·coNGRESSIONAL RECORD. PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS . . FIRST SESSION.

SENATE. l\fr. BURTON. Mr. SHERMAN is also present and ready to take the oath. MONDAY, April 7, 1913. The VICE PRESIDEl\TT. The Senator elect from Illinois will also present himself at the desk. The first session of the Sixty-third Congress commenced this Mr. GoFF and Mr. SHERMAN were escorted to the Vice Presi­ day at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, in pursuance of dent's desk by l\fr. CHILTON and l\lr. BURTON, respectively, and the proclamation of the President of the United States of the the oath prescribed by law having been administered to them 17th day of March, 1913. they took their sea ts in the Senate. The Vice President (THOMAS R. MARSHALL, of Indiana) took the chair and called the Senate to order at 12 o'clock noon. CALLING OF THE ROLL. PRAYEB. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will call the roll of the Senate. The Chaplain, Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman, D. D., offered the The Secretary called the roll, and the following Senators following prayer : answered to their names : - Almighty God, we worship Thee, Thou who dwellest in in­ Ashurst Gore New lands Smit11, Ariz. effable light. creator and judge of all men. Thou art worthy Bacon Hitchcock Norris Smith, Ga_. to receive our adoration and praise. Thy name is glorious tn Bankhead Hollis O'Gorman Smith, Md. Borah Hughes Oliver Smith, S. C. an the earth. Bradley Jackson Overman Smoot ' We come unto Thee tO-day under a sense of a mighty respon­ Brady James Owen Sterling sibility and obligation. We look to Thee for Thy guidance Brandegee Johnson, Me. Page Stone Bristow Johnston, Ala. Perkins Sutherland and commit our ways unto Thee and pray that Thou wilt order Burton Jones Pittman Swanson our steps. If Thy presence go not with us, send us not up hence; Chamberlain Kenyon· Poindexter T homas but if Thou wilt guide Thy servants, we will find our place in Chilton Kern Ransdell Thompon Clapp La Follette Reed Thornton the order of a divine government whose lord is God. To this Clark, Wyo. L'lne llobinson Tillman end we submit ourselves to Thee in Jesus' name. Amen. Clarke, Ark. Lippitt Root Townse.nd Colt Lodge Saulsbury Vardaman THE PROCLAMATION. Culberson Mccumber hafr<>th Wal h • The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will read the proc­ Cummins McLean Sheppard Warren Fall Martin. Va. Sherman Williams lamation of the President of the United States convening Con­ Fletcher Martine, N. J. Shields Works gress in extraordinary session. Gallinger Myers Shively The Secretary (James M. Baker) read the proclamation .as Goff Nelson Simmons follows: Mr. TOWNSE~'D. The senior Senator from Michigan [Mr. BY THE PRESIDEN"T OF THE UNITED STATES-A PROCLAMATION. SMITH] is necessarily absent from the city. I desire this an­ Whereas public interests require that the Congress of the nouncement to stand for all roll calls which may take place United States should be convened in extra session at 12 o'clock to-day. noon on the 7th day of April, 1913, to receive such communica­ Mr. STERLING. I was requested to announce that my col­ tion as muy be made by the Executive: league [Mr. CRAWFORD] is unarnidably detained to-day and Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United will be present at the ses ion to-morrow. States of America, do hereby proclaim nnd declare that an Mr. JOHNSON of l\faine. I desire to announce that my col­ extraordinary occasion requires the Congress of the United league [l\fr. BURLEIGH] is absent because of sickness. I make States to convene in extra session at the Capitol in the city of this announcement for the day. Washington on the 7th day of April, 1913, at 12 o'clock noon, Mr. BURTON. I wish to state that my colleague [Mr. of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as PoMEBENE] is detained by a belated train, but that he will be i\!embers thereof are hereby required to take notice. here at a very early date. GiT"en under my hand !llld the seal of the United States of The VICE PRESIDENT. Eighty-two Senators have an­ America the 17th day of March, in the year of our Lord nine­ swered to their names. A quorum of the Senate is present. 0 teen hundred and thirteen, and of the independence of the LIST OF SENATORS. United States the one hundred and thirty-seventh. The list of Senators by States is as follows: (SEAL] WOODROW WILSON. Alabama-John H. Bankhead and Joseph F. Johnston. By the President : Arizona--Henry F. Ashurst and Marcm; A. Smith. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, Arkansas-James P. Chuke and Joseph T. Robinson. Secretary of State. Oalifonzia--George C. Perkins and John D. Works. SR..""ITA'l'OllS FEOM ILLINOIS AND WES'I' VIRGINIA.. Colorado-John F. Shafroth and Charles S. Thomas. Mr. BURTON. Mr. President, I present the credentials of Oonnecticiit-Frank B. Brandegee and George P. :hlcLean. Ilon. LAWRENCE Y. SHERMAN, a Senator elect from Illinois, and Delaware-Henry A. du Pont and Will:ird Saulsbury. ask that tlley may be read. FZotida--Nathan P. Bryan and Duncan U. Fletcher. The VICE PRESIDENT. The credentials will be read by Georgia--Augustus 0. Bacon and Hoke Smith. the Secretary. Idaho-William E. Borah and James H. Brady. The credentials of LAWRENCE Y. SHERMAN, chosen by the Illinois-Lawrence Y. Sherman. Legislature of the State of Illinois a Senator from that State Indian(l;--John W. Kern and Benjamin F. Shively. for the unexpifed portion of the term ending March 3, 1915, Iowa-Albert B. Cummins and William S. Kenvon. were read and ordered to be filed. Kansas-Joseph L. Bristow and William H. Thompson. :Mr. CHILTON. Mr. President, the Senator elect from the Kcntuclcy-William 0. Bradley an:d Ollie 1\1. James. State of West Virginia [Mr. GOFF], whose credentials have been Louisiana-jo"eph E. Ransdell and John R. Thornton. presented and filed, is present and ready to take the oath of Maine-Edwin C. Burleigh and Cha rles F. Johnson. office as a Senator from that State. Maryland-William P. J ackson and John Walter Smith. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator6 elect from West Vir­ Massachusetts-Henry Cabot Lodge . nd John W. Weeks. ginia will present himself at the desk for that purpose. Michigan-William Alden Smith ancl Charles E. Townsend. 39 40 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN .A.'J1E., AP~IL 7,

Minnesota-Moses E. Clapp and Knute Nelson. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from Missouri sug­ Mississippi-John Sharp Williams and James K. Vardaman. gests the absence of a quorum. The Secretary will can the roll. Misso1tri-James A. Reed and William J. Stone. The Secretary called the roll, and the following Senators Montana-Henry L. Myers and Thomas J. Walsh. answered to their names : Nebraslca-Gilbert M. Hitchcock and George W. Norris. Ashurst Gronna Newlands Smith, Ga. Nevada-Francis G. Newlands and Key Pittman. Bacon Hitchcock O'Gorman Sm.Ith. s. c. New Harnpshire-Jacob H. Gallinger and Henry F. Hollis. Bankhead Hollis Oliver Smoot Brad.Iey Jiughes Overman Sterling New Jersey-William Hughes and James E. Martine. Brady James Owen Stone New Mexico-Thomas B. Catron and Albert B. Fall. Brandegee Johnson. Me. Pa;i:e Sathc>rland New Yo-rlv--James Bristow Johnston, Ala. Perkins Swanson A1 O'Gorman and Elihu Root. Burton Jones Pittman Thomas North Car olina-Lee S. Overman and F. M . Simmons. Chamberlain Kenyon Ransdell Thompson North Dalcota-Asle J. Gronna and Porter J. Mccumber. Chilton Kern Reed Thornton Clapp La Follette Robinson Tillm:m Ohio-Theodore E. Burton and Atlee Pomerene. Clark, Wyo. Lane Root '.rownsend Oklahoma-Thomas P. Gore and Robert L. Owen. Colt 1 Lippitt Saulsbury Vardaman Oregon-George El Chamberlain and Harry Lane. Culberson Lodge Shafroth Walsh Cummins Mccumber Sheppard Warren Pennsylvania-George T. Oliver and Boies Penrose. Fall McLean Sherman Williams Rhode Island-Le Baron B. Colt and Henry F. Lippitt. Fletcher Martin. Va. Shields Works Sowth Carolina-Ellison D. Smith and Benjamin R. Tillman. Gallinger Martine, N . .T. Shively Go tr M:vers Simmons South Dalcota-Coe I. Crawford and Thomas Sterling. Gore Nelson Smith. Ariz. Tennessee-Luke Lea and John K. Shields. Mr. FLETOHER. I desire to announce that my colleague Texas-Charles A. Culberson and Morris Sheppard. [Mr. BRYAN] is necessarily absent on account of some public Dtah-Reed Smoot and George Sutherland. matters. I wish to have this announcement stand for the day. · Vermont-William P. Dillingham and Carroll S. Page. The VICE PRESIDENT. Seventy-seven Senators have an­ Virginia-Thomas S. Martin and Claude A. Swanson. swered to the roll can. There is a quorum of the Senate presen~. Washington-Wesley L. Jones and Miles Poindexter. West Virginia-William E. Chilton and Nathan Goff. ORDER OF BUSINESS. Wisconsin-Robert l\I. La Follette ,and Isaac Stephenson. l\fr. OVERMAN. I moved that the Senate take a recess Wyoming-Clarence D. Clark and Francis E. Warren. until 2 o'clock, taking the position that we ought not to do NOTIFICATION TO THE HOUSE. anything-as the President has called us in extraordinary ses­ Mr. BACON. I present a resolution for which I ask presel).t sion-until the President is communicated -with and we shall consideration and action by the Senate. · have a communication from him. I thought at the time that I 'l'he resolution (S. Res. 24) was read, considered by unanimous was following the usual custom, and I desire to read a short consent, and agreed to, as follows: extract from the RECORD of the Fifty-seventh Oongrcss, first Resolved, That the Secretary inform the House of Representatives session: that a quorum of the Senate is assembled and that the Senate is ready ORPER OF BUSINESS. to proceed to business. Mr. MCLAURIN. I ask unanimous consent for the immediate consid­ eration of the resolution which I send to tbe desk. NOTIFICATION TO THE PRESIDENT. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from South Carolina asks l\fr. KERN. I offer the following resolution and ask for its tbat the resolution submitted by him shall be received at this time. If there is no objection, it will be received. He asks for the present adoption. consideration of the resolution. It will be read to the Senate for its The resolution (S. Res. 23) was read, considered by: unani­ information. mous consent, and agreed to, as follows: 'l'he Secretary proceeded to read the resolution, and read as follows : Resolved, That a committee consisting of two Senators be appointed "Joint resolution allowing the importation free of payment of duty, to join such committee as may be appointed by the House of Representa­ customs fees, or charges of articles from foreign countries, and the tives to wait upon tbe President of the United States :md inform bim transfer of foreign exhibits from the Pan-American Exposition at · that a quorum of each House ls assembled and that Congress is ready Bufl'alo, for the purpose of exhibition at the South Carolina Inter­ to receive any communication he may be pleased to make. state and West Indian Exposipon at Charleston, S. C. "Resolved lly the Senate, etc., That all articles which shall be im· The VICE PRESIDENT appointed Mr. KERN and .Mr. GALLIN­ ported from foreign countries "-- GER the committee on the part of the Senate. Mr. HOAR. Mr. President, I think it is the universal etiquette not HOUR OF DAILY MEETING. to enter upon any business until the President bas been informed that the two Houses are in session and his communication has been re­ On motion of' Mr. HITCHCOCK, it was ceived. I hope the Senator from South Carolina will, under the usual Ordered, That tbe hour of the daily meeting of the Senate be 12 practice, allow the resolution to lie over. I shall object to any resolu- o'clock meridian until otherwise ordered. tion of the kind being received. _ The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does tbe Senator from South Carolina RECESS. withdraw the resolution? The VICE PHESIDENT. What is the further pleasure of Mr. MCLAURIN. Yes, sir; for the present I will withdraw it. the Senate? Then the Senate took a rece.ss, and after the recess the then l\lr. HITCHCOCK. I should like to ask whether regular Senator from Ohio, l\.ir. Foraker, said: morning business would be now in order? · Mr. President, pending a report from the other House <'f th~ ap­ pointment of a committee to notify tbe President in conjunction with Mr. OVEJU\L~. I move that the Senate take a recess until the committee of the Senate that Congress is in session and r eady to 2 o'clock. receive any communication be may be pleased to make, I move that the lllr. BRISTOW. Is it not in order to have regular morning Senate take a recess for 30 minutes. business transacted? The Senate took another recess, _and no communication having l\1r. OVERMAN. I think not until we hear from the com­ been received on that day, the Senate adjourned. mittee appointed to wait on the President. That is the usual At the special session of the Senate, Fifty-eighth Congress, course and I therefore move that the Senate take a recess until l\Iarch 5, 1903, I find from the RECORD that the following 2 o'clock. occurred: Mr. KERN. I suggest that the House not yet having organ­ Mr. TILLMAN. l\Ir. President, pending the report of the committee which has just been appointed, I desire to rise to a question of ized it may not have a committee appointed to wait on the privilege. President by that time. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Tbe Senator from South Carolina is Mr. OVERMAN. I think there will be appointed by that time recognized for that purpose. Mr. TILLMAN. In the second or continued part of tbe CONGRESSIONAL u committee to act with the committee appointed here. I do REC ORD of March 3, which did not come from the Printer until late not see what else we can now do but take a recess. yesterday morning, I find a very remarkable speech, so remarkable--. Mr. SMOOT. We could take another recess at 2 o'clock if it Mr. PETTUS. Mr. President-- The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from South Carolina should be necessary. yield to the Senator from Alabama 'l Mr. OVERMAN. If the other House has not been organized Mr. TILLMAN . With pleasure. by 2 o'clock another recess can be taken. · Mr. PETTUS. It is the universal custom, Mr. Preside:::i.t, to transact no business until the President has been informed that the Senate.is in The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on the motion of session. . the Senator from North Carolina, that the Senate take a recess Mr. TILLMAN. If the Chair shall so rule, I will very quietly subside until 2 o'clock. and wait until we get into working order. I simply wanted to save some time. It will take half an hour or more tq go to the White The motion was agreed to, and (at 12 o'clock and 16 minutes House and return. I will await the decision of the Chair. p. m.) the Senate took a recess until 2 o'clock p. m., when it re­ 'l'he PRESIDENT pro tempore. '£he Chair knows of no parliamentary rule which prevents a Senator from addressing the Senate under such assembled. circumstances. . CALLING -OF THE BOLL. Mr. PETTUS. It is not a parliamentary l'Ule, I admit; but it is a Mr. STONE. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a custom. of the Senate and a rule of courtesy. . The PnESIDE~·.r pro tempore. The Chair thinks it is the custom of the quoruli:i: &n"~ . -CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN AT~.

Mr. Sl\IOOT . . I hardly think the . Senate could do any · busi­ Saulsbury Simmons Sutherland Walsh . Shafrotn Smith, Ariz. Thomas Warren ness bPfore it received notice from the House that that body was Sheppard Smith, S. C. Thompson Williams in session and organized. I think perhaps if the House gave Sherman Smoot Thornton Works notice that it was in session and organized we could transact Shields Sterling Townsend business without waiting for a message from the President of Shively Stone Vardaman the United States. But as the matter now stands, officially The VICE PRESIDENT. Sixty-six Senators have answered the Senate has not been notified that the House is in session, to the roll call. There is a quorum of the Senate present. The and until that notification has been received I doubt very much ~enate will receive a message from the House of Representa­ whether it would be proper to go on with business. tives. Mr. STONE. I think we could proceed if we had been in­ MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. formed that the House was in session, organized, and ready Mr. South, the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives, for business. We have had no such communication. As a appeared and delivered the following message: matter of courtesy at least I think it has been the rule that no business should be transacted until the President has likewise Mr. President, I am directed by the House of Representatives been informed that the two Houses were organized and ready to inform the Senate that a quorum of the House of Representa­ tives has assembled; that CHAMP CLARK, a Representative from to proceed with business. Without information as to when the the State of Missouri, has been elected Speaker; that South House will be organized and ready to report to the Senate, I Trimble, a citizen of the State of Kentucky, has been elected suggest to my friend the Senator from Indiana [Mr. KERN] Clerk; and that the House is ready for business. that it might be DdviRable now to move un adjournment until Also, that a committee of three were appointed by the Speaker to-morrow. I submit the matter, however, to his discretion. on the part of the House of Representatives to join the commit­ RECESS. tee appointed by the Senate to wuit on the President of tP.e Mr. BACON. It is possible that there may be a communica­ United States and notify him that a quorum of the two Houses tion from the other House after it shall have organized which has assembled and that Congress is ready to receive any com­ wrn require some action on the part of the Senate this after­ munication that he may be pleased to make, and that Mr. UNDER­ noon. In view of that fact, at the suggestion of Senators I WOOD, Mr. FITZGERALD, and Mr. MANN were appointed such com­ move that the Senate take a further recess until 4 o'clock. mittee on the part of the House. I will state, l\Ir. President, that the hour suggested by me is NOTIFICATION TO THE PRESIDENT. not ~me which has been originated by me, but I do so at the suggestion of Senators who have had the matter under con­ Mr. KERN and Mr. GALLINGER, the committee on the part of sideration. I make the motion that the Senate take a further the Senate appointed to wait upon the President of the United recess until 4 o'clock this afternoon. States, appeared; and . The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on the motion of Mr. KERN said: Mr. President, the committee appointed by the Senator from Georgia, that the Senate take a further recess the Senate and House of Representatives to wait upon the Presi­ until 4 o'clock. dent of the United States and to inform him that the two Houses Mr. BACON. Some Senators around me suggest 3 o'clock, of Congress have assembled and are ready to receive any com­ and possibiy it may be better to make it 3. If in the meantime munication he might be pleased to make have attended to their the House shall be organized we will have gained that much duty, and we, the Senate members of that committee, beg leave time. I win theref01·e, with the permission of the Senate, to report that the President will present in person a communica­ change the hour to 3 o'clock. tion to Congress to-morrow at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Mr. SMOOT. It is now 10 minutes past 2, and that would be a recess of only 50 minutes. PERSONAL EXPLANATION-THE TA;RJ...?F. Mr. LA FOLLETTE. That may be enough. Mr. ASHUJ;tST. Mr. President, if I am not violating a Mr. SMOOT. If it were a recess until 4 o'clock we could precedent or a rule, I desire to make a personal statement. I go to work during that time. ask the Chair whether it is proper at this particular time, Mr. BACON. Very well; I will adhere to the originaJ hour The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair rules that it is proper. named in the motion made by me. Mr. ASHURST. I notice in a ·New York newspaper this The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on the motion of morning, to wit, the Times, and I should observe that the paper the Senator from Georgia, that the Senate take a further recess to which I i:efer is usually correct in its news dispatches, there­ until 4 o'clock. fore I assume it must be an error, unwittingly made, of course, Mr. REED. Mr, President, I rose to make an inquiry. The this paper and some others state that the Senator from Arizona question is not debatable, I suppose, but I wish to ask the Sena­ [Mr. ASHURST] is one of five Senators who will be in opposition tor from Georgia whether in view of the fact that we have a to the Democratic plan of reducing the tariff. caucus called for this afternoon it would not be well to adjourn I feel, in justice to myself and the Democratic Party, of which until to-morrow motning? I am a member, which is pledged to an immediate and a down­ Mr. BACON. I moved a recess only in view of the suggestion ward revision of the tariff, that I should at once and for all which I made, that there will probably come from the House time make my position clear and thus correct the erroneous during the afternoon a resolution which will require that the impression conveyed by these dispatches· to the New York Senate shall act upon it this afternoon, if it shall be practicable papers. I feel that I may do so more succinctly and at least to do so. It is onJy upon that ground that the suggestion of a more specifically by reading the following telegraphic dis­ further recess is made. I presume there is no probability of any patches. First, I read a telegraphic dispatch from the Flag­ other business being transacted by the Senate to-day. staff Board of Trade, of Flagstaff, Ariz., as follows : Mr. GALLINGER. Regular order, Mr. President. FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ., April 5, 191S. HENilY F. ASHURST, The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on the motion of United States Senate, Washington, D. 0.: the Senator from Georgia, that the Senate take a further recess We urge you to stick for fair measure of protection on wool and until 4 o'clock p. m. meats. All business of State, especially central and northern Arizona The motion was agreed to, there being, on a division, ayes dependent on success of live-stock industry. ' 51, noes 15; and (at 2 o'clock and 12 minutes p. m.) the Senate FLAGSTAFF BOARD OF TRADE. took a recess until 4 o'clock p. m., when it reassembled. My reply was as follows, which I transmitted by telegraph: CALLING OF THE BOLL. APRIL 6, 1913. FL~GSTAFF BOARD OF TRADE. l\Ir. SMOOT. Mr. President, . I suggest the absence of a Flagstaff, Ariz.: quorum. Your telegram would indicate you think I am a standpat Republican instead of n Progressive Democrat. I believe you are intelll~ent, hon­ The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from Utah suggests est, and brave enough to get along very well without any oounty or the absence of a quorum, and the Secretary will call the roll. gift from the Government, and you may be sure that the Democratic Party will keep its promises and that it will not destroy the cattle or The Secretary called the roll, and the following Senators sheep industry. answered to their names : HE~RY F. ASHURST, Ashurst Clapp James McLean Unitea States Senator. Bacon Clark, Wyo. Johnson, Me. Nelson Bankhead Clarke, Ark. Johnston, Ala. Newlands A gentleman in the State of Arizona transmitted a letter to Borah Colt Jones Norris me urging that I should vote against any bill which had for its Bradley Fall . Kenyon O'Gorman Brady Fletcher Kern Overman purpose the reduction of the tariff on meats, cattle, · sJ;leep, or Brandegee Gallinger La Follette Page wool, and I transmitt~ to him the following letter, which I Bristow Goff Lane Pittman ask the Secretary to read. Burton Gore Lodge . Ransdell Chamberlain Hollis Martine. N. J. Reed The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, the Secretary Chilton Hughes Mccumber Robinson will read as requested. 42 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN ATE. l\..PRIL 7,

