13626 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE NOVEMBER 18

Alfred Warrington Marriner, Air Cor~& To be a Guy Harrison Gale, Air Corps. LePage Cronmiller, Jr. Muir Stephen Fairchild, Air Corps. James Gradon Taylor, Air Corps. To be a Leland Wilbur Miller, Air Corps. David L. Henderson Raphael Baez, Jr., Air Corps. To be a chief quartermaster clerk TO BE Homer Sterling Joseph Cyril Augustin Denniston, Air Corps. John Halliday McCormick, Air Corps. Earl Walter Barnes, Air Corps. - SENATE Charles Henry Caldwell, Air Corps. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1940 Edgar Turner Noyes, Air Corps. James Keller De Armond, Air Corps. (Legislative day ot,Wednesday, September 18. 1940) Walter Llewellyn Wheeler, Air Corps. The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, on the expiration Norme D. Frost, Air Corps. cf the recess. Linus Dodge Frederick, Air Corps. The Chaplain, Rev. Z~Barney T. Phillips, D. D., offered the James Gordon Pratt, Air Corps. following prayer: Milton Miles Murphy, Air Corps. Lee Quintus Wasser, Air Corps. Almighty God, Thou fountain of divine blessing, whose Benjamin Thomas Starkey, Air Corps. infinite mind dwells behind the shadows, and whose heart of George Vernon Holloman, Air Corps. lave pulses beyond the stars: We acknowledge Thy presence Glenn Oscar Barcus, Air Corps. in all the universe, and, with the faith that will not be Turner Ashby Sims, Jr., Air Corps. quenched, we trust the infinite beneficence of Thy purpose, Samuel Wallace Van Meter, Air Corps. seeking only to order our lives in perfect harmony with Alfred Henry Johnson, Air Corps. Thine. Draw near to us, dear Lord, that, in the spirit of James Roy Andersen, Air Corps. kindness and readiness to serve, we may manifest in the Samuel Russ Harris, Jr., Air Corps. doing of our tasks this day a human sympathy for all suffer­ Shelton Ezra Prudhomme, Air Corps. ing humanity and an active zeal for whatever may promote John Paul Doyle, Jr., Air Corps. a wider happiness in our own beloved country and among Leon William Johnson, Air Corps. the nations of the world. Guy Beasley Henderson, Air Corps. Quicken our devotion to the highest, holiest principles ·of Henry Raymond Baxter, Air Corps. that perfect- manhood revealed in our Lord and Saviour, Morris Robert Nelson, Air Corps. Jesus Christ, in whose name and only for whose sake we dare Kenneth Perry McNaughton, Air Corps. to pray. Amen. TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS IN THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES THE JOURNAL TO BE LIEUTENANT GENERAL On request of Mr. BARKLEY, and by unanimous consent, Delos Carleton Emmons, commanding gen~ral, General the reading of the Journal of the proceedings of the calendar Headquarters Air Force. day of Friday, November 15, 1940, was dispensed with and TO BE MAJOR GENERALS the Journal was·approved. '

Walter King Wilson Benjamin Oliver Davis METHOD OF N~BERING UNITED STATES LAWS Ernest Dichmann Peek Sanderford Jarman The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore

REPORT ON THE FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT LIBRARY mergers, and certain other matters, relative to control of the The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the reorganized Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Senate a letter from the Archivist of the Unit.ed States, Co., which was ordered to be printed. transmitting, pursuant to law, the first annual report on BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTION INTRODUCED the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library for the fiscal year ended· Bills and a joint resolution were introduced, read the first June 30, 1940, which, with the accompanying report, was time, and, by unanimous consent, the second time, andre­ referred to the Committee on the Library. ferred as follows: PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS By Mr. PEPPER: The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the S. 4421. A bill for the relief of Mitchell Baryshanski; to Senate a resolution adopted by the Thirty-third Annual Con­ the Committee on Immigration. vention of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association at By Mr. McKELLAR: Richmond, Va., favoring the taking of prompt steps for the S. 4422. A bill relating to the compensation of William J. construction of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in the Muse for services rendered as a clerk in the post office at interest of national defense, which was referred to the Com­ Mountain City, Tenn.; to the Cominittee on Post Offices and mittee on Commerce. Post Roads. He also laid before the Senate the petition of Hyman Wal­ S. J. Res. 302. Joint resolution authorizing the President to ter, of New York City, praying for the creation of the salaried invite foreign countries to participate in the Pan American post of poet laureate of the United States, which was referred Cotton Congress; to the Committee on Foreign Relations. to the Committee on the Library. FUNERAL EXPENSES OF THE LATE SENATOR PITTMAN He also laid before the Senate a letter from Derek White, Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, on behalf of the Senator chairman, advisory board, National Aircraft Training Council, from Nevada [Mr. McCARRANJ, I ask for the present consider­ Los Angeles, Calif., offering his services and those of the ation of the resolution which I send to the desk. council to the United States for the purpose of speeding up The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolution that portion of the national defense having to do with the will be read. production of airplanes, engines, and component parts, which, The resolution (S. Res. 328) was read, as follows: with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate hereby is authorized on Military Affairs. and directed to pay from the contingent fund of the Senate the He also laid before the Senate a resolution of the annual actual and necessary expenses incurred by the committee appointed meeting of the Hudson River Baptist Association, North, by the Acting President pro tempore of the Senate in arranging for and attending the funeral of Hon. Key Pittman, late a Senator Schenectady, N.Y., protesting against the action of the State from the State of Nevada, upon vouchers to be approved by the of New York Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control in au­ Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the thorizing manufacturers and wholesalers "to sell and deliver Senate. alcoholic beverages to post exchanges, canteens, officers, and The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objec­ regional messes within Federal military and naval reserva­ tion, the rule requiring reference of the resolution to the tions,"' which was referred to the Committee on Military Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of Affairs. the Senate will be waived, and the resolution will be adopted. He also laid before the Senate l\ telegram in the nature of a petition from R. G. Allen, of Dallas, Tex., praying for the ELECTION POLLS, ETC. prompt enactment of the so-called Walter-Logan bill and Mr. McKELLAR submitted the following resolution (S. Res. amendment of the Wagner Labor Act, and also remonstrating 329), which was referred to the Committee on Privileges and against final adjournment of the Congress, which was ordered Elections: to lie on the table. Resolved, That a special committee of three Senators, to be ap­ pointed by the President of the Senate, Is authorized and directed REPORT OF CO~TEES to make a full and complete study and investigation with respect to Mr. KING, from the Committee on the District of Colum­ polls, straw ballots, and published reports which (1) have purported to indicate how persons would vote or expected to vote or were likely bia, to which were referred the following bills, reported them · to vote in primary elections or other elections in which Presidential severally without amendment and submitted reports thereon: electors or Members of the Senate or Members of the House of S. 4415. A bill to amend the act entitled "An act in relation Representatives were to be elected or in which candidates for any of such ottices were to be nominated, or (2) have purported to measure to pandering, to define and prohibit the same, and to pro­ or indicate the state of public opinion about matters of national vide for the punishment thereof," approved June 25, 1910 importance. The committee shall report to the Senate as soon as as it deems advisable. The cost of stenographic services to report to amend section 204 of the act entitled "An act to provide for such hearings shall not be in excess of 25 cents per hundred words. the termination of Federal control of railroads and systems The expenses of the committee, which shall not exceed $10,000, shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers of transportation; to provide for the settlement of disputes approved by the chairman. between carriers and their employees; to further amend an act entitled 'An act to regulate commerce,' approved Febru­ CO~ITTEE SERVICE ary 4, 1887, as amended, and for other purposes," approved Mr. AUSTIN. At the request of the senior Senator from February 28, 1920, reported it with an amendment and sub­ Oregon [Mr. McNARY], who is necessarily absent on public mitted a report