.798 CONGRESSIONAL R.ECORD-SENATE DEOE::\IBER 19 Francis l\1. Fletcher, McComb. SENATE Harry E. Coil, Mendon. Pearl C. Brown, Middlefield. MoNDAY, Dece-mlJer 19, 1921 George L. Sayles, Milan. The Chaplain, Rev. Z~Barney T. Phillips, D. D., offered t:Ue French C. Stillings, Milford Center. following p1·ayer; Dewey H. Beck, Monroeville. William G. Corne, Newark. Ou.t of the deep have I called tl-nto Thee, 0 Lonl; Lord, hear Calvin L. Hartline, Newcomerstown. my voice. Harry ~f. Day, New Richmond. Almighty God, who speakest in a thousand voices to the AlbertS. Nye, New Wa hington. hearts and minds of men, grant to us that we may be taught Cloyde M. Kieffer, Orrville. of Thee, that with understanding hearts we may faithfully Marshall 0. Brooke, Peebles. perform the duties of this day. Frank B. McCullough, Plain City. In all our work make us ever mindful of the welfare and the George A.. Fisher, Port Clinton. wants of others, knowing that we are in Thy stead. Clarence R. Seymou1·, Ravenna. Save, we beseech Thee, the valiant sons of this Nation im Olive Toland, Rayland. periled in the great deep, for Thy paths are in the great waters, Harry W. Hayes, Reynoldsburg. and even there shall Thy hand lead them. Enfold in Thine Fred 0. Fo ter, Seville. arms of love and mercy their loved ones, and by the sacrament Alva H. Anderson, Shelby. of our sorrowing sympathy bring us all to a deeper knowledge Harry Oldham, Sidney. and understanding of the mystery of Thine infinite lo1e. Charles l\1. Sauder, Smithville. Tbrough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Elmer E. Weaver, Sugarcreek: Oral H. Hilborn, Tiro. The Chief Clerk proceeded to read the Journal of the pro Raymond l\1. Swank, Trotwood. ceeding~ of Saturday last, when, on request of Mr. CURTIS and Ralph L. Stamm, Ver ailles. by unanimous con~nt, the further 1·eading was di ~ pensed with George ,V. Hassenier, Wapakoneta. and the Journal was approved. Dora A. Kramer, West Alexandria. CALL OF' THE ROLL William E. Reed, West Lafayette. Mr. CURTIS. Mr. Presid,ent, I suggest the absence of a Elva L. Gauch, West ~Ianchester. quorum. OKLAHOMA The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will call the roll. Royal F. Hall, Boi e City. The legislative clerk called the roll, and the following Sen Roy l\1. ::uuse, Elmore City. ators an wered to their names : Ashurst Edwards Keyes Robin on, Ind. Marshall G. Norvell, Marietta. Barkley Ferris King Sackett Frank W. Fuller, Ringwood. Bayard Fess La :b'ollette Sheppard Otto G. Bound, Ryan. Bingham Fletcher McKellar Ship tead Black Frazier McLean Shortridge Marion N. Brumley, Selman. Blaine George ::\Ic:Uaster Smoot William A. Vassar, Tryon. · Blease Gerry .Mc~ary Steck Severee L. ::Uas ie, Tyrone. Borah Gillett Mayfield Steiwer Bratton Glass Metcalf Stephens OREGON Brookhart Goff Moses Swanson Alice K. Gallier, Bandon.. . Broussard Gould Neely Thomas Bruce Greene ~orbeek Trammell Elizabeth J. Morgan, Corbett. Capper Hale ~ye Tydings Fred C. 1\la tches, Dayton. Caraway Harri on Oddie Tyson Copeland Hawes Overman Wagner Edward C. Michelsen, Kerry. Couzens Hayden Phipps Walsh, liass. George ,V. .Johnson, Lakeview. Curtis Heflin l'ine Walsh, Mont. Thomas R. ::Uacl\1illan, Lebanon. Dale Howell Pittman Warren Deneen .Johnson Ran dell Watson Annie 0. Johnson, Odell. Dill .Jones, Wash. Reed, Mo. Wheeler Harold R. Mcisaac, Parkdale. Edge Kendrick Robinson, Ark. Willis Ann B. Heydon, Valsetz. 1\Ir. PHIPPS. :lly colleague the junior Senator from Colo Walter E. Zumwalt, 'Vamic. rado [:.Ur. WATERMAN] is detained on account of illness. . I RHODE ISLAND will allow this announcement to stand for the day. .James H. Riley, Harrisville. 1\Ir. BRATTON. I de ire to announce the nece sary ab ence Lillian G. Hoxie, Shannock. of my colleague the senior Senator from New Mexico [1\Ir. Jo~""ES] from the Chamber. He is detained by illness. This SOUTH C.AROL~A announcement may stand for the aay. George B. Patrick, Bowman.r. Mr. GEORGE. My colleague the senior Senator from Geor Roy L. Hurst, Chesterfield. gia [lli. BARrus] is confined to his home on accotmt of illness. Walter L. Gettys, Clover. I ask that this announcement may stand for the day. Loka W. Rigby, Moncks Corner. ~lr. HOWELL. The senior Senator from Nebraska [1\Ir. Elijah Lee, Pacolet. NoRRIS] is detained from the Senate by illness. I ask that lliis Robert E. RagNdale, Pelze'r. announcement may stand for the day. TEN~ESSEE The VICE PRESIDENT. Eighty-four Senators having an swered to their names, a quorum is present. James G. Jones, Ardmore. .John V. Lady, Blountville. INTERNATIONAL COKGRESS OF ENTOMOLOOY (S. DOC. NO. 29) Pleas P. Campbell, Calderwood. The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the following Bessie J. Clark, Christiana. mes age from the President of the United States. which was J o eph R. Lane, Church Hill. read, and, with the accompanying papers, referred to the Com Weyman I. Dooly, Conasauga. mittee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be pl'inted : David H. Hughes, Eagleville. To the Oongre.s~ of the United Rtates: Lavella Bratschi, Erin. I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State in Jean Brient, Friendsville. closing a recommendation from the Seeretary of Agriculture William E. Richardson, jr., Halls. that the Congress be reque. ted to adopt a resolution authoriz Nona C. Arm trong, Martel. ing and requesting the Pre. ident to invite foreign governments Elmer T. Sparks, McKenzie. to be represented by delegates at the International Congress of Edna Conway, Mosheim. Entomology, to be held in the United States in 1928. E. Dan Smith, :Ycuntpleasant. It will be noticed that because of the close relationship be l\fathew ::U. Iluling, Winchester. tween eutomology and agriculture, the Department of agricul ture is e pedally interested in the international aspects of tllis WITHDR.AW A.L ::;cience, which it considers of very great importance to this country. As it would . eem, therefore, that the participaoon Bxecufi'l:c nomination ·zclthdrazvn tr01n the Senate Decembm· 1"1, of foreign governments in the congress mentioned would be in 19'21 the public interest, I recommend to Congress the passage of POSTMASTER the joint resolution. No appropriation is requested. CALVIN COOLIDGE. George T. Taylor to be postmaster at Memphis, Tenn. ~HE .WHITE HousE, Dec(3?_nber 19, 1927. 1927 CONGRESSIO~_A_L RECORD-SE:S~.\_TE 799
CLAIM OF TWO NETHERLX~"DS Sl."BJECTS (S. DOC. XO. 30} A bill ( S. 1951) for the relief of Loui:o::e St: Gez, executrix of The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the following Auguste Ferre, dec-eased, surdving partner of Lupene & Ferre; mes ·age from the President of the United States, which was A bill (S. 1952) for the relief of E. L. F. Auffurth and others; read, and, with the accompanying papers, referred to the and Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed: A bill (S. 1953) for the relief of the heirs of Susan A. Nich ola ~· ; to the Committee on Claims. To the Congress of the United States: By Mr. WALSH of Massachusetts: I transmit herewith a report regarding two claims presented A bill ( S. 1954) allowing and regulating amateur boxing and by the Government of the Netherland." against the Government sparring matches in the District of Columbia; to the Committee of the United States for compensation for personal injuries on the Distl'ict of Columbia. I sustained by two Netherlands-- subjects, Arend KRmp and By Mr. OVERMAN : Francis Gort, while the U. S. S. Oanibas was-loading on May A bill (S. 1955) for the relief of Lieut. Charles Thomas 1, 1919, at Rotterdam. Wooten, United States Navy;· to the Committee on X a val I recommend that, in order to effect a settlement of these Affairs. claims in accordance with the reco1)1llleudation of the Secretary A bill (S. 1956} for the relief of Levi R. Whitted; of State, the Congress, as an act of grace and without refer- , A bill ( S. 1957) for the relief of Thomas H. Deal; and ence to the question of the legal liaoility of the United States A bill ( S. 1958) for the relief of \\'illiam J. Cocl.:e; to the in the premise . authorize an appropriation in the sum of Committee on Claims. $1,000, $500 of which is to be paid to Mr. Arend Kamp and $500 By Mr. ~-yE: to be paid to Mr. Francis Gort. A bill (S. 1959) to transfer to the Secretary of the Na-vy CALVIN COOLIDGE. jurisdiction over oil and ga · leases issued by the Secretary of THE WHITE HousE, December 19, 19Z7. the Interior on lands in na-val petroleum reserve ; to the Com CLAIM OF KNUD G. FL.A1G'\E mittee on Public Lands and-Surveys. The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from By :\Jr. SHORTRIDGE: the Secretru·y of the Interior, relative to the claim of Knud G. A bill (S. 1960) for the relief of John D. McCaffrey; to the Flakne for the sum of $800, being the value placed by claimant Committee on Claims. on certain improvements made by him on public lands in the ' A bill ( S. 1961) granting a pension to Frank Hall ; to the reclaimed Mu.d Lake bottom, embraced in his homestead entry Committee on Pensions. 014157, Cass Lake series, Minn., which, with the accompanying :By Mr. WILLIS: report, was referred to the Committee on Public L-ands and A bill (S. 1962) granting a pension to David E. :\Ioocly (with Surveys. accompanying papers); and PETITIONS .AND MEMORLALS A bill ( S. 1963) granting an increase of pension to Iscah • Mr. . LA FOLLETTE presented memorials signed by 293 citi Brady Raw ·on (with accompanying paper ) ; to the Committee zens of the State of Wisconsin, remonstrating against the on Pensions. passage of legislation providing for compulsory Sunday ob By Mr. WHEELER: servance in the District of Columbia, which were referred to A bill ( S. 1964) to establish a fish cultural station in the the Committee on the District of Columbia. State of l\Iontana as an auxiliary to the Bozeman, Mont., fisll Mr: ODDIE. l\Ir. President, 'On Thursdny last I · presented eries station ; to the Committee on Commerce. a petition from officials of the State of Nevada, and asked that By Mr. STEPHEXS: _ · it be referred to the Committee on Claims, which action was A bill (S. 1965) to autlwrhr.e the appoinbnent of a dist~·ict taken. I now request that the Committee on Claims may be judge for the northern di ;trict of Mississippi; to t11e Committee discharged from the further consideration of the petition and on the Judiciary. · that it may be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. BROOKHART: . The VICE PRESIDI!)NT. ·without ·objection, the Committee A bill" (S. l966) for the establishment of _migratory-bird refuges to furnish in perpetuity: homes for migratory bird.s, the on ~ Claims will be discharged from the further consideration of the petition, and it will be referred to the Committee on the e tablishment of public shooting grounds to preserve the Ameri can system of free shooting, the provision of 'funds for estab Judiciary. · lishing such areas, and the furnishing of adequate ·pl"otection BrLLS AND- JOINT RES-OLUi'IO- INTRODUCED for migratory birds, and for other purposes; to the Committee Bills and a joint resolution were introduced, read the first on Agriculture and Forestry. time, and, by lmanimous consent, the ·econd time, nod referred A bill ( S. 1967) granting an increa e of pension to Rebecca as follows : - Latta (with a.ccompanyin~ papers) ; to the Committee on Pen By Mr. GLASS : ~ sions. A bill ( S. 1943} for the relief of the legal repre8entatives of By l\lr. SMOOT: the estate of Henry H. Sibley, deceased (with an accompanying A bill (S. 1968) to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to paper} ; to tbe Committee on Claims. pay for the use and occupancy by the Department of A.gricui· By Mr. TRAMMELL: ture of the Bieber Building, 1358 B Street SW., Washington, A bill ( S. 1944} to amend subsection ( 3) of section 1 of the D. _ C., and .for other purposeN; to the Committee on Public interstate commerce act, as amended; to the Committee on In Buildings and Grounds. . terstate Commerce. A bill (S. 1969) to promote the development, pro-tection, nnd By Mr. McKELLAR: utilization of national forest resources, to stabilize the live A bill (S. 1945) to amend the act entitled "An act to provide stock industry, and for other purposes; to the Committee on that the United States shall aid the States in the constl·uction Public Lands and Suryeys. of rural post roads, and for other purposes," approved July 11, By Mr. SHEPPARD: 1916, as amended, and for other purpo es ; to the Committee on A bill (S. 1970) for the relief of Karim Joseph :\Iery (with Post Offices and Post Roads. accompanying papers); to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. EDGE: By :Mr. HALE: A bill ( S. 1946) relative to the vay of certain retired warrant A bill (S. 1971) to pro•ide for the purchase of a site for and officers and enlisted men and warrant officers and enlisted men the construction of a public building at York. ::\Ie.; to the of the reser-ve forces of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Coast Guard, fixed under the terms of the Panama Canal act, as A bill (S. 1912) granting an increase of pension to Emma E. amended; to the Committee on Interoceanic Canals. Shorey (with accompan~ · ing papers) ; to the Committee on By Mr. PHIPPS : Pensions. A bill ( S. 1947) granting an increase of pension to Virginia By Mr. ROBINSON of Indiana : J. Betteys (with accompanying papers) ; to the Committee on A bill (S. 1973) authorizing an appropriation for construc Pensions. tion and installation of permanent buildings, utilities, and By Mr. DILL: appurtenances at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.; to the Com A bill (S. 1948) to provide for the immediate payment to mittee on Military Affairs. veterans of the amount of their adjusted-service credit; to the By 1\Ir. THOMAS : Committee on Finance. A bill (S. 191-:1: ) . grantin~ an increase of pen,..:ion to G ertrui::le By ~Ir. FLETCHER: G. Abernathe; to the Committee on Pensions. A bill ( S. 1949) to amend the interstate commerce act, as By Mr. WAGNER: amended ; to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. A bill (S. 1975) granting a pension to Marion :\Iiller Knob By Mr. RANSDELL: lock ; to the Committre on Pensions. A bill (S. 1950) for the relief of the legal representati-ves of A bill ( S. 1976) for the appointment of an additional cir the estate of Alphonse Desmare, deceased, and others; cuit judge for the second judicial circuit; and 800 CONGR.ESSION ~t\_L RECORD-SEX.A .TE DECE}IBER 19 A bill ( S. 1977) to provide for the appointment of th1·ee to employ a stenographer, at a cost not to exceed 25 cents per 100 additional judges of the District Court of the United States words, to report such bearings as may be had in connection with any for the Southern Dish·ict of Xew York; to the Committee on subject which may be before said committee, the expenses thereof to the Judiciary. be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate; and that the commit A. blll (S. 1978) for the relief of Agfa Raw Film Coi-pora- tee, or any subcommittee thereof, may sit during the sessions or re tion; cesses of the Senate. A. bill (S. 1979) for the relief of the Union SWpping & HEARL,GS BEFORE 'IHE COMMI'ITEE ON I:ll:MIOR.ATIO"N Trading Co. (Ltd.) ; :\lr.• TOIL~SON submitted the following resolution (S. Res. A. bill ( S. 1980) to reimburse the :Mexican Gulf Oil Co. for 87), which wa referred to the Committee to Audit and Control eost of repairing certain damages a~ a ref:ult of negligent navi the Contingent Expenses of the Senate: gation of the U. S. S. Hal-'ley; and .A. bill (S. 1981) for the relief of the owner of Dry Dock No. Resolved, That the Committee on Immigration, or any subcommittee 6; to the Committee on Claims. thereof, be, and bersby is, authorized during the Seventieth Congt·ess By Yr. SHIPSTEAD: to .·end for persons, books, and papers, to administer oaths, and to em .A joint resolution ( S. J. Res. 55) for the relief of Henry A. ploy a stenographer, at a cost not to exceed 25 cents per 100 words, to Bellows; to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. report such hearing~> as may be had in connection wltb any subject which may be before said committee, the e1:penses thereof to be paid LIMITATION 'IO TWO PRESIDEN'ITAL 'IERMS out of the contingent fund ot the Senate, and that the committee, or I Mr. DILL. I introduce a joint resolution and a:::;k that it ue any subcommittee therrof, may sit during the sessions or recess of the read. Senate. The joint re. olution (S. J. Res. 54) limiting the term of HEARIXGS BEFORE THE COMYITIEE 0~ BANKil'iG AND C"C'"RREKCY President to eight ye..'ll' · was read the fi~t time by its title, and the second time at length, and referrecr to the Committee Mr. NORBECK submitted the following resolution ( S. Res. on the Judiciary, as follows: 88), which was referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate: llesolt:ed, etc., That the following amendment be pr·opo_ed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitu Re-~olr;ea, That the Committee on BankiDg and Currency, or any sub tion of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourth· of committee thnt condition of scientific k-nowledge electricity can not l\Ir. NYE. ~Ir. President, I ask unanimous consent that there be economically carried over a wire more than 300 miles. It was impos may be printed in the RECORD an article appearing in the New sible, therefore, to generate electricity at this great steam plant and South, in the issue of .July, 1927, written by the senior Senator carry it into North Carolina, 800 miles away. But fires were kindled in from Nebraska [Mr. NoRRIS] and entitled "Politics and :Muscle the great furnaces at Muscle Shoals and power was fed into the west Shoals." side of the Alabama Power Co.'s system. The Alabama Power Co. was There being no objection, the article was ordered to be able, from the eastern side of its sy ·tem, to give to the western Georgia printe
XEEPr~"G Ot;T OF. POLITICS Mrs. Cullom had in her home nearly e.ery electrical appliance known 2. Would Go-rernment operation of such a -system as I have above to science. Sh~ swept the floors by el~rtcity. She cooked all of outlined get the entire matter into politics? Let me say first that the h-er meals the year round upon an electric stove. She washed by elec entire matter is already in politics. It has always been in politics. tricity, she iron~d by electricity, she had twice as man-y electric lights Bvery privately owned public utility in the wol'ld is actively engaged in in t~at eight-room cottage as is usually found in simlla.r cottages -in politics. The Power Trust mixes into politics in the election of a the United States. She heated th~ water for the kitchen and bath board o.f aldermen in tlie smallest village in the country. It is in by electricity. In fact, she had in her home what ought to be in the politics in the election of every governor. It is in politics in the elec home of e>ery citizen throughout the Sooth. She paid a priee th~* tion of every Member of the House of Representatives and every is no more tb n ought to be paid by every home owner in the South, Senator. It contributes liberally in every presidential campaign. And and no mQre than would be paid if the natural resources were properly it never expends a cent but what it expects to get back, and actually developed and properly managed. Her bill for electricity for that month does get back with enormous profit on the investment. was $3.55. ln th~ recent ftght over the Boulder Dam bill in the Senate, it is This was not only a great convenience but it was a saving of money. es.timated that the Power Trust spent more than $200,000. Telegrams If Mrs. Cullom bad lived at that time in the city of Washington, the came to many Senators by the hundreds and from States that are Capital of our Nation, her bill for th-e same amount of electricity 2,000 mil~s away fron1 the site of Boulder Dam. They came from repre would have been $28.18. If Mrs. Cullom had lived in Birmingham, sentatives of the Power Trust in little hamlets in Iowa, in Nebraska, Ala., she woul-d have had to pay more than $32. If she had lived in in Kansas, and when these men talk about getting the matter into Nashville, Tenn., she would have pald in excess of $40 for this same politics they are only afraid that it will get out of politics. From my amount of electricity, and if she had lived in some of the towns of study of the question, I believe the only way to take the public utility Florida she would have paid in the neighborhood of $60-but if she matteJ; out of l)()litics is to take it over by the Government, either of bad lived in the States named she would have bad the blessed satis the Nation, the State, or the municipality. faction of kn-owing that some private corporation connected with the "THE PEOPLE'S liONEY. Electric Trust in Wall Street would have b~n the recipient of a large share of her contribution. This blessing was denied Mrs. Cullom. It is -The bill tbat was pending in -om Senate and which lacked only a not denied to the great majority of women who live in the sunnJ few votes of pa sing bad a provision in it whicll, it was agreed by South and who have the benefit of "private initiative." practically all those who have