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'\"'RGI~IA · PE ~NSYLVANIA Robert L. Olinger to be postmaster at Blacksburg, Va., in Daniel J. Turner, Clarksville. place of R. L. Olinger. Incumbent's commL<;;sion expires Feb Cleo W. Callaway, Shawnee on Delaware. ruary 29, 192S. Frances H. Diven, West Bridgewater. WASHINGTON RHODE ISLAND Nellie Tyner to be postmaster at Di. hman, Wash., in place of Thomas D. Goldrick, Pascoag. Nellie Tyner. Incumbent's commission expires February 29, 1928. WISCONSIN WEST VIRGINIA Walter C. Ander on, Rosholt. James T. Aker to be postmaster at Bluefield, W. Va., in place of J. T . .Akers. Incumbent's commis ion expires Febr~ary 29, 1928. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Josephine B. Marks to be po. tmaster at ·walton, W.Va. Office TUESDAY, Februa·ry ~8, 19B8 became presidential July 1, 1927. , The House met at 12 o'clock noon, and was called to order by the Speaker. CONFIRMATIONS The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., offered B(J)ecntive norninations cott{inned. by the Senate Feb1·rwry 28, the following prayer: 1928 0 Lord, our lives are just a breath of Thy infinite nature; APPOINTMENT, BY TRANSFER, IN THE ARMY hence, may we not look with disdain or hold in contempt any COAST ARTILLERY CORPS human creature. We thank Thee that we are Thy rational To be second U-eutenant children. Humbly and earnestly we ask for discerning minds Marvin John McKinney. that our knowledge of principles, of methods, and of men may be wise. Thy supreme favor is on those who have hearts and APPOIXTMEXT, llY PROMOTION, L.~ THE ARMY minds of unselfi h devotion to ·service. Give us courage to To be major generously recognize another's worth, to guard another's inter Delpllin Etienne Thebaud. est, and to surrender to anothe:t:'s just claims. Blessed spilit To be captains of God, help us always to discern between the value and the cur ·e of wealth, between the beauty and the disease of luxury. William Neely Todd, jr. Be the bow of promise in ever~ threatening cloud, the balance Thomas Reed Taber. of all discord, and the compensation for all loss: Th1·ough Han-y William Lins. Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. To be first lieu.te11an.ts The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and Ulysses John Lincoln Peoples, jr. approved. Richard Briggs Evans. Everett Clement :Meriwether. MESSAGE FROM THE SEt.~ ATE A message f!Om the Senate, by Mr. Craven, its principal MEDICAL CORPS clerk, announced that the Senate had orde·red that the House To be colonel of Representatives be respectfully requested to return to the John Leslie Shepard. Senate the conference report on the bill (H. R. 9481). entitled "An act making appropriations· for the Executive Office, sundry MEDICAL .ADMLL~ISTRATIVE CORPS independent executive bureaus, boards, commission , and offices To be captains for the fiscal year ending June 30, -1929, and for othe:t:· pur- Berb:m Huffine. . po es,'' together with all accompanying ·papers. Richard Homer McElwain. "l'he message also announced that the Senate · had passed William Mortimer Barton. with amendments the bill (H. R. 10286) entitled "An act mak POST!I.A.STERS ing appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, CALIFOR!'UA 1929, and for other purpose. ," in which the c-oncurrence of the John H. Hoeppel, Arcadia. ·House was reque ted; George P. Morse, Chico. _ The message also announced that the Senate had pas ed Alfred T. Taylor, Westwood. without amendment bills of the following titles: FLORIDA H. R. 121. An act autho~izing the· Cairo ·Association of Com Frank B. Marshburn, Bronson. merce, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and Sherwood Hodson, Homestead. operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Cairo, Ill.; John H. Anderson, Inglis. and H. R. 5679. An act authorizing the Nebraska-Iowa Bridge Cor NEW JERSEY poration, a Delaware corporation, it!:! successors and assigns, to Elmira L. Phillips, Andover. eonstruct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Aiissomi John G. Stoughton, Bergenfield. River between Washington County, Nebr., and Harrison County, William E. Allen, Blairstown. Iowa. John B. W. Berry, Clementon. The message also announced that the Senate had passed bills Z. Charles Cballlce, Fair Lawn. and a joint resolution of the following title , in which the con Harold Pittis, Lakehurst. c·m·rence of the House of RepresentatiYes was requested: Andrew Bauer, Little Ferry. S. 2280. An act to authorize the coinage of Longfellow medals ; Thomas Post, Midland Park. S. 2449. An act to authorize the . constructiqn of a bridge Margarethe Grund, New Milford. across the Mississippi River at or near the city of Baton Rouge, · Arthur F. Jahn, Ridgefield. in the parish of East Baton Rouge, and a point. opposite thereto NEW :MEXICO in the parish of West Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana; S. 2569. An act providing for horticultural experiment and Jose B. 1\Iartinez, Taos. demonstration work in the semiarid or dry-land regions of the NEW YORK United States; and Harrison D. Fuller, Antwerp. S. J. Res. 98. Joint resolution authorizing the selection of Frederick J. Manchester, Clark 1\Iills. sites and the erection of monuments to John Bunyan and Wil Benjamin R. Erwin, East Rochester. liam Harvey in Washington, D. C. Henry J". Frey, Ebenezer. The message also announced that the Senate had agreed to Thomas J. Courtney, Garden City. the report of the committee of conference on the di agreeing Elizabeth T. Witherel, Lily Dale. votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 7201) entitled "An act to provide for the settle NORTH CAROLINA ment· of certain claims of American nationals against Germany .John K. Brock, Trenton. and of German nationals against the United States, for the '1928 ·coN GR.ESSION AL RECOR.D-HOUSE 3705 ultimate return of all property of German nationals held by Mr. CASEY. The language is as follows-! am reading the Alien Property Custodian, and for the equitable appor from the reporter's notes : tionment among all claimants of certain available funds." 1\Ir. SIMMONS. Will the gentleman yield? SE:'iATE JOIKT RESOLUTIONS AND BILLS REFERRED Mr. CASEY. Yes. Joint resolutions and bills of the Senate of the following Mr. SrMMo:xs. I would like to call the gentleman's attention to the titles were taken from the Speaker's table and, under the rule, fact that this paragraph was in the bill when the subcommittee reported referred to the appropriate committees, as follows: to the full committee, and it was printed in italics in the report that S. J. Res. 30. Joint resolution to pro•ide for the expenses of the subcommittee presented to the main committee. The gentleman partic-ipation by the United States in the Second Pan American made no objection either in the subcommittee or the full committee to Conference on Highways at Rio de Janeiro; and the language being in the bill ; the bill was reported. unanimously by the S. J. Res. 31. Joint resolution to provide that the United full committee, it was thoroughly discussed in the subcommittee and States extend to the Permanent International Association of the full committee, and to the fact that at first the gentleman from Road Congresses an iiwitation to hold the sixth se sion of the Pennsylvania [Mr. WELSH] objected to this being done unless we would as ociation in the l: nited States, and for t11e expenses thereof; take care of and not cause any hardship to the children now in the to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. District schools. S. 205. An act to authorize tlie Secretary of the Treasury to The gentleman wns present at the meeting and stated he did not want pay the claim of Mary Clerkin; to the Committee on Ways to cause any hardship for the children then in the schools. No one on the committee desires to cause any hardship, and we drafted the and ~1eans. amendment to meet the wishes of the gentleman and his colleague from S. 802. An act fM the relief of Frank Hanley; to the Com Pennsylvania [lli. WELSH]. mittee on Naval Affairs. S. 1103. .An art permitting the withdrawal of water from The question propounded by the gentleman from Nebraska White River, Ark.; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign [Mr. SIMMONs], with the language inserted without my knowl ' commerce. edge or consent, and in violation of the rules of the House, . S. 1705.· An act authorizing the Court of Claims to render reads as follows : · judgment in favor of the administrator of or collector for the 1\Ir. SnrMONS. I would like to cllll the gentleman's attention to the estate of Peter P. Pltchl:.rnn, deceased, instead of the heirs of fact that this parngraph was in the bill when the subcommittee reported Peter 1'. Pitchlynn, and for other purposes ; to the Committee to the full committee, and it was printed in italics in the report that on Indinn Affairs. the subcommittee presented to the main committee. The gentleman S. 2227. An act for the relief of F. L. Campbell; to the Com made no objection either in the subcommittee or the full committee to mittee on Claims. the language being in the bill, the bill was reported unanimously by the S. 2279. An act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to full committee. ·purchase certain lands in the city of Bismarck, Burleigh The language which I have just read to the House was added County, N. Dak., for Indian school purposes; to the Committee to my remarks, and it was necessary to paste a piece of paper on Indian Affairs. with th~t language written onto it to the original copy of the S. 2280. An act to authorize the coinage of Longfellow reporter's notes. The statement that the bill was reported to medals; to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and :Measures. · the full committee by unanimous consent is untrue and does . S. 2335. An act for the relief of the National Surety Co.: to me a great injustice, because the hearings will show that in the the C,()mmittee oo Claims. · committee I was opposed to the proposition of closing the doors S. 2549. An act providing for payment to the German Govern of the public schools to all children not dwelling in the District ment of $461.59 in behalf of the heirs or representatives of the of Columbia. I opposed it on the 1loor of the House, which German nationals, John Adolf, · Hermann Pegel, Franz Lipfert, can be verified by the previous day's proceedings, and I ·was Albert Wittenburg, Karl Behr, _and Hans Dechantsreiter; to opposed to it when it was under discussion under the five-minute the Committee on Foreign Affairs. rule. The insertion of this language or any language into my S. 2569. An act providing for horticultural experiment and remarks without my ~onsent is a violation ·of the rules of the de:J;llpnstration wor~ in the semiarid or dry-land regi()ns of the House. Mr. Speaker, I therefore ask unanimous consent that .United States; to the Committee on Agriculture. the language indicated by me be stricken from the · CoNGRES S. 2644. An act to carry out _the finding~ of the Court of SIONAL RKCORD. Claims in the case of the P. L. Andrews Corpora.tion; to ·the Mr. -CRAMTON. Reserving the right to object, Mr: Speaker, Committee on War Claims. I know nothing about the matter except from the statement S. 2707. An act to provide for the classification of all un that the gentleman from Pennsylvania lias just made: The allotted land of the Klamath Indian Reservation and to reserve statement seems to involve a colloquy with the gentleman from for forest-production purposes all land primarily adapted to the Nebraska [Mr. SIMMONS]. Has the gentleman discussed it-with production of crops of timber ; to the Committee on Indian the gentleman from Nebraska? I ask the gentleman from Affairs. Pennsylvania whether this matter has been discussed by him S. 3062. An act for the relief of Anna Faceina ; and with the gentleman from Nebraska [Mr. SIMMONS]? S. 3066. An act for the relief of Herman Shulof; to the Com Mr. CASEY. It has not, because I do not know whether or mittee on Claims. not 1\lr. SIMMoNs has inserted this matter into my remarks. . Mr. CRAl\ITON. The action the gentleman is taking, as I THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD get it from what the gentleman has read, seems to lea:d to some Mr. OASEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to make a unanimous question of the course of the gentleman from Nebraska, and I consent request that certain language printed in the CoNGRES do not feel, in the absence of the gentleman from Nebraska and SIONAL RECORD during my remarks on the District of Columbia without conversation with him, that the gentleman from Penn appropriation bill the other day, which was inserted without sylvania ought · to make that request, and I should be obliged my knowledge or consent-by whom I do not know-be stricken to object. If the gentleman will take it up when the gentleman from the RECORD. from Nebraska is here, I shall have no objection. I have in my hand the reporter's copy of my speech, just Mr. CASEY. I would like to ask what has the gentleman referred to. After the House adjourned on Friday, February from Nebraska got to do with my remarks; why should I go to 24, 1 took it to my office and corrected the reporter's copy of see him about it? This is a violation of the rules of the House. the sp·eech I had made· during the ses ion of the Committee of Mr. CRAMTON. I understand, Mr. Speaker, if I caught the Whole. I then handed the copy to the messenger, as we it correctly from the reading by the gentleman, that the lan all do, to take it to the Government Printing Office to be printed guage the gentleman objects to now is not language that ap in the Co~GRESSION AL RECoRD as part of the proceedings of pears in the REcORD as coming from the gentleman from Penn that day. Judge of my surprise and amazement when I read sylvania, but appears in the RECORD as coming from the gen the Co~GRES SIONAL RECORD the next morning and discovered tleman from Nebraska [Mr. SIMMO~s]. that somebody had in erted language into my t•emarks that did Mr. CASEY. That is correct. me a gn•at injustkae and put me in a rather embarrassing Mr. CRAMTON. As the gentleman wants to strike out position in the eyes of the Members of the House, because the something that i!:! in the RECORD as coming from the gentleman language inserted as it referred to me b absolutely untrue; from Nebraska [Mr. Sn.n.IoNs], I should have to object unless and furthermore, Mr. Speaker, whoever is responsible for this the gentleman from Nebraska were present to look after the is guilty of a violation of the rules of the House of Representa matter himself. tives. 1\lr. CASEY. Mr. Speaker, I do not know whether this lan 1\fr. :MADDEN. What was the langunge't guage which I am comp1aining about was inserted in my speeeh 3706 CONGRESSIONAL R.ECORD-HOUSE FEBRUARY 28 by the gentleman from Nebraska, nor do I know by whom it That the Senat~ recede from its amendments numbered' 1; was inserted, whether it was inserted down in the · Govern and 2. ment Printing Office, or where. I have no right to assume MA.BTIN B. 1\IADDEN, that the gentleman from Nebraska did insert this language in M. H. THATCHER., the RECORD in violation of the rules of the House. JOSEPH W. BYRNS, lfl'. CRAMTON. But the inference would remain that it Managers on the part of the House. was improperly inserted by the gentleman from Nebraska [1\Ir. F. E. WARBEN, S!MMo~s], and this action I would have to object to if taken REED SMOOT, in the absence of the gentleman from Nebraska [Mr. Snn.roNs]. LEE s. OVERMAN, Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee. Will the gentleman from Penn WM. J. IIABRIS, sylvania yield? - lla1tage1·s on the part of the Senate. :;\Ir. CASEY. 'fes. 1\Ir. GARRETT of Tennessee. I understand the situation is STATEMENT this: 'Vhile the gentleman from Pennsylvania was addressing The managers on the part of the House at the conference on the Committee of the 'Vhole he yielded, in respon~e to a request the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the bill (H. R. of the gentleman from Nebraska, for a question ; that question 10635) making appropriations for the Treasm·y and Post Office was asked and answered and the remarks went to the gentle Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for man from Pennsylvania for revision. They were revised and other purposes, submit the following statement in explanation of handed to the messenger from the Printing Office, and some the effect of the action agreed upon and embodied in the accom where between the office ·of the gentleman from Pennsylvania panying conference report as to each of such amendments, and the Printing Office there was inserted other matter in namely: the question of the gentleman from Nebraska which left the On Nos. 1 and 2, relating to labor-saving devices for the Post answer of the gentleman from Pennsylvania confused and Office Department: Appropriates $700,QOO as propOsed by the placed him in an improper light as to the question before the House, instead of $736,000 as proposed by the Senate, and House. Words appeared in the RECORD which were not uttered shikes out the authority, inserted by the Senate, for the pur· on the :floor of the House and were not in the manuscript at cha e and repair of automatic postage-service machines. the time the gentleman from Pennsylvania revised the manu l\IA.RTL"i B. MADDEN, script, so that he had no opportunity to make his answer M. H. THATCHER, properly responsive to the question. . JosEPH W. BYRNs, Mr. CRAMTON. If the gentleman will yield, my only sug Mana.gers on tlle part ot the House. gestion is that since the gentleman from Nebraska [Mr. SIM MONS] is referred to in the matter, that the gentleman defer The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to· the con· his request until a little later,· when the gentleman from Ne ference report. braska is here. The conference report was agreed to. :Mr. GARNER of Texas. Suppose the gentleman from Ne· TREASURY AND POST OFFICE DEPAB.TMENTS APPROPRIATION BILL bra ka [Mr. SIMMoNS] admitted that be inserted this himself. The House would undoubtedly authorize it to be stricken from Mr. MADDEN. Mr. Speaker, I offer a concurrent re olntiOJl (H. Con. Res. 25) and ask for its immediate consideration. the RECORD. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Illinois offers a con· ~Ir. CRAMTON. Let us wait and let the gentleman from Ne current resolution, which the Clerk will report. bra ka speak for him elf. There is the day b(>fore us, when it The Clerk read as- follows: can come up later, just as well as now. Mr. CASEY. I have no desire to press this matter if that is HO'CSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIO~ 25 the wish of the House, but the gentleman from Nebraska is in . Resoked by the HouBe of Repreaentativea (the Senate concurring), the Speaker's lobby at the present time, or he was there two That the Clerk of the IIouse of Representatives is auth()rized and minutes ago. directed, in the enrollment of II. R. 10635, "An act making appropria Mr. LINTHICU:J\.-1. 1\Ir. Speaker, I make the point of order tions for the Treasury and Post Oftice Departments for the fiscal year of no quorum until the gentleman from Nebraska can come in. . ending June 30, 1929, and for ()ther purposes," to make the following The SPEAKER. Does the gentleman from Maryland make a changes 1n the engrossed bill : point of order of no quorum? On page 20, line 13, after the word " act," where it occurs the first Mr. LINTHICUM. I do. time, insert the words ", as amended." Mr. MADDEN. We have sent for l\Ir. SIMMONS to come in. On page 20, line 24, after the word " act," insert the following: " and Mr. CASEY. At the suggestion of the gentleman from Michi- for carrying out the applicable provisions of the act approved March gan· I will temporarily withdraw my unanimous-consent request 3, 1927 (Stat. L. v. 44, p-. 