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Harvey J. McKinzie, Midlothian. I recommend that, in order to effect a settlement of these Arthur J. Thomas, Mineral Wells. claims in accordance with the recommendation of the Secretary Marion G. Hedrick, Mirando City. of State, the Congress, as an act of grace and without reference James M. Cottle, Moran. to the question of the legal liability of the United States in the Helen Newton, Morgan. premises, authorize an appropriation in the sum of $1,000, Wenzel K. Richter, Moulton. $500 of which is to be paid to Mr. Arend Kamp and $500 to be George T. Wood, Olney. paid to Mr. Francis Gort. · Mildred Hughes, Onalaska. 0ALVIN COOLIDGE. Hattie M. Culpepper, Palmer. THE WHITE HousE, December ~o. 192'3. Bessie Jackson, Paint Rock. TRANSACTIONS OF E~!ERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION. Claud A. Minton, Pioneer. The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a com Jasper W. Blount, Quinlan. munication from the chairman of the United States Shipping Homer G. Robinson, Quitman. Board in response to Senate resolution 388 (agreed to January Arthur N. Brown, jr., Richland. 4, 1923, submitted by Mr. Krno), reporting the names of all offi Elmer I. Wade, Rockdale. cers and employees of the Emergency Fleet Corporati-0n, together Gayle T. Snedecor, Rosenberg. with a statement of the salaries or compensation paid to each, Kelsey R. Dort, St Jo. a list of all persons who have received passes or gratuitous John M. Cape, San Marcos. transportation on vessels operated by or for the account ol Riley M. Foster, Saratoga. Emergency Fleet Corporation, etc. Henry L. Cullender, Seminary IDU. Mr. JONES of Washington. I wish to call the attention of Grover C. Stephens, Sierra Blanca. the Senate to a fact in reference to this report. This is a report Walter Kurz, Somerset. made upon a resolution similar to many which we pass from May l\Iurray, Sonora. day to day. I am reliably informed that it cost $50,000 to get Nelson L. Yates, Stratford. up the report. Josie I. Coleman, Tehuacana. TllP. PRESIDE1'"'T pro tempore. The communication and James I. Dunn, Tioga. accompanying report will be referred to the Committee on Ralph D. Gilbert, Trinity. Commerce. Vera Butler, Troup. REPORTS OF THE SERGEANT AT ARMS. John A. Emmitt, Tulia. Roscoe L. Garver, Van Alstyne. The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a report R. Emory Howle, Venus. of the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate on the sale since Decem Edward 1\1. Tracy, Victoria. ber 5, 1922, of property condemned in accordance with law and William G. McClain, Waxahachie. the proceeds thereof deposited with the :financial clerk of the Alphonso S. Butler, Winona. Senate (S. Doc. No.12), and also a report, made pursuant to law, giving a complete account of all property in his possession and WYOMING. in the Senate Office Building belonging to the Senate, as of Florence Hullett, Chugwater-. December 3, 1923 ( S. Doc. No. 13), which were ordered to lie on Grace B. Morrow, Clearmont. the table and to be printed. C. Golden Welch, 'Cowley. SENATOR FROM TEX.AS. Fred W. Smith, Glenrock. J"ohn T. Platt, Kemmerer. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the Alvah J. Macy, Moorcroft. Senate certain additional papers and books with respect to the Harry Fawcett, Newcastle. election of a Senator from Texas and refers them to the Com Harry R. Ellison, Parkert'on. mittee on Privileges and Elections. Conrad Johnson, Pine Bluffs. PETITIONS. L. Roy Ness, Powell. The PRESIDE::NT pro tempore laid before the Senate resolu John A. Stafford, Rock Springs. tions of the Sorosis Club of Fort Worth, Tex., favoring the Robert E. Chittick, jr., Shoshoni. participation of the United States in a permanent court of international justice so as to foster world peace, which were referred to the Committee on Foreign Re1ations. SENATE. l\Ir. HARRIS. I present resolutions and communications from my State favoring the adherence of the United States to THURSDAY, December ~O, 1~3. the Permanent Court of International Justice, which I ask may be printed in the RECORD and referred to the Oommlttee The Chaplain, Rev. J. J. Muir, D. D., offered the following on Foreign Relations. prayer: There being no objection, the matter refe1Ted to was ordered Our Father, we thank Thee for the season of the year which to be printed in the RECORD and· referred to the Committee on is now ours. We thank Thee for its hallowed associations and Foreign Relations, as follows: for all that it brings to us of joy and peace, and humbly be· Resolutions as to the Permanent Court of International Justice. seech of Thee that the peace that passeth all understanding Whereas there is before the Senate of the United States a proposal may gauison each heart and life. As we separate for a time that we adhere to the Permanent Court of International Justice re we beseech of Thee to each one that Thou wilt grant journeying cently set up by most of the great natioDB for the deciding of issues mercies and that in the home circle there may be the greatest which, unles·s judicially decided, might result in war; and happiness, each contributing to the welfare of the other. The Whereas all of our past history has committed us, both in theory Lord bless all the homes of our loved country. Save us from and practice, to the peaceable settlement of international disputes, dissension and sorrow, and be always with us, to the joy of ·and it is our manifest duty to proceed further in this path; and Thy great name. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Whereas the need and value of such a court have been admitted and The reading clerk proceeded to read the Journal of yester asserted by Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, and Harding, day's proceedings, when, on request of Mr. CURTIS and by and by other leading statesmen in all parties : Be it unanimous consent, the further reading was dispensed with and Resolved by the North Georgia Oonference of the Methodist Episcopal the Journal was approved. Church, South, in sessi ATLANTA LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS, ELBERTON, GA., Not'ember 15, 1923. Atlanta, Ga., November 26, 1!1M. Sena tor WM. J. HARRIS, Senator 'WM. J. HARRIS, Oedartoum, Ga. Wasllington, D. 0. MY DEAR SENATOR: The citizens of Elberton, Ga., assembled to ob· DEAR SIR: We are inclosing herewith, for your Information, resolu- serve Armistice Day on Sunday afternoon, November 11, at the First tion passed at our last quarterly meeting. Methodist Church, and passed the following resolution by an over Very truly yours, whelming majo:rity : LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS, "Resolved, That the United States should become a member of the Mrs. PAUL c. LA BLANT, Sect·etary. World Court, in an effort to preserve the peace of the world and to help Resolution passed by the Atlanta League of Women Voters at its consummate those ideals for which our soldiers fought in the World quarterly meeting, November 19, 1923. War." Whereas both the Georgia and the Atlanta Leagues of Women Voters We trust, Mr. Senator, that you can see your way clear to guide our have previously taken a strong stand against war and expresseil their Nation in this direction. belief that war prevention is the most important question beforti the Yours very truly, JOHN T. DE:!iNIS, Jr., world to-day, and Ohawman. Armistice Day Meeting. Whereas the national league has gone on record as advocatiug the World Com·t as the next and first step in the campalgn to abollsn war and is conducting a campaign under the slogan, " Law, not war " : Be it SHORTER COLLEGE, ROME, GA., Resolved, That the Atlanta League of Women Voters again reiterate November 14, 1928. its previous stand against war and go on record in favor of the World Senator w. J. HARRIS, Court and of the campaign "Law, not war" and that the secretary send Sanders'l:ille, Ga.. a copy of this resolution to Senators HARRIS and GEORGE. MY DEAR SENATOR HARRIS : The American As ociation of University Women last summer in the Portland convention pa sed a resolution in ATLANTA, GA., November 23, 1!:1'23. favor of the United States' participation in the World Court. The The Hon. WM. J. HARRIS, Senator from Georgia. Rome branch of this organization in its meeting November 8 unani DEAR MR. SENATOR: .At the regular meeting of the Atlanta branch of mously indorsed the national action. the American Association . of University Women, on Wednesday, No Not lrnowing your o.ttitude on this question, the association has vember 21, the action of the national convention of our association, asked me to write you and express the hope that you can and will in held in Portland, Oreg., last July, concerning participation in a court the near future help to make the United States a member of the of international justice by our United States was unanimously indorsed Perma.Ilent Court. by the branch. Most sincerely yours, In furtherance of this movement for a world court we are hreby MISS CLARA LoursE KELLOOG, President. forwarding our indorsement to you, our Senator from Georgia. MISS LoUISE BOWE~, Secreta11J. Very truly yours, Mrs. E. K. LARGE, President. Mrs. HANSON W. JONES, Secretary. ATLANTA SECTIO~, COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN, Atlanta, Ga., Novembe1· PJJ, 19ZS. PHILATHEA CLASS, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, Augusta, Ga., November 18, 1923. Hon. ·w. J. HARRIS, Hon. w. J. HARRIS, Senator, Washington, D. 0. MY DEAR MR. HARRIS: The Atlanta Section, Council of Jewish Women, Senate, Washington, D. O. DEAR Ma. HARRIS : In representing the Philathea Class of the First in accordance with the resolution at the triennial convention of Na· Baptist Church, Augusta, Ga., I am voicing the hope in the hearts of tional Council of Jewish Women, held at St. Louis this month, indor es the 125 earnest women that America will become a member of the the entrance of the United States into the World Court of Peace. World Court of Justice and take the forward place in this movement Yours very respectfully, (l\lrs. L. B.) ROSA G. CLARKE, toward an advanced civilization. Remembering your many efforts to carry out the wishes of your Oorre8'ponding Secreta1-y. constituency we are happy in knowing that you will lend your influ Mr. WARREN presented resolutions of the directors of the ence to this end. Cheyenne (Wyo.) Chamber of Commerce, favoring adoption of Yours cordially, MISS AMIE A. SHUNATE, the so-called l\lellon income tax-reduction plan, which were re· Corresponding Secretary. ferred to the.Committee on Finance. SAVANNAH, GA., April 1g, 19ZS. Mr. ROBINSON presented resolutions of the board of direc· tors and the industrial committee of the Fort Smith (Ark.)' Senator W. J. HARRIS, Chamber of Commerce, favoring the continued operation of the Cedat·toum, Ga. DEAR Sm: This society by resolution unanimously indorses the transportation act of 1920, which were referred to the Com· recommendation of the President to the Senate advocating participa mittee on Interstate Commerce. tion of the United States in the Permanent Court of International l\Ir. OVERMAN presented petitions of sundry citizens of Justice at The Hague. Spindale, N. C., praying that the United States participate in We trust that this movement will :finally preYail, and we beg to the Permanent Court of International Justice, which were re remain. ferred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Yours respectfully, l\lr. WILLIS presented the petitions of l\i. W. Lawless an~ 32 other employees of the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Co., of THE TEMPLE SISTERIIOOD OF MICKVE ISRAEL. Toledo, and of Leopold Mambourg and 74 other employees of Per MATILDA. EPSTEIN, Secretary. the Fairfield Sheet Glass Co., of Lancaster, both in the State YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, of Ohio, praying for adoption of the so-called l\lellon tax Bavamniah, Ga., December 6, 1928. reduction plan, which were referred to the Committee on Hon. w. J'. HARRIS, Finance. United States Senate, Washington, D. O. l\1r. LODGE presented a petition of sundry citizens of the DEAR Sm: The board of directors of the Young Women's Christian State of Massachusetts, praying for adoption of the so-called Association o.f Savannah, Ga., are convinced that the United States Mellon tax-reduction plan, which was referred to the Committee should join the World Court, and we are writing to you to urge that on Finance. you do all in your power to give the matter this direction. He also presented a resolution of the Board of the New Jersey Yours very truly, State Federation of Women's Clubs, favoring the participation DAISY STUBBS, of the United States in the Permanent Court of International Corresponding Secretary Justice, which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Rela· Young Women's Ohristian Association. tions. . AUGUSTA, GA., No·vember 15, 1923. MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. Hon. w. J. HARRIS, A message from the House of Representatives, by l\lr. Farrell, United States Senate, Washington, D. 0. one of its clerks, announced that the !louse had passed a joint SDN.ATOR: The Augusta branch of the American Association of Uni resolution (H. J. Res. 82) extending the time during which cer· ve1· ity Women urges that the United States become a member of the tain domestic animals whi~h have crossed the boundary line into World Comt. foreign countries may be returned duty free, in which it re· Respectfully yours, H&LE~ E. FRANK, Secretary. quested the. concurrence of the Senate. I 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 439 BErORTS OF THE COlIMITTEE TO AUDIT AND CONTROL THE CONTINGENT By l\fr. WILLIS : EXPENSES OF THE SENATE. A bill ( s. 1554) granting an increase of pension to Ralph Mr. KEYES. From the Committee to Audit arul Control the Waite; to the Committee on Pensions. 'Contingent Expenses of the Senate I report back favorably A bill ( S. 1555.) granting a gratuity of $100 to officers and without amendment several resolutions for the calendar. First enlisted men of the Army whose names appear upon the Army I report Senate Resolution 69, authorizing the Committee on and Navy medal of honor roll; to the Committee on Militru.·y Commerce to hold hearings and employ a stenographer. Affairs. l\1r. JONES of Washington. l\Ir. President, that is a formal By llr. LENROOT: resolution such as has always been passed, authorizing hearings A bill (S. 1556) authorizing the Secretary of War to cause by a committee in a general way. I ask unanimous consent for a preliminary examination and survey of Oconto Harbor, in its present consideration. the State of Wisconsin; to the Committee on Commerce. l\1r. LODGE. I do not think under the agreement which we A bill (S. 1557) to give mHltary status and discharges to reached ye terday that we can do any such business. the members of the Russian Railway Service Corps, organized l\Ir. JONES of Washington. Of course, if it is contrary to the by the War Department, under authority of the President of agreement I would not ask it, but I thought it would be con- the United States, for service during the war with Germany; sldered as routine business. to· the Committee on Military .Affairs. Mr. LODGE. I hardly think so myself. By Mr. l\IcKINLEY (for l\ir. l\icCoRMICK) : 1\lr. JONES of Washington. Then I withdraw the request. A bill (S. 1558) to establish the upper l\Iississippi River I do not want to violate the agreement. wild life and fish refuge; to the Committee on Commerce. .1\1r. BORAH. I do not want to violate the unanimous-consent By l\1r. RANSDELL: agreement, but I did not suppose for a moment that this kind of A bill ( S. 1559) to create the Inland Waterways Corporation business would be precluded or I should not have consented to for the purpose of carrying out the mandate and purpose of it, becaase I am very anxious to get a similar resolution Congress as expressed in sections 201 and 500 of the transpor through. Was not the agreement entered into by Unanimous tation act, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Com- consent on yesterday? meree. Mr. LODGE. It was. By Mr. JONES of New l\Iexico: Air. BORAH. Then we can do this by unanimous consent. A bill (S. 1560) granting a pension to Etta W. Cass; to the We ean change a unanimous-consent agreement by unanimous Committee on Pensiohs. consent. By Mr. WALSH of Montana: Mr. ROBINSON. Mr. President, I call the attention of the A bill (S. 1561) for the creation of a national monument in Senator from Idaho to the agreement which was made yester- Montana, to be known as Battle of the Bear's Paw; to the day that no business should be transacted except routine morn- Committee on Public Lands and Surveys. ing business. I have no objection to the resolution, of course, A bill (S. 1562) for the relief of the Flathead Nation of but the point of the matter is that if we disregard the arrange- Indians; and ment that was made, Senators who might want to object to A bill (S. 1563) to pay tuition of Indian children in public other proposals for unanimous consent would be denied the schools ; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. opportunity of doing so through their reliance on the agreement By Mr. FERNALD: made yesterday. A bill ( S. 1567) granting a pension to Carrie El. Croxford; ..Mr. BORAH. I shall not, of course, urge it under those cir- to the Committee on Pensions. .cum ·tances. By Mr. HEFLIN: The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolution reported by A bill (S. 1568) for the relief of certain officers in the the Senator from New Hampshire will go to the calendar. United States Army; to the Committee on Military Affairs. l\lr. KEYES, from the Committee to Audit and· Control the A bill ( S. 1569) . to compensate Lieut. L. D. Webb, United Contingent Expenses of the Senate, to which were referred the States Navy, for damages to household effects while being following res_olutions, reported them severally without amend- transported by Government conveyance; to the Committee on ment: Naval Affairs. r A resolution ( S. Res. 76) authorizing the Committee on Agri- By Mr. ELKINS: culture and Forestry to hold hearings and employ a stenogra- A bill (S. 1570) granting a pension to Eliza M. Wells· to pher to report the same, etc. ; the Committee on Pensions. ' A resolution ( S. Res. 77) directing the Secretary of the By Mr. JONES of Washington: Senate to pay to Elmer E. Burrows, son of Joseph A. Burrows, A bill (S.- 1571) repealing certain provisions contained in late a private of the Capitol police, a sum equal to six months' the urgent deficiency act app.roved December 22, 1911, and for pay, etc. ; other purposes ; to the Committee on Claims. A resolution ( S. Res. 78) authorizing the Committee on the By Mr. WADSWORTH: Judiciary to send for persons, books, and papers, to administer A bill ( S. 1572) for the relief of the New Jersey Shipbuild- oaths, to employ a stenographer, and to sit during the sessions ing & Dredging Co., of Bayonne, N. J". ; to the Committee on or recesses of the Senate ; and Claims. A resolution (S. Res. 93) authorizing the Committee on Edu- By Mr. BAYARD: cation and Labor to hold hearings during the Sixty-eighth Con- A bill (S. 1573) for the relief of Samuel s. Weaver; to the gress. · Committee on Claims. BILLS AND A. JOINT nESOLUTION INTRODUCED. By Mr. EDGE: Bills and a joint resolution were introduced, read the first A bill (S. 1574) for the reijef of John O'Neil; and time, and, by unanimous consent, the second time, and referred A bill (S. 1575) for the relief of Hyman Wechsler; to the as follows: · Committee on Claims. By Mr. SHORTRIDGE: A bill ( S. 1576) granting a pension to Annie H. Sines; to A bill (S. 1548) to amend section 9 of an act entitled "An the Committee on Pensions. act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and A bill ( S. 1577) authorizing the President to reappoint l\Iaj. for other purposes," approved March 4, 1923, as amended; to Adrian K. Polhemus, United States Army (retired), to the the Committee on the Judiciary. position and rank of major in the United States Army; to the A bill ( S. 1549) to place Frank H. Ainsworth on the retired Committee on Military Affairs. list of the United States Navy; to the Committee on Naval By Mr. SHIELDS: Affairs. A bill (S. 1578) to provide for the erection of a public A bill ( S. 1550) granting an appropriation for the acquire- building at Athens, McMinn County, Tenn.; ment of a site and the erection thereon of a new marine hos- A. bill (S. 1579) to provide for the erection of a public build- pital at San Franctsco, Calif. ; to the. Committee on Public ing at Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn. ; Buildings and Grounds. A bill (S. 1580) to provide for the erection of a public build- Ry l\Ir. McNARY : ing at Dayton, Tenn.; and A bill (S. 1551) granting an increase of pension to James A bill (S. 1581) to provide for the erection of a public build- Sbelton Blanken hip ; to the Committee on Pensions. Iing at Kingsport, Tenn. ; to the Committee on Public Buildings A bill (S. 1552) for the relief of Thomas G. Harris; and and Grounds. A bill l S. 1553) for the relief of Lincoln County, Oreg. ; to A bill ( S. 1582) granting a pension to S. S. Fair; the Committee on Claims. A bill (S. 1583) granting a pension to William A. Jordan; ~40 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· SENATE. DEOEJ\IBER 20, ., A bill (S. 1584) granting an increase of pension to James A bill (S. 1565) to amend an act entitled "An act to amen·d White; and . and modify the war risk insurance act," approved March 4, A bill ( S. 1585) granting an increase of pension to Charles 1923; and Dunaway ; to the Committee on Pensions. A bill ( S. 1566) to amend an act entitled "An act to amen Whereas civilization has been marked in its upward tI"end out of Whereas these charges, if true, show that certain favoritism is barbarism into its present condition by the development of law and being shown to certain· firms of pa tent attorneys ; and courts to supplant methods of violence and force; and Whereas it 1s alleged that a certain group of patent attorneys die· Whereas the genius of civilization has discovered but two methods tate the policy of the Patent Office; and of compelling the settlement of human disputes, namely, law and war, Whereas the Patent Office should be administered for the benefit and therefore, in any plan for the compulsory settlement of interna of the public and the protection of inventors, and not for securing tional controversies, W · l must choose between war on the one band and business for certain privileged lawyers: Now therefore be it the process of law on ihe other; and Resolved, That the Committee on Patents of the Senate, or any Whereas war between nations has always been and still is a lawful subcommittee thereof, is authorized and directed to investigate the institution, so that any nation may, with or without cause, declare war aforesaid charges and all matters concerning these alleged practices against any other nation and be strictly within its legal rights; and of favoritism, discrimination, and privileges ; and to recommend Whereas revolutionary war or wars of liberation are illegal and effective measures to relieve the Patent Office from the influences criminal, to wit : High treason, whereas, under existing international detrimental to its proper conduct. The committee is authorized to law, wars of aggression bet ween nations are perfectly lawful; and administer oaths, to send for persons and papers, and to employ such Whereas the overwhelming moral sentiment of civilized people every- clerical and professional assistance as may be necessary, payment where is again t the llruel and desb·uctive institution of war; and therefor to be made out of the contingent fund of the Senate upon Whereas all alliances, leagues, or plans which rely upon force ns the order of the chairman of the committee. the ultimate power for the enforcement of peace carry the seeds either .APPOINTMENT OF EX-SERVICE MEN AS POSTMASTERS. of their own destruction or of military dominancy to the utter sub version of liberty and justice ; and Mr. McKELL.AR. I submit a resolution which I ask may lie Whereas we must recognize the fact that resolutions or treaties out on the table. lawing certain methods of killing will not be effective so long as war The resolution ( S. Res. 103) was ordered to lie on the table, itself remains lawful; and that in international relations we must have, as follows: not rules and regulations of war but organic laws against war; and Resolved, That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, directed Whereas in our Constitutional Convention of 1787 it was success to report to the Senate at the earliest practicable moment (1) the names fully contended by Madison and Ilamilton that the use of force when of all first, second, and third class postmasters appointed in the United applied to people collectively-that is, to States or nations-was un States since March 4, 1921, who were appointed when there were ex· sound in principle and would be tantamount to a declaration of war; service men on _the eligible list; (2) the names of all ex-service men and appointed postmasters; and (3) the names of all ex-service men ap Whereas we have in our Federal Supreme Court a practical and ef pointed postmasters where they stood second or third on the eligible fective model for a real international court, as it has specific jurisdic list. tion to bear and decide controversies between our sovereign States; PRINTING OF REPORT ON AMMONIA AND NITROGEN. and Whereas our Supreme Court has exercised this jurisdiction, without Mr. SHIELDS submitted the following resolution ( S. Res. resor·t to force, for 135 years, during which time scores of contro 104), which was referred to the Committee on Printing: versies have been judicially and peaceably settled that might otherwise Resolved, That 1,500 copies of the report of the Secretary of Agricul· have led to war between the States, and thus furnishes a practical ex ture concerning ammonia, nitrogen, and nitrogenous materials manu emplar for the compulsory and pacific settlement of international con- factured, imported, and used in the United States, transmitted to the troversies; and Senate on April 8, 1918, in pursuance of S. Res. 137 of the first session Whereas an international al'l'angement of such judicial character of the Sixty-fifth Congress, be printed for the use of the Senate. would not shackle the in.dependence or impair the sovereignty of any TRANSPORTATION Ob' MEMBERS OF AMERICA.l~ BAR ASSOCIATION TO nation: Now therefore be it LONDON. R esolved, That it is the view of the Senate of the "Cnited States that war between nations should be outlawed as an institution or Mr. JONES of Washington. I offer a resolution, which I means for the settlement of international controversies by making it ask may be· read, and then, if I may do so under the unani a public crime under the law of nations, and that every nation should mous-consent agreement, I desire to ask for its present con· be encouraged by solemn agreement or treaty to bind itself to indict sideration. and punish its own international war breeders or instigators and war The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Secretary will read the profiteers under powers similar to those conferred upon our Congress resolution. under Article I, section 8, of our Federal Constitution, which clothes The Secretary read the resolution ( S. Res. 105), as follows: the Congress with the power " to define and punish otrenses against Resolved, That the United States Shipping Board be, and it is the law of nations " ; and be it hereby, directed to inform the Senate whether the matter of trans· R es olved furthet", That a code of international law of peace based porting, some time during the coming year, members of the American upon equality and justice between nations, amplified and expanded Bar Association to London was taken up by the association, or any and adapted and brought down to date should be created and adopted; one else in its behalf, with the Shipping Board or any of its repre Second. That a judicial substitute for war should be created (or, sentatives ; and if so, what proposal or terms were offered by. the if existing in part, adapted and adjusted) in the form or nature of Shipping Board or its representatives for such transportation. an international court, modeled on our F ederal Supreme Court l\Ir. JONES of Washington. If the resolution be routine in its jurisdiction over controversies between our sovereign States, business, I ask unanimous consent for its present consideration. such court to pos ess affirmative jurisdiction to hear and decide The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Wash· all purely international controversies, as defined by the code, or ington asks unanimous consent for the present consideration arising under treaties, and to have the same power for the en of the resolution. Is there objection? forcement of its decrees as our Federal Supreme Court, namely, the 1\lr. ROBINSON. What is the nature of the resolution? respect of all enlightened nations for judgments re ·ting upon open Mr. JONES of Washington. The resolution simply calls for and fair investigatious and impartial decisions and the compelling information from the Shipping Board as to whether anyone power of enlightened public opinion. on behalf of the American Bar Association asked the Shipping PRACTICES IN THE P ATENT OFFICE. Board for transportation facilities to London on an American vessel or made a proposal relative thereto. Mr. SHIPSTEAD submitted the following resolution ( S. Res. Mr. ROBINSON. I desire to make this statement: At the 102), which was referred to the Committee on Patents: suggestion of the leader of the majority yesterday, which I Whereas the League of American Inventors has continually publicly thought a very proper one-and in which, so far as I know, pointed out certain practices in the Patent Office detrimental to the other Senators concurred, so that Senators who desired to do public good ; and so might have the opportunity of leaving the city-an agree.~ Whereas, under the pre ~e nt Patent Office practice, foreigners may ment was entered into that no business whatever would be obtain letters patent within a few months subsequent to the filing of transacted to-day except routine morning bus iness. I do not their applications, whil.e it takes an .American citizen on an average want any of us to be put in the attitude of objecting to indi· of several years to obtain a United States patent; and vidual requests. The requests which have been presented were Whereas the applications of foreigners are given precedence over all acceptable to me, and no suggestion has been made that I prior applications by United States citizens; and should not be glad to see agreed to. If, however, we enter Whereas inventors are unduly delayed in the granting of their into an agreement to permit Sena tors to leave the city under patents, due chiefly to the Patent Office procedure, which procedura the impression that we are not going to transact business, wo is due to the influence of a certain group of patent solicitors; and must keep that agreement in good faith. So I give notice 442 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 20, now that I shall object to any request for unanimous consent 1\fr. DL<\.L. I do not remember the particular trip, but I to consider anything which is not within the agreement. know that a great many of our prominent officials prefer to Mr. LODGE. I think that is a correct interpretation of travel on British ships. the agreement. Mr. NORRIS. In defense of the American Ilar Association, Mr. JOl\TES of Washington. I wish to say merely a word. if it be true-and I am informed that it is true-that the Chief I stated when I presented the resolution that, if I might do so, Justice of the Supreme Court when he went to Europe traveled I wanted to ask unanimous consent for its immediate consid on a British ship, I think it ought to be said that the American eration. I do not wish to violate the agreement. Bar Association certainly have a legitimate right to follow a 1\Ir. ROBINSON. Of course, the Senator may ask unanimous precedent established by the Chief Justice of the highest court consent, but I do not think, having entered into the agreement, of the land. that he ought to put us in the atttiude of having to object to Mr. McKELLAR. l\Ir. President, I inquire of the Senator his request. did he travel at Government expense? Mr. JONES of Washington. I wish to say just a word fur Mr. NORRIS. No ; I do not think so. I do not think any ther. I did not understand, when I gave my consent to the of them went at Government expense. unanimous-consent agreement yesterday, that it shut ont mat Mr. DIAL. The Chief Justice did not consult me about ters of this kind. I have always understood that such resolu going. If he had, I would have dissented fr-0m his decision to tions were routine morning businesa Of course, if the resolu ride on a British ship. tion is not routine morning businessr then I do not wish to 1\-Ir. FLETCHER. Mr. President, I ask the Senator whether ask for its consideration any more than would the Senator the Chief Justice did not sail from Canada? My recollection from Arkansas. I appreciate the Senator's attitude and I do is that he sailed frpm some port of Canada. not want to violate any unanimous-consent agreement. Mr. DIAL. I have not kept up with the matter very closely, Mr. ROBINSON. Of course the Senator from Washington but if the Senator says that is true I do not question the state well understands what constitutes routine morning business. ment at all. l\Ir. JONES of Washington. Apparently, I did not. l\lr. ROBINSON. Mr. President, I ask the indulgence of the Mr. ROBINSON. The rule of the Senate provides as to that, Senate for just a moment to make clear now for all time my and it does not include the consideration of any report or of attitude upon this matter. The resolution which · the Senator any resolution or of any bill. from Idaho [Mr. BORAH] presented is one which will unques l\Ir. JONES of Washington. Mr. President, I understand tionably pass when considered by the Senate. I have no ob more clearly now than I have ever before understood what jection to it and I know of no other Senator who has objection routine morning business is, and, of course, I shall understand to it. The resolution proposed by the Senator from Washing what action to take when a request of this kind for unanimous ton [Mr. JONES] is in exactly the same attitude. But it has con ent is again submitted. been a custom in the Senate to enter into agreements by unani 1\Ir. DIAL. l\1r. President, perhaps under the unanimous mous consent not to transact business other than the routine con ent agreement made by the Senate on yesterday we can busine s on certain days, the purpose being to give Senators not consider the resolution offered by the Senator from Wash who desire to do so perfect freedom to leave the city. Any ington, but I am sorry that is the case, for the resolution is a Senator who left here Jast night or who is absent from the very proper one. Senate this morning has a right to rely upon the agreement I was surprised to read in the newspapers this morning the which Senators unanimously made yesterday, namely, that no statement that the American Bar Association had engaged advantage would be taken of their absence and that no busi pas age to London on an English ship. While we are here ness would be transacted in their absence. trying. to build up the American merchant marine for the great With that condition existing, it does not become me-and I American Bar Association not to patronize our ships is almost am sure the Senator from Massachusetts occupies the same unthinkable. Such action on their part seems to me to be attitude-to undertake to pass upon what business other Sen very inconsiderate. The agent of the association or of the ators who are absent would not object to., and foreclose them Shipping Board has evidently been asleep on bis job. I am from the opportunity of discussing and objecting to resolutions glad tbe Senator from Washington has offered his resolution, when presented. even though we shall be absent for two weeks before we can l\fr. LODGE. I was merely going to say. that I have looked act on it. In the meantime, howevei·, the resolution will at the RECORD, and what the Senator says was especially stated bring the matter to the attention of the Shipping Board and by me as the purpose of the unanimous-consent agreement. of the public. Mr. DIAL. l\ir. President, if the Senator from Arkansas will Being a lawyer myself, I can speak with some freedom. I yield to me, I will say that I do not disagr€e with him at all in am surprised at this action, and I do not believe that members the statement he has made. of the American Bar Association will allow the agreement to Mr. ROBINSON. I understand that. However, I want it stand, if any such agreement has been made. Our people understood now that not only is the. rule being enforced this ought to patronize our ships if we expect to make this a ship morning against Senators whose resolutions are not objection ping country such as we ought to have and to build up shipping able to me but if agreements like this are subsequently made. here as we should. If enlightened people, particularly such as they will be enforced to the letter. The Senate, of course, members of the bar association, do not patronize our ships, we will have the option of not agreeing to them. might as well junk th€m and be done with it. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair will say at this I am heartily in favor of the resolution, and I do not believe point that this may be morning business, but it is not routine any Senator will object to it. I hope it will be passed promptly morning business, and therefore is not in order. upon the reconvening of the Senate. I do not want, however, Mr. ASHURST. Mr. President, I think the position taken by to transgress any unanimous-consent agreement which we have the Senator from l\Ia sachusetts [Mr. LODGE] and by the Sena made. tor from Arkansas [Mr. RoBINSON] is entirely correct. I read l\1r. FLETCHER. Mr. President-- from page 439 of the RECORD of yesterday's proceedings : 1\Ir. DIAL. I yield to the Senator from Florida. Mr. Loom'l. I was about to move to proceed to the consideration of l\fr. FLETCHER. It is entirely possible, perhaps,. that the executive business, but before doing so I wish to ask unanimous consent desired information can be had on the request of the Shipping that as a matter of convenience to a great many Senators it shall be Board. Probably the Senator can obtain the information with understood that to-morrow when we meet there will be nothing trans out the action of the Senate by requesting the Shipping Board acted but routine morning business. I make that request. to furnish it. l\lr. DIAL. I rather think so. I know of no one who would Some observations were made and the agreement was then object to the merits of it, and I did not want it to go out that entered into. any Senator objected to our securing this information. I know The question now is, What is routine morning busine s? I the Senator from Arkansas would not oppose the resolution. remember to have heard at least one Senator, one of the ablest I ~- ield the floor. That is all I have to say. Senators who sits here, express some doubt as to what is l\fr. NORRIS. Mr. President, I should like to ask the Sen routine morning business. Mr. President, there may be no ator from South Carolina a question. doubt as to what is routine morning business. I will say Mr. DIAL. I will be very glad to answer the Senator if that, in my opinion, it is composed simply of the presenta I can. tion of petitions and memorials, the introduction of bills, the l\Ir. NORRIS. I should like to ask the Senator whether presentation of reports, and the introduction of resolutions, Chief Justice Taft, when he went over to Europe, did not concurrent, joint, and simple, and the matters of high privi likewise go on a British ship? lege, such as the swearing in of a Senator. 