The S~CFetary read as follows : The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Massachu- MARCH 28, 1913. setts object to the introduction of the joint resolution? · MY DEAR FRIEND: This in reply to yours of the 10th instant. In asking me to oppose any reduction in the tariff on beef, mutton, Mr. LODGE. Oh, no; I do not object. I am very glad to cattle, sheep, raw wool, woolen goods. and leather goods you surely ~ave the joint resolution introduced.; but all morning business is must have been. under the impression that I was a standpat Republican m order, I should think. instead of a progressive Democrat. The Democratic Party is com­ mitted, so far ::ts fa ith nnd honor can bind men, to reduce the tariff on The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senn.tor from Ohio introduces the necessaries of life; and I could not take the action you request me a joint resolution which will be read by title. to take unless I turned traitor to every principle I have been advo­ cating since I reached majority. Every pe1·son in the world ls a free Mr. GALLINGER. Let the joint resolution be read in full, trader after he gets bis own interests protected. The cattlemen want 1! it is not too long, Mr. President. <'attle, meats, and hides protected. but want to buy everything else as cheaply as possible. The woolgrowers want wool protected, but natu­ The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will read as re­ rally desire to parchas':! everything else us cheaply as they may. The quested. pineapple growers want everything on the free list but pineapples; the The joint resolution ( S. J. Res. 2) for the relief of destitute sewini:::-macblne manufacturer wants sewing machines protected and everything else on the free list, and so on down the line. persons within the State of Ohio in the districts devastated I am always glad to please my friends in Artzona1 but I can not do by the recent floods was read the first time by its title and the what you ask I shall not vote to permit one set of men to make second time at length, as follows: money improperly nt the· expense of the whole public. No legitimate business should r~quire a. gift. bounty. or largess from the Government. Resolved, .eta., That the sum of 2,000,000 is hereby appropriated, If the Democratic Party, after the promises it has made to the people to be immediately available, of which sum so much as is necessary shall to reduce the tariff, should then begin to equivocate. It would be the be used to reimburse the War Department for such ex:pendltures as end-and ought to be the end---Of the Democratic Party. ha".'e been made for the relief of flood sufferers within the State of With kindest persona.I re_g:irds, Oh10, and the balance shall be placed in the hands of the .American Yours, cordially, Hl!lNnY F. ASHURST. National Red Cross Society, to be expended in cooperation with the State and local authorities within the State of Ohio for the further Mr. ASHURST. Mr. President, many of the gentlemen ask­ relief of people rendered destitute by the devastation of the floods in .• in"' me to vote against a reduction of the tariff on beef, cattle, that State. meat, wool, and sheep are my close personal friends and have The _officers of the .American National Red Cross Society are hereby authorized to expend the amount available for the purpose of this been for many years. Naturally it is not pleasant for me to resolution in their discretion and in cooperation with the State and cast a vote directly against what they believe to be their best local autho.dties; and an accounting of such funds shall be made to interests. but the time has come when a public man must give and audited by the Auditor for the War Department. up his personal interests and the interests of a few men of his Mr. STONE. I am uncertain as to just what committee that own particular State for the larger good and general good of all joint resolution ought to go. · the people. The other day some gentlemen urged me to oppose a reduc­ Mr. WARREN. I think it should go to the CommH.i:ee on tion of the tariff on sugar. My reply was that I am concerned Appropriations. with seejng to it that the 300,000 sugar consumers in the State Mr. STONE. I should think it should be referred to the of Arizona shall have con.side.ration above the few men raising Committee on Appropriations. Then I move, if it is necessary sugar- beets in Arizona. for me to do so, that the joint resolution be referred to the Mr. President, I make this statement and correction in no Committee on Appropriations. spirit of resentment against the newspapers that have so com­ Mr. WARREN. I understood the Chair to direct that the pletely mi stated my position. There is not a Senator here who joint resolution be referred to that committee. owes the newspapers more than I do. As a distinguished Sena­ The VICE PRESIDENT. It will take that course, it there tor sitting before me once said, the only way the newspapers is no objection. have ever abused me was to overpraise me and to say good Mr. STONE. I rose under the impression that the Senator thing about me that I did not deserve. from Ohio [l\fr. BURTON]. desired immediate consideration for I trust I have made my position clear, and thank the Senate the joint resolution. for its attention. Mr. STONE. Mr. President, I wish in a. word to say that, in Mr. BURTON. I have conferred with some of my fellow my opinion, the exploitation of individual views on the tariff Senators to obtain their opinions in regard to it, and, in defer­ question might well be delayed for a- while. This is a great ence to them, I do not feel justified in asking for the immediate question we are confronting, and for the manner of dealing consideration of the joint resolution. I give notice, however, with it the Democratic Party is responsible. I think we could that I shall call it up at the earliest possible date. I trust it very weU await with patience a time when this whole question will receive very early consideration by the Committee on Ap­ is brought be.fore the Senate in some form that will challenge propriations, and that that committee will be called to meet our serjou consideration. not later than to-morrow morning. Mr. ASHUR T. Mr. President, I arose with much delibera­ The VICE PRESIDENT. The joint resolution will be re­ tion and asked if it was proper for me to make this statement. ferred to the Committee on Appropriations. The distinguished Senator from Missouri seems to think that Mr. LA FOLLEYI'TE. Mr. President, I ask lea·re to introduce I should ha>e waited for a more convenient season. I was very a bill for: _reference to the proper committee. careful not to vioh1te a precedent. I asked in advance if it Mr. LODGE. Mr. President-- would be a >iolation of precedent. Our distinguished and be­ The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair thinks he will be com­ loved Vice Pre ident ruled correctly, as I believe, and held it pelled to rule that petitions and memorials shall first be pr~­ would not be a violation of the precedents and rules for me to sented. make this personal statement, and in all kindness to the Senator PETITIONS A.ND MEMORIALS. from Missouri, I am bound to say that I am a very accurate umpire as to time, place, and manner in which I should exploit 1fr. LA FOLLETTE. I present a joint resolution adopted by the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin, which I ask may be my individual views. read and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. RELIEF OF FLOOD SUFFERERS IN OHIO. There being no objection, the joint resolution was rea:.i nd Mr. BURTON. :1r. President, I desire to make a parliamen­ refe1:red to the Committee on the Judiciary, as follows: tary inquiry. I desire to introduce a rather urgent resolution Whereas It appears from investigation recently made by the Senate of relating to the floods in Ohio. Is jt in order to introduce the the United States, and otherwise, that polygamy still exists in cer­ resolution? tain places in the United States, notwithstanding prohibitory statutes enacted by the several States tnereof ; and 'The ICE PHJ

of Representatives of the United States and to the several Members of of Agriculture, the respective Houses in Congress, and to each of our said bodies representing this State therein ; also to transmit copies Senators and Representatives in Congress now in office, and those who hereof to the legislatures of all other States of the United States. will assume office on March 4, 1913. THOMAS MORRIS, President of the Senate. .M:r. McOGMBER. I present a concurrent re&olution passed MERLIN HULL, by the Legislature of North Dakota which I ask may be read Spealcer of the A.sseni'bl!J. A. C. TRETOW, and referred t6 the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Acting Chief Clerk. There being no objection, the concurrent resolution was read DEPARTMENT OF STATE. and referred to the Committee on .Agriculture and Forestry, as Received March 26, 1913, 9.10 a. m. follows: - J. S. DONALD, Mr. Hoge- introduced the following concurrent resolution urging Con­ Secretary of State. gress to .enact a law prohibiting the use of the parcel post for the mall­ Mr. LA ·FOLLETTE presented a esolution adopted at a ing of cigarettes, snuff', etc., within States prohibiting the sale thereof: meeting of the Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage Association, which Whereas the Thirteenth LegisJative Assembly of the State of North Dakota bas passed laws prohibiting the sale of cigarettes and snuff was referred to the Committee on Woman's Suffrage and in this State; and ordered- to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: Whereas several other States have passed similar laws; and Resolved, That this meeting of the Wisconsin Woman's Sutir~ge Whereas the common violators of these and any other prohibition laws Association deplores the treatment accorded Wisconsin women durmg are now planning the importation of cigarettes and snutr by parcel the procession March 3, as well as the treatment accorded the women post in defiance of the laws of this and other States; and of other States, and we believe that the proper person or persons Whereas said laws have been enacted for the purpose of being enforced : should be held rC'sponslble. . Now, therefore, be it _ 1\Irs. Henry M. Youmans, president...... Waukesha, Wis. ; Mrs. Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of North Da­ H. W. Chynoweth, president, uane County, Madison, kota (the Senate concurring), That we urge upon our Senators and Wis.; Miss Harriett F. Bain, president, Kenosha, Representatives in Congress o! the · United StateG to use. their best Kenosha, Wis.; Mrs. Rex Mccreery, Brown County, e1for!s. apd influence toward securing the passage of an act of Congress Green Bay, Wis. ; Mrs. Frank Eggers, president, Man· prohibiting the use of the parcel post for the mailing of ci~are ttes or ltowoc County, Manitowoc, Wis. ; Mrs. Mary D. Brad­ snutr or any substitute . therefor addressed to any post office within ford past president Wisconsin State Teachers' Associa­ the State of North Dakota or any other State havin"' such anti­ tion'· Mrs. Gustav A. Bipke, 1\Illwaukee, Wis.; Mrs. cigarette and antisnutr laws, and to prevail upon the Postmaster Gen­ C. W. Steele, president, Whitewater, Whitewater, Wis. ; eral to promulgate rules and regulations of the Post Office Department Mrs. W. M. Waters, Richland Center; Miss Ada L. James ex-secretary Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage Asso­ t~akr'r~~r prevent the use of the parcel post to evade State laws: Be ciation, Richland Center, Wis. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be mailed by the secretary of state to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress of the Mr. SMITH of South Carolina. Mr. President, do I under­ United States. stand now that we are proceeding in regular order under the This is to certify that the foregoing resolution originated in. the house head of morning business? and was adopted on the 6th day of March and was concurred in by The VICE PRESIDENT. We are. the senate on the 7th day of March, 1913. Mr. SMITH of South Carolina. If so, at the proper time I J. II. FRAINE, Speaker of the House. shall present certain matters. M. J. GEORGE, Mr. WORKS presented a memorial of the Legislature of the Chief Clerk of the Hottse. A. T. KRAABEL, State of California, which was referred to the Committee on Presiclcnt of the Senate. Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed in the W. D. AUSTIN, RECORD, as follows : Secretary of the Senate. Assembly joint resolution 2~ relative to requesting the United States Mr. W .ALSH presented a joint resolution of the Legislature . Congress to authorize ano direct the postal savings system to loan of the State of Montana, which was referred to the Committee its funds to school districts. on Public Lands and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as Whereas under the act of Congress now in force, which establishes a postal savings system throughout the United States, there is no follows: authority by which the board of trustees of said postal sav~ngs Senate joint memorial 6. system is permitted to loan the funds of so.id system to the various To the honorable Senate ana House of Representatives in the Congress school districts throughout the Nation; and of the United States: Whereas it appears that, if such authority existed, the school districts Your memorialists, the Thirteenth Legislative Assembly of the State of this State and every State would be able thereby to obtain money ~e~~-fa1f~a, do hereby submit for your consideration the followi.ng directly from the funds of said postal savings system with more facility and at lower rates of interest; and Whereas there is now pending Jn the Congress of the United States a Whereas It appears that, by their ability to borrow money more easily bill for an act providing, among other tbin~s, that if the State of and under better conditions, the school districts of this State anu Montan_ a. shall agree to establish and main tam an agricultural, man­ of every State will receive great benefits of economy, saving, and ual trru.mng, or other educational or public institution upon a section financial prosperity, which will consequently afford the rising genera­ of land upon which the buildings at Fort Assinniboine are located tion of our Nation better education and development: Be it therefore the President is authorized to grant the lands and buildings to the Resolved, That the Senate and Assembly of the State of California State on payment of $2.50 per acre therefor; and hereby join in requesting the Congress of the United States to amend Whereas there ls now pending before the Thirteenth Legislative Assem­ the act establishing the postal savings system in such manner as will bly of the State of Montana a bill for an act entitled "An act to authorize and direct the board of trustees of said postal savings system establish and locate the Northern Montana Agricultural nnd Manual­ to invest the funds of said system in school-district bonds of the vari­ T,.aining School, and an agricult.iral experimental substation in con­ ous school districts of the several States, and that our representatives nection therewith ; appropriating money to pay the United States in the Senate and the House of Representatives of Congress do their Government for the land upon which the same is to be situated, and utmost to further such legislation as will effect the above result; and to start and institute said institution," which is to be located at be it further Fort Asslnniboine aforesaid ; and Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be forthwith transmitted Whereas in the judgment of your memorialists one section of arid land by the clerk of the assembly to the President of the Senate of the is not a su.fil.cient area to be devoted to the purpose aforesaid, and United States and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the with 2,000 acres the efficiency of said school would be greatly in­ United States, and a copy hereof to each Member of Congress and to creased,_ and it would soon become almost, if not entirely, self­ each newly elected Member of Congress. • supportmg : C. C. YOUNG, Therefore, we respectfully request your honorable body to increase Speaker of the Assembly. the area of land to be devoted to the purposes aforesaid from one sec­ L. B. MALLORY, tion to 2 000 acres, to be granted to the State of Montana under the Chief Olerk of the Assembly. same conditions and for the same consideration per acre as in said bill Mr. WORKS presented a memorial of the Legislature of the already provided. This memorial shall be in force trom and after its adoption by both State of California, which was referred to the Committee on houses and approval by the governor. Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game and ordered to W. w. McDowELL, be printed in the RECORD, as follows: President of the Senate. Ass~mbly joint resolution 19, relative to establlshing game refuges in A. D. MACDONALD, Speaker of the House. the national forest reserve in the State of California. Filed March 14, 1013, at 11.40 o'clock a. m. . Whereas there is in the State of California over 25,000,000 acres of national forest reserves, containing a large variety of wild game A. M. ALDEltSON, animals and birds ; and Secretary of State. Whereas, because of the largely increasing population adjacent to such By COPEL.A.ND c. BURG, Deputy. forest reserves, many species of wild animals and birds are facing UNITXD STATES OF AMERICA, State Of Montana, ss: extinction and there is a aecessity for the protection and preserva­ I, A. M. Alderson, secretary of state of the State of Montana, do . tion of such game animals and birds, that they have places of refuge hereby certify that the above is n true and correct copy of senate joint where they can propagate and increase unmolested : memorial 6, petitioning Congress to increase the area of land at Fort Resolved, That the Senate and Assembly of the Legislature of the Assinniboine from one section to 2,000 acres, for the purpose of estab­ State of California in joint action, memorialize Congress to set aside lishing and locating the Northern Montana Agricultural and Manual­ all or part of each of the national forest reserves in California as game Tralning School and an agricultural experiment substation in connection refuges in which the taking or bunting of game animals and birds therewith, enacted by the thirteenth session of the Legislative Assembly shal1 be prohibited. of the State of Montana, and approved by S. V. Stewart, governor of said State, on the 14th day of March, A. D. 1913. · Resolt;ed, That our Senators and Representatives Jn Congress be re­ In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the quested to use all honorable means to secure the passage of a measure great seal of said State. or such other action as may be necessary, declaring said lands as game pone at the city of Helena, the capital of said State, this 15th day refuges for the protection and conservation of the game therein. of March, A. D. 1913. Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Presi­ dent of the United States, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary [SEAL.] A. M. ALDERSON, Secretary of State. 44 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENA TE. APRIL 7,

Mr. WALSH presented a joint memorial of the Legislature of Mr. WALSH presented a joint memorial of the Legislature the State of Montana. whiC'h was referred to the Committee on of the State of Montana, which was refeITed to the Commlttee Public Lands and .ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as on Agriculturn and Forestry and ordered to be printed in the follows : RECORD, as follows : House joint resolutJon .5, relative to suspending entries on Flathen.d Senate joint memorial 3. Reservation. WheretlB a large number of citizens on what was formerly the Flathead Peti~on to Co~ress to enact such legislation· as will be necessary for Reservation in Montana have presented filings on lands which are thv. construction of a system of paved public highways connecting the unoccupied and unallotted ; and capitol of the several States of the Union with the National Capitol Whereas said filin~ have been rejected and suspended by reason of the and with each other, and also with the principal national parks. fact that the srud land bas not been classified or appraised; and To the honorable Senate and Hoiiee of RepreseMativ es tn the Congress Whereas many of these settlers have made their applications several of the United States assembled: yea1·s ag.o and suld n.pplications have been rejected or suspended, awaiting the action of the department, which action has not yet been Where~s a uniforn:i system of national public highways or roads, con­ taken; be it therefore nec~ng the ~ap1tols of the se-ve:ral States of the Union with the Nation~! ~ap1tol .at Washington and with each other and al o with Resolv ed, That the Legislative Assembly of the Stafo of Montana th~ prmc1pal national parks, will vastly promote commerce between does .hereby protest agninst the dilatory action of the Department o.f the. several Stat~s and reduce the cost of transportation thereof · the Interior and does hereby demand that tbe said Department of the facilitate . and cheapen travel and social intercourse between lb~ Interior take steps to immediately classify and appraise said lands to people ; <;lisco~rage sectionalism, and render the entire people more the end that settlers may have proper filings accepted and that the land co mopoht-;'ln m ~e llectually, morally, and politically; aid the farmer in question may be cultivated and become homes for citizens of the in m.arketmg his produce and make farm life more agreeabl e, at­ United States who have applied for and desire the snme; be it further tractiye, and profitable ; induce American t o see and know America · Resolved, That copies of this r esolution be pre ent ed to the Pres1dent beautify au part s of the Union; intensify industrial activities ! of the United States, the Secretary of the Interior, and to the Members encoura ~e good i·oad building throughout the continent · and bring of the United States Senate and House of Representatives from the entire people count less blessings, conveniences, and 'joys known Montana. only to a h1ghly developed country; and - A. D. 1\1.A.CDONALD, Whe:eas to secm·e uniformity, thoroughness, and economy in con­ Speaker of the House. str uctl-0n, fitness, and adaptability ot grades and avoidance of such W. w. McDOWELL, local cont1oversies ln the selection of routes as would probably delay President of the Senate. if. not defeat, the entire enterprise, and the cost of such a system of Approved Februa.ry U, 1913. highways being beyond the probable financial resources of the several S. V. STEW.A.RT, Governor. States, it would be necessary that it be constructed at the expen se Filed February 25, 1913, at 1.10 o'clock p. m. g~~tunder the supervision of the Genei-al Government: Now, therefore, A. M. ALDERSON, Secr etm·v of State. U NITED ST.ATES Oli' A.MERICA, State of M ontana, ss : Resolved ( t he ho,use concun-i11g) , We, the Thirt eenth Legislative As- I, A. M. Alderson, secretary of state of the Stnte of Montana, do sembly of the State of Montana, do hereby petition and earnestly pr y hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of house joint the honorable Congress of the United States for the passage of legislation resolution 5, relative to suspending entries on Flathead Reservation, for the location and construction, under the upcrvision ancl by the enacted by the thirteenth session of the Le ~ islative Assembly of the General Government, of a system of national highways or roads which ~tate o! Montana a nd approved by S. V. Stewart, governor of said shall connect the capitols of the several States of the Union with the State, on the 25th day of F ebruary, 1913. National Capitol ~t Washington and with each other, and also wit h In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the the principal national parks; that such national highways be con­ great i:;eal of said State structed on firm concrete bases with hard surfaces and as nearly Done at the city of Helena, the capital of said State, this 25th day dustless as fiossible; that thefi be located solely with regard to the of February, A. D. 1913. F~~:~~~t pub c good and feas billty of route and grades ; and be it LS.EAL.] A. M. ALDERSON, . Secretary of State. Resolved, That Con"'ress provide in such legislation means of raising the necessary money for the location and construction of such national Mr. WALSH presented a joint memorial adopted by the Leg­ highway by the restoration of the internal-revenue tax of 187!) on islature of the State of Montana, which was referred to the tobacco, or in some other manner as to it shall seem meet and proper and that the location and construction oi such system of highways be Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, and ordered to be commenced, as means can be proVided, throughout the country generally printed in the HECORD, as follows : without giving priority to any sections or locations; and it is fu1·tber Resolved, '£hat a copy of this memoriD.l be forwarded by the secretary Senate joint memorial 4. of state of the State of Montana to the Senate of the United States, retition to Congre.ss to enact such legislation as will be necessary for and that copies of this memorial be forwarded by the secr~tary of state the establishment and the maintenance of an agricultural building for of the State of Montana to the House of Representatives of the the display of agricultural products. United States ; and be it further · To the honorable Senate and House of Representatives in Congress of Resolved, That copies there.of be transmitted by the secretary of the Unit ed States assembled: state of the State of Montana to the Senators and Representatives in Congress of the State of Montana, with the request that they use Whereas the State of Montana de ires to stimulate interest in and every effort within their power to bring about a speedy action for the direct attention to agricultural pursuits, and we believe that an accomplishment oi the ends and purposes herein indicated. attractiv~ display of agricuJ.tural products will render good results in the matter of the settlement and cultivation of unoccupied lands W. W. MCDOWELL, in Montana and other States: Therefore be it President of the Senate. Resolved.* That we the Thirteenth Legislative .Assembly of the State A. D. MAcDo ALD, of Montana, the senate and house concurring, do hereby petition the Speaker of the House. Congress of the Un1ted Stat:es for the passage of legislation providing Approved, February 25, 1913. for the establishment and maintenance, undei· the supervision and regu­ s. v. STEWART, Gov C1"1lGr. lation of the Department of Agriculture of the Un1ted States, of an Filed February 25, 1013, at 3.30 o'clock p. m. agricultural building in the city of Washington, D. C., for the perma­ A. M. ALDERSON, nent and conspicuous displa y of agricultural products of every kind and Secretary of State. oescription from every State and Ten-itory of the United States. That said buUding be kept open during business hours of all legal days, and UNITED STA.TES OF A M ERICA, State of Montana, ss: that an examination and inspection of said products be permitted by I, A. 1\1 • .Alderson, secr-0tary of state or the State of Montana., do Visitors from all parts of the world. hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of senate joint · R esolved /urthe1·, That a copy of this memorial be forwarded by the memorial No. 3; petitioning Congress to enact such legislation as will secretary o state to the honorable Secretary of Agriculture of the be necessary :for the construction of a system of paved public highways United States and to our Senators and Representatives in C-0ngress, connecting the capitols of the several States of the n1on with the with the request that they use every effort within their power to secure National Capitol and with each other, and also with the principal the enactment .of su.ch legislation as is necessary to carry out the national parks, enacted by the thirteenth session of the Legislative purposes herein expressed. Assembly of the State of Monwna and approved by S. V. Stewart, W. W. MCDOWELL, governor of said State, on the 25th day of February, 1913. P1·es·ident of the Benatie. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the A. D. MACDONALD, great seal of said State. Speaker of the Hottse. Done at the city of HeleI!a, the capital of sllid State, this 26th day Approved, March 14, 1913. of February, A. D. UH3. S . V . STEW ART, (SE.AL.) A. M. ALDE.RSON, Governor. Secretary of State. Filed l\!arch 14, 1913, at 4.15 o'clock p. m. A. 1\1. ALDERSON, Secretary of State. Mr. WALSH presented a joint memorial of the Legislature of By COPELA!'ID C . BURG, the State of Montana, which was referred to the Committee on Deput11. I1Tigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands and ordered to be UNITED ST.A.TES OF MIEil.ICA, State of Montana, es : RECORD, I, A. M. Alderson, secretary of state of the State of Montana, do printed in the as follows: hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of senate joint House joint memorial 1. memorial No. 4, petitioning Congress to enact such legislation as wlll be necessary for the establishment and the maintenance of an agricul­ To the honorable Senate and House of Representatives of tlie United tural building for the dlsplal of agl'icultural products., enacted by the States i1l Congress assembled: thirteenth session of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, Whereas the settlers under tbe Lower Yellowstone project, Montana a.nd and approved by S. V. Stewart, governor of said State, ou the 22.d day North Dakota, or17anized under the supervision and direction of the of March. A. D. 1913. Recla.matio.n Serv1ce, the Lower Yellowstone Water Users' .Associa­ In testimony where.of I have hereunto set my band 11nd n.ffi:s:ed the tion, a corporation, and executed and delivered a contr·act to said cor~ great seal of said Stnte. poration subscribing for stock in aaid corporation., whlch empowered Done at the city of Helena, the capital of said State, t_hls 14th day said corporation, under the direction 'Of th-a Secretary of the Interior, of March, A. D. 1913. to sell th€ir homesteads and their lands unless the owners made [SEAL. ] A. M . ALDETISON, application for water rights and complied with the provislo.ns of the Sem·etary of State. act of Congress of June 17, 1902 ; and 1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 45

