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Congressional Record-Senate May 8 2103 8958 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE MAY 8 2103. Also, resolutions of Great Falls Post, No. 3, American When pain an(] sickness made me cry, Legion, urging passage of the Johnson, Green, and Fitzgerald Who gazed upon my heavy eye veterans' bills during the present session of Congress; to the And wept for fear t.bat I should die! Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation. My mother.· 2104. By Mr. O'CONNELL of New York: Petition of Julien Who ran to help me when I !ell N. Friant, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., favoring the pas age of the And would some pretty story tell, Haugen agriculture relief bill; to the Committee on Agricul­ Or kiss the part to make it well? ture. My mother. 2105. Also, petition of the American Association of China, favoring the passage of House bills 6753 and 6771, refer­ Who taught my infant lips to pray, ring to the construction of a new United States Government To love God's Holy Word and day, building in Shanghai, China ; , to the Committee on Foreign And walk in wisdom's pleasant way? Affairs. :My mother. 2106. By ·Mrs. ROGERS: Resolution by Andover Cl\·Iass.) And can I ever cease to be Association of Ministers and Congregational Churches, favor­ Affectionate and kind to thee, ing strict enforcement of the eighteenth amendment; to the Who wast so very kind to me-- Committee on the Judiciary. 1\Iy mother. Oh, no; the thought I can not bear; SENATE .And if God please roy life to spare I hope I shall reward thy care-- SATURDAY, May 8,1926 My mother. (Legi8lative da-y of Th-tLr8da1/, May 6, 1926) When thou art feeble, o1d, and gray, ThP Senate reassembled at 12 o'clock meridian, on the expira­ My healthy arm shall be thy stay, tion of the recess. And I will soothe thy pains away- Mr. C RTIS. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a My mother. quorum. And when I see thee hang thy head, The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will call the roll. 'T.will be roy turn to watch thy bed, The legislative clerk called the roll, and the following Sen­ And tears of sweet affection shed- ators answered to their names: My mother. Asb urst Fess King Robinson, Ind. Bayard Fletcher La Follette Sackett 1\Ir. HEFLIN. 1\Ir. President, I thank the Senator for his Blngbaro Frazier Lenroot Sheppard kindly reference to me. In 1914, when I was a Member of the Blease George McKellar Shipstead Borah Gerry McLean Shortridge House, Miss Annie Jarvis, a native of West Virginia, but now Bratton Gillett McMaster Simmons of Pennsylvania, came to me and requested me to introduce a Broussard Glass McNary Smoot resolution providing for Mothers' Day. Her great love for her Bruce Goff Mayfield Stanfield Butler Gooding Means Steck own mother caused her to devote herself to the work of having Cameron Greene Metcalf Swanson Congress set apart a day to be known and observed as Mothers' Couzens Ha1e Neely TrammeJI pay. I prepared and introduced the resolution in the House, Cummins Haneld Norbeck Tyson Curtis Harris Norris Underwood and it was passed by that body May 7, 1914. When it reached Deneen Heflin Nye Wad worth the Senate I requested the able and valuable Senator from Dill Howell Oddie Warren Texas [Mr. SHEPPARD] to take charge of it, and he secured its Edge Johnson Overman Watson Edwards Jones, N. llex. Phipps Wheeler passage by the Senate. Ern ,t Jones, \Vash. Ransdell Willis To-morrow is Mothers' Day, and the poem just read by the Fernald Kendrick Reed, Mo. Senator from Texas is indeed beautiful and appropriate. Mr. :fi'erris Keyes Reed, Pa. President, I send to the clerk's desk and ask to have read a Mr. CURTIS. I desire to announce that my colleague [Mr. splendid tribute to mother by Tom Dillon. CAPPER] is absent on account of illness in his family. I will The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will read as requested. let this announcement stand for the day. The legislative clerk read as follows: Mr. JONES of Washington. I was requested to announce MY MOTHER-A PRAYER that the Senator from Missouri [Mr. WILLI.AM:s], the Senator from New York [Mr. CoPELAND], and the Senator from Missis­ By Tom Dillon sippi [Mr·. STEPHENS] are engaged on business of the Senate in For the body you gave me, the bone and the sinew, the heart and the the Committee on Commerce. brain that are yours, my mother, I thank you. I thank you for the The VICE