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 443 It is shocking to hear that the American Bar Association, or national election approaches. The party that is given control of the any member thereof, would consider proceeding to Europe on a administration next time ought to be made to give evidence in advance foreign ship if American ships were available. We can not, that it will see to it that the payers of these taxes will have a least however, under the agreement consider the resolution asking for decent treat::nent and a square deal. information without a violation of the unanimous-consent agree If you will allow me space, I will give you some facts as to my own ment made yesterday. Agreements must be kept if entered experience along this line, which no doubt many other business men into; contracts ought to be considered carefully before they are in the country will recognize as similar to their own. My only reason executed. for giving details of my own private business and personal affairs is Respecting the travel to Europe on foreign ships by American to illustrate the exasperating treatment to which all business men have citizens, it comes with poor grace on the part of an American been or will sooner or later be subjected. citizen, when we are making an effort to build up an American Several years ago the people in and around this little village decided merchant marine, to proceed to Europe on other than an Ameri to build a small cotton mill, to be known as the Summerville Cotton can ship. There were 22 or 23 Senators who went to Europe Mills. No one bad any large sum to put into the project, and we ha The American Bar Association stands for justice, for law A HARD STRUGGLE. and order, and for American ideals in government. The Ameri can Bar Association should set a good example, as its members We raised enough money to build the mill building and make a small are leaders in America. The member of the American Bar payment on the machinery, going in debt for the most of the machinery, Association who proceeds to Europe on other than an American and starting without a dollar of working capital, trusting to luck or ship will receive small consideration and will face a slim Providence, one or both, to pull us through. Thus we began a high audience when he talks thereafter about our duty of main vaulting career, treading constantly for several years on the crumbling taining the American merchant marine. Some members of brink of bankruptcy, but Providence or luck or hard work and agoniz chambers of commerce and boards of trade constantly write us ing economy eventually brought us out all right. and telegraph us, urging that we sustain an American merchant I have had the honor and the torture of being president and treas marine, and then as a rule they haunt the offices of foreign m:er of this institution from the first, and all the sleepless nights ships when it comes to negotiating for passage to Europe. and loss of appetite that fall to the lot of a small man in a trying and Mr. JONES of Washington. Mr. President, I think a great responsible position-although it may be a small affair-were mine, deal more has been accomplished than would have been if this unremittingly. resolution had passed in a perfunctory sort of way. I have given you the above facts or setting of the situation here The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolution has been ·to enable you to properly and adequately appraise the facts and figures placed on the calendar. that I shall hereinafter relate. Up to the time of the World War this mill had fairly good success HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATIO~. and made reasonable returns upon the money invested, and incidentally Mr. STERLING (for l\Ir. COLT) submitted the following was a great help to this section by furnishing a cotton market and resolution (S. Res. 106), which was referred to the Committee paying good wages to a needy and deserving class of employees. to Aud.it and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate: During the flush time occasioned by the World War and the infla Resolved, That the Committee on Immigration, or any subcommittee tion of the post-war period we made a large amount of money-that is, thereof, is authorized during the Sixty-eighth Congress to send for considering the amount invested. Then came the income-tax collector persons, books, and papers, to administer oaths, and to employ a and the excess-profit tax collector, and the capital-stock tax collector, stenographer at a cost not exceeding 25 cents per 100 words to report and the -collectors of every other sort of tax that the ingenuity of the such hearings as may be had on any subject before said committee, the human brain could invent. We were told that the war had brought expense thereof to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate, flush times, which were the results of great expenditures (nothing was and that the committee, or any subcommittee thereof, may sit during said about the waste) on the part of the Government, and that we any session or recess of the Senate. ought all to be willing to give a large part of our earnings to our Government, that it might pay its debts. We all thought this was HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION REFERRED. right and just and good ; we were eager to pay our ~art. The joint resolution (H. J. Res. 82) extending the time This particular enterprise did not pay much income and excess during which certain domestic animals which have crossed the profit tax until the year 1917. It did not have much Income to pay boundary line into foreign countries may be returned duty on. But in 1917 I paid considerably over $20,000 income tax, beside~ free was read twice by its title and referred to the Committee capital-stock tax, State and county, school, town tax, etc. on Finance. I found that no mere ordinary human being could make out a tax INCOME-TJ.. X ABUSES. return and feel any degree of certainty that he had it within a thousand miles of correctness-Einstein's theory of relativity is A B C compared l\1r. HARRIS. :\fr. President, I ask permission to place in the RECORD an article by l\Ir. John D. Taylor, of Summerville, to the mazy labyrinth and jargon of these income-tax blanks, with all Ga., one of the leading manufacturers in Georgia and the their notes and definitions and explanations. After standing on my South. Also, a letter from Mr. Taylor to me and the reply of head several days trying to get it right I gave it up as hopeless and Commissioner Blair. Mr. Taylor is a man who does big things sent for a self-styled expert and paid him $50 plus per day to make it without complaining and a man of character and integrity. out ; I paid all the tax he said I owed and got my receipt in full for There are many complaints among the people of Georgia on taxes that year. But this was by no means the end of it. account of the methods of making out income-tax returns and POMPOUS INDIVIDUAL. the manner of collecting. I have the greatest confidence in Mr. Blair, who is conscien In 1922, five years afterwards, there appeared here a very pompous tiously doing his very best to serve the people and the Govern individual. I at first mistook him for Caesar, because in my embar men!, just as his predecessors, l\lr. Williams and Mr. Roper. rassment I must have misunderstood him. I got only the impression 1 I tmi:ik the law should be changed in several particulars, and "So I will, so I command, stat pro ratione voluntas." I removed my especially to prevent any injustices. hat, as was fitting and meek, but before I could get my shoes off I There being no objection, the matter referred to was ordered somewhat regained my poise and I finally divined that he was the whole to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: United States epitomized, and backed up by both the Army and Navy, but I was not mistaken in my understanding that his " wish must INCOME TAX ABUSES. stand for the reason." (By John D. Taylor.) I do not know what bis title was, but the English of it is, be had [Reprinted from the Atlanta Constitution, October 30, 1923.] come to smell over my tax returns for 1917 any try to find some There are some outrageous abuses of authority being inflicted upon thing wrong with it-these special.examiners never find anything right. the public by the Federal authorities having charge of the collection If they could not find that a taxpayer was delinquent, or should find of the income and various other taxes which ought to be corrected, that he had overpaid, I do not doubt they would lose their jobs-at and to this end it occurs to me that the press of the country would least, they evidently think they would. render a great service by taking hold of the matter and expose the Another thing about this army of so-called accountants, or experts, harassing methods used and the inconveniences and worries that a or special examiners, that the Government has prowling around and long-suffering and much-suffering public has endured uncomplainingly nosing into everybody·s business and sagely telling us how we ought for a long time. Especially is this important at this time as the to run affairs, no two of them ever agree on the construction of any 444 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECE:\IBER 20, law or ruling of the Wgher authorities or what ls exempt or what is It is not the payment of taxes that I complain of-I want to pay my not exempt. One will tell you to fix it one way and the next one that taxes ; I always have paid them-but I do not like to pay all I make comes along tells you the opposite. for taxes and have to apologize to my stockholders because I have Well, he demanded every book, record, check, paper, voucher, etc., nothing for them, and then have these insolent, cormorant special ex that I had. He got them, of course; otherwise I do not suppose I aminers, who can juggle figures and construe department rulings so as would be here now to tell the tale. to show any result they want to reach, sit down periodically and just He incubated for about a week and departed, speechless as a sphinx. by a manipulation of figures juggle me out of thousands and thousands He never intimated that anything was wrong or gave any opportunity more. to anyone to explain anything. NO lll.."lD TO IT. I I Shortly afterwards received the amazing statement that sttll And there seems to be no end to it. We are likely to be harassed owed $32,825.76 more taxes for the year 1917. This agent's bare state periodically till time shall be no more. We are never secure. A man ment, not even buttressed by a cheap oath, was taken as the absolute pays his taxes; he plans his business for the future and works along facts in the case. I was put on the defensive. Not only was the pre these plans, and in the d]m distant future a special examiner comes sumption against me, but the case was closed against me. I stood along and says he owes thousands and thousands more, and his plans condemned already. A forlorn hope of redress was held by graciously are nll upset. giving me a few days to show cause, if any I had, why I should not The most shameful thing about 1t all ls the bland, complacent, and send in the additional little change of $32,000. The expert accountant nonchalant way the authorities make out their case against the tax I had was very ill, and I asked for a short extension of the time, and payer. The agent says you owe so much. The Government says, was finally granted the extension, but only on condltlo.n that I sign an " Yes; you do; you unprofitable son of a gun, you owe it because our unconditional waiver of the statute of limitation, thus giving the worthy aid so. Pay that thon owest quick, or if yon are such a knave agents and investors all eternity to dig me llP again as often as they as to deny that you owe it, or if you are such a fool as to think that see flt-five or six years had not been ~nough. you have any evidence that you do not owe it, come on np to Washing A..~NUAL ORDEAL, ton and bring your high-priced accountants and lawyers and endure Then there came the annual ordeal of making my return for 1918, and the law's delay and the continuous expense-we care nothing for the by a change in the date of my fiscal year I made another return for trouble and expense to you." eight months of 1919. Again I had to call in the aid of my $50 expert. Now, every time your taxes are raised, as mine have been, there is He made my. returns out and told me to sign on the dotted line, which one of two things you must do, you can pay up and that ends it till I did gladly and with singleness of heart, and by these returns for a the next go round, or you can get expensive experts and carry the fight period of one year and eight months I admitted that I owed the to Wa hington and spend lots of time and money, and in the end most small sum of $248,234.50. I paid this small amount and was glad, likely you will have to pay the utmost farthing that is claimed, with delighted, that the mill was left and that I was left. usury and maybe a few forfeitures or fines for your obstinacy and Well, by and by, another expert came along and said my first general cussedness. ex-the $50 per-had made an error and that I had paid too much We have strange names for all these things here. We call these taxes, and that if I would give him most of what he recovered he methods beautiful, free democratic methods. In Russia they call the would file a claim for a refund. same methods Bolshevism, and this infamous system here, just as in I had somehow felt the inward moving of a shapeless and _inexpressible Ru ia, will do more than anything else to UllSettle business. doubt about the correctness of the proceedings that had relieved me It suppres es aspiring manhood; it dwarfs individual endeavor; it of such a wad-and nothing but a " scrap of paper" to show for it penalizes thrift; it frowns on frugal industry; it stran"les the young but I had never heard in modern times of either the grave or a tax man ambition in anyone who would attempt to start an enterprl e that would giving up anything it or he ii.ad closed upon, and I frankly had no hope create wealth and give ai~ and employment to needy men and women, · of ever getting a cent, and I told the expert to expert all he wanted to. and at the same time it puts a premium on indolence. It commends the So he went to work, and, mirabile dlctu ! he really did get back sluggard and the drone as the objects of its tenderest care. It dis $15,215.59. courages the investment of capita.I in the productive arts and industries Well, I knew now this matter was at last ended; I knew whatever and squeezes it out of the arteries of trade, forcing it to seek invest else Gabriel's trumpet might resurrect, this skeleton would nover again ment in the many nontaxable securities which our motherly Government come forth to haunt me. But how unwarranted and foolish I was in has so abundantly provided. my feelings of false security J If this saturnalia of unrestrained extortion, with its inquisition and Here, a few days ag<>-four or five years afterwards-one of the star-chamber methods, is to continue forever there is one little cotton ubiquitous agents .came along and took full possession for a week or mill in Georgia for sale. Perhaps I can get the taxgatherer to take it two and went silently away. A few days later I was solemnly in a.s part payment on tax account. It is humiliating to confess it, but formed that I was still due $90,309.63. an honest confession is always best. Here was a concern, capitalized at $300,000, that for a period of 20 We Democrats saddled this infamy on the country and we Democrats months had paid practically a quarter of a million dollars tax, which ought to take it off, but it looks like we will have to- look to the Re the department at Wa •hington had admitted was too much, and now, publican Party for relief. on the bare opinion and word of a little accountant, a fi.gm:e juggler, For my part I do not care who gives the relief so lt comes. A I am to be mulct still further in the sum of over $90,000, which will drowning man does not cm·e who throws out the life line so he gets it. make more than the capital stock in the mill, paid in taxes for 20 If the Democratic Party gets into power it will have to go in pledged months. to give relief, else it will not get in. I! the Republican Party remains THEN CAME DEFLATION. in power it will be on the same conditions, and I believe the Republican Party will give the reUet. There are too many brains, too much justice, Another thing to be consfdered and that I get no consideration for is and to.o much interest at stake in that great party to allow it to turn this fact-the balance sheet showing the earnings of the mill was a deaf ear to the cry of•bleeding business. largely made up of inventories, other th~n cash, and then began the I believe that the country ls safe in the hands of l\fr. Coolidge. Mr. deflation tyranny of the then head of the Federal reserve bank-hap Blair, the head of the tax-collecting machinery, is a big man and a pily since removed-ca.u ing more financial loss to the Southern States good man, and I believe that we can confidently look to him to than did the Civii War, and by reason of which a large percentage of ameliorize conditions so far as lies within his power. the values were wrung out of those inventories. For instance, tnfiu But in every election every candidate, from President down, ought to enced by a supe.r:heat of patriotic zeal and the siren voice and suavity be made to pledge himself to use his utmost endeavo-r to rid the coun of the spielers who said that Liberty bonds were the cutest things ever try of this infamous iniquity. and never could be worth less than par, I was moved to invest many thousands of the mill's money in these securities. Later, however, when I needed and had to have every cent available to pay subsequent taxes SUMat~RVTLLE, GA., November 28, 1923. I found that I had to sell even these gold-lined Government obligations Hon. W. J. HARRIS, at a ruinous discount to get money to pay taxes, 100 cents in the dollar Unitea States Senate, Washingto1i, D. a. to that same Government whose obligations I was selling at a discount. DEAR l\!R. HARRIS: Will you kindly give me information as to how Now, I could relate many other instances of similar outrageous treat the agents or inspectors that are goi11g around over the country investi ment and high-handed, ruthless conduct by the tools of this iniquitous gating people's taxes are paid, whether a salary or commis ion on system, but it is unnecessary. what they dig up? Mine is only one of the many thousand cases of the like kind. I have been informed that they are paid a salary but are classified Mul.tJply me by many thousand and look at the plight ot the business " a, b, and c,'' acccrrding to the a.mount of additional taxes they are men of Georgia. 1ultiply me by many million, and you see what the able t-0 turn in, and are paid sala.Ties proportionate to the grade they business men of this whole country are up against. make. 1923. CONGRESSIO.LJ AL RECORD-SENATE. 445 I run v&y anxious to find this out an{} w1ll not in Rl:l.Y way draw lir. l\f.OSES. Then will .the Senator consent to modify his your name int-0 the matter but will thank you -rvery much indeed to request for unanimous consent to include~ following this give me this information. If I can do anything tor you down .this way parallel-column matter, the statemen.t given out for release by let me know. the Department of State this morning, and for which inquiries With kirn:le t regardl1, I run, have come, but no copies are available except the mimeographed Yours very truly, JNo. D. TAYLOR. copies? ~fr. NORRIS. And which is printed in the papers this TREASURY DEPARTMENT, morning? 0Fll'ICl!I Ob' TlIE COMMISSIOJSER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Mr. MOSES. Yes. Dece1n'ber 10, 1928. Mr. NORRIS. That would follow the parallel columns? Ilon. w.u. J. HARRIS, .1\~fr. MOSES. Yes. Utzited States Senate. Lr. NORRIS. Mr. President, sinee we are going to have MY DEAR SENATOR: I have your memorandum .of December l bl printed in the RECORD the statement that was issued this morn closing a letter signed by Jno. D. Taylor, of. ummerville, Ga., i-n which ing by the Secretary of State, I want to comment just a little he reguests certain information concerning internal-reve1rne a.gents a:nd upon that statement. It ought to be pdnted; and I expected to inspectors. follow my request, if 1 had not been intenupted, by having Income-tax agents and mspectors are paid salaries of $1,800 to printed the statement that came from the office of the Secre $4,000 per year. The amount of salary Cle_pends llpon previous business tary of State this morning. lt really gives the i·easons f01· his experience, ability, length of time in the service, and class and grade letter to Chicherin that was printed in the papers yesterday. of .vork which the employee performs. The average annual salary It gives the evidence upon which the Department of State for all agent is $2,609. They are not cla. sified according to the based its action in sending the letter of yesterday. I will have amount of additional taxes they are able to turn ill but .are graded printed the statement as given to me by the Senator from aecording to the clase of work they -are able to perform. Fo.r instance, N'ew Hampshire instead of taking that statement from the • ome men are assigned to the :inv~stigation ot :individual income-tax newspapers; but the summing up of that statement appears returns, others -with better training and ·abHity are as igned to the in the morning press, and I want to make a few comments on examination -of partnersltips and corporatioru;; the !higher-class agents it as I proceed. are assigned to consolidated corporations and cases involving n.atnl.'31 This eviuence of the Department of 'State, upon which they resources, questions of obsolescence, inve ed capital, etc. Neither the based the letter of yesterday refusing to have anything to do efficiency rating nor the salary of an agent iB dependent i.1l any way with the .Russian Government, was furnished to the Depart upon the amount of additional tax that he reports. No commisB.iuns ment of .State by the Department of .Justic.e and gathered, are paid to ainy agent 01· in~ector on the amount of tax that ll'C is able it is re urned, by the numerous det~tlves and sleuths that t-0 discover. The Treasmy iDepartment appropriations contain a !urul they have all over the country; in fact, ail ovei· the world. that ma-y be expended by the Commissioner <>f Interna1 .Revenue for They gave to the Secretary of State ·not the evidence for the detecting violations of internal revenrre laws, including the payment Secretary of State to draw a conclusion from himself, but for information and detection of such violations. No reward can be they gave, as will be :seen from a reading of the statement, paid to internal-revenue officers or 'to any person appointed or em their own 1eonellISions; and upon those conclusions, the Secre ployed in, or acting in connection wlth, the Int~rnai Revenue Service. tary ha.Ting them in his possession when he wrote that letter 'l'he J:nternal Revenue Bureau has tried in the 'J)nst to dis"C-ourage -as he acted .and wrote the letter. mueh as possible the payment of rewards, !foe the 'l'ea. on that it lis It might be well to say that in all the history of diplomatic felt that citizens of this country should be patrioti.c en-0ug1l to -dis correspondence, from the dawn of civilization down to the close any information which they may po._sess ·relative to the evru.ion present time, there never has been so blunt a letter written, of Federal taxes without claiming any reward for such informatlon. avoiding even all pretense of courtesy, as that one. I doubt Yuur letter from ?Ur. Taylo-r is herewith r.eturned. Whether you can find anywhere in the history of our Govern Sineerel:v yours, ment any letter that compares with it. I mention that only as D. H. BLAIR. C'om.millsioner. a fact, because it may be that we had better throw off these SOVIET GOVERNMENT OF ..RU.BRIA. deceiving and deceptive sentences that surround much of om· diplomacy and come out frankly and fairly, right to the point, Mr. NORRIS. Mr. President, I :a..."!lk unanimous consent to as it seems the Secretary did in this case, but at least it can have printed in parallel columns in the RECORD what the Presi be safely said that it stands without a precedent in the history dent said the othe1' day in his mes ·age about Rn ia and the of our Government. It is not even courteous. It is vecy letter of the .Secretary of State which he ~nt to the Soviet bluntly discourteous, and leaves, 1 think, no possibility of GoYernment of Russia, and which was printed in the papers doing anything that we might think might have been done in yeste1·day morning. a diplomatic :way after we had heard or read what the Presi 1r. MOSES. l\lr. Presitlent, may I ask the Senator if the dent said about Russia. But this conclusion of evidence in the statement from the State Department 'is the one appearing in Department of State, upon which it is all based and founded, the papers this m-0rning? is summed up as follows : '.llr. NORRIS. No; 'it is :the one appearing ye te1·day morn For more intensive re>olutlonaTy work- ing. It is the letter that he wrote to ChiCherin. Mr. MOSES. If the Senator will permit me, in connection ! ought to say that the Department of .State gathered some with the request that he is making, since the publication this where a sort of proclamation by the Communist Party of Rus morning of the statement from the Department of State I l1ave sia that they were about to overthl'ow the Government of the received a great many inquirie · at my o.:ffice, .and I understand United States and to put the red flag over the Capitol, and that other Senators have, for the complete text, which I under they eeured somewhere--perhaps in the air; I do not know stand was not printed complete in the newspapers. After com where ; they do not say where-a statement from the head of munication with tbe State Department 1 learned that the r,ocu tile communist party as to what those fellows were going to do ment did not exist in printed form, but only in the mimeo with our GoverIIIDent in a short time, and how they were graphed form in which it was given to tbe pres·, and I .should going to do it. We ought to consider, also, that during all the like to have the complete .statement printed in paxallel columns., time since the war the newspapers have been filled-some as the Senator suggests, if we are talking about the same docu people have been unkind enough to -say it was propaganda ment. Or, if we are not talking about the same Thi is what they heard. Their conclusions are ln quotation of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party, the Communist International marks from what the bead of the Communist Party had an expr cs~es its complete satisfaction and its approval to the central nouncecl was their program, and that is what scared the Secre committee of the party for its boldness and t act in putting this iden tar.r of State. This is what they heard : into effect . We hope that the pRrty will, step by step, conquer For mor<' inten !'ive revolutionary w-0rk we suggest- (embrace) the proletarian forces of .America and in the not distant future rai-se the red flag over the White House. Tite. e are the fellows over in Russia talking as to how they are going to capture us- That is the conclusion of the statement, which in itself is the conclusion of the Department of Justice sent to the Depart w C' i;. uggest that the following instructions be adhered to: ment of State. So now we have it all. We know where the 1. All the activity of the party must at the present time be dil'ected danger is. We know what is going to happen. among the workers of the large industries, such as the railroad work Mr. WHEELER. Mr. President-- el'. , miners, weavers, steel workers, and similar workers engaged in the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from principal industries of tile United States. Nebraska yield to tbe Senator from Montana? 2. Among these workers in the factories, mills, plantations, clubs, Mr. NORRIS. I yield. etc., there must be organizt>d m1its of 10. Mr. WHEELER. I would like to ask the Senator if be knows I think several years ago I heard something about " blocks of when this message which the Department of .Justice receive<.l five." I think that was in Indiana. That raised quite a con was taken over the wires? sternation. These fellows have improved on it. It is going to Mr. NORRIS. I do not know. be "blocks of ten... Mr. WHffiELER. I was wondering whether it was received The head of th.is unit of ten must, in so far as possible, be an old, before the President delivered his message to Congress or since trusted member of the party, who must once a week, together with his that time. ten, study the communist program and other revolutionary literature. Mr. NORRIS. I do not even know that. 3. These units of ten must be organized by occupation and nation Mr. WHEELER. Because my understanding is that the mat ality. ter et forth in this last message to be published was given out by an org·anization in New York some weeks before the Presi 4. The head of the unit must know intimately each individual mem dent delivered his message. I was wondering if the Senator ber of his ten-hls character, habits, the degree of his revolution.ism, had any information upon that subject. etc., and report everything direct to the central committee of the party. Mr. NORRIS. No; I have not. The central committee of the party, as I understand, is over Mr. STERLING. Mr. President- in Russia. If these units of ten are sufficiently numerous in Mr. NORRIS. I yield to the Senator. the United States to endanger the stability of our Government Mr. STERLING. The Senator characterized wlrn.t lie just there must necessarily be several millions of them, and if they read as the conclusion of the Department of Justice. On its all communicate to the executive committee everything they face it does not purport to be a conclusion of the Department do in these blocks of ten the mails will be blocked and the poor of Justice, but it reads as though it were the propaganda it executive committee will require 10 or 15 years to go through self. the documents that '\Vill go over to them and keep them in l\fr. NORRIS. Indeed, that is right. It is nevertheless a formed, not only in a general way but as to what every 10 conclusion of the Department of .Justice, that this is their individuals are doing in the United States to overthrow the propaganda, and they set it out in quotation marks, " This is Government. what we have learned they are going to do." There i no evi 5. Each of these unit>: of 10 must have their own fighting unit of dence submitted. Mr. LENROOT. The Senator does not mean that. not less than 3 men- Mr. NORRIS. Yes; I do. So that in the. e groups of 10 there must be a subgroup of Mr. LENROOT. He means what they would aim to try to 3 who are fighters to carry on the real fighting that must take do, but not any conclusion that they will be successful in place-- doing it. who are appointed by the leader of the unit, with the approval of the Mr. NORRIS. That ls a difference that is absolutely of no central committee of the party. importance. I will accept the Senator's version of it-what they will try to do. It does not make any difference to me. He would have to send the names over to Russia and get Mr. LENROOT. Is it the Senator's position, then, that an back an approval before be would dare make the appointments, other government should be recognized if it tries to overthrow and, of course, those fellows in Russia might have to take a our Government, but shall not be successful, and should not little time to find out whether or not these three men were be recognized only if we conclude that it would be successful in just the kind of fellows that they wanted as fighting men in its attempt? these units, and if there were severa I million of them it would Mr. NORRIS. In the first place, not a scintilla of evidence take them several days before they could intelligently act on has yet been produced to show that the Government of Russia the report. bas made any such proposition or is trying to make any such The members of the fighting unit, in addition to all other matters, proposition. If the Department of Justice had submitted to the Department of State the evidence they had obtained about this mast once a week be given instructions in shooting and receive some statement, and the Department of State would submit the evi instruction in pioneer work-sapper work. dence to the country, we could draw om· own conclusions. Cer So that once a week these fellows are going to shoot, and tainly the Secretary of State could not be blamed for refusing again I sny if they are sufficient in number-and, of course, to recognize a government engaged in an attempt to overthrow the Secretary must believe they must ue very numerous in our Government, but if he bases his refusal on such grounds, order to endanger the life of our country-there will be a good he should have some evidence on which to stand and should deal of shooting going on every week. If these fellows all not defend bis action on the conduct of men not in authority in over the country get out the guns and go to shooting, it will the Russian Government. He should go farther and give u · not be safe for any of us to be on the street ; and since they the facts as to the source of this alleged program. Foolish as it will not all shoot on tbe same day, it is fair to say that they is on its face, it probably originated in the dream or wish of would be shooting every day; some would, anyway. some unscrupulous detective who knew just what was E>xpected 6 . .All the unit leaders of each district must meet once every two of him. months to discusR the prog1·ess of their work and their plans for Mr. SHORTRIDGE. May I ask the Senator a question? further activities in the presence of a member of the centi·al com l\Ir. NORRIS. Certainly. mittee of the party. Mr. SHORTRIDGE. Has the so-called Government of Russia disavowed that statement? This is going to take some time, too. Mr. NORRIS. Not that I know of. It has not yet had a We are firmly convinced that work in the direction designated by chance. us will give enormous· results in the sense of preparing thousands of 1\-11'. SHORTRIDGE. Does the Senator deny that it bas been new propagandists, future leaders of the military forces of the party, issued? and faithful fighters uuring the social revolution. Mr. NORRIS. I do not know anything about it. With reference to the organization by the W. P . .A.- Mr. SHORTRIDGE. Why discus· it, tllen? Mr. NORRIS. Because I want to. I know nothing excei)t I am not just sure what that meails. It might mean the what the Department of State bas sal their liberty and their persons, that a lot of these sleuths com I think when we come to look at diplomatic correspondence ing from all parts of the country should capture them and, that may be said to be a blunt statement. · without permitting them even to call their friends, their fami l\fr. BORAH. Mr. President-- lies, or their attorneys, rush them on board a ship and deport The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from Mas them to some foreign cow1h·y like Russia just because they sachusetts yield to the Senator from Idaho? ltad whiskers. l\lr. LODGE. I yield. That is not an exaggerated example. Things wor e than that Mr. BORAH. The Senator from Massachusetts will recall haYe happened, and before they happened the newspapers were of course, he knows better than I-the circum tances under filled for days with things ju t like this emanating from the which Mr. Webster made this expression. State Department, paving the way to fix the public mind and Mr. LODGE. I perfectly recall them. create a sentiment against those people. l\1r. BORAH. The expression was based upon the implied I read a statement from the official who passed on most of threa~ of the Emperor of Austria tllat if the agent of the these cases. He said that in the thousands of arrests which American President, who was being sent into Austria was were made at that time at the hun I say, therefore, that if the Department of Justice doe::'l not legal evidence or any evidence that the Senator from Wiscon think it is justified in proceeding with criminal action, if the sin would accept as probative evidence that that is true; and I Secretary of State or the Department of Justice will send the submit, l\fr. President, that in my opinion it will not be forth names of those parties to the Committee on Education and coming. If I am mistaken, I will be glad to admit it. But we Labor, if they will send the evidence or any part of the evi have been the victims of propaganda in this country to such a dence, or if they will give the chairman of that' committee any marked extent that I want facts. clew whatever to the source of this activity or to the people l\Ir. LODGE. Does the Senator confine that to the point of in this country who are disloyal to the Government and are showing the connection of the Soviet Government with the un cooperating with foreign enemies, I will promise an open in doubted publications in the newspapers and 'vith propaganda? vestigation in which there will be no possible escape from the There is no question about that eviden~e. It abounds. facts. I will disclose every fact and circumstance availalJJe to l\lr. BORAH. What I undertake to SRY is that the Soviet expose the enemy abroad and the traitor at home. Government. neither directly nor indirecUy, in my opinion, for • l\fr. LENROOT. Mr. President, will the Senator yield? the last three years has in any way cou:atenanced or urged or Mr. BORAH. I yield. promulgated or indorsed or connived at any attempt to over l\Ir. LENROOT. Does the Senator think that the question of throw the American Government. recognition of the Soviet Government should depend upon the l\1r. LODGE. Or any other government? . success of their propaganda here? l\lr. BORAH. Oh, no; I understand that they have sought :Mr. BORAH. No. What I claim is that it does not exist. to build up opposition to other governments, and there is every I do not believe that the Soviet Republic is responsible for this reason why they should. France sent over munitions and miserable stuff which is being circulated. If I did I woultl take financed an army to invade Russia for the purpose of over a different course from what is being taken. throwing the Russian Government England invaded Russia Mr. LENROOT. It may not exist here, but if the Svviet for the purpose of overthrowing· the Russian Government. It Government is responsible for the propaganda that bas been is perfectly natmal that the Soviet Government should have sent out, is not that a material element which the State De counteracted such activities in any way that it could; and I partment decides? presume has done so. I do not know about that; but I do say, Mr. BORAH. That is not what the State Department said, after very thorough investigation and after an examination the however, that is not all that department said. best that I ha...-e been able to make, that in my opinion during l\fr. LENROOT. I think it is. the last three years the Soviet Government has not connived at Mr. BORAH. I beg the Senator's pardon. If the State any effort to propagandize this country, for the purpose of oYer Department has any evidence of activity upon the part of our throwing the GoYernment. I have made the best and most citizens, certainly either the Department of Justice or some one thorough investigation it has been possible for me to make. I else ought to expose who they are. I und?rstand the charge ha...