studi~ it, would have coml}letely and And it must be remembered that in all the Canadian rates I have eJfectively taken the entire matter out of the domain of the political given there is an amortization fee. Tbat is, there is included in the arena. prices a fee which in ·30 years Will pay olf the entire invested capitaL What we need, therefore, is to take these matters out of politics. & that the rates are not only paying interest on the money invested It is a busine s mattel' entirely. To take them out of politics we must in the development, not onl-y paying fur the expense of operation and take them away from those who al'e themselves in politics clear up to depreciation, tmt they are likewise ·paying a fee that in 30 years will their necks. The Power Trust never sleep . It has its highly paid leave them with nothing to pay except the expense of maintenance and attorneys and experts, like an army, covering the entire country. operation. Every municipal body of aldermen, eve1·y State legislature, and every In our country, who ever beard of a private utility company amor Congress, are all importuned by these high-salaried men to pull tbeir tizing its capital? Instead of reducing the capital on which consumers chestnuts out of the fire. If they paid their own bills-if they met are expected to pay interest, the clamor and the practl.ce always is their own expenses, I woulu not so bitterly complain. But every to increase it to the limit and to take advantage of every excuse and cent t-hey spend, every time th-ey deceive or bribe a public official, is every opportunity, either fairly or unfairly, to increase capitalization all collected from the very men whose property they are wrongfully and thus indirectly increase profits. taking away and whom they are attempting to deceive. In addition to this army, the Power Trust b-as employed numberless CHEAP POWER FOR li'A1UIERS publicity experu. They are men of gTeat ability and who command .And the Province of Ontario bas not forgotten the farmer. To begin the highest of salaries. They ''"-rite newspaper articles and editorials. with, it must be admitted that it costs more to get electricity to the They write magazine articles, and they write books based upon false farmer than it does to the home in the city. This comes about because t~ories and deceptive propaganda. Sometimes directly, but more often of the extra cost of distribution. There may be even less than a dozen indirectly, they control the owners and publishers of magazines and farmers to a mile of transmission line, but in the city there are several newspapers. They spread their literature, based upon half truths, dozen in every block. - over 'the co.untl-y, through the various new ~ agencies, in order to create The farmers of Ontario, when they saw what wonderful things were a public sentiment in favor of their ownership and operation of the happening in the munieipalities in the way of cheap electricity, de people's property. But . again they Charge up the enormous expeiLSe manded that they be supplied with this modern element of efficiency, of their deceptive practices and collect it out of the very people whom and the Provincial legislature · passed a law supplying the system to they have deceived. the farmers. They are getting tbeir electricity at cost-the same a.s the people of the vi1lage and the city. The rural lines are built upon A CAYADIA~ EXAMPLE the same theory and ·the same principle applies to all alike. The greatest lliu tratlon .in the world of a publicly owned and oper· 'I1:le only difl'erenee is that the Legislature of Ontario, realizing the ated superpower system is in existence in the Province of Ontario, additional expense involved in supplying the farmer with electricity Canada. A publicly owned corporation generates and distributes elec· and also being anxious, as every legislature in our country ts anxious, tricity to the municipalities and to many of the farmers of that to relieve the burdens of agrieulture, provided by law that for rural PrS>vince at actual cost. They have been in operation nearly 20 years, lines, owned by farmers, there should be paid out of the treasury and they have shown results that tartle the imagination. They have one-half of the construction cost of the trani!mlssion lines carrying to fight against the ~arne in.fluences tha.t have brought about the electricity to the farmer organizations. I mention this because some defeat of _ public owner hip and distribution of electricity from the of the propagandists have seized upon this proposition to circulate Tennessee River. through the- United States the report that the production and distri During the last year more than 80 per cent of the domestic con· bution of electricity in Canada is ubsidized from public funds. At a. s.Ufllers of Ontario paid le s than 2 ceuts per kilowatt-hour for their hearing before the Senate Committee on Agriculture one of the pro electricity. More than 80 per cent of the commercial consumers ol' fessors of the State University of Tennessee made this assei'tion. He electricity paid less than 3 cents a kilowatt-hour, and more than 70 made it undoubtedly with perfectly honest intentions, and yet he was per per cent of the power users paid less than $25 per horsepower entirely mistaken in his assertion. year. During the last year the domestic consumers of electricity in There -is no municipal consumer in Ontario that has e-ver been the United States paid an average of 7% cents per kilowatt-hour, relieved by a single penn-y from pnbllc funds. The interest on the and during that same time the domestic consumers of electricity in bonds and the entire co t of the operation have been paid by those Ontario, Canada, paid 1.85 cents per kilowatt-hour. If the people in who consume electricity. Not one cent has the taxpayer ever paid our country had paid the same price during the last year for electricity ou.ts1de of the exception that I have mentioned, which goes entirely to that was charged by the publicly owned system in Ontario, they would the benefit of agriculture. and which, in my judgment, is justified in have saved on their electric-light bills more than $600,000,000. order to relieve agriculture of its extra burdens. The only thing the I bold in my hand as I write the bill of Mrs. J. Cullom, who lives Province does is to lend its credit in the sale of the bonds that are at 250 Victoria Avenue, Toronto, canada, for electricity for one month floated for the installation of the various hydroelectric generating in the year 192.2. Mrs. Cullom is the wife of a laboring man. Her plants and the building of transmh,---sion lines. And that brings to mind home is a modest one of eight rooms, and yet for the month mentioned another advantage that a publicly owned system bas over the privately there was consumed in that home 3.34 kilowatt-hours of electricity. owned system-it can borrow its money for nearly half what the pri· The amount so coiLSumed is sta1.7tling to every American citizen. The vo.te corporation mUBt pay in the way of Interest, and thus the actual or~ina_ry hopse of -eight rooms in our country will consume, on an expense is very materially lessened. av~rage, about 50, and .-ery seldom· more t.J;lan 60, kilowatt-hours in 1!- month. The amount c;:onsurueu will, of course, depend upon the elec WHAT . FARM.S BHO"GLD BE trj.cal appliances in tfu~ home, and this in turn, for all ordinary people I haye before me a photograph of the farm home of Mr. B. L. at least, depends in the main upon the price of the electricity. But Siple, a Canadian citizen who lives in Ontario. He bas 79 acres in his 804 CONGRESSIOXAL REOORD-SEN_A_TE DECEnillER 19 farm, and at the time I visited him he was milking 17 cows by elec coal is used, beeause it is more J)rofitable to utilize the by-product of tricity. He filled his silo by electricity. He ground his feed by elec coal than it is to use water power for the comparatively small amonnt of tricity. He pumped the water by electricity. Every cow in her stall power that is neces~ary. Private parties in our own country using had a bucket of water' within her reach. When she drank the water nitrogen for commercial purpoNes have, ince the war, constructed a in ·the bucket it was automatically filled again. ~r. Siple's barn could number of comparatively large plants for the extraction of nitrogen from be lighted up througlnmt by the pushing of a button. His house was the atmosphere, and in no case are tlley using water power. a beautiful modern cottage, the equal of any in our cities in America. Why, therefore, is it that the country has heen faced with this won There was running water in the kitchen and in the bathroom. Mrs. derful propaganda to deceive the farmers of America by asking tllem to Siple cooked the year around on an electric stove. She had an electric insist that the Congress shall use Dam No. 2 to get nitrogen from the fan in the kitchen. She washed her dishes in water that she heated air! We can use Dam No. 2 and nitrate plant No. 2 and get 40,000 by electricity, The bathroom was supplied with water heated by elec tons of nitrates from the atmosphere every year, but it will be at a tricity, She did her washing. ironing, sweeping, all by electricit y. In cost that, if put into fertilizer, will make it impossible to sell the tact, she had practically all of the modern electrical conveniences fertilizer as cheaply as it can be bought to-day upon the market. known to science to-day. There hnve been two classes that have been instrumental in bringing The installation on this farm of thi;; sy tern of electricity had prac about this propaganua. One is the political demagogue who wanls tically saved Mr. Siple the expense of one hired man and it saved his the farmer's vote and cries aloud that this should be done in the name wife the expense of a hired girl. He paid for tlw entire facilities for of American agriculture. The other is a class of people who are either the year in which I visited him $115.49. L.ike the city man, he paid directly or indirectly representatives of the Power Trust. If they can an amortization fee and also included in this bill an item which, in not have the power themselves, they would like to have the Government 30 years, will pay otl' the entire cal)itnl stock, including the construc use it for some unprofitable, unscientific business so as to keep the power tion of the transmission lines. out of competition and let them continue their stranglehold which Who is there under our flag that would not like to see this condition they now have upon the people of the country. applied to the American farmer'] If the South were to avail itself of WHAT IS 1-'Hl!l ANSWER! the opportunities that are within its reach the time would soon be here when every toiler in the fields throughout the South would have Under these circumstances, what is the sensible thing to do? All the same advantage possessed by this farmer brother in the North. honest citizens who have studied the subject want to cheapen the price of' fertilizer. It is important to ev~ry consumer of food, and the impor D.IPR.I.CTICAL FOR NITIUTE tance of it is increasing every day in the year. What we want is to In connection with Muscle Shoals there remains for discussion the develop a system that will cheapen the production of fertilizer, and when question of fertilizt>r. Whem the original act providing for the develop that system is developed throw it open to anybody who wants to go ment of Muscle Shoals was passed, there were two provisions contained into the business. Therefore the cheapening process can very properly in it that were mandatory. It was provided that all the improvement be done by the Government itself. It is a proper governmental func made at Government expense at Muscle Shoals should forever be oper tion, not for the benefit of the farmer alone but for the benefit of all ated by tbe Government, and that the propel"ty should not be sold or the consumers of our country. The Government has done wonderfully leased for operation to private parties. It was likewise provided that well in this field np to the pre:ent time. Since the war improvements m time of peace the power developed on the Tenne see River at the made by our own Government officials in the fixed-nitrogen research Governm<'nt dam should be used in the extraction or nitrogen from the laboratory have cut the cost of the production of nitrogen practically atmosphere for the ptupose of manufacturing fertilizer for agriculture. in half. Those who are continually harping against Government opf'ration It is quite immaterial whether we take the profit from the sale of ue ~lways calling attention to that part of the original act Which says water power and use it to improve the manufachue of fertilizer or that in time of peace we shall use the power for the manufacture of whether we appropriate the money directly from the Treasury for fertilizer. They never say anything about that provision of the law that purpose. In either case it is the use of governmental funds and which says that the property shall never be sold or leased for operation is entirely justified. It is not at all inappropriate, since we have con by private parties. ceded this great improvement at Muscle Shoals to be dedicated to At the time this law was passed, it was believed by practically every· agriculture in time of pence, that we should use the money we receive body that by the use of cheap power we would be able to extract nitrogen for the building of experimental plants for the manufacture of fer from the air at a price that would materially reduce the cost of tilizer; and when the Government builds these plants it ought to do fertilizer to the farmer. just the same as a private party would do; that is, build a plant that Originally nitrogen was extracted from the atmosphere by what was is the most modern and most efficient known. It would be fooliRh to known as the arc process. It required a great deal of cheap power. go back and use a system that is already outlawed and known to be Later on, the cyanamid method was discovered, requiring much less out of date and inefficient. power. That was about the condition of the knowledge possessed in EXPENSIVE TO SHIP America at the time of the breaking out of . the World War. It was One of the difficulties with fertilizer is that more than 80 per cent of known that the Germans had invented an improvement over the the contents is simply dirt, used as a mixer, and therefore the cyanamid process, known as the Haber process, but the details were freight is one of the big items in the cost. This means that you not understood by the American scientists at the time of the con could not ship fertilizer produced at Muscle Shoals, even if you elimi struction of the plant at Muscle Shoals. The cyanamid procN!S Wl}S well nated the ..:ost entirely, into Missouri or Xebraska and sell it at a understood. Its possibilities were definitely known, and so the Gov reasonable pl'ice. The freight alone would make it prohibitive. If by ernment provided for a large plant at Muscle Shoals, known as nitrate improving the manufacture of fertilizer we can do away with the mix plant No. 2, capable of extracting 40,000 tons of nitrogen from . the ture of worthless material and u e the fertilizer in a concentrated form, atmosphere in a year. Our experts thought that there was a fair much of this objection would disappear. There are many other lines pos ·ibility of their being able to construct a plant that would extract besides the relluction of the cost of the nitrate content of fertiUzer nitrogen from the air by the Haber process, but they were not certain in which tlle Government could well experiment with a view of cheap of it, !llld so it was decided to construct a nitrate plant somewhat ening the process. experimental in its nature, known as nitrate plant ~o. 1, whicll was None of those who voted against turning Dum No. 2 over to the designed to extract nitrogen from the atmosphere by means of the Power Trust bas ever objected to the widest and most liberal program Haber process. But our scientific atlvisers were mistaken as to many devised to improve and cheapen the cost of fertilizer. In fact, those of the elements included in the Haber process, and so that plant, as of us who ha,-e thus contended have been the friends of the farmet· far as the machinery was concerned, was a total loss. The building and have tried, so far in vain, to divide this question into its ele can be used for other purposes. It is modern, well constructed, and mental parts and clear it of the deception and the misnnderslanuing supplied with a steam plant of about 5,000 horsepower which is modern that many honest people have with reference to it. The delay in ex in every way. perimentation and the cheapening of fertilizer production can be W'hen the war ended, scientists soon learned what the Germans knew charged directly to those who have foolishly and stubbornly stood in and which they bad greatly improved during the war. and it was the way of a proper settlement of this Muscle Shoals question. The then possible to construct a plant along more modern lines. From that special interests have been engaged from the very beginning in an un day to this, scientific men have improved the Habet• process. In every truthful and unfair propaganda to deceive and to fool tbe American improvement made less and less power was used until at the present farmer, when, as a matter of fact, they themselves constitute the prin time it is definitely known that in the construction of up-to-date plants cipal barrier between agriculture and cheap fertilizer. to extract nitrogen from tlle air, water power will not be used. Instead I believe that the time is not far distant when the A-merican farmer of locating a nitrate plant in the vicinity of water power, anyone de will l'ealize where his interest lies, and when the American consumer signing such a plant to-day would locate it with a new of getting will likewise realize that his interest and the interest of the farmer are cheap coal instead of cheap power. With this knowledge no efficient identical. Let us hope, therefore, that the time Will soon eome when government or private corporation would think of using water power we can truthfully say to this deceived and misled but hon,est citizen for the · purpose of extracting nitrogen from the air. · Ill" ever1 case ship, "Ye shall k..t10·w thi:! truth, lind the truth will set you free." 1927 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 805