1381) ." and make it later on. · On page 20, line 25, after the word "officers," insert the word The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Pennsylvania tempo "attorneys." On page 21, line 1, after the word " supervisors," insert the follow rarily withdraws his request. ing: "gaugers, storekeepers, storekeeper-gaugers." Mr. LINTHICUM. And I withdraw my point of order. On page 22, line 9, after the syllable " tfons," insert the word CONFKil-ENCE REPORT-TREASURY A:VD POST OFFICE DEPARTME:i'\TS "prescribed." APPROPRIATION BILL On page 22, line 14, strlke out the wortl "bonds" and insert the word "bonded." Mr. MADDEN. Mr. Speaker, I call up the conference report on H. R. 10635, making appropriations for the Treasury and Mr. ~IADDEN. Mr. Speaker, I want to make a blief state Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, ment in explanation of this re olution, so it will be thoroughly 1929, and for other purposes, and I want to say in that connec understood and may be a part of the history bowing the reason tion, Mr. Speaker, that there was only one amendment offered we are proposing the adoption of the concmTent resolution. to the bill by the Senate. The Senate receded from that The concmTent resolution which bas just been read makes amendment in conference and the bill which is now before the five textual changes in the paragraph for the Bureau of Prohibi House is exactly the same as it was when it left the Hou e. tion and the enforcement of the narcotic acts. None of the The SPEAKER. Th_e gentleman from Illinois calls up a con amendments adds or subtracts from the existing law affecting ference report, which the Clerk will report. the service. Two of the amendments are to correct errors which The Clerk read the conference report and statement. have crept in in the printing of the bill at some stage of 1~ pas age. CONFERENCE REPORT The other three amendments are to clarify the text of the paragraph so as to make it conform to the requirements of the The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the accounting law . These three amendments result from the two Hou es on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. establishment of the prohibition enforcement as a separate 10635) making appropriations for the TFeasury and Post Office bureau. They were deemed unimportant at the time the bill Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for was framed in the House, and they may not be important now, other purposes, having met, after full and free conference have but it is deemed advi able to have them made so that there may agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective not be any criticism of the technical features of the language. Houses as follows : ·In my judgment they a1·e not absolutely essential, but for the 1928 CONGRESSIONAL RECOR.D-HOUSE 3707 purpose of clarificatWn and to prevent technical interpretations Amendment numbered 29: That the House recede from· its they are desirable. disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 29, Mr. GARNER of Texas. What is the enlargement of the law and agree to the same with an amendment· as follows: In lieu with reference to officers and attorneY.s? Does it enlarge the of the sum of " $330,000 " proposed in such amendment, in.8ert opportunity of fixing salaries in that respect? "$305,000" ; and the Senate agree to the same. l\Ir. MADDEN. Attorneys are provided for in the law and Amendment numbered 32: That the House recede from its are specified, but they are not specified in the appropriations, disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 32, and it was to clal"ify the whole s-ituation that we wanted to and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu make the statement clear: of the matter inserted by said amendment, insert the following: 1\Ir. GARNER of Texas. Is this entirely agreeable--- " : Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 from the power revenues 1\!r. MADDEN. Yes; it is absolutely agreeable. It does not shall be available during the fiscal year 1929 for the operation make any change except textual changes·. of the commercial system; in all, $1,104,000" ; and the Senate The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Illinois asks unanimous agree to the same. conF'ent for the present consideration of the resolution. Is there Amendment numbered 40: That the House recede from its objection? disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 40, There was no objection. and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: Restore The resolution was agreed to. the matter stricken out by said amendment, amended to read INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION BILL as follows : " : Prcn;ided fwrther, That not to exceed $20,000 Mr. CRAMTON. Mr. Speaker, I call up the conference report from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal on the bill (H. R. 9136) making appropriations for the Depart year 1929 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial ment of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, system"; and the Senate agree to the same. and for other purposes, and ask unanimous consent that the Amendment numbered 41: That the House recede from its statement may be read in lieu of the report. • disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 41, and The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gen- agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu of tleman from Michigan? the sum proposed insert " $12,644,000" ; and the Senate agree There was no objection. to the same. The Clerk read the statement. The committee of conference have not agreed on amendments The conference report and statement are as follows: numbered 6, 12, 46, and 51. LOUIS C. CRAMTON, CONFERENCE REPORT FRANK MURPHY, EDWARD T. TAYLOR, The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the Managers on the pa1·t of the House. two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 9136) making appropriations for the Department of the Inte REED SMOOT, rior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and. for other CHARLES CURTIS, purposes, having met, after full and free conference have ' WM. J. HARRIS, agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Jlana,gers 011- the part of the Se-nate. Honses as follows : That the Senate recede from its amendments numbered 23, 27, STATEMENT 28, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, and 52. The managers on the part of the House at the conference on That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the bill (H. R. ments of the Senate numbered 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 9136) making appropriations for the Department of the Interior 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 37, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, and 50, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes, and agree to the same. submit the following statement in explanation of the- effect Amendment numbered 3: That the House recede from its dis of the action agreed upon and embodied in the accompanying a!ITeement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 3, and conference report as to each of such amendments, namely: agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu of BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS the matter inserted by said amendment insert the following: "; second, to reimbursing the United States for the cost of the On No. 1: Makes the appropriation for the purchase of cer San Carlos irrigation project; third, to payment of operation tain property for the Jicarilla Indian Reservation, N. Mex. , and maintenance charges, and the making of repairs and im immediately available. provements on .· aid project: Provifled further, That reimburse On No. 2: Makes a verbal correction in the text of the ap ments to the United States from power revenues shall not re propriation for supervision of mining operations on leased duce the annual payments from landowners on account of the Indian lands. principal sum con ·tituting the cost of construetion of the power On No. 3, relating to the San Carlos irrigation project: Re plant or the project works until such sum shall have been paid stores the language, stricken out by the Senate, requiring cer in full: Pro·t:ided further, That the Federal Power Commission tain net revenues from the sale of electrical power to be used is hereby directed, within sixty days after the approval of this toward reimbursing the United States for the cost of the act, to report to Congress what compensation, if any, in addition irrigation project, and inserts the proviso, proposed by the to that already provided for, should· be paid to the Apache Senate, requiring the Federal Power Commission to report to Indians of the San Carlos Reservation by reason of the genera Congress what compensation, if any, · should be paid to the tion of hydroelectric power at the Coolidge Dam, in the manner Apache Indians of the San Carlos_Indian Reservation by reason provided in section 10 (e) of the Federal water power act and of the generation of hydroelectric power at the Coolidge Dam, section 5 of regulation 14 of the Federal Power Commission"; modified so as to require that such report shall be made in and the Senate agree to the same. " 60 " days instead of " 30 " days, as proposed in the Senate Amendme-nt numbered 4: That the House recede from its dis amendment. agreement to .the amendment of the Senate numbered 4, and On No. 4: Restores the House language relating to the Flat agree to the same with an amendment as follows: Restore the head irrigation project modified so as to strike out the time matter stricken out, and on page 35 of the bill, in lines 2 and limit of five years on the discretionary power of the Secretary 3, strike out the following: "not exceeding five years " ; and of the Interior to extend the time for payment of operation and the Senate agree to the same. maintenance charges now due and unpaid. Amendment numbered 10: That the House recede from its On No. 5: Makes the appropriation for a school building in disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 10, and or near Burns, Oreg., immediately available, as proposed by the agree to the same with an amendment as follows : In lieu of Senate. the matter inserted by said amendment, insert the following: On Nos. 7 and 8: Appropriates $10,000, as proposed by the " Claremore Hospital, Oklahoma, $50,000, on condition that the Senate, for additional land for the Sequoyah Orphan Training city of Claremore donate to the United States not less than 5 School. acres of land for such hospital and agree to deliver without On Nos. 9 and 10: Appropriates $50,000 for an Indian hospital charge medicinal water; in all, $155,000"; and the Senate agree at Claremore, Okla., upon land to be donated by the city, to the same. modified so as to require the delivery by the city without Amendment numbered 24: That the House recede from its charge of medicinal water. disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 24, On No. 11: Makes a verbal correction in the text of the bill. and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu On No. 13: Makes the appropriation for expenses of the tribal of the sum proposed, insert "$165,000"; and the Senate agree council of the Tongue River Indians, Montana, immediately to the same! available, as proposed by the Senate. '3708 CONGR.ESSION AL RECORD-HOUSE FEBRUARY '28 On Nos. 14, 15, 16, and 17 relative to the use ot Indian tribal. Mr. CRAMTON. Mr. Speaker, the amount of the blll as it funds: Appropriates $164,000, as proposed by the -Senate, in passed the House was $272,078,039 ; as it passed the Senate, stead of $185,000, as proposed by the House, for the Klamath $272,865,039, o:r an increase of $787,000. The House recessions Indians; and makes immediately available, as proposed by the amount to $183,000 and the Senate recessions amount to , Senate, the sum of $7,000 for a hydroelectric plant for the $199,000. Shoshone Indians of Wyoming. The bill as agreed upon, without the Howard University and On No. 18: Makes immediately a-vailable, as proposed by the Turtle Mountain items, which must be acted upon, i~ Senate, the appropriation for a · road between Co<>ley and $272,261,039. White River on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Ariz. . If the House approves the action which the committee expe:cts On No. 19: Appropriates $20,000, as proposed by the Senate, to offer with reference to Howard University and Turtle Moun for maintenance of that portion of the Gallup-Shiprock High tain. the total will be $272,656,039, which is $509,800 under the way within the Navajo Indian Reservation, N. Mex., to be Budget. · reimbm·sed as requb·ed by the act of June 7, 1924. Unless there is orne question as to items in the report, I will On Kos. 20 and 21 relati"ve to per capita payments to the not take the time of the House further at this time with Menominee Indians of Wisconsin : Provides for a per capita reference to the report. payment of $200, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $100, l\fr. Speaker, I moye the previous question on the adoption of as proposed by the House, and makes the appropriation immedi the report. ately available, as proposed by the Senate. The previous . question was o-rdered. :BUREAU OF l'E~SIOSS The conference report was agreed to. On No. 22: Appropriates $1,165,000 for salaries a~ proposed by The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the first amendment the Senate, instead of $1,150,000 as proposed by the House.· in disagreement. The Clerk read as follows: :BUWU OF RECL..UIA.TION Prov-iflecl, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and On Nos. 23 to 41, inclusive: Appropri_ates $23,000 for office directed to c-hange and relocate the boundaries of the old Fort Apache expenses in the District of Columbia as proposed by the House, Military Reservation, Ariz., now occupied by the Theodore Roosevelt instead of $27,000 as proposed by the Senate; appropriates Indian School, by transferring such areas to the Fort Apache Indian $165,000 for personal services in the office of the chief engineer, Reservation as he may deem advisable by reason of the use and/ or instead of $160,000 as proposed by the House and $170,000 as occupancy of a part thereof by Apache Indians and to transfer. an proposed by the Senate; appropriates $30,000 for miscellaneous approximately equal area of lands of the Fort Apache Indian Reserva expenses in the office of the chief engineer as proposed by the tion to the Theodore Roosevelt Indian School reservation, such ex Senate, instead of $25,000 as proposed by the House; appropri changes of land to be made in accordance 1rith surveys based upon the ates $13,000 for miscellaneous expenses in field legal offices as Salt River base and meridian, the expenses of such surveys to be paid proposed by the Senate, instead of $10,000 as proposed by the from appropriations for . the surveys of Indian lands. House· appropriates $30,000 as proposed by the Senate for con structi~n of protective works at Pica{;ho and unnamed washes Mr. CRAMTON. Mr. Speaker, I offer a motion, which I send on the Yuma project; on the Yuma, Minidoka, North Platte, to the- desk. Riverton, and Shoshone projects appropriations are made for The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Michigan offers a operation of commercial systems out of power revenues as pro motion, which the Cle-rk will report. posed by the House, instead of by direct appropriations, as pro The Clerk read as follows: posed by the Senate, except thnt in the case of the Minidoka and Amendment No. 6: Mr. CRAMTON moves to recede and concur in the Shoshone projects appropriations from power revenues are made Senate amendment. in $50,000 $20,000, of the respective amounts of and instead the 1\Ir. CRAMTON. Mr. Speaker, this is an adjustment of .respective amQunts of $46,000 and $15,000 proposed by the boundaries as between a former military reservation in the House; and appropriates $27,000 as proposed by the House, in Apache Indian Reservation, this former military reservation now stead of $32,000 as proposed by the Senate for operation and being used for school purposes. This adjustment of boundaries in maintenance of the Milk River project Montana. is a matter I am familiar with. It takes a few acres off one GEOLOGICAL SURVEY side, where it is occupied by Indians and they desire to keep it, . On Nos. 42, 43, 44, and 45: Appropriates $247,000 as proposed and it adds a few acres on the other side, whe1·e the school de by the Senatt; instead of $209,000 as proposed by the House fo.r sires to use it~ gauging streams; and appropriates $180,000 as proposed by the The motion to recede and concur was agreed to. Senate instead of $160,000 as proposed by the House for exam The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the next amendment ination' and classification of lands. in disagreement. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE The Clerk read as follows : On No. 47: Makes a correction in the text of the bill to insert For relief of distress among the needy Indiana of Turtle Mountain ,an amount erroneously omitted from the House bill in connec Band of Ngrth Dakota, $15,000. tion with the Yosemite National Park. The SPEAKEB. The gentleman from Michigan offers a On Nos. 48 and 49, relating to the Carlsbad Cave National motion, which the Clerk will report. 1\fonument, New Mexico: Changes a reference in the text to The Clerk read as follows : "superintendent" to tbe correct designation_ of H custodian" and inserts the language proposed by the Senate relative to Mr. CUMTON moves to recede and concur in ·the Senate amendment with an amendment st:tiking out all o.t the amendment and inserting 1n the purchase and installation· of. a pow~r unit for lighting the lieu thereof the following : cave. TERRITORIAL GOTERN.llENT " For the construction and improvement of roads on tbe Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, N. Dak., $5-,000." On No. 50: -Makes a textual correction in the appropriation for legislative expenses for the Tenitory of .Alaska. Mr. CR.UfTON. Mr. Speaker, with reference to this amend· n1ent, the Senate proposition was an appropriation of $15,000 FREEDM.EN'S HOSPITAL for these Indians, mostly patent-fee Indians, to be used as a On No. 52: Makes a portion of the expenses of Freedmen's gratuity or as a ration proposition. · Hospital payable by the government of the District of Columbia The Bouse conferees are very strongly opposed to the old as proposed in the House bill. ration system and to gratuities of that kind and especially as The committee of conference have not agreed to the following to fee-patent Indians. So the House conferees propose a smaller Senate amendments: appropriation for the consb·uction of needed roads on the reser On No. 6: R-elative to a readjustment of the boundaries of vation, the purpose being to furnish labor for these Indians. the old Fort Apac-he Military Reservation, Ariz., now occupied If they are in need they can get the money by working for it. by the Theodore Roo evelt Indian School. In this connection I want to ask permission to extend my On No. 12: Appropriating $15,000 for relief of distress among remarks in order to put in a letter fi·om the superintendent of the needy Indians of the Turtle Mountain Band, North Dakota. the agency, and I want to read this paragraph, which is very On No. 46: Relative to the letting of concessions in tile illuminating as to the different policies that may be followed. Rainier National Park. The superintendent of the agency says : On No. 51: Appropriating $390,000 for Howard Unh-ersity. The policy under which we are working is a gratuitous ration to the LOUIS c. Olu.MTON, sick, aged, and crippled, but no ration to any family where able-bodied FRA:8K MURPHY, persons are capable of performing three days' work at the agency. EDWARD T. TAYLOlt, Tbe.re has been some opposition to this policy by a few disgruntled Manage-rs an tlle part at the House. Indians who claim tha t the rations in our warehouse were sent for free 1928 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3709 distribution and that I have no right to require that they work for work for myself." This he proceedE.'d to d9 and bas supported himself them. One Indian who had requested a policeman to intercede for him and family by hauling wood to white farmers. to the end that he might be given a ration, was told, by the policeman The distressful situation among these Indians has been bred from that he could have a ration if he would work for it. His reply was, too many gratuities, both ft·om the county and the agency. Summer and " If I've got to work for Hyde, I might as well work for myself." fall wages were not conserved because it was known that the agency This he proceeded to do, and has supported himself and family by or county would come to the relief of distress. Rolette County has hauling wood to white farmers. reduced the amount expended for rations 33¥.! per cent this year. The The letters in full are as follows: gospel of work is not overly popular with a few of the Indians, but it is the only method by which they can be reinvested with a semblance of DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, pride and initiative. It is for this reason that I suggest an appropria UNITED STATES INDIAN FIELD SERVICE, tion for the betterment of ro.ads that will enable us to offer work at a Devils Lake, N. Dak., Febrttary fO, 1921. fair remuneration to those who are able and willing rather than throw COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN A.FFAms, another obstacle in their way by giving them additional land as a. Washington, D. 0. reward for their previous mistakes. DEAR MR. CO!IfMISSIONER : Your telegram of the 18th reached me just Very respectfully yours, as I was starting for Devils Lake to attend a term of Federal court. JAMES H. HYDE, Stlf)erintetldent. This letter is, therefore, being seftt from Devils Lake. · On Saturday, 18th, I mailed your office copies of correspondence that has passed between Mr. John Clark, chairman of the board of county THORNE, N. DAK., February 1:1, 1928. commissioners of Rolette County and myself, relative to the advantages Mr. JAMES H. HYDil, to be derived from an appropriation for the establishment and mainte Superintendent, Belcou,.t, N. Dak. 1 nance of roads on the resE'rvation. DEAR Sm: I am writing you with reference to the road problem : There is but one "all weather" road. on the reservation. This is within the reservation. I have been wondering for a long time if it a State highway, and for a qistance of 6 mlles forms the south boundary would not be possible to get your department to take up the matter and of the two townships comprising the reservation. Two other roads, see if you could not get a yearly allowance to be spent for road-im but slightly gradE'd and poorly improved, run from the south line to provement purposes within the reservation. the north line of the reservation. The balance of the roads on the two The two townships comprising the reservation have a total