men than Indians. bridge across the St. John RiYer, lJetween the town of Van I should like to call the attention of the Senate to the juug Buren, ~Ie., and. the parish of St. Leonanls, Province of Ne" rnent of the Secretary of War as to what a \Vhite man is in com Bruns"\\1ck, Donunion of Canada. pari on with that of the judgment of tlte Secretary of the BRIDGE .A.CROSS SABINE RIVER AT OR.\.NGE, TEX. Interior on the same subject : The PRESIDE ~T pro tempore. The Chair lays before the l\Io t of them are members of Christian churches, and no kind of fear need be entertained of their evet· again going to war. Senate a. bill .from the Hou e of Representatirns, which "\\iJI be reacl by its title, and call the attention of the junior Senator An expert on war testifying for them- from Texas [l\Ir. SHEPPARD]. tiv~~_:: arc industrially far ahead of the 1\Iescalero Apacbcs, their' rela- ?'he bill (H. R. 28?9 ) ~o authorize the construction of a bridge across the Sabme Rffer at Orange, Tex., was rend the That is thrown in for good measure, I presume, as the chair fir t time by its title. man of the committee threw it in- 1\Ir. SHEPPARD. I ask unanimous consent for the pre ent and are skilled in many kinds of labor. They have clamored for years consideration of the bill. to be relieved from theit· status as Frisoners and set free. '£hey con sider the word " prisoner " a term o reproach, :ind they are sl1pported The PRESIDEXT pro tempore. The bill "\\ill be rend for the in their wish 1.Jy a large portion of the American people. information of the Senate. Yet they protested to Gen. l\Iiles "\\hen Capt. Lawton arrested The bill "\\as read the second time at length, as follows : Be it enacted, etc., That the Orange Commercial CL:b. its successors them while their hands, as I said a"\\hile ago, were still red and assigns, be, l;llld they hereby are, authorized to constn1ct maintain with the blood of their Yictims; they protested then ·against the and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Sabine River ::it woru "prisoners"; they thought that they should be simply re a point suitable to the interests of na>igation at the city of Ornnge turned to the San Carlos Reservation, in the State of Arizona. 'l'ex., in accordance with the provisions of G.n act entitled "An ::ict -to Mr. President, here is a very frank statement of the present Kif~~~th:hi 9g{;~struction of bridges over na>igable waters,'' approved couclition of these Indians. On the date of l\Iay 12 last-and I SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby call the attention of the chairman of the committee to the expressly reserved. fact-the Secretary of the Interior addressetl a communication The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is lliere objection to the to him as the chairman of the committee. I ask the Senator pre ·ent consideration of the bill? where he gets his knowledge of the Fort Sill .Apaches? Among There being no objection, the 1.>ill was considei;ed as in Com other things, the Secretary of the Interior, speaking of the same mittee of the Whole. Indians referred to by the Secretary of w·ar, said: The bill "\\as reported to the Sennte "\\ithout amendment or The Indians when t•cmoved to Oklahoma comprised 308 in number dered to a third reacting, read the third time, an<.1 passed. ' and at the present time number about 250. When they were settled at Fort Sill h<.mses were bu!lt for them an.d tracts of lancl set apart for FELL"'\: MORGAN. use. of the d11f~rent famlbes, and they were. furnished with cattle, hotse , etc. It 1s now repo1·tcd that these family tracts are not culti The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the vat d, but .have been _allo~cd to grow up ~ith sunflowers, and that the bill (H.. R. 218~9) for the relief of Felix i\Iorgan, which wns onl.v land m cu1tiv:i.tlon lS a ti-act used rn common and cultivated by read twice by its title. • ~hite rentees or laborci·s. Ali tile repot·ts indicate that these Indians !nstead of advancing, have reh'ogradcd mentally, morally, and phys'. Mr. WATSON. I ask unanimous consent for the present con ically. . sideration of the bill. 4838 001 GRESSION L RECORD- SE:NATE. llARCH 4,
There being no objection the bill wns read the second time at the prosecution of combinations of proclucers of farm products ng1:Jl auu on. iuered as in ommittee of the Whole, as fol for t he purpo e of artificially conh'olling f)rices ;· and the e\tl low : is not removed, although it may be masked, by referring to the Be it enact cT, etc., That tbc Secretary of tl10 Treasury be, and be is purpose of the organization as "to obtaiu .anot wa«es, shortening of hours, or bettering the condition of labor, OI'_ for any act this amendment, they would ask us to write it into tlle law clone in furtherance thereof not in itself unlawful: Pro'l:tded further, of this Republic." ( C01'G. RECORD, i1. GO, Gl t ConO'. 2c.1 Tl.tat no part of thi app1·opriation shall be expended for the pro ecu sess.) tion of producers of farm products and a ociations of farmers w~o cooperate and organize in an effort to and for the purpose to obtam It is because I run unwi1ling to be a. party to writin"' such and ma1ntain a fair and reasonable price for their product . a pro-vision into the laws of this Republic that I nm unable to This pro\ision is clnss legislation of the mo t Yicious ort. gi\e my as ent to a bill "hich contains tbi · provision. If it were enactell n ubstanfi\e law and not merely as a quali W.ll. H. TAFT. fi ation upon the use of monies appropriated for the enforce THE WHITE HolJSE, March 4, 1913. ment of the lo.w, no one, I take it, would doubt its unconstitu The PilESIDE1\T pro tempore. The question is, Shall tho tionality. imilar provi. ion in the ·law of the State of Illi L>ill pa s, the objection of the Presiclent of the "Gnited tates nois wa declared by the Snpreme omt to be an in,asion of to the contrary notwithstanding? The Constitution requires the guaranty of tbe equal protection of. the laws contained in that the vote hall be taken by yeas anu nays. the fourteenth amendment of the ou titution of the United ::.\Ir. POINDEXTER. Mr. President, I notice that tllis bill, tates in the case of Connelly t '. Union ewer Pipe Co. (1&1 among other item , contains an appropriation of :;oo 000 ac U. S., 540), although the only exception in that instance from cordin(Y to the Senate amendment. I desire to speal~ on' tile tho illegality of or(l'anizations and combinations, etc., declared que tion before the Swate. The item to which I refer L for- by that statute, was one which exempted agriculturists a.ml live J:? etection .and pro. ~cution of cl"imes: For the detection and prn-e cub?n of crlilles agamst the United States · the investigation of the stock raisers in re pect of their products or live stock m hand official acts, records, and accounts of mar hals attorneys clerks and from the operation of the law leaTfog them free to combine to referees of the United States courts and the 'Territorial' court : · and do that which, if done by other , woulu be a crime again t the United tatc co111mis ioncrs, for which pm·pose all the official paper. rec?rds, and d cket of said officers, without exception, shall be ex~ State. amrned. by the agents of the Attomey .General at an;y time· for the The prod ·o is subtly worEXTER. I am speaking upon the item of $;JOO,OOO of $200,000 additional for special counsel, all to be expended in for the detection and prosecution of crimes and for the prcser the discretion of the department, should be stricken out, or else Yn ti on of law and order: Congress should spedfy the purposes to which it is to be ap The PRESIDENT pro tempor~. In dealing with the point of plied. Thls bill carries an nppropriation of o\er $113,000,000, order the Chair is of the opinion that it would be a more orderly and it is safe to say tltat this amount can be reduced many mil procedure to discuss the proyisions of the bill upon which the lions nnd still include a number of meritorious items much veto message was bai::ed. At the same time the Ohair recognize· needed in the impro\ement antl de\elopment of the West, which the fn ct that it is within the province of the Senate to cliscus · ha\e l>een heretofore rejected. thi bill or. under our rules, any other bill, and for that rea ou Should the $1,200,000 referred to be retained in the bill, to be tlle Chair will overrule the point of order. expended in the discretion of the Department of Justice, it is Mr. POINDEXTER. I do not apprehend, i\Ir. President, that to be hoped that the dc;:mrtment will use it to better effect ancl n rnte of the Senate upon this bill, either sustaining or o\er with more good faith t11an the police force of fue city of Wash rnlin~ the Yeto of the President, must necessarily be bas~d upon iugton has exhibited in the enforcement of order and the pre tlle identical reasons set forth in the veto message. There may nntion of •iolcnce, which is the principle upon which our JJe other proYi ions in the bill which Senators regard as of equal municipal, State, aud National Go\erllments must rest. In importance with that upon which the veto is based. If it is de order to emphasize what I was proceeding to say when I was . iretl that the debate should be confined specifically to the propo interrupted, I will tate fuat the police force instead of protect . ition which is cli ens ed in the veto message, I will only say, ing thi parade nllowed automobiles and ambulances to rnoYe in !Ja . ing, a to that particular point, that it was ne\er in through it appnrently with the intention and for the purpose of tended by the Congress when the Sherman antitru t law was breaking it up. They allowed a crowd of hundreds of thou- enacted that it should apply to labor unions or orgnnizations of a nds of 11eople, compo ed of those who were jeering and hostile tlrnt nature. It was intended to apply to indu t1ial and com to tlli parade, which was composed largely of women, to come mercial organizations engaged in busine s and trade, but not in immediate contact with them, so that they were in clanger of to orgnnizations of a social and personal character, wllich were pby ical T"iolence and eYen in danger of losing their li\es from intendeoe printed as a public document. ENROLLED IlILLS SIGNED. The PRESIDE1T'l' pro tempore. The enator from tall The m ·sage further :mnounced that the Speaker of fue ask unaninl-0us consent that the re11ort which lle euPE.NSIONS AND INCBEA..SE OF PENSIONS. ties among the bystander as occurred there. The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the I have a document here that I would like unanimous con ent ::imendment of the House of Representatives to. the bill ( S. 83DG) to haYe printed. I think it conveys very valuable information granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain se>ldiers which might be used with much profit by the Senate· Committee and a.ilors of the Regular Army and Navy and of wars other on Indian .Affairs at the next session. · than the Cilil War and to certain widows and dependent rela In view of the fact that there seems to be a stupendous tives of such soldiers and sailors, which was, on page 4, to amount of ignorance concerning the true history of the Fort strike out lines 3 to 5, inclusive, in the following words: Sill Apaches, I ask the same unanimous consent which wa The name of Mary MacArthur, wit'low of Arthur MacArthur. late extended to the Senator from Utah [l\Ir. SMOOT] to have the lieutenant general United States Army, and pay her a pension at the document I send to the desk read by the Secretary. If there rate of $100 per month. is objection to the reading of the document, I will then ask that Mr. McCUMBER. I move that the Senate concur in the it may be printed as a Senate document for the benefit of the House amendment. Senate Committee· on Indian Affairs. The motion was agreed to. MES AGE FROM THE HOUSE. AOBICULTURAL EXTE..."iSION DEPA.RT~IENTS, A message from the House of Ilepresenta.ti1es, by J. C. Sonth. .Mr. GAMBLE. I ask that the pending motion be submitted its hief Clerk, announced that the Speaker of the House had to the Senate. appointed a committee of three Members of tlle House to join a The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on agreeing similar committee to be .appointed by the Senate to wait upon to the conference report on House bill 2687 4, the Indian appro the President of the United State and jnform him thnt tile two priation bill. Houses, haying com11leted the bnsiness of the . e ion are reacly l\fr. FALL. l\1r. President, I should like to ask how much to alljourn. ' time we have for discussion. BRIDGE A.CROSS ST. JOH RIVER. Mr. SMITH of Georgia. Mr. President-- The PRESIDE~"'T pro tempore. The Chair lays before the The PRESIDE.i~T pro tempore. Will the Senator from ... Tew Senate a bill from the House of Representatives and call the l\lexico yield to the Senator from Georgia? attention of the Senator from :Maine [Mr. JOHNSON). Mr. FALL. If the Senator will state his purpose. ~"he bill (H. R. 28840) authorizing the construction of a bridge Mr. SMITII of Georgia. I desh·e to move and to read a mo aero ·s the St. John River between the town of Van Buren lle., tion I made on Saturday and which went over until to-day and the parish of St. Leonards, Province of New Brun wick, under objection : Dominion of Canada, was read the first time by its title. That the conferees on the part of the Senate upon the bill (IL R. 1\Ir. JOHNSON of Maine. I a k unanimous eon ent for the !12871) to establish agricultural extension departments in connection pre ent consideration of the bill. with agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of a.n act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, and of acts supplementary The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It will be read at len.