ARTICLE ON "PAPER WEIGHTS .AND MEMORIES," BY FORMER G(}VElt~OR ing rods, and the.~ whe.els transmitted the power to the rear wheels HEYW .ARD, OF SOUTH CAROLINA, A1""D A~ ARilc;LE FROM . THE by connecting rod very . imila1· to those in use on our present-day . WASHINGTON STAR locomotives. The " Be t Friend " was of such construction and steam ing capacity that it wa neces ary to get a full bead of steam on the · 1\lr. BLEASE. Mr. Pn~sident, I ask lea\e to have printed in the RECORD an article by former Gov. Duncan Clinch Heyward, boiler and run the engine until this wa.s exhausted and then get up of South Carolina., and an article from yesterday·s Washington another head of team and start out again. The steam capacity of the boiler had therefore to be carefully considered in making up the sched Star, and at the same time t;o. present to you a paper weight in the form of a railroad train which was ent tt> me at my ule-s of the arly trains. The "Best Friend ' carried no cowcatcher. Perhaps one was not I'eque~t by President Harrison, of the Southern Railway, to be pre.:ented to you. necessary, for the cattle in the low country those days were small, The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, it is so ordered. crawny, and very agile, and no doubt could outrun the train. Neither did it carry a bell or whistle. The omission of the latter, I am quite The matter referred to is as follows: sure, was a mistake, and also a great misfortune to the people of ARTICLE BY 00\ERXOR HE1:'WARD Charle ·ton, for I well recall that when the first railroad was built to I nm rich in paper weights which now . lie on my desk as I write. Walterboro, my old hom , e-very morning a half hour before leaving time That is to say, I have two paper weights which are rich in historic the engineer blew a five-minute blast on his whistle., which not only value. One of these weights is very plain and simple, of bottle green aroused the citizens but woke them with the happy consciousness that glass. For years it was used by Gen. Robert E. Lee, and if it could. at la t they had a railroad. Those of us who daily took the train used but speak it would be able to tell many intere ting Rtories. General to consider this blast of the whistle a most considerate attention on Lee used it in his tent during the Confederate War to keep the Vir the pint of the railroad company, for it removed the necessity of our ginia breezes, blowing over its now famous battle fields, from carrying trying to tay awake for hom to keep the alarm clock from going off away his army order and other papers. After his death the weight and waking up the childre.n. was used by his eldest son, Gen. G. W. C. Lee, who, when be reth·ed To the fore-sight, the energy, and the business ability of the leading from the pre~idency of Washington and Lee University, gave it to men of Charl~ston is due the credit of undertaking the building of the me, and on a card wrote its history. Charleston & Hamburg Railroad. They were the pioneer railroad build The other paper weight, of gun metal, was kindly sent me ()nly a ers of the world. Even in those early times they bad a great vision. short time ago by another Virginian, Mr. Fairfax Harrison, pr~sident They knew that the Almighty had given them the finest harbor between of the Southern Railway. It is a facsimi1e in miniature of the first Xew York and New Orleans, and they realized that to bu-ild up their engine and train which operated on what at that time--nearly 100 city and State they mu t have e..'\:ports as well as imports; that a com years ago--wa the first long railroad line in th~ world. Though the merce which was one-sided could not expand. 'l'bey saw, too, that engine was very small and very crude and the cars likewise, it was Charleston was the natural port whieh the then increasing products of the genesis of the great railroad development of the United States. The the West should seek, and through which they sllould .be carried to the con truction of this railroad and the running of this train was an markets of the world. The building of. this railroad heading toward the event in the history of our country second only in importance perhaps sunset was the first step they took to make their d.l·eam of Charleston, to the establishment of the Republic. It should make South Caro the chief seaport on the South Atlantic, a reality. linians very proud to remember that every mile of that early railroad The little town of Hamburg was never their ultimate goal. Their con lay entirely within the confines of their State, and eTery dollar with ception was a great system of railroads which should connect the trade which it was built was subscribed in South Carolina, principally by of the Ohio River with the great valley of the Tennessee, and thence the city of Charleston. through the Southem States, and its outlet to Europe through the port The Charleston & Hamburg Railroad, as it was fir t called, began of Charleston. This vision of the men of Charleston was soon caught by operating a train on Christmas day, 1830, and within three years the the people of Qeorgia, and immediately upon the completion of the South entire line of 136 miles from Charleston to Hamburg, on the Savannah Carolina railroad, the Georgia Railroad, f1·om Augusta to Atlanta, was River, opposite Augusta, Ga., was completed. It is true that the Balti chartered and soon completed. Other connecting lines of railroad . till more & Ohio Railroad had commenced the construction of its road leading westward toward the Ohio were shortly under construction, and a ·hort time before the South Carolina railroad began to build, but the South was leading all other sections of the country in railroad had built only 6 miles. It made such slow progress that when our building, until in 1857 the Memphis & Charleston Railroad was com road was completed to Hamburg only 70 mJ.res of its line from Balti pleted, and the dream of Charle ton seemed to have come true. more was constructed and in operation. From all accounts there must have been great rejoicing in the ctty of. The little engine of my paper weight, named the "Best Friend," which Charleston when they learned that the last spike in this railroad had pulled the first train of cars from Line Street in Charleston, had t.he di - been driven. I believe that if eYer the staid, dignified citizens of that tinction of being the first practical locomotive built in this country. It city might have been disposed to follow the shocking suggestion made was designed by a Charleston man; E. L. :Miller, and built at the We ·t se,·eral year ago by a newly acquired go-getting secretary of their Point Fotmdry in New York City. Not until 18 months later did the chamber of commerce that "promptly .on the stroke of 12 o'clock they Baltimore & Ohio Railroad have a regular locomoj:ive in operation. hould with one accord rush from their offices and homes, and with a I have seen an old picture of the "Best F1·iend" pulling thi first " Ilip! Hip ! Hlll'rab! " giYe three cheers for Charleston, it would have train on the Charleston & Hamburg Railroad and, with one exception, been on that eventful day. · my paper weight is identical with this picture, and that exception i But all the cheering and rejoicing was not confined to Cha.rieston; this: The tender of the " Best Friend " on the paper weight is heaped )Iemphis also cheered and rejoiced, and insisted that the council of up with cordwood and carries also three ba.rrels of water for the Charleston, and as many of it prominent citizens as could come, should boiler, whereas in the picture a small cannon and three soldiers with journey by rail to Memphis, and that there should be a great joint high top hats, one waving a 1:Inited States tlag, ride on the tender. celebration. They went-the entire council, headed by the mayor, Thi difference first puzzled me, but I have since learned that January together with 112 of Charleston's most prominent citizens. 15, 1831, an excursion trip was made from Charleston, carrying pas The Charlestonians took with them on this occasion 50 members of sengers. Of course this was a great occasion, and hence the soldiers, the old Phoenix fu•e company anu their famous engine, the "Old Betsy." the cannon, and the waving flag. They carried also two hogshead of water from the Atlantic, which with On the 1·eturn trip the train must have backed into Charleston, for " Old Betsy " figured prominently in the celebration. A most intei·est the railroad had only one engine, and if so, it probably made equally as ing article in the Sunday ~ews of Charleston, written by William G. fast time as when it went forward, for that day it bad the wind with it. :Uazyck, gives an account of the royal manner in which the people of The old picture shows black smoke pouring out of the smokestack, and Tenne. see treated the Charlestonians on their arrival. The whole city the direction the smoke takes and also that of the outstretched flag turned out to extend a welcome. Thou~ands came from several States. shows that a strong not·thwesterly wind was blowing. Jo doubt the There was cannon firing galore, and the enthusiasm was unboun(]ed. picture represents the little train just as it stood at Line Street on that There was also a. great parade in which the Phoenix fire company gala day. held the post of honor, and there was a splendid "dress ball." During It is very interesting to contrast this little engine of nearly a century the day a unique ceremony was held, in which " Old Betsy" played a ago with one of the great locomotives used on our railroa(ls to-Cay. con picuous part. In tbe presence of thousands a command was_ given, In the facsimile of the " Best Friend" tile engineer stands on the ihe Charleston firemen got into action, and "Old Betsy" got busy with front of the engine and controls the valve motion of his engine by bancl the hogsbeadN of water which they had brought. A.s an account written Both engineer and fireman are exposed to the weather, for the cab had at the time says: "Soon the pellucid water of the .Atlantic rose from our Jlot then come into use. The fireman is ·ho~-n standing in front of the plPP.' like a jet from a fountain. high into mid-air, and fell in sparkling upright boiler. Besides feeding fuel into the furnace under the boiler, drop;: a shower of diamonds, into the bosom of the turbid and majestic it was evidently his job to control the steam pressure by an old type ~issi<-sippi, amiu the (]pafening .·bouts of the assembled multitude." safety valve which bad a long lever, and by moving thi back and forth Th n it was that Mayor Douglas, of Memphis, placed a gold ring on the its weight caused variation in steam to any amount at the ·time required. fiugrr of :\Ia~·or ::l.Ifies, of Charleston, and solemnly pronounced, " What Tbe engine ·tran mltted its power to the front wheel by in ide connect- ·this great people hath joined together iet nothing put asunder." 806 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE DECEMBER 19
The festivities wound up with a most magnificent banquet, which, ALLEGED MEXICAN PROPAGANDA-PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS judging from the menu, " printed on dainty lace-edged paper," must Mr. HOWELL. 1\Ir. President, I ask unanimous consent that have taken the guests as long to dispose of as it had taken them to an open letter by my colleague, the senior Senator from Ne make the trip from Charleston. If such a dinner were given in New braska [Mr. Noruus], to William R. Hearst, which I send to the York these days, it would cost nearly as much as it cost the Memphis & desk, be read by the clerk. Charleston Railroad to build its line. And the " Best Friend " started The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, the clerk will it all. read as requested. At that time the hopes of Charleston and the South ran high. They The Chief Clerk read as follows : were leading in the industrial development of the Nation, but in four years came secession, and their hopes of industrial supremacy '\'"anished AN OPEN LETTER FROM SENATOR NORRIS TO WILLI.AM R. HEARST amid the smoke of contending armies. The war ending, the South was To William Randolph Hearst: prostrate. It was conquered territory and was long treated as such. A fair analysis of the recent articles published in the Hearst papers The years of war had brought, among other things, a startling change showing an alleged attempt by Mexican officials to bribe United States in the value of its property. When the war commenced the South Senators and editors of various publications, and an analysis of your owned nearly 40 per cent of the entire value of property in the United testimony before the Senate committee, leads to the inevitable conclu States, and five years after the war ended they owned scarcely 15 per sion that you are not only unfair and dishonest but that you are cent. It is hard for us to realize to-day that in 1860 the South in the entirely without honor. value of its property exceeded New England and the Middle States These articles show, on their face, a constant attempt to draw con combined. clusions not justified from the articles thems~ves, and to practice But the dream of the bold railroad builders of the old South, their deception upon the American people. far-seeing plans for the eJ..-pan ion of commerce through their ports, It is not necessary to consider any other evidence in order to reach was not destroyed but only retarded by the war and is now year by the fair conclusion that in them you are making an attempt not only year being realized. Great railroad systems to-day traverse the South's to besmirch the character of some of our own officials and journalists entire territory, and the products of its fields and mines, together with but that you are trying to excite an animosity and a hatred on the the greatly increasing output of manufactories, find ready transporta part of our people against the Mexican Government, which, if your tion to the markets. The railroad over which the " Best Friend " articles and alleged official documents were true, would inevitably lead pulled its little train nearly 100 years ago is now a part of the Southern to war between the two countries. Railway, one of the greatest railroad systems or these times, and one Your attempt to shield yourself from blame by not publishing the whose every effort from its organization has been to upbuild that section names of the four Senators and the editors alleged to be implicated, of our common country whose name it has adopted as its own. when properly analyzed, only shows the maliciousness of your attack and adds to the dishonor of your motive. You publish the alleged [F ·om the Sunday Star, Washington, D. C., December 18, 1927] official documents with the names omitted and, at the same time, state 1 that you stand ready and Willing to deliver the original documents to CAPITAL SIDE LIGHTS any Senate committee that may be appointed to make an investigation. With the "triangle purchase bill" coming up for consideration in the You know that the publication of these charges, with the names House to-morrow, which includes authority to acquire the site of the omitted, must inevitably lead to the appointment of an investigating Southern Railway Building, comes a reminder, through the gift of a committee, and that, therefore, the names which you have concealed paper weight to Vice President Dawes, that the pioneer line of the were bOund to be published and that, in fact, the very withholding of Southern Railway is approaching its centenary. This paper weight the names added to the curiosity and to the interest of an invootigation. was presented by Fairfax Harrison, president of the Southern Railway, WHY THE NAMES WEllE OMITTED with Senator COLE BLEASE making the speech. It is a gun-metal facsimile in miniature of the first engine and You knew, therefore, to begin with, that the action you had taken train that operated on what, at that time, nearly 100 years ago, was the would bring about the publication of the names and you can not, in first long railroad line in the world. Though the engine was very ordinary honesty, shield yourself or excuse yourself for the failure to small and very crude and the cars likewise, it was the genesis of the give publicity to the names in the beginning. great railroad development of the United States. The construction of 1\foreover, if these allegations are true, there is no reason why the this railroad and the running of this train was an event in the his identity of the individual Senators should be suppressed. tory of o-p.r country second only in importance, perhaps, to the estab Your testimony shows the reason why you suppressed them. You te ·tified, in part, as follows : lishment of the Republic. The Charleston & Hamburg Railroad, as it was first called, began Q.. Did you investigate whether mom•y had been actually paid to operating a train on Christmas Day, 1830, and within three years the United States Senators? A. No, sir; we didn·t. entire line of 136 miles, from Charleston to Hamburg, ou the Savannah River, opposite Augusta, Ga., was completed. It is true that the Bal Q.. Did you go to the Senators mentioned and ask them? timore & Ohio Railroad had commenced the construction of its road A. No; we could not without revealing the contents. a short time before the South Carolina railroad began to build but Q. Have you any evidence that any Senator received any such money as mentioned here? had built only 6 miles. When the Southern road was completed to Hamburg only 70 miles of its line from Baltimore was constructed and A. No. In fact, I do not believe they did receive any money. in operation. Q.. Have you ever heard of any evidence to sustain such a charge? The little engine of the paper weight, named the Best Friend, which A. No ; I do not believe the charge. • • pulled the first train of cars from Line Street in Charleston, had the Q. Did you consider the liabilities for the libel you might be sub- jected to? distinction of being the first practical locomotive built in this country. It was designed by a Charleston man, E. L. Miller, and built at the A. Yes; I guess so. West Point Foundry in New York City. Q. You bad that liabilitv in mind when you did not u ·e the names? A. Probably. In the facsimile of the Best Friend the engineer stands on the front of the engine and controls the valve motion of his engine by hand. THE HERALD'S HEADLIXE Both engineer and fireman are exposed to the weather, for the cab If you wanted to be perfectly honest with these Senators, why did had not then come into use. The fireman is shown standing in front yon not state when the articles were published that you had no evidence of the upright boiler. Besides feeding fuel into the furnace under the that any of these Senators were guilty, and that you did not believe boiler, it was evidently his job to control the steam pressure by an any of the charges against them? You gave no such intimation to the old-type safety valve which had a long lever, and by moving this back country until you were faced with the question on the witness stand. and fot·th its weight caused variation in steam to any amount In fact, on December 9, 1927, when the Hearst papers first published at the time required. The engine transmitted its power to the this alleged order giving the money to four United States Senators, front wheels by inside connecting rods, and these wheels trans there was spread clear across the front page of the Washington Herald mitted the power to the rear wheels by connecting rods very this re]Darkable statement : similar to those in use on our present-day locomotives. · The Best "$1_,215,000 ORDEBED PAID TO FOUB SENATORS BY MEXICO-" Friend was of such construction and steaming capacity that it was You have admitted before the committee that, in your judgment, the necessary. to get a full head of steam on the boiler and run the engine Senators were entirely innocent. Why, then, did you permit your until this was exhausted and then get up another head of steam and papers to publish such misleading and damaging headlines and why start out again. The steam capacity of the boiler had therefore to were you silent during all the time from December 9 until you appeared be carefully coiLSidered in making up the schedules of the early trains. on the witness stand on December 15? The Best Friend carried no cowcatcher. Perhaps one was not neces sary, for the cattle in the low country those days were small, scrawny, PROVES LACK OF CONFlDENCJll and very agile, and no doubt could outrun the train. Neither did it The real reason why you pursued this course was to save yourself carry a bell or whistle. from a libel suit, and the fact that you took this course shows that 1927 CONGRESSI ONAL R.ECORD- SEN.A.. TE 807
')' OO, som·self, did not have confidence in the genninene. s of tbe. docu YO,'ED ONLY BY MOXEY ment you were publishing, because, if they were ~nuine, you ran no You knew this statement was false when it was published, anu its ri k in · their publication. Your admi sion tbat in taking this course only object could have been to deceive the .American pe<>ple and to try you had in mind _the saving of yourself from