assessed townships are unimproved and are impassable for automobile traffic valuation of only $183,229 (1927 valuation, which is much the same as much of the time. prior years). The levy for road-improvement purposes is 5% mills, There is ample opportunity for improving these roads, and it is which is as much as we can levy under the present State law. This, my belief that such a: measure would be of direct benefit to the Indians as you will readily see, gives us a yearly amount of less than $1,000 living on the reservation as it would enable them to haul their wood for the two townships, if all the taxes leviE.'d are collected, which they and bay more readily. As only Indians would be employed in the con are not. This is only about one-fourth as much as is raised by most struction of new roads the labor would furnish them with sufficient of the other townships in the county for road-improvement purposes. funds to make gratuities unnecessary. This is due to the fact that a considerable amount of the land within Practically all of the Indians, wards, indigent patent in fee, and the reservation is trust patent land and not taxable. unenrolled have homes. It is true that many of them are living on You are familiar with the topography of these two townships and I the allotments of their relatives, but in any event they have houses think you will agree with me when I say that it requires much more that they look upon as their own. None of them are so situated, but money to build and maintain roads through them than through any what they could secure garden space and, with very little effort, pas other portion of this county, due to rocks and stumps and the billy turage for a cow or two. AU of them, with the exception of the non nature of the land. In order to have any roads at all through the enrolled Indians have received 160 acres of land. Most of the non reservation we have been spending each year several times the amount enrolled Indians have married with enrolled Indians, and thereby shared of money that these two townships are really entitled to, based upon to some extent in the allotment of land. The indigent patent in fee their assessed valuation. This money, of course, has to be raised in Indians to-day are without land, because they found it was more con and really belongs to other parts of the county. The taxpayers are venient to secure a patent in fee to their allotments and live for a commencing to complain that we are using part of their money where time without effort on the proceeds derived from the sale of their it should not be used and we can not blame them for so complaining, patents in fee. for road conditions are not of the best anywhere and the money should This class of people would not be contended with an additiollal 40 be spent where it is raised. But, as I have said before, in order to acres if it were given to them and would maintain that 40 acres was keep the roads through the reservation in any passable condition what· not sufficient and clamor for 80 or 160. Such an add.itional allot soever we will have to have more money from some source. During the ment would be unfair to the present wards who have continued to greater part of last summer the only way that most of the roads hold their land. through the reservation could be traveled at all was on horseback. The conditions on the reservation are greatly improved. The old and If a yearly Federal appropriation of about $5,000 for each of these sick are being given rations and the young and able-bodied are given two townships could be had for road-improvement purposes it would be an opportunity of earning rations. The ration roll for the present a wonderful thing. It would not only help to improve the roads, but year has been reduced 70 per cent over last year. I have a standing would provide work for many of the Indians at times when other work offer of a ration for three days• work at the agency. This ration con is not plentiful and would so help to educate them away from the idea sists of 20 pounds of flour, 5 pounds of fat salt pork, 2¥.3 pounds of beans, of always looking for gratuities. hominy, rice, or other cereal, 2 pounds of sugar, and a half pound Through my work as county commissioner I have been in close touch of tea. In addition to this, a noon-day meal is given on each of the with the road problems of the reservation for the past seven years, and three days the Indian is required to work. This ration is equivalent to the thought of trying to get some help from the Federal Government for the purchasing power of $3 in cash. · road improvement there has often come to me, and believing it worthy The $500 allotted for the purchase and resale of wood has been of serious consideration I am suggesting it to you. entirely expended. Approximately 150 cords of green, poplar poles were Yours very truly, purchased and these have been hauled to the agency yard. A power JOHN CLARK, s.aw is belted to our pump E.'ngine and Indians desirous of working ·for Ohairman Board of Oottnty Oommd88ionerB ot Rolette Oo-unty. a ration are engaged in sawing this wood into stove lengths and piling it to dry. The matter of relieving distress has bad my personal attention this DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, year as well as last and no appeal for relief has been disregarded. UNITED STATES INDIAN FIELD SERVICE, All r:ttioners are being visited by the policemen in the district once Belcourt, N. Dak., FefJruary 18, 1928. every two weeks and the officers are personally questioned by myself Mr. J. CLARK, relative to the needy families within their respective districts. In County Ootnmis8ioncr, Thorne, N. Dak. addition to this, I personally visit many of the homes during my trips D11AR MR. CLARK: Your letter of the 13th r('lative to the road problem about the reservation. The policy under which we arc working is a on the reservation has been received and cm·efully read. I concur gratuitous ration to the sick, aged, and crippled, but no ration to any with your conclusions and will submit the pt·oposal to the Ind.ian family where able-bodied persons are capable of performing three days' Office with a recommendation that an appropriation be sought fl'om work at the agency. There bas been some opposition to this policy Congress for the express purpose of improving the roads on these two by a few disgruntled Indians who claim that the rations in our ware townships. house were sent for free distribution and that I have no right to require I appreciate your predicament in applying funds derived from the that they work for them. One Indian who had requested a policeman taxpayel's in other townships for the betterment of road conditions on to intercede for him to the end that be might be given a ration was the reservation, and renlize that the amount derived from taxes on the told by the policeman that he could have a ration if be would work reservation proper would be wholly insufficient even to maintain the for it. His reply was, " If I've got to work for Hyde, I might as well present roads without doing any new work. 3710 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE FEBRUARY 28" Such a fund, if made av-anable, would be (loubly beneficial, for not petition would be very difficult to define and it might oecur only would 1t improve the ro11d conditions and increase tbe value of the that an established operator, rendering thoroughly satisfactory property of these Indians, but the work involved would furnish JaboT to service at rates approved by the Go'lernment, and having ac a large number of Indians who are now unemployed. quired the good will of the pnblic through experience ·and fair This seems a very propitious time to lay this matter before Con dealing, might lose out, and one leSs experienced, less reliable, gress, for se_vernl ·interests are endeavoring to secure the passage of a and less capable come in. bill ·to proTide gratuities for fee-patent Jndjans on this reservation. The second proviso in the substitute I have offered probably People who are conversant with the Indian problem are '8dverse to only reiterates in law what. many of the contracts now contain. such a bill as they feel that a gratuity appropriation woulil establish The third and last. proviso 1s to meet a need now e:xi ting in a precedent that would be of immeasurable damage to the Indian and the Mount Rainier situation, where the company is to provide create a perpetual problem that would never be concluded as long as a very e:rtensive new facilities. person could establish a degree of Indian blood. The SPEAKER. The question is on the motion of the If, therefore, Congre would· appropriate a· sum of money that could gentleman from Michigan to recede and concur with an amend- be expended among these Indians in return for labor, sueh action w TABLE SHOWING L DislrHmtJon. of 8lu4eats -in pu:t>lic_ly CO'Tltrolled in.Jlitu:tions .of four-uear coll~iate grade. i1t 11 States, and itae· d~lribution oJ- Federal and, State funds .for foul'·1fear collegi a~e ed u· cation and the relation of the distributio'll to the population in 17' States having sep.arate schQol~ for while and negro slttdents t • - , . •. . .• . · . • , · .·• . · • II. The extent to which ,Howard UniDersity serres. per.rons .born-in those States. : · · . · . . . 1 ' • _ • • • ' Federal fUndS for hlgher State funds ·ror higher edu- education , cation · / !nl:ll) <) >. >. Cl>t:l gj:f o.,....i .. .0 c.- .0 ~'E ~'0 ~g '0 ~g '0 State C) ~~ · 10 11 12 13 . 17 <18 19 . ~ ------JI-~--"--1----~ _____::_.:= - - •.. .A:I11bama 1 ~7 o32 ooo, 652 62.2 ~. 435 2, 557 f. _ u. 48 $27G, 720 $172,119 2$20, 750 2 ~73, 519 • $543,328 2 ~6, 500 · .281 34 19 16 11 . l - Arkansas~~ :::.::~ 1; 279:767 472, 22o 36.8 3, 329 1, 225 ~ 0 . 28 ' 263,555 - 96,9881-2 20;-654 -· '629,-207 231,648 ·-2 68, -166 -~ 23 ' ·7 4 · 5 . - 1 ~ o 1 Delaware .•••••• 192,615 30,335 19. ·9 606 120 0 15 100,742 20,04717-101000 162,242 32,286 21,000 11 0 4 2 ~ -1 Florida...... 638, 153 3f9, 487 51. 6 !I, 391 4, 329 103 47 156,609 .80, 810 25,820 1, 116, 0!14 575,904 10,000 28 24 16 16 3 1 · Georgia ••..•••.• 1,689,114 1,206,365 71.4 7,789 5,561 0 74 571,296 407,905,2 19,667 2732,354 522,900 :242,500 43 44 30 21 1 5 - Kentueky ~- -- · --- 2,180,·560 235;938 10.8 6,460 - -697 . · 0 47 - 28~Q52 -, 30,483 ' S:OO:P1,l85,-567 · - 128;04l ·-- :4o;OOO 32 33 11 18 4 o - Louisiana...... 1, 096, 6ll - - 700,257 63.8 4, 035 2.-574 . 84 42 · · 232,754 · 148,497 23, 655 12,-198,·158 1, 530; 024 .. - 46,·515 23 23 18 12 · 1 1 · Maryland. •••••• 1,204,737 244,479 22.9 5,670 1,298 0 74 302;457 69,262 0 2956,149 218,958 · 274,968 · 58 5l 11 29 5 4 · MiSsissippi 853,962 935,184 109.5 850 930 0 · · 33 235;649 258, 035 ~- 39,592 '169, 529 842,634 265,251 19 18 11 10 3 2 · MissourL. · .:~===· :3,225,044 ·· H8,241 5.3 17,595 · 932 _&518 24 297,046 15,743 3,12523,-114,"747 .. ·196,881 'II4,-773 " 21 u · o o - o o · NorthCarol:ina_.._ 1.783,~~ -· 763,407 42.7 ..: 5,587 2; 385 ·· ~ ·165 342,130 ; J46,~ a. 20,086~4, - 180,479 · 1,785,064 . 264!!,111 l iS ('~ 43 .[9 4 lO Ok.laholllil., ...... ,1, 821. t.,.. 149; 4D!l .8. 2 , 20,530 1,683 , " .,-. 8 ; 247,028 . 20, .2{>6 ~ 5,-000 ?3, 418,277 _ 280,298 . 2 95,900 . . 8 ~4 o . , o o o - South Carolina.. Slg,538 864,719 105.0 · 4,03(1 4,231 •88'7 · 84 · 226,006 · ' 237,·201 34,828 1,-81'2,456 · 1;903;078 ·--101;·150 -- 48 33 33 31 3 7 · Tennessee.: . .: • .: .• ·l; 885,-993 ---461, 758 · · 23: 9 .. 2,.140 ·- 511 -. ·c - -0 · ·- · 33 · · 773; 583 • -184, ~1 :~ 12, 000 · ?.fr79;042 -· 138; 391 · · t-54; -999 · .. · 24 · · · is 6 ·· 10 · 3 4 -_ T,,eii.xasgm'-:.;, ·_- ~------3;918,-165 --· 74-1;694 - 18.9 ..21,546-4,072 n23 -- 7~ •2 487;28!1 - .92,~! ~· 1,,978,25-,652,'526 · 1;068;327 --216,'()70 · -- 48 55 21 22 . 1 6 1 a 1, 617, 900 · 690, 017 42. 0 10, 475 4, 3~ 0 ~34 .. 286, 119 . 120, 1!)9. 2 26, 996 11,-818,-805 · 763, 898 · 2 48, ~~ · 153 96 72 90 9 1() - West _ ~j~ginia~-- 1,377,235 · 86,345 ~ - 5.'492~ - ,&756 30 · ~224,317 · 13;007 I0,621PI-,85'2,il85 · · 114;866 .. 2272,'1 ·· · 21 -o __7_1-_I4_1- __z_ __3 1 1 1 1 < TotaL ••:. 27, o:ro,-398 8, 980; 506 33. 2 - 128, 958 37;-844 ~; ·on 1, 056 · 6, 305, 4521 2, 114, 494j ~2, 785j31, 651, 836 10, 876, 426 1, 850, 809 709 521 306 355l 41 55 s These data were obtained from "Biennial Survey of Education, 1922-192t," Department of Interior, Bureau -of .. Edueation ·Bulletin tl926) ·No. 23; and State· Superiil- tendents Reports for 1922-1924; Bureau of Education Bulletin (1927) No. 37. · '"· .. · 2 Includes also appropriations for schools above-secondary but ol junior collegiate grade, .... ' This includes 348 students of·secondary school grade. - ·- -- · 4 This includes 574 students of secondary school grade. - SThis includes 261 students Of secondary -school grade. · In explanation of that table and in comment upon it I have .11. Column 12 indicates the amount of money appropriated selected Mississippi for purpo8es of illustration, since the by each State fd\· white institutions; e. g., the State of Missis points of order which stl'uck -out· all -the appropriat-ions · pro- sippi ·gav-e · $769,529 ·for white institutions. · posed by the bill, when it wa!-; fir~t before the Bouse, were ·12. Column 13 shows the ~motmt of money negroes should · made by the gentleman from .l\IL-:.;;;issippi (Mr. LoWREY]. have received .from -the State had· the State given a proportion- !. Column· 1 gives a -list-of· the, 1i States: -in- which -separate· -.ate -share· to "negroes;· e. · g:; ·in · Mississippi ·if negroes had· l'e- educational facilities are maintained for whites and. negroes. .ceh:ed their p~:oportionate. sliare .of.State.funds based upon .what 2. Columns 2 ,and 3 give the.white and .the.neg.ro population, the.whiteschools-reeeived,- they would-have got $842,634. rel:!pectively, based· upon the ·Fourteenth· Census-Report. --· 13. Coh.un,n 14 shows What ·negroes actuatly t·eeeived from the · 3. ·Column 4 shows the per cent that the negro population is States; e. g., Mississippi gave negro institutions $65,251,, and, of the white for each State. .. Mississippi, 109.5. . -as will be seen from the footnotes (f) most of the contribu- 4. Column 5 repre~ents the nnmber.. of ·~white . students enroJled tions from the States for negroes included mainly ninds for , in State institutions of four-year collegiate grade in each of the scijools of junior college grades. .. States. Mississippi, 850. 14. Cohunns 15 to 20, inclusive, ·indicate the ·muhber Of ' stu:.. 5. Column 6 shows the number of negroes that should be en- dents and graduates .of Ho.ward University from the various . rolled if educational. opportunities. were .given negroes. on .the- -States-;- e. g., from Mississippi there are now registered in How basis of population; e. g., Mississippi has 850 white students in ard University 19 students in the academic .colleges;. 7 students institutions of four-year collegiate grade. Therefore negroes, in the school of medicine, 3 in the school of law, 2 in the school · who constitute 109.5 per cent of the white population, ought to of dentistry, and 2 in the school of pharmacy. In the last eight have in similar institutes 109.5 per cent of 850 students, or 930. years 18 students have graduated from the academic colleges. 6. Column 7 shows the number of negroes who are actually From 1923 to 1927, inclushe, 10 have graduated from the school enrolled in State institutions of four-year collegiate grade; e: g., of medicine and 2 from the school -of law. . ., , , in Mis.~issippi there is not a single negro enrolled in · a publicly ·The following summary accompanies the table furnished . me ·conb·olled institution of four-ye~n· collegiate grade. by the university: 7. Column 8 indicates the number of students emolled in Howard University from each of the 17 States listed; e. g., OBSERVATIONS BASED· UPON TOTALS OBTAINlllD IN THE ·aBOVE TABLII · ·there are 33 students from Mississippi enrolled in Howard 1. Negroes represent an average_ of 33.2 per cent of the white popu University. lation in the 17 States listed _with a range of 5.3 per cent in Missouri 8. Column 9 shows the amoullt of money appropriated by the to 109.5 per cent in South Carolina. Therefore, on the average for Federal Government for white institutions of fom·-year col the 17 States listed, negroes should receh 'e about one-third as m·uch as legiate grade; e. g., the Federal Govel'llment gave $235,649 to the whites. Although in States lik-e South· Carolina and Missi~sippi 'they the State of Mississippi for institutions of four-yeat· collegiate should receive more than the whites. · · grade. 2. There are a total of 128,958 white students in institutions ·of 9. Col:umn 10 shows what negroes shoulcl have 1·eceived had ·four-year collegiate grade.· There are supposedly · 3,071 negroes in the Federal Government' appropriated money to negroes on the such institutions, but when the secondary school students are elimi same basis as it did to white ; e. g., if the Federal Government nated there are actually . only 1,446 such students enroiled. On the had given negroes in l\Iis...<4ssippi a proportionate share of money· basis Qf pop~fation, negroes should have 37,884 such students. How based upon the white appropriation, they would have received ard University has registered at the present 1,056 students, almost as $258,035. many as ·are in similar State institutions for negroes in all of these 10. Column· 11 shows what negroes actually received from the 17 States combined. · ·Federal Government; e. g., the Federal GoYernment gaye $39,5~2 Again it should be noted that in · 11 of the 1 i States not a single to negro schools in the State of Mississippi. negro is t·egistered in an institution ·of four-year collegiate grade. 3712 CONGR.ESSION AL R.ECORD-HOUSE FEBRU.ARY 28 There are in IIoward University at the present time 759 students from (d) Wbite institutions received a total of $31,651,836 from the 17 these 11 States alone. - It should be noted further that there are in States. Howard University 306 students from these 17 States taking medicine (c) Negroes received from the same States $1,850,809. and 41 students from these 17 States taking law, and no provision is (f) Negroes should have received on the basis of population, $10,- made for negroes for such education in any of these States (except 876,426. \Vest Virginia, see house bill No. 10, Legislature of West Virginia) (g) White institutions received both from the Federal and State either by the States or by the Federal Government. Governments $36,957,288. 3. Appropriations for white anJ negro education : (b) Negrues received both from the Federal and State Gov-ernments (a) White institutions in these 1i States receive a total of 2,133,594. $5,305,452 frcm the Federal Government. (i) Negroes should have received from both tbe Federal and State (b) Negroes receive a total of $282,275 (most of which goes for Governments $12,990,920, leaving a deficiency of $10,857,326. education of junior college grade) from the Federal Government. The situation as it exists in ~Ii issippi, emphasizing the (c) Negroes should receive nn tl.Je lJasis of population from the Fed 11eed for i1ational opportunity for educQ.tion for the colored eral Government $2,114,494. race, is presented ns follows by the Bureau of Reoea rch: Number of stUIUnt&, frzcuUv, and appropriatio-n by the Federal Government and State of Mississippi {or universities a11d colleges of {our-year grade Appropriations from :\ppropriatioru from · Students enrollcrt Faculty Federal Government Stat:! White ColoreJ White Color .!~ Whit~ Colored White CuiJred L Universities and colleges or 4-yenr f:r:tde: 1. Agricultural and Mechanical College______1 1,342 192 ------• . 233,099 ------i 3!l7, 62 ~ 2. Mississippi State College for Women______11,225 174 ------:2,550 ------ ~ 158,611 1 l 38 ------82.705 ~: ~t~!e;sft;hoef~~l~f;t>c~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: · / ~ 142 ------·- 160,500 1------1------1----- 5. Total in universities and colleges of4-year grade------4,999 ------246 ------235,649 ------769, 526· ------1======~=====~===== 1 ======~==~= 1 ======~==~=~~~ 6. Students• enrolled in- (a) Graduat-e school~------20 -·------__ ------(b) Law schools 3------120 ------(c) Pharmacy schools e------83 ------(d) Medicine schools 3------67 ------·------(e) Education 3------1, 752 ------·------(f) FacultY------·- 2!6 ------TotaL------·------2, 042 ______246 ______------_____ ------______------___ _ l ======r-=====F====~====*===~ IL Schools or junior college grade: Alcorn Agriculture and Mechanical College_------·------386.1-.: ------52~------1 0 $39,592 1------·l l$65, 251 ------~~--~-L------~------L------2 lll. Omit. White colored IV. Summary and conclusion (universities and colleges of 4-fear grade): . . . .. 35 184 ~: ~~~~~~~~o~t>iii!ii.ioii fs == = = 4. Totalm amount~~~n1~~~~= appropriated ======by======the = Federal======Government ======for == univers======· ==iti ==es = ==: and ===: colleges·------======· ==== ·======------======: ======: ==: ===235, =: 6t9==== ------· l, .~~o~ (a) Proportionately negroes should have, and did not, receive from the Federal Government.------239,046.65 b. TGtal amount appropriated by State for universities and oolleges______71l\J, 529 ____ _;______(a) Proportionately negroes should have, but did not, receive from the State government______-___ ------______. ______, 42. 634. 