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10824. Also~ petition of Dr. J. A. Gregoire, Hillsboro, Tex., From this depression we have learned another costly les­ favoring tax exemption to physicians on Federal income for son on the value of preparedness. We entered the combat to charity practice; to the Committee on Ways and Means. succeed an administration which had been retreating before 10825. Also, petition of Dr. William A.. Hammon~ Bryan, savage adverse economic forces which had laid waste the Tex., favoring tax exemption to physicians on Federal in­ land. We-adopted new and offensive tactics and rallied the come for charity practice; to the Committee an Ways and full resources of the Federal Government to rout the enemy, Means. and for our attack we evolved the first substantial. effective 10826. Also, petition of Dr. W. K. Logsdon, Corsicana, Tex., attempt at a planned economy. favoring tax exemption to physicians on Federal income for From the financial reports of the large corporations whose charity practice; to the Committee on Ways and Means. pay rolls in normal times provide a living for a great number 10827. Also~ petition