PRESIDENT. Seventy-eight Senators having an­ light in roy eyes, the blood in my veins, for my speech, for my life, for swered to their names, a quorum is present. my being. All that I am Is from you who bore me. For all the love that you gave me, unmeasured from the beginning, MOTHERS' DAY my mother, I thank you. I thank you for the hand that led me, the Mr. SHEPPARD. Mr. President, to-morrow, Sunday, is voice that directed me, the breast · that nestled me, the arm that Mothers' Day. It is a day set apart by -virtue of a resolu­ shielded me, the lap that rested me. All that I am is by you who tion of Congre s, the author of which is now a distinguished nursed me. Member of this body, the junior Senator from Alabama [Mr. For your smile in the morning and your kiss at nigbt, my mother, HEFLIN]. He was a Member of the House when he introduced I thank you. I thank you for the tears you shed over me, the songs the re olution creating Mothers' Day. that you sung to me, the prayers you said for me, for your vigils and In honor of to-morrow I wish to read to the Senate a brief ministerings. All that I am is by you who reared me. poem on "Mother." This poem is by an anonymous author, For the faith you had in me, the hope you had for me, for your trust and the Washington Times had the following to say of it: and your pride, my mother, I thank you. I thank you for your praise Many will be glad to see reprinted the following poem, which has and yow· chiding, for the justice you bred into me and the honor you been a classic for a century. No scrapbook is complete without it. made mine. All that I am you taught me. For the sore travail that I caused you, for the visions and despairs, I now read the poem : my mother, forgive me. Forgive me the peril I brought you to, the HY MOTHER sobs and the moans I wrung from you, and for the strength I took from Who fed me from her gentle breast, you, mother, forgive me. And hushed me in her arms to rest, · For the fears I gave you, for the alarms and the dreads, my mother, And on my cheek sweet kisses prest! forgive me. Forgive me the joys I deprived you, the toils I made for My mother. you, for the hours, the days, and the years I claimed from you, mother, forgive me. When sleep forsook my open eye, For the times that I hurt you, the times I bad no smile for you, the Who was it sung sweet lullaby caresses I did not give you, my mother, forgive me. Forgive me for my And rocked me that I should not cry! angers and revolts, for my deceits and evasions, for all the pangs and My mother. sorrows I brought to you, mother, forgive me. Wbo sat and watched my infant head For your lessons I did not learn, for your wishes I did not heed, for When sleeping in my cradle bed, the counsels I did not obey, my mother, forgive me. Forgive me my And tears or sweet atrectlon shed? pride ln my youth and my glory in my strength that forgot the holi­ My mother. ness of your years and the veneration of your weakness, for my neg- 1926 CONGRESSIONAL . RECORD-SENATE 8959 lect, for my selftshnE:ss, for ali the great debts of your love that I MOBOXGO INDIA.l' RESERVATION LANDS, CALIFORi\"'l:A hn>e not paid, mother, sweet mother, forgive me. The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the amend­ And may the peace and the joy that passeth all understanding be ment of the House of Representatives to the bill ( S. 2702) yours, my mother, forever and ever. Amen. to provide for the setting apart of certain lands in the State Mr. HEFLIN. Mr. President, I have here a proclamation of California as an addition to the :Morongo Indian Reserva­ which was issued by President Wilson, which I ask the clerk tion, which was, on page 1, lines 7 and 8, to strike out " and to read. the north half of the southwest quarter of section 2D." The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will read as requested. l\1r. HARUELD. I move that the Senate disagree to the The legislative clerk read as follows: House amendment, ask for a conference with the House on DAY the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, and that the MOTHERS~ Chair appoint the conferees on the part of the Senate. A proclamation issued by President Wilson (38 Stats. pt. 2, p. 1996) The motion was agreed to, and the Vice President appointed MAY 9, 1914. Mr. HARRELD, Mr. LA FoLLETTE, and Mr. BRA1'TON conferees A t>roclamation. by the President of the United States of America: on the part of the Senate.
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