35 Appropriations from .Appropriations from Students enrolled .Facult) Federal Government State White Colored White Colored White Co!Gr\ld White Col~rM V. Grand summary (higher institutions above secondary): $39; 592.00 ~: ~:i!:~ ~~: F{~~~l-~~~~~~~~~~~===::: :: ::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::: ===~======~ = ·===~= ~ ===== :::::::::::: :::::::?.::: $~g: ~~:~ :::::::::::: 65,251.00 3. Amount negroes bould have received from the Fedcml Govern- ment but did not·------·-··------228,443.65 •· Amount negroes should have received from the State but did not.------~ ---- ~---· - ----· ------776,783.25 1 "Biennial Survey of Education, 1922-1924," Bureau of Education Bulletin Ko. 23, 1!>26, pp. Gil, 612. ~ State Superintendent's Report, State of Mississippi, 1927, p. 98. 3Biennial Survey of Education, p. i40. 1 Included in totals above. ~Bureau or Education Bulletin, 1927, No. 37, pp. 46, 50. e Bureau of Education Bulletin, 1921, No. 37, p. 28. 1 Biennial Survey of Education, p. 388. a State Superintendent's Report, pp. 274-275. The SPEAKER. The question is on the motion of tlle gen The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Georgia makes the tleman from Michigan to recede nnd concur. point of order that there is no quorum present. Evidently The question wns being put when Mr. TARVER a ked for a there is no quorum pre ent. The Doorkeeper will close the division. doors, the Sergeant at Arms will bring in absent Members, Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask for the yeas antl nay . nnd the Clerk will call tlie roll. The que tion was taken ; and only three Members ri ~ Ing the The que tion i on agreeing to the motion of the gentleman yeas and nays were refused. The committee divided; and there were--yeas 112, Imys 12. from ~lic-hi""an. Mr. TARYER. Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the The question was taken ; and, there were-yeas 259, na;rs 93. ground that no quorum bas >oted. not voting 81, as follows : 19~8 CO~GR. ESSIO~ AL RECORD-HOUSE 37J.3 [Roll No. 391 So the motion was agreed to. YEA8-2u9 The Clerk announced the following pairs : Acket·man Dickinson, Mo. Kading Porter l!ntil further notice: Adkins Douglas. Ariz. Kendall Prall Alllrich Douglass, Mass. Ketcham Pratt Mr. Wood with Mr. Connally of Texas. Andresen Dowell King Purnell l\Ir. Graham with Mr. Dominick. Andrew Dyer Knutson Rainey l\Ir. Stobbs with Mr. Arnold. ArE.'ntz Eaton Korell RamseyE'r l\lr. Morin with Mr. Driver. Auf der Heide Elliott Kurtz Ransley Mr. Treadway with Mr. Gallivan. Ay.res England Kvale Reece Mr. Fish with Mr. Mansfield. Bacbnrach Englcbright LaGuardia Reicl, Ill. Mr. Wurzbach with Mr. Quayle. Buchmann Evan ~, Calif. LampE'rt Robinson, Iowa Mr. Cochran of Pennsylvania with Mr. Somers or New York. Bacon Evan!", Mont. Langley Robsion, Ky. Mt·. Yates with Mr. Wingo. Barbour Faust Lea Rogers Mr. Free with Mr. Tucker. Beck, Pa. Fenn Leatherwood Row bottom ~Jr. Kearn with Mr. Steadman. Beedy Fitzget'nld, Roy G. Leavitt Rubey Mr. Watson with 1\Ir. Carew. Beers Fitzgerald. W. T. Leech Sa bath Mr. Vestal with Mr. Abernethy. Begg Fitzpati·ick Leblbach Sanders, N. Y. :.\Ir. Kiess with Mr. Deal. Black,~- Y. Fletcher Letts Schaefer Mr. Michaelson with Mr. Celler. Blanton FrE'ar Lindsay Schneider 1\lr. Curry with Mr. Fulmer. Bloom FrE'emnn Linthicum Seger Mr. Doutt·ich with Mr. Lyon. Bohn French LoziE'r Selvig Mr. Strong of Pennsylvania with .Mr. Palmisano. Bowie,· Frothingham Luce ShalleniJerger l\lr. Fort with l\Ir_ Romjue. Bowman Fulbright McFadden Shreve Mr. Kelly with Ml'. White of Colorado. Boylan Furlow McKE'o wn Sinclair Mr. White of Maine with Ir. Larsen. Brigham Gambrill McLau~hlin Sinnott :.\Ir. ReE.'d of New York with Mr. Sumners of Texa . Britten Garber McLeod Siroyich Mr. Anthony with Mr. Carley. Browne Gardner, Ind. McSv.-eeney Smith l\Ir. Foss with l\Ir. Doyle. Buckbee Gibson MacGregor Snell :Mr. Glynn with Mr. Edwards. Burdick Gifford l\Iaas Speaks :\lr. Brand of Ohio with Mr. Collins. Burtne, s Golder 1\f:uldE.'n Sproul, Ill. Mr. Estep with l\Ir. Dickstein. Burton Gold ·uorougb J\Iagradv Stalker l\11'. Strother with Mt·. Drewry. Bushong Green, Iowa Major, ill. :3lr. Hogg with Mr. Hull of ~·ennessee. Butle1· Greenwood Major, ~10. ~~m~-~·nKans. ::\Ir. James with l\Ir. 1\rcl\lillan. Campuell GrieRt Manlove Summer , Wash. :.\It·. Bobn with Mr. O'Connor of New York. Canfield Griffin Mapes Sweet ~\Ir. :;:immons with :r.tr. Ha;yburn. Canno11 GuyE.'r Martin, l\Ia s. Swick :Mr. Cllri topherson with Mr. Sears of Florida. Carter Hadle;-.- Mead Swing CaSPY Hale Menges . TabE.'r Tile result of the vote wa · announced as abo\e recorded. Chalmers Hall, Ill. Merritt Tatenhorst A quorum beil1g present, the doors were opened. Chase Han, Ind. Michener Taylor, Colo. Chindulom Hall, N.Dak. Miller Taylor, Tenn. )Jr. CRAMTON. Mr. Speaker, at this point in the RE.C'ORD Clague Hancock Monast Temple I ask unanimous consent to extend my rema1·ks with reference Clancy Hardy Montague Thatcher Clarke Hastings Mooney Thompson to the report that bas just been adopted, and also to extend iny Cochran, Mo. HawlE.'y Moore, Ky. Thurston remarks with reference to various amendments the House has Cohen Hersey Moore, N .•T. Tilson just acted upon, and in doing so I may de..;h·e to insert certain Cole, Iowa Hick\\ Moore, Olllo Timberlake Colton Hil1, · 7ash. Moore, Ya. Tinkham letters or quotations from bearings or statements. Comb. Hoch Morehead Underhill Tile SPEAKER. The gentleman from Michigan asks lmani Connery Hoffman Morgan Underwood mous consent to extend his remarks in the manner indicated. Connolly...t Pa. Hogg Morrow 'Gpdike Cooper, vhio Holaday Murphy Vincent, Miclt. Is there objection? Cooper, Wis. Hooper Nelson, Mo. Wason There was no objection. Corning Houston, Del. Nelson, Wts- Watres Crail Howard, Okla. Newton Welch, Cali!. l\lr. QRAMTO~. The following is the finaucial comparison of Cramton Hud~on Niedringhaus Weller the House, Senate, and conference action, including the action Cros ·er Hughes Norton, Nebr. Welsh, Pa. just _taken, on the Howard ·university and Turtle 1\lountain CrowtbE.'r Hull, Morton D. Norton, N.J. White, Kans. Cullen Hull, Wm. E. O'Brien Williams, Ill. Imlian items: Dallinger lgoe O'Connell Williams, Mo. Amount or bill as passed the Senate------$272 865, 039 Darrow Jacobstein O'Connor, La, Winter 1 DavE.'nport Jenkins Oliver, N.Y. Wolverton Amount of bill as passed the House------~72, 07.8, 039 Davey Johnson, Ill. PalmE>r Woodrutl' Dempse~· Johnson, Ind. Parker Wyanf Net addition, including $390,000 for Howard Uni- YersitY------787,000 Denison Johnson, S.Dak. Peavey Ziblman Ilou>-e ha·s receded ft·om- Dickinson, Iowa Johnson, Wasil. PE'rkiu~ Mot:e land for Sequoyah SchooL ______$10,000 NAYS-93 • Claremore Hospital------50,000 Allgood Dough ton Kerr Sandlin Gallop-Shiprock highway ______,;______20,000 Almon Drane Kincheloe Spearing Bureau of Pensions __ .:______15,000 A swell Eslick Kopp Steagall Picacho and other washes, Yuma project_ __ 30,000 Ba:nkbead Fisbet· Lanllam Steele Gauging streams------ 20,000 Bell GarnE.'r. Tex. Lankford Stevenson Classification of lands------38,000 Black. Tex. Garrett, Tenn. Lowrey Swank 183,000 Bland Garrett, Tex. McClintic Tan·er Senate has receded from- Bowling Gasque McDuffie Tillman Milk River project, operation and mainte- Box Gilbert McReynolds Vinson, Ga. nance------5,000 Brand, Ga. Gregor~· McSwain Vinson, Ky. AmendmE.'nts on Yuma, Minidoka, North Brigg Green. Fla. Martin, La. Ware Platte, Riverton, and Shoshone, substitut- Browning Hammer Milligan Warren ing direct appropriations for use of power Buchanan Hare ~Ioormau Weaver revenues for operation of commercial sys Bulwinkle Harrison Oldfield Whitehead tems------104,000 Busbv Hill, Ala. Oliver, Ala. Whittington 199,000 Byrns Howard, :\ebr. Parks Williams, Tex. Carss Huddleston Peery Will TABLE A.-Stateme-nt of s~nate a·rntndmtnt.! inroJtf.ng tJpprojJrifJJ.Jom, s'hourino ef!tcl of actfm~ of co'n.feree.! 11uuon, and aclitm ta1un 1Jy' House on amendments 12 and .51 Increase · <+) or decrease (-), increase (+) or de agreed amount compared with crease (-), agreed House figure amount compared Amend Budget ~'-ppro- Appro- . Agreed with Senate figure ment Subject estimate pri&ted by priated by amount No. House Senate . Reclam.a- I Indian General Reclama General tion f~d I tribal funds tion fund Indian affairs: . I 7 Sequoyah Orphan Training SchooL...... $95,000 $83,000 $93,000 $93,000 ----·------+$10, 000 - - ·------•• ------· 9,10 Claremore Indian HospitaL .. ------~----·------______:____ iiO, oOo 50,000 ------+50, 000 ------12 14, 15, 17 IL~~~tlf~~~ ~r~!~iil>B1-tlliit1s)~:::::: ----iss;ooo· ----iss:ooo· 1~:: 1~:~ :::~:::::. ::: --:=$2i;ooo· ----~~~- :::::::::::: ---~!~~:~ 19 Gallup-Shiprock Highway------20,000 ------20,000 2{), 000 ------+20, 000 ------22 ~~~~~~: o?~:ia:~/::------~------1, 1W, 000 1, 150,000 1.166, 000 1, 165,000 ------+15, 000 ------.- ---- 24, it ~~~~~· a':r:1g:~~~;:engineer-;s-offioo::::: ~:: ~~: ~ ~:: ~~::: --+$io~ii00- :::::::::::: :::::::::::: -~: ~ :::::.::::::: 26 Expenses, field legal offiC".es______13,000 · 10,000 13,000 13,000 +3,000 ------'n Lithograplting, printing, etc______25,000 20,000 25,000 20,000 ------5,000 ------~: H ~k~f&fli~~~E~=~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ dim __ :~~~ _'· i m__ ,~~~ _=: :~~~s r~~~~:~~=~: ~~~~~=~~=:~: =-~ m~ ~: ~~:~~~~~~ ~ "· ~ ::§~~~~~::_:~:~~;;~;;~;~:~:~~: ~ ~ ~ --- - ~-;- ;~ ~ ~ :~;::~-:--; r =-=-:::::: ==;!:~= :::~~~ - -;--=::~~~; ______------______+43,ooo I -21, ooo +Ms,ooo -209,ooo -to,ooo TABT.E B.- Annual approprialionJt under the Department of the Interior, indudi'ifl deficienci~.~. fi cal year.! 191B-19i8 [Exclusive of permanent and indctlnitt< appropriations] Indian tribal Indian reim All other bursable Reclamation Interior Total . funds appropriations appropriations I 1929.------:i3, 566, 500. 00 $1, 595, 000. 00 $12, 234, 009. {)() ,$210, 000, 000. ()() $12, 6-57, 000. 00 $36, 1;1, 530.00 $27G, 230, 539. ()() 2, s.;a, 5-55. 00 5, 4.~2. 125. 00 10, 969, 361. 00 ~ 267, 000, 000. 00 11,903,800.00 15,851, 53.3. ()() 313, 712, 376. ()() 1928.------~------2, 414, 808. 00 2, 412, 500. 00 19'n I ____ .-·-•. ------··---···---•· · - -· ---- 10, 523,660.00 : 193,000, 000. ()() 7, 556,000. ()() 14, 121, 258. 00 230, 020. 226. 00 1926 a_____ ------.------2,135, 010.00 1, 589, 178. 00 13, 720, 303. [>5 i 197, 000, 000. 00 12, 349, 000. ()() 3 20, 924, 109. ()() 3 247, 717,600. M 2, 61 2, 700. 00 I. 5-55,600. ()() 1925..• ------9, 666, w. 00 ' 222, 590, 000. 00 11, 106, 289. 00 19, 215, 518. 00 266, 736, 527. ()() 1924------2, 406, 600. 00 2, 11'9, 850. 00 9, 458, 854. 00 253, 003. 000. 00 12, 2{i(), 000. 00 21, 598,534. ()() 300, 96, 838. 00 1923.------2, 483, 573. 00 1, 041, 466. 00 !J, 383, 72!). 00 268, 000, 000. 00 15,075,000.00 22, 710, 520. ()() 318, 6!J4, 2i9. 00 1922.------2, 716, 921. 00 1, 249, 005. {)() 724, 170.00 265,000, 000.00 20, 266, 000. ()() 20, 160, 758. ()() 318, 116, 854. ()() 1921 ______1, 415, 165. 00 1, 450, 8.10. ()() !J, 268,513. ()() ' 27!J, 000, 000. 00 • 463, 000. ()() 21. 972, 532. ()() 321, 570, 040. 00 1, 5-31,817.00 2, 173, 833. ()() 19~------9, 160, 629. 00 I 21.~, 000, 000. 00 7, 300, ooo. oo- 24, Oil, 66!J. 00 259,237,948.00 1, 750,000.00 2, 133, 583. ()() s. 982, 753. oo I 2'2'J, ooo. ooo. oo 9, 4.9i, 080. ()() 20, 365, 644. 00 265, 729, 060. 00 1919.• ------1, 291,117. ()() 2, 029, 500. 00 1918.• ------:------9, 818, 295.00 183,000,000. ()() 8, :..>z;, 000.00 2!5, 39fl, 245. 00 232, 762, 157.00 I. 263, 250. 00 1, 921, !J 6. {)() 9. 045, 658. 00 1 16-3, 000, 000. 00 8, 884, 000. 00 18, 275, 4f>5. ()() 202, 390, 359. 00 1917------518, 740.00 1916__ ------:;.,------665,000.00 9, 253, 162. ()() 1 164, 000, 000. ()() 13. 53!), 000. ()() 15, ] 20, 077. 00 203, 086, 979. ()() 1 Does not include appropriatio~s for the P.atent Office and the_B~ean of Mines, which have been transferred to the Department of Commerce. 2lnclndes deficiency for 1927 which was prudirom 1928 appropnations. · arncludes $4,773,160 appropriated for the Patent Office and the Bureau of ~lines transfen·eu to the Department of Commerce July 1, 1925. FEBRI!ARY 7, 1928. ~E\Y ::\lEXICO ST.A.TE HIGHWAY DEPAR'I'UfJX'.r, Hon. LOCIS C. CR.1i\ITO~, • Trasllington., D. a., FebrtLa1'Y 13, !928. Mcmbet· of Congress, Wasl1ington, D. a. Hou. LOOI8 C. CR.A.MTO~, DEAn SIR: Repre enting the city and Chamber of Commerce of Clare House of HRm·esentatLt·cs, Wailhington, D. a. more, Okla., in the mattex· of securing a.n nppropriatlon ot $50,000 for a DEAR _:\Jt:. CRAMTON : This \Yill confirm my verbal stateoent that I .hospital for Indians a~ that place, I desire to say this: will endeil\'or to have tiJe Xew Mexico State Highway Coomission, at The city of Claremore will furnish without cost to the Government a ; ts next meeting, order a survey of the ·route north from Shiprock to suitable site of 5 acres for this building anll will furnish without cost to Colorado State line on the road to Cortez and Me a Verde Xatlonal the Government the necessary supply of mineral water for medicinal use Park, with a view to constructing ~arne as a Federal-aid project. in hospital. As the Federal-aid allotment funds up to and including the fiscal Very truly yours, :rear beginning July 1, 1028, haH already been budgeted to other roads. CLABE:\'CE B. DOGGLAS. it will be impossible to begin construction on tllat project this year, but I will do my best. to bm:e it included in our program for the fol· lowing year, to wit, our fiscal year 192n-30. FEBRCARY 7, 1928. From what I know of the attitude of the other members of our com· Hon. Lours C. CR.A.:U-.ro:sr, miRsion I can assure you that we will keep that road onder maintenance Membet• of Oong·ress, Wasllinoton, D. 0. i11 tbc meantime, and I believe we can maintain it in good passable DmR Sm: Following are the service rates for light, water, anu gas condJtion at all times. as charged to consumer in Claremore, Okla. 'The wate1· and light sys Yours faithfully, tems are city owned. The gas is furnished by a corporation. Tbesl! CHARLES SPRINGER, figures are as of February 6, 1928 : Presi(le1!t Xc10 Mexico State Higlltoay Commis ion. Gas, 40 cents first 100,000, 32 cents next 400,000, 25 cents on up. :lli·. TAYLOR of Colorado. l\Ir. Speaker, reserving the right Lights, 11 cents first 50 kilo'Yatts, 10 cents second 50 kilowatts, 9 to object, I want to call the attention of the House to the fact cents econd hundred kHowatts, and 8 cents ail o¥er 200 kilowatts. that fot· several years past the Interior Department appropria water, 30 cents first 20,000 gallons, 25 cents next 30,000, 18 cents t ion bill has gone on the statute books in almost the identical next 150,000, 15 cents next 300,000, and 12 cents all over first 500,000 language that it has come from the Committee on Appropria gallons. tions of the House. One of the main reasons for that is this: Claremore will deliver water, light, and gas to building site without The chairman of this subcommittee, the gentleman from Michi· cost to the Government. gau [Mr. CRAMTo_-], every alternate year when Congress is not Very truly yours, in session goes out over the country and makes a personal and CLARE:' -for the white race. · It these millions of negro men ::md women· article on the trouble with agriculture which appeared in the . are to ·remain as a part of our· permanent, population, then I, Houston ( Tex; ) Chronicle: as a p·J'triotic,Aluerican and well-wisher of my country, do not The SPEAKER. Is there. objection? want those millions to be ignorant, intemperate, and immo1·a1. There was no objection. Rather would I have them brought to a higher standard of Mr. SANDERS of Texas. ::\Ir. Speaker, under leave to ex citizenship. I prefer to have them industrious, sober, moral, tend my remarks in the REcoRD by printing .an article which and educated. As they will be a factor in our political and .appeared.. in the Houston Chronicle, I submit the following. economic life, I want them to have the right kind of leaders This article was written by·the Hon. T. N. Jones, of T~· ler, Tex., men who will lead them forward, not backward; upward, not one of the most prominent attorneys in Texas, and a man who downward. ·has given serious thought and careful study to the agricul Inasmuch as Congress has for nearly a half century made tural problem for more than a quarter of a eentury. annual appropriations for the construction, maintenance, and (Special to the Chronicle) developme:ut of Howard rniver ~ity, and in view of the splendid work it is doing, I believe this support should be continued. TYLE.«, TE::s:., February 16.-T. X. Jones, attorney of tllis place, i sue The money thus granted is an insignificant amount when you the following state~ent: "The press has published extensively that conside1· the purpose for which it is appropriated and th~ good the~e will b~ in Jackson, Miss., on Fe~rua.ry !!0 a conference of the it will do toward working out a ·afe, :ape, ·and ·proper solution .governors of some of the Southern States and others specially appointed of the negro.problem. • to r educe or prevent an increase in tl!e cotton acreage of the South.' .. Moreover, the l!..,ederal Government contributes . liberally to . . ... ~0 harm can come from such a pleeeting, and little, if ~ny, good the education of our Indian population on the theory that the will be accomplished !Jy it unless the distinguished representatives of expendi.ture will aid in developing what is best in the Amet·i the. cotton-growing State~ . dig into and ascertain the fundamental causes can Indians and make them better citizens-and what we grant for conditions through the South so far as those engage(} in agriculture to the red man we should not deny to the black man. a1·e concerned. If those who may meet in Jackson devote their time to All the States haye not made adequate provision for the ascertailling the real causes which have produced the present situation higher education of negroes, and in Howard University we haYe and start some sensi!Jle movement to remove those cau es, then some a first-class institution devoted exclusively to the better train good may be the result. ing of negroes in the trades and pt:ofessions. Instead of requir DEM~~D LaUGE ACREAGE ing negroes who are hungry for higher education and for in " The basic cause for the constantly increasing cotton acreage and struction in the trades and professions to get their training in production i that th~re at't! in every village, town, and city in th·e second-class State institutions, why not maintain a first-class South those who not only will not encourage the production of les. negro university which is capable of developing. trained lenders cotton but insist on their tenants planting large acreage· in cotton . for the Negro race, and where the negroes can be educated This applies to landowners whose farms ru·e cultivated by tenants_ among and by members of their own race? " .There are those in every village, town, and city in the South who I am, therefore, voting to concur in Senate amendment ~o . 51; constantly demand that cotton shall be planted in large acreage and lJave and if this amendment is adopted the pending uill, when it never at any time heretofore urged .and are not now urging any decrease becomes a law, will carry an appropriation for the Howard in acreage. Tltey constitute that large and influential class engaged University. in local commercial punm i t~. TheiL· business is t he farm-supplying TYSOS-FITZGERALD BILL traue of tbe Southeru State~ - They furnish the rations, eithe1· directly Mr. PEERY. 