CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD-SENATE. Jtf.A.Y 10, • , Also, Petition of the National Association of Cotton Manu CROSBY, N

6202 CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD-SENATE. Jtf.A.Y 10, • , Also, petition of the National Association of Cotton Manu CROSBY, N. DAK., May 8, 1912. Hon. A. J. GRO~NA, facturers, Boston, Mass., in opposition to the passage of vari Washington, D. 0.: ous bills relating to · the sale and purchase of cotlon to be Very much opposed to Bourne general parcel-post bill just introduced delivered on contract on the cotton exchanges of this country; in Senate. to the Committee on Agriculture. JOHN KNOPP, By Mr. UNDERHILL: Petition of Berger Lodge, No. 88, and CARRINGTON, N. DAK., May 8, 1912. Elmira Max Nordan Lodge, No. 281, Independent Order B'rith Hon. A. J. GRONNA, Abraham, Elmira, N. Y., and of the United Hebrew Trades of Washington, D. a.: II New York, protesting against passage of Dillingham and Bur Commercial Club opposes Bourne parcel bill, and we ask your influ ! nett immigration bills; to the Committee on Immigration and ence against it. C. S. HOLIDAY, • Naturalization. Vice P1·esident OomnierciaZ Olub. By Mr. UTTER : Petition of the United Hebrew Trades of New York, N. Y., opposing the passage of the Dillingham bill ROLETTE, N. DAK., May 8, 1.912. (S. 3175); to the Committee on Immigration and Naturaliza Hon. A. J. GnoNNA, tion. United States Senator, Washington, D. a.: . We urge your strongest opposition to the Bourne general parcel·post By Mr. VARE: Petition of John Hay Lodge, No. 14; D. bill now in the Senate. Ninety-nine per cent of our people are abso Theodore Herzel Lodge, No. 183; Joseph Minsky Lodge, No. 635; lutely ignorant of its provisions, and they have a right to fair con Freedom Lodge, No. 84; and William Penn Lodge, No. 76, sideration of all such legislation. Independent Order B'rith Sholom, Philadelphia, Pa., protesting I. M_. lNGEBRETSON. I• against legislation restricting immigration; to the Committee HENSEL, N. DAic., May 8, 191.2. on Immigration and Naturalization. Hon. A. J. GnoNNA, By • Ir. WEDEMEYER: Petition of sundry citizens of Lena Washington, D. a. DEAR Sm: We ask that you use all your influence In trying to defeat wee County, Mich., favoring the passage of the Sheppard bill; the Bourne general parcel-post bill now before the Senate, as it will, to the Committee on the Judiciary. rn our judgment, cause a great deficit and will be a detriment to the By Mr. WILDER (by request): Petition of Joseph Mason small towns and villages. Use your influence. · and 42 other citizens of Massachusetts, favoring the passage of Yours, respectfully, HARTJE & Co~LAN Bnos. the anti-Taylor system bills (H. R. 22339 and S. 6172); to the Committee on the Judiciary. CARRINGTON, N. DAK., May 8, 1912. By Mr. WOOD of New Jersey: Papers to accompany House Hon. A .• J. GRONNA, bill 24221, granting an increase of pension to William Long; to Washington, D. 0.: North Dakota hardware dealers oppose Bourne parcel-post bill and the Committee on Invalid Pensions. solicit your influence to defeat same. A. J. SMITH, President North Dakota Hardware D ealers' Associatfon. SENATE. H UNTER, N. DAK., May 8, 1912. FRIDAY, May 10, 191~. Hon. A. J. GRONNA, Washington,, D. 0.: - Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D. We 3:re e??pJ?.atically opposed to the Bourne general parcel-post bill. Mr. BACON took the chair as President pro tempore, under We believe it lS not based on thorough investigation. Will create a horde of additional Government employees and an enormous deficit. the previous order of the Senate. Hope you will do your utmost to knock it out. The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. GALE, CARR & Co. MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. AnTHUR MERCANTILE Co., Arthur, N. Dak. A message from the House of Representatives, by J. C. South, BLANCHARD MERCANTILE Co., its Chief Clerk, announced that the Speaker of the House had Blanchard, N. Dak. signed the following enrolled bills, and they were thereupon NAPOLEON, N. DAK., May 8, 1.91£. signed by the President pro tempore: Hon. A. J. GRONNA, S. 5060. An act to provide for the disposal of the unallotted Washington, D. 0.: land on the Omaha Indian Reservation, in the State of Do all that you can to prevent Bourne parcel-post bill passing. Nebraska; and M. SAVAGE. S. 6167. An act to authorize the Williamson & Pond Creek EDMORE, N. DAK., May 7, 1912. Railroad Co. to construct a bridge across the Tug Fork of the Senator A. J. GRO!\'NA, Big Sandy River at or near Williamson, Mingo County, W. Va. Washington, D. 0.: PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. The Bourne general parcel-post bill will be a greater hardship on bus~ess in our North Dakota towns than several total crop failures. The PRESIDENT pro tempore presented a memorial of the We implore you to stop the passage of this bill if possible_ Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen of Pine Bluff, Ark., remon A. DJ. TOOMEY. JOHN B ERG. strating against the passage of the so-called employers' liability OLE STENDELL, and workmen's compensation bill, which was ordered to lie on .J. BRAUND. the table. H. ASL.A.KSON. J. IlAMREI_ He also presented a petition of members of the Society of ROBERT Cox. the Sons of the Revolution of the State of New York, praying that an appropriation be made to cover the expense of editing GACKLE, N. DAK., May 9, 1912. Hon. A. J. GRONNA, . and publishing certain records relating to the Revolutionary Washington, D. a.: War, which was ordered to lie on the table. _ Pardon us for again calling to your attention the parcel-post question He also presented petitions of the congregations of sundry since we in the past have asked you both by petitions and letters to op~ churches and of members of sundry religious societies and other pose same in any form and manner ; and at this particular time wish to call to your attention the Bourne general parcel-post bill. To oppo e organizations of Philadelphia and Reading, in the State of same, if you will, according to our belief, is best for our country Pennsylvania, praying for the adoption of an amendment to the Thanking you in advance for giving this matter your earnest consid: Constitution to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and importation eration. of intoxicating liquors, which were referred to the Committee HAUT & lliRCKEL. on the Judiciary. Mr. GRONNA presented a memorial of sundry citizens of l\Ir. GR03NA. I present a number of telegrams in the Churchs Ferry, N. Dak., remonsh·ating against the enactment nature of memorials remonstrating against the Bourne parcel of legislation to permit the coloring of oleomargarine in imita post bill. I ask that the telegrams be printed in the RECORD tion of butter, which was referred to the Committee on Agri and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. culture and Forestry. There being no objection, the telegrams were referred to the Mr. GALLINGER presented petitions of sundry citizens of Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be the District of Columbia, praying for the enactment of legisla printed in the RECORD, as follows: tion to maintain the present water rates in the District, which ' CHURCH AND FERRY, N. DAIL, May 9, 1912. were referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Hon. A- J. GRONNA, Mr. CULLOM presented resolutions adopted by the St. Clair Washington, D. C.: County Medical Society, of Illinois, favoring the establishment !.m opposed to Bourne parcel-post bill. No demand for such measure of a department of public health, which .were ordered to lie on ~ a~~ the table. WESTHOPE, N. DAK., May 8, 1912. Mr. SMITH of South Carolina presented a petition of sundry Senator A. J. GRO~N.l, . citizens of Eastover, S. C., praying for the enactment of an in - . Senate Chamber, Washington, D .. a.. - terstate liquor law to prevent the nullification of State liquor Fight Bourne and similar bills. Demand justice and Impartial In~ vestigation. laws by outside dealers, which was referred to the Committee W. A. MEDDAUGH. on the Judiciary. 1912.i - - CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 6203 \ Mr. LODGE presented a petition of Sergeant Fred Thomas There being no objection, the letter was read and ordered to Camp, No. 48, United Spanish War Veterans, Department of lie on the table, as follows-: l\Iassachus~tts, of Haverhill, Mass., praying for the enactment l\I:EBRILL-STEVENS CO., of legislation to pension widow and minor children of any Hon. DuNC.A.Y U. FLETCHER Jacksonville, Fla., April 12, 1912. officer or enlisted man who served in the War with Spain or United States .Sena.te, Wa.shington, D . 0 . l the Philippine insurrection, which was referred to the Commit DEAR S.rR :. W~ note ~hat the Senate committee is reported to be fa. tee on Pensions. vorably cons1dermg a bill passed by the House limiting all Government He also presented resolutions adopted by the National Asso work by contractors, etc., to eight hours per day. We do not fully understand the exact scope of this bill, but if its intent is that no ciation of Cotton Manufacturers, in convention at Boston, Mass., ~ork can be do:r;ie for the Government in furnishing supplies, contract remonstrating against the enactmen of legislation relating to rng for or makmg repairs except under the provisions of the 8-hour Il the sale and purchase of cotton to ba delivered on contract on law, it will ba~ the i;najority of contractors and builders, sueh as onr selv~s, from domg this class of work, inasmuch as it is manifestly im the cotton exchanges, which were ordered to lie on the table. possible to work on one class Qf work undet· the 8-hour law and keep :Mr. GARD1\TER presented petitions of Excelsior Grange, of th-e b~lance of .our force under the 9 and 10 hour rule which prevails in Poland; of Silver Lake Grange, of Wells Mills; and of Mount practically every establishment of our kind. As to ourselves we have a 10-hour day, and the majority of shipyards on the Atlantic coast Etna Grange, of North Baldwin, all of the Patrons of Hus work under the same conditions. bandry; of Carpenters' Local Union No. 457, of Bar Harbor; The particular class of work that we are interested in is work for and of sundry citizens of Industry, all in the State of Maine, dredges and. similar vessels used by the Engineer Department on river and harbor improvements. All work heretofore done by us of this class praying for the establishment of a governmental system of pos has not been considered under the provisions of the 8-hour law as tal express, which were referred to the Committee on Post now prevailing, but if this new bill enlarges this scope so as to apply Offices and Post Roads. to such work. of ours it will not only ·prevent our doing the large am~unt of this work which .we now do, and which is of great con l\Ir. BROWN presented sundry affidants in support of the vemence tUnited States Senate, Washingtoit,, D. O- long and I will not ask to have it read. DE.AB Sm: The board of governors of the Yuma County Water U.sers' There being no objection, the letter was ordered to lie on the Association, after thorough consideration, unanimously passed the fol table, ..and to be p1inted in the RECORD, as follows= lowing resolutions : THE ALGER-SULLIVAN LUMBER Co., Resolved, That we emphatiet.tlly disapprove of tbe essential features -0f Century, Fla. the amendments to the reclamation law, as proposed by the Secretary Hon. DUNCAN u. FLETCHEI!, of the Interior, known as H. R. 20490. Resolved, That we deem it absolutely necessary in ol'd-er to -enable United States Senate, Washington, D. O. homesteaders under reclamation projects to obtain basis of commercial Sm : Our attention has been called to the 8-hour labor bill, H. R. eredit that they be given patent :at expiration of the period of legal 9061, recently reported out of the Senate Committee on Education and residence. • Labor by a vote of 6 to 4. Yours, truly, EARL B. SMITH, President. We take this means -0f expressing to you our protest against the passage of this bill in its present form, as we believ.e that it should be Mr. S~HTH of Arizona presented a petition of members of ma.de less ami:>iguous and a.mended as follows : First. By striking out the words · " or permitted,'' wherever they the Pima County Medical Association, of Arizona, praying for .occur after the words "shall be required," thus withdrawing the the establishment of a department of public health, which was prohibition against overtime work for overtime pay where employees ordered to lie on the table. desire or voluntarily accept it without duress or fear of discharge. Mr. PENROSE presented n. petition of the Christian En This, we believe, would be desired by every intelligent employee having consideration for his ~mployer's best interests and bis own. deavor Society of the FiJ.·st Presbyterian Church of Carbondale, Second. We would suggest establishing a weekly instead of a daily Pa., praying for the enactment of an interstate liquor l.a.w to standard of honrB, limiting the employment on Gov-ernment contracts to 48 hours in one week, instead of 8 hours in one calendar day. This prevent the nulliiication of SU:!te liquor l.a.ws by outside dealers, arrangement would make less confusion in shop organizati-on in the which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. handling of Government work. He also presented a petition of members of the Westmoreland Third. We believe the following proviso of section 2 should be stricken out entirely, as it is not clear and would render ambiguous practically County :Medical Society, of Pennsylvania, praying for the .estab every contract made with the Government : lishment of a department of public health, which was ordered " That all classes of work which have been, are now, or may her~ to lie on the table. after be performed by the Government shall, when done by contract, l\fr. a by individuals, firms, or corporations for or on behalf of the United O'GORMAN presented petition of sundry citizens -0f States or any of the Territories or the District of Columbia, be per Brooklyn, N. Y., praying for the passage of the so-called eight formed in accordance with the terms mid provisions of -this act." hour bill, which was ordered to lie on the table. Fourth. Emergencies due to train WTecks o:r other delays in the 1149, transportation of materials, injury to plant or accidents in manufac He also presented a memorial of Local Grange No. turing process otherwise than by the means stipulated in the bill as Patrons of Husbandry, of Morrisville, N. Y., rem-0nstrating drawn, should receive co.nsideration and relieve the unfortunate con against the enactment of legislation to permit the coloring of tractor of penalty due to necessary .e-verti:me work to complete c-ontrncts oleomargarine in imitation of butter, which was referred to the on time. · Fifth. It must be conceded by yo~ a.s it is by others wh-0 have given Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. the matter consideration, that this act must very greatly increase the He also presented a petition of Machinists' LOcal Union No. cost of materials and supplies contracted for under its terms. 434, of New York, N. Y.. and petition of sundry citizens Sixth. We b.elieve if the bill is passed in any form it should not be a .come -effective before January 1, 1913, as all parties interested should of Brooklyn, N. Y., praying for the enactment of legislation to have a reasonable time in whieb to conform to the radically economic regulate the metnod 'Of directing the work of Government em change proposed. and It is very evident that by this bill Congress undertakes to exercise ployees, which were referred to the Committee on Education its policing power in a radical manner and thereby trespasses upon Labo1·. the police authority of the' various States, to the detriment of both the He also presented resolutions adopted by the National Asso employer and employee. Trusting that you will give this matter every consideration it de ciation of Cotton Manufacturers, in conventi-0n at Boston, Mass., serves from our point of view, and that in justice to all concerned you i·emonstrating against the enactment of legisl.a.tion relating to will malrn earnest effort to have the bill amended to a just and reason the sale and purchase of cotton to be delivered on contraet on able basis, JJ.nd that we may hear from you as to your attitude in tbe the cotton exchanges, which were ordered to lie on the table. matter at an eaTly date, we a.re, Yours, very truly, . l\!r. WETMORE presented a petition of the Watchemoket THE ALGER-SULLIVA. LUMBER Co., Woman's Christian Temperance Union, of Providence, R. I., EDWARD A. HAUSS, Vice President. praying for the enactment of nn interstate liquor law to p1·event the nullification of State l-iquor laws by outside dealers, which 'REPORTS OF COM?.llTTEES. was referred to the Committee -0n the .Judic:iary. Mr. POINDEXTER, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to which was referred the bill ( S. 4331) for the relief of William EIGHT-HOUR LAW. E. Farre11, reported it without amendment. ( S. Rept. 735.) Mr. FLETCHER. I present a letter which I ;Should like to He also, from the Committee -0n Public BnHdings and Groi.mds, have read. to which was referred the bill ( S. 6283) in~reasing tile cost of 6204 CONGRESSIO~ AL RECORD-- SENATE. ~fAY 10, erecting a public building at Olympia, Wash., reported it with The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It will be in ordet" to present an amendment and submitted,, a report (1 ~ o . 731) thereon. minority views. l\Ir. JONES. From the Committee on the District of Colum Mr. TOWNSEND. Within a few days? bia I submit three ad1erse reports on bills which have 1leen The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair sees no objection covered by a measure heretofore fa-vorably reported and passed to it, unless the Senate should otherwise order. It is usual to by the Senate. The bills may be postponed indefinitely. have such liberty taken. The bills were postponed indefinitely, as follows: DISTRICT POLICEMEN'S AND FIBEMEN'S PENSION FU ""D. S. 2309. A bill to limit the number of saloons in the District Mr. GALLINGER. I am directed by the Committee on the of Columbia and to confine them to business streets; and for District of Columbia to report fa-vorably, with an amendment other purposes ( Rept. No. 732) ; in the nature of a substitute, the bill (H. R. 20840) to provide S. 6037. A bill to further regulate the sale of intoxicating for deficiencies in the fund for the police and firemen's pensions liquors in the District of Columbia (Rept. No. 734) ; and and relief in the District of Columbia, and I submit a. report S. 2046. A bill to better regulate the traffic in intoxicating (No. 729) thereon. liquors in the District of Columbia (Rept. No. 733). The matter is in very bad shape at the present time. The Mr. CUMl\IINS. On behalf of the Committee on Civil Service House bas passed a bill, of which the Senate committee does not and Retrenchment, I report back the bill ( S. 5863) for the re approve, and the ·committee has substituted therefor a bill which tirement of employees in the civil service. and for other pur I presented to the Senate some little time ago. I should be -very poses, with amendments, and I submit a report (No. 726) much gratified if the Senate would grant permission for the thereon. I ask that the bill with the amendments and accom immediate consideration of the bill, as it is really urgent and it panying report be printed. is -very desirable to get it into conference. I present the report Lle PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will be placed on and ask for the present consideration of the bill. the calendar, and the bill and report will be printed under the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from New rule. Hampshire asks unanimous consent for the present consideration l\Ir. JOHNSON of l\Iaine, from the Committee on Naval of the bill reported by him. Is there objection? Affairs, to which was referred the bill ( S. 5806) to correct the Mr. HEYBURN. Let the bill be read for information. naval record of Franklin Pierce, submitted an adverse report The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Secretary will read the (No. 727) thereon, which was agreed to, and the bill was post bill for the information of the Senate before the order is entered poned indefinitely. to proceed to its consideration. l\Ir. BROWN subsequently said: A bill to correct the narnl The Secretary read the bill, which had been reported from record of Franklin Pierce was just indefinitely postponed. I the Committee on the District of Columbia with an amendment ask that it may go to the calendar. I want to have au oppor to strike out all after the enacting clause and insert : tunity to examine the bill. That from and after the passage of this act the funds designated by The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, the order law as the "policemen's fund," the "police fund," and the "firemen's indefinitely postponing the bill will be reconsidered, and, on the relief fund " shall be designated as the " police and firemen's relief request of the Senator from Nebraska, the bill will be placed fund, District of Columbia," and the said fund shall consist of all fines imposed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia upon mem on the calendar. bers of the police and fire departments by way o.f discipline ; al rewards, l\Ir. WAT SON, from the Committee on Public Buildings and proceeds of gifts, and emoluments that may be received by any member Grounds, to which was referred the bill (S. 5906) to provide for of said departments for extraordinary services, except such as may be allowed to be retained by such member or members on the approval of the erection of a public building at Keyser, W. Va., reported it the said commi sioners ; all net receipts and moneys arising from the with an amendment. ( S. Rept. 730.) sale of unclaimed property in thr. custody of the property clerk of the police department; a deduction of H per cent of the monthly salary of RETRIAL OF CADETS. each member of the police and fire departments ; and fines and for feitures paid into the police court of the District of Columbia, except l\Ir. DU PONT. Having submitted yesterday the report, I those l}llowed by Jaw to the use of the Humane Society, aJl of which should like to ask for the present consideration of the joint shall be collected by the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia resolution ( S. J. Res. 99) authorizing the President to reas and be by him deposited in the Treasury of the nited States, in the manner provided by law, to the credit of the trnst fund denominated semble the court-martial which on August 16, 1911, tried Ralph " police and firemen's relief fund, District of Columbia," and be held I. asse, Ellicott H. Freeland, Tattnall D. Simpkins, and James subject to the drafts of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia D. Christian, cadets of the Corps of Cadets of the United States for tbe purposes hereinafter set forth ; all expenditures to be made according to law and to be accounted for in the manner provided by l\Iilitary .Academy, and sentenced them. law: Provided, That should the police and firemen's relief fund at any The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The joint resolution is on time be insufficient to defray the expenditures hereinafter mentioned, the calendar. then, and in that event, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to, and they shall, direct the collector of taxes of said Ur. DU PONT. The joint resolution is on the calendar, and District to depo it, and said collector shall thereupon deposit, in the I suppose it can not be called up until we reach the calendar. Treasury of the United State , to th& credit of said fund, out of receipts It can not be considered now. from all licenses other than liquor licenses, a sufficient amount to meet any deficiency in said fund. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator then withholds SEC. 2. 'l'hat whenever an[ officer or member of the police or fire his request for present consideration, the Chair understands. department of the District o Columbia shall become disabled by injury , Mr. DU PONT. Yes, sir; I do. received or disease contracted in the line of duty he shall, in addltion to his regular salary, .receive his necessary expenses durmg the time BILLS OF LADING. of such disability, to be ascertained and certified by the retiring board hereinafter prov'ided for, whose certificate shall state an account of · l\fr. CLAPP. I am directed by the Committee on Interstate said expenses and the manner, cause, and condition of the injury or Commerce, to which was referred the bill (S. 957) relating to disease,· and such necessary expenses shall, when approved by tbe said bills of lading, to report it with an amendment, in the nature commissioners, be paid out of the said police and firemen's relief fund, District of Columbia. of a substitute, and I submit a report (No. 728) thereon. SEC. 3. That should any officer or member of the police or fire depart The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will be placed on ment become so permanently disabled through injury or disease con tracted in the line of duty, or, having served not less than 15 years. the calendar. . shall, for any cause, become so permanently disabled as to be discharged :Mr. PO:MERE:NE. On January 22 I introduced a bill (S. from the service therefor, he shall be entitled to relief from the said 4713) relating to bills of lading in commerce with foreign fund in an amount, in the case of an officer or member of the fire nations and among the se-veral States. The bill which I intro department, as follows: Chief engineer, a sum not to exceed . 150 per month ; deputy chief engineer, a sum not to exceed $125 per month; duced was one which had been prepared by the Commission on battalion chief, fire marshal, and superintendent of machinery, a sum Uniform Legi lation and has been aMajor and superintendent, a sum not to exceed 150 per bill as redrafted as a substitute for the bill which has been month; inspector and assistant superintendent, a sum not to exceed $125 per month ; inspector, a sum not to exceed 100 per month ; cap reported by the chairman of the committee, the Senator from tain a sum not to exceed $90 per month; lieutenant, a sum not to ex- Minnesota, and at that time or later, with the permission of the . ceed $75 per month; sergeant, a sum not to exceed 60 per month ; pri Senate, I shall submit some remarks on the subject. vate, a ·sum not to exceed $50 per month, as may be justified. in nny case of the police and fire departments, by the length of service and the Mr. TOWNSEND. Mr. President, a parliamentary inquiry. nature of the injury or disease, as such disability may be determined I ha-ve just come. into the Chamber. I understand that the Com by the retiring bqard hereinafter provided for; that in case of the death mittee on Interstate Commerce reported Senate bill 957, relating of any officer or member of the police or tire department before or after retirement from injury or disease contracted in the line of duty, leaving to bills of lading. l had thought that I should like to prepare a widow, or children under 16 years of nge, or a dependent father or and present a minority report on that bill Will it be in order mother, or both, such widow or such relative shall be entitled to a pen to do that? sion to be paid from the said relief fund, the amount thereof to ba 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. '6205

determined by the retiring board hereinafter provided for : Pro,,;_ided, That in no case shall the amount paid to any one family exceed the then paid out to meet these conditions. The pre ent system is sum of $50 per month, and that upon the remarriage of any widow ~er to ha Ye certain fines go to this fund, but those fines have been pension under this act shall immediately cease, and that any pens1~n so insufficient that to-day there is absolute wretchedness in this to or for he1· children under 16 years of 3 f'"<: shall cease upon their attaining such age. · District on the part of widows and orphans because the fund SEC. 4. That any officer or member of the police 01· fire department of is not sufficient. This bill provides that those moneys shall be the District of Columbia who may have performed police or fire service put into the Treasury and that 1~ per cent of the salaries of the therein for a period of 25 years snall be entitled to retirement from such department and to an allowance to be paid from the said police firemen and policemen shall also be put into the Treasury, and and firemen's relief fund in an amount equal to the maximum allow then, when the pensions become due, the money is drawn out, ance as provided in section 3 of this act, for the respective officers and and the obligation is met in that way. membe1·s of said departments. SEC. 5. That a sum not to exceed $75 may be allowed by the Com .l\Ir. BRISTOW. Is this fund segregated so that only the ,, missioners of the District of Columbia, to be paid from the said police money so put in is paid out? and firemen's relief fund, to defray. the funeral expenses of any m-ember l\Ir. GALLINGER. -Absolutely so. of the police or fire department who may die while in the service of such department. Mr. HEYBURN. I call attention-- SEC. 6. That a retiring board, to be composed of the surgeons of the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair assumes that police and fire departments and two officers of the police department and unanimous consent has been gh·en for pie consideration of two officers of the fire department. not surgeons. such officers to be ap pointed by and to serve during the pleasure of the Commissioners of the bill. said District, shall be appointed to consider all cases for relief or for Mr. HEYBURN. I call attention, in reply to the inquiry of retirement or for pensionl'! of officers and members of the police and fire the Senator from Kansas, to the fact that it is provided that · departments, and r.11 applications for pensions for widows, children, and dependent fathers or mothers ; and the police and fire surgeons shall where there is a deficiency, it may be made up out of the ger4'i certify in writing to the said retiring board the physical condition C!f eral moneys. He will find that nt the bottom of page 2. \ the officers or members of the force, if living, for whom a pension is Mr. BRISTOW. Well, .l\Ir. President, I want an opportunity I sought for any reason provided for in this act, and whether· or not said I condition or death is due to injury or disease contracted in the pne of to be heard against any proposition to take money out of thn duty, or that said officer or member bas become so permanently disabled Public Treasury for pen.sions to any civil employees. If it is as to entitle him to discharge from the service therefor. The said purely a fund that is created from assessments on The salaries retirin~ board shall give notj.ce to any applicant for relief or pension or retirement to be present before it and give any evidence th:i.t he of the employees and becomes a mutual insurance fund, it is may desire. and the proceedings of the said board shall be reduced to entirely different from taxing th9 general public to pay these writing and shall show the date of appointment of the officer or member retired officers. under inquiry, his age, his record in the service, and any other informa tion that may be pertinent to the matter of relief. pension, or retire l\Ir. BORAH. Mr. President, is this bill before the Senate? ment, and shall show what amount, if any is awarded the applicant by The PRESIDENT pro tcmpore. Does the Senator from New way of relief or pension. The said board shall make a report of its find Hampshire yield to the Senator from Idaho? ing to the co~missioners, who shall have the power to take further testimony, if they so desire, and may approve, disapprove, or modify the Mr. GALLINGER. Yes, Mr. President; I yield to the Sena findings of the said board, or remand any case for such further pro tor. ceedings as may be neces ary, and the decision of the said commis if sioners shall be final. The said commissioners are also hereby anthor- Mr. BORAH. I merely ask the bill is yet before the Senate. 1.zed and empowered to make, modify. and amend from time to time rules The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair submitted the of procedure for the conduct of such board. question w.hether unanimous consent should be given for the SEC. 7. That within GO days following the 1st day of July, Hl12, and present consideration of the bill, and, without any objection every two years thereaftCi', the commissioners shall cause every police man and fireman receiving a pension allowance from the police and having been interposed, the debate proceeded, and the Chair firemen's relief fund to undergo such examination as in the judgment assumed that unanimous consent had been given. of the commissioners may be necessary to enable them to determine Mr. GALLL~GER. Mr. President, notwithstanding that, I whether the pension in such case or cases shall be increased or reduced; and the commissioners are hereby authorized and directed to increase or am going to be generous enough, inasmuch as certain Senators reduce the allowance of pensioners as the result of such examination: desire to look at the bill more carefully, to ask that it. go to the Provided, however, That should a pensioner fail or refuse to undergo calendar. the examination prescribed by the commissioners, the allowance of such pensioner may be reduced or entirely discontinued by the commis The PRESIDENT pro .tempore. The bill will be placed on sioners: Pro·i'icled, howe-i;er, That the commissioners ma1 discontinue the calendar. any pension or retirement allowance ' upon duly certifieu information from a court of record that any person so pensioned or retired has been BILLS INTRODUCED-. guilty of any crime involving moral turpitude or where any such per son is found by the retiring board, after notice and trial, to be an Bills were introduced, read the first time, and, by unanimous habitual drunkard or guilty of lewd or lascivious conduct: Providecl consent, the second time, and referred as follows: further, That nothing in this section shall be construed to give the By :Mr. FOSTER: widow of any officer or membet· of the police or fire department any right to a pension upon her remarriage, or to give any child or children .A. bill (S. 6772) authorizing the Secretary of War to return of any officer or member of said police or fire department the right to to the governor of Louisiana certain bonds of the Stato of a pension after becoming 16 years of age. Louisiana and city of New Orleans; to the Committee on l\Iili SEC. 8. That any such pensioned or retired officer or member of the tary Affairs. police or fire department in time of flood, · riot, great fires, dUI"ing ex traordinary assemblages or unusual emergencies, may be called by the By Mr. FALL: head of the respective department into the service of the District police A bill ( S. 6773) directing the Secretary of the Interior to or fire force for such duty as his disabilities will permit of bis perform turn over to the treasurer of New Mexico certain sums of ing, as ascertajned and certified by the retiring board, without com pensation therefor. money; to the Committee on Appropriations. SEC. 9. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provi By Mr. KERN: _ sions of this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. .A. bill ( S. 677 4) granting an increase of pension to l\Iahala The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from New Hamp E. Warmoth (with accompanying papers); to the Committee shire asks unanimous consent for the present consideration of on Pensions. the bill. Is there objection? By Mr. PENROSE: l\Ir. HEYBURN. I will not object, but its consideration will .A bill ( S. 6775) to grant an honorable discharge to David take some time. Steers; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. BRISTOW. ·:rtir. President, from hearing the bill read, it By l\fr. GORE: seems that the retired pay for some of these officers is $150 a .A. bill ( S. 6776) for the relief of the Apache Indians held as month. What is' their salary? prisoners of war on the Fort Sill Military Reservation in Okla Mr. GALLINGER. Those are the higher officials. homa, and for other purposes; to the CDmmittee on Indian The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question now before the Affairs. Senate is, Will the Senate give unanimous consent for the pres By :Mr. SMITH of South Carolina : ent consideration of the bill? The Chair hears no objection. A bill ( S. 6777) to authorize the board of county commis Mr. BRISTOW. Has the bill been printed? sioners of Horry County, S. C., to construct a bridge across . l\:Ir. GALLINGER. It has been printed for a good while. Kingston Lake at Conway, S. C.; to the Committee on Com The House has passed a bill on this subject, and the Senate has merce. substituted therefor a bill which I introduced a few days ago. By :Mr. BRADLEY: Mr. McCUMBER. Is that the substitute which was read? A bill ( S. 6778) granting an increase· of pension to Eqward Mr. GALLINGER. Yes. Brown (with accompanying papers); to the Committee o~ Mr. · BRISTOW. How is the fund created to pay these re Pensions. tired officers and men? By l\Ir. GUGGENHEIM: l\Ir. GALLINGER. The fund is created from fines and A biJl (S. 6779) making appropriation for the resurvey of penalties of various kinds and by a contribution of 1! per cent certain lands in the State of Colorado; to the Committee on from the salaries of these men. Public Lands. Mr. BRISTOW. So that it is not derived from taxation in any way? AMENDMENTS TO .APPROPRIATION BILLS. l\fr. GALLINGER. Not directly. The fines hereafter col Mr. CRAWFORD submitted an amendment proposing to in lected, according to my bill, are to be put into the Treasury and crease the salary of the messenger to the Committee on Com- XLVIII-390 1 ·6206 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· SENATE. MAY 10, ( { merce from $900 per annum to $1,440 per annum, intended to 11, 1912, giving an analysis of the naval situation of the va· .j f:>e proposed to the legislative, etc., appropriation bill (H. R. rious foreign powers. It is a v-ery valuable article and a very 24023), which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations brief one. and ordered to be printed. .The PRIDS~DENT pro tempore. Without objection, the pape:r Mr. MARTINE of New Jersey submitted an amendment pro will be printed as a Senate document. It is so ordered. / posing to change one clerk in the Division of Publications, UNALLO'ITED INDIAN LANDS. Agriculture Department, from class 2 to class 3, intended to 1 be proposed by him to the Agricultural appropriation bill (H. R. Mr. CLAPP submitted the following report: 18960), which was·ordered to lie on the table and to be printed. .l\!r. GORE (by request) submitted an amendment authoriz The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the ing the removal to and establishment on the Mescalero Apache two H?uses on ~e amendment of the House to the bill (S. 405) Reservation, in New Mexico, all persons now held as Apache authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to classify and appraise prisoners of war on the Fort Sill Military Reservation in Okla nnallotted Indian lands, having met, after full and free confer· homa who may desire to go to the Mescalero Apache Indian ence have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their Reservation, etc., intended to be proposed by him to the Indian respective Houses as follows : appropriation bill (H. R. 20728), which was referred to the That the House recede from its amendment to the Senate bill Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. MOSES E. CLAPP, P. J. McCIDrnER, THE METAL SCHEDULE. Mamagers on the part of the Senate • ..,, .Mr. GUGGENHEIM submitted an amendment intended to be JNO. H. STEPHENS, proposed by him to the bill (H. R. 18642) to amend an act SCOTT FERRIS, entitled "An act to provide revenue, equalize duties, and en 0. H. BURirE, ( courage the industries of the United States, and for other pur Managers on the part of the Hou.se. poses," appwved August 5, 1909, which was ordered to lie on the table and be printed. The report was agreed to: WITHDRAWAL OF PAPERS--JAM:ES YOUNG. FORTIFICATIONS APPROPRIATION BILL. On motion of Mr. GoBE, it was Ordet·ea, That James Young, a private in Company K, Twenty Mr. PER~S submitted the following report: fourth Regiment United States Infantry, Civil War, be allowed to withdraw from the Senate Committee on Pensions the papers accom The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the panying S. 4925, Sixty-first Congress, submitted to said committee in regard to his bill for pension, no adverse report having been made on two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R, said blll. 20111) making appropriations for fortifications and other works THE NAVY. of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement o1 Mr. GORE. I submit a resolution, for which I ask pre5ent heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes, consideration. having met, after full and free conference have agreed to recom· The resolution (S. Res. 309) was read, considered by unani mend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows: mous consent, and agreed to, as follows: That the Senate recede from its amendment numbered 3. RcsoZ-ved, That the Secretary of the Navy ls hereby directed to Info.rm That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend· the Senate as follows : ments of the Senate numbered 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6, and agree to the First. The maximum capacity of the United States Academy for the same. accommodation of Navy cadets. Second. The number of cadets in attendance during each ot the last GEO. o. PERKINS, five scholastic years. REED SMOOT, Third. The number of cadets examined at each examination prepara LEE s. OVERMAN I tory to the admission of cadets to the academy during the last five years. Managers on the pa1"t of the Senate. Fourth. The number of cadets passing and the number falling to pass SWAG.AB SHERLEY, at each of such entrance examinations. Fifth. The number of cadets failing to pass examinations subsequent GEORGE RAUCH, to admission to the academy and the number of cadets so tailing that JAMES W. Goon, ( are reinstated. Managers on the part of the House. Sixth. The nnmber of officers on the active list of the United States Navy at the present time and the number allowed under existing law on the Navy list. Also the number of active ofilcers that the maximum The report was agreed to. efficiency of the Navy would require. Seventh. The Secretary of the Navy is further directed to report as STATISTICS RELATIVE TO CORPOlU.TIONS (S, DOC. NO. 655). to whether, in hls opinion, the minimum and maximum ages tor the ad The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the mission of cadets to the academy should be increased or whether the standard of the examinations should be materially reduced, and to following message from the President of the United StateSi recommend such changes In the present method of examinations as will which was read, and on motion of Mr. IIEYBuBN was, with the tend to keep the number o! cadets · in attendance more nearly up to accompanying papers, ordered to lie on the table and to be tile maximum capacity of the institution. Eighth. The Secretary of the Navy ts also directed to submit with printed: bis report a copy of the questions used in the last three examinations To the Senate: tor admission to the academy. In response to the resolution of the Senate of April 30, 1912, Ur. GORE. I ask that a clipping from the Washington Post requesting the President, " if not incompatible with public in· cf May 3 relating to this subject be printed in the RECORD. terest, to transmit to the Senate any information in possession There being no objection, the clipping was ordered to be of the Government relating to the number, name, and business printed in the RECORD, as follows: of. an corporations heretofore organized by the authority of or SLUMP ~ 4NNAPOLIS. under the laws of the United States," I transmit herewith letters [From the Washington Post, May 3, 1912.) from the Secretary of the Treasury and Uie Attorney General, The mentallty or tbe highest average o! American youth ls too low to ~lve the Navy anything like a full quota o~ competent oflicere. It the together with the accompanying papers on fhe subject. requirements for admission to the Annapolis A~ademy are not unduly · / Wu. H. TAFT. severe, the results of the recent mental examinations are disheartening THE WHITE HOUSE, Ma.y 10, 1912. .That only 43 out of every 100 candidates we1·e successful Indicates that the 800 or 400 vacancies caused by graduation nert month will LA.WS RELATING TO PATENTS (H. DOO. NO. 749). only be half filled by newcomers, which is about the poorest showlnrr the corps has yet made. · 0 The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the fo~ The announcement of the poor results Qf the examinations Is not lowing message from the President of the United States, whic 1 accompanied by any explanatory statements, nor is anything vouch was read, referred to the Oommittee on Patents, and order ~a!ed as to any special effort to fill the gaps in the ranks. With a llhortage now of 2,000 officers in the Navy and foar new Dreadnoughts to be printed : to be manned in the near future, the poor prospect of the academy x;neeting the demand behooves Congress to devote its close attention to a To the Senate and House of Representatives: solution of the dtiliculty. Either the militant element among our The present patent laws of the United States were enacted In youth is fast deterlorlating or the ordeal they must face is too much for their years. practically their present condition in 1870, before the develop"' In eithef case the alternative is the same. The mental test must ment of the industrial conditions which obtain to-day. The ~omport w th the material, else the object of the school at Annapolis wisdom of the framers of the Constitution in providing that Con comes to naught. As reports coming from other m1litary schools, West ;point excepted, fail to show such a deplorable lack of mentality as the gress shall have the power to promote the progress of scienc~ val school examiners encounte:r, perhaps better results would be had and the useful arts by securing fo.r limited time to authors an(f; y basing examinations on the normal capacity of boyhood rather than inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and fi:h the tables got up by the stop-watch theorists. · discoveries has been demonstrated by the fact that the indus NAVAL SITUATION OF FOREIGN POWERS (S. DOC. NO. 656). trial progress and development of the United States has been Mr. LODGE. I ask unanim-0us consent to have printed as a due largely to the stimulus to invention given by the protection Senate document an article from the London Times of March afforded by the patent Ia ws. 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 6207

In r~ent years, however, combinations based upon patents RIVER AND HABilOR APPROPRIATION BILL (H. R. 21477). haYe been formed which have succeeded. in controlling very Mr. PERCY. I ask permission of the Senate to insert in my largely the output of particular industries, and this contro~ ~as remarks of yesterday on the river and harbor bill a statement been extended by contracts based upon the patents, reqm~mg made by me before the Commerce Committee. of the Senate in the users of patented machines to buy from the corporations 1904 and a message of President Arthur, on the .Mississippi owning the patents or from firms under their control supplies or River, in 1882, both of which have just been called to my atten other articles to be used in connection with the patented ma tion. chines. Some of the circuit courts of appeal have held that such The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, the re contracts, based upon patents, were valid, and that tho~e who quest will be granted. violated the terms of such contracts were liable as contributorY. l\fr. SMOOT. I could not hear the Senator from Mississippi, infringers. The correctness of such decisions has recently re and I inquire what was the request? ceived the approval of the Supreme Court of the United States Mr. PERCY. The request was to insert in my remarks- of in the case of Sidney Henry et al. v. A. B. Dick Co., by the ':ote yesterday a statement I made in 1904 before the Senate Com of four justices of the seven who beard the case. An apphca merce Committee and a message of Pr~sident Arthur. tion for a rehearing of that case by the full bench was made and Mr. S.MOO'l'. I have no objection to that. denied, so that the construction put upon the existing law in The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Permission will be granted, that case must be regarded as conclusive. Several bills have without objection. been introduced into Congress, as I am informed, to obviate the THE CALENDAR. effect of this decision so as to prevent a patentee from extending Mr. SMOOT. I ask unanimous consent that the Senate pro by contract the monopoly secured to him under the patent law. ceed to the consideration of unobjected bills on the calendar This question calls for careful consideration. under Rule VIII, beginning with calendar No. 590. . Again, large corporations, by absorbing patents relating to The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator move that particular arts, have succeeded in dominating entire industiies, the Senate proceed to the consideration of bills on the calendar? and the only market to which an inyentor of improvements Mr. SMOOT. No; I ask unanimous consent. upon such machines may offer his patents for sale is to ~uch The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Utah asks corparations. In many instances it is charged corporations buy unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration patents for impro1ements, and, although the inventions cover~d of unobjected bills on the calendar under Rule VIII, beginning thereby constitute a distinct improvement in the art, their with the number indicated by him. manufacture is suppressed and the public never receives the Mr. SMOOT. No .. 590. benefit of such inventions during the life of the patent. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection? Some other countries have discouraged the shelving of in Mr. LEA. Mr. President, I ask for the regular order. ventions in this manner by laws requiring that the owner of a The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The regular order is the patent shall manufacture the invention covered by his patent calendar under Rule VIII. The Secretary will state the first wlthin a certain period or that his patent shall be declared bill on the calendar. forfeited. Other countries provide that the owner of a patent BILLS PASSED OVER. who does not manufacture the invention in the country granting The bill (S. 2493) authorizing the Secretary of the Treasu~·y it within a reasonable Urne may be compelled to grant a license to make an examination of certain claims of the State of l\I1s to anyone who may apply to manufacture and sell the invention souri was am10unced as first in order. upon ·such terms as may be determined to be reasoi;iable by .a Mr. SMOOT. Let that bill go over. _ public officer or by a court of competent authonty. It is The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will be passed O'ver. worthy of careful consideration whether or not legislation on The bill ( S. 1505) for the relief of certain officers on the some such lines ·8hould be enacted to pret"ent our patent laws retired list of the United States Navy was announced as next from being made the basis of unjust monopoly, extending beyond in order. the legitimate protection to inventors required to promote science Mr. BRISTOW. Let the bill go over. and the useful arts or the means of stifling improvement and The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will go over. progress of the arts. The bill (S. 2151) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury It is also claimed by some that legislation is necessary to en to use at his discretion surplus moneys in the Treasury in the able an applicant to more speedily obtain his patent and also purchase or redemption of the outstanding. interest-bearing ob to prevent the holding of applications for patent in the United ligations of the United States was annourrced as next in order. States Patent Office for a long period of time until the par Mr. HEYBURN. Let the bill go over. ticular art to which the patent relates has grown up. The PRESIDEi~T pro tempore. The bill will go over. Certain amendments to the patent laws are required to make The bill (S. 256) affecting the sale and disposal of public or effective the provisions of the Convention of the International Indian lands in town sites, and for other purposes, was an Union for the Protection of Industrial Property held at Wash nounced as next in order. ington and signed June 2, 1911. Mr. GALLINGER. Let the bill go over. l\f uch complaint has been made that patents granted by the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill wi~l go over. United States are not deemed prima facie valid by the courts PUBLIC INDEBTEDNESS OF PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT. and that preliminary injunctions are granted only upon patents which have been adjudicated to be valid by the courts or those The bill (S. 4762) to amend an act approved February 6, 1!)05, whose rnlidity has been prima facie established by public ac entitled "An act to amend an act approved. July 1, 1002, entitled quiescence for a coni;;iderable period of time. It is urged that 'An act temporarily to provide for the administration of the the laws should be revised in such a manner that the issuance of affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for a patent by the United States will carry with it the prima facie other purposes,' and to amend an act approved March 8, 1902, force and effect of a rn1id patent, and the burden placed upon entitled 'An act temporarily to provide revenue for the Philip him wbo would infringe that patent to establish its invalidity, pine Islands, and for other purposes,' and to amend an act ap rather than as at the present time, to require the patentee to proved March 2, 1903, entitled 'An act to establish a standard establish th~ validity of his patent before obtaining a prelimi of value and to provide for a coinage system in the Philippine nary injunction or securing an award of damages for the inten Islands,' and to provide for the more efficient administration of tional infringement of his patented invention. civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other pur poses" was announced as next in order. Great care should be taken in any revision of the statutes re Mr: HEYBURN. I hope the Senate will take up this matter lating to patents and patent rights not unduly to interfere with for consideration. The bill has been reacl. vested interests which have been properly created under the ex Mr. OVERMAN. I think we had better have the bill read isting laws, or to impair the efficiency of a system from which again. · so much benefit has been derived by the country. I am of the Mr. HEYBURN. I have no objection to the bill being read, opinion that a careful study of the patent laws should be made but I simply wanted it understood that it had been read. by a commission of qualified persons appointed for that purpose The PRESIDE:NT pro tempore. The Secretary will read the with instructions to report such revision of those laws as may bill. be necessary to harmonize them with the best thought and The Secretary read needs of our time; and I therefore recommend the enactment of the bil1, as it had been heretofore amended, u statute authorizing the President to appoint a commission to as follows: Be it enacted etc., That section 2 of the act of Congress approved in1estigate the present state of the patent law and to report February 6 1905, entitled "An act to amend an act approved July 1, what, if any, changes or amendments shouJd be made to conform 1902 entiu'ed 'An act temporarily to provide for the administration of that Jaw with modern conditions and acquirements. the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and ~oi· other purposes' and to amend an act approved March 8, 1902, entitled 'An WM. H. TAFT. act temporarily to provide revenue for the Philippine Islands, and for THE WHTI~ HOUSE, May 10, 1912. other purposes,' and to amend an act approved March 2, 1903, entitled 6208 00NGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 1\iAY 10,