-e sought to get facts. I am stating my opinion now, and that they are communicating with agents in this country. a k for facts, and if I am in error I will have, I trust, the Mr. LENROOT. But if there be no activity and they have courage to admit it. But I never felt more sincerely of the done this thing, should they be recognized? soundness of my position where controverted facts were in·• i\fr. BORAH. How can they do this thing without having volved. some agency? How are they going to put a red flag over the 1\lr. LODGE. I wanted to get the Senator to state, as lle White House without somebody there to raise it? [Laughter.] now has, exactly what the point is. 1\Ir. LENROOT. No one has said, neither the State Depart Mr. BORAH. Yes; that is what I say. Now, so far as the ment or the Department of Justice, that they will put a red Third Internationale is concerned, the citizens or nationals of flag over the White House; but, if the statement be true, that 56 different nations are members of it. is what they would like to do and are trying to do. :Mr. LODGE. I am not familiar with their numbers. They Mr. BORAH. How does the Senator contemplate that they sound the same as the league. are going to try to do it without anybody in this country to l\Ir. BORAH. Wen, I presume, then, the Senator would assist? doubt it if it sounds the same as the league; but I can assure l\lr. LENROOT. That is not necessary; but if that is the the Senator that that is the evidence which they themselves purpose of another Government, whether it has one single put out. We are, however, doing . business all the time, we are individual here who tries to put it into effect, that Government making treaties, and we are dealing with nations whose citi ought not to be recognized by us as a member of the family of zens are members of the Third International. We have sup nations. plied some of tho e ·members our elves. The Third Interna tional is a wholly different institution from the Soviet GoYern Mr. BORAH. If the Senator will bring to the Committee on Education and Labor proof that parties representing the ment. Soviet Government have made an effort during the last three Mr. LODGE. Oh, absolutely. years to overthrow this Government, so far as the Senator from Mr. BORAH. Yes. Idaho is concerned, he will withdray1 his support for the 1\lr. LODGE. But it is supposed to have control largely of recognition of the Russian G.overnment. I do not propose to the Soviet Government and to be allied with it. · be bound by hearsay or by irresponsible individuals or mere Mr. BORAH. That is the supposition. Now, let us have printed matter thrown out loosely here and there. the facts in regard to it. :\Ir. LENROOT. Again I think the Senator entfrely mis Mr. LODGE. I shall try to give the Senator the facts, but I am not going to do that this morning. apprehends the position. If it be established that the Com munis:t International is a part and parcel of the Russian Mr. LENROOT. Does the Senator from Idaho think that the statement in the official organ of the Soviet Government, Government, and the Russian Government is responsible for its made evidently on official authority, and quoted this morning, action, and if it be established that it has sent to tbe United is any e\idence of the community between the communist States such a communication as has been published, the case internationale and the Soviet Government? is made against the recognition of the Russian Government. Mr. BORAH. There was a time immediately after the ~1r. BORAH. Very well, I will go further. Then I chal lenge the Senator from Wisconsin to bring to this committee revolution when that relationship may have existed; but I any evidence that the Soviet Government bas sent such a com ba ve confined my statement to-day to the last three years, and I have done so for the reason that my information is based munication, either directly or through any agency of the Soviet upon investigation. There was a time immediately after the Government. revolution when the relationship of certain parties to the Third Mr. LENROOT. Does the Senator from Idaho say that the International might be considered as establishing a relation statement given out this morning is no evidence upon that ship for which the Russian Government would be responsible. subject? 1\1r. LENROOT. Has the Senator from Idaho any evidence l\1r. BORAH. I am not to be brought into conflict with the of the severance of that relationship? Secretary of State. I make my own statement. l\Ir. BORAH. I have what I consider evidence of that fact. l\fr. LEJNROOT. I prefer to believe, until it is shown to the Indeed, I can not say the relationship actually existed at any contrary, that the statement made by the State Department is time. true ; and the burden of proof is not upon them to go further. Mr. LENROOT. It has not been given to the country, l\fr. BORAH. I am not asking the Senator from Wisconsin has it? to believe me; far from that. I am asking the Senator from Mr. BORAH. I do not know, but it is available to the Wisconsin or anybody else to present any probative facts that country, including the Senator from Wisconsin, in the same these things which are set out are true. I am asking for any way I got it. LXV-29 450 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 20, Mr. LENROOT. I ball be glad to be informed. l\lr. BORAH. It is a very voluminous affair, and, of course, l\Ir. FLETCHER. Mr. President-- · a man might not see it all, but I have gone through it pretty The PRESIDEXT pro tempore. Does the Senator from thoroughly, but, of course, could not read it in detail. Idaho yield to the Senator from Florida? l\1r. President, I conclude by saying that I am very anxious Mr. BORAH. I yield. to investigate this matter. Mr. FLETCHER. I desire to make an inquiry of the Sen Mr. LODGE. So am I. ator from Idaho. That Senator has introduced a resolution Mr. BORAH. And I am very anxious that it shall be in· on this subject, which, as I understand, has been referred to vestigated in the open. the Committee on Foreign Relations, and I desire to ask Mr. LODGE. Certainly. whether or not the whole subject will not be considered by Mr. BORAH. If the Senator from Massachusetts is not that committee and all the connections of these various now prepared to introduce a resolution to go to his committee agencies and their activities in this country and abroad to provide for an Investigation in this matter, I shall ask per necessarily be gone into fully by that committee in the con mission to have it done by the Committee on Education and sideration of that resolution? Labor. I do not know what the purpose is in that connection, but Mr. LODGE. The Senator has already bad such a resolu it would seem, if the Senator presses that resolution, that such tion referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, has he an inquiry would necessarily have to be made. not? Mr. BORAH. Mr. President, I do not know, of course, what Mr. BORAH. No; it is on the table. It is safer there. the committee will see fit to do. I know what the Committee [Laughter.] on Education and Labor is ready to do. We are ready to help Mr. LODGE. The Senator is a member of the committee Attorney General Daugherty. If he feels, should he call a and ought to know. grand jury, the result would be such as to make his department l\Ir. BORAH. But if the Senator from Massachusetts will absurd when the investigation was finally concluded, I would take up the subject before the Committee on Foreign Relations be perfectly willing to take the onus of the investigation; and I will not, of course, press my suggestion. it would be open; it would be where everyone could tell what Mr. LODGE. I propose to take the subject up not only be was going on. fore the Committee on Foreign Relations but personally. l\Ir. LODGE. The point of the Senator now, as I understand, Mr. BORAH. Does the Senator propose to have the com- is that there is nothing that justifies the action taken or the mittee investigate it? note written by the Seeretary of State? Mr. LODGE. I do. Mr. BORAH. Does the Senator mean yesterday's note? Mr. BORAH. Very well; that is fine. l\lr. LODGID. Yes; I mean the note recently written, which Mr. LODGID. I have not the resolution before me at this ha just appeared. Is not that the point which is involved? I moment, but I suppose it includes the subject which we have am not undertaking to try the Department of Justice. The been discussing. If not, I should like to have it included. point that is involved is whether the Secretary of State was l\Ir. WALSH of Montana. Mr. President, I should like to justified in what he said in the note, which the Senator from inquire of the Senator from Massachusetts if there is pending" Nebraska [1\fr. NORRIS] has asked to have printed. a resolution looking to an investigation by the Foreign Rela l\1r. BORAH. The point is whether or not the Secretary of tions Committee? State has facts justifying the conclusion which he has reached l\1r. LODGE. I thought such a resolution had gone to our that the Soviet Government is engaged in activities against committee, but the Senator from Idaho tells me it is on tha our Government, to overthrow our Government. table. Mr. LODGE. Yes; that is the point involved. I mean the l\.1r. WALSH of Montana. To what resolution does the Sena whole history of the Soviet Government is not i.Ilvolved. That tor from Idaho refer? would take us some time. Mr. BORAH. I have not introduced any resolution provid· Mr. BORAH. The whole history of that Government is not ing for an investigation. involved; and yet I pre ume, if a date had been put upon this, 1\fr. LODGE. I beg the Senator's pardon; I thought he had. the Senator would see that much of it is involved. The gentle Mr. BORAH. I introduced a resolution with reference to man who is mentioned here as the author of this propaganda the recognition of the Soviet Government. has not been connected, as I have been informed this morning Mr. LODGE. That question is involved more than anything by two parties, American citizens, with the Soviet Government else. for two years. Mr. BORAH. It will be necessary to have some provision in Mr. LODGE. I dare say; I am not familiar with all the addition to what the resolution already carries if we were going activities of the Soviet Government. to have an investigation. The resolution to which I refer is l\1r. BORAH. I make that statement myself. I am informed simply a statement to tbe effect that the Senate of the United by two Americans who have been over there lately and who are Sates favors the recognition of the Soviet Government; that is acquainted with the situation that he has not been connected all there is to it. with the Soviet Government for two years. I say, therefore, Mr. LODGE. The Senate can not recognize that Government, that, to a certain extent, the history of. the Soviet Government of course ; it can only express an opinion in regard to its recog is involved, and I am willing to go back three years. It will nition. be remembered that we had one investigation here with respect Mr. BORAH. That is all I ask the Senate to do. to the activities of the Soviet Government. Mr. SWANSON. Mr. President, I should like to ask the l\fr. LODGE. When? l\lr. BORAH. When Martens was being investigated. Senator if the resolution which he has already submitted is not the proper one under which to proceed. It might be o:ffensiv«l Mr. FLETCHER. 'The Judiciary Committee went into that perhaps to the Soviet Government if we should directly under and took some nine volumes of testimony. Mr. BORAH. Yes; and in those nine volumes of testimony take to investigate them. We have, h<:>wever, a right to recog there is no evidence of any money being expended here for that nize them or not to recognize them, and the resolution of the purpose, or of activity upon the part of any individual in Senator as to recognition would involve a full investigation and regard to it. There is no evidence that there was any organi one which we would be justified in making. The chairman of zation or any conspiracy existing for that purpose. So we the Committee on Foreign Relations says he favors an investi should stop on the hither side of that investigation and take gation, and it seems to me that the resolution ought to go to that as the date from which we should make further investiga- that committee. With the Senator from Idaho, in whom we have the utmost confidence as a thorough investigator, and the tion. Mr. OVERMAN. Mr. President, I think there were two in Secretary of State making contrary statements, it occurs to me vestigations, one by the Judiciary Committee and one by a that it would be proper for the Committee on Foreign Relations special committee, of which the Senator from Maine [l\lr. to investigate the subject under the resolution which has been HALE], as I recall, was chairman, and at which Martens proposed. appeared. I have some recollection to the effect that there was I should oppose any resolution to investigate the Soviet Gov evidence of money being spent in this country. ernment of Russia. What have we got to do with the internal affairs of Russia except so far as recognition is concerned? It Mr. LODGE. Oh, yes. 1 Mr. BORAH. I have gone through the hearings lately, and seems to me the proper- resolution is the resolution which the I am unable to find it. Senator has submitted, involving the recognition of the Soviet Mr. OVJilRMAN. I was not on that committee. I was on the Government of Russia, and then the proper procedure would be other. to investigate as to whether conditions are such that we ought 1923. CONG-RESSION .A_L RECORD-SEN ATE. 451 I or ought not to recognize it. Such an investigation would be cow, is the organ of the Communist Party for international propaganda. confined to the rights which we have, and it would not be an The soviet regime in Russia is the organ of the Communist Party for investigation of the Soviet Government. the governing of Russia. As Steklov, member of the Russian Com l\lr. LODGE. l\1r. President, I think the resolution affords a munist Party and of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and sufficient basis on which to found an investigation; and if the editor of the Izve'Stia, official organ of the soviet regime, has stated in Senator will have it referred to the committee, I will be glad this official paper : to ask the committee to consider it. " The close organic and spiritual connection between the Soviet Re l\1r. BORAH. Then I ask that the resolution now on the public and the Communist International can not be doubted. And even table which refers to the recognition of the Soviet Government if tbis connection had not been admitted many times by both sides, it of Russia may be referred to the Committee on Foreign Rela would b~ clear to everybod.v as an established fact. • * * This con tions. nection is not merely of a spiritual but al'So of a material and palpable Tlle PRESIDENT pro tempore. The pending question is, character. * * * The mutual solidarity of the soviet republics and Will the Senate consent to the request of the Senator from the Communist International is an accomplished fact. In the same Nebraska? If there is no objection, the matter presented by the degree as the existence and the stability of Soviet Russia are of impor Senator from Nebraska will be printed in the RECORD, as re tance to the Third International, the strengthening and the development quested by him. of the Communist International is of great moment to Soviet Russia." The matter referred to is as follows: I~STRUCTIONS. [Extract from address of Presi DEPARTMENT OF STATE, "The Communist International notes with great satisfaction that dent Coolidge to Congress, De December 18, 1923. the work of the Workers' Party of America for the past year has been cember 6, 1923.] STATEMENT, exprc-ssed in a satisfactory broad and real revolutionary work. Par RUSSIA. With respect to the telegram ticularly pleasing to us is the fact that all dissensions existing up to Our diplomatic relations, lately to President Coolidge from Chi the present time in the ranks of the party have finally been liquidated, so largely interrupted, are now cherin of December 16, the Sec and we hope that the Workers Party of America, the advance guaru being resumed, but Russia pre retary of State to-day L·ade the of the revolutionary proletariat of the United States of North Amel'ica, sents notable difficulties. We following statement in reply: will now more succe·ssfully conduct its revolutionary work among the have every desire to see that " There would seem to be at millions of American proletarians. great people, who are our tradi this time no reason for negotia "For more intensive revolutionary work we suggest that the follow• tional friends, restored to their tions. The American Govern ing instructions be adhered to : position among the nations of the ment, as the President said in his " 1. All the activity of ~be party must at the present time be earth. We have relieved their message to the Congress, is not directed among the workers of the large industries, such as the rail pitiable destitution with an enor proposing to barter away its prin road workers, miners, weavers, steel workers, and similar workers mous charity. Our Government ciples. If the soviet authoriti~s engaged in the principal industries of the United States. offers no objection to the carry are ready to restore the confis "2. Among tbese workers in the factories, mills, plantations, clubs, ing on of commerce by our citi cated property of American citi etc., there must be organized units of ten. The head of this unit of ten zens with the people of Russia. zens or make effective compensa must in so far as possible be an old trusted member of the party. who Our Government does not propose, tion, they can do so. If the must once a week, together with his ten, study the communist program however, to enter into relations soviet authorities are ready to and other revolutionary literature. with another regime which re repeal tbefr decree repudiating " 3. These units of ten must be organized by occupation and na fuses to recognize the sanctity of Russia's obligations to this coun tionality. international obligations. I do try and appropriately recognize " 4. The head of the unit must know intimately each individual mem not propose to barter away for them, they can do so. It re ber of his ten-his character, habit , the degree of his revolutionism, the privilege of trade any of the quires no conference or negotia etc., and report everything direct to the central committee of the party. · cherished rights of humanity. I tions to accomplish these results, do 'not propose to make merchan which can and should be achieved " 5. Each of these units of ten must have their owu fighting unit of dise of any American principles. at :Moscow as evidence of good not leS'S than three men, who are appointed by the leader of the unit These ·rights and principles must faith. The American Govern with the approval of the central committee of the party. The members go wherever the sanctions of our ment has not incurred liabilities of the fight.ing unit, in addition to all other matters, must once a week Government go. to Russia or r epudiated obliga be given instructions in shooting and receive some instruction in pioneer But while the favor of America tions. Most serious is the con work (sapper work). is not for sale, I am willing to tinued propaganda to overthrow " 6. All the unit leaders of each district must meet once every two make very large concessions for the institutions of this country. months to discuss the progress of their work and their plans for further the purpose of rescuing the peo This Government can enter into activities in the presence of a member of the central committee of the ple of Russia. Already encourag no negotiations until these efforts party. ing evidences of returning to the directed from Moscow are aban "We are firmly convinced that work in the direction designated by ancient ways of society can be doned." us will give en•Jrmous results in the sense of preparing thousands of detected. But more are needed. The United States consul at new propagandists, future leaders of the military forces of the party, Whenever there appears any dis Reva! will deliver this statement and faithful fighters during the social revolution. p-0sition to compensate our citi to the soviet representative at "With reference to the organization by the Workers Party ot zens who were despoiled, and to that place for communication to America of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party, the Communist Interna recognize that debt contracted Chicherin. tional expresses its complete satisfaction and its approval to the cen with our Government, not by the ~ral :ommittee of the party for its boldness and tact in putting this Czar but by the newly formed Re idea mto effect. We hope that the party will step by step conquer public of Russia ; whenever the (embrace) the proletarian forces of America and in the not distant active spirit of enmity to our in future raise the red flag over the White House." stitu tion.s is abated; whenever The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Will the Senator from Idaho there appear works meet for re again state his request? pentance; our country ought to 1\1r. BORA.R. I ask that the resolution with reference to the ue the first to go to the economic recognition of the Government of Russia be referred to the ancl moral rescue of Russia. We Committee on Foreign Relations. have every desire to help and no de ire to injm·e. We hope the time 'l'here being no objection, the resolution ( S. Res. 50) sub mitted by Mr. BOHAH on the 11th instant was referred to -the ls near at hand when we can act. Committee on Foreign Relations as follows: DEPARTMENT OF STATE, ResoZ.Ved, That the Senate of the United States favors the recognition December 19, 1923. of the present Soviet Government of Russia. The Department of State made public to-day the text of instructions ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. given by Zinoviev, president of the Communist International and presi Mr. HARRISON. l\fr. President, I do not know just what dent of the Petrograd Soviet, to the Workers Party of America, the the status is. The morning hour is not yet over. I merely want communist organization in the United States. The Department of Jus to occupy five or six minutes of the Senate's time. I do not want tice has a'Ssured the Department of State of the authenticity of these to lose my right to do that under the unanimous-consent agi·ee instructions. Tbe Communist International, with headquarters at Mos- ment. 452 OONGRESSION AL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 20, Mr. LODGE. l\fr. President-- of time during the summer for the leaders of the Republican Party Mr. HARRISON. Is the Senator getting ready to move to to get together and arrive at a p1·ogram and determine upon adjourn? some policies so ·that they might organize here and put them ~1r. LODGE. No; I was going to move an executive session. through at an early day; but nothing has been done daring Nothing can be done in executive session except to refer mes these three weeks, notwithstanding the President of the United sages of the President and receive reports to go on the calendar. States came to the Congress and asked you to get to work and 111r. HARRISON. I should like to have a heart-to-heart talk do certain things. Now I am going to refresh your mem ~ries, in public with the Senator before the Senate goes into execu just briefly, as to what your new President asked you to do, tiYe session, occupying the Senate's time only a few moments. and which you have ignored up until this hour. l\Ir.- T... ODGE. Will there be time e:o.ough for me to go to Here are some of the suggestions he made. lunch? Take the matter of tax reduction. The Secretary of the 1\lr. CARAWAY. Mr. President, will the Senator from Mis Treasury had sent in his recommendation asking, of course, sissippi yield to me? I · merely wish to ask the Senator from a very large reduction upon the surtaxes on the incomes of the l\Ia . achusetts a question. rich and a very small reduction upon the numerous s.maU in l\lr. IIAilRISON. I yield. come taxes. Mr. CARAWAY. I read in the papers some rather interest l\Ir. BROOKHART. Mr. President-- ing matter this morning, and I want to know on what day The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from the Senate is to have· a bill to give Muscle Shoals to Mr. Mississippi yield to the Senator from Iowa? Ford. Mr. HARRISON. ·I do. :Mr. LODGE. That day has not been settled yet. We leave l\1r. BROOKHART. Does the Senator favor our hurryittg up it to the Senator's party which supports it. and getting that done? :Mr. CARA WAY. I just felt certain that the Senator would Mr. HARRISON. No. I am just talking about the Senator's be introducing such a bill. colleagues, not himself, because be is in thorough sympathy Alr. LODGE. Whenever I introduce it, the Senator may ex with us over here in trying to push through a proper tax pect it to pa s. reduction measure; but it matters not how much he presses or 1\Jr. HARRISON. 1\fr. President, it is the usual custom, in uses his dominating influence with his brethren over there, he the closing days of the year, for an accounting to be made. can not accomplish anything. Before we take this adjournment for the holidays I desire to The Pre ident indor ed the Mellon proposal for tax reduction. offer to the country in behalf of the Senate an accounting of I shall not discuss the details, but the Pre ident said that the the achie-vements of the Republican Party for the ·past 12 Congress should take it up immediately and do omething with month. it. Now, to show the plight you are in, here is the di tinguished During the last ses ion of Congress the Senate was occupied new chairman of the Finance Committee, l\Ir. SMOOT, all power in the consideration of a very nefarious measure proposed and ful in the Senate, who takes a different position from that of the urged by the administration known as the ship subsidy bill. Secretary of the Treasury and that of the President. That is to It occnpi€d the time of the Senate almost to the exclusion of say, in the last statement I saw that he had i ·s.ued he took a. all other business. We appealed to the leaders on the other different position. He may have changed now. The party lash side to lay aside that bill so that something might be done in may have been applied, and he may have changed bis position; behalf of the farmer, and other progressive legislation en but in the last statement that I saw that the distinguished Sen aetea, but you frittered away the time, and nothing was ac ator from Utah had i ued he said that he did not think it was complished during that whole session of Congress. We ad wise for Congre to take up the matter of tax reduction at journed, and along about four or five months ago, when the this time. He doubtless knew, wi e as he has shown himself to pre. ent President, Calvin Coolidge, took the -reins of goYern be in the past. that if he brought out such a bill he would lose ment, the papers were full that an extra session of Congress control of it on the floor of the Senate, and we would go beyond mi2'ht be called. It was due to the distressed condition of the what be and the President and the Secretary of the Treasury, far':mers of the West. We had heard of tile returns from the and probably the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts l\Iinne ota election ; we had heard by radio and read in the [Mr. LODGE], wanted us to do, and so the Senator from Utah papers of the distre sing situation presented by the distin does not agree with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Presi guished Senator from Kansas [l\1r. CAPPER], the ne~t Repub dent on this tax-reduction plan. Now, of course, the country lican nominee for Vice President; so we were led to believe remains befuddled and confused as to what the policy of the and did believe that the farmers in the West were in a de administration is in respect to tax reduction. plorable plight, and that Congress should be immediately re Now, let us see about the distinguished Senator from .Massa conYened so that some legislation beneficial to them might chusetts, and whether or not he agrees with his President in the be enacted. However, we read in the papers along in the early proposals that the President made to the Congr-ess on the 4th fall or late summer that the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. day of December. LoooE] had been to the White House, and that some other The Pre ident, in Ws memorable message, which he had kept lead~rs of the Republican Party had conferred with the Presi concealed for three or four months and did not take the coun dent, advjsing him against calling an extra session of Congress. try into his cenfidence about, finally spoke, and spoke coura I do not know upon what basis that advice was given. Per geously, and told the country how he stood on most questions, haps they realized that if Congress should convene there and one of them was that he was for entering the league World would be so many various elements within the Republican Court. I think I saw two or three Senators on the other side Party that nothing could be done. It may be that the Senator faint when he said it. 'l'he Senator from Massachusetts does had the far vi ion, which he always possesses, of knowing not agree with his distinguished fellow citizen from Massachu that he never would be able to reconcile the differences within setts with respect to that proposal. Indeed, if I am right in my his party and even elect a chairman of the Interstate Com understanding from what I have read in the papers, the Senator merce Committee. But, whatever motive may have prompted from MassacJm etts wan.ts to construct a world court of his own, him. the papers said that he advised the President against free from any reservations that he might have to draw. So calling an extra session of Congress, and notwithstanding the what are the people of the counti-y to do? How are they to deplorable situation that confronted the farmers of the country know what your administration stands for or what you will do the extra se ·sion of Congress was not called. in carrying out the policies with respect to foreign affairs or We met on the 3d day of December. We are now just get to domestic questions? ting ready to go into executive session to confirm the nomina The President in his message advocated a reduction of rail tion of some forty-two odd postmasters in Virginia, and one road rates, and yet the Senate majority ob~tructs the election or two in l\Iassachusetts. of a chairman of the Inte1·state Commerce Oommittee, and Mr. LODGE. Mr. President, the Senator is always accurate. holds up that matter, when the -President in his mes age said Of course, under the unanimous-consent agreement, we can not in burning words that- confirm anything. 1\lr. HARRISON. I beg the Senator's pardon. Then we are Tbis should be ordered at once by the Congre s. to go into executive session and do nothing, as we have been Yet you have taken ba1lot after ballot and you can not get doing in every other executive session and every other se.;;sion together among yourselves to select even a chairman of that of the ·Senate that bas been held since the 3d day of December, committee, and to show your impotency with respect to it and then we are to adjourn over lliltil the 3d day of January. you propose to adjourn and leave tbese private Pullman cars It bas been practically nine months since the 4th da:-7 of filling up the terminal at the Union Station, delaying n·ain March, when the last Congress adjourned. There was plenty schedules, cars which have brought the presidents or high ofil- 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 453 cials of the railroads here to lobhy with respeet to the selec- crowd as to how they will stand on the tax-reduction propo tion of a chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee. sition. They have presented no plan for reducing freight How can the country have any confidence in you. How can rates. They have talked, but they_have presented no plan for they expect ~-ou to do business, or carry out any policy, when the relief of the farmer. There is no need of hurry now, you can not agree amongst yourselves about the chairmanship because the crops of corn and wheat and oats and cotton have of e-1en one committee? gone into the hands of the speculators; and there have been Mr. BROOKHART. Mr. President-- foreclosures of mortgages and sheriffs' sales, and that sort of Mr. HARRISO:N. I was not alluding to the distinguished thing, and speed now would have principally the effect of 8enator from Iowa, because he has been thoroughly progres- helping the speculators and not the men who produce the crol)S. sive in this matter. We know exactly how he stands. He has So, before I want to submit to all of this criticism, I want divorced himself from the association of his colleagues- on tbe to a k, Where are the concrete propositions coming from our other side, and he has come oyer here and voted for a real friends on the other side of the Chamber? progressive Democrat-having more confidence in his Demo- Mr. SI1Ul\IO~S. Mr. President, after the el~ction, when the era.tic colleague than he has in the Republicans over thare. I Republican Party suffered such disaster as a result of the utti congratula te the Senator in his wisdom as well as independ- tude of the farmers- of the West, and because of the failure of ence of action. Now I yield to the Senator. that party to afford some relief, the administration ·beeame :\fr. BIWOKHART. l\Ir. President, I fail to see that Sena- suddenly, for the fil'st time, very much interested in farm tors on the other side of the Chamber have agreed. A Senator relief legislation. The President began. to hold conferences with over there prevented us from being efficient and effectiYe. farmers throughout the country for tbe purpose of determining Mr. HARRISON. With but one exception we have agreed. what legislation could be had to relieve their distress. Tllere Of cour e, some of us were very sorry that it was not unani- was, L think~ some talk of a special session because of the mous. It was unanimous, may I say, for some six or eight urgency of such relief legislation. ballots, and only in one in tance has there been a desertion. It was said that the administration and the representati\es Another thing the President in his message urged Congress of agriculture of the West we-re going to formulate a plan either . to take up and consider was the question of restrictive immi- for a special session or for the regula:c session. It was deter gation. Yet the chairman of the Immigration Committee of mined, however, that there would be no special session, but the the ~enate has not yet called a meeting of that committee to farmers were given to understand that when Congress met their consider that \ery important question in all of its phases and complaint.;; would be given thorough consideration and that carry out the recommendations of the P1·esident with respect there would be action for their relief. to it. Now the Senator from Iowa [Mr. BROOKHART], who Yrns .Another proposition the Presldent specifically asked the Con- prominent in connection with those demands upon the adrninis gres to take up and deal with was the question of leasing tration, after the Congress has been in session for three weeks 1\luscle Shoals. You have done nothing about that. The Pre i- and the committee having in charge this legislation bas prob clent cited the necessity for cheap fertilizer. He said that the ably not even so much as held a: meeting, unless it was for the- fnrrners were entitled to cheap fertilizer. purpose of reporting some nomination that some Republican :\Ir. BROOKHART. Mr. President-- who had been appointed to office might be confirmed in his re- ~Ir. HARRISOX Yet Congress has done nothing toward ward, twits this side of the Ch.amber with not. having prese-nted givino- them cheaper fertilizer or toward carrying out the to t1ie other side of the- Chamber, responsible as it is for legis r commendation of the President to lease Muscle- Shoals. It lation, some constructive measure for the relief of the farmers may be, may I say to my friend from Iowa and to the country, of the country. that after the re-velations of yesterday, we may now get some That is a very remarkable proposition. Wbere does the action.. I hope so. Now I yield to the Senator.. burden for relief rest? What party in this country has the :l\lr. BROOKHART. That was what I referred to. we have power of giving congressional relief? The minority has not the accompli hed s-0mething. We have gotterr tbe support of H nry burden. The minority has not the power. Tbe majority have Ford. · charge of the committees. They have their chairmen. th€y have Mr. H.AIUUSON. If it "\>ill make secure the development a majority, and they ought at least to call the committees to- at :Muscle Shoals and insure the lea ~·e to 1',ord, then for one r gcther anq. give us notice. that they have found themsel,es Elm willin I 454 CONGRESSIO:N AL RECORD-SEN ATE. DECEMBER 20, ears listening for some action in their behalf, the only thing if I may be pardoned the use of that word, upon the Congress about which the majority pa1·ty in this body has been diligent, in presenting l.Jis views. His fundamental idea was-and the speedy, active, is the matter of getting Republicans appointed bill that was framed and sent to the Congress sl.Jowed it-to to jobs confirmed in those positions. If the committees have reduce to n minimum the ta:s:es upon the incomes of the small been doing anything I would be glad to hear it. I issued the income eamers of the country an great system. Under that system nearly $775,311,855-a little Government pays the expenses of the board, so that all these more than that, in fact-ham been found for farmers and expenses are now paid by the borrowing farmers themselves. loaned to them through the Federal land banks at the ra'te of That is another expense you put upon them. That amounts 5 and 5~ per cent 11er annum; $325,663,461 more have been to $332,000 a year-some little expense. You have, therefore, found and loaned to farmers under that system also through increased the membership of the Farm Loan Board, adding to the joint-stock land bank ; so that over a billion dollars have the costs of that system. The result has been an increase all been furni bed the farmers of this country under that great along the line in expenses, including a fiscal agent at $25,000 system established by the farm loan act in 1916, on practically a year, and you have provided that all the expenses of the tlleir own terms ancl at rates of interest not exceeding 5 or 5-} bureau, over $300,000, shall be paid· by the system and not by . per cent. the Government. This is in addition to the salaries and ex What has happened? In the first place, these selfisll inter penses of the Federal land banks, heretofore borne by the ests. the farm mortgage bankers' associations in the Northwest, IJorrowing stockholders. For the 12-month period ending No undertook to destroy that act by attacking its constitutionality. vember 30, 1923, the total of those salaries and expenses, none For some 18 months they paralyzed the system; but the Su borne by the Government, amounted to $2,825,592.94. preme Court of the United States, when the case reached them, What have you done more than that? You propose now to held that the act was constitutional in all its features aud pass a constitutional amendment to provide a means whereby upheld it ·and sustained it. Very well. the exemption from all taxation allowed these farm-loan bonds shall be taken a way from them. In other words, the provision 'The majority in control of both Houses of Congress at t11e in the original act to the effect that these bonds shall be exempt last ,'ession demonsti·ated their sincerity in reference to their from all taxation is to be repealed, and you propose to tax the claims as friends of the farmer by doing this: First, they in farnFloan bonds. That would be the ultimate effect and result creased the membership of the Farm Loan Board from four to of the proposed constitutional amendment. seven. That was an unnecessary addition to the expenses or I do not want to detain the Senate now, but I can show, and the sy tern. and you will see how that bears upon the farmet', I propose to do it at a later time, when there is a better oppor because a little later on they proceeded to saddle that whole tunity to do it, that whole plan originated with the Farm Mort expense upon the borrowing farmers of the country. Instead gage Bankers' Association, enemies of this system, with whom of increusing the member:hip of that board, they should have they were in competition in the West. I can prove that, I decreased it to not exceeding three. They do not need seven think, beyond any question, and I propose to show that the members on the Farm Loan Board. They ought never to have whole scheme and plan of this constitutional amendment "\\ith seven memhers on the ]!''arm Loan Board, each receiving a reference to tax-exempt securities originated with the Farm salary of $10.000 a year; but our friends insisted upon that, Mortgage Bankers' Association, and that the purpose of that :rnd they passed the l>ill which proYides for that increase of association was to destroy the tax-exempt feature of farm-loan the Farm Loan Board to seven members. each getting $10.000 bo.uds, . a year. What has been the result? The result has been that When that is accomplished, 'Yhat will be the result? At this the· board has been organized on the basis of selecting presi time $200,000,000 a year is being loaned to farmers under this dents of farm-land .:>anks in different parts of the country to system, according to the statement of the Farm Loan Board be members of that board, the presidents of those banks hav itself. They ougllt to loan $400,000,000 a year. There is de ing been appointed by the board previously, and the former mand for it. There is no reason why they should not furnish farm loan com mi sioner of the board is now drawing $25,00C\ that accommodation. There is demand for more than that, and a year as counsel and fiscal agent under the provisions of this they ought to loan at least $400,000,000 a year, but they are law, approved March 4. rn23. loaning $200,000,000, as they say in their statement. Mr. l\lcKELLAR. l\1r. President-- What would it mean if we should destroy the tax-exempt The PRESIDING OFFICER (l\Ir. McNARY in the chair). feature of these bonds? It would mean an increase in the Does the Senator from Florida yield to the Senator from Ten interest of from 1 to 2 per cent on all those loans, perhaps as nessee? much as 2 per cent. I have ·not seen any estimate of less than l\lr. FLETCHER. I do. 1 per cent. What does that mean? It means an increase of l\1r. McKELLAR. If the Senator will yield just a moment, interest to the borrowing farmers of this country of $2,000,000 I saw somewhere a statement that the dut·es now performed a year on the loans made to them hereafter. by l\lr. Lobdell, who bas been appointed general coun el of It is estimated that there are to-day $8,000,000,000 of loans the board, are precisely tlle same duties that he performed outstauding on farms of the country. Then what does that when be was acting as chairman of the board. Can the Sena proposal further mean? It means an increase of 1 per cent on tor tell us whether or not tlrnt is correct? the interest those farmers will pay, because the minute you l\lr. FLETCHER. 