1\lr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex or indirectly, used b.r the farmers in producing crops, and •they insist tend my remarks in the RECORD by printing therein a house that those who eat tlle bread and meat and wear the clothes they sell joint resolution passed by the General Assembly of Virginia on credit, pro furnishes . the. cau. e for the eonstqnt derp.and for the ever increasing ·the pri.ce of cotton. If cottOJ~ can_be produced for 0 cen.ts per pound, production of cotton. Every bank, every retail· merchant, every <;om- the trade w.ill. not pa_y 2;; ~e.nts for. it; nor w1ll it. pay :18 cents for it, missary owner demantls that cotton-in large acreage be planted. _which would_ be 10Q per cent net profit !o the producer• • DEPLORES SYSTElll CONDlTION Hi DISGRACE t "I ' ' " " They may meet, yes, they do meet, in the chambers ot commerce _"While '_it may b~ 'true that a few men on a few acres under most and pro'claim that there must be a ·reduction of . cotton aereage, and favorable conditions raised cotton at a cpst of 9 cents per pound, it is · from those ' place ttrey proceed directly to the cuddy holes iil ·their suicidal to claim that the cotton crop of the South can be produced for places of business and write chattel ni.ortgages for the poor devils to less than 18 or 20 cents per pound. • ; sign.' covering the cotton crops from· one to five years, and in addition, " The squalid condition of the cotton raisers of the South is a dis· t>verything from the pig 'to products ra18~l liy the children. · Listen to grace to the southern people. They stay in shacks, thousands of which the speeches in· the chambers. of commerce, and hi the banquet halls are unfit to house animals, much less human beings. Their children where a few most carefully selected farmers are entertained, and go are born under sucli conditions of medical treatment, food, and cloth directly from there to the mortgage records and see the work that is ing as would make an Eskimo rejoice that he did not live in a cotton really being done. Always, everywhere, in the private eounting houses growing country: Without exception, around those -shacks there are the demand is made that cotton must be produced so that the debts' no decent sanitary nccommodations. There are no places for the pro can be ~id. Not one word ·is ·said in private conference with the duction and care of livestock or 'poultry. In hundreds of thousands farmf'rs about reduction of cotton acreage. of instances there are no arrangements for gardens or places where FIGURES ARE CITED vegetables can be raised. " The outstanding truth which confronts us is that illiteracy and SAYS PROPAGAh"DA _ABUNDANT pauperism are the handmaidens of cotton all over the world. "Whife propaganda has been abundant in the effort to make it " India has 316,0;)5,241 people of whom 293,431,5!)0 are wholly appear that the financial condition of the farmer is most favorable illiterate. That country raises more than 5,000,000 bales of cotton. and wonderfully -improyced,. there is not one word of truth in such " Egypt has 14,000,000, of whom 12,971,395 are illiterate. That propaganda. , country raises 1,500,000 bales of catton. "There''is not I landowner in 40 who lives ·on, raises cotton, 'and " China bas 400,000,000 people of whom at least 350,000,000 are ~ -cultivates' 'his own farm· who · now has his own money in the bank illiterates. That country raises more than 2,775,000 bales of cotton. with which to finance· entirely· the production of his crops for 1928. "Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Russia, and . some 25 other countries all raise There· is not· r tenant ·rarmer in 100· throughout the whole South cotton, and in practically all of them 90 per cent of the population are who ·has -his· own money on nand 'With which to finance the pro JARDI~~ GIVEN DEFENSE It quotes L. E. Rast, agriculturist of the Arkansas Bankers' Association, as declaring that "the inefficient farmer whose cotton-production cost "Mr. Jardine was not the cause of the decline in the price of cotton. is 30 cents a · pound and who breaks the market is one of the greatest He may have been one of the instruments which was used by the combi evils with which -real farmers must contend.' nation of cotton buyers to bear the price, but the real cause was and now is the agreement amo.ng great cotton merchants that cotton must LAZY MA...'i'S CROP go down. " He asserted that 'such a farmer does not care what his cotton •· There i.<; another influence which is destru'ctive of the chances brings, being interested solely in providing credit to tide him over dull for the cotton producers to obtain a fair price for cotton. Certain in· periods. The inefficient farmer plants cotton because it is the easiest fluences in Texas, Arkansas, and probably in other States have for crop in the world on which to get credit and because it is a lazy man's some years been most prolific in p1·opaganda to show that cotton can crop.' be produced for an average of about 9 cents per pound. The trade bas " In his · remarkable declar~tion he was supported by Dean D. T • . accepted as true that propaganda. The result bas been and is to bear Gray, of the University of Arkansas College of Agriculture, who said: 3718 CONGR.ESSIO:N A.L RECORD-HOUSE . · "'We want the inefficient fa.rmer to leave and the sooner the better. tleman for so framing his resolution, for it has teeth in it, , What .wil are worried about is what is to become of this type when he ·and means something: -The re olution which the Senator from mo>e to the city. Business men can help the real farmers if they Texas ·[Mr. MAYFIELD] · pas ed ·in the Senate the- other day pro find employment for men leaving the farms so that they may become vides that the }..,ederal reserve system is to be investigated by con ..· umers of farm products.' the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. We already ARK.A...."iSAS SCORED know hOW that committee feels with reference to the matter, " The class of farmE>rs about whom those gentlemen were talking and we may hardly expect any accomplishment from it, because are the product of the infamous commercial system which has existed we remember the bill, S. 3657, which it passed in the Senate throughout the cotton-growing States since 1865. There has never during the last Congress. That bill which, on December 17, been and is not now in the State of Arkansas a public free school 1926, passed the Senate without a dissenting voice raised against system in which the white children, much less the negroes, could be it, wonld have retired 1\lr. Tulley, when be got ready to quit, given any part of such training as would make them efficient in farm on a pension of $15,000 per year for life, a long us he lived, ing or anything else. No State in this Republic has been more derelict half of which was Government funds in said banks, and would in it dut:v to it.s children since the Civil War than has Arkansas, and have retired the officials who are now drawing $50,000 per all of tho~e inefficient, lazy farmers at whom the fulmination is aimed year, when they got ready to' quit, at a pension of $30,000 ea('b were E:'ithei' raised in Arkansas or in some other southern State which per year for life, half of which money was GoYernment funds has gt·ossly neglected its duty to the chlldren born therein. in said banks, and would have retired all officers and em ployees of the Federal reserve system on pensions of 60 per NEGLECT DECIUED cent of their high salarie drawn for life when they quit, one " Who are those inefficient, lazy farmers? And where did they come half of which money, or 30 per cent, was Government funds from'! 'Iens of thousands of them are the children of the former in said banks. If the Committee on Banking and Curr(>ncy landowners of the South, who, through the influence of the system felt that way toward these Federal reserve officials, we know prevailing in the Southern States, have been allowed to grow Ull in how little we could expect from an investigation by it. It den ·e ignorance and abject poverty. would be the same as having the Power Trust investigated by " The South, to its everlasting shame, for more than 60 years has the Federal Trade Commission. neglected the education and training of her white children except in And it was not until the House, on February 1, 1928, struck certain favored localities, and has occupied its time and energies i.n out the enacting clause and killed the similar bill that was . building and developing urban life. Now, through some of her educa brought before us by our Hou._e Committee on Banking and tors and the representatives of the Bankers' Association, she desires Currency, that was to pension these officials on salarit- of to di:own and kick out her progeny. $12,000 per year for life, after they quit, that this Senate ·rE-so "What will that meeting in Jackson, Miss., do about all o~ these lution I refer to was ever prepared and acted upon. That Sen mattE>rs?" ate measure, S. 3657, ·in the last Congress, was pas ·ed by the THE FEDERAL R-ESE&VE BANK OF DALLAS, TEX. Senate by unanimous vote, without any Senator raif:ing his The SPEAKER·. Under the order of the House the Chair voice against it. - recognizes the gentleman from Texas [1\11·. WILLIAMS] for one · Mr. WILLIAl\IS of Texas. Yes. hour. [Applau.se.] Mr. BLANTON. And such a bill, although reduced to '12,000 ·Mr. WILLIAMS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I will ask the Clerk annual pensions, would have passed. this House, when pre~ ented to read a resolution that was introduced by· me ~r esterday. here by our Banking and Currency· Committee on· February t, . · The RPE.AKER. ·without objection, the Clerk will read the . 1928, had it not been -for the fight which tl!e gentleman' from resolution. Texas [l\11·. 'Vri.LIAMs]," aided- by our collE>ague from Texas 'l'he Cle1·k read a follows : [Mr. BLACK], the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. l\IADD:EN], and myself, made agaiqst · same, which re-·ulted in its ·enacting Concurrent resolution clause being stricken out, and the bill killed. WhNeas it is alleged that the governor of the Federal RE>serve Bank l\Ir. WILLIAMS of 'l'exas. Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of of Dilllas, Tex.1 bas violated the Federal reserve act by his refusal to the Bouse, in addres.<;ing you to-day I realize the fact that recognize tile rediscount privilege to mE>mber banks in rural communi- should this resolution be adopted and a committee appointl.'d tie ; and as the resolution provide. that it is possible that the . actions Whereas it is allE>ged that the policies administered by the ·govez:nor of the committee may be · of · far-reachi~g effect. . l realhr.e that - of the Federal Reserve Bank of ·Dallas, Tex., in c-onducting the business since .the creation of· the Fedei·al reserve act there has. bee:51 a of such bank have worked many harill!hips on farming and livestock sort of a halo thrown around the Federal . reserve banks; the intere ·ts of the tetTitory .includE>d in the eleventh l!'ederal reserve average indilidual views .a Federal reserve bank a·s' H place district : Therefore be it .where only the select are admitted. ancl whil~ this should not Re-sol't LIABJLITIES Capital ·stock ______.:.-:__·_~ ___ _:-______· ______$50, 000. reason of the member bank having to pay G per cent for theh· og money from their correspondents when they e;houlcl have se 5 0 ' - ~~F~~e stand the ituation to-day it is alrilost impossible ·thtougli a m~re than 25 years. Furthermore, he is a man who weighs his · ·nm ·by depositors to Close an honestly-conducted· bank. words. · He is not an alarmist or extremist, and what he says Mr. WILLIAMS of·Texas. That is COITect. always commands the respect and confidence of those who know Mr. COOPER of Wisconsin. Because it can take its securities · him. The letter is as follows : ·to the Federal reserve · bank and get credit. · FEBRUARY 21, 192&. Mr. WILLi~IS of Texas. That is correct. Mr. LUTHXB A. JoHxsoN, Mr. COOPER of Wisconsin. · But if the Federal reserve bank Member of Oongress, Wasl!ington_, D. 0. ·. arbitrarily refuses to rediscount good securities, then it is po~ DEAR MR. JoH~SON : I am taking tbe liberty to write you to solicit sibl.e by such a run to close almost any bank even though it is your ·interest and earnest consideration of the question that has so honestly · conducted. ··' · thoroughly aroused the country bankers of this Federal reserve district ; Mr. WILLIAMS ·of Texas. Certainly. that is, _the removal of the present governor, Mr. Lynn Talley. You In that connection I call attention to a remark that a certain are thoroughly aware of the distressed condition of the farmers of the i ·member banker made in Texas in discussing the policy of this country for the past few years and their urgent need of all the :tssist man. He said that if there was a crisis in that State, it would anee that can be safely given tb('m by the banks of the country and all 'break 70 per cent of the banks, because he said the little banks G9vernment agencies that have been organized for their aid and relief would go to their correspondents, and they ·would tell them to The interests of the farmers are so thoroughly interwoven with that go to the Federal reserve bank, and the Federal reserve bank. of the country banker that whatever affects them affects us and '\'\"hat would tell them to go to hell. [Laughter.] And that ·is what eTer afl:'ects us vitally affects them. The country bankers a1·e very ·would happen. That is what he has been doing. This· man anxious to render all the assistance they can to the farmers, who haye never had authority in but one bank in his life. L say ·that he been so badly in the dumps for the past few years, but deposits in has not the ability to determine the solvency or ·the insolvency country banks the country over are very low, and their ability to aid ·of an institution. is very limited unless they are able to rediscount during the s1.unmer I make the charge, here and now, that the goyernor of the months. ~'ederal reserve bank at· Dallas. Tex., does not have the ability The arbitra1·y methods of the present governor and his utter lack to dete-rmine a solvent institution, nor has he the ability -to of interest in the problems and welfare of the farmer and country determine an insolvent institution. I realize. that 1s a broad banker make it almost impossible for them to get rediscounts with statement, here is the record which I believe will JUStify the· this bank. In fact, rather than su1fer the- embarrassment and humilia• statement: · - - tion of C and Arizona are mem~t·~ of the Federal reserve bank. The No thoughtful man will deny that thi. -situation ~ lwuld and Federal re erve bab.k at Dallas i8 not filling to any uegree it'3 must be-remedied; not alone for the sake of the farmer~ -but · ~ph ere of -u~ efulnt'ss aud the u, efulne~s Oongre~s ·intended that · to prevent general disaster. In all the pages· of history tl1er~ it ~Should when the act was enacted into a law. is no greater and more tragic truth than this, namely, that All(l uow, in conclusion, again let me impress on you the national prosperity and security can not rest on agricultlll'al seriou~ness of the condition as it exists in the eleventh Federal bankruptcy. reserve district, and whether the record of the governor of That we are approaching a state of general bankl'Uptcy on the Federal reserve bank as I haYe presented it to you, proves the farm. of America can not be denied by those who know my coutention or fail~ to pro>e it ; whether the governor is the actual facts. We who came from the great farming sec qualified or whether he is not qualified, his policies toward tions feel the increasing pressure of these facts year by year. the small mei~ber banks~ his arbitrary and discom·t.eons treat Day after day, 1\fr. Speaker, I am receiving letters from farmers ment accorded the bankers, bas· destroyed his usefulness as · and merchants pleading for some action of Congress that will governor of the Federal reserve bank in that di~trict; this is relieve the unfair conditions and lift the undeserved burden~ not a question of individuals ; he made the record ; approxi under which they suffer. They do not ask for special privilege.• mate!~· 50 per cent of the member banks refuse to do business for themselves, but for relief from burden.:ome and unjw~t with the Federal reserve bank at Dallas, Tex., as long as this conditions imposed on them by special privileges granted to mm1 i:-; governor of the bank. others. They find themselves compelled to purchase in pro That the fact~ may be a certained and that justice be tected market · and to sell in competitive markets, to pay deal'ly arcorded every one concerned, I ask that the resolution be for what they need . and to dispose cheaply of what they pro ll.dovtetl. [Applau::::e.] duce, to see the results of their labor subjected to restricted FARM RELIEF credit at a high rate of interest, and to market manipulatiou The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under pecial: order of the and price fixing over which they have no control. In addition Honse the Ohair recognizes the gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. to these and other artificial and unju t burdens, they must face C..unwRIGHT]. the inevitable dangers of drought, flood, hurricane, as well a~ Mr. CART-WRIGHT. Mr. SpE>aker and fellow Members of the destructive boll weevil and other devastating enemies of Congress, I shall ask your attention for but a few minutes. the fruits of their labors. ·The matter about which I desire to speak is so near to my Mr. BUSBY. Mr. Speaker. ''~·HI the gentleman yield? heart and of such national importance at this time that I know Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Yes. it will be difficult for me to speak with restraint or without Mr. BUSBY. A great deal has been said recently about the S(leruing exaggeration. · great prosperity of the country. Do you find that this pros- There is, indeed, no issue before the people of America to-day perity applies to your class of people? so fundamental and so far-reaching as that which moves me to Mr. CARTWRIGHT. No, indeed; rather starYation. In the addre:-;s you at this hour. It invoh"es no less than the existence single section of Oklahoma which I have the honor to represent of the Nation itself, the maintenance of its every industry and thou._ands of acres of cotton we.:re literally destroyed by the bu~iuess, the very life of its every inhabitant. This .is not a boll weevil last year, and suc-h has been the ease for the ))ft. ·t wild exaggeration or a loose flight of the imagination, Mr. several years. -SpeakE>r, but simply the statement of an actual and evident I. wish -to state, 1\Ir. Speaker, a· a fact beyond-dispute tha f no fact. Let me illustrate what I mean by asking you to think producing group in this country faces. such a combination. of' for a moment of a single· ind~try that compasses the whole handicaps and burdens as those which are imposed from the- land. - · · -· · ouU!ide on the farmers of America and their families. Behind the vast network of machinery and the complicated These people are my people, Mr. Speaker. I know them. I problems of equipment, management, and maintenance in the love them, I belong to the-m. They are essential to the vet·v Natiuu's transportation system, one clear and indisputed and existence of this c-ountry. Therefore their problems, thei;. all-important fact stands out by itself. needs, and their rights can not and must not be neglected or Stated in the simplest, concrete tE>rms it is that if an engi- ignored. Regardless of party affiliation, ·we can not fail to neer is deprived of food he can not run his train. Apply this agree with that great Democratic leader who_said, "The farmer simple truth to all the people in every industry and you have no who goes forth in. the morning and toils all day-who begins _iuclu~tries. Apply -it to all of the people and . the-re is -but one - in the spring and toils all sunune.r-:-and w}lo by_the application end-death to every man, woman, and child. Without food the of brain and muscle to the natural resources. of the _c-ountry . people perish, without _physical ~ustenance for its inhabitants creates .wealth, is as. much a business man as the :QJ.an .yho gqe_. ... the Nation dies. upon the board of trade and bets upon the price o.f grain." . Such obvious statements as these_would be laughable but for - With all my heart, Mr. Speaker, I plead for an honest ~mder-: -one great, tragic fact, namely, the _ serious condition which standing of the place and the problems of the_farmer in tll~ _fac~ the people who produce the food upon which -human life -life of this Nation. And I plead further, for ~arnest sur•port. dept-nds in America. If that condition were due to the ·greed -of every constructive roeasm·e tb,a_t may be placed before thi:-4 or the lawlessness of the farming people. Of this country Con--. body that will bring relief and a fair chance to the agricultural gref-:~ would waste no time in enacting laws to de-al with them. forces upon ·which the prosperity, the stability, the Yery -life' We kuow, howeve1·, that you can not find in any other group of our country so largely_depend. [Applause.] so large a percentage of peaceful, law-abiding, home-loving PERMISSION TO ADDR-Ess THE Hot:sE . people as among the farming population. They. constitute one- llr. BEEDY. 1\fr. -Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ad third of the entire population of the country, yet they are re- dre ~·s the Hou~e for five minutes. ceiYing less than one-tenth of the national income. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the re- Siuce 1920 the value of · farm lands has decreased $20,000,- quest of t)le gentleman fl'Om Maine? 000.000, while real estate in industrial centers has advanced Mr. TILLl\lAN. Reserving the right to object, ::\Ir. Speaker, a mort> than-$20,000,000,000. Since 1910 farm bankruptcies have number of us have been allotted time. I do n:ot want to inter incn·n~ed by more than 1,000 pe-r cent. . W-hile the farmers of -fere with the gentleni'an,-- bufrbelieve I shall have to object. · ·the 'Lnited States -have to pay from 6 to ,15--per cent for their- · · The SPEAKER -pro tempore. Under the -pro,i-sions - of· the bank loans, brokers on the New . York Exchange can borrow - special order, the Chair· will no'W' recognize the gentlt>man from their billions for stock gambling at the lQw rate of 4 per cent. Utah [Mr. ·coLTON]. · - According to the conservative Manufactu-rers Record; the de- .Mi·. -TILSON. 