'An act-to establish a strrndard of value and to provide for a coin;age JUr. OVERMAN. r think the amendment which bas been system in the Philippine Islands,' and to provide for the more efficient administration· of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for agreed to limits it to $1,500,000 a year. other purposes," is hereby amended to read as follows: Mr. WJLLI.fu'\IS·. Is this the unanimous report o:f the com- "SEC. 2. That for the purpose of providing funds to construct port mittee? and harbor works, bridges roads buildings for provinc1al and municipal schools, courthouses, penai institutions, and other public improvementg Mr. HEYBURN. Yes. for the development of the Philippine Islands by the general Govern Mr. WILLIAl\fS. I withdraw the objection. ment thereof, the said Government is authorized from time to time to Mr. HEYBURN. The Sentitor will find a very thorough re incur indebtedness, borrow money, and to issue and sell therefor (at not less than par value in gold coin of the United States) registered or port accompanying the bill, which I think will answer any in coupon bonds of such denominations and payable at such time or times, quiry which might arise in his mind. not later than 40 years after the approval of this act, as may be deter Mr. IDTCHCOCK. I think the Senator from Idaho· inad mined by said Government, with interest thereon not to exceed 4~ per cent per annum: Provided, That the entire indebtedness. of said Gov T'ertently stated the figures of the total debt erroneously. The ernment created by the authority conferred by thts section shall not present lfmit for public works is $5,000,000. The bill proposes exceed at any one time the sum of $10,000,000 in addition to sueh in debtedness as may have been heretofore authorized for the purposes to increase it to $15,000,000. enumerated in this section; nor shall a greater amount of indebtedness Mr. HEYBURN. We reported it at $10,000,000. under this act than $1,500,000 be incurred in any single year : .tin.a pro Mr. HITCHCOCK. So that the total will be· $15,000,000. vided further, That the law of said Government creating the indebted ness and authorizing the issue of the bonds under this section shall be Mr. LODGE. The Senator from Nebraska is quite right. approved by the President of the United States." After this additional money is available the total debt limit will The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The. bill is in the Senate as be $15,000,000. in Committee of the Whole and open to amendment. Mr. HEYBURN. That is the cumulatiw debt. Mr. WILLLil\IS. Has unanimous consent been given for Mr. LODGE. Under the bill as originally drawn it would have been $20,000,000. We have reduced it to $15,000,000. So the consideration of the biil? the total amount they can incur in the next five or six years will The PRESI1DENT pro tempore. The· bill was called in its order on the calendar, and no unanimous consent wn.s neces-· not go beyond $15,000,000. Mr. HEYBURN. It did not occur to me that my ln.nguage sn.ry. It is now in the Senate as in Committee of the Whole was susceptible of that construction. I merely intended to say and open to amendment Mr. WILLLUIS. Would an objection carry it over? that in addition to the $5,000,000 now authorized we authorize The PRESIDEN'.r pro tempore. It would. ten million. Mr. WILLIAMS. I should like to have an opportunity to Mr. HITCHCOCK. Yes. Mr. HEYBURN. I was not speaking of the aggregn.tes, but look into the bill before we consider it, and I ask that it be of the details. carried over. Mr. HITCHCOCK. But the question of the Senator from l\lr. HEYBURN. This bill has been read twice, and has gone Mississippi was as to what the total would be after this au over once because of the absence of a Senator who is now pres thorizn. tion. ent and on another occasion by objection on the ,vn.rt of a Mr. HEYBURN. Tlie Senator· from Mis is ippi was speaking Senator who has since withdrawn his objection. in an undertone, and I did not catch his question, perhaps. But It deals with the affairs of the Philippine Islands under their I thought I made myself plain. own authorized management. The delay in passing it delays The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill is in Committee· of public work under conetruction and contemplated, and a very the Whole and open to amendment. It is proper thn.t the Chair strong request comes from the executive and administrative shonid state that this bill has previously been before the Senate, branch of the Government that this measure shall receive con when an amendment was adopted; and the bill as read by the sideration as promptly a is possible; in order that the work Secretary was read as it had been amended. may go on. Mr. HITCHCOCK. I should like t6 ask the Senn.tor from l\Ir. WILLI IS. I should like to ask the Senator in charge Idaho whether there should not be a correction in the- last line of the bill whether its passage will not result in a public in or two. The· concluding sentence of the bill is as follows: debtedness in the Philippine !&lands upon the Government That th~ · law of said Government creating the indebtedness and there'? authorizing the issue of bonds under this section shall be approved by l\Ir. HEYBURN. It womd be an indebtedness of the Philip the President of the United States. pine Government for the purpose of carrying en the publie- Should not that be "shall be subject to the· approval of the wo 1-s of the· Philippine Got'ernment. Pre ident (}f the United States?" ~ rr. WILLIAMS. That is what I understn:nd. Ur. HEYBURN. If there is any difference, it is merely a l'lir. HEYBURN. It can not possibly incur any indebtedness transposition of words. l think the meaning would be the same. for which the Gove1'Ilillent of th~ United States-is responsible. Mrr HITCHCOCK. If there is no objection. then I mo-re l\Ir. WILLIA1\IS. Oh, I know that. that the words " shall be approved " be changed to rea.d " shall :Mr. HEYBURN. And it provides that the work carr be done be subject to the approval of." by the Philippine Government only with the approval of the lllr. HEYBURN. There is no obj-ection to that. I think it President of the United States. makes no difference in meaning. iir. WILLIA.MS. I understand that; but it would result in The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on agreeing the establishment o:fi a rather· large public debt-a Philippine to the amendment proposed by the Senator from Nebraska. public debt, I meun-to be paid ufter a while by the Filipino The amendment was agreed· to. people. Mr. WATSON. Orr page 2, line 25, I move to strike out "ap Ir_ HEYBURN. The Philippine Government has no consider proval of thiE act" and insert "date of issue." able public debt . l\lr. BRISTOW. I should like to inquire how far this amend .Mr . WILLli.::\.fS. But I say, will not this bill result in a ment extends the indebtedness~ It seems to me like a radical considerable public debt? change. in the bill. fr. IIEYBUTI.N. This authorizes the expenditure of so much ~Ir. LODGE. It would enable the Philippine Government to a ye:ll', a limited sum. It is just like a continuing a-ppropriation make the bonds mature 40 years from the date of issue of the for work already under contract in our own domestic affairs. bonds. It does not seem to me that there is any objection to Mr. WILL!.Al\IS. I am trying right now to arrive- at the de the amendment tails of the bill as well as I cn.n. How much per annum is Mr. HEYBURN. The only objection was that the point was authorized? made that it might make the bonds more difficult to sell with l\1r. HEYBUR.i:r. The limitation under existing law is $5,000,- the amendment proposed adopted. 000. Of course that wa great at a time when the affairs of l\Ir. WATSON. :r think a bond with a uniform period would fue Philippine Government were· on a less extensive scale than be the more readily salable. Pos.sib1y seven years from now now, and when they had less re'Venue ·than now. This bill bonds might be issued, and they would run only 33 years. I merely provides for a limit of $10,000,000, with a limitation think it is better to make all the bonds of a uniform period. within that limit of the expenditure o:f $1,50(},000 per yeU:r. The PRESIDENT. pro tempore. The question is on agreeing They could not construct or carry out the existing plans for the to the n.n1endment proposed by the Sena.tor· from West Virginia. construction of public works in those islands with this general The amendment was agreed to. limitation, and theue is no reason for not giving them the in The bill was reported to the Senate as n.mended, and the creased limitation, because their present prosperity justifies -it. amendments were concurred in. l\Ir. WILLIA.....\IS. What is the increased limitation? l\lr. S:\IlTH of Georgia. Is the bill still open to objection to Mr. IIllYBURN. I do not hear the Senator from l\1Ississi'pp1. its further consideration 1 l\:fr. WILLIAMS. I a ked the amount of the limitation as The PrtESIDR.~ pro tempore. It is. inci-eused by this bill. l\Ir. SMITH of Georgia.. I object. :Mr. HEYBURN. Ten millien: dollars, but not in a lum-p-sum. :.\! r. HEYBUR r. Kot to its further consideration? It was Mr. WILI,IAM:S-. I rrnderstand; so much per annum. taken up in its order on the calendar. It its further consfdera- 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 6209

tion is open to objection, I move that the Senate proceed to its Mr. :Uj'ERS. I have a pair for this week with the Senator consideration notwithstanding the· objection. from Connecticut [Mr. McLEAN]. I transfer that pair to the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The rule is that the bill is Senator from Nevada [1\fr. NEWLANns] and vote. I vote" nay." open to objection at any time. Mr. l\fcCU:MBER (after having voted in the affirmative). I l\fr. HEYBURN. Did the Senator from Georgia object? should like to ask if the senior Senator from .Mississippi [.Mr. Mr. Sl\1ITH of Georgia. I did. PERCY] has voted. l\Ir. HEYBURN. Then I move that the Senate further pro The PRESIDE~'T pro tempore. The Chair is informed that ceed with the consideration of the bill notwithstanding the ob he has not voted. jection of the Senator from Georgia. Mr. l\!ctml\IBER. I have a general pair with the Sle for the debt, in Borah du Pont Lea. Sanders directly the Government becomes responsible, and I do not Bourne Fall • Lippitt Smoot think we ought to authorize the indebtedness. I had not sup Bran.degee Fletcher Lodge Stone Bristow Gallinger Martine, N. J. Sutherland posed that the bill would be brought up at this time, not hav Brown Gardner Nelson Thornton ing been pressed during the past few weeks during which it Burton Gronna O'Gorman To'\vnsend has been upon the calendar. . I merely desire to express that Catron Heyburn l?age Warren Clark, Wyo. Hitchcock Penrose Wetmore objection to the bill. . Crane .lobnson, Me. Perkins• Works .The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, and Crawford Jobnston, Ala. Poindexter wns read the third time. Cummins Jones Pomerene The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is, Shall the Cmtis Kern Root bill pass? NAYS-10. Mr. SlliTH of Georgia. On that I can for the yeas and Ashurst Myers Smith, Ariz. Williams. Brynn Overman 'Smith, Ga. nays. Clarke. Ark. Shively Smith, S. C. The yeas and nays were ordered, and the Secretary proceeded NOT VOTING-40. to call the roll. Bacon Cullom Lorimer Rayner Mr. CHILTON (wb.en his name was called). I have a gen Bailey Davis Mccumber Reed eral pair with the senior Senator from Illinois [Mr. CULLOM]. Bankhead Dillingham McLean Richardson I do not know how he would vote if present,. and therefore I Bradley Dixon Martin, Va. Simmons Briggs Foster New lands Smith, Md. withhold my vote. Burnham Gamble Nixon Smith, Mich. l\1r. CLAPP (_when his name was called). In the a.bsence of Chamberlain Gore Oliver Stephenson [Mr. Chilton Guggenheim Owen Swanson my general pair, the Senator from North Carolin.:1 SIM Clapp Kenyon Paynter Tillman MONS], I withhold my vote. If he were present, I would vote Culberson La Follette Percy Watson "yea." So the bill was passed. Mr. DU PONT (when his name was called). I announce my general pair with the senior Senator from Texas [Mr. CULBER CLAIMS OF SHAWNEE INDIANS. SON]. As he is not in the Chamber, I withhold my vote. If he The bill ( S. 459) to adjust and settle the claims of the loyal were present, I should vote "yea." Shawnee and loyal Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians was Mr. HEYBURN (when his name was called). I have a pair announced as next in order on the calendar, and the Senate, with the senior Senator from Alabama [Mr. BANKHEAD]. I as in Committee of the Whole, resumed its consideration. transfer that pair to the junior Senator from Illinois [Mr. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill was reported from Lo:&ruEB] and rote. I vote "yea." · the Committee on Indian Affairs with an amendment to strike Mr. NIXON (when his name was called). I have a general out all after the enacting clause and insert other words in lieu pair with the junior Senator from Virginia [Mr. SWANSON] thereof. That amendment has been twice read heretofore. The and therefore withhold my vote. question is upon agreeing to the amendment of the committee. M.r. TOWNSEND (when the name of Mr. SMITH of .Michigan The amendment was agreed to. was called). The senior Senator from Michigan [Mr. SMITH] The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the is detained from the Senate on important business. I under amendment was concurred in. stand that he has a general pair with the junior Senator from ' The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a tpjrd reading,. read Missouri [Mr. REED]. the third time, and passed. Mr. SMITH of South Carolina (when his name was called). BILLS PASSED OVER. I have a general pair with the junior Senator from Delaware [Mr. RICHARDSON]. I transfer that pair to the junior Senator The bill ( S. 3) to cooperate with the States in encouraging from .Arkansas [.Mr. DAVIS] and vote. I vote "nay." instruction in agriculture, the trades and industries, and home economics in secondary schools; in maintaining instru

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator froin Kansas Mr. BRISTOW. No. The Senator from New ·Hampshire moves that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the bill will remember that he himself consented to the consideration notwithstanding the objection which has been interposed. of the bill upon a statement made by myself that I would only Does the Senator from Missouri rise to the motion? ask that the bill be taken up. The formal reading was then Mr. LODGE. It is not debatable. dispensed with, and the bill was afterwards laid aside. The · l\fr. STONE. I did not mean to object, but-- RECORD will show that I am right. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senn.tor from Utah Mr. GALLINGER. It would har-e to be done by a v·ote. made the objection. The Senator from Kansas moves that the Mr. BRISTOW. No; not by a r-ote. The Senator is mis Senate proceed to the consideration of the bill notwithstanding taken, because I remember .distinctly what occurred, and the the objection. . RECORD will bear out -my statement. The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Co mittee The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair will state that the of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the bill. indorsement upon the bill is that on April .20, 1912, the formal The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will be read. reading of the bill was di~pensed with, the bill to be read for '.rhe Secretary proceeded to read the bill and read to line 18 amendment; but the indorsement does not show· that the bill on page 4. was then read for any purpose. Mr. WILLIAMS. I desire to offer an amendment there, to l\Ir. LODGE. What was the date of that indorsement? which I will call the attention of the Senator from Kansas. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. April 20. l\lr. BRISTOW. Just where? • Mr. BRISTOW. Do I understand the ruling of the Chair l\lr. WILLIAMS. After the words "District of Columbia," is that when the formal reading of a bill is dispensed with in line 14, page 4. I offer as an amendment these words : upon its consideration on one day that is a nullity and that the And who can read and write and shall have paid all taxes due by next day that action does not stand as to dispensing with the them to the city of Washington or District of Columbia on or before formal reading of the bill? the first Monday of February of the year preceding the primary elec tion, and who ha'Ve not been convicted of any felony or misdemeanor The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair is of the opinion involving moral turpitude. that if the RECORD showed that the Senate had proceeded with The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from Mis the execution of that order, that order woufcl stand; but the sissippi desire to have the amendment acted on now or does he RECORD does not show that the Senate did proceed with the give notice of the amendment? · consideration of the bill for amendment or that anything was Mr. WILLIAMS. I desire to have it pending. done under that order. The matter is altogether in the dispo Mr. HEYBURN. The bill has not been read. sition of the Senate. If they desire the bill read for amend Mr. WILLIAMS. I w111 give notice of the amendment that ment, it may now ·be easily ordered. the amendment may be pending, to be voted upon at the proper l\Ir. GALLINGER. I shall object to that, Mr. President. time. If it is not out of order I should like to say a few words l\Ir. POINDEXTER. .Mr. President-- that the Senate may know the character of the amendment. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair is of the further :Mr. LODGE. Is it not proper that the bill should be read opinion that even· if that had been done it would be competent first? for the Senate now to order the bill to be read, if it saw fit to 1\Ir. BRISTOW. The bill has been read. do so, the reading not haring been dispensed with by formal The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair suggests that the unanimous· consent. The informal dispensing with the formal bill must be read first for the information of the Senate be reading of a bill does not amount to unanimous consent. . fore any action is taken on it. l\lr. BRISTOW. I do not question the authority of the Sen Mr. BRISTOW. The bill has been read. It is being read ate to order the bill to be read; but when the Senate has once now for amendment. dispensed with the formal reading and ordered the bill to be Mr. WILLIAMS. Have I the floor? read for amendment, and then it is laid aside-- The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Missis The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair will submit the sippi has the floor. question to the Senate. Shall the formal reading of the bill 1\fr. LODGE. Any Senator can call for the reading of the be dispensed with and the bill be read for amendment? [Put bill as in Committee of the Whole at any time. This is not ting the question.] The ayes appear to have it. one of the three readings. This is the reading in committee. Mr. WILLIAMS. I call for the yeas and nays, Mr. Presi- .Mr. BRISTOW. The formal reading of the bill was dis dent. _ pensed with. Mr. HEYBURN. I rise to a parliamentary inquiry. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. In the opinion of the Chair l\Ir. WILLIAMS. Surely the Senator from Kansas does not the amendment is not in order for consideration until the formal want this bill put through without an opportunity to amend it. reading has been completed. · .Mr. BRISTOW. Certainly not. l\fr. WILLIAMS. Then I merely give notice- Mr. HEYBURN. I rise to a parliamentary inquiry, 1\fr. Presi 1\Ir. BRISTOW. Mr. President, a parliamentary · inquiry. dent, and that is, Does it not require unanimous consent to The formal reading of the bill was dispensed with when it was dispense with the perfo1·mance of an act required by the Con before the Senate on a former occasion. stitution? It requires unanimous consent. l\Ir. HEYBURN. On what day? The PRESIDENT pro· tempore. It does not require unani Mr. BRISTOW. The RECORD will show. mous consent to dispense with the formal reading of a bill in The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair will state, how the form that the Senate binds itself by unanimous consent, er-er, that in the opinion of the Chair when the bill was laid but it is within the conh·ol of the Senate. aside without any action, that that not having been in tlw nature of a formal unanimous-consent agreement, the bill is Mr. WILLIA.MS. Mr. President, there seems to be a little before the Senate in its original presentation, and if it is de misunderstanding as to what is the motion before the Senate. sired that the formal reading of the bill shall be dispensed The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senate will please be with present action of the Senate in that respect is required. in order. It is a· question of convenience simply whether the bill shall be .Mr. WILLIA.l\lS. There seems to be a little misunderstand first read, or whether amendments shall·.be offered pending the ing as to what is the motion actually before the Senate. I reading of the bill. understood it to be a motion to dispense .with the formal read 1\Ir. BRISTOW. Do I understand that every time a bill ls ing of the bill. taken up the formal reading of the bill must be dispensed The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair will again state with? The bill was once before the Senate, and the formal the motion. In view of the discussion which was had, in arder reading was dispensed ;with. Now, does that action ha.veto be to bring the matter to a conclusion, the Chair submitted the repeated every time the bill is brought before the Senate.? question to the Senate, whether the formal reading of the bill 'l'he PRESIDE:NT pro tempore. The Chair does not under should be dispensed with. stand thn t the Senate considered the bill. 1\fr. WILLIAMS. That is what I thought; and a vote "y.ea" l\Ir. WILLIAMS. This bill has never been read for amend- would be a vote to dispense with the formal reading of the bill? ment, as I understand it. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It would be. 1\Ir. BRISTOW. It is now being·read for amendment. Mr. WILLIAMS. And a vote "nay " would force the bill to l\fr. WILLIAl\IS. If it is now being read for amendment, be read for amendment? then I am in order. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator is correct. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. In the opinion of the Chair, Mr. SMOOT. The Senators around me misunderstood the the Senate is entitled to have the bill read if it is so desired. question. Mr. GALLINGER. I think that all the Senate did before .Mr. HEYBURN. Now, I rise to a parliamentary inquiry. . was to vote to proceed to the consideration of the, bill. Is that a matter-- Mr. BilISTOW. No. - The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Mississippi l\Ir. GALLINGER. I thi,nk that is right. [Mr. WILLIAMS] has the floor. 1912,, .CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 6211

Mr. WILLIAMS. In order ta clear up the situation, r move. sippi, as the Chair understands:, makes the motion that the bill that the bill be now read for amendment. be now taken up and read for amendment. Mr. HEYBURN. But, Mr. President, I rise to a parliamen Mr. HEYBURN. I would ask a ruling upon my parliamen~ tary inquiry, which is in order, I presume. Can a question of tary inquiry, .Mr. President. that kind be submitted by the Chair to the Senate? It is n0-t Mr. LODGE. The motion that the Senate proceed with the a question of order. It· requires unanimous consent to dispense consideration of the bill has been agreed to. The bill is now. with the formal reading of a bill. It can not be done by a vote. before the Senate. The formal reading of the bill is called for l Mr. POINDEXTER. Mr. President, I should like to call and the point is made that it had been dispensed with on a pre~ attention very briefly to what the RECORD shows as to the pro vious day. ceedings on this particular bill on April 20. The question was 1\fr. SMOOT'. By a rnte of the Senate. debated, and the Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. GALLmoER] Mr. LODGE. Then consideration was refused under that .said: order by a vote of the Senate, and the question now is whether I think if the Senator- the formal reading can be dispensed with. Referring to the Senator from Kansas [1\Ir. BRisTowJ l'ifr. HEYBURN. -Except by unanimous consent. would get an order to dispense with the formal reading of the bill, and Mr. LODGE. Except by unanimous consent. then let it go over-- Mr. FLETCHER. Mr. President-- Mr. BRISTOW. I am perfectly willing to do that l\lr. GALLINGER. I suggest to the Senator to make that request. Mr. POINDEXTER. The formal reading-- Mr. BRISTOW. If the bill is before the Senate, I would be glad to The PRESIDENT' pro tempore. The Senator from Idaho has make that request. I ask that the formal reading of the bill be dis the floor. Does he yield to the Senator from Florida? pensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair will state to the Senator from Mr. HEYBURN. I yield to the Senator from Florida. KUDsas that the bill is not yet before the Senate. Mr. FLETCH.ER. I merely want to call the attention of the Mr. B1usTOw. I ask that it be laid before· the Senate. Senate to Rule XIV, S1;lbdivision 2, which provides that- The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no objection, the bill will be laid before the Senate. Every bill and joint resolution shall receive three readings previous There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, to its passage, which readings shall be on three different days, unless proceeded to consider the bill. the Senate unanimously direct otherwise; and the presiding officer Mr. BRISTOW. I ask that the formal reading of the bill be dispensed shall give notice at each reading whether it be the first, second, or third. with and that the bill be read for amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the formal reading of the Mr. LODGE. I will can the attention of the Senator from bill will be dispensed with. The Chair hears no objection. Florida to the fact that those three readings do not include the Mr. BRISTOW. I ask now that the further consideration of the bill be lafd aside, and I give notice that after the passage of the bill which is reading of the bill in Committee of the Whole. Those are the the special order for Monday, I shall ask the Senate to take up this bill three readings necessary to the passage of every bill. Two o:fi for its consideration. The PREsIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the request of the Sen- them occur before the bill is referred. By unanimous consent ator from Kansas is agreed to. and long practice those readings are not insisted on, and a bill Mr. BACON. What request of the Senator from Kansas is agreed to? is considered as read twice when referred to a committee. The The PRESIDING OFFICER. That the bill be temporarlly laid aside. third reading of a bill takes place after it has come out of com· Mr. BACON. How can it be temporarily laid aside if it is not a speci~l order nor the unfinished business? mittee and has gone into the Senate. The reading of a bill in Mr. GALLI 'GER. The Senator from Kansas did not quite put it in that Committee of the Whole for the information of the Senate can form. He simply gave notice that on Monday, after the special order is disposed of, he will ask the Senate to consider this bill. be called for by any Senator; it can not be dispensed with ex.. ~fr. BACON, That is all right. It is perfectly in order to give such a cept by unanimous consent; but it is not one of the readings notice. essential to the passage of a bill. Mr. LODGE. Mr. President, I think the continuation of the The PRESIDEJ\1T pro tempore. The Chair will state that history of that bill on the following .Monday has a decided bear two readings of the bill have already been had. ing on the question. On the following Monday the Senator from l\1r. LODGE. They have already been had, and the third Kansas [.Mr. BRISTOW] moved to proceed to the consideration reading can not take place until the bill has passed out of the of that bill, and the Senate declined to consider it by a vote of Committee of the Whole. 31 to 25. That I consider vacates the original order, because Mr. POINDEXTER. I should like to ask the Senator from the Senate refused to consider the bill. Massachusetts for information: If the Senate by unanimous Mr. SMOOT. Absolutely. consent dispenses with the formal reading of a bill in Committee Mr. POINDEXTER. That only amounted, Mr. President, I of the Whole it does not require, then, unanimous consent to should think, to a refusal to consider the bill at that particular vacate that action; or, if it can be done even by unanimous tim~ · consent? Mr. BRISTOW. Does the Senator from Massachusetts claim Mr. LODGE. If the bill is formally readt it does not have that that vacates the order of the Senate dispensing with the to be read for amendment. Amendments may be offered at any, formal reading of the bill? point at any time. When a bill has once been formally read1 Mr. LODGE. I do; most certainly. the only thing gained by the reading for amendment is that .Mr. BRISTOW. Then, if the Senate should decline to take amendments can be offered during the reading of the bill, up a bill because of some other pressing businesst it vacates whereas during the formal reading they can not be offeredt and the previous proceeding had on that billt does it? . that is the reason the formal reading is dispensed with, but to Mr. LODGE. Oh, no; not if the Senate have taken a bill up dispense with the formal reading does not dispense with the and begun to consider it and to amend it; but all that was done reading of the bill. If the bill has to be read for amendment, with this bill was to consent to dispensing with its formal that is a reading of the bill. reading and to open the bill to amendment. Then, under that Mr. BRISTOW. I do not object to the reading of the bill. . order, the Senate was asked to take up the bill and declined its Mr. POTh~EXTER. That is not the question, Mr. Prest.. consideration. dent-- Mr. BRISTOW. Now the bill is before the Senate to be Mr. HEYBURN. Just a moment, if you please, and then I

read for amendment because the Senate has now voted to· take will yield the floor and the Senator can have his opportunity11 it up. - My parliamentary inquiry is whether or not the Chair can sub1 Mr. LODGE. I do not think so, for a refusal to consider it mit to the Senate any question that requires unanimous consent, has intervened. I think that puts it pa~k where it was before because one Senator balances all the others in a question ot the consideration. · unanimous consenL l\fr. HEYBURN. It goes to the calendar. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. . The Chair will say, in reply, Mr. LODGE. I do not think it is possible to dispense with to the inquiry of the Senator, that the reading of the bill, as the reading without unanimous consent. stated by the Senator from Massachusetts, is something that The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair would prefer that must be had. The only question is whether, in the prosecutioJi the Senate should decide the question; and the Chair will state of the reading, an amendment can be offered or whether it must that the suggestion of the Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. wait until the reading is concluded. That is the sole question, GALLINGER] that that particular direction be given to it with a and that is not a constitutional question. view to its being the rule in the future action of the Senate Mr. HEYBURN. I am not raising one. would change somewhat the view the Ohair had in regard to .Mr. GALLINGER. I suggest to the Senator from Kansas it. There wus a. distinct proposition made by the Senator from that he wi11 lose nothing by having the bill read, because, if it New Hampshire that the bill be taken up; and the order was is read in the usual course, the amendments will be offered from entered for dispensing with the formal reading of the bill. with the floor and no time will be lost. a view to its then going over, e>idently contemplating future The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill must be read, in any action. The Chair will so submit it to the Senate; ahd it is event. better that the Senate should decide for itself what it desires. Mr. BRISTOW. I hav-e no objection at all to the reading of Of course, the Chair recognizes that the matter is within the the bill for amendmentt and if any Senator does not desire to complete control of the Senate; and the Senator from Missis- offer amendments at the time the bill is being read, I am per- _:6212 .CONGRESSIONAL REC.ORD-SENATE. l\{AY 10,

·fectly willing that it shall be first read, and that then the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Fifty-five Senators have an aruendments be offered . swered to their names. A quorum is present. .Mr. GALLINGER. That is right. The Senator will lose l\fr. CUl\fMINS. I can understand, l\fr. President, why so few nothing by that course. of my Democratic friends are present at this moment. The l\Ir. BRISTOW. I am not trying to prevent the reading of question that I am discussing is not material to them, inasmuch the bill. as they do not propose tariff duties with reference to the cost of The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill must be read. The production here and abroad or with reference to the protection sole question is whether the amendments shall be offered during of our own ,industries. It is a little difficult for me to under the reading or after the reading. stand, however, why more of my Republican associates are not l\Ir. LODGE. That is the sole question involved. willing to hear the truth with regard to this subject. 'I would l\Ir. HEYBURN. Just a moment. I do not propose to have be glad to assume that they knew what the cost of production the question raised by me undisposed of. I have suggested a here and abroad is, but I am bound to believe that most of them parliamentary inquiry to the Chair, as to whether or not it is do not In1ow, and I think they ought to embrace every reason proper for the Chair to submit to a vote of the Senate a ques able opportunity to be informed upon that subject. They have tion that is decided under the unanimous-consent rule. promised the people of the United States that they wi11 reduce The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair does not under the duties of our schedules to the point of difference between the stand that it requires unanimous consent in order that an cost here and abroad. That promise is a continuing one, and it · amendment may be offered pending the reading of a bill. was nerer more imperati've, I think, than now. i\Ir. HEYBURN. That is not the question to which I direct I am sorry for the party of which I am a member because so my remarks-neither that nor a constitutional question. The few of its representatives are willing to study this most im . que.;:tion now is, Shall the reading of the bill that is called for portant, if not interesting, matter. However, I will go forward, ·be tlispensed with? hoping that at some time or other the Senators will be willing The PRESIDENT pro tempore. No; the Senator does not to discover for themselves in some way what the difference is understand the Chair. The Chair has not submitted the propo between the cost of producing the "Various forms of iron and sition to dispense with the reading of the bill at all. The only steel in our country and abroad, for I can not conceive that a question that the Chair submitted was. whether the bill should single one of them will be willing to vote upon the amendment be read formal1y through before an amendment was offered, that I have proposed without informing himself upon the sub or whether, pending the reading of the bill, an amendment could ject be offered. That is the sole question. A few days ago I discussed at very considerable length- l\Ir. HEYBURN. Well, it may be the question now, but it Mr. GALLINGER. l\Ir. President-- was not the. question at the time I made the parliamentary in The PRESIDING OFFICER (l\fr. LEA in the chair). Does quiry. The Chair was about to put the question as to whether the Senator from Iowa yield to the Senator from New Hamp or not the formal reading of the bill as in Committee of the shire? Whole should be dispensed with. l\Ir. CUMMINS. I clo. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair will state to the l\Ir. GALLINGER. Before ·the Senator passes to another Senator that if he understood the Chair to mean that the bill proposition, as the Senator's speech will doHbtless have wide should not be read, the Chair did not express himself felici circulation, is it not proper, I will ask the Senator, to some tou ly. what modify his statement as to what the Republican plat l\f r. HEYBURN. I took the position that a single objection form has prom Led? Will not the Senator add, " and a fai.r would prevent the dispensing with the reading of the bill. profit to the domestic producer·~? l\Ir. GALLINGER. . Unquestionably. l\Ir. CUMl\IINS. I will be very glad to do that. I read the Mr. HEYBURN. There is no question about that. Republican platform a day or two ago at length, and of course The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, the Secre in using the paraphrase that I did this afternoon, I intended it tary will proceed with the reading of the bill. to be understood that it embraces the whole of the declaration - :Mr. WILLIAMS. A parliamentary inquiry, Mr. President. made in Chicago in 1908. Is the amendment which I have offered considered now pend Mr. GALLINGER. That is all right, then. I thank the Sen ing, to be brought up later, or shall it be voted upon now? .. ator from Iowa for permitting me to say what I did. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the direction given by Mr. WARREN. Mr. President-- the Chair, the amendment will not be in order until the bill has The PRESIDING OFFICER. Will the Senator from Iowa been read. The Senate can order otherwise if it desires to do so. yield to the Senator from Wyoming? .Mr. WILLIA.!.\IS. I then ask that it be considered as pending. Mr. CUl\1.1\HNS. Certainly. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Secretary will resume l\Ir. WARREN. . I re!rret with the Senator that not more of the reading of the bill. our Republican Senators are present at all times during the dis The Secretary resumed the reading of the bill, and read to the cussion of the subject which the Senator handle so ably. I end of section 27. think I ought to state, and it ought to go into the REcoRD with THE METAL .SCHEDULE. other statements, that at this time in the session, with the dif The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The hour Of 2 o'clock having ferences that ha.T"e naturally arisen between the Hou e and the arri"rncl, the Chair lays before the Senate the· unfinished busi Senate on legislation, especially on the appropriation bills which ness, which is House bill 18642. ha-fe to be constructed and reconstructed, matters of confer The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the con ence are going on, and so a great many Senators are necessarily sideration of the bill (H R. 18642) to amend an act entitled "An absent who would be very glad to be here all the time. I do a.ct to provide revenue, equalize duties, and encourage the indus not say that this applies to all the Senators, but it is one of the tries of the United States, and for other purposes," approved palliating circumstances, I think, that ought to be noted as we August 5, 1909. go along. Mr. CUMMINS rose. Mr. CUMMINS. I do not know, l\fr. President, how many of 1\Ir. SIUMONS. .l\fr. President, I suggest the absence of a the Senators are compelled to be absent in committee work, bnt quorum. I do know that somewhere before a vote is taken upon tl1is The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from North subject Senators who ha\e not examined the matter carefully Carolina ·suggests the absence of a quorum,· and the Secretary ought to do it. I fear' that they will not do it. I do no t think will call the roll. their failure to do it is attributable to the reason suggested by 'l'he Secretary called the roll, and the following Senators an the Senator from Wyoming. swered to their names : Mark you, I am not complaining of any personal discourtesy A burst Cullom Lea Sanders in the matter; not in the least. I am complaining of a disposi Bacon Cummins Lippitt Simmons tion upon the part of the Republican :Members of the Senate Borah Curtis Lodge Smith, Ariz. I Bourne Dillingham Mccumber Smith, Ga. to do nothing upon the tariff, especially upon this schedule. Bradley . du Pont Myers Smoot do not impute that indifference to any Senator here, because Brn.ndegce Fall New lands Sutherland their mere presence indicates that they are interested in it· but Bristow Fletcher Nixon Swanson Brown Gallinger O'Gorman Tillman we have, unfortunately, fallen into the belief that we ought Catron Gronna Page 'l'ownsend not to attewpt to re,ise this schedule at the present session. Chamberlain Gu"'genheim Percy Warren I am complaining of that disposition, a disposition which, in my Clapp Heyburn Perkins Watson opinion, works great harm to the country and even greater harm _Clark, Wyo. Johnson, Me. Rayner Williams Clark<', Ark. Johnston, Ala.. Reed Works to the varty of which we are members. Craw.ford Jones Root I want, if I can, to impress Senators with the gravity of the l\fr. JONES. l\ly colleague [.Mr. PoINDEXTEB] has been called matter. I know there will be differences of opinion with regard from the Chamber on important business. to the cost here and abroad and l?rofit here and profit abroad. 1912: CJONGRESSIONAL RECORD--SENATE. 62l3 j T look for that. It" nearly always happens with free and "inde Mr.- WORKS. Mr: President-· - pendent men. But'if we sit here assuming in advance as a party ; The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does lhe Senator from Iowa that we intend to vote down every proposition that is made 1 yield to the Senator from California? \ with respect to the amendment of this schedule simply because l\Ir. CUMMINS. I do. J we· ha rn had no report of a Tariff Board upon it, or for some Mr. WORKS. What the Senator from Iowa has been saying ( other reason that does not relate to its merits, I think we will about the tendency to delay may be in a sense a criticism .of my fail in the duty that we owe both the country and our party. unexpressed views upon that subject, because I am thoroughly I want, if possible, to· stimulate a sentiment that will bring us in favor of the establishment of a permanent Tariff Board. I · to the consideration of this schedule with fair minds. think, just as far as possible, the question of the settlement of If my brother Senators will point out specifically wherein I the tariff should be taken out of politics and it should be sub have erred in collecting this information and applying it to mitted to an impartial board, as far as that kind of a board the subject, I will be the first to confess the error. I do not can be established. I am in favor of fix.ing the tariff in some want a single duty imposed here or reduced here that will such way as that. imperil a sing1e fairly and efficiently conducted industry in the Now, if I believed that we could have a Tariff Board of that United States. But I deplore the fact that Senators seem .to sort within a reasonable time, I should be opposed to passing accept in adYance that whatever is proposed and whatever upon this schedule at present; but I see no prospect of any su_ch evidence is brought forward to sustain what is proposed we result as that, and therefore I am ready to receive such infor are to vote down the amendment simply because it has not re mation as I can get, and I am glad to receive it from the Sena ceiYed the approval either of the President of the United States tor from Iowa or anyone else, in order to inform my mind on or the Tariff Board he has appointed. that subject, so that I may act as intelligently as possible. Mr. l\IcCUMBER rose. l\Ir. CU1\ll\1L TS. The Senator from California holds exactly, Mr. CUMl\lIN S. I yield to the Senator from North Dakota. as it seems to me, the i,-ight it0sition with respect to this sub Mr. l\IcCUMBER. I think the Senator will remember the ject. very long and arduous debate we had on the steel schedule and l\f r. CURTIS. Mr. President-- every other schedule three years ago. I think he will also re The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Iowa member that there was a great divergence of opinion as ex yield to the Senator from Kansas? pressed in the arguments in the Senate at that time as to what :Mr. CUl\fl\fINS. Certainly. really constituted the difference between the cost of production Mr. CURTIS. I want to ask the Senator upon what he bases at home and abroad. It was because of that and because of his opinion that there will be no further appropriation for the the inability to get Senators themselves to agree upon what Tariff Board? was the actual cost of production in this country and in the l\lr. CU f.MINS. I think not-- foreign country that we create this board with the idea that Mr. CURTIS. l\Iy recollection is that we have appropriated the board would get before us certain data that we could all $475,000 up to date, but I do not know that the Committee on rely upon. Appropriations has refused to make any recommendation. I for one, as a member of the Committee on Finance, stand Mr. CUMMINS. If I may be allowed in answering the Sen ready to amend every schedule in accordance with the facts ator from Kansas to refer to the other branch of Congress, that we can agree upon that will constitute the difference be my understanding is that those who constitute its majority do tween the cost of production at home and abroad. not belie-re that a Tariff Board is necessary; they believe that I simply want to call the Senator's attention now to this fact. it can accomplish no good purpose 'in framing a tariff for We have taken testimony before the Committee on Finance. revenue only, and I understand that they have announced as a We have gol our data from that source. I am perfectly willing policy that they will not continue to support a Tariff Board. to go to work to-day and formulate a tariff bill based upon the I may be in error about that, but I think the Senator from evidence that we have taken and the evidence which is before Kansas will discover the sentiment in the House, if he in us, most of which was before us three years ago. But the Sen quires. ator will find that there will be a disagreement. Therefore we Mr. CURTIS. Mr. President, there is nothing to prevent the preferred, I for one agreeing with the others-and I ask the Senate from amending the bill so as to provide an appropria Senator just to yield to me for that expression-we preferred tion, and the Senate can insist upon the House agreeing to it. to take up the schedules that had been passed upon by the In that way-- Tariff Board, and then, taking the record that is given us by 1\fr. CUMl\fINS. They may insist forever, but the Tariff the committee on investigation, conform our tariff to it upon Board would have no appropriation with which to do its work. the protective principle. But if we are bound to have this Aside from that, as I said the other day, with regard to the measure before us, then it is simply a question as to whether we greater part of the metal schedule at least, we do not need the shall act upon the testimony that is printed and .conform our report of the Tariff Board, whether a board belonging to the tariffs as to what evidence we have or wait until we can get President or whether a board belonging to Congress. The in evidence that the Senate and the American people will have formation with regard to the subject is accessible to every confidence in. 11 Senator. The subject has been explored to its utmost depth Mr. CUl\Il\IINS. Mr. President, I do not remember the con and greatest breadth. No Senator need to go astray with re troversy of 1!)09 as the Senator from North Dakota remembera gard to the cost of producing the heavier forms of iron and it. I think that a large part of the Republican membership of steel in this country and the cost of producing them abroad. the Senate,at that time was opposed to any Tariff Board and · I do not impugn the since1ity or the good faith of any Sen was opposed to the creation of any body of men as experts to ator who makes a suggestion of delay, but I believe that it will examine the matter. The Finance Committee finally brought come only from those who do not want to reduce the duties in a report, or put in the report an expression authorizing the upon the metal schedule. They may have good reason for not President to appoint members of a board to help apply the wanting to do it; I do not question the honesty of a. mu.n's maximum and minimum provisions of the tariff law. No man judgment at all; but when we have the information, and Sen~ can take what was there reported and give it any other con ators refuse to use it and say we must wait until it comes from struction than the construction that the then Senator from another particular source, no matter what they are intending Maine gave it when he was inquired of in the Senate. to do, the effect of what they do will be to postpone indefinitely After we had failed· in our effort, I grant you that the Senate, the revision of the metal schedule. progressive in that instance as I hope it always will .be, came Mr. SMOOT. Mr. President-- to the conclusion that such a board would be valuable, and The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Iowa therefore enlarged its authority as well as increased its appro yield to-the Senator from Utah? priation. But there was never a time when those who wanted Mr. CUMMINS. I do. really to make our tariff duties correspond to the difference in Mr. SMOOT. I recognize the fact that the information has conditions here and abroad expected to wait indefinitely until been gathered as to the cost of producing iron and steel prod we could have the report of such a board. ucts in this country, but I have studied and gathered all the I said the other day that I agree with the proposition that if information I can possibly get to find out what it would cost we could have done it it would have been far better to have to produce these articles in foreign countries. , brought in the woQl bi11 first, and we could ha>e passed upon I have failed to get a report that anyone has made show· it; but we have not the wool bill before us. We have the metal ing from the books of the concerns what these articles cost bill before us, and we must now either Yote it up or vote it abroad. The reports are made up on prices that are quoted, down.. If we Yote it down the opportunity for any amendment statements that are made public by men interested tn the of the metal schedule will pass, and I do not think it will open manufacture of those articles, but there is no man that I know again for a long time, because, in my judgment, there will be of in all of the United States that has made a report where he no appropriation for the work of the present Tariff Board. bas stated that he has gone into the cost of producing those

l l ·coNGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENAm . }f.A.Y 10, articles from the books of the companies themselves. If the and in the- Luxemburg and Lorraine districts, in GermaIIy, it Senator knows of such a report, I should like to have him refer is .but $8.71 per- ton. If that is correct as to the foreign cost me to it. of production, theD1 it goes without a great deal of calculation Mr. POl\lERENE. Mr. President-- that the rate which is fixed by the Senator is necessarily too The PRESIDING OFFICER.. Does the Senator from Iowa low, and will in no possible way measure the difference o~ cost. yield to the Senator from Ohio? . If the Senator has different figures, then there is a question of Mr. cmIMINS. I do. discussion between us. I do not know that the public will be Mr. PO~IERENE.. If my memory serves me rightly, 'in 1909 satisfied with either proposition tlmt we take, tmt I believe that n special session of Congress was called for the express pur- it will be satisfied with the report of a commission upon the · pose of legislating upon the tariff question. There was then subject. no Tari.ff Boar~ and the President and the majority Members of Mr. CUMMINS. Mr. President, we have the report of the Congress at that time had wisdom enough to deal with this · best commission that eyer was o.rganized under t:IJ:e laws of subject; otherwise they would not have dealt with it Now, · the United StateS', so far as our own production is concernecrt will our friends on the other side explain how it is that they and we have a commission appointed by the United States to have lost so much of that wisdom that they now need the. ad- examine into the subject abroad.. l\lrr Butler is an interested vice of a. Tariff Board'. before they can legislate? witness. · Again, the Tariff Board has been in existence studying· this l\fr McCUMBER.. Yes. question for more than two yeal'S, and still no report upon this lli. CUMMINS. l\.Ir. Butler, not intentionally I think, de- particular schedule has been made. How mm;h longer are we ceived the committee; at least, he did not make the discrimina to wait when there is this constant complaint as to the char- tion before the committee that he ought to have made. acte:r and extent of these tariff duties? Mr. McCUMBER. The Senator will assume that he. is. inter- 1\lr. CUMMINS. Mr. Presid~~ wha.t the Senator from Ohio ested-- has just said is in a way what I said a few days ago. We have Mr. CUMMINS. Just a moment. There is a quality of pig all the information that we ever had, we have all the knowledge iron abroad which costs substantially what Mll'. Butler says pfg that we had when we put these duties upon these articles, and iron costs, but it is the same q.unlity of pig iron that in oUl' the people are bearing the burdens,. whatever they may be~ If country costs only $8.5-0 to $9.50- a ton. It is not the kind of pig that same knowledge, supplemented with what we have since iron tha: in our country costs $14 a ton. That sort of material discO"vered, leads us to believe that the duties are too high, we costs abroad $14 a ton, or substantially that, as everybody ought to reduce them, even though at some future time we may knows. I have but to turn to the prices of pig iron abroad'.. have better and more accurate information from a tariff board. The quality of pig irnn that is represented by the total of $14.01 I am as heartily in favor of a tariff commission-not the has for- ·years rommanded abroad a prf.ce of about $16 n. ton. sort of board that we now ha.ve, but a tariff commission-as Nobody disputes that. Anyone wh<> looks into the subject un I ever was; but I repeat that we have all the knowledge on this derstands it. l\Ir. Butler has srmply compared the low-priced subject that a tariff commission could get. pig iron, or, rather, the low-cost pig iron abroad with the high'" Answering the suggestion of the Senator from Utah [Mr. cost pig iron at home. Therefore he· reaches ::t conclusfon which SMOOT]~ I say that we have more information an

l\Ir. CUMMINS. That is what I am saying-that it is a bill. Ferromanganese is in a sense pig iron and is worth in great deal. I am trying to emp1!usize that. . this country about $38 or· $40 a ton. There is at present a duty Mr. WAT SON. Seventy cents a ton. That ought to be plam on it of $2.50 a ton. It bears the saine duty as does pig iron. enough even for the Senator from Utah to understand. In the House bill there is an ad yalorem duty put upon ferro In addition to that the mill owners h:rre a case before the manganese of 15 per cent, and. that raises the duty on ferro Interstate Commerce Commission asking for a reduction of the manganese from $2.50 a ton to $6 or thereabouts per ton. rail rate to the mill, a lower rate than the railroads now give. Now, as a revenue proposition that might be defensible, but it must be remembered that we make no ferromangailese in l\Ir. CUMMINS. I do not include that in my calculation, this country for sale. There is no mangenese ·made, except that but I have no doubt the rate which the Senator from Pennsyl which is made by the United States Steel Corporation, and it is vania :::aid was indefensibly high should be reduced; but the made by that corporation solely for its own use. Therefore I reduction of 35 cents on lake transportation and a reduction of ha\e put in the amendment I have proposed a duty on ferro 20 ce11ts from the ore bed to the lake means a difference in the manganese of $1 a ton, just the same as upon pig iron. cost of producing pig iron in this country of $1.10. Therefore, But the value of the manganese in this ton of ingots that I had I the opportunity, I should expect to prove to any b·ibunal am pursuing now is 82 cents. Now, at the very most that mun appointed for the purpose of trying a fact that we produce pig ganese did not cost more in this country than abroad in excess iron at from $1 to $2 per ton less than the average cost abroad. of 6 or 7 cents. So if you want a duty to measure the addi I have trespassed upon the time of the Senate at length to . tional cost of manganese in the United States as comparere me that the cost of steel ingots Corporations made at the same time that he investigated the is $18.49. That cost is higher. in England than either of the pig-iron product. It is called the "cost of steel ingots," and I kinds of steel ingots that I have put before you and that are want you all to observe that it includes all the intermediate embraced in Mr. Smith's report. profits-all the profits of the ore company, of the transportation Now, will you tell me what basis is presented there for a duty company, of the coal company and the coke companies, and all that is intended to cover the difference between the cost of the wages that were paid out in the production bf these various production at home and abroad? We will come to profits shortly, things. You will notice the extent of the investigation. Of and I will consider that subject, but the truth is that the ingot Bessemer rail ingots the investigation covers 19,486,978 tons. in the United States costs nearly $2 a ton less than abroad. Of Bessemer billet itigots, 29,099,783 tons; and may I pause First because we carry on our operations with greater magni here to explain, what I assume everyone knows, that with the tude than abroad, and second because our converters are heavy steel rails the process is continuous from the ingot into equipped with better facilities than they are abroad. The the rail? The ingot is not rolled into the billet, but is rolled only item in all that table concerning which there could be the directly into the steel rail. least doubt is the item of 61 cents per ton. The second column, headed " Bessemer billet ingots," means l\lr. REED. For labor. . those rolled into billets, with the operation stopping at that Mr. CUl\IMINS. Sixty-one cents per ton, the labor item. I. point until taken up for another purpose. am willing in the considerntion of this subject always t.o as The third column includes 24,731,706 tons of basic open sume that labor at home has no greater efficiency than labor hearth ingots. There is no difference between the two, except abroad. I am willing to assume that the wages abroad are that one is made in the open-hearth furnace and the other in one-half the wages here. Now, suppose we make that assump the Bessemer converter. Here [indicating on table] is the pig tion. Upon that hypothesis the steel factory abroad would use , iron and scrap; that is, scrap iron and steel. Pig iron and only 31 cents of labor in converting its pig iron into a ton of scrap for the Bessemer rail ingot cost $14.84. You will remember ingots; and the difference between the labor cost there and what that item includes. As I said before, it includes all the the labor cost here is, th.erefOre, 31 cents per ton. profits charged up for transferring these materials from one Only one other item which can by any possibility be greater company and one process to another, and, as I showed a day here than abroad is the general operating expense-70 cents a or two ago, it includes nearly $2 of profit without including the ton. We have already seen by reference to the table with regard transportation charges-to be exact, $1.79, which must be de to pig iron that that item is as great in the English factory as ducted, but I am not deducting it at this time. in the American factory, but I am willing to double that. The next item is material-manganese, ferromanganese-and :Mr. HEYBURN. Mr. President-- there I must say to my Democratic friends that I think they The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from Iowa have made a very serious mistake in the composition of their yield to the Senator from Idaho? 6218 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE. l\fAY 10,