'l'here is no reason why they should not destroy the tax-exempt feature of farm-loan bonds you raise be the same. They employ a syndicate to sell the bonds. interest rates, not only as to loans made under the farm loan They pay commissions to the syndicate just the same. 'l'here act berenfter but the interest rates will be raised throughout is no reason why the board should not handle that "\\hole the whole country on these loans. You ,,.ill raise the rate of proposition, it seems to me, without any additional expense. interest these farmers are paying on $8,000,000,000 1 per cent, But what have they done further'? Under this act, which you which means $80,000,000 a year. insisted in both Houses of Congress should be passed, and it Mr. SHEPPARD. I think the i;;enator will find that the bas passed and become the law, it is provided that the en amount is $11,000,000,000. tire expenses of this bureau should be borne by the system l\1r. FLETCHER. Very well. Then $110,000,000 instead of itself; that is, bJ· the borrowing farmers. Before that the $80,000,000 a rear will be added to the interest the farmers expenses of the Farm Loan Board, they constituting a bureau of this country must pay. in tbe Treasury Department, were borne by the Government That is the way you haYe been friends of the farmers of the it elf, just as the expenses of the bureau of the Comptroller of country. You have crippled an institution which was created the Currency and the Federal Reserve Board are borne. Will for their benefit, and you have imposed these additional burdens any Senator on the other side rise in his place and propose upon their system. You have increased the expenses of that that the national banks of this country shall pay the salaries system and the salaries and the compensation paid to tho 9f the Comptroller of the Currency and all the officers and various officers and agents. You put that all upon the system, assistants under him, comprising all the expenses of that whereas the expenses of that bureau were formerly borne by bureau? Let us see if they will. Will you offer to have the the Go>ernment, just as the expenses of the office of the Federal reserve banks pay the salaries and ex.-penses of the Comptroller of the Currency are borne by it. You now pro Federal Reserve Board? You dare not. poRe to destroy the tax-exempt feature of the bonds, and you The expenses of the Comptroller of the Currency and thn.t wm thereby increase the interest that the farmers will pay · bureau of the Government are paid by the Government. Like under that system by $2,000,000 a year, and the interest rates wise the salaries and expenses of the Federal Reserve Board will go up throughout the country so that you will add to are so met. Here was a bureau of the Government-the Farm their interest payments $110,000,000 on the renewals of the Loan Bureau. Why should not those expenses pe paid by the mortgages now outstanding. Government precisely as it pays the expenses of the Comp The present interest on loans made by other agencies than the troller of the Currency and his office and those of the Federal Federal farm-loan system have had to meet the competition Reserve Board? No; you say: "This system was established of the farm-loan system. That system is the ·pacemaker ill for the benefit of the farmers. They must pay for it " ; and the matter of interest rates for farmers. If it has to pay a so you proceed by law to change the. original act whereby the higher rate upon its bonds then it will have to charge the 458 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 20 ' farmer a correspondingly higher rate, and an farmers wbo due, will be renewed at a higher rate of interest if the amend borrow, regardless of where they borrow, will bave to pay a ment referred to and recommended by tl.Je Secretary of the corresponding increase. So it is entirely fair to say there will Treasury should be adopted. The ground usually urge ernm~nt obligations at all. Morally, yes, the Qoyernment would speak this much to-day, but I wanted to call attention to ought to back them up, and that is why I was perfectly willing, the situation. I want the country to understand that the alleged in considering the original measure, to provide that three of friends of the farmers of the country have demonstratc.1 that the directors in each one of the 12 Federal land banks should friendship by putting the expenses of the bureau on the farmers, be named by the Federal Farm Loan Board-three of them in whereas heretofore the expenses of the farm loan board were each one of the banks to be named at all times. I would not paid by the Government, like those of the Comptroller of the have done it upon any other basis. I did that because the Gov- Currency. They have added three men to the farm loan board ernment ought to stand behind the system morally, yes, and and $30,000 a rear in salarie ·. They have made it possible to support it and stand back of it, but that did not provide that provide for a fiscal agent at $25,000 per year. They have taken the Government should absolutely name every officer and con- control of the whole system and placed it right in Washington trol the operation of the whole system from top to bottom. in the hands of this bureau, so that they can sit here and dictate The stockholders have the poor privilege of naming a minority, what is to go on in every Federal land bank throughout the as the matter works out, of the directors for each land bank country. Then these so-called friends to the farmers have although they own the stock and have mortgaged their home~ proposed to destroy the exempt feature of the farm-loan bond and obligated themselves to pay installments and are interested which would raise the interest rate the farmers must pay in the dividends and tlle success of the banks. throughout the country on $200,000,000 a year that is now being The stockholders in the land banks are the borrowing farmers loaned to them, and which ought to be $400,000,000 at least, and of the country. The Government does not to-day own any of the result would be the raising of intere~t rates on all loans the stock in many of the banks and very little of the stock in outstanding with the farmers of the country, which would mean others of the banks. The Government originally put up a part at least 1 per cent, or $110,000.000 more. of the capital- '9,000,000, as r recall-to start the system, but Ha1ing called attention to these matters, I lea1e the ·ubject that tock has been paid back gradually under the plans out- for the present. lined and provided for in the act, so that the stockholders in ..illJUSTEO COMPENSA'fIO'.'i" FOR WORLD WAR VETJIB.c\.NB. tile banks are the borrowers composing the National Farm Loan Associations througllout the country. They ought to have l\Ir. :ucKELLAR. Mr. President, I voteu for the soldiers' control over the operation of the banks. bonus bill in the last Congress, when it pas ·ed by an eno1·- I am perfectly willing to girn permanently and for all time mous majority, and it only failed to become a law by reason of representation of the Farm Loan Board, and thereby of the the fact that it was vetoed by the President and there were not Go-vernment, if you please, on the directorate of the banks, and quite enough votes in the Senate to pass it over his 1eto. tl1erefore the oriainal act provided for three tlirectorR to be 1\ly information is that in-the late election, with the question named at all times by tbe Federal Farm Loan Board. But here before the people in almo t every State and in every congres- thc control of every one of the Federal farm-loan banks has sional district, enough changes were made in both House and ..... be€'n taken out of the hanus of the farmers and vested in a Senate to insure the passage of the bonus bill over the veto board with headquarters here in Washington, with the right to of the President, should President Coolidge decide to follo'v operate as they plea ·e. Tlle whole control of that' system lrns President Harding in •etoing it. )l'"otwithstnnding what he been put in the hancls of seven men here in Washington, and said about it in his recent me sage, I sincerely hope he will they have been empowered to name presidents and officers of not veto it. the banks and a majority of the directors of all the banks Mr. rresident, when the late war came on our Government · tbrougbout the country, as well as appraisers, examiners, regis- drafted the boys, made no contract with them then, but simply ter...,, and what not, and thereby has been established a machine took their services and told them it would pay them $30 a which, if utilized politically, would be the mo t powerful ever month, $15 of which was to be allotted to dependent relatives conceived by man, a· it may be, if administered properly, the ~nd $6 a month of which was to be used to pay insurance, leav mos~. beneficent and stupendous financial system yet devised, mg the average boy $9, or about 30 cents a day, and his keep. servmg the farmers of the country to an extent unlimitefl. and ~or this 30 cents a day the boy not only gave his entire serv unexcelled. ice but took three very unusual risks, any one of which was There has been put in to the hands of this board a pov profits of all those who during the war "commercialized their It is next argued that it will increase tl1e burden of taxa patriotism "? Unless you do you can not be consistent. tion. Of course, it mu t be paid out of taxation, bat there is no I saw in some newspaper some time ago where it was esti earthly reason why we shou,ld increase the tax burdens of tlle mated that 23,000 millionaires, some 200,000 half millionaires, people. On the contrary, we should lower them. We slloul c.l an Ur. S~IOOT. J3ut the remarks which I am going to make are than similar bonds which ha\e been taxed dming the lifetime for the RECORD. All the questions which have been discussed of the decedent. So that a part of the object to be attained will come up before the Senate at the proper time. I merely in amending the Constitution of the United States under the desire to say, however, that if the Democratic Party had been so-called tax-exempt amendment can be accomplished by an in power at this session of Congress there would not have been act of Congress, if the Congress sees fit to pass such an act. any more legislation enacted before the Christmas holidays than .l\Ir. Sl\IOOT. l\Ir. President, I will say to the Senator what has been enacted by the Republican Party. In order to prove I started to say: That I think 90 per cent of the opinions that that assertion all Senators have got to do is to examine the have been rendered to me claim that Congress can do just what RECORD of the sessions when the Democratic Party came into the Sena tor has stated they can do. power in 1912 and 1916, from which they will see what business lli. ROBINSON. What I am interested to know is, how can was transacted immediately preceding the Christmas holiday there be any difference of opinion upon the subject when the recesses which were then taken. Supreme Court of the United States has sustained the _prin Mr. President, there have been some statements made here ciple, and there are no decisions to the contrary? to-day which I think ought to be answered, although proposi· Mr: SMOOT. The Senator asked me the question, and I am tions advanced can not be successfully maintained because they answering it just as it was asked. I think perhaps 10 per cent misrepresent existing conditions. Since the joint-stock land of the opinions that were rendered said that even that could banks were created by ·act of Congress I have never spoken not be done; but I ha \e no doubt . but that we can limit the before an audience calling attention to the privileges granted a.mount of deduction of interest from tax-exempt securities that to individuals in this country under that law but there has been can be taken by way of credit on an income on which a tax is a favorable response immediately against the injustice of the to be imposed. I was discussing the question of joint-stock act. land banks, and I asked by what reason or justice should Con What right have we to say to any man in the United States, gress grant to a man, with four members of his own family, if "You and four of your friends may organize a joint-stock land he wants them, or four friends, the privilege of issuing bonds bank ; you and your friends may put $1,000,000 capital into to the extent of fifteen times the amount of money that he it; you and your friends may control it; and the Government invests in the joint-stock land banks and the interest on all of of the United States authorizes you to sell tax-exempt securi such bonds be tax exempt? ties to the amount of fifteen times $1.000,000, or $15,000,000 "? Mr. JONES of New Mexico. :Mr. President-- The interest received from tho e $15,000,000 of bonds is tax free. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from and o men with large incomes who invest in such bonds are Utah yield to the Senator from New Mexico? enabled altogether to avoid paying taxes. There is a practice Mr. S.MOO'l'. Yes; I yield. going on in the United States to-day that ought to be stopped l\lr. JONES of New Mexico. I intend at some early time in just as soon a,s Congress can enact a In.w for that purpose, for the future to discuss thts question of tax-exempt securities; to-day a man can borrow $10,000.000 and purchase $10,000,000 but I think a wrong impression may go out from the remarks worth of tax-exempt securities, the interest upon which, at 5 which the Senator is making now unless at least a word be per cent, is $500,000 per annum. He can deduct the $500,000 said. · interest he pays on the loan from his income from any other Under the provision with reference to joint-stock land banks source and pays no tax upon it. Therefore he can have an the rate of interest which the joint-stock land banks may income of S500,000 from taxable items and never pay a cent charge to the farmers of the country is limited. The limit of taxes to the Government of the United States. under existing conditions enables the farmers to get money 1\Ir. WHEELER. l\lr. President, may I interrupt the Sen cheaper than they could otherwise obtain it. The result of it ator? is that while the purchaser of those tax-exempt securities ob tains the privilege of tax exemption, he pays for it. He pays T11e PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from what you may call a tax. He does not pay it to the Govern Utah yield to the Senator from Montana? ment, but he pays it to the farmers who borrow the money. 1\Ir. Sl\IOOT. Yes. The same thing may be said with respect to the tax-exempt Mr. WHEELER. I quite agree that a tax-exempt measure securities of States and municipalities. The man with the should be pa sed; but I should like to ask the Senator what is large income does not escape payment for that, but he pays going to become of the tax-exempt securities that are now more for the securities with the exemption than he would pay helc1 by the people wbo have invested their millions of dollars for the same securities without the exemption. The result is in tax-exempt securities? \Vill not the passage of such a law that the State or the municipality capitalizes the tax-exempt immediately raise enormously the value of those securities feature and gets the benefit from it. When you consider the which the.·e men have? effect of taxes by States and municipalities to-day you will l\Ir. SMOOT. I think the Senator from Montana under find that there is a burden upon the people of this country stands that Congress has not the power to pass any law that which ought to be relieved ; and if through this method we can would be retroactive as to the interest from tax-exempt securi get cheaper money for the States and municipalities, if we tie ; but I do believe that Congress can limit the amount can get cheaper money for the farmers of this country, give which can be deducted from income from all other sources by them a direct benefit, and relieve them of a part of the bur the deduction of tax-exempt securities. I think Congress has den of government, I say that we should do it; and it is no that power. and I think it ought to enact a law authorizing excuse to come in here and say that the man of large means that just as quickly as possible. is escaping taxation by any ~n1cb process. l\1r. ROBINSON. Mr. President, will the Senator yield to a Mr. SMOOT. l\Ir. President, if I may proceed now for just question? a few minutes, I will conclude; but, simply to answer the Tbe PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from Utah Senator from New Mexico, I want to call his attention to the yield to the Senator from Arkansas? fact that all of what .be claims could have been done with the 1\Ir. Sl'lfOOT. Yes. Federal farm banks. This power need .not have been given to Mr. ROBINSON. The Senator is chairman of the Finance individuals. Committee and no doubt has given a great deal of study to l\1r. JONES of New l\Iexico. Mr. President, pardon me just the ·e suhject . Has the Senator investigated the question to a word. I overlooked referring to that. The proYision regard determine whether or not it is competent for the Congress to ing these stock banks was made to meet a situation, and that tax securities that are exempt from taxation during the life was the very cumbrous method by which the farm-loan bank time of the owner in the form of an estate tax higher than could reach the farmers of the country through associations, other s2curities of similar character which have borne their and the stock banks were provided for in order that they share of taxation during the lifetime of the original owner? might deal with the individuals where the individuals were 1\lr. SMOOT. Mr. President, I have asked some of the best not so circumstanced that they could readily form associations attorneys in the United States to furnish me their opinions as and deal directly with the Federal farm bank. to whether or not that can be done. Mr. SMOOT. The Senator may say what the object of it was, l\lr. ROBINSON. I will say to the Senator from Utah that but what is the result? The joint-stock land banks are operat there does not appear to my mind to be any question about the ing in exactly the same territory that the Federal farm banks legality of such a tax. The Supreme Court of the United States are operating in ; they are in direct competition with them; has held that it is entirely competent, in the case of b stances, I do not believe that they would appwve of granting HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. to any individuals in the Unfted States that great power. I have been in favor of the Federal farm-loan bank. I voted THURSD.d.Y, December 20, 1923. for the bill when it was under consideration in the Senate. I called attention then to tlle joint-stock land bank provision, The House met at 12 o'clock noon. and, if I remember correctly, it was inserted when the bill was The Chaplain, Rev. J ames Shera Montgomery, D. D., offered before the Senate, and the:} was mighty little discussion of it. the following prayer : The only objection that I have had to he whole sysem, if we are Almighty God, once more we are in the foreglow of the going to ha\e any further tax-exempt securities, is to the power advent season. Holy night; silent night; heaven's angels are that bas been conferred upon individuals through the organiza keeping their watch of wondering love. Already we hear the tion of joint-stock land banks. echo of their proclamation saying, "Glory to God in the high Of course, the question of politics will be before this body est, peace on earth, good will toward men!" 0 .may this from the time we meet <. the 3d day of January until the decree continue to resound throughout the world until all men time the session closes. I do not know what time that will be, shall know that all glory in heaven and earth belongeth unto but in every presidential election it is the same. I thought it Him! So meek yet so high; so glorious in humility and yet was rather strange last night when the Senator from Ken so sublime in divinity ! 0 God, So abide with us that our tucky [l\Ir. STANLEY] stood upon the floor and criticized severely souls may conform to the teachings of Jesus, the Savi or of the Esch-Cummins law, and at the same time I knew that he men. So change the hearts and minds of men that they shall voted for the bill; and not only did he vote for it, but there never again engage in the awful spectacle of war. l\1ay Thy were 13 Democrats who voted for it, and there were 8 Republi peace rule in all hearts and Thy truth in all governments. cans who voted against it. Talk about a party measure ! May we be generous and put some window of happiness in A.gain, the Senator from Florida [l\Ir. FLETCHERl is trying to some human tenement. As we separate for a little time, may charge the Republican Party with taking the control of these Thy blessings of love be with all officers, the Representatives, Federal farm-loan banks out of the hands of the farmer and and the pages. Dwell in gladness about every hearthstone, putting it in the hands of the Government. What act was it make every pathway happy, and brighten all skies with the that did it? Why, it was the Lever-Glass Act. What act was radiance of Thy presence, and Thine shall be the praise and it that limited the amount to be loaned each year to $200,- the honor and the glory forever. Amen. 000,000? It 'vas the Lernr-Glass_Act. The Journal of the proceedings of Monday last was read and l\Ir. FLETCHER. · l\.Ir. President, I do not quite catch what approved. the Senator is driving at. SWEA.RING IN OF A MEMBER. Mr. SMOOT. ·1 will read the law to the Senator, if he does Mr. JoH so , a Representative from the fourth district not catch . it. of Kentucky, appeared at the bar of the House and took the Mr. FLETCHER. The Senator talks about limiting the loans. oath prescribed by law. They are not limited at all. l\Ir. SMOOT. They are limited ·until the $200,000,000 is paid COMMITTEE ON RULES. back. :\Ir. SNELL. l\Ir. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to pro Mr. FLETCHER. That is merely an advance made by the ceed for one minute. Government. 'l'he SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York asks unani 1\Ir. SMOOT. I know it is an advance, 3:nd there is an obli mous consent to proceed for one minute. Is there objection'? gation in the law as to how it shall be administered until it is There was no objection. paid back, which will be in 33 years. Mr. SNELL. l\1r. Speaker, I simply desire to announce that :Mr. FLETCIIER. Oh, yes; but that has nothing to do with the Committee on Rules of the House will hold hearings rela the loans. tive to the proposed changes of the ru:es. They will continue those bearings as long as any ~fember desires to be heard. We l\lr. Sl\lOOT. That bas everything to do with them. That would be pleased to have all Members desiring to be heard is the power that was given; and this is the fir t time I have before the Christmas holidays make their wishes known this een the senior Senator from Florida turn a political critic on afternoon. After the hearings are adjourned we will start the basis of legislation tl1e origin of which he must have known again Fri The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Virginia asks unani House Resolution 78. mous consent to address the House for 45 minutes on Janu Resolved, That the Personnel Classification Board, creatM by "An ad ary 3 ·on the Sterling-Towner education bill. Is there objec to provide for the classification of civilian positions within the Dis tion? trict of Columbia and in the field services,'' approved March 4, 1923, be, Mr. THEADWAY. That will not interfere with privileges and is hereby, directed to transmit to the House of Representatives tbd already granted? following informap.on: 'l'he SPEAKER. No; it will follow those remarks to which A complete copy of the minutes of said Personnel Classification consent has already been given. Is there objection? Board from its organization to the date hereof. '.fhere was no objection. Copies of all papers referred to in said minutes or relating tg actions of said board. MESSA.GE FROM THE SE~ATE. Copies of all letters, circulars, or communications sent out by said A message from the Senate, by Mr. Craven, one of its clerks, board. announced that the Senate had passed a bill and concurrent The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the res lution of the following titles, in which the concurrence of gentleman from New Jersey? the House of Representatives was requested: l\Ir. SNELL. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to ol.Jject, I S. 794. An act to equip the United States penitentiary, Leaven think .we should have a little explanation of that to see jtist worth, Kans., for the manufacture of supplies for the use of the how far it goes before we grant the request. Go\ernment, for the compensation of prisoners for their labor, Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Speaker, I object and for other purposes. Mr. LEHLBACH. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman reserve Senate Concurrent Resolution 2. his objection fo.r a moment in order that I may state what the object of the resolution of inquiry is? It is merely an in Resolvea by tlze Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), quiry to ascertain facts for the use of the House. That a joint committee to consist of five Senators, to be appointed by l\lr. BLANTON. I think probably we have been pretty well the President prn tempore of the Senate, and seven Members of the advised in respect to the matter through the Washington press. Hou e of Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House, I have been watehing the matter through the press for the last is hereby authorized to investigate the problem of a 9-foot channel in two or three months. the waterway from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, and the l\lr. LEHLB.ACH. Of course, the gentleman may get the in~ problem ot the navigability of the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri forma.tion upon which he acts officially through · the news RJvers. · papers- For the purposes of this resolution the committee is authorized to Mr. BLil"TON. Oh, only to a certain extent. bold hearings, to sit during the sessions or reces es of the Silty-eighth l\I.r. LEHLBACH. I think we ought to ascertain the facts. Congre s at such times and places, to employ such clerical and other Mr. BLANTON. :Mr. Speaker, I withdraw the objection for assi tants as tt may deem advisable. The committee is further au the present. thot•ized to send for persons and papers ; to require by subprena or The SPEAKER. Is there objection? otherwise the attendance or witnesses, the production of books, pa:pers, There was no objection. and documents ; to administer oaths; and to take testimony,· as it may The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the reso deem advisable. The cost ot stenographie service to report such hear lution. ings shall not be in excess of 25 cents per hundred words. The ex The resolution was agreed to. pen:es of the committee, which shall be limited to $10,000, shall be paid, one-half from the contingent fund of the Senate and Qtle-hal! EXTENSION OF REMARKS. from the contingent fund of the House ot Representatives: Provided, Mr. TILSON. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex That Senate Resolution No. 411, agreed to January 25, 1923, be, and tend in the RECORD a brief paper entitled " The Gauge Problem the same hereby is, discontinued in force. for Interchangeable Ordnance :Materiel," prepared by l\Iaj. J. 0. The message also announced that the Senate had passed the Johnson, the chief of the gauge section of the Ordnance Depart following resolution: ment. It is written in nontechnical language so that a layman can understand it, and I believe will be very helpful to the Senate Resolution 86. Members of the House, especially in the consideration of the Resolved, '!'hat the House ot Representatives be- notified of the election Army appropriation bill of George A. Sanderson, of Illinois, as Secretary of· the Senate. The SPEAKER Is there objection? Tlle message also announced that the· Senate had passed the There was- no objection. following resolution, in which the concurrence of the Senate l\lr. TILSON. l\ir. Speaker, under the leave granted by the was requested: House I here insert a paper prepared by l\faj. John 0. Johnson, chief of the gauge section in the Ordnance Department, on House Concurrent Resolution 7. the very important subject of gauges. There is no one better Resol11ed hy the House of Representatives (the Senate ooncurr-ing), qualified to speak on this subject. Major Johnson has had an That when the two Houses adjourn on Thursday, December 20, 1923, unusual and unique experience in connection with gauges and they stand adjourned until 12 o'clock meridian, Thursday, January 3, ordnance materiel. Thoroughly trained in the processes of 1924. metal manufacture and familiar with the use of gauges, he COMMITTEE ON THE TERRITORIES. was well equipped to render a most important service during the World War. At first with the munitions board of Canada Mr. CURRY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the and later as an officer in our own Ordnance Department, he C()mmittee on the Territories may be allowed to sit during the did notable work until the war ended. The gauge problem, rece €if Congress. however, did not end with the war, but only entered into The SPEAKER. The gentleman from California asks unani another phase of the problem. A gauge section was established mous consent that the Committee on the Territories may be al in the Ordnance Department and Major Johnson was placed in lowed to sit during the recess. Is there objection? charge of it. His statement of this problem in the paper here There was no objection. printed demonstrates that the work is in good hands. Mr. LINEBERGER. l\Ir. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent The paper referred to is as fo~lows : to have printed in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD a Donpartisan article on the scientific political training for the Presidency. THE GA.UGH PROBLEM FOR. lNTEBC!UNGEA.RLE ORDNANCE ?trAT::tllRIEL. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from California asks unani The gauge problem has a great many ramifications that I shall not mous consent in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD the article referred attempt to discuss in this paper as it would take too long. I shall try to. Is there objection? to cover only the high ETpots and basic principles of gauges in relation to l\Ir. BLACK of Texas. About how long is the article? Interchangeability and economic quantity production o.f ordnance ma Mr. LINEBERGER. The a1~ticle is not unduly long. teriel and the several reasons why it is highly necessary, as far as l\Ir. BLACK of Texas. I object, Mr. Speaker. possible, to provide for ganges while the matter of time is not such an The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Texas objects. important factor. ' It was the experience of the Ordnance Department during the last PERSONNEL CLASSIFICATION BO.ARD. war that delays in getting into quantity production were very largely 1\Ir. LEHLBACH. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimoos consent doe to the impossibility of se<:uring proper gauges for controlling the for the present consideration of House Resolution No. 78, re aecuracy of manufactul'e as well as determining the conformity of ported favorably from the Committee on Reform in the Civil manufactured materiel to speci:fieations governing its inspection for ac Service, which I send to the desk and ask to have read. ceptance. This situation arose from the fact that at the outbreak of Tl.le Clerk read as follows: war- there was not in the who.le United States anything Uke the num- 464 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEM:BE~ 20.