1\fr. Speaker, the gentleman from l:Jtah infot·ms- fiation policy of the Federal reserve bank reduced agricultural me that he is not ready to go on_with hi remarks at this time. values by $32,000,000,000, while the reduction in other business - - WaS only $18,000,000,000. The consumers pay more than $30,- THE FOURTEENTH, FIFTEENTH, .AND NI~~"'T~ .A.M~DM~T. 000,000,000 for. farm products, but the farmers receive only The SPEAKER pr? tempore. The Cha1r w1ll recogmze the $9.000,000,000 of this. Within a period of- five years-1920 to , gentr~~au from Massachusetts [Mr. TI~KH.AM] . for 1 hour and 1925-capital invested by farm operators decreased to the alarm- 30 nunutes. ing extent of $3,000,000,000 per year . .In other words, there Mr. T~NKHAM. Mr. Speaker, there is in t11e Unfted States was a total decrease of $15,000,000,000 in this sllort_period of indefensible and flagrant nullification of three amendment. of five years. The total farm indebtedness has grown to the enor- the Federal Constitution-the- fourteenth amendment (,:econd mom; ...:um of $12,000,000,000, while the percentage of income section), the fifteenth amendment, and . the nineteenth amend that goes to agriculture has reached the low figure of 7.5 per ment-resnlting in notorious and scandalous disf1·anchh:::ement. cent of the total national income. The que8tions involved are not so much questions of race, I might quote at great length oth.er figures_- and tatistics to. color, or previous condition-of servitude as Jhey are. of con. ·ti show the seriousness of the .:ituatio.n an:l.ong_the · inilUons pf : tutionnl- et1forcement:nncl-of a just ::md..eqnal balanae _pf ,poJiticaL ··:: : farmers upon whose labors om· country depend ' for the basic power aiJH)ng the varfous States of the- Uriion, althougll they necE> 1ities of life. · ~evQlve about negro disfranchisement. · 1928 CONGR.ESSION AL RECORD-HOUSE 3_721 The issue in all its nakedness is whether there shall be a con There were two possible methods ()f assuming control : One was by stitutional government in the United StateS; and whether the force and shotguns, the other to cheat the blacks (ibid. p. 487)- Government as it now exists shall be a legitimate one. is reported verbatim as saying: The first question to be answered is whether disfranchise ment does exist. I was an advocate of the l.atter, because it didn't take life. Now, Any American who has traveled throughput the United States I J?.ever changed votes with my one hand, but I upheld it and coun is familiar with the fact that the negro votes as freely as the seled It in. th~se who did. I am just as guilty as those who white man in the Nort h, East, and West, but not in the South. did • • •. Un~ortunately it was a necessity. We could not hel p James Bryce, in The Americ-an Commonwealth (1895, Vol. II, ourselves. We had to do it or do wot·se. But we have gone on from pp. 483, 484), in speaking of the suppression of the negro "Vote, b~d to worse, UJ?.til it is a great evil • • •. says : .Another speaker at the same con\ention is reported (ibid; p. The modes of suppression have not been the same in all districts and 487) as saying: at all times. At first there was a good deal of what is called " bull We are tired of ' fraud ; we are tired of ballot-box stuffin<> • we dozing "-i. e., rough treatment and terrorism-applied to frighten the are tirt:d of buying negro votes; but the fraud will never cease"" ~ntH colored men from coming to or voting at the polls. Afterwards the this vote [negro] is eliminated. methods were less harsh. Registrations were so managed as to exclude 1\lr. McKEOWN. ·wm the gentleman advise us whether be ne gro voters, arrangements for polling were contrived in such wise as is now through with Mr. Bryce? to lead the voter to the wrong place so that his vote might be refused; :Ur. TINKHA:U. I have finished with l\.Ir. Bryce and also and, if the necessity arose, the Republican candidates were counted ont with tbe Political Science Quarterly. or the election returns tampered with. " I would stu1f a ballot box," Governor Hardwick, of Georgia, in 'his address before the said a prominent man, " in order to have a good, honest government," State convention in acceptance of the Democratic nomination and he said it in good faith and with no sense of incongruity. for Governor of Georgia in 1920 according to tbe Atlanta Con 1\Ir. McKEOWN. Will the gentleman yield for a question? stitution, of October 25, 1920, stated: 1\Ir. TINKHAM. I can not yield. I shall urge the enfranchisement of all white women in accordance l\lr. McKEOWN. I want to know if the gentleman is still 'Yit~ the Anthony amendment, and the disfranchisement of all black reading what 1\Ir. Bryce said. -- women, on the same plan that negro men are now disfranchised in 1\Ir. TINKHAM. I am still reading from Mr. Bryce. Georgia. Mr. McKEOWN. I will appreciate it if the gentleman will let ns know when· he comes to his own remarks. The Statesman's Yearbook (1926, p: 435), a semiofficial organ Mr. TINKHAM. I shall do so. published annually in England, conservatively states: In the same volume--pages 509-51~Mr. Bryce says : * • • _· Seve.ul of the Southern States have. adopted methods The methods -whereby the negroes have been prevented from exercising which diffei.· from one another_:_too complicated for explanation here, the rights of su.lfrage vested in them by law have been described in the with tlle expressed, avo.wed purpose of excluding the negroes from the last preceding chapter. These means are now seldom violent ; but franchise, and yet avoiding the constitutional consequences of dis whether violent or pacific, they have been almost uniformly successful. criminating "on account of race, color, or previous condition of In the so-called border States the whites are fn so great a majority that ~>erviqJde."' · they do not care to interfere with the colored vote, except now and Lothrop Stoddard, in his latest book entitled " Reforging then by the use of money. Through the rest of the South the negro America" (1927, p. 318), states: bas come to realize that he will not be permitted to exercise any influ ence on the Government, and his interest in coming to the polls has The negro is, of course, disfranchised in the South, and bas prac ther•etore declined. This is true of all sorts of elections, just as the tically no vo_ice in politi~s. determination of the whites to suppress his -vote is. no less strong as Andre Siegf.ded., a professor at the School of Social Science respects Federal elections, whose result can not directly affect the admin at Paris, a diplomat and an -investigator for the French Mm:ee istration of State ~r local affairs, or the imposition of State or local Social, who has traveled in America for 20 years, in his book taxes, than it is jn State and local elections. entitled "America Comes of Age," published in 192-7-which .* The whites, accustomed to justify their use of force or has been ranked with Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in fraud by t he plea of necessity, have become callous to electoral malprac America and which tbe -London Times declares to be " ,the tices. The level of purity and honesty in political methods, once com best book on America since Bryce's Commonwealth "-stateS, paratively high, has declined, and the average southern conscience is pages 93-94 : now little mol'e sensitive than is that of professional politicians in north At present the blacks are crushed under the heel. In the first place, ern cities. • • • all political rights are denied them. According to the fifteenth amend In speaking of education and property qualification devices ment to the Constitution, ratified on March 30, 1870, " the right of for suppressing the negro vote, Bryce further states-page 512: a citizen of the United .states to vote shall not be denied or abridged • • The other is that every limitation of the suffrage diminishes by the United States. or by any state, on account of t·ace, color, or pro tanto (amendment 14} a State's representation in Federal elec previous condition of servitude." The Southern States refused to tions, thereby weakening its influences in Federal affairs and mortify ratify it, but the measure went through in spite of them. After ing its self-esteem. _The State of Mississippi, while comageously facing 1890 laws were passed in all the Southern States which, without the latter of these . difficulties, so far as the colored people are con actually designating blacks, excluded them from the suffrage. Some cerned, bas "sought to evade the former.by the ingenious loophole under times it is done by establishing electoral lists; sometimes tbe app1i which the registering officials may a_dmit whites who, thoug4 illiterate, cants are asked to give a "reasonable interpretation" of the Con are able to give a "reasonable interpretation" of any section of the stitution, and naturally a negro never succeeds. A clause called "the grandfather act" automatically allows the whites, even though Constitu~on. Such whites have, one is told, been able to satisfy the officials far more generally than have the negroes. And if this par poot• and illiterate, to vote without this examinatio~, provided they are ticular section happens to be put to them, their common sense will fi.Iid &-soldiers or the descendants of those who voted in 1867. The fraud its interpretation obvious. · is evident and is contrary to the spirit of the Constitution, but tbe North winks at it; for to interfere would mean another war. If by The Supreme Court of Mississippi in Ratcliff -v. Beale (1896, chance a negr~ were to slip through the meshes of the net, he would 20 So. Rep. 865), in relation to a State constitutional clause not dare present himself at the polling booth, for be would be beaten imposing a poll tax, stated: off with clubs and his very life would be in danger. In the eastern It is in the highest degree improbable that there w-as not a con border States of Virginia and Korth Carolina this severity bas been sistent, controlling, directing purpose governing the convention by somewhat relaxed, but in the South as a whole practically all the which these sch-emes were elaborated and fixed in the constitution. negroes are treated as pariahs. No negro has ever . been appointed Within ·the field of permissible action, under the limitations imposed or elected to a public position, although in certain rare exceptions by the Federal Constitntion, the convention sWept the circle of ex the customs, for example--they have been employed, owing entirely to pe~ients to obstr_uct the exet•cise of the franchise by the Negro Federal Influence. Otherwise the whites maintain a united front with race • • •. In o~ opinion, the . clause was primarily intended out a single break." · There is no doubt that southern politics are ba M by -the framers of the "constitution as a clog upon the franchise and not on equality but on force. '· secondarily and incidentally only as a means of ·~eveJ;~ue. ' The amendmepts to the Federal cOnstitution voted after the Civil In the Alabama convention of 1901, held with the avowed War did not aim at suppressing the distinctions between the races, pm·pose to "have adopted new constitutional provisions for the but were simply intended to avoid the injustice' of -dill'erential treat exclusion of negroes from participation in politics " (Political ment. Southern legislation, however, has definitely maintained tbe Science Quarterly, lll03, Yol. XVIII, p. 480), Ex-Governor Oates, latter. - of Alabama, a former :Member of this House, after asserting Siegfl'ied is in error in relation-to two statements. First, tbe that- Southe!n States did not refuse to ratify the fifteenth amend- ..,.- 3728 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE FEBRUARY 28 ment. Mississippi, for instance, ratified it unanimously. The The fifteenth amendment 1·eads as follows : elections were not held under military control and the members SECTION 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall were elected with full knowledge that they would vote on the not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on amendment. The same is largely true of other Southern States. account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Second, the so-called grandfather clause is not 1n effect now, SEC. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by as he implies. It was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme appropriate legislation. Court in 1915 in the case of Guinn and Beal v. United States (238 u. s. 347). Although this amendment did not confer the right of suffrage Senator BLEASE, of South Carolina, when referring to the upon any one, it prohibited the States from giving preference in constitution of that State in the Senate on March 2, 1927, ac the suffrage to one citizen of the United States over another on cording to the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, volume 68, No. 69, Sixty account of race, colort or previous condition of servitude, and ninth Congress, second session, pages 5388-5389, stated : gave Congress the r-ight to enforce its provision by Federal statute. We keep the colored man from voting in South Carolina by that con The nineteenth amendment reads as follows: · stitution. * • * We have plenty of ballot boxes in South Carolina in our primary election where nobody is permitted to vote but white The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be people, where one candidate receives every vote. * • • I think Mr. denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of Coolidge received 1,100 votes in my State. I do not know where he sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate got them. I was astonished to know that they were cast and shocked legislation. to know that they were counted. Although this amendment did not confer the right of suffrage A Member of another branch of Congress from a State con upon any one, it prohibited the States from giving preference in tiguous to the District of Columbia, in referring to the non the suffrage to one citizen of the United States o·ver another on enforcement of the fiftee!lth amendment of the Constitution, in account of sex, and gave Congress the right to enforce its pro a public letter on November 15, 1927, stated: vision by Federal statute. In discussing the thirteenth, the fourteenth, and the fifteenth If one were to impute literal truth to the alleged analogy, the con clusive answer would be that the South's resistance to the fifteenth amendments, the Supreme Court of the United States, in the amendment was intended to avert the wretched consequences of the Slaughter House cases (1872, 83 U. S. 36), stated: unspeakable crime involved in the adoption of the amendment. ·Before we proceed to examine more critically the provisions of this amendment [the fourteenth amendment], on which the plaintifrs in rrhis is a frank admission of the nullification of the fifteenth error rely, let us complete and dismiss the history of the recent amend amendment and a brutal declaration of lawless resistance to its ments, as that history relates to the general purpose which pervades enforcement. This is rebellion. them all. A few years' experience satisfied the thoughtful men who had The Washington Post, in a leading editor-ial on January 29 been the authors of the other two amendments that, notwithstanding last, stated: the restraints of those articles on the States and the laws passed under The common sense of the American people, represented in the Repub the additional powers granted to Congress, these were inadequate for lican and Democratic Parties, will save them from making fools of the protection of life, liberty, and property, without which freedom to themselves on the eighteenth amendment, the fourteenth, and the the slave was no boon. They were in all those States denied the right fifteenth. By general consent the fourteenth and fifteenth are dealt of suffrage. The laws were administered by the white man alone. with in a practical manner in response to the necessities of the It was urged that a race of men distinctively marked as was the negro, situation. * • • living in the midst of another and dominant race, could never be fully The thirteenth amendment reads as follows : secured in their person and their property without the right of suJf.rage. SECTION 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a Hence the fiftee-nth amendment, which declares that " the right of punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject ·to their a citizen of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servi jurisdiction. tude." The negro having, by the fourteenth amendment, been declared SEC. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appro to be a citizen of the United States is thus made a voter in every State priate legislation. of the Union. This amendment abolished slavery in the United States and We repeat, then, in the light of this recapitulation of events, almost gave Congress the right to enforce its provision by Federal too recent to be called history, but which are familiar to us all; and statute. on the most casual examination of the language of these amendments Sections 1, 2, and 5 of the fourteenth amendment read as no one can fail to be impressed with the one pervading purpose found follows: in them all, lying at the foundation of each, and without which none SECTION. 1. AU persons born or naturalized in the United States, of them would have been even suggested ; we mean the freedom of the and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United slave race, the security and firm establishment of that freedom, and States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or the protection of the newly made freeman and citizen from the oppres enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of sions of those who had formerly exercised unlimited dominion over him. citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person It is true that only the fifteenth amendment, in terms, mentions the of life, liberty, ot· property without due process of law; nor deny to negro by speaking of his color and his slavery. But it is just as any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. true that each of the other articles was addressed to the grievances of SEC. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several Sta-tes that race, and designed to remedy them as the fifteenth. · according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of Again, in Hodges v. United States (1906, 203 U. S. 1), we persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the read: right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, At the close of the Civil War, when the problem of the emancipated the executive and judicial officers of a State, or the members of the slaves was before the Nation, it might have left them in a condition legislature thereof is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such of alienage, or established them as wards of the Government, lik~ the State, being 21 years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any Indian tribes, and thus retained for the Nation jurisdiction over them, way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the or it might, as it did, gh-e them citizenship. It chose the latter. By basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the fourteenth amendment It made citizens of all born within the the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of limits of the United States and subject to its jurisdiction. By the male citizens 21 years of age In such State. fifteenth it prohibited any State from denying the right of suffrage on SEC. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, and by the legislation, the provisions of this article. thirteenth it forbade slavet·y or involuntary servitude anywhere within the limits of the land. Whether this was or was not the wiser way to This amendment declared the negro to be a citizen of the deal with the great problem is not a matter for the courts to consider. United States, left the control of the electoral franchise with It is for us to accept the decision, which declined to constitute them the States, and provided that if the negro were disfranchised wards of the Nation or leave them in a condition of alienage where the basis of repre entation in the disfranchising States should they would be subject to the jurisdiction of Congress, but gave them be reduced in proportion to the disfranchisement, thus pre citizenship, doubtless believing that thereby in the long run their best cluding any disfranchising State in the Union from profiting Interests would be subser;ed, they taking their chances with other politically by the nullification of the Constitution and pre"\"ent citizens in the States where they should make their homes. ing the destruction of the just and equal balance of political power among the States through representation fraudulently The nullifiers of these amendments have claimed repeatedly based upon the disfranchised, and it gave Co!lgress the right that the fifteenth amendment repealed the fourteenth amend to enforce its provisions by Federal statute. ment. The falsity of this claim is proved by the decisions of 1928 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3729 the Supreme Court in the two c-ases above, the Slaughter House is not direct legislatlon H. R. 83. An act to appro'\'e Act No. 24 of the Session .Laws COMMITTEE ON IMM:,:GRATI.O~ A:i\-1> 1\ATIJBALIZ.ATION - of 1927 of the Ten-itory of Hawaii, . entitled "An aet to (10.30 a. m.) authodze and provide for .. the manufacture, maintenance, dis To amend the immigration act of 1924 by making the quota tribution, and supply of electric current for light and power provisions thereof ·applicable to Mexico, Cuba, Canada;- and within Hanapepe, in the distri~t of Waimea, island and county the other countries of continental America and adjacent islands of Kauai"; . (H. R. 6465). . H. R. 482. An act to provj.de relief for the victims of the nirplane accident at Langin Field, Moundsville, W. Va_; CCHIUITTEE 0~ THE JUDICIARY H. R. 3144. An act for the relief of Augustus C. Turner; (10 a.m.) H. R. 5925 . .An act for _the relief of the Fidelity & Deposit. . To amend the Judicial Code and to define and limit the juris Co. of Maryland; ·diction of courts sitting in equity (B. R. 7759). H. R. 8281. An act to provide for the withdrawal of certain COMMITTEE ON THE POST OFFICE AND POST ROADS described land.