INVESTIGATION OF PUBLIC-UTILITY CORPORATIONS "billion dollars a year. There are· securities being issued by these corpqrations aggregating nearly three times that sum, or The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the following $1,500,000,000. The me.rgers which are taking place have given re::;olution (S. Res. 83), submitted by Mr. WALSH of Montana, rise to widespread concern. As an appendix to my remarks on the 17th instant, coming over from a previous day: made last s_pring there was included a. table, furnished by the Resolv ed, That a committee of five Members of the Senate be ap Electrical World, showing the appalling number of· mergers pointed by the P resident thereof, and be hereby empowered and directed and purchases made by the great group of holders of public to inquire into and report upon: (1) The growth of the capital assets utilities secUI'ities in operating companies. The list for the two and capitnl liabilities of 'public-utility corporations supplying either elec years embraces printed pages to the number of something like trical energy in the form of power or light, or both, however produced, 30 or 35. Rapidly the operating companies throughout the or gas, natural or artificial, of corporations holding the stocks of such country a.re passing into the control of half a dozen great public-ut ility -corporations, and of non-public-utility corpor.ations owned groups through holding companies and other devices. The or controlled by or affiliated with such holding companies; (:!) the attention of the country was directed to some of the perils method of issuing, the price realized. or value received, the commissions involved . in. this great movement in a. series of articles by or bonuses paid or received, and ot her pertinent facts with respect to Professor Ripley, of Yale, appearing something like a year ago t he various security issues of all clas:;es of corporations herein named, and since published, with additions thereto in a book by him including the bonds and other evidences of indebtedness thereof, as well entitled "Main Street and Wall Street." ' as the stocks of the same ; (3 ) the extent to which holding companies or Everybody concedes,- Mr. President, that there are advan their stockholders control or are financially interested in financial, engi tages accruing by this consolidation. Everybody realizes that neering, construction, and/ or management corporations, and the rela the needs of the country for further development are growing tion, one to the other, of the classes of corporations last named, the a.nd constantly increasing, that in a ·certain way this is a mit holding companies and the public-utility corporations ; ( 4 ) the services ural growth; but that it is attended by many abuses .is conceded furnished to public-utility corporations by holding companies and/ or upon all hands; a.nd the question arises as to what ought to be their associated, affiliated, and/ or subsidiary companies, the fees, com done, if anything ought to be done, about the matter. I shall missions, bonuses, or other charges made therefor, and the earnings and content myself, l\Ir. President, at this time with simply callincr expenses of such holding companies and their associated, affiliated, and/ attention to the demand which has come up from the country or subsidiary companies; and (5) the value or detriment to the public for the proposed investigation. That it is dE>sirable, if not of holding companies owning the stock or otherwise controlling such entirely necessary, is conceded by the industry itself, for which, public-utility corporations immediately or remotely, with the extent of I think, the Electrical World may be regarded as speaking. It such ownership or control, and particularly what legislation, if any, does not object to an investigation; it merely wants an im·esti should be enacted by Congress to correct any abuses that may exist in gation that is not prompted by political motives, conducted by the organization or operation of such holding companies. some one. who has "a. lightning rod " out. Its views concerning The committee is further empowered and directed to inquire and the matter are expressed in an editorial, a. portion of which I report whether, and to what extent, such corporations or any of the should like to have read by the clerk. officers thereof or anyone in their behalf or in behall of any organization The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, the clerk will of which any such corporation may be a member, through the expendi read. a.s req nested. ture of money or through the control of the avenues of publicity have The Chief Clerk read a.s follow-s : made any, and what effort to influence or control public opinion on account of municipal or public ownership of the means by which power Although Congress will . not assemble for three months, the air _is is developed and electrical energy is generated and distributed, or to already rife with rumors of contemplated legislation of interest to the electrical. industry. Muscle Shoals and the Colorado River, it may be influence or control elections. That the said committee is hereby author~ed to sit and perform its taken for granted, wm come up for discussion, · but whether definite duties at such times and places as it deems necessary or proper, and action will follow only a rash prophet will predict. What is most to to require the attendance of witnesses by subpamas or otherwise; to be feared from Washington this session, however, is the threatened require the production of books, papers, and documents ; and to employ investigation of electric light and power companies, and particularly counsel, expertB, and other assistants and stenographers, at_ a cost not holding companies, by a senatorial committee headed by Senator WALSH exceeding '$1.25 per printed page. The chairman of the committee, or of Montana. Not necessarily because of any shortcomings of the elec ·any member thereof, may administer oaths to witnesses and sign sub tric light and power industry as a whole, for it has an admirable rec pamas for witnesses ; and every person duly summoned before said ord, but because of the detrimental effect · ot the publicity on the committee, or any subcommittee thereof, who refuses or· fails to obey security market. tlle process of said committee, or appears and refuses to answer ques Next year is presidential year, and there are many aspirants with tions pertinent to said investigation, shall be punished as prescl'ibed by lightning rods down their backs seeking to be struck. To such men law. The expenses of said investigation shall be paid from the con publicity is like a spring of water to the parched earth. It is unfor tingent fund of the Senate on vouchers of the committee or subcom tunate that investigations of this kind may be started on whims and mittee signed by the chairman and approved by the Commjttee to Audit that the motives back of them are not always above suspicion ; but if and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. an investigation is to come, it might as well come now, when the elec The committee, or any subcommittee thereof, is authorized to sit dur tric light and power industry can best stand it. The findings may be ing the sessions or the recesses of the Senate, nnd until otherwise an agreeable surprise or a heavy shoc;k; yet the industry may make up ordered by the Senate. its mind that the inquiry will not seek to advertise the accomplishments of electric public utilities, but, on the contrary, to distort and magnify .Mr. MOSES. Mr. President, I move that the resolution be blameworthy actions of a few to the detriment of many. Any exposuxes referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. of wrongdoing will be welcome, for the industry can not purge itself Mr. WALSH of Montana. Mr. Ptesident, as I indicated on too quickly of those who have not its interests, as well as those of its Saturday, I shall object to that procedure. In the first place, patrons uppermost. How to do this without hurting others, however, it is entirely unusual. I dare say there is some precedent for is the great problem. Unfortunately this is not likely to glve any sending a. resolution of t~is character to two committees, but I congressional committee much concern. can not now recall any. Perhaps some other Member of the Senate ca.n. · Mr. FESS. Mr. President, will the Senator from Montana In the second place, as I fulther indicated on Saturday, I yield to me a moment? see no occasion whateve:r for proceeding in that manner. The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from :\Iontana I took occasion, in submitting a resolution in substantially yield to the Senator from Ohio? the same form at the last session, to indicate to the Senate at Mr. WALSH of Montana. Yes: some length my views concerning the necessity for the ~nquiry. l\Ir. FESS. A resolution on this subject was lntroduced at There may be other reasons not adverted to by me. But the the last session and came to the Committee to Audit and Con Senate has ha.d some six or seven months to acquaint itself trol the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, of which I was a with my own belief as the1·ein expressed. If there is a.ny oppo member. Because that committee did not have any latitude sition to the investigation which is suggested by th~ resolution, to go into the matter at all, we thought it would be muell Senators may express themselves concerning it. I think the better if the resolution could be referred to a committee which investigation ought to be ordered and I think the resolution does have some right to go into the merits of the proposition. should be sent without further delay to the Committee to Audit I am rather inclined to look upon the re olution of the Senntor a.nd Control the Contingent EXIJ('nses of the Senate. from Montana with some favor, recognizing, however, that 1\ir. President, it might perhaps be appropriate a.t this time there is a good deal of contingency involved in it. Such a to remind the Senate of some of the more important a.nd salient resolution might do some good, but there might be some danger ,facts to which I invited the attention of the Senate ·in my coming out. of that sort of an investigation.- I did hesitate; address on this subject made last spring. There is now capital however, to report out the resolution to :which I have referred going into this industry to the amount of nearly one-half without having an opportunity to give any consideration to it 1927 COKGR.ESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 811 at all. That was the reason I had hoped that the Senator power, light, and gas companies, with especial reference to the financing, from :Montana might ask to have the resolution referred to merging, re.fl.nancing, and remerglng of these public-utility concerns. some other committee than the Committee to Audit and Con .A few days ago Mr. WALSH announced he would press for this inTesti• trol the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. gation early in the coming session. lir. W .ALSII of Montana. Mr. President, I am endeavoring Senator WALSH has not indicated a line of investigation beyond the in a feeble way to supplement what I said last spring by di ~tribution of electricity and gas and the manner of financing the now giving the Committee to Audit and Conh·ol the Con producing and distributing companies. We know something of the tingent Expenses of the Senate some reasons why that course extent to which mergers have gone in these fields, how smaller com ought to be taken. panies have been absorbed and larger ones made, how the larger com MI-. President, the fear expressed by the Electrical World in panies ha-ve been merged into supercompantes, and bow holding com the article which I have mentioned is - commented unon panies haTe cornered the supercompanies untn the tlotations of securities in an editorial appearing in the Times, of Hartford, Conn., bas become a maze too great for the average mind to comprehend. which seems to think that the investigation is very desirable. Senator WALSH describes these holding company stocks as "staggering I ask that the editorial may be read. in amount." . The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, the clerk will To read some of these merger stories one gets the impression that read, as reque;ted. the h·ansactions are quite apal't from the business of the service com The Chief Clerk read as follows : panies, being me1·ely the operations of stock brokers, bankers, and pro [From th~ Times, Hartford, Conn., Noyember 17, 1927] moters for their own aggrandizement. If this is true, and unquestion ably it is true to some extent, then the extraneous profits made from THE POWER INQUIRY these manipulations come from one of two sources-from tbe consum The interview which Senator THOMAS F. WALSH of Montana gave ers, in excessive rates, or from the public for shares that may be of Con'CSlJondent David Lawrence regarc:f'rng the proposed electric power doubtful value unless the pyramiding process goes on, and it can not investigation is illuminating for the light it sheds on the unce?tuinty go on indefinitely. whfch exists as to just what is going on in the powt>r industry. That When the Goverlllllent authorizes the consolidation of railroads it uncertainty is shared by pretty nearly all who endeavor to arrive at a does not authorize merger on merger, holding t!ompany on holding sound conclusion in their own minds about the desirability OY undesir company; it centralizes the operation of the absorbed system and under· ability of the great num\)er of merger , consolidations, and holding take to make the operation of the lines more serviceable and less companies. costly. The sole purposes are to gain efficiency and economy and in the ::Ur. W .ALSH does not charge that millions have been made illegitimately end cheaper service. Why should power and light and gas companies in t he flotation of securities. He would like to know. So would a good have without challenge the license to make the public service primarily many observers. He is not certain whether overcapitalization will a stock-jobbing instrument? keep rates· up or dividends down, but he believes inquiry is pertinent. IIe does not play a lone band in that particular either. ::Ur. WALSH of Montana. I as~ now, that there may be read The Senator discussed the proposal that the electric industi·y does not a communication which I received from the Tilinois Municipal object to investigation, but does not want to be subject to a "political League, together with a resolution adopted by that organiza inquisition." It has been said before that the industry would like. to be tion. investigated by experts. Such experts would doubtless have to be found The YICE PRESIDE~~. Without objection, the Secretary within the industry itself. They would be tar more likely to sympathize will read. with the ambitions and undertakings of the industry than to find fault The Chief Clerk rf'ad as follows : with its ambitious programs. Experts of any other point of view would IU.INO£S llt:i~I C IPAL LEAG E, not be regarded by the industry as sufficiently qualliied. The country liEA.DQUARTERS OFFICE, might as well have an investigation by Senator WALSH, e>en if the Urbana, lll., .November &?, 19?1. power people were inclined to brand it political, as to go through a Ron. THOMAS J. WALSH, . farce destined from the outset to be a whitewash. Stm.ate Office BuilcHng, TftUihiugton, D. C. Those who think about the pQwer matter at all are t~ng in the MY DEAR SE~ATOR : The nuuois Municipal League has just ti.ll.i 'hed very terms used by, St'nator WALSH. Connecticut has been exJlerienc its fourteenth annual conYention, and among the resolutions passed ing exactly the sort of manipulation which is under discussion. The was resolution No. 7, declaring in favor of your resolution proposing a public utilities commission at this moment is withholding pm·mission for Federal investigation of public-utility financing (see copy of resolution a merger which if granted will enormou ly increase the capital structure inclosed). by which the operations of two local companies are financed. It Inclosed is a copy of our convention program. From it you will note is expected that dividends will be paid on this additional capital, and that the league has u total membership of 370 municipalities, with a there iB no place to secure the funds for that purpose except out of the combined population of over 5,000,000 people, or approximately 70 pockets of those who are obliged to buy gas and electricity from the com per cent of the population of the State of Illinois. panies In question. This is but a single instance. It has been multi· I would appreciate receiving at least a. few extra copies of .rour plied maey times in Connecticut. The concern which bas become the resolution and speech on the investigation of public-utility companie~ power octopus of this State operates in a score or more of Common I note from the newspapers you are planning -on introducing such a wealths. No one who is not on the inside can tell what are the rami resolution on December 6. Perhaps it will be better to wait until fications of its interlocking and relationship with similar corporations this resolution and speech are printed, rather than to send us the equally large or even larget'. No ~ne, comparatively speaking, knows speech and resolution of last February. There was, however, a lot whether this is good or bad, or the extent to which it is bad, if bad at of useful information in your speech of last February, aDd we should :;til. Sooner or later the public interest will require that it be deter at least have a few extra copies of these if they are available. mined and that the electric power . which is being so manipulated shall With best wishes for your success in this investigation, I remain, be used to let a little light in upon the compl,icated manipulations which Cordially yours, are going on. . ·A. D. McLARTY, Secretary. The kind of au investigation to which the electrical industry-the Insults, the Mellons, the U. G. I.'s, and the rest-would submit willingly Resolution of the Illinois Municipal League favoring a Federal would not be worth the powder to give it motive force. There is an investigation · of the financial structure of public-utility companies extreme prol.Jability that such an inquiry as Senator WALSH would con duct, if empowered to conduct one, would do far more good in making Be it resol-ved by the ffiinois .lftlllic-ipal League ill annuaJ conrention understandable that which Il{)W seems so needlessJy and even deliber asse mbled at P eo f·ia; Ill., on Xot'ember 18, 1!J'n, That the illinois Munici ately bewildering than it possibly could do harm. A Senate inquiry pal League favors the resolution of Senator THOMAS J. WALSH of is far less to be frightened at than are the manipulations taking place Montana proposing a Federal inTestigation of the financial structure in the power industry. of public-utility companies, with a view to ascertaining the effect · of such structure upon the rates of such utilities. We fa>or ~~h ii1Ye~ti Mr. \V .ALSH of Montana. Mr. President, I send to the desk gation because we believe many Illinois cities are being faced with an editorial printed in a newspaper publis.hed in another section ever-increasing rates in spite of the efforts of the lllinois Cpmmerce of the country, the Kansas City Star, and ask that it may be Commission. We believe that due to Federal constitutional protection, read. our local and State authoritie~:J are helpless to protect our inhabitants The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, ·the clerk will against unjust and ·extortionate rates for these great public necessities, read. and the League of Cities of Illinois welcomes an invE:>stigation of this The Chi€f Clerk read as follows: subject by the Federal Government. [From the Kansas City_Stm·, Tuesday, July 26, 1927] Mr. . WALSH of Montana. Mr: President, I also ask that TO DIG I!'<'l'O PUBLIC-UTILITY . FINANCING there be incorporated in the RECORD a letter addressed to me by . Near the end of the 1ast session of Congress Senator WALSH of l\Ir. E. B. Stahlman, the editor of tile Nashville Banner; and Montana introduced a resolution providing for the investigation of I ask that there be read from it only the initial paragraph. 812 CONC+RESSION.._t\._L RECORD-SENATE DECEl\IBER 19 The VICE PRESIDEXT. Without objection, it will be so The Tennessean has been significantly silent on this issue up to this ordered. hour. The Chief Olerk read as follows : There are, of cOUl'se, other · collateral and subordinate questio"s NASHVILLE B..l.~XER, whicll should, and the Banner belie-ves will, be handled · b y the Ten Ka8lldlle, Tenn., Nov ember 'i, 19?7. nessee commission efficiently and decided in a manner that will best lion. THO liAS J. W A.LSH, serve the needs of the people ot Tennessee. 1Vasltvngton, D. C. The VICE PRESIDE!\~. Without obje<:tion. tlle entire edi 111': DEAR SENATOR: I am sending under separate cover several mat torial will be printed in the RECORD. ters bearing upon the power situation in this State a;nd section which The entire editorial is as follows : I thought might be of interest and use to you. I am -very heartily [From the Nashville Banner of November 20, 1927] in fa-vor of the investigation into the electrical industry proposed in your resolution, and my paper will earnestly support you in that timely THE THREE ISSUES and patriotic service which you will render to the country. There arc three distinct issues involved in the de,·elopment and use The VICE PRESIDEKT. "\Vithont objection, .the remainder of the water-power resources of Tennes.«eE>. of the letter will be printed in the RECORD. The first question- is this: Is the Federal Go1·ernmcnt clothed with The remainder of the letter is as follows: constitutional authority to make disposition and to control and regulnte tbe utilization of the water-power resources within the boundaries of You have rendered the Nation your debtor in the naval re-serves oil Tennessee, or is that authority vested in the State government, :ml>jcct inquiry; but, important ns was that service, it is scarcely comparable only to the limited jurisdiction of the Federal Government over naviga to that which your in-vestigation into the power industry opens up. tion under the interstate commerce clause of the Federal Constitution? This question is already rapidly coming to the front, and the fight This issue became acute when a power confere11ce was held at which you will make in behalf of the whole business fabric of the Kation Chattanooga in December, 1925, at which time . the powet· combinf· and its political well-being which are directly concerned with the filed application with the Federal Water Power Comm1s>