Whereas said contracts were entered into and executed with the under­ pledge to- form 1t Info distinct republican States and to admlt them rur standing that the final estimated cost of the project was $30 per members of the Federal Union, having the same rfgbts &f freedom, acre, and that the cost to them should not exceed that amount per sovereignty, and independence as the other States. This ;>ledge your acre on their holdings, and that the :ta.rm unit under said project was committee believes would not be redeemed by merely divHling the- sur­ 160 acres ; and face into States and giving them names, but it includes a pledge to Whereas the Qrovtslons of the act of Congress of June 17, 1902, pro­ sell the lands1 so that they may be settled and thus form States. No vided that the payments should be made with a. view of returning to other mode or disposing of them cnn be reg:u"ded as a ·eompllance with the reclamation fund the estimated cost of construction, and also that that pledge." the farm unit should be fixed at the time the project is determined For nea.rly 40 years this controversy was wnged with increasing feasible by the Secretary of the Interior ; a:nd intensity, untn 1846, when an act was passed directing the sale of Whereas the cost of constl'llction of said project has exceeded the orid­ these land . nal estlmated cost of $750,000, increasing the cost thereof to the This condemned and discarded PQlicy is now sought to be resur­ settlers to $42.50 per acre ; and rected ; and in pursuance thereof there have been withdrawn forest, Whereas many settlers prior to the initiation of said project have se­ coal, oil, '8hosphate, and power-site lands, aggregating- in Colorado cured from the Government tracts of land embracing more than 80 over 21,00 ,00() acres, equal to 33 per cent of the total area of the acres, and the Secretary of the Interior by his ruling has required State, together with similar amounts in other Western Statea, so that that such settlers reduce their holdings to 80-acre tracts, the s&me in all the al'ea thus withdrawn is greater than the combined area of being adopted as the farm unit under said project, which said ruling Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con­ the said settlers denounce as contrary to the provisions of the recla­ necticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware,. Maryland, Pennsylvania, mation act: Now therefore be it both Virginias, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois, and thus nearly Resol'l:ea (the senate concurring), Tbat we, the Thirteenth Legi~ 300,000,000 acres are now, and have been for several ycarff, i>ractically lative Assembly of the State of. Montana, do hereby petition the Con­ out of reach of individual enterprise or taxation fo-r the support of the gress of the United States for the passage of neee ary legislation and State government. '.l.'his obstructi-ve pol1cy is a departure from the the abrogation of unjust rulings, providing that the settlers under said policy of the past 50 years and in violation of the rights of these Yellowstone project shall not oe required to return to the reclamation States as provided in their enabllng acts admitting th~m into the tund an amount exceeding the original estimated cost of $30 per acre; Union, their constitutions, and the fundamental p.rinciplcs on which and, further, that said settlers under said project who acquired from the Union of the States ls predicated. the Government prior to the initiation thereof ti·acts of land embracing The idea that the leasing of the forests and other public lands for mor tha.n SO acres be permitted to hold the same undei.- satd project, grazing purposes to stoekmen, reserving to the settler and miner a not exceeding 160 acres each, and to acquire water rights thereunder right to enter them, will give the latter adequate protection is a fal­ for the whole of said holdings ; further lacy for the reason that it is obvious that such entries will neces­ Resolved, That a copy of this memorial be forwarded by the secre­ sarily interfere with the p-roper handling of stock. Wbe:re a stoclrman tary of state to the President of the United States and to the Secre­ has 1,000 acres or more under such a lease, and a homesteader should tary of the Interior and our Senators and Representatives tn Congress, undertake to enter 160 or 320 ncres of the best ot it, tt is. a certainty with the request that they use their every effort to- bring about speedy that the stockman would in every way not positively unlawful dis­ action for the accomplishment of the ends and puffoses herein indicated. courage the settler, unless we credit the stoekm.an with less than ordi­ A. D. MACDONALD, nary sense of self-protection. And it is equally certain that he wotld Speaker of the House. succeed in preventing the e:ntry, even it he had to buy the settler ofr. w. w. MCDOWELL, The inevitable result of such leases will be to substantially end President of the Se1uLte. homesteading and mining on the public lands . .Approved February 2~, 1913. 6. We assert that the States are vested with the right to control the s. v. STEWAJlT, waters within their respective borders (snbjeet only to the right of Oo-r;ernor. the Federal Government to protect navigation on tho e streams tl::"t Filed Fcbrnary 25, 1913, o.t 1.10 o'clock p. m. are navlgabte}, to dispose ot them to those who will use them for A. M. ALDERS()~ beneficial purposes, and that all returns tberefi'om, direct or indirect, Secretary of f:jtate. justly belong to the States nnd not to the Federal QQ ermnent. UNITED STATES OF AMpmcA, State of Montana, ss: 7. Experience ha~ shown that the methods of the R.eelama:tion Serv­ I, A. AI. Alderson, secretary of· state of the State ot Montana, do ice in the irrigation of arid lands have been less expeditious and more hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of House joint arbitrary and unjust iD the disregard of the equitabJe rights ol its own memorial No. l, petitioning Congress for the enactment of such legisla­ water users nnd other competitve project than tho e o! private enter­ tion as will relieve the settlers under the lower Yellowstone project prises. Not only so, but these projects have be n made the excuse by enacted by the thirteenth session of th.e Legislative Assembly of the officers of the departments concerned tor refnsal and Interminable State of Montana, :ind a:pproved by S. V. Stewart, governor of said delays in approving the rights o! way and occupancy o:f private irriga­ State, on the 25th day of February, 1913. tion projects, to which the latter are unquestionably entitled und.er In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the the laws of the United States. great seal of said State. Reclamation of arid lands when undertnken by the United States Done at the e1ty 01' Helena, the capital of said State, this 25th day Government should in all cases recognize the rights of the· States to of February, A. D. 1913. control the waters within their borders and should also recognize the (SEAL.) A. M. ALDERSOY, equitable rights of its water users and other comp.etittve projects and Secn~tary of State. those of private enterprises. These pro-jeets and enterprises should not be made by officers of the Mr. THOMAS presented a memorial of the Legislature ot the Reclamation Service an excuse for refusal to approve of rights of way State of Colorado, which was referred to the Committee on the and occupancy of lands under private h·rigation projects; sueh delays Conservation of National Resources and ordered to be printetl in seriously obstruct private enterprise and the development and improve­ ment of lands belonging to the States, and we ask that any such the RECORD, us follows : refusals be revoked. House joint memorial 5. We further ask that tbe Reelam:xtion Service take immediate steps looking toward the early completion of all projects now under way To Ilon. Woodrow Wilso-n, President elect, and. the Congress of the within this State, in order that early settlement under these projects United States: may take place. Your memorialist, the General Assembly of the State of Colorado, re­ 8. The great descent and geneml character of mountain streams spectfull;r represents that under the present Federal policy of control of gives such endless opportunities fot water plant that any monopcly of the pubhc domain the following conditions obtain : tbe same is physically imPos :ible. Indeed, the idea I gYowing rapidly 1. The people of Colorado are in favor 01' conservation in the mean­ that the small power plant is tbe coming one. When water has served ing of prevention of ·waste and monopoly, bnt a.re unalterably opposed its purpose for one power plant it continues it descent. It is not to it in the definition of preserving our lands and resources in their consumed nor does it vanish. Its volume is as gl'eat after as before, present state for future generations. We agree that these natural re­ and therefore bot a little lower down in the mountains another power sources belong to all the people, but this ownership is not now different plant may be constructed and so cm while the stre3.Ill shall last.. from what it always has been, namely, subject to the right of tile citi­ These delays have seriously obstructed not only these private proj­ Y-en to acquire the same under liberal laws to the extent necessary to ects but have also interfered with the irrigation Ulld improvement of satisfactory settlement and the building of permanent homes. several hundred thousand acres of land belonging to the State of Colo­ 2. It bas been charged that the Western States have failed in the past rado and granted under the laws of the United States fQr the pmpose to do their duty in the conservation of these resources, but those who make these charges crtterly fail to consider that any unlawful acquisi­ of improvement and sale by the State. tion or wa te was committed under Federal laws and on public lands 9. We recognize that some good bus been accomplished by the Forest and that the States, having no control, were powerless to prevent it'. Service, yet at the same time its cost has been many times greater than They also fail to recognize the fact that the amount of lands unlawfully its benefit; it has materially hindered the settlement and development acquired was a mere tri.tle compared with that lawfully acqu1red by of the country chiefly because of the hard and fast rules made at bona fide settlers and others. Washington by chiefs unfamiliar wltb actual condition , :md adminis­ 3. The older States have had, and still have, the benefits arising from tered by subordinates. many of whom a.re equally unfamiliar with such private acquisitions of all the public lands within their boundaries re­ conditions. ceiving revenue therefrom through taxation and otherwise, and ft ts As to the scle:ntlfic forestry promised, It is only necessary to refer to therefore a great injustice that they should now seek to impose upon the the reports of the forester to show that his management in many Western States obstructions and burdens with which they themselves did respects is most unscientific. His reports show that bDtlons of feet of • not have to contend. timber in the national forests are overripe, decaying and decayed, and 4. We deny that it is right or advisable for the Federal Government are an actual fire II!enace to the remainder and ought to ~ cut. Yet to retain the title to and lease the public lands for any purpose, as the the high prices he asks ar.d the rules and regulat ions enforced are history of the country shows that in 1807 Congress authorized the War gre'l.tly restricting sales and cutting. Department to lease the lead mines in tbe territory afterwards em­ We Ul'ge that a. committee, congres2ional or otherwise. bP. immediately braced in the States of Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa appointed to visit Colorado and investigate the conditions referred to reserving to the United States a royalty of one-sixth of the product. ' above a!l:i report on the sa:me. It seems necessary to have the com­ 5. This system was vigorously opposed by tbe residents of the reg!on mittee p-;irsue its inv(jltlgation on the ground, as few of those who involved from the very beginning, and after a few years' trial the Mis­ suffer by the methods tn force would be able to advance the expenses souTl Legislature and the govei:nor of Illinois protested against it of P. trip to Washington. Besides, an actual view of many of these Presidents Polk and Fillmore urged its abandonment. The Secretary things will disclose features which it W(}Uld be difficult to. make clear of War condemned it, saying that the benefit to the Government bore by testimony. " no just proportion to the injury done to the country, first, by retard­ 10. An unjust discrimination is made between grazing and other ing the settlement of tho country and, second, by the demoralizing in­ agricultural lands. '.fhe major pe>rtlon of this State is composed of :fluence of the system." what is termed grazing lands, and grass is the greatest agricultural Year after year congressional Committees on Public Lands reported crop known and the most indispensable. .All lands at oresent chiefly against it. One of these reports concludes- as follows: valuable for grazing should be as freely open to entry as a.re "farm" " When the United States accepted the cession of the northwestern lands, but in sufficient quantities to support famJUes. More than three­ territory the acceptance was on the express condition and under a fourths of our present cultivated area was originally located as pasture. 46 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· SENATE. APRIL 7, and it was largely through this privilege that our present cultivated 16. The continued withdrawal of our lands and resources from entry area was developed. and placing them upon a revenue basis to pay royalties into the Federal There is hardly an acre of grazing land on-the plains that will not Treasury mea11;s their control by Congress, and that 'l'exas, which never ultimately become agricultural lands with the development of storage of had any public lands would in the House of Representatives have water and the economical use thereof. four times the legislatlve power over our territory that we ourselves 11. Nearly air of our metalliferous lands have been included in forest could exert; and that New York, which has no public domain would reserves, since which time not a single important mining camp has been have ten umes the legislative Eower over our territory that we our­ opened. The unwarranted interference by the Forest Service is largely selves possess~ and that, too, w thout any adequate knowledge of local responsible for the falling olf of approximately $20,000,000 in the an­ conditions ana necessities. nual metal output. The man who is willing to put bis labor and money The double jurisdiction over the territory of the State ha.s led to into the development of a mining claim is the person best fitted .to strong opposition to Federal officials, against whose orders and rules classify the land and should be permitted to acquire it. there is no recourse in the courts, and employees of the Federal bureaus We venture the assurance that if 40 years ago the forest reserves defending their position have been constantly doing missionary work in had been established neither Leadville nor Cripple Creek nor a score of behalf of the general principle of Federal control of our lands and other mining camps would have been discovered or develoned. resources. The Forest Service for instance, through its numerous Although our lands are of great variety they are open to entry for employees, has been able to enfist the Eastern press in praise of its but few purposes and in unsuited quantities. For instance, a piece of work and to create a sentiment against the West. land can not be taken merely for a home. The Federal Constitution declares, "The United States shall guar­ 12. In territorial days Congress gave us the water of our natural antee to each State in the Union a republican form of government " streams and confirmed that right in the acceptance of 0111' State con­ not a republi~an form of government over part of the State but over stitution. Certain Feder.'ll bureaus are trying to take away that right lt all. Certamly no man can contend that a republican form of gov­ by denying r1ghts of way over the public domain. The contention of ernment exists under the bureaucratic control already in force over a Federal authority, as in the case of the Engle Dam, for the first storage large part of our territory, and sought to be enforced over two-thirds of our area.: with its arbitrary rules and regulations enforceable at the of water at the lower end of the stream, instead of near the source of pleasure. or the bureau with discretionary power, with its natural supply, would prevent the repeated use of water for power and irriga­ anta.gomsm to State laws and State control, with a long list of special tion upstream, would uselessly deprive large areas of development and privileges to enlist support, and with all the evils therefore of a system would therefore be contrary to the principle of the " best use" as dem­ of favoritism. onstrated by the experience of more than half a century. "Republicanism and bureaucracy are incompatible existences."-Cen­ The diversion and use of water when streams are high equalize the tury Encyclopedia. flow, furnish a better supply of water during the dry season, and by les. Our laws and customs are built upon experience and our people are sening floods save lives and property on the rivers below. better acquainted with local conditions and necessities and more inter­ Special agents are permitted to protest against the validity of entries ested i.n building the State aright than are the people of the East. If without any knowledge of facts relating thereto. They should be re­ there lS fear of monopolization, Congress in the act of cession could quired to make their objections at the time of final proof, that the provide effective means for reversion of title to the· State whenever entryman may face his accusers. monopoly is attempted. The administration of our public lands and 13. The courts should be opened to land disputes, that citizens may resources should be •Under the jurisdiction of Secretaries of the In­ be afforded an opportunity to enforce their rights, instead of the sys­ terior and Agriculture, familiar from experience with the local situa­ tem now in vogue of determination through star-chamber proceedings tion, in order that it may be for the settlement of our lands the by administrative officers. - development of our institutions, and the betterment of social condiilons. 14. Under the express terms of the enabling act, Colorado was ad­ ~ 7. We therefore earnestly request, under ex1sting or more appro­ mitted to the Union on an equal footing in all respects whatsoever priate laws, such an administration as ·wm secare the settlement of our with the origjnal States. To be on an equal footing we must have the public lands and . the development of our resources, · placing them upon power to tax· the land and other property within the State, for with­ the tax rolls with effective prov1sions against monopolization and out that power we can not maintain State and local governments and waste. We ask for no advantage or privilege not enjoyed by the older institutions. The present policy of the Federal Government is to place StatesJ but feel we have a right to insist that we be placed on an equal our lands and resources on a revenue basis, paying taxes in the form of footing in all rPspects whatsoever with the original States to own and royalties into the Federal Treasury, thereby seriously interfering with use our lands. and resources to buil'.l our State and support its govern­ the means of supporting our needy growing institutions. The effect of ment and institutions. the present policy is to permit local taxation, only upon farm and city and town lands now privately owned. This might be less objectionable .!\fr. BRADY presented a joint memorial of the Legislature of in Iowa and Illinois, where practically all of tbe land is tillable. More Idaho, which was referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs than half of the area Qf Colorado is not tillable undP.r any known method, but is composed of mineral, grazing, and timbereil areas which and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: take the place of farm lands, and which are just as exoP.nsive to gov­ STATE OF IDAHO, ern, if not more 80, than are the farm lands. The oolicv, therefore, DEPARTJ\IE'XT OF STATE. which withdraws these from taxation is a serious handicao to the State. I, Wilfre? L. Gifford, secretary of state of the State of Idaho, do While our resources are of great variety they are not naturally ready hereby certify that the annexed is a full, true, and complete transcript for use. On the average there has been a dollar in exoP.nse for every o( house joint memorial No. 5, by Koelsch, passed the house March 4, dollar in precious metals taken from the mountains. and the value of 1913, passed the senate March 8, 1913, which was filed in this office on our lands is measured by the labor required for their irrigation and the 10th day of March, A. D. 1913, and admitted to record. development. Without the value the presence and industl'V our people In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the have added to them, there is not a dollar's worth of valne on any of reat seal of the State. Done at Boise City, the capital of Idaho this our mineral resources. Every dollar, therefore charged in the form of f0th day of March, A. D. 191il, and of the independence of the United royalty on the products of these resources is a 1-.:ax on human toil. States of America the one hundred and thirty-seventh. We can not hope to secure the best settlement of onr lands nor [SEAL.] WILFllED L. GIFFORD, development of our resources upon a tenantry basis. ThA man who is Secretary of State. permitted to lease lands cheaply for grazing will try to kPP.p them for House joint memorial 5. pasture. Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Idaho 15. There is but one-third of our area on the tax rolls, with extraor. (the Senate concurring), That the Congress of the United States be dinary educational requirements to equip our people to meet mining, memorialized as follows : industrial, irrigation1 and other agricultural develonment. We must, Whereas from the time of the organization of the Territory of Idaho therefore, increase tne taxable area to include all the lands if every until it became a State there were numerous Indian wars within its portion of the State shall bear its just share of this burden. boundaries ; and A large part of our territory is included in the Louisiana Purchase, Whereas a number of the citizens of the Territory of Idaho participated in the treaty ratifying which it is decreed: in such wars and have never been paid for their services: Now there­ "The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incornorated in the fore be it Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as noss1hle, according Resolved, That the Congress of the United States is hereby requested to the principles of the Federal Constitution, to the eninvment of all to take measures by appropriate legislation to cause payment to be the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States." made to all those of our citizens who participated in the Indian wars If this provision were complied with the present bnrPJ111cratic gov­ within the boundaries of Idaho while it was a Territory and who have ernment over large areas of our State would be impossible. Is there not been paid for such services. any reason why people who must live in and do business with the said reservations should be deprived of the same rights and privileges en­ This joint memorial passed the house of representatives on the 4th joyed by the citizens of the older States, and what reason is there to day of March, 1913. suppose that forests can not be grown an1 protected or monopolies pre- C. S. FRENCH, vented under the republican form of government? · Speake1· of tlie House of Representatives. The incentive of ownership is necessary to secure the best develop­ This joint men:orlal passed the senate on the 8th day of March, 1913. ment of our mineral territory, and we can not expect the best citizen­ HERMAN H. TAYLOR, ship unless people are permitted to own their own homes, no matter President of the Senate. in what business they engage. I hereby certify that the within house joint memorial No. 5 origi­ The private-owned land in the State is scattered promiscuously nated in the house of representatives during the twelfth session of the amongst the Federal-owned land, and there can be no hope of har­ Le~slature of the State of Idaho. monious action or good feeling through the intermingled double juris­ L SEAL.] DAVID BURRELL, diction over our territory. Ohief Clm·l• of tho House of Representatives. • The Government proposes as a landlord to go into almost every kind o.f business within the State on untaxed property in competition with Mr. BRADY presented a joint memorial of the Legislature of private owned and taxed property. The public business does not need Idaho, which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs to pay expenses, but the owner of the private property must pay taxes and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows : to make up the loss of his Federal competitor. The Federal Govern­ ment engaging in business as a proprietor must necessarily occupy a • STATE OF IDAHO, contractual relation with the citizen under which the Government may DEPARTMENT OF STATE. enforce its contract against the citizen, whereas the citizen may not I, Wilfred L. Gifford, secretary of state of the State of Idaho, do enforce his contract against the Government. hereby certify that the annexed is a full, true, and complete transcript linder the present admin1stratlon of the forest reserves the Govern­ of senate joint memorial pJ by Fairchild. Passed the senate March 7, ment acknowledges the moral right of the State to tax the property by 1913. Passed the house ruarch 8, 1913, which was filed in this office returning to the State 25 per cent of the proceeds from sales, rentals, on the 10th day of March A. D. 1913, and admitted to recot·d. nnd special privileges. It assumed the right, however, to dictate the In testimony whereof, i have hereunto set my hand and affixed the disposition of this rebate by decreeing that it shall go to the support of great seal of the State. Done at Boise City, the capital of Idaho, this roads and schools-two popular purposes-but ignoring the necessity 10th day of March, A. D. 1913, and of the independence of the United of the State to protect in the courts the very lives of those living upon States of America the one hundred and thirty-seventh. Federal-owned property and the necessity for the maintenance of edu­ (SEAL.] WILFRED L. GIFFORDh. cational, charitable, and penal institutions by the State. iJecretary of ~•ate. 191S, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--SENATE.