l\fr. CUl\fl\fINS. Certainly. The table. referred to is as follows: Mr. HEYBURN. The Senator doubtless understands that Av.erage book cost per u_ross ~on of specified kittds of steel ingots, show the ferromanga.nese that is manufactured by the Steel Trust, tng works cost, as oiuen m the cost sheets (including i1ttennediate to use that term, is confined to their use, and they refuse to profits), together with addition,ai costs (derived ft·om the proftt and supply it to any other furnaces. It is made from imported loss accounts), 190~1!JOG. pig iron. The Steel Trust rely upon foreign ore or iron in whatever shape it comes, as the basis of their ferromanganese. Bessemer Bessemer Basic open Items. rail billet hearth Those outside-the independents-can not buy from the Steel ingots. ingots. ingots. Trust. They must·buy in the foreign market. Mr. CUMMINS. I understand that. I stated that practi cally before the Senator came into the Chamber. Tons produced...... HJ, 486, 978 2!>, 099, 783 2-1, 731, 700 Mr. HEYBURN. I was merely directing attention to the 14.13 fact that they had the iron and a monopoly of the ferroman .34 ganese that they manufacture, and there is no other establish r:~p~~: ;~~~~: ::: :::: ::: : : : : :: : : : :: ::: : : :: $14:!~ S14: ~ .92 ~el. .•..... : ...... •..· ...... • . • ...... 18 . 24 . 70 ment in the United States, because they could not. aff9rd to R thebeuilr.o:reraftingd...... • ...... 70 . 64 1.10 import the ore to build an establishment with sufficient capac ding un ...... , ...... 22 ity and manufacture it in this country. Therefore they are 17.15 16.64 17.41 entirely at the mercy of the importation of ferromanganese. Addi ti':~~~~~~~ : -:: : :::::::::::::::::::::::::: 1. 05 .92 . 79 Mr. CUMMINS. Precisely. I made the same remark before the Senator came into the . Chamber, and the further remark Total cost ...... ·...... •...... 18.20 17.56 18.20 that the duty on ferromanganese under the Payne-Aldrich law is $2.50 a ton. Ur. .CUMMINS. I pass now from the ingots to some other Mr. HEYBURN. Does the Senator propose that ferroman- forms of iron and steel, and again I am using the investiga ganese shall come in free? tion of the Commissioner of Corporations and a table taken Mr. CUMMINS. I should like to have it come in free, but from his report. I will first call your attention to the E=teel I ha\e not proposed that it shall come in free. My proposi rails ~entioned in the first line, called Bessemer heavy rails, tion is that it shall be classified precisely as it is in the Payne from mgots. The number of tons examined was 14,000,000. Aldrich tariff law with pig iron and pay the same duty as pig The raw material, and that was the ingot for the ton of steel iron. rails, is put down as costing $18.29. The labor of converting a .Mr. HEYBURN. Then the trust has the advantage of free ton of ingots into a ton of steel rails is $1.25. That is all· and iron ore, if iJ.·on ore is to be free, as a basis from which to that is the basis upon which I remarked the other day, ~hen manufacture their ferromanganese, and the independents have the Senator from North Carolina [Mr. SIMMONS] was speak not. ing, that we have 61 cents on labor from the pig iron into the Mr. CUMMINS. The independents must import the man- ingot, and $1.25 on labor from the ingot into the steel rail ganese, and ·therefore it ought to be free. making, in all, $1.86 per ton. ' Mr. HEYBURN. Ought iron to be free? Now, suppose again that it costs twice as much here per IDan Mr. CUMMINS. But I hope the Senator will not magnify as it costs there, half of $1.SG is !:>3 cents. Therefore, upon that the importance of it, because in the tons of ingots that I have assumption the labor abroad costs 93 cents a ton less than the been illustrating here the domestic value of the manganese is labor at home~ and that is all the possible protection that can but 82 cents in the ton of ingots, and at the present time, as I be demanded by the facts and by our platform. said, the duty is $2.50 a ton llPOn it. Therefore, if it is in· creased in value by the amount of the duty, the ferromanganese Of course, that is neutralized by the fact that there is in this being worth from $38 to $40 a ton in the United States, the in raw material a great volume of profits. There is in the raw creased cost of manganese in this country that enters into a ton material costing less and a deduction for depreciation which is · of ingots is not more than 6 or 7 cents. not in the comparative table abroad. But yet I am ~iJlino- for .Mr. HEYBURN. My objection was directed to free iron ore, the time being to disregard these items and assume tb~t it from which the trust makes the ferromanganese, while the costs twice as much in labor here, although I know it -does not independents must pay a duty on the ferromanganese imported cost any more, and we reach the conclusion that the dutv on from abroad. So I object to free iron ore. steel rails ought to be 93 cents a ton. What is it per ton uuder Mr. CUMMINS. I know the Senator does, and if there the Payne-Aldrich tariff law? It is $3.92 per ton. I wouhl like were no other thing involved in free iron ore except the man to know how we can defend upon this information a duty of ganese, I think there would be much force in the suggestion of $3.92 upon steel rails. the Senator from Idaho. But I de not believe that it is fair Ur. McCUMBER. l\Ir. President-- to the independent manufacturers along the coast of the United The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does ·the Senator from Iowa States to impose a duty on iron ore when if they are excluded yield to the Senator from North Dakota? from the foreign ore they would be compelled to pay transpor l\Ir. CUMMINS. I do. tation from the Lake regions to the coast upon the domestic Mr. :McCUl\IBEU. What does the Senator giYe as the foreign cost of the production of steel rails? ore. Ur. WILLIAMS. I wish to suggest to the Senator from l\fr. CUM.MINS. The foreign cost of production in steel rails Iowa, if he will pardon me, I think there is one point that he is $23.35. I have not come to that yet has pretermitted. If I understand the table and if I under Mr. l\fcCUMBER. r wanted to call the Senator's attention stand the Pepper table giving the cost abroad, this table gives to this point. I notice' that his estimate of the cost of produc as n. part of its sum total the cost of depreciation and the Pep tion agrees substantially with the estimate gi\en by l\fr. Schwab per tables do not So there is a difference which the Senator so far as the cost of production iu this country is concerned'. has not thus far explained. The cost of production giren by Mr. Schwab was that it cost .Mr. CUMMINS. I ha\e not reached that yet This table, in this country to manufacture steel rails from $22 to ~23 per as I showed the other day, includes all the intermediate or ton; but he also states in the ~arne testimony that it costs in \pter-company profits. and they nre at' least $1.79 a ton. This Germany from $18 to $19 per ton, and he follows it on and table includes the depreciation and the Pepper table does gi-res the items making the cost, showing a difference of $4 not. • per ton. But I should like to know now, Senators, on that showings l\Ir. CUl\fl\lIXS. Precisely. I know what l\Ir. Schwab said if that table is true, how much more does it cost to produce before your committee. I simply do not belie-re, in the first steel ingots in the United States than abroad? I do not be place, that he knows what it costs in Germany. He has never lieve it costs as much, but nevertheless, for the same purpose examined the cost in Germany. .Mr. Schwab has not been mak that I indicated the other day, I ha-ve in my amendment at ing steel rails for sereral years. I agree that he is one of tached a duty of $1.60 a ton upon ingots. Of course there never the greatest experts in steel in the world, and one of the ablest will be in the whole history of the United States a single ton men in the industi'y. I was not present before the Finance of ingots imported from anywhere, and there would not be if . Committee, and therefore I do not know how thoroughly he was there was no duty on ingots, because if they could import at all cross-examined and how fully the h·uth was developed; but I they would rather import in some other form. know that when the United States sends a man abroad it ex Mr. President, the table to which I have just referred I ask pects him to examine all ides of the subject. may be inserted as a part of my remarks. l\Ir. l\!cCU.llBER. He makes this. clear statement that I The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It will be so ordered, with quote from the testimony. It agree so well. with the Senn tor's out objection. statement as to the matter of the cost of prodti,ction, I as 'Ullle 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 6219

that possibly it may be accurate with reference to the foreign Mr. SMOOT. He sai-0. that the labor cost was higher than cost. I just want to quote--- it was in 1899. ~fr. CUMMINS. Of course it is perfectly clear even from Mr. WILLIAMS. No. Does not the Senator remember that contemporaneous history that l\Ir. Schwab is not tigh_t in his in ~rect answer to that question, he made that direct reply? ' statement. Steel rails are worth $28 a ton, or at least that Now, I do not want to interfere with the Senator from Iowa 1 is the market "\"alue of them in America. Steel rails are worth but if the Senator does not remember that we will look it up $28 n ton in Europe. The United States meets Germany and later and see who is right. I remember it, because I asked France and England in all the neutral markets ot the world, the question and he answered it. and it sells-in those neutral markets more steel rails than any . Mr. SMOOT. J. remem~er that he said an the labor, speak other country on earth, and almost as many steel rails as all mg of $12 per ton, was higher to-day than it was then. and so other countries on earth combined. it is. There is no question about it. · l\Ir. McCU.MBER. That would be subject to an explanation, Mr. WILLIAMS. What is higher? and I want to call the Senator's attention~· - Mr. SMOOT. Labor. Mr. CUMMINS. I merely mention that as indicating that his Mr. WILLIAMS. It was not a question about labor. I was cost was not right. asking only about the cost of making a ton of steel rails. I was 1\Ir. UcCUhlBER. But on this one proposition he says: cross-examining him on his letter of 1899, and that was his reply. Mr. SCHWAB. The cheapest pig iron made in Germany is made at Mr. SMOOT. Taking everything relating to mere cost into Luxemburg. They make pig iron thereat, I know- consideration, I do not think it costs any more now in this Stating his own personal Imowiedge-- country than it did then; but the cost that Mr. Schwab was $8.50 and $!> n. ton, a.nd I know that can be converted into rails at $10 speaking of-$12. a ton-was the mere work, without any over more. That is the way I arrive at what the cost is there-. head charges, without any depreciation, without anything at Mr. CUJ\UUNS. Precisely; and there is a sense in which all in connection with it outside of the mere labor. I think Mr. Schwab may be right. I can take that testimony and that part of it costs mfile to-day than it did at that time and produce the same results. You must remember that in the cost I think the Senator from Iowa will admit that. ' of $22.23 for Bessemer heavy rails there is about $3.90 of what Mr. CU!fiIINS. Mr. President, I feel rather embarrassed to is known here as intercompany profits. Steel rails cost only stand here b€tween my friends on the left and my friends on about $18 in the United States, as I shall presently show you. the right I am in sympathy with my friends on the left with lli. SMOOT. Mr. President-- respect to reducing these duties, but at the same time I am Mr. CUMMINS. I was taking the table itself. and I will deeply interested in maintaining the integrity of the protective analyze it later. do.ctrine. Therefore, I believe that I cap be more just and Mr. SMOOT. I do· not know whether the Senator has ei imparti~l ~~n ~th.er my brother from Utah or my brother amined the testimony which was taken before the Ways and from MISs1ss1ppi. The real truth is, that when Mr. Schwab Means Committee of the House in 1909- He will find a state wro~e this letter,. back a few years ugo, he was interested in ment of what it costs in a foreign country to make a ton of making people believe we could produce iron and steel in this steel rails and it shows- country cheaper than in any other country on earth. When Mt'. CUMl\flNS. From whom? . I have read a good deal of he delive~ed his tes~rrH.~n~ .l ater~ and especially the other day, the testimony. he was mterested m matnng people believe that it costs us Mr. SMOOT. Mr. Schwab testifies, and also other manu more than any other people on earth. Being an advocate in facturers of this country testify. I see that my friend, the ~t?- cases he omit~ed some things that he ought to have put Senator from Mississippi [Mr. WILLIAMS], smiles because of m m 189.9, and he mcluded some things that he ought to have the fact that Mr. Schwab is a mannfa.cturer, and-- left out m 1912. Therefore, the truth lies somewhere between Mr. WILLI.Al\-IS. No; not because he is a manufacturer, the statement that he made then and now. bnt-- Ur. SMOOT. Mr. President, the Senator certainly will admit 1\fr. SMOOT. He 'accepts the testimony of a foreign manu that the testimony of Mr. Schwab to-day as far as the cost facturer, but-- of pig iron and as far as the cost of steel' rails are concerned 1\fr. WILLIAMS. I will explain why I smiled, if the Senator corresponds closely with the testimony of Herbert Knox Smith'. - win permit me. I was smiling at the credibility of this man Mr. CUMMINS. On the contrary, l\Ir. President if the Sen Schwab, because I happened to remember, while the Senator ator from Utah will pause for a moment, he will ~ee that they was talking, that he is the same man who testified before the do not a~ee at all. Herbert Knox Smith, after presenting the Committee on Finanre of. the Senate that the cost of producing table which I have exhibited, and which shows upon its face steel h n.d increased from 1899 down to now. That was rather that it includes a great amount of profits which ought not to to his credibility. be included in the cost, explains these profits and subsequently Mr. CUMMINS. That was to explain why he changed his deducts them from this tabular cost, as I have shown repeatedly view in regard to the cost of producing steel rails, which he here. Therefore,· it is not true that he arrives at the same said then could be produced at $12 a ton. result as does Mr. Schwab in his testimony before the Finance Mr. WILLIAMS. At $12 a ton. I myself asked him the Committee, because Mr. Schwab at no time deducts those question, thinking that maybe he would make some explana things. tion. I said, "This is what you uttered then. Was it true?" Mr. SMOOT. Mr. President, I take the exact figures here of He said, ''Oh, yeir; it was true then, Mr. WILLliMS, but not Herbert Knox Smith and I take the detailed statement here of now." Mr. Schwab as to what the cost is of producing steel rails and Ur. SMOOT. .Mr. President-- every item, and Herbert Knox Smith's price is higher than Mr. Mr. WILLIAMS. Wait one second. Then I said, "Of course Schwab's. - I did not mean to ask you to admit that you had made this Now, in relation to the question of steel rails beinO' worth statement this year, but you made it in 1899." He answered, $28 here and steel rails being worth $28 in Germany i:. that is "Yes." "It was true then, was it?" I asked. He said it was. the local price in Germany. That is not the export 'price of Then I said., "Does it cost any more or any less to make steel Germany. - now?" He said.it costs more. Mr. CUM1\IINS. It is not the export price in Germany. Mr. SMOOT. Mr. President, I have no brief to defend :Mr. Mr. S::\WOT. I want to say that-- · Schwab, but I ask Senators hem to read the testimony and to Mr. CU~UHNS. That is the trouble. It is the domestic read the explanation of Mr. Schwab when speaking of $12 a price here and there. Both the manufacturers of Germany and ton. It was a letter written to Mr. Frick, giving simply the· cost of the United States seem to be willing to sacrifice their own of th~ labor, with no interest added to the price. people for the advantage of foreign people. Mr. CU1\IMINS. I agree that he could not make steel rails Mr. SMOOT. I will ask this question of the Senator and then for $12 a ton. see if he agrees with me upon the proposition: Supposing that Mr. SMOOT. It was with no overhead charges, with no de the American manufacturers of steel rails did not ship a pound preciation. The letter was written simply to show that the to a foreign country of steel rails or manufactures of iron· and mere manual labor connected with the mill and the cost of the steel of any kind, does the Senator believe that it could be material that goes into a ton of rails amounted to $12. inade as cheaply in this country as it is made to-day? Mr. WILLIAMS. Oh. Mr. CUl\fMINS. I do, assuming that the volhme of produc .Mr. SMOOT. That is exactly what he said and what he tion would be the same. testified to, and that is what the letter will show. Mr. SMOOT. That is impossible to be-- Mr. WILLIAMS. Does not the Senator from Utah remem Mr. CUMMINS. I am not complaining about shipping abroad. ber tJ:at Mr. Schwab expressly said, in answer to my question, I am glad the United States Steel Corporation ships 20 per cent that it costs more to produce steel in America now th.an· it did of all its product abroad. If it can have the influence to main it 1899? tain a tariff upon those same products in the- United States that

... 6220 OOXGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. . MAY 10, will enable it to get a higher price here than it can get abroad Mr. HITCHCOCK. Let me read what Mr. Herbert Kno:x: i I feel its power-that is, I admire that sort of power-but I do Smith, who has just been quoted by the Senator from Utah, not think the Senator from Utah ought to be willing to a~ow it says: f to hold that l)Ower. The evil of seven-day work was particularly accentuated by the fact l\fr. SMOOT. I know that if the Steel Trust or any great developed in the investigation that the seven-day working week was not confined to the blast-furnace department, where there is a metallurgical r manufacturer can get cost out of goods by exporting them the necessity for continuous operation, and in which department 88 per I balance of the goods can be made in this counh·y for less money, cent of the employees worked seven davs a week, but it was also found and not only that but the money that js saved by so doing goes that, to a considerable extent, in other departments, where no such metallurgical necessity can be claimed, productive work was carried on to the laboring men of this country. I know the Senator agrees on Sunday just as on other days of the week. For example, in some with that. establishments the Bessemer converters, the open-hearth furnaces, ;ind Afr. CUMMINS. · I do not object to it at all. All that I want blooming, rail, and structural mills were found operating seven days a is that there shall be a fair and even rivalry. If the United week for commercial reasons only. States Steel Corporation after being dethroned, after destroy Mr. CUMMINS. Now, Mr. President, I am very glad to yield, ing its monopolistic power and after subjecting it to the competi but what the Senator from Nebraska has just read and what tion of Europe upon a fair basis, can in the natural way and the Senator from Utah has just said have nothing whate-rer to according to the usual laws of trade and commerce make the do with the point I am discussing. I have shown what amount '.c!IC'I people of the United States pay more than it sells its products is paid. It does not make any difference whether it is paid for abroad for, or if it can supplement its works by adding capac men who work 7 days a week 12 hours a day or 1 day a week ity in order to supply the foreign market, I say well and good·; 1 hour per day. I ought to say, however, that what is true of I am not criticising it; but we in the United States Senate the United States Steel Corporation is true also of every other have no right to interpose our power and prevent the natural large producer of iron and steel with regard to the length of the laws of trade from governing and controlling such a corpora day's work; and it is entirely inhumane and ought not to be tion as the United States Steel Corporation. permitted, no matter if the men are willing to work that length l\fr. Sl\IOOT. No one is intending to· do that, as I under of time. stand. It is certainly far from my thought. I have no inten But before I resume .this table I think I ought, in justice to tion whateY-er of doing it. The United States Steel Corpora the Senator from Mississippi [Mr. WILLIAMS), to read what tion can exist where independent manufacturers can not. was referred to a few moments ago from the testimony of Mr. Mr. CUMMINS. So far as I am concerned, I do not believe Schwab before the Finance Committee: that. I know the Senator from Utah believes it. It may here Senator WILLIAMS. Has the price of manufacturing rails increased or decreased, then? and there be true, but I do not believe that the United States Mr. SCHWAB. Very greatly increased. Steel Corporation can, if it be shorn of its extraordinary ex Senator WILLIA.MS. The price of manufacturing rails has increased? trinsic power, manufacture products from iron ore into pig iron Mr. SCHWAB. Very much increased. and pig iron into steel rails more cheaply than other large com~ Mr. SMOOT. Mr. President, just a moment-- pn.nies. But when we give it the power-and this, of course, Mr. CUJ\Il\IINS. Now, Mr. President, will the Senator from compels me to digress from the ta1·iff-when we permit it to Utah merely allow me to take one step- take a billion and a half of capital and draw to itself a series Mi-. SMOOT. Yes; but in explanation of that statement I of great powerful banks that can terrorize every other indus want to say that that follows the statement which was made try in the country, that can grant credit or withhold credit by .Mr. Schwab giving an explanation of his letter wherein it from everyone who desires to enter into competition with it was stated that the cost was $12. It is right at the close of his when you give it all these powers, then, of course, it can pro testimony. duce cheaper than some of its competitors. But I know that if Mr. CUl\fl\fINS. I know that. the Senator from Utah were in a free field with sufficient capi Mr. SMOOT. Therefore it is just as I said. It referred to tal to utilize the economies of the trade he could meet all the the $12 a ton, and there is no question about it; I do not deny efficiency of the United States Steel Corporation. it; it is exactly what I said to the Senate. Mr. HITCHCOCK. l\Ir. President-- l\Ir. CUMMINS. If the Senator from Utah does not deny it, Mr. CUl\lMINS. But -that has nothing to do with the tariff. it is all agreed upon. I yield to the Senator from Nebraska. Mr. WILLIAMS. · I produced it merely as going to the credi l\Ir. HITCHCOCK. I notice the Senator from Iowa made no bility of the witness, that is all. response to the statement made by the Senator from Utah that l\Ir. CUMMINS. I recur, after this excursion into what I by exporting 20 per cent of its products the Steel Trust was think a somewhat irrelevant field, but nevertheless an instruc nble to give so much more to labor. I should like to call his tive one, to my proposition that even upon the table unanalyzed, attention to the fact that in the same report which he quoted with the cost of steel rails at $22.23, it is not .greater than the from, Herbert Knox Smith states that the Steel 'l"'rust is re cost abroad, and the labor cost, from the pig iron at $14 a ton quiring 50,000 of its men to work 12 hours a day and 7 days a to the steel rails with a market price of $2 a ton-the wages week; and the figures, as gh en by the Senator from Iowa, show of the men who work with their hands-first, at the furnace, that only about one-twentteth part of the amount represented and, next, at the converter and the rolling mill, amount to $1.86 in the cost of a ton of steel ingots is paid to labor. per ton. The material has increased in value from $14 a ton Mr. SMOOT. Mr. President, the question of 12 hours a day to $28 a ton, and labor, in the proper sense of that term, re was thrashed out here the other day. That applies only to ceives of .that great advance the munificent reward of $1.86. men who a.re working in the furnaces and upon a manufacture Now, Senators, we can not any longer deceive ourselves or that requires a continuous process of-- deceive the people with respect to the cost that is to be pro Mr. HITCHCOCK. Let me ask the Senator- tected by the import duty. I have shown that nothing is re Mr. S:\fOOT. Wait until I get through. quired for the raw material; on the contrary, we must take 1\Ir. HITCHCOCK. The Senator is not correct, according to away at least $2 a ton from the raw material in order to denude the report. it of the profits that are there and that ought not to be con l11r. CUMMINS. I can not allow this discussion to pass to sidered when we are considering cost. Then comes the labor, other ground. then come the other operating expenses, with the mill cost of The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa de $20.87 and the total cost of $22.23. · clines to yield further. I believe that I have now made a case with respect to steel Mr. CUMMINS. I want to confine it to the tariff. rails. I have, in my amendment, put a duty of $2.50 per ton Mr. HITCHCOCK. Will the Senator permit me to read an upon steel rails. That is more than is required, because exh·act from the report to show that the Senator from Utah with respect to one thing, at least, the Senator from Utah will is in error where he says that it is confined to those cases agree with me, and that is, if there were no duty at all there where the metallurgical necessity requires them to work 12 could never be a ton of foreign rails get as fur east as 50 miles hours a day? · from our seashore. · I do not believe that there could e-rer be a l\Ir. SMOOT. That is true, and it was so testified before the ton of steel rails loaded upon u car upon our eastern seacoast committee. if there were no duty at a.II, for it would cost $2 a ton at least l\Ir. HITCHCOCK. The Department of Commerce and Labor to bring them to the shore; then they must be loaded into cars says specifically that that is not true. and sent west; and you all agree with me that there c~uld l\Ir. SMOOT. Every manufacturer says it is true. Not only not be any steel rails imported into the United States as agamst that, but we had the laboring men before the committee, who the barricade of the transportation alone. I have, however, testified to the same thing; they testified that it was upon their put a duty upon steel rails of $2.50 a ton, in order to cover request that they work 12 hou.rs a day, and that out of the 12 these vicissitudes of the markets as well as to cover what I · hours many times they did not have to work over 3 hours and know ought to be covered, and that is the additional profit would be watching the other 9. that American manufacturers should have as compared with 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENl1.TE. 6221 i their rivals across the sea. That profit is just as much entitled In order to roll it into black sheets-ordinary iron sheets \ to protection at our hands as are the wages of the laboring the labor involved is $10.39. I use that now for the purpose men; but there is not a Senator here who will suggest that of emphasizing the fact that we come :finally to a product in more than 50 cents a ton, taking our products generally, would which there is considerable labor. be required for that purpose. Assuming that it costs twice as much abroad to go through Now, I pass to the next item, and I shall be very brief with these processes as it does here, tell me what should be the duty regard to that. on an article in which there is first 57 cents of labor from the Mr. SIMMONS. Mr. President-- ingot into the bar, and $10.39 labor from the bar into the sheet. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from Iowa How can you defend a law which, in some instances, puts $15 yield to the Sena.tor from North Carolina? or $20 or $30 a ton upon that product? I can not imagine why Mr. CUMMINS. I. do. .such a fact does not make you pause and think about the subject. l\Ir. SIMMONS. Before the Senator from Iowa passes to his Now, upon the black sheets, which do constitute a great article next subject, I wish to say that I do not feel that the statement of commerce, adding the 57 cents to the $10.39 we have $10.96. of the Senator from North Dakota [Mr. McCuMBER], in which That is the labor cost. There is not anything else connected he read the testimony of Mr. Schwab, ought to be left where he with it that costs or could cost anything more in this country left it. The Senator from Iowa had just stated that the cost than it costs abroad. Assuming that the labor here is paid of producing steel rails in this country was about $22. The twice as much-and I hope we shall always be willing to levy Senator from North Dakota read from Mr. Schwab's testimony duties upon the hypothesis of giving our labor twice as much as to show his estimate of the cost in Germany at $18. As I recall, similar labor receh·es abroad-what ought the duty to be? If that statement was made before the Finance Committee; but I am correct in my hypothesis, the cost of doing those same clearly it wns made by Mr. Schwab without knowledge on his things abroad would be $5.48 and the difference would be $5.48. part as to the cost in Germany. His statement bears evidence Then, tell me why you insist on a duty of $10 to $20 a ton. I of the fact that he was giving his estimate of the foreign cost can not understand it; I ha-rn never been able to understand it; not from his own knowledge. Let me read, if the Senator will and I do not believe there is anyone here who will ever be able permit me for just one moment, what Mr. Schwab said about to explain it. that matter : I pass now to structural steel. Structural steel has become '.!.'he cheapest pig iron made in Germany is made at Luxemburg. They make pig iron there at, I . know, $8.50 and $9 a ton, and I know one of the greatest products of the country. It is rapidly rising that can be converted into rails at $10 more. to the same position that has long been held by steel rails, and· ~o his estimate of $18 was based . upon his assumption that its growth, I think, has just begun. Structural steel is either pig iron could be made in the Luxemburg district of Germany rolled from ingots or from billets, usually from ingots, for struc for $8.50 and $9 a ton. Now, I want to call the Senator's at tural steel is of a heavy character. Now, let us see what it tention to the fact that Mr. Pepper, in the report from which he costs from ingots. The material cost is $20.21 ; the labor cost, has read, gives an estimate of the cost of making pig iron in $2.15. From billets the material cost is $20.88 and the labor the Luxemburg district of Germany, and he states as follows: cost $2.54. Mark you, we have seen that the ingot cost of labor Luxemburg: One ton basic pig iron with li per cent of manganese, is, according to my recollection, 61 cents; so that all the labor 52-53 marks, equal $12.38-.$12.61. there is in turning the pig iron into structural iron and steel is Which, added to the $10 which Mr. Schwab says is the 61 cents plus $2.15. Two do11ars and seventy-six cents is all necessary expense of conversion, would make the cost in that that is paid to labor in that process, and yet what are we doing country the same, or substantially the same, as the Sena tor in the case of structural iron and steel? We are levying a duty said the cost in this country was. The radical infirmity in Mr. on it under the Payne-Aldrich law which begins with $S a ton Schwab's statement is in the assumption that pig iron conld and ends with about $20 a ton. be made at Luxemburg at ·$8.50 or $9 a ton, when, as a matter I do not believe, Senators, that you· will be willing to per of fact, according to the report of Mr. Pepper, it costs from petuate duties of. that character. There ought not under any $12.38 up to $12.61. circumstances to be a duty orr plain structural iron and steel Mr. CUMMINS. Again, Mr. President, I think the confusion that is neither punched nor fitted nor assembled of more than arose because sufficient attention was not given to the different $4 a ton. It is utterly impossible even for the highest pro kinds of pig iron. The Bessemer pig iron or the basic pig iron, tectionist to defend more than that; and all that I ask in my that is fit for making steel rails, can not be made for $8 a ton amendment is that it be reduced to $4 a ton upon the character or for $8.50 a ton anywhere on earth; and the pig iron that of iron and steel which I have just described and to $6 a ton can be converted economically into steel rails cosfs-well, I do upon that which is punched, fitted, or assembled. not know, but I have never seen a lower cost than $11.50 or Let us now pass hurriedly to merchant bars. That is another $12 or $13, somewhere along in that locality. However, I will great item of merchantable steel. In the case of merchant bars not return to that subject. the material costs $21.41; the labor cost from the billet into Mr. SIMMONS. Mr. Pepper's statement is based upon the the merchant bar is $3.06 a ton. If you will add to thnt the co.st of basic pig iron, not Bessemer. cost from the pig iron into the ingot, 61 cents, the in~ o t into Mr. CUMMINS. It seems to me, Senators, that I have sub the billet. 66 cents, you will find that the maximum difference mitted enough proof to show that it is an offense _against our upon the l.Jypothesis already made is $2.17. I have put a duty principle and against the welfare of the people to retain $3".92 upon merchant · bars of $3.50 a top to $4.50. This duty not a ton upon steel rails. If there is a Senator here who at some only covers the difference. between the cost of production here subsequent time can show that we need, to answer our doctrine, and abroad, but it is double the difference. $3.92 a ton upon this product, then I will be the first to yield ; I will not pursue this analysis further at this time, because but there will be no Senator make any such attempt. It is if I have establi~hed the premises with regard to these ba ic known everywhere that it can not e done. forms of iron and steel, then you have but to examine the I will pass the question of billets. I shall introduce this table prices which these forms hold in the market compared with other into my remarks,. and it is not very necessary for me to discuss forms in order to tell what additional duties ought to be laid so every one of these processes. When once you know what the as to cover the additional labor that is expended upon them. cost of the material is and the general place which the article Before we close the debate I will take up other paragraphs has in the processes of manufacture you can not go very of the proposed amendment. Just now I will do no more than far wrong with regard to the duty that is required. Steel to suggest that the table, which I have been using, covers also rails, as we have shown, with its profits, cost about $22 a ton plate steel, wire rods, coarse wire, black plate, and tin plate, in this country. Any other product that only costs $22 a ton and gives the same information with respect to them that I ought not to have any more duty than should steel rails. If it have commented upon with respect to rails, structural steel, costs $26 a ton, that show:s that some additional labor has been and bars. The table will be printed so that the information put upon it, and so on, and so on. Therefore, I pass the question will be more readily accessible than it now is. I have also of billets, because billets are only sold as between manufac used in the course of my remarks a table showing the duties of turers; no one ever buys a billet for the purpose of using it. the existing law and the duties of the proposed amendment I will come down to Bessemer sheet bars. That also is a upon the commodities I have discussed. It will also be printed manufacturer's :irticle. As u usual thing, it is not sold. It for more ready reference. will be noticed that the raw material in it costs $16.45; the I have now finished, l\Ir. President, my general review of labor in it, taking it from the ingot into the sheet bar, is 57 the heavy forms of iron and steel, and I challenge successful cents; and the other operating expenses are $1.12 . contradiction of a single material fact which I have stated. If .J pass from the sheet bars to what is known as black sheets the facts be admitted or established,. the conclusion inevitably the black, common sheet iron. This iron is rerolled from what follows. At some other time, if the debate shall continue long, is known as tlle sheet bars. Now, you will observe there is I shall take 1lJ> some of the other and more finely organized only 57 cents of labor added from the ingot to the sheet bar. forms of steel and give the Senate such information as I may XLVIII-391

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6222 OONGRESSIDN_AL RECORD-SENATE. J\{AY 10, r i have with Tespect to them; but it seems to me, ·Senators-and I The t.ables 1·eferred to are -as follows : i am .now speaking to this side of the ·Chamber-that .as to this In connection with the 'estimate of .the cost of production of pi"' iron part ·of the metal ·schedu1e I have made at least a prima fa.cie Mr. Jeans furnished the following as the elements of ultimate .cfost of case, and the burden of maintaining the present duties is ·upon British steel ·in Bessemer works 'having auxiliary blast furnaces : those who believe that I have not correctly recited the facts Cost of p.ig iro~------$13. 50 respecting this industry. I court inquiry, and I hope the Sen Cost of steel mgots------~------18. 49 Cost of steel rails------23. 35 ators who believe in holding the duties as they are will unfold Difference between pig and ingots______4. 36 to the country as well as to the Senate the reasons for th-e Dilierence between ingots and :rails______4. 74 faith that~ in them. Wages per ton of pig iron------~------1. 06 Wages per ton of ingots------~------_:______. 69 Mr. President, I ask leave to insert as part of my remarks · Wages per ton of rails------1. 66 the i:wo tables to which I have recently Teferred and the table Fixed charges per ton of pig______:______• 36 showing the cost in England of 1'.arious steel products. Fixed charges per ton of -rails______. 36 Stores and sundries ·per ton of 'Pig______1. 46 Th~ PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, permis Stores and sundries per ton of ingots______1. 46 • sion 1s granted. Stores and sundries per i:an of rails______. 69

.l1:r;erage lJnok costs per {!TOSS ton i of specified products, showing mill costs as given in east sheets (without deduction .<1/ -intermediate projit.s), together with additiO'll.Jll costs (derived from fhe profit and loss accounts), J902-190B.

Tons pro- Raw mate- Additional Products. Labor. Other Totnl. Mill cost. Tot.al duced. rial. .operating. I cost. cost.

Bessemer neavy rails (from ingots) ...... • . ·-.. ·-...... 14,020,303 $18.29 51-25 1.113 2.68 20.97 1.26 "22.23 Large Be.ssemer billets (from ingots) ...•...... 17,908,033 17. 72 .55 .82 1.37 19.09 1.09 20.l Lsrge basic open-flearth billets (from ingots) ...... "13, 422, 740 ' 18.45 .55 .97 1.52 19.97 .90 20.87 'Small Bessemer billets (from ingots) . ....•...... _ ...... ·- 2,686, 706 16.88 .66 1:16 1.82 . 18.70 .98 19.68 Bessemer sheet bars (from ingots) ...... 4,868, 673 16.45 .57 1.12 1.69 il.8.J.4 .84 18.98 Sheared plates (from slabs) ...... · ·-· ...... _ ...... 3,317,232 21.55 2.36 2.19 4.55 26.10 1.39 27.49 U.ni"nnal plates (from ingots) ...... •...... 1,032,388 17. 70 1. 24 1.89 3.13 20.83 .99 21.82 Uni:versal plates (from Slabs) ...... •.. __ ·-·· ...... _ ...... 2J007,344 21. 78 "1.83 1.94 3. 77 25.55 . 85 26.40 .1, 724,641 20.21 2.15 .2. 74 -!.89 25.10 1.42 26.52 ~:g= a~~: ~n~i:) : · ::::: :: ::::::::::::::~:::: :::::: :: ::: :: :: ~: -2, 693, 231 21.88 2.54 2.il -4.6.5 26.53 1.23 27. 76 Merchant bars (from large billets) .•.•• ·-...... __ ...... '4;3'79, 780 21.41 3.06 2..28 5.34 26. 75 1.37 28.12 Wire rods {from billets) ...... •..... ··-..•.••. ·-·-·--· ...... 6, 867,:no 21.42 1.53 2.28 3.81 25.23 "L98 27. 21 Bright coarse wire (from rods~-········-----·····-··········-····· 6,.510,368 23.50 1.62 1.87 3.49 26:99 2.13 29.12 Black sheets (from sheet bars . ·-...... __ ...... •...... -· .•... 2,418,214 22.99 10.39 4.12 14.51 37.50 1. 87 39.37 Black plate (from Bbeet bars) ...... -· ...... ••..••.....•... '2,091,615 25.25 li.19 7.41 21.60 413.&5 2. .14 48.99 Tin and terne plate (from black _plate) ...... - · ...... •..... 38,404,002 22.67 ' .19 .18 .37 3.Qi .14 3.18

i Except for bright coarse wire and black sheets, which are for net tons, :and for tin and terne plate, whicih ar.e for base boxes of 100 pounds. 2Jncludes .52.04 for black plate and 0.63 for tin. !l'able showing rates of duty in Payne-Aldrich Act and in 'Oummins Table showing rates ot duty in Payne-A..ler ton and upwards..... $3 and S5 per ton. Iron ore ...•.. _...... 15 cents per ton ••· -•••••..• ·- .Free. Bar iron...... 6 per ton ...... S3.50 per ton. Pig iron ..•..•.•...... 32.50 _per ton ••• ·-·-·-··-··· SI per ton. Plates...... 6 to S12 per ton...... $4 per ton. Scrap iron ...•••.•..... $1 per ton .•..•••• : ...... $0.50 per ton. Sheets..... -···-·--.. 10 to 18per ton .... ··-··-.. 310 to S12per ton. fugots ... _....•.. __ -·. 6 per ton and upwards.. . . . Sl.60 per ton. Rods...... • __ .. _... . $6 _per ton and upwards. . . . . 3.75 per ton and upwards. ·Steel rails ...... __ .·- $3.92per ton ••••...... _ .. .$2.50 per ton.

AP:PEND!X. Rates to and from various points on iron-and steel artic7e.s. . l

It.ate, Earnings Earnings From- To- Commodities. Distance 2,240 Weight. pounds. percar. re;r:fle.

I IMPORTS. Miles. Cents. 193 $1.80 .2-5tons·-····· 45.00 22. 77 .105 .70 ___ .. do.·- ..... 17.50 lG. 66 !Tu~~~:::~~~::~~~=~~:::::~::::::: :~~~g~~::::~::::::::::::::::::::::~:::~:~~::~::::~ &5 . 70 .. _ .. do ...... 17.50 20.58 425 3.00 . .... do .... ·--- i5.00 17.05 105 1.20 -- ... do ...... 30.00 28.57 !~!ir!i~~~:::::: ~ ::: : :a~::::::::~:::::::::::: -~~~1~~~c!;~~:: ::::::::::~: ::: :::~ ~ :: ::~:: ::~::::: :~ ~:~ &5 1.60 ... - .do ...... 40.00 47.06 1!!5 : 2.40 ..... do ...... C0.00 30. 77 ~~~~o~~~~--.-.: ~::::: :: : J~:: :~· ::~: ::::::::: :: : ~1 ~~~.<~:~~s::::::.:::: ::: ::::: :: ::::: ::: ::: :: : : : =::::: :: : 425 2.10 .do ..._ .. 52. 50 12.35 New York __ .•...... do ...•. ·- .....•.....••..· ~cles cla5.5ified filth class in the official classification 195 3. 00 ~~--do·--· .... 75.00 38.46 (which includes billets, blooms, ingots, muck or puddle bars, borings, chain iron, crop ends, scale, sheet, etc.) (class). 105 2.30 ..... do. ___ ..... 57. 50 54. 76 ~~ri±!~ie~:.-::: :~ :: :: :~~: :: ::: =::::::::-=: ::::: :: :J~:::: :: ::: :::: :: : : : : :: :: : : : : :: :: ::: ::~ :: ::: :: : : : ::: :: : 85 .2. 30 ..... do .. 57. 50 67.64 Boston..-·- ········· ..... do·-···················· Articles classified fifth class in the official classification 425 2.30 ..... do ... :::=: 57.50 13.53 (which includes billets, blooms, ingots, muck or puddle bars, borings, chain iron,cropends. scale,sheet,etc.). New York ...... ' ____ .do ... ·-······--·-···-··· .Articles classified :fifth class in the o:flicial classification .195 • ID 36,000 pounds. M.. 00 20.82 (angle, arches, floor, arms or brackets~ bands, arch bars, beams, n. o. s., shafting, nails, etc.), .rate in cents :per 100

1 pounds (class). [05 .11~ ._ ... do .•. ·-··· 41.40 39.42 ~~Pt11!'fe~~~:: :: :: :: :J~: :: ::: ::::~==::~ .. : ::: ::~~:::: :::::: :: :: ::~::::::::::::::= ::: ::-::: :::_.: ::::: -~ 85 .11! ...... do ••••.... 41.40 48. 70 .l3oston..--·---·--· ._ .. do.. . •. ··~··-· - ······ Articles classified filth c1ass in the official :classification 425 .'lJ1 .. . .. do .• ·-···· 48.60 11.43 . (angle, arches, floor1 arms or brack-ets, bands, arch bars, . beams, n. o. s., shafting, .nails, etc.), rate in cents ;per 100 potmds. Harrisburg._ .. _.·- -ew York .....•. -~---.... New iron and steel Iails ..•..• -··-.•.•.. _ ·-..•... __ ... ·-.... 195 1. 75 ·20 tons ...... 35.00 17.95 105 L10 ·-···do ...... 22.00 20.95 B~ : :: :::: ::: :~ ~~~~re~~::::::::~:::::::::::~~:::::~::::::::::~:~~:~~ - :::::::.::::~:::::::::::~~~::~: BS 1.10 ·-·-. . do .... -- ·· 22.00 25.88 444 2.16 .••.. do .•...... 54. ()() 12.16 ~~r~~ta:: :~::: .~i~~~~~~~~-~~::: ~::::::: :: .~~~,d~~: .:::: :: :::: :-:~: :=: :::~ ::: ::::::::: :=~: ::: :~: :~:::::: ~3 1.56 •••.. do ...... _. 39.00 11.04 Baltimore .•..•.....•.... do ...... do_ .•...... ••••.•••.•.•...... ·-...... 334 1.56 .••.• do ....•.... 39.00 11.67 674 S.40 ....• do ...... 85.00 12.61 4A4 3.00 ..... do...... 75.00 16.89 ~~:i~~~: ::: :~~ · :: :~:t:~: ~ ::~-~:~:~ :: :: ::: . ~~·~~~~~f~~~~:: :~: ::-:~::::::: :::::: ::~: :::::::~:: :: :: 353 2.40 ..... do ...... 60.00 16.99 Ba1timore...... do ....•...... •••.•...... do ..._ ...... •...•...... •... _.•. _•....•.• ~-·- .. . 334 : 2.40 .• ... do .... _ ..• . 60.00 17.96 Boston . .' ...... do .. ·-··· ...... ·-.•.. ·-...•.• d.o •• ___ ••••• _ -·. ·-· •.••.... ·-.•••.... ·-••••• _-· ••• ·-•.•• 674 3.40 ..... do .... _.... 85.00 12.46 New York .•••...... do.·-·-··-··············· Bar and band iron, cents per 100 pounds·-········-~·-···-· 444 .16 36,000 pounds. 57.60 12.97 Philadelphia ... ·-·- ___ .. do..-·-.....• ·-·-...... ·- ..... do____ .. ! ...... ·-...... 353 .14! ....• do....•.... 52.20 14. 75 '.Baltimore ...... do...... •...... do ....•.... _... _...... ·-.....••. ·-·· __ ••••.•. 334 .14! ....• do .•....._ •. 52.20 15.27 Boston ...•...... •...•.. do....•..•.• : •••.•...•...... do .•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.•. · 674 • 18 ....• do...... ••. 64.80 "9. 61 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENAT.E. 6223

Rates to and from·various poi'nU on iron and Bteel articZu-Continued.

Rate, From- Earnings To- Commodities. Distance. 2,240 Weight. Earnings per car. per car, pounds. per mile.

IMI'ORTS-Continued. .Miles. Cents. New York...... Pittsburgh, Pa .••••.•••••••• Articles classified filth class in the official classification 444 $3.60 25 tons •••..... $)().()() 20.27 (which includes billets, blo.oms, ingots, muck or puddle bars, borings, chain iron, crop ends, scale, sheet, etc.) (class). Philadelphia •...... do ...... •....•.••••...... do..•••.....•.••...... ••••••...•.....•.••••••••.••...•.. 353 3.2J ..... do ....•.... l)Q. ()() 2'2.65 Baltimore...... do ....•...... do ...•...... •••...... : ..•...... •...... 334 3.00 . .... do ....••... 75.00 2'2.45 Boston...... : ... do...... Articles classified filth class in the official classification 674 3.60 ..... do ...... 90.0U 13.35 (whlch includes billets, blooms, ingots mnck or puddle bars, borings, chain ironi crop ends, scale, sheat, etc.). New York •••••...... do ...... •••••••.••.•... Articles classified fifth c ass in the official classification 444 .18 36,000 pounds. t:4.80 14.59 (which includes angle, arches, floor, arms or brackets, .bands, hay in bundles, arch bars, beams n. o. s., shaft ings, nails, etc.), in cents per 100 pounds (class). Philadelphia ...... do ...... •...... • do ...... •...... " •...... •.... 353 .16 . ....do ...... •.. 57.60 16. 3l Baltimore...... do ...... •...... do ...... •...•...... ~ ...... 334 .15 ..... do...•..•.. 54.00 15. 74 Boston ...... do ..•...... •...•••.•... Articles classified filth class in the official classification 674 d8 .....do ..•...... 64.SO 9.Gl (which includes angle, arches, floor, arms or brackets, bands, hay in bundles, arch bars, beams n. o. s., shaft- . ings, nails, etc.), in cents per 100 pounds. Pittsburgh ...... New York ...... New iron or steel rails ...... 444 2.60 20 tons •...... 52.00 11. 71 Do ...... Philadelphia ...... :do...... 353 2.40 ..... do....•.... ~8.00 13. 59 Do...... Baltimore...... •..••...... do ...... 334 2.30 ..... do ...... 46.00 13. 77 Do...... New York...... New iron or s~eel rails (for export) ...... •...•...... 444 1. 75 ..... do...... 35.00 7.88 353 1.55 ..... do ...... 31.00 8. 78 E~ ::::::::::::: ~~J!~1fe~~: :: :: : : : : : : : : : : : :: :.: :~~:::::::: :: :: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ~::::: :·::::::::::::::::::::: 334 1. 45 ..... do ...... 29.00 8.68 584 2.56 25 tons ...... 64.00 10.95 ~~ilaX~~ta::::::: .~!~~~~~~~: ~~~:::::.::: :: :: : .~~~~:.~·- ·:.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: :: :: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 493 1. 96 ..... do .•••••.. 49.00 9.93 Baltimore...... do .•...... •.••...... do ...... •...•..•...... •....••...... 474 1.96 ..... do ...... 49.00 10.33 Boston ...... do ...•.•..•..•..•....••...... do ...... 682 1.96 ..... do ...... 49.00 7.18 New York ...... do .••...•...... Band iron .... •.•...... •...... 584 .17! 36,000 pounds. . 63.00 10. 78 Philadelphia ...... do ...•...... •...... do ...... •...... •...•...... •....•.. 493 .17! ..... do ...... 63.00 12. 77 Baltimore...... do ...... do ...... •...... •...••...... ••...... 474 .17! ..... do ...... 63.00 13.~ Boston ...... :do ...... do ...... 682 .18 ..... do ..•••... 64.80 9.50 New York ...... do ...... •...... Ilar iron ...... 584 .21 ..... do .....•.. 75.60 12. 94 Philadelphia ...... do ...... do ...... 493 ~ 18 ..... do ...•... : 64.80 13.14 Baltimore...•...... do ...... •...... do ...... •...... •...... •.. 474 .18 ..... do ...•.... 64.80 13.67 Boston...... do .....•..•...•...... do ..•...... 682 .18 ..... do ...... 64.'80 !l.50 New York ...... do .•.•••...... •...... Wire in bundles or coils (not copper covered or insulated), 584 .17! ...•. do .••..... 63.00 10. 73 wire rope (iron or steel) on reels or in coils. Pb iladelphia...... do. . . • • • • • • . . • • • . . • ...... do ...... 493 .17! ..... do ...... 63.00 12.77 Baltimore...... do ...... do ...... •...... •...... •...... 474 .17! ..... do ...... 63.00 13.29 Boston...... : .. do ..••...... do ...... : ...... 682 .18 ..... do ...... 64.80 9.50 DOMESTIC.

New York ...... Cleveland, Ohio ....•...... Muck and puddle bars, billets, blooms, borings, crop ends li84 3.55 25 tons •...... 88. 75 15.19 ingots, rails, old, scrap iron or steel slabs, turnings. Philadelphia...... do. • . • . • • . • • . . . . • ...... do ..••... , ••••••••••...•••••...... •.•••••.. 493 3.15 ..... do ••••.... 78. 75 15.97 Baitimore.•...... do ....••.•...•.••.....•...... do ....••••.•••..•...... •...... 474 2.95 ..... do .•••.•.. 73. 75 15.34 Boston •...... do ..•.•...... do ...... ~ ...... 682 3.55 ..... do .••••... 88. 75 13.01 New York ...... do .••..•... :...... Cinder mill, drippings steel, iron pig, scale mill, skulls ladle, ·584 3.37 ..... do .•.•.... 84.25 14.42 spillings steel. Philadelphia ...... do •••...••••••...... •••...... do .•...... •...... •...... 493 2.97 . .... do •.•..... 74.25 15.06 Baltimore...... do ...... do ...•...... •..•...... •...... 474 2. 77 .....do ...... 69.25 14.61 Boston ...... do ...... do ...... 682 3.37 .....do .•.•.... 84.25 12.35 New York ...... do...... Official classification ...... , ...... 584 .21 36,000 pounds. 75.60 12.94 Philadelphia •...... do ..••.•...... Fifth class ....••...... •...••...... •....•... 493 .19 •.... do ...... 68.40 13.87 Baltimore...... do ..•••... : ....•...... do ...... 474 ~ 18 .....do .••..... 64.80 13.67 Boston...... •...... do ••••.•...... •...... do ...... 682 • 21 ..... do •..•..•. 75.60 11.08 IMPORTS. NewYork ..•...... Cincinnati,Ohio ...... Ore,iron ...... •••.•...... •...... 757 3.13 25tons ...... 78.25 10.33 Philadelphia ...... do ...... do ...... •...... 666 2.53 . .... do ...... 63.25 9.49 Baltimore...... , .... do ...••...... do ...... - 593 2.53 ..... do ...... 63.25 10.66 Boston ...... do ...•...... •...... do ...... •...... 926 2. 53 ..... do ...... 63.25 6.83 New York ...... do ...... ••.•...... Band, iron ...... •...•..•..•...••...... 757 ".20~ 36,000 pounds. 73.80 9. 74 666 .18 ..... do ...... 64:80 9. 73 ~~ir!~fe~~::::: :: :: :: :~~::::::::::::::::::: ::: : :: :J~:::·: :: '.::: :::::::: :: ::::::::::::: :::::::: ::: :: : :: :: :: :: 593 • 18 ..... do ...... 64.80 10.92 Beston ...... do ...... •....•...... do ...... 926 .18 ..... do ..•...... 64.80 6.99 New York ...... do ...... Bar iron..•...... •...... •...... 757 .21 ..... do...... 75.liO 9.98 6t\n . 18 ..... do ...... 64.80 9. 73 ~~~~~~:: :: :: : :: : : :~g::::::: ::: :: : : ::: ::: :: : ::: ::~~:::::: ::: :::: :::: ::::: :: :: :: :: :: ·:: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::: :: : : : : 593 . 18 ..... do ...... 64.80 10.92 Boston...... do ...... do...... 926 .18 ..... do ...... 64.80 6.99 New York ..•...... do ...... Wire in bundles or coils (not copper, covered, or insulated), 757 . 201 ..... do ...... 73.80 9. 74 wire rope (iron or steel) on reels or in coils. Philadelphia ...... do ...... do .•...... 666 • 18 . .... do ...... 64.80 9. 73 Baltimore...... do...... do ...... -~ ...... 593 • 18 . .... do..••..... 64.80 10.92 Boston...... do ....•...... •...... do ...... •...... 926 • 18 .,.... do ...... 64.80 6.99 DOMESTIC. New York...... Cincinnati, Ohio...... Muck and puddle bars,· billets, blooms, borings, crop ends, 757 4.35 25 tons ...... 108. 75 14.36 ingots, rails, old, scrap, iron or steel slabs, turnings, etc. 666 3.95 ..... do ...... 98. 75 14.82 ~~R-f~~fe~~:: :: :: : :: :: : ~~: ::::: :::: :: ::: ::: :: :: : :: : : :~~::::::: :: :::: :::: :::: :: : : : : ::: :::::: :::: ~::::: :: :: ::::: 593 3. 75 ..... do ....•.... 93. 75 15.80 Boston ...... do ...... do ...... 926 4.35 ..... do ....•.... 108. 75 11. 73 Kew York ...... do ...... Cinder, mill, drippings, steel, iron, pig, scale, mill, skulls, 757 4.13 ....• do ....•.... 103.25 13.63 ladle, spillings, steel. 666 3. 73 ..... do ...... 93.25 14.00 ~~~~~fe~::::::: :: : : :~~: :: :: :: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :: : : :~g::: :: :: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 593 3.53 ..... do ...... 88.25 14.88 Boston ...... do ...... ••••.•...... do ...... •...... •...... 926 4.13 ..... do ...... 103.25 11.15 New York ...... do...... Official classification ...... 757 .26 36,000 pounds. 93.60 12.36 666 . 24 ..... do ...... 86.40 12.97 ~~~~fe~~:: ::: :: :: : : :~~:::::: :::: :::: :::: ::: :: .~j~~;~~:::::: :: :: :: :: :::: :: :::: :::::::: :: :: :: :: :: :::: :: :: : S93 . 23 .....do ...... 82.80 13.95 Boston ...... do ...... : ...... do ...... 926 . 26 .....do ...... 93.60 10.10 • IMPORTS. 1 705 2.81 25 tons ...... 70.25 9.96 614 2.21 ..... do ...... 55.25 8.99 ~;JI~~?:~_:_:_::::: :~~ ~i~: :~~;~:: :·:·:·::::::::::: :~~~,~~~~:::: ::: ::: : : : : : : : : :: ::: : : :: ::: : : : :::::::::: :: ::: : :~: 595 2.21 ..... do ...... 55.25 9.28 Boston ...... do ...... do ...... ••...... •...... 795 2.21 .. . .. do ...... 55.25 6.94 705 . 18! 36,000 pounds . 66.60 9.44 614 .18 ..... do ...... 64.80 10.55 f~ti!~Fe~_:_:_::::: :: : : :~~:::::::: :: :: : : : : : : : : : : : ~~~~~~~::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: :: :: :::: :: :: : : : : : : : : : 595 .18 ..... do ...... 64.80 10.89 Boston .•..••.•...... do ...•...... •...... do ..•••••••.••••••••••••••..•.•••••..••••••••••..••..•.. 795 .18 ..... do ...... 64.80 8.14 6224 CONGRESSIONAL REDORD~SENATE. J\{AY 10,

Rates to and from varicu.3 points on iron and steel articles-Continued.