· in the State o~ Nevada for the use and benefit (10 a.m.) of the Indians of the Walker River Reservation; . II. R. 8282. An act to provide for the permanent withdrawal To amend Title II of an act approved February 28, 1925, of certain lands bordering on ap.d adjacent to Summit Lake, regulating postal rates (H. R. _9296) · _ Nev., for the Paiute, Shoshone, and other Indians; .. H,. R. 8291. An act to amend section 1 of the . act of. June 25, REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC BILLS AL~D 1910 (36 Stat. L. 855), "An act to provide for determining RESOLUTIONS the heirs of deceased Indians, for the disposition and sale of · f tb 1 · f 11 tm t Under clause 2 of Rule XTII, allotments of deceased Indmns, or e eaSIDg o a o en s, -Mr. HUDDLESTON: ·committee on Interstate and Foreign and for other purpo es " ; H R 63 A bill th •· · H s· d H R 8292 An act to reserve 120 acres on the public domain Commerce. · · 96 · .au onzrng . el1Uan Immon s, for tn~ use .and benefit of the Koosharem Band of Indians· re- . 'jr.,. his. heirs, leg~ repres~ntati\es, and a Igns, to_con:rtruct, 'di 1· th · 'n'1 t of Koo.sharem Utah. · mamtam, and operate a br1dge across Tampa Bay from Pmellas &'1 rrnb ~ 527e ~~ ~ for th relief of the International Pe- ~oint, Pinellas bounty, to Piney Point, 1\Ianatee County, Jfla.; trol~~ Co. ·(Ltd.),c of Toron:o, Canada; . · with an amendment (Rept. No. 772). Ref~rred to th~ Hou e H. R. 903·7. An act to provide for the permanent withdrawal Calendar. . . . . f ·t · 1 d in In Co ty Calif for Indian use. and Mr. PEERY. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com- o H.cer R. am 999±. an An s act toyo reimburseun • certain·• Indians of •the Fort merc.e. H. R · 983·0 · A b'llI. au tlwnzmg ·· · the G r?a t Falls _B n·· dnae Belkna · Reservation, Mont., for part or full value of an al- Co., 1ts s?ccessors and assigns, to coD;struct, mmntain, and oper- 10 tm f f 1 d t h · h th wer individually entitled. ate a bridge across the Potomac River at or near the Great en ° an ° " IC ey -- e - Falls; with an amendment (Rept. No. 773.) Referred to the ADJOUJL."VMENT House Calendar. · · Mr. TILSON. :Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now Mr. MILLIGAN: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com- adjourn. merce. H. R. 10145. A bill authorizing American Bridge & The motion was agreed to; and accordingly (at 4 o'clock Ferry Co. (Inc.), its successors and assigns, to construct, main nnd 40 minutes p. m.) the House· adjourned until to-morrow, tain, and operate a bridge acr·oss the Mississippi River at or Wednesday, February 29, 1928, at 12 <;>'clock noon. near Carondelet, St. Louis County, Mo.; with an amendment (Rept. No. 774). Referred to the House Calendar. COMMITTEE HEaRINGS Mr. CORNil~G: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com merce. S. 2698. An act granting the consent of Congress to the ~Mr. TILSON submitted the following tentative list of com State of Vermont to construct, maintain, and operate a free mittee bearings scheduled for -Wednesday, February 29, , 1928, highway bridge across an arm of Lake Memphremagog at or as reported to the 1loor leader by clerks of the several com near Newport, Vt.; without amendment (Rept. No. 775). mittees: Referred to the House Calendar. COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE Mr. CHRISTOPHERSON: Committee on ·the Judiciary. (10 a. m.) H. R. 328. A bill to relieve the Territory of Alaska from the To insure adequate supplies of timber and other forest prod necessity of filing bonds or security in legal proceedings in ·which such Territory is interested; without amendment tRept. ucts for the people of the United ~tates, to promote the f~l use for timber growing and other purposes of forest lands m No. 776). Referred to the House Calendar. Mr. CHRISTOPHERSON: Committee on the Judiciary. the United States, including farm wood lot~ · and tho~e aban doned farm areas not suitable for agricultural production, and H. R. 8551. A bill to create an additional judge in the district of South Dakota; without amendment (Rept. No. 777). Re to secure the correlation and the most economical conduct of ferred to the Committee of the Whole House on the sta!e of the forest research in the Department of Agriculture, through re Union. search in reforestation, timber growing, protection, utilization, Mr. HAUGEN: Committee on Agriculture. H. R. 53. A bill forest economics, and related subjects (H. R. 6091). to provide for the collection and publication of statistics of COMMITTEE ON WORLD WAR VETERANS' LEGISLATION tobacco by the Department of Agriculture; without amendment (10 a.m.) (Rept. No. 778). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. To amend the World War veterans' act, 1924 (H. R. 1Q160). Mr. HAUGEN: Committee on Agriculture. H. J. Res. 215. COMMITTEE ON THE MERCHANT MARINE .A-~D FISHERIES A joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to (10.30 a. m.) accept a gift of certain lands in Clayton County, Iowa, for the -purposes of the upper Mississippi River wild life and fish refuge To further develop an American merchant marine, to assure act; without amendment (Rept. No. 779). Referred to the its permanence in the transportation of the foreign trade of the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. United States (S. 744). Mr. HAUGEN: Committee on Agriculture. H. R. 484. A. To promote, encourage, and develop an American merchant bill to amend section 10 of the plant quarantine act, approved marine in connection with the agricultural and industrial com Au~t 20, 1912; without amendment (Rept. No. 780). Re merce of the United States, provide for the national defense, ferred to the House Calendar. the transportation ·of foreign mails, the establishment of a Air. HAUGEN: Committee on Agriculture. H. J. lles. 140. merchant-marine training school, and for other purposes (H. A joint resolution to amend sections 1 and 2 of the act of R. 2). . - March 3, 1891: without amendment (llept. No. 781). Ref rred To amend the merchant marine act of 1920, insure a perma· to the Hou e Calendar. nent passenger and cargo service in the North Atlantic, and for Mr. DYER: Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 8295. A other purposes (H. R. 8914). bill for the appointment of an additional circuit judge for the To create develop, and maintain a privately-owned American ninth judicial circuit; without amendment (Rept. No. 782). mercl1ant ~arine adequate to ~erve trade routes essential in Referred to the Committee of the Whole Hou"e on the tate of the movement of the industrial and agricultural products of the Union. the United States and to meet the requirements of the commerce Mr. DYER: Committee o-n the Judiciary. H. R. 11139. A of the United States; to provide for the transportation of the bill for the appointment of an additional circuit judge for the foreign mails of the United States in vessels of the United second judiclal circuit; 'Without amendment (Rept. No. 783). States; to provide naval and military auxiliaries; and for other Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of purpo es (H. R. 10765). the Union. , 1928 CONGRESSION A·L . RECORD-HOUSE -3737 · JUr. EN'GLEBRIGHT: Committee o.fi the Publ,ic .Larids. H. R. By . Mr. HAMMER: A bill (H. R: 11536) to protect the 11023. · A bill to add certain lands to the Lassen .Volcanic Na -sanctity: and -preservation, of-the-institution of marriage within tional Park in tl1e Sierra Nevada Mountains .of the State. of the District of Columbia ;· to the Committee on the District of California ; without · amendment (Rept. No. 786). Referred to Columbia. · the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. By Mr. BACON: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 220) tendering 1\lr. COLTON: Committee on Elections No. 1. A report on the thanks of the American people and the Congress of tbe the contested election case of Hubbard v ..LaGuardia, twentieth United States to the Hon. Charles Evans Hughes, chairman of New York district (Rept. No. 787). Referred to the House the delegation of the United States of America to the Sixth Calendar. International Conference of American States; to the Committee Mf. WOODRUFF: Committee on Naval Affairs. H. J. Res. on Foreign Affairs. 160. . Joint· resolution requesting certain inforn1ation relative By l\!r. REECE: Joint resolution (H. · J .. R~. 221) ·authoriz. to the United States Naval ·Ordnance plant, South ·charleston. ing the. award of a medal of honor to Ralph E. Updike ; to the W. Va.; "\vithout amendment (Rept. No. 788). Referred to the Committee on ·Military Affairs. House CaLendar. By Mr. SUTHERLAND: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 222) tQ authorize the Alaska Game Commission to make refunds of REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON .PRIVATE BILLS AND license fees-in cel'tain cases; to the Committee on Agrieulture. RESOLUTIONS By Mr. mCKElY: A resolution (H. Res. 127) to provide for Under clause 2 of Rule XIII, add~tional compensation for assistant :floor managers of tele Mr. MORIN: Committee on Military Affairs. H. R. 9712. A phones ; to the Committee on Acc01;mts. bill to amend the military reco1·d of Curtis V. · Milliman; .with an amendment (Rept. No. 784). Referred to the Committee of PRIVATE -BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS the \Yllole House. . Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, private bills and resolutions 1\lr. GLYNN: Committee on Military Affairs. H. J. Res. 193. were introduced and sever~lly referred as follows: Joint l'esolution for appointment of Roy L. Marston, of Maine, By Mr. ABERNETHY: A. bill (H. R. 11537) granting an as a. member of the Board of Managers of the National Home increase of pension to James B. P. Brady; to the Committee on for Disabled Volunteer Soldie1·s; without amendment (Rept. Pensions. No. 785). Referred to the Committee of the 1Vhole House. Also, a bill (H. R. 11538) granting a pension to Ernest R. Hales ; to the Committee on Pensions. _ CHANGE OF REFERENCE By Mr. l~OWMAN :· A bill (H. R. 11539) granting a . pension to Under clause 2 of Rule XXII, the Committee on Invalid Pen ~eorge Anson Carr.; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. sions was discharged from the consideration of the bill (H. R. By Mr. BUSHONG: A bill (H. R. 11540) granting an in 10041) granting a pension to Alice B. Cook, and the same was crease of pension to Elizabeth S. Keirn; to the Committee on referred to the Committee on Pensions. Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11541) granting an increase of pension to PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Catherine Rider; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, public bills and resolutions By 1.\Ir. CHAPMAN: A bill (H. R. 11542) granting an increase were introduced and severally refeiTed as follows: · of pension to Mary 1\I. Wilson ; to the Committee on Invalid By. 1.\Ir. HOPE: A bill (H. R. 11525) to amend the packers Pensions. . and stockyards act, 1921; to the Committee on Agriculture. By Mr. CHINDBLOl\1: A bill (H. R. 11543) granting a pen By 1\Ir. BUTLER: A bill (H. R. 11526) to authorize the sion to 1\fary E. Crabtree; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. construction of certain naval vessels, and for other purposes ; By 1\Ir. CRAIL: A bill (H. R. 11544) granting a pension to to the Committee on Naval Affairs . Ida 1\I. Montgomery; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . By 1\Ir. MANSFIELD: A bill (H. R. 11527) to amend an act Also, a bill (H. R. 11545) for the relief of Charles Wilson ; entitled "An act authorizing the construction, repair, and preser to the Committee on Military Affairs. vation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for By Mr. CRISP: A bill (H. R. 11546) granting an increase of other purposes," approved March 3, 1925 ; to the Committee on pension to William W. Martin; to the Committee on Pensions. Rivers and Harbors. . By Mr. ROY G. FITZGERaLD: ·A bill (H. R. 11547) for By Mr. SuTHERLAND: A bill (H. R. 11528) to authorize the relief of Catherine Panturis; to the Committee on Claims. appeals in all criminal proceedings and certain civil proceed Also. a. bill (H. R. 11548) for the relief of Sarah Monis ; to ings in the district court of Alaska; to the Committee on the the Committee on Claims. Judiciary. By Mr. W. T. FITZGERALD: A bill (H. R. 11549) granting Also, a bill (H. R. 11529) to extend the time of the Alaska a pension to Henderson M. Pettit; to the Committee on Invalid Anthracite Railroad Co. for completion of its railroad in. the Pensions. · Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes; to the Committee By 1\ir. GARRETT of Tennessee : A bill (H. R. 11550) on the Territories. granting a pension to Mattie Russell Meadows ; to the Commit By Mr. WRIGHT: A bill (H. R. 11530) to amend the World tee on Pensions. War veterans' act, 1924; to the Committee ·on World War By Mr. HALL.of Indiana: A bill (H. R. 11551) for the relief .Veterans' Legislation. of Ralph R. Cloud ; to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. ENGLEBRIGHT: A bill (H. R. 11531) authorizing Also, a bill (H. R. 11552) granting an increase of pension to appropriations for the establishment and maintenance of mining Martha A. Budd ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. experiment stations of the United States Bureau of Mines; to Also, a bill (H. R. 11553} granting a pension to Blenda C. · the Committee on Mines and Mining. Moore; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By 1\Ir. JOHNSON of Texas: A bill (H. R. 11532) to amend By Mr. HOGG: A bill (H. R. 11554) granting an increase of the first paragraph of section 29, title 2, chapter 85, of the first pension to Rocelia Dennis; to the Committee on Invalid Pen- session of the Sixty-sixth Cong~·ess, found in volume 41, part 1, sion& · page 316, of the United States Statutes at Large, relating to By Mr. KENDALL: A bill (H. R. 11555) granting_a pension punishment for the illegal manufacture and sale of liquors ; to to Virginia A. Harris; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on the J"udiciary. ALso, a bill (H. R 11556) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. TIMBERLAKE: A bill (H. R. 11533) to provide for Ellen J. Perkins; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the enlargement and further development of the Akron United By :Mr. KURTZ : A bill (H. R. 11557) g1·anting a pension to States Agricultural Substation, located near Akron, in Wash Nora Belle Biesecker; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ington County, Colo., by authorizing the purchase of certain By Mrs. LANGLEY: A bill (H. R. 11558) ' g1·anting an in · lands adjacent thereto, the erection of certain improvements crease of pension to Owen Combs; to the Committee on Pensions. thereon, and the equipment thereof with dairy cattle and other ·By Mr. LEATHERWOOD: A bill (H. R. 11559) to authorize livestock; to the Committee on Agriculture. reimbursement of Dr. B. W. Black, formerly a commissioned By 1\Ir. BRAND of Georgia: A bill (H. R. 11534) providing officer of the United States Public Health Service, for travel for canceling naturalization certificates if and when a natural- performed subsequent to June 7, 1924, under orders of the Secre . ized citizen, within five years after the date of the certificate tary of the Treasury, issued prior to that date ; to tlie Committee of citizenship, has been guilty of fraud, or by his acts, declara on Claims. tions, or conduct has ceased to be a man of good moral char Also, a bill (H. R. 11500) for the relief of the Bennion Live acter; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. stock Co. ; to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. DYER: A biil (H. R. 11535) to· provide punishment · By 1\Ir. LINDSAY: A bill (H. R. 11561) granting an increase for killing or assaulting Federal officers; to the Committee on of pension· to Anna lU. Venus; to the Committee ·on Invalid the J"udiciary. Pensions. 3738 CONGRESSIONAL RECOR-D-HOUSE FEBRUARY 28 By Mr. l\lERRI'rT: A bill (H. R. 11562) granting an increase 4615. Also, petition of G. W. ~Iiller and other citizens of of pension to Malia C. Hill ; to the Committee on Invalid . Callaway County, Mo., opposing compulsory Sunday observance; Pensions. ..- to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Also, a bill (H. R. 11563) granting a pension to Thomas Col 4616. Also, petition of L. E. Mabon and other citizens of lin ~ ; to the Committee on Pensions. Bland, Mo., opposing compulsory Sunday observance ; to the By Mr. :MOORE of Ohio: A bill (H. R. 11564) granting an Committee on the District of Columbia. increase of pension to Sarah E. Petty; to the Committee on 4617. Also, petition of W. F. H. Schroeder and other citizens Invaliu Pensions. of Ga conade County, Mo., opposing compulsory Sunday observ~ By Mr. PERKINS: A bill (H. R. 11565) for the relief of ance; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Edmund J. Clark; to the Committe-e-on Military Affairs. 4618. Also, petition of J. C. Humphreys and other citizens of By Mr. PORTER: A bill (H. R. 11566) for the relief of Callaway County, :Mo., opposing ~ompulsory Sunday observance; Hugh R. ·wilson, John K. Caldwell, and other diplomatic and to the Committee on the District of Columbia. con ular officers and employees and representatives of the 4619. Al~o, petition of H. F. West and other citizen. of Fulton, Departments of State, Commerce, the Treasury, and Agricultm·e Mo., opposing compulsory Sunday observance ; to the Committee who suffered losses in the Japanese earthquake and fire; to the on the District of Columbia. Committee on Foreign Affairs. 4620. By Mr. CARSS : Petition of Alexander La Doix and By Mr. RAMSEYER: A bill (H. R. 11567) granting an in 30 other Chippewa Indians, of International Falls, 1\Iinn., pro crease of pension to Aldra Byrum; to the Committee on Invalid testing against enactment of H. R. 189, the so-called purification Pensions. bill ; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. By Mr. REECE: A bill (H. B. 11568) granting an increase 4621. By Mr. DARROW : Petition of the Philadelphia Board of pension to Frank C. Miller ; to the Committee on Pensions. of Trade favoring the enactment of H. R. 8557, to provide for By Mr. RUBEY: A bill (H. n. 11569) granting an increase of the establi hment and operation of foreign trade zones in ports pension to 1\lary E. Allen ; to the Committee on Invalid Pen of entry of the United States, etc. ; to the Committee on Inter~ sions. state and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. SANDERS of New York: A bill (H. R. 11570) gl·ant 4622. By l\lr. EATON : Petition of 82 residents of Plainfield ing an increase of pension to Mary E. Logel ; to the Committee and North Plainfield, N. J., against enactment of H. R. 78; to on Invalill Pensions. the Committee on the Distl'ict of Columbia. By Mr. SIMMONS: A bill (H. R. 11571) granting a pension to 4623. By l\Ir. ENGLEBRIGHT: Petition of H. L. Wolfsen Fannie F. Wilson; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. and other petitioners of Colfax, Calif., protesting against the By Mr. SUMMERS of Washington: A bill (H. R. 11572) Sunuay closing law for the District of C-olumbia; to the Com granting a pension to Sarah J. Edmonds; ·to the Committee on mittee on the District of Columbia. Invalid Pensions. 4624. Also, petition of Mr. A. E. Stewart and other citizens By 1\Ir. SWICK: A bill (H. R. 11573) granting an increase of of Roseville, Calif., protesting against Sunday closing for the pension to Anna l\1. Shaffer; to the Committee on Invalid Pen District of Columbia ; to the Committee on the District of sions. Columbia. 41)25. Also, petition of sundry citizens of Siskiyou County, AL~o, a bill (II. R. 11574) granting an increase of pension to .Alice C. J. Wilson; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Calif., protesting again t S1mday closing for the District of Also, a bill (H. R. 11575) gi'anti11g an increase of pension to Columbia ; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. 4626. By Mr. GALLIVAN: Petition of Rollin H. Richardson, Irene Dunbar; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 6 Alpine Sh·eet, Roxbm·y, Mass., recommending legislation go, Also, a bill (H. R. 11576) granting an increase of pension to erning the care and treatment of dumb :mimals; to the Mary E. Boyd; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Agriculture. 4627. By ~ir. GARBER: Letter of M. C. Sutton, ma.nager ()f PETI'.riONS, ETC. the Oklahoma City Clearing House. AssociatiQn, of Oklahoma Under clause 1 of Rule X....'\:II, petitions and papers were laid City, Okla., in opposition to S. 1752; to the Committee on the on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows : Po t Office and Post Roads. 4604. Petition of sundry citizens of San Antonio, Tex., oppos 4628. Also, letter of Barrington Moore, secretary Council ing certain legislation Jmown as the Box bill, affecting immigra on National Parks, Forests, and Wild Life, of Washington tion in the United States from Mexico; to the Committee on D. C., in support of H. R. 5467 and S. 2171, migratory bird con: Immigration and Natm·alization. servution bills; to the Committee on Agriculture. 4605. By Mr. ADKINS: Petition of sundry adult citizens of 4629. Also, letter of Charles B. Burdick, engineer, of Chi~ Decatur, Ill., protesting again t compulsory Sunday obserrancc cago, Ill., in support of the Newton bill (H. R. 8111), pro as proposed in the Lankford Sunday bill (H. R. 78); to the viding for an inventory of water resources; to the Committee Committee on the District of Columbia. on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. . 