1927 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 817 Dill Howell McMaster Shipstead tion with respect to the Committee to Audit and Control the Ferris Johnson Neely Swanson Contingent Expenses of the Senate. I think that the Senate Frazier Kendrick Norbeck Wagner either ought to approve of a resolution before it goes to the Gerry King Nye Walsh, Mass. Hayden La Follette Pittman Walsh, Mont. Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Heflin McKellar Sheppard Wheelet• Senate or that a standing committee of the Senate ought to NOT VOTING-18 approve it. Caraway Gooding Reed, Mo. Stephens Mr. FESS. That is my idea. Curtis Harris Reed, Pa. Trammell Mr. KING. So that the work of the Committee to Audit and du Pont Harrison Robinson, Ark. Waterman Fletcher .Tones, N.Mex. Schall Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate would be one of George Norris Smith bookkeeping rather than of investigation. :Mr. FESS. That is my idea very well stated. So the resolution was referred to the Committee on Interstate The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the motion Commerce. - of the Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. MosEs]. FIRST DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS Mr. l\IOSES. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a A message from the House of Representatives, by l\Ir. Halti quorum. gan, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House had The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. passed a concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 11) authorizing a The legislative clerk called the roll, and the following Sena correction in the enrollment of House bill 5800, the first defi tors answered to their names ; ciency appropriation bill, in which the concurrence of the Senate Ashurst Edwards Keyes Sackett was requested. Barkley Ferris King Sheppard Bayard Fess La Follette Shipstead Mr. JONES of Washington. The concurrent resolutio;n which Bingham Fletcher .McKellar Shortridge has just come from the House is the same as one which the Black Frazier McLean Simmons Senate passed a short time ago. I also understand that it is Blaine Gerry McMaster Smoot Blease Gillett McNary Steck v quite important that it should be passed to-day, so that the Borah Glass Mayfield Steiwer clerks may begin the enrollment of the bill. As the Senator Bratton Gofl' Metcalf Swanson from Wyoming [Mr. WARREN] is not here at this moment, and Brookhart Gould Moses Thomas Broussard Greene Neely Tydings I am sure would like to have it passed at once, I ask ·for its Bruce Hale Norbeck Tyson immediate consideration. Capper Harrison Nye Wagner The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. WILLIS in the chair). Copeland Hawes Oddie Walsh, Mass. 'l'he Chair lays before the Senate a concurrent resolution from Couzens HHae ym~en Overman Walsh, Mont. Curtis fl Phipps Warren the House of Representatives, which will be read. Dale Howell Pine Watson The concurrent 1·esolution was read, considered by unanimous Deneen Johnson Pittman Wheeler Dill Jones, Wash. Ransdell Willis consent, and agreed to. as follows ; Edge Kendrick Robinson, Ind. Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate co1wurring), The YICE PRESIDENT. Seventy-nine Senators having an Tha.t the Clerk of the House be, and he hereby is, authorized and swered to their names, a quorum is present. The question is directed in the enrollment of H. R. 5800 (70th Cong., 1st sess.), known on the motion of the Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. MosEs] as the first deficiency bill, to insert, on page 38, in line 9 of the to refer the resolution submitted by the Senator.from Montana engrossed biU, after the word "attorneys," the following words: "(their [Mr. WALSH] to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. heirs or their assignees now of record, as their interest may appear)." 1\lr. MOSES and 1\lr. LA FOLLETTE asked for the yeas and nays. G. TOM TAYLOR The yeas and nays were ordered, and the legislative clerk 1\!r. MoKELLAR. 1\lr. President, I ·ask unanimous consent proceeded to call the roll. for the immediate consideration of Senate Resolution 80. 1\lr. FLETCHER (when his name was called). I have a gen Mr. MOSES. . Let it be read. eral pair with the Senator from Delaware [1\lr. DU PONT], who The VICE PHESIDENT. The Senator from Tennessee asks is absent on account of illness. Being unable to obtain a trans unanim.ous consent for the present consideration of a resolution, fer of that pair, I withhold my vote. which will be read for the information of the Senate. Mr. HARRISON (when his name was called). For to-day The legislative clerk read Senate Resolution 80, submitted by and to-morrow I have a pair with the junior Senator from 1\Ir. McKELLAR on the 17th instant, as follows: Colorado [1\Ir. WATERMAN]. As he is not present, I am not Wher eas in 1921 an examination was held by the Civil Service at liberty to vote. If permitted to vote, I should vote "nay." Commission at Memphis, Tenn., for postmaster at that place; and Mr. ROBINSON of Arkansas (when his name was called). I Whereas G. Tom Taylor, then claiming to be a resident of Memphis, am paired with the Senator from Kansas [Mr. CURTIS], and made application and took the examination, but the Civil Service Com therefore withhold my vote. mission declined to certify him as · one of the eligibles ; and 1\lr. WATSON (when his name was called). I have a pair Whereas in 1925 another civil-service examination was held in Mem with the senior Senator from South Carolina [Mr. SMITH]. I phis for postmaster in that place, and the said G. Tom Taylor again have a telegram from him, in which he says that he desires to became an applicant and again was refused a place on the list of three be paired in favor of referring the· Walsh resolution to the eligibles ; and Interstate Commerce Committee. As that is the way I intend Whereas no appointment was made for about a year after said 1925 to vote, I feel free to vote, and vote " yea." examination, because apparently it was not desired by the political The roll call was concluded.. powers that any one of the three eligibles should be appointed postmas Mr. HOWELL. The senior Senator from Nebraska [1\lr. ter; and NoRRis] is detained at home by illness. Whereas the political powers finally induced Mr. Bugg, the third man 1\Ir. BAYARD. I have a general pair with the Senator from on .the list of eligibles, to withdraw his name; and Pennsylvania [Mr. REED]. He is not present, but I am informed Whereas the Civil Service Commission again refused to certify the that if present he would vote as I intend to vote. Therefore I said G. Tom Taylor, but did have a reexamination ronde into his appli feel at liberty to vote on this question, and vote "yea." cation and qualifications; and l\Ir. GERRY. I wish to announce the following pairs: · Whereas the report of the examiners in 1921, in 1925, and in 1926 The Senator from Georgia [Mr. HARRis] with the Senator all showed that the character and reputation of said G. Tom Taylor from Minnesota [Mr. ScHALL] ; and unfitted him for postmaster at Memphis, and held he was not qualified The Senator from New Mexico [Mr. JoNES] with the Senator for postmaster by reason of not possessing the proper character and from Idaho [Mr. GOODING]. fitness ; and - The result was announced-yeas 40, nays 36, as follows: Whereas, notwithstanding these facts and findings of its own exam YEAS-40 iners, the Civil Service Commission on or about the 1st of June, 1927, Bayard Goff Metcalf Simmons placed the said G. Tom Taylor on the list of eligibles by a majority Bingham Gould Moses Smoot vote; and Broussard Greene Oddie Steck Dale Hale Overman Steiwer Whereas the said G. Tom Taylor was at once appointed acting post Deneen .Hawes Phipps Thomas master and took charge of the office ; and Edge Jones, Wash. Pine Tydings Whereas his name was sent in to the Senate for confirmation early Edwards Keyes Ransdell Tyson Fess 1\IcLean Robinson, Ind. Warren in December, 1927 ; and GU1ett Sackett Watson Whereas opposition appearing to the confirmation of G. Tom Taylor Glass ~~~fi~td Shortridge Willis his nomination has been withdrawn; and NAYS-36 · Whereas the said G. Tom Taylor has been continued an acting post Ashurst Blaine Bratton Capper Barkley Blease Brookhart Copeland master at Memphis, notwithstanding his lack of qualifications alll.~ Black Borah Bruce Couzens fitness· as required by the civil service laws: Now therefore be it LXIX-52 818 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE DECEliBER 19 Resolred, That the Committee on Civil Service be, and it is hereby, CONFIRMATIONS ' authorized, o1·dered, and directed to send for persons and papers and , report at the earliest possible day its findings on the following ques· E:cea1ttive 1Wtninations con.firrnea by the Bmwte Decem'ber 19, 1921 tions: DIPLOMATic AND CoNSULAR SERVICE First. ·what were the facts as ascertained by the Civil SerYice Com IDNISTE& RESID~T Al\"'D CONSUL GENERAL TO ETHIOPIA mission as to the character and qualifications and fitness of the said Addison E. Southard, of Kentucky. G. Tom Taylor to be postmaster in Memphis? Second. What reasons actuated the Civil Service Commission in dis· FOREIGN SEBVIOE OFFICERS, CLASS I r egarding the findings of its own examiners and in certifying the said William Dawson. G. Tom Taylor as eligible for po tmaster at Memphis, notwithstanding Glaude I. Dawson. his lack of qualifications and fitness as found by the examiners? MEMBERS FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION Third. That the said committee is authorized to report any other Claude M. Henry. pertinent facts concerning the eligibility of the said G. Tom Taylor for Edward T. Franks. postmaster or as to the action of the CiYil Se1·vice Commission, or any member thereof, in certifying the said G. Tom Taylor as eligible for MEMBER UXITED STATES EMPLOYEES' 0o:MPENSATION COMMISSION postmaster at :Memphis. l\Irs. Bessie Parker Brueggeman. The \~OE PRESIDEJS'T. Is there objection to the present DEPART~T OF COMMERCE con~idPration of the resolution? COMMISSIO~ER OF NAVIGATION :Mr. :MOSES. :Mr. President, there are some recitals in the Arthur J. Tyrer. whereuses about wllich I am not at all certain and upon which STEAMBOAT INSPECTION SERVICE 1 would not want the Senate to go on record immediately. Therefore I will ask the Senator to let the resolution go over John L. Crone and Harry Layfield to be supervising inspectors. until I have l1ad time to make some inquiries and confer with U~ITED STATES PATE.-T OFFICE him. Eugene Landers to be examiner in chief. l\Ir. McKELLAR. I shall be very glad to have that done. UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGES I will say to the Senator that we can take it up to-morrow. J\fr. M:OSES. I will make every effort to get tbe information 'Villiam G. Coleman to oo United States district judge, district between now and to-morrow. of Maryland. Mr. McKELLAR. Very well; we will let it go over, then. Edward J. ~Ioinet to be United States- district judge, eastern Will there be any other session of the Senate before the district of Michigan. bolidays? Frederick H. Bryant to be United States district judge, north- Mr. MOSES. Oh, yes. ern district of New York. · Mr. McKELLAR. Then we will take it up on Wednesday. Frank J. Coleman to be United States distlict judge, southern Mr. :MOSES. Yery well. district of New York. REPORTS OF PUBLIC UTlLITIES FIRST JUDGE, GmcUIT 0oURT, FIRST CmcUIT OF HAWAII Mr. CAPPER. Mr. President, I call up the order offered Alva Edgar Steadman to be first judge, circuit court, first cir on a previous day for the printing of the annual reporls of the cuit of Hawaii. public utilities of the District of Columbia in accordance with CoAST GuARD th practice heretofore followed. Frederick C. Billard to be commandant. 1\Ir. KING. Mr. President, I objected to that order the other Quincy B. Newman to be commander (engineering). da:y. I have no obJection to it now. Robert B. ~<\dams to be engineer in chief (for four years). The YIGE PRESIDENT. The clerk will read the order. COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY The order was read and agreed to, as follows : .AIDF.B Ordered, That tile annual reports of the following-named public George William Lovesee. John Malcolm Baker, jr. utility companies in tile District of Columbia, for the year ending De Lawrence Pinkerton Sowles. Edwin Caleb Baum. cember 31, 1926, heretofore transmitted to the Senate, be printed as a Senate docUinent: JUNIOR HYDROGRAPHIC Al\'D GIOODETIC ENGINEERS Capital Traction Co., Chesapeake & Potomac 'l'elephone Co., George Francis Bartholomew Quinn. George Riley Shelton. town Barge, Dock, Elevator & Railway Co., Potomac Electric Power Co., Bennett Green Jones. Ira Taylor Sanders. Washington Gas Light Co., Georgetown Gas Light Co., Washington Ector Brooks Latham, jr. Charles Roland Bush, jr. Railway & -Electric Co., City and Suburban Railway of Washington, John Bowie, jr. Edward Robert McCarthy. Georgetown & Tennallytown Railway· Co., and Washington Interurban HYDROGRAPHIC AND GEODETIC ENGINEERS Railroad Co. Augustus Peter Ratti lLES AGE FROM THE HOUSE-ENROLLED JOINT RESOLUTION SIGJI Louis A. Round, jr., to be ensign (temporary). INSPECTOR GEJ.\'ERAL'S DEPARTMENT William H. Shea to be commander. William Cannon Rivers to be Inspector General. Arthur G. Morrill to be lieutenant (junior grade). Nathaniel S. Fulford, jr., to be ensign. QUARTERMASTER CORPS Richard L. Horne to be ensign . . William Edward Horton to be assistant to the Quartermaster Clinton P. Kendall to be lieutenant commander (engineering). General. Rutherford B. Lank, jr., to be constructor. ORDNA.!.~CE DEPARTMENT Dale R. Simonson to be constructor. Samuel Hof to be assistant to the Chief of Ordnance. Harold S. Berdine to be lieutenant (junior grade). AIR CORPS Eugene Blake, jr., to be captain. Chester H. Jones to be commander. James Edmond Fechet to be Chief of the Air Corps. Harry C. Howe to be lieutenant (junior grade) (temporary). CORPS OF ENGINEERS Donald D. Hesler to be ensign (temporary). To be second lieutenants Charles H. Bartlett to be ensign (temporary). Hans William Holmer. George Townsend Derby. Robert S. Jackson to be ensign (temporary). Harold Albert Kurstedt. Max Sherred Johnson. Philip H. Scott to be captain. Edward Grow Daly. Lee Bird Washbourne. William F. Towle to be commander. Donald Chamberlin Hawkins. John Robert Crume, jr. Fredel"ick G. Eastman to be ensign (temporary). Theodore Addison Weyher. Charles Albert Harrington. Charles L. Duke to be lieutenant (junior grade) (temporary). Robert Hammiell Naylor. Charles H. McNutt. Kenneth S. Davis to be ensign (temporary). Paul Dunn Charles Berrigan. Herman Walter Schull, jr. APPOINTMENTS IN THE ARMY Henry Gordon Douglas. Gan·ison Holt Davidson. OFFICERS' RESERVE CORPS Joseph Winston Cox, jr. William Henderson Minter. SIG~.A.L CORPS To be genera~ officers To be second lieutenants Edward Lawrence Logan to be major general, reserve, Massa. cbusetts National Guard. Elmer Blair Garland. Charles Brundy Brown. Morris Benham Payne to be major general, reserve, Connecti· Al¥in Louis Pachynski. James Wilson. cut National Guard. Fred 'Vallace Kunesh. George Lucien Richon. Elmore Farrington Austin to be brigadier general, reserve, James Wilson Green, jr. Julius Theodore Flock. New York National Guard. William Perry Pence. Erland Frederick Fish to be brigadier general, reserve, Mas· CAVALRY sachusetts National Guard. To be second lieutenants Irving Andrews Fish to be brigadier general, reserve, Wis John Leonard Hines, jr. Charles Pennoyer Bixel. consin National Guard. Loren Davis Pegg. Howard Auguste Kelly Per- Dudley Jackson Hard to be brigadier general, reserve, Ohio Woodbury Megrew Burgess. rilliat. National Guard. Manuel J os~ Asen ~io. Thomas Frank Trapolino. Erie Davis Luce to be brigadier general, reserve, Minnesota Alexander Macomb .Miller, jr. Henri Anthony Luebbermann. National Guard. William Hamilton Hunter. Ft·ancis Scoon Gardner. · William Swan McLean, jr., to be btigadier general, reserve, Thomas John Hall TrapnelL Leander LaChance Doan. Pennsylvania National Guard. • Raymond Wiley Curtis. Theodore Kalakuka. George Francis O'Connell to be brigadier general, reserve, Edward Pont Mechling. Henry Magruder Zeller, jr. Wisconsin National Guard. · Robert Graham Lowe. Allison Owen to be brigadier general, reserve, Louisiana Na. tiona! Guard. FIELD ARTILLERY John James Phelan to be brigadier general, reserve, New To be second lieutenants York National Guard. George Woodburne Me- Daniel Phipps Miller. Albert Lyman Cox to be a brigadier general, reserve. Gregor, jr. Samuel James Simonton. George Edmund de Schweinitz to be brigadier general, Auxil Cecil Winfield Land. Alex Norwood Williams, jr. iary Reserve . Frederic Joseph Brown. Jeremiah Paul Holland. .William Barclay Parsons to be brigadier general, Auxiliary Maurice Francis Daly. John Mills Sterling. Reserve. Gerald Francis Lillard. Mark Kincaid Lewis, jr. Henry I~wis Stimson to be brigadier general, Auxiliary Francis Cecil Foster. James Francis Collins. Reserve. Laurence Sherman Kuter. Herbert Bryant Kirkpatrick. Clinton Goodloe Edgar to be brigadier general, Signal Corps Fox Brandreth Conner. Harold James Coyle. Reserve. Thomas Morgan Watling- Forester Hampton Sinclair. REGULAR .ARMY ton, jr. Harold Stanley Isaacson. To be genera~ officers Reynolds Condon. Willis Webb Whelchel. Edward Gilbert Fat-rand. Arthur Edwin Solem. Thomas Quinton Donaldson to be major general. Mason Fred Stober. Charlie Wesner. Henry Davis Todd, jr., to be major general. Benjamin Whitehouse. Meredith Donald Masters. Abraham Grant Lott to be brigadier general, Cavalry. Thomas Kessler McManus. Lewis Hinchman Ham. Charles Roscoe Howland to be brigadier general, Infantry. CharlP..s Richard Hutchison. Milton Merrill Towner. Fred Thaddeus Austin to be Chief of Field Artillery. Stanley Burton Bonner. Robert Curtis White. Geot·ge Sabin Gibbs to be Chief Signal Officer. John Milton Burdge, jr. Joseph Ganahl, jr. Edmund Pepperell Easterbrook to be Chief of Chaplains. Bertram Arthur Holtzworta John Marion Moore. PRoMOTIONS IN THE ARMY Frederick Andrew Granho~. Stuart Wood GENERAL OFFICERS COAST ARTILLERY CORPS To be major generals To be 8econd lieutenantg Richmond Pearson Davis. Julian Montgomery West. Harry Forrest Townsend. Edwin Branch Winans. Frederick Everett Day. Virgil Miles Kimm. Joseph Dugalu Leitch. Edwin William Chamberlain. Aloysius Joseph Lepping. Harry Oliver Paxson. Lawrence Edward Shaw. To be b1·igadier generals Henry Joseph Hoeffer. Matthew Kemp Deichelmann. George Columbus Barnhardt. . James Haynes Reeves. George Fenton Peirce. Nathan Alton McLamb. Meriwether Lewis Walker. Walter Cowen Short. Parmer Wiley Edwards. Frank Thomas Ostenberg. George Hairston Jamerson. Frank Sherwood Cocheu. William Lewis McNamee. John Kochevar. Henry James Hatch. Otho Bane Rosenbaum. John Raymond Lovell. Joy Thomas Wrean. Ralph Henry Van Deman. Everett Charles Dunham. John Joseph Holst. James Douglas Curtis.. Guy Ernest Tbrams. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S DEPAR~MB:"iT Joseph Coleman Timberlake. Artbur Roth. Lutz Wahl to be The Adjutant General. Olaf Helgesen Kyster. John Thomas Hopper. Charles Higbee Bridges to be Assistant The Adjutant General. Orrin Leigh Grover. '820 CONGRESSION .A.L RECORD-SEN ATE DECE~ffiER 19 t:Nll'-.LVTR.Y Rex Ivar Hcinlein, jr., to be econd lieutenant, Corps of To be weonr.l lieuteruznt.~t Engineers. _ Robert Kirby Perrine. George Van Horn Moseley, j1·. Frank Alfred Lightfoot .to be second lieutenant, Field Artil- Francis Elliot Hmvard. Roy William Axup. lery. . Kenneth Earl Thiebaud. John Walker Kirby. A.r'!~W~Y~ic-bmond Pitman, jr., to be .,econd lieutenant, Field Willard Bm·tou Carlock. Forrest Anthony Hornisber. George McCoy, jr. .Raymond Earle Bell. George . elman to be . econd lieutenant, Infantry. George Edward Martin. Dudley George Stdckler. Earl Clar ence Bergquist to he second lieutenant, Infantry. Robert Griffith Turner. Dana Powers McGown. Ric-hard Chase to be second lieutenant, Infantry. Euward James Francis Glavin. CharleN Boa! Ewing. Albert Neil Hickey to be .·eeond lieutenant, Infantry. J osep:ti Howard Gilbr:etb. Felix Alex Todd, jr. Ronald Irving Pride to be econd lieutenant, Field Artillery. Horace Alvord Quinn. Barney Av.ant Daughtry. Royce Alison Drnke to be second lieutenant~ Cavalry. Lee Roy William!'l. John Ogden Kilgore. Paul Alfred Disney to be second lieutenant, Ca'\"'alry. Edward Davis McLaughlin. Philip DeWitt Ginde1·. Leo Wi11iam Desrosiers to be second lieutenant, Air Corps. James Virgil Thompson. Ralph Edwin Doty. Go1·don Philip Sa'\"'ille to be second lieutenant, Air Corps. Charles Bernard 0-vet·acker, jr., to be second lieutenant, Air Paul Edwin Schewe. Howell Hopson Jordan. Corps. Walter Morris Jobnson. Robert Frederick Sink. Albert Harvey Dicker. on. Elmer Matthew Webb, jr. George Henry Macnair to be second lieutenant, Air Corps. Orville Melvin Hewitt. John Prame Kaylor. William Barwig Blaufu s to be econd lieutenant, Ah· Corps. Loui. IIoward Foote to be econd lieutenant, Corps of Engi- Arthur Layton Cobb. Christian Gotthard Nel~on. neer. William Jordan Verbeck. Martin Joseph Mo.rin. Fay Roscoe Upthegrove. Gilbert McKee Allen, jr. MEDICAL OORPS William Jefferson Glasgow, jr. Calvin Louis Whittle. To lJe first Uetttenant.'J Charles Bertody Stone, 3d. George Emericus Bender. DonaJd Carl Snyder. Kenneth Gilbert Smith. George E nip, 2d. Jack Henry Griffith. Rawley Ernest Chambers. Ralph Matthews Sloan. Ruby Elde1·idge Hunter. Robert Campbell Aloe. Stanton Knowlton Livingst01 Leonard Dudley Heaton. Ernest GodfTey Schmidt. Montgomery McKee. Thomas Fort Bridges. William Hubert Seale. Ernest Benjamin Gray. David Stuart Loughborougb. Fletcher Emory Ammons. Marion Whitmell Ransone. Douglas Campbell. Nelson Irving Fook. ·. Le ter Maris Dyke. William Riney Craig. William Joseph Phelan. Malcolm Frederick Bauer. William Berry Wilson. Thomas William Ellsworth Carl Sherman Graybeal. Lawton Butler. Henry Bennett La'\"'ery. Christmas. David Morgan Hackman. Marion Huggins. Hru.