,Senate jomt memarial 9. Senate joint memoria,l 7. To tlle honora1Jle, the Senators tzn, united by feelings <>f deepest affection and 'national by the United States for military or Army purposes; and - bon-ds to Tho-roas J.efferson, the auth-0r Df the Declaration -Of AmeTiean 'Whereas the said B<>ise Bal"raeks by ·such abandonment wou111 soon ~ndepende.ace, beaxtily indarse the action of the Jefferson-M<>nticeilo assume a dilapidated appearance unless properly maintained at AR1Socl¥ioo !in endea_v-0ring to reswre to a posltlon <>f national dig­ heavy -expense to the GovernlD€Ilt; -and ..niJy ius home, M()n™"'llo, where he lived, dk>d, e.nd is buried. Whereas the .State -Of Idaho is greatly in n~d of a site at o-r near Us capitol for the establishment er experimental stations whereby the 'The Re~t:i.ry of the State of ldah-0 is beTeby instructed to forward advancement and development of its resources may be aided through this memorial to the Senate and Rouse -01 Representatives .of the United scientl;fic l"esearch : ~tates and .copies of the same to our Senators and Representatives lll Congress. We therefore pray that said Boise Barracks be donated to the State "l:' hls senate 'oint mem'Orial Ilfo. 7 passed the senate on the 28th day of Idaho for such .uses and purposes as the leglslatuce -0f the State of February, 11US. may deem proper. The secretary of state of the State of Jdah-0 is instructed to forward copies of this memorial to the House of Repre- , HERMAN H. TAYLOR, sentaUv.es -0f th-e United States and -00pies of the same to our Senators President of the Senate. and Representatives in Congs:e_ss. This senate joint memorial No. 7 passed the house of representatives This senate joint 1g;eme.rial passed tb-e sellAW on the 7th day .o;i'. on the 1st day of March, 1913. March, 1913. C. S. FRENCH, HERMAN H. TAYL.OR, Speaker of the House cf Ref)1"esenta-tives. President of the Senate. l he.l'eby certiJy that the within senate joint memorial N<>. 7 origi­ This senate joint m~morinl passed the bou.oo of representatives on nated m the se.aate during the twelfth session of the Legislature Df the the 8th day ot March, 1913. State ot Jdaho. C. S. FRENCH, (SEAL.] - 'SUMNER C. BROWN, St;eakcr lJt the House of Representatives. Secretary of the Benate. I hereby certify that the within senate joint memorial 9 originated ln the senate -Ouring ithe twelfth session of the Legislature of the State Mr. BRADY presented a joint memorial of the Legislature of I.daho. of Idaho, which wus referred to the Committee on Finance and [SEAL.] SU:UNER c. BROWN, .ordered to :be printed in the RE-COBD, as follows: Secretary of State. .M.r. BilADY presented a joint memorial -0f the Legislature . -STATE OF IDAHO, DEPARXMJiJNT .OF .8'1'"1.N. of Idaho, which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture I, Wilfred L. Giff<>rcJ, secret~uv of j;tate of the State -0f Idaho do and Forestry allf February, A. D. mm, and ~itted to ~~ . . I, Wilfred L. Gifford, secretary of state of the State of Idaho, do hereby certify that the annexed is a full, true, and complete transcript In testimony WheTeo1', I have hereunto set my band and am.Xe-a th~ of- house j(>int :memorial No. 8, by Oversmitb, passed the house Feb­ gr.eat seal of -the «3tate. Done at Boise City, the capital of· Idaho this rnary 21, 1913, passed the senate March 3, 1918, which was ny whereof I have hereunto se.t my harul anur memorialists the Legislature -Of the State ()f Jdaho tespe.cttully \Vhereas agriculture 1n its \Various L.orms is the basis of our national represent that~ • prosperity ; and Whereas a large P-OrtioB of the State of Idaho has been set aside by the Whereas. as clearly shown by President Taft's letter of October 11 United States G-Overwnent and placed ln forest reserves; and 1:91:2, dlree:ted to Cle g-0-vernors .of the vru·rous States ot the Union' -- Whe?reas 1t ts neces.sary on the part of several eounties of the State of there are over 12,000,000 farmel's in the United States who raise Idaho in whi-ch a part o! the for~t reserves are situated to maintaln crops ;each yea?' of the aggre~ate value of $8,400,000.000 and are and oonstruct roads and bridges In such i'orest Teserves ; and -op~ating upon .a borrowed eap1tal of $6,040,000,000, on which yearly Whereas the cost of the c<>nstructlon aJld maintenance ot such roads interest in tbe amount_ ~f $510,000,000 ls paid, the average rate of and bridges is a grie-vous burden upon the taxpayers of said counties lntei-est ineluding eommlssfona and r-enewal chargef!, being about 8-! and there being no revenue derived by such counties trom such for.est per .eent per .annum .a,s gatnst .3i or 4i i;.el' ee.nt paid upon -loans ot reserves commensurate witb such cost, this char.acte.r In Europe ; and We tbel'efore pray and earnestly urge that the Department of the Whereas this economic waste ls due to the difficulties surrounding tbe Interi<>r be required to make a thorough investigation of the r-0ads and farmer in borrowing money to pay part .-0f the purchase price .of his bridges whieh should be constructed and maintained 1n such forest holdings or improve his lan() after Its acquisition ; and . reserves, and a sufflclent appropriation be made by the United States Whereas In both Germany -and France, as well as other countries of for th-0 purpose .of building and maintaining all neeessary roada nnd .continental IDurQpe, a system of rural banks has been oro-anized bridges m -such for-est reserves. who.ce <>bject it is to grant loans in the interest of agricultUre and The secretary of state is hereby instructed to forward copies of this that the experience of half a century o! operation of this class -0f memorial to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United banks has demonstrated the benefits derived therefrom by persons States, and copies of the :Same to our Senatol"i:; and Representatives In .engaged in agrleultural pursuits, and the soundness of the underlying Congress. . principlen upon which such banks are founded ; and This memorla'l passed the 1:1-0use of representatives on the 21st .day Wherea.s, :In our judgment, this system <>f banking eould be applied in of February, 1913. the Unlte-d States to the great advantage of our peop~ engaged :ln C. S. FRENCH, agricultural pursmts by lessening the difficulties of borrowing Speak.er of the House of Representatives, money at a low rate -0f interest and would enable prices to be low­ This memorial p~ed the senate on the 3d day of March, 1913. ered to the consumer, and thus benefit all of our people; and HERMAN H . TAYLOR, Whereas, in -0rder to Insure the economlcal and honest conduct of In- President of the Benate. 1>titutio.ns of this kind, to give proper understandlc~ of theii' methods I her.eby ~ertify that the withi!il house joint memorial No. 8 originated and the proper standing to their debentures, National as well as in tbe house dtJring the twelftll ~ssi-0n <>f the Legislature o! the State State legislation is needed : Now, therefore, be It . pf ldab<>. Resolved, That the Congress of the United States be requested to [SEAL.] . DAVID BURRELL, enact suc!l laws as will permit the organization of national land-mort­ Ohief Clerk of th~ Hoi:.se of Representatives. gage banks, with such privileges only as will necessarily pertain to their e:1fect1veness and the security of those dealing with them and Mr. BEAPY presented a joint memorial <>f the Legislature so guardeu a.nd ~trictly supervised as to protect alike the stockholders of Idaho, which was referred to the Committee on the Library and the eustomen; of sueh banks, with power to guarantee and market and ordered to be printed in tbe .RECOJW., as follows: • guaranteed dwenture bonds of State mo.rtg-age banks .or cooperative credit ru;sodations; with such limitations .and restrictions as will insure STATE OF IDAHO, _practical un1formity 1n the laws of the several Stat.es in the matter of DEPARTMENT OF STATE. estnbl15hing .and ca1·ryi.ng on r.ural credit banks and similar associatlon11. J, Wilfred L, Gifford, secretary of state (}f the State of ldabo, do This ~~mate joint IDftlllOt"lal No. 5 pa$se-d the senate on the 26th day hereby certify that the anne~ed ls a full, true and complete transcript of February, 1913. · pf senate joi:ot memorial No. 1, by Maebeth a.nd Hart, relating to the HFJRMAN H. TAYLOR, resforadori of :Menticello, the home Qf Thomas -Jelferson--.:..passed the President of the Betia:te. senate Febr'1ary 28, 1913; passed the house March 1, 1913--wbich w s lj.led in this office on the 4th day of March, .A. D. 1913, and ad­ This senate joint memorial No. 5 passed the house of representatives mitted fo record. on the 26th day of ¥ebrnary, 1913. · In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the . C. S. FRENCH, g-1eat seal of the State. Done at BoLe City, the capital of ldaho, this Bpealcer of tae House of Representatives. 4tll day of l\Iarcb, m the ye-:u· of our Lord 1913, and of the Inde­ I hereby certify that the within senate jnint memorial N.o. · 5 orlg· pendec£e o.f the UnH.ed States of .America tbe cne bnndred and thirty­ lnated in the senate during the twelfth session of the Legislature ot the ioeventb. State of Ida)lo, . , . . {3.E4I-.J WILVlU:~D L. Grnroim, [f> EAIJ,) SUMNER C. B119WN, Becretar11 of ~tt,rte. Secretary of the Senate, 48 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-:-:-SJj]NATE.

_ l\Ir. BRADY presented a joint memorial of the Legislature of Whereas It Is necessary for the growth. and advancement of this State that the public lands be settled by bona fide homesteaders, your Idaho, which was referred to the Committee on Commerce and memorialists believe that the leasing of the public domain will result ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows : in irreparable injury to the proper development of this State by reason of retarding the freedom of home builders, regardless of any STATE OF IDAHO, theoretlcal rights they may be given in and to leased lands : There­ DEPART!l[ENT OF STA.TEI. fore be it I. Wilfred L. Gifford, secretary of state of the State of Idaho, do Resolved, That we your memoriallsts, the Legislative Assembly or hereby certify that the annexed is a fnll, true, and comp!ete transcript the State of Idaho, impelled1 by our interest in the future welfare of of senate joint memorial No. 3, by Goodnight, memorlallzlng Congress o~ _ Commonwealth and in the equity and rights of our coming citizen­ of the United States to make certain appropriation for completion of ship, do. most respectfully urge and petition that the bill providing for the Celilo Canal-passed the senate February 26, 1913; passed the the lea.srng of our public domain be not enacted into law. house JJ'ebruary 27, 1913-which was filed in thls office on the 28th This senate joint memorial passed the Senate on the 19th day or day of February, A. D. 1913, and admitted to record. February, 1913. · in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the . HERMAN H. TAYLOR, great seal of the State. Done at Boise City, the capital of Idaho, this 28th day of February, In the year of our Lord one thousand nine hun­ President oJ the Senate. This senate joint memorial passed the house of representatives on the dred and thlrteen, and of the independence of the United States of 20 America the one hundred and thirty-seventh. th day of February, 1913. [SE.AL.] WILFRED L. GIFFORD, C. S. FRENCH, Secretary of State. Speaker of the House of Representatives. I hereby certify th!lt the within senate joint memorial No. 1 origl­ Senate joint meqiorlal 3. na.ted fn the i>enate during the twelfth session of the Legislature of the To the Senate and House of Representatives of the U1litea States of State of Idaho. .America. Washington., D. 0.: [SE.AL.] SUMNER C. BROWN, Whereas the openingo; ot. the Panama Canal will bring to the Pacific sea­ Secretary of the Senate. board a largo;ely increased volume of waterway traffic, necessitating Mr. BRADY presented a joint memorial of the Legislature of the thorougo;h improvement of our waterways and the enlargement of our harbor and dockage facilities; and Idaho, which was refen·ed to the Committee on Public Lands Whereas the Columbia River and its tributaries constitute the greatest and ordered to be pri:r:ted in the RECORD as follows : inland water~ays system of the Pacific coast of America and the sec­ STATE Oi' IDAHO, ond greatest of the Nation; and DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Wherf:as the preeminent importance of this waterway has been recog­ I, Wilfre!1 . L. Gifford, secretary ot state of the State of Idaho, do nized by the National Government hitherto by large appropriations, hereby certify that the annexed is a full, true and complete transcript covering its improvement from its mouth inland: and of house joint memorial No. 7, by Mason, passed the house February Whereas one of the great steamship lines of the world. namely. the 21, 1913, passed the Senate Marcil 3, 1913, which was filed in this Hamburg-American Line, has selected the Columbia River as the office on the 5th day of March, A. D. 1913, and admitted to record. . Pacific coast terminal for its trans-Pacific-Oriental service ; and In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Whereas the volume of traffic tributary to the Columbia gateway vir­ great sea.I of the State. Done at Boise City, the capital of Idaho, this tually embraces in actual freight carried or directly affected by its 6th day of March, A. D. 1913, and of the Independence of the United water craft the entire coast business. inward and outwa1·d. of the States of America the one hundred and thirty-seventh. Columbia and Snake River basins, a territory almost 250,000 square [SEA.L.] WILFRED L. GIFFORD/. miles in extent ; and · Secretary of i:state. Whereas the full benefits to be obtained from the operation of this House joint memorial 7. waterway can only be secured by its complete and' adequate Improve­ To the honorable the Senators and Representatives of the United Statt.': ment : 'l'herefore in Congress assembled.: Resolved. 'l'hat we hereby memorialize the Congress of the United Your memorialists, the Legislature of the State of Idaho, respec States at its present session, to appropriate the sum of $1,400,000, to fully represent and petition as follows : That- be immediately available, for the completion of the Celilo Canal and the Wbereas, on the 19th day of Aprll, 1911, there was introduced ln t­ openine; of the Columbia and Snake Rivers to free navigation, this sum National House of Representatives House bill No. 5966, providing being, in reality, only an increase of. $800,000 over the amount nec~ssary for the permanent location of and for the marking and monumenting to carry on this work on the continuous-contra.ct basis already m op­ of the old Oregon Trail, from the Mlssourl River to the Puget Sound, eration. as a memorial to the brave and hardy pioneers, whose hardships, Resolved. That we urge upon Congress the importance of !his appro­ suffering, and brilliant achievements saved the Oregon country, of priation in order to save the net sum of $100,000, accordrng to the which Idaho was a part, to the Union and opened the way for the estimate of the United States engineers in charge of this work. further development of this vast ten·itory: Now, therefore, Resolved That the opening ot the Celilo Canal and the Columbia and Your memorialists, ln the name ot. and for the people of the State Snake Rivers to free navigation during the year 1915 will stimulate the of Idaho and speaking in behalt of all of the people living In the terr1· building of municipal docks, the extension of feeder lines of railway, tory traversed by the old Oregon Trail, earnestly and respectfully pe· and the construction of steamboats, barges. etc. • essential to the de­ titian and urge that said House bill No. 5966 be ~a.ssed by Con°Tess. velopment of a vast traffic territory. ·The secretary of the State of Idaho is hereby mstructed to forward Resolved ftu-ther, That the completion of these improvements at the copies of this memorial to the Senate and House of Representatives of time indicated will enable the people of the Paclfic Northwest, both the United States and copies of the same to our Senators and Repre· American and Canadian. to fittingly celebrate the- opening of the Celilo sentatives in Congress. Canal and the Columbia River in conjunction with the international This memorial passed the house of representatives on the 21st day ceremonies in honor of the Panama Canal in 1915, thus giving notice to of February, 1913. the world of an all-water route from the ports of the world to the C. S. FRENCH, interior of western America and British Columbia. Speake! of the THottse of Representatives. This senate joint memorial passed the senate on the 24th day of This memorial passed the senate on the 3d day of Marc...l 1913. February, 1913. • . HERMAN H. TAYLOR, HERMAN H. TAYLOR, P1·esident of the Senate. President of the Senate. I hereby certify that the within house joint memorial No. 7 originated This senate joint memorial passed the house of representatives on the in the house during the twelfth session of the Legislature ot the State 25th day of February, 1913. of Idaho. C. S. FRENCH, [SE.AL.] DAVID BURRELL, \ Speaker of the House of Representatives. Ohief aierk of the House of Representatives. I hereby certify that the within senate joint memorial No. 3 origi­ Mr. BRADY presented a joint memorial of the Legislature of nated in the senate during the twelfth session of the Legislature of the State of Idaho. Idaho, which was referred to the Committee on Public Lands [SEAL.] SUMNER C. BROWN, and or.dered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: Secretary of the Senate. STATE OF IDAHO, l\Ir. BRADY presented a joint memorial of the Legislature of DEPARTMENT OF STATE. I Wilfred L. Gifford, se-cretary of state of the State of Idaho, do Idaho which was referred to the Committee on Public Lands hereby certify that the annexed is a full, true, and complete transcript and o~dered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: of senate joint memorial No. 2, by Hart-passed the senate Februu1·y 19 1913; passed the house February 20, 1913-which was filed in STATE OF IDAHO, this office on the 21st day of February, A. D. HH3, and admitted to DEPARTMENT OF STATE. I Wilfred L. Gifford, secretary of state of the State of Idaho, do re1~dtestimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed tha hereby certify that the annexed is a fullltrue, and complete tr!lnscript great seal of the State. · of Senate joint memorial No. 1, by Haigh Passed the senate February Done at Boise City, the capital of Idaho, this 25th day of Februarfr 19 1913 ; passed the house February 20, 1913 ; which was filed in this A . .v. 1913, and of the independence of the United States of Americt­ office on the 21st day of February, A. D. 1913, and admitted to record. the one hundred and thirty-seventh. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the [s11JAL.] WILFRED L. GIFFORD, great seal of the State. Done at Boise City, the capital of Idaho, this Secretary of State. 21st day of February, in the year of our Lord 1913, and of the inde­ Senate joint memorial 2, memoriallzing Congress of the United States to pendence of the United States of American the one hundred and thirty­ transfer 50,000 acres of timbered land now held within the national seventh. forests by the United States within the boundaries of the State of [SEAL.] WILFRED L. GIFFORD, Idaho to this State for the purpose of creating a fund for establishing . Secretary of State. and maintaining good roads ln the said State of Idaho. Senate joint memorial. 1. Be ii resolved. by the .Senate of the State of Idaho (the House con· <;tirring), That the Congress of the United States be memorialized ~ To the Congress of the United States: follows: We, the Legislative Assembly of the State of Idaho, respectfully Whereas good roads are an important factor and one of the great first submit the following memorial : ·. . needs of every State, and also one of the sw·est means of aiding the Whereas a· bill is now pending before Congress whlch provides for the material prosperity and ·ndvancing the settlement thereof; this bein~ leasing of the remaining unappropriated public. domain; and · especially true in Idaho, where the country is not tbickly_fopulate Whereas we believe this bill to be inimical to. the best interests of the ~nd where the means of communication between the severa parta o State; and _ , .. the State are not numerous: Now, therefore, be it • •