~ ber of gauge designers, gauge makers, or shops equipped to manufacture ments have been checked as to accuracy, given identification numbP.rs, the gauges required in the highly accurate interchangeable manufacture as well as marked ordnancs property, and are being proper1y stored made necessary by the munitions program. I might say here, that the and taken care of. The same as is the case with gauges, they are ready same conditions exist to-day, for at the present time there are only a for issue to the various ordnance establishments. A complete inven few dependable gauge manufacturers in the country. tory is kept of these measuring instruments. · 1'be main reason for the scarcity of gauge makers is that it is a From time to time the gauge section is called upon to scrap gauges highly specialized art requiring long training and experience, also an from obsolete ordnance materiel and also gauges that have passed their extensive knowledge o.f the manufacture of interchangeable work, and usefulness as to dimensions and changes in design. The gauges referred the various processes of operations and machining; a thorough under to are given to the tool room of the arsenals where they a.re located. standing of the theory as well as practice of tolerances and allowances The tool room can, with slight changes, make the majority of these and the exercising of sound judgment in its application, so that the gauges over for working gauges, or gauges used for experimental pur manufacturer may have as large a working range as possible and yet poses, sa ling considerable expense and time. be sure that ·the finished article wm function as intended and will be There a.re three kinds of gauges: First, there are master checks, interchangeable within the prescribed limits. It is natural that the which are sometimes confused with master gauges. The difference is number of men with these qualifications is limited and always will be. that master gauges are simply a reference set of gauges made as close The vital importance of having immediately available at the out as it is possible to the dimensions prescribed without any allowance for break of war sufficient gauges to permit an early start on the manu wear, as they are to be used for reference only. This close work facture of various ordnance materiel has not only been recognized by naturally makes them very expensive, and takes a long time to manu the Ordnance Department but also by Congress by inserting in the facture. As they serve no other purpose but reference in case of dispute national defense act, Public Document 85, of Sixty-fourth Congress, with the contractor, it is thought advisable to dispense with them, as House bill 12766, on page 56, section 123, the following : the accuracy of commercial measuring instruments made to-day and the "Procurement of gauges, dies, jigs, etc., necessary for manufac use to which they can be put have improved so much in the last few ture of arms, etc. The Secretary of War be, and be is hereby, years that in almost every case they answer the same purpose as master authorized to pt·epat·e or cause to be prepared, to purchase or other sets of gauges. wise procure, such gauges, dies, jigs, tools, fixtures, and other special Master checks, on the other hand, are highly necessary and are used aids and appliances, inclt1ding specifications and detailed drawings, extensively on irregular surfaces, such as screw threads, etc., where as may be necessary for the immediate manufacture, by the Govern measuring instruments can not determine the accuracy of a gauge. ment and by private manufacturers, of arms, ammunition, and special They are usually the mating part of the gauge to be made or the op equipment necessary to arm and ~.quip the land forces likely to be posite. The gauge manufacturer must make the master check before required by the United States in i:ime of war : Prnvided, That in the the gauge can be manufactured or finished. The master checks are expenditure of any sums appropriated to carry out the purposes of this also used by the gauge checker for acceptance or rejection of gauges section the existing laws prescribing competition in the procurement of from the gauge manufacturer, a.nd also for checking gauges while in supplies by purchase shall not govern, whenever in the opinion of the use, determining when the gauge is worn out, and, in case Qf adjustnble Secretary of War such action will be for the best interest of the gauges, for resetting. These checks have to be made very accurately, public service." are expensive, and take a long time to manufacture. The bill referred to was introduced by Mr. TILSO~, of Connecticut, Inspection gauges are the gauges used by the Government inspector, and was inserted as section 123 of the national defense act upon his and are bis standard over which materiel is accepted or rejected, and iiisistence. upon such acceptance or rejection the contractor receives his pay for You are naturally curious to know what has been done to solve work passed. It seems necessary, therefore, that the Government fur this problem since the World War up to the present time. The first nish these gauges and checks for determining their accuracy while in problem was to collect all gauges that belonged to the Ordnance De use. Inspeetion gauges are made close to total tolerance prescribed, partment from the settlement of claims on war contracts. These gauges consistent with small allowance inside of tolerance to allow these being scattered about the country in commercial and Government gauges to wear up to the extreme limit on the component. Inspection owned plants were gathered into the respective manufacturing arsenals gauges are checked periodically by Government gauge checkers carry where the materiel pertaining to these gauges was manufactured. ing the necessary measuring instruments and checks for that purpose, They had to be first inspected and tied up to the various components the gauge checkers determining when the inspection gauges have passed to which they belonged, this being a very· difficult task on account of a their usefulness. great percentage being manufactured to the contractor's drawings. Working gauges are the contractor's gauges and are standards over In a great many instances the gauges were made up without either which his work is passed before coming to the Government rutipectors. ordnance drawing or contractor's drawings, simply to penciled sketches, These gauges are used anywhere in the plant where the contractor making identification a very difficult task. sees fit and are under his entire jurisdiction. They are usually fur A gauge laboratory was established in each of the arsenals, equipped nished by the contractor himself. Working gauges are, in most cases, with up-to-date facilities, and as far as possible, trained personnel. of the same design as inspection gauges. It is customary on working This work is now practically completed, and the gauge section of the gauges to have a small allowance inside the in.spection gauges, thus Ordnance Department has at the present time at these various labora preventing rejection by the Government inspector, savfog the Gov tories approximately half a million gauges for various ordnance ma ernment both time and expense by rejection of doubtful material, also teriel, all checked as to accuracy of dimensions and tied up to com incic1ently saving the contractor by not making unnecessary scrap in ponents as pear correct as possible, a card being made out on each both material and labor, and this has a tendency to make for better gauge covering the fOllowing information: Location of gauge; drawing workmanship. The allowance inside inspection gauges also gives the number; component drawing number; type of gauge; gauge function, contractor more wear on his gauges, which makes his gauge problem or where gauge is to be used, and on component to be used; identifica more economical. The allowance taken inside inspecting gauges is left tion number; latest revision of gauge drawing; latest revision of com to the contractor's own discretion. It is customary, if possible, to allow ponent drawing and symbol; also approximate value of gauge. 10 per cent of total tolerance. There are a number of cases, however, Gauges, after being checked for accuracy, are slushed with grease, where this can not be done owing to small tolerance prescribed. The wrapped in moistureproof paper, and put away in proper rack, bin, quantity and quality, upkeep, and checking of these gauges is entirely an<.l tray ready for issue at any time. The exact location of each up to the contractor, as they are his tools used by his own workmen. gauge in storage is also given on the gauge record card, and when a These gauges should not be furnished by the Government. gauge is taken out of storage to be used this is marked on gauge card. Where the manufacture of ordnance materiel is confined to our After the gauge bas been used and -returned again to the gauge labora own arsenals the working and operating gauges become quite a proulem, tory it is checked once more for accuracy. before being replaced in stor having in mind such artciles as the .35-caliber Springfield rifle; .45- age and marked on the gauge card as returned to original place. caliber automatic pistol; .30-caliber automatic rifle, model 1918; The net result from this work is that the Ordnance Department, Browning machine gun water-cooled model, 1917 ; 75-millimeter gun through the gauge section, is able to furnish at any time the informa and recuperator; 155-millimeter howitzer and r~cuperator, etc. This tion as to what gauges are on hand, the condition of each gauge, and its more than doubles our gauge problem, as there are a number of inter exact location. In case of an emergency, where quick expansion would mediate operation and working gauges of different designs not used in be imperative, complete sets of gauges, as far as we have them, on each the inspection of the finished product. For instance, for a unit of component can be selected and distributed to the Government inspector gauges for the Springfield rifle it takes 1,263 gauges of different designs, at the contractor's plant, which would tide them over until more for .45 automatic pistol it takes 995, for .30-caliber automatic rifle gauges could be made. By this method the contractor would be ready it takes 1,918, for the Browning ma.chine gun, model 1917, it takes to begin work as soon as his machines and equipment are arranged 2,262, for 75-milllmeter gun recuperator it takes 597, and for the 155- and would save considerable time in getting ruto quantity production. mlllimeter gun and recuperator it takes 571. This wm give you an The surplus measuring tools accumulated from war contracts Jue idea of the number of designs to be laid down on these few items. being stored at Frankford .Arsenal. .A separate vault was built in Other ordnance materiel from the .22-callber bullet to the 16-inch rail the gauge laboratory to take care of these instruments. These instru- way mount all ·have more or less gauges. 1923. You may readily see the amount of work and thought that will ized as Jaid down in the chart it would mean centralized procurement have to be spent on this important problem facing the Ordnance De- and decentralized distribution tb.rough the gauge laboratories. partment in their preparedness program. _ The Government should furnish the civilian contractor with inspec· The work of the gauge section for the immediate future will be tion gauges used by our own inspectors for the acceptance of finished confined largely to completing gauge lists and designs for all divisional material, for following reasons : equipment, and, so far as funds will permit, to complete sets or units FiI·st. We have to check these gauges and be responsible for their ac of gauges for this equipment according to production schedule laid down curacy. In so doing we have to furnish checks which, in many in· in the 1923 war plans. stances, are the most expensive part arid have to be made before the gauge itself can be made. The war-time organization of the gauge section proposed in 1923 war Second. We could place orders to better advantage by using larger plans, including master checks and inspection gauges only, is outlined quantities; could segregate and place them where we could get better in a chart prepared by the gaU;ge section, which may be briefly ex delivery and better quality and price, as price on gauges is largely plained In words as follows : governed by the quantity of gauges made of the same kind and at the Main office in Washington, divided into three sections. same time. Usually there are several special tools to be made before Sectfon 1, design of gauges: This section is responsible for all draw the manufacture of the gauge, which cost as much as the gauge itself, ings and designs pertaining to gauges, all dra\vings before distribution and it may be readily seen by this alone there would be considerable to be signed by the chief of the gauge section. The design section must saving etfected both in time and woney by avoiding duplic11tion in the also keep in close touch with the various divisions in order to keep up manufacture of these tools. Our master checks have to b~ made for with the changes in designs and see that· gauge drawings are up to the checking gauges ; these same checks could then be used by the gauge last revision of component. manufacturer, which would insure better and more uniform gauges, as Section 2, procurement: This section receives requests from district well as saving in time. offices as to requil'ement and directions for distribution of gauges, Third. It would avoid disputes IUld friction with contractor, also places orders for master checks and inspection gauges with the gauge eliminate excuses by him that he could not secure gauges. manufacturers, designates one of the gauge laboratories to inspect these Fourth. We would be in a position to know when contract is let gauges, either locally or at the gauge manufacturer's plant, keeping ln and would immediately take steps to secure quantity of gauges sufficient close touch with the gauge laboratories, and also sees that these inspec to cover contract. tions are carried out in the most efficient and economical manner Fifth. Our source of information would be far better as regards consistent with the saving of time. Also sees that gauges, after their who could make certain kind of gauges to best advantage and give acceptance by the gauge laboratory, are distributed to their respective best delivery, and with Government pressure would be better able to places. This office is responsible for all gauges from the time orders control gauge-manufacturing facilities. are phfced until gauges have reached either the district office or the Sixth. It would also prevent the contractors Wdding against each contractor where they are to be used. other and paying a premium to gauge manufacturers for quick de Section 3, administration: This section receives and distributes all liveries. information, technical or otherwise, and all other duties incident to Seventh. By furnishing our own inspection gauges and checking them the administration of this section. such as accountability, personnel, etc. all ourselves at our own establishment, which has been fitted up to A gauge laboratory bas been organized at each arsenal handling the take care of this work with the latest up-to-date methods and a class of gauges pertaining to the materiel manufactured at that arsenal. trained personnel, insures uniformity and distribution to the best 'l'hese laboratories have been working for the last four years and advantage. results are very satisfactory. They are laid out with all necessary Eighth. Instead of this being an added expense to the Government, tools and equipment for quick expansion, which will be necessary in the it would tend to be a saving, as the furnishing of gauges would be taken time of war. The duties of these laboratories are, when orders for into consideration when contract is let. the manufacture of gauges are placed by the Washington office one of Ninth. It would give us uniform designs of gauges which would be these laboratoi.·ies will be designated to arrange for the inspection of considered from an economic standpoint in manufacture and per· these gauges, either locally or at the gauge manufacturer's plant. The formance, and would give us a more uniform gauging practice, having gauge laboratories are responsible for the acceptance or rejection of tlle whole program in mind, while the contractor is only concerned with the gauges. When gauges have been inspected the results are sent to his own individual problem. the Washington office where the accountability is carried. The labora ~Ir. TILSON. l\:!r. Speaker, I ask leave to extend my remarks tories will then distribute the gauges either to the district offices or in the RECORD by inserting therein an article by the former direct to the contractor's plants upon request and under direction floor leader of the House, Mr. Mondell, which appeared in the of the district office through the procurement section. Review of Reviews. The subject is "What is the matter with As soon as an emergency arises a gauge supervisor should be imme Congress?" diately installed in each district office with a sufficient number of l\fr. MOORE of Virginia. Does l\Ir. Mondell answer the gauge checkers to take care of Government gauges for ordnance materiel question? manufactured in their respective districts. This method was used in Mr. TILSON. I think that he has answered it to his own the last war and worked out very satisfactorily. This part of the satisfaction and in a way that will be comforting, at least, to district office organization should be undc direct supervision of the l\Iembers of the House. Washington office. The reason for the centralized authority of this Mr_ BANKHEAD. I presume that is also a nonpartisan prnduct is that this materiel is of the most difficult technical nature article? and . requires highly specialized, technically trained personnel, and there l\1r. TILSON. Oh, yes. is not at present available in the country or by the nature of the Mr. HUDDLESTON. Mr. Speaker, I should like to inquire .business-probably never will be-enough of this class of men to of the gentleman whether the article deals with what was the enable the Ordnance Department to set up more than one real good matter with Congress when l\Ir. Mondell was here, or with organization of this nature. Another reason is that gauges are the what is the matter with Congress at the present time? Government inspector's standards over which ordnance materiel is l\1r. TILSON. It deals with many criticisms made against the. accepted or rejected, and upon such acceptance or rejection the Gov· way that Congress does its business. ermnent pays the contractor. It may be readily seen that there can Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Speaker, I object. be no division of authority, as this would lead to endless disputes and Mr. TILSON. I hope that the gentleman from Texas will confusion. not object. I think that he would welcome it if he would The procurement of Government gauges should emanate from the examine the article. Washington office, and could be distributed to the gauge manufacturers Mr. BL.ANTON. I think those criticisms should come from from there to a better advantage, both as to saving of time and at Members of Congress tl1emselves and not from the outsitle. considerably less expense, as they would be segregated, and as far as Mr. TILSON. He is answering the criticisms of those on the practicable secured in quantities. Each gauge plant requires a number outside. of master checks and special tools to manufacture gauges, and with the ~fr. BLANTON. Mr. Speaker, it appears that the article proper segregation from one source less quantity of these checks and referred to has been published in a periodical, and I havr no tools would be required, a saving bo.th of time and expense. objection to the request. Immediately upon an emergency the gauge laboratories located at The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the each manufacturing arsenal would become a school of instruction for gentleman from Connecticut? gauge checkers, and the district offices would be furnished with trained l\fr. McCLINTIC. I object for the present. personnel from these laborato.ries. In this way they would all check WITHDRAW AL OF P .A.PERS. the gauges under the same method, which would eliminate confusion in Mr. SCHALL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to gauge cheeking. withdraw from the files of the House, without leaving C•>vies, The Ordnance Department bas at present about 500,000 gauges for all papers in the following cases, which I send to the desk anu ask classes of ordnance mat~riel, approximately worth $35,000,000. Organ- to have-read. LXV-30 -. 466 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DEcE1'1BER 20, The Clerk read as follows : unrler regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, if Edward D. Bartlett (H. R. 7754) SilftY-seventh Congress, first 3~ssion. brought back to the United States at any time before December 31, 1924. Committee. on Claims. SEC. 2. Any duties paid on any such dome tic animals and off Mary A. Sims (II. R. 13086), Invalid Pensions, Sixty-seventh Con spring thereoof returned to the United States after March 1, 1923, gre s, third session. and before the- enactment of this resolution shall be refunded by the Cora Marlette (II. R. 12931), Invalid Pensions, Sixty-seventn. Con Secretary of the Treasury, and the necei:: ary moneys to make such gress, third session. refunds are hereby authorized to be appropriated. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? l\lr. HAWLEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that There was no obj'ection. this resolution be considered in the House as in Committee o! the Whole House on the state of the Union. PORTO RICAN COMMISSIONER. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Oregon asks unani 1\lr. LONGWORTH. l\1r. Speaker, the rule provides that th& mous consent that this resolution be considered in the House Commissioner from Porto Rieo shall be assigned to the Com as in Committee of the Whole House on the state of the mittee on Insular .Affairs. That matter was overlooked in Union. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The Chair hears making up the committee. I move the assignment of Mr. none. DA VILA,. the Porto Rican Commissioner. to the Committee on Mr. HAWLEY. l\lr. Speaker, the purpose of this resolution Insular Affairs. is to extend the resolution formerly passed by Congress to The motion was agreed to. accommodate the growers of cattle and other domestic animals COMMITTEE ON REVISION OF THE LAWS. in .Ai·izona, New Mexico, and western Texas. It ari es out ot the necessity of finding grazing range for those animals. B& Mr. LONGWORTH. Mr. Speaker, a vacancy exists upon the cause of the drought in these sections they were allowed under Committee on the Revision of the Laws. I mff're the election the previous resolution to go into Mexico and return within a of Mr. FRANK R. REID, of Illinois, to that committee. period of 12 months and return without payment of duty. The The motion was agreed to. drought has unexpectedly continued, and the range on this side COMMITTEE ON THE CENSUS. of the line is insufficient to accommodate the animals and pre-. l\1r. LONGWORTH. Mr. Speaker, through a mistake 17 erve their lives. That is the side of the private interests. Members were assigned to the Committee on the Census. The There is a public interest in this also. The War Finance Corpo role provides for only 16. The majority put 10 Members on ration ha made very large loans on these cattle, having made the committee and the minority 7. After consultation with the loan ·, we were informed, on some 30,000 of them. These cattle gentleman from Texas [Mr~ GABNER], he sees no objection to loans were made when the :price of cattle was much higher the committee being made 17 instead of 16. I ask unanimous than it is now, and if the resolution is not extended, the Gov con ent that paragraph 50 of Rule X be so amended as to ernment, through the ·War Finance Corporation, is in danger of e-hange the figures "16" to "17." having its security impafred or possibly in some cases entirely The SPEAKER. Is there objeetion? destroyed. T11ey are now waiting to come across the border There was no objection. under contract for sale-and which were to have been deliv ered on the 18tb of this month-some 2,000 cattle. The War Mr. GARNER of Texas. Mr. SpeRker, before the gentleman Finance Corporation has addressed a letter to the Committee takes his seat may I ask him a question? on Way ancl l\leans eaime tly urging that this extension be Mr. LONGWORTH. Certainly. granted. The Committee on Ways and Means heard the rep Mr. GARNER of Texas. A numlJer of gentlemen on this side re ent tive of the War Finance Corporation, and the gentleman of the House are very much interested' to know when the pro from Texas [Mr. HUDSPETH] and the gentleman from Arizona posed committee on the Veterans' Bureau will be appointed. [1\Ir. HAYDEN}. We are convinced that both the private inter I understand that the R"~publican conference agreed to that ests and public interest will be best sub erved by the passage committee. of this resolution on account of this emergency. l\Ir. LONGWORTH. l\Ir. Speaker, I understand that the l\Ir. RAINEY. l\lr. Speaker, I desire to be heard on the sub Committee on Rules is giving attention to that matter now. ject. Mr. GARNER of Texas. And the gentleman from Ohio has The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Illinois. no information as to the time when that committee wm be 1\lr. RAINEY. l\lr. Speaker, this relief, of course, ought to appointed? be granted to these cattlemen. Under the provision of exist Mr. LONGWORTH. I have no information on that subject. ing law which permits them to take their cattle for grazing REENTRY OF CERTAIN DOUESTIC ANIUALS. purpo es ancl to keep them the1:e for eight months large numbers of cattle have been taken over into Mexico. The ranges there 1\Ir. HAWLEY. Mr. Speaker, I present a privileged :resolu have been practically depopulated of cattle by the war and tion from the Committee on Ways and Means which I send there has been plenty of grazing there and no gra s at all for to the Clerk and a k to have read and move the adoption of feeding in New Mexico, and perhaps in other sections. The the committee amendment. trouble about the matter is that under the Underwood tariff law The Clerk read as follows: it was possible for cattle owners at any time to take their House Joint Resolution 82. cattle across and graze them and then bring them back, and it Resowed, etc., That the time during whkh certain domestic animals was also possible to bring to the corn-growing sections of 'the and their offspring which have crossed the boundary line into for Middle West and the Corn Belt even :Mexican and Canadian. eign countries for temporary past:urage purpo es may be returned to cattle for the purpose of feeding. In other words, it gave tbe United States duty free as pr1lvided in joint resolution approved the Corn Belt farmer an opportunity to get their raw material March 4, 1923, entitled "Joint resolution permitting the entry free Qf wherernr they pleased and purchase their finished product at a duty of certain domestic animals whlch have crossed the boundary cheaper price perhaps than they had been able to produce. into foreign countries," be, and it hereby is, extended so as to permit Under that law cattle and domestic animals reached prices not reentry. duty free at any time prior to December 31. 192~ of any beard of before. Now we are without much information on such domestic animals and the offspring thereof, including therein this subject. any such domestic animals and their oJispring which have so strayed Mr. Mondell, of the War Finance Corporation, was not 'able or been driven or transported across the boundary line since l\1arch to give us definite information. Nobody seems to know how 1, 1923. Any duties that may ha.Ye been paid on any such domestic many cattle are now in Mexico, being taken over under the animals and ofl'spring thereof returned to the United States after the eight-month provision of the present tariff law. The number o:t e:rpiration of one year from date of crossing the boundary line and cattle has been estimated all the way from 32,000 to 250,000' before the date o.f approval of this resolution shall be refunded by the cattle still in l\Iexico ~elonging to American owner . Some Secretary of the Trensury, and the neCPssary moneys to make such have been there for two or three years, nobody knows how long refunds are hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury some.have been there nor what the increase amounts to. How not otherwise appropriated. ever, the \Var Finance Corporation have loaned a large amount of money on some of the cattle. Nobody seems to know how Strike out all after the resolving clause and in ert: much. Even l\Ir. Mondell, of the War Finance Corporation, did That despite the provisions of the third paragraph of paragraph not know. In all probability as much as $7,000,000 "has been 1506 of Title II of the tariJ:Y act of 1922 horses, mules, a ses, cattle, loaned by the \Var Finance Corporation on these cattle. Now, I sheep, goats, and other domestic anlmals which heretofore have have no objection to this resolution except it does not go far strayed across the boundary line into any fore~ country or been enough, and I desire to propose this amendment, if this is a driven across such boundary line by the owner foF temporary pastur chance to do it, to trike out at the end of the committee amend age purposes onJy, or which may so stray or be driven befOd."e l\Iay 1, ment-and I regret that there is no printed copy; of course, the 1024, shall, together with their oJ:Yspring, be admitted free o.f duty. committee amendment is a new resolution-to strike out the 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 467 words "before December 31, 1924," at the end of section 1 of House Resolution 32. the committee amendment. If this amendment is adopted, then Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and he it would be possible for the owners of cattle on the border ls hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of the contingent fund of States to take them across at any time for the purpose of graz the House, to George W. Hahn the sum of $186.66 and to Mary Clark ing and bring them back at any time. I submit my amendment the sum of $120, being the amounts received by them per month as meets the situation. Now, the present tariff law has been ex clerks to the late Hon. James V. Ganly at the time of hls death. tended before to enable them to bring the cattle back, but they Mr. MAcGREGOR. Mr. Speaker, I move the adoption of the have not brought them back in the limit of time, and this pres resolution. ent resolution extends the time until December 31, 1924; ex The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolu· tends it for a year. Now, the effect of my amendment striking tion. out thoSB last four words of this section will be to permit the The resolution was agreed to. return of those cattle at any time or of any cattle taken over by American owners under the existing law-permit them to bring NELLY MOUNTJOY AND W. Y. HUMPHREYS. them back at any time. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York offers an· The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Illinois offers an other resolution, which the Clerk will report. amendment, which the Clerk will report. The Clerk read as follows: The Clerk read as follows: House Resolution 33. Mr. RAINEY offers an amendment to the committee amendment as Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and he follows: At the end of section 1 of the committee amendment strike out ls hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of the contingent fund the words " before December 31, 1924." of the House, to Nelly Mountjoy the sum of $206.66 and to W. Y. The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the amend Humphreys the sum of $100, being the amounts received by them as ment offered by the gentleman from Illinois. clerks to the late Hon. Benjamin G. Humphreys at the time of bi's Mr. GREEN of l;owa. Mr. Speaker, I really do not think death. that the gentleman from Illinois or anybody else on the floor The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolu here would seriously think that that sort of an amendment tion. should prevail. The resolution was agreed to. l\fr. HUDSPETH. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? Mr. GREEN of Iowa. Certainly. BLANCHE G. REYNOLDS. Mr. HUDSPETH. The cattlemen themselves do not ask The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York offers an for that. They ask only for time to get their herds together other resolution, which the Clerk will report. and bring them back. The Clerk read as fallows : Mr. GREEN of Iowa. The effect of this amendment would House Resolution 36. make the whole thing work very unfairly. I do not want to Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and he prolong the discussion at this time, but the cattlemen and the is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of the contingent fund people of Texas do not want it, and the effect, I believe, would of the House, to Blanche G. Reynolds, the sum of $186.66, being the be simply to make a pernicious exception and set a precedent amount received by her per month as clerk to the late Hon. J. M. C. that nobody would want to follow hereafter. Smith at the time of his death. 'l'he SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the amend ment offered by the gentleman from Illinois [l\Ir. RAINEY]. The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolu 1-'he question was taken, and the amendment was rejected. tion. The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the com 'l'he resolution was agreed to. mittee amendment, offered by the gentleman from Oregon [Mr. KEN~ETH MUJU>HY AND DORSEY T. MURPHY. HAWLEY]. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York offers The amendment was agreed to. another resolution, which the Clerk will report. The SPEAKER. The question is on the engrossment and The Clerk read as follows : third reading of the resolution. The House joint resolution was ordered to be engrossed House Resolution 37. and read a third time, was read the third time, and passed. Resolved, That the Clerk of the Hoose of Representatives be, and On motion of Mr. HAYDEN, a motion to reconsider the he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of the contingent vote whereby the joint resolution was passed was laid on funcl of the House, to Kenneth Murphy the sum of $228.33 and to the table. Dorsey T. Murphy the sum of $78.33, being the amount Teceived by l\lr. MAcGREGOR. Mr. Speaker, I call up several privileged them per month as clerks to the late Hon. J. R. Tyson at the time reports from the Committee on Accounts. of hls death. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York calls up The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolu certain resolutions from the Committee on Accounts, which the tion. Clerk will report. The resoluti9n was agreed to. C. H. ENGLAND. EUGENE J. HOLL.A.ND AND JEREMIAH P. HOLLAND. The Clerk read as follows : The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York offers House Resolution 30. another resolution, which the Clerk will report. Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and he 'l'he Clerk read as follows : is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of the contingent fund of I House Resolution 38. the llouse, to C. H. England the sum of $266.66, being the amount Resoli;ed, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and received by him per month as cler·k to the late Hon. Claude Kitchin at he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of the contingent the time of bis death. fund of the House, to Eugene J. Holland the sum of $186.66 and to Mr. SNELL. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield for a Jeremiah P. Holland the sum of $120, being the amount received by question? them per month as clerks to the late Hon. John W. Rainey at the Mr. MACGREGOR. Yes. time of his death. l\Ir. SNELL. Is that the usual resolution in such cases? The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolu Mr. :MacGREGOR. Yes. These resolutions with reference to tion. pay of clerks to Members who have died are the usual resolu The resolution was agreed to. tions. Mr. SNELL. They always receive that one month's back HARRY FAY LANDON AND LEOTA W. LANDON. pay? The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York offers an l\1r. l\1AcGREGOR. Yes. other resolution, which the Clerk will report. The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolu· The Clerk read as follows : tion. House Resolution 39. The resolution was agreed to. Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and he GEORGE W. HAHN AND MARY CLARK. is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of the contingent fund of the House to Harry Fay Landon the sum of $186.66 and to Leota The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York submits W. Landon the sum of $120, being the amount received by them per another resolution, which the Clerk will report. month as clerks to the late Hon. Luther W. Mott at the time of his Tbe Clerk read as follows: death, July, 1923. 468 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEMBER 20, The SPEAKER. The question ls on agreeing to the resolu in that RECORD that very print from the Government Printing tion. Office, which I happened to obtain, containing that private The resolution was agreed to. coterie information on the American-valuation clause, which E. M. M'CULLOUGH AND THEDA MILLER. the leaders of the majority members of the Ways and l\Ieans The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York offers an Committee had had printed, and some members of the Commit other resolution, which the Clerk will report. tee on Ways and Means told me that the minority members of The Clerk read as follows : the committee had no knowledge of it whatever; that it had not been submitted to them by the committee at all. House Resolution 84. Mr. GREEN of Iowa. Well, if the gentleman means that the Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and he Republican members sat by themselves and framed the taritl Js hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of the contingent fund bill, using such information as they collected for that purpose, of the House, to E. M. McCullough the sum of $206.66 and to Theda the gentleman is correct. We did not call in Democratic mem Miller the sum of $100, being the amount received by them per month bers to help frame a Republican tariff bill. . as clerks to the late Hon. L. E. Sawyer at the time of his death, May Mr. BLANTON. I just wanted to call the attention of the 5, 1923. membership of the House to the fact that all such information The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolu ought to be accessible to the whole membership of Congress and tion. not merely to a few. [Cries of "Vote!" "Vote I"] The resolution was agreed to. The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolu tion. JOE W. MORRIS AND MARGUERITE FREE. The resolution was agreed to. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York offers an other resolution, which the Clerk will report. CLERK, COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS. The Clerk read as follows : The SPEAKER. The .gentleman from New York offers an Hou>:e Resolution 87. other resolution, which the Clerk will report. The Clerk read as follows: Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and he is hereby, authorized and diret..'ted to pay, out of the contingent fund House Resolution 88. of the House, to Joe W. Morris the sum of $186.66 and to Marguerite Resolved, That the minority of the Committee on Ways and Meana Free the sum of $120, being the amounts received by them per month be allowed an annual clerk, to be appointed by the ranking minority as clerks to the late Hon. James C. Cantrlll at the time of his death. niember of said committee, who shall receive a salary at the rate of The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolu 2,500 per annum from December 3, 1923, the same to be paid in tion. monthly in.stallments out of the contingent fund of the House until The resolution was agreed to. otherwise provided by law. WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE. The Clerk i·ead the committee amendments, as follows: The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York offers an Line 1, strike out the words " minority of the " after the first word other resolution, which the Clerk will report. "the." · The ·clerk read as follows: Line 2, after the word "Means," insert the words "of the Slxty House Resolution 44. elghth Congress." Resolved, That the Committee on Ways and Means is authorized to Line 2, after the word " allowed," strike out the words " an annual " sit during the sessions and recesses of the prese:nt Congress; to employ and insert the word "a." such expert, clerical, and stenographic services, and to gather such Line 3, at the beginning of the line and before the word "the," information, through Government agents or otherwise, as to it may insert the words "and to be subject to the direction of." seem fit, in connection with the consideration and preparation of bills Line 6, after the word " House," strike out the words in lines 6 for the revision of the prese:nt tariff law and of other revenue legis and 7 "until otherwise provided by law," so that the resolution will lation; to purchase such books and to have such printing and binding read: done as it shall require, in addition to requiring the attendance of the " Resolved, Tbat the Committee on Ways and Means of the Sixty committee stenographers ; and to incur such other expenses as may be eighth Congress be allowed a clerk, to be appointed by and to be sub deemed necessary by the committee. All expenses of the committee ject to the direction of the ranking minority member of said committee, incurred for any such purposes shall be paid out of the contingent who shall receive a salary at the rate of $2,500 per annum from fund of the House on the usual vouchers submitted by the chairman of December 3, 1923, the same to be paid in monthly installments out of the committee and approved by the Committee on Accounts. the contingent fund of the House." l\fr. BLANTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask for a few minutes. I The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the com want to submit that the Ways and Means Committee is an mittee amendments. agency of the House of Representatives, just the same as any The committee amendments were agreed to. other committee, and when we authorize that committee to go The SPEAKER. The question is now on the resolution as to the expense of getting information concerning matters affect amended. . ing the country at large, that information is just as much the The resolution as amended was agreed to. property of the other Members of Congress, and should be just ATTEND.ANT FOR THE LADIES' RECEPTION BOOM. as accessible to them, as it is to and is the property of that The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York offers an small coterie of the committee. I should like to ask the new other resolution, which the Clerk will report. chairman of that committee whether he will assure Members of Congress that they will have the benefit of all the informa The Clerk read as follows: tion his committee seeks and obtains? I happen to remember House Resolution 46. that in the last Congress a little coterie of the Ways and Means .Resolved, That the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives be, Committee-not the Ways and Means Committee itself, but just and he is hereby, authorized to appoint an attendant for the ladies' a few members of it-put into action the machinery of this reception room of the House of Representatives during the Sixty-eighth . Government to obtain for them private information on what Congress, at the rate of $100 per month, beginning on the 3d day of was known as the American-valuation proposition. When that December, 1923, to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Ilouse information was obtained, and was printed in the Government of Representatives. Printing Office at the instance of this little coterie of the Ways The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolu and Means Committee, it was then buried within the bosoms tion. of that coterie. They did not give even the rest of the com The resolution was agreed to. mittee. their own collea.gues, the benefit of that information, much less the membership of Congress. EXAMINATION AND SURVEY OF DOG RIVER, ALA. l\fr. GREEN of Iowa. Will the gentleman yield? The SPEAKER. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 1\lr. BLANTON. Yes; I yield to the gentleman from Iowa. Alabama [Mr. McDUFFIE]. l\Ir. GREEN of Iowa. I hope the gentleman does not include Mr. l\1cDUFFIE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to me in that. call up House blll 3770, which deals with an amendment to the Mr. BLANTON. Well, the gentleman was a member of that last rivers and harbors act. It involves a preliminery exami coterie. nation and survey of a little inlet to Mobile Bay. According l\Ir. GREEN of Iowa. \Vas "the gentleman from Iowa"? to the wording of the last act it does not cover 2 or 3 addi Well, this is the first time I have beard of any such thing, so tional miles which probably, through a misunderstanding, that I can not specify as to the accuracy of it. have already been surveyed by the district engineer. This l\ l r. BLANTON. If the gentleman will look into the CoN act in effect simply permits the engineers to make a report on GRE::;srn AL RECORD for July 14, 1921, he will find that I placed a complete project. It does not involve any additional ex.. 1923. CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD-HOUSE. 469 penditure whatsoever, and I can conceive of no objection to l\Ir. ROSENBLOOM. Yes. If he did not exceed his author this bill. ity, why is it nece sary to legalize wbat be did by the passage Mr. BEGG. Will the gentleman yield for a question? of this resolution. Mr. 1\lcDUFFIE. Yes. Mr. McDUFFIE. There was in fact a misunderstanding as Mr. BEGG. Ilas this resolution been on the calendar or to what language the act should have carried and this simply been reported out of committee? extends the survey on up the river a short distance from its l\lr. McDUFFIE. Yes; reported to-day, sir. mouth. The Chief of Engineers informed me this action would Mr. BEGG. I would like to make a parliamentary inquiry. be necessary before the department could report on the survey 1\Ir. Speaker, does not that violate the. rules of the House? of the whole project. A preliminary survey, of cour e, in this The SPEAKER. The Chair considered that question. As case has cost nothing. the House is aware, since the adoption of the Unanimous Con- Mr. ROSENBLOOM:. I believe I shall have to object until ent Calendar, the Chair has been very careful not to recog we have an opportunity to look into the matter further. nize unanimous consents, with certain exceptions. Bridge bills, Mr. McDUFFIE. I sincerely hope the gE>.ntleman will not perhaps, furnish the best example, and matters that are local object. It could bi;:ing about no controversy whatever. in their application, as well as bills to which the Chair thought Mr. ROSENBLOOM:. Except there is a great tendency to go there could be no objection. The Chair was informed that this ahead and do the e things that are not authorized and then bill imply sougllt to correct an error in the last rivers and rely on coming into Congress and having them authorized after harbors act. Another consideration is that there must be some they are done. Now, that is one of the things I think ought to emergency. The Chair was told there was an emergency in be stopped. thi instance, and that unless this bill was passed immediately Mr. l\lcDUFFIE. I will say to the gentleman I thoroughly the engineers could not report it in this year's report, as was agree with him as to his general proposition, but it can not and originally intencled by the rivers and harbors act. The Chair does not apply to the Chief of Engineers or his department in thought that brought it within the exception and that the this case. I sincerely hope be will not object. Hou e would undoubtedly think it only fair that it should be Mr. ROSENBLOOM. I have received assurances in addition passed. But, .of course, any gentleman can object. to those of the gentleman and I will withdraw my objections. ~fr. BEGG. In view of the statement the Speaker has made. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present considera I shall not object. The Speaker takes the responsibility for tion of the bill? [After a pause.] The Chair hears none, and the consideration of that kind of bill; yet it does seem to me, the Clerk will report the bill. m1less it. is a bridge bill or something of that kind, the House The Clerk read as follows : membersnip ought to have the opportunity of at least one day Be U enacted, etc., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, in which to find out what is coming up. authorized and directed to cause an examination and survey to be Mr. McDUFFIE. J have stated what is in the bill; and that made of Dog River, Ala., from the Louisville & Nashville RaHroad jg all that is in the bill, I may say to the gentleman. bridge to the mouth of said river, including a connection with the Mr. DEGG. I do not question the gentleman's statement, Mobile SWp Channel. and I shaH not object. l\Ir. SNELL. Will the gentleman yield? With the following committee amendment: l\Ir. McDUFFIE. Certainly. Strike out all matter after the enacting clause and insert in lieu l\lr. SNELL. As. I understand the gentleman's statement, thereof the following : this project was adopted in the last rivers and harbors act? " That the provision in section 12 of the river and harbor act ap Mr. l\lcDUFFIE. No, sir ; there has been no project proved September 22, 1922, providing for a preliminary examination acloptecl. This is simply a preliminary examination and sur and survey of 'Channel from the mouth of Dog River, Ala., to the vey to be made by the War Department. ship channel in Mobile Bay,' is hereby amended to r('ad as follows: ~Ir. SJ\TELL. But the preliminary examination and survey 'Dog River, Ala., from the Louisville & Nashville Raili·oad bridge to wr adopted at t·hat time? the mouth of said river, including a channel in connection with the Mr. McDTJFFIE. Yes, sir; part of it was. If I understand Mobile Bay Ship Channel.' " "'bat the gentleman means, the last rivers and harbors act The committee amendment was agreed to. carried an item dealing with this particular project. The project has not been adopted, but the survey has been made The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, of the project contemplated as a whole. was read the third time, and passed. l\fr. SNELL. And there was simply a mistake in the print EXTE TSION OF REMARKS. overing the whole project? l\fr. McDUFFIE. Yes. Mr. COOK. !Ir. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the REcoRD a letter which I wrote to Louis L. Mr. CARTER. If I understand the gentleman this is just Needler, pr.esident Grant County Farm Bureau, Marion, Ind., to permit the engineers to make the report, is it n~t? touching farm legislation and other public questions. · l\Ir. McDUFFIE. They can not report the project as a "·hole without this authority. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Indiana asks unani mous consent to extend his remarks in the RECORD by printing l\fr. ROSENBLOOl\1. This will not undertake to legalize a letter touching farm legislation and other public questions. something that has not been legalized before, as I understand Is there ohjection? [After a pause.] The Chair hears none. the gentleman; that is, the engineer did not exceed his au 1\Ir. SNELL. l\1r. Speaker, I could not hear what the unani thority in makin~ these additional surveys? l\1r. McDUFFIE. No; I would not say he did. mous request was. Mr. KING. l\lr. Speaker, I object until I hear what the re Mr. ROSENBLOOM. Or is this done to legalize the doing of quest is. that additional work beyond the authority the bill carried? l\lr. McDUFFIE. In one sense it might be taken that way· l\Ir. COOK. l\Ir. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to have but, in fact, it is simply granting authority for an extensio~ printed in the RECORD a letter which I recently wrote to Louis of the sm•vey as indicated in the act of 1922. L. Needler, president of the Grant .County Farm Bureau, touch ing farm legislation and other public ~Ir. ROSENBLOOM. Then the engineer exceeded his au questions. thority under the original bill The SPEAKER. Is there objection? :\lr. McDUFFIE. I do not think it would be right to say :Mr. SNELL. l\Ir. Speaker, I object. he exceeded his authority. The authority was given as to a Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee. Will the gentleman withhold part of the project, but the language of the bill it~elf failed to bis objection a moment? cover the whole project. This involves a distance of only 2 or 3 l\lr. SNELL. Certainly. miles of a little in let. l\Ir. GARRETT of Tennessee. This ls the gentleman's own Mr. ROSE~BLOOl\1. Will the passage of this bill legalize letter. the additional work that he did? That is what I am trying Mr. SNELL. I did not understand that at all. I did not 1.o get at. . know it was the gentleman's own letter. l\fr. McDUFFIE. Yes; it legalizes the additional work he Mr. GARRETT of Tenne ee. It is a letter which the gentle did, of course. I thought you were inquiring about his ex man himself wrote. ceeding his authority. There was a time when the extension Mr. SNELL. I did not so understand, and I do not object. or amendment of a preliminary survey could be authorized by The SPEAKER. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Since that time, rather Chair hears none. since l\larch, 1913, the action of the whole Congress is neces Mr. COOK. Ur. Speaker, under leave granted me, I here sary in order to amend or extend a survey authorized by the insert in the RECORD a letter which I wrote to Louis L. Needler, Congress. For this reason this bill comes from the Committee president Grant County Farm Bureau, touching farm legisla on Hivers and Harbors to-day with a favorable report. tion and other public questions. 470 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEMBER 20r The letter is as follows : PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICANS. FAR:\I LEGISLATIO:-<, l\1r. NOVEMBER 28, 1923. l\fr. HOWARD of Nebraska. Speaker and o-entlemen or Ur. LOUIS L. NEEDLER, !J1e House, I dislike to come before you the very fi~st time ask President Grant Cottnty Farm Bureau, mg a favor, but I am going to ask you to grant me the favor 205 First :Yational Bank Building, Mat·ion, Ina. of permitting me to peak largely in the newspaper way. DEAR Mn. • ~EEnr.1m : Your letter received, and in answer to your 1'!r. Speaker'. I tru t I may meet the quick pardon of all my questions will say : seniors in sernce here if I shall with my first utterance in this 1. Congress should carefully consider the whole question relating to Hall express view at Yariance with the sentiment and the domi the condition of the wheat growers and other farmers of the country, nant note in the address of my distingui hed friend [Mr. nnc1 some legi:;lation to bring permanent relief should be enacted with RAINEY] the gentleman from Illinois, who on last Monday after out delay. I am not committed as yet to any of the proposed plans, noon loosed the vials of his wrath upon the devoted heads of but shall resen·e my judgment until the whole case is presented. those gentlemen on the other side who are justly aligned 2. I have not fully made up my mind as to Muscle Shoals. I am under the designation of progressive Re1mblicans. Instantly inclined to believe it should be operated for the benefit of agriculture, I assert that tlle ·entiment expres ed by the honorable gentle: in furnishing fertilizer at a fair price to the fat·mers. I would prefer ru~n. wa not and is not my sentiment. With the personal that the Government try this out first before leasing it to anyone. op1ruon of the gentleman it is not my province to deal. But the However, the Government should never surrender it as a mean of country will regard his words as the expre sion of the Demo national defense, and hence never go further than lea e it to anyone, cratic minority in this House, and fairly so, if none shall gain reserving the right to take control of it at any time. sa.y ~hem, because of the fact that the gentleman has been com 3. I am in favor of the "truth in fabrics bill." The people are m1ss10ned. to wear and bear the proud title of chairman of the entitled to know what they are buying with their hartl-earned money. Democratic caucus in this House. While wearing that title I would favor going further and provide some way of giving the people and while addressing himself to problems of party policy it information from time to time as to the cost of production of all man follows .that his words must, unless protested, be expres~ive ufactured goods, machinery, and other articles. of the views of that political minority of which be is one of the 4. The immigration question is a vital one to our country just at gener~ls .her~ a~d now in command. Yielding first place to this time. We have enough foreign propaganda threatening our form ~one m adm1rat1011 of the vast ability of my caucus chairman of government at present. Then we have so many young .American rn the arts of statecraft, beholding in him a master coiner of boys and girls who must soon become the heads of homes and families sibilant sentences, still I dare not by silence give seeming in and take our places in the task of perpetuating our Government and dorsemen t to his Ingalls-like excoriation of those progressive our institutions that I am in favor of giving them a chance first Republic.ans who have endeavored to pave the way toward before looking elsewhere in other countries. It is important to the progress1rn goals to be accomplished under liberalizing of the future of our country that the American boys and girls retain the illiberal rules of procedure under which this House is now ownership of our farms. Farm life must be made more profitable and hobbled. attractive. Rather than lower the bars of foreign immigraticm at One week ago these same progressive Republicans who are present I would raise them higher, with careful selection before they now consigned to the hottest corner of tradition's hottest politi embark, until we can better determine what would be best for our cal hel~ bj~ my distinguished caucus chairman were so worthy country. I would also prefer giving the American laboring man in as to wm from the spokesmen for the minority in this House the the mill, factory, on the railroad, and all other lines of employment warmest terms of affection. Mightily we of the minority souo-ht a trial before importing others from foreign lands. It should be through our own leaders a marriage with and to tho ·e ~a~e noted that some of the big interests which have been profiteering off progre ·sive Republicans who now have been so scathingly of the farmers and other people are clamoring loudest for letting spurned by our caucus chairman. Why the changed conditions? down the bar . Further consideration of the que tion may prove that Why has our yesterday love oozed, giving place to to-day's a limited number of farm and domestic laborers would be a good thing. implacable enmity? [Laughter.] If the black-eyed houris 5. There must be some relief in some way from the present high from Wiscon ·in, Minnesota, and Illinois were altogether lovely freight rates, which are partly the cause of the present condition of as of yesterday, why are they not still lovely as of to-day? the farmers. Congress should consider this question and provide some [Laughter and applause. l In the weakness of my newness in solution as soon as is possible. The railroad question is closely related this House I am altogether unable to understand the trans to the coal question. The people must be able to get coal at reason formation. With the cadence of our own hot kisses of affection able prices, and the Government must see that this is brought about upon the cheek of the listed leader of the progressive Repub in some way. licans still reverberating sweetly through the Capitol Chambers, 6. Cooperative marketing is a necessity for the American farmers. my caucus leader comes to tell me that the progressive cheek The States should enact legislation for that purpose, and the farmers to which but yesterday he pressed a wanton lip is now a thing of the country must organize in order to carry it out. Organization unclean. [Laughter and applause. l I love my caucus leader is one of the first steps to be taken in any plan of permanent relief but I can not love his style of love-making. It is so uncertafu fot· them. Congress should carefully con.sider the question and en in its tenure. [Laughter.l courage it in every way possible within its powers. I hope the Grant The trouble with my distinguished caucus chairman lie in County Farm Bureau will grow in influence and power. the fact that he does not and can not understand, neither com Thanking you for your kindness in calling my attention to these prehend, the progressive Republican·. In tho ·e Wisconsin and Questions, I remain, Minnesota progressive Republicans I behold the bravest of the Sincerely yours, brave. I have seen them again and again bare their breasts t'o SAMUEL E. COOK. that cruelest of all javelin , javelins from the hands of political EDWABD J. REILLY A "D DANIEL F. SHEA. party commanders; nor did they wince nor falter nor obey when l\Ir. MacGREGOR. Mr. Speaker, in reference to the pay of commanded to get their progressive hind legs in ide the reac clerks of deceased Members, the resolution which I introduced tionary Hepublican traces attached to the reactionary band with reference to the clerks of the lamented Daniel J. Riordan wagon. [Laughter.] I witnessed the in tant and always perse did not come back from the printer. I a k unanimous consent cution of those Wisconsin and Minnesota progressive Repub that the clerks of Mr. Riordan, Edward J. Reilly for $186.66 licans during all the days of the World War. I saw them haled and Dennis F. Shea for $120, be paid out of the contingent fund before the councils of defense, organized and officered sometimes of the House. by professional profiteering patriots, but even there they neithei; The SPEAKER. The Chair does not think it comes within stuttered nor stammered. And now for me to indor e by my tlle jurisdiction of the Chair to recognize the gentleman to silence the brilliant excoriation of those brave men by my own make such a request for unanimous consent. beloved caucus chairman-I can not, and I shall not. And now, l\fr. GARRETT of Tennessee. Has not the gentleman a copy speaking to the faces of my progres ive Republican friends on of the resolution? the other side of the aisle-:where none of them belong-I beg l\lr. MacGREGOR. No; it did not come back. you to believe that on this side are many who wear the Demo The SPEAKER. The Chair think the gentleman can ar cratic name who will gladly welcome you as friend and brothers range that before the House adjourns. in the task of working for the welfare of our common country by Mr. MAcGREGOR. Very well. the enactment of tlrn.t type of progressh·e legislation in favor of l\Ir. HOWARD of Nebraska. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimou?< which we hm·e mutually proclaimed. And I here express belief con ent to proceed for seven minutes out of orde1-. that before this se"'sion shall have clo ed we will get togethee Tlle SPEAKER. The gentleman from Nebraska asks unani and fight together for the common weal, bravely resisting alike mou consent to proceed for seven minutes out of order. Is the threats and blandishments of any wlLo shall attempt to work there objection? within this Chamber the will of the reactionaries witLin 01· There was no objection. without these walls. 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 471_ And what must be the damage to the Democratic nominee for In fact, it ls a matter of common knowledge among those President in the 1924 election if this attack upon our progres knowing our friend the best that he learned to sing that tune sive Republican friends shall be permitted to be regarded as the so well that he has been somewhat handicapped in public life heart sentiment of the Democratic membership in the Congress? since the words of the song were made obsolete, but he still has If this attack shall be regarded as the sentiment of the Demo the tune and the pose and the grace and that commanding cratic side of the Cong1·ess, then it will be equivalent to ham pr~sence, so he has written himself some new words, "Ten stringing the Democratic nominee for President before ever he thousand broken promises," and with the same old pose and can get started in the race. It must not be so regarded, and it the same old tune he is going to sing that. The only change shall not be so regarded. l\Iy splendid caucus chairman should now will be instead of " Peace with honoh. He kept us out read once again the political record of the years and there of wah I" it will be "Ten thousand broken promises." discover the solemn fa.ct that the only national Democratic Query : Are there 10,000 broken promises 1 The Republican victories in 80 years have been won by the aid of progressive Party did promise the country that we would, to the best of Republicans at times when the Republican Party became so our ability, remedy and cure the wrongs and injustices perpe obnoxiously reactionary' that the progressive element in that trated upon the American people through eight years of Demo party turned temporarily to the Democratic Party for relief. cratic misrule. Since the inauguration of President Harding, In this hour the national Republican organization is so damnably March 4, 1921, thousands upon thousands of those evils have i·eactionary that millions of progressive Republicans will come been cured. Is it possible that there are 10,000 left? If so, next year to the aid of the Democratic nominee, provided we there is nothing for the Congress to do but to buckle down, shall present a nominee sufficiently progressive to win progres and though the undertaking may seem a mammoth one-they sive Republican votes. Shall we welcome progressive Repub had eigl1t years in which to perpetrate the wrongs-let us do licans to our aid in the presidential contest next year? -Speak our best to cure them in four. ing for all progressive Democrats on this side of the House, I We may get some help from men on the other side of the bid my progressive Republican friends in or out of Congress to aisle. The Democratic candidate for United States Se ~~:: tor feel and believe that tbey will be welcomed with open and from Michigan in 1918 is talking very nice now. There w ill b~ thankful arms if they shall in 1924 come up to the help of their those, however, like our friend from Illino!s, that will have progressive Democratic brothers in the contest between the nothing to sing but the partisan song, but remember that common herd on the one side and the intrenched reactionary though the words have changed in the S(lng, it is the same old hosts on the other side. [Applause.] tune. Mr. Speaker, that is all the speech that is in me now, but it Think how , tatesmanlike it was for him the other day to I shall discover more of it I ask unanimous consent to extend predict that we would recess for the holidays. He had helped my remarks in the RECORD. to obstruct the organization of the House at every possible The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Nebraska asks unani opportunity, and then wanted the country to understand that mous consent to extend his remarks in the RECORD. Is there the very day we organized the committees there ought to objection? be bills ready for the consideration of the House, when every :\Ir. ROSENBLOOM. Reserving the right to object-and I man on both sides of the Chamber knew that there was only will not object if the gentleman will permit a weather predic one thing to do and that was to recess until some committee tion for the Sixty-eighth Congress. had something ready for consideration. In the meantime he l\Ir. HOW ARD of Nebra~ka. Weather? Will it be damp or could serve on his committee to obstruct to the best of his dry? [Laughter.] ability. Mr. ROSENBLOOM. My prediction is that it will be Maybe there are 10,000 things left in tbe path of waste, ex "Rainey" but windy. [Laughter.] travagance, and misrule that we should cure. Our committees Mr. HOWARD of Nebraska. The gentleman bas my unani- are at work, and with the advent of the new year work will be mous consent. . ready for the Congress. Let us hope that that work will be The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gen to reduce. Let us reduce as far as possible the tax burdens of tleman from Nebraska? the country; let us reduce the prohibitive freight rates ; and There was no objection. Jet us reduce the 10,000--0r whatever it is-wrongs still in existence, as referred to by the distinguished gentleman from PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S MESSAGE. Illinois. Mr. TINCHER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to I wi h you all, including my friend from Illinois, a men-y address the House for 10 minutes. Christma. ·and happy New Year. [Applause.] The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Kansas asks unani EDWARD REILLY AND DENNIS F. SHEA. mou consent to address the House for 10 minutes. Is there 1\Ir. MacGREGOR. Mr. Speaker, I offer th.e following in-ivi objection? Tbere was no objection. leged re8olution. Mr. TINCHER. :Mr. Speaker, there ls perhaps no question in The Clerk read as follows: the mind of anyone to-day that the message of President House ResolotJon 98. Coolidge addressed to this Congress was popular and met with Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and the general approval of more people in the United States than he is her·eby, authorized and directed to pay, out of the contingent any other document of its kind in recent years. I do not mean fund of the House, to Edward J. Reilly the sum of $186.66 and t~ that every person in the United States agreed with everything Dennis F. Shea the sum of $120, being the amounts received by them that President Coolidge said, but I do not belie>e that Henry as clerks to the late Hon. Daniel J. Riordan at the time of his death. Ford exaggerates when he says that 90 per cent of the people The resolution was agreed to. of the United States to-day have confidence in the President's administration and are satisfied.that our Government is in safe TRE.ATMID T OF EX-SERVICE MEN. bands. I believe that it is a fact that to the people not engagea l\Ir. LOWREY. :hfr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to in partisan politics as a major part of their business, President address the House for seven minutes. Coolidge is entirely satisfactory as a Chief Executh"e. [Ap The SPEAKER. The gentleman from J\.Iississippi asks plause on the Republican side.] unanimous consent to address the House for seven minutes. Congress-and we on this side of the Chn.mber--could not Is there objection? expect all of the gentlemen across the aisle to share the senti There was no objection. ments of the American people to-day with reference to our l\1r. LOWREY. l\!r. Speaker, the night before last a number President. It has been suggested to me that some one ought of us attended an address at the Central High School by Sen to make reference to and answer the speech of the distinguished ator UAoNus JOHNSON, advocating a soldiers' bonus, or, as he gentleman from Illinois [Mr. RAINEY] , who so viciously at prefers to call it, tbe readjusted compensation bill. What tacked the Republican Party on the floor of this House the ever might have been the personal opinions that Members had other day. in regard to the merits of that bill, I think we will all agree To the older Members of the Hou e no answer to this out that the speech was candid and straightforward, fearless and break would be expected or thought of. He criticized fue party manly in expression; but the gentleman who introduced the of which we are members because we tolerated within the party Senator indulged in some remarks that seemed to me to be men of different views. Our friend from Illinois had a great very unjust to this Congress and unjust to the American speech in 1916, no doubt. Fortified as he is by his delightful people. The speech seemed to me to have a tone of severe and commanding appearance, one has only to use his own criticism of the American people and severe criticism of this imagination a little to see the House go down when our friend Congress, and charged that we have been unappreciative and from Illinois, with the same pose that he had before this House unjust in our attitude toward the ex-service men. the other morning, exclaim to his audience, " Peace with honoh. If you will excuse a personal remark, I th nk I have a good He kept us out of wah ! " reason to be peculiarly tender in my sentiments toward the 472 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEl\IBEH 20' ex-service men. I hau five sons in the service, fi;nd I _come ~·om COPIES OF BILLS A -o RESOLUTIONS. a little villa O'e of about 500 population, from which village eight 1\Ir. MOORE of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con bov:-> mPde the !'iuoreme sac1·ifice in that war. Therefore I am sent to address the House for a few minutes in order to bring; always in favor of what I believe to be really best for the ex to the attention of the gentleman from Ohio Ll\1.r. LoKGWORTH] service men. a matter which I think must be of interest to tile House. Our President in his address the other day spoke of the f~ct The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Virginia a. ks unani that we now have 9,500 vacant beds in the hospit~la, and sug mous consent to address the House for two or three minutes. gested that the· hospitals be opened to all ex-service men or au Is there objection? former soldiers of all the wars, and this Congress applauded There was no objection. the suggestion. If we have built hospitals enough al~·eady to l\fr. MOOilE of Virginia. l\fr. Speaker, I find that au insuf ha-re 9 500 vacant beds and have a number of hospitals yet ficient number of public bills and resolutions are being printed. unfinished it seems to me very clear that we have not pursued The number does not meet the requirements of the Members. a narrow 'policy toward the ex-service men in so far as care Perhaps no Member claims that be reads every bill and every for the di ·abled is concerned. resolution that is introduced. But, nevertheless, some of u I ask permission now to include in these remarks a paragraph like to keep a file and at least look at every one that is offered. or two from the exten ~·io n of my remarks published a few days At this time, under the present practice, the printing is limited ago in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. In speaking of the ex to 500 copies of a public bill, which is only slightly in excess of service men, I say : the number of the :Members of the House, to 385 copies of public Of course, the Nation is willing to do for these men to the limit ot joint resolutions, and to 100 copies of public House resolutions. its capacity. Tti.at is its traditional and well-founded attitude toward We not only desire, as individuals, to secure copies for our men who have taken up arms in its defense. selves-at least each one of us should wish to do so and I I want to emphash;e what I next said, because the speech of know that some of us do-but we frequently have applications introduction to which I referred seemed to me to indicate t~at from outside for copies. I think that my friend, l\lr. Lo a the Congress and the people have been miserly and unapprecia WORTH, who so largely directs the proceedings of the Houi:;e. tive in dealing with the ex-service men. I continued in those might find some way to see to it, even if it calls for a littlP. remark as follows : further expenditure of money, that there shall be a greater number of copies printed, so that l\Iembers may be able to ob And we have not been miserly with these men. Any man who sayg tain the copies they need. I have been more embarrassed at the that we have speaks fi•om a lack of understanding and a lack of in beginning of this Congress than ever before. I have sent mr formation. Of course, there have been failures both in administration secretary over to the document room and I have been unable and in legislation, and ther.a have been individual cases where soldier to get copies of bills. I am even unable to get copies of resolu boys have been unable to get what was both morally and legally due tions proposing constitutional amendments. What a rernarkahle them. Wherever human affairs are administered on a large scale these situation that is! The l\1embers of the House are charged with things happen, sometimes innocently, sometimes because somebody gets the duty of legislating, and that involves, of cour e, the dut;\· into a position of public trust who thinks more of himself than he of keeping up with the measures presented as fal' as we can. does ol' the trust. and yet we are not able to know what measures are actually That was written before I heard the speech to which I am offered. now replying. I then went on: l\1r. SMITH. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman :yield? But up to date Congress has appropriated for the care and compensa l\fr. l\IOORE of Virginia. Yes. tion of World War veterans $2 250,000,000-$102 for every family in l\1r. SMITH. I think the scarcity of copies of bills, about the country. which the gentleman complains, is not because a sufficient num ber was not printed but because the bill were introduced in [At this point there was an interruption from the gallery such great quantity that they h!tve, not been able to get them of the House.] recorded and put into print. l\lr. BLANTON. Mr. Speaker, I make the point of order that l\1r. l\100REJ of Virginia. Of course, as my friend knows, it is a violation of the rules of the House for people in the gal there is nothing more valuable than the facts, and in order to lery to interrupt a Member of Congress while addressing the get at the exact fact I went to that thoroughly informed man House. I submit a remark just came from the gallery in reM l\Ir. Grayson, who is in charge of the document room of the spect to who got the money. House, and I have based my statement upon the informa The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Texas makes the point tion he gave me, and I am helples unles something is done, of order that an occupant of the gallery in addressing any re and many other Members of the House will find themselves marks to Members on the :floor is out of order. The Chair, of helpless. course admonishes the people in the gallery that they are here Mr. JOHNSON of Washington. If the gentleman has yielded by the' courtesy of the House and that it is quite beyond tbeit the :floor, I ask unanimous consent that I may proceed for one province to interrupt the proceedings of the House. minute. l\lr. LOWREY. l\Ir. Speaker, I did not quite catch the ques l\1r. 1\IOOH.E of Virginia. Of course my only purpose, JUr. tion from the gallery, and it did not interrupt me very much at Speaker. is to bring this matter to the attention of the House, the time. To continue with what I said in the speech to which and particularly to those more intimately connected with it than I have referred : I and have them tell us what the situation is and if it needs One-fourth of thls amount has been paid to veterans as compensation c~rrection ho\v it shall be corrected. with no strings tied to it. A considerable portion. of the remainder has l\lr. JOHNSON of Washington. l\Ir. Speaker, the statements been spent in treatment for disabilities incurred in line of duty. made by the gentleman from Virginia are quite correct. The During tbe current year, for all our soldier relief activities, we have Joint Committee on Printing does not have powers in ex:ce s of spent 22.50 for every family in the country. We have in operation 46 the law and a number of years ago, 12 or 15 years ago, the ho.«pitals for ex-service men and will soon have in operation 20 more. number' of bills and of resolutions to be printed '1ere fixed by Eight hundred and ninety thousand men, more than one out of every law. The number is less than 500. However, on public blll" five who were in the service, have received some kind of disabillty aid. chairmen of committees may order an additional number, a~d The SPEAKER. The time of the gentleman from l\Iississippl they usually keep in touch with that well-informed man. l\lr. has expired. ' Grayson and enough bills are printed to take care of the n:em bership ~f the House and some .outside calls. The Hou~e. ' .Joi:i MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE 'UNITED STATES, mittee on Printing at this time is at work on a plan whicn will Sundry messages, in writing, from the President of the United give a larO'er number of public bills and \Vhich will, \Ve bope, States were communicated to the House of Representatives by eliminate ;.hat might be termed the waste in bills for claii:is, Mr. Latta, one of his secretaries. bills for pensions, bills for bridges, and so forth. Such b1ll:-i are not necessary for the whole membership of the Hou e aml RESPECT TO THE I.ATE PRESIDENT HARDING. senate. We are tr)ing hard to bring that about. l<'rorn time. 1\lr. BURTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ad- to time an exhaustive printing bill has been brought out, dreNs the House for a moment. but we have never been able to pass it tllrough both House ·. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? ·I think in a short time we will have to appear before the There was no objection. House with two or threo small n·solutions in order to get l\lr. J3UilTON. I rise simply to request that the committee relief. ch o~en to form plans for a token of respect to the late President Mr. MOOHEl of Virginia. Of course, the comvarative1y im· H arding remain in the Chamber immediately after the adjourn material bills to which the gentleman lrn. rei'err-od may be left ment of the House. in a category by themselves, Lut it does seem to me we coul I recommend that, in order to effect a settlement of these 0 claims in accordance with the recommendation of the Recre CO~'l' ESTED-ELECTION CASE OF ANSORGE V. WELLER. tary of State, the Congress, as an act of gmce and without The SPEAKER. The Chair lays before the House a com reference to tlle question of the legal liability of tlie United munication from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, States in the premises, authorize an appropriation in the sum transmitting the contested-election case of l\Iartin C. Ansorge of $1,000, $:300 of which is to be paid to Mr. Arend Kamp ancl v. Royal H. Weller, from the twenty-first district, StRte of $500 to be paid to ~.fr. Francis Gort. New York, which the Clerk will report. CALVIN COOLIDGE. Tlte Clerk read as follows: THE WHITJ.