·old LeRoy Stewart. Edward Herman Theis. Ralph Wise Zwicker. Frederick Funston, jr. Arthur John Redland. Harold Willard Glattly, Woodson Finch Hocker. Martin Mo es. William Foster Burdick. James Pope Gill, jr. James Albemarle Harron. Robert John West, jr. James Bathurst Smith, jr. Francis Elbert Council. William Edgar Thomas. Edgar Daniel Stark. William Lenoir Wilson. John Presly Bachman. Cyril Edward Williams. David Drew Hedekin. Carlton Duncan GoodieL John Buist Chester. Arthur Milner Burghduff, jr. James William Smyly, jr. Frank Wilburn Messer. George Barnard Moore, jr. Joseph Woitkievicz Vincent. Raymund G1·egory Stanton. ·william Mabton James. John Winchester Rich. Robert Martin Woblforth. Neil Bosworth Harding. August Wesley SpittiEU·. Thomas Brown Murphy. Vachel Davis Whatley, jr. Jesse Floyd Dr€s ler. Robert Francis Bradish. Huston J. Bantom. George Edward Lel"ings. Willis Small Matthews. Jacob CharleN Harshbarger. HerTey Burson Porter. Bacry Ellery McKinney. Robert Lewis Easton. Horace Page Marvin. Carl Elliott Lundquist. Henry Malone Bailey. DENTAL OOBPS An tuli o Segarra. Fred Leroy Thorpe. To be first lieutenants Bernard Cecil Rose. William Rapier Francis Guy Stanley Meloy, jr. Bleakney. Kenneth Pearce Fulton. Harold George Ott. .AIR CORPS Leland Stanford Mabry. To be second lieutenru1ts VETERl~.A.RY CORPS Earl Clinton Robbins. Hoyt Leroy Prindle. To be second lieutena-nts Andrew Joseph Kerwin James Franklin Walsh. Malone. George Richard Geer. Charles 'tunkard Greer. Russell Keillor. Forrest Lynne Neville. John Lloyd Owens. Charles Clifford Coppin, jr. Donald Wright Benner. PHILIPPIXE SCOUTS Mark Darrow Stephen John Quincy Adam ~ . Bien\enido l\lobo Alba to be econd lieutenant. Steensen. Harry John Flatequal. APPOINTMENTS BY TRA.NSFERI ..L'D PROMOTIONS IN THE MM.Y Ernest Harold Lawson. . Herman Franklin Woolard. John Edward Bodle. Lawrence Henry Douthit. .APPOL~ENTS BY TRANSFER William Harold Doolittle. George Robert Ache~on. :Adjutant Ge'lleJ-a.l's Depart'ment Russell Scott. · Harry Prime Bi . ell. William White Dick to be captain, Infantry. Burton Murdock Hovey, jr. Keith Ro. coe. William Elbridge Chickering to be captain, Infantry, Richard Eastman Cobb. Frank Hamlet Robinson. Perry Cllle Ragan to be captain, Infantry. Alexander Everett Cabana. Waldine Winston Messmore. Judg6 .Aduocate General's De-pat'tment Dale Davis Fisher. Herbert Melvin ~ewstrom. Henry Weisbrod Dorr. Allen Ralph Springer. Lee Stephen Tillotson to be major, Infantry. Irvin Alberta Woodring. Franklin Calhoun Wolfe. Joel Franklin Watson to be c-aptain, Quartermaster Corps. Cru.·lisle Iverson Ferris. Ford Larimore Fair. Qum·tennaster Corps Elwood Richard Quesada. Ivan Maurice Palmer. Thomas Waples Barnru.·d to be captain, Infantry. Willard Roland Wolfinbarger Harold Frederick Brown. Irwin Samuel Dierking to be captain, Infantry. James Arthur Ellison. Joseph Gerard Hopkins. James Courtney Browne to be first lieutenant, Cavalry. Harold Henry Hunt to be second lieutenant, Field Artillery. Robert Brice J ohnston to be first lieutenant, InfaJ?.try. Joseph Lawrence Dark to be second lieutenant, Infantry. Fina-1t0e De1Jartment Henry Rosser Angell to be ... econd lieutenant, Air Corps. Frank Keith Park to be seeond lieutenant, Air Corps. Horatio Grant Coykendall to be captain, Infantry. Paul Leamon Woodruff to be second lieutenant, Air Corps.. Arthur James Perry to be captain, Infantry. Walter William Gross to be second lieutenant, Air Corps. Lemuel Edwin Ed'\\::trds to be first lieutenant, Quartermaster Joseph George Felber to be second lieutenant, Infantry. Corp. Otto Clyde George to be sec-ond lieutenant, Air Corps. John Fidel is Connell to be first lieutenant, Quartermaster Harold Arthur Wbeaton to be second lieutenant, Air Corps. Corps. J obn H. Jones to be second lieutenant, Air Corps. · Corps of Engineers Gilbert Lorenzo Tefft to be second lieutenant, Air Corps. Warren Nourse Underwood to be second lieutenant, Coast Vera H. Wiseman to be second lieutenant, Infantry. AJ.·tillery Corps. Morris Miller Bauer to be second lieutenant, Corps of Engi Herbert William Ehrgott to be second lieutenant, Field Ar neers. tillery. 1921 CONGRESSIOX.A.L RECORD-SENATE ·821 Ordnamce Departrnent William Saunders Faulkner to be colonel, Infantry. Frank Fenton Reed to be captain, Coast Artillery Corps. Ernest H. Agnew to be colonel, Quartermaster Corps. Garla:Bd Thomas Rowland to be first lieutenant, Infantry. 'Robert Oakes Ragsdale to be colonel, Infantry. Harold Mark Reedall to be first lieutenant, Infantry. Austin Allen Parker to be colonel, Infantry. Fred Van Schaick Chamberlin to be colonel, Infantry. S·ignal Corps Aubrey Lippincott to be colonel, Cavalry. Hamner Huston to be major, Infantry. Robert Christian Humber to be colonel, Infantry. Gordon Cogswell Irwin to be captain, Infantry. George Luther Hicks to be colonel, Adjutant General's Depart· Mark Rhoads to be first lieutenant, Cavalry. ment. Percival Adams Wakeman to be first lieutenant, Infantry. Parker Hitt to be colonel, Infantry. William Holmes Wenstrom to be first lieutenant, Cavalry. Denni · Patrick Quinlan to be colonel, Judge Advocate Gen Ca-valry eral's Department. Thomas Grnfton Hanson, jr., to be captain, Quartermaster Kyle Rucker to be colonel, Judge Advocate General's Depar t- Corps. ment. John O'Day Murtaugh to be second lieutenant, Infantry. Lynn Sawyer Edwards to be colonel, Coast Artillery Corps. Prentice Edward Yeomans to be second lieutenant, Air Corps. Hugh Kirkpatrick Taylor to be colonel, Coast Artillery Corps. 'Villiam Henry Noble to be colonel, Quartermaster Corps. Fie~a At·Ullery Douglas McCaskey to be colonel, Cavalry. . Edward White Wildl'ick to be major, Coast Artillery Corps. Freeborn Page Holcomb to be colonel, Finance Department. Albert Charles Stanford to be captain, Signal Corps. Clenanl McLaughlin to be colonel, Infantry. Ernest Thomas Hayes to be first lieutenant, Infantry. Edward Beall Mitchell to be colonel, Infantry. Roswell Boyle Hart to be first lieutenant, Infantry. James Henry Como to be colonel, QUJirtermaster Corps. Sherman Vitus Hasbrouck to be first lieutenant, Infantry. Harol Dever Coburn to be colonel, Infantry. Esher Claflin Burkart to be first lieutenant, Cavalry. Allen James Greer to be colonel, Field Artillery. Wilbur Ray Pierce to be second lieutenant, Infantry. Robf'rt Whitfield to be colonel, Adjutant General's Depart- William Augustus Davis Thomas to be second lieutenant, ment. . Coast Artillery Co1·ps. James Andrew Mars to be lieutenant colonel, Air C01·ps. James Robert Lindsay, jr., to be second lieutenant, Infantry. Robert l\IOrJ!an L:ron to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. Thomas Clagett Wood to be second lieutenant, Infantry. William Mechling Colvin to be lieutenant colonel, Coast Artil- Arthur Bliss to be se<'ond lieutenant, Infantry. lery Corps. . John Llewellyn Lewis to be second lieutenant, Infantry. Benjamin Edwards Gray to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. Donald Dunford to be second lieutenant, Infantry. Elvid Hunt to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. Julian Henry Baumann to be second lieutenant, Infantry. Dorsey Read Rodney to be lieutenant colonel, Cavalry. William Murlin Creasy, jr., to be second lieutenant, Air Corps. Alexander Mortimer Milton to be lieutenant colonel, Cavalry. Jehu -Prichard Woodblidge to be second lieutenant, Air Cor·ps. Campbell Blackshear Hodges to be lieutenant colonel, In- Gregg Miller Lind ~ ay to be second lieutenant, Air Corps. fantry. Coast At·tillery Corps Jacob Winfield Scott Wuest to be lieutenant colonel, Air Willard Karle Richards to be major, Ordnance Department. Corps. Albert Dewitt Chipman to be captain, Cavalry. Max Bruc-e Garber to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. Rus ·en Thomas George to be captain, Cavalry. Corbit Strickland Hoffman to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. J eEI ·e Knox Freeman to be captain, Infantry. Stephen Wilson Winfree to be lieutenant colonel, Cavalry. Au rt:on Monroe Wilson, jr., to be first lieutenant, Field Arthur Emmett Ahrends to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. Artillery. Charles Franklin Severson to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. John Mitchell England to be second lieutenant, Field Artillery. Harry Surgisson Grier to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. FTederick Cruger Pyne to be second lieutenant, Field Artillery. Charles Beatty Moore to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. John Frederic Powell to be second lieutenant, Field Artillery. Clark Lynn to be lieutenant colonel, Adjutant General's De- William Frederick Niethamer to be second lieutenant, In- partment. fantry. Cornelius Stockmar Bendel to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. Bolger Nelson Toftoy to be second lieutenant, Air Corps. Ben Frazer Ristine to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. Albet't Gilmor to be lieutenant colonel, Coast Artillery Corps. Charles Winchell 1\f~Geehan to be second lieutenant, Air Corps. Henry Lee Hughes to be second lieutenant, Air Corps. Stuart Aill8lee Howard to be lieutenant colouel, Adjutant. Gen- Palil August Jaccard to be second lieutenant, Air Corp . . eral's Department. John Francis Franklin to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. Paul Burnham Nelson to be second lieutenant, Air Corp~. Roland Wallace Boughton to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. Infantry In'ing Monroe Madison to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. David Lamme Stone to be colonel, Quartermaster Corps. Ellery Farmer to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. John Southworth Upham to be lieutenant colonel, Adjutant Everett Newton Bowman to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. General's Department. Homer Neill P1·e ton to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. Joseph James O'Hare to be major, Coast Artillery Corps. Edward Aloysiu::; Brown to be lieutenant colonel, Adjutant J o~iah Ross to be second lieutenant, Air Corps. General's Department. A.i-1· Corps William Franklin Harrell to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. Randolph Piersol Williams to be first lieutenant, Signal Corps. George Edgar Nelson to be lieutenant colonel, Field Artillery. Ralph Francis Stearley to be first lieutenant, Cavalry. JE>s, e Duncan Elliott to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. Charles Dawson McAllister to be first lieutenant, Field Edward Himmelwright Tarbutton to be lieutenant coloneL Artillery. Quartermaster Corps. James Milliken Bevans to be first lieutenant, 'Field Artillery. Carroll Borden Hodges to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. Donald Fowler Fritch to be first lieutenant, Field Artillery. Daniel Murray Cheston, jr., to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. Herbert William Anderson to be second lieutenant, Coast James Madison Churchill to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. Artillery. Luther Rice James to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. George Hinkle Steel to be second lieutenant, Field Artillery. Andrew ·Davis Chaffin to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. WilUam Ewing Baker to be second lieutenant, Infantry. Frederick Wegener Boschen to be lieutenant colonel, Finance Department. BY PROMOTIO~ Louis Fan-ell to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. Harris Pendleton, jr., to be colonel, Infantry. Charles Otto Schudt to be lieutenant colonel, Coa t Artillet·y Howard Gilman Davids to be colonel, Infantry. Corps. Ernest Van Dyke Murphy to be colonel, Infantry. Emmett Addis to be lieutenant colonel, Cavalry. Hilden Olin to be colonel, Finance Department. Harry Lazelle King to be lieutenant colonel, Cantlry. Albert Watson Foreman to be colonel, Infantry. William Franklin Robinson, jr., to be lieutenant colonel, In- Pel'l·in Lindsey Smith to be colonel, Finance Department. fantry. Harry Lawrence Cooper to be colonel, Infantry. John James Burleigh to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. William Stanley Sinclair to be colonel, Infantry. Arthur Gerald Hixson to be lieutenant colonel, Cavalry. Charles Louis Willard to be colonel, Quartermaster Corps. Augustine Aloysius Hofmann to be lieutenant colonel. In- Arthur Pitt Watts to be colonel, Infantry. fantrr. William Arthur Carleton to be colonel, Infantr.y. James Blyth to be lieutenant colonel, Infanh:y. Lochlin Washington Caffey to be colonel, Infantry. · Edwin Gunner to be lieutenant colonel, Quartermaster Corps. 822 CONGRESSIONAL llEC .ORD-S.R_~ATE DECEJ\IBER 19 Resolve Potter Palmer to be lieutenant colonel, Adjutant Gen- William Wallace Jenna robe captain, Infantry. eral'. Department. William Richard Flem::ilng to .be cap~ Infantry. Edward Eugene M(;C.ammon to be lleutenrunt ~olonel, .Infa.nt1·y. Francis Porter Simpso-n bo ·be captain, Infantry. . Paul Calkins Potter to be lieutenant cobmel, Infantry. Arthur Paul Thayer to be major. Ca~Rh·y. Albert Thurston iRich to be lieutenant colonel, Quartenna~ter Emile George De Coen to be major, Field Artillery. Corps. John Boone :Martin to be major, Coast Artillery Corps. David Perry Wood to be lieutenant colonel, Infantry. Paul Joseph 1\lcDomi.eTI ro 1be major, Infantry. . Oharles. Bean A.mo1-y;, jr.. t@ be lieutenant colonel, Cav.alry. Eustis Leland Peland to be major, Infantry. William Eal'l Chambers to be major, Infantry. Paul Hathaway te be maj~·, infantry. Joseph Merit Tully to be maj.or, Oa:v.alry. Ha:rdin Cleveland 'Sweeney to be major, Infantry. James deBru.1:h Walbach to be major, Coast Artillery Corps. Eugene Manuel La-ndrum to be major, Adjutant General's Warner William Carr to be major, Infantry. Department. Hu-gll Mitehell, to be major, Signal Co:rps. Frank Glenister Ringland to be major, ·Oavaky. Robert LeGrow Walsh to be major, Air Corps. John Barber Harper to be major, Finance Department. Richm-d Mar [Jevy to be majox, Ooast Ar:tillery Donald Quitman Harris to be first lieutenant, Field Artillery. Walter Howm·d DeLange to be fir t lieutenant, Field Artillery, John Percy Kennedy, jr., to be first lieutenant, Field .A.I·tillel·y. Robert Kelsey Haskell to be first lieutenant, Field Artillery, Townsenll Griffiss to be first lieutenant, Air Corps. Ralph A.del Snavely to be first lieutenant, Air Corps. William .Andrew Wedemeyer to be fir t lieutenant, Field Claude A.rmenius Thorp to be first lieutenant, Cavalry. Artillery. Rowland Reid Street to be first lieutenant, Infantry. Edwin Carlo Greiner to be first lieutenant, Cavah-y. John Marquiss Whistler to be first lieutenant, Field Artillery. Philip Howard Raymond to be first lieutenant, Coast Artillery James Howard Leusley to be fir t lieutenant, Field Artillery. Corps. William Henry Drummond to be first lieutenant, Field Ar- Oliver Perry N€wman t<> be first lieutenant, Infantry. tillery. Roscoe Gorea :llacDonald to be firt lieutenant, Infantry. "Viking Torsten Ohrbom to be :first lieutenant, Infantry. John Hughes Stodter to be first lieutenant; Cavalry. Glen Trice Lampton to be first lieutenant, Air Corps. Thoma Edwru·d Lewis to be first lieutenant, Field Artillm·y. Howard Miller Fey to be first lieutenant, Air Corps. Stewart Tiffany Yincent to be first lieutenant, Infantry. Robert Boyd Williams to be first lieutenant, Air Corps. Paul Henry ~fahoney to be first lieutenant, Infantry. Francis Rarick Johnson to be first lieutenant, Corps of Engi- James Clyde Fry to be first lieutenant, Infantry. neers. Austin Folger Gilmartin to be first lieutenant, Infantry. Glenn Hunter Palmer to be first lieutenant, Signal Corps. Elbert Kelly to be fir t lieutenant, Infantry. Royal Bertrand Lord to be first lieutenant, Corps of Engi Ore tes Cleveland to be first lieutenant, Infantry. neers. James Harrison Dickie to be first lieutenant, Field Artillery. Kenner Fisher Hertford to be first lieutenant, Corps of Engi Charles Llewellyn G<>rman to be first lieutenant, Quarter- neers. master Corps. Steven Livesay Conner to be first lieutenant, Corps of Engi Joseph Perry Catte to be first lieutenant, Infantry. neer'. Albert Carroll Morgan to be first lieutenant, Infantry. l\Iiles Reber to be :first lieutenant, Corps of Engineers. Perley Bernard Sancornb to be first lieutenant, Cavalry. Charles West Stewart, jr., to be first lieutenant, Corp of John LaValle Graves to be first lieutenant, Field Artillery. Engineers. Herbert William Kruger to be first lieutenant, Field Artillery. William Francis Merwin Longwell to be first lieutenant, Corps William Earl 'Vatters to . be first lieutenant, Field Artillery. of Engineers. Leo Henry Dawson to be first lieutenant, Air Corps. John Rutherford Noyes to be first lieutenant, Corps of Engi Milton John Smith to be first lieutenant, Air Corps. neers. Carl Budd 'Vahle t<> be first lieutenant, Coa t Artillery Corps. Leonard Loyd Hilliard to be first lieuten.ant, Infantry. Lyle Rosenberg to be first lieutenant, Corps of Engineers. Le. ter Vocke to be first lieutenant. Field Artillery. William Randolph Winslow to be first lieutenant, Corps of James Fish, 3d, to be first lieutenant, Infantry. Engineers. John Leon Dicks to be first lieutenant, Infantry. William Newton Leaf to be first lieutenant, Corps of Engi neers. Le~ter ~Iavity Rouch to be fu·st lieutenant, Field Artillery. John On-en Colonna to be first lieutenant, Corps of Engineers. David l\Iorris Dunne, jr., to be :first lieutenant, Corps of Engi Herman William Faii·brother to be first lieutenant, Infantry. neers. Grover Cleveland Kinney to be first lieutenant, Infantry. Frank l\IcAdams Albrecht to be first lieutenant, Co1·ps of Thomas Edward Meyer to be first lieutenant, Field Artillery. Engineers. Thoma ,Jefferson Randolph to be first lieutenant, Cavalry. Theodore Morrison Clarence Osborne to be first lieutenant, Harry Edwin Jla!!Duson to be first lieutenant, Coast Artillei'Y Corps of Engineers. COI'J)f'. Ralph Arnold . Tudor to be fu·st li~utenant, Corps of Engi LaRoy Sanders Graham to be 1irst lieutenant, Infantry. neers. Franci Lavelle Roody to be first lieutenant, Cavalry. Robert Farnsworth Hallock to be first lieutenant, Field David Hottenstein to be first lieutenant, Coast .Artillery Corps. Artillery. George John Kelley to be first lieutenant, Coast Artillery Stuart .Alfred Beckley to be first lieutenant, Field Artillery, Corps. Harold David Kehm to be first lieutenant, Field Artillery. Ray Brooks Floyd to be fu'St lieutenant, Infantry. Philippine Scouts Ray Eugene Marshall to be first lieutenant, Infantry. George Cabell Carrington to be first lieutenant, Infantry. Rafael Larrosa Garcia to be major, Philippine Scouts. Harland Fremont Burgess to be first lieutenant, Infantry. RmmAR AlrnY be Karl Clifford Frank to first lieutenant, Coast Artillery MEDICAL CORPS Corps. Clyde Anderson Burcham to be first lieutenant, Cavalry. To be colonels Walter Raymond Miller to be first lieutenant, Infantry. Jay Ralph Shook. Kent Nelson. Randall James Hogan to be :first lieutenant, Ordnance Depart- Henry Halcolm Rutherford. Peter Conover Field. ment. Ernest Lewis Ruffner. Herbert Goss Shaw. Robert Nicholas Young to be first lieutenant, Infantry. Patrick Henry .McAndrew. Louis Brechemin, jr. James Frederick Phillips to be first lieutenant, Corps of George )lacy Ekwul'Zel. Clement Colfax Whitcomb. Engineers. Carroll Defore~ t Buck. Cosam Julian Bartlett. Douglas Valentine Johnson to be first lieutenant, Field John Howard Allen. Reubep Boyd Miller. Al·tillery. Robert Urie Patterson. James Frank Hall. Frederick Williams Watrous to be first lieutenant, Field Roger Brooke. Raymond Franklin 1\Ietcalfe. Artillery. Wallace De Witt. Perry Lee Boyer. Charles Elford Smith to be first lieutenant, Infantry. ::\latthew Augustus DeLaney. James l\Iatthew Phalen. Raymond Edward Culbertson to be fir~t lieutenant, Air Corps. Paul Stacy Halloran. l\Iaynard Harper Carter to be fir t lieutenant, Infantry. To be lieuteuant colonels LeGrande Albert Diller to be fu·st lieutenant. Infantry. Robert Parker Hollis to be first lieutenant, Field Artillery. Guy ·victor Rukke. Ray Woodman Bryan. Isaac Davis White to be first lieutenant, Cavalry. Henry Church Pill ·om·y. \Villiam Hadley Richardson. Louis Edward Roemer to be first lieutenant, Infan1:J.'y. Edgar King. William Kay Bartlett. Max Hesner Gooier to be first lieutenant, Infantry. To be captain-s •Joseph Howard Harper to be fir t lieutenant, Infantry. Otis Blaine Schreuder. Prentice Lauri :Moore. Emerald Foster Sloan to be first lieutenant, Infantry. Edwm·d John Kallus. John Pau1 Russell. Newton Farragut :McCurdey to be first lieutenant, Cavalry. Arthm· Daviu Hawkins. .John l\Iorris IIargrea>e:::. .John .Julius Dubbelde, jr., to be first lieutenant, Infantry. Howland Allan Gibson. Don Longfellow. Joe Ford Simmons to be first lieutenant, Coast Artillery Corp . Pau1 Ashland Brickey. Ray Hamilton Skaggs. Clarence Turner Hu1ett to be first lieutenant, Infantry. Berna Thomas Bowers. William Frank DeWitt. Daniel Powell Poteet to be first lieutenant, Field Artillery. Leon Lloyd Gardner. 01·d to Gariche Chrisman be first lieutenant, Infantry. DE..~TAL CORPS Gerson Kirkland Heic:;s to be :first lieutenant, Ordnance De- partment. To oo captains Ransom George .Amloug to be first lieutenant, Quartermaster James :Uelvin Epperly. Marvin Edward Kennebeck. Corps. James Harrer Pence. Hugh Dand Phillips. Paul Lawrence Martin to be first lieutenant, Jneld Artillery. Everitte Fa>or Arnold. Walter Edwin Chase. 