Rate, Earnings From- To- Commodities. Distance. 2,240 Weight. !Earnings per car, pounds. j por car. per mile. I IMPORTS-continued. Niles. Cents. 1 705 S0.21 39,000 pounds. 75.60 10. 72 614 .18 ..... do ...... 64. 80 10.55 i~~~f~_a_:_:_:.:::: :~~ ~ii: :~~:i~::: ::::::: ::: ::: :~:~·~!~~:· :·:·::·::: ::: ::: : ::::::: ::::::::: :::: :: ::: : : : :: ::: : : : : 595 .18 ..... do ...... 64. 80 10.89 Boston ...... ••.••...... do ...•..•.....••••••..•...... do ...... ···' ...... 795 .18 ..... do ...... 64.80 8.14 New York ..••.•...... do ..••.•...•••••••.••.•. Wire in bundles or coils (not copper covered or insulated), 705 .18! ..... do ...... 66.60 9.44 wire rope (iron or steel) on reels or in coils. 614 . 18 ..... do ....•... 64. 80 10.55 ~~=Fe~::::::: :: : : :~~:::::::: ::::::::::: ::: ::: J~:::: :: :: : : : : : :: :: :: :: :: :: ::::::::: :::::: ::: ::: :: ::: :: : 595 • 18 ..... do ...... 64.80 10.89 Boston ...••...... do ••••••....•...••.•.•..•.... do .••...... •.••...••.•....••.•..•••..•••••.•••..•.. . . . 795 . 18 ..... do ...•.... 64.80 8.14

DOMESTIC. New York .•...... Toledo, Ohio ..•.....•...•... Muck and puddle bars, billets, blooms, borings, crop ends, 705 3.90 25 tons ...... 97. 50 13.82 ingots, rails (old), ~crap iron or steel, slabs, turnings, etc. Philadelphia ...... do .....•...... •...... do ...... 614 3.50 ..... do ...•.... 87.50 14.25 Baltimore ...... do ..•...... •...... • do ..•.••...... •.•...... 595 3.30 ..... do ...... 82. 50 13.86 Ilost0.l'I ...... •...... do ....•...... do ...... - ... ..•...... 795 3.90 ..... do ...•.... 97. 50 12.26 New York ...... do ...... Cinder, mlll; drippings, steel; iron, pig; scale, mill; s1."Ull, 705 3. 71 ..... do ...... 92. 75 13.15 ladle; spillings, steel. l'hiladelphia ...... do .••.••...... do ...... 614 3.31 ..... do ..•..•.. 82. . 75 13.47 Baltimore ....••...... do .•••...... •...... do ....•...... •.••...... •••.• ~ -···'" ••••.•.••.••••..•.•. 595 3.11 . . ... do .•...... 77. 75 12.93 Boston ...•.••...... do ..•.•...... do ...... 795 3, 71 . ....do ...... 92. 75 11. 66 New York .••...... do ....•...... Official classification •••...... ••.••..•..•....•...... •...... 705 .23 36,000 pounds. 82.80 11. 74 Philadelphia...... do...... • . . . . . • • . . • . . . . . Fifth class .•..••...... ••...'" .•••••••••..•...•.••.•.• __ .•... 614 .21 ..... do ...... 75.60 12.31 Baltimore ...... do ...... •..••...... do ...... , ...... §95 . 20 72.00 12.10 Boston .....•...... do ...•...... •...... do ...• , ... u·· ...... 795 .23 : : :::~~:::::: : : 82. 80 10. 41 IYPORTS. Ne\7 York ..•...... Indianapolis, Ind .•••••.... Ore, iron ...... •...... •...•... 825 3. 35 25 tons ...... 81. 25 9.84 Philadclph1a .. '· ...... do ..•....•..•...... do ...... ••...... •••...... •.•.•...... 734 2. 75 ..... do ...... 68. 75 9.36 Baltimore. . . . • ...... do...... • . • • . • . • ...... do ...... 704 2. 75 .....do ...... 68. 75 9. 76 Bctston ....••••...... do ...•....•...... do ....•..•...... •. •- ..•••...... •...... 965 2. 75 . . . ..do ...... 68. 75 7.12 New York ...... do ...•....•..•...... Band, iron ...... 825 . 21 36,000 pounds . 75.60 9.16 Philadelphia...... do ...... do ...... 734 . 18 ..... do ...... 64.80 8.82 Baltimore .•.•.•...... do ...•. , ...... do ....•·...... 704 . 18 . .... do ...... 64.80 9.2() Boston ...... •...... do ...•...... do ...... 965 .18 ..... do ...... 64. 80 6. 71 New York ..•...... do ..•...... Bar iron ...... 825 .21 . . ... do ...... 75. 60 9.16 Philadelphia ...•...... do ...... •...... do ...... ••••...... ••...... •...... 734 .18 .....do ...... 64.80 8. 82 Baltimore ...... do ...... do ...... •...... •...... 704 .18 ..... do ...... 64.80 9.20 Boston ....•...... do ...... do ...... 965 . 18 . .... do ...... 64. 80 6. 71 New York ...... do ...•...... •...... Wire in bundle:; or coils (not copper-covered or insulated), 825 .21 . . .. . do ...... 75.60 9.16 wire rope (iron or steel) on reels or in coils. Philadelphia ...... do ...... do ...... 734 . 18 . .. .. do ...... 64.80 8. 2 Baltimore •..•...... do ...... do ...... 704 .18 . .... do ...... 64.80 9.20 Boston .....•.•...... do ...... do ...... ·...... 965 .18 .....d o ...... 64.80 6. 71

DOMESTIC

New York •.•...... Indianapolis, Ind ...... Muck and puddle bars, billets, blooms, borings, crop ends, 825 4. 00 25 tons ...... 115.00 13. 93 Philadelphia ...... do .• ••...... ~J~~·- ~~- ~~l-~~ '. ~~~~-~r-~~ -~~ ~~~~- ~~~~·. ~~~~~·. ~~~-. r.rl 4.20' . . ... do ...... 105.00 14.30 Baltimore ...... do ..•...... do ..•...... 704 4.00 . .... do ...... 100. 00 14.20 Boston .....•••...... do ..••...... • do ...... 965 4.65 ..... do ...... lHi.25 12. 04 New York ..•...... do ..•...... Cinder (mill), drippings (steel), iron (pig), scale (mill), skull 825 4.42 ..... do ...... 110. 50 13.92 . ladle, spillings (steel), etc. Pb.lladelphia ...... do ...... : ...... do ...... 734 4.02 . .... do ...... 100. 50 13.65 704 3.82 ..... do ...... 95.50 13.55 ~~~~::~~~-- ·.·.·.: :: :: :: :: :~~: :: ::: :: ~:: :: :: : : : : : : : :: : ::~~:::: :: :: : : ::: ::::: ::::: :: .::::: :: ::: ::: ::: ::::: :: ::: :: 965 4.42 : . ... do ...... 110. 50 11. 45 New York ..•.•...... do ...•...... Official classification ••••...... •...... · ...... •...... 825 . 28 3.6,000 pounds . 100.80 12.21 Philadelphia ...... do...... Fifth class ...... 734 . 26 . . ... do ...... 93.QO 12. 75 Baltimore ...... •...... do ...... do ...... 704 .25 ..... do ...... 90.00 12. 78 Boston...... do...... do ...... •. 965 .28 .. ... do ...... 100.80 10.34

ru:PORTS. New York •...... Chicago, Ill...... : ...... Ore, iron ...... 912 3.60 25 tons ...... S().00 9.85 Philadelphia ...... •. .. do .. •...... •..•.... do ...... 821 3. 00 ..... do ...... 75.00 9.13 Baltimore ... : ...... do ...... do ...... 802 a.oo . .... do •...... 75. 00 9.35 Boston ...... do ..•...... : ...... do ...... •...... •...••.•••...... •...•..••..•.....•. 1,003 3.00 . .... do ...... 75.00 7.45 Ne-. York ...... do .. •...... Band iron ...... 912 21.00 3G,OOO pounds . 75.80 . 8.31 821 18.00 ..... do •...... 64.80 7.89 ~~m!~~~ :: ::: : : :: :J~ :::: :: :: : : : :: :: : :: :: : ; ::: J~ :: :: :::::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::::::: ::: ::::::::: :::: ::: :::: :: 802 18.00 ..... do ...... 64.80 8.03 Boston...... do ...... do ...... 1, 006 18.00 . .... do ...... 64.80 6. 44 t~e» York ...... do ...... : ... Bar iron ...... 912 21.00 . .... do ...... 75.80 8. 31 Philadelphia ...... do ...... do ...... 821 18. 00 . ...• do .•...... e4.SO 7.89 Baltimore...... do ...... • ...... do ...... •...... •...... 802 18. 00 . .... do ...... 64.80 8. 03 Boston ...... do ...... do ...... •...... _...... 1,006 1 .00 . .... do ...... e4. 80 6. 44 Ne" York ...•...... do ...... Wire in bundles or coils (not copper covered or insulated), 912 21 . 00 ..... do •.•..... 75.eo 8. 31 wire rope (iron or steel) on reels or in coils. Philadelphia ...... do .. : .... : ...... do ...... 821 18.00 . .... do ...... C4.80 i'.89 Baltimore ...... do ...... do ...... •...... 802 18.00 . .... do ...... 64.80 8.0S Boston ...... do ...... do ...... •...... 1, 000 18.00 . . . .. do .. • . •... f4. 80 6.41

DOMESTIC.

New York ...... Chicago, Ill ...... Muck and puddle bars, billets, blooms, borings, crop ends, 912 5. 00 25 tons ...... 125.00 13. 70 ingots, rails (old), scrap iron or steal, slabs, turnings, etc. Philadelphh ...... •....do ...... do ...... 821 4. 60 ..... do ....•.. . 115.()() 14.00 Baltimore ...... do ...... •.••••...... do ...... 802 4.40 .. ... do ...... 110.00 13. 71 Boston ...... do ...... •..••••••...... do ...... 1,005 5.00 .. ... do ...... 125.00 12.42 New York ...... do ...... ••• . •...... Cinder, mill; drippings, steel; iron, pig; scale, mill; skull, 912 4. 75 .....do ...... 118. 75 13.02 ladle; spillings, steel, etc. Philadelphia ...... do ...... ••...... do ...... 821 4. 35 ..... do .....•.. 108. 75 13.24 Baltimore ...... do ...... do ...... 802 4.15 ..... do ...... 103. 75 12.93 Boston...... do ...... •...... do ...... 1, 006 4. 75 ..... do ...... 118. 75 11.80 New York ...... do ...... Official classification ...... 912 30. 00 36,000 pounds. 108.00 11.84 Phil:i.dclphia ...... do ...... Fifth class ...... 821 28.00 . .• .. do ...... 100. 80 12. 'Z'/ Baltimore...... 1 ••••• do ...... do ...... 802 27.00 ..... do ...... 97. 20 12.11 Boston ...... do ...... •...... do ...... •...... 1,006 30.00 . .... do ...... 108.00 10. 73

1,065 4.21 25 tons ...... 105. 25 9.88 974 3. 01 ..... do ...... 90.25 9.25 934 3. 61 ..... do ...... 90.25 9.66 1,216 3.61 ..... do ....•.... !JO. 25 '1.42 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--SENATE. 6225

Rates to andfrom various points on iron and steel articles-Continued.