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Resolved, That the Congress of the United States ls nereby re­ Senate joint memorial H. quested to transfer 50,000 acres of timbered lands from within the Whereas Harry Hill and other settlers, known as the " She1·man County national forests now existing and now held by the United Stat~s Settlers," have su.IIered great damages by reason of the erroneous within the boundaries of the State of Idaho to this State for the pur­ restoration to homestead settlement of certain lands in the State of pose of creating a fund to be used by the State -of Idaho solely for Oregon by the Secretary of the Interior, from which lands said set­ the establishment and maintenance in good repair of a system of tlers were afterwards ousted as a result of a decision of the Supreme public roads wilhin· its borders, said selection to be made jointly and Comt of the United States, as set forth in the report made by Special agreed upon by the Department of ·Agriculture and the State land Agent Thomas B. Neuhausen, of the Department of the Interior; and board : Be it further _ - - Whereas the honorable Senate of the United States on August 19, 1911, Resolved, That a certified copy of this memorial be sent to each of passed an act to adjust the claims of said settlers, and appropriating the members of the congressional delegation from this State in Con­ therefor the sum of $250,000 · and - gress, with a request that they employ their best efforts to secure Whereas the Committee on Clainis of the honorable House of Repre­ action in the premises. sentatives of the United States has favorably reported a like bill for This senate joint memorial passed the senate on the 19th day of the settlement of the claims of said settlers, which is now pending February, 1913. · ~~ ~~e Private Calendar of the House of Representatives as No. 123: HERMAN H. TAYLOR, . - President of the Senate. Resolved by the senate (the house concttrring), That the honorable This senate joint memorial passed the house of repr~sentatives on House of Representatives of the United States is hereby memorialized the 20th day of February, 1913. to pass the said bill for the relief of said settlers, and the Senators and C. S. FRENCH, Representatives in Congress from the State of Oregon are hereby urged Speaker of the House of Represent.aUvcs. }~r~g~rtheir infiuence in behalf of the passage of the said blll; and be i_t I hereby certify that the within senate joint memorial ~o. 2 orig­ inated in the senate during the twelfth session of the Legislature of Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be mailed to the honorable the State of Idaho. Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States and to (SEAL: ] SUMNER. C. BROWN; each of the Senators and Representatives in Congress from the State of Secretary of the Senate. Oregon. Adopted by the House February 26, 1913. .l\Ir. CHAMBERLAIN presented a joint memorial adopte?- by C. N. McARTHUR. the Legislature of Oregon, which was referred to the Committee Speaker of the House. Adopted by the Senate February 14, 1913. on Interstate Commerce and ordered to be printed in the ~c­ DAN J. IALARKEY, ORD, as follows : President of the Senate. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, STATE OF 0REGO:N', l\!r. CIIAMBERLA.IN presented a joint memorial of the Leg­ OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STA.TE. islature of Oregon, which was referred to the Committee on I, Ben W. Olcott, secretary of state of the State of Oregon and cus­ Appropriations ancl ordered to be printed in the RECORD, -as todian of the seal of said State, do hereby certify that I have ca.refully compared the annexed copy of senate journal memorial No. 18, with the follows: original thereof filed in the office of the secretary of state of the State UXITED STATES OF AMEilICA, of Oregon on the 27th day of February, 1913, and that the same is a STATl~ OF OREGON, full, true, and complete transcript therefrom and of the whole thereof. 011.FICE OF THE SECRLTAilY OF STATE. In testimony wl;lereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed hereto I, Ben W. Olcott, secretary of state of - the State -of Oregon, and the seal of the State of Ore"'on. custodian of the seal of said State, do hereby certify that I have care­ Done at the capitol at Salem, Oreg., this 27th day of February, fully c;ompared the annexed copy of house joint memorial No. 13 with A. D. 1913. the original thereof filed in the office of the. secretary of state of the LSEAL.J BEN W. OLCOTT, State of Oregon on the 4th day of March, 1913, and that the same is a Secretary of State. full, true, and complete transcript therefrom and of the whole thereof. To the honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the United In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed hereto States of America, in Congress asse1nbled: the seal of the State of Oregon. Done at the capitol at Salem, Oreg., this 5th day of March, 1913. Your memoralists, the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon, [SEAL.] BEX W. OLCOTT, in legislative session assembled, respectfully represent that- Secretary of State. Whet·eas it appears from reliable information that the price of grain House joint memorial 13. bags, wool bags, and jute cloth is excessive and unreasonably high ; and To tlte honorable Senate ancl House of Representatives of tlte United Whereas the jute crop for the year 1912 was as large as that of the States of America: yeae 1907 (the former high-water mark in the production of jute), Wherea_s t~e English ~alnut industry of the United States is of com­ and that there was carried over from last year several millions of mercial 1mportance masmuch as the use of walnuts as a food is in­ grain bags, thus indicating that a shortage of raw material and creasing among the civilized nations faster than that of any other re ~ erved manufactured product can not be the cause of the recent product that the importation of walnuts into this country increased high prices for bags ; and . from 11,000,000 pounds in 1902 to 32,000,000 pounds in 1910 ; and Whereas it is reported that the price of jute grain bags, wool bags, Whereas your memorlalists, the Legislature of the State of Oregon, have and cloth has been unreasonably advanced by a few large corpora­ recognized the importance of the indush·y in this State by appropriat­ tions and dealers of the Pacific coast brought about by cornering ing the sum of $2,000..for a walnut experimental station at Mc:Minri­ the market and so manipulating the sale thereof that they have been ville, Yamhill County, in this State, and the county court of Yam­ allle to force all prices to almost double that paid by consumers in hill County has given 10 acres, or so much as may be needed, of previous years ; and good walnut land for such experimental purposes: 'i'herefore, Whereas it is believed these high and exorbitant prices exist b' reason We, your memcrlalists, favor an appropriation of such funds as may of the large corporations on the Pacific coast entering into an be necessary to facilitate this work. • illegal combination in restraint of trade and by using other arti­ Further, we recommend that the secretary of state be instructed to ficial means which have enabled them to fix the price of jute grain forwarrt a copy of this memorial to each of our Members in Congress. bags, wool bags, and cloth at an exorbitant and unreasonable price Adopted by the house March 4, 1913. and in violation of the laws of the United States, and thereby forcing c. N. MCAnTIIUR, the consumers to buy all jute products at a very high, exorbitant, Speaket· of the House. and unreasonable price ; and . Concurred in by the senat£: March 4, 1913. Whereas it is estimated that the alleged jute bag and cloth trust has DAN J. MALARKBY, completely cornered and controlled the price of jute bags and cloth, President of the Sen~te. enabling the trust to obtain enormous profits, amounting to at least 50 per cent : Be it Mr. BRISTOW presented a concnrrent resolution adopted by Resolved, That your memorialists respectfully and earnestly petition the Legislature of Kansas, which -was referred to the Commit­ and request the Congress of the United States to thoroughly investigate tee on Pensions and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as fol­ and prnbe the grain-bag monopoly existing on the Pacific coast, and should this probe and investigation disclose violation of the Federal lows: laws, the proper officials of the United States be instructed to use all House concuri;ent resolution 27. just means to punish such individuals, firms, or corporations partici­ Whereas 12,000 citizens o.r Kansas served as militia-men during the pating in any grain-bag monopoly or illegal acts in violation of the War of the Rebellion in suppressing Price raid and other warlike in­ Federal laws. vasions and border disturbances ; and Adopted by the house February 26, 1913. Whereas the men so serving were ordered into active service by Gen. C. N. Mc.ARTHUR, Curtis under martial law, and ordered into the State of Missouri in Speaker of the _House• . 1864 to repulse the invasion by Gen. Price's army, and they do not Adopted by the Senate February 26, 1913. ·· now have pensionable status under the United States pension lam;, DAN J. MALARKEY, although they rendered valuable and valiant service in the preserva­ President of the Senate. tion of the RepubUc : Therefore be it 1\fr. CHAMBERLAIN presented a joint resolution adopted by Resolved by the house (the senate concurring thei·ein), '!'bat the Sena­ tors and Members of Congress be, and they are hereby, requested to the Legislature of Oregon, which was referred to the Committeee propose and secure the passa~e of proper legislation by Congress fixing on Claims and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows : and establishing for such militia-men a pensionable status the same as UNITED STA.TES OF AMERICA, though they had been regularly mustered into regular service, and allow­ STATE OF 0REGOX, ing to such men suitable pensions ; be it further OFFICE OF THE SECRET.A.RY OF STATE. Resolved, That copies of this resolution be sent to the Senators and I, Ben W. Olcott, secretary of state of the State of Oregon, and cus­ Members of Congress from this State. todian of the seal of said State, do hereby certify that I have care­ W. L. BROWN, fully compared the annexed copy of senate joint memorial No. 14 with Speaker of the House. the original thereof filed in the office- of the secretary of state of the I hereby certify that the above concurrent resolution originated in State of Oregon on the 27th day of February, 1913, and that the same the house and passed that body january 31, 1913. ls a full, true, and complete transcript therefrom and of the whole thereof. GEO. E. ROGERS, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed hereto Chief az131·k of the House. the seal of the State of Oregon. Passed the Senate February 5, 1913. p:f.ne at the capitol at Salem, Oreg., this 28th day of February, A._D. SHEFFIELD INGALLS, 19 President of the Senate. [SEAL.] BEN w. 0LC01'T, BURT E. BROWN, Secretary of State~ Secreta1·11 of the Senate. L-4 50 CONGRESSIONAL RECORP-S;ENATE. '.APRIL 7-'·

STATE OF KANSAS, Whereas these · moneys have never been refunded to the citizens who OFFICE OF TH1ll SECRETARY OF STA.TE. have so paid them into the Treasury of the United States previous I, Cbns. H . Sessions, secretary of state of the State of Kansas, do to their unsuccessful attempts to make final proofs · and hereby certify that the above nnd foregoing is a correct copy of the Whereas both the failure to secure title to the land~ on which these .orlginal enrolled resolution now on file in my office. attempts to make final proofs were made and the loss of the moneys In testimony wherecf I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed so paid into the Treasury of the United States have wrought untold my official seal this 6th day of March, 1913. hardship and loss to these citizens : Therefore be it (SEAL.] CH.As. H. SESSIONS, Resolved by the Legislature of the State of W11oming That the Con"' Sec1·etary of State. gress of the Unlted States be, and is hereby, memo/lallzed and re­ By---­ que ted to enact such legislation as may be nece ary for the refunding Assistant Sect·etar11' of State. of these money~ so pald into the Treasury of the United States to the · Mr. BRISTbW present~d a petition of sundry citizens of citizens so paymg them in, and thus relieve the hardship and loss Conway Springs, Kans., and a petition of sundry citizens of £u~i111erthe withholding of these moneys is causing these citizens; be it S:i;>ring fill, Kans., prayrng that an investigation be made into Resolved, That engrossed copies of this memorial and request be sent the prosecution of the Appeal to Reason, a socialist newspaper to the President of the Unlted States, the President of· the United States Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the published at Girard, Kans., which were referred to the Com­ Se~retary of the Interior asking their aid 1n bringing the 'object of mittee on Post Offices and Post Roads. this memorial and request before Congre s and ln securing from same He also presented a memorial of sundry citizens of Downs, adequate legislation for the purpose herein set forth; and be it further Resolved, That engrossed copies of this memorial and request be sent Kans., remonstrating against the enactment of legislation com­ to the Senators from Wyoming in the Con,,.ress of the United States pelling the observance of Sunday as a day of rest in the Dis­ viz, H?ns .. CLABENCE D. CLAnK and FRANCIS E. WARREN, and our Repre~ trict of Columbia, which was referred to the Committee on the sentativ!'l m said Congress, Hon. FRANK W. Mo:wELL, asking them to use their best efforts to secure a favorable action upon the request District of Columbia. embodied herein. Mr. SMITH of Arizona presented a joint resolution adopted BIRNEY H. SAGE, by the Legislature of Arizona, which was referred to the Com­ President of the Senate. MARTIN L. PRATT, mittee on Public Health and National Quarantine and ordered Spealve1" of the House. to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: Approved February 28, 1913, at 11 a. m. House joint resolution 1. JOSEl'H M. CAREY, Governor. To the Senate and Ilouse of Representatives of Americans and not as final proof and the securing of patent on the said public domain of serfs; and the United States so set apart for such purposes· and Whereas the coal barons of West Vlrg.inia, with the aid of the governor :Whereas these citizens, in attempting to make ttn8.:f proof previous to and militia, are doing all ln their power to deprive these people of perfeding patents on the public domain filed on under the several their rights by violations of the constitution o:f the State and the acts of Congress providing for the securing of patents on the publlc United States ; and domaln, to wit, under _the homestead act, the stone-and-timber act, Whereas they have caused to be arrested Mother Jones, Charles H. the desert-land act, and the coal-land act, have been unsuccessful, and Boswell, Charles Battey, also Paul J. Paulson, national board mem­ for one cause or another have been denied patent; and ber of our District 22, Wyoming, on some trumped-up charges on :Whereas these citizens have ~aid difl'erent sums of money into the account of their activities in behalf of the striking miners of West ~:f9~o~ ~e ~~i~~d i~ ~e P:;t"; 0 gf t~e ttS1;~gr~~ei::r:h!0u~~~ !!1"J~ri~·t::~i:1l ~~h~~erEf~~~e if~i 1~~~u~ ~~~~o!fs~~~t States, and wbi~ proofs were unsuccessful and patents were denied; of the Siberian methods in that State, which is the guard system ; - and .and · 1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 51

Whereas the Supreme Court of West Virginia bas refused the rights of FEBRUARY 17, mm. these men and woman to a trial by jury, which is theirs by constitu­ By unanimous consent Mr. Cuvillier called up his resolution in rela­ tional provisions of that State, and turned them over to the military tion to the pay of letter carriers and the parcel post. authorities to have them say what shall be done with them, when Debate was had thereon. they have already declared that they are guilty before they have had Mr. Speaker put the question whether the house would agree to a hearing: Therefore be it said resolution, and it was determined in the affirmative. Resoli-ed, That we ask the representatives in United States Congress Ordm·ea, That the clerk deliver said resolution to the senate and to make a thorough investigation into the mining affairs of West Vir­ request their- concurrence therein. ginia, and demand for the miners of that State the rights which belong FEBRUARY 18, 1913. to them, namely, protection, equality, justice, and freedom, which be­ The senate returned the concurrent resolution in relation to pay longs to any civilized people; and be it further of letter carriers and the parcel post with a message that they have con­ Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to our representa­ curred in the passage of the same without amendment. tives in Congress, Senators F. E. WARREN, C. D. CLARK, and Congress­ STATE OF NEW YORK, man F. W. MON"DELL, also to the Wyoming Labor Journal and United Oounty of Albany, Office of the Olerl' of the .Assembly, ~s: Mine Workers of America Journal. GEO . .A. BnowN, I, George R. Van Namee, clerk of the assembly, do hereby certify JAs. w.· CAsE, that I have compared the foregoing record of proceedings of the as­ W. NEIVO, sembly of Februarr 10, 17, and 18, 1913, relative to the resolution W. BnowN, therein set forth with the original thereof, and that the same is a true Secretat·y, Boa: s42, Ha1rna., Committee 01i said Resolutions. transcript of said proceedings so far as the same relates to said resolu­ tion and of the whole thereof. ~Ir. WARREN presented memorials of sundry citizens of In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of February, 1913. Sheridan, Wyo., remonstrati.ng agai.nst the enactment of legis­ [SEAL.] GEORGE R. v AN NA.MEE, lation compelli.ng the observance of Sunday as a day of rest i.n Olerk of tlle Assembly. the District of Columbia, which were referred to the Commit­ BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED. tee on the District of Columbia. Mr. ROOT presented a resolution adopted by the Legislature · Mr. BRANDEGE.E. I do not wish to object, and I am not sure that I am correct, but I find upon page 11 of the Standing of New York, whlch was referred to the Committee on Finance Rules of the Senate that on August 10, 1888, the following reso­ and ordered to be printed in the RECOBD, as follows: lution was adopted: IN ASSEMBLY, March 10, 1913. Resolved, That after to-day, unless otherwise ordered, the morning hour shall terminate at the expiration of two hours after the meeting of Mr. CuvilUer offered for the consideration of the Ilouse a resolution in the Senate. the words following : Whereas the State of New York is the Empire State of the Union, the The Senate having met at 12 o'clock to-day, I desire to inquire largest in population, and bas more commercial business, both import whether morning business is now in order, not that I intend to and export, than half the States of the United States, and millions object; but if it is not i.n order, I do not want this proceeding of dollars are paid into the United States '.freasury through the customs ports of the State of New York. to pass as a precedent? Whereas by Executive order, issued by former President Taft, many Mr. SMITH of Arizona. We have been proceedi.ng by un::mi­ customs ports of entry in various localities in the State of New mous consent. York have been abolished, thereby causing the citizens, merchants, and manufacturers of the State of New York greater expense, in­ Mr. GALLINGER. Mr. President, unquestionably the Sena­ convenience, and loss of time, which will tend to drive out of the tor from Connecticut [Mr. BRANDEGEE] is right, and so that we State of New York capital for business enterprises into other States. may now present morning business, I ask unanimous consent Resolved (if the senate concur), That it ts the sense of the legisla- that morning buslliess be now received. ture that the customs ports in the State of New York be reestablished as existing before the Executive order issued by former President Taft The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection? The Chair abolishing said customs ports of entry, and that the Representatives in h-ears none, and it is so ordered. Congress from the State of New York use their best offices in this Bills and joint resolutions were i.ntroduced, read the first time, direction, and that a copy of this resolution be sent to the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury, and each Repre­ and, by unanimous consent, the second time, and referred as sentative in Congress from the State of New York. follows: Mr. Speaker put the question whether the house would agree to said By Mr. OWEN: motion and it was determined in the affirmative. Ordered, That the clerk deliver said resolution to the senate and A bill (S. 1) to establish a department of health, and for request their concurrence therein. other purposes; to the Committee on Public Health and Na­ MARCH 19, l!l13. tional Quarantine. The senate returned the concurrent resolution in relation to the By Mr. RANSDELL: Executive order in relation to the customs ports of entry with a message A bill (S. 2) appropriating funds to prevent floods on the that they have concurred in the passage of the same without amend­ ment. Mississippi River and to improve navigation thereon; to the STATE OF NEW YORK, Committee on Commerce. Oounty of Albany, Office of tlie Oler]• of the Assembly, ss: By Mr. PAGE: I, George R. Van Namee, clerk of the assembly, do hereby certify A bill (S. 3) to provide for cooperation with the States in that I have compared the foregoing record of proceedings of the assem­ promoting instruction i.n agriculture, the trades and industries, bly of March 10 and 19, 1913, relative to the resolution therein set forth with the original thereof, as contained in the original official and home economics in secondary schools; in prepari.ng teachers copy of the journal of proceedings of the assembly of Said dates, and for these vocational subjects in State colleges of agriculture that the same is a true and correct transcript of said journal of pro­ ari.d the mechanic arts, in State normal schools, and in other ceedings in so far as the same relates to said resolution and of the whole thereof. training schools for teachers supported and controlled by the In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 2Jth day ot. public; in maintaining extension departments of State colleges March, 1913. [SEAL.] GEORGE R. VAN N.AMEE, of agriculture and the mechanic arts; i.n maintaining branches Clerk of the .Assembly. of State experiment stations; and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure; to the Committee on Agriculture and Mr. ROOT presented a resolution adopted by the Legislature Forestry. of New York, which was referred to the Committee on Post By Mr. LA FOLLETTE: Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed i.n the RECORD, A bill (S. 4) to abolish the in-voluntary servitude imposed as follows: upon seamen i.n the merchant marine of the United States while IN ASSEllBLT, in foreign ports and the involuntary servitude imposed upon February 10, 1913. Mr. Cuvillier offered for the consideration of the house a resolution the seamen of the merchant mari.ne of foreign countries while in the words following : in ports of the United States, to prevent unskilled manning of Whereas by reason of the establlshment ot the parcel post and . the in­ American vessels, to encourage the training of boys in the crease of the United States mail, the letter carriers are compelled to American merchant marine, for the further protection of life at work longer, and their compensation is unequal in proportion to similar work of other public employees, and they are not subject to sea, and to amend the laws relative to seamen; to the Com­ pensions after long and faithful service, though they .are required mittee on Commerce. to be men of the highest character, and they are exposed to the A bill (S. 5) to correct the military record of Harry Sharff, elements; and Whereas it is the duty of the United States to protect these faithful alias Herman Shofrensky, alias Herman Schofrensky; to the employees, in better compensation and a future maintenance in the Committee on Military Affairs. way of pensions after long service. A bill ( S. 6) granting an i.ncrease of pension to Elisha L. Resol'Ved (if the senate co neut·), That it is the sense of the legisla­ .Ashley; to the Committee on Pensions. ture that the Congress should do all in its power to increase their compensation and provide a pension for the letter carriers, the same as By Mr. LODGE (for Mr. WEEKS): provided for other faithful public servants in other departments of A bill ( S. 7) to incorporate the National Reserve .Association Government; and be it further of the United States, and for other purposes; to the Committee Resolved (if the senate concur), That our Representatives in Con­ gress use their best endeavor in behalf of the betterment o:f letter on Banking and Currency. · carriers o:f the United States ; and that a copy of this resolution be By Mr. GALLINGER: sent to the Postmaster General and the Representatives in Congress A bill (S. 8) for the erection of a statue to the memory ot from the State of New York. Said resolution giving rise to debate, ordered that the same be laid Gen. James Miller at Peterboro, N. H., (with ar:companying upon the table. paper) ; to the Committee on the Library.