~ HOUSE, December 20, 1923. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATl\'ES, The SPEAKER. Referred to tbe Committee on Foreign CLERK'S OFFICE, Wasllhlgton, D. 0., Dece11tbe1· 18, 192$. Affairs. THE SPEAKER, SENATE BILL AND CONCUR.RENT RESOLUTION REFEURED. Hou.se of RepresentM·ives, Washington, D. 0. Under clause 2, Rule XXIV, Senate bill and concurrent Sm : I have tbe honor to lay before the House of Representatives tbn .resolution of the titles following were taken from the Speak contest for a seat in the House of Representatives for the Sixty-eighth er's table an The Clerk read as follows: the Speaker be authorized to sign the enrolled House joint HOUSE OF REPRESE...~TA.TIVES, resolution after the session adjourns. CLERK'S OFFICE, The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Ohio asks unanimous Washington., D. o., Dce611iber 18, 1923, consent that the Speaker be authorized to sign the em oiled The SPEAKER, resolution referred to when the Route adjourns. Is them House of Representative.'!, Washington, D. O. objection? Sm: I have the honor to lay before the House o! Representatives Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee. Reserving the right to object, the- contest for a seat in the Bouse of Representatives for the Sixty· l\1r. Speaker, I wonder if that can be done by unanimoucl con eighth Congress of the United States for the first d1strict, State of sent. It seems to me that if the gentleman would ask unani Georgia, Don B. Clark v. R. Lee Moore, notice of which h~s been ~filed mous consent for a recess that would meet the requirements. 1n the office of the Clerk of the House, and also transmit herewith I do not want to put the _Speaker to any trouble about it, but original testimony, papers, and documents relating thereto. I do not recall consent ever having been given to sign one of In compliance with .the act approved March 2, 1887, entitled "An act these resolutions except during the House session. relating to con tested-election cases," the Clerk has opened and printed Mr. LONGWORTH. I ba>e hacl no opportunity to examine the testimony in the above case, and such portions of the testimony the precedents myself, but the parliamentary expert seemed to as the parties in interest agreed upon or as seemed proper to the Clerk, think that was a proper procedure. after giving the requisite notices, have been printed and indexed, to· The SPEAKER. The Chair is not aware that it has ever been gether with the notices of contest, and the answers thereto, and -0rigl done. Tbe Chair understands that in another place it is often na.l papers and exhibits have been sealed up and are ready to be laid done, but that would be no precedent for this body. before the Committee on Elections. Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee. I would not want to be guided Two copies of the printed testimony in the aforesaid case have been by what is done in another place. I do not want to be tenacious mailed to the contestant and the same number to the contestee. The about the matter, but I think it is not good practice. briefs when prepared will be laid befo1·e the C-Ommittee on Elections The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks it is not good practice. to which the case shall be referred. Mr. LONGWORTH. I would not want to insist, if any gen Yours respectfully, tleman has serious doubts about it. WM. TYLER PAGE, The SPEAKER. The Chair would suggest that we might 01.erk of the House of Representatiive8. take a recess for a couple of hours, when it would not be neces sary for anybody to be here except the Chair. The SPEAKER. Referred to the Committee on Elections No. Mr. LONGWORTH. l\lr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 2 nnd ordered to be printed. that the House stand in recess, subject to the call of the Chair. CONTESTED-ELECTION CASE OF CHANDLER 'V. BLOOM. Mr. BLA'.NTON. It should be to a definite hour. ~Ir. LONGWORTH. In view of the fact that no Members The SPEAKER. The Chair also lays before the Hou, e a com will probably be present at that time, may I ask unanimous con munication from the Clerk of the House of Representatives sent to address the Hou e for ahout four minutes? transmitting the contested-election case of Walter l\f. Chandler The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Ohio asks unanimous v. Sol Bloom, from the nineteenth district, State of New York. consent to address the House for four minutes. Is there ob The Clerk read as follows: jection? HOUSE OB' RElPRESENTATlVES, There was DO objection. CLERK'S 0FFICJD, Mr. LONGWORTH. Mr. Spen.ker, I want to call attention Was11ington, D. 0., December 18, 1923. very brie1ly to the contrast in conditions prevailing on this side The SPEAKER, and on the other side of the Capitol. House of Rept'e8entatires, Wash,ington, D. 0. We are completely and permanently organized for the rest SIR : I have the honor to lay before the House of R<.'presentatives of this CongTess. We are prepared to go a bead and do busi the contest for r. seat in the House of Representatives for the Stxty ness. We are going ahead and doing business Dow. A number eighth Congress of the United States for the nineteenth district, State of very important committees are holding sessions and con oi New York, Walter M. Chandler v. Sol Bloom, notice of which hrul ducting hearing~ and framing most important bills. The Com been filed in the office of the Oerk of the House, and also transmit mittee on 'Vays and Means, I understand, is now considering h erewith original testimony, papers, t..nd ,·~cuments relating thereto. tlle questioL of reduced taxati-0n, in which everyone is inter In compliance with the act approved March 2, 1887, entitled "An ested. The Committee on Appropriations, through its sutcom act relating to contested-election cases," the Clerk has opened and mittees, is preparing a number of appropriation bills, and I printed the testimony in the above case, and such portions of the understand that as early as the 7th of January, the Monday testimony as the parties in interest agreed upon or as seemed proper after we return here from the holiday recess1 one of the great to the Clerk, after giving the requisite notices, have been printed and appropriation bills will be ready, and other bills will follow indexed, together with the notices of contest, and the answers thereto, in rapid succession. and original papers and exhibits have been sealed up and are ready to A number of other committees, among them the Committee be laid before the Committee on Elections. on Immigration and Naturalization, are also engaged on the Two copies of the printed testimony in the aforesaid case have been framework of most important legislation. We are prepared mailed to the contestant and the same number to the contestee. The now to accomplish and can accomplish more, I have no doubt, briefs when prepared will be laid before the Committee on Electlons to by adjourning over the holidays, taking a substantially Jong which the case shall be referred. adjournment, than if we would shorten, that recess, for the Very re.pectfully, reason that members of the. e committees will not be compelled WM. TYLER PAG!il, to be on the floor to the di advantage of tbeir committee work. Cle1·1, of the llouse of Representatives. A far dift'erent ituation exists in another body. The SPEAKER· Referred to the Committee on Elections Mr. MOORE of Virginia. What is the trouble? No. 3 and order·ed to be printed. Mr. LONGWORTH. I am not ~ware of what is the exact trouble, but it certainly is not of our making; and I can not FILLING VACANCY ON THE COMMT'ITEE ON FLOOD CONTROL. help thinking, when I contemplate the situation, of a story as Mr. LONGWORTH. l\lr. Speaker, there are three vacancies old as the hills, perhaps, but which seems to be apropos to this on the Comruittee on Flood Control. I ask unanimous consent case. A cousin of a farmer who had lived all his life in a that the gentleman from l\1assachusetts [Mr. UNDERHILL] n:.ay city was visiting the farm on an occasion and was shown over be assigned to the first one. it, and his fai·mer cousin explained to him his daily duties. The SPEAKER. Tbe gentleman from Ohio asks unanimous After a long day they sat on the porch and the city cousin consent that the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. UNDER said to the country cousin, " I understand bow you are in HILL] may be assigned to the "Vacancy on Flood Control. Is terested in your day's work. From morning until night you there objection? are doing something interesting, but what do you do after It There was no objection. is all over? I should think you would be bored to death." RECESS. " Oh," he said, " no; I am not bored. After I get through with Mr. LONGWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I am informed that the my supper I come out on the porch and set down, and ome resolution just passed in relation to cattle coming in free of times I set and think, but mostly I just set." [Laughter and duty over the southern borde1· has not yet been acted upun by applause.] the Senate, and of course it bas had no opportunity to Oil en Now, gentlemen, I have no criticism to make of any branch grossed. I understand it is very important that that resolu of this Government, least of all the Chamber on the other side tion be passed to-day. I do not desire to keep the House in of the Capitol. and I am ratl1er glad that the situation exists, session a long time. I therefore ask unanimous consent that because it makes more clear the opportunity we now have to 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 475 put the House in the position in which it used to be and ought 204. A Jetter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with to ue, the premier of the two legislative branches of this Gov a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary emment. f Applause.] examination of Tallahatchie and Coldwater Rivers, Miss., anll The opportunity is here, and I think that if we will forget the tributaries ·of these rivers, with a view to devising plans orne of the little personal things which sometimes interest us, for flood protection; to the Committee on Rivers and Harbor~. and if the two great parties on each side of the aisle will play 205. A letter from the Secretary of "'\Var, transmitting, with a · little practical politics as possible, we can go ahead in this a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary ession and do the busines of the people so greatly to their examination of Pocahunt Creek, N. C.; to the Committee on satisfaction that it will be admitted that from now on the Rivers and Harbors. Honse of Representatives is the real theater fo1· the translation 206. A letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with into legislation of the hopes and the desires of the people of a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary America. [Applause.] examination of Wilson Harbor, N. Y.; to the Committee on Kow, 1\1r. Speaker, I ask unanimous con ent that the House RiYers and Harbors. stnn PUBLIC BILLS, RESOLUTIONS, AND MEMORIALS. war veterans and widows; to the Committee on Invalid Pen Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, bills, resolUtions, and memorials sions. were introduced and severally referred as follows: By Mr. COOPER of Wisconsin: A bill (H. R. 4104) to amend By Mr. FISH: A bill ( H. R. 4082) for the relief of the dis an act entitled "An act to prevent the extermination of fur tres ed and starving people of Germany; to the Committee on bea.ring animals in Alaska," etc.; to the Committee on Ways }"'oreign Affairs. and Means. By Mr. CABLE: A bill (H. R. 4083) to provide for the ar By l\~r: CHR~STOJ>.HERSON: .A. bill {H. R. 4105) to create re ·t and punishment of aliens who unlawfully enter the United an additional JUdge m tlte district of South Dakota · to the States; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. Committee on the Judiciary. ' By ::\Ir. COLLIER: A bill (H. R. 4106) to amend the Fordney- Dy l\lr. J0.1.ffiS: A bill (H. R. 4084) t-0 authorize a system of 0 standardization of public buildings in cities the postal receipts 1\lcCumber Tariff Act by placing calcium arsenate on the free of which have reached stated amounts, and to authorize con list; to the Committee on Ways and :Means. struction when the business of the Government justifies same; By l\Ir. DENISON: A bill (H. R. 4107) for the protection of to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. persons employed on railway express cars, railway bacrcrage0 By l\1r. VESTAL : A bill ( H. R. 4085) t-0 fix standai·ds for cars, and combination railway express-baggage cars, and for l1ampers, round-stave baskets, and splint baskets for fruits and other purposes; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreim0 vegetables, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Coin Commerce. age, Weights, and Measures. ~y Mr. EVANS of l\1o~tana: A bill (H. R. 4108) for the Ily l\.fr. BUTLER: A bill (H. R. 4086) pro-viding for sundry relief of the Flathead Nation of Indians· to the Committee on matter affecting the Naval Establishment of the United States; Indian Affairs. ' to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Ily Mr. DICKSTEIN: A bill (H. R. 4109) to authorize By l\lr. DAVILA: A bill (H. R. 4087) to amend and reenact mothers of deceased World War veterans buried in Europe to sections 20, 22, and 5'0 of the act of ~larch 2, 1917, entitled· "An visit the graves of their sons at the expense of the United a-ct to provide a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other States; to the Committee on Military Affairs. purposes"; to the Committee on Insular Affairs. By Mr. GILBERT: A bill (H. R. 4110) to amend section By Mr. HA WES: A b'll (H. R. 4088) to e tablish tbe upper 1-042 of the Revised Statutes of the United States relatincr to :Mb::ii sippi River wild life and fish refuge; to the Committee on poor convicts sentenced and imprisoned for fines· 'to the Com- Agriculture. mittee on the Judiciary. ' ny l\Ir. LI:NEBERGER: A bill (H. R. 4089) to regulate im Also, a bill ( H. R. 4111) to amend the first paragraph of migration and in ure the use of the English language by those section 29, title 2, chapter 85, first session, Sixty- ixtb Congress. admitted to the United States; to the Committee on Immi relating to punishment for illegal manufacture and sale of gration and Naturalization. liquors; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Al o, a bill ( H. R. 4090) to provide for the deportation of By Mr. HUDDLESTON: A bill (H. R. 4112) to establish a certain undesirable aliens; to the Committee on Immigration bureau for the scientific study of international peace and war and Naturalization. conditions and to show ways in which the United States can in By l\fr. WELLER : A bill ( H. R. 4091) to amend an act cooperate with other nations achieving and preser,,focr0 entitled "An act to amend and modify the war risk insurance world peace; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. act," approved March 4,· 1923; to the Committee on Interstate Also, a bill ( H. R. 4113) to amend the interstate commerce and Foreign Commerce. act, as amended; to the Committee on Interstate and Forf'irn0 Also, a bill (H. R. 4092) to amend fill act entitled "An act to Commerce. mnend aud modify the war risk insurance act," approved March Ily l\.lr. HAYDEN: A bill (H. R. 4114) authorizing the on 4, 19:.3; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. struction of a bridge across the Colorado River near Lee Ferrv Also, a bill ( H. R. 4093) to amend an act entitled "An act to Ariz.; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. ·' muend and modify the war risk insurance act," approved March .Also, a bill (H. R. 4115) to extend to Indians the State Jaws 4, 1923 ; to tbe Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. g.overning marriage and divorce and the social crimes b :rein By Mr. ABERNETHY: A bill (H. R. 4004) to repeal the enumerated; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. stamp tax on drafts, checks, notes, conveyances, etc. ; to the Also, a bill (H. R. 4116) to authorize appropriations for the Committee on Ways and 1\Ieans. survey, construction, and maintenance of highways on or By Mr. BARBOUR: A bill (H. R. 4095) to add certain land; adjacent to untaxed Indian lands; to the Committee on Indian t the Sequoia National Park, Calif.~ and to change the name of Affairs. said park to the Roosevelt-Sequoia National Park; to the Com Also, a bill (H. R. 4117) authorizing an appropriation for nlittee on the Public Lands. the construction of a road within the Fort Apache Indian He - ervation, Ariz., and for other purposes; to the Committee on By Mr. BACON: A bill (H. R. 4096) to amend section 5138 Indian Affairs. of the Revised Statutes of the United States in relation to the - By Mr. HASTINGS: A bill (H. R. 4118) conferring juris amount of capital stock required by national banking associa diction upon the Court of Claims to bear, examine consider tions; to the Committee on Banking and Currency. and adjudicate claims which the Cherokee Indians 'may llav~ By l\Ir. BRITTE..'1: A bill (H. R. 4097) to authorize the against the United States, and for other purpo.ses · to the Com- disposition of lands no longer needed, and the acquisition of mittee on Indian Affairs. ' other lands required, for nanil PU11JOSe ; to the Committee on By Mr. HILL of Maryland: A bill (H. R. 4119) to amend the Naval Affairs. · national prohibition act, to create Federal local-option di& By l\Jr. BOX: .A. bill (H. R. 4098) to limit tlle immigration of tricts, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Ju aliens into the United States; to the Committee on Immigration diciary. an War of 1812, former widows, dependent parents, and children Stats. eh. 461, p. 752) ; act approved June 21, 1917 ( 40 Stats. of such soldiers, sailors, and marines, and to certain Army ch. 32, p. 232) ; to the Committee on Banking and Currency. nurses, and granting pensions and increase of pensions in Also, a bill (H. R. 4145) to provide for a more equitable dis· certain cases," approved May 1, 1920; to the Committee on tribution of the earnings of Federal reserve banks; to the Com Invalid Pensions. mittee on Banking and Currency. By Mr. LILLY: A. bill (H. R. 4125) for the establishment By Mr. SCHALL: A bill (H. R. 4146) to prohibit the collec of a United States industrial home for women at Glenray, tion of a surcharge for the transportation of persons or baggage Summers County, W. Va.; to the Committee on the Judiciary. in connection with the payment for parlor or sleeping car Also, a bill ( H. R. 4126) to amend the tariff act of 1922 by accommodations ; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign placing sugar on the free list; to the Committee on Ways and Commerce. l\Ieans. By Mr. SEGER: A bill (H. R. 4147) granting transportation By l\Ir. LINDSAY: A bill (H. R. 4127) to amend the immi on United States transports and vessels of the United States gration laws by exempting from quota of limitations wives, Shipping Board to gold-star mothe1·s and representatives ot parents, children, brothers, and sisters, together with accom World War veterans' associations without profit and at mini panying wives, husbands, and children of aliens, of citizens mum cost; to the Committee on Military Affairs. who served in armed forces of the United States during the By l\Ir. SUTHERLAND: A bill (H. R. 4148) to modify and. World War and who possess honorable discharge therefrom; amend the mining laws in their application to the Territory to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. of Alaska, and for other purposes ; to the Committee on Mines By l\:fr. McLEOD: A bill (H. R. 4128) to provide for two and Mining. additional district judges for the eastern district of :Michigan; By l\Ir. SWANK: A bill (H. R. 4149) to provide that the to the Committee on the Judiciary. United States of America shall build warehouses in con By 1\Ir. :'l'lcKEOWN: A bill (H. R. 4129) to amend the act junction with the several States, and in cooperation with duly establishing Farm Loan Bureau; to the Committee on Banking and legally organized farmers' cooperative associations in and Currency. said States, for the storage of farm products not perishable, Also, a bill (H. R. 4130) to provide a loan to pay delin for the insurance of said products while in storage, for quent interest due from any borrowing members of any national Government loans on warehouse receipts, providing penalties farm-loan association; to the Committee on Banking and Cur for the violation of this act, making an appropriation there rency. for, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture. Ily 1\Ir. :MADDEN: A bill (H. R. 4131) to regulate the num By 1\Ir. STRONG of Kansas: A bill (H. R. 4150) to provide ber of midshipmen at the United States Na>al Academy; to thB for an inheritance tax on tax-exempt securities; to the Com Committee on Naval AffPirs. mittee on Ways and Means. Ily l\Ir. MILLER of Washington: A bill ' H. R. 4132) to re By l\ir. TAYLOR of Colorado: A bill (H. R. 4151) to pro· strict the transmission of firearms through the United States vide for the conservation and protection of fish in ·Alaskan mails, and providing penalty for violation thereof ; to the Com waters, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Mer mittee on the Post Office and Post Roads. chant Marine and Fisheries. By Mr. MAGEill of Pennsylvania: A bill (H. R. 4133) to Also, a bill (H. R. 4152) to provide for the deportation of amend section 3-01 of the war risk insurance act as amended ; certain undesirable aliens; to the Committee on Immigration to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. and Naturalization. Ily Mr. NEWTON of Minnesota: A bill (H. R 4134) to pro Also, a bill (H. R. 4153) to authorize and direct the ac mote the general welfare by gathering information respecting ceptance of the offer of Henry Ford to purchase Muscle Shoals; the ownership, production, distribution, costs, sales, and profits to the Committee on Military Affairs. in the coal industry, and by publication of same, and to recog By l\fr. WOLFF: A bill (H. R. 4154) to extend the pro nize and declare coal and its production and distribution visions of the pension act of l\!ay 11, 1912, and subsequent acts charged with public interest and use, and for other purposes; amendatory thereof to the Enrolled Missouri Militia and other to the Committee on Interstate and li'oreign Commerce. militia organizations of the State of Missouri that cooperated Also, a bill (H. R. 4135) to amend Subdivision (II) of section with the military or naval forces of the United States in sup 20 of the interstate commerce act as amended; to the Commit pressing the War of the Rebellion who served 90 days or more, tee on Interstate and Foreign ComrneTce. and providing pensions for their widows, minor children, and Ily Mrs. NOLAN: A bill (H. R. 4136) granting pensions to dependent parents, and for other purposes; to the Committee certain members of the former Life Saving Service ; to the on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. By 1\Ir. WHITE of Maine: A bill (H. R. 4155) to provide By Mr. OLDFIELD: A bill (H. R. 4137) to impose a tax on for the conservation and protection of fl.sh in Alaskan waters ; the privilege of issuing stock dividends; to the Committee on to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Wass and 1\leans. By Mr. STEVENSON: A bill (H. R. 4156) to fix compensa Also, a bill (H. R. 4138) to amend Title III of the revenue tion o:f officers of the National Army who incurred disability act of 1921; to the Committee on Ways and Means. while in the service; to the Committee on Interstate and For By Mr. O'CONNELL of Rhode Island: A bill (H. R. 4139) to eign Commerce. extend the limitations of time upon the issuance of medals of By 1\1.r. STENGLE: A bill (H. R. 4157) amending section honor, distinguished service crosses, and distinguished service 3830, chapter 1, title 46 of the Revised Statutes of the United medals to persons who served in the A1·my or Navy of the States; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. United States during the World War; to the Committee on By l\Ir. HUDSPETH: A bill (H. R. 4158) authorizing the Military Affairs. Secretary of the Interior to enter into a contract with the By Mr. PATTERSON: A bill (H. R. 4140) making an appro Elephant Butte irrigation district of New Mexico and the El priation for the improvement of Salem River, N. J.; to the Com Paso County water improvement district No. 1 of Texas, for mittee on Rivers and Harbors. the carrying out of the provisions of the treaty of January 16, By Mr. REECE: A bill (H. R. 4141) to protect the public ·1907, between the United States of America and the Unfted a gainst deceit and unfair prices resulting from the presence of States of :Mexico, and for other purposes; to the Committee on other than leather, wool, and silk in clothing and articles of Irrigation of Arid Lands. apparel purporting to be made of said material; to the Commit- By Mr. BURT::r-..'ESS: A bilJ (H. R. 4159) to provide for an tee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. . emergency commission to promote a permanent system of self By Mr. RUBEY: A bill (H. R. 4142) to establish and main supporting agriculture in regions adversely affected by the tain a fish-hatching and fish-culture station in Texas County stimulation of wheat production during the war, and aggra State of Missouri; to the Committee on the Merchant l\larin~ vated by many years of small yields and high production costs and Fisheries. . of wheat; to the Committee. on Agriculture. Also, a bill (H. R. 4143) to extend the provisions of the pen By Mr. DENISON: A bill (H. R. 4160) to create the inland sion act of l\lay 11, 1912, to the officers and enlisted men of all waterways corporation for the purpose of can·ying out the State militias and other State organizations that rendered mandate and purpose of Congress as expressed in sections 201 service to the Union cause during the Civil War for a period of and 500 of the transportation act, and for other purposes; to 90 days or more, and providing pensions for their widows the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. minor children, and dependent parents, and for other purposes: By l\Ir. CHRISTOPHERSON: A bill (H. R. 4161) authorizing to the Co;mmittee on Invalid Pensions. ' the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to acquire necessary rights By Mr. STEAGALL: A bill (H. R. 4144) amending section 13 of way across private lands, by purchase or condemnation pro of the act approved December 23, 1913, known as the Federal ceedings, needed in constructing a spillway and drainage ditch reserve act, as amended by the act approved March 3, 1915 (38 to lower and maintain the level of Lake Andes, in South Da Stats. ch. 93, p. · 958) ; act approved September 7, 1916 _(89 kota ; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. 478 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEMBER 20, By Mr. LI:NDSAY: A bill (H. R. 4162) to extend the present construct a bridge across the Pere Marquette River; to the law granting allowances to dependent kindred of those who lost Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. their lives in the World War to 1926; to the Committee on In By l\Ir. SW"OOPID: A bill (H. Il. 4183) for the purchase of a terstate and Foreign Commerce. site and the erection thereon of a public building at Houtzdale, By Mr. STEPHENS: A bill (H. R. 4163) to amend section 2 Pa. ; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act ap By l\fr. LOGAN: A bill (H. R. 4184) authorizing the Secre proved July 31, 1894; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. tary of the Navy to erect a monument at Parris Island, near By Mr. ANDERSON: A bill (H. R. 4164) to establish a free Port Royal, S. C., to mark the site of Charles Fort, built to guide service for the Capitol Building; to the Committee on defend the first French settlement in the United States; to the Accounts. Committee on the Library. By Mr. DALLINGER (by request) : A bill (H. R. 4165) to Ily l\Ir. COOPER of Wisconsin: A bill (H. R. 4185) to pro amend sections 1, 3, and 6 of an act entitled "An act to provide vide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons dis building thereon in the city of Whitewater, County of Wal abled in industry or otherwise and their return to civil employ worth, State of Wisconsin; to the Committee on Public Build ment " ; to the Committee on Education. ings and Grounds. By l\Ir. HULL of Iowa: A bill (H. R. 4166) to create a board Also, a bill (H. R. 4186) to provide for the purchase of a of chiropractic examiners and to regulate the practice of chiro site and the erection of a public building thereon in the city practic, and to provide penalties for violation of this act, and of Oconomowoc, county of Waukesha, State of Wisconsin; to to prohibit the practice of any other mode or system under the the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. name of chiropractic; to the Committee on the District of By Mr. LARSON of Minnesota: A bill (H. R. 4187) to Columbia. . legalize a bridge across the St. Louis River in Carlton County, Ily Mr. KAHN: A bill (H. R. 4167) to amend in certain par State of Minnesota; to the Committee on Interstate and For ticulars the national defense act of June 3, 1916, as amended; eign Commerce. to the Committee on Military Affairs. By l\fr. CHRISTOPHERSON: A bill (H. R. 4188) to pro By Mr. DYEil: A bill (H. R. 4168) to amend an act entitled vide for the purchase of a site and for the erection of a public "An act to punish the unlawful breaking of seals of railroad building thereon at Canton, S. Dak.; to the Committee on cars containing interstate or foreign shipments, the unlawful Public Buildings and Grounds. entering of such cars, the stealing of freight and express pack Also, a bill (H. R. 4189) to provide for the purchase of a ages or baggage or articles in process of transportation in inter site and for the erection of a public building thereon at state shipment, and the felonious asportation of such freight Flandreau, S. Dak. ; to the Committee on Public Buildings or express packages qr baggage or articles therefrom into an and Grounds. other district of the United States, and the felonious posses By Mr. REED of Arkansas: A bill (H. R. 4190) for the sion or reception of the same," approved February 13, 1913 pmchase of a site and the erection of a public building at (37 Stats. p. 670) ; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Stuttgart, Arkansas County, Ark.; to the Committee on Public By l\fr. DOYLE: A bill (H. R. 4169) making eligible for re Buildings and Grounds. tirement under certain conditions officers of the United States By l\Ir. PEIDRY: A bill (H. R. 4191) for the construction of Army, Navy, or l\larine Corps, other than officers of the regular a public building at Marion, Va.; to the Committee on Public forces, who incurred physical disability in line of duty while Buildings and Grounds. in the service of the United States during war; to the Com Also, a bill ( H. R. 4192) for the construction of a public mittee on Military Affairs. building at Tazewell, Va.; to the Committee on Public Build By Mr. DALLINGER: A bill (H. R. 4170) for the purchase ings and Grounds. of a site and the erection of a public building at Lexington, By Mr. EV ANS of Montana : A bill ( H. R. 4193) for the Mass. ; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. purchase of a site and the erection of a post-office building at Also, a bill (H. R. 4171) for the purchase of a site and the Dillon, font. ; to the Committee on Public Buildings and erection of a public building at Wakefield, Mass. ; to the Com Grounds. mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds. By Mr. HILL of Washington: A bill (H. R. 4194) to provide By Mr. KINDRED: A bill (H. R. 4172) for the purchase of a site for the erection thereon of a public building at Far for the purchase of a site and the erection thereon of a post Rockaway, N. Y.; to the Committee on Public Buildings and office building at Deer Park, State of Washington; to the Com Grounds. mittee on Public Buildings and Grcunds. By Mr. ROACH: A bill (H. R. 4173) for the erection of a By Mr. WHITE of Kansas: A bill (H. R. 4195) to provide Federal post-office building at the city of Eldon, Mo. ; to the for the erection of a public building at Hays, county seat of Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Ellis County, Kans., and appropriating money therefor; . to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. By l\lr. BURTNESS: A bill (H. R. 4174) to provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon Also, a bill (H. R. 4196) to provide for the erection of a Fed at Pembina, N. Dak. ; to the Committee on Public Buildings eral building at Norton, county seat of Norton County, Kans., and Grounds. and appropriating money therefor; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. By Mr. HUDDLESTON: A bill (H. R. 4175) providing for a site and public building for a post office at Fairfield, Ala. ; to By Mr. McREYNOLDS: A bill (H. R. 4197) to provide for the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. the acquisition of a site and the erection of a public building at By Mr. NELSON of Maine: A bill (H. R. 4176) to provide McMinnville, Tenn.; to the Committee on Public Buildings and for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building Grounds. thereon at Pittsfield, Me.; to the Committee on Public Build Also, a bill (H. R. 4198) increasing the limit of cost of a pub ings and Grounds. lic building and site at Athens, Mcl\1inn County, Tenn.; to the By l\fr. Mc SWAIN: A blll ( H. R. 4177) to provide for the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. construction of a Federal building at Spartanburg, S. C. ; to By Mr. REED of Arkansas: A bill (H. R. 4199) for the pur the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. chase of a site and the erection of a public building at England, By Mr. RUBEY: A bill (H. R. 4178) for the erection of a Lonoke County, Ark. ; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Federal building at Mountain Grove, Wright County, Mo.; to Grounds. the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. By Mr. STEPHENS: A bill (H. R. 4200) to provide for the Also, a bill ( H. R. 4179) for the erection of a Federal build cleaning of the exterior of the post-office building at Cincinnati, ing at Lebanon, Laclede County, Mo. ; to the Committee on Ohio ; to the Committee on Public Buildings a_nd Grounds. Publlc Buildings and Grounds. By l\fr. AYRES: A bill (H. R. 4201) grantmg allowances for By l\fr. WILLIA.l\ISON: A bill (H. R. 4180) granting the rent, fuel, light, and equipment to postmasters of the fourth consent of Congress to the State of South Dakota for the con class, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Post struction of a bridge across the Missouri River between Wal Office and Post Roads. worth County and Corson County, S. Dak.; to the Oomm1ttee By Mr. BURDICK: A blll (H. R. 4202) to amend section on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. 5908, United States Compiled Statutes, 1916 (Revised Statutes, Also, a bill (H. R. 4181) granting the consent of Congress to sec. 3186, as amended by act of March 1, 1879, ch. 125, sec. 3, the State of South Dakota for the construction of a bridge and act of March 4, 1913, ch. 166) ; to the Committee on the across the :Missouri River between Brule County and Lyman Judiciary. County, S. Dak. ; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign By l\Ir. GARBER: A bill (H. R. 4275) authorizing the Ponca Commerce. Tribe of Indians, residing in the States of Oklahoma and Ne- By l\Ir. McLAUGHLIN of Michigan: A bill (H. R. 4]82)' braska, to submit claims to the Court of Claims; to the Com· authorizing the city of Ludington, Mason County, Mich., to mittee on Indian Affairs. 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 479 By Mr~ LEAVITT: A bill (H. R. 4319) authorizing the con ment in conjunction with the Workers' Party of America; to the veyance of certain land to the city of Miles City, State of Mon Committee on Foreign Affairs. tana, for park purposes ; to the Committee on Public Buildings By l\lr. SWANK: Memorial of the Legislature of the State of and Grounds. Oklahoma, urging Congress and the Director of the United By Mr. TAYLOR of Colorado: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. States Veterans' Bureau, on the subject of the hospitalization 102) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United of Oklahoma's disabled war veterans ; to the Committee on States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Int~rstate and Foi.·eign Corp.merce. Also, joint resolution (H. J. Rei;;. 103) proposing an amend ment to the Constitution of the United States fixing the com PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS. mencement of the terms of President and Vice President and Members of Congress, and fixing the time of the assembling of Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, private bills and resolutions Congress ; to the Committee on Election of President, Vice were introduced and severally referred as follows: President, and Representatives in Congress. By 1\-Ir. ANDERSON: A bill (H. R. 4203) granting a pension Also, joint resolution (H. J. Res. 104) proposing an amend to Caroline Pulaski; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ment to the Constitution of the United States fixing the com Also, a bill ( H. R. 4204) for the relief of the estate of A. W. mencement of the terms of Members of Congress; to the Com Fisher; to the Committee on Claims. mittee on Election of President, Vice President, and Repre By Mr. ARNOLD: A bill (H. R. 4205) granting a pension to sentatives in Congress. Sarah J. Boggs; to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. 1\fAGEE of New York: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. Also, a bill (H. R. 4206) granting a. pension to Sella Osborn; 105) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. States empowering the President to veto any item or items of a By Mr. AYRES: A bill (H. R. 4207) granting an increase ot bill making or authorizing an appropriation while approving pension to Clarence E. West; to the Committee on Pensions. of other portions of the bill; to the Committee on the Ju By l\Ir. BACHARACH: A bill (H. R. 4208) granting an In diciary. crease of pension to Rebecca McCollum; to the Committee on By Mr. GIBSON: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 106) proposing Invalid Pensions. an amendment to the Constitution of the United States; to the Also, a bill ( H. R. 4209) granting an increase of pension to Committee on the Judiciary. Annie Carman ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. LUCE: Joint resolution {H. J. Res. 107) 1n relation to By Mr. BACON: A bill (H. R. 4210) for the relief of the a monument to commemorate the services and sacrifices of the Atlantic & Caribbean Steam Navigation Co.; to the Committee women of the United States of America, its insular possessions, on Claims. and the District of Columbia in the World War; to the Com By Mr. BEGG: A blll (H. R. 4211) granting an increase of mittee on the Library. pension to Barbara Groesch; to the Committee on Invalid Pen By Mr. HASTINGS: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 108) pro sions. posing an amendment to section 7, Article I, of the Constitu By Mr. BIXLER: A bill (H. R. 4212) for the relief of the tion of the United States, permitting the President of the United estate of Henry Seip, deceased; to the Committee on Claims. States to disapprove any item or appropriation of any bill By 1\fr. BOIES: A bill (H. R. 4213) authorizing the Secretary passed by Congress; to the Committee on the Judiciary. of War to donate to the town of Cherokee, Iowa, one German By Mr. l\IcLEOD: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 109) propos cannon or fieldpiece ; to the Committee on Military Affairs. ing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States; to Also, a bill (H. R. 4214) authorizing the Secretary of War to the Committee on the Judiciary. donate to Onawa, Iowa, one German cannon or fieldpiece; to the By Mr. CANNON: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 110) creating Committee on Military Affairs. a commission to prepare plans for and to erect a memorial to Also, a bill· (H. R. 4215) authorizing the Secretary of War to the memory of Champ Clark ; to the Committee on the Library. donate to Rock Rapids, Iowa, one German cannon or fieldpiece; By Mr. SEARS of Nebraska: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. to the Committee on Military Affairs. 