Rate, Earnings Earnings From- To- Commodities. -!Distance. 2,240 Weight. per car per ~r, pounds. · perm.Jle.

~~~- 1 -~~~~~.1-~~- IID'ORTS-Continued. Miles. Cents. New York...... St Louis . . . . .•• •• . • • . • . • . • • Band, iron .•.•...... •••.•••.•••••••.•••.•••.•••• ··~· ••••••• 1,06.5 $0.25 36,000 pounds. $90.00 8.45 974 .22 ..... do..•.••... 8.13 ~~~~r~~::::: :: :: : : :a~::::::::::::::::::::::: ::: ::~~:::: :::: :: :::::::::::::: ::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::: ::: 934 .22 ..... do .•••••••• ~~:~ 8.48 Boston...... •...... do ..•....••••••••••.•.••...... do ...... •.•.•...•••••• ·····················-············ 1,216 .22 ..... do ..•.•.... 79.20 6.51 New York ...•••••...... do...... Bar, iron ...... 1, 06.5 ;25 . .... do ...... 90.00 8.4,5 974 • 22 ..... do ...••.... 79.20 8.13 ~~~~Fe~~::::::: :: : : :~~::::::::: ::::::::::: :: : :: : : :~~:::: :: :: :: :: :::: :: :: : : :: :: :::::::::::: :::: :::: ::: ::: ::: 934 .22 ..... do .•..•••.. 79.2i 8.48 Boston...... ••• · ...... do.: ...... do ...... 1,216 • 22 .•... do ...... 79.20 6.51 New York ...... do ...... Wire in bundles or coils (not copper covered or insulated) 1,065 .25 ..... do .._. ..••.. 90.00 8.45 wire rope (iron or steel on reel.Sor in coils). 974 • 22 .•..• do .••.••••.. 79.20 8.13 ~~ft~~fe~~::::::: :: : : :~~:::::::: :: :: :: : : : : :: :: : :: : : :~~:::::::: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::: ::: :: ::::::::: :: :: : : : :: ::: :: 934 • 22 ..... do ...... 79.20 8.48 Boston...... •.•...... do ....•.•..•••..•.•.••....•... do ...••••••••••..•••..•...•.••••.••••.•.....•.••...... 1,216 • 22 ..-•• do ...•••.••• 79.20 6.51

DOMESTIC.

New York ..•.•.•.. St. Louis.•.•••••••••••••••.. Muck and J?.Uddle bars, billets, blooms, borings, crap ends, 1, 06.5 5.80 25 tons ...... 145.00 13. 61 ingots, rails (old), scrap iron or steel, slabs, turnings, etc. 974 5. 4-0 ..... do ...•..... 135. 00 13. 88 ~~:!~Fe~~::::::: : ::J~::::::::::::::::::::::: :::J~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 934 5. 20 ..... do ..••..... 130. 00 13.91 Boston ...... do ...... do ...... •>-., •••••••••••••••.•.•.... 1,21& 5.85 ..... do .••••.... 148. 25 12.02 New York .....•...... do...... Cinder mill, drippings steel, iron pig, scale ;mill, skull ladle, 1,005 5. 56 ..... do ...••••.. 139. 00 13.05 spillings steel, etc. 974 5.16 ..... do .•••..... 129. 00 13.24 ~~~~Fe~~::::::: :::J~::::::::::::::::::::::: :::J~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 934 4.96 ..... do ...... 124. 00 13. 27 Boston ...... do ...... do ...... 1,216 5. 56 ..... do ...... 139. ()() 11.41 New York.. .•...... do ...... Official classification ...... 1,005 .35 36,000 pounds. 126.00 11. 83 974 .33 ..... do ...... 118. 80 12.30 ~~~~Fe~~::::::: :: : : :~~:::::::::: :: :: :: :: : : : : : .~j~~~g-~:: :::::::::: :: :: : :: :: : : : :::: ::: :: :: ::: :: :: ::::::::: 934 .32 ..... do ...... 115. 20 12. 33 Boston ...... •...... do ...... do ...... 1,216 .35 ..... do ....•••.. 126. 00 10.36 IMPORTS. New York...... Minneapolis or St. Paul..... Ore, iron ...... - ~ --. 1,332 6.20 25 tons .•.•••.. 155.00 11.17 1,241 5.60 .....do .••••... 140.00 11.23 ~~~~fe~~:::: ::: :: : J~ :::: ::: ::::::::::: :: :: ::: ::~~:::: :::::: ::::::: :: :::: :::::::: :: :::::::::::: ::::: :::: 1,222 5.60 .....do ••••••.. 140.00 ll.45 Boston ...... do ...... do ...... 1,423 5.60 .....do ...... ' 140.00 9.81 New Yoi:k ....•...... do ...... Band, iron ...... 1,332 7.50 16 tons .•.•.... 120.00 9.01 1'hiladelphia ...... do .•••••••••..••...... do •••...... •..•...•.•.•.•••••...•..••...... •..•...... 1,241 6.90 .....do .•••.•.. llO. 40 8.89 Baltimore ....•••...... do ...... do ...... 1,222 6.90 .....do .•••••.. ll0.40 9.03 Boston ...... do ...... do ...... 1,423 6.90 .....do •••••... 110.40 7.73 New ""r_"ork ...... do ...... Bar, iron ...... 1,332 7.50 ..... do .•••••.. 120.00 9.01 Philadelphia ...... do ...... do ...... 1,241 6.90 .....do .•••.... 110. 40 8.8~ Baltimore .....•...... do ...... do ...... 1,222 . 6.90 ..... do .•••••.. 110.40 9.03 Bo ton ...... do ...... do ...... 1, -iZO 6.90 .....do .••••• _. 110.40 7. 73 New York ....•...... do ...••••••••...... •.... Wire, n. o. s ...... 1,332 7.50 ..... do .•••••.. 120.00 9.01 1,241 6.90 .....do ...... 110. 40 8.89 ~~J!~i~~.... :: ::: :~ :: :i~:::: ::::::: :::::: ::: :: ::: ::~~::: ::: ::::::: :::: :::::::::::::: ::::::::::::: ::: ::: ::: : 1,222 6.90 .....do .•••.... 110.40 9.03 Boston ...... ••••...... do ...... do ...... - ...... 1,420 7.20 ..... do .•••.... 115. 20 8.07 New York ...••...... do...... Pig iron ..••••••..••...... ••••...... 1,332 6. 75 25 tons .••..... 168. 75 12.66 1,241 6.15 ..... do ...... 153. 75 12.39 ~~~!~i~.~----- :: :: :: : : :~~:::: :::::::::::::: ::: : ::: J~:::: ::: :::::::::::::::: :::::::::::: ::::::::::: :::: ::: : 1,222 6.15 ..... do .•••••.. 153. 75 12.58 Boston .•...... •...... do .... ·····-········· ...... •do ...... 1,426 6.15 ..... do ..••.... 153. 75 10.77

DOMESTIC. New York ...... •. Minneapolis or St. Paul ..... Billets, blooms, bars, muck or puddle, crop ends, ingots ...... 1,332 7.60 25 tons ••••••• 190.00 14.27 Philadelphia ...... ffo ...... do ...... 1,241 7.20 ..... do ...... 180.00 14.50 Baltimore ...... do ...... do ...... 1,22'2 7.00 ..... do .•.•.... 175.00 14.32 Boston ...... do ...... do ...... · ...... 1,426 7.60 ..... do .•.•••.. 190.00 13.32 New York .....•...... do ...•••...... Iron pig, skulls ladle, steel spill~s or driopings ...... 1,332 6. 75 ..... do ...•••.. 168. 75 12.66 Philadelphia .••..•...... do ..••••••..••••....•...... do •...... -~ ...... 1,241 6.35 ..... do ..•.•... 158. 75 12. 79 Baltimore ....••...... do ...... do ...... 1, 22"2 6.15 ..... do ...... 153. 75 12.58 Boston ...... do ...... do ...... 1,426 6. 75 ..... do ...... 168. 75 11.83 New York ...... do ...•...... ••...... Officialclassification ...... 1,332 .46 36,000 pounds. 165.60 12.43 Philadelphia ...... do .....••.••..••.•.•.... Fifth class ...... 1,241 .44 ..... do ...... 158.40 12. 76 Baltimore ...... do ..•..••••••••.•.•••••...... do ...... •...... •.•...... 1,222 . 43 ..... do ..••••.. 154..80 12.66 Boston ...... do ...•••••••..••••••••...... do .••••...... •...... •.....•...... 1,426 .46 ..... do .•••••.. 165.60 11. 61

IMPORTS. New York...... Omaha, Nebr...... Ore iron ...... 1,405 6.90 25 tons ...... •. 172.50 12.27 1,314 6.30 ..... dQ ..••••.. 157.50 11.98 ~~&!~!~~::::::: :: : : :~~:::::::::::::::::::::: :: : : :~g::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: :: : : : : : : : : : : : 1,295 6.30 ..... do •.•••... 157.50 12.16 Boston ...... •...... do ..••••••.•••••••••.•...... do ...... 1,499 6.30 ..... do .•••••.. 157. 50 10.57 0 1,405 7.25 ..... do ...... 181. 25 12.90 ~i:aXe{p1hla::::::: :: : : :g~:::: ::: ::::::: ::: ::: :: .~~~~·- ~:~~~~: ~~ -~~~ -~~~::. :·.: :: :: : : : : ::: :: : : : : : : :: :: : : : : 1,314 6.65 ..... do .•••••.. 166.25 12.65 Baltimore ...... do ....•.••...... ~ ...... do ...•...... •••••••...... •...... •.....•••. 1,295 6.65 ..... do .•••••.. 166.25 12.90 Boston...... do ..•••.•••••••••••••••...... do ...... 1,499 6.65 ..... do .•..•... 166.25 11.09

DOMESTIC. New York ....•.... Omaha, Nebr •....••••.••••. Billets, blooms, etc...•...... •...... •.•.... 1,405 8.80 25 tons ...... 220.00 15.58 Philadelphia ...... do ...... do ...... •...... •.... 1,314 8.40 ..... do ...... 210.00 15.22 Baltimore ...... do ...... ••...... do .•...... 1,295 8.20 ..... do ...•.•.. 205.00 15.82 Boston...... • do .•...... do ...... 1,499 8.85 ..... do ...•.... 221.25 14. 76 New York ...... do .•••...... •.. Angle, bar, boiler, bolts, nuts, rivets, sheets, etc...... 1,405 .57 36,000 pounds. 205.20 14.60 Philadelphia...... do ...... do ...... •...... 1, 314 .55 ..... do ...... 198.00 15.06 Baltimore ...... do .....•.....•...... do ...... 1,295 .54 ..... do ••..•... 194.40 15.01 Boston ...... do .•...... ••••.•...... do ....•...... •..•.•••••...... 1,499 .57 .. .. . do ...... 205.20 13.02 New York ...... do ...... •...•••••.... Fifth rlass ...... 1,405 • 55 ..... do ..•••... 198. 00 14.09 Philadelphia ...... do ...... ••••••...... do ...... ••.•....•.•.•••••••...... 1,314 . 53 ..... do .••••... 190.80 14.44 1,295 . 52 . .. .. do ..•••... 181'.20 14.45 ~~~~~~~:::::::::: :: : : :~~:::::::::::::::::::::: :: : J~:::::::::: :: :: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 1,499 .55 ..... do •••••... 198.00 13.21

1,342 6.58 25 tons ...... 164.50 12.25 1,251 5.98 ..... do ..••.... 149. 50 11.95 1,211 5.98 ..... do ...•.... H9.50 12.34 1,448 5.98 .. ... do ..••.... 149.50 10.32 1,342 6.58 ..... do ....•... 164.50 12.25 1,251 5.98 .. .. . do ...... 149. 50 11.95 1,211 5.98 ..... do ...... 149.50 12.34 1,448 5.98 ..... do ...... 149. 50 10.32 :6226 .OONGRESSION AL RECORD-SEN ATE. MAY ~O,

Rates to andf'f1J111, various point3 _on iron and steel articles-Continued.

Rate, Earnings Earnings From- To- Commodities. Distance. 2,240 Weight. per car, pounds. per car. per mile. I DOMESTIC. Miles. Cents. j 1,342 $8.30 25 tons ...... $207. 50 15.46 i • 1, 251 7.90 .... . do ...... 197. 50 15. 73 ) ~~!~rl~~::::::: :~~~ir ~i?:·:·::: :~:: :: :: : : : : : ~~~~: ~;~7·: ~~: ::: ::::: :: :: ::::: :::::::::::: :: ::: : : : : : : : 1,211 7. 70 ..... do ...... 192. 50 15. 8!> Boston...... do ...... •.••... •.... do ...... : ...... 1,448 8.35 .... . do ...... 203. 75 14. 41 New York ...... clo ...... •...... Angle, bar, boiler, b-0lts, nots, rivets, sheets, etc ...... 1,342 . 57 36,000 pounds 205. 20 15. 23 1,251 . 55 ..... do ..•...•. 198.00 15. 93 E~:~~1fe~~ ::: ::: : :: : : : ~~ :::: ::: ::::::::::: ::: : :: :: :~~:::: ::::: :·:: :·:::::::: ::·::: ·:: :::: :·::: ::-:-:: ·::: ::: ::·:: ::: : 1,211 . 54 ..... do ...... 194. 00 16. 01 Boston...... do ...... do ...... : . .-: . .--:-:-:~:- ...... 1,448 .67 . .... do ...... 205. 20 14.17 New York-'...... do ...... Fifth class ...... •...... •.• 1,342 . 55 . .... do ...... 198.0() 14. 75 1,251 . 53 ..... do ...... 190. 80 15.25 ~~~~fe~~::::::: :: : : :~~: :::: ::::::::: :::::::: :: : : :~~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : 1,211 • 52 . .... do ...... 187. 20 15.45 Boston ...... do ...... do ...... •...... 1,448 • 55 ..... do ...... 198. 00 13.67

SA.LT LA.KE, BASED UPON MISSISSIPPI RIVER COMBINATION".

Now York ...... St. Louis ...... Billets, blooms, ingots, mack bars, et..e ..••.•.•..•...... •....•...... ~5.SO 25 tons ...... } " Do ...... St. Louis to Salt Lake.....•...... do...... 2,679 . 58 60,000 pounds. ...493. · 00 t18.40 Philadelphia ...... St. Lcuis ...... do ...•...... •...... 5.40 25 tons ...... } 483 18. 66 Do ...... St. Louis to Salt Lake...... do ..•...... ••.•...... : ...... 2,588 . 58 60,000 tons . . . . · 00 Baltimore ...... St. Louis ...... do ..••...... •...... 5.20 25 tons ...... } 478. 00 Do ...... St. Louis to Salt Lake...... do ...... 2,592 . 58 60,000 pounds . 18.44 Boston ...... St. Louis ...... •...... do ....•...... ••..••...... 5.85 25 tons ...... } 494. 25 Do ...... St. Louis to Salt Lake...... do...... 2, 773 • 58 60,000 pounds . 17.82 Nev., York...... St. Louis ...... Bar, rod, hoop, or band ...... 35 36,000 _ pounds. } 434 Do ...... St. Louis to Salt Lake...... do...... 2,679 • 77 40,000 pounds . 00 16.20 Philadelphia ...... St. Louis...... ••...... do ....•...... •...... 33 36,000 pounds . } Do ...... St. Louis to Salt Lake...... do ...... 2,588 • 77 40,000 pounds . 428· 80 16.49 Baltimore...... St. Louis ...... do ...•.... ~ ...... •...•...... •.•...... 32 36,000 pounds. \ 20 16.32 Do ...... St. Louis to Salt Lake ...... do ...... 2,592 • 77 40,000 pounds . J ~. Boston ...... St. Louis ...... do ...... : ...... 35 36,000 pounds. } . Do ...... St. Louis to Salt Lake...... do ...... 2, 773 .. 77 40,000 pounds . 431· 00 15.15 New York ...••.... Salt Lake ...... Fifth class ...... 2,679 1. 46 36,000 pounds . 525. 60 19.61 Philadelphia ...... do ...... do...... 2,588 1.44 ..... do ...... 518.40 20.03 Baltimore ....•...... do ...... •...... do...... 2,592 1. 43 ..... do ...... 514.80 19.83 Boston ...... •...... do ..•...... do ...... 2, 773 1.46 .... . do...... 525. 60 18. 95 fFifth-class rat~ of 63 cents per 100 pounds Mississippi River to Denver applies on above oom.modities.}

DENVER, BASED UPON MISSISSIPPI RIVER COMBINATION.

New York ...... Denver. Colo ...... Fifthclas3 ...... : ...... , ...... 1,937 ~0.93 36,00J pounds . $352. 80 $18. 21 Philadelphia ...... do ...... •...... do ...... 1,846 . 93 ..... do ...... 345. 60 18. 72 Baltimoi:e ...... do ...... do .. . , ...... · ...... : . 1,850 • 95 . .... do ...... 342.00 18.43 Boston ...... do ...... do ...... " ...... •...... 2,031 .93 ..... do ...... 352.80 17.37 New York ...... Spokane, Wash ...•••.•.... Angle, channel, bars1 beams{ columns, trusses, etc. .Also 2, 797 1.28 30,000 pounds. 384.00 13.72 bolt.9, nuts, washers, lag bo ts, and sci·ew3. 2, 706 1. 28 . . ... do ...... ~- 384. 00 14.19 .~~~!~fe~ :::: ::: ::: J~ : ::: :: : :: ::: ::: ::::::: :: :J~:::::::: :::: : : : : :: :: :: :: : -:: : : : : : : : : : :: ·:::::::: .:::: ::: : 2,687 1. 28 ..... do ...... 384.00 14. 29 Boston ...... do ...... do ...... 2,891 1.28 .... . do ...... 384. 00 13.28 IN o class rates between above points .} _ Now York ...... San Fr~cisco ...... Ang1e, channel, bars, beru:ns, columns, trusses, etc. Also 3,240 . 80 ....• do ...... 240.00 7.41 bolts, nuts, washers, lag bolts, and screws. Philadelphia ...... do ...... do ...... 3,149 . 80 . .... do .....•.. 240. 00 7.62 Baltimore ...... •...... do .....•...... •••.•...... do ...... 3,130 .80 ..· ... do ...... 240.00 7.60 Boston ...... do ...... do ...... 3,334 .80 ..... do ...... 240. 00 7.19 · IN o filth-class rates between above points.] New York ...... Porthmd, Oreg ..••...... Angle, channel, bars, beams, columns, trusses, bolts, nuts, 3,204 .so .....do .. : ..... 240.00 7.8) washers, lag bolts, screws, etc. Philadelphia ..· ...... do ....•...... ••...... do ...... 3,113 . 80 ..... do ...... 240.00 7. 71 Ealtimore ...... do ...... do . . ...•...... •...... 3,094 . 80 .. ... do ...... 240.00 7. 75 Boston ...... do ...... do ...... 3,298 . 80 .....do ...... 240.00 7.28 New York ..... ·.... Seattle ...... do ...... 3,136 . 80 . .... do ...... 24-0.00 7.65 Philadelphia .... ~ ...... do ...... do ...... 3,045 . 80 . . . . . do ...... 240. 00 7.88 Baltimore ...... do ...... do ...... 3,026 • 80 ..... do ...... 240.00 7.19 Boston ...... do ...... '··············· ..... do ...... 3,230 . so .... . do ...... 240.00 7. 43 [No fifth-class rates between above points.]

Portion of iron a.nd steel articles that take filth-class official classification.

Minimum CommoditbJ. A-liaimum Commodities. weight. wei5ht.

.Anchors: Belting, chain ...... -...... 36, 000 pounds. 36,000 pounds. nillets, blooms, and ingots ...... 25 gross tons. R~~~~~'. -~s_t'. - ~~ ~~l_e_-_-_:: :~::: :: :: : : ::: : ::::::::::::: ::: : : :: : Do. Boiler ...... 36,000 pounds. Angle ...... : ...... Do. Boiler parts: Anvil blocks for steam or trip hammers ...... Do. Arch bars or arches ...... Do. Arche5, fl.oor, corrugated, i!l sectfons, nested ...... Do. Flues or tubes ...... Do. Arms or brnckets, mast or pole ...... Do. Fronts...... Do. Axes: Heads and plates ...... Do. Tob:v.ico, boxed ...... Do. Bolts: . N . o. s ...... Do. Bridge or barge ...... Do. Axles: Lag'"·························································· Do. Car, new ...... Do. N. o. s ...... Do. Car, old ...... 25 gross tons. Nuts, n. o. s ...... Do. Lccomotive...... 36,000 pounds. Plate: Bands: N. o. s ...... Do. Hay, in bundle:> ...... •••.•••••...... Do. .Architectural...... Do . Shingle ...... •••••••••.. . •...... Do. Floor ...... Do. Dar ...... •••••••••.•...... Do. Rope, wire ...... Do. Bars: Shoos, horse, mule, or ox ...... Do. Arch, n. o. ~- ...... •....•...... •...... •• '" ...... Do. Spikes, n. o. s ...... •...... Do. Grate ...... Do. Springs, n. o. s ...... Do. Muck or puddle ...... 25 gross tons. Staples, n. o. s ...... ••••...... Do. Sheet...... · ··················---········ Do . 'l'ies: . 'Tin-plate: ...... Do. Binding ...... •...... •.•••••••...... Do. Beams: Cotton...... '...... Do. Brake ...... 36,000 pounds. Tires, car or 100-0motive ...... Do. N. o. s ...... ••.••••••••.•.•.•• •· ··-·. Do. Wheels, car ...... Do. Bearings: Wil'e! n. o. s ...... Do. Car bolster, ball, or roller ...... Do. Car bolster, n: o. s ...... Do. Shafting ...... •...... •..... Do. .

1912. l CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 6227

P.RE"SIDENTIAL PRIMA.RIES IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. equal as p.raeticable. And when such readjustment has been completed by the Secreta1>y of the Interior and the said companies notified thereof Mr. WILLIAMS submitted an amendment intended to be pro ~Y the ~ecretary ~ither of said companies may proceed with the build rng of its respective road through the said valley and on the line as posed by him to the Senate bill 2234, which was ordered to lie readjusted by the Secretary and upon the completion of such readjust on the table and to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: m~nt by the Secretary the pending suit of the Government shall be dis Amendment intended to be proposed by Mr. WILLIAMS to the bill ~ssed. The. rights of way so adjusted by the Secr_etary shall be in (S. 2234) to provide for a primary nominating election in the District lieu of the rights of way heretofore granted and approved to the said of Columbia, etc., on page 4, line 15, after the word " Columbia," insert companies respecti-vely under the aforesaid acts of Congress. the following words: "And who can read and write and shall have paid all taxes due by Mr. HEYBURN. I desire to ask, Does that include the right them to the city of Washington or District of Columbia on or before of way of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co.? the first Monday of February of the year preceding the primary elec Mr. JONES~ No. tion, and who have not been conyicted of any felony or misdemeanor l\fr. HEYBURN. Is it in any way connected with the Involving moral turpitude." · grant-- WASHINGTON HfPRO'VEMENT & DEVELOP-MENT CO. 1\Ir. JONES. No; it is entirely separate and distinct. Mr. CULT.D~I obtained the floor. l\fr. HEYBURN. Of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. or Mr. JONES. Mr. President-- the Northern Pacific Railway Co. Is neither interested in this Mr. CULLOM. Mr. President, I desire to have a brief execu adjustment? tive session, but will yield to the Senator from Washington. Mr. JONES. Not at all. Mr. JONES. I ask unanimous consent for the present con Mr. HEJYBURN. Where does this case differ from: Railway sideration of House joint resolution 142. It is local in charac Co. v. Alling, leaving it to·be settled in the courts? Does it in ter and is rather an urgent matter. vo.lve any different principle from that? That is the. Rio. The PRESIDENT pr<> tempore. The Senator from Wash Grande Canyon suit. ington asks unanimous consent for the present consideration of .Mr. JONES. I do not think so. a joint resolution, the title of which will be stated. l\Ir. HEYBURN. The reason I asked is that I desire that The SECRETARY. A joint resolution (H. J. Res. 142) to de any measure of legislation that is passed by the Congress touch clare and make certain the autl'lority of the Attorney General to ing in any way the old Northern Pacific Railroad grant shall begin and maintain and of any court of competent jurisdiction contain this proviso : to entertain and decide a suit or suits for the purpose of having . i:rovidecl, That nothing herein conta.ined shall be taken as a recog mt10n by Congress of the Northern Pacific Railway Co. as the successo.r judicialJy declared a forfeiture of the rights granted by the of the Northern Pac.me Railroad Co. act entitled "An act granting to the Washington Improvement & Development Co. a right of way th.rough the Colville Indian Mr. JONES. This does not affect that at all. Reservation, in the State of Washington/' approved June 4, Mr. HEYBURN. I merely wanted to know the fact. I was 1898. not here when the reading of the bill was commenced. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on agreeing present consideration of the jo-int resolution? to the amendment of the Senator from Washington to the There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the amendment. Whole, proceed~d to consider the joint resolution, whicn had The amendment to the amendm·ent was agreed to. been reported from the Committee on Indian Affairs with an The amendment as amended was agreed to. amendment, to strike out all after the· enacting clause and The joint resolution was reported to the Senate as amended', insert a substitute. and the amendment was concurred in. Mr. JONES. Mr. President, the matter recommended by the The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the bill to committee as a substitute was not entirely satisfactory to all be read a third time. parties interested, and the Senator from North Dakota [Mr. The bill was read the third time and passed. :McCUMBE.R], who reported the joint resolution, myself, and the The title was amended so as to read: ".A joint resolution to parties interested have a.greed upon another substitute, which I authorize and direct the Great Northern Railway Co. and the desire to offer as an amendment to the committee amendment. Spokane & British Columbia Railway Co. in the matter of their The PRESIDE.l~T · pro tempore. The amendment to the conflicting claims or rights of way across the Colville Indian amendment will be stated. · Reservation, in the State of Washington,' in the San Poll River The SECJRETARY. It is proposed to strike out all after the Valrey, to readjust their respective locations. of rights of way enacting clause and to insert: - at points of conflict in such manner as to allow each company That the Great Northern Railway Co., whose right of way in the San an equal right of way through said valley; and in case of their Poil River Valley, Colville Indian Reservation. State of Washington, as failure so to do to authorize and direct the Secretacy of the filed and located by the Washington Improvement & Development Co. Interior to readjust said rights of way." and approved under the act entitled "An act gran.1ing to the Washing ton Improvement & Development Co. a right of way through the Col The committee reported an amendment, to strike out the pre ville Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington," approved June amble, which was agreed to. 4, 1898, and thereafter acquired by the Great Northern Railway Co. · and the Spokane & British Columbia Railway Co., whose right of way SUPPLEMENTAL CHOCTAW TREATY OF 1830. along said San Poil River Valley, said Colville. Indian Resenation as l\fr. WILLIAMS. Will th~ Senator from Illinois yield to me filed and located by the said compa.Qy, and approyed under the act' en titled "An act granting to railways a right of way through the public for a moment? · lands of the United States," approved March 3, 1875 and' under the act Mr. CULLOM. I will. entitled "An act to provide for the acquiring of rfghts of way by a I :nave railway company through Indian reservations, Indian lands. and Indian Mr. WILLIAMS. ask unanimous consent to put upon. allotments, and for other purposes,'' approved March 2, 1899 and which its passage now the bill (S. 5141) to correct an error in the right:; of way are overlapping in and in conflict for a considerable dis record of the supplemental treaty of September 28, 1830, made tance, shall proceed, within three months after the passage and ap proval of this resolution, to ascertain and determine the points of over with the Choctaw Indians~ and for other purposes. lapping and conflict of their said respective locations, and shall proceed There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the to readjust the same at all points of overlapping and conflict in sueb a Whole, proceeded to consider the bill, which had been reported way as to allow both companies an equal right of way through said from the Committee on Indian Affairs with an amendment, on valley with as little added expense or loss to elther of them as possible and in such manner that equal justice will be done to each and each t; page 2, line 3, to strike out the word " said," so as to make the l1ear whatever additional expense it may be p.ut to by reason of any bill read: relocation or readjustment of its line in pursuance of this act but the relocation or readjustment herein provided for shall be so made' that the Be it enacted, etc., That the reservation of section 8 and the west expense incurred thereby to either shall be as nearly equal as £rac- half of se~ti?D ,9, in township 19 north, range 16 east, Choctaw merid ticable · and when h 1 ti dj tm t h b lan, MlsSISs1pp1, to Thomas Wall, and the sale thereof by him to • sue re oca on or rea us en as een comp eted Anthony Winston, made on December 11, 1833, be, and the same are the same shall be filed with and shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, whereupon either of said companles may proceed wlth the hereby, approved, and the title thereto confirmed in the said Thomas building of its respective road through the said valley and on the lines Wall and his vendee, the said Anthony Winston; and the Commissioner as readjusted, and the pending suit of tl'l.e Government be dismissed of the General Land Office is hereby authorized and directed to cause 'Ille rights of way so- adjusted shall be in lieu of the rights o-f Wlrf here'.- the proper entries to be made upon the land records of the land office tofore granted and approved to the said companies respectively under at Jackson, Miss., and of the General Land Office, showing that said' the aforesaid acts of Congress: Provided, That if the said companies land was reserved to the said Thomas Wall.. s~all fail to agree and file sucfi readjustment ot said rights of way The amendment was agreed to. with the See:retary of the Intenor within the time as herein provided. Th bill t d t th s the said companies shall on or before 60 days from and after the- ex~ e was repor e o e enate as amended, and the plr!!-tlon o~ the aforesaid time for filing the said readjustment/resent amendment was concurred in. their i:natters of difference to the Secretary of the Interior, an there- The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read upon it shall be the duty of the Secretary to give said companies a th thi d t' d d hearing, and the Secretary shall thereupon readjust the said ·.,.ht f e r rme, an passe · way at all P?ints of overlapping and eonflict in such a way as rig afio~ • The committee recommended an amendment to strike out the both compames an equal right of way through said nlley with as little ' preamble which was agreed to added expense or loss to either of them as possible, and in such manner ' · that equal justice wm be da-ne to each, and each to- bear whatever addi- EXECUTIVE SESSION. tional expense it may be put to- by reason o:t the readjustment of its line by the Secretary in pursuance of this act such readjustment to be Mr. CULLOM. I move that the Senate proceed to the con- so made that the expense incurred by either company shall be as nearly sideration of executive business. I ' 6228 CONG~ , ESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. ~fAY 10, I The ·motion was a areed to, and the Senate proceeded to the Francis Clinton Vincent Crowley, of l\fassachusetts, now con ideration of executiYe business. After n:rn minutes spent serving as squadron sergeant major, Fifth Cavalry. in executive session, the doors were reopened. George Everett Adams H.einburg, of Illinois. PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. George Herbert Timmins, of Massachusetts. Daniel Allman Connor, of the District of Columbia. l\Ir. BRISTOW. I ask that the Senate resume the considera Clarence Donald Lang, of Minnesota. tion of the bill ·(s. 2234) to provide for a primary nominating Philip Coldwe11, of Texas. election in the District of Columbia, at which the qualified elect ors of the said District shall haYe the opportu:µity to vote for :FIELD ARTILLERY ARM. their first and second choice among those aspiring to be candi To be second lieutenants with rank from April 24, 1912. dates of their respecti"re political parties for President and Percy Deshon, of Massachusetts. Vice President of the United States, to elect their party dele Julian Francis Barnes, of the District of Columbia. gates to their national con\entions, and to elect their national Harold Comelin11 Vanderveer, of New York. committeemen. Clift Andrus, of New York. There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the bill. INFANTRY ARM. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Secretary will -resume To be second lieutenant with ranlc froni April 23, 1912. the reading of the bill at the point at which he left off. Matthew John Gunner, of Texas. . The Secretary resumed and concluded the reading of the bill. To be second lieutenants with rank from April 24, 1912. Ur. WILLIAMS. lUr. President, the reading of the bill hn.v ing been finished, I have an amendment pending. I think possi James Ripley Jacobs, of Texas. bly it may be accepted. It is rather late, and, after our intense Robert Scott Lytle, of the District of Columbia. attention to the exhaustive reading of the bill in detail, of Henry Terrell, jr., of Texas. course I shall not go into any oratorical achievements this Thomas James Camp, of Connecticut. eyening. But I want to say this in behalf of the amendment I Frank Cadle Mabin, of New York, now serving as corporal, have introduced: Like ancient Gaul, it is divided into three Company F, Fourteenth Infantry. · parts. The first part of it disfranchises the illiterates, the I;awrence Sprague Churchill, of New York. ignorant, and I know the Senator. from Kansas does not want Dale Francis McDonald, of Nebraska. ignorant people to rule his primaries or mine. Paul Kimball Johnson, of New York. Mr. GALLINGER. I will say to the Senator that there is Edward Hiltner Bertram, of Minnesota. a provision in the bill now doing that very thing.· Hayes Adlai Kroner, of Georgia. Mr. WILLIAMS. Wait a minute. Then it will not hurt it Allen Stuart Boyd, jr., of New York. to put it in here, where a description is given of the qualifica- Bruce Wedgwood, of Utah. tions of the electors. . Harry Lewis Twaddle, of Ohio. The second part of the amendment, l\Ir. President, and I ask John Henry Harrison, of Texas. the attention of the Senator from Kansas because it is to his Clarence Leonard Tinker, of Oklahoma. conscience and judgment that I am now appealing-the second William Robert White, of Virginia. part of the amendment cuts out the tax-dodging class. It pro Donald Bridgman Sanger, of Massachusetts. vides th.at those shall not vote who have not paid taxes due by Martin Francis Scanlon, of Pennsylvania. them to the city of Washington on or before the first l\Ionday William Hanson Gill, of Virginia. of the February preceding the election. I know that the Sena Lee Hayne Stewart, of Illinois. tor from Kansas does not desire his party or mine to be ruled Harry Gantz, of South Da:{rota. in its primaries by tax dodgers, a very reprehensible class. Herbert Edward Pace, at large, now serving as second lieu Then, the third proposition disfranchises those who have been tenant in the Philippine Scouts. convicted of felony or of misdemeanor involving moral turpitude. PROMOTION IN THE ARMY, Notwithstanding some recent rather reckless accusations by INFANTRY ARM. Republicans against one another, I do not believe that the Capt. William P. Jackson, Third Infantry, to be major from Senator from Kansas wants his party primary, and I know I do April 23, 1912, vice l\Iaj. Evan 1\f. Johnson, jr., Sixth Infantry, not want ours, controlled by the criminal classes. detached from his pror~r command. In other words, the amendment just cuts off ignorance, tax dodging, and criminality, and I hope it will be accepted by the PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY. Senator from Kansas and will become a part of the bill. Lieut. Commander Robert K. Crank to be a commander in the Mr. BRISTOW. I am satisfied we can not conclude the bill Navy from the 25th day of January, 1912, to fill a vacancy. to-night and if the Senator frcl!i Mississ.!.ppi will have his Lieut. Commander Stanford E. Moses to be a commander in amendmertt printed and let it be the pending amendment~ I the-Navy from the 27th day of April, 1912, to fill a vacancy. will be glad to consider it. Asst. Surg. Glenmore F. Clark to be a passed assistant sur Mr. WILLIAMS. That has been ordered done. We have geon in the Navy from the 14th day of April, 1912, upon the :finished· the reading of the bill and the amendment has to be completion of three years' service as an assistant surgeon. brought before the Senate in some way. This is all that is left The following-named citizens to be assistant surgeons in the to be done with the bill now. I believe everybody else has Navy from the 4th day of May, 1912, to fill vacancies: found it perfect except me. I am the only one who has offered Chester C. Wood, and an amendment. Cline H. Dragoo. Mr. GALLINGER. I move that the Senate adjourn. POSTMASTERS. The motion was agreed to; and (at 5 o'clock and 4 minutes ALABAMA. p. m.) the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, Saturday,. May 11, 1912, at 12 o'clock meridian. W. E. Bosworth to be postmaster at Lafayette, Ala., in place of James L. Davis, deceased. Robert L. Wilson to be postmaster at Stevenson, Ala., in NOMINATIONS. place of Robert L. Wilson. Incumbent's commission expires 22, 1912. Ea:ecutive 1io1ninations i·eceived by the Senate May 10, 1912. May CALIFORNIA. COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS. E. E. Brown to be postmaster at l\Iaricopa, Cal., in place of Robert Smalls, of South Carolina, to be collector of customs Charles W. Beatty, resigned. for the district of Beaufort, in the State of South Carolina. Minnie E. Chalmers to be postmaster at Niles, Cal., in place .(Reappointment.) of Minnie E. Chalmers. Incumbent's commission expired March APPOINTMENTS IN THE MMY. 12, 1912. Franklin L. Glass to be postmaster at Martinez, Cal., in place CAVALRY ARM. of Franklin L. Glass. Incumbent's commission expired May To be second lieutenant with rank from April 23, 1912. 1, 1912. . · Daniel Edward l\Iurphy, of the District of Columbia. GEORGIA. To be. second lieutenants with rank from April 24, 1912. Fred Feltham to be postmaster at Boston, Ga., in place of Kenna Granville Eastham, of Virginia. · Fred Feltham. Incumbent's commission expired February 27, James Powers Yancey, of Virginia. 1912. George Elmer Arnemann, of Wisconsin. George L. Liverman to be postmaster at Bainbridge, Ga., in Raymond Eugene l\IcQuillin, of Minnesota. place of George L. Liverman. Incumbent's commission ·expired De Forest Willard Morton, of Pennsylvania. February 27, 1912. 1912 . . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 6229

Gordon G. Ridgway to be postmaster at Royston, Ga., in Louis Haeffner to be postmaster at Valley Park, 1\10., in place place of Gordon G. Ridgway. Incumbent's commission expired of Louis Haeffner. Incumbent's. commission expired April 22, February 27, 1012. . • 1912. Henry G. Roberds to be· postmaster at Villa Rica, Ga., in Thomas B. Milton to be postmaster at Carl Junction, 1\Io., in place of Leonora n. Allen, dee.eased. place of Thomas B.. Milton. Incumbent's commission expires ID.A.HO. l\fay 15, 1912. H. H. Hamilton to be postmaster at New Plymouth, Idaho, in MONT.A.NA. place of Frank S. Stevens, resigned. Lawrence Hauck to b~ postmaster at Philipsburg, l\Iont, in place of Lawrence Hauck. Incumbent's commission expired ILLINOIS. March 31, 1912. Archibald W. Fletcher to be postmaster at Highland Park, NEBRASKA. Ill., in place of Archibald W. Fletcher. Incumbent's commis Gust Abrahamson to be postmaster at Holdrege, Nebr., in sio:o. expires 1\Iay 11, 1912, place of William P. Hall. Incumbents commission expired William Hawley to be postmaster at bundee, Ill., in place of June 28, 1910. William Hawley. Incumbent's commission expired January 9, Loree V. Styles to be postmaster at St. Edward, Nebr., in 1912. . place of Loree V. Styles. Incumbent's commission expired Daniel .McArthur to be postmaster at Glencoe, Ill, in place of May 6, 1912. Daniel l\lcArthur. Incumbent's commission expired l\Iarch 20, NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1912. Leander Patterson to be postmaster at Antrim, N. H., in place Paul Spitzer to be postrua ter at Techny, Ill., in place of Paul of William B. Gove, deceased. Spitzer. lncumbent's commission expired March 31, 1912. Don .A. S1rnrr to be postmaster at Wilmington, Ill., in place of NEW YORK, Jerome B. Stewart, resigned. . George S. Fordyce to be postmaster at Union Springs, N. Y., in place of George S. Fordyce. Incumbent's commission expireu INDIANA. April 28, 1912. Charles T. Benton to be postmaster at Brownstown, Ind., in James H. Hopkins to be postmaster at Au Sable Forks, N. Y., place of .Charles T. Benton. Incumbent's commission expired in place of James H. Hopkins. Incumbent's commission expired April 22, 1012. April 29, 1012. Addison M. Catterson to be postmaster at Shoals, Ind., in place Hattie A. Pettit to be postmaster at Fairground, N. Y. of Samuel P. Yenne. Incumbent's commission expired April 24, Office became presidential January 1, 1912. · 1912. Elkanah S. Robinson to be postmaster at Center l\Ioriches, William R. Elrod, to be postmaster at Orleans, Ind., in place N. Y., in place of Edwin A. Clark, deceased. of William R. Elrod. Incumbent's commission expired 1\lay G, Wiiliam D. Smith to be postmaster at Northville, N. Y., in 1912. place of William D. Smith. Incumbent's commission expires IOWA. May 23, 1912. Thomas J. Ochiltree to be postmaster at Morning Sun, Iowa, OIIIO. in place of Thomas J. Ochiltree. Incumbent's commission ex William C. Hughes to be postmaster at New Straitsville, Ohio, pired January 31, 1912. in place of William C. Hughes. Incumbent's commission ex- William G. Ross to be postmaster at Fairfield, Iowa, in place pires l\Iay 16, 1912. . of William G. Ross. Incumbent's commission expired l\Iarch 31, Lewis Nikolaus to be postmaster at New Matamoras, Ohio, 1912. in place of Lewis Nikolaus. Incumbent's commission expires KENTUCKY. May 16, 1912. OKLAHOMA. Marvin W. Barnes to be postmaster at Elizabethtown, Ky., John W. Randall to be postmaster at Blackwell, Okla., in in place of Colmore L. Barnes. lncumbent's commission expires place of John W. Randall. Incumbent's commission expired May 15, 1912. . February 28, 1912. Terry T. Hanberry to be postmaster at Eddyville, Ky., in George Stowell to be postmaster at McLoud, Okla., in place of place of Terry T. Hanberry. In.cumbent's commission expires George Stowell. Incumbent's commission expires May 14, 1912. May 15, 1912. Joseph Insko to be postmaster at Augusta, Ky., in place of OREGON. Joseph Insko. Incumbent's commission expires May 14, 1912. William E. Tate to be postmaster at Wasco, Oreg., in place of D. U. Poole to be postmaster at Greenville, Ky., in place of William E. Tate. Incumbent's commission expired February John S. l\1iller. Incumbent's commission expires May 15, 1912. 12, 1912. Llewellyn F. Sinclair to be postmaster at Georgetown, Ky., in • PENNSYLVANIA. place of Llewellyn F. Sinclair. Incumbent's commission expired William H. Fulton to be postmaster at Stewartstown, Pa., in April 22, 1912. . - place of William H. Fulton. Incumbent's commission expired · John B. Weller to be postmaster at Bardstown, Ky., in place April 28, 1912. of John B. Weller. Incumbent's commission expires May 15, Ida M. Kaye to be postmaster at Monaca, Pa., in place of 1912. Ida l\L Kaye. Incumbent's commission expired April 29, 1912. Wallace n. Wood to be postmaster at Elkton, Ky., in place Wesley B. Mc.Alpine to be postmaster at South Brownsville, of Wallace R. Wood. Incumbent's commission e:Arpires May 15, Pa., in place of Wesley B. Mc.A.lpine . . Incumbent's commission 1912. expired April 9, 1912. · MAINE. Dewitt C. Parkinson to be postmaster at l\lonongahela, Pa., in place of Dewitt C. Parkinson. Incumbent's commission ex Vesta P. Carle to be postmaster at Woodland, Me. Office be pires May 14, 1912. ca_me presidential April 1, 1912. John Roland to be postmaster at New Holland, Pa., in place MASS.A.CHUSETI'S. of John Roland. Incumbent's commission expired April 24, Charles E. Wallace to be postmaster-at Fitchburg, Mass., in 1912. place of Charles E. Wallace. Incurnbent's commission expired Thomas Stephens to be postmaster at Coopersburg, Pa. Office January 20, 1912. became presidential April 1, 1912. MICHIGAN. Charles _A. Suesserott to be postmaster at Chambersburg, Pa., in place of Charles A.. Suesserott. Incumbent's commission ex David L. Powers to be postmaster · at Jones>'ille, Mich., in pired April 28, 1912. place of Edgar B. Gregory. Incumbent's commission expired Bert L. Ven.en to be postmaster at Springboro, Pa., in place January 20, 1912. of Bert L. Venen. Incumbent's commission expired April 28, MISSISSIPPI. 1912. Wade H. Phyfer to be postmaster at New Albany, Miss., in SOUTH CAROLINA. place of Wade H. Phyfer. Incmnbent's commission expired Lawrence 0. Harper to be postmaster at Honea Path, S. C., April 28, 1912. · in place of Lawrence 0. Harper. Incumbent's commission ex James M. Tyler to be postmaster at Bogue Chitto, Miss., in pires May 28, 1912. place of James M. Tyler. Incumbent's commission expired April SOUTH DAKOTA. 28, 1912. L. A. Wilson to be postmaster nt Isabel, S. Dak. Office be MISSOURI. came presidential January 1, 1912. Wilbur J. Clark to be postmaster at Hamilton, Mo., in place TENNESSEE. of Wilbur J. Clark. Incumbent's commission expires May 26, W. A. fill to be postmaster at McKenzie, Tenn., in place ot 1912. William Spellings, deceased. j 6230 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE .. liAY -10'1 ~ WEST VIRGINIA. Preston B. Settlemyre, Roanoke~ Chesley S. Harper to be postmaster at Webster Springs, Charles Smith, Westfield. . W. Va. · Office became presidential October 1, 1907. KANSAS. John El Houston to be postmaster at Davis, W. Va., in place David D. Wickins, Sabetha. of John E. Houston. Incumbent's commission expired April 2, LOUISIANA. 1912. Robert B. Johnson, Lake Arthur. {I Leo Vandegaer, Many. CONFIRMATIONS. MINNESOTA. Ea:ec11tive nominati-Ons confirmed. b·y the Senate May 10,. 1912. A. L. Hamilton, Aitkin. . COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS. . Burton J. Robertson, Lyle. David 1\1. Little, of Massachusetts, to be collector of customs MISSISSIPPI. for the district of Salem and Beverly, in the State of Massachu- Effie R. Du Berry, Baldwyn. setts. (Reappointment.) · · MISSOURI. PROMOTIONS IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND 1\1.A.RINE-HOSPIT.AL W. C. Plains, Fayette. ' SERVICE. MONTANA. Dr. Howard Andrew Knox to be asssistant surgeon. :William R. Crockett, Red Lodge. Dr. Charles La-ml Williams to be assistant surgeon. Asst. Surg. Harry Jackson Warner to be passed assistant OHIO. surgeon. Thomas G. Moore, Barnesville. PROMOTIONS IN THE ARMY. PENNSYLVANIA. COAST ARTILLERY CORPS. Arthur A. Benkert, Morton. First Lieut. Fulton Q. C. Gardner to be captain. Harvey E. Brinley, Birdsboro. Second Lieut. Edward P. Noyes, jr., to be first lieutenant. John J. Mather, Benton. Second Lieut. Charles E. Ide to be first lieutenant. WISCONSIN. Second Lieut. William D. Frazer to be first lieutenant. James H. Elmore, Green Bay. CAV ALBY ARM. Charles Marriner, Cadott. First Lieut Leonard L. Deitrick to be captain. Benjamin T. Prideaux, Mineral Point. George Watson, Fond du Lac. APPOINTMENTS IN THE ARMY. MEDIC.AL RESERVE CORPS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. To be first lieutenants. HaITie Sheridan Baketel. FRIDAY, May 10, 191~\ William Morgan Case Bryan. Harry Silsby Finney. The House met at 12 o'clock noon. The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the fol~ Joseph Ralston Hollowbush. lowing prayer : Raymond Barnett UcLa ws. Father in heaven, without whom nothing is pure, nothing is Jerpme Morley Lynch. strong, nothing enduring, be with us that we may think right Charles Evart Paddock. and do right as it is thus given us to see the right, in all that William Robertson Watson. pertains to the duties of this day that we may honor ourselves, MEDIC.AL CORPS. our country, and our God; in Christ's name. Amen. To be first lieutenant. ':I.1he Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and Thomas James Leary. approved. THE .ADJUTANT GENER.AL OF THE ARMY. PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY. The following-named ensigns to be lieutenants (junior grade): Mr. PRINCE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to file Emil A. Lichtenstein, the views of the minority of the Committee on Military Affairs ~to accompany House Document No. 619, relative to the relief of Charles W. Crosse, Bruce R. Ware, jr., and The Adjutant General of the Army from the duties of his office. Harry J. Abbett. ( H. Rept. 508, pt. 2.) The following-named midshipmen to be ensigns: The SPEAKER The gentleman from Illinois asks una.ni· Roy C. Smith, jr., moos consent to file the views of the minority on the document Francis S. Oraven, named. Is ther.e objection? Edward B. Lapham, There was no objection. Carlos A. Bailey, and DAM ACROSS CLINCH RIVER, TENN. Robert P. Mohle. Mr. AUSTIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that / Boatswain John C. Lindberg to be a chief boatswain. . the Committee on Rivers and Hai·bors be discharged from the Ensign Ralph D. Weyerbacher to be an assistant naval con- - further consideration of the bill (H. R. 23571) authorizing and structor. _.,.... permitting Clinch River Power Co., its successors and assigns, POSTMASTERS. to build and maintain a dam and a water-power development ALABAMA. in and across Clinch River, in Anderson County, State of Ten nessee, and that the same be referred to the Committee on Jethro D. Dennis, Marion. Interstate and Foreign Commerce. ARKANSAS. The SPEAKER. °If there be no objection, the change of refer.. Samuel P. Beck, Cabot. 1 ence will be made. James H. Cook, Ola. The was no objection. Charles B. -Ea.ton, Cotter. LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND JUDICIAL APPROPBIA.TION BILL. . Addison M, Hall, Marmaduke. \ 1 William H. Trimble, Nettleton. The SPEAKER. The unfinished business is the bill (H. R. George W. Wells, Imboden. · 24023) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending i ILLINOIS. June 30, 1913, and for other purposes, and the previous ques•.' Alfred Schuler, Mound City. tion has been ordered on the bill and the amendments to the J INDIA.N& final passage. Is a separate vote demanded on any amendment'l Melville B. Carter, Newport If not, the Chair will put the amendments in gross. Hugh S. Espey, Rising Sun. Mr. JOHNSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I demand a Charles 0. Fesler, Clay City. separate vote-- ,William 0. Goecker, Crothersville, On the amendment, on page 20, line 2, increasing the pay of George H. Griffith, Fremont. Members' clerks from $1,500 to $2,000 per annum. Charles F. Keck, North Liberty. On the amendment, on page 62, lines 13 to 21, inclusive, Francis H. Manring, Greentown. abolishing certain mints and assay offices, and inserting appro• Horace H. Mosier, Bristol priations for such mints and assay offices. Will K. Penrod, Loogootee. On the amendment, on page 139, striking out the last twe> Frank M. Picker!, Argos. provisos to section 5. 1912. . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 6231

Mr. GILLETT. Mr. Speaker, I demand a separate vote ou The Clerk read as fallows : the nmendment, on page 31, lines 17 and 18, striking out the Page 33, strike out all from line 5 to line 23, inclusive. appropriation for the Chief of the Bureau of Manufacture~ ~d l\fr. MANN. There is no objection to that. Trade Relations, and on the amendment, on page 32, striking The amendment was considered and agreed to. out the paragraph headed "A09; 8 officers to aid in important drafting work, 4 at $4,500 each and 4 at $3,000 each, to be appointed by the Secretary Mr. FITZGERALD. .Mr. Speaker, I wish to call attention to of State in accordance with the act approved August 5, 1909, and to be the fact-I did it several times before in the committee-that employed upon tarift', treaty, and trade relations and negotiations, any one of whom may be employed as chief of division of far eastern, Latin, the words " to be appointed by the chairman of the conference Americai;i, near eastern, or European aff'airs, or upon other work in minority" were taken out on a point of order, and are not in connection with foreign relations; assistant solicitor, $3,000; law clerk, the amendment at all. The amendment should be correctly $2,500; clerks-1 of class- 4, 3 of dass 3, 2 of class I, 3 at $1,000 stated at the desk. It is to strike out the words "department each ; 3 assistant messengers; in all, $69,160." .messenger, $2.000." The question was taken; and there were-yeas, 172, nays 121, The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the amendment. answered "present" 7, not voting 92, as follows: The Clerk read as follows: · YEAS-172. On page lG, line 19, strike out the words "department messenger, Adair Driscoll, D. A. Hull Robinson $2,000." Adamson l)upre Humphreys, Miss. Roddenbery Aiken, S. C. Edwards Jacoway I.tothermel The question being taken, on a division (demanded by Mr. Akin, N. Y. Ellerbe James House AUSTIN) there were-uyes 110, noes 19. Alexander Estopinal Johnson, Ky. Hubey Anderson, Ohio Evans Johnson, S. C. ltncker, Colo. Acordingly the amendment was agreed to. Ansberry Faison Jones Rucker, fo. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the next amendment Ashbrook Fergusson Kinkead, N. 1. Russell on which a separate vote is demanded. Ayres Ferris Kitchin !:la bath Ba·rnhart Finley Korbly Saunders The Clerk read as follows: Bartlett Fitzgerald Lamb- .Sherley Page 20, line 2, strike out "fifteen hundred " and insert " two thou Bell, Ga. Floyd, AJ:k. Lee, Ga. Sherwood sand." Blac'I.mon Foster Lee, Pa. Sims Boehne Fowler Lever Sisson The question being taken, on a division (demanded by Mr. . Booher Francis Levy Slayden LEVER) there were-ayes 64, noes 97. Borland Gallagher Linthicum Smith, Tex. Accordingly the amendment was rejected. Brant ley Garner Lloyd Sparkman Broussard Garrett Lo beck Stedman The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the next amendment Brown George McCoy Stephens, Miss. on which a separate vote is demanded. Buchanan Glass McDermott S.tephens, Nebr. The Clerk read as follows: Bulkley Godwin, N. C. McGillicuddy . Stephens, 'l'ex. Burleson Goldfogle McKellar · Stone _ Page 31, llnes 17 and 18, strike out the words " Chief of Bureau of Burnett Goodwin, Ark. Macon Sulzer Manufactures and Trade Relations, $2,500." Byrnes, S. C. Gould Maguire, Nebr. Sweel 1\Ir. GILLETT. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that Byrns, Tenn. Graham Maher Taggart Candler Gray Martin, Colo. Talbott, Md. this and the next amendment be voted on together. Carlin Gregg, Pa. .Moon, Tenn. Talcott, N. Y. Mr. SHERLEY. As I understand, these are the two amend Carter Gregg, Tex. Moore, Tex. Taylor, Ala. ments relating to the new department. Clayton Hamilton, W. Va. Morrison Taylor ,. Colo. Mr. BURLESON. We haYe no objection. Collier Hamlin .Moss, Ind. Thayer Connell Hammond Neeley Thomas The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the next amendment Conry Hardwick Oldfi eld Townsend on which a separate Yote is demanded. Covington Hardy O'Shaunessy Tribble The Clerk read as follows: Cullop Harrison, Miss. Padgett Turnbull Daugherty Hay Page Underhill Page 32, strike out all of lines 11 to 25, inclusive, and on page 33, Davis. W. Va. HaydE:n P epper Underwood lines 1 to 23, inclusive. Dent H~flin Pos t Wat ·in s Mr. l\IANN. Mr. Speaker, in the committee there was a sepa .Denver Helm Rainey Webb Dickinson Henry, Tex. Ra ker Whitacre rate vote asked for and giv-en on the proposition to sh·ike out on Dickson, Miss. Hensley Ransdell, La. Wicklllie page 32 from line 11 down to the bottom of the page and to line Dixon, Ind. Howard Rauch Wilson. N. Y. 4 on page 33. I think the gentleman from Massachusetts desires Doremus Hughes, Ga. Redfield Withe: sooon to have that connected with the former amendment and does not Doughton Hughes, N. J. Reilly Young, 'i'ex. desire to have the balance included. NAYS-121. Alney Currier Fuller Helgesen I ask for n division of the amendment, so that we may vote Anderson, Minn. Curry Gardner, N. J. Henry, Conn. on the amendment, on page 31, in reference to the Chief of the Anthony Dalzell Gillett Hi_ggins Bureau of l\Ianufactures and Trade Relations, and striking out Austin Danforth Good Hill Bartholdt Davidson Green, Iowa Howell the matter on page 32, line 11, to the bottom of the· page, ::i.nd Bowman Davis, Uinn. Greene, Mass. Humphrey, Wash. to line 4, on page 33. Ko one opposes the balance of that Browning De Forest Griest Jackson amendment. Burke, Wis. Dodds Guernsey Kahn Butler Donohoe Hamilton, Mich. Kendall Mr. FITZGERALD. l\Ir. Speaker, let us first adapt the bal Calder Driscoll, M. E. Hanna Kennedy ance of the amendment, on page 33, commencing at line 5 and Campbell Esch Harris Kent ending on line 23. There is no opposition to that. Cary Farr Hartman Kinkaid, Nebr. Catlin Focht Haugen Know land , The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the balance of the Cooper Foss Hayes Kopp amendment referred to by the gentleman from New York. CrumJ?acker French Heald Lafean 62.32 OONGRESSION AL -RECORD-HOUSE. MAY 10,

Lafferty :Martin, S. Dak. Powers Thistlewood Mr. FORNES with Mr. BRADLEY. La Follette Miller Pray Tilson l\.Ir. BATES. Mr. Speaker, I voted " no" on the roll call. l Langham Mondell Prince Towner Lawrence Moore, Pa. Prouty Utter am still paired with the gentleman from Texas, Mr. SHEPPARD, Lenroot Morgan Rees Vare and I desire, therefore, to change my vote and answer " present" Lindbergh Morse, Wis, Roberts, Mass. Volstead The SPEAKER. Call the gentleman's name. Loud Mott Rodenberg Warburton McCall Murdock Simmons Wedemeyer The name of Mr. BATES was called. and he answered" Present.'' McCreary Murray Slemp Wilder The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. McGuire, Okla. Needham Sloan Willis The SPEAKER. The Clerk will read the next amendment. McKenzie Nelson Smith, J. M. C. Wood, N. J. McKinney / Norris Speer Young, Kans. The Clerk read as follows: McLaughlin Nye Steenerson Young, Mich. Page 62, strike out lines 13 to 21, inclusive, as follows: Madden Parran Stephens, Cal. "All laws or varts of laws authorizing the establishment of coinage Malby Payne Sterling mints at San Francisco, Cal.; New Orleans, La.; and Carson, Nev.; and Mann Pickett Stevens, Minn. assay offices at Boise, Idaho; Charlotte, N. C.; Deadwood, S. Dak.; Helena, Mont. ; Seattle, Wash.; and Salt Lake City, Utah, are repealed, ANSWERED " PRESID.NT "~7. to take effect July 1, 1912 ; but nothing herein shall be construed as Allen Beall, Tex. Pou Weeks . abolishing or prohibiting the maintenance of an assay office at San Fran Bates Fornes Riordan cisco, Cal." NOT VOTING-92. And insert: Ames Difenderfer Konop Reyburn Mint at Carson, Nev. : Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the Andrus Draper Langley Richardson duties of melter, $2,250 ; assistant assayer, $1,500 ; chief clerk, $1,GOO ; Barcbfeld Dwight Legare Roberts, Nev. clerk, $1,000 ; in all, $6,350. Bathrick Dyer Lewis Scully For wages of wor]Onen and other employees, $6,200. Berger Fairchild Lindsay Sells For incidental and contingent expenses, 3,000. Bradley Fields Littlepage Shackleford Mint at New Orleans, La. : Assayer, who shall have general charge of Burgess Flood, Va. Littleton Sharp the institution as under section 3560, Revised Statutes, and who shall Burke, Pa. Fordney Longworth Shepyard be a practical assayer, $2,500 ; assistant assayer , 1,500 ; chief clerk, Burke, S. Dak. Gardner, Mass. McHenry Smal who shall perform the duties of cashier, $1,500 ; clerks, $1,200 each ; Callaway Goeke McKinley Smith, Saml. W. 3 Cannon Gudger McMorran Smith, Cal. . assaye'r's assistant, $1,200 ; in all, $10,300. Smith, N. Y. For wages of workmen and other employees. $7,500. Can trill Hamill Matthews For incidental and contingent expenses, 3,500. Clark, Fla. Harrison, N. Y. Mays Stack Claypool Hawley Moon, Pa. Stanley ·Mint at San Francisco, Cal.: So8erintendent, $4,500; assayer. melter Sulloway and refiner, and coiner, at 3 00 each ; chief clerk and cashier, at Cline Hinds Olmsted 2,500 each ; bookkeeper, $2,000 ; assistant assayer, $2,200 ; assistant Copley Hobson Palmer Switzer Cox, Ind. Holland Patten, N. Y. Taylor, Ohio melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at ~.000 each; assistant Cox, Ohio Houston Patton, Pa. Tuttle cashier, $1,800 ; assistant bookkeeper, 1,800 ; assa[er's assistant, Crago Howland Peters Vreeland $2,000 ; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000 ; 1 clerk, $2,000 ; clerk. 1. 00 ; Cravens Hubbard Plumley White 6 clerks, at $1,600 each; private secretary, $1,400; 2 clerks, at $1,400 Curley Hughes. W. Va. Porter Wilson, Ill. each; 2 clerks, at $1,200 each ; in all, $54,300. Davenport Kindred Pujo Wilson, Pa. For wages of workmen and other employees, $155,000. Woods, Iowa For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery Dies Konig Randell, Tex. and re_vairs, exclusive of that required for the refinery, melter and refiners wastage, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the manu So the amendment was adopted. facture of ingots for coinage, and for wastage and loss on sale of The Clerk announced the following pairs: coiners' sweeps, $40,000. Commencing May 9 and ending Monday, May 13: Assay office at Boise, Idaho : Assayer in charge, who shall also per form the duties of melter, $2,250; assistant assayer, 1,600; chief clerk, Mr. SH.A.RP with Mr. CANNON. who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $1,500; assayer's assi t ant, Commencing May 4 and ending May 13 : $1,500 ; 1 clerk, $1,200 ; in all, $8,050. Mr. DIFENDERFER with Mr. PLUMLEY. For wages of workmen and other employees, $3,540. For incidental and contingent expenses, $2,500. Commencing l\Iay 7 and ending in 10 days : Assay office at Charlotte, N. C.: Assayer and melter, $1,400. Mr. KoNOP with l\Ir. SULLOWAY. For wa~es of workmen and other clerks and employees, $750. Commencing May 3 and ending in two weeks t For incidental and contingent expenses, $400. Assay office at Deadwood, S. Dak. : Assayer in charge, who shall also Mr. SHACKLEFORD with Mr. DRAPER. {lerform the duties of melter, $2.000; clerk. $1.200; assistant assayer, Commencing April 17 and ending May 21 t :i;l,600 ; assayer's assistant, $1,400; in all, $6,200. Mr. BURGESS with Mr. WEEKS. For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,300. For incidental and contingent expenses, new machinery, etc., $1.500. Until further notice: Assay office at Helena, Mont.: Assayer in charge, $2,500; chief clerk, Mr. FIELDS with Mr. LANGLEY. who shall also perform the duties of cashier, :j\1,800; clerk, $1,600; Mr. HOUSTON with Mr. MOON of Pennsylvania. clerk, $1,400; assistant assayer, $1,700; assayer's assis~t, $1,400; Mr LEG.ARE with Mr. Woons of Iowa. in all, $10,400. · For wages of workmen and other employees. $G,500. Mr: CALLAWAY with l\Ir. Burum of Pennsylvania. For incidental and contingent expenses, $3,250. Mr. BEALL of Texas with Mr. HAWLEY. Assay office at Seattle, Wash. : Assayer in charge, who shall also per form the duties of melter, $2, 750; assistant assayer, $2,000; chief clerk, l\f 1·. KINDRED with Mr. PoRTEB. who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $2.000 ; 1 clerk, $1, 700 ; Mr. RANDELL of Texas with Mr. SELLS. 2 clerks, at $1,600 each; clerk, $1,400; in all, $13,050. Mr. Cox of Ohio with Mr. TAYLOR of Ohio. For wages for workmen and other employees, ~22,000. Mr. BATIIRICK with Mr. SAMUEL w. SMITH. For incidental and contingent expenses, includi.ng rent of building, $6,500. Mr. MAYS with Mr. THISTLEWOOD. Assay office at Salt Lll.ke City, Utah: Assayer in charge, who shall Mr. Cox: of Indiana with Mr. REYBURN. also perform the duties of melter, $2,500; assistant assayer. $1 ,600; Mr. DAVENPORT with 1\Ir. BURKE of South Dakota. chief clerk who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $1,600: Pro vtded, That the chief clerk shall perform the duties of assayer in charge Mr. SHEPPARD with Mr. BATES. in his absence; clerk, $1,400; in all, $7,100. Mr. PuJO with Mr. l\IoMoRRAN. For wages of workmen and other employees. $4,500. Mr. HARRISON of New York with Mr, HINDS. For incidental and contingent expenses, $3,500. Mr.. LITTLETON with Mr. DWIGHT. Mr. FITZGERALD. l\Ir. Speaker, I demand the yeas anCI l\fr. .ALLEN with l\Ir. LONGWORTH. nays. Mr. Pou with l\fr. SMITH of California. The SPE1A.KER. The gentleman from New York demands Mr. CLARK of Florida with l\1r. AMES. the yeas and nays on this amendment. Mr. CANTRILL with l\Ir. BARCHFELD. The yeas and nays were ordered. Mr. CLAYPOOL with Mr. COPLEY. Mr. KAHN. Mr. Speaker-- _ Mr. DIEs. with Mr. CRAGO. The SPEAKER. For what purpose does the gentleman rise? Mr. HOLLAND with Mr. DYER. Mr. KAHN. To make a parliamentary inquiry. !\Ir. PALMER with Mr. FORDNEY. The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. Mr. PATTEN of New York with l\fr. HOWLAND. Mr. KAHN. To vote " aye" means a vote for the amendment Mr. PETEBS with Mr. HUBBARD. of the gentleman from Washington [Mr. HUMPHREY]? Mr. RICHARDSON with Mr. HUGHES of West Virginia. The SPEAKER. Yes. Mr. SMALL with Mr. McK!NLEY. Mr. BURLESON. A vote of " no" sustains the committee. Mr. SMITH of New York with l\fr. MATTHEWS. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will call the roll. · Mr. STANLEY with Mr. OLMSTED. The question w:is taken; and .there were-yeas 177, nays llo« Mr. TUTTLE with Mr. PATTON of Pennsylvania. answered " present " 9~ not Yoting 91, as follow : Mr. WILSON of New York with Mr. ROBERTS of Nevada. YE.AS-177. Mr. GunGEB with l\1r. SWITZER. Adair Barnhart Brown Carter Mr. KONIG with Mr. VREELAND. Aiken, S. C. Bartlett Browning Cary Mr. CURLEY with Mr. WILSON of Illinois. Ainey Bell, Ga. Butler Collier For the session : Anderson, Minn. Blackmon Byrnes, S. C. Cooper Anthony Booher Calder Cullop Mr. GLASS with Mr. SLEMP. Austin Bowman Campbell Currier Mr. HOBSON with Mr. FAIRCHILD.· Ayres Brantley Candler Curry Mr. RIORDAN with Mr. A.Nnxus. Barchfeld Broussard Carlin Dalzell 1912. OONGRESSION AL RECORD-HOUSE. 6233