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A bill (S. 9) to amend paragraph 43 of an act entitled "An A bill (S. 30) authorizing the Secretary of War tO convey the act making appropriations to ·provide for the expenses of the gov­ ontstandtqg title of the United States to lots 3 and 4, square ernment of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending 103, in the city -0f Washington, D~ C. (with accompanying June 30, 1903, and· for other purposes," approved July 1, 1902 paper); . (with accompanying paper); to the Committee on Approp1ia­ A bill (S. 31) for the relief of Ida A. Chew, owner of lot 112, tions. square 721, Washington, D. 0., with regard to assessment and A bill ( S. 10) to amend an act entitled "An act to require the payment of damages on account of changes of grade due to con­ erection of fire escapes in certain buildings in the District of struction of the Union Station, District of Columbia (with Columbia, and for other purposes," approved March 19, 1906, accompanying paper) ; as amended by the act approved March 2, 1907 (with accom­ A bill (S. S2) providing for g~ides in the District of Colum­ pauying paper) ; bia, and defining their duties (with accompanying paper) ; A bill (S. 11). for the relief of Charlotte J. Pile, Eastmond A biU (S. 33) to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for P. Green, and Easie C. Gandell, owners of lots Nos. 53, 54, and the better registration of births in the District of Columbia, 55, in square No . .753, Washington, D. C., with regard to assess­ and for other purposes," approved March 1, 1907 (with accom­ ment and p~ yment of damages on account of change of grade panying paper); due to construction of the Union Station in said District (with A bill ( S. 34) to amend sections 680 and 686 of the Code of accompanying paper); Law for the District of Columbia (with accompanying paper) ; A bill (S. 12) to provide for annual assessments of real estate A bill (S. 35) to receive arrearages of taxes due to the Dis­ 1n the District of Columbia (with accompanying paper) ; trict of Oolumbia to July 1, 1908, at 6 per cent interest per A bill (S. J3) to authorize the widening and opening of Rhode annum, in lieu of penalties, and costs (with accompanying Island Avenue from Fourth Street east to the District line paper); (with accompanying paper); A bill (S. 36) to amend "An act authorizing the widening · A bill (S. 14) to authorize the extension of Twenty-fifth nnd extension of Minnesota Avenue SE. from its present ter­ Street SE. and of White Place (with accompanying paper); minus near Pennsylvania Avenue SE. to the Sheriff Iload," ap­ A bill ( S. 15) providing for the cancellation of certain over­ proved February 25, 1909 (with accompanying paper); due persona] taxes 1n the District of Columbia (with accom- A bill (S. 37) authorizing the extension of First Street east, panying paper); • and for other purposes (with accompanying paper); A bill ( S. J6) to amend section 559 of the Code of Law of the A bill ( S. 38) to change the name of Fort Place, from Seven­ District of Columbia relating to notaries public (wit4 accom­ teenth to Eighteenth Streets NE., to Irving Street (with ac­ panying paper) ; companying paper); A bill (S. 17) to amend subchapter 2, chapter 19, of the Code A bill (S. 39) to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for of Law for the Dist.Tiet of Columbia, by providing a penalty the extension of Newton Place NW. from New Bampshire Ave­ for omission to return library property in the District of Co- nue to Georgia Avenue, and to connect Newton Place in Gass's 1umbia (with accompanying paper); subdivision with Newton Place in Whitney Close subdivision," A bill (S. 18) to establish a home for feeble-minded, imbecile, approved February 21, 1910 (with accompanying paper); and idiotic children in the District of Columbia., and for other A bill (S. 40) to provide for the extension of Kenyon Street purposes (with accompanying paper) ; from Seventeenth Street to Mount Pleasant Street and for the A bill (S. 19) to authorize the widening and ex.tension of extension of Seventeenth Street from Kenyon Street to Irving Spring Road NW., and for other purposes (with accompanyihg Sh·eet, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes (with paper) · · accompanying paper) ; and A bill (S. 20) to redeem a certain outstanding certificate of A bill (S. 41) for the widening of Sixteenth Street NW. at indebtedness issued by the late board of audit of the District of Piney Branch, and for other purposes (with accompanying Columbia and for other purposes (with accompanying paper); paper); to the Committee on the District of Columbia. A bill (s. 21) to regulate the practice of dentistry in the Dis­ A bill (S. 42) granting an increase of pension to William trict of Columbia (with accompanying pa.per) ; Heywood (with accompanying paper); and A bill ( S. 22) to authorize the opening, widening, and exten­ A bill (S. 43) granting an increase of pension to Joseph Cook sion of highways within and adjacent to the subdivision of the (with accompanying paper); to the Committee on Pensions. Barry farm, and for other purposes (with accompanying paper) ; Mr. BACON. My colleague [Mr. SMITH of Georgia] is neces­ A bill (S. 23) for the relief of Clara Dougherty, Ernest 13; sarily absent from the Chamber on account of illness in his Kubel, and Josephine Taylor, owners of lot No. of Ernest family. At his request I . introduce certain bills and joint 41, a KubeJ, owner of lot No. and of Mary Meder, owner of the resolution, which I ask to have read twice and referred, as south 17.10 feet front by the full depth thereof of lot No. 14, indicated. all of said property in square No. 724, in Washington, D. C., with regard to assessment and payment for damages on account By :Mr. BACON (for Mr. SMITH of Georgia): -0f change of grade due to the construction of Union Station, in A bill ( S. 44) to amend section 5137 of the Compiled Statutes said District (with accompanying paper) ; of the United States, 1901, so as to authorize and empower A bill ( S. 24) to authorize certain changes in the plan for national banks to take and hold mortgages, deeds of trust, and the permanent system of highways for that portion of the other conveyances of real estate as security for loans made by District of Columbia lying west of Fourteenth Street, south of said banks; to the Committee on Banking and Currency. Taylor Street, east of Rock Creek Park, and north -Of Newton A bill ( S. 45) to create a teachers' training fund, to provide for its use by the States, and for other purposes; to the Com­ Street NW. (with accompanying paper); mittee on Education and Labor. A bill (S. 25) to authorize the surveyor of the District of Columbia to adopt the system of designating land 1n the Dis­ A bill (S. 46) to establish agricultural extension departments trict of Columbia in force in the office of the assessor of said in connection with agricultural colleges in the several States District (with accompanying paper); receiving the benefits of an act of Qongress approved July 2, A bill (S. 26) to authorize the extension of Grant Street NE. 1862, and of acts supplementary thereto ; and and Deane Avenue NE., in the District of Columbia, from .Min­ A bill (S. 47) to establish in the Bureau of Statistics, in the nesota Avenue to Fifty-eighth Street (with accompanying Department of Agriculture, a division of markets; to the Com­ paper) ; mittee on Agriculture and Forestry. A bill ( S. 27) to authorize a new highway plan for that por­ By Mr. CHAMBERLAIN: _ tion of the District of Columbia lying between Van Buren Street A bill (S. 48) to authorize the President of the United States on the north, Georgia Avenue on the east, Nicholson Street on to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of the south, and Rock Creek Park on the west (with accompany­ Alaska, and for other pu:i)oses; to the Committee on Territories. ing paper) ; A bill (S. 49) to provide for the exchange with the State of A bill ( S. 28) to provide for the extension of Buchanan Street Oregon of certain school lands and indemnity rights within the NW. between Piney Branch Road and Sixteenth Street, and national forests of that . State for an equal area of national the abando"nment of Piney Branch Road between Allison Street forest land; to the Committee vn Public Lands. and Buchanan Street NW., District of Columbia (with accom­ By Mr. OVERMAN: panying paper) ; A bill ( S. 50) to further restrict undesirable immigration, A bi 11 ( S. 29) directing the Secretary of War to convey the secure the better enforcement of the immigration law, improve outstanding legal title of the United States to sublots Nos. 31, conditions on immigrant-carrying vessels, and provide for the 32, and 33 of original lot No. 3, square No. 80, in the city of deportation of undesirable aliens; to the Committee on Immi­ . .Washington, D. C. (with accompanying pa.per) J gration• 1913. CONGRESSIOZAL RECORD-SE._~ATE. 53

By Mr. WARREN: A bill (S. 96) to prevent discrimination in Panama Canul A bill ( S. 51) to amend section 7.15 of the Revised Statutes tolls, to th-e Committee on Interoceanic C:J_uals. as amended by act of Congress of March 3, 1905·; to the Com­ By Mr. O'GORl\B.N: mittee on the Judiciary. A bill ( S. m) to pi"Ovide fo:r the acquisition of a site for a A bill ( S. 52) provi'ding for the destruction. ill predatory wild Federal courthouse in the Borough of Manhattan, city of New animals upon the national forests and the lands adjacent York; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. thereto; to the Committee on Agriculture an.cl Forest :-. By Mr. S..'1ITH of Arizona : A bill ( S. 53) for the improYement of the road-& on. the Wind A bill ( S. 98) granting relief to certain American citizens in River Reservation, in Wyoming; to the Committee on Indian El Paso, Tex.. and. Douglas, Artz. ; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. , Relations. A bill { S. 54) for the relief of George W. Hoyt ; to the Com­ A l>ill ( S. 99} to fix the times and places of holding district mittee on Post Offices and Post Roads. court for the district of: Arizona, and creating divisions thereof; A bill ( S. 55) for the reUef of Daniel Hampton; to the Committee- on the Judiciary. A bill ( S. 56) for the relief of the relatives of John McCnrry, A bill (S. 100) to provide for an extension of time within deceased; which the cost of the Salt River irrigation and reclamation A bill (S. 57) fixing the rank of military attac:Ms; ~d pi-ojec-t. in the State of Arizona, may be repaid by the land­ A bill ( S. 58) relative to the ex.change of certain properties owners within the same. and granting the same privileges to the between the inswar government of Porto Rico and the War De­ Yuma irrigation project and others similarly situated upon the partment; to the- Committee an Military Affairs. same terms (with accompanying paper); to the Committee on A bill (S. 59) for the relief oi Fred C. and C. Hellen Fisher; Irrigation and Reclamation oi Arid Lands. A bill (S. 60) to provide for agricultural entry of oil lands; A bill (S. 101) authorizing homestead entrymen who are A bill ( S. 61) providing for patents to homesteads on the officers of water users' associations to reside off their entries ceded portion of the Wind River Reservation. in Wyoming; dlHing theJr terms as SUnorable discharge to Charles T. Owls; Nutter (with accompanying paper-) ; and A bill ( S. G3) to amend the enlarged homestead act; A bill (S. 103) authorizing the Secretary of War to grant A bill (8- 64.) giving a new right of homestead entry to permission for the erection of a hotel on the Fort Huachuea former homesteaders; Military Reservation in Arizona (with accompanying paper); A bill (8- 65) to amend an act entitled "An act pro-viding to the Committee on Military Affairs. that the Slate of Wyoming be permitted te> relinquish to the A bill (S. 104) for the relief of G. 0. Nolan; and United States certain lands heretofore selected and to select A bill (S. 105) for the relief of John T. Brickwood, Edward otbe1· lands from the public doma.in in lieu thereof," approved Gaynor. Theod-0re Gebler, Lee W. Mix, .Arthur L. Peck, Thomas April 12, 1910; and D. Casanega, J osep-h de Lusignan, and Joseph H. B€rger; to A bill (S. 66) grunting to the State of Wyoming 2,000,000 the Committee on Claims. acres of land to aid in the maintenance of a system of public A bill (S. 106) granting a pension to Henry Lottner (with ac­ roads in the State of Wyoming; to the Committee on Public companying papers); !Lands. A bill ( S. 107) granting a pension to Bert 0. Brown (with A bill ( S. 67) for the relief of Emory Scott Land; accompanying papers); A bill ( S. 68) for the relief of Clarence D. Houck; A bill (S. 108) granting a pension to Mary Ann Golding; and A bill ( S. 69) for the relief of Allen Edward O'Toole and A bill (S. 109) granting an increase of pension to Grace M. others. who sustained damage by reason of accident at Rock Thomas (with accompanying papers); to the Committee on Island Arsenal ; Pensions. A bill ( S. 70) for the relief of John Schnoor ; By Mr. SMITH of South Carolina : A bill (S. 71) for the relief of William H. and C. G. Cazier; A bill (S. 110) to regulate trading in cotton futures and A bill ( S. 72) for the relief of John Shaw; - provide for the standardization of a upland " and " gulf " A bill ( S. 73) for the relief of Henry Altman; cottons separately; to the Committee on Agriculture nnd A bill (S. 74) !Pr the relief of Henry Altman; · Forestry. A bill ( S. 75) for the relief of Theresa A. l\furray; By Mr. THOMAS:- A bill (S. 76) for the relief of Charles B. Boyce; ro the Com­ A bill ( S. 111) di vesting goods, wares, and merchandise manu­ mittee on Claims. factured by convicts or by convict labor of their interstate char­ A bill (S~ 77) granting an increase of pension to Annie Jane acter in certain cases; and Saffell; A bill ( S. 112) to restore section 1 of the act of Congress of A bill ( S. 78) granting an increase of pension to Cornella M. July 2, 1890, chapter 647, 26 Statutes at Large, to its original Clagett; form as enacted by striking out the words " unreasonable or A bill (S. 79) granting an increase 0-f pension to Carrie H. undue... inserted therein by a decision of the Supreme Court of Travis; the United States; to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. A bill ( S. 80) granting an increase of pension to Isabella S. By Mr. McCUMBER: Snyder; A bill ( S. 113) providing for a commission to settle certain A bill ( S. 81) granting a pension to Finley Lowry ; claims between the United States Government and the Sisseton A bill (S. 82) granting an increase of pension to Benjamin F. and Wahpeton Indi:ins and the Sioux of the l\1edawakanton and Hake· Wahpakoota Bands; to the Committee on Indian Affa.irs. A bll ( S. 83) granting an in.crease of pension to Kate Dodge A bill (S. 114) for the relief of Ethel M. Young; Augur; A bill ( S. 115) defining procedure in case of protested or A bill ( S. 84) granting a pension to William McCabe; objected final proof on public lands ; and A bill {S. 85) granting an incl'ease of pens-ion to Robert R. A bill ( S-. 116) granting to the State of North Dakota Smith; 50,000 acres of land to aid in the maintenance of a normal school A bill ( K 86) granting a pension to Francis M. Jones ; at Minot, N. D-3.k.; to the Committee on Public Lands. A bill ( S. 87) granting ·a pension tv Tillie Johnson; A bill (S. 117) to provide for the incorporation, control, and A bill ( S. 88) granting a pension to George L. Granbery; governrrIBnt of asso-Ciations organized to carry on business A bill (S. 89) granting a pension to Annie Walk-er Burch; entering into or becoming a part of interstate commerce; to the A bill . ( S. 90) granting an increase of pension to Mary A. Committee on Interstate Commerce. Hubbell ; and A bill (S. 118) for payment to the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. A bill ( S. 91) granting an increase of pension to Macy E. Paul Railway Co. the $4,583.67 improperly collected under the Lafontaine; to the Committee on Pensions. act of August 5, 1909 ; to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. ROOT:. A bill (S. 119) to authorize the sal-e of lands contained in the A bill (S. 92) to amend section 914 of the Revised Statutes; abandoned military reservation of Fort Hancock, near Bis­ A bill (S~ 93) to regulate the judicial procedure of the courts marck, N. Dak.; to the Committee on Military Affairs. of the united States; A bill {S. 120) to provide for the inspection and grading of A bill ( S. 94} to amend an act entitled "An act to codify grain entering into interstate commerce, and to secure uni­ revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,'' appro-ved formity in standards and classification of grain. and for other March 3, 1911 ; and purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. · A bill ( S. 95) to amend chapter 11 of the Judicial Oode; to the A bill (S. 121) to provide that petty officers, noncommissioned Committee en the Judiciary. officers, and enlisted.men of the United States Navy and Marine 54 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE . APR1L 7,

Corps on the retired list who had cTeditable Civil War service A bill {S. 148) granting an increase of pension to William shall recei>e the ran.tr or rating and the pay of the next higher Oliver (with accompanying papers) ; enlisted grade; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. 1... bill ( S. 149) grunting an increase of pension to Thomas W . . A bill ( S. 122) to establish a fish-cultural station in the State Wheeler; of North Dakota; to the Committee on Fisheries. A bill (S. 150) granting an increase of pension to Thomas W. A bill ( S. 123) to amend an act entitled "An act to provide Wheeler ; and revenue for the Government and to encourage the industries of A bill ( S. 151) gi·anting a pension to John Orr; to the Commit­ the United States"; to the Committee on Finance. tee on Pensions. A bill ( S. 124) establishing rate of pay for rural free carriers; By Mr. BURTON: and A bill (S. 152) for reduction of post.age rates on first-class A bill (S. 125) to amend an act entitled "An act making ap­ mail matter; to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. propriations for the service of the Post Office Department for By Mr. BRISTOW: the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, and for other purposes," A bill ( S. 153) to create an Industrial Commission and defin­ approyed August 24, 1912; to the Committee on Post Offices and ing its powers and duties; to the Committee.on Interstate Com­ Post Roads. merce. - A bill (S. 126) to permit citizens of the United States to be A bill (S. 154) to provide for a primary nominating election admitted to Government tuberculosis hospitals; and ln the District of Columbia, at which the qualified electors of A bill ( S. 127) for the protection of passengers on ocean the said District shall have the opportunity to vote for their '\'essels; to the Committee on Commerce. first and second choice among those aspiring to be candidates of A bill ( S. 128) to provide for the sanitary wrapping of bread their respective political parties for President and Vice Presi­ in the District of Columbia; to the Committee on the District of dent of the United States, to elect their party delegates to their Columbia. national conventions, and to elect their national committeemen; A bill ( S. 129) amending section 2 of an act entitled ..An act to the Committee on the District of Columbia. to increase the pension of widows, minor children, etc., of de­ A bill (S. 155) for the relief of Joseph B. Riley, alias Thomas ceased soldiers and sailors of the late Civil War, the War with B. Keesy; to the Committee on Military Affairs. . Mexico, the various Indian wars, etc., and to grant a pension to A bill (S. 156) for the relief of R. W. Branson; to the Com­ certain widows of the deceased soldiers and sailors of the late mittee on Claims. Civil War," approved April 19, 1908; A bill ( S. 157) to place positions under the government of the (By request.) A bill (S. 130) granting pension to volunteer District of Columbia within the classified service of the United Army nurses of the Civil War; and States; to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment. A bill ( S. 131) to provide for placing ex-Presidents of the A bill (S. 158) granting an increase of pension to Anna United States on the retired list as Commander in Chief of the Glendening; ~rmy and Navy of the United States and to provide for an A bill (S. 159) granting an increase of pension to Louis E. annuity for the widows of Presidents and ex-Presidents; to the Brusher; Committee on Pensions. A bill (S. 160) granting an increase of pension to Martin By Mr. JONES : Parker; (By request.) A bill (S. 132) to amend the national banking A bill ( S. 161) granting a pension to Adam Ross; law ; to the Committee on Banking and Currency. · A bill (S. 162) granting an increase of pension to John D. A bill ( S. 133) to provide for the construction of railroads in Kirkpatrick ; Alaska, and for other purposes ; to the Committee on Terri­ A bill (S. 163) granting an increase of pension to Minnie A. tories. Piety; By Mr. NELSON: A bill ( S. 164) granting a pension to Martha Benner; A bill {S. 134) for the permanent improvement of the Consu­ A bill ( S. 165) granting a pension to Mary E . Bennett; lar and Diplomatic Services; to the Committee on Foreign A bill (S. 166) granting an increase of pension to Otis Craw­ Relations. ford; A bill ( S. 135) for the relief of Severin and Berthe L. Even­ A bill ( S. 167) gi·anting an increase of pension to Morton A. sen, dependent parents of Sigurd Evensen; to the Committee on Pratt; Claims. A bill ( S. 168) granting an increase of pension to George W. A bill ( S. 13G) to promote the welfare of American seamen in Miller; the merchant marine of the United States, to abolish arrest and A bill (S. 169) granting an increase of pension to Thomas T. imprisonment as a penalty for desertion and to secure the abro­ Keibler; gation of treaty provisions in relation thereto, and to promote A bill {S. 170) granting a pension to Hiram Strayer; safety at sea; to the Committee on Commerce. A bill (S. 171) granting a pension to Sarah A. Walker (with By Mr. NELSON (by request): accompanying papers) ; A bill (S. 137) to amend an act entitled "An act to establish A bill {S. 172) granting an increase of pension to J. M. circuit courts of appeals and to define and regulate in certain Dickerson (with accompanying papers) ; and cases the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, and for A bill (S. 173) granting an increase of pension to Sarah other purposes," approved March 3, 1911; to the Committee on Frye (with accompanying papers); to the Committee on Pen­ the Judiciary. sions. By Mr. ASHURST: By Mr. BRADLEY: A bill (S. 138) to amend the act approved May 9, 1888, as A bill (S. 174) to provide for the selection and purchase of a amended by the act of June 11, 1896; to the Committee on Post site for and erection of a monument or memorial to the memory Offices and Post Roads. of Gen. George Rogers Clark; to the Committee on the Library. A bill ( S. 139) for the relief of Mariah V. Drum ; to the Com­ A bill (S. 175) for the relief of Lawson Reno, collector sec­ mittee on Public Lands. ond district of Kentucky; A bill (S. 140) for the relief of G. 0. Nolan; and A bill ( S. 176) for the relief of the county court of Allen A bill (S. 141) for the relief of Alfred Cluff, Orson Cluff, County, Ky.; Henry E. Norton, William B. Ballard, Elijah Hancock, Susan R. A bill {S. 177) for the relief of Marion B. Patterson, widow Saline, Oscar Mann, Celia Thayne, William Cox, Theodore Far­ of the late Gen. Robert F . Patterson; and ley, Adelaide Laxton, Clara L. Tenney, George l\I. Adams, Char­ A bill (S. 178) for the relief of the estate of John Wesley lotte Jensen, and Sophia Huff; to the Committee on Claims. Eubanks; to the Committee on Claims. A bill ( S. 142) to fix the times and places of holding district A bill ( S. 179) granting an increase of pension to Levi court for the district of Arizona, and creating divisions thereof; Hoskins; to the Committee on the Judiciary. A bill (S. 180) granting an increase of pension to Elender B. A bill ( S. 143) opening the surplus and unallotted lands in Gabbard; the Colorado River Indian Reservation to settlement under the A bill ( S. 181) granting an increase of pension to Sidney provisions of the Carey Land Acts, and for other purposes; to Payne Smith; the Committee on Indian Affairs. A bill ( S. 182) granting an increase of pension to ;Lemuel By Mr. BRADY: White; A bill (S. 144) for the relief of Charles Richter; A bill ( S. 183) granting an increase of pension to Caroline A bill ( S. 145) for the relief of Charles Richter; and Adams; A bill { S. 146) for the relief of Aaron Kibler; to the Commit­ A bill ( S. 184) granting an increase of pen~ion to l\f~iry tee on Military Affairs. Hammack; A bill (S. 147) granting an increase of pension to William A bill ( S. 185) granting an increase of pension to Katie Oliver; Royston; •