111) authorizing the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City to Also, a bill (H. R. 4216) authorizing the Secretary of War to invest its funds in the construction of a building for its branch donate to Sac City, Iowa, one German cannon or fieldpiece; to at Omaha, Nebr. ; to the Committee on Banking and Currency. the Committee on Military Affairs. By l\Ir. SUTHERLAND: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 112) Also, a bill (H. R. 4217) authorizing the Secretary of War to authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to donate and grant donate to Sioux City Iowa, one German cannon or fieldpiece; certain buildings in Alaska to the Loyal Order of Moose; to to the Committee on Military Affairs. the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 4218) authorizing the Secretary of War to Also, joint resolution ( H. J. Res. 113) authorizing the Sec donate to Le Mars, Iowa, one German cannon or fieldpiece ; to retary of War to donate and grant certain buildings in Alaska the Committee on l\filitary Affairs. to the Roman Catholic Missionary Society; to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 4219) authorizing the Secretary of War to on Public Buildings and Grounds. donate to the town of Storm Lake, State of Iowa, o...ie German By l\Ir. MAcGREGOR: Resolution (H. Res. 100) authorizing cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. the Doorkeeper to appoint an additional page; to the Committee Also. a bill (H. R. 4220) authorizing the Secretary of War to on Accounts. donate to the city of Spirit Lake, State of Iowa, one German By Mr. FREAR: Resolution (H. Res. 101) to investigate cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. charges credited to and alleged against Governor General Wood; Also, a bill (H. R. 4221) authorizing the Secretary of War to to the CommitteP on Rules. donate to Sibley, State of Iowa,_one German cannon or field By Mr. LEHLBACH: Resolution (H. Res. 102) to amend piece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Rules X and XI ; to the Committee on Rules. Also, a bill (H. R. 4222) authorizing the Secretary of War to By JI.Ir. BANKHEAD: ·Resolution (H. Res. 103) to amend donate to Orange City, State of Iowa, one German cannon or Rules X and XI ; to the Committee on Rules. fieldpiece ; to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. 81\IITH: Resolution ( H. Res. 104) to amend section Also, a bill (H. R. 4223) authorizing the Secretary of War to 34, Rules X and XI of the rules of the House of Representa donate to I By Mr. COOK: A. bill (H. R. 4230) granting a pension to German cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Sarah J. Stevens ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Affairs. By Mr. DAVILA.: A bill (H. R. 4231) for the relief of Maj. Also, a bill (H. R. 4257) authorizing the Secretary of War to Daniel Rodriguez, United States Army, retired; to the Com donate to the city of Hoboken, State of New Jersey, one German mittee on Military Affairs. cannon or fieldpiece ; to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. DA. VEY: A bill (H. R. 4232)' authorizing the Secre Also, a bill (H. R. 4258) authorizing the Secretary of War to tary of War to donate to the town of Hiram, State of Ohio, one donate to the city of Jersey City, State of New Jersey, one • German cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military · German cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Affairs. ' Also, a hill (H. R. 4233) authorizing the Secretary of War By l\lr. EVANS of Montana: A bill (H. R. 4259) granting a to donate to the town of Wellington, State of Ohio, one German pension to Henry Buck; to the Committee on Pensions. cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. FAIRCHILD: A bill (H. R. 4260) for the relief of Also, a bill (H. R. 4234) authorizing the Secretary of War Irene Brand ; to the Committee on Claims. to donate to the city of Oberlin, State of Ohio, one German By Mr. FISH: A bill (H. R. 4261) providing a survey of cannon or fieldpiece ; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Hudson River at New York with a view to deepening th"' Also, a bill (H. R. 4235) authorizing the Secretary of War channel for navigation through Haverstraw Bay; to the Com to donate to the city of Medina, State of Ohio, one German mittee on Rivers and Harbors. cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 4262) for the relief of the New Jersey Also, a bill (H. R. 4236) authorizing the Secretary of War Shipbuilding & Dredging Co., o·f Bayonne, N. J. ; to the Com to donate to the town of Wadsworth, State of Ohio, one German mittee on Claims. cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. FOSTER: A bill (H. R. 4263) granting an increase of Also, a bill (B. R. 4237) authorizing the Secretary of War pension to Ruth James; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to donate to the town of Amherst, State of Ohio, one German Also, a bill (H. R. 4264) granting a pension to William T. cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mills; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4238) authorizing the Secretary of War Also, a bill (H. R. 4265) granting a pension to Sheridan Mc to donate to the city of Kent, State of Ohio, one German cannon Daniel ; to the Committee on Invalld Pensions. or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. FULLER: A bill (H. R. 4266) granting a pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 4239) authorizing the Secretary of War Elizabeth Inman ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to donate to the city of Ravenna, State of Ohio, one German Also, a bill (H. R. 4267) authorizing the Secretary of War to cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. donate to the village of Kirkland, State of Illinois, one German Also. a bill (H. R. 4240) authorizing the Secretary of War cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. to donate to the city of Barberton, State of Ohio, one German Also, a bill (H. R. 4268) authorizing the Secretary of War to cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. donate to the city of Sycamore, State of Illinois, one German Also, a bill (H. R. 4241) authorizing the Secretary of War cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. to donate to the city of Kenmore, State of Ohio, one German Also, a bill (H. R. 4269) authorizing the Secretary of War to cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. donate to the city of Sandwich, State of Illinois, one German Also, a bill (H. R. 4242) authorizing the Secretary of War cannon or fi.eldpiece; to the Committee on l\1ilitary Affairs. to donate to the city of Cuyahoga Falls, State of Ohio, one Ger Also, a bill (H. R. 4270) authorizing the Secretary of War to man cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Af donate to the village of Genoa, State of Illinois, one German fairs. cannon or fieldpiece ; to the Committee on :Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 4243) authorizing the Secretary of War Also, a bill (H. R. 4271) authorizing the Secretary of War to to donate to the city of Lorain, State of Ohio, two German can donate to the village of Ransom, State of Illinois, one German nons or fieldpieces; to the Committee on Military Affairs. cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 4244) authorizing the Secretary of War Also, a bill (H. R. 4272) authorizing the Secretary of War to to donate to the city of Elyria, State of Ohio, two German can donate to the city of Belvidere, State of Illinois, one German nons or fieldpieces.; to the Committee on filitary Affairs. cannon or fieldpiece ; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 4245) authorizing the Secretary of War Also, a bill (H. R. 4273) authorizing the Secretary of War to to donate to the city of A.krou, State of Ohio, frrn German can donate to the city of Mendota, State of Illinois, one German nons or fieldpieces; to the Committee on Military Affairs. cannon or fieldpiece ; to the Committee on Military Affair . By Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee: A bill (H. R. 4246) granting Also, a bill (H. R. 4274) granting a pension to Martha J. an increase of pension to Claude A. Holder; to the Committee Goodell; to the Committee on Invalid Pen ions. on Pensions. By l\Ir. GIFFORD: A bill (H. R. 4276) providing for the By Mr. DENISON: A bill (H. R. 4247) for the relief of examination and survey of Nantucket Harbor, Mass.; to the Jo hua Cavins; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Committee on Rivers and Harbors. l3y l\Ir. DICKil'\SON of I owa: A bill (H. R. 4248) for the Also, a bill (H. R. 4277) for the relief of Frederick D. W. relief of Thomas Jefferson Shropshire; to the Committee on Baldwin; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. ~lilitary Affairs. Also, a bill ( H. R. 4278) providing for the examination and By 1\1.r. DOYLE: A bill (H. R. 4249) for the relief of John survey of Edgartown Harbor, Mass. ; to the Committee on Hamill; to the Committee on Claims. Rivers and Harbors. By l\1r. EAGAN: A bill (H. R. 4250) authorizing the Secre By Mr. GILBERT: A bill (H. R. 4279) granting a pension tary of War to donate to the town of Secaucus, State of New to Mary J. Farlee; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Jersey, one German cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee ou By the SPE.A.KmR: A bill (H. R. 4280) for tbe relief of Military Affairs. . the Chamber of Commerce of the city of Northampton, 1\fass.; Also, a bill (H. R. 4251) authorizing the Secretary of War to the Committee on Claims. · to donate to the town of West Hoboken, State of New Jersey, one German cannon or fiel Also, a bill (H. R. 4289) granting a pension to Ben 0. Robin Rome, Ga., in honor of Pvt. Charles W. Graves; to the Commit son ; to the Committee on Pensions. tee on the Library. Also, a bill ( H. R. 4290) for the relief of W. F. Payne; to By l\fr. LEHLBACH: A bill (H. R. 4321) authorizing the the Committee on Claims. President to appoint Leo P. Quinn to the position and rank of Also, a bill (H. R 4291) granting a pension to Cicero 0. major in the United States Army and immediately retire him Patton; to the Committee on Pensions. with the rank and pay held by him at the time of his dis Also, a blll (H. R. 4292) granting a pension to Virginia charge; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Singleton ; to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. LITTLE: A bill (H. R. 4322) granting an increa.Ee of Also, a bill (H. R. 4293) for the relief of Benito Vlscaina and pension to George W. Lear; to the Committee on Pension::>. Maria Viscaina ; to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill ( H. R. 4323) granting a pension to Elizabeth Also, a bill (H. R. 4294) for the relief of Casimira Mendoza; Temple; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Claims. By l\fr. LONGWORTH: A bill (H. R. 4324) granting a pen By Mr. HUDSON: A bill (H. :;::... 4295) granting a pension to sion to Sarah Dobner; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Etta Bush·; to the Committee on IL valid Pensions. By Mr. McLAUGHLIN of Michigan: A bill (H. R. 4325) By Mr. HUMPHREYS: A bill (H. R. 4296) for the relief of for the relief of Lyman D. Drake, jr. ; to the Committee on Don G. Owens; to tlie Committee on Claims. Claims. By l\lr. JA:\IES: A bill (H. R. 4297) granting a pension to By l\Ir. McREYNOLDS: A bill (H. R. 4326) authorizing the Henry F. Hoffman; to the Committee n Pensions. Secretary of War to donate to the town of Etowah, Mcl\iinn By Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota: A bill (H. R. 4298) County, Tenn., one German cannon or fieldpiece; to the Com granting permission to Maj. Fred T. Cruse, United States Army, mittee on Military Affairs. to accept the decoration of the Spanish Order of Military Merit Also, a bill (H. R. 4327) granting a pension to Jacks0n B. of Alfonso XIII ; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Lea ; to the Committe on Pensions. By Mr. KEARNS : A bill ( H. R. 4299) granting an increase Also, a bill (H. R. 4328) authorizing the Secretary of War of pension to Charles E. Caplinger; to the Committee on to donate to the town of Winchester, Franklin County, Tenn., Pensions. one German cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Also, a bill (H. R. 4300) granting a pension to Christina Affairs. Forsyth ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4329) granting a pension to William A. Also, a bill (H. R. 4301) granting an increa~e of pension to Jordan; to the Committee on Pensions. Margaret A. l\loore; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4330) granting a pension to Robert King; Also, a bill (H. R. 4302) granting a pension to Flora Rus to the Committee on Pensions. sell ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4331) authorizing the Secretary of War By Mr. KENT: A bill (H. R. 4303) for the relief of George to deliver to the town of McMinnville, State of Tennessee, two F. Newhart, Clyde Hahn, and David McCormick; to the Com condemned bronze or brass cannons or fieldpieces and suitable mittee on Claims. outfit of cannon balls; to the Committee on l\lilitary Affairs. By ~1r. KERR: A bill (H. R. 4304) authorizing the Secre By l\Ir. MADDEN: A bill (H. R. 4332) granting a pension ta> tary of War to donate to certain towns in North Carolina Forrest L. Robinson; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. German cannons or fieldpieces, with their accompaniments; to By Mr. MAGEE of New York: A bill (H. R. 4333) granting the Committee on Military Affairs. a pension to Mary 0. Sherman Frank ; to the Committee on By l\lr. KETCHAM: A bill (H. R. 4305) granting a pension Invalid Pensions. · to Laura A. Granger; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4334) granting a pension to John J. By l\fr. KINCHELOE: A bill (H. R. 4306) authorizing the McNally; to the Committee on Pensions. Secretary of War 'to donate to the city of l\Iadisonville, State By Mr. MAJOR of Missouri: A bill (H. R. 4335) donating of Kentucky, two German cannons or fieldpieces; to the Com one captured German cannon or field gun and carriage to each mittee on Military Affairs. of the cities of Warsaw, Springfield, Hermitage, Fayette, Lex Also, a bill (H. R. 4307) authorizing the Secretary of War ington, Sedalia, Bolivar, and Marshall, State of Missouri, for to donate to the city of Dixon, State of Kentucky, one German decorative and patriotic purposes; to the Committee on Military cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 4308) authorizing the Secretary of War Also, a bill (H. R. 4336) granting a pension to Alexander to donate to the city of Owensboro, State of Kentucky, two Surrell; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. German cannons or fieldpieces; to the Committee on Military Also, a bill (H. R. 4337) granting a pension to Elizabeth Affairs. Jones; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4309) authorizing the Secretary of War Also, a bill ( H. R. 4338) gran ting an increase of pension to to donate to the city of Hopkinsville, State of Kentucky, two Mary E. Logan ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. German cannons or fieldpieces; to the Committee on Military By Mr. l\IA.:NLOVE: A bill (H. R. 4339) granting a pension Affairs. to Josephine W. Martin; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4310) authorizing-the Secretary of· War to Also, a bill (H. R. 4340) granting a pension to Mary E. Hamp donate to the city of Henderson, State of Kentucky, two Ger ton; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. man cannons or fieldpieces; to the Committee on Military AJso, a bill (H. R. 4341) granting a pension to Mary Jane Affairs. Ponts; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4311) authorizing the Secretary of War to Also, a bill (H. R. 4342) granting an focrease of pension to donate to the city of Uniontown, State of Kentucky, one Ger Rhoda A. Savage; to the Committee on Pensions. man cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 4343) authorizing the Secretary of War Also, a bill (H. R. 4312) authorizing the Secretary of War to to donate to the city of Lamar, State of Missouri, two German donate to the city of Hawesville, State of Kentucky, one Ger cannons or field11ieces; to the Committee on Military Affairs. man cannon or fieldpiece ; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 4344) authorizing the Secretary of War Also, a biU (H. Il. 4313) authorizing the Secretary of War to to donate to the city of Cassville, State of Missouri, two Ger donate to the Jefferson Davis Horne Association two German man cannons or fieldpieces; to the Committee on Military cannons or fieldpieces ; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 4314) authorizing the Secretary of War to Also, a bill (H. R. 4345) authorizing the Secretary of War donate to the town of Sturgis, State of Kentucky, one Ger to donate to the city of Pineville, State of Missouri, two Ger man cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. man cannons or fieldpieces; to the Committee on Military Also, a bill (H. R. 4315) authorizing the Secretary of War to Affairs. donate to the city of l\lorganfield, State of Kentucky, two Ger Also, a bill (H. R. 4346) authorizing the Secretary of War man cannons or fieldpieces ; to the Committee on Military to donate to the city of Nevada, State of l\Iissouri, two Ger Affairs. man cannons or fieldpieces; to the Committee on Military Also, a bill (H. R. 4316) authorizing the Secretary of War to Affairs. donate to the city of Calhoun, State of Kentucky, one Ger Also, a bill (H. R. 4347) authorizing the Secretary of War man cannon or fieldpiece ; to the Committee on Military Affairs. to donate to the city of Mount Vernon, State of Missouri, two By Mr. KINDRED: A bill (H. R. 4317) granting a pension German cannons or fieldpieces; to the Committee on Military to Melvin C. Hoff; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Affairs. By Mr. LARSON of Minnesota : A bill ( H. R. 4318) for the Also, a bill (H. R. 4348) authorizing the Secretary of War relief of Edward S. Scheibe; to the Committee on Claims. to donate to the city of Carthage, State of Missouri, four Ger By Mr. LEE of Georgia: A bill (H. R. 4320) authorizing the man cannons or fieldpieces; to the Committee on Military .appropriation of $10,000 for the erection of a monument at Affairs. _LXV-31 482 CONG-RESSION AL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEMJ3ER 20,_ Also, a bill (H. R. 4349} authorizing the Secretary of War Afso, a bill (H: R. 4382) authorizing the Secretary of War to donate to the city of Aurora, State of Missouri, two Ger to donate to tbe city of Beaver, State of Pennsylvania, one; man cannons or fieldpiec.es ; to the Committee on Military German cannon or fleldpiece; to the Committee on. llilitary Affairs. Affairs. ' Also, a bill (H. R. 4350) authorizing the Secretary of War By Mr. RAINEY: A bill (H~ R. 4383.) granting a pension to to donate to tbe city of Neosllo, State of Missouri, two Ger Rachel Slaten; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. man cannons or fieldpieces ; to the Co.mmittee on :Military Also, a bill (H. R. 4384) granting an increase of pension to Affairs. Sarah Pelham ; to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4351) authorizing the Secretary of War Also, a bill (H. R.. 4383) gr:anting an increase of pension to to donate to the city of Joplin, State of Missouri, four German Hattie E. Matthews; to the Committee on Invalid Pension~. cannons or field pieces; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 4386) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R 4352) authorizing the Secretary of War Lissa J". Anderson; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to donate to Webb City, State of Missouri, two German cannons By Mr. ROACH: A bill (H. R. 4387) granting a pension to or fieldpieces; to the Committee on l\Iilitary Affairs. Irena E. Bailey; to the Committee on. Invalid: Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 435ZJ) authorizing the Secretary of War to By 1\Ir. ROGERS of New Hampshire: A bill (IL R. 4388)' donate to the city of Monett, State of Misso~ two German granting an increase of pension to Edmund J. Go~selin ; to the cannons or fieldpieces; to the Committee on l\lilitary Affairs. Committee on. In.valid Pensions. By ~Ir. MAPES : A bill ( H~ R. 4354) granting an increase of By l\Ir. ROUSE: A bill (H. R. 4389) granting a pension to pension to Oscar A. Badder; to the Committee on Pensions. Elizabeth Shook; to the Committee on In.valid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R.. 4355) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. RUBEY ~ A bill (H. R. 4390) authorizing the Secre Rosalia A. Laudo; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. tary of War to donate to the city of Steelville, State-of 1\Us ouri, By l\ir:. lliCHAELSON: A bill (H.. R.. 4356') for. the relief of one Geum.an cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on .Military Peter C. King; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 4357) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 4391) authorizing tbe Secretary of War to William C. Donlevy; to the Committee on Pensions. donate to the city of Lebanon, State of Missouri,. one German Also, a bill (H. R 4358) granting u pension to Allee- E. cannon or fieldpieee; toi the Committee on :Military Affairs. Deitrick; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a. bill fH. R. 4392) authorizing tbe Secretary of War to Also, a bill (H. R 4359) for the relief of G. W. Hallema.n; to donate to. the city of Vienna, State of Missouri, one German the Committee on Claims. cannon. or field piece ; to the €ommi ttee on Military Affairs. B'y l\fr. MI C.HENER: A bill ( H. R. 43GO} for the relief of Also, a bill (H. R. 4393) authotizing the S€cretary of War to . Carl B. De Forest ; to the Committee' on l\1ilitary Affairs. donate to the. city of Rolla, State o1i Missouri, one Germnn By 1\fr. MOORE of Illinois: A bill ( H. R. 4361) authorizing cannon or fieldpiece ~ to the Committee- on l\lilitary Affairs. the purchase of the William Barnes collection, of lepidopter.a; to Also, a bill (H. R. 4394) authorizing the Secretary of War the Committee on Agri:cultu re. to donate to the city of Houston, State of l\li souri, one German By Mr. MORIN: A bill (H. R. 4362) to reimburse James J. cannon or fieldpiece; t0 the Committee on Military Affairs. Burns, jr., for damages to touring car by Government-owned Also, a bill (lil. R. 4395) authorizing the Secreta:cJ{ of War motor- truck ; to the Committee on Claims. to donate to the city of Waynesville, State of l\.lissouri, ou.e By :1\Ir. NELSON of Maine: A bill (H. R. 4363). granting a pen German cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military sioill to William L. R~s; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Affair.s. Also, a bill (H. R. 4364) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 4306) authorizing the Secretary of War Alma C. Walker; to the Committee on Pensions. to donate to the city of Eminence, State of ·Missouri, · one Ger By Mr. l't~WTON of Minnesota~ A bill (ff. R. 4365) for the man cannon or fieldpiece; to tbe Committee on Military relief of John Regan ; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Affairs. Also, a bill (H. H.. 4366) granting the consent of Congress to Also, a bill (IL R. 4397)' authorizing the Secretary of War the Great Northern Railway Co., ·a corporation, to construct, to donate to the city of 1\iarshfield. State of l\1issouri, one maintain, and operate a bridge across the l\Iississippi River; to German cannon oi: .fieldpiece ~ to the Committee on l\.Iilitai;y the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Affairs~ By l\Irs. NOLAN: A bill ( H. R. 4367) for the relief of Jacob Also, a hilJ (H. R. 4398). authorizing the Seeretary of War Kristinus Johanson; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. to. donate to the city of Salem, State of Missouri, one German. Also, a bill (II. R. 43u8) for the relief of Uary Curtin; to the cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Committee on l\lilita:ry Affairs. . Also,. a bill (H. R. 4399) authorizing the Secretary of War Also, a bill ( H. R. 4369) granting an increase of pension to to donate to the city of Hartville, State· of Misso.uri, one Geo.rge Bingham; to the Committee on Pensions. German cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Uilita.ry Also, a bill ( H. R. 4370) granting an increase of pension to Affairs. Henry Braimagel ; to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. Il. 4400). authorizing the Seeretary of War A.].so, a bill (H. R. 4371) for the relief of Harry J. Dabel; to to donate to the city of Buffalo, State of Missouri, one Ger the Committee on Claims. m.Hn cannon or fi.eldpiece ;. to the Committee on l\Iilitary Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 4372) for the relief of Horatfo S. Turrell, Also, a bill (II. R. 4401) granting a pension to Angeline 1\1. alias Horatio Seaward; to the Committee on l\1ilitary Affairs. Johnson; to the Committee on Invalid· Pensions. Ily Mr. O'BRIEN:- A bill ( H. R. 4373) for the relief of· Clo By Mr. ABERNETHY: A. bill (H. R 4402) providing for the tilda Freund; to the Committee on Claims. examination and survey of the harbor in Morehead City, N. C., By Mr. O'CONNELL of New York: A bill (H. R. 4374) foT with a view to ex.tending the main channel of Bogue Sound and the relief of the American Surety Co. of New York; to the Com wLdening the channel in front of the wharves so as to provide. mittee on Claims. a turning basin of adequate area~ to the Committee on Rivers By Mr. O'CO~NELL of Rhode Island: A bill (H. R. 4375) and Harbors. granting an increase of pension to l\lary Sheedy ; to the Com Also, a bill (II. R. 44.03) providing for the examination and mittee on Invalid Pensions, 1 survey of Neuse River, N. C., from New Bern to Smithfield; to By l\fr. OLDFIELD: A bill (H. R. 4376) granting an increase the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. of pension to John C. Lane; to the Committee on Pensions. By l\1r. SIJSNOTT: A. bill ~H. R. 4404.) granting an increase Also, a bill (H. R. 4377) for the renef of Samuel H. l\lcAle:x: of pension to Sar.ah E. Leavitt; to the- Committee on Invalid a.nder ; to the Committee on Claims. . Pensions. By Mr. PEERY:' A bill (H. R. 4378) granting a pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 4405) granting an in.crease of pension to Rebecca A. Montgomery; to the Committee on Pensions. Elizabeth A. Shull; to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. PHILLIPS: A bill (H. R. 4379) authorizing the Sec By Mr. SMITHWICK: A bill (,I;L R. 44.06) far the- r.elief of retary of War to donate to the city of Ellwood City, State of Hattie Tolbert; to tbe Committee on Claims. Pennsylvania, one German cannon or fieldpiece; to the Com By l\Ir. S1\TYDER: A bill (H. R.. 4407) granting a pension to mittee on .J.\.filitary Affairs. Martin Flint; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 4380) authorizing the Secretary of War By l\lr.. STEVENSON:. A bill (H. R. 4408) granting an in to donate to the city of New Castle, State of Pennsylvania. one crease of· vension to Heill.'y Langley; to the Committee on Pen German cannon or :fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military sions. Affairs. By Mr. SWING: .A biJ.1 (H: R 4409) granting a pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 4381) authorizing the Secretary of War tu .Allan. George l\1a.cArtbw:; to tbe ommittee on Pensions. donate to the city of Butler, State of Pennsylvan1a, one German · .Aiso, a bill (H. R. 4410) for the relief of Arthm L. Hecykell; cannon or fieldpiece ; to the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on Naval Affairs. 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 483 By Mr. SWOOPE: A bill (H. R. 4411) granting a pension to the sale of light wines and beer; to the Committee on the Margaret H eilman; to the Committee on Pensions. Judiciary. By Mr. TAYLOR of Tennessee: A bill (H. R. 4412) granting 278. Also (by request), petition of City Council of the city a pension to Charles F. Bobo; to the Committee on Pensions. of Chicago, protesting against the enactment of any legislation By Mr. TH0:;)1AS of Oklahoma: A bill (H. R. 4413) granting affecting the sovereign rights of the States of this Union; to a pension to l\lary M. Gunter; to the Committee on Invalid the Committee on the Judiciary. Pen-·ions. 279. Also (by request), petition of the Civil War Revenu~ By l\1r. THOMPSON: A bill (H. R. 4414) granting a pension .Cotton Tax Claimants, urging Congress to assume jurisdiction to Amelia C. Cox; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of the subject matter and judicially determine the equitie, By l\lr. TILSON: A bill (H. R. 4415) granting a pension to claimed to exist in favor of these claimants to the Civil War A. C. Raymond ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. re\enue cotton tax on raw cotton collected during years 186:! By Mr. TINCHER : A bill (H. R. 4416) granting a pension to 1868, inclusive, amounting to $68,072,388.99 ; to the Com to :~fancy Sterritt ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mittee on Claims. By Mr. TREADWAY: A bill (H. R. 4417) granting a pen 280. Also (by request), petition of Eugene H. Niedringhaus, sion to Carrie E. Doane; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pittsburgh, Pa., favoring the Mellon plan of tax reduction; to By Mr. UPSHAW: A bill (H. n. 4418) for the relief of the the Committee on Ways and Means. Masons' Annuity; to the Committee on Claims. 281. Also (by request), petition of Carl A. Jones, president ~.Vso, a bill (H. R. 4419) for the relief of the widow of Ed Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Bristol, Va., favoring the Mellon E tes ; to the Committee on Claims. plan of tax reduction; to the Committee on Way and :Means. By Mr. VAILE: A bill (H. R. 4420) granting a pension to 282. ~Uso (by request), petition of Albert Grobstein, Pitts Amanda L. Evans; to the Committee on Pensions. burgh, Pa., fa\oring the Mellon plan of tHx reduction; to the A I o, a bill ( H. R. 4421) gran ting a pension to l\Iinnie E. Committee on Ways and Means. Shii1ler; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 283. Also (by request), petition of John Theiss, Pitt~burgh, By l\Ir. VESTAL: A bill (H. R. 4422) for the relief of Pa.. favorfag the Mellon plan of tax reduction · to the Com- Na11cy E. l\la on; to the Committee on War Claims. mittee on Ways and Means. ' By Mr. WHI'~E of Kansas: A bill (H. R. 4423) granting a 284. Also (by request), petition of Reginald L. Reese, Chev peusion to Harriett Hout; to the Committee on Invalid Pen rolet Motor Co., North Tarrytown, N. Y., favoring the Mellon sions. plan of tax: reduction ; to the Committee on Ways and 1\leans. By l\lr. WHITE of Maine: A bill (H. R. 4424) granting a 2 5. Al o (by reque t), petition of Old Colony Alliance of the pen ion to Dennis J. Callahan; to the Committee on Pensions. Women's Home Missionary, ~fassachusetts, urging the enact R;1· l\1r. WILLIAMS of Illinois: A bill (H. R. 4425) for the ment of a Federal child law, the enforcement of the Volstead relief of Ben 1\1. Ellis; to the Committee on Claims. Act, and the Dyer antilynching bill; to the Committee on the By l\lr. WILLIAMS of Texas: A bill (H. R. 4426) granting Juoiciary. an increase of pension to Nancy L. Myers; to the Committee 2 6. Also (by request), petition of Bay Ridge Council, A - on Invalid Pen ion~. sociation for the Reeognition of the Irish Republic. that the By l\Ir. WILLIAMSON: A bill (H. R. 4427) granting an in United States demand the release of prisoners in Irish prisons; crease of pension to Anna M. Carroll ; to the Committee on In to the Uommittee on Foreign .Affairs. valid Pensions. 287. By ::.\Ir. BL00~1 : Petition of Central Union Label Coun Also, a bill (H. R. 4428) granting a pension to William Gar cil of Greater New York, favoring new reciassification up to nett, otherwise known as BHlic Hunter ; to the Committee on 2,400 per annum; to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Pensions. Service. By l\Ir. WILSON of Indiana : A bill (H. R. 4429) granting 288. Also, petition of the ~ew York Counties Registered a pension to Cordelia Bench; to the Committee on ln\alid Pen Nurses' Association, District 13, mging graduates be placed in sions. the profes ional list; to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Also, a bill (H. R. 4430) granting a pension to Nancy A. Gor Service. do11 ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 289. Also, petition of board of manager , Children's Hos . Also, a bill (H. R. 4431) granting an increase of pension to pital, asking that nurses be put in the professional list; to Daniel Grubb ; to the Committee on Pensions. the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service. By l\1r. WOLFF: A bill (H. R. 4432) for the relief of Jennie 290. Also, petition of the Bronx Board of Trade, Third Kingston ; to the Committee on Claims. .Avenue, One hundred and thirty-seventh Street, and Lincoln Also, a bilJ (H. R. 4433) gr:rnting an increase of pension to Avenue, New York, N. Y .. favoring the l\fellon plan of tax re l\Iary Reilly; to the Committee on Invalid Pen ions. duction; to the Committee on Ways a,ncl Mean . By l\Ir. WURZBACH: A bill (H. R. 443~) for the relief of 291. Also, petition of :Kew York Electrical League, favoring R. H. Keene ; to the Committee on Claims. the l\Iellon plan of tax reduction; to the Committee on Ways By Mr. LINDSAY: A bill (H. R. 4435) to amend the United and l\!eans. States Judicial Code to in. ure full enjoyment of the constitu 292. Also, petition of the Harlem Board of Commerce, of tional right of freedom of worship or religious belief or con New York, favoring the ~1ellon plan of tax reduction; to the viction of faith; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Committee on Ways and l\1eans. lly 1\lr. LANGLEY: Resolution (H. Res. 99) to increase the 293. Ry Mr. BRIGGS : Petition of Texas Women's Missionary salary of Charles A. Howard for services as carpenter of the Society, Conroe Auxiliary, urging the adoption of child-labor House Office Building; to the Committee on Accounts. amendment to the Con. titution; to the Committee on the Ju By l\fr. BEEDY : Resolution (H. Res. ill) that the Com diciary. mittee on l\!ileage be allowed a !':ession clerk to be appointed 294. Also, petition adopted by the Texas Women's Missionary by the chairman of said committee, who shall receive a salary Society, favoring amending the Constitution prohibiting child at the rate of $125 per month from December 3, 1923, until the labor; to the Committee on the Judiciary. end of the first session of tlle Sixty-eighth Oongrf'ss; to the 295. Also, petition from ladies of Livingston, Tex., urging the Committee on Account ·. adoption of ·hilcl-labor amendment to the Federal Constitu By l\fr. SCHALL: Resolution ( H. Res. 112) to investigate tion; to the Committee on tlle Judiciary. William R. Jone and Jackson B. Sells individually Pnd as 296. By 1\lr. BURTON: Resolution adopted by the Northern members of the furn of Jones & Baker, alleged' bankrupts; to Ohio Group of the Investment Bankers Association of America, the Committee on Rules. commending the masterly handling of the finances of the Gov ernment by the Secretary of the Treasury, and as strongly PETITIONS, ETC. favoring the plan for the reduction of Federal taxes which he has proposed, and also favoring the utmost that can be done Un bill for adjusted compensation; to the Committee on Ways and Calif., In re tax reduction and soldiers' bonus; to the Committee l\1eans. on Ways and .l\Ieans. . 299. By ror. CHRISTOPHERSON: Petition of postal em 320. Also, petition from Wilgus Manufacturing Co., Los An ployees of Brookings, S. Dak., urging increase of salary for post geles, Calif., in re tax reduction; from Security Trust Co., office clerks and Uher employees; to the Committee on Reform Bakersfield, Calif., in re tax reduction and soldiers' bonus; froni in the Civil Service. General Motors Corporation, New York City, in re tax reduc 300. Also, petition of members o:f the chamber of commerce, tion ; from the Holt Manufacturing Co., Stockton, Calif., in re city of Vermilion, S. Dak., urging immediate provision be made tax reduction ; from Coast Fishing Co. (Inc.) , Wilmington, for a post-office building; t-.o the Committee on Public Buildings Calif., in re tax reduction; from Ileal Estate Board of New and Grounds. York in re tax reduction; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 301. By l\lr. CURRY: Resolution of Calistoga District Cham 321. By Mr. RAINEY: :."1.esolutions of the Prairie Club, Chi ber. of Calistoga, Calif., protesting against any change in the cago, Ill., urging preservation of our national parks; to the transportation act; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Committee on the Public Lands. Commerce. 822. By Jli1r. SINCLAIR: Petition of Chamber of Commerce, 302. Also, petition of postal employees of Napa post office, Jamestown, N. Dak., in favor of abolishing the telegraph and Calif., providing for an increase of salary for post-office clerks telephone tax; to the Committee on Ways and Means. and carriers; to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service. 323. By 1\ir. V ARE: Petition of Philadelphia Chamber of !>03. Also, re olution of the Chambers of Commerce of Vallejo Commerce, in favor of Chinese indemnity bill; to the Com and :Kapa, Calif., protesting against any change in the trans mittee on Foreign Affairs. portation act; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign 324. By Mr. WATRES: Petition of residents and voters in Commerce. Scranton and vicinity, indorsing the Mellon plan of tax re 304. By Mr. PORTER: Petition of Samuel ~ Davis, Pitts duction; to the Committee on Ways and l\1eans. bw-gb, Pa., favoring the Mellon plan of tax reduction; to the 325. By Mr. YOUNG: Resolution adopted by the Home Mis Committee on Ways and Means. sionary Society of Wimbledon, N. Dak., praying for the en 305. By l\fr. DOYLE: Petition of the Chicago Association of actment of child-labor legislation; to the Committee on Credit Men. favoring a reduction of taxes; to the Committee on Labor. Ways and Means. 326. Also, resolution adopted by northwestern group of the 306. By Mr. FENN: Resolutions of Morgan G. Bulkeley North Dakota Bankers' Aesociatlon at Minot, N. Dak.. on De Camp, No. 54, Sons of Veterans, Forestville, Conn., favoring cember 6, urging an increased tariff on wheat and flax and increased pensions for the veterans of the Civil War and their asking that a governmental agency be created to handle the widows ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. exvort surplus; to the Committee on Ways and .Means. 307. By Mr. FITZGERALD: Petition of citizens of Mid