Danforth Rayden McDermott Simmens Mr. ROBINSON with Mr. ROBERTS of Nevada. Davidson Hayes McGuire, Okla. Slemp Davis, Minn. Heald l\fcKerizie Sloan Mr. TAYLOR of Alabama with l\Ir. SMITH of California. De Forest Heflin McKinley Smith, J.M. C. For the vote : · Dent Helgesen McKinney Speer Mr. CURLEY with Mr. McCREARY. Denver Henry, Tex. McLaughlin Stedman Dodds Higgins Madden Steenerson The result of the vote was announced as above ·recorded. Donohoe Holland Malby Stephens, Cal. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the next amendment. Doughton Howard Martin, S. Dak. Stephens, Miss. The Clerk read as follows : Dupre Howell Miller Stephens, Nebr. Ellerbe Humphrey, Wash. Mondell Sterling Page 139, strike out the provisos beginning in line 16, as follows : Esch Humphreys, Miss. Moore, Pa. Stevens, Minn. "And provided further, That no person separated from the classified Estopinal Jackson Morgan Stone service under this provision shall directly or indirectly solicit i.Rdorse Faison James Morrison Sulzer ment for reappointment through any member of the legislative depart Farr Johnson, Ky. Morse, Wis. Taggart ment, and any person violating this provision shall be denied reappoint Ferris Kahn Mott Thayer ment: And provided further, That no head of an executive department Finley Kendall Murdock Thistlewood shall receive or consider from any member of the legislative depart Focht Kennedy Murray Thomas · ment any request for the reappointment of any person seeking employ Fowler Kent Teedham Towner ment in the classified service, and it shall be considered a -violation of Francis Kinkaid, Nebr. Neeley Utter law for any member of the legislative department to submit to any French Know land Nelson Vare executive officer a request for the reappointment of any person in said Fuller Kopp Nye Volstead classified service." Gallagher Lafean Payne Warburton Gardner, N. J. Lafferty Pepper Watkins The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the am~nd Godwin, N. C. Lu Follette Pickett Webb ment. Good Lamb Pou Wedemeyer The ,question was taken, and the Speaker announced that the Green, Iowa Langham Powers Wickliffe Greene, Mass. Langley Pray Wilder noes seemed to have it. Gregg, Pa. Lawrence Prince Willis Mr. FINLEY. .A division, l\Ir. Speaker. Guernsey Lee, Ga. Prouty Wilson, Ill. The House divided; and there were-ayes 41, noes 61. Hamilton, Mich. Lee, Pa. Raker Witherspoon Hanna Lenroot Ransdell, La. Wood, N. J. Mr. FINLEY. Tellers, Mr. Speaker. Hardwick Lever Rees Young, Kans. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Harris Levy Roberts, Mass. Young, Mich. FINLEY] demands tellers. The Chair will count [After count Harrison, Miss. Lindbergh Rodenberg Hartman Lebeck Rothermel ing.] Thirty-seven gentlemen have arisen-not a sufficient Haugen Loud Rucker, Colo. number. NAYS-115. Mr. FINLEY. Mr. Speaker, I demand the yeas and nays. Adamson Floyd, Ark. Kinkead, N. J. Rouse The yeas and nays were ordered. • Akin, N . Y. Foi'nes Kitchin Rubey Mr. FINLEY. Ur. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that Alexander Foss Konig Rucker, Mo. the amendment be again reported. Allen Foster Korbly Russell Anderson, Ohio Garner Lin.thicum Saunders '.rhe SPEAKER. Is there objection? Ans berry Garrett McCall Sherley Mr. JOHNSON of South Carolina.. I object. I demand the Ashbrook George McCoy Sherwood regular order. Bartboldt Gillett McGillicudcJy Sims Boehne Goldfogle McKellar Sisson Mr. BUTLER Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. ·Borland Goodwin, Ark. Macon Slayden The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. Bulkley Graham Maguire, Nebr. Smith, Tex. Mr. BUTLER. A vote in the affirmative, I understand, will Burke, Wis. Gray Maher Sparkman Burleson Gregg, Tex. Mann Stanley be in fayor of sh·iking that provision from the bill. Is that Burnett Griest Martin, Colo. Stephens, Tex. correct, sir? Byrns, '.l.'enn. Hamilton, W. Va. Moon, Tenn. Sweet Mr. SHERLEY. That was not a parliamentaty inquiry. Clayton Hamlin Moore Tex. Talbott, Md. Cline Hammond l\fo ·s, ind. Talcott, N. Y. The SPEAKER. '.rhe gentleman from Pennsylvania knows Connell H;ardy Norris Taylor, Colo. as much about the amendment. at present as the Chair does. Co my Hay Oldfreld Tilson Mr. BUTLER The "gentleman from Pennsylvania" would Cavington Helm O'Shaunessy Townsend Daugherty Henry, Conn. Padgett Tribble not assume to know as ·much. Dickinson Hensley Page ·Turnbull The SPEAKER. The Chair can not inform the gentleman at Dixon, Ind. Hill Palmer Underhill present Dore;mus Hughes, Ga. Post Underwood Driscoll, D. A. Hughes, N. J. Rainey Whitacre Mr. BUTLER. We ought to know. Edwards Hull Rauch Wilson, N. Y. The SPEAKER. The Chair will inform the gentleman that Evans Jacoway Redfield Wilson, Pa. the motion is to strike out.· Fergl!sson · Johnson, S. C. Reilly Young, Tex. Fitzgeruld Jones Ro.ddenbery Mr. BUTLER. Thank you. We were some time in getting the information, but it is all right when it comes. ANSWERED "PRESENT "-9. l\f.r. 1\I.A.:NN. I Beull, Tex. Glass McCreary · Sabath Mr. Speaker, ask unanimous consent that the Davis, W. Va. Houston Riordan Weeks amendment bi! again reported. Driscoll, M. E. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Illinois [Mr. l\IANN] NOT VOTING-91. asks unanimous consent that the amendment be again reported. Ames Davenport Kindred Reyburn Is there objection? Andrus Dickson, Miss. Konop Richardson Bates Dies Legare Roberts, Nev. Mr. JOHNSON of South Carolina. I withdraw the objec Bathrick Difenderfer Lewis Robinson tion which I made. Berger Draper Lindsay Scully Mr. HEL.J.\.f. I object. Bradley Dwight Littlepage Se.lls Buchanan Dyer Littleton Shackleford '.rhe SPEAK.ER. The gentleman from Kentucky [l\Ir. HELM] Burgess Fairchild Lloyd Sharp objects. · Burke, Pa. Fields Longwol'th Sheppard l\f r. RAKER. l\f.r. Spea:trer-- Burke, S. Dak. Flood, Va. McHenry Small Callaway Fordne.y l\Itllorran Smith, Samt W. The SPEAKER. For what purpose does the gentleman from Cannon Gardner, Mass. Matthews Smith, Cal. California rise? Can trill Goeke Mays Smith, N. Y. I to Catlin Gould J\foon, Pa. Stack Mr. RAKER. rise ask what is before the House. Back Clark, Fla. Gudger Olmsted Sulloway here we could not tell. Claypool Hamill Parran Switzer The SPEAKER The question is not debatable. Those who Copley Hanison, N. Y. Patten, N. L Taylor, Ala. in fa Cox, Ind. Hawley Patton, Pa. Taylor, Ohio are Yor of the amendment will, as their names are called, Cox, Ohio Hinds Peters Tuttle answer " aye," those opposed will answer "nay," and the Clerk Crago Hobson Plumley Vreeland will call the roll. Cravens Howland Porter White The question was taken; and there were-yeas 23!), nays 35, Crumpacker Hubbard Fujo Woods, Iowa Curley Hughes, W. Va. ltandell, Tex. answered "present" 7, not Yoting 111, as follows: So the amendment was agraed to. YE.AS-23!). Tlle Clerk announced the following additional pairs: Adair Bates Candler Davidson ., Until further notice: Adamson Bell, Ga. Can trill Davis, Minn. Aiken, S. C. Blackmon Carlin Davis, W. Va. l\Ir. CLARK of Florida with Mr. LoNGWORTH. ainey Boehne Carter De Forest Mr. CRAVENS with l\fr. MICHAEL E. DRISCOLL. Akin, N. Y. Bowman Ca1·y Dent Mr. CANTRILL Alexander Brantley Catlin Denver with Ir. AMES. Allen Broussard Clayton Dickin.son Mr. BUCHANAN with .Mr. CATLIN. Anderson, Minn. Browning Cline Dixon, Ind. l\Ir. DICKSON of Mississippi with l\Ir. CRUMPACKER. Anderson, Ohio Buchanan Collier Dodds Ansberry Bulkley Cooper Donohoe .Mr. FLOOD of Virginia with Mr. DYER. ·Ashbrook Burke, Wis. Crago · Doremus Mr. LLOYD with l\Ir. FoRDNEY. Austin Burnett Crumpa.cker Doughton Mr. GOEKE with Mr. VREELAND. Ayres Butler Cullop Driscoll, D. A. Barchfeld Byrnes, S. C. Currier Du pr~ Mr. GOULD with Mr. PARRAN. Earnhart Calder Curry Edwards Mr. SM.ALL with Mr. OLMSTED. Bartholdt Campbell Daougherty Esch '6234 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MAY .10, t

Estopinnl Howard Madden · Slemp The SPEAKER. The Clerk will call the gentleman's name. Farr Howell Maguire, Nebr. Sloan The Clerk called the name of l\Ir. TALBOTT of :Maryland, and Ferris Hughes, Ga. l\Ialby Smith, J.M. C. Finley · Hull Martin Colo. Smith, Tex. he answered "Present." Flo.rd, Ark. Humphreys, Miss. Martin: S. Dak. Sparkman The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. Focht Jackson Mondell Speer The SPEAKER-. The question is on the engrossment and Foss Jacoway Moon, '.renn. Stedman Foster James Moore, Pa. Steenerson third reading of the amended bill. I Fowler Johnson, Ky. Morgan Stephens, Cal. The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time Francis Jones Morrison Stephens, MIES. was read. the third time, and passed. ' French Kahn Morse Wis. Stephens, Nebr. Fuller Kendall Moss. Ind. Stephens, Tex. On motion of l\Ir. JOHNSON of South Carolina a motion to Gallagher Kennedy Murdock Sterling reconsider the vote whereby the bill was passed was laid on Gardner, N. J. IS~nt Murray . Stevens, Minn •. Ga nett r, mkead, N. J. Needham Stone the table. Glass Kitchin Neeley Sulzer PATENTS (H. DOC. NO. 749). Godwin, N. C. Know land Nelson Sweet Good Konig Norris Taylor, Colo. The SPEAKER laid before the House the following messa. ere Goodwin, Ark. Kopp · Nye Thayer from the President of the United States which was read and Graham Korbly Oldfield 'l'histlewood Gray Lafferty O'Shaunessy Thomas with the accompanying documents, refe~red to the Comrnitte~ Green, Iowa La Follette Padgett Tilson qn Patents and ordered to be printed: Greene. Mass. Lamb Payne Towner Gregg, Pa. Langham Pickett Towns.end To the Senate and House of Representatives: Griest Lawrence Post Tribble The present patent laws of the United States enacted in Guernsey Lee, Ga. Pow&·s •rurnbull w~re Hamilton, W. Va. Lee, Pa. Pray Underhill practically their present condition in 1870, before the develop II:lmlin Lenroot Prince Utter m~nt of the industrial conditions which obtain to-day. The Hanna Lever Prouty Vare wisdom of the framers of the Constitution in providing that Hardy Levy Raker Volstead Harris · Lindbergh Ransdell, La. Warburton Congre.ss shall have the power to promote the progress of sci Harrison, Miss. Linthicum Rees Watkins ence and the useful arts by securing for limited time to authors Haugen Lloyd Reilly Wedemeyer Hay Lobeck Roberts, Mass. Wickliffe and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writincrs Hayden Loud Roddenbery Wilder and discoveries has been demonstrated by the fact that the hI Hayes McCreary Rodenberg Willis dustrial progress and development of the United States has been Heald McDermott Rothermel Wilson, Ill. Ilcflin l\IcGillicuddy Rouse Wilson, N. Y. due largely to the stimulus to invention given by the protection Helgesen McGuire. Okla. Rubey Witherspoon afforded by the patent laws. Henry, Tex. McKenzie Russell Wood, N. J. Young, Kans. In recent years, however, combinations based upon patents Hensley McKinley Saba th have been formed which have succeeded in controlling very Hi~gins McKinney Sherwood Young, Mich. Hill McLaughlin Simmons Young, •rex. largely the output of particular industries, and this control has Holland Macon Sims been extended by contracts based upon the patents, requiring NAYS-35. the users of patented machines to buy from the corporations Anthony Fergusson Hughes, N. J. Rainey w-owning the patents or from firms under their control supplies Ilnrtlett Fitzgerald Johnson, S. C. Redfield Booher Garner McCall Sherley or other articles to be used in connection with the patented ma Borland Gillett McCoy Sisson chines. Some of the circuit courts of appeal have held that Burleson Gregg, Tex. Maher Slayden such contracts, based upon patents, were yalid, and that those Byrns, Tenn. Hammond Mann Talcott, N. Y. Connell Hardwick Moore, Tex. 'Underwood who violated the terms of such contracts were liable as con Conry Helm Page Whitacre tributory infringers. The correctness of such decisions has re Danforth Henry, Conn. Palmer cently received the approval of the Supreme Court of the United ANSWERED " PRESENT "-7. States in the case of Sidney Henry et al. v. A. B. Dick Co. by Beall, 'fex. Fornes Riordan Weeks Driscoll, M. E. Houston Talbott, Md. the yote of four justices of the seven who heard the case. ' An NOT VOTING-111. application for a rehearing of that case by the full bencl1 was Ames Evans Legare Roberts, Nev. made and denied, so that the construction put upon the existing Andrus Fairchild Lewis Robinson law in that case must be regarded as conclusive. Several bills Bathrick Faison Lindsay Rucker, Colo. have been introduced into Congress, as I am informed, to ob Berger Fields Littlepage Rucker, Mo. Bradley Flood, Va. Littleton Saunders viate the effect of this decision so as to prevent a patentee from Brown Fordney Longworth Scully extending by contract the monopoly secured to him under the Burgess Gardner, Mass. McHenry Sells patent law. This question calls for careful consideration. Burke, Pa. Georg

and that preliminary injunctions are granted only 11pon patents !!- close, persistent fight on the weevil by picking the adult weevil and which have been adjudicated to be Yalid by the courts or those mfected squares. This will minimize possible damage to their own whose validity has been prima facie established by public ac crop and reduce the number of weevil to migrate in the fall. quiescence for a considerable period· of time. It is urged that CORN". If the water recedes in time to permit it, at least 10 days ·or twQ. the laws should be revised in such a manner that the issuance weeks should be allowed to intervene before planting corn and the of a patent by the United States will carry with it the prima ground should first be thoroughly prepared. Experience in overflowed· facie force and effect of a valid patent, and the burden placed districts has shown that this is necessary to pi-event insect damage. It will also make subsequent cultivation easier and increase· the upon him who would infringe that patent to establish its ih chances of a good crop. Early maturing varieties of corn may be validicy, rather than, as at the present time, to require the planted as late as June 10, and Mexican June corn possibly as late as July 25. Where the land was bedded before the overflow, sufficient• patentee to establish the validity of his patent before obtainirig preparation can be made by running cultivators over the beds twice .. a preliminary injuncion or securing an award of damages for If the land was not bedded before the overflow, break shallow an'd the intentional infringement of his patented invention. harrow thoroughly before planting. Dwarf varieties of the Mexican June lanting. When the land w.as plowed before the overflow, use harrow or cultivator. When not plowed mous consent to insert in the RECdBD certain remarks on the break shallow and harrow thoroughly. flood in the Mississippi River. Plant in drill at the rate of one-third or one-half bushel per acre. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Mississippi asks unani Three or four cultivations with cultivators should be sufficient to keep down weeds and promote rapid growth. mous consent to extend his remarks on the subject of the Mis A yield of from 8 to 15 bushels of grain an·d one-half to 1 ton of sissippi River floods. Is there objection? hay pe1· a.ere may be expected under normal conditions. There was no objection. The following parties have Mexican June corn for Bale: Mr. HUMPHREYS of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, the experts in the Department of Agriculture have very kindly furnished Name. Address. Seed. Price. me with some data which they think will be of interest to the farmers in the sections of the Mississippi Valley which have Bushels. been ov~rflowed by the recent flood, and I would lik-e to have W. Virden_····--······-----·------· Cynthia, Miss·------· 20 S2.50 permission to print them in the RECORD so that I .may circulate D. B. Easterling.·---·--······------Jackson, Miss., No. 2------100 2. 00 it among my constituents. The department, through Mr. J. W. Owen .... ------····---·-·-- Canton, Miss------50 2.00 D.-0. Petteet & Bros--·---·-·-··---- Greenwood, Miss---·- ·------90 3.00 Knapp's office, has made very careful inquiry into the subjects D. W. Weeks------·-··--···-··---- Ridgeland..! Miss •. ______20 mentioned, and the suggestions contained in the data whieh I Delta Seed Co_ .. _.. __ ------···----. Greenwooa, Miss-.------· 100 2. 75 offer are based upon the experience of very many planters who David Hardie Seed Co.-·-·--··· D-a.llas, Tex·------····-·---- 100 2. 25 J. Steckler Seed CO-----··-··-··----- New Orleans, La.. ----~----- 500 3.00 have tried the experiments and have been successful in growing R. G. Hastings. ____ ------··--- 2. 75 the crops indicated after previous floods. Atlanta, Ga .• ·------·--·- 300 The department, through its agents, has been busily engaged The following parties have Whippoorwill peas for sale: for the past few weeks both in ascertaining the best methods of growing crops after an overflow and also in locating the firms Name. Address. Seed. . Price. and individuals who are able to furnish the seed required, and a list of these has also been furnished, whieh will be found at the end of the manuscript which I ask leave to print. . Bushel.a. Plant Seed Co ___ .... ------·-----·-. St. L<>uis,Mo•.•.. ~--·----- 7,000 $2.50 The data referred to are as follows : T. W. Wood & Sons .••• ·-·····---- Richmond, Va .. ·--···-····· 1,000 2.45 COTTON. H. G. Hastings & Co .. ------·-----· Atlanta, Ga.·------· 1,000 2.50 W. D. Hannah.. ...••. -··---·-·------Jackso!!J.Miss ••••.•• ______600 ------Cotton may be planted on overflowed land up to June 15 with the Dr. L. S. Rogers_········----·----- West, Miss·------···· 25 . 1. 75 expectation of producing a fair crop with a normal season. Plant only J. A. Spann & Co. ··----·----···· --- Pelahat.chee, Miss .. ·-·-... __ 100 ...... quick-maturing varieties, such as King's, Toole's, Simpkins's, Money Am.zi Godden Co.·- .. __ .-· .. __ ... _.. Birmingham, Ala .. ---····------···· 2.40 Maker, Bank Account, or some similar type. No more cotton should be planted than can be worked intensively and picked over once a week for weevil and punctured squares, if necessary. Cotton should be planted, T. W. Wood & Son, Richmond, Va., also have l,000 bushels -0f New if possible, on land that had been bedded before the overflow, taking the Era peas for sale, at $2.45 per bushel. first land from which the water recedes. Follow up the water dosely PENSIONS. each day, planting as fast as the land is uncovered so that the .cotton may have time to come up before the surface bakes. Seed for each Mr. ADAIR. Mr. Speaker, I call up the conference report day's planting should be wet and rolled in dirt or ashes the evening on House bill No. 1, granting service pensions to certain defined previous and put in piles over night to swell. Plant the next day by throwing the seed in the mud on top of the bed. Throw hard so the veterans of the Civil War and War with Mexico. seed will be buried in the mud. In planting walk by the side of the The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. AD.AIR] bed. Do not trample the top of the bed or press in the seed with the calls up the. conference report on House bill No. 1. The Clerk toot, a hoe, or in any other manner. Prepared and planted 1n this wey the seed should germinate and cotton be up in two or three days. will read the conference report. Cultivate as soon as the surface is dry enough to permit with harrows l\fr. ADAIR, I ask that the statement be read .in lieu of the or cultivators to break the crust and kill the weeds and grass. Thin to report. a stand as quickly as possible, then continue the usual ·Cultivation. The 'SPEAKER. The gentleman from Indiana asks unan BOLL WEEVIL. imous consent that the statement be read in li.eu of the report. If the boll weevil appear on the cotton in the flooded area, a prompt Is there objection? and persistent light must be made to exterminate them. 'I'ke infesta tion will probably be light, but must not on that account be overlooked. Mr. .MANN. Mr. Speaker, it is Mt very long. I think we If there are any weevil they will appear on the young cotton almost as had better ha-ve the report read. soon as it is up. They must be carefully picked by hand from the bud The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Illinois objects. of the young cotton, and later on punctured squares must be picked and destroyed weekly. The weevil first appearing are -old weevil that will The Clerk read the conference report and statement as fol soon die, and if they and the squares punctured by them are all de lows: stroyed the overflowed territory may be kept practically free of the weevil until late in the season. ~erever there was land above the overflow on whieh cotton was planted at about the usual time extra CONFERENCE REPORT (NO. 64'7). care must be used to locate such tracts and to see that .all weevil and The -committee of conference -0n the disagreeing votes of the punctured squares ar e destroyed thereon. If this is neglected, such isolated fields may breed enough weevil to seriously threaten the crop two Houses on the amend.men.ts of the Senate to the blll {H. . R. on the overflowed land. Upland farmers everywhere should also make i) granting a service pension to certain defined veterans o'f J 6236 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. liAY 10, the Civil War and the War with :Mexico, having met, after full Amend the title so as to read: "An act granting pensions to nnd free conference have agreed ta recommend and do recom certain enlisted men, soldiers, and officers who sened in the mend to their respectlrn Houses as follows: Civil War and the War with Mexico." Thut the House recede from its disagreement to the amend ISAAC Il. SHERWOOD, ment of the Senate and agree to the same with an amendment JOHN A. I. ADAIR, as follows: Managers on the part of the House. In lieu of the matter inserted by said amendment insert the P. J. 1\f cCuMBEB, following: . HENBY El BURNHAM, "That any person who served 90 days or more in the military Managers on the part of the SCJrnte. or naval service of the United States during the late Civil War, who has been honorably discharged therefrom, and who has STATEMENT. reached the age of 62 years or OT"er, shall, upon making proof The bi11 as it passed the House proposed to grant pensions of such facts, according to such rules and regnlations as the for 90 days' or more service in the Civil War or GO days' in tlle Secretary of the Interior may provide, be plaeed upon the pen War with Mexico and less than 6 months, $Hi per mouth; for sion roll and be entitled to receive a pension as follows: In 6 months' service and less than 9 months, $20; for 9 months case such person has reached the age of 62 years and served and less than 1 year, $25 per month; and for 1 year or more, 90 days, $13 per month; 6 months, $13.50 per month; 1 year, $30 per month. $14 per month; H years, $14.50 per month; 2 years, $15 per The bill \\RS amended by the Senate by striking out all after I month; 2! years, $15.50 per month; 3 years or over, $16 per the enacting clause and inserting a provision to amend the month. In case such person has reached the ::ige of 6G .years existing law, known as the a.ct of b'ebruary 6, 1907, so that pen and served 90 days, $15 per month; 6 months, $15.50 per month; sions allowed under that law would be granted at the follow 1 year, $16 per month; H years, $16.50 per month; 2 years, ing rates and under the following conditions: When a man had $17 per month; 2! years, $18 per month; 3 years or over, $19 reached the age of 62 years and had served {)0 days .in the Civil per month. In case such person has reached the age of 70 War he should receive $13 per month; 6 montJJE, $13.50; 1 year, years and served 90 days, $18 per month ; 6 months, $19 per $14; 1! years, $14.50; 2 years, $15; 2! years, $15.50; 3 )'ears month; 1 year, $20 per month; H years, $21.50 per month; 2 and over, $16 per month. When such person had reached the years, $23 per month; 2! years, $24 per month; 3 years or over, age of 66 years and sen·ed 90 days, $15 per month; G months, $25 per month. In case such person bas reached the age of $15.50 ; 1 year, $16 ; 1 ! years, $16.50; 2 years, $17 ; 2! years, 75 years and served 90 days, $21 per month; G months, $22.50 $17.50; 3 years and o-ver, $18. When such person bad renched per month; 1 year, $24 per month; 1! years, $27 per month; the age of 70 years and had ser\ed 00 days, $18 ; 6 months, 19 ; 2 years or over, $30 per month. That any person who ser\ed 1 year, $20; H years, $21; 2 years, $22; 2! yea.rs, $23; 3 years in the military or na\al service of the United States during or over, $~4 per month. When such per on had reached the the Civil War and received an honorable discharge, and who age of 75 years and served 90 days he should receive $21 per was wounded in battle or in line of duty and is now unfit for mouth; 6 months, $22.50; 1 year, $24; H years, $25.50; 2 ·years, manual labor by reason thereof, or who from disease or other $27; 2i years, $28.50; and 3 years and over, $30 per month. causes incurred in line ot duty resulting in his disability is now It also pro1ided that the Commissioner of Pensions should unable to perform manual labor, shall be paid the maximum make a separate report for each county, State, Territory, or pension under this act, to wit, $30 per month, without regard district, showing names and lengths of service, rates of pay to length of service or age. ment, and residences of all pensioners in the United States. "That any person who has served 60 days or more in the It also provided .that any person who was in receipt of an military ·or naval service of the United States in the War with income of $2,400 per year should not be eligible to pen.Jon under l\Iexico and has been honorably discharged therefrom, shall, this act. . upon making like proof of such service, be entitled to recei\e a Your conferees, after a full conference, reported an agree pension of $30 per month. ment to the effect that the House recede from its disagreement "All of the aforesaid pensions shall commence from the date of to the amend~ents of th~ Senate and agree to the same with filing of the applications in the Bureau of Pensions after the an amendment. passage and approval of this act: Provided, That pensioners This amendment does not amend the existing law, but makes who are 62 years of age or over, and who are now receiving this a new act. pensions under existing laws, or whose cln:ims are pending in It provides rates differing from the rates in the Senate amend the Bureau of Pensions, may, by application to the Commissioner ment as follows: When a person Jias ser1ed in the Civil War of Pensions, in such form as he may prescribe, receive the or War with Mexico and reached the age of G6 years and had benefits of this act; and nothing herein contained shall prevent a service of two and a half years he should receiYe $18 iu tead any pensioner or person entitled to a pension from prosecuting of $17 per month; three years' service, $19 instead of $18 per his claiill. and receiving a pension under any other general or month. In case such per on had reached the age of TO years special act : Provided, That no person shall receive a pension and served one and a balf years, $21.50 per month instead of under any other law at the same time or for the same period $21; two years, $23 per month instead of $22; two and a half that he is receiving a pension under the provisions of this act: years, $24 inst end of $23 per month; three years and over, . $25 Provided further, That no person who is now receiving or shall per month instead of $24. And in case such person had reached hereafter receive a greater pension, under any other general or the age of 75 years and served one and a half years, $27 instead special law, than he would be entitled to receive under the proof $25.50; two years, $30 per month instead of $27; two and a visions herein shall be pensionable under this act. . half years, $30 per month instead of $28.50; and three years, "SEC. 2. That rank in the service shall not be considered in $30, as provided in the Senate amendment. Your committee also r~ommended another amendment whtch applications filed hereunder. "SEC. 3. That no pension attorney, claim agent, or other per provides tirnt certain classes who are provided for in certain son shall be entitled to receive any compensation for services act-s and joint resolutions of Congress and are now receiving rendered in presenting any claim to the Bureau of Pensions, or pensions under existing laws should be entitled to the benefils securing any pension, under this act, except in applications for of this act. It also changes the provision in the matter of the Commis original pension by persons who have not heretofore received a sioner of Pensions publishing the names of the pensioners. If pension. Pl'OYides that he shall keep a record of the pensions which are "SEC. 4. That the benefits of this act shall include any person allowed under this act, and at the end of the fiscal year 1914 who ser' ed during the late Civil War, or in the War with should tabulate the same and gi1e them to tho e who desire :Mexico, and who is now or may hereafter become entitled to them upon the payment of fees for certified copies. pension under the acts of June 27, 1890, February 15, 1895, and It also eliminates that feature of the Senate amendment pro the joint re olutions of July 1, 1902, and June 28, 1906, or the viding that those who have an income of $2,400 should not be acts of January 29, 1887, 1\Iarch 3, 1891, and February 7, 1897. pensionable under this act. "SEC. 5. That it sha11 be the ·duty of the Commissioner of Your committee also found it uccessary to amend the title Pensions, as each application for pension under this act is because of the fact that in view of the combination of age and adjudicated, to cause to be kept a record showing the name and service it could not be construed to be a service act. They length of service of each claimant, the monthly rate of pay therefore amended the title in accordance with the amendment ment granted to or received by him, and the county and State adopted by your conference. of his residence; and shall at the end of the fiscal year 1914 The n.mendment recommended by your conferees increases the tabulate the record so obtained by States and counties, and amount as carried by the Senate amendment about $1,685,000. shall furnish certified copies· thereof upon d~mand and the pay Respectfully submitted. ISAAC R. SHERWOOD, ment of such fee therefor as is provided by law for certified copies of records in the executive departments." JOHN A. 1\I. ADAIR, And the Senate agree to the same. Conferees on the part of the Housa. .1912. CONGRESSIONAL -RECORD-HOUSE~ 6237

Mr. ADAIR Mr. Speaker, on the 8th day of December, 1911, thJ s Honse took up the Sherwood dollar-a-day pension bill, and Annual Number Pres- Pro- increase Total after four days of delJate passed it by an overwhelming ma Age. Length or service. ~fpen- ent posed increase per ~rpen- jority. The bill as it passed the House would have increased s10ners. rate. rate. Sloner. annum. the pension roll about $52,000,000, anu would have placed prac - - - tically all soldiers on the rolls at one dollar per day, and the CG ll years . . _...... 14, 426 $ L2.00 16.50 S «i. OJ $:79,004.0'.J few remaining ones would ha\e received large increases. The CG 2 years ...... 8, 243 12.00 17.00 60.00 494,580.00 bill as it passed the House was indorsed by thousands of Grand C6 21 years._ . . _...... 20,222 12.00 18.()1) 72. 00 1, 455, 984. 00 Army posts all oyer the country, and it was universally agreed C6 3 years and over ... _.... 31, 556 12.00 19.00 84.00 2, t:.50,784.00 'iO 00 days ...... 9, 271 15.00 18. 00 36.00 333, 756.00 tbat it was not only the most liberal, but that it was the most 70 Ci months. _. .•...... 22,405 15.00 19.00 48. 00 1, O'i5, 440. OJ equitable bill ever passed in the history of the country. I had n 'iO I year ...... 14,569 15.00 20.00 60.00 8i4, 140.00 special pride in the Sherwood bill, as I was placed in charge of 70 l l years ...... 12, 361 15.00 21.50 78.00 964, 168.0J 'iO 2 years . . •...... 7,064 15.00 23.00 96.00 678, 144.(}J it on the floor of the House, and after its passage I felt that I 'iO 2! ye&rs ...... : ...... 17,328 15. 0() 24.0J 108.00 1, 871, 424. OJ had really accomplished much for the benefit of those who sacri rn 3 years and over ...... 27, 041 15. 00 25.00 120. 00 3, 244, 920. OJ ficed home, health, and everything for the preservation of the 15 W days ...... 5, 804 20. 0J 21.00 12. 0\l 69,G4S.OJ 'i5 6 months ...... 14, 027 ~O.O'J 22.50 30. 00 420,810.0) Union. I was gratified, too, because of the f2.ct that it passed a 'i5 1 year ...... 9, 121 20. (}J 24.00 48.00 437, 80~ . (}) Democratic Ii;ouse, after the-charge had been made that should 'i5 ll years ...... 7, 33 ;} m oo 27. 00 84. OJ C42,876.0J a Democratic House be elected no pension legislation could be 'i5 2 years ...... 4,422 ~0.0) 30. 00 120.0J 530, €40.0J :s 2~ years ...... 10,843 20.0J 30.00 120.00 1, 301, 760. OJ expected. The bill went over to the Senate on the 12th of 75 3 years and over . ... __ . . 16,923 20.0'J 30. 00 120. 00 2, 031, 430. OJ December, and while the old soldiers were dying at the rate --- of oyer 3,000 each month, no action was taken by the Senate Total ...... 420, 9C5 ------·------· - 25, 797,502.00 until March 28, at which time it voted down the Sherwood dollar-a-day bill, and passed the Smoot 50-cent bill, cutting the Now, Mr. Speaker, while I regret very much the refusal of rates carried in the Sherwood bill more than twice in two. the Senate to agree to the Sherwood dollar-a-day bill, I am Against this action, protests came from all o-rnr the country, nevertheless pleased over the fact that the House has, at least, denouncing the action of the Senate, and insisting that a Repub forced that body to pass a bill which will distribute about lican Senate should be as liberal with the old soldiers as was $26,000,000 annually among needy and deserving soldiers in this Democratic House. When the Senate bill came over to the addition to what they are now drawing. For five years a few House, I mo'red that the House disagree to the Senate amend of us have led the fight in the House for a dollar-a-day pension ments and ask for a conference. My motion prevailed, and the bill, and while we have not succeeded in getting all we wanted, Speaker appointed Messrs. SHERWOOD, ADAIR, and SULLOWAY as the passage of this bill shows our work bas not been in vain. conferees on the part of the House, and the Senate named During the first four years of my service I was not a member Messrs. l\f cCuMBER, BURNHAM, and GORE as conferees on the of the Invalid Pension Committee, but at the beginning of the part of the Senate. Sixty-second Congress, because of my continuous and per Mr. Speaker, the conference committee met time and time sistent effort on behalf of the old soldiers, I was placed on that again during the past five weeks, and your conferees, repre committee, since which time I have been in a position to render senting the House, held out for more than a month, insisting them more valuable service than ever before. on the House bill, but the conferees representing the Senate l\lr. Speaker, the passage of this bill does not end pension declined and refused to agree to the dollar-a-day bill, but legislation. While I know further legislation is impossible fin ally agreed to an increase of $1,685,000 over the Smoot sub with the present membership of the Senate, I believe the elec stitute. While the bill agreed upon was not satisfactory to the tion in November will retire to private life a number of Sena House conferees, it was the best we could get from the Senate, tors, whose services the country can well get along without, and and we were compelled to accept it or get nothing. Section 1 of place in their seats men who appreciate the services rendered the bill agreed upon provides rates :is follows: by those who fought the battles of the Union, and who are S ECTIO~ 1. That a ny person who served 90 days or more in the willing to show their appreciation by voting adequate pensions military or naval service of the United States during the late Civil to needy and deserving soldiers. · I ask that this conference War who has been honorably discharged therefrom, and who bas reached the age of 62 years or over, shall, upon making proof of such report be adopted, and serve notice now that I am going to be facts, according to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the reelected in NQvember, and during the Sixty-third Congress Interior may provide, be placed upon the pension roll and be entitled will continue the fight for more liberal pensionr:; until all soldiers to receive a pension as follows : In case sucll person has reached the age of 62 years and ser ved 90 days, $13 per month ; 6 months, $13.50 are placed on the rolls at $1 a day. per month; 1 year, 14 per month; H years, $14.50 per month; 2 1\fr. ADAIR. 1\Ir. Speaker, I now yield 10 minutes to the gen years, $15 per month ; 2~ years, $15.50 per month; 3 years or over, tleman from Ohio [Gen. SHERWOOD] [Applause.] 16 pGr month. In case such person has reached the age of 66 years and served 90 days, $15 per month; 6 months, $15.50 per month; 1 Mr. SHERWOOD. 1\Ir. Speaker, I shall occupy only a few year, $16 per month; H years, $16.50 per month; 2 years, 17 per moments, because I am very anxious to get this bill to the White month; 2~ years, $18 per month; 3 years or over, $19 per month. In House this afternoon, so that the President can sign it before he case such person has reached the age of 70 years and served '90 days $18 per month; 6 months, $19 per month; 1 year, $20 per month; 1~ goes to Ol1io to enter that titanic combat with the ferocious lion years, $21.50 per month ; 2 years, $23 per month ; 2~ years, $24 per tamer of the ~lirican jungles. [Laughter and applause.] month; 3 years or over, $25 per month. In case such person has The bill has already been read. I want to say here and now reached the age of 75 years and served 90 days, $21 per month; 6 months, $22.50 per month ; 1 year, $24 per month ; H yearsh $27 per and repeat what I have said heretofore, that I am opposed to month; 2 years or over, $30 per month. That any person w o served an age-pension bill. I believe that all pensions should be for in the military or naval service of the United States during the Civil War and recei>ed an honorable discharge, and who was wounded in service, and that the pension roll should be a roll of honor. battle or in line of duty aild is now unfit for manual labor by reason Since this bill went into conference I have heard from about thereof, or who from disease or other causes incurred in line of duty 30,000 soldiers of the Civ).l War. I have had over 7,000 letters, resulting in his disability is now unable to perform manual labor, shail be paid the maximum pension.. nnder this act, to wit, $30 per month besides resolutions from Grand Army -posts, and about two to without regard t o length of service or age. ' one say "take what you can get from the Senate conferees." It is believed a large number of soldiers who rendered short The balance say that rather than have this substitute they service will receive $30 per month under the provision fixing would rather ha"\e nothing. That is the situation. that rate for those who were wounded in battle or who incurred To show you that it is simply impossible to prepare a pension disabilities in service and as a result of such wounds or dis bill based upon both age and service, let me read you from this abilities are now incapacitated from the performance of manual bill. Under this bill a soldier 75 years old who served 90 days labor. The following table shows the increases under this bill gets $21 per month-a soldier called out in 1864, who received and the number· of soldiers benefited: from $500 to $800 bounty and was probably never in battle. A soldier 69 years old who served two and a half years and was probably in 20 or 30 battles gets $18 a month. Number Pres- Pro- Annual Total Age. increase 1\Ir. HUGHES of New Jersey. Will the gentleman yield? Length of service. ~f pen- ent posed per pen- increase per Sloners. rate. rate. annum. 1\Ir. SHERWOOD. I will. sioner. l\fr. HUGHES of New J ersey. Can the gentleman ten the ---- House about how many soldiers there are now on the pension 62 90 days ...... 9.573 $12. 00 Sl3.00 $12. 00 U14, 876.00 rolls who were never at the front and never left their own 62 6 months ...... !;3; 135 12.00 13.50 18.00 416,430.00 Stater · 62 1 year ...... 15,043 12.00 14.00 24. 00 361,032. 00 62 ll years ...... 12, 764 12.00 14.50 30.00 382, 920.00 l\lr. SHERWOOD. I never have looked that up, and it would 62 2 years ...... 7,294 12.00 15.00 36.00 262,584. 00 involve great labor to look it up. But Fox in his Regimental 62 21 years .. _...... 17, 892 12. 00 15.50 42.00 751, %4.00 Losses, a book that you will find in the Congressional Library, 62 3 years and over ...... 27, 921 12.00 16.00 48.00 1, 340, 208. 00 66 SO days ...... 10, 819 12. 00 15. 00 SG.00 389,484.00 says that there were 300 regiments that never sustained any 66 6montbs ...... 26, 146 12.00 15.50 42.00 1, 098, 132. 00 fatalities. These were troops called out in 1864 and were not C6 1 year ...... 17.002 12.00 16. 00 48.00 .816. 09(l. 00 mustered in and equipped until the autumn of that year. XLVIII-392

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There is one feature of this bill that I want to call attention a table from the Pension Office, certified to by the Secretary of to. ·It is a service and age pension bill combined. This is the the Interior, that there are alive to-day 27,921 soldiers who first time in the history of pension legislation that service has sened over three years in the Civil War. This shows conclu been recognized. This bill recognizes service. Now, my col sively that this table is absolutely false and fraudulent. league, Mr. ADAIR, stated that under the estimates made by the The SPEAKER. The time of the gentleman has expired. Pension Office this bill is supposed to take about $25,000,000. l\lr. ADAIR. Mr. Speaker, I yield 10 minutes additional to That is a mistake. Not .Mr. ADAIR'S mistake, but a mistake in the gentlemnn from Ohio. th!( Pen.sion Bureau. It will not take any such sum. I ha-ve Mr HAMILTON of Weet Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I want to here in my hand an estimate made in the Pension Office, certi call the attention of the gentleman from Ohio to the fact that fied to by the Department of the Interior, under date of Febru Mr. JuJius W. Pell, of Grants-ville, W. Va., is alive, who en ary 2, 1912, and this vrns an estimate made upon the Smoot listed at the age of 11 years, or perhaps a few weeks younger. substitute, which passed the Senate, and there are only a few Mr. SHERw·ooD. That is :mother. That makes three. increaE:es, which are marked in red letters, increasing the Smoot 1\11:. HAMILTON of West Virginia. He was tbe youngest substitute, which increases the amount to a.bout $1,675,000. soldier of the Civil War and re.sides in my town, and is one of Mr. ANDERSON of Ohio. Will the gentleman yield? its best citizens. Mr. SHERWOOD. I will. 1\lr. SHERWOOD. Here is thiJ; statement certified to by the Mr. ANDERSON of Ohio. Has the gentleman any assurance Secretary of the Interior of the soldiers now 62· years old who that the Pre ident will sign this bill? are alive to-day, and he estimates the number, not 3 but 27,921. Mr. SHERWOOD. I think I have. I said in a public state And the Secretary of the Interior certifies to the estimate of ment that the President wouJd sign a bill carrying not over the Pension Bureau that it will cost $1,340,280 to pay these $18,000,000, and I am going to make that good. soldiers who enlisfed in 1861 and who are now only 62 years 1\fr. BARiLETT. Will the gentleman yield? old. I ha-ve some other documents here to show you-- l\Ir. SHERWOOD. Certainly. Mr. STERLING. Will the gentleman yield? l\Ir. BARTLET'l'. Does the gentleman think it is in accord l\Ir. SHERWOOD. If they will give me a little more time I ·with the proprieties for the President to say what bill he will will answer all questions, but I can not do it in the short time sign or what bill he will veto? i trust that President Taft, who I have. always obse11es the proprieties of his office, has not done that. l\Ir. STERLING. Has the gentleman the figures here showing Mr. SHERWOOD. I did not say I was speaking for the the number of soldiers now drawing pensions who erved more Pre ident. I said I had promised that he would do it. than two years? How many se11ed more than two years who l\Ir. BARTLETT. I am glad I asked the gentleman the ques are now drawing a pen ion? tion, for I would not like to have the impressiou go out that Mr. SHERWOOD. I have not the statistics with me for the President would be guilty of that. over two years. I estimate the number of survivors who sen·ed 1\lr. SHERWOOD. Now, to show you how utterly valueless one year and oYer at 255,000. the estimates of the Pension Office are, I am going to girn you I want to call attention to this statement which I bold in the facts. I am sorry the gentleman from New York [1\Ir. my hand, from the Pension Office, made on the 23d of April, FITZOEBALD] is not in his seat, because when the bill passed 1912-a regular report from the Pension Office, certified to by the House, on December 12, 1911, he used the figures of the the Secretary of the Interior. How came that report to be · Secretary of the Interior that my dollar a day bill woulu cost made? The conferees on the part of the House submitted a $75,000,000. bill, of which t)lis table I hold in my hand is a synopsis. I And that statement was wired by the Associated Press, and prepared it myself and made an estimate. I spent three days · all the soldier-hating newspapers and magazines used this false and part of three nights in making the estimate, and the con· and dishone t e timate in order to defeat the bill I have the ferees made a motion that it be submitted to the Pension Office documents now in my pos ession that that bill as it passed the for a report. They made this report, I think, in about four House would take approximately $41,000,000 and no more; I days, and it is a \ery elaborate report and I want to call atten· went through the records Qf the War Office, and I have tbe tion to it, especialJy on the first and third pages. rt: says : official roster of the War Office of every call made by Abraham This is based upon n careful estimate made by the Commissioner of Lincoln, the muster in and muster ou,t of every regiment that Pensions on every item, age, length of service, of the whole 400,000 went to the front from 18Gl to 1 65. I went over the estimates soldiers now on the pension roll. with Gen. Ainsworth, under whose auspices this roster was Here is another statement : In each case the reports of the War Department were accepted ns prepared in 1905, and the bill as reported by the Inrnlid Pen showing the date of enlistment and the date of discharge and the length sions Committee to this House would only take $34,000,000, as of service, so it was entirely upon the official reports of that depart- I stated at the time the bill was under consideration. It will ment in the cases examined. . be remembered that the House added some se\en millions to It is a very elaborate report. Now, I turn to the last page, the cost of the bill by amendments. Now, let me show you and I call attention to it. It was a very imPortant document: something that is absolutely convincing. Here is a table, includ It is confidently believed that the data used by the Bureau of Pen· ing 30 different propositions, certified to by the Secretary of the sions in making the various estimates is accurate, absolutely trnst worthy, and beyond successful contradiction. The compilation of the Interior, Walter L. Fl.sher, making an estimate of about $25,- War Department in regard to the troops furnished by the different 000,000 on the bill under consideration. States, etc., does not in any way conflict with the average length of Here is a very elaborate table giving length. of service and the service compiled by the Bureau of Pensions. number of soldier who served three years or over who are now That is dated on the 23d of April, 1912. 62 yea.rs old. The e timate is 27,921. This is certified by the Mr. BARTHOLDT. I wish the gentleman would put this Secretary of the Interior as accurate. Only 26 per cent of the statement in the RECORD. · soldiers enlisted in 1861 to 1865 are alive to-day. That would Mr. SHERWOOD. All right. Here is another report from indicate that there were 100,000 of those soldiers enlisted during the department reported by the Secretary of the Interior, an the war. Let me call your attention to another fact conceded in estimate made by the same officers and experts of the Pension the War Office. Of the 600,000 soldiers called out by President Office. How came this to be made? This is evidently not a Lincoln in 1862 not a single regiment served the full three years. public document. It was made in order to help the conferees It took nearly three months to recruit, muster in, and equip a to eliminate the provisions of the Senate bill which required regiment and send it to the front. The first muster under the the Comn:llssioner of Pensions to prepare a Ii t of all the soldiers calls of 18G2 was in August, and the war closed on the 26th of with lengths of service, and so forth, and print it in his annual April, 1865. My regiment, the One hundred and eleventh Ohio, report. Now, there are only 11 days' difference in these two was one of the last mustered Qut, because we were ordered to reports. I want to read, for your information, some vital ex Salisbury, N. C., pending the establishment of law and order in tracts from this report. I quote: that State. It was mustered out the 15th of July, 1865. The I have the honor to acknowledge, etc., a request containing .state 2 ment or table, giving names and length of service of all the pensioners l<:>ngest that any of these regiments served was about years of the United States. The Commissioner of Pensions advises me that it and 11 months, so that there was not a soldier who enlisted in is probable that more than 400,000 claims will be fl.led under this 1862 who served three years or over. The official roster of the bill should it become a law, etc. War Office justifies this statement. The commissioner further · advises me that to famish the There ·was not a single soldier, then, who served three years list ·of pensioners with the data asked for in this section at tho and o-ver except those enlisting in 1861. How old. must a sol time of submitting his next annual report would require the dier ha\e been when he enlisted in 1861 to be only 62 years of services of nearly the entire available force of the Bureau of age now? Eleven years old. There are only two men that Pensions for two or three months in its preparation. What ha\e been heard from-one Josiah Williams, of Ind'ana, and a does that mean? It means that the Pension Bureau has no drummer boy in Colorado-who were· 11 years old when they reliable data, just as I said on the floor of the House before. went into the service and who are alive to-day, Here you have and as I said before the Senate Committee on Pensions in a 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 6239

hearing they gave me on the 22d ·of January. They have not nition. I will vote for this bill, not because the Nation by en the data at all from which to make any reliable estimate. acting this law shows a just appreciation of what these men The commissioner states it will be necessary to withdraw did in the interests of humanity and for human liberty, but be from the files of the bureau the papers of 400,000 individual cause it shows we have some appreciation thereof. I will vote pension cases and make a careful examination of the reports for this bill, not because I think the pensions therein granted of the War and Navy Departments in order to determine the measure the debt of gratitude we owe the soldiers of 1861 to length of ser\ice, and so forth. 1865, but because the pensions herein granted, inadequate .as they Here is another statement: are, still show that we honor these brave men who endured all However, if the requirements of the length of service be omitted, all the hardships, privations, and dangers of war that the Union the other data might be obtained from the records of the Pension Office. might be preserved. I vote for this bill, not because I think the .Again I quote from this remark:;tble document: pro.visions entirely equitable, just, and right, but because, on Omitting the length of service, it is believed the other data could be the whole, hundreds of thousands of old soldiers, constituting . obtained from the pension agencies. a grand army of our most worthy and patriotic citizens, will Tbis report also came from the Pension Bureau through the receive substantial material aid thereunder. Secretary of the Interior. Finally, I vote for this bill because many hundreds of my I need not repeat here, what I have claimed from the start, own constituents and their families under its provisions will that the hand-me-down estimates of the Pension Office are mere be largely benefited. guesses and the estimates of $75,000,000 as the cost of the Of all the many duties which I have had to perform as a original House bill No. 1 were padded to the amount of O\er Representative in Congress I have responded to no call so cheer $28,000,000. They were deliberately padded and the fraudulent fully as I have to every request from an old soldier for as figures telegraphed to the country in order to defeat a just and sistance. I have done nothing that afforded me more pleasure liberal pension law. These two reports, both from the same than the aid and assistance which I have rendered the old sol bureau and made only 11 day£ apart, one claiming their esti diers, their widows, and orphans, in securing proper adjustment mates are absolutely correct and from official records and the of their pension matters. .And nothing has given me so much other admitting that they have no data upon which to.estimate mental anguish as my inability to secure the enactment of spe the length of service of the surviving soldiers, are sufficient evi cial acts of· Congress for the relief of worthy and needy old dence to condemn the methods of this bureau without further soldiers. It is therefore to me a real joy and delight to cast a comment. One report was made to discredit a fairly liberal vote for a single law, which will help thousands within my own pension bill, and the second report was made to help eliminate district and hundreds of thousands throughout the Nation. the provisions in the Senate pension bill requiring the publica When this bill shall have become a law we will be a stronger tion of names and length of service of all the pensioners. In and greater Natiop.. The recognition we gi\e to the men who one report they claimed they had all the records necessary to saved this Nation is an act of the National Government that estimate the cost of a pension bill; in the other report they say will inspire our citizenship with greater patriotism. Any it would require the services of the entire available force of the nation that neglects the men who have fought its battles Pension Bureau for two months to secure the records of age, thereby exhibits an ingratitude unworthy a great, generous, length of service, and so forth, of the surviving soldiers. patriotic people. ~Iy good friends, I am not in temper to talk about this mat We know not what the future may bring forth. 1\Iay peace ter. In order to fittingly criticize this fraud upon the old ever reign in this beloved country. 1\Iay war clouds never soldiers of the country I should have to use some unparlia again rise above our national horizon. May civil strife never mentary language, which I hm·e ne\er yet used on the floor of again be the unhappy lot of this Republic. But, whateT"er may this House. [Applause.]. I ha•c no complaint to make of the come, our pension laws should reflect the highest gratitude a Secretary of the Interior. He islgned these two conflictiflg re great and free people can show to the men who risked all for ports only 11 days apart. Re signed whatever was sent from the life of the Nation and the honor of the flag. Let the pen the Pension Office. I do claim, howernr, that he ought to know sion laws enacted by the people's Representatives in the Con what he is signing when he approves an official paper of such gress of the United States teach the boys of to-day and the boys vital import; but he is young and new in the queerish business of to-morrow that the highest service a citizen can render his of modern statecraft. He was born in 1862, the second year country is to fight its battles in the dark hour of danger and of the war. No doubt he wns a Yery sweet and promising baby, distress. Uay the people of this great Nation never become so and he probably knew as much about pensions in 1862 as he engrossed and absorbed in other matters that they shalf be ,does to-day. [.Applause.] grudge the pensions paid to the soldiers of the Republic. l\Iay - I am for this bill, not because it proyides an equitable dis the spirit of patriotism among the people never diminish to tribution of benefits to the most worthy and meritorious, but such an extent that we shall cease to appreciate in the highest because it will a1leYiate distress in tens of thousands of soldier degree the everlasting debt of gratitude, which all the world homes. I am for this bill, not that it is the best we should have, owes to the men who saved the Government "of the people, by but because it is the best we could get. I am for this bill, not the people, for the people" from dissolution and death. · because it does ample justice to the bronzed and grizzled vet The committee estimates that this bill will add an average erans, staggering to a nearby grave, but because it will alleviate of $22,000,000 a year, for the next five years, to the amount the the urgent needs of tens of thousands of my comrades, and will National Government will pay in pensions to the Yeterans of the inspire a sense of gratitude in many a lonesome soldier's heart Civil War. 'J.lhis will make the amount we pay annually for that this great Government, in the hour of its strength and pw:i.sions something near $175,000,000. The total annual pay prosperity has not been unmindful of the heroic men who ment seems large. But the amount is insignificant compared saved it in the hour of its desperation and despair. [.Applause.] with the great service these men rendered. Besides. the Nation .Mr. MORGAN. l\1r. Speaker, I do not want this conference is rich. Our national wealth exceeds $130,000,000,000.. .At the report to be adopted and this bill to become a law without indi outbreak of the Civil War our national wealth was but cating my approval of the measure and my willingness to vote $16,000,000,000. .The value of the products of our farms in therefor. 1860 was one and a half billions of dollars. Last year the I do not mean by this that I prefer this bill to the so-called products of our farms were worth $9,000,000,000c At the Sulloway bill passed by this House during the Sixty-first Con time these soldiers were fighting the battles of the Union gress, or to the Sherwood bill-H. R. 1-as it passed this House the annual products of all our manufacturing establishments last December. Personally I would have preferred that Con were worth less than $2,000,000,000. Last year our mills and gress should ha\e passed a bill similar to the Sulloway bill. factories and manufacturing establishments produced merchan But if such a measure could not have become a law, then I dise worth $20,000,000,000. .At the time our Civil War was in would have preferred the Sherwood bill as it passed the House progress we had a population of 31,000,000. Our population now rather than the bill that is presented in the conference report exceeds 92,000,QPO. We are the richest Nation on earth. Our and as we ha rn it before us now. But as I can not get such a people are the best clothed, best housed, and best fed Nation on . measure as I want, I will gladly vote for what I can get. I earth. We have poverty in this country it is true. But with all will vote for this bill, not because it is what it should be, but of our poverty we are nevertheless a great, rich, prosperous because it is better than the present law. I will vote for it, not people. In the amount of our wealth we lead all other nations. because it gives the ex-Union soldiers all they deserve, but be Our people have an abundance of all things that will contribute cause the bill gi\es them, in part, that to which they are justly to their health and happiness. Our people enjoy greater free entitled. I will . vote for this bill, not because I believe the dom and have within their reach more to contribute to their measure does full justice to the old veterans, but because it is welfare and happiness than have the people of any other in the direction of justice. I will vote for this bill, not because country in the world. -in enacting this law we give complete recognition to these men, So we behold our country to-day. With all its wealtb and all these old. soldiers, for the service they rendered this country, its prestige among nations, with all its power for good in the but because the bill goes one step farther toward such recog- world, -with all its hundred millions of happy, contented, and • 6240 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. ~MAY 10,

prosperous people, and we wonder wnat it would have been me extreme pleasure at this time to know that a Democratic had it not ·been for the service rendered by the soldiers of the House has realized the responsibility and obligation our people Union Army. We realize, then, that the amount we have paid owe to the men who helped make the e...tjstence of this Govern and wm pay as pen ions to these old ·soldiers is insignificant ment possible, and has attempted to repay that obligation by compared to the wealth that has .been made possible through the compensating them, as far as we are able, for their sacrifices sacrifices they made and the deeds they performed.. · and suffering . This is not all. The influence of their deeds will not end 1\Ir. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to extend my remarks to-day, to-morrow, next week, or next year. These men are in the RECORD. . rapidly pa!:'.sing away. Eyery year scores of thousands of the 'l'he SPEAKER. The gentleman from Kansas [Mr. NEELEY] Boys in Blue answer the last roll call on earth. Their ranks asks unanimous consent to extend his remarks in the RECORD. are swiftly depleting. All the soldiers of the Republic who Is there objection? fought the battles of th.e great Oivil War will soon have gone There was no objection. from us, but the influence of their work will go on and on. Ur. .AD.AIR. Mr. Speaker, I yield half a minute to the gentle The benefits of their deeds will be enjoyed by generations to man from Rhode Island [1\fr. O'SHAUNESSY]. come. The country which they saved will remain- ihe home The SPEAKER. 'l'he gentleman from Rhode Island [Mr •. of miJlions of the happiest people on earth. The flag for which O'SHAUNRSSY] is recognized for half a minute. they fought will continue to be the emblem of liberty and l\Ir. O'SHAUNESSY. l\Ir. Speaker, I regret that the admirable freedom, and millions from every nation on earth will continue servic&-pension bill introduced by Gen. SHERWOOD and pa sed by to seek refuge under the protection of its beneficent folds. The this Democratic House has been so amended in the Senate as to beneficiaries of the act which we are passing to-day will soon reduce the monetary recognition by this country of the patriotic pass away, but the Union will live, our free institutions will serrices of its defenders. No recognition of tho e who suffered endure, the Stars and Stripes will still waYe, and the good in defense of the Union can ever be too great by this Republic. I which these bra"\"'e men did will abide with our people until our Through their heroic actions and self-sacrifice trea..,on was sup I institutions shall crumble and the Republic shall be no more. pres ed and the Union was maintained. It is the easiest thing in l [ .Applam~e.] , the world for men who never participated in that great conflict to Mr. .AD.AIR. .Ur. 'Speaker, I yield two minutes to the gentle poke fun and ridicule at the ·rnterans for being identified with t man from New York [1\Ir. PAYNE]. pension legislation; these critics repre ent the defenders of the I :Mr. PAYNE. 1\fr. Speaker, I shall yote for this coclerence Union as mendicants devoid of honor. Let us remember that no report, whether I am allowed to speak or not. I voted against legislation can ever fully compen ate these heroes for the great the bill before the House for reasons that I stated then, and sacrifice they made and the hardships they endured. At every also against the Sulloway bill I thought .it was too great a banquet board we hear unlimited praise for the greatness of drain upon the Treasury of the United States. But this bill our Nation; its magnificent attainments, and the unbounded does not call for the amount of money that either of those bills future that lies before it are held up for our admiring appro· did but for only a small portion-less than ·a third--of the bation and applause; its united citizenship is extolled, and its .. m~unt. I think that this more nearly covers the ideas which marvelous industrial development is paraded as one of the I expressed upon the Sulloway bill, about the proper legislation wonders of the age. The conditions which we constantly praise in reference to pensions, tha.n if I had drawn a bill myself. I would not exist were it not for the men who answered the sum very cheerfully join with the friends of this measure in voting mons of Lincoln. This Government should not retreat from to sustain this conference report. [Applause.] its consideration of the claims of patriotic worth and enc.learnr. l\fr . .AD.AIR. I yield five minutes to the gentleman from Ten It would be the acme of cruelty to turn our backs upon these nessee [Mr. AusTIN] . deserving men when most of them are within the pale of death Mr . .AUSTIN. Mr. Speaker, I wish to compliment the chair itself. They are fast disappearing. The death roll of these man of the Committee on Invalid Pensions, Gen. SHERWOOD, veterans is 100 a day, or about 40,000 a year. If there eyer for succeeding at last in being able to write upon the statute was a time when gratitude should manifest itself, it is in the books another general pension bill. While we have voted and period of their ·old age. I ha Ye introduced many private pen will continue to vote large sums of money out of the National sion bills, and I recognize full well that most of them can not Treasury, no money wm do so much good as the money carried pass, unless my term of service should be extended O"rer many iu this bill. [Applau e.] We could not, if we would, fully recom years, owing to the fact that but a limited number of bills are pense in dollars and cents the men who saved the Union. We passed for a Member of this House during each session. Most - owe it to them, we owe it to ourselves, we owe it to our com of these cases I ha"\"'e examined personally. I have spoken to , IDOn country that no IDan who defended the flag and helped the bowed and bent veterans who have not many days to live. prese11e the Union shall ever be compelled to find refuge in a l\Iany of the cases have been pathetic in the extreme, and all of poorhouse. them ha:re been de erving of the kindliest consideration. Most Had the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. SHERWOOD] had his way of these men for whom I haye introduced pensions must, as a tlu~se pensions would have been larger. They could not be too matter of course, be denied the beneficent help which special large if we attempted to pay in full the great debt that we owe legislation affords. This is unfair to the remainder, whose to the men who followed Grant, Sherman, Thomas, and Sheri cases are as deserving, and for that reason, among many others, dan. .And rr.ay that brave and gallant old soldier, Gen. SHER I voted for the Sherwood pension bill, in order~ tllat the same WOOD continue to represent the Toledo (Ohio) district in this dispensation of justice might be given to all. great' body. [Applause.]. If I was commissioned to give "1at 1\Iy colleague, Mr. ADAIR, in his speech in this House, soc· side of the House advice, I would say, " Gentlemen, you could cinctly stated a proposition which should be engraved in the not do a wiser thing than place him on your ticket as a running minds of the .American people when he said : mate with the honored Speaker of this House." [Applause.] I have heretofore stated on the iloor of the House, and I will state For the grand old soldiers of the district I represent I wish to it again, that the old soldier was never paid in money worth a hundred cents on the dollar, but the bondholder has been paid in full and in extend to Gen. Snimwoon, for his unremitting and unceasing gold. Ily an act in 1869, known as "An act to strengthen the public efforts in their behalf, t¥r most grateful thanks and apprecia credit," Congress made these same bonds payable in gold, and mHlions of dollars of money went into the pockets of' men who loved their tion. [.Ai;>plause.] money more than they loved their country, while the men who· sucri· 1\lr. AD.A.IR. Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute to the gentle ficed health, home, and everything, and who loved their country bettel.' man from Missouri [Mr. RussELL]. than thei.l' money, and who were willing to give up all God had given l\Ir. RUSSELL. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from New them for the preservation of the States are still unpaid. We have therefore by national legislation declared that money is more sacred Hampshire [Mr. STJLLow A.Y] is unavoidably absent, and at his than manhood · that lucre is more valuable than patriotism ; that greed request I want to ask unanimous consent that he may extend shall be recogttlzed in national legislation above and beyond the blood of ~'lrtyrs shed in a sacred cause. If the Union soldiers had been his remarks in the RECORD. paid in money worth a hundred cents on the dollar, tb_ey would have The SPE.A.KER. The gentleman from 1\Iissouri [l\Ir. Rus received in excess of what was paid them the sum of :>l,OGl,222. In sELL] asks unanimous consent that the gentleman from New other words this was the depreciation on their monthly pay, and has been withh~ld from them for a period of 48 years.. The interest on Hampshire [1\Ir. SULLOWAY] may have unanimous consent to this vast sum of money for 48 years. not compounded, but simple in extend his remarks in the RECORD. Is there objection? terest at 6 per cent, would be 14~056,319; now add to this the prin There was no objection. cipal and you have the sum of SI98,117,541 honestly due and, as a .Mr. A.PAIR. .Mr. Speaker, I yield one-half minute to the matter of justice and right, should be paid. This vast sum of money, together with what could be saved by discontinuing the 17 unn~cessary gentleman from Kansas [.Mr. NEELEY]. pension agencies and what could be saved by making examinations un 1\Ir. NEELEY. l\Ir. Speaker, the conference agreement on this necessary, as this bill will do, would go a long way toward paying bill is a matter of considerable gratification to me., although pensions for some time to come. it fails to entirely conform to my notions of justice. My father I am glad to recognize in my reasoning upon the pension was a ·Confederate soldier. He ser•ed three years and nine legislation this great argument of Mr. ADAIR, so capab1y ex months in the Confederate Army, and has two wounds received pressed. It has also occurred to me that the great question o~ in service that he will carry with him to his grave ~· It gives the hi g~ -cost of living which 2.gitates the public mind should • 1912. OONGRESSION AL -RECORD-HOUSE. 6241

enter into the solution of this question. We all recognize that of that kind to pass without correction. [Applause.] And before the purchasing power of the dollar has depreciated. I proceed, l\lr. Speaker, I want to get it before your minds where If this is so, and no one doubts it, why should not the Gov I actually reside. The gentleman from Indiana locates me iu. ernment advance the rate of pension to the most deserving l\fissouri, and· the Speaker locates me in Illinois, where I actu class of all, namely, the men wbo made possible the perpetua ally reside. I think, howernr, I am the only Member of this tion of the Union with its attendant blessings und liberties? House who can justly lay claim to represent a· part of two Half of them hn.ve been recei\ing but $12 per month for many States. I feel that I belong in Illinois-am a thorough llii years. Those $12 will not buy to-day what they would have noisian-yet it is a fact that a portion of my district lies in the bought when originally granted to them. As a matter of State of l\Iissouri. Within my district is the old town of simple justice they are entitled to be compensated now at a Kaskaskia. It was the first capital of the State of Illinois, the rate which wrn provide them with a sum of money equal in first metropolis of all the great western country-the largest purchasing power to that which was origin.ally given them. city west of the Allegheny l\Iountains 150 years ago, and the I will not enlarge at this time upon the reasons for the proper first settlement made on the soil of Illinois was at Kaskaskia; recognition of the honest claims of these men. I rose prin and yet the forces of nature-the }..Iis.sissippi River-ha. ve placed cipa1ly to :my that there had been criticism in some quarters this town on the west bank of that stream. A few years ago not only of the veterans, but of those who recognized the justice that mighty stream proceeded to cut for itself a new channel of their cause. For that reason I am particularly anxious to and left KaEkaskia in Missouri, yet the people of the island. say that I have no apology to offer for my vote in favor of thaugh attached to Missouri, do their voting in Illinois, pay the Sherwood pension bill. [Applause.] their taxes-except on the part of the town that was washed \ For the. benefit of those who are interested in this legislation away-in Illinois. The grant of the French Government of I will here incorporate the Sherwood bill as amended in the the land upon which Kaskaskia was built was made to the Senate and in conference and destined in a day or two to people in common and held by them jointly, but within the past become law: two years the governor of Illinois has caused the land to A.n act (H. R. 1) granting pensions to certain enlisted men, soldiers, be platted and sold, making satisfactory arrangements with the and officers who served in the Civil War and the War with Mexico. squatters or residents who were living on the land. It was Be it enacted, etc., That any person who served !)0 days or more in the military or naval service of the United States during the late Civil here that Gen. George Roger Clarke, in 1778, made his famous War. who has been honorably discharged tberetrom, and who has march across southern Illinois from Fort l\Iassac, captured reacl:!ed the age of 62 years or over, shall, upon making proof of such Fort Gage and its garrison, with Kaskaskia anu all that great facts, according to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may provide, be placed upon the pension roll and be entitled country extending north and west of the Ohio River, and then to receive a pension as follows : In case such person has reached the marched in the wintertime across Illinois and captured Vin age cf 62 years and served 90 days, $13 per month ; 6 months, $13.50 cennes. Thus, through the foresight and courage of Gen. per month; one year, $14 per month: one and a half years, $14.50 per month; two years, $15 per month; two and a half years, $15.50 per Clarke, this country became a part of Virginia, and was for month; three years or over, $16 per month. In case such person has ever afterwards held as American territory. There is one en reached the age of 66 years and served 90 days, $15 per month ; six tire precinct of Illinois that lies on Kaskaskia Island and on months, $15.50 per month; one year, $16 per month; one and a half years, $16.50 per month ; two years, $17 per month ; two and a half l\Iissouri sail, yet to all intents and purposes they are citizens years, $18 per month ; three years or over, $19 per month. In case of Illinois. I take great pride in representing in this Congress such person has reachea the age of 70 years and served 90 days, $18 perhaps the oldest settled part of Illinois. It was held by the per month; six mont·bs, $19 per month; one yearI.. $20 per montb; one and a half years, $21.50 per month ; two years, 26 per month ; two and French up to 1765, captured by England. and held until Gen. a half years, $24 per month; 3 years or over, 25 per month. In case Clarke captured it in 1778. such person has reached the age of 75 years and served 90 days, $21 I do not rise to make ::my extended argument in behalf of per month; six months, $22.50 per month; one year, $24 per month; one and a half years, $27 per month; two years or over, $30 per month. this bill, l\fr. Speaker, because I think every Member of this That any person who served in the military or naval service of the House knows what I fa.rnr. I am ·rnry glad to see the pe-::i.sion United States during the Civil War and received an honorable dis bill where I believe it will ultimately pass· and become a law. charge, and who was wounded in battle or in line of duty and is now unfit for manual labor by reason thereof, or who from disease or other I know people are inclined to complain about pensions, but I causes incurred in line of duty resulting in bis disability is now unable know that this pension legislation has been promised by both to perform manual labor, shall be paid the maximum pension under this the great political parties in every nationa.l conyention for 10 act, to wit, $30 per month, without regard to length of service or age. That any person who has served 60 days or more in the military or years, and in many of the State conventions as well, and this naval service of the United States in the War with Mexico and bas been money paid out for pensions iS the most evenly distributed honorably discharged therefrom, shall, upon making like proof of such money, perhaps, that goes from the National Treasury. To service be entitled to receive a pension of $30 per month. show that it is no burden on the Nation, I want to quote from All ~f the aforesaid pensions hall commence from the date of filing of the applications in the Bureau of Pensions. after the passage and a distinguished. son of Tennessee, from a speech deli"rnred by approval of this act: Provi

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Colorado [Mr. TAYLOR] French Kinkead, N. J. Murdock Sloan is recognized for half a minute. Fuller Know land 'eedbam Smith, .J.M. C. Garrtner, N. J. Korbly Neeley Speer Mr. TAYLOR of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, I extended some of Good Lafferty Nelson Steenerson my remarks in the RECORD before; that is, I got leaye and pre Gould La Follette Norris Stephens, Ca!. pared some remarks, but never put them in. I now want to ask Graham Langllam Nye Stephens, 'elJ r. Gray Lawrence O'Shuunessy Sterling leaYe to renew my attempt, and .extend my remarks in the Green, Iowa Lenroot Palmer Ste1ens, Minn. RECORD. [Applause.] Greene, Mass. Levy Parran Stone Mr. THISTLEWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I make a similar re Gregg, Pa. Lindbergh Payne Sulzer Guernsey Linthicum P epper Sweet quest. Hamilton, Mich. Lloyd Post Taggart The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Illinois · [Mr. THISTLE Hamilton, W. Va. Lo beck Pray Talbott, Md. wooo] and the gentleman from Colorado [l\Ir. TAYLOR] ask Hamlin McCoy Pt·ince Talcott, N. Y. Hammond McGillicuddy Prouty 'l'aylcir, Colo. unanimous consent to extend their remarks in the RECORD. Is Harris McKenzie Rainey 'l'bayer there objection? Hartman McKinley Raker 'l'histlewood There was no objection. Haugen McKinney Ranch 'l'hcmas IIayden McLaughlin Redfield Tilson Mr. AD.AIR. l\fr. Speaker, I move the previous question on Hayes Madden Rees '!'owner the adoption of the conference report. Heald Maguire, Nebr. Rob erts, Nev. Underhill The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. ADAIR] Helgesen Mal by Rodenberg Utter Henry, Conn. Mann Rothermel Volstead morns the previous question on the adoption of the conference Hi~gins Martin, Colo. Rouse Warburton report. Hill Martin, S. Dak. Rubey Wedemeyer Mr. RODDENBERY rose. IIow ell Mondell Rucker, Colo. Whitacre ( Jackson Moon, Tenn. Rucker, Mo. Wilder The SPEAKER. For what purpose does the gentleman rise? Kahn Morgan Russell Willis Mr. RODDENBERY. To make a parliamentary inquiry. Kendall Morrison Saba th Wilson, Ill. rrhe SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. Kennedy Morse. Wis. Sherwood Young, Kans. Mr. RODDENBERY. Is it in order, Mr. Speaker, when a Kinkaid, Nebr. Moss, Ind. Simmons Youn.,., Mich. bill and conference report is called up, and one Member obtains NAYS-57. the floor and parcels out the time to the friends of the bill, Adamson Dick on, Miss. Holland Saunders Aiken, S. C. Doughton Iloward Sherley that no Member opposed to the bill shall have an opportunity Bai·tlett Dupre Hughes, Ga. Sims to be heard? Bell, Ga. Edwa.rds Hughes, N. :t. Smith, Tex. The SPEAKER. The Chair will state to the gentleman what Blackmon Faison Jacoway Stedman Brantley Finley Jones Stephens, Miss. the rule is. The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. ADAIR] had fill Burleson Fitzgerald Kent Stephens, Tex. hour to do what he pleased with. He could have used it all Burnett Garner Kitchin Tribble himself in making a speech or parceled it out to others to suit Byrnes, S. C. Garrett Le.er nderwood I Byrns, Tenn. George M-acon Webb himself. If he had not moved the previous question, the next Candler Godwin. N. C. Oldfield Wickliffe gentleman who addressed the Chair would ham had an hour, Carlin Goodwin, Ark. Page Young, Tex. and so on ad infinitum. He mo\es the previous que·stion. Clayton Hardwick Pou Collier Heflin Robinson l\Ir. RODDENBERY. Mr. Speaker, a point of order. Dent Helm Roddenbery The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. Mr. RODDENBERY. The point of order is that it is not in .ANSWERED "PRESENT "-9. Beall, Tex. Fornes Konig Slemp order for the Speaker to entertain the motion for the previous Borland Houston McGuire, Okla. Weeks question made by the gentleman from Indiana [Ur. ADAIR] Carter when the gentleman from Indiana had been recognized for the NOT VOTING-mo. purpose of general debate, and that the gentleman from In Alexander Estopinal Lafcan Ransdell, La. diana, while still so recognized and within his time, makes a A.mes Fairchild Lamb Ile illy motion for the previous question, denying to a Member ·opposed Andrus Ferris Langley Reyburn Ashbrook Fields Lee, Ga. Richardson to the bill the right or opportunity to address the Chair and Ayres Flood, Va. Lee, Pa. Riordan be heard in opposition to the passage of the bill. Being opposed Barchfeld Fordney Legai·e Roberts, lass. to this legislation, I desire to oppose the measure. Bates Gallagher Lewis Scully Bathrick Gai·dner, Mass Lindsay Sells The SPEAKER. The Chai:!: will explain that part of the Berger Gillett Littlepage Shackleford situation. The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. ADAIB] had an Booher Glass Littleton Sharp absolute right to do what he pleased with his hour, provided Bradley Goeke Longworth Sheppard Brou sard Goldfogle Loud Sisson he observed the rules of the House. He could make any motion Browning Gregg, Tex. McCall Slayden that he pleased. He could make it at the beginning of his Burgess Grie t McCreary Small hour, or he could make it in the middle of his hour, or he Burke, Pa. Gudger McDermott mith, Sarni. W, Barke, S. Dak. Hamill Mcllenry Smith, Cal. could make it at the end of his hour. The question is on Calder Hanna McKellar 'mitb, N. Y. agreeing to the motion for the previous question. Callaway Hardy kMorran Sparkman Mr. ADAIR. Mr. Speaker, I desire to state, in justice to my Cannon Harrison, Miss. Maher Stack Clark, Fla. Harrison, N. Y. Matthews Stanley self, that I yielded time to every Member of the House who Claypool Hawley Mays Sulloway asked for it. Conry Hay Miller Switzer The SPEAKER. The gentleman does not need to make any Copley Henry, Tex. Moon, Pa. 'l'aylor, Ala. Covington Hensley Mcore, Pa. Taylor, Ohio exp~anation of his conduct. The question is on agreeing to the Cox, Ind. Hinds Moore, Tex. To nsend motion for the previous question. Cox, Ohio Hobson Mott Turnbull The previous question was ordered. Cravens Howland Murray Tuttle Curley Hubbard Olmsted Va re The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the con Davenport Hughes, W. Va. · Padgett Vreeland ference report. Davidson Hull Patten, N. Y. Watkins Dies Humphrey, Wash. Patton, Pa. White The question was taken. Difenderfer H=phreys, 1\Iiss. Peters WilGon, N. Y, lUr. l\lANN. Mr. Speaker, I make the point of order that Donohoe Jam as Pickett Wilson, Pa. there is no quorum present. Draper Johnson, Ky. Plumley Witber~poon The SPEAKER. The Chair will count. [After counting.] Driscoll, M. El. Johnson, S. C. Porter Wood, N. J. Dwight Kindred Powers Woods, Iowa One hundred and eighty-six gentlemen are present-not a Dyer Kon op Pujo quorum. The dooTs will be closed, and the Sergeant at Arms Ellerbe Kopp Ranciell, Tex. will notify the absentees, and the Clerk wm call the roll. So the conference report was agreed to. Those in favor of agreeing to the conference report will, when The Clerk announced the following additional pairs: their names are called, answer " yea " ; those opposed, '' nay.',. For the session : The question was taken; and there were-yeas 176, nays 57, Mr. GLASS with Mr. SLEMP. answered " present" 9, not \Oting 150, as follows: · Until further notice: YEAS-176. l\lr. AYRES with Mr. SAMUEL w. SMITH. Adair Brown ...;rum packer Dodds Mr. WILSON of Pennsylvania with Mr. Woon of New Jersey . Ainey Buchanan Cullop Doremus Mr. Wrr.soN of New York with l\Ir. MILLER. Akin, N. Y. Bulkley Currier Driscoll, D. A. Allen Burke, Wis. Curry Esch Mr. TuRNBULL with Mr. PowERs. Anderson, Minn. Butler Dalzell Evans Mr. REILLY with Mr. PORTER. Anderson, Ohio Campbell Danforth Farr Mr. l\IcDERMOTT with Mr. MoTT. Ansberry Can trill Daugherty Fergusson Anthony Cary Davis, Minn. Floyd, Ark. Mr. LITTLEPAGE with Mr. FORDNEY. Austin Catlin Davis, W. Va. Focht Mr. LEE of Pennsylvania with 1\fr. LAF.E.A.N. Barnhart Cline De Forest Foss Mr. LEE of Georgia with l\f1:. HowLA.ND. Bartholdt Connell Denver Foster Boehne Cooper Dickinson Fowler Mr. HENRY of Texas with Mr. HANNA. Bowman Crago Dixon, Ind. Francis Mr. HAY with Mr. GRIEST. 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE.

Mr. FERRIS with l\fr. BROWNING. sions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and cer Mr. l\IURRAY with Mr. AMES. tain widows and dependent children of soldiers and sailors of 1\fr. GALLAGHER with .!\Ir. BARCHFELD. said war, and I ask unanimous consent that the bill be consid Mr. SHEPPARD with l\.Ir. BATES. ered in the House as in Committee of the Whole. l\Ir. HULL with l\fr. LoNGWORTH. The SPEAKER. The' gentleman from West Virginia asks Mr. ALExANDER (in favor ) with l\1r. BORLAND (against). · unanimous consent that the bill be considered in the House as Mr. SPARKMAN with Mr. DAVIDSON. in Committee of the Whole. Is there objection? .Mr. JAMES with Mr. McCALL. There was no objection. l\fr. SMALL (against) with Mr. MATTHEWS (in favor). The Clerk read the bill, as follows: Mr. ELLERBE (against) with l\Ir. PICKETT (in favor). A bill (H. R. 24016) granting pensions and increase of pensions to cer On the vote: tain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and Mr. BATHRICK (in favor) with 1\Ir. SISSON (against). dependent children of soldier and sailors of said war. Mr. LANGLEY (in favor) with l\fr. CALLAWAY (against). Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to Commencing l\Iay 10 : the provisions and limitations of the pension laws- Mr. JOHNSON of South Carolina with l\Ir. GILLETT. The name of Benjamin Shuttlesworth, late of Company B, 1.1~ourth From l\fay 10, 3 p. m., until l\fonday, May 13, inclusive: Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, and Company I, Seventeenttl Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at Mr. BOOHER with l\.Ir. McCREARY. the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Mr. p ADGETT with l\fr. LoUD. The name of Job Trenholm, late of Company L, Eighth Regiment Mr. HARDY with Mr. Hm.fPHREY of Washington. Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Mr. HARRISON of Mississippi with Mr. KoPP. The name ension at the ra.te of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now receivmg. :Mr. .MANN. It is called the public-act print. The name of James Coffman, late of Company El, First Regiment Min The SPEAKER. Is there objection? nesota Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of l\fr. SHERLEY. Reserving the right to object, how does the $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of William T. Bowden, late of Company C, Tenth Regiment gentleman propose to have the copies distributed? Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Mr. Al-.1DERSON of Ohio. 1:'hrough the document room, as $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. usual. The name of Richard M. Springer, late of Company K, Twentieth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Mr. !\.!ANN. I think, undoubtedly, more copies will be re of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. quired. It costs \ery little to hav-e them printed. Thirty The name of Oliver P. Black, late of Company B, Eightieth Regiment thousand copies will be enough to go to the document room, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. and then more can be printed later. The name of Samuel Fulks, late of Company D, Thirty-fifth Regiment Mr. RODDENBERY. As I understand, the request is that Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 36 30,000 copies of the law be printed? ' per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of David W. Dalrymple, late of Company ll, Sixteenth The SPEAKER. Yes. Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at th_e l\Ir. RODDENBERY. The custom heretofore has been that rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Seborn J. Mullins, late of Company B, First Regiment the President occasionally signs these bills before they become Georgia Volunteers, and pay him a pension at the rate of $17 per month laws. I do not know what engagements may prevent that now, in lieu of that he is now receiving. and until he does sign it I shall object. I have no objection to The name of Eliza Crall, wido:w of William Crall, late of Company F, printing the law, but to ask unanimous consent for the printing Sixteenth Regiment Iowa Volunteers, and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. of 30,000 copies of a law before it has gone to the President and The name of William B. Whitney, late of Company G, First Regiment received Executive approval is a little premature. New York Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate It of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. Mr. MANN. will not be printed unless it becomes a law. The name of Alexander Hastings, late of Company H, Sixth Regiment The SPEAKER. The Ohair will state that he learned Massachusetts Volunteers, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per aliunde that the President signed the bill shortly after it month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Richard J. Burges, late of Company A, First Regiment passed. The Ohair does not know whether that is true or not. Rhode Island Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Mr. BARTLETT. Ur. Speaker, the suggestion made by the $36 per month in lieu of that he i now receiving. . · gentleman from Illinois is that the request be modified to so The name of William H. Ingraham. late of Company B, Nineteenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the many copies to be published of the act. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Mr. ANDERSON of Ohio. That "is the request I made. The name of Maurice Hennessy, late of Company I, One hundred The SPEAKER. The request of the gentleman from Ohio and eighty-fifth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. is that if the bill is signed by the President, 30,000 copies be The name of Edward Anthony, late of Company D, Eighty-fourth printed. Is there objection? Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the · Mr. FINLEY. Reser1ing the right to object, Mr. Speaker, rate of $30 per month in lleu of that he is now receiving. The name of Joshua'l\l. Moore, late of Company A, One hundred anll how many pages are there of the bill? fortieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension Mr. MANN. There will not be more than two sides of one at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. sheet. The name of George W. Flack, late of Company D, Sixtieth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 The SPEAKER. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Ohair hears none, and it is so ordered. The name of John G. Price, late of Company A, One hundred and fifty-second Regiment Ohio National Guard Infantry, and pay him a PENSIONS. pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name .of. Ulvi J. Sliver, late of Company E, Thirty-fifth Regiment Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. l\fr. Speaker, I call up Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $40 pe.r the bill (H. R. 24016) granting pensions and increase· of pen- month in lieu of that he is now receiving. • CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-- HOUSE. MAY 10,

The name of Jacob Lutz, late of Company F, Sixty-sixth Regiment The name of James Kubicek, late of Company M, Elevent.b Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 a~d Compa.J?Y C, Eighth Regiment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry, and pay pet· month in lieu of that he is now receiving. him . a. pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now The name of Elliott A. Clarke, late of Company A, One hundred and receivmg. . sixth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension The name of Sarah A. i;,ane, widow of Charles G. Lane, late of Com at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pany A, One hundred and seventy-eighth Ilegiment Ohio Volunteer In The name of Michael Shiverdecker, late of Company E, Seventy-first fantry, and pay her a pension- at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate that she is now receiving. of ~36 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Otho W. Thompson, late of Company H, Thirteenth The name of William H. Clark, late of Battery B, First Regiment Regiment Missouri State Militia Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the Illinois Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him · a pension at the rate rate of 20 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of '30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Thomas Knowle , late of Company E, 'rhird Regiment The name of Godfrey Ferber, late of Company C, Fourth Regiment and Company L, Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and l\Ii ·ouri Volunteer Infantry, and Battery C, Second Missouri Volunteer pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month now receiving. . in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name· of Adam E. Shannon, late of Company I, Seventeenth Regi The name of Samuel R. Holder, late of Company C, Twenty-fifth ment Indiana \ olunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the of 30 pet· month in lieu of that be is now receiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Annie Oleson, widow of Ole Oleson, 2<1, late of Company The name of Ruth A. Richardson, widow of John W. Richardson, H, Thirteenth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a · late of Company C, Fortieth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pension at the rate of 12 per month. pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she ·is The name of William Henry Jaques, late of Fourth Regiment New now receh·ing. Jersey Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Georcre A. Carpenter, late deck band, U. S. gunboat $30 per month in lieu of that he is now · receiving. Diana, Mississi\)Pi River Fleet, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Joseph .H. George, late of Company I, Forty-ninth Regi $30 per month rn lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and Company I, lt'o urtb Regiment 'l'he name of John Small, late of Company K, First Regiment Indiana Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him a pension at the rate of $i:IG per Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Joseph Cooper, late of Company C, Eleventh Re ~ime nt The name of William McGowin, late of Company E, Twenty-sixth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the r·atc of Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry. and pay him a pension at the $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving .. The name of Asa C. Ottarson, late of Company A, Eighteenth Ilee;i The name of Theodore Kiefer, late of Company A, Sixtieth Regiment ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. · per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Joseph Faloon, late of Company H. Twelfth Regiment The name of Le ter J. Dack, late of Company L, Tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Thomas Roberts, late of Company C, Seventeenth Regi The nS!lDe of Rebecca M. Clark, widow of John hl. Clark, late of ment Kansas Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Company C, Ninth Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and pay $20 2er month in lieu of that he is now receiving. her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now 'l'he name of Francis J. Donnelly, late of Company L, First Regiment receiving. Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 30 The name of Samuel P. Parker, late of Company H, Twelfth Regiment per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 Tbe name of Jonathan Bondy, late of Company II, Seventeenth Regi per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Noah Dujardin, late of Company E, One hundred and rate of $20 pet· month in lieu of that be is now receivinC7, thirtieth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension · The name of Lucretia Tauner, former widow of Elijah Kelsey, late of at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Company G, Fifty-eighth Ilegiment New York State Militia Volunteer 'l'he .name of William Denham, late of Company E, Fifth Regiment Infantry, and pny her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, and Company I, Sixty-sixth Illinois The name of John Irwin, late of Company B, Ninety-third Regiment Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen ion at the rate of $40 per Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the r te of month in lieu of that he is now receiving. 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of David C. Marshall, late of Companies M and A, Sixth The name of Dora Emmons, widow of James Emmons, late of Com Regiment New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension pany F, Tenth Regimeut New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and pay her at the rate of 36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. a pension at the rate of $12 per month. The name of Andrew Row, late of Company A, Forty-eighth Regi '.rhe name of Minnie Points, helpless and dependen.t daugh~er o~ ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Abraham Points. late of Company C, Forty-second Regiment M1 som·i of 36 per month in lie·u of that he is now receiving. Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per 'fhe name of Joseph W. Long, la~e of Company E, One hundred an4 month. fiftee!lth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension The name of John F . Trulock, late of Company H, Ninety-first Regi at the rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he is r ,')W receiving. ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and Company D, Seventh Indi:rn a 'l'he name of William hl. Lamere. late of Company A, One hundred Volunteer Cavaky, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month and sixty-fourth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay in lieu of that he is now receiving. · him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now The name of John W. Sutton, late of Company A, Twenty-fourth receiving. Re!tlment Michi"'an Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the 'fhe name of David Drybur~h late landsman on U. S. S. Ohio, Mis rate of 24 per "'month in lieu of that be is now receiving. . sissippi, and North Carolina, United States Navy. and pay him a pen 'fhe name of Abbie J. Genthner, helpless and dependent child of sion at the rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Isaiah Genthner. late of Third Battery Maine Volunteer Light Artil The name of Sarah B. Scott. widow of William G. Scott, late of First lery, and Company G, Second Maine Vo_lunteer Cavalr·y, and pay her Battalion Sixteenth Regiment United States Infantry and hospital a pension at the rate of 12 per month. steward United States Army, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 The name of James C. Nies late of Company G, Forty-eighth Regi per month. ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Thomas N. Smith, late of Company L, Fifth Regiment ·rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Oliver II. r. Bailey, late lieutenant colonel Seventy $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. third Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at The name of Olga H. Updeg-raff, widow of James C. pdegraff. late the rate of $30 per month in 1ieu of that be is now receiving. of Third Battery Indiana Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay her a The name of Mary E. Tucker, widow of Frederick II. Tucker, late of pen' ion at the rate of $12 per month. Company D Second Regiment United States Volunteer Sharpsbootcrs, The name of John T. Stansbury, late of Alexander's Baltimore Bat and pay he1: a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she tery Maryland Volunteer Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate is now receiving. of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Thorr:as Butler, late of Company F, First Regiment -The name of .John G. Sprague, late of Company E, Twenty-second Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, and Company C, Thirty-seventh nited and Forty-second Regiments Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him States Infantry. and pay him a pension at the rate of ~ :>O per month a · pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now in lieu of that he is now receiving. receiving. The name of William J. Gorline, late of Company A, Ninety-first The name of William '\i~. Doan, late of Company C. Seventy-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate rate of 30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Auson B. Carney, late of Company B, Eightieth Regi The name of Charles M. Pond, late of Company D, Eleventh Regi ment New York Volunteer Infantry, and Company G, Fifth nited ment Kew Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and Company D, Nineteenth States Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of • 40 per month in Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him a pension at the rate lieu of that he is now receiving. of , 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Mary W. Smith, for·mer widow of James S. Mage2, late The name of Thomas B. Galbraith. late of Company F, First Bat of Company E, Thirteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, talion Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Henry Huffine, late of Company U, Ei"'hty-seventh Regi The name of Atlas P. Hammond, late of Companies F and C, One ment and Company G, Eighteenth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infan hundred and tenth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him try. ~nd pay him a pension at the rate of ~ 30 per month in lieu of that a pension at the rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now he is now receiving. receiving. The name of Thomas Hart. late of Company B. One hundred and The name of William Strang, alias John W. Strang, late of Company third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen A, Fiftieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantt·y, and pay him a pension sion at the rate of :lO per month in lieu of that be iR now receiving. at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Alexis M. Huff, late of Company C, Twenty-ninth Ilegi The name of Hugh Valentine, late of Companies E and D, Seventh ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry; and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the per month in lieu of that he is now reci.'iving. rate of • 36 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of 'Mosrs G. Lewis, late of Company K, Twelfth Regiment 'l'he name of Charles Janz, alia Charles Johnson, late of Company I, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 Seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at per month in lieu of that he is now recei ving. the rate of ~ 30 per month in lieu of that .he is now receiving. The name of John P. Hearn, late of Company K, Eighty-third Regi The name of Isaac M. Krise, late of Company E, Seventy-fourth ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and One hundred and fifth Company, Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Second Battalion Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him a pension at the $30 per month in lien of that he is now receiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Ivan E. Dye, late of Company .'.., Fifteenth Regiment The name of William -Kreighbeaum, late of Company K, Forty-sixth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Re.,.iment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the ~30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. 1912. CON(j-RESSION AL RECORD- HOUSE. 6245

The name of George Crider, late of Companies N and I, First Regi- The name of Ezra Salter, late of Company C, Seventh Regiment ment West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month fa lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Frederick W. Houghton, late of Company D, Twenty- · 'l'he name of Barney L. Starin, late of Ninth Independent Battery first Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen- Ohio Volunteer Light Art illery, and pay him a pension at the rate of sion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . $36 per month in lieu of that he is now r eceiving. '.fhe name of James Baccus, late of Company E, Twelfth Regiment T~e name.of. Othello A. Sherman, late of Company F, Twenty-eighth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Regiment M1ch1gan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the of $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ( The name of Milton Z. Sims; late quartermaster sergeant, One hun- The name of Susan E. Bruman. widow of Albert H. Bruman late of dred and sixteenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him Company H, Fifteenth ReR, iment Veteran Reserve Corps and pay her a a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that he is now pension at the rate of $!W ·per month in lieu of that' she is now re- receiving. ceiving. \I The name of Theron E. Foster, late of Company H, Fifteenth Regi- The name of Merida Wilson. late of Company G, Thirty-seventh \. ment New York Volunteer Engineers, and pay him a pension at the ~egiment Kentucky Mounted Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen- rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. s10n at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of .Alice Carleton, helpless and dependent child of Daniel The name of William E. McKee, late of Company F , Thir t e~ nth W. Carleton, late of Company A, Nineteenth Regiment Massachusetts Regiment Maryland Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of William H. ~immerman, late of Company C, One bun- The name of Simpson Robinson, late of Company F Thil'teenth dred and twenty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volun.teer. Infantry, and P!J.Y him Regiment, and Company E, Eighty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer a pension at the rate of $30 per month rn lieu of that he is now Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu receiving. of that he is now receiving. The name of Henry L. Pitcher, late of Company F, Forty-eighth Regi- 'l'he name of Albert S. Tracy, late of Company B, Fourth Reo-1ment ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of " ~ $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 The name of Samuel Wells, late of Company D, Second Regiment per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. United States Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per The name of Clinton Black, late of Company D, Eighty-fifth Re~im e nt mouth in lieu of that be is now receivir.g. Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of S3 G 'J'he name of Chesley Goldsby, late of Companies A and B, Eighteenth per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Franklin B. Detwiler, late of Company A, Fifty-third of $24 per month in li~u of that he is now receiving. . Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at The name of Henry w. Eno, late of Company K, One hundred and the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. sixteenth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen- The name of James R. Hewlett, late of the U. S. S. Rattler and sion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Great Western, nited States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of John 1\1. Potts, late of Company D, Eightieth Regiment of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . Ohio Volunt eer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $40 per The name of Francis M. Ryder, late· of Company H, Fifty-fourth Il egi- month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Kentucky Mounted Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at The name of John Howard, late of Company c, Second Regiment New the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. York Volunteer Mounted Rifles, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Clara W. Morgan, widow of Charles H. l\Iorgan, late of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Company H, Twenty-first Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and The name of Anna Smith, widow of Francis B. Smith. late of Com- pay her a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that she is pany L, Fifth Regiment New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay now receiving. her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now The name of Joseph R. Patton, liite of band, One hundred and sixth receiving. Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and band, First Brigade . The name of Andrew G. Friend, late of Companies I and B, Second Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a. pension at the Regiment Potomac Ilome Brigade Maryland Volunteer Infantry, and rate of $30 per month in lieu of that h ~ is now receiving. pay him a pension at tile rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is The name of Howard Forster, late of Company E, One hundred and now receiving. twenty- eventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him 'I'he name of William F. McLean, late of Company I, Nineteenth Regi- a pension at the rate of 24 per month in lieu of that he is now ment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of receiving. $:W per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Adelaide E. Ruton, helpless and dependent child of 'rhe name of Thomas Tigue, alias Thomas Tobin, late of Company C, George N. Ruton, late of Company G, One hundred and thirty-first Regi Twenty-second Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a ment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $12 per month. The name of Wilt Rippey, late of Company F, Sixty-first Regiment The name of William H. Estep, late of Company H, Thirty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of William H. Whitson, late of Company K, One hundred The name of Eugene Partridge, late of Company C, Forty-fou.rth Regi- and th.irty-seventh Regiment Illinois Voluntee1· Infantry and pay him ment New York Volunteer Infantry, and Company F, Seventy-eighth a pens10n at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that' he is now re- United States Colored Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the ceiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Mary Mullen, former widow of James Ellis late of The name of Mary E. Snider, widow of John Snider, late of Company Company ~. Ninetieth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry,' and pay K, One hundred and eighty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. 'l'be name of Charles Lakin, lat~ of Company F, Second Regiment The name of Franklin Peters, late of Company G, Eighth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per New York State Militia Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate cf month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $12 per mont h. . 'l'he name of Robert Crow, late of Company I, Twenty-fifth Regiment The name of Mary Evans, widow of Taliesen E>ans, late of Company Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per D, One hundred and seventeenth Regiment New York Volunteer Infan month in lieu of that he is now receiving. try, and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of thn t The name of Alexander Chisholm, late of Company K, One hundred she is now receiving. a~d sixtee~th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay The name of Caroline L. Loftus, widow of Frederick Loftu~, late hos h1m a pension at the rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now pital steward, United Stares Army, and pay her a pension at the rate receiving. of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. The name of Emest Buse, late of Company G, One hundred and six- The name of Chester F. Cole, late of Company E, Fifty-secon.d Regi- teenth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $36 per month in lieu cf that be is now receiving. The name of Lucy Roser, widow of John F. Roser, late sergeant, Com- The name of Joseph F. Dixon, late of Company K, Sixtieth Regiment pany B, One hundred and tenth Regiment Ohio Volante.er Infantry, and Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $3G pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. now receiving. B l f Th. t · th The name of Jeremiah Creamer, late of Company G, One hundred . The name of Thomas lackburn, a te o Company E, tr y-nm and forty-third Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the · rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. a pens10n at the rnte of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now re- The name of John A. Lee, late of Company B, Fifty-first Regiment ceivin~ · h The name of Simon Schweigert, late of Fourth Independent Battery Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at t e rate of Indiana Volunteer Lig-ht Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. T~e name of Johll S. Go~n:iley, late of Company ~. Forty-s~venth The name of Washington w. Edgington, late of Company B, Twenty- Regiment New York State. Mi!rtia Infantry,. and pay h~~ a. pens10n at fourth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $20 per month rn heu of tpat he is. now rece1vrng .. the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. i The na~e of Eno~h Jones, late pr1vaje Umted States )llarme Corps, The name vf Jotin w. Towner, late of Companies I and c, Tenth • !ind pay h1i;n .a pens10n at the rate of $v0 per month in heu of that he Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the is now rece1vmg. . . rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . 'Ihe name of James McClary, late of Company H, Eighth Regiment The name of William J. Hammond, late of Company B, Eighth Reg!- New J_ersey Volunteer Infantry, and Seven!J-second _Company, Second ment 1\ficbigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Battalion Veter!ln Reserve Corps, and P!l.Y h1.m. a pens10n at the rate ot of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . $30 per month ID lieu of that he 'is now rece1vmg. The name of Geoqrn B. Griffin, late of Company C, Seventh Regiment The name of GeorgE!' E. Knowlton, late of Company G, Thirty-second Michigan Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. rate of $36 per month in lieu of .that he is now receiving. The name of .John P . Schoeni, late of Company B, Twenty-third The name-of Myron L. Spear·, late of Company C, Twelfth Regiment Regiment Ohio V&lunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. 'l'he name of .T oseph Hampton, late of Company E, One hundred and '!'he name of George E. Hatfield, late of Company E. Eighty-ninth twenty-fourth Re?irnent, and Company D, Two hundred and third llegiment Ohio Yolunteer Infantry, and Company G, Fifteenth Regi Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a. pension at the rate ment, Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . The name of Michael Kennedy, la te of Company E, Twenty-ninth The name of J o eph Grady, late of C o mp ~ny E, Twelfth Tieg1ment Regiment Wisconsin Yolunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per rate of 36 per month in lien of that he is now receiving. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. 'fhe name of J ames l\Ieikle. late seaman U. S. S. Claradolson, Avenger, The name of Lucy A. Pratt. widow of Eugene H. Pratt, late musician, and Great Western, T nited States Navy, and pay him a pension at the Ninth Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infant ry . and pay her a pension rate of $30 per month in lieu of tbat he is now receiving. · ; at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving.

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The name of J ohn Quinn, helpless and dependent child of Joseph The name of James Lovens, late·of Company G1 Thirteenth Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 Quinn, late ()f Company A, One b~ndred and eighty-second Regiment per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 1Jay him a pension at the rate of $12 per The name of l\Iary Mccaskey, widow of George Mccaskey, late of month. Company F, Tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves Volunteer Infantry, The above bill is u substitute for the following House bills and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. referred to said committee : The name of Ezra Craft, late of Company G, Twenty-seventh Regi H. R. 182. Benjamin F . Shuttles- II. R. 1D443. James Baccus. ment l\Iicbigan Volunteer Infantry, and Company A, Twentieth Regi worth. H . R. 1D447. Milton Z. Sims. ment Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 H. R. 238. Job Trenhol~ H. R. 19449. Theron E Foster. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 274. Ephraim A. Adams. IL R. 19506. A.lice Carleton. The name of Joseph Tlamsa, late of Company K, Twenty-eighth and H. R. 443. Caleb A. Lott. II. R. 19584. William H. Zimmer- One hundred and ninety-second Regiments Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and H . R. 444. Stephen Vaught. man. pay him a pension at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is H . R. 1022. Moses R. Myers. II. R. 19585. Henry L. Pitcher. now receiving. H. R. 2186. Christopher C. Kelly. H. R. 19628. Samuel Wells. The name of Lee fanlove, late of Company II, Eighty-ninth Regiment II. R. 2521. Seraphim T. Thery. II. R. 19696. Chesley Goldsby. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $50 per H . R. 2677. Oliver E. Tillotson. H. R. 19943. Henry W. Eno. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. II. R. 2679. David R. Shockey. H . R. 20022. John l\f. Potts. The name of Winifred W. Strippy, widow of Simon D. Strippy, late of II. R. 2780. James W. Mullins. II. R. 20038. John Howard. Company A, First Regiment Potomac Home Brigade Maryland Volun II. R. 2781. Florence Meader. II. R. 20068. Anna Smith. teer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in H. R. 4354. James Coffman. H. R. 20244. Andrew G. Friends. lieu of that she is now receiving. H . R. 4899. William T. Bowden. II. R. 20848. William F. McLean. The name of Melvin Howe, late of Company K, Second Regiment New II. R. 5786. Richard M. Springer. II. R. 20853. Thomas Tigue, alias York Veteran Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of II. R. 6142. Oliver P . Black. 'rhomas Tobin. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. II. R. 6517. Samuel Fulks. II. R. 20882. Wilt Rippey. The name of Charles W. King, late of Company F, Eighteenth Regi H. R. 6945. David W. Dalrymple. II. R. 20914. William II. Whitson. ment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate H . R. 7473. Seborn J . Mullins. H . R. 20915. Mary Mullen. of $36 per month in lien of that he is now receiving. H . R. 8049. Eliza Crall. II. R. 20958. Charles Lakin. "l'he name of Felix Warren, late of Company M, Seventh Regiment H. R. 8116. William B. Whitney. II. R. 21009. Robert Crow. Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 H . R. 8194. Alexander Hastings. II. R. 21015. Alexander Chisholm. per month in lieu of tbat he is now receiving. II. R. 8375. Richard J . Burges. II. R. 21022. Ernest Buse. The name of Abraham W. Spradling, late of Company D, Seventh II. R. 8848. William II. Ingraham. H . R. 21035. Lucy Roser. Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the II. R. 9266. Maurice Hennessy. H. R. 21163. Jeremiah Creamer. rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. II. R. 9778. Edward Anthony. II. R. 21176. Simon Schweigert. The name of Thomas Scott, late of Company B, Fourteenth Regiment H . R. 10307. Joshua M. l\Ioore. II. R. 21265. Washington W. Edging- New York Volunteer Infantry. and pay him a pension at the rate of H. R. 10385. George W. Flack. ton. $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 10560. John G. Price. H. R. 21459. John W. Towner. The name of Hiram D. Beckett, late of Company D, Twenty-fourth H. R. 10577. Levi J. Sliver. II. R. 21462. William J . Hammond. Regiment, and Company A, Ninth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteer I n II. R. 10610. Jacob Lutz. H. R. 21467. George B. Griffin. fantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of II. R: 10741. Elliott A." Clarke. H . n. 21468. John P . Schoeni. that be is now receiving. II. R. 10946. Michael Shiverdecker. H. R. 21513. Joseph Hampton. The name of Jobn Kelly, late of Company G, Thirty-second Regiment, H. R. 11050. William H . Clark. H. R. 21566. Michael Kennedy. and unassigned Fifty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer In H. R. 11232. Godfrel Ferber. H . R. 21568. .Tames Meikle. fantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu H. R. 11335. Samue R. Holder. H . R. 21584. Ezra Salter. of that be is now receiving. II. R. 11436. Ruth A. Richardson. H . R. 21607. Barney L. Starin. The name of William Sewards, late of Company B, Eleventh Regi II. R. 11886. George A. Carpenter. H . R. 21686. Othello A. Sherman. ment Illinois Volunteer Infan~y. and pay him a pension at the rate H . R. 12489. John Small. H . R. 21780. Susan E . Bruman. of $36 per month In lieu of that he is now receiving. II. R. 12674. William McGowin. H. R. 21810. Merida Wil on. The name of "William T. Lambdin, late of Company B, Fourth Regi II. R. 12746. Theodore Kiefer. H. R. 21833. William E. l\IcKee. ment Indiana Volunteer Cavalry. and pay him a pension at the rate II. R. 12844. Lester. J. Dack. H . R. 21865. Simpson Robinson. of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 13160. Rebecca M. Clark. H. R. 21879. Albert S. Tracy. The name of Henry C. Sowards, late of Company II, Fourteenth II. R. 13166. Samuel P. Parker. II. R. 21944. Clinton Black. Regiment, and Company EJ, Thirty-ninth Regiment. Kentucky Volunteer H . R.13623. Noah Dujardin. II. R. 21973. John Quinn. Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu H . R. 13632. William Denham. II. R. 21982. Franklin B. Detwiler. of that be is now receiving. H . R. 14298. Datid C. Marshall. H. R. 21985. James R. Hewlett. The name of Charles Callison, late of Company l\.L Second Regiment H. R. 14735. Andrew Row. H. R. 21994. Francis l\I. Ryder. Missouri State Militia avalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of II. R. 15056. Joseph W. Long. H. R. 22003. Clara W. Iorgan. $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receivin~. H. R. 15088. William l\I. Lamere. H . R. 22034 . .To eph R. Patton. . The name of l\fary Newell, widow of Samuel Newell late of Com- H. R. 15160. David Dryburgh. H. R. 22077. Howard Forster. pany I, One hundred nnd thirty-third Regiment New York Volunteer H. R. 15174. Sarah B. Scott. H. R. 22093. Adelaide FJ. Rutan. Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu H. R. 15308. 'rhomas N. Smith. H. R. 22116. William H. Estep. of that she is now receiving. II. R. 15605. Olga H. Updegraff. H. R. 22162. Eugene Partridge. The name of Richard l\IcCarron, late of Second Battery Iassachusetts II. R. 15753. John T. Stansbury. H. R. 22212. Mary E. Snider. Volunteer Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month H . R. 15795. John G. Sprague. H . R. 22231. Franklin Peters. in lieu of that he is now receiving. H . R. 15806. William V. Doan. H. R. 22269. Mary Evans. 'l'he name of William S. De Hart, late of Companies B and A, First H. R. 15819. Charles M . Pond. H. R. 22270. Caroline L. Loftus. Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry. and pay him a pension at the H. R. 15850. Thomas B. Galbraith. H . R. 22277. Chester F. Cole. rate of 30 per month in lien of that be i now receiving. H. R. 15869. Atlas P. Hammond. H. R. 22280. Joseph F. Dixon. The name of Charles 1\1. Wyvell, late of Company C, Third Regiment H. R. 15870. William Strang, alias H. R. 22325. Thomas Blackburn. New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 John W. Strang. H. R. 22386. John A. Lee. per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. H. R. 15885. Hugh Valentine. H . R. 22408. John S. Gormley. The name of Theresa A. Kurtz, former widow of Thompson L. II. R. 16109. Charles Janz, alias H. R. 22420. Enoch Jonf's. Hughey. late of Young's Independent Battery G, Pennsylvania Vol Charles Johnson. H. R. 22461. James McClary. unteer Light Artillery, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per H. R. 16230. Isaac M. Krise. II. R. 22496. George E. Knowlton. month. H. R. 16245. Ivan El Dye. H. R. 22552. Myron L. Spear. The name of Augustine Babcock, late of Company F. Nineteenth Regi II. R. 16250. James Kubicek. II. R. 22560. George E. Ilatfield. ment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and Company F, First Maine Vol H. R. 16470. Sarah A. Lane. II. R. 22698. Joseph Grady. unteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per H. R. 16544. Otho W. Thompson. H. R. 22706. Lucy A. Pratt. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 16607. Thomas Knowles. H. R. 22754. James Lo>ens. The name of Sara Wolford, widow of Frederick Wolford, late of II. R. 16640. Adam Fl Shannon. H. R. 22788. 1\Iary Mccaskey. Company I, Thirty-ninth Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and II. R. 16708. Annie Oleson. H. R. 22790. Ezra raft. pay her a vension at the rate of 20 per month in lieu of that she is H. R. 16709. William Henry Jaques. H. R. 22834 ..Joseph Tlamsa. now receiving. H. R. 16752. Joseph H. George. H. R. 2283 . Lee Manlove. The name of Isaac Williams, late of Company II, Twenty-first Regi II. R. 16784. Joseph Cooper. H. R. 22 91. Winifred W. trippy. ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of II. R. 16967. Asa C. Ottarson. II. R. 22916. Melvin Howe. • $30 dollars per month in lieu of that be is now receivin .~ . II. R. 17081. Joseph Faloon. H. R. 22967. Cbnrles W. King. The name of Charles M. Hart. late of Company 1, Forty-fifth Regi H . R. 17269. Thomas Roberts. H. R. 22968. Felix Warren. ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay bim a pension at the H . R. 17275. Francis J. Donnelly. B. R. 2W69. Abrabam W. pradling~ rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. R. R. 17294. Jonathan Bondy. H. R. 23053. Thomas Scott. The name of Andrew J . Adamson. late of Company H, Ninety-eighth H. R. 17467. Lucretia Tanner. H. R. 23075. Hiram D. Beckett. and Sixty-first Regiment Illinois Volunteer. Infantry, and pay him a H. R. 17514. John Irwin. II. R. 230111. John Kelly. penRion at the rate of 30 per month m heu of that be is now re H. R. 17519. Dora Emmons. H. R. 23097. William Seward.q. ceiving. H. R. 17538. Minnie Points. H. R. 23210. William T. I~a mbdin . 1 The name of John M. Rhoad , late of Company H. Fifth Regiment H. R. 17563. John F. Trulock. H. R. 23212. Henry C. owa.rds. Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Infantry. and pay him a pension at II. R. 17603. John W. Sutton. H. R. 23221. Charle Calli on. t the rate of ~30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H . R.17633. Abbie J. Genthner. H. n.. 23223. Mary Newell. Tl~e name of Parkerson Perrego, late of Company G. One hundred H. R. 17712. James C. Nies. II. R. 23224. Richard t:cCarron. and seventy-seventh Ilegiment Pennsylvania. Drafted Militia Infantry, H. R. 17806. Oliver H. P . Bailey. H. U. 23272. William S. De Hart. , and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he II. R. 17886. Mary E. Tucker. H. R. 23274. Charles M. Wyvell. is now receiving. H. R. 17891. Thomas Butler. H . R. 23H07. Theresa A. Km1:z. The na.me of Patrick CarE'y, late of Company A, One hundred and H. R. 17968. William J. Gorline. B. R. 23388. Augustine Bahcocll:. thirtv-ninth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and Company E, H. R. 18052. Anson B. Carney. H. R. 2338!>. Sarah Wolford. Fou1:teenth Re1?iment Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him a pension H. R. 18289. l\Iary W. Smith. H. R. 23401. Isaac Williams. 1 at tbe rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. B. R. 18353. Henry Huffine. B. R. 28405. Charles l\l. Hart. t The name of John Ilanrey, late of Compan;y- G, Thir.ty-ninth Regi H. R. 18509. Thomas Hart. H. R. 23423. Andrew J. Adnmson. ment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate H . R. 18522. Alexis M. Huff. H . R. 23445. John M. Ilhoa.ds. ot S: 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H . R. 18694. Moses G. Lewis. H. R. 28475. Parkerson Perrego. I The name of John F. Dumont. late of Company I, First Regiment H. R. 18799. John P. Ilearn. H. R. 2349 . Patriclt Carey. Mi souri Volunteer Cavalry, and Company D, Seventh Indiana Vol H . R. 18987. William Kreighbeaum. H. n. 23530. John Hanrey. unteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 per month H. R. 1!)020. George Crider. H. R. 23564. John F . Dnmont. i n lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 19396. Frederick W. Ilough- H. R. 23704. George F. Rebman. The name of George F . Rebman. late of Company B, One hundred . . ton. and nineteenth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a Mr. RODDENBERY. Mr, Speaker, I offer the folloW1ng pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. amendment. 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 624.7

~ The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the amendment. It will be remembered that it is the gentleman from Georgia The Clerk read as follows: who has fought every pension bill offered on the floor of this Add at the bottom of page 36 eie following: House ever since he became a Member of Congress. He has "Provided, That after July 1, 1912, no pension under this act or taken the pains to express his opposition to every bill for the under ·any other act, general or special, shall be paid to a pensioner of African descent until such time as all inmates of national soldiers' relief of the men who fought to preserve the Union. It will not homes of African descent a.re consolidated, removed, and domiciled in a do for him to come now in the guise of the Civil War veteran's national soldiers' home at a place separate and apart from any other friend in order that he may the better express his hatred for such home occupied by any other soldiers and veterans of the Civil War or other wars. the negro. No; the white soldier of the Civil War needs no "ProvidP,(}, further That after July 1. 1912, all inmates of national defense at· the gentleman's hands, and his denunciation of the soldiers' homes of African descent shall be domiciled at a distinctly negro will fall far short of accomplishing its purpose. His pro separate home maintained exclusively for such inmates." fessed interest in the white mail who fought to preserve the :Mr. HA.l\IILTON of West Virginia. Mr. Speaker, to that I Union is well understood here. 'l'he gentleman deceives no one reserve a point of order. but himself by what he says. The hearts of the American \ Mr. RODDENBERY. l\Ir. Speaker, I merely desire to submit people beat with gratitude for the men who fought to rnve the \ a few remarks, and I understand that under the rule I have but flag. They look to their Representatives here to pass such } five minutes. On a former occasion-April 15 I think it was laws as will provide the means to keep them from want for the I made some brief and moderate observations on the Negro race, few remaining years they are to be with us. The country owes its relation to society and politics, 1.he great mistake that our them a debt of gratitude which it can never repay. Mere Government has made in undertaking by constitutional amend money in the form of pensions is no payment. Every other ment and other legislation to put the African in this country comfort the country can possibly give should be theirs. Some on a political and social equality with the superior or Cau seem to think that pensions are granted in the nature of a. • casian race. charity. Not at all. The country i.s great because it is coyered At that time I did not have Jn mind, and can not conceive by a single flag, under the protecting folds of which every citi~ now, of all the excesses and evils that result from that abortive zen is free. The people from Georgia no less than every citizen and unfortunate effort of artificially establishing and main of the North have reason to thank God that the Union arms taining racial equality on the part of our Government. It is prevailed in the great ci\il conflict. The people of Georgia no less detrimental to us than it is to the negro himself. and of every Southern State are to-day enjoying the blessings A few days after that speech was made I received the follow of liberty and prosperity which could not have come to them ing letter, which letter primarily gave rise to the amendment but for the success of the Northern armies. ·' providing for placing whites and negroes in separate homes, Yes; the gentleman from Georgia should to-day be proclaim which I have just offered. The letter is from the inmate of a ing his appreciation of the sacrifices made by the Union soldiers, national soldiers' home-an old soldier of the Civil ·War, a pen black and white, instead of pouring out his denunciation on sioner, po-rerty stricken, but at the same time one of the re their heads. He the friend of the Union soldier? No, no; maining sentinels, one of the remaining marks of that great not he. He reads what purports to be a letter from a white type of American citizenship, the American soldier, and when man against the negro. Here it is: he submits a letter touching upon this question and making NATION'AL MILITARY HOME, complaint I think his petition should be presented to the Con ---, April 24, 1912. gress, although he is humble and although he is a pensioner on Hon. s. A. RODDENBERY, the affectionate charge of the Government. Washington, D. 0. DEAR Srn: I write to thank you for your * * • speech printed I ham stricken out such parts of the letter as were overcom in the RECORD of April 15. It did surely hit the nail on the head-one mcndatory of the person to whom it was addressed, and still of the best I ever read on the subject. If it had included the national home it would have been perfect. Here the niggers have one of the left the sense remain intact. .The letter was addressed to me. most prominent barracks and tables in the home. They are in the first It is as follows : row of seats on the camp grounds, the first to be seen on entering the NATIO~AL MILITARY HOME, gates, and the last on going out. * * * I am informed it is worse ---, April 24, 1912. in othe!" homes-they even sit side by side at tables-not even a table Ilon. s. A. RODDENBEBY, by themselves. Oh, the nigger. And when the old veterans are laid Washington, D. 0. away they are laid side by side by a nigger. They do not even then DEAR Sm: I write to thank you for your * * * speech printed have a place of their own to meet their Maker. It surely is what Gen. in the RECORD of April 15. It did surely hit the nail on the head-one Sherman said of war-in the national homes. of the best I ever read on the subject. If it had included the national * • * * • * * home it would have been perfect. Here the niggers have one of the I hope to live long enough to take you by the hand and personally most prominent barracks and tables in the home. They are in the thank vou again for what you said, and what you think of the nigger. first row of seats on the camp grounds, the first to be seen on entering I will have to ask that my name be not mentioned. • • • It the gates, and the last on going out. * * * I am informed it is might make trouble for me. worse in other homes-they even sit side by side at tables-not even a Again thanking you, I am, table by themselves. Oh, the nigger. And when the old veterans are Truly, yours, ------, laid away they are laid side by side by a nigger. They do not even Late of New Yorl.: Volunteers. then have a place of their own to meet their Maker. It surely is what Gen. Sherman said of war-in the national homes. He omits the name. Why does he not give that? Who knows * * * * * * • who this man is? We are refused his name. I hope to live long enough to take you by the hand and personally thank you again for what you said,. and what you think of the nigger. Mr. Speaker, I think the man who wrote that letter the gen I will have to ask that my name be not mentioned • * *; it tleman from Georgia has just read is a coward or he would might make trouble for me. have signed his name to it. AgaL1 thanking you, I am, Truly, yours, Mr. RODDENBERY. The gentleman might not be willing Late of Neto York Volunteers. to make that remark to the face of the old man. This is the That man, an old soldier, is in a national home in a State first time I ever heard aspersions cast on the old soldiers here. west of the Mississippi River. I submit to you that these old The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Georgia is out of men are entitled to the same separate ·domicile in these homes order; the gentleman from Illinois has the floor. as we are entitled to in our own homes, ·and no greater duty of Mr. RODDENBERY. The soldier's name is signed to it. decency or respect for the veterans in this country can rest upon l\Ir. MADDEN. Then the gentleman from Georgia ought to the Government than to apportion the African a separate home have read the name. 'l'he men against whom this amendment for his domicile and give to the heroes who fought the battles is 'leveled fought to preserve the Union no less than the men of the sixties a separate home. In answer to this old veteran's they are associated with in the soldiers'. homes. The b1ack appeal, no doubt concurred in by thousands of his venerable man fought for the preservation of the Union-as valiantly comrades, I hope that you will adopt this amendment; I run as the white man fought-and every consideration that is due for it. the white man for services rendered to the Union at the time The SPEAKER. The time of the gentleman from Georgia of its direst need ought to be given to the black man who ren has expired. dered like service. l\1r. M.ADDEX I\Ir. Speaker, the gentleman from Georgia I am astonished that any man on this floor would introduce [.Mr. IlODDENBERY] rises in his place to-day for the first time to such an nmendment as this to a bill seeking to pay pensions to defend the white Yeteran soldier of the Civil War. His defense soldiers who served their country. I can not sit here without comes in the form of the following amendment : saying a word in opposition to such an amendment. It ought Pro'l:ided, That after July 1, 1912, no pension under this act or tinder not to be considered by the House for a moment. I hope with any other act, general or special, shall be paid to a pensioner of African all my heart that every vote in the House will be cast against it. descent until such time ns all inmates of National Soldiers' .Homes of No men fought more bravely than the black ir•"'.1. They are African descent are consolidated, removed, and domiciled in a National Soldiers' Home at a place separate and apart from any other such home entitled to their full share of credit for preserving the Nation. occupied by any other soldiers and veterans of the Civil War or other You say theh· liberties were at stake? Yes; and so was the wars. liberty of every other person in the land. Thank God the closo Provided further, That after July 1, 1912, all inmates of National of the war brought liberty alike to the North and to the South, Soldiers' Home~ of African descent shall be domiciled at a dis.tinctly separate home maintained exclusively for such inmates. to the whites and to the blacks, and that to-day we live in n 6248 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MAY 10, land where slavery is no more, where every citizen is a sov l\Ir. CARLIN. l\Ir. Speaker, I move that the House do now ereign. . I grieYe to see the gentleman from Georgia express adjourn. such bitterness toward the negro. He should be one of the The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Virginia [Mr. CARLIN] negroes' able t defenders. He should be adrncating measures mo-res that the House do now adjourn. to help the negro to help himself. The negro has made won l\Ir. CARLIN. 1\lr. Speaker, I withdraw the motion. derful progress considering his lack of opportunity. He 1s a The SPEAKER. The Clerk will call the roll. go cl citizen, a gallant soldier. He should be encouraged, not The que~tion was taken; and there were-yeas 42, nays, 140, reviled. answered present" 2~, not -roting 190, as follows: Who led the successful charge at El Caney at San Juan Hill? Was it not the negro? Who questioned his color then? Did YEAS-42. anyone re-rile him? Not at all. A.11 praised his valor, all ap Adamson Clayton Helm noddenbery Aiken, S. C. Collier Holland Stedman plauded his intrepidity. He is bra-re, he is fearless, he is easily Bartlett Doughton Hull Stephens, Miss. led, he makes a good soldier, he is entitled to be honored no Bell, Ga. Edwards Jacoway Stephens, Tex. I { I less than his white brother. The black veteran soldier should Blackmon Faison Jones Tribble Broussard Finley Lee, Ga. Underwood receive the same tender care in his declining years that we are Burleson Floyd, Ark. Lever Webb proud to accord to tlle white men who rendered equal service Burnett Garner Macon Wickliffe to the Nation. We should know no color in ministering to the Byrnes, S. C. Garrett Moore, Tex. Young, Tex. Candler Goodwin, Ark. Page wants of those who ga-re their all in defense of the country. Carlin Heflin Pou ,Who made the Naticm great? Who made us one people, insep N.AYS-140. arable now and fore-rer? Wllo questioned the color of the Adair French Levy Rothermel soldier's skin when he enlisted to,., fight for the preS'ervation of Ainey Fuller Lindbergh Rubey the Union? [Applause.] No man cared whether he was black Akin, N. Y. Gardner, N. J. Lloyd Rucker, Colo. or white. The question then was, Was he a patriot, was he Anderson, Minn. Good 'Lobeck Rucker, Mo. willing to give his life to the service of his country? He offered Anderson, Ohio Gould McCoy Russell Austin Graham McGillicuddy Sa bath all he had when Ile offered his life. The country owes him a Barnhart Gray McKinney Sherley debt of gratitude for the work he did in the dark days of trouble. Bowman Green, Iowa Madden Sherwood Bulkley Greene, Mass. ' Maguire, Nebr. Sloan Gentlemen, strike down the color line. Defeat the amend Burke, Wis. Gregg, Pa. Mann Smith, J. M. C. ment offered by the gentleman from Georgia, and let the news Butler Guern ey Martin, Colo. Speer spread into every home in this broad land of the free that Con Can trill Hamilton, Mich. Martin, S. Dak. Stanley Cary Hamilton, W. Va. Mondell Steenerson gres will tolerate no discrimination in the treatment of the Catlin Hamlin Morgan Stephens, Cal. country's -reteran soldiers on account of the color of their skin. Cline Hammond Morrison Stephens, Nebr. {App1ause.] Connell Hanna Moss, Ind. Sterling Cooper Hartman Mott Stevens, Minn. l\lr. .MADDEN. I ask, l\Ir. Speaker, an opportunity to extend Crago Haugen Murdock Stone my remarks upon this subject. Cullop Hayden Needham Sweet The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Illinois asks unani Currier Hayes Neeley Taggart Curry Heald Nelson Talcott, N. Y. mous consent to extend his remarks in the RECORD. Is there Daugherty Helge en Norris '.raylor, Colo. objection? [After a pause.] The Chair hears none, and it is Davis, Minn. Henry, Conn. Nye Thayer so ordered. The question is on the amendment offered by the De U'orest Higgins Palmel' Thistlewood Denver Howell Parran Thomas gentleman from Georgia. Dickinson Kahn Payne Tilson The question was taken, and the Speaker announced the noes Dixon, Ind. Kendall Pepper Towner Dodds Kennedy Post Underhill seemed to have it. Doremus Kent Pray Utter On a division (demanded 'by 1\-Ir. RooDENBERY) there were- Esch Kinkaid, Nebr. Prince Volstead ayes 13, noes 50. Farr Know land Raker Warburton So the amendment was rejected. Fergusson Korbly Rauch Wedemeyer Fornes Lafferty Redfield Wilder The SPEAKER. The question is on the engrossment and Foster La Follette Rees Willi third reading of the bill. Francis Langham Robinson Young, Kans. Mr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. ANSWERED " PRESENT "-20. The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. Allen Driscoll, M. E. McKellar Saunders Mr. IlODDENBERY. Is a motion in order now to recommit Brantley Fowler Pickett Sims with instructions? Brown Glass Rainey Sparkman Byrns, Tenn. Hardwick Roberts, Nev. ulzer The SPEAKER. Not until the third reading takes place. Linthicum Rouse Watkins Mr. RODDENBERY. I desire to make such a motion. Davis, W. Va. The SPEAKER. The question is on the engrossment and NOT VOTING-190. third ·reading of the bill. .Alexander bifenderfer Hughes, Ga. Moore, Pa . Tlle bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time ; .Ames Donohoe Hughes, N. J. Mor e, Wis. .Andrus Draper Hughes, W. Va. Murrnv was read the third time. Ansberry Driscoll, D. A. Humphrey, Wash. Oldfield l\Ir. RODDENBERY. l\Ir. Speaker, I desire to move to re Anthony Dupre Humphreys, Miss. Olmsted A..shbrook Dwight Jackson O' haunne:ssy commit the bill to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, with in Ayres Dyer James Padgett structions to report the same back to the House forthwith with Barcbfeld Ellerbe Johnson, Ky. Patten, N. Y. the following amendment. Bartholdt Estopinal Johnson, S. C. Patton, Pa. Bates Evans Kindred Peters The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the amendment. Bathrick Fairchild Kinkead, N. J. Plumley The Clerk read as follows : Beall, Tex. Ferris Kitchin Porter Konig Powers .Add at the bottom of page 36 of the bill the following : Berger Fields Boehne Fitzgerald Konop Prouty "Provided, That after July 1, 1912, no pension under this act or Kopp Pujo under any other act, general or special, shall be paid to a pensioner of Booher Flood, Va. Borl nd Focht Lafean Randell. Tex. .African descent until such time as all inmates of national soldiers' Lamb Ransdell, La. homes of African descent are consolidated, removed, and domiciled in Bradley Fordney Browning Foss Langley Reilly a national soldiers' home at a plaee separate and apart from any Lawrence Reyburn other such home occupied by a.ny other soldiers and veterans of the Buchanan Gallagher Burgess Gardner, Mass. Lee, Pa. Richardson Civil War or other wa~ . Le.,.are Riordan "F.rovidea further, That after July 1, 1912, all inmates of national Burke, Pa. Geo1·ge Burke, S. Dak. Gillett Lenroot Roberts, Mass. soldiers' homes of African descent shall be domiclled at a distinctly Lewis Rodenberg separate home maintained exclusively for such inmates." Calder Godwin, N. C. Callaway · Goeke LindS1ly Scully The SPEAKER. The question is on the motion to recommit Campbell Goldfogle Littlepage Sells Canuon Greg

Turnbull We.eks Wilson, N. Y. Woods, Iowa Tuttle Whitacre Wilson, Pa. -Young, l\fich. Mr. HAMIL'l,ON of West Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani 'Var~ White Witherspoon mous consent to change the spelling of a name an :page 15. .As 'Vreeland Wilson, Ill. Wood, N. J. it appears in the ·bill it is spelled wrong. The Clerk announced the following additional pairs: The SPEAKER. The gentleman from West Virginia asks .Mr. Ar.LEN with 1\ir. LONGWORTH. unanimous consent to change the spelling of a name. ltir. HARDWICK with l\Ir. CAMPBELL. Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. The name is in line 9, Mr. FOWLER with Mr. LEVER. page 15. In the !bill it is spelled " Taune.r," but should be Mr. ELLERBE with l\Ir. PICKETT. spelled "Tanner." Mr. BRANTLEY with 1\Ir. MOTT. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? Mr. RousE with Mr. McKINLEY. There was no objection. .Mr. ANSBERRY with Mr. ANTHONY. The SPEAKER. "The question is, Shall the =bill pass? Mr. AYRES with Mr. BARTHOLDT. The question was taken, and the Speaker announce~ that the Mr. BOEHNE with l\lr. CRUMPACIDER. ayes seemed te have it. Mr. WATKINS with 1\i:r. FOCHT. Mr. RODDENBERY. Division, Mr. Speaker. Mr. TALBOTT of Maryland with Mr. Foss. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Georgia [Mr. RODDEN• Mr. CONRY with Mr. HARR1s. 'BERY] demands a division. Mr. DAVIS of West Virginia with Mr. HILL. The House divided; and there were-ayes 86, noes 2. Mr. HOWARD with Mr. SWITZER. Mr. RODDENBERY. l\fr. Speaker, I make the point of order l\Ir. DANIEL A. DRISCOLL with l\Ir. JACKSON. thnt there ls no quorum present. . Mr. FITZGERALD with l\Ir. LA WBENCE. Mr. FOSTER. Mr. Speaker, I make the point of order that Mr. HENRY of Texas with i\Ir. McKENZIE. the motion is dilatory. Mr. HUGHES of Georgia with .Mr. McLAUGHLIN. The SPEAKER. The motion is dilatory. [Applause.] The Mr. HUGHES of New Jersey with Mr. UALBY. ayes have it, and the bill is passed. Mr. KINKEAD of New Jer ey with Mr. PROUTY. PENSIONS. Mr. KITCHIN with Mr. RODENBERG. Mr. MOON of Tenne ee with iir. SIMMONS. Mr. RUSSELL. Mr. Speaker, I mo\e to take up the bill ( S. Mr. MURRAY with Mr. WILSON of Illinois. 6084) granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain Mr. Snrs with 'Mr. YOUNG of l\Ilchigan. soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows nnd Mr. FOWLER. Ur. Speaker, I desire to inquire how the ·gen dependent relatives of such soldi-ers and sailors, and I ask tleman from South Carolina, Mr. LEVER, voted. 'll.llanimous consent that it be considered in the House .as in the The SPEAKER. He is not recorded. Committee of the Whole. Mr. FOWLER. I am paired with the gentleman from South MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. Carolina and I desire to answer " present.•• If the gentleman 11 A message from the Senate, by Mr. Crockett, one of its clerks, from So~th Carolina were here, I would vote" no. announced that the Senate had. agreed to the report of the Mr. MANN. Mr. Speaker, is the gentleman from Alabama, committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two ~fr. 1J~-nERwoon, recorded? Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. The SPE..A.."kER. He is not recorded. 20111) making appropriations for fortifications and other works Mr. M.Ai~. I voted" nay," and I am paired with him. -of -Oefense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of The SPEAKER. The Clerk will call the gentleman's name. heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes. The name of the gentl€man from Illinois [1'Ir. MANN] 'WfrS The me age also announced that the Senate had passed with called, and he voted "present." amendments bill of the following title, in which the concurrence After the roll had been called and before the presence of a of the House of Representatives was requested: quorum had been ascertained the following occurred: H. R. 21477. An act making appropriations for the construe.. Mr. CARLIN. l\fr. Speaker, 1 move that the House do now tion, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers adjourn. and harbors, and for other purposes. The SPEAKER. That motion will ha\e to be seconded by a majority of those present. ENROLLED lllLLS SIGNED. l\fr. PALMER. A parliamentary inquiry. The SPEAKER announced his signature to enrolled bills of The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. the following titles: Mr. PALMER. Does the same apply to a motion to · take a S. 5060. An act to provide fo1· the disposal of the unallotted recess until to-morrow at 11 o'clock? land on the Omaha Indian Reservation, in the State of Ne-. The SPEAKER. A recess can not be taken without a quorum. bra ska; and Mr. RODDENBERY. I make the point ·of order on the mo S. 6167. An act to authorize the Williamson & Pond Creek; tion of the gentleman from Pennsylvania .[Mr. PALMER] . Railroad Co. to construct a bridge across the Tug Fork o~ l\Ir. PALMER. Well, I have not made the motion. the Big Sandy River at or near Williamson, Mingo County, The SPEAKER. Those in favor of the motion to adjourn W. Va. will rise and stand until counted. [After counting.] Twenty PUBLIC BUILDING A!r. HURON, S. DAK. gentlemen have risen in the affirmative. It is clear .that 20 is l\fr. MARTIN of South Dakota. :Mr. Speaker, will the gen. not a majority of those present. One can tell that Without fur tleman from :Missouri [Mr. RussELL] withhold his request for a ther counting. [A_pplause.] The Chair will ex-plain to the moment, in order to allow me to 1Jresent a formal matter? House that the peculiarity of the form in which this motion to adjourn is put is on account of the fact th.at a call of the House Mr. RUSSELL. I will. is pending. Mr. MARTIN of South Dakota. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani Mr. MANN. Mr. Speaker, I desire to change my vote. mous consent for the immediate consideration of the followin~ The SPEAKER. The Clerk will call the name of the gen resolution, which I send to the Clerk's desk. tleman from Illinois [Mr. MANN]. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from South Dakota asks The name of the gentleman from Illinois was called, and he unanimous consent for the present consideration of a resolution, voted " nay." which the Clerk will report. The Clerk read as follows : Mr. RODDENBERY. A parliamentary inquiry. If the gen tleman from Illinois votes " present" at one time and then votes House resolution ·534, "nay" at another time, which he had a right to do automati Resolved, That the Senate be requested to furnish ~he House wi~h a duplicate certified copy of Senate bill 6009, an act to mcrease the limit cally, does the RECORD show the change or will he be counted of cost to the United States post-office building at Huron, S. Dak., the twi-ce, once as having voted "present" and once as having same having been lost or misplaced. voted "nay." JUr. MANN. As having voted twice. [Laughter.] The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolution..: The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Moss of Indiana) . That The resolution was agreed to. is not a parliamentary inquiry. PENSIONS. A.f ter the call, The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Missouri [l\Ir. Rus The SPEAKER. On this motion to l'ecommit the yea-s are SELL] asks unanimous consent to consider in the House as 42, the nays are 140, voting "present" 20-a quorum. The Door in Oommittee of the Whole Seu.ate bill 6084. Is there ob .. keepe1· will open the doors, and further proceedings under the jection? call will be dispensed with. The motion to recommit is re Mr; RODDE....~ERY. Mr. Speaker, I would !Ike to inquire jected. The question is, Shall the bill pass 1 if unanimous consent is granted to consider the bill in the 6250 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- ·HOUSE . MAY 10,

House as in Committee of the ·whole, would it be ruled that a and sailors of the late Civil War, the War with Mexico, the second could or could not be demanded? various Indian wars, etc., and to grant a pension to certain The SPEAKER. It takes unanimous consent to do this thing. widows of the deceased soldiers and sailors of the late Civil Mr. RODDENBERY. I understand; but if it is done by War"; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. unanimous consent, at what stage would the right to demand a By Mr. JACOWAY: A bill (H R. 24365) providing for the second arise? . · taking over by the United States Government of the Confed The SPEAKER. It nernr does. This is not a suspension of erate cemetery at Little Rock, Ark.; to the Committee on ~Iili the rules. tary Affairs. 1\Ir. RODDENBERY. I understand it is not a suspension of By l\lr. CLAYTON: A bill (H. R. 24366) authorizing A. R. the rules · but if consent is had, would a 1\lember be recognized Killebrew to erect a dam across the Choctawhatchee River in in his o.;n right for · fiye minutes, or would we be operating the State of Alabama; to ·tlle Committee on Interstate and For under one-hour rule, as in general debate? eign Commerce. ( 'J'l10 SPEAKER. He would hav~ five minutes. By Mr. FARR: A bill (H. R. 24367) providing for the erec :Mr. RODDE~BERY. Re erving the right to object, before tion of a statue of Col. E. E. Ellsworth in the District of Co objecting, I would state that I do not desire to consume ~n lumbia ; to the Committee on the Library. hour, yet I do not wish to be limited to five minutes for the ?1s By Mr. GARNER: Resolution (H. Res. 533) increasing the cussion of the bill, but should like to address the House, subJect salary of the night telephone operator from $720 to $900 per to the rules of general debate, for 10 or 15 minutes. If that can annum; to the Committee on Accounts. be accomplished without ol;>jection I shall not object; otherwise I shall object. 'l'he SPEAKER. There is not anybody authorized to promise PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS. that nobody will object to an extension of time. Mr. RODDENBERY. Then I object. · Under clause 1 of Rule XX.II, private bills and resolutions The SPEAKER. The Chair might possibly help the gentle were introduced and seyerally referred as follows: man out by a suggestion that he could offer an amendment, and By Mr. Al\~ERSON of Ohio: A bill (H. Il. 24368) granting get five minutes on that. an increase of pension to Henry Heisserman; to the Committee 1\Ir. RUSSELL. l\Ir. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from on Invalid Pensions. · Florida. Also; a bill (H. R. 24369) granting an increase of pension to RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. Mary E. Riddle; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. l\Ir. SPARKl\IAN. l\Ir. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to By Mr. BARNHAilT: A bill (H. Il. 24370) granting an in t2ke from the Speaker's table the bill H. R. 21477, disagree to crease of pension to Nathaniel Perry; to the Committe€' on the Senate amendments, and ask for a conference. Invalid Pensions. 1.rhe SPEAKER. Is that the ri"rer and harbor bill? By l\Ir. BOWl\lli~: A bill (H. R. 24371) granting an increaoo l\lr. SPARK IA.N. Yes. of pension to Simon Werts; to the Committee on Invalid Pen The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Florida [Mr. SPARK sions. MAN] asks unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table By l\fr. BYRNS of Tennessee: A bill (H. R. 24372) granting the bill H. n. 21477, with Senate amendments, to disagree to the a: pension to Thomas F. Haywood; to the Committee on Invalid Senate amendments, and ask for a conference. Is there objec Pensions. tion? [After a pau e.] The Chair hears none, and it is so By l\fr. COX of Ohio: A bill (H. Il. 24373) granting an in· ordered. crease of pension to Charles P. Lewis; to the Committee on The SPEAKER appointed the following conferees on the part Invalid Pensions. of the House: Mr. SPARKMAN, 1\Ir. RANSDELL of Louisiana, and Also, a bill (H. R. 24374) granting an increase of pension to l\lr. LA WBENCE. Thomas S. Granger; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · .ADJOURNMENT. Also, a bill (H. R. 24375) granting an increase of pension to Mr. RUSSELL. Mr. Speaker, I move that· the House do now John Kelsner; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ~.djonrn. Also, a bill (H. R. 24376) granting an increase of pension to The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 5 o'clock and 47 Vesta Shoemaker; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. minutes p. m.) the House adjourned until to-morrow, Saturday, Also, a bill (H. R. 24377) granting an increase of pension to l\Iay 11, 1912, at 12 o'clock noon. Jesse Zimmerman; to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 24378) granting an increase of pension to John .M. Allender.; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC BILLS AND Also, a bill (H. R. 24379) granting an increase of pension to RESOLUTIONS. John Logan; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Under clause 2 of Rule XIII, Also, a bill ( H. R. 24380) granting an increase of pension to l\Ir. ROBINSON, from the Committee on the Public Lands, Christian H. Cook; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to which was referred the bill (H. n. 18719) to authorize the Also, a bill (H. R. 24381) granting an increase of pension to State of Tennessee to sell school lands for educational purposes, William H. Warner; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. reported the same with amendment, accompanied by 3: report Also, a bill (H. R. 24382) granting an increase of pension to (No. 684), which said bill and report were referred to the John R. Burtnett; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. House Calendar. Also, a bill (H. R. 24383) granting an increase of pension to James W. Gerhart; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PRIVATE BILLS AND Also, a bill (H. R. 24384) granting an increase of pension to RESOLUTIONS. Joseph Frazier·; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 24385) granting an increase of pension to Under clause 2 of Rule XIII, John l\luir; to the Committee .on Pensions. ~Ir. POST, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to which Also, a bill (H. R. 24386) granting an increase of pension to was referred the bill ( S. 5776) authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to adjust and settle the claims of the atto1:ney of record J. V. Lambertson; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. im·olving certain Indian allotments, and for other purposes, re Also, a bill (H. R. 24387) granting an increase of pension to Benjamin F. Kemp; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ported the same without amendment, accompanied by a report Also, a bill (H. R. 24388) granting an increase of pension to (No. 6 5), which said bill and report were referred to the Rachael B. Woodmansee; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Private Calendar. Also, a bill (H. R. 243 9) granting an increase of pension to Cincinnatus East; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. CHA~ "'GE OF REFERENCE. .Also, a bill (H. R. 24390) granting an increase of pension to Under clause 2 of Rule XXII, the Committee on Invalid Pen Elizabeth A. Hamel; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . sions was discharged from the consideration of the bill (H. R. Also, a bill ( H. R. 243!)1) granting an increase of pension to 2414) granting a perrsion to Albert I. Merrill, and the same was James C. Ricker; to the Committee on Invalid Pen ions. referred to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 24392) for the relief of George Sloughman ; to the Committee on Military Affairs. PUBLIC BILLS, RESOLUTIO:NS, AND :MIDIORIALS. Also, a bill ( H. R. 24393) for the relief of Jeremiah Rader ; Under clause 3 of Rule }(XII, bills, resolutions, and memo to the Committee on l\Iilitary Affairs. rials were inh·oduced and se-rerally referred as follows: Also, a bill (H. R. 24394) to remove the charge of desertion By l\Ir. BURKE of Wisconsin: A bill (H. R. 24364) to amend against James Green; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. .nn act approved April 10, 1908, entitled "An act to increase the Also, a bill (H. R. 24395) granting a pension to_P. J. Carrier; pension of widows, minor children, etc., of deceased soldiers to the Committee on Pensions. 1912, -CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE.

Also, a bill (H. R. 24396) granting a pension to John R. Cal By Mr. LANGLEY: A bill (H. R. 24435) granting a pension lahan ; to the Committee on ··Pensions. to Orlena Francis; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 24397) granting a pension to Anthony H. By Mr. NORRIS: A bill (H. R. 24436) granting a pension to Wallich; to the Committee on Pensions. Ada Hess; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . Also, a bill (H. R. 24398) granting a pensi<:m to William Shoe By Mr. PEPPER: A bill (H. R. 24437) granting a pension to . maker ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Phoebe· A. Ludwick; to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 24399) granting a pension to William W. By Mr. POWERS: A bill (H. R. 24438) for the relief of l\Ioore; to the Committee on Pensions. William H. Hudson; to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 24400) granting a pension to John J.. Hol Also, a bill (H. R. 24439) for the relief of John S. Spurlock; brock ; to the Committee on Pensions. to the Committee on War Claims. · \ Also, a bill (H. R. 24401) granting a pension to Benjamin F. Also, a bill (H. R. 24440) granting a pension to Tyra B. Tur. Dunkley; to the Committee on :Pensions. pin; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. \ Also, a bill (H. R. 24402) granting a pension to Angeline Also, a bill (H. R. 24441) granting an increase of pension to \ Shade; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. William B. Philpott; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 24403) granting a pension to James Also, a bill (H. R. 24442) granting an increase of pension to Skelton ; to the Committee on Pensions. David Britton; to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 244-04) granting a pension to Myrtle Also, a bill (H. R. 24443) for the relief of the ·heirs of Job Harter;. to the Committee on Pensions. Glidewell, deceased; to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 24405) granting a pension to· Joseph Also, a bill ( H. R. 24444) for the relief of the heirs of George Bryant; to the Committee on Pensions. W. Saunders, deceased; to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 24406) granting a pension to Robert B. Also, a bill ( H. R. 24445) to remove the charge of dese1·tion Denny; to the Committee on Pensi-ons. . from the "military record of Canada Peck; to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 24407) granting a pension. to1 Alphonso A. Military Affairs. Ruckman; to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 24446) to remove the charge of desertion Also, a bill (H. R. !24408) granting a pension to John 0. from the military record of Bertin Kleusman; to the Committee Wheaton; to the Committee on Pensions. on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 24409) granting a pension to Lucinda St. By 1\fr. SHERLEY: A bill (H. R. 24447) for the relief of the John ; to· the Committee on Invalid Pensions. estate· of Emily Oldham, deceruied; to the Committee on War Also, a bill (H. R. 24410) granting a pension to William R. Claims. Hendricks; to the Committee on Pensions. l\Ir. TALCOTT of New York: A bill (H. R. 24448) granting Also, a bill ( H. R. 24411) granting a pension to J rimes Still an increase of pension to James D. Lockwood; to the Commit m:m ;. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. tee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a t_>ill ( H. R. 24412) granting a pension to Elizabeth By Mr. --:VILLIS: A bill (H. R. 24449) granting an increase M. Zeek; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of pension to Wilson S. Van Horn; to the Committee on Invalid AJEo, a bill ( H. R. 24413) granting a .pension to William 1\IcO. Pensions. Poffenberger ; to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. CAMPBELL: A bill (H. R. 24414) granting an in crease of pension to Oxley Johnson; to tj:le Committee on Invalid PETITIONS, ETC. Pensions. Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, petitions and paper,s were: laid Also, a bill (H. R. 24415) granting an increase of pension to on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: Augustus W. Beswick; to the Committ ee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. AKIN of New York: Petition of Sons of the Revolu-- By Mr. CATLIN: A bill (H. R. 24416) granting a pension to tion, State of New York, favoring passage of Senate bill 271, Margn.ret Tayes, nee Ellis; to the Committee on Pensions. relative to printing all records and archives of the United By l\Ir. CURRY: A bill (H. R. 24417) to correct the military States Government relating to tpe War of the Revolution; to record of Anastacio Sandoval; to the Committee on Military ,the Committee on Military Affairs~ Affairs. Also, IJetition of the Allied Committees, Political Refugee By l\ir. DAUGHERTY: A bill (H. R. 24418) granting a pen- Defensive League of America, protesting against the Dilling sion to Nicey A. Laderach; to the Committee on Invalid Pen- ham bill (S. 3175) for literacy test of immigrants; to the Com- sions. mittee on:. Immigration and Naturalization. By l\Ir. ESCH: A bill (H. R. 24419) granting an increase of By Mr. ANTHONY: Petition of the Presbyterian Church, pension to Ella Scott; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Corning, Kans., favoring passage·of the Kenyon-Sheppard inter- By Mr. FIELDS: A bill (H. R. 24420} granting a: pension to state liquor bill; to the Committee on Interstate and.,.Foreign Albert Ramey; to the Committee on Pensions. · Commerce. Also, a bill (H. R. 24421) for the relief of John A. Gribble; to By l\Ir. ASHBROOK: Petition of J. Johnson & Co., St. Louis, the Committee on Military Affairs. Mo.; the Callend~r-Vanderhoof Co. and Gxunnell Collins & Co., Al~o, a bill (H. R. 24422) granting a pension to Chru·les A. of Minneapolis, Minn.; Weil, Brockman & Co., of Cinciµnati, Ward; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. and Sanford-Herron Co., of Columbus, Ohio, favoring passage of By Mr. FOSS: A bill (H. R. 24423) granting an increase ef House bill 17936, providing. for the standru·dization of packages pension to Martin Kimble; to the CiJmmittee on Invalid Pen- and grades of barreled apples; to the Committee on Interstate sions. and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. GILLETT: A bill .(H. R. 24424) foi: the relief of Also, petition of 0. H. Cole and 14 other citizens, of Newark, Archibald l\IcElroy; to the Committee on Military Affairs~ Ohio, against passage of interstate-commerce liquor law; to the By Mr. GOULD: A bill (H. R 2&-425) granting an. increase of C()mmittee on the Judiciary. pension. to Henry S. Moulton; to the Committee on: In1"ali.d By Mr. BA.RNHART: Petitions of Local No. 330 and Local Pensions. No. 1Wr of South Bend; Ind., protesting against the· use of the By Mr. KTh"'KEAD of New Jersey: A bitl (H. R. 24426)" for stop-watch system on Government employees; to the Committee the relief of Edward Johnston; to the Committee· on Military on Labor. . , Affairs. By ~Ir. BOWMAN: Petition of the National Association of Also, a bill (H. R. 24427) for the relief of Catherine Kenealy; Cotton :Manufacturers, of Boston, Mass., against bills relating to- the Committee on Military Affairs. to the sale and purchase of cott0n to be delivered OLI contract By Mr. KONIG: A bill (H. R. 24428) granting a pension 1io on the cotton exchanges ef.· this- country; to the Committee on Robert K. Lowry ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ' Agricultme. . Also, a bill (H. R. 24429) granting a pension ta Walter Also, petition of the Landis Machine Co., of Waynesboro, Pa., Boward; to the Committee OR Invalid Pensions. against passage of Hou.se bill' 23417, to change present patent Also, a bill (H. R. 24430) granting· a· pension to J'ona-than N: laws; to the Committee on Patents. Havens; to the Commrttee on Invalid Pensions. By Ur. BULKLEY: Petition of the Ohio Municipal League, Also, a bill (H. R. 21431) granting- a pension to Mary R. favo~ing · ~n aJ;»propriation of ~ds to cont~~ ~e work of the Dorrittee; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. , Presidents Elcono~y. and Efficiency ComIDlSSlon, ta· the Com· Also, a bill (H. R. 24432) granting' a pension to· IsabeITn c., · rnittee on Appropriation~. . .. Waddell; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By 1\Ir. BURKE of W1scomnn: Petitto:r: of JoJ;m P. ~ess and Also, a bill ( H. R. 24433) granting a peMion to Mrs. Tlroma,s; 1. 1? othen merchants, of ~on:d ~u Lac, W1&., against pas~a~e of D. Parks; to the Committee on Invalid Pension-a. . bills- ta- prevent protective price agreements and 'restITctwns; By Mr. LAFFERTY: A bill (H. R. 24434) granting an ih- . to the Committee on t}le- Judiciary. crease of pensi-on to William R. l\fcCord · to the- Committee on · R.y: Mr: CALDlllR :. P.etitton. of. the Mebius & Drescher Ca., af Pensions. ' · Sacramento, Cal., favoring passage of Senate bill 4727 and 6252 CONGRESSIONAL .RECORD-HOUSE. MA.Y 10,

Hoa e bill 4667, known as the Stevens net weight and measure By l\lr. KAHN: Petition of Sussman, Worrnesu & Co., San bill; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. · Francisco, Cal., favoring pas age of Sternns bi1l to show net By l\lr. CAMPBELL : Petition of the First Baptist Church of weight and numerical count of packages and containers; to the Arkansas City, Kans., fa\oring passage of the Kenyon-Sheppard Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. interstate liquor bill; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Also, petition of Dalziel, Moller Co. San Franci co, Cal., op- By l\lr. CARY: Petition of Local No. 54, United Brotherhood posing passage of the Davis anti-injunction bill, exempting labor of Leather Workers on Horse Goods, favoring passage of House organizations from operation of the Sherman .Act; to the Com bill 22330, for prohibiting the use of the stop watch on Govern- mittee on the Judiciary. ment employees; to the Committee on Labor. Al o, petition of Shipowners' Association of the Pacific Coast, By Mr. DANIEL A. 'DRISCOLL: Petition of church societies San Francisco, Cal., in opposition to the anti-injmiction bills at Lackawana City, N. Y., and of Independent Order B'rith exempting labor organizations from operation of the Sherman Abraham, of New York City, N. Y., against passage of the Act; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Dillingham bill and other bills containing educational test for Also, petition of the California Board of Charities and Cor immigrants; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturaliza- rections, of San Francisco, Cal., relati're to creation of a Fed tion. eral commission on industrial relations; to the Committee on Also, petition of the Sons of the Rernlution, of New York Labor. City, N. Y., fa"roring pa age of Senate bill 271, for appropria- By Mr. LINDBERGH: Petition of G. B. Adams Post, Ko. 151, tion to cover expense of collecting unpublished archives re1 at- of Minnesota, Grand Army of the Republic, favoring passage of ing to War of the Revolution; to the Committee on War Claims. the Sherwood bill (H. R. 14070), for the relief of veterans By l\1r. ESCH : Petition of citizens of Philadelphia protest- whose hearing is defectile; to the Committee on Invalid Pen.. ing against the literacy te t for immigrants; to the Committee sions. on Immigration and Naturalization. By l\fr. 1'IANN: Resolution of the German-American Alliance Also, papers to accompany bill for an increase of pension to of Philadelphia, Pa., against passage of Burnett bill and all Ella Scott,· widow of James P. Scott, late adjutant Second Wis- bills containing literacy t'est for immigrants; to the Committee cousin Volunteer Carnlry; to the Committee on Invalid Pen- on Immigration and Naturalization. sions. By .l\1r. l\1cCOY :. Petitions of Chovare Zion Lodge, No. 4221 By l\Ir. FOR?\'ES: Petition of the Sons of the Revolution in and l\.famachber Lodge, No. 617, Independent Order B'rith Abra. the State of New York, favoring appropriation fpr the publish- ham, Newark, N. J., protesting against the literacy test for ing of all records and archives relating to the Revolutionary immigrants; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturaliza- War; to the Committee on Military Affairs. tion. Also, petition of citizens of Philadelphia, protesting against Also, petitions of the German ~American Alliance of Philadel- the Dillingham bill ( S. 3175), for literacy test of immigrants; phia, Pa.; of Baron Rothschild Lodge, No. 105; of Newark to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. Young Men Lodge, No.154, of the Grand Lodge of Newark, N. J.; By l\1r. FULLER: Petition of the Union League Club, of of the National Liberal Immigration Lea 00 ue; of the Workmen's Chicago, Ill., against passage of the Dillingham bill ( S. 3175), Circle a~d Allied Committee of the Political Refugee Defense relating to the literacy test for immigrants, ~tc.; to the Com- League of America; and of the United Hebrew Trades of New mitttee on Immigration and Naturalization. York, against pa sage of the Dillingham bill and other bills Also, petition of the Silverton Commercial Club, of Silverton, containing educational test for immigrants; to the Committee on Colo., favoring passage of the Taylor bill (H. R. 23081), to es- Immigration and Naturalization. t ablii:::h a mining experiment station at Silverton, Colo., etc.; to Also, petition of Chase National Bank, of New York City, the Committee on Mines and Mining. N. Y., favoring passage ·of l\fis issippi Rtrer emergency bill; Also, petition of the !\fills Novelty Co., of Chicago, Ill., against to the Committee on Rirers and Harbors. passage of House bill 23417, concerning proposed amendments Also, petition of the United Brotherhood of Leather Workers, to the patent laws; to the Committee on Patents. Newark, N. J., favoring passage of House bill 22339, prohibiting By Mr. GOULD: Petition of Carpenters' Union, Bar Harbor, use of the stop watch for Government employees; to the Com Me., favoring passage of House bill 19133, for the operation of a mittee on the Judiciary. postal-express service by the Post Office Department; to the By l\1r . .McHENRY: Resolution of the Independent Order of Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. B'rith Sholom, Lodge No. 133, Shamokin, Pa., against pa sa'"'e By l\fr. GOLDFOGLE: Petition of the Sons of the Revolution of Senate bill 3175 and House bill 2Z-27, for literacy test for in the State of New York, favoring approixfation relative to immigrants; to the Committee on Immigration and Katuraliza printing and publishing record and archives of the Revolution- tion. ary Wa.r; to the Committee on l\Iilitary Affairs. By l\1r. l\IOORE of Pennsylvania: Petition of R. Stewart and Also, petition of Henry B. Worthington, of St. Louis, l\fo., others, of Philadelphia, Pa., and vicinity, favoring passage of against passage of House bill 21969 and against amendment to House bill 22339, prohibiting the use of the stop-watch system; section 11, denying use of Panama Canal to any steamship com- to the Committee on Labor. pany in which any railroad is interested; to the Committee on Also, petition of citizens of Philadelphia, Pa., opposing the Interstate and Foreign Commerce. literacy test for immigrants; to the Committee on Immigration Al o, petition of C. W. Snow & Co., of Syracuse, N. Y., and and Naturalization. Wahler & Gibson, wholesale druggists, of Albany, N. Y., against Also, petition of the Philadelphia Board of Trade, Pbiladel pas age of House bill 14060-the Richardson bill-regulating phia, Pa., favoring passage of House joint resolution 304, rela the sale of drugs; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign tive to a discussion for the e tabli hment of aids to navigation Commerce. at sea; to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. By .l\1r. HARDWICK: Petition of Lodge No. 717, Irvin Di- Also, petition of the Jewi h Community of New York City, vision of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, of Augusta, protesting against Burnett bill, for literacy test for immigrants; Ga., opposing the passage of bill known as the employees' com- to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. pensation act; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. MOTT: Petition of the Sons of the Revolution in the By Ur. HAMUN: Papers to accompany House bill 24341, to State of New York, favoring pas age of Senate bill 271, relating pension Samuel L. Smedley; to the Committee on Invalid Pen- to unpublished archives of the War of the Revolution; to the sions. Committee on Military Affairs. By l\Ir. HANNA: Petition of R. Clendening, Wimbledon, Also, resolution of the German-American Alliance at Philadel- N. Dak., against passage of the Lever antifuture trading bill, phia, Pa., against passage of the Dillingham bill and all bills relative to restricting the marketing of grain; to the Committee containing educational test for immigrants; to the Committee on Agriculture. · on Immigration and Naturalization. Also, petition of citizens of North Dakota, favoring reduction By Mr. PATTEN of New York: Petition of the Sons of the of duty on raw and refined sugars; to the Committee on Ways Revolution of New York City, N. Y., favoring passage of Senate bill and Means. 271, relative to unpublished archives of United States Govern- Also, petition of citizens of Barnes County, N. Dak., against ment relating to War of the Revolution; to the Committee on passage of a parcel-post system, and citizens of Adams County, Military Affairs. _ N. Dak., favoring passage of a parcel-post bill; to the Com- By Mr. RAKER: Resolution of the German Alliance of Phila- mittee on the Post Office and Post Roads. delphia, Pa.; the Allied Committee of the Political Refugee De- By l\Ir. HUGHES of New Jersey: Petition of the Grand fense League of America; and the United Hebrew Trades of Lodge, Independent Order of King Solomon, Newark, N. J.; the State of New York; to the Committee on Immigration and and of Passaic City Lodge, No. 193, Passaic, N. J., in opposition Naturalization. to the literacy test for immigrants; to the Committee on Immi- Also, resolutions of the San Joaquin and Sacramento River gration and Naturalization. · , Improvement Association, of San Francisco, Cal., favoring the 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 6253

War Department plan as embodied in House Document No. 81; ing passage of House bill 16214, ·to withdraw from interstate- to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. commerce protection liquors imported into dry territory fot Also, declaration and affidavit of Herschel W. Howland, of illegal use; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com Yreka, Cal, to accompany House bill 23656; to the Committee merce. on Invalid Pensions. Also, petition of Providence Lodge, No. 214, and Sons of Also, resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce of Greenville, Jacob Lodge, No. 175, Independent Order B'rith Abraham, Cal., to accompany House resolution 522, relatiye to Japanese Providence, R. I., protesting against the literacy test for immi activities against United States Government; to the Committee grants; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. on Rules. By Mr. WILSON of New York : Petition of the Sons of Revo Also, petition of citizens of the United States, relative to the lution in the State of New York, favoring an appropriation American flag on American steam vessels ; to the Committee on relative to printing and ublishing of records and archives Interstate and Foreign Commerce. • of the Revolutionary War; to the Committee on Military By Mr. REILLY: Petition of citizens of Connecticut, relative Affairs. to land now occupied by the New York general post office; to the Also, petition of the National Association of Talking Ma Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. chine Jobbers, Pittsburgh, Pa., protesting against any change in Also, petition of citizens of Philadelphia, in opposition to the the patent laws that may affect price maintenance; to the Com literacy test for immigrants; to the Committee on Immigration mittee on Patents. and Naturalization. Also, petition of citizens of Philadelphia, protesting against By Mr. SCULLY: Petitions of allied committee of the Polit the passage of the literacy test for immigrants; to the Com ical Refugee Defense League of America, New York, and the mittee on Immigration ;ind Naturalization. · Grand Lodge, Independent Order of King Solomon, of New Jer sey, protesting against the Dillingham bill ( S. 3175) relative to restriction of immigration; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. SEN.ATE. Also, petition of John J. Morrison, mayor of New Brunswick, SATURDAY, May 11, 191'2. N. J., favoring passage of Senate bill 6496, for the protection of passengers on ocean vessels; to the Committee on the Merchant Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D .. D. Marine and Fisheries. The VICE PRESIDENT resumed the chair. Also, petition of the American Thread Co., New York, favor The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. ing passage of House bill 309, relative to appropriation for the FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG ( S. DOC. raising of the levees of the Mississippi River; to the Committee NO. 663) . • on River.s and Harbors. Also, petition of the Chamber of Commerce of New York The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica State, protesting against passage of a bill prohibiting the use of tion from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to the Panama Canal by steamship companies in which a railroad Senate concurrent resolution 19, certain information relative · has an interest; to the Committee on Interstate' and Foreign to the observance of the fiftieth anniversary of tlle Rattle of Commerce. Gettysburg and the proper representation of the Government By Mr. SMITH of Michigan: Petition of citizens of l\Iicbigan, thereat, which, with the accompanying papers and illustrations, favoring legis_lation that will give the Interstate Commerce was referred to the Special Committee on the Fiftieth Anni Commission further power toward regulating express rates; to versary of the Battle of Gettysburg and ordered to be printed. the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. LAWRENCE (MASS. ) STRIKE (S. DOC. NO. 662). Also, petition of citizens of Michigan, protesting against pas The VICE PHESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica sage of parcel-post bill; to the Committee on the Post Office and tion from the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, transmitting, Post Roads. By Mr. SULZER: Petition of Aaron Weiss Lodge, NQ. 244; in response to a resolution of the 7th instant, certain informa Wanderer Lodge, No. 278, Order B'rith Abraham, of New York tion relative to the wages and conditions of living of the mill City, N. Y.; and Coza Makers' Progressive Salem Alliance, No. operatives in Lawrence, Mass., which was ordered to lie on the 90, of New York, against passage of Senate bill 3175, containing table and to be printed. literacy test for immigrants; to the Committee on Immigration FINDINGS OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS. and Naturalization. The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate communica Also, petition of W. 0. Hart, of New Orleans, La., favoring tions from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans pa sage of Burton-Littleton bill creating a national commission mitting certified copies of the findings of fact and conclusions for the purpose of arranging for the celebration of 1914 and of law filed by the court in the following causes: 1915; to the Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions. Henrietta B. Hawes, administratrix of the estate of David C. Also, petition of Sorens T. Johnston, of New York City, N. Y., Houston, deceased, v. United States (S. Doc. No. 661); favoring passage of House bill 4667, known as the Stevens Francis H. Hardie, Joseph C. Hardie, Caroline H. Neal, Gould net-weight bill; to the Committee on Interstate and Catherine M. Hardie, and Isabelle H. Hardie, children and sole Foreign Commerce. heirs at law of James Allen Hardie, deceased, v. United States Also, petition of the International Association of Machinists, (S. Doc. No. 664); West Side Lodge, No. 320, favoring passage of House bill No. Seneca H. Norton v. United States (S. Doc. No. 660) ; 22339, against use of stop watch in Government shops; to the Isabella H. Adams, administratrix of the estate of Arthur Committee on the Judiciary. Hubert Burnham, deceased, v. United States (S. Doc. No. 659); Also, petition of the Silverton Commercial Club, of Silverton, l\1ary O. H. Stoneman, adminish·a trix of George Stoneman, Colo., favoring passage of House bill 22081, to establish a min deceased, v. United States (S. Doc. No. 658); and ing experiment station at Silverton, Colo.; to the Committee D. l\I. Carman v. United States ( S. Doc. No. 657) . on Mines and Mining. The foregoing findings were, with accompanying papers, re Also, petition of the Sons of the Revolution of New York ferred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. City, N. Y., favoring passage of Senate bill 271, an appropria tion to cover expense of collecting· and printing, etc., unpub MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. lished archives of United States Government relating to War A message from the House of Representatives, by J. C. South, of the Revolution; to the Committee on Military Affairs. its Chief Clerk. announced that the House had disagreed to the Also, •petition of Herbert L. Griggs, of New York City., ·N. Y., amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 21477) making ap favoring passage of a bill appropriating $200,000 for the effici propriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of ency bureau in connection with the bureau of municipal re certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other pur search; to the Committee on Appropriations. poses. It asks a conference with the Senate on the disagreeing By Mr. TALCOTT of New Yor)r: Petition of the Sons of the votes of the two Houses thereon, and had appointed Mr. SPARK Revolution in the State of New York, favoring appropriation MAN, Mr. RANSDELL of Louisiana, and Mr. LAWRENCE managers for publisbment of all records and archives relative to the at the conference on the part of the House. Revolutionary War; to the Committee on Military Affairs. '.rhe message also announced that the House had agreed to Also, petition of the allied committees, Political Refugee De the report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing fense League of America, New York, protesting against passage votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to of the Dillingham bill ( S. 3175) for literacy test for immigrants; the bill (H. R. 1) granting a service pension to certain defined to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. . veterans of the Civil War and the War with Mexico. By Mr. UTTER: Petition of the Walchemohet Woman's The message further requested the Senate tq furnish the Christian Temperance Union, of East Providence, R. I ., favor- House with a duplicate engrossed copy of the bill (S. 600D) to XLVIII-393

CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD-SENATE. Jtf.A.Y 10, • , Also, Petition of the National Association of Cotton Manu­ CROSBY, N

CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD-SENATE. Jtf.A.Y 10, • , Also, Petition of the National Association of Cotton Manu CROSBY, N