HH3. - CONGRESSIONAL 'RECORD--SENATE', 55 · l ~~~~~~~~~~--~~~~~~--...... ---~...... ~~~~~..-_;;_.,;.....;..~.;..:...~~~....;_---~~~-=~--~;::;==m;;.;;;..;...,;-=-....--"-"--~- f. A bill (S. 186) gr.anting an increase of pension to Adeline A bill (S. 228) for the relief of J ohn W. Terry; Stoker; A bill ( S. 229) for the relief of John P. Wagner; ~ A bill ( S. 187) granting an increase of pension 1.o Alfred A bill ( S. 230) for the relief of Robert McFarland; and tLewis; A bill (S. 231) for the reljef of John Doyle, alias J ohn I A bill ( S. 183) granting an increase of pension to Caroline Geary; to the Committee on l\1ilitary Affairs. Hill (with accompanying papers); and A bill (S. 2.32) fixing the time for election of Representatives 1 A bill (S. 189) granting a pension to Juliet S. White; to the and Delegates in Congress and for the appointment of electors Committee on Pensions. of PreSii.dent and Vice President of the United States; to the 1 By Mr. CLAPP: Committee on Privileges and Elections. ~. A bill ( S. lDO) to prevent undue delay in settlement of freight A bill (S. 233) to amend S:Cction 15 of the act to regulate claims; and . commerce, as amended June 29, 1906, and Jtme 18, 1910; to : A bill ( s. lDl) to prohibit unfair dlscrimi11ation betwee~ .dif- the Committee on Interstate Commerce. i ferent sections, communities, or localities; unfair competition ; A bill ( S. 234) to enjoin and abate houses of lewdness,- as­ , and providing penalties therefor; to the Committee on Inter- signation, nnd prostitution; to declare the same to be nuisances ; ~ sta t e Commerce. to enjoin the person or persons who conduct or maintain the A bill (S. 1D2) to limit the m:e of <'ampaign funds in presi- same, and the owner or agent of any building used for such dential and nntional elections; to the: Committee on Privileges purpose; and to assess a tax against the person maintaining 1 and EJections. said nuisance and against the building and ovvner thereof; to A bill ( S. H>3) to amPnd the public-printing law; to the the Committee on the District of COlumbia. Committee on Printing. A bill ( S. 235) for the relief of the widow of Thomas R. I, A bill ( s. 194) tr, amend section 235 of the Criminal Code, Faherty; to the Committee on Interoceanic Canals. act of March 4, 1P09; to the Committee on the Judiciary. A bill ( S. 236) to pay Charles l\fax Wittig $500 back bounty; and A bill ( S. 1%) to correct the record in the case of Passed A bill ( S. 237) for the relief of Harry Fosdick ; to the Com- .A..sst. Surg. WiJliam Niel McDonnell, United States Navy; and mitt.ee on Claims. , A bill ~ S. 196) fot' the reinstatement of Lieut. Col. Const~ - A bill ( S. 238) granting an increase of pension to William tine ~farrast Perkins to the active list of the Marine Corps (with Guhl; ' acc~rnpanying paper); to the Committee on Naval Affairs. A bill (S. 239) granting a pension to Saloma Bowman Ens- ~ (By request. ) A bill ( S. 197) for the relief of the estate of worth ; I srael Folsom; A bill (S. 240) granting a pension to Willis Hood; the 1 A bill ( s. 193) for relief of Mary G. Brown and others ; A bill ( S. 241) granting an increase of pension to Robert A. and H enderson ; ! A bill (S. 199) for the relief of the Ottawa I ndian ~ibe of A bill (S. 242) granting an increase of pension to George w. t Dlanchard Fork and Ilouch de Boeuf ; to the Comnnttee on Crosley ; Indian Affairs. A bill ( S. 243) -granting an increase of pension to Isaac 0. l A bill ( s. 200) to r emove the ·charge of desertion against Foote ; Charlie Meyers; to the Committee on l\Iilitary Affairs. A bill (S. 244) granting an increase of pension to John 0 . A bill (S. 201) for the relief of John W . Cupp; Steeves; A bill (S. 202) for the relief of the estate of John Frazer, A bill (S. 245) granting an increase of pension to Thomas J. deceased ; and ~ Tucker ; • A bill (S. 203) for the relief of the estate of Zephaniah Kings- A bill (S. 246) granting an increase of pension to R. C. Jones ; Iey, deceased; to the Committee on Claims. A bill (S. 247) granting an increase of pension to Louisa J, A bill (S. 204) granting an increase of pension to Zacheus Jackson ; Borager; A bill (S. 248) granting an increase of pension to George W. \ A bill { S. 205) granting a pension to Marilla Lee Stone; Stratton; < A bill ( S. 206) granting a pension to Mary ID. Seeley ; - A bill ( S. 249) granting an increase of pensio:d'I to Ellen . ; A bill (S. 207) granting an increase of pension to Minnie Maher; Barnard · A b111 (S. 250) granting an increase of pension to Cornelia F . ·: A bill 'cs. 208) granting a pension t o Minnie A. Thornhill ; Lintleman; ~ A bill ( S. 209) granting a pension to Charles Meyers; A bill ( S. 251) granting a pension to Neal McCoy; ~· A bill (S. 210) granting an increase of pension to Giles A. A bill (S. 252) granting an increase of pension to Mary B. ·,Woolsey; Edwards; \" A bill ( S. 211) granting a pension to William A. Gray; A bill ( S. 253) granting a pension to Kate Hauchett; .. A bill (S. 212) to amend an act entitled "An act granting~ A bill (S. 254) granting an increase of pension to Jonathan 'Increase of pension to Marie J. Blaisdell,0 approved May 24, Summel's; t'.1900 · A bill ( S. 255) granting an increase of pension to Asa Wren ; ~ A bm (S. 213) granting a pension to Anna L. Freeman ; A bill ( S. 256) granting a pension to Mary Josephine Stotts; }.~ A bill (S. 214) grunting a pension to l\lelissa Gross; A bill (S. 257) granting a pension to Rachel Tillotson; r A bill (S. 215) granting an increase of pension to Jeanette A bill (S. 25S) granting a pension to Mary U. Hull; rDring ; A bill ( S. 259) granting an increase of pension to Thomas '. A bill ( S. 216) granting a pension to Caroline Fust; N. Primm; A bill ( S. 417) granting an increase of pension to Kathryn A bill ( S. 260) granting a pension to Ellen G. Robison; Riley; A bill ( S. 261) granting an increase of pension to Thoma_s M. > A bill ( S. 218) granting an increase of pension to Agnes McKenry ; )Hallsworth; A bill ( S. 262) granting a pension to Samuel IL Portz; "' A bill (S. 219) granting an increase of pension to Susan C. A bill (S. 263) granting an increase of pension to Charles w. Brown (now Perrin); and Bowles; ? A bill ( S. 220) granting a pension to Sarah A. Mitchell; to A bill ( S. 264) granting a pension to Daniel P. Andrus; the Committee on Pensions. A bill ( S. 265) granting a pension to l\Iary E. Lock; ~ By Mr. THOMPSO~: A bill (S. 266) granting an increase of pension to Joanna A bill ( S. 221) for the relief of the Garden City (Kans.) Kramer; 'Water Users' Association, and for other purposes; to the Com- A bill ( S. 267) granting a pension to Sarah C. Goodrich; f mittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands. A bill (S. 26S) gran ting a pension to Elizabeth J. Edson; \ By Mr. KENYON: . · A bill (S. 269) granting an increase of pension to John G. A bill (S. 222) to prevent the employment of children in Powers; factories and mines; and A bill (S. 270) grnnting an incre:i se of pension to Harold L. A bill (S. 223) to prevent the employment of females in Clifton; mills, factories, or manufacturing establishments for a longer A biJJ ( S. 211) granting n pern~ion to Ezra Edwards; period than eight hours; to the Committee on Education and A bill (S. 272) granting a pension to E dwin It. Gibson; Labor. A bill (S. 273) granting an increase of vension to George F. A bill ( S. 224) for the relief of John Dauberman; Brechtel ; A bill (S. 225) for the relief of James Boyle, alia_s James A bill (S. 274) grunting a pension to Aun Drott· Black; A bill ( S. 275) granting an increase of pension to Gottlieb A bill ( S. 226) for the relief of Rufus F . Hull; Ruge; and A bill ( S. 227) to remoye the charge of desertion from the A bill ( S. 276) granting a pension to James Rogers; t o the military record of William M. Carroll; Committee on Pensions. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN.A.TR.

"Tty Mr. GORE: A bill ( S. 817) granting an increase of pension to Eliza· A:. A bill ( S. 277) providing !or the establishment of a nattonal Foulkes; · institute of agriculture; to the Committee on Agriculture and A bill ( S. 318) granting an increase of pension to Abbie A. Forestry. · Upson; A bill (S. 278) providing that the Secretary of the Interior A bill ( S. 319) granting an increase of pension to Eliza J, make a per capita payment to the members of the Chickasaw Sparrow; and Choetaw and Cherokee Tribes of Indians; to the Committee .A bill (S. 320) granting an increase of pension to Ivory on Indian Affairs. Phlllips; .. By Mr. SMOOT: .A bill (S. 321) granting an increase ot pension to Ralpli A bill (S. 279) to establish a public health service and for Kent, jr.; other purposes; to the Committee on Public Health and Na­ .A bill (S. 322) g1·anting an increase of pension to Philander B. tional Quarantine. Sargent; . A bill ( S. 280) to provide for an increased annual appro­ .A. bill (S. 323) granting an increase of pension to Edward P. priation for agricultural experiment stations, to be used in re­ Morgan; searches in home economics, and regulating the exp€nditure .A. bill (S. 324) granting an increase of pension to Della thereof; to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Wight; By l\Ir. McLEAN: .A. bill ( S. 325) granting an increase of pension to Ruth .A. A bill ( S. 281) providing for an increase of salary of the Quien; United States attorney for the district of Connecticut; to the .A. bill ( S. 326) granting an increase of pension to William D. Committee on the Judiciary. McCormick ; · .A. bill ( S. 282) to grant medals to survivors and heirs of the .A bill (S. 327) granting an increase of pension to John volunteers of the Port Hudson forlorn-hope storming party; McCarthy; , and A bill ( S. 328) granting a pension to Margaret Brennan; .A. bill ( S. 283) for the relief of Lester A. Rockwell ; to the .A. blll ( S. 329) granting an increase of pension to Sarah Ii. Committee on Military .A.ffafrs . Bentley; .A. bill ( S. 284) for the relief of Charles J. Fuller; to the Com­ .A. bill (S. 330) granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth J. mittee on Claims. Braman· .A. bill ( S. 285) granting a pension to Charles L. Stevens; .A. bill' (S. 331) granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth .A. bill (S. 286) granting an increase of pension to Jennie C. Fogg; Marks; .A. bill ( S. 332) granting an increase of pension to Emily H. .A. bill ( S. 287) granting a pension to Mary L. Tucker Spittle; Bailey; .A. bill ( S. 288) granting an increase of pension to Lyman H. .A bill ( S. 333) granting an increase of pension to Mary B. Leach; Stockbridge; A bill ( S. 289) granting an increase of pension to l!enry .A. bill ( S. 334) granting an increase of pension to Ellen M. Stowe; · Banning; .A. bill (S. 290) granting an increase of pension to Emma .A. bill ( S. 335) granting an increase of pension to Maria L • Sherwood; Bishop; .A. bill ( S. 291) granting a pension to Conrad Hockenberger; .A. bill ( S. 336) granting an increase of pension to Sarah .A. bill ( S. 292) granting an increase of pension to Mary E. McMunigale; Northend; .A. bill (S. 337) granting an increase of pension to James A. • A bill ( S. 293) granting an increase of pension to Stephen T. Fancher; Gray; · .A. bill ( S. 338) granting an increase of pension to .Ann E. .A. bill ( S. 294) granting a pension to Frances M. Swift; Newport; .A. b!ll (S. 295) granting a pension to John B. Hines; .A. bill (S. 339) granting an increase of pension to Mary J • .A. bill•( S. 296) granting an increase of pension to William Mackin; Thomas; .A. bill (S. 340) granting an increase of pension to James T. .A. bill ( S. 297) granting an increase of pension to Alice P. B. Mather; Kenyon; .A. bill ( S. 341) granting an increase of pension to .Anna R. A bill ( S. 298) granting an increase of pension to Joseph Atwood; Dunn; A bill (S. 342) granting an increase of pension to Don Pedro .A. bill ( S. 299) granting an increase of pension to Ruth .A.. Griswold; Jackson; A bill (S. 343) granting an increase of pension to .Anna M. .A. bill ( S. 300) granting an increase of pension to Melly L. Thomas; Smith Ford; .A. bill (S. 344) granting an increase of pension to Charles R. .A. bill (S. 301) granting an increase of pension to Carrie E. Bunnell; Hartwell; .A. bill (S; 345) granting an increase of pension to Elmira H. .A. bill ( S. 302) granting an increase of pension to Sophronia Cowles; E. Sawyer; .A. bill ( S. 346) granting an increase of pension to Henry A. .A. bill (S. 303) granting an increasa of pension to William Kelsey; .Morrison; .A. bill ( S. 347) granting a pension to Cora H. Griswold; .A. bill (S. 304) granting an increase of pension to Lucy A. .A bill ( S. 348) granting an increase of pension to Albert IJ • Bradley; Church; .A. bill ( S. 305) granting an increase of pension to Martha E. .A. bill" (S. 349) granting an increase of pensions to Catherine P. Blodgett; .A.. French; .A. bill ( S. 306) granting a pension to Elizabeth Blake; .A. bill ( S. 350) granting an increase of pension to Sarah A . .A. bill ( S. 307) granting an increase of penslon to Ellen S. Griswold; Pember; .A. bill (S. 351) grantiI:.g an increase of pension to John Rob­ .A. bill (S. 308) granting an increase of pension to Catherine .A.. inson; Payne; A bill ( S. 352) granting an increase of pension to Harriet A bill ( S. 309) granting an increase of pension to Helena S. .A.. C. Griggs; Clark; .A. bill (S. 353) granting an increase of pension to Emma F. .A. bill ( S. 310) granting an increase of pension to Margaret E. Dimock; • Goff; · .A. blll ( S. 354) granting a pension to Ed.win B. Wright; .A. bill ( S. 311) granting un increase of pension to Lillian ·.A.. A bill (S. 355) granting an increase of pension to David Loomis; Burns; .A. bill ( S. 312) granting an increase of pension to Imogene .A. bill (S. 356) granting an increase of pension to Mary E. Crissey; Eddy; .A. bill (S. 313) granting an increase of pension to Mary E. .A. bill (S. 357) granting an increase of pension to l\fary E. Beach; Atwood; .A. bill (S. 314) granting an increase of pension to Ellen M. .A. bill (S. 358) granting an increase of pension to Bridgett D. Vinton; Farrell; .A. bill ( S. 315) granting an increase of pension to Sarah J. .A. bill (S. ?59) granting an increase of pension to Ellen J • WhMtley; Raymond (with accompanying papers) ; A bill ( S. 316) granti~ an increase ot pension to Katharina A bill (S. 360) granting an increase of pension to Jane E. Bri'tsch·; Peck (with accompanying p.-:pers) ; 1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 57

A bill (S. 361) granting an increase of pension to Mary G. REGULATION OF THE WATERS OF NIAGARA. FALLS, Fox ( witl.. accompanying papers) ; .Mr. ROOT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed A bill ( S. 362) granting an increase of pension to Helen M. by him to the joint resolution (S. J. Res. 7) amenrung and ex­ Fuller (with accompanying papers); tending the operation of the act for the control and regulatio'n A bill ( S. 363) granting an increase of pension to Rosanna of the waters of Niagara River, for the preservation of Niagara Miller . (with accompanying papers); Falls, and for other purposes, which was referr·ed to the Com- A bill (S. 364) granting an increase of pension to Ellen Burke mittee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed." ' (with accompanying papers); A bill ( S. 365) grantLg an increase of pension to George W. COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Garthwaite (with accompanying papers); Mr. SWANSON. On behalf of the senior Senator from Mary­ A bill ( S. 366) granting ~n increase of pension to Jefferson land [M::.-, SMITH], who is unavoidably detained from the Sen­ Conklin (with accompanying papers) ; . ate, I introduce three Senate resolutions, which I send to the A bill (S. 367) granting an increase of pe:::ision to Franklm desk. Ball (with accompanying papers); . Mr. SWANSON (for Mr. SMITH of Maryland) submitted the A bill ( S. 368) granting an increase of pension to Cornelia following resolution (S. Res. 26), which was read and referred Bacon (with accompanying pai:;ers); to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses A bill (S. 369) granting an increase of pension to Katie A. of the Senate: Beardsley (with accompanying papers) ; . Resolved, 'l'hat the Committee on the District of Columbia, or any subcommittee thereof, be authorized to send for persons and papers and A b1ll (S. 370) granting an increase of pens10n to Mary A. to administer oaths, and to employ a stenographer to report such hear­ Attmore (with accompanying papers); ings as may be had in connection with any subject which may be pend· A bill (S. 371) granting an increase of pension to Lucy A. ing before said committee; that the committee may sit during the ses­ sions or recesses of the Senate, and that the expense thereof be paid Pond (with accompanying papers) ; out of the contingent fund of the Senate. A bill ( S. 372) granting an increase of pension to Mary A. Hughes (with accompanying papers) ; . Mr. SWANSON (for Mr. SMITH of Maryland) submitted the A bill (S. 373) granting a pension to Alice G. Geer (with following resolution ( S. Res. 28), which was read and referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses accompanying papers) ; of the Senate : A bill (S. 374) granting an increase of pension to Emma M. Resolved, That the authority heretofore vested in the Committee on Roselle (with accompanying papers) ; the District of Columbia by Senate resolution of February 20, 1909, A bill ( S. 375) granting an increase of pension to Mary E. directing the said committee to examine into matters relating to the Starr (with accompanying papers) ; District of Columbia, is hereby continued, and the said committee is .hereby directed to pursue its investigations during the Sixty-third A bill ( S. 376) granting an increase of pens\on to Ernestine Congress. · Leist (with accompanying papers) ; A bill (S. 377) granting an increase of pension to Carrie H. Mr. SWANSON (for Mr. S~nTH of Maryland) submitted the Cummings (with accompanying papers); following resolution ( S. Res. 27), which was read and referred A bill (S. 378) granting an increase of pension to Amy · M. to the Committee on Printing: - Resolv ed, That authority is granted to print and bind, for the use of Slocum (with accompanying papers); the Committee on the District of Columbia, such papers and documents A bill {S. 379) granting an increase of pension to Emma E. as may be deemed necessary in connection with subjects heretofore con­ Edgerton (with accompanying papers); sidered or to be considered by said committee during the Sixty-third A bill ( S. 380) granting an increase of pension to Lizzie B. Congress. Wellman (with accompanying papers) ; FRED N. WEBBER. A bill ( S. 381) granting an increase of pension to Betsey E. Mr. BRADLEY submitted the following resol11tion ( S. Res. Hannahs (with accompanying papers); 29), which was read and referred to the Committee to Audit A bill ( S. 382) granting an increase of pension to Mary L. and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate: msh (with accompanying papers); and Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be, and he hereby is, au­ .A. bill ( S. 383) granting an increase of pension to George E. thorized and directed to pay, out of the contingent fund of the Senate, to Fred N. Webber, jr., son of Fred N. Webber, sr., deceased, late a Smith {with accompanying papers); to the Committee on Senate policeman, a sum equal to six months' salary at the rate be was Pensions. receiving by law at the time of his death, said sum to be cou.sidered as . By Mr. CHAMBERLAIN: including funeral expenses and all other allowances. A joint resolution ( S. J. Res. 1) proposing an amendment to PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF BIRDS. the Constitution of the United States extending the right of Mr. McLEAN submitted the following resolution (S. Res. 25)', suffrage to women; to the Committee on Woman Suffrage. which was read and referred to the Committee on Foreign By Mr. BRADY: Relations. A joint resolution ( S. J. Res. 3) for the relief of Fred White; . Resolved That the President be requested to propose to the Govern­ to the Committee on Public Lands. ments of other countries the negotiation of a convention for the mutual By Mr. SMITH of South Carolina : protection and preservation of birds. A joint resolution (S. J. Res. 4) proposing the repeal of MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE-JOINT ASSEMBLY TO-MORROW. Articles XIV and XV of the Constitution of the United States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. A message from the House of Representatives, by J. C. South, By Mr. BACON (for Mr. SMITH of Georgia): its Chief Clerk, announced that the House had passed a con­ A joint resolution (S. J. Res. 5) providing for the appoint­ current resolution providing that the two Houses of Congress ment of a commission to consider the need and report a plan shall assemble in the Hall of the House of Representath-es on for national aid to vocational education; to the Committee on Tuesday, the 8th day of April, 1913, at 12.30 o'clock in the Education and Labor... afternoon, for the purpose of receiving such communications By Mr. REED: as the President of the United St8tes shall be pleased to make A joint resolution ( S. J. Res. 6) proposing an amendment to to them, in which it requested the concurrence of the Senate. section 1 of Article III of the Constitution of the United Mr. BACON. Mr. President, I ask the Chair to Jay before Statos; to the Committee on the Judiciary. the Senate the resolution just received from the House of By Mr. BURTON: Representatives. A joint resolution (S. J. Res. 7) amending, reenacting, and The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate extending the operation of the act for the control and regulation a message from the House of Representatives, which will be of the waters of Niagara River, for the preservation of Niagara read. Falls, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign The Secretary read as follows: Relations. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, .April 7, 1913. By Mr.. BRISTOW: House concurrent resolution 1. A joint resolution ( S. J. Res. 8) proposing an amendment to Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate co11curring), the Constitution providing for submitting to the people of the That the two Houses of Congress shall assemble in the Hall of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, the 8th day of April, 1913, at United States acts of Congress for their approval; to the Com­ 12.30 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of receiving such com­ mittee on the Juruciary. · munications as the President of the United States shall be pleased to By Mr. THO~IPSON: make to them. A joint resolution (S. J. Res. 9) proposing an amendment t9 Mr. BACON. Mr. President, I move that the Senate concur the Constitution providing that a majority of both Houses shall in the House resolution. be necessary to propose amendments to the Constitution, which Mr. LODGE. · Mr. President, I take it the resolution is open shall be valid when ratified by the legislatures of a majority of to debate. I have no intention whatever of opposing the resolu­ the several States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. · tion, but· it is sucll an interesting reversion to an earlier system 58 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. APRIL 7, of transacting public business that I can not refrain from call­ I for one hope that this will be the only instance of the breach ing attention to it. of the perfectly simple and perfectly republican method which It is well known to everyone, of course, that under the admin­ he introduced. istrations of Washington and Adams it was the practice for Like the Senator from l\Iassachusetts, I shall not oppose the the President to come either to the HaJJ of the Senate or to the resolution. The President is acting both within his right and Hall of the Hou e and deliver his annual message in person. within his power, and it would be discourteous to owose it. It was then the practice for the Congress to adopt an address He has a perfect right to "communicate with Congress" in in reply to the message and carry that address themselves to either way-either by word of mouth or by written message. the residence of the Preiident and present it to him. The cus­ But I do express my regret that the old Federalistic procedure tom or form was borrowed from England, where, as a rule, the shoulcl he revamped; and I rather envy the happiness with King or the Queen opens the Parliament in person, and fill ad­ which the Senator from Massachusetts can recur to it as per­ dress is then adopted by the Houses in reply. haps a long-deferred and unexpected Democratic approbation That went on during those 12 years and was the subject of of a cu~ tom which originated upon the other side of this Cham­ much animadversion by the opposition of those days, who looked ijer with the Federalist Party, of which the present-day " stand­ upon it as another attempt of the Federalists to introduce pat" Republican Party is lineal political descendant, and monarchical customs; and it was much assailed by the oppo­ which received Democratic d:isapprobati

Mr. LODGE. I am open to conviction. If the Senator will doing he impresses upon them the importance of the matter point to those precedents, I am ready to be convinced. which he has to present to them. Mr. CLARKE of.Arkansas. I have not readily at hand a copy Of course, it is something of considerable moment when an of the precedents as collected by Mr. Gllfry. I remember, how­ extraordinary session of Congress is called, an extraordinary ever, that that is the case. occasion requiring the bringing of Senators and Representatives ..Mr. LODGE. I mean precedents showing that this is a privi­ to Washington for the purpose of determining great political leged matter. questions. When that has been done, is it possible that the Mr. CLARKE of Arkansas. No; I do not insist upon that. I President of the United States should not come here in order to say that our rule requiring resolutions to go over for a day impress hls views upon the Members of the Senate and of the applies to resolutions that originate in the Senate and does not House? Ordinarily, when a President's message is read, who apply to resolutions ·coming from the other House. They are pays any attention to it? I have been a Member of the other laid before the Senate by the Presiding Officer under another House, and I have found that on many occasions, instead of i.'ule, and having been laid before the Senate, they are open to Mem~rs of that body listening to the r~ading of s'1ch a message, immediate consideration. they either nad a pamphlet copy in their own hands, which they l\Ir. LODGEJ. Of course that can only be true in the case of a would partially read, or else they would simply walk out of the concurrent resolu'tion. Joint resolutions are provided for by Chamber. another rule, which requires them to take a first and a second Very few messages indeed receive the striet attention which reading, and one objection will carry them over two days. our Chief Executives hope they will receive. Consequently, l\fr. CLARKE of Arkansas. I understand. when we consider the occasion, when we consider the fact that l\Ir. LODGE. Therefore it applies only to concurrent reso­ whatever. the President has to say ought to be listened to, we lutions. can readily conclude that it is important that the President l\Ir. CLARKE of Arkansas. This is a concurrent resolution. should deliver his message in person. It is not a resolution which requires the approval of the Though we find that a custom of a similar nature prevails in President. another nation, a monarchy, I do not see that this should deter Mr. LODGN. .And being one, do~s it make the resolution our Chief Executive from using that means of bringing to the p1iv.ileged? attention of the Congress of the United States the facts or rea­ 1\Ir. CLARKE of Arkansas. I am having nothing to do with sons which he desires to impress upon its Members. It is demo­ the particular feature of the discussion which deals with the cratic in the extreme, because it brings the Pres:ident in per onal question 'Whether or not it is a privileged resolution. I simply .contact with both Houses of Congress. When that occurs it say that it is a House resolution, and under the precedents should produce harmony, not discord. here it is not vulnerable to the rule that has been invoked by . For these reasons, it seems to me, it is a custom which, though the Senator from Missouri. 1t has been in disu~e for some time with ill reason., in my judg­ Mr. STONE. I am not invoking the rule with the idea of ment, should be renewed nnd Tevived in the interest of good preventing action. I am invoking the rule simply with a view government. to the orderly proceeding of the Senate, and hence it was that l\Ir. LODGE. Mr. President, the precedent which the Chair I asked unanimous consent to consider the resolution now~ f:or read to the .Senate I think I recall-I was in the Senate at the which I will vote. time, and I have no doubt I was one of those who voted to lay 1\Ir. SMOOT. I think the rule the Senator from Arkansas the appeal on the table--was a motion to adjourn~ in sub­ referred to is Rule VII, para.graph 6, which reads as follows: stance, a motion to adjourn on that day, and a single ·objection 6. The Presiding Officer may at any time lay, and it shall be 1n order carrying it over would, of course, have destroyed the motion. at any time for a Senator to move to lay, befe>re the Senate, any bill or I do not think that is quite parallel to this case, and I am still other matter sent to the Semlte by the President or the House of Rep­ resentatives. and ::my question pending at that time shall be suspended unable to see that any privilege attaches to it or that the tact for this purpose. Any motion so made shall be determined without that it comes fr.om the other House gives it any privilege. debate. I do not, howe>er, care to protract the debate, Mr. President, It is the practice of the Senate, I will say, that bills and reso­ but I want to say that I trust the Senator from Colorado [Mr. lutions coming from the House are presented oftentimes in the SHAFROTH] did not imagine that in what I was saying there as midst of the business of the Senate. The Presiding Officer will any intention of criticizing the reversion to the practices of the ask that the Senator speaking shall suspend that the Chair may first two administrations, which were abandoned 112 years ago. lay before the Senate certain messages from the House of Rep­ On the contrary, I have always had great admiration for those i·esentatives. ,But that does not give the right 'of immediate two Presidents and their methods; and it has interested me Tery action upon those bills or resolutions. They go to the committee much to hear renewed on the floor here to-day the old Federal­ to which they should be referred, and are repof"ted back from ist arguments about the dignity and the impressiveness of the the committee to the Senate in due course of time. If when a President pers9nally appearing before Congress. resolution whlch came from the House was handed down to Mr. BRANDEGEE. Mr. President, I desire to inquire if the the Senate there was an objection to its consideration, I Senator from Missouri [Mr. STONE] withdrew his request for ihave never known an instance where it did not go to the com­ unanimous consent? mittee or go over for one "day. I cnn not see but that the Sena­ Mr. STONE. The request for unanimous consent, as I under­ tor from Missom·i is absolutely right, as I said in the beginning, stood, was determined by the ruling of the Chair that this was in · this matter. a question of privilege in the opinion of the Chair, and should The VICN Pr..E.SIDENT. The Senator from Utah will permit be submitted without regard to the question of unanimous con- the Chail' to read what took place in the Senate: sent. · The Vice Pl'esident- l\Ir. BRA.1'1DEGEE. Then, there is no request for ununimons Mr. Hobart- consent pending at the present time, as I understand it, Mr. President? laid before the Senate for its consideration the resolution of the House of Re:presentatives providing for the :final adjournment of the two The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair so understands. Houses of Congress at 9 o'clock :P. m. this day- Mr. BRADLEY. .l\Ir. President, as I understand, this reso­ July 24, 1897- lution was introduced and the question was raised as to whether or not it was in order. The President of the Senate when Mr. Morgan objected to the consideration of the resolution and raised a point of 01·der. -viz, that objection having been made the reso­ ruled that it was in order, and from that ruling there hns been lution, under clause 5, Rule XIV. must lie over one day for consid­ no appeal. It seems to me that all this discussion has been eration. out of order, and I now move the previous question. [Laughter.] The Vice President overruled the question of order and decided that the resolution. whieh provided for an adjournment of Congress, wn.s a l\fr. LODGE. Mr. President-- llUestion of privilege and that the provision of Rule XIV was not ap­ Mr. THOMAS. If that motion requires a second, I desire to plicable ther.eto. From the d.ecision of the Chair Mr. Allen appealed to the Senate; second it. when, on motion of Mr. Aldrich that the apl)eal lie on the table. it was Ur. LODGE. Mr. President, I think, as we are changing the Cletermineil in the affirmative-yeas 36. nays 20. rules of the Senate so rapidly, perhaps it would be as well to l\Ir. SHAFROTH. Mr. President, I had hoped that some one add the previous question to-day. who has been in this body longer than I would say something The VICE PREJSIDENT. The question is on the adoption of in relation to the policy, which seems to be questioned, of the the concurrent resolution. Pre~ideut coming personally for the purpose of addressing the The concurrent resolution was agreed to. House and the Senate. I want to say this custom is not a new Mr. CLARKE of Arkansas subsequently said (aii:e1· the trans­ one, although it has been discarded fo1· some time in the Senate action of certain routine business whicb appears under its ap­ and the House of Representatives of the United States. Every propriate heading) : l\Ir. President, I desire to present to the goYernor of a State goes to both houses of the legislature and Senate an authority that I referred to in the few remarks I addresses them in person. Why does he do it? Because by so submitted on the general question, but which I did not have

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at hand at that time. I referred to what took place 1n the ness-which has come down to us multiplied a thousandfold in Senate in the Forty-third Congress December 18, 1873. An all that makes a nation great. Impress us, we beseech The.e, epitome of the proceeding is reported in Gilfry's Precedents at with the great responsibility it brings to us as individuals and page 364, and is as follows: as a people, that we may keep inviolate its sacred principles and ' The President pro temp.ore- laid be!ore the Senate the following- reso­ march on to greater attainments. Let Thy spirit brood over lution received this day from the House of Representatives: the deliberations of the Congress now convened; fire the "Resol,,;ed, That when the two Houses adjourn on Friday, the 19th instant, they shall stand adjourned until Monday, the 5th of January hearts of these Representatives with patriotic z:eal and fervor; next." strengthen the hands of the Speaker of this House, that he may Mr. Edmunds objected tb Us consideration this day, and made the guide through all the intricate problems which may arise to point of order that, being objected to under the twenty-sixth rule of the Senate, the resola:tio.n must lie over one day for conslderati-On. the highest and best results, that the frnits of its labors may be The President pro tempore {Matt H. Carpenter) overruled the P?int to the good of all classes and conditions of our people. • of order raised by Mr. Edlbunds, on the ground that the twenty-sixth Imbue our judiciary with wisdom, that their judgments may rule apJ?lied only to re oiutions of the Senate; but that in the present case, bemg a resolution of the Hou e of Representatives sent to-the Sena.te be true and righteous altogether. for its concurrence, and having been laid before the Senate by the Chau, Bless, guide, and protect the President of these United States Lt was for the Senate ta make of it what disposition it thought proper. and his advisors, that the interests of the Nation may be ad­ Mr. STONE. Which was the twenty-sixth rule? vanced at home and abroad; and thus may the coorElinate l\Ir. LODGE. The same rule. branches of our Republic work together in harmony with Thee, Mr. CLARKE of Arkansas. The same rule which the Senator that truth, justice, mercy, and righteousness may have their full from Missouri invoked, or at least to which he called attention. fruition in a land of peace and plenty under the spiritual lead­ I agreed most cordially with those who insisted that the re o­ ership of the Prince of Peace; and glory and honor and praise lution received from the House of Representatives, inviting the be Thine, 0 God our Father. Amen. Senate to join that body in joint convention on to-morrow for PROCLAMATION OF THE PRESIDENT. the purpose of hearing the President's message read by hrm­ self, should be passed at once. I did not quite understand, 1.'he CLERK. The President's proclamation conTeni.ng the extra however, why it should be deemed a privileged resolutfon, and session of Congress will now be read. without determining in my own mind whether it was or not I The Clerk read as follows: saw a perfectly plain and parliamentary way by whlch it could BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES-A ~ROCLAM.A'l'ION ~ be considered at this time. I wanted to set myseli straight, Whereas publie interests require that the Congress- of the and to say that if I was wrong about this I was misled by a United States should be convened in extra session at 12 o'clock , precedent made in the Senate and in which the Senate- at the noon on the 7th day of April, 1913, to receive such communica­ time acquiesced. tion as may be made by the· Executive : Mr. LODGE. llr. President, I asked the Sena.tor from il­ Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United kansas to produce a precedent and he has done so. The ruling States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an of l\Ir. Carpenter, who was a very able Senator and a very able extraordinary occasion requires the Congress af the United parliamentarian, is confined simply to the point that the rule States to convene in extra session at the Capito-I in the city of in question does not cover anything except Senate resolutions. Washington on the 7th day of April, 1913, at 12 o'clock noon, I am not prepared immediately to admit that that ruling is of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act n sound one. I think it is open to considerable question. But as Members thereof are hereby required to take notice. i do believe in the great principle here of stare decisis, so far Given under my hand and the seal of the United States of as we can follow it; and I am very glad that the Senator- from America the 17th day of Mal"Ch, in the year of om· Lord one Arkansas disclaimed the proposition that this was privileged, thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and of the independence because that, I think, would open the door to a great many very of the United States. the one hundred and thirty-seventh. dangerous precedents. Mr. STONE. Mr. President, I desire to say that when I (SEAL] WOODROW WILSON. raised the question I had no thought, and I think I said so at By the President: the time, of in any way objecting to the consideration of the WILLIAM JENNINGS BBYAN, resolution or to its adoption. I believed that this being a body Secretary of State. • go•erned by its own rules as to its procedure, it should adhere CALL OF THE ROLL BY STATES.. to them. I desired the resolution considered, and hence asked The CLERK. Tlie o:fficlar list of Members by States will be unanimous consent, thinking that that was the orderly and called, to ascertain if a quorum is present. proper way to proceed. The Clerk proceeded to call the roll of Members by States, My friend from AI·kansas presents a precedent which the and the following Members answered to their names:- Senator from Massachusetts says would seem to confirm the ALABilli. view of the Chair that it was in order to submit it,. notwith­ George W. Taylo~ Richmond Pearson Hobson. standing the rule of the Senate to which I called attention. I S. H. Dent. John L. Burnett acquiesced at the time. I did not appeal from the decision of Henry D. Clayton. William RiChardson. the Chair. I accepted F. L. Blackmon. Oscar W. Underwood. it. ;J. Thomas Heflin. John W. Abercrombie. All I desire to say is, that in what I said and did I had bnt ABIZONA. one object in view-that was that the rules of the Senate might Carl Hayden. be absolutely observed. I accept the ruling of the Chair and "ARKANSAS, support it, particularly in view of the authorities cited by the· T. H. Caraway. Henderson M. Jacoway. Chair itself and by the Senator from Arkansas, without having W1lliam A. Oldfield. Sam M. Taylor. • had opportunity to examine them. John C. Floyd. William S. Goodwin. Otis T. Wingo. .Mr. MARTINE of New Jersey. Mr. President, I move that CALIFORNIA. the Senate adjourn. William Kent. D. S. Church. The motion was agreed to; and (at 5 o'clock and 50 minutes John E. Raker. EveriS" A. Hayes-. p. m.) the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, Tuesday, April 8, Charles F. Curry. C. W. Bell. Julius Kahn. William D. Stephens. 1913, at 12 o'clock meridian. J. I. Nolan. William Kettner. Joseph R. Knowland. COLORADO. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Georae J. Kindel. Edward T. Taylor. H. if. Seldomridge. Edward Keating. MONDAY, April 7, 1913. CONNECTICUT. 0 Augustine Lonergan. Jeremiah Donovan. This being the day fixed in the proclamation of_ the President B. F. Mahan. William Kenned~. for the assembling of the first session of the Sixty-third Con­ Thomas L. Reilly. gress, the Clerk of the Iast House, !\Ir. South Trimble, called DELAWARE. the House to order at 12 o'clock m. Franklin Brockson. The Chaplain of the House of Representatives of the Sixty­ FLORIDA. Stephen M. Sparkman. Emmett Wilson. second Congress, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the fol­ Frank Clark. Claude L'Engle. lowing prayer : GEORGIA. 0 Thou, who art the, life and light of men, the inspiration o:f Charles G. Edwards. Gordon Lee. every generous impulse, high resolve, and noble endeavor, we S. A. Roddenbery. Samuel J. Tribble. thunk 'I.'hee for tJ1e sublime heights reached and kept by our Charles R. Crisp. Thomas M. Bell. William C. Adamson. Thomas W. Hardwick. fathers in a Government whose foundations were laid in the William Schley Howard. J. R. Walker. inherent rights of men-life, liberty, and the pursuit ot bappi- Charles L. Bartlett. Dudley M. Hughes.