4606. By Mr. ALDRICH: Petition ·of Thomas F. Tefft and 4630. Also, letter of J. H. Hoeppel, commander General Har 15 other citizens of the State of Rhode Islanu protesting against ri. on Gray Otis Post, No. 1537, V. F. W. ; past commander compulsory Sundny legislation; to the Committee on the Dis- Charles A. Lindbergh Camp, No. 103, U. S. W. V. ; and pust com trict of Columbia. · mander Glenn Dyer Po t, No. 247, American Legion, in support 4607. By Mr. BOIES: Petition signed by citizens of Onawa, of H. R. 6523 and S. 1986, providing for increase in pen ion · Monona County, State of Iowa, protesting against the compul to the Committee on Military Affairs. ' sory Sunday observance bill (H. R. 78); to the Committee on 4631. Also, resolutions of Chamber of Commerce, of Hominy, the District of Columbia. Okla., in protest to the passage of H. R. 9033 and H. &: 9294; to 4608. By Mr. BURDICK : Resolution of Lodge Gustaf II, the Committee on Indian Affairs. Adolf No. 17, Vasa Order of America, of Providence, R. I., 4632. By Mr. GUYER: Petition of sundry citizens of Kansas protesting against the reduction of the Swedish quota of immi City, Wyandotte County, Kans., urging increases of pension grants; to the Committee on Immigration aud Naturalization. for sm·vivors and widows of the Civil w·ar; to the Committee 4609. Allso, resolution of Lodge Ebba Brabe, No. 18, Vasa on Invalid Pension. . Order of America, of Providence, R. I., protesting against the 4633. By Mr. HADLEY: Petition of sundry residents of reduction of the Swedi. h quota of immigrants; to the Commit Everett, Wash., protesting against the Lankford Sunday closing tee on Immigration and Naturalization. bill ; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. 4610. By Mr. CANNON: Petition of Charles W. Young and 4634. Also, petition of sundry residents of Marysville, Wash.; other citizens of Montgome1·y County, Mo., opposing compul to the Committee on the District of Columbia. sory Sunday observance; to the Committee on the District of 4635. Also, petition of residents of King County, Wash., Columbia. protesting against the Lankford Sunday closing bill; to the 4611. Also, petition of John C. Garner and others, of Pacific, Committee on the District of Columbia. Mo., in behalf of an incr·ease of Civil War pensions; to the 4636. Also, petition of residents of Langley, 'Vash., protesting Committee on Invalid Pensions. against t11e Lankford Sunday closing !)ill ; to the Committee on 4612. Also, petition of W. E. ~uis and other citizens of Calla the Disti·ict of Columbia. way County, Mo., oppo··ing compulsory Sunday obsertancc; to 4637. By Ur. H.ALL of Indiana : Petition of R. D. Homer and the Committee on the District of Columbia. 131 citizens, of Pulaski County, nsking fot• increstse of pensions 4613. Also, petition of C. R. Spradlin and other citizens of for Civil War soldiers and widows; to tl1e Committee on Invalid Audrain County, Mo., opposing compulsory Sunday observance; Pensions. to the Committee on the District of Columbia. 4638. Also, petition of Rebecca Berry and 128 citi7.cns, of 4614. Also, petition of A. J. Keller and Bertie Keller, of De Miami County, Ind., asking for increase of pensions for 'ct fiance, Mo., opposing compulsory Sunday obsenance; to the erans of the Civil 'Var and for widows of veterans of the Civil Committee on the DL'3trict pf Columbia. W~r; to the Oommittce on Invalid Pensions. 1928 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3739 4G30. Also, petition of Ray Houser and 75 other citizens, of as a national park the Great Falls of the Potomac and an acre Huntington County, Ind., asking increase of pension for every above the falls ; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Civil War survivor and war widows; to the Committee on 4663. Also, petition of the Brooklyn Tuberculosis and Health Invalid Pensions. Association of the Bureau of Charities, Brooklyn, N. Y., favor 4640. Also, petition of Mary McCole and 105 other citizens, in": the passage of the Parker bill (H. R. 5766), which provides of Grant County, Ind., asking for increase of pension for sur for the coordination of the public-health actinties of the Govern vivors of Civil War; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ment; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Coiilmerce. 4641. By Mr. HAUGEN: Petition of 31 citizens of Chickasaw, 4664. Also, petition of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Fayette, and Bremer Counties, Iowa, protesting against the of New York City, favoring the passage of the Parker bill enactment of House bill 78 or any other compulsory Sunday (H. R. 5766), a bill to provide for the coordination of the observance legislation ; to the Committee on the District of public-health activities of the Government; to the Committee on Columbia. Interstate and Foreign Commerce. 4642. By Mr. JOHNSON of Washington: Petition of 39 citi 4665. By Mr. OLDFIELD: Petition of Eugene Cypert and zens of Lewis County, Wash., opposing compulsory Sunday others, of White County, Ark., urging the increase of pensions observance legislation; to the Committee ou the District of of Civil War pensioners; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Columbia. 4666. By Mr. ROBINSON of Iowa: Petition of Rev. W. T. 4643. Also, petition of the Federated Teachers of the Public Smith, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Iowa Schools of Tacoma, Wash., favoring the Curtis-Reed bill; to Falls, Iowa, and sundry citizens of Iowa Falls against the pro the Committee on Education. posed naval construction bill; to the Committee on Naval 4644. Also, petition of 13 rural mail carriers of Lewis, Thurs Affairs. ton, Mason, and Grays Harbor Counties, Wash., supporting the 4667. By Mr. SANDERS of New York: Petition of Mrs. S.C. Gibson retirement bill and the Reece good roads bill; to the Carr, signed by 34 citizens of Rochester, N. Y., protesting Committee on the Civil Service. against the passage of the Lankford compulsory Sunday ob 4645. Also, petition of citizens of Clarke County, Wash., pro servance bill; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. testing the Lankford Sunday observance bill ; to the Committee 4668. ~y Mr. SHALLENBERGER: Petition of sundry citi on the District of Columbia. zens of Nebraska against compulsory Sunday observance; to the 4646. Also, petition of 686 citizens of Tacoma and Pierce Committee on the District of Columbia. County, Wash., opposing compulsory Sunday observance legisla 4669. By Mr. SHREVE: A protest from Charles A. Donaghue tion ; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. and other citizens of Corry, Pa., against the passage of the 4647. By Mr. JOHNSON of Texas: Petition of W. A. Terrell, Lankford Sunday observance bill ; to the Committee on the of Fort Worth, Tex., favoring and urging passage of H. R. 25, District of Columbia. H. R. 88, and H. R. 905!), relative to Postal Service employees; 4670. By 1\fr. SMITH: Petition signed by Dr. G. W. Pendle to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. ton and 808 other citizens of Idaho Falls, Idaho, protesting 4648. By Mrs. KAHN: Petition of Frank B. Fitzpatrick and against the enactment of any compulsory Sunday observance numerous other citizens of California, urging the passage of legislation; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. H. R. 6518, known as the Welch minimum wage bill ; to the 4671. By Mr. SINNOTT: Petition of numerous citizens of Committee on the Civil Service. Oregon, protesting against passage of the Lankford bill, or simi 4649. By Mr. KORELL: Petition of citizens of Portland, lar compulsory Sunday legislation; to the Committee on the Oreg., protesting against the passage of the bill known as the District of Columbia. · Brookhart bill; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign 4672. By Mr. STRONG of Pennsylvania: Petition of Red Commerce. Cross Sisterhood, No. 86, Dames of Malta, Punxsutawney, Pa., 4650. Also, petition of sundry citizens of Portland, Oreg., pro in favor of H. R. 10078; to the Committee on Immigration and testing against the passage of the Sunday observance bill (H. R. Naturalization. 78) ; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. 4673. By Mr. SWICK: Petition of Mr. W. E. Minteer and 128 4651. By Mr. KVALE: Petition of members of the Women's residents of Ellwood City, Lawrence County, Pa., members of Christian Temperance Union of Tracy, Minn., urging passage of the Berean bible class, United Presbyterian Church, urging the the Stalker bill (H. R. 9588) ; to the Committee on the Judi passage of H. R. 78, the Lankford bill, providing for Sunday ciary. observance in the District of Columbia ; to the Committee on the 4652. Also, petition of members of W. C. T. U. of Cottonwood, District of Columbia. Minn., urging passage of the Stalker bill (H. R. 9588) ; to the 4674. By Mr. SWING: Petition of residents of Riverside, Committee on the Judiciary. Calif., protesting against compulsory Sunday observance laws; 4653. By Mr. LINDSAY: Petition of Brooklyn Tuberculosis to the Committee on the District of Columbia. · and Health Association of the Bureau of Charities, urging sup 4675. Also, petition of residents of San Bernardino, Calif., port of the Parker bill (H. R. 5766), providing for the coordi protesting against compulsory Sunday observance laws; to the nation of the. public-health activities of the Government; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. 4676. Also, petition of sundry residents of Beaumont Calif. 4654. Also, petition of board of directors, Green :Mountain and vicinity protesting against compulsory Sunday obs~rvan~ Club, New York City, urging support of H. R. 5760, to set aside laws ; to the Committee on the -District of Columbia. Great Falls of the Potomac as a national park; to the Commit 4677. By 1\Ir. TIMBERLAKE: Petition in behalf of Civil ·war tee on the District of Columbia. pension bill from veterans at Boulder, Colo. ; to the Committee 4655. By Mr. LUCID: Petition of members of the faculty and on Invalid Pensions. administration of Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., protest 4678. By Air. WELCH of California: Petition of the San ing against naval building program; to the Committee on Naval Francisco Board of Supervisors, San Francisco, Calif., fnvoring .Affairs. the passage of H. R. 7467, granting consent to the city and 4656. By Mr. MILLER: Petition of citizens of Seattle, Wash., county of San Francisco to construct, maintain, and operate a protesting H. R. 78; to the Committee on the District of Co bridge across the Bay of San Francisco, Calif. ; to the Com lumbia. mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. 4657. Also, petition of sundry citizens of Seattle, Wash., pro 4679. By 1\Ir. WHITE of Colorado: Petition of sundry citi testing passage of the District of Columbia Sunday closing law zens of Denver, Colo., praying enactment of legislation increas (H. R. 78) ; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. ing the rates of pensions to veterans of the Civil ·war; to the 4658. By :Mr. MONAST: Petition of citizens of Providence, Committee on Invalid Pensions. · : R. I., protesting against compulsory Sunday laws; to the Com 4680. By Mr. 'VYANT: Petition of Stephen F. Whitman & , mittee on the District of Columbia. Son (Inc.) favoring passage of Capper-Kelly resale price bill 4659. By Mr. NELSON of Wisconsin : Petition signed by Mrs. (H. R. 11) ; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com , C. M. Chapman and others, of Madison, Wis., protesting against merce. compulsory Sunday observance legislation; to the Committee 4681. Also. petition of 125 members Local Union No. 1044, on the District of Columbia. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America by 4660. By Mr. O'CONNELL: Petition of the 'Vestchester John ,V. Neth, recording secretary, favoring passage of Cooper Couuty Federation of Women's Clubs, Mount Vernon, N. Y., Hawes bills (H. R. 7729 and S. 1940); to the Committee on for law observance and enforcement ; to the Committee on the Labor. Judiciary. 4682. Also, petition of the Narrow Fabric Co., of Reading, 4661. Also, petition of Innis, Speiden & Co., New York City, Pa., favoring passage of Capper-Kelly bill (H. R. 11) ; to the ~ favoring the passage of H. R. 9195, the Cuban parcel-post bill; Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. · to the Committee- on· Ways and Means; 4683. Also, petition of Hardwick & Magee Co., Philadelphia, · 4662. Also, petition of the New York section, Green Mountain Pa., favoring passage of Capper-Kelly resale price bill (H. R. Club (Inc.), favoring the passage of H. R; 5760, to set aside · 11); to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce~ 3740 CONGR.ESSION AL RECORD-SENATE FEBRUARY 29 4684. Also, petition of C. J. Hollister, D. D. S., chief dental as o1llcers of the Regular .Army, and who during such service incurred division, Pennsylvania department of health, favoring passage physic.:Jl disability rated to be in excess of 30 per cent permanent, of H. R. 11026, Public Health Service bill; to the Committee on shall be placed upon a separate list and granted the same compen Interstate and Foreign Commerce. sation and perquisites as are received by retired ofil.cers of the Regular 1 4685. Also, petition of Council on National Parks, Forest, ..Army similarly situated ; further and Wild · Life, indorsing the Anthony-Norbeck migratory }}ird ''Resol-ved, That the executive committee of the New York Young · conservation bills (H. R. 5467 and S. 2171) ; to th Committee Republican Club respectfully urge upon tbe Senate and the House of 'On Agriculture. Representatives the early passage of the said Tyson-Fitzgerald bill 4686. Also, petition of J. Q. Waters, w ·est Newton, Pa., (S. 777 and H. R. 5.00) in o1·der that belated justice may be done to favoring passage of the Wurzbach bill (H. R. 6523) or Tyson the disabled officers of the National Army ; further bill (S. 1986); to the Committee on Military Affairs. '' Resolt:ed, That the secretary of this committee h-ansmit a copy of this resolution to the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the chairman of the respective Committees on Military Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives, and SENATE to the chairman of the Committee on Rules of the llouse of Repre sentatives, with the request that the said Tyson-Fitzgerald bill (S. 'VED!-.""ESDAY, F ebnta'ly f!9, 19Z8 777, H. R. 500) shall have their earnest and serious consideration." The Chaplain, Rev. Z!':Barney T. Phillips, D. D., offered the We trust that this subject may ha>e careful attention. follo"""i.ng prayer: Very respectfully, Almighty God, our Hea•enly Father, at this morning hour we JOSEPH MARK BALDWIN, render Thee our bumble praises for all Thy mercies renewed to Secretary Etrecutive Committee. us each day. And from our thankful hearts we beseech Thee Mr. REED of Pennsylvania presented a petition of the Phila for all whom we love and upon whom we bestow our watchful delphia (Pa.) Board of Trade, praying for the passage of care, for all who have blessed us with kindness, led us with the bill ( S. 351) prohibiting the sending of unsolicited mer patience, and re ..;tored us by their sympathy and help, for all chandise through the mails, which was referred to the Commit who are bearing the burdens of life, for all who are sick and tee on Post Offices and Post Roads. afHicted, and for all who are anguished in spirit, that Thou REPORTS OF THE NAVAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE wouldest make Thy people one in heart and mind and purpose ; Ur. SWANSON, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to 1 and that our eyes may kindle to the beauty and glory of which was referred the bill ( S. 1377) for the relief of Lieut. America when she looks forth as the morning, fail· as the moon Robert Stanley Robertson, jr., United States Navy, reported it and clear as the sun in the splendor of Him who is the light with an amendment and submitted a report (No. 442) thereon. of the wo-rld, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Mr. SHORTRIDGE, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to The Chief Clerk proceeded to read the Journal of yesterday's which was referred the bill ( S. 151) for the relief of Charles R. proc-eedings, when, on request of Mr. CURTIS, and by unanimou& Sies, reported it without amendment and submitted a report consent, the furthe1· reading was dispensed with and the Journal (No. 443) thereon. wa · approved. Mr. HALE, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to which CALL OF THE BOLL was referred the bill ( S. 2442) for the relief of Lieut. Henry 0. Weber, Medical Corps, United States Navy, l'eported it without Mr. CURTIS. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a amendment and submitted a report (No. 444) thereon. quorum. The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will call the roll. SESQUICENTENNIAL OF DISCOVERY OF H.A. W .AII.AN ISLANDS The legislative clerk called the roll, and the following Sen Mr. BORAH. Mr. President, from the Committee on Foreign ators answe1·ed to theh· names: Relations I report back favorably without amendment the joint Ashurst Ferris La Follette Schall resolution · (H. J. Res. 141) to autho-rize the President to invite Barkley Fess . McKellar ~heppard the Government of Great Britain to participate in the celebra Bayard Fletcher McLean Shipstead tion of the Sesquicentennial of the Discovery of the Hawaiian Bingham Frazier McMaster Shor-tridge - Blaek George McNary Simmons Islands, and to provide for the participation of the Government Blaine Gerry Mayfield Smitb. of the United States therein, and I ask unanimous consent for Blease Gillett Metcalf Smoot its immediate consideration. Borah Glass Moses Steck Bratton Gooding Neely Steiwer The "VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the request of Brookhart Gould Norbeck Stephens the Senator f1·om Idaho? Broussard Gr~ene Norlis Swanson There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the Bruce Hale Nve Thomas Capper Harris oddie Tydings Whole, proceeded to consider the joint resolution, and it was Caraway Harrison Overman Tyson read, as follows : Copeland Hayden Phipps Walsh, Mass. Couzens -Heflin Pine Walsh, Mont. Resolr:ed, etc., That the President be, and he Is hereby, authorized and Curtis llowell Pittman Warren requested to extend a formal invitation to the Government of Great Cutting Johnson Ransdell \Vaterman Britain to participate in the said celebration by sending a man-of-war Dale Jones Reed, Pa. Watson with delegates representing the Dominions most interested. De.neen Kendrick Robinson, Ark. Wbeeler ' Dill Keyes Robinson, Ind. Willis SEc. 2. That for the purpose of defraying the expense of participation Edge King Sackett by the Government of the United States in the said celebration, an appro Mr. COPELAND. My colleague the junior Senator from priation of the sum of $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, New York [Mr. W .AGNER] is detained on official business. I is hereby autborizetl, to include transportation, subsistence, or per diem will let this announcement stand for the day. in lieu of subsistence (notwithstanding the provisions of any prenous Mr. GERRY. The Senator from New Jersey [Mr. Enw.A.Bns] act), and such other expenses as the President shall deem proper. is necessarily detained from the Senate by reason of illness in The joint resolution was reported to the Senate without his family. amendment, ordered to a third reading, read the third time, and The VICE PRESIDENT. Eighty-seven Senators having passed. answered to their names, a quorum is present. Mr. BORAH. I ask that there may be plinted in the RECORD PETITIONS .AND MEMORIALS the House committee report and the message of the President Mr. TYSON presented a communication from the secretary in relation to the matter. -of the executive committee of the New York Young Republi The VICE Pll.ESIDE~"'T. Without objection, it is so ordered. can Club, of New York City, N. Y., which was ordered to lie The report and message are as follows: on the table and to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: [H. Rept. No. 507, 70th Cong., 1st sess.] Hon. LAWRE~CE D. TYSON, A GTHOJUZING THE PRESIDENT TO INVITE GREAT llRlTAL."" TO SESQU IC~N- Ut~ifed. States Settator, Washington, D. 0. TENNIAL OF HAWAIIAN lsr,ANDS Srn : The executive committee of the ~ew York Young Republican Mr.· M..us, from the Committee on Foreign A1l'nirs, submitted the Club, at its r egular meeting held on the 17th day of February, 1928, following r eport to a ccompany H. J. lles. 141: approved the following resolution in. r ega rd to the Tyson-Fitzgerald '.rhc Committee on Foreign Affairs, to which wns referred House bill now pending before the Congress : Joint Resolution 141, to a uthorize t he President to invite the Govern "Resolved, That t he executive committee -of the :Xew York Young ment of Great Britain to participate in the celebration by the Territory 'Republican Club hereby approved the proposed legislation now pending of Hawaii of the Sesquicentennial of the Discovery of the Hawaiian before the Congress, commonly known as the Tyson-Fitzgerald bill I slands, and to provide for the participation of the Government of the (H. R. 500, s: 777), whereby all persons who served as officers of United States therein, having considered the same, report thereon with , _the .Army of the United States during the World War, other than the recommendation that it do pass.