1927 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 825 VETERIN.ARY OORPS George F. Martin. John D. Price. To be coloneZ Bernard F. Jenkins. James B. Ryan. Boyd R. Alexander. Jules Henry Uri. Sidney W. Kirtland. Edwin S. Earnhardt. Richard E. Webb. To be majors J obn E. Williams. Edwin F. Cochrane. Jacob Edward Behney. Jean Rossman Underwood. Jesse L. Kenworthy, jr. Thomas V. Cooper. William Henry Houston. Raymond Alexander Keiser. Webster M. Thompson. Roy K. Jones. Clell Bricker Perkins. Clifi'ord Caswell Whitney. Albert E. Schrader. l\fartin B. Stonestreet. Horace Samuel Eakins. Christian William Greenlee. Louis R. Vail. Heman J. Redfield. Isaac Owen Gladish. Harold Edward Egan. Paul S. Goen. Lowell Cooper. Jesse Daniel Derrick. Harry V. Baugh. Andrew C. McFall. To be captai1l Dennis L. Ryan. Herbert S. Jones. Frank Marion Lee. Andrew D. Mayer. Herbert J. Grassie. Charles G. Halpine. Isaiah Parker. To be first lieutenants Charles T. Joy. James K. Davis. Herbert Morris Cox. Walter W. Webb. George D. Price. Laurence Robert Bower. Nelson N. Gates. Cassin Young. MEDICAL ADMINISTRATIVE CORPS Henry L. Phelps. Carlyle Craig. To be captains Arnold H. Bateman. Knefier McGinnis. John E. Reinburg. James P. Compton. Thomas Grimsley Hester. John A. Terhune. John Dennis Foley. Fred W. Connor. Charles J. Wheeler. Dallas Wait. CHAPLAINS Theodore T. Patterson. John E. Ostrander, jr. William Richard Arnold. George P. Brewster. Linton Herndon. Alexander Daniel Suthedand. Samuel P. Ginder. Houston L. Maples. APPOINTMEL...,TS AND PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY Henry B. Broadfoot. Randall E. Dees. Rear Admiral Charles F. Hughes, to be Chief of Naval Oper Adolph J. Merkt. Colin Campbell. ations in the Department of the Navy. Van H. Ragsdale. Paul W. F. Huschke. Capt. William D. Leahy, to be Chief of the BuTeau of Ord John Wilkes. Frank G. Fahrion. nance in the Department of the Navy. Robert J. 'Valker. Albert G. Noble. Robert B. Twining. Ingolf N. Kiland. TO BE REAR AD~S Homer L. Grosskopf. Frank H. Dean. Edward H. Campbell. Frank H. Brumby. William P. Bacon. Edward A. Mitchell. Walter S. Crosley. Harris Laning. Wilbur W. Feineman. Harold S. Klein. Frank B. Upham. Henry V. Butler. Bruce P. Flood. Alexander D. Douglas. Ridley McLean. James J. Raby. Oscar 'V. Erickson. Lawrence Wainwright. David F. Sellers. William H. Standley. Fred D. Kirtland. Donald B. Duncan. Joseph M. Reeves. James M. Steele. Earle E. Muschlitz. TO BE CAPTAINS Arthm· D. Burhans. Robert B. Dashiell. John S. Abbott. Ormond L. Cox. Thomas D. ·warner. John O'D. Richmond. Nathan W. Post. Royal E. Ingersoll. Paul W. Rutledge. Simon P. Fullinwider, jr. Ro coe F. Dillen. Herbert F. Leary. T. DeWitt Carr. William P. 0. Clarke. Herbert H. 1\lichael. Chester W. Nimitz. Charles P .. Cecil. George T. Howard. Allen B. Reed. Reuben B. Coffey. Calvin T. Durgin. Andrew G. Shepard. Christopher R. P. Rodgers. Joseph V. Ogan. Humbert W. Ziroli. Lisle F. Small. Lewis Coxe. Albert T. Church. James A. Scott. Nicholas Vytlacil. Cleon W. 1\Iauldin. John N. Ferguson. William E. l\filler. Robert G. Tobin. • Isaac C. Johnson, jr. Arthur C. Stott. George F. Chapline. Theodore l\f. Waldschniidt. David W. Bagley. William S. McClintic. William ·J. Forrestel. Carl F. Holden. Fred H. Poteet. Byron McCandless. John S. Roberts. Ge6rge l\f. Baum. Roscoe C. MacFall. TO BE LIEU TEN ~....-Ts Richard P. l\lcCullough. Edmund S. Root. Rowland D. Hill, jr. Thomas J. Kelly. Max l\f. Frucht. Arthur B. Cook. Amariah B. Cartwright. Bruce Settle. Charles S. Joyce. George C. Pegram. William J. 1\Iedusky. James C. Pollock. TO BE COMMANDERS Glenn F. DeGrave. John J. Curley. Edmund S. n. Brandt. Thomas E. Van Metre. Frederick H. Ottaway. Harold ,V. Eaton. James D. Maloney. John H. S. Dessez. William G. Buch. Harold E. McCarthy. Alan G. Kirk. Stuart S. Brown. Herbert V. Perron. l\Iorton C. Hutchinson, jr. Granville B. Hoey. Comfort B. Platt. John E. Pixton. Paul E. Roswall. Francis W. Scanland. Sherman S. Kennedy. Ralph B. Hunt. William W. Juvenal. Joel W. Bunkley. Chauncey A. Lucas. William B. Jackson, jr. Wilson D. Leggett, jr. Max B. DeMott. Charles H. 1\lorrison. Kinloch N. Gardner. Delamer L. Jones. Ernest J. Blankenship. Paul H. Rice. Harry A. Guthrie. William G. Lalor. Harold C. Train. Robert G. Coman. William S. G. Davis. William W. Cone. W.allace L. Lind. Holbrook Gibson. Sydney S. Bunting. Elmon B. Guernsey. Lee P. Johnson. Charles E. Reordan. Arnold E. True. John P. Womble, jr. Monroe Kelly. Howard II. J. Benson. Grover B. H. Hall. Bryan C. Harper. Marion C. Robertson. Hugo W. Koehler. Linfield L. Hunt. Ralph 0. l\Iyers. Leo L. Lindley. George N. Reeves, jr. Sterling T. Cloughley. Samuel W. Du Bois. Edward C. Raguet. Virgil J. Dixon. Wayne A. McDowell. Paul E. Howard. Charles C. Davis. James B. Glennon. William B. l\IcHugh. George S. Young. Robert R. Paunack. Franklin Van Valkenburgh. Rodger W. Simpson. Thomas F. Darden, jr. Frank D. l\fauock. Vance D. Chapline. Frederick D. Kime. Ralph R. Stogsdall, jr. Williams C. Wickham. Frank A. Braisted. Roy l\1. Signer. Alexander S. Edward. Freeland A. Daubin. Raleigh C. Williams. Harry A. Brandenburger. Paul J. Register. Hugh V. McCabe. Thalbert N. Alford. Rufus G. Thayer. Joseph C. Hubbard. Claude S. Gillette. Eugene M. Woodson. John G. Burrow. DeLong Mills. William C. Faus. Wilbur J. Carver. William F. Ramsey. Forrest H. Wells. Donald R. Tallman. William L. Drybread. TO BE LIEUTENANT COMMA "DERS Eugene P. Sherman. Dashiell L. Madeire. Carroll W. HamilL John H. Carson. Benjamin L. Hailey. Silas B. Moore. Lyman K. Swenson. Robert B. Carney. Gerald D. Linke. Nicholas B. Van Bergen. Thorvald A. Solberg. Arthur W. Radford. Malcolm E. Selby. Joe E. Rucker. Edward P. Sauer. William D. Thomas. William F. Fitzgerald, jr. George D. l\Iartin. 826 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEX~c\..TE DECEl\IBER 19. Boynton L. Brann. Walter S. Keller. John A. Hayes. Sherman E. Burroughs, jr. Everett E. Pettee. William C. Gray. Edmund A. Cunningham. Jere D. Hyde. 'Valter S. Dufion. Peter M. Money. Rufus E. Rose, jr. Joseph P. Thew. Cad II. Sanders. Frederick I. Entwistle. Orville F. Gregor. John P. Cromwell. Paul E. Howell. Walter F. Weidner. Lee R. Herring. Daniel J. McCallum. Fort H. Callahan. Burtnett K. Culver. Charles ,Y. "Wilkins. Herrmann G. Page. Herbert W. Taylor, jr. Lamar M. Wise. Eugen·e C. Rook. Forrest Close. Carl S. Drischler. John J. Lenhart. Robert L. Campbell, jr. Herbert n. Ballinger. Charles F. M. S. Quinby. Clinton A. Misson. Clauue B. Reese. Frank W. MacDonald. 'Valter R. Jones. John A. Upshur. William N. Mansfield. Hammond J. Dugan. Parke G. Young. Thomas L. Lewis. George C. Towner. Herman SaiL Elmer A. Tarbutton. Justin H. Dickins. William A. Hickey. Charles A. Legg. William G. Fewel. Thomas A. Parfitt. Ralph E. Wilson. Herbert K. Gates. John H. Willis. "\\~illiam D. Johnson, jr. Lotti. W. Nuesse. Solomon F. Oden. Byron H. Hanlon. Joseph R. Barbaro. Thomas H. Dyer. Thomas J. Kirkland, jr. Cad H. Bushnell. John W. Rice. ~lerle A. Sawyer. :\fyrou S. Teller. ·william E. )lakosky. Walter G. Schindler. J... eo A. Bachman. Tillman T. Dantzler. Laurence .A. Abercrombie. William A. Griswold. William Y. Cole. Robert 0. Minter. Harry L. Bixby. Howard N. Coulter. William F. Simmons. Crutchfield Adair. Irving D. Wiltsie. George G. Herring, jr. Olifford A. Fines. Bertrand D. Quinn. Elwood D. Poole. Edward P. Mo01·e. Edward W. Rawlins. Stephen R. Bedford. Frank R. Talbot~ Morris J. Westfnll. Jnmes ,Y. Smith. George W . Evans, jr. .Joseph C. Cronin. Donald L. Erwin. Elmer E. Yeomans. .John D. Hayes. Wyatt Craig. :Marion C. Thompson. Edward 1<\ Crowe. Max Scl1reiner. Keith R... Belch. Elmer P. Abernethy. Elmer E. Bertholu. Harold P. Smith. William G. Forbes. Edward C. Ewen. William G. llichelet. Artlmr W. Bas . Walfrid Myquist. Eugene B. Oliver. Fran~ J. Grandfield. Wayne N. Gamet. Rogers S. Ransehousen. John E. Rezner. Wallace ::ll. Beakley. EV"erett W. Abdill. George D. Lyon. Ernest H. Webb. Hallsted L. Hopping. Paul L. F. Weaver. Herbert .A. Tellman. Ward C. Gilbert. Maurice :M. Bradley. Willis E. Cleaves. Charles 0. Glisson. Edward I. McQuiston. Joseph H. Garvin. Theodore J. Shultz. Everard :M. Heim. Frederick S. Steinbauer. Lester K. Rice.. Edwin T. Layton. Edmund Kirby-Smith, jr. Robert E. Canty. Stephen G. Barcbet . Roger D. Phillips. J runes S. :E~reeman. Thomas M. Dell, jr. William P. Tammany. Thomas A. Turner, jr. George C. Mille1·. Casper H. Hicks. Shirley Y. Cutler. Robert C. Sutliff. Stephen B. Cooke. Julius A. ~~c...~amar. William C. France. Adolph H. Oswald. 'Villiam V. Hamilton. Joel ~ewsom. Rae E. Arison. Freuerick R. Furth. George H. Lyttle. Apollo Soucek. Bob 0. :Mathews. Robert L. Swart. Dewey G. Porter. Ralph E. Hanson. Ephraim R. :McLean, jr. Fmnk C. Layne. Wakeman B. Thorp. Thomas Lee McCann. \Yalter V". R. Vieweg. Eugene C. Burchett. Charles W. Gray, jr. 'Villard R. Gaine .~ . Richard F. Stout. George W. Stott. Charles W. Roland. Leslie K. Pollard. Willford )f. Hyman. Thomas A. Hu<'k-ins. George C. Crawford. Charles R. Lamdin. Bernard L. Austin. George A. Sinclair. Robert W. Berry. Charles S. Alexander. Joseph :M. P. Wright. Dale Harris. Lo1·euzo S. Sabin, jr. Horace L. De Ri>era. Albert Handly. Kenneth Earl. William S. Price. Philip G. Nichols. Norman W. Ellis. James B. Ricketts. Joseph A. CormDll;r. Alex l\1. Loker. John T. Shannon. John A. Marsh. August J. Detzel-. jr. Robert' E. JaspeT~on. Joseph E .. Wolowsky. LeUoi B. Blaylock. ·william R. Cooke, jr. Walter J. Lee. James R. Pahl. Samuel E. Latimer. Donald T. Giles. Daniel A. Frost. Paul K. Bryant. Harold B. Miller. Charles H. Judson. James V. Carney. William J. Longfellow. Austen V. Magly. Donald F. Smith. Joseph l\1. Began. George W. Patterson, jr. Robert G. Lockhart. Charle .~ F. l\laddin, jr. 'Viley N. Hand. Donald B. Bennett. Thomas C. Ragan. Campbell D. Emory. ·william D. Hoover. Joseph A. Callaghnn. Preston V. Mercer. Ralston B. Vanzant. Edwin l\1. Orouch. James D. Lovejoy. Robert Goldthwaite. Jasper T. Acuff.. John M. Campbell, jr. Howard L. Collins. Jose l\1. Cabanillas. Francis J. Firth. Oral R. Swigart. James. S. Laidlaw. Carl E. Cullen. Hugh Peters. Walter P. Ramsey,_jr. Adrian M. Hurst. Audley L. Warburton. Arthur H. McCollum. Buell F. Brandt. John W. C. Brand. Colby G. Rucker. Lawrence E. DivolL LE'ster R. Reiter. William V. Davis, jr. Jack B. Williams. Lawrence C. Grannis. Robert G. Willis. John N. Opie, 3d. James R. Dancy. John JI'. Madden. · Harold A. Houser. Ezra M. Ellis. Robert S. Carr. Bernard J. Skahill. Leo J. McGowan. Aurelius B. VosseUer. Warren W. Harvey. Louis G. McGlone. . Julius L. Thompson. William J. Mitchell. Harold R. Demarest. Melville E. Eaton. John P. Heath .. John R. Ruhsenberger. Francis M. Hook. Edmund C. Mahoney. F1·ancis J. Bridget. John F. Add oms. ·william W. Weeden, jr. Angus M. Cohan. Robert F. Hickey. Gordon M. Stoddard. Samuel M. Bailey. Geoffrey E. Sage. Theodore R. Wirth. Harold H. Tiemroth. Elton C. Parker. Harold A. Carlisle. James -A. Roberts, jr. Marcel E. A. GDnin. Roy D. Williams. Delwyn Hyatt. James H. McWilliams. Emory W. Stephens. Ethelbert Watts. Herman Barter. Charles R. Brown. Donald F. McLean. Lawrence J. McPeake. Clarence E. Aldrich. Lowden Jessup, jr. Howell C. Fish. William H. Duvall. Charles F. Greber. l\Iyron E. Thomas. Alfred J. Bolton. Howell AI·mor. George L. Ru sell. Jennings Courts. John M. Kennaday. John C. Harris. John S. Crenshaw. John M. Hoskins. Philip M. Boltz. Minor C. Heine. Lawrence F. Connolly. Joseph P. Rockwell. Thomas H. Templeton. Donald J. Ram8ey. \Valter B. Pendleton. Lionel L. Rowe. Edwin R. Wilkinson. Henry E. Richter. Leo B. Farrell. Floyd F. Ferris. Roger E. Perry. Frank E. Deam. Charles J. Marshall. Sumner K. MacLean. Richard J. Bom·ke, jr. 'Villiam D. Brown. Leon W. Johnson. TO BE LIEUTENANT (JTilUOR GRADE) Paul Graf. Charles H. Callaway. Cal'lisle H. Thompson. Irvin T. Duke. Warren D. Wilkin. Howard V. Hopkins. Farrington, L. Barr. Truman J. Hedding. Forrest R. Bunker. Herbert P. Sheldon. Frederic-k Moosbrugger. Chester C. Wood. Virginius R. Roane. ~eill Phillips. Samuel P. Comly, jr. Clarence E. Ekstrom. William B. Bailey. Harry Burris. Matthew L. Kelly. W'illiam G. Fisher. Hemy C. Daniel. Richard C. Webb, jr. 1927 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 827 Walter M. Graesser. Joseph W. Fowler. 'Vesley H. Randig. Otis C. Gregg. Joseph S. Lillard. John K. Hyatt. John C. Bernet Christian H. Duborg. Arthur D. Barnes. John H. 1\Iorrill. John W. Slayden. James R. McCormick. John A. Holbrook. James H. Mcintosh. Welton D. Rowley. Lannie Conn. William B. Thompson. Elliott W. Shanklin. Shirley S. Miller. Paul ,Y. Card. Richard S. Moss. Albert N. Perkins. Francis C. Mam·ille. Clifford L. Wickman. William R. McCaleb. Hugh B. McLean. Allen M. Zollars. Jack F. Bowling. jr. Archibald G. W. McFadden. John E. Spahn. James V. Rigby. William R. Sands, jr. Joseph I. Taylor, jr. Chester E. Carroll. James E. Cohn. William E. Ferrall. Harrison B. South worth. Rufus C. Young, jr. Jacob C. Schwab. Martin J. Lawrence. George C. Montgomery. Louis H. Gwinn. Richard H. Phillip ·. Samuel G. Mitchell. Joseph F. Johnson. Edgar L. Witmer. Joseph N. Murphy. Jack Maginnis. Thomas E. Fraser. John B. Rooney. John C. Broach. Edward H. Eckelmeyer, jr. Thomas S. Cameron. Frederick J. ·Bell. Leroy V. Honsinger. Edward l\1. Condra, jr. Russell J. }Jellerby. Hampton M. Ericsson. Charles M. Heberton. Brooke Schumm. Charles W. Oexle. Harrell W. Hall. Archibald D. Hunter. Carroll F. Johnson. Edwin J. Taylor, jr. Brainerd N. Bock. David B. Overfield. John W. Malley. Dewey H. Collins. Lewis E. Ooley. Charles E. Clutts. Jack H. Lewis. Wallis F. Petersen. John C. Daniel. Hunt V. Martin. Richard ·w. Smith. Frank H. Ball. Joseph J. Woodward. Alan B. Sutherland, jr. George K. Fraser. William A. Evans, jr. Joseph W. Adams, jr. Harold S. Harnly. Carl L. Steiner. George M. Brydon, jr. Henry T. Read. Ralph Hickox. Hilfort C. Owen. Frank R. Davis. Robert S. Bertschy. Arthur E. Loeser. Kenton E. Price. Charles E. McDonald. Thomas J. Ball. William H. Leahy. Arthm· S. Born. William S. Hays. Hugh J. Martin. Robert H. Rice. Allen Smith. Max C. Storms. George C. King. James A. Lucier. Thomas B. Klakring. Richard F. Johnson, jr. Clarence L. Winecoff. Van Leo Wanselow. William Loveland. Charles B. Cross, jr. Charles J. Stuart. Bloomfield 1\I. Cornell. Alexander M. Kowalzyk, jr. Dennis L. Francis. Joseph A. Farrell, jr. Harlan M. Thorpe. John L. Ewing, jr, John S. Holtzclaw. Arthur B. Leverett. James F. Benson. Timothy F. Donohue. Henry W. Goodall. Stockton B. Colt, jr. John B. Smyth. James 1\f. Roberts. Louis B. Edwards. Bernard T. Zelenka. Charles C. Pyne. Alden D. Schwarz. Charles A. Ferriter. Bromfield B. Nichol. Carl F. Stillman. James G. Holloway, jr. Harry B. Temple. Walter C. Dey. Benjamin E. Mo01·e, jr. Jesse Blackwell. William L. Erdmann. Eugene T. Seaward. Leonard C. Chamberlin. Vernon Dortch. Clyde J. Nesser. John T. Warren. Delbert F. Williamson. Robert S. Quackenbusb, jr. Wilfred E. Lankenau. Joshua C. Shively. George B. Tuggle. Edmund T. Napier, jr. John M. Sweeney. Fitzhugh L. Rhea. Harold L. Tallman. Walter H. Price. · John C. Waldron'. Francis H. Gardner. James A. Haley, jr. Marin R. Stone. Frederick J. llsemann. John ·F. Cooke. Thomas J. Hamilton. Daniel J. Weintraub. Arthur 1\f. Townsend. James C. Landstreet. Henry B. Stanley. George B. Gilbertson. Raymond R. Waller. Edward F. Gallagher. Robert L. Densford. George Edmund Peterson. Frederick L. Litty, jr. Joseph M. Worthington. Halle C. Allan, jr. Leland R. Lampman. Richard S. Baron. Ralph V. Baldwin. Frederic A. Berry, jr. Jack P. Monroe. Cameron 'M. Winslow, jr. Elliott M. Moore. Herbert L. Hoerner. Elijah W. Irish. Arthur B. Dickie. Theodore C. Fauntz. Loren A. Morris. Edward K. Shanahan. Burton L. Doggett. Sidney King. Earl K. Swearingen. Noble W. Lowrie. Ralph T. McDaniel. Robley W. Clark. Charles P. Hill, jr. Charles C. McDonald. Carl J. Pfing.stag. Burnice L. Rutt. Harry J. Ward. Lee W. Parke. Robert E. Sayre. Charles L. Lee. Harry F. Bauer. Arnold R. Kline. David B. Young. Robert H. G. Johnson. Roger F. Scott. John F. Henkel. William V. Deutermann. George Edward Peterson. Harry E. Day. Leslie H. Hawkin·son. Noble W. Abrahams. Frederick Funke, jr. Herbert F. Eckberg. ~gyll E. Buckley, Lloyd H. Thomas. Robert W. Larson. G1ll M. Richardson. Edgar T. Neale. William A. Kanakanui. William C. Specht. Frederic F. Agens. Joseph T. Hazen. Ted C. Marshall. Arthur C. Wood. Leon J. Barbot. Ira H. Nunn. Theodoric C. Linthicum. Carl W. Flesher. James A. Jordan. Charles B. Beasley. Louis Roedel. James F. McDonough. John T. Corwin. Erskine A. Seay, Ralph E. Mills. John W. White. Miles H. Hubbard. Clayton R. Dudley. TO BE ENSIGNS George L. Heath. Edward N. Teall, jr. Ferol D. Overfelt. Selman S. Bowling. John C. Zahm. Joseph ,V, Kern. Philip W. Snyder. Earl B. Patterson. Harry R. Horney. Richard D. Zern. Walter H. Albach. Cornelius S. Seabring. Robert C. Winters. John L. De Tar. Robert A. Hinners. Edwin R. Van Sickle. Daniel T. Eddy. John A. Edwards. Allan L. Dunning. William C. Bryson. Charles D. Griffin. Leonard W. Bailey. Herbert J. Pfingstag. Wallace B. Mechling. Rawson Bennett, 2d. Robert B. Alderman. John W. Bays. Henry H. Caldwell. Sylvius Gazze. Myron T. Evans. Herbert M. Neuhaus. Ernest W. Lamons. Thomas L. Mayo. Thomas L. Greene. Herbert C. Zitzewitz. Cecil T. Caufield. Howard W. Taylor. Charles J. Zondora.k. Robert D . .Conrad. Joseph R. Hamley. Eldon C. Mayer. William L. Knickerbocter. Joseph F. Jelley, jr. Joseph S. Detwiler. James J. McKinstry. James A. Prichard. Thomas L. Davey. Charles M. Tooke. Harold 1\f. Briggs. Tyrrell D. Jacobs. Lawrence R. Daspit. Melvyn H. McCoy. Perry K. Jeanes. James L. Shank. Samuel H. Crittenden, jr. James H. Hogg. Seymour A. Johnson. Emmanuel T. Goyette. Kenneth A. Knowles. Paul H. Ramsey. Carl R. Midtlyng. George B. Coale. Richard Wagner. Henry T. Koonce. Wellington A. Hammond. John F. Hines, jr. Paul D. Miles. George W. Anderson, jr. Lester J. Geiger. Howard W. Gordon, jr. Leonard S. Mewhinney. Warren F. Graf. Hubert G. Wall. Paul R. Drouilhet. Warner R. Edsall. John E. Faigle. Martin P. Hottel. Peter K. Wells. Clifford S. Cooper. Albert B. Scoles. Fritz Gleim, jr. Eugene E. Davis. William P. Chilton. David W. Tolson. Andrew H. Bergeson. Creed C. Burlingame. William M. Nation. Jack S. Holtwick, jr. Raymond J. Moore. Robert H. Speck. William H. Organ. Harold F. Traua. Jere H. Stoffiet. Arthur K. Ehle. William T. McGarry. Eliot Olsen. B.obert C. Brixner. Henry R. Dozier.. "828. CONGB.ESSIO:N AL RECORD-SEXATE DECE:\IBER 19 James W. Blanchard. Selden G. Hooper. Philip B. Tankard. Glynn R. Donaho. William Y. C. Humes, jr. Walter C. Winn. Bosquet N. Wev. Oscar W. Pate, jr. Philip C. Olin. William C. Jennings. William R. Ignatius. Alston Ramsay. Arthur C. W. Baskin. Frank T. Corbin. Howard A. Yeager. Reamor E. De·La Barre. George L. Han en. Milton .A.. Nation. Jame W. Hager. Paul D. Gross. Richard B. Levin. John M. Madi Non. Arthur H. Taylor. O:scar H. Dodson. Frank Turner. John Eldridge, jr. Charles J. Skelly. Raymond L. Harrell. Ulysse S. G. Sharp, jr. Edmund E. Garcia. William E. Kaitne1·. George L. Jone , jr. Robert A. Johnson. Harry H. Mcilhenny. Bernard ll. Gates. John T. Brown, jr. JiJugene E. Lind ey. Albert R. Heckey. Howard E. Purdy. James P. Walker. Philip A. Tague, jr. Edwin B. Robinson. George A. LewL. Edward R. Johnson. Roy Scott. Jame W. Lucas, jr. Leonidas W. Pancoast. Theodore R. Stan bury. Leo W. Nilon. Lucius H. Chappell, jT. Doyle G. Donaho. John ·w. Chittenden. Robie E. Palmer. John E. Fitzgibbon. Alan R. Montgomery. Henry F. Gorki. 'Vayne T. Stukey. Levi J. Knight, jr. \Villiam A.. De-am. Charle J. StarkllS. George M. B. Smith. Jo ·eph J. Carey. Alvin Robinson. Charles E. Harri. on. 1\lonro :.\I. Riker. Wayne R. Loud. 'William E. Balfrey. Paul F. Johnston. James S. Willis. Louis T. ~!alone. Harry J. Hardwick. Robert A.. Allen. Louis P. Fairlamb. John R. Wate1·man. :Malen Durt-ki. Andrew B. Buttrey. Abram H. Afong, jr. Eugene F. McDaniel. Harry M. Denty. Arthur F. Anders. Robert Brodie, jr. Louis H. Hunte. Jo hua W. Cooper. Ethan W. Allen. Frederic S. Habecker. Courtney Shands. Franci ·· E. Cromwell. Donald C. Burt. Robert F. :MaTtin. Monroe B. Duffill. Michael P. Russillo. Francis C. B. :McCune. Wm. T. Romizer. George Knuepfer. John Bailey. Sam Pickering. Farar B. C. Martin. Stanley E. Judson. Granville A. )Joore. John S. Tracy. Randolph B. Boyer. Herbert D. Riley. Gus B. Lofberg, jr. George B. H. Stallings. John T. Dimon. Charles K. Hewin~. Clinton S. Rounds. William D. Irvin. PaulL. High. Jules F. Schumache1·. Robert B. Morgan, jr. Ro ·coe D. Hughes. Gregory A. Laud. Gordon S. Ashley. Joseph B. :Maher. Fred J. Leatherman. Hy ~ ell P. Cooper. Chesley M. Hardison. Robert N. Downe ~ . Gardner K. Grout, 2d. Philip S. Griffith. Morton S. Cressy, jr. Edward P. Southwick. Daniel W. Latilllore. Howell J. Dyson. Thomas H. Massie. Richard E. Fenton. Charle · \\T. Parker. John W. Schmidt. David J. Walsh. Gordon S. Everett. Alex MeL. Patter on. Robert :.\I. Barnes. Leona.rd B. Southerland. Veryl F. Frye. Clarence E. Boyd. Harold T. Deutermann. Theodore G. Schirmeyer. .. John C. Atkeson. David W. Shafer. Harold P. Richards. Frank Virden. Byron C. Gwinn. Patrick Henry, jr. Charles L. Melson. Willinm R. D. ~ickelson, jr. Elmer G. Coope1·. Claude L. Weigle. Edwin W. Herron. 