-rth. thereto, are h~reby discharged. The bill was read the second time at length, as follmYs: That the Senate recede from the Senate sub titute and agree to the Be it enacted, etc., Tlu:t the Van Buren Bridge Co., a corporation Ilow;e bill. created by the laws of the tate of Maine, its successors and assl"'n , Mr. GAlIBLE. Mr. President-- be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and oper te Mr. SMITH of Georgia. I am awa1·e that if any serious de a railroad bridge and app1·oaches thereto across the St. John Ilinr at a point suitable to the inten~sts of navigation in the town of \n.n bate is to be had upon this motion we will hardly ha.ve time Buren, in the county of Aroostook, in the State of Maine, to a polnt on before 12 o'clock to pass upon it, but it occurs to me that in the opposite side of said river in the parish of St. Leonards, in the county of Madawska, in the Province of New Brnnswlck, Dominion of view of the value of the measure possibly unanimous consent Cnnada; said bridge shall be constructed in accor-dn.nce with the provi might be given to let it go through. Therefore I ask for a sions of an act entitled "An act to regulate the construction of bridges unanimous consent, as I will understand that otherwise my mo over navigable waters,'' approved March 23, 1906: Protiided. That the construction of the said bridge shall not be commenced until the con tion would not prevail. sent of the pl:oper authorities of the Dominion of Canada. for the erec Mr. LODGE. Mr. President, there is no doubt we all feef tion of the structure shall have been obtained. great sympathy in the pu.rpose of this bill, but the precise form SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act ls hereby expre sly reser>ed. that it should take will u:nq_uestionably lead to discussion. It also invol1es a \ery interesting question of parliamentary pro The PilESIDE~'"T pro tempore. Is there objection to the cedure, which "·as somewhat discussed yesterday and on whicll present consideration of the bill? a very wise ruling was made as to one branch of the subject. There being no objection, the bill v.---as consideretl as in orn- This invol1es the other branch. I should feel it nece sary to mittee of the Whole. · trace the hi tory of the question of procedure, which is a very The biE was ordere:Jlr. G.UlBLR It is utterly impos ible to hear the Senator S. 8443. An act to extend the time for constructing a bridge or to hear tbe reque t he has subrnitteu. I suggest that he across the 1\Iissouri Iliver at 01· near the town of Weldon ::::peak loutler. Springs Landing, l\Io.; :\lr. 11'~ LL. 1.Ur. rresiiew of the· course which this debate has taken, in asking that and to promote safety at sea ; it be printed as a public document, so that it may be a.Yailable II. R. 27148. An act making appropriations for the service of to tlle ne-xt Committee on Indian Affairs. the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, Mr. GMIBLE. I should like to submit a fmther request- 1914., and for other purposes· The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from New H. R. 25780. An act to adiend section 3186 of the IleTised :Mexico ask unanimous consent that a book, entitled "Geron Statutes of the United States; · . imo's Life," shall be printed as a public docll.Il1ent. Is there H. R. 25781. An act to amend section 77 of an act entitled "An objection? u.ct to codify, retise, and amend the laws relating to the judi· Mr. WILLI.AJ\IR I object. ciary," approved Ma.rch 3, 1911 ; . The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection is made. H. R. 28812. An act making appropriatious for the narnl Mr. F.ALL. Then I ask that the Secretary proceed to read service for the :fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, and for other the book. purposes ; and The PRESIDENT pro tempore. · The Senator from New H. R. 28003. An act to amend an act entitled ".An act granting Mexico asks that the book shall be read by the Secretary. Is a service pension to certain defined veterans of the Civil Wai. there objection? and the War with Mexico," approved May 11, 1912. Mr. CLARKE of Arkansas. I object. .A.LASKA. NORTHERN RAILWAY. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection is made. Mr. NELSON. I desire to ask for the present con i announced that the House had agreed to The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair has just ordered the report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing the reading of the bill. votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the The Secretary read the bill, as follows: bill (H. R. 28003) to amend an act entitled '°An act granting Be it enacted etc., 'I'hat the tj.me for ti.ling the map and maps of a serv.ice pension to certain. veterans of the Ciru War and the definite location of the Alaska Northern Railway;, formerly known as th.e Alaska Central ~w~y, of its .b~a~ches, station grounds and ter War with Mexico," approT"ed l\Iay 11, 1912. J!ll?al grounds, and J~nction and d1v1s10n terminals provided and re The me~sa.ge further announced that the House had passed qmred by the act entitled "An act for extending the homestead laws (H. R. 28731}. and providing for the right of way for railroads in the Distl'ict of a bill to extend the time for the completion of Alask3t and for other. purposes," _app1·oved May 14, 1898, both within the .Alaska Northern Railway~ and for other purpose , in which and without reservatrons and withdrawals, be, and the same he.reby it requested the concurrence of the Senate. is, extended until three years after the passage of this act and the time for completing the railway 1s hereby extended until two years ENllOLLED BILLS SIGNED. after the filing of said maps; and leave is hereby granted to the Alaska Northern Railway Co., its successors and assigns, to file said map Tl.tc message also announced that the Speaker of the House and maps of de.finite location within the time and the times therefor had signed the following enrolled bills, and they were thereupon as above provided: Pnn;ided, That nothing in this act shall be con strued or held to have the effect of renewing or reviving any gr::rnt signed b.y the President pro tempore : of title to real estate under the act o.f June 30, lOOG, or any subse S. 3843. An a.ct authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to quent act which may have already Iap::.ed or become forfeited : Pro lease to the operators of coal mines in Oklahoma additional vided tm·ther, That in case the •United States shall at any time desire to acquire, by purchase or condemnation proceedings. aid railroad the acreage from the tmleased coal land bf the Choctaw and Chicka extension herein made and the right of way secured thereby hali not saw Nations; be deemed or held to constitute any asset or value owned by said S. 1GD3. An act to pro\ide American registry for the steam Alaska Northern Railway Co., its assigns or succe. sor. , aboYe actual yacht Diana; eost of the survey and locations thereof. S. 7747. An act for the relief of Charles Dudley Daly; The PRESID~""T pro tempore. Is there objection to the S. 834 . An act waiv.ing the age limit for admission to the present consideration of the bill? Pay Corps of the United States Navy in the case of Minor 1\Ir. LA FOLLE'l"'TE. Mr. President, belie>ing that tlle rail Meriwether, jr.; roads constitute the key to the control of all tlle _,,.rcat wealth S. 8377. An act to authorize the Northern Pacific Railway Co., of that country, and believing, as I do, that the GoYernment its successors a.nll assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate should own and operate the railroads of Alaska,· I run t inter~ a bridge aud approaches thereto across the Mississippi River, in pose an objection to the present consideration of tllnt biU. l\1inne..'l}1.0li , Hennepin County, Minn. ; The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection is made. The Sen S. 8430. An act restricting the issuance of interlocutory in ator from New l\Iex.ico is entitled to the floor. junctions to su pend the enforcement of the statute of a State INDIAN APPBOPRIATION DILL. or of an -0rder made by an administrative board or commission created by and acting under the statute of a State; Mr. GAMBLE. Mr. President-- S. 8538. An act to authorize the St. Louis & Western Traction The PRESIDE:l\"'T pro tempore. Does the Senator from Xew Co. to construct a bridge across the Missouri Ri-ver near Weldon Mexico yield to the Senator from South Dakota? Springs Landing, in the State of Missouri; Mr. FALL. I yield to the chairman of the cornmitt c. S. 853D. An act to authorize the St. Louis Belt, Illinois & Mr. GAMBLE. I ask that the conference re11ort on House Eastern Traction Co. to construct a bridge across the Mississippi bill 26874, being the Indian appropriation bill, IJe temporarily River near the mouth of the Missouri River; _ laid aside. S. 8536. An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across 1\Ir. FALL. Mr. President, I have no objection. the Missi~sippi IliYcr in Beltr1npi County, in the State of Min Mr. GORE. Mr. President, I desire to ask one que"'tion or nesota; the Senator from Kew i\Ie:x:ico before unanimous con ent is 4-842. CONGRESSION.A_L RECORD-SENATE. ~IARCII 4, gra tell, aJHl Urn t i as to whether he has any other objec~ton · S. 8399. .An act granting pensions and increase of pen ions to to the peucliug c~mfei·ence report except the clause relating to certain soldiers and sailor of the Regular Army and Nav~· and the remoynl of tllc ..).vache Indians from Oklahoma to New of wars other th&.n the Ci'Vil War, and to certain widow and l\Iexico? . dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors; and i\Ir. FALL. I ha Ye other objections to the bill and to the re S. 8540. An act granting pensions and increa e of pension to port, Mr. Pre"ideut; but I will state frankly that there are ap certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy :md proprfation. on thl l>ill for ~Y State, as there are appropria of wars other than the Civil War, and to certain widows nnHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. pensation to persons engaged in ieertam· ha.zardous employments in the Go¥ernm.eat. the eompensation in n.ny case being limited TUEsn Y JJf arch 4, 1913. t-0 what ~'1is e.qaal to ()Ile year's salary. Following that in the last Co.ngress the DomID.ittee on Claims undertook to recom (Lcgislati-ve day of Saturday, March 1, 1913.) mend and :did recommend t.lle passage of bills deslgned to make AFTER 'fHE 1u:,cESs. compensation for personal injuries which oecm'l·ed along a.bout At the expiration of the recess the House re umeu its ses- the time that the general law took effect, where they were special 8iou. eases. The SPEAKER. Did the gf:ntleman from .Iissouri [Mr. Rus- Of course to go back .20 years is equiyalent to annotmcing the policy that you may go back 40 y~ars, and if you g{) back 40 SELL] g~t his pri"\'"il~ed matter considered! · years we may -soon be going back .a:s far as the French spolia :\Ir. RUSSELL. £es; I got that through last night. tion claims that are now pending before Congress, a part of FELIX MORGAN. which arose in the eighteenth century mo1·e than 115 sears ngo. :\Ir. HAMILTON of West Virginia. 1\Ir. Speaker, I moTe to I wish it to be distinctly understood, so far as I am concerned, suspend the 1tule~ and puss the bill ( H. R. 21849) for the r-eUef th.at allowing this bill to pass this morning as a tribute to otw of Felix Morgan. ' · friend from West Virginia [Mr. HAMILTON] -is not to be con The SPEAKER. 'i'he gentle1rnm from W€st Virginia moves sidel'ed .a precedent for 1)3.SSing these old claims hereafter. 'I'his to suspend tile rules and pass the bill which the Clerk will is a House bill which is not likely to become a law. It will have report. ' · _ to take its chances in the Senate. The SPEAKER. The question is on suspending the 1·ules and The bill was read as foilews: passing the bill. Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is ~reby, authorized and .dil·ected to pay to Felix Mru·gan, of Wirt County, . The question was taken; and two-thirds having T"oted in fa\or W. Va., out of any funds in the Treasury of the United States not ther-eof, the rules were suspended, and the bill was passed. othet·wise appropriated, the .sum ·of $2,500, to compensate him. for jujuries received while .in ·the employ of the Government on the Little RIGHT OF WAY THROUGH WINGATE lfILITARY 1'.ESERVA'IION. Kanawha River, in Wfrt O>unty, W. Va. Mr. FIELDS. Mr. Speaker, I mo-ve to suspend the rules and The SPEAKER. Is a second demanded? pass the bill (S. 7415) granting to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Mr. HAY. I demand a second. ' Fe -Railway Co. the right of way through the Fort Wingate l\Ir. HAMILTON of West Virginia. I ask unanimous ce>n Military Reservation, in New Mexico, and for other purposes, sent that a second be conside-red as ordered. which I send to the desk and ask to have read. The SPEAKER. The gentleman asks unanimous eonsent The Clerk read the bill, as follows: that a second be considered as ordered. Is there objection? Be it e1iactea, etc., That the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. There :was no objection. of Kansas, a corporation created under and by virtue of the laws of The SPEAKER. ' Th~ gentleman fTom West Virginia is en tpe State of Kansas, be, and tbe same is hereby, granted a revocable titled to 20 minutes, and the gentleman from Virginia [l\Ir. license to survey, locate, construct, and maintain a 1·ailway, telegraph., ·and telephone line into and upon Fort Wingate Mil.lfary Reservation, HAY] is en.titled to 2-0 minutes. N. Mex., to connect with its present right of way, as may be determined .Mr. HAY. I do not care for any debate. and approv-ed by the Secretary of War or the chief .officer ot the de Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. Mr. Speaker, all I desire _partment under whose supervision such reservation may otherwise fall. SEC. 2. That said corporation is authorized to take and use for all to say about this bill is that in my judgment it is one of the purposes of a railway, telegraph, and telephone line, and for no other most meritorious bills that has ever come before this House. purpose, a 1·ight of way 20(} feet in width through said. Fort Wingat-e Thi man was blown up in .a powder accident while engaged in Reservation, with the .right to use other additional ground when cuts and fills may be necessary for the construction and maintenance of i::aid the seITice of his Government, and he is as much entitled to roadbed, not ex:ceedin.g 100 feet in width on each side of the said right this compensation as though he had fallen on the field of battle. of way, <>r as much thereof as may be included in said cut or fill, ex Some officers of the War Department have stated that if any cepting, ·however:, from said right of way hereby granted that strip or portion thereof which would be inclu~ed within the limits of the pre - case should ever be allowed, this is the one. It comes from ent 200-foot right of way heretofore granted to said Atchison, Topeka & the full Committee on Claims, after a long examination, with Santa Fe Railway Co. and used by it as its mam line right of way : a unanimous favorable report. Prf said railway, tele [.illr. MANN]. :graph, and telephone lines and tl\e u.se and enjoyment of the rights and Mr. MAN'N. J\fr. Speaker, this bill is for the purpose of pay privileges herein granted; and when any _portion thereof .shall cease to be so used sucb portion shall revert to the United States, from which ing ,compensation, or a gratuity, on account of an injury which the same shall be taken .: Provided further, That any other person 01• occurred to a Government employee, I belieye-- duly organized corporation comt:ructing a railroad along a line neces 1\Ir. HAMILTON of West Virginia. Yes. sitating the crossing of saii.l reservation may, upon obtaining a license from the Secretary of War,, use the track and other constructions herein Mr. MANN. Something over 20 years ago. I do not believe autb-0rized to be placed upon the reservation by the said Atchison, the Honse ought to set the pr.ecedent of paying old personal Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. upon paying just compensation; and injury claims which .arose many yearf? ago, b.efore it -became if the parties concerned can not agree upon the amount ot such com- . pensation, the sum or sums to be paid for said use shall be fixed by the the policy of ·Congress :to make .any allowance for such el.aims. 'Secretary of War: Provided further, Tbat before this act shall become My understanding is that this is a House bill. Am I correct? operative a description by metes and bounds of the lands herein au Mr. HA.MILTON of West Virginia. Yes. thorized to be taken shall be approved by the Secretary of War : Pro vided further, That the sald Atchison, TO:J?eka & Santa Fe Railway Co. Mr. 1\1.A.1\TN. .And the only objeet that I can see in passing it of Kansas, and other parties obtaining license from the Secretary of thls morning is to pay a tribute of l'espect, admiration, and · War as hereinbefore provided, shall comply with such other regulations affection to the gentleman from West Virginia [Mr. HAMILTON], or conditions as may from time to time be prescribed by the Secretary of War. . who is not to be with.us in the next House, much to our regret. SEC. 3. That the powers he1·ein granted are 1imited to a period of [Applause.] 50 years unle s sooner .altered, amended, or repealed by Congre s. Mr. GARNER. Will the gentleman yield? I ha-ve a claim for S:Ec. 4. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby a man whose arm was slli>t off by the soldiers -0f the United expressly reserved. .States at Brownsville while in the performance .of his official The SPEAKER. Is a second demanded? duty as chief ·of police of the city of Brownsville at the time the .Mr . .MANN. l\Ir. Speaker, I suggest that th€ goot1eman from United States soldiei·s' raid was made there. I have never Kentucky withdraw his motion to suspend the i·ules and ask pressed a ·bm, ·for the reason that I knew it would set a prece unanimous consent for the pre.sent considera.Uon of the bilL dent. I should like to ha ye the gentlem.an from_Illinois tell me Mr. FIELDS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for the his .Yiewpoint with refe-rence to persons 'injured by United present consideration of the bill. Stutes soldiers. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? i\lr. MA1'."N. Mr. Speaker, if one Should take the list of casu l\Ir. MANN. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I alties occurring to persons in the employ of the Government, or desire to ask the gentleman a. question. There was· no informa caused to persons ·outside of the Government by those within tion whate"\'"er in the report of this bill to the House. I ob the employ of the Gov-ernment, from the foundation -of the -Gov tained the report of the Senate on the bill,. and apparently ernment down to date, it woul comvany i builuiug a of "Au act t nmend tically no more land unuer this bill than it nO\Y is in po ses- and con liuate the act re pecting cop~-right, ' appron~d )[arch ~n ~? . 4 moo; Mr. FIELD . That is my understanding. H. n. 27041 . .A.n act making appropriation. for the upvort of Mr. ::\L\..~N. I notice the bill pro-rides in reference to the tlie A.rmy for the fiscal year euiling Jnne 30, 1014 · location- H. R. !>21. An act for the relief of William II. Sewanl ; ns may lle dete1·mined ancl apprnved by the S ec reb~r y of War· OL' the H. n.. 11627 . .An act to correct the military recor l of Barkley chief office1· of the department under whose supervision such reserya S. Denison· ' tion may otherwise fall. · H . n.1 204. An act for the i~elief of John .• ullirnn; I apprehend we now know under what department this come~ H. R. 21310. An a.ct for th relief of Robert no' ; ::mcl who ha authority. The balance of the bill eems to con H. n. 246Gl. An act for the relief of Jame Par on ; fer autllority . upon the Secr.~tary of War. Is there any other H. n. 2607 . .tl.n act for the relief of Charles S. Kincaid; department which ha any upeni ion of thi military re erra II. n. 23762 . .An act for the on truction of a briuge aero;-: the tion except the War Department? lri i !PPi Ri>er at or near Baton Rouge. La.; arnl ~Ir. FIELD . The gentleman from Illinoi i more able to H . n. 28469 . .An act granting two condemned cannon to tlle au wer that question than I. Wallkill Valley emetery A ociation, in Orange County, l'r. Y: :.\Ir. TILSON. 1\lr. peaker, if the gentleman from Kentucky On March 3, 1013: will vermit, a I remember tlie consideration of thi . bill, the H. Il. 12131.. An act for the reimbursement of Ilalph E. Hess idea was that in case this po t should be nbancloned it houla . e of 11en ion of the um, in reference to oruering a remo...-al of the track , i to cei'l"nin ·ohlier and ai1ol'S of the Civil War and c rtain placed tlirectly under tlle Secretary of War without referriu"' wiuQw · nuJe right to olJject, there is no _man On motion of l\Ir. FIELDS, n motion to reconsider the. ...-ote IJy in the Hol.1 e for whom I hayc '"'renter affection than tlle ~entle yrllich the bill wa pa e · of the t:nitetl State court for said di. trict; and to thi bill? H. H. 22503 ..\n act to amend 'an act entitled ".An act to regu Mr. 1\IANN. I sniu that after the l.>i!J: hnll rm~ etl. late c mrncrce · ap1ll'0Ycd February 4 1 I~ and all acts amenda- l\fr. FOSTER. Thi-· i a yery rneritoriou bill. 1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECOR.D-HOlJ SE. 4845
l\lr. 1\lAl\TN: And therefore I am compelled to object. Mr. UNDERWOOD. If the gentleman will ask unanimous Ur. TILSON. Mr. Speaker, I mo-re to suspend the rules and consent for the consideration of his resolution I will not object. pass the bill. l\Ir. FINLEY. l\Ir. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take l\Ir. MANN. Is the gentleman recognized for that pnrpose'& from the Speaker's table Senate concurrent resolution 36, all(.l l\ir. TILSON. I ask for recognition. that the same may be considered. The SPEAKER. The Chair will not recognize the gentleman The SPEAKER. The gentleman from South Carolina asks unless he agrees in ad·rance that if it comes out on the wrong unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table the Senate side he will not raise the point of no quorum. concurrent resolution, which the Clerk wm report. Mr. TILSON. What does the gentleman mean by the wrong The Clerk read as follows : side? Resolt,ed by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That there be printed and bound 1,500 copies of the proceedings in the The SPEAKER. If the gentleman gets it knocked out. Senate of the United States and in the House of Representatives and l\lr. TILSON. I would be willing to take my chances, Mr. . before the Judiciary Committee thereof, in the matter of the impeach Speaker. ment of Robe1:t W. .Archbald, additional circuit judge of the United States of the third judicial circuit, and designated _a judge of the Com The SPEAKER. Those in favor of suspending the rules- merce Court, of which 500 copies shall be for the use of the Senate and Mr. MANN. l\Ir. Speaker, I just stated to the gentleman and 1,000 for the use of the House of Representatives. · to the I{ouse I would require a quorum to pass the bill. The SPEAKER Is there objection? [After a pause.] The Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Speaker-- Chair hears none. The question is on agreeing to the resolution. The SPEAKER. Will the gentleman from Alabama suspend The resolution was agreed to. a moment to enable the Chair to announce the committee to at tend the unveiling and dedication of the monument to Thomas HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT OF FEMALES, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Jefferson at St. Louis? l\Ir. LAFFERTY. l\ir. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules The Clerk read as follows: and discharge the Committee on the District of Columbia from 1\Ir. HEFLIN, !fr. COLLIER, Mr. CULLOP, Mr. CO\TKGTOX, 1\11•. CnAVENS, the further consideration of the bill S. 7723, "An act to regu Mr. WHITE, Mr. GILL, l\fr. RODENBERG, Mr. WOODS of Iowa, Mr. KAH~, late the hours of employment and safeguard the health of i\fr. BARTHOLDT, and Mr. Dnm. females employed in the District of Columbia,'' and pass the bill. l\lr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I tmderstand the gentle Now, that is the same matter that was up this morning, and man from Massachusetts [Mr. PETERS] merely wants to ask the parliamentary situation is that the Senate bill has been unanimous consent to extend his remarks in the RECORD. referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and Mr. PETERS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex th~ chairman of that committee, after a written request sub~ tend my remarks in the RECORD relative to H. R. 27281, a bill mitted yesterday by myself and the gentleman from Wisconsin relative to the hours of work of women and children. · [Mr. COOPER], the gentleman :from Minnesota [l\Ir. DAVIS], and The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gen the gentleman from California [Mr. KENT], refused in writing to tleman from Massachusetts? [After a pause.] The Chair hears send that bill over here to the Speaker's table, so that the en none. grossed copy might be present when the motion to discharge the MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. committee and pass the bill could be presented. Under the A message from the Senate, by. Mr. McClintock, one of its rules or precedents the House can not suspend the rules and clerk , announced that the Senate had agreed to the report of pass the bill unless the engrossed copy is present on the Speak the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two er's table. Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. l\Ir. HAMLIN rose. 28 t> ) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appro The SPEAKER. For what pm.-po e does tlle-gentleman from priations for the fiscal year HH3 and for prior years, and for Missouri [Mr. IlAMUN] rise? other purposes. Mr. HAMLIN. I demand a second, in order to find out what The message also announced that the Senate had passed with the bill is. out amendment bill of the following title : The SPEAKER. Demand a second on what? n. R.1567. An act for the relief of Maria Mcllurclie. l\Ir. HAMLIN. On the motion of the gentleman from Oregon MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF TIIE UNITED STATES. , [l\Ir. LAFFERTY] to suspend the rules. The SPEAKER. He is not through stating the· matter. A message, in writing, from the President of the United States Mr. LAFFERTY. Now, Mr. Speaker, this same question came was communicated to the House of Repre entati\es by Mr. before the House on February 28, 1907, as follows: Latta, one of his secretaries. Mr. WILLIAM E. HUMPHilEY of Washington moved to suspend the PRINTING OF PRAYERS OF CHAPLAIN, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. rules, discharge the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries from further consideration of the bill (S. 1462) for the establishment Mr. GREGG of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous of fish-culture stations on Puget Sound, and pass the same. consent to consider the resolution which I send to the Clerk's The motion was made without an engrossed copy of the bill. desk. The Speaker replied : , The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the re olution. It is in order to make a motion to discharge the committee from fur The Clerk read as follows: ther consideration of the bill, and the motion which has been made is House resolution 87G. in order. Be it 1·esoked by the House of Rep1·esentatii;es, That the prayers offered by the Chaplain, Henry N'. Couden, at each morning's session The SPEAKER. That is not the motion the gentleman made of the Sixty-second Congress be printed in one volume, at a cost not to this morning. exceed $500, to be paid out of the contingent fund of the House of Mr. LAFFERTY. The motion I made this morning is not Representatives, to be compiled by the said Chaplain and to be placed at the disposal of Members of the Sixty-second Congress, in equal allot necessarily the motion I present now, but if the Chair rules ments, after reserYing 100 copies for the disposal of the Chaplain. now it is not in order to suspend the rules and pass the bill 'I'he SPEAKER. Is there objection? without the engrossed copy, I . desire to amend by a motion Mr. FINLEY. There is no objection, Mr. Speaker. simply to confine it to the first half and to suspend the rules The SPEAKER. The Chair hears no objection. and discharge the committee, and then, in supplementing that, The question was taken, and the resolution was agreed to. I will ask that the following order be adopted: Ordered, That the chairman of the Committee on the District of PRI~TING PROCEEDINGS OF ARCHB!iliD IMPEA.CHME "T TRIAL. ~ll~uS.bi7 ~~liver forthwith to the House the engrossed copy of the Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I mo\e that the House 2 take a recess for 15 minutes. In support of that I will say that the Speaker on a former ·Mr. FINLEY. Mr. Speaker, I will r..sk the gentleman from occasion said : Debate has been in order, but at the close of the debate, after the Alabama to suspend-- bill has been searched for on the files of the committee and does not Mr. UNDERWOOD. I will ask the gentleman from South materialize, the vote can not be taken ; the House can not act upon Carolina what he desires to bring up? a bill of which it does not have manual possession. i\Ir. FINLEY. It is Senate concurrent resolution No. 36, and The order proposed by Mr. IlmfPHREY of Washington was i·elates to printing the proceedings relati'le to the impeachment then agreed to. of Judge Archbald. It has been passed by the Senate and they The order was as follows: are very anxious and solicitous that it should be passed, and Ordered, That the Clerk be directed to request the Senate to send to ~o is the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary of the the House a duplicate engrossed copy of the bill (S. 1462) to establish House, Judge CLAYTON. It will not take a minute. one or more fish-cultural stations on Pui;et Sound, State of Washington, :Mr. UNDERWOOD. I have no objection, l\Ir. Speaker, but the original having been lost. _ we have .passed the point where we ean take up contested Now, then, suppose every l\Iember upon this floor was de matters. sirous ancl ·all_;xious to p~ss this 8-h~tll' . bill,· b'Qt the chair·· l\Ir. FINLEY. This is unconte ted, :rnd there will be no ob man of the committee, ornr in the House Office Building, was jection. barricaded behind his doors, refusing to deliYer the engrossed XLIX--30;) 4846 CONGRESSIO:N_._U RECORD-HO SE. ]f.ARcH l 4 ~opy to th~ House~ Which in effcd is what he is doing. Ul1der Infantry. Wllr wltb. S{)ain., ·aoo pay ht'l' n pension o.t th~ \·ttte of $20 per month in lieu that sbe is .now recclvi~ i-~ud in ot the precedent which I h:rrn it is order f'o1· the Speaker TM name o:f Emma Z. GHman, widow of · amu l D. Gilman, lat~ of to entertrun a motion to uspend the l'Ules, to dlscliarge the Company .A, U'irst Regiment Idaho Volunteer Infantry, \-Var with Spain, committee, anu pass the bill. But under tllat precedent tlle and 1}3Y her a pension at th rote ot $.12 1>er mo.nth. , The name of 'Ellen Barrett. widow oI Ilenry II. Barrett late of Speaker can not put the qucstiou upon final pa.s.;age until the Captain R. L. Williams's company, Tinth Regiment Oregon Militia engrossed eopy i.s brought over. VOlantoor 01~o.n lndi.an war~ :and pay her pen ton nt the rate of The SPEAKER He ncrnan, late of Buttery G, li'ourth Regiment because it is nbSolutely necessary to ha\e tllat cngro sed copy United St::ttes .Artille:ry, and Forcy~first Oompany, United States Coast here, and any other rule would work almost anarchy. Artillery, and pay !him a pen ion t the rate -Of 20 per month ln ~Ir. LAFFERTY. But it is not necessary that the engrossed lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John Pa.1·tcllo. late of Company I, Fit-st Regi~nt eopy be present or the fact e'\·en be n:scertained that it is pres United States Infantry, and pay him a pension nt the rate o! $1!.l ent prior t'O entertruning the motion to discharge the committee. per month. The SPEAKER. ~'he Chair never said it was. 'l'he Chair The name of James W. Ellis, late of Company H, Fifth Re~lmcnt United States Infantry, und pay him a pension at the rate of $20 pt>r rules on matters as they m.·e presented bete, und sometimes 'he month in li-eu "Of that he is now receivin!:{. goes out of his way to .make a sugge"tion to gentlemen lww to The name of John A~ Lennon, lam of Compnny E, Seventh Regimt:mt in. United States Infimb-y, War with .Spain. • nd llRY him a pen ion at the ""et rate of $12 per month. .Afr. LAE'FER'l'Y. ~fr. Speaker, l amend .my motion and _ The name of E:;;telle It. 'Wh-0lley, 'Widow of J'Obn H. Wb-olley, late simply mo\e to di harge tli~ comn:i.ittee from further consid nmjor, :Second ltegiment United . tates lnftwtry, a.nd pay her a pen eration of the bill ( S. 77:!3) to regulate the hours of employ sion ut 'the :rate 'Of · 5 per month in lieu of that he is now receivin~, and $2 pet· month n.ddltional on nceount -Of the minor child of the said ment and safeguard the h&i.lth of females in the Distrid of John H. Wholley until he reach-es the ':lge of rn years. olumb'ia. The name of Frances P. O'Reilly, widow of Robert M. O'R~iUy. late The SPEAKER Is a econd demnndro? major general and surgeon general, Unite:l. St.nt~s Army, and pay her a pension at the rate of $-00 per montll in lieu o1 that she is now ::\Ir. l\IANN. I demand o. second to u ertuin what the mo· receiving. ion is, or else r~ ene a point of ord :r. The name of Lewis L. Dani' l, late of Company K, Filth Regiment '!'he SPEAKER. 1-'he ruoti-0n is to su pend the rnles and United States Infantry, _War with Spain, :ind pay bim a pensbm at th~ rate 'Of $.3-0 per month in Ihm -of that .he is now receiving. di~lla1•ge tile Committe ()n the Di ·Met of Columbia. fro:m The name of Adolph Loehwitz. la.te <>f Genewl l\Iollnted Service, further consideration of the ~ ottr bill. Is a second d.ei:nanded? United States Army, :ind p. y him 11 pension at the 1:al-e of ~24 1Jer l\Ir. UFFERTY. I .a..,k mmnimous consent that a second be month in llell of 'tbat he is now receiving, Tile name of Anna .A, Yule, mother of Sherm&n A. ·ul-e, late acting eon idered ., s ordered. a sistant surgeon, United 'States A1·my, And pay her a pension. at the Th-c SPEAKER. Is th~1·e bjection? [..Vter a pause.] Tbe rato of 20 per month. Chair hears none. Mr. MANN. I d-0 not de:mn.nd n seeond. Mr. ~IA~":N. Doe the g ~tleman from K ntuckr ['.\fr. Jon..:~ Mr. MARTIN of Color-ado. If a second hould b-e dcma.ndeu, so:vJ desire time? ~ould it delay the busiue s of the House~ .lir. .JOHXBO~ ~ of Kcutuckr. No; I do not care anything Tbe SPEAKER. It might delay it. Of course if a conference about it. report comes in, the Dh:.lir will take anybody off the floor. The SPEAKER. The qoe tion is. Shnll the motion that the l\Ir. MARTIN of (X)lor-0.do. I should like v~y much to get rules be suspendetl ru.id the Committee on the District of Co 1.5 ruinutes of the ti.rue of the House this m-0rning, but I hall lumbia be discharged from the further consi<.leration of that Mt a k fut· it i:f it will delay the business of the Hou:l3C.. bill prevail? Thoe SPEAKER. It might do ·u. 'The Chnir does n()t thln.k ~Ir. LAFFERTr. Mt. peake.r, I sk immroiatc considera the gentleman will lla\e any troub~ about it later. tion of the order which I end to the lerk s desk. ~Ir. ANTHONY. What is this bill? REC:&S • ~Ir. l\IANN. It is a little bill for pensions to v~tcran of the ~fr. UNDERWOOD. ~fr. Speake,r, I morn that the Ilonsc wars of 1812, 1846, '3.ncl so forth. now take a rece s until 10.30. l\Ir. A1~THONY. I ha\e U() 'Objecti-Oll. l\Ir. UFFEilTY. :Mr. ~penker. I ask for the immediate con The SPEAKER. The question is <>n the motion of the gentle sideration of thi order. man from Ahlbama to suspend the rules, discharge th~ Com The SPEAKER. Th gent1eman from AJn.bo.IDa {Mt. UlmER mittee of the Whole from the fuTthcr considerati<>n of the bill, ~rnon] moi'eS that the Hou~e take a recess until 10.00. disngree to the Bouse committee amendments, .and pass the bill. The motio'u ~.is agteed t-0; accol'dingly (at 10 o'clock nn•l The question was taken ; and two--thirds '\"o ing in the a.ffirma· 7 minute a. m.) he House stood in rece~s until 10.30 :il. m. ti'rn, the rules were suspended and the bil1 passed. Al'TER iu:crss. BRIDGE ACROSS ST. JOllN IlIYER, MAINE A.ND .NEW B.RUNSWICK. At the expiration _ f the recess the House resumed .its session. Air. GUElli'\iSEY. l\Ir. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for the present consideration of the bill CH. R. 28840) authorizing PENSIONS. the construction of a railroad bridge across the St. John River ::.\Ir. RICHARD SO_ 7. :\Ir_ Speaker, I m ..-e to suspend the between the town of Van Buren, :Me., and the parish of St. rules and di ch:.nge the Committ~ of the Whole HouEe from Leonards, Province of ~ew Ilruuswick, Dominion of Canada. the further consideration of Senate bill 8540, granting pensions The SPEAKER. Is there objection to tlle present considera- and increase of pensions to eertaiu oldiers and sailors of the tion of this bill? Regular Army and Navy and of wars other than the Civil War, There was 110 objection. and tQ certain witlotY and depenbtalned. h~reby, a.uthor1zed -and direeted to place on the -pension roll, subject to SEC. 2. Tbat the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act ts h'E!reby the pro'VlsloM and limitations Of the pension la~-s- el:pressly res'E!t·v~d. The name -0f Eleanor P. Bigler, widQw of Henry W. Bigler, late of ompany B, Mormon BattaUon, Iowa Volunteers. War with Mexico, and The bill was ordered to be engros"'ed and ·read a third time, j)ay her ~pension at the :rate of $20 IJ()r month in lieu of that .she is and was accordingly read the third moo and passed. now rece1vmg. PENSIO.:..,.'S. The name of Arthur F. Shepherd, ·late of Company H, First R~gl~ ment Nebraska Volunteer Infantry, War with Spain, aud pay him a Mr. RICRARDS0.1:~. Mr. Speaker, I mov-e to suspend the pension at the rate of $12.per month. 'l'he name of Margaret B. Sherman, widow of Frnncls fL Sherman, rules, discharge th~ Committee of th~ Whole from the further late lieutenant commander, United States Navy, a.nd commodore1 consideration of the 'bill S. 8399, disagree to the House commit~ lJnited Stares Navy, retired, and p-ay .her n pension at the rate of $50 tee amendments, and pass th~ bill. per month in lieu of that she is now recei'Vlng. The name of Sally Pickett, widow ·of G-e-0rge E. Pkkett, Jate ca;pta.ln, The SPEAKER. The gentleman from ~Iaba.ma mo"\"'es to dis· Nlnth Regiment United States lnfantl"y, War with Me:x:lco, and pay her charge the Committee of the Wholil House from the further a pension at the rate ot $40 per m~mth 'ln lieu -Of that• she is now consideration of Senate bill 8399, disagree to the House eom i~ceivin"'. The name ot r~trcm.a B. F1·eeman. dependent mother -Of Rkha1"d K. m1ttee amendments, and pass the bill. Is n second demanded? Frc~man, tate of Comp-any B, F'irst Reciiment North Carolina Yolunt~r l\lr. ANTHONY. What is this bill? 1913. CON GR.ESSION AL IlECORD-HOUSE~ 4847
1\Ir. 1\IANN. It is 'a little. prirnte pension bill similar to the stricken out that had pas. cd either the House or Senate in oue wlli<:ll the gentleman from Alabama has just had considered former Cong1·esses, subject to such specific exceptions as might aud passed. be pointed out by tb,e Senate conferees, and that all other items l\Ir. .ANTIIO:NY. I ask that the 'bill be read. stricken from the House bill be taken up and <.'onsidered item '.rl1e SPEAKER. If the gentleman asks that the bill be read, by item. A majority of the Senate conferees refused to agree the Chair will recognize the gentleman from Ohio [:Mr. LoNG to this method of considering the items sh·icken from the House WOBTII], who by a special order of the House the other daY. was bill and 1nsisted that the whole number of said items be taken granted lea-re to addre s the House. If the gentleman will wait, up and disposed of item by item without regard to whether or tJ1e Chair will try and recognize him later. not any item had formerly passed either or both Houses. This COMMITTEE TO NOTIFY PRESIDENT. method in>olved much labor upon the conferees in the details of the 980 items and made it simply impossible for the House con l\lr. UNDERWOOD. 1\Ir. Speaker, I offer the following reso ferees to go o-rer in detail the 1,617 items in disagreement added lution and ask for its immediate consideration. by wny of Senrtte amendments in the short time at the dis 'Ihe Clerk read as follmys: posrtl of the conferees. Ilousc resolution 87u. l\lr. Speaker, on account of the facts I ha>e just stated it Rcsoli;cd, ~bat a C.) and to certain widows and dependent relati-res of such soldiers The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York presents n. and sailors, disagree to the Hou e committee amendments, and conference report on the general deficiency bill and asks unani pa s the Senate bill. mous consent that the statement be re:ioring to ha-re prepared data which would enable me before some remarks in the RECORD to explain why the omnibus war this time to make -a. statement that would sufficiently approxi claims bill failed. mate in gi>ing some information as to the result. It has been The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Tennessee asks unani absolutely impossible to compile the information so far. I ask mous consent to extend his remarks in the RECORD. Is there unanimous consent that the gentleman from Illinois [l\lr. C.ru.' objection? NON] and myself may ha-re learn to insert later in the RECORD a There was no objection. statement regarding the appropriations at this session. l\fr. SIMS. lUr. Speaker, I ask the indulgence of the House Mr. AUSTIN. Resening the right to object, l\lr. Speaker, I for a few minutes for the purpose of stating the causes for the wish to ask the gentleman from New York what became of the failure of the committee of conference to agree to a report on item for an extra month's pay for employees in the deficiency the items in disagreement between the House and Senate in bilL · House bill No. 19115, known as the omnibus war claims bill. Mr. FITZGERALD. The Senate receded. That bill passed the House February 17, 1912, but was not l\lr. AUSTIN. I object to the consent asked b.r the gentleman pas ed by the Senate until January 21, .1913, 11 months and from New York. 4 days after it passed the House. The bill was sent to co~er The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the confer ence February 7, 1913, within less than a month of the expira ence report. tion of the Sixty-second Congress. Mr. CAl\TNON. l\Ir. Speaker, the total appropriations for the The Senate struck from the House bill 980 items of appropria coming fiscal year largely exceed an-y appropriations that ha-re tion for payment of sundry claims. All of the 980 claims had been made heretofore. been passed upon by the Com·t _of Claims, and each of the 080 Mr. FITZGERALD. Has the gentleman from Illinois any items had been considered by the House in Committee of the figures to justify that statement? Whole House on the state of the Union. l\lr. CAl\TNON. In a moment. I am not going to detain Ule By this action of the Senate less than 100 claims appropriated House at this time, because I want my statements to be accu for in the House bill were left in it, amounting in all to a sum rate but brief. I ask unanimous consent to re\ise and extend of less than $150,000. The 980 claims stricken from the bill by my remarks in the RECORD. the Senate amounted to a sum in excess of $1,400,000. Speak l\lr. FITZGERALD. Unle s that prililege jg granted to m·e, ing in general terms, the Senate practically struck out the en I shall have to object. tire House bill. The Senate added by way of amendment 15 l\Ir. CA.1'"NON. The gentleman can addre ·s the House and war claims proper, and in additiQn added by way of amendment, get leaye to revise and extend his remarks. 1,602 claims not war claims, o-rer which the House Committee l\lr. FITZGERALD. I made a statement :rnl1 asked unani on War Claims had no jurisdiction, consisting of 1,230 naxy mous consent, but the gentleman from Tennessee objected. yard o-rertime claims, 278 seashore-pay claims, and 94 longevity Mr. CA.l'lli'"OX The gentleman can mo-re to suspend the rules pay claims. T\-velve of the Senate amendments out of the 15 and grant to me and himself the privilege of making the usual war claims amendments were for burned churches and lodges. statement. At the first and second meetings of the conferees, knowing l\Ir. U.1'"'DERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent full "·ell that there was not sufficient time before the adjourn that the gentleman from New York and the gentleman from ment of the Sixty-second Congress to consider each and every Illinois [1\lr. CANNON] may b6th extend their remarks in the item on its merits of the more than 2,500 in disagreement, I RECORD on the question of expenditures. proposed that all items of the 980 stricken from the House The SPEAKER The gentleman from Alabama asks tmani bill by the Senate that had passed both ·the House and the mous consent that the gentleman from New York [Mr. FITZ Sennte at former Congresses, amounting to about half of the GERALD] and the gentleman from· Illinois [l\lr. 0.A.NNON] have whole number of stricken-out items, be agreed to in gross as a leave to extend remarks in the RECORD on the subject of eirpendl c1af4s, subject to individual exceptions to. be specifically pointed tures. Is there objection? [.After a pause.] The Chair hears ont by the Senate conferees, and that in the same way the Sen none. The question is on agreeing to the conference report. ~c recede in gross from its disagreement to all other items so The conference report was agreed to. 4848 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE.~ MARCH 4, ' ~
EX:TE.l.'ISIO~ OF -REl.L!RKS. a -pound. It is interesting to note that the difference in the Mr. POWERS. ~Ir. Speaker, I ask llllillliinous consent to ex wholesale and retail price of coffee, an article which carrie no' tend my remarks in the REcoRD upon the workmen's compensa duty, is just about the same as the difference in whole ale aml' tion Jaw. retail p~ices of oranges and cotton cloth, articles upon which' The SPEAKER Is there objection? rather high duties are imposed. - , There was no objection. , This wide ~vergence between wholesale and retail prices is, l\fr. WARBURTON. l\lr. Speaker, I·ask unanimous consent I think, peculiar to this country. Germany, for instance, is a to extend my remarks in the RECORD on the subject of good great coffee-drink-ing country and consumes the same kincl of ronds. coffee that we do, almost all of it imported from Brazil. There' The SPEAKER. Is there objection? the average import price was the same during the years I haye' There was no objection. iv.entioned as ours-that is to say, 10 cents a pound-bnt the THE TA.BIFF. retail price was less than in this country, the a\erage being about 23 cents a ·pound, and that in spite of the fact that there The SPEAKER. The Chair recognizes tlle gentleman from is a 7 cents a pound duty on coffee in Germany. Ohio [1\Ir. LONGWORTH]. [Applause.] In the face of these facts is it not an absurdity to say that l\Ir. LONGWORTH. Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the the tariff is responsfble for the high cost of living in this coun House, it has been on very rare occasions during my 10 years of try? You must seek for other remeilles, gentlemen than the service that I have arisen to address this House upon matters general reduction of the tariff if you desire seriously to reduce not directly under consideration. I hesitate to do so now in the cost of living. these closing hours of the session, when so much necessary legis I think that the real reason why there is so much misinforma lation is actually trembling in the balance and when great ap tion as to the effect that tariff duties haYe upon the price the propriation bills may fall by the board. I ask your indulgence consumer pays is that people, even of great intelligence, do not_ only because the matters of which I shall speak will yery soon ~top to differe~ti:~te between the price paid for goods actually, be of primary importance and win be the first business of the imported and sunilar goods produced in this counh·y. If a man extra session of the next Congress. buys a suit of clothes in England, brings it back with him and It is not my intention to discuss the tariff question in general, pays the duty upon it, of course the whole of the duty is ~dn table which shows that the average wholesale price of oranges the price to the ultimate consumer, and he again replied : "Abso on January 16, 1913, in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and lutely not." Pittsburgh was less than 17 cents a. dozen, while the retail price Later on I asked this question: was more than 43 cents a dozen. There is, then, an absolute deftnlte :uid sharp dividing line between An interesting instance of the wide diversity between the what the consumer pays for an article actually imported and one that wholesale and retail price of manufactured articles is to be he pays for a precisely similar article manufactm·cd in this coun tl'y? found on page 3171. A Mr. Chase, a large cotton manufacturer His reply was: "Surely." in .Massachusetts, detailed to the committee a sale made by him I think it can be said with absolute authority that there are of 50,000 yards of cotton cloth to a retailer at 81 cents a yard. few cases, if any, where the whole of the duty is added to He says: the price the producer gets for an article actually produced in I could. at 81 cents, get possibly a little over a cent n yard profit, this country, and that in the vast majority of cases only a. very but I sold the goods. The man hurried me a good deal for delivery. small portion of tlle duty, if any, is, in fact, added to the pro I went to the city where the merchant did business a short time after ducer's price. As a matter of fact, there are many things being wards and went into the store and wandered around, until I came to the counter and recognized the goods that I had made. I asked the sold to-day in this country at a price actually less than the clerk how much it was, and I found it was then selling for 25 cents a duty. yard. I do oot intend to be considered as using this as an m·gument Must it not be apparent that the duty on oranges or cotton for unnecessarily high duties. The mere fact that in the case cloth or on any article where the difference between the whole mentioned by the Tariff Board only a small per cent of the sale price and the retail price is so great can har·e only an duty of 150 per cent is added to the price of goods produced infinitesimal effect upon the price the consumer pays? here does not in itself present a good ground for maintaining a Take the case of coffee, another article of daily use, upon duty of 150 per cent. In my judgment such duties should be which there is no duty at aJl-and we are the only country in greatly reduced. I intend it only as an argument to combat the civilized world that does not tax coffee. I have not the · the statement so generally made by those opposed to protec figures at hand for the last three or four years, during which tion in any degree that the tal'iff is a tax which the consumer I understand that coffee has largely increased in price, but for pays, whether the article is imported or not. This is an abso the 10 years previous the average price of coffee landed at any lute misstatement of fact, and it is most unfortunate that so port in the United States, prepared and ready for consumption, many people seem to believe it. was less than 10 cents a pound, whereas the retail price of the The question may be asked, "If it is true that the duty on .same coffee to the consumer a\eraged between 25 and SO cents articles produced in this country is not added to the cost to the HH3. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 4849 consumer, where does it go?" My answer is that wbere the that the fact that such cases mny exist is no excuse for reck duty is anywhere near the point required to measure the differ- lessly applying the pruning knife to tariff duties everywhere, ence in the cost of articles produced in this country and abroad, with the inerttable result thut the chief sufferer in the enc.1 will it goes to Jabor. Tbe record of the hearings fairly bristle with be the American workingman. examl5les of this sort. I made it a point to bring out testimony It is a favorite argument nowadays of those who are opposed of this kind whereTer it was possible, and there was hardly a to the principle of protection that, admitting the truth of the day during the progress of the hearings that the statement was fact that American wages are at least mice as high as in not made by some American producer that if he could pay the any other country, our labor is so much more eiticicnt than same rate of wages paid by his competitors abroad he would la.bor anywhere else as to more than make np for the additional not need or ask for any protection at all~ cost to the American employer. This argument has been used For instance, on page 4151 occurs a colloquy between myself frequently in speeches made upon the other side of the aisle, and Mr. Craddock, representing the boot and shoe industry in and notably by the gentleman from New York [Mr. REDFn:LD]. this country. There I asked him this direct question: The trouble with the gentleman's argument is that he im·arlably If you could pay to people in your factory, or il your competitors cites extreme cases. He has said, for instance, if I remember generally could pay the people in their factories, the same rate of wages rightly, that he would rather have 1 American carpenter do that are paid in European factories, wonld you need any duty on shoes? a job for him than 20 Chinese carpente1·s. He might ha.ye And he replied: cited a more extreme case th3n that. When I was in Canton, Absolutely none, if we could pay the same wages. China, six or sev-en years ago I remember talking with an Later on I asked practically the same question of Mr. l\Ic- English gentleman who was engaged in building a line of rail- Ehrnin, also representing the boot and shoe industry, a gentle- road. One of the principal pieces of work that had to be em. c ompar1sons. een e e - labor? ciency of this sort of labor and of American labor, equipped ~r. McELw.&..rn. Yes, sir; there is no question about it. with modern tools, is merely ridiculous; but such instances a.s A statement of the same kind was mnde by Mr. George A. these have no bearing_ whatever upon actual labor conditions Tenney, representing the cotton industry. On page 3456 the in this country and in those enlightened countries like Ger following colloquy occurred: many, France, and England, with which we are in competition 1\lr. LOKGWORTII. All you are a.sking is to be put on the same basis in almost e-rery line of production. as 1\1~. ~:i-i-.~~~:,stJr; that Is what it amounts to. Of course, as a general proposition it is true that a workman Mr. LoNGWOBTH. Yon do not want protection on y-our energy or who is well clothed, well fed, and well housed has an advantage brains, or anything ot that kind? in efficiency over another who is poorly fed, poorly clothed, and ~~: l~~;:~n::_' /?you paid the same rate of wage they are paying poorly housed. In this respect American workmen have an in England now, you would not need any protection? advantage over their competitors in any other country, and Mr. TENNEY. I would not need any. this is largely because laborers abroad are willing to do with- Mr. LONGWORTH. In view of the fact you have to pay the American out those things which have become necessities under the wage scale protection if! necessary? Mr. TNNl\""EY. I think it is necessary; absolutely necessary. American standard of living. But from this it does not follow Mr. LoxGWORTH. And that is all you are asking? that American labor is anything like doubJy or treb1y as efil· Mr. TENNEY. That ls all we are asking for. cient as foreign labor costing only one-half or one-third as There is abundance of testimony to this effect also from the much in wages. As a· matter of fact, in many highly com- workmen themselves. A yery large number of gentlemen rep- petiti"rn industries, as, for instance, the chemical, metal, and resenting the labor unions appeared before the committee, all , woolen industries, American labor is no more efficient-and protesting against a reduction of the duty on the goods pro- ofttimes even less efilcient-than similar labor in Germany, duced by them, upon the express ground that the existing duties Engl.and, and France. Under these conditions the sea.ling of go to labor and that any cat would result either in the reduc- duties down to a point below that necessary to make up the dif· tion of their wages or the loss of their employment. I have not ference in the actual production cost must inevitably be felt time to quote from any of these statements~ and I will only by labor, and if applied throughout the tariff schedules must refer to as typical that ma.de by Mr. J. M. Neenan, representing inevitably result either in the discontinuance of these indusb.·ie3 the Nationu.I Window Glass Workers, at pages 634 and 636 01. here or the scaling down of wages to a. point somewhere near the hearings. the wages of foreign labor, and in the enc1 this will affect not Given the fact, as is ccmclusive:ly established, that the Amer- only the wages of men actually employed in protected indus ic.an in every line of industry receives wages. at least twice as tries bnt in industries also which are usually classed as non high as those paid to workmen in any other competing country; protected. There can be no general cut in the wages of factory giyen the fact that the American. employer is making only a hands without a cut foIIowi.Dg in the wages of carJ;>enters and reasonable profit, and tl.lat a fair share of that profit is finding bricklayers and workingmen generally. The wages of men of its way into the pay em·elope; given the further fact that the whom ls required substantially the same degree of effort, in American producer is nlmost invariably at a disadvantage in dustry, ::rnd skill must always be at about the same level, no co t of material and overhead cha1·ges a.s compared witb his matter what their partictilar industry may be. If we are to rival abroad, does it not stand to reason that a cut in duties presen-e the Ame1·ican wage scale in all forms of industry, we below the difference in the production cost must necessarily must preserve duties which shall at least protect the wages of cau e a cut in the contents of the pay envelope? workmen who are in active competition with workmen abroad. This- description of conditions I believe applies to the great I shall feel that I have been justified in submitting these majority of American industries to-day. Here and there, of observations if I hn-ve been able to bring out clearly the two course, we find duties which are absolutely prohibitory and points which it seems to me have been de-veloped by these which offer to the producer a po sible opportunity, whether he tariff bearings more fully than ever before-first, bow little actuuJJy takes advantage of it or not, to make unreasonable the tariff has. to do with retail prices and how grnatly it has profits. Here nnd there, of course,. we may find instances where to do with producers' prices-in other ·words, how the American a fair shru·e of the profits is not finding its way into the pay citizen, whether employer or employee. us a producer, is vitally errrelope. It is not such duties as these that we- who believe in a affected by tariff duties on the article which he produces and system of reasonable protection are seeking t& defend. We do how remotely he is affected as a consumer by the tariff on the not advocate duties to protect unreasonable- p-ro:fits. We do not articles he consumes. Is it possible t<> substa.ntially reduce stand for the coddling of industries by the use of the tmift- retail prices through the medium of lowering the tariff merely making power of Congres · where profits a.re being unfairly without reducing producers' prices below a living point? In diYided between employer and emploree; but we do contend other words, can you :reduce substantially the cost of living 4850 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. :UARc:H 4,
. through the tariff-making power of Congress without diminish cost of living to yield eventually to the "covenants" made by ing the purcha. ing power of the people of the Nation? That your leaders with big bu ines ? i: the problem that will confront the party in power in the next I did not accept Mr. .A.uerbach·s offer to peru e these cove Congress and upon its wise solution you will stand or fall. nants. I do not know and did not ask who were the "leaders" In my judgment you are doomed to failure. I do not belie·rn referred to. I entirely ab olrn any member of the Ways nnd ilia t general pro, peri ty in this country can be maintained under Means Committee from any complicity in or knowledge of the e n i10Iicy of tariff for revenue only. I agree that much depends things. But for some reason or other, slowly but surely, as it upon how that volicy is to be construed and applied. If ap seems to me, the theory that the result of your tariff revision v)jed in one way it would ha·rn no effect whatever upon the wlll substantially reduce the cost of living is being abandoned. cost of living. If applied in another it would probably reduce On page 3171 the gentleman from Alabama, chairman of the the cost of lidng, but only at the expense of the ruin of the Ways and Means Committee, whose superior knowledge of lhe industries anu the bu ine s of this counh·y. Applied as it has tariff question none will dispute, had this to say : been in some of tlle bills which passed this House in the last I recognize. of course, the great ditl'erence between the wholesale prlce r.e. sion of Congre it will giYe needles ly high protection to and the retail price, but this committee can not adjust that. some industries and wor e than free trade to others, for your A.nd later, at page 3246, in reply to a question askeu by :\Ir. newly invented policy of placing the fini bed product of the Howard, who was on the witness stand: _\merican producer on the free list and maintaining duties on tbf'!?° Chairman, do you tWnk that the consumer will get the benefit of nll the intermediate products is wor~a than free trade and can be justified by no exi ting theory of political economy. This policy was, I think, well and tersely characterized by one wit That is to say, the general abolishment of all protective ne. . who appeared before the committee, Mr. Neal Brown, a duties. · Yery eminent Democrat, who denominated it the "illegitimate The CHAIR.MAN. Well, we hope he will. We think he will on some offspring of unknown parentage," and his discu sion of this articles ; on some articles be probably will not. que tion on page 2214 is worth reading. . This is a mighty milk-and-water assurance, to say the least, 'l'lle worst feature of your tariff-for-revenue vrogram is that to the .American consumer, of any benefit that may come to him you make it mean one thing at one time and quite another from the tariff revision you contemplate. If thi is to be the thing at another. During the campaign last fall your cry result-or, rather, the lack of result-of this revision, your throughout the country was that you would reduce the cost of pledges made to the r1eople in the last campaign were made with living to the .American people by aboli hing all duties main intent to mislead or else you ha>e found that they can not be taiued under the protective principle of allowing for the differ- lived up to. uce in the co t of production of articles produced in this coun The truth of it all is that it is a "condition and not a theory try and abroad, and yet repeatedly prominent Democrats came that confronts you." You have come to a realization of the fact before the committee during the hearings and argued that the that the tariff is not re ponsible for the increa ed cost of living_ 11lec.lges of the Democratic Party to the people meant no such in the last few years in this country. You have come to the tlling. .Mr. Joseph S . .Auerbach, for instance, a lawyer of dis conclusion that nothing short of a most radical retluction all tinction, a prominent Democrat in New ¥ork and one who took along the line will have any perceptible effect upon consumers' an active part in the campaign, appeared twice before the com 11rice8, and you fear to go that far lest the whole indu trial mittee on one occasion ad>ocating an increa ed duty on plate and bu iness structure of this country ome clnttering down "la s ;nd on another an increased duty on ball bearings. Ile upon you. You hesitate to grasp either horn of the dilemma. ;ested his case upon the· Democratic platform and the as ur You are still in doubt whether to put through a revi "ion which nnces of Democratic leaders as to what that platform meant. will not cause great bu ·ine disturbance lmt which will not n page 7 48 the following occurs in his testimony : reduce the cost of living at all, or, on the other hand, whether It is tme that you are to have before you the duty of living up to your one object shall be to reduce the co t of living at no the pledges of the Democratic Party to the feople; but as a Democrat matter what the damage to the industries and purchasing p \Yer l)y principle and practice I have no fear o them rightly interpreted. l\·e nre not, however, to confuse ourclves as to what were those ,pledges of the people of the Nation. even though prepared to accept them at their face value. In all I ham said I do not wi ·h to be consitlered as que tion • ntl later, having argueu in fa>or of an increased duty on ing for a moment the sincerity or high purpose of my colleagues plate glass, he said : on the majority side of the Ways and Means Committee For e>ery one of them I have the highest regard and e teem. I In all thi however, ·the solemn promise •was that there would be tnken into account and allowed for the clitrercnce in cost of production have formed many friend hips with gentlemen on the other side het·e and abroad. The chairman of this committee again and again bas which it consoles me to believe, now that I am about to retire i·xprl". . sed thl.· view forcibly, eloquenUy, :lnd per uasively, too, as the from ervice with them, will endure as long as I live. re ·ult of the last election makes abundantly clear. l\lr. Speaker, during the 10 years that I have ened here I On page 120 of the hearings will be founu the following have frequently had harp debates "\\ith gentlemen upon the olloquy between :Mr. Auerbach and my elf upon the question other ide of this Hou e. I confess that I have ornetime of what the promise or coyenant of the Democratic Party with stated my opinion of Democratic policies with perhaps IJrutal ille .American people people really meant: frankness, but I · have never questioned, and I do not llO\V, the 11r. LoxowoR1.'II. I have beard you say several times to-day and Lbe purtty or patriotism of the moti>es that animate gentlemen on other day that it was a part of the covenant of the Democratic Party the other side of the aisle, either as individuals or as a party. wil Lt the people, in considering this question of tariff revision, to make I n tariff on a revenue basis and take into consideration the question of For the Speaker of this House entertain the most unbounded the co t of production of articles manufactured in the countt·y with the affection and esteem. I aarty. would worthily fill any office in the gift of the people of this Great hea>ens, Mr. Speaker, has it come to this, that the COlmtry. [Applause.] I only wi h, Mr. Speaker, if we are to coyeuants of the gr nt Democratic Party are to be construed have a law modeled on the principle of tariff for r venue only through the medium of prirnte letter , that the real meaning of that the gentleman from Alabama coulu write it him elf. I tll 'ir plee taken not from their would be glad to see such a tariff law go on the statute books, platform, not from the declarations of their leaders upon the because I know that every item in it would be dictated by stump or upon the floor of Congress, but from assurances pri principle, and not by pres~ure or political expediency. But I vately given to great business interests which must remain have no hope that any tariff bill written by the gentleman from couccaled from the light of day? Was this the reason why your Alabama will go upon the statute books. I fear that when that trea. urc chests were so o>erfiowing in the last campaign? Was bill has finally run the gantlet of this House and of the Senate this the reason 'vhy many of the great moneyed interests of the the gentleman from Alabama will not know his own handiwork, country >ieweu "\Yith such erene complacency your enthrone and that the bill will in its final analysis represent the result meut in vower? Are your campaign promises to reduce the not so much of rjgid adherence to principle as of a series of 1913. CONGRESSIONAL ·RECOI\D-HOUSE. 4851 trades in which tile fJiCP fellow will get the best of it and the QUACli·QUACK -OF THE LA.ME DUCKS. R.e1mblican aquatic birds, little fellow will get the worst of it. . We're lame, as you may see, If I hal"e learned -anything during my service on the Com From cares of state and long debate mittee on Ways and Means it is this, that no thoroughly ac We are to be set free. curate, scientific, permanently satisfactory bill can be ena~ted We fought the battle bravely, and were Vanquished in the fray, unless it is based upon the findings of a permanent nonpart~san Some think we ne·e.r shall fight again, high-powered tariff. commission. [Applause on the Republican I rather think we may ; side.] · And we'll come back ; yes, we·n come baek And I beliel'e fuat the day is not far distant when the tariff Two years, or four, and we'll come back. We hadn't even half a chance will be revised by a party which is committed to that principle. To win out in the fight, 1\Ir. Speaker, in the seclusion of private life I shall ':at-ch with nut held our bunners Wgh aloft interest the labors of my colleagues on the other side of the And battled !or the right; Our par-ty sorely rent in tw.ain, Hou e. With all respect to their patriotism and the purity of 'l'he opposition strong ; their motiles, I fear that they are doomed to failure, because Result-we now are leaving you, I do not belieTe that any tariff which ignores the principle of But not for -very long. For we'll come back ; yes, we'll come back protection can make for the general prosperity of the people of Two years, or four, will bring us back. this country. If I am right, the time may not be far distant MCKINLEY, HILL, and LONGWORTH, too, when I shall be here again. {Applause.] But whatever ihe DALZELL and PRINCE and others, futnre may have in store for me, I know you will believe me And many called Progressives true to be sincere when I say that I wish eTery man in this House Are going 'with their brothers. Such fate dissension brought to all; the best that life may afford of health, happiness, and pros If licking's what was needed, perity. {Loud applause.] Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con 'Twas quite enough. The lesson learned, It .surely will be heeded ; sent to extend my remarks in the RECORD. And fhey'll come back ; :res, all come back; The SPEAKER. The gentleman asks unanimous consent to Two years, or four, will bring them back. REOORD. extend his remarks in the Is there objection? [After Our virile Uncle JOE, alas ! a pause.] The Chair hears none. 1 Is also booked to go ; Mr. TILSON. Mr. Speaker, in these closing hours of eulogies Regretted much by everyone, By friend not mo.re than foe. and swan songs, mingled with messages from the Executive When Danville district voters wake and from the Senate and reports of committees of conference, I To look about and find How much they've lost by what they've done aYail myself of the courtesy extended by the House for a yery They'll surely change their mind, few brief observations. And send him back ; yes, send him back My service here has not been yery long-only four years- 'l'wo years, not more, will bring him back. but long enough to make many good friends, so that the pain of 1\Ir. 1\IARTIN of Colorado. Mr. Speaker-- being violently separated from the pay roll is far from being The SPEA.KER. For what purpose does the gentleman rise1 the only regret at retiring from the Hou.se. Nor haye my friends 1\Ir . .MARTIN of Colorado. For the purpose of asking unani- been limited to one side of the big aisle, as it is so often called mous consent to address the House for 15 minutes. What I by our fair, courteous, and much-belo-ved Speaker. They are have to say being prepared, I am quite sure of not running be- quite as numerous on the· Dem-0eratic side as on our own, yond the time allotted to me. · and in the present Congress even more, for there are so many The SPEAKIDR. How much time does the gentleman ask? more of them. To all of these I wish to say that I appreciate Mr. .MARTIN of Colorado. For 15 minutes, or such portion of more than I can express their many ~ourtesies, and more than that time as I may need. · all the fact that it has been my privilege to here enjoy the · The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Colorado asks unani friendship of so many good fellows. I shall treasure the mem mous consent to address the Honse for 15 minutes or such por ory of my a sociation here with you while life lasts. tion thereof as he may desire. Is ther-e objection? I go away with mingled feelings of regret and relief. It is 1\fr. GOLDFOGLE. .Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to ob not necessary to tell any of you that the path of a Congressman ject, while I should yery mu~h like to hear my friend and very is not strewn all the way with roses; that each rose is situated good colleague on the committee to which I am assigned [Mr. betlveen two thorns is not an inapt figure of speech. To take MABTm of Colorado], yet I would like to ask whether, in the part in the actual work of this House, to study not only the opinion of the Chair, that would preclude me from monng at bills and reports, but even the hearings before committees, and this hour to suspend the rules and pass a bridge bill. to follow intelligently the legislation enacted here is a most The SPEAKER. No; it will not after the gentleman con delightful though strenuous task. To attend to the numerous cludes. Is there objection 7 [After a pause.] The Chair hears none. and multifarious requests of indilidual c-0nstituents, though · THE LATE REPRESE.ITATITE :MADISON. often difficult, is always both pleasant and interesting. The Mr. .MARTIN of Colorado. I come to lay f.orget-me-nots upon hardest part to bear is the unfair criticism of those to whose the shline of the memory of my friend and colleague, ED. UADI interest it is to oppose you or of others instigated by them; and soN, to refer to an incident in our earlier Jiyes that eYentually it has been my experience as wen as my observation that a touched our hearts into deep and satisfying fellowship, and to large proportion of the sum total of unjust criticism leYeled say a final word as a l\lember of Congress, from which I am against men in all ranks of public life is traceabk to such poi now about to retire, for reasons to 'yhieh I shall u.llude only soned som·ces. briefly and impersonally, and as they affect many of the Mem It is not pleasant for an honest Illll.Il to attempt to deceive, bers of Congress, living and dead. eYen though the purpose of the deception be to make folks at Twenty years ago a young locomotiYe fireman llhiled away home think yon the greatest man in Congress next to the a long lay-over at Dodge City, Kam;., by sitting in the rear of Speaker; and yet it must be done if you would tarry here. the court room and listening to· the trial of a ca.se. Unused to Everybody's doing it. I should be ashamed to look myself in such scenes it made a deep impression upon him-the solemnity the face if through the instrumentality of sympathetic news of it, the learned ability of the judge on t he beuch, the forensic paper correspondents I should find myself so puffed up in the combats of the lawyers at the bar, the tense interest of the com home papers that my colleagues here would not be able to recog munity; but he was particularly impressed with the personality nize the likeness; and yet such practices are frequent, as they and ability of the leading lawyer for the defense, a young man. are, also, potent. So through the ·catalogue of pleasant and black haired, clean shay-en square of jaw and shoulder. the unpleasant things connected with public service-and I am not music of a strong. keen voice tuned to the pitch and playing certain in which scale rests the preponderance of testimony. the scale of natural oratory, definit~m-ess and precision in his When away from the life here, its joys and its cares, one may method, weight, and compelling in his manner. be able to gain the right perspectiYe and make a just estimate They did not meet, the fu·eman .and the lawyer, but the fonner as to the permanent yalue of ser-vice here. went his way with the clear image of the latter grayen upon his Apropos of the closing sentiments of the speech of my friend memory by ey.es of de,_,ire; and many times afterwards his mind from Ohio [Mr. LoNGWORTH] I here submit a few lines of went back to the scene in the court room and its central :figure. hastily constructed l'erse. Except as therein otherwise specified A.s the years went by he often thought of tbe·young lawyer and the sentiment is entirely impersonal and includes all who be made inquiry, leaining first that he had become district judge lieve in all that is best in the party represented by this side and finally that he had been elected to Congr-ess; but still they of the House. The gentleman from Ohio has said, "Au revoir, did not meet, and never met nntil, .utter the lupse (){ 16 years. but not good-Oy.'.' I hn:1e a.ttem11ted to put the same sentiment they met in :this Chamber as tbe .Representati,es of adjoining into verse. States and contiguous congre ~ion-al districis. 4852 ~ONGRESSIONA:L RECORD-'"HOJJSE~ ~I.A.ROH 4;
It is the commonest triteism that truth is stranger than fiction, I have little patience with ·.the popular witticisms about the for no sane imagination, projecting itself-from the little court life in Congress, its ease, its emoluments, ·its pleasures. '.rhe room, coultl ha rn foreseen tlie day when the young lawyer, as a truth is, Congress in its personnel typifies largely the sunival oYe all these his distinguishing mother sleep·, having pas ed the fil'."t years of my manhood characteristic was sound judgment. This rarest of faculties, upon a railway division of which hi · ilorne city was :t terminal, eYen in men of the greatest gifts, equaled the sum of all his haying llad the honor at bis invitation of being llie gue t f that other gifts, was the crowning attribute of the man, and, added community, and being bounu to it all by so many tender tiei:i, it to these others assured him high and yet higher I>lace in the is to me a peculiarly sad privilege anu pleasure to pay his ·llar councils of the Nation. acter and memory this tribute of my esteem antl love, and not But in the morning of a statesman's career and in ~e fore: inappropriate, I trust, in the light of all the cir umstances. to front of the fray which still rends our national political life, haye enlarged upon it by personal antl relateu reference · ;rnd and with heart and brain teeming with the problems pressing by touching upon n phase of life in the Nationnl Congress which for solution, broken by the burden,. he fell as a soldier falls, as so nearly concerns· so many of its Members. so many of his colleagues have fallen, and was laid to rest, his To the family of EDWARD H. ~.IAmso~, who run t continue the mourners all who knew him, his couch the brown bosom of his unmarked way of life without his strong, sure, and protecting western plains, his shroud the waving prairie blue stem, 'his guidance, I wish all the solace anFaison Henry, Tex. ·Maher. Russell 1"a1T Hensley Mann Saunders riccompanyhl.g documents, referred to· the 'Committee 'on Ways l•'ergus on llohson Martin, Colo. 8cott . and l\lenns and orderetl to be printetl. Fe1Tis · Bolland Mays ,'cully Fields Hou. ton Miller Shackleford [For message, sec Senate proceedings of March 3, 1913.] l~lnley Howard l\fondell Sharp lt'ilzgerald Howell l\foou,·Tenn. Sherwood THANKS TO TH.E SPEAKER. Flood, Va. Ilughe" Ga. Moore, Tex. Rimmons Floyd, Ark. Hull i\Iorgan, La. Sims The SPEAKER The gentleman from Illinois Plr. CAXKO~] Fornes Humphrt'ys, :\lis . Morgan, Okla. Sisson . will plense take tlJe chair. Foster .Tack ·on ~forrison ,'loan Fowler Jacoway l\.Ioss, Ind. Small :;\fr. CANNON assumed the chair amidst lc,ud applau. e. Francis .Tames :.\Iott Smith, J. :\L C . The SPEAKER pro tern pore (Ur. CANNON). The House is French Johnson, Ky. i\:lm·dock Smith, Saml. W. jn onler, and th~ gentleman from Illinois [:Ur. U.A.J. ~] is recog Fnlle1· .Tobnson, S. C. Mnl'l'ay Smith, 'l'ex. nized. (jallagl!er Kendall Needham Stanley ft:lrdner, )fa s. Kennedy Neeley ~tcdman · .l\Ir. :\I.A.ID. ~Ir. Svenker, with a pleasure which wells from Oaener Kent Nelson Htenhens, Cal. the IJottorn of my heart anll as a token of tribute to the . plen i;odwin, N. C. J. WHson, N. Y. Hay :\lc<;illicnddy Hoddenbery 'Yilson l'u.. announced that the Senate had pnssed. without amentlment, Hayden :.\lr<:nire, Okla. Rodenberg Witherspoon bills of the following title. : JJ ayes McK<'llill'. Hou ·e ·woods, Iowa R. 40. n 1Iellin :\fcLanglllin Ru bey Young, Kans. H. 28 An act authorizing tlle construction of rnilroaYO".rI~G-GG. mittee. Ansui>rry Gill McCall . 't>ll~ Ru1·chfeld muette McKinley ~bcr·i<',. E::.\'ROLLED BILLS SIGXED. Hl'Own Glass l\IcKinney I-Hayden Bntle 1· Hamill Madden Slemp Mr. CTI.A. VE~S, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, re Byrne , S. C. Ilarris 1.Iartin. S. Dak. ~mith.~. Y. porteu that they haYi ·. Stack tlle following titles, when the Speaker igneu the sam : Cu1Ticr Hughes. T\. Ya. Padgett Stephens, Nebr. H. Il. 28499. An act making appropriations for the exvcnses of Danfortll Humphrey, Wash. l'ray Sulloway the goyernment of tlle District Qf Columbia for the fiscal year Davis, i\linn. .Tones Prouty '.Palcott, T. Y. De Forest Kahn Ran. dell, La. 'l'aylor, Ohio ending June 30, 1914, :md for other purpo es; Dick on, Miss. Knowlancl Rauch Underwood II. R. 28613. An act to Construe the name of E. T. Bourger, as l>ies Konop Heyburn Vreeland Draper Law1ence lUordan Week the same appears in the report of Hawkins-Taylor Commission Focht r,evy Hoberts, i\ln:s. Wood, N. J. in relation to Company F, Osage County Battalion, Missouri Garrett Lind ay Rothermel Home Guards, to refer to Joseph Bourgeret, of Osage County, .Mo.; George Littleton Saba th H. R. 27090. An act for the relief of Cora Evans; So (on recon ideration) the House agreetl to pa s the bill, the H. R. 21849. .An act for the relief of Felix Morgan ; objection of the President to the contrary notwith tanding. IL R. 28093 . .An ad to a.mend an act entitled "An act granting The Clerk announced the following additional pairs: a. se1Tice pen ion to certain defined \eterans of the Ci\il War For the session : and the War with 1\Icxico," approved May 11, 1912; 1\fr. RIORD..lN with Mr. ANDRUS. H. R. 28840. An act authorizing the construction of a railroad Until further notice: bridge across the St. John River, between the town of Van 1\lr. IlA.NSDELL of Loui ·iana with ~Ir. KXOWLA.ND. BUI'en, Me., and the parish of St. Leonards, Province of Kew. l\Ir. STA.CK with 1\lr. KAHN. Brunswick, Dominion of Canada. ; Mr. LINDSAY with Mr. HUMPHREY of Washington. H. R. 23673. An act to promote the W('lfare of Americnn sea 1\Ir. SPARKMAN with :Mr. DAVIDSON. men in the .merchant marine of the United States, to abolish 1\Ir. SLAYDEN with .l\.Ir. McKINNEY. arrest and imprisonment as a penalty for desertion, and to secure I\Ir. SHERLEY with .Mr. DAVIS of l\Iinne ota. the abrogation of treaty pmrisions in relation thereto, and to l\fr. BROWN with Mr. BUTLER. promote safety at sea; l\lr. CoVI.J.~GTON with l\Ir. l\IcKrNLEY. H. R. 28858. An act making appropriations to supply tleficien: Mr. BYRNES of South Carolina with Mr. BABCHFELD. cies in appropriations for the fiscal year 1913 and for i1rior The result of the vote was :mnounced as aborn recorded. years, and for other purposes ; REORGANIZATION OF CUSTO:HS SER\'ICE (II, DOC. -o. 14:>0.) H. R. 2GG80. An act makiog appropriations for the legislatiYe, executive, anR.\KER la itl IJefore the House a message from the yenr ending June 30,.1914, and for other purposes; rresicleut of the 'L'uiteH. R. 2877G. An act ma.king appTopriations for sundry civil .. H. R. 2;5780. An act to amend section 31 6 of the Reviseu expenses of the Gornrnment for the fiscal year ending June 30, Statutes of the United States; 1914, and for other purpo es; . H. R. 28700. An act to increase the limit of co t of certain II. R. 2876G. An act to incrense the limit of cost of certam public buildings, to authorize the enlargement, ext u ion, remod public buildings, to authorize the enlargement, extension, re eling, or impro\ernent of certain public buildings, to authorize modeling, or improyement of certain public buildings, to auth?r the erection and completion of public buildings, to authorize ize the erection and completion of public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other pur the purchase of site for public buildings, and for other pur poses; poses; H. Il. 23673. An act to promote the welfare of American sea H. R. 27780. An act to authorize aids to navigation and other men in the merchant marine of the United States; to abolish wo.rks in the Lighthouse Service, and for other purposes ; arrest and imprisonment as a penalty for de ertion and to H. n.. 28632. An act to authorize the construction of a bridge secure the abrogation of treaty proyisions in relation thereto; across Twelve Mile Bayou in Caddo Parish, r:a.; and to promote safety at sea; H. R. 28633. An act to amend the act approyed January 27, H. R. 27874. An act granting pensions and increase of pensions 1912, entitled "An act to authorize the construction of a bridge to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy, across Caddo Lake, in Louisiana " ; and certain soldiers and sailors of wars other than the Civil H. R. 28283. An act making appropriation for the Depart· War, and to widows of such soldiers and sailors; ment of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914; H. R. 28283. An act making appropriations for the Depart H. R. 27148. An act making appropriations for the service of ment of Agriculture f01· the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914; the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, H. R 284.99. An act making appropriations to provide for the 1914, and for other purposes; expenses of the goyernment of the District of Columbia for the H. n. 28812. An act nwking appropriati-0ns for fue nayal serv fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, and for other purposes; ice for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, and for other H. R. 28633. An act to amend the act approved January 27, purposes; 1912, entitled "An act to authorize the construction of a bridge H. R. 25780. .An act to · mnend section 31 G of the Revised across Caddo Lake, in Louisiana " ; Statutes of the United States; and H. R. 277&.>. An act to authorize aids to navigation and other H. R. 25781. An act to amend section 77 of an act entitled works in the Lighthouse Se1·vice, and for other purposes; ".An act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the H. R. 27090. An act for the relief of Cora ETans ; judiciary," approved March 3, 1911. H. R. 28613. An act to construe the name of E. T. Bourger, as The SPEAKER announced his signature to enrolled joint the same appears in the report of Hawkins-Taylor Commission resolution and bills of the following titles: in relation to Company l!,, Osage County Battalion, l\lissourl S. J. Res.132. Joint resolution providing for an Arueri~'lll com Home Guards, to refer to Joseph Bourgeret, of Osage County,' mission for the investigation of rural credits in Europe; Mo.; S. 7875. An act to exempt from: cancellation certain desert-land H. R. 287W. An act making appi·opriations for sundry civil entries in the Chuckawn.lla Valley and Palo Verde Mesa, IliYer expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, side County, Cal. ; 1914, and for other pmposes; ; S. 7747. An act for the relief of Charles Dudley Daly; H. R. 26680. An act making appropriations for the legislative, s. 7415. An act granting to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe executive, and judicial expenses of the Go\ernment for the .fiscal Railway Co. a. right of way through the Fort W~gate Military year ending June 30, 1914, and for other purposes; Reservation, in New 1\lexico, and for other purposes; H. R.1567. An act for the r~lief of Maria McMurdie; and s. 3843. An act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to H. R. 28858. An act ma.king appropriations to supply deficien-, lease to the operators of coal mines in Oklahoma additional cies .in appropriations for the fiscal year 1013 and for prior acreage from the unleased coal land of the Choctaw and Chicka years, and for other purposes. saw Nations; s. 8273 . .An act authorizing the Secretary of War to make 'cer PRESIDENTIAL APPROVALS. tain donations of condemned cannon and cannon balls ; A message from the President of the United States, communi s. 8399 . .An act granting pensions and increase of pensions to cated to the House of Representatives by l\Ir. Latta, one of his certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy secretaries, announced that the President had appro1ed and and of wars other than the Civil War and to certuin widows and signed bills of the following titles: dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors; and On March 3, 1!)13 : s. 8540. An act granting pensions and increase of pensions to H. R. 20511. An act for the relief of Samuel Butter & Co.; certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy and M. R. 21709. An act to amend subchapter 2 of chapter 19 of of wars other than the Civil Wai· and to certain widows and the Code of Law for tlle District of Columbia; 1 dependent relatiyes of such soldiers and sailors. H. R. 21714. An act to amend subchapter 2 of chapter 19 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia; E:r\BOLLED BILLS PRESENTED TO TIIE PRESIDENT FOR HIS .APPROVAL. H. H.. 18787. An act relating to the limitation of the hours of Mr. ORAVENS, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, re daily service of laborers and mechanics employed upon a public ported that this dn.y they had presei:ted tproved March 3, rnµ, and for other purposes; the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, H. R. 16993. An act for the relief of :Mathew T. Fuller; 1914 and for other purposes; H. n. 24703. An act to extend the authority of receive certi- · H.' R. 28093. An act to amend an act entitled "An act granting fied checks drawn on national and State banks ~nd trust corn· a service pension to certain defined veterans of the Civil War panies in payment for duties ou imports and internal taxes and and the War with Me.."tico," approved May 11. 1912 ; all public dues; H. n. 25781. An act to amend section 77 of an act entitled H. R.12339. An act to refund certain taxe paid by the Louisi "An act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the ana Distillery Co. (Ltd.), of New Orleans, La. ; judiciary," approved March 3, 1911; H.J. Res. 326. Joint resolution providing for extending pro H. R. 28812. An act lll!lldug appropriations for the nayal serv visions of the act authorizing extension of payments to home ice· for tlle fi cal year ending Ju~e 30, 1014, and for other steaders on the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation Idaho; purposes; H. R. 27806. An act granting a pension to Unry :\Iac.A.rthur; 1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· HOUSE. 4855
TI. R. 28730. An act making appropriations for the payment THANKS TO TITE SPEAKER. of invalid aml other pensions of the United States for the fiscal The SPEAKER pro tempore. The office of Speaker in the year ending June 30, 1!)14, and for other purposes; House of Representatives is a great office, with great re ·ponsi H. R. 23676. An act to regulate the officering and manning_of bilities, requiring uniform courtesy, patience, and, at times, Ye. els subject to the ins11ection laws of the United Stutes; and forbearance. .Many men have filled this .great office. duriug my H. R. 27323. Au act to pro-ride for reftmd or abatement under service-Blaine, Kerr, Randa1l, Keifer, Carlisle, Reed, Crisp, certain conditions of penalty taxes imposed by section 38 of and H enderson, anc.1 the present Speaker of the House. At the act of August IJ, 190!), known as the special excise corpora times the popular body, abounding in partisanship, directly rep tion-tax law. resenting the people, rendering an account every two years, HOUSE BILLS RECEIIBD AT TIIE CAPITOL A -D Al'PROYED BY- THE seemingly is not only enthusiastic, but in its enthusia m is PRESIDENT. sometimes severe; and yet this present body, as was the case On ~Iarch 4," 1913 : with former Congresses, when the blood cools, has ever been H. Il. 266 0. An act making appropriations for the legislati-re, ready to accord deserved indorsement to the presiding officer, executir'e, and judicial _expense of the Government for the fiscal whoever he might be, from one Congress to another. year eP..ding June 30, 1!)14, and for other purposes; I had long service with the gentleman from l\Iissomi, the II. R. 27148. An act making appropriations for the senice of Speaker of the House. His ability is known throughout the the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, length and breadth of the land and is fully appreciated. Few 1914, and for other purposes; men in the history of the Republic have had stronger public in H. R. 28283. An act making appropriations for the Depart dorsement than the Speaker of the House [applause], and from ment of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914; observation throughout my long service in this body I take pleas H. n. 28499. An act making appropriations to proYide for the ure in saying that during his speakership no man has presided expenses of tlle government of the District of Columbia for the with greater fairness and with greater courtesy. [Applause.] tiscal year ending June 30, 1914, and for other purposes; · Mr. GREGG of Penusyl"rnnia. 1\fr. Speaker, I ask unanimous II. R. 28699. An act making appropriations for the support of consent to extend my remarks in the RECORD. the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1D14, The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Pennsyl and for other purposes; vania asks unanimous consent to extend his remarks in the REC H. H. 2 766. An act to increase the limit of cost of certain ORD. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The Chair hears none. public buildings, to authorize the enlargement, e::\..i:ension, remod Mr. RAKER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex eling, or impro\ement of certain public buildings, to authorize tend in the RECORD my remarks on Senate bill 5068. 1.he erection and completion of public buildings, to authorize The SPEAKER pro ternpore. The gentleman from California the purcha e of sites for public building·, and for other pur asks unanimous consent to extend his remarks upon the bill indi po es; cated. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The Chair hear none. H. n. 28812. An act making appropriations for the na ml sen· l\Ir. GOLDFOGLE. l\fr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ice for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, :rnd for other vur extend my remarks in the RECORD. voses; The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New York H. R. 28858. An act making appropriations to supply deficien asks unanimous consent to extend his remarks in the HECORD. cie in appropriations for the fiscal :rear 1!)13 auu for 11l'ior Is there objection? [After a pause.] The Chair hears none. :rears, :md for other purpo es; Mr. BA.RTHOLDT. Mr. Speaker, I make the same request. H. R. 24266. An act to authorize the sale of lmrnt timber on The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Mis ouri the public domain ; makes the same- request. Is there objection? [After a pause.] II. R. 25780. An act to a.menu section 31 G of the IleYiseu The Chair hears none. Statute. of the United States; Mr. MONDELL. .Mr. Speaker, I make the same reque t. II. R. 25781. An act to amend sectiou 77 of an act entitled The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Wyoming "An act to codify, revise anu amend the la"IT"s relating to the makes the same request. Is there objection? [After a pause.] judiciary," approyed March 3, 1D11; The Chair hears none. H. R. 277 9 . .An act to authorize aids to mn-igation and other l\fr. BORLAND. l\Ir. Speaker, I make the same request. works in the Lighthouse Service, and for other purposes; The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from .Mis ouri H. R. 28003. An act to amend an act entitled "An a.Ct granting [Mr. BoRLA.l'\D] makes the same request. Is there objection? a ernce nension to certain defined Yeterans of the Civil War [After a pause.] The Chair hears none. and the War '!ith Mexico," apprornd May 11, 1912; Mr. 1\fcKELLAR. 1\fr. Speaker, I desire to make the ame IL n. 28613. An act to construe the name of E. T. Bourger, as request. the same appears in the report of Hawkins-Taylor Commission The SPEAKER pro ternpore. The gentleman from Tenne see in relation to Company F, Osage County Battalion, ~lissouri makes the same request. Is there objection? [After a pa use.] Horne Guards, to refer to Joseph Bourgeret, of Osage County, The Chair hears none. ~Io.; 1\fr. CLAYTON. Mr. Speaker, I make the same reque. t. H. Il. 28G32. An act to authorize the con tructiou of a bridge The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Alabama aero ·s Twelrn Mile Bayou in Oacldo Parish, La.; [Mr. CLAYTON] makes the same request. Is there objection? H. it. 28633. An act to amend the act appro\ed. J anuary 27, [After a pause.] The Chair hears none. 1D12, entitled ",1.n act to authorize the construction of a bridge l\Ir. LAFFERTY. l\Ir. Speaker, I ask leaye to extend my aero addo Lake, in Louisiana "; . remarks on the eight-hour law, relating to the employment of H. Il.1567. An act for the relief of .Maria Mclfmdie; females, that was up for consideration this morning. H. R. 21849. An act for the relief of Felix Morgan ; The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oregon H. R. 27090. An act for the relief of Cora E~ans; [Mr. LAFFERTY] asks unanimous consent to e..~tend his remarks H. R. 27874. An act granting pensions and increase of pensions on the bill named. Is there objection? [After a pause.] to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Na\y, The Chair hears none. and certain soldiers and sailors of wars other than the Ci\il The SPEAKER resumed the chair amid general applau e. 'Var, and to wi