1\lyron W. Graybill. James J. McRoberts. Gordon L. Ca well. Robert E. Braddy, jr. Thomas 0. Oberrender, jr. Emile R. Winterhaler. John E. Clark. Harold A. Henry. Francis S. Kirk. Marion l\l. B:yxd. William W. Onterbridge. "'endell G. Osborn. Robert J. Foley. Ray A. l\litchell. Charles J. Harde ty, jr. Arnold W. :McKechnie. Ernest Blake. Harry D. Hale. Elmer C. Powell. Howard C. Adams. William H. Cuzner. Harry R. Hummer, jr. William M. Gullett. Ross R. Kellerman. Harry L. Hicks. Jack 0. Wheat. John H. Cro . Richard P. Wilkinson, jr. Harold M. Zem.mer. David B. Coleman. Oddle W. Anderson. Paul S. Depew. Henry J. Arm trong, jr. William A. Sutherland, jr. Richard E. Myers. Robert I. F. Fravel. Thomas C. Green. ·wilton S. Heald. ~faurice E. Goudge. Jimmie R. Simpson. Hugh A. R. Keiran. Charles L. Freeman. John 0. R. Coil. Theodore 0. Dahl. John S. Thach. Robert S. Ford. Peery L. Stinson. John J. Bran on. Liles W. Creighton. M. Franci · R. Jone . Frank Hammitt. Walton B. Hinds. David C. White. William S. Harris. Hemy :.\I. :Uarshall. H William W. Hall. Jesse W. Smith. TO BE P.!Y DIREC1'0RS Herbet L. Barbour. Francis P. Gardner. John D. Robnett. George P. Shamer. Rex H. White. · · James E. Andrews. Felix R. Holt. Frank Baldwin~ TO BE PASSED ASSISTANT BURGEONS Chester G. :Mayo. David G. McRitchie. James F. Kutz. 'Villiam H. ·wuterdink. Caldwell J. Stuart. William E. Pinner. Walter D. Sharp. John F. O'Mara. Herbert L. Pugh. Dwight J. Wha1·ton. William G. Neill. Manning H. Philbrick. Bruce M. Summers. Oliver R. Nees. Roland W. Schumann. Edward R. Wilson. Oliver A: Smith. Harvey E. Robins. Dallas B. Wainwright, jr. Everett G. l\Iorsell. Edward P. Kunkel. Carl D. Middlestadt. Peter C. Supan. Charles H. Bitner. TO BE PAY INSPECTORS Edward M. Harris, jr. Charles C. Yanquell. Thomas J. Bright. Harold C. G"-ytme. • Walter L. Bach. Joseph I. Porter. Robert K. Yan Mater. Chauncey R. Murray. Herman Seal. Henry M. Weber. Major C. Shirle~· . Winf1·ed P. Dana. John R. Smith. TO BE PASSED ASSISTA~T PAYMASTERS Robert :M. Gillett. Thomas F. Coop{'r. William E. 'J.•ripp. Nicholas J. Halpine. George F. Cooper. George C. Thomas. J o.hn M. Bachulus. Leonard L. Wilson. TO BE ASSIST.! -T PAY::MASTERS Harry D. Templeton. Thomas H. Hayes. Frederic W. Hesser. Donald B. Hilton. Charlie H. Allman. Everett H. Dickinson. Kenneth R. Miller. Roland W. Rickertts. . J. D. Parks. Calv'in B. White. TO BE ASSitfr.AN'l~ SURGEO~S l!,rederick L. Hetter. Louie L. Lindenmayer. Carl H. McMillan. Douglas T. Prehn. Charles G. DeKay. James H. Wall. Charles E. Fitzgerald. TO BE NAYAL CONSTRUCTORS William A. DeMonbreun. Charles J. Cooney. Roy W. Ryden. Leslie C. Stevens. George H. Fonde, jr. Frederick 0. Meyers. Waldo P. Druley. William R. Nichols. Clarence 0. Myers. Oscar ·w. Thoeny. Joseph · W. Paige. Richard McK. Rush. Irwin L. Norman. Robert C. Luckey. James E. J. Kiernan. Paul ·w. Hains. Charles S. Paddock. James T. Parker. James R. Allen. Thomas P. Wynkoop. B. Herbert C. ·walker. Irby Ballenger. TO BE ASSISTANT NAVAL CONSTRUCTORS Emmett D. Hightower. Joseph G. Schnebly. William H. Algie. Cly H. Hatcher. Armand M. Morgan. Robert S. Hatcher. II.arold G. Young. Jay F. Miller. Edward W. Clexton. Edward V. Dockweiler. Wendell H. Musselman. Gordon B. 'l'ayloe. Wendell E. Kraft.. John J. Scheibeler. Hubert H. CalToll. John B. Clark. TO BE CIVIL EXGI!'EEllS Ernest D. Davis, jr. Henry C. Wa~s. Frank T. Chambers. Hany H. Haight. Dirk M. te Groen. Clinton D. 'l'hurber. Courtney G. Clegg. Ran!';ome 0. Jackson. TO BE ~BSISTA:\"T CIVIL ENGINEERS 'Villiam J. Hogue. Clyde L. Bozarth. Leslie K. MacClatchie. Jesse G. Wright. ·william L. Richards. Wallace B. Short. David J. Cracovaner. Charles W. Shilling. Richard P. Carlson. Harold MacT. Sylvester. Joseph E. Evans. Farra L. Read. Walter T. Eckberg. Paul E. R.ePass. Clark '' . Virtue. TO BE CHIEF BOA.TSW A..INS Jesse W. Miller. Charles W. Stelle. Hubert George. David L. Ullman. John L. Enyart. Bernhardt I. Wulff. Russell L. Kaetzel. Robert H. Merryman. John H. Korb. Fred H. Hartshorn. Ivan E. Pitman. George W. 'Meyer. Leland J. Belding. Albert J. Kelley. TO BE CHIEF GU~NER.S Claude R. Ball. Thomas J. Carter. Robert S. Simpson. Henry T. Cox. Francis J. Kaiss. Norman A. Ross. Marion J. Eato·n. Arthur S. Fenton. Cecil C. Welch. William E. Walsh. Antonio G. Aquatero. Julian Love. DeCoy l\Iarchand. TO BE CHIEF ELECTRICIANS Roy R. Kracke. Otto W. Wickstrom. Merion E. Hair. Carl K. Youngh.'in. John P. Wood. Albert J. Petrasek Adolph P. von Hungen. Clifford W. Moore. TO BE CHIEF RADIO ELEC'l'RICL\NS William E. Carskadon. John F. Moore. Germain J. Cotta. Joseph S. Green. William H. Frost. Rupert H. Draeger. George W. Almour. TO BE CHIEF MACHINISTS , Ti) HE DENT.!L SlJ"RGEONS Anthony Iannucc-i. Raymond G. Shively. Ernest ,V. Lacy. Adolphus R. Gleitsman. Edward J. Sherry. Harry F. Meachen. Lucien C. Williams. Clarence E. Garcia. Meares B. Cartmell. Clarence. J. P. Buckey. Paul G. White. ·Francis G. Ulen. Virgil D. Duke. Irvin J. Heckman. John J. Haas. Daniel A. Dohe1ty. TO BE CHIEF PAY CLERKS Howard C. 1Vic]{ham. Allen H. Hetler. Cecil 0. Hamrick. Robert Nelson. Edward B. Howell. Francis J. Long. William D. Wilkinson. Leroy Alexander. TO BE PASSED ASSISTANT DENTAL SURGEONS Elmer Stephenson. Harold n. Darling. James H. Parish. Ted B. Daly. Joseph Connolly. George H. Rice. Charles E. Coleman. Raymond Ciesluk. J!,rancis R. Bittinger. Sidney P. Vail. Chal'les C. Hiles. William D. Burroughs. Robert R. Crees. Theodore DeW. Allan. Benn A. Fairchild. IrYin L. Lucllan. Jesse W._Miller, jr. Francis W. Lepeska. Garret Boer. Ralph B. Putnam. Otto V. Rogstad. Frank A. Richison. Otis A. Peterson. TO BE MEDiCAL DIRECTORS Alfred R. Harris. Leon M. Billings. Ralph W. Plummer. Virgil H. •.rraxler. John M. Thompson. Robert G. Heiner. Wadsworth C. C. Trojakowski. Spencer L. Higgins. TO BE MEDIC..U. INSPECTORS TO BE .ASSIBT.!NT DENTAL SURGEONS Edwin L. Jones. Harry R. Hermesch. Frank K. Sullivan. Louis D. Mitchell, jr. William H. Short. Alexander B. Hayward. Arthur Siegel. James L. Frisby. Gordon D. Hale. Reginald B. Henry. Hector J. A. Macinnis. Robert P. Irons. Lawrence l\f. Schmidt. Walter A. Bloedorn. Alfred Dinsmore. Edwin D. Foulk. Chandler W. Smith. George R. W. French. Edward H. Delaney. Edward 0. Andersen. Edward V. Valz. ~ . ~r~ DECEJ\roER 830 CONGR.ESSION AL RECOR. D-S:&.~ ATE --:-:-t . A.U..D 19 TO BE LIEVTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) Robert M. Deason, El Dorado. Frederick A... L. Dartsch. Richard G. Ganahl. Gal'land S. Rn....~. Green Forest. Douglas T. Day, jr. Henry C. Doan. William J. Rumsey, Hardy. . TO BE SURGEONS Oliver A. Hill, Hartford. Warwick T. Brown. Charles L. J"ones, Junction City. Max iln:~rman. George H. C. Palmer, McGehee. Harry L. Shambarger, :llulberTy. TO BE PA SED ASSISTA~T SURGEONS Thoma A. Hunt, l\Iurfreesboro. Robert K. Y. Du .~ inherre. J"ohn R. Lynas. Paul Smith, Nettleton. Lloyd H. l. Tewhou er. Carl l\1. Dumbauld.- Ned P. Atkin, Parkdale. Frederic :licK. Ingersoll to be pa sed assistant dental surgeon. Frank Weldin, Piggott. J"ames H. ·ward, Quitman. Charles .A. ~icholsou, :.<1, to be naval constructor. Charles H. Cushman to be naYal constructor. Edwin S. Thomp._on, Springdale. Henry F. l\Iuiloy to be lieutenant (junior grade). , Nona E. Robertson, Thornton. Joseph H. Lawson to be lieutenant commander. - Stella I. Winn, Win . ~low . Thomas C. Ritchie to be lieutenant (junior graue). CONNECTICUT :BETffiED LIST J oLn W. Cook, Beacon Falls. Capt. Reginald R. Belknap to be a rear aumiral on the retired Henry G. Linsley, Branford. Carl W. Brage, Darien. list of the Navy. Leontille M. Root, East Berlin. IN THE MARINE CORPS Sarah L. Ruic, Farmington. TO BE COLONELS W. Burton .Allen, Litchfield. Pre ley M. Rixey, jr. Erne t F. Brown, Manchester. Theodore E. Backstrom. Courtland C. Potter, My. tic. 'Villiam H. Pritchett. Walter E. Brown, Naugatuck. ·william P. Leete, North Haven. TO BE LIElfrENANT COLOli."'"ELS Cyrus I. Byington, Norwalk. Frederick A. Barker. Emile P. ~loses. Ca::;per K. Bailey, J,. Torwich. William T. Hoadley. Harold l!'. Wirgman. Fred R. .Alford, Oakville. TO BE :MAJORS William C. Bushnell, Plantsville. J"ohn B. Sebree. Louis :u. Bourne, jr. William P. Stone, Salisbury. Loui E. Fagan. Matthew H. Kingman. Nelson E. Welch, Somer. . Allen H. Turnage. ·walter B. Palme1·, Sound Beach. J"ohn P. McGrath, Southington. TO BE CAPTAINS Harry l\Iuir, Thomaston. Edward .A. Fellowes. William L. Harding jr. William C. Saunders, Waterford. Andrew L. W. Goruon. J"olm B. Neill, jr. .John V. Abbott, Watertown. Leland S. Swindler. Ralph R. Robinson. Adele P. Brush, West Cornwall. Howard N. Stent. Walter E. Bilisoly. Donald Spicer. ;rohn K. Martenstein. GEORGIA Ford 0. Rogers. Hamilton M. H: Fle:millg. Richard G. Mansfield, Bluffton. Walter G. Farrell. Frederick E. Stack. Hoxie B. Goza, Chamblee. TO BE SECO?\JJ LIEUTENANTS Alma Bustle, Coolidge. Raymond P. Rutledge. Archie E. O'Neil. Rufus H. Johnson, Hogansville. Samuel S. Jack. Allen C. Koonce. ;James P. Pirkle, Ho chton. Henry R. Paige. Alan Shapley. Cicero F. Duffee, J one boro. Guy DeW. Chappell. Jefferson G. Dreyspring. Charles R. Jones. Rossville. Joseph W. Earnshaw. David F. O'Neill. Clarence G. Hardigree, Watkinsville. Walter L. J. Bayler. ;John C. Munn. Hoger E. Fulcher, Waynesboro. Marion L. Dawson, jr. ;Jaime Saf>ater. INDIANA H.arold G. Newhart. Rich-ard P. Ros , jr. Neil D. McCallum, Batesville. Frank l\1. June. Elmer G. 2\Iarks. Helen P. Roetzel, Boonville. George H. Potter. ::\lercade A. Cramer. 1Villiam P. Hays, Burns City. Earl S. Piper. Roger T. Carleson. Lola E . Lippard, Clermont. Robert A. Olson. John S. Letcher. William Teutemacher, Dyer. Francis :ll. McAlister. Frank H. Wirsig. Charles G. Covert, Evansville. J"ack P. Juhan. Frank G. Dailey. Luther K. Abel, Fairland. Harold D. Hansen. William R. Williams. George F. Freeman Franklin. Jesse S. Cook, jr. Robert B. Luckey. Clyde W. Ward, Gas City. Miles S. Newton. Olin ll. Bagby, Greenwood. TO BE CHIEF :MAR:UiE GUN.NER Ruth I. Trapp, Grovertown. James W. Lattin. Robert H. Bryson, Indianap"Olis. John G. Martin, Lynn. TO BE CHIEF QUARTERMASTER CLERKS J"obn A. Jones, Marion. John Strong. Lucille MaCurdy, Monon. Holmes J. Smith. 'Villiam II. Wright, Montezuma. Harry S. Young. Charles E. Ballance, Oaktown. TO BE CHIEF PAY CLERK Winbern H. Dillon, Pitt boro. ;rohn W. Lytle. Charles 0. Harper, Somerville. POSTMASTERS Charles L. Grishaw, Tipton. IOWA ARIZONA Euward J. Kooreman, Alton. Leonard D. Redfield. Benson. Lucian C. Tilden, Ames. Luther Cadwell, Holbrook. Arthur L. Remley. Anamosa. .ARKA~SAS Eddy L. Newton, Anita. Mary Brown, Alpena Pass. Howard C. Walter, Arnolds Park. Roy W. Stevens, .Ashdown. Allen A. Mickelsen, Battle Creek. Bing Moody, Bald Knob. Walter H. Herzog, Baxter. Thomas T. West, Beebe. George L. Beeler, Bellevue. Milton R. Stimson, Brinkley. Elda Bendigkeit, Bennett. Kay S. Rolley, Crawfordville. John C. Erton, Blairsburg. Redford G. Miles, Des Arc. Lloyd Lock, Castana. Edith M. Cook, De Valls Bluff. Sue G. Cro s, Chelsea. 1927 CONGRESSIONAL :RECORD-- SENATE· sar . Oma r H. Brooks, Cleghorn. Carl E. Meyer, Enterprise. William M. Crosier, Coggon. William L. Oliver, Erie. Orlean P. Riordan, Correctionville. Rebecca C. 1\ MISSOlJRI NEW JERSEY James E. Roark, Anderson. Abram R. Bates, Allentown. Thom,as J. Bryant, Anglum. Frank T. Buchanan, Bordentown. \Villiam L. Shipp, Centerview. Reuben Coyte, Coytesville. Frank ,V. Dunn, Chaffee. Emma Reus, Demarest. \Yalter B. Ashbaugh, Clarkton. George Oberle, Edgewater. Alice I. Dixon, Creighton. Harry W. Bellis, Flemington. John J. Kennon, Doniphan. Howard N. Parker, Gibbsboro. Merton ::u. Meador, Exeter. James C. :Korris, Hightstown. Florence E. Gilbert, Fillmore. Frank Pierson, Lawrenceville. Robert G. Teague, FrankfOTd. Renview L. Hull, Lebanon. Henry W. Schupp, Freemont. Elvord G. Chamberlin, 1\Iontda.ir. Charles N. Williamson, Gentry. William A. Sweeney, Red Bank. E stella D. Seaton, La,throp. George Schultz, Waldwick. Virginia Young, Osage City. William H. Albright, Wooclbmy. John E. Bauer, Osborn. John A. Smith, Wrightstown. · Edwin G. Karstedt, Rosebud. Dorothy M. Cliver, Yard\ille. Alfred 0. Lowman, Smithville. :KEW YORK Wyatt B. Little, Steele. Be~sie P. Slater, Attica. James R. Simmons, Stotts City. Henry W. Ware, Batavia. Wallace Frederick, Stoutsville. Ining Barrett, Bedford Hills. Annie N. Johnson, Winston. Charles J. Amsden, Bolivar. :MQNTA.!.~A Etta 1\Ierritt, Brewerton. Asa E. Armstrong, BrowniBg. Elizabeth H. Oschmann, Broad Channel. Alfred Briscoe, Cascade. James T. McLain, Center Moriches. Isaac L. Brooks, Culbertson. William S. Keene, Cold Spring Harbor. William S. Cadson, Ekalaka. Edna Frisbee, Conewango Valley~ Cass E. Parker, Fromberg. William J. Snyder, Conifer. Otto M. Christinson, Glasgow. Carrie J. Johnson, De Kalb Junction. John R. Lloyd, Great Falls. William W. Baldwin, Downsville. James R. Minugh, Harlem. Sadie l\I. Henderson, Garnerville. Frederick B. Gillette, Hinsdale. Richard B. Coriell, Glasco. Queenie B. Lyndes, Hysham. Harris Kass, Greenfield. Harry Kennedy, Rosebud. James E. Colgan, Hamden. William L. Marsh, Roy. Ro a H. ·warner. Hampton Bays. Jennie Bywaters, Sandcoulee. Frank E. Vail, Howells. Army B. Cowee, \Vibaux. Charles F. Fowler, Iona Island. John J. Cole, Jamesport. ~""E:BRA.SKA Lois B. Gridley, :Uacedon. William H. Bogard, Avoca. \VUliam T. Finn, Madison. Robert Pease, Beatrice. Emsley V. Pepper, Middle Granville. Hazel Babbitt, Belgrade. Walter J. Burke, :Uine\ille. \V. Ross Pedley, Bertrand. Henry W. Koster, Narrowsburg. Mary L. Simmons, Bloomfield. Maud E. Butterfiehl, New Berlin. Dolph L. Houser, Campbell. Ruby C. Williams, New Lebanon. Arthur C. Smith, Carleton. John J. Lynch, Oscawana. Gus Johnson, Ceresco. Phelps Smith, Paul Smiths. Ethel Talcott, Crofton. J. Edward Uline, Ransomville. Henry L. Balser, Dixon. George W. Harris, Richmondville. Harvey E. Poole, Dunning. Harlow G. VanNamee, Richrule. Fred C. Beach, Eagle. Clarence P. Varian, Scarsdale. Sanford E. Ralsten, Geneva. Otto F. Schuler, Snyder. Earl D. Willard, Genoa. Alfred A. Clairmonte, Soutll Fallsburg. .Albert L. Hepp, Greeley. Bert P. Wood, Springfield Center. Lynn F. Cunningham, Gurley. William L. Bouchard, Surmount. Herschel L. Anderson, Havelock. · William H. Topps, Syossett. Herman L. Boyes, Hebron. Harold G. Haines, Urlton. Elmer \V. Couch, Henry. . Vernon Yaughn, Water l\fill. Robert E. Templin, Hoskins. Grace A.. Harrington, West Point. Frank J. Prucha, Howell. NORTH DAKOTA ::\Ierle A. Brady, Kimball. Herman H. Schroer, Lawrence. Irwin E. Walton, BantJ·y. Otto C. Smith, Lyman. Evan S. Brown, Buffalo. Emory S. Clements, Lyons. James Taylor, Cando. Howard W. Botsford, Meadow Grove. Oscar J. Haner, Douglas. Helmuth A. J. Paul, Millard. Nellie Ribb, Donnybrook. Ingebert J. Thomsen, Minden. Earl M. Sauness. Enderlin. Edward L. Barker, Pender. Louis Hansen, Esmond. Edwin S. Garber, Red Cloud. Hugh H. Parsons, Fessenden. John C. Oaks, Seward. Otto Gackle, Fredonia. Roy Hauke, Shelton. Vern A. Tallackson, Grafton. Clyde H. Hodges, Superior. William D. Sinclair, Ha.nnnaford. Claude A.. ::\lacDonald, Sutton. Duncan McLean, Hannah. Catherine Honey, Uehling, Walter P. Osborne, Hunter. Augusta Robb, Union. Ole H. Larson, Killdeer. Zenas E. Decker, Wauneta. Elizabeth Graham, Knox. William Berridge, Wausa. Simon ll. Ronning, Kramer. Harry H. Jordan, Wilcox. Catherine Lynch, Lakota. Law1·ence A. Kibbee, Winnebago. Nelson :Y. Chamberlain, Page. John C. Black, Plaza. NEVADA Lottie A. Lund, Powers Lake. Philomena Borrego, Austin~ Albert F. Harris, Reeder. Isaac L. Stone, McGill. - Albert l\1. Marchand, Rolla. Fred L. IAittell, Yerington. llalph H. McKean, Sanborn. 1927 COXGRESSION AL RECORD-HOUSE S33 Jolm P. Breslin, Sanish. James C. Hill, Elsinore. Carl L. George, Sarles. Will C. Barton, Garfield. Seth E. Garland, Tioga. Alta A. Dayton, :\Iagna. Chase E. l\lulinex, Tolley. Henry C. Jacobs, Mount Pleasant. Charles S. J;aidlaw, ·wales. George G. Rosevear, Park Oity. Albert J. Drake, Westhope. Mru.·y Cooper, Pleasant Grove. Robert ll. Mares, Wheatland. WISCONSIN Frank Heglund, White Earth. J erry J. Jerabek, .Algoma. Axel G. C. ~h-om, Williston. :Mae Wittmann, Arpin. Arnold Lien, Wyndmere. Jules G. Pierre, Brussels. 1\orbert J. Joyce, Zap. Theresa J. Keyes, Cobb. SOUTH DAKOTA Effie Banna, Ogdensburg. Truman C. Knott, Bristol. Peter D. Harris, Oneida. John Schafer, Delmont. Mildred Werner, Pittsville. Myr ta :M. Lund, Erwin. .Alma Colt, Poy Sippi. Earl J. Meredith, Groton. Walter F. Dietlen, Sheldon. Clyde H. C<>tton, Hitchcock. LeRoy H. Ardern, Springbrook. George A. De Walt, Mc.I~aughlin. Merton J. Dickinson, Tipler. Gustavus M. Finotti, Missionhill. Henry Swindler, Mitchell. Catherine M. Kuehl, Mound City. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Eugene M. Coffield, Oelrichs. Richard Whalen, Pine Ridge. 1\foNDA.Y, Dece·mhe-r 19, 19B7 Robert H. ~IcCullagll, Sanator. The House met a.t l2 o'clock noon. TEXAS 'l'he Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., offered Liml::;ey C. Payton, Abilene. the following prayer : Roberta G. Sterrett. Albany. Spirit of holine!:ls, 'l'hy love has brought to the gates of our Mack M. Pittman, Annona. lives the footsteps ot One who is the sovereign expression of Ernest E. Cornelius, Athens. man's utmost need and man's utmost hope. Do Thou move in Joel .A. Reese, Ballinger. advanee, of us and direct the way. C<>me and give our work its Frederick W. Guffy, Belton. charm, our association it blessing, and to the whole day its Vina Johnson, Berh·am. joy. Brace our souls with certainties, and may they not be Harvey L. Pettit, Bloomburg. furrowed by doubts. Be Thou the invisible bridge that unites Harr;y N. Cook, Brady. us in our -dreams and aspirations with man wherever he is Claude F. Riley, Canton. found. In the name of the Son of Man. Amen. Josie D. Jackson, Center Point. Alfred A. r.rhomas. Chandler. The Journal of the proceedings of Friday, December 16, was John W. Triplitt, Cisco. read and approved. Etta Varley, Collinsville. SWEAlU:!'\G IN OF A MEMBER Wellington T. Cutler, Crockett. Che"s W. Barr, Cross Plains. ROYAL C. JOHNSON, of South Dakota, appeared at the bar Robert H. Fenton, Denton. of the House and took the oath of office. Wilson I. Lawler, Deport. THE DEFICIENCY BILL Cbarles H. CmaJdalka, Fayetteville. Mr. ~LillDEN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for Charles W. Silliman, Ganado. the present consideration of a House concurrent resolution, James P. Hewitt, Giddings. which I send to the desk. Yil•gil G~ Pritchet4 Gladewater. The SPE.AKER. Is there objection to the request of the Emma J. Clevelan~ Grand Prairie. gentleman from Illinois? ·william I. Rodgers, Gunte1·. There was no objection. Eva Cunie, Happy. The Clerk read as follows: James lU. Everett, Hedley. Mamie B. Mustaine, Honey Grove. House Concunent Resolution 11 ~laude L. Tucker, Idalou. Resol1:ed by the House of R~presenta . ti· ves (the Senate concuri"l11U), Charles F . .Adams, Jacksonville. That the Clerk of the House be, and is hereby, authorized and directed Helen M. Peel, Jourdanton. in the em·ollment of H. R. 5800 (70th Cong., 1st sess.), known as the David W. Thompson, Keltys. first deficiency bill, to insert on page 38 in line 9 of the engrossed bill, Charles E. Smith, Kerens. after the word "attorneys," the following words: "(their heirs or their Annie D. Barker, Kilgore. as ·ignees now of record, as their interest may appear).'' Nicholas C . .Nail, Krum. Mr. MADDEN. Mr. Speaker, I want to offer an explanation Helen C. Wallace, Kyle. of this resolution. James D. Dyer, Lamesa. The matter of $85,000 for attorneys' fees is carried in the James E. Cooke, Mart. deficiency bill in the usual language, as we supposed. August C. Koepsel, Mathis. Mr. Bl.Al.vrON. Will the gentleman yield? Harvey J. McKinzie, Midlotihan. Mr. :MADDEN. Yes. Wenzel K. Richter, Moulton. :Mr. BLANTON. Can the gentleman do this under a motion Henry A.. Williamson, Nacogdoches. such as he has submitted? Hattie :.\1. Culpepper, Palmer. l\1r. :n.A.DDEN. Oh, yes. Jasper "\V. Blount, Quinlan. Mr. BLAXTON. This is a bill which has been passed by the Arthur N. Brown, jT., R !chland. House and has been passed by the Senate. Elmer I . Wade, Rockdale. l\Ir. MADDEN. This will have to go to the Senate. Gayle T. Snedecor, Rosenberg. :Mr. BLANTON. And the conference report has been agreed Kelsey R. Dort, Saint J o. to by the House, and the gentleman is now proposing to insert Riley M. Foster, Saratoga. something additional by a resolution. · Nelson L. Yates, Stratford. Mr. ~IADDEN. This is clone frequently. James I. Dunn, Tioga. Mr. BLANTON. Is it still before the Senate or has it been Ralph D. Gilbert, Trinity. Vera Butler, Troup. enrolled! Ro. coe K. Garver, Van Alstyne. Mr. ::uADDEN. It has passed the Senate, but is not yet en William G. McClain, Waxahachie. rolled; and, Mr. Speaker, the Secretary of the Inte~i01:, whose .Alphonso S. Butler, ·winona. depax·tment this transaction affects, and the CommiSsloner of Indian .Affairs have both sent a letter to Senator WARREN, chair UT.A.H man of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, saying this is Peter .Allan, Blanding. all right. The Comptroller General says this ought to be done, Henry H. Lunt, Cedar City. and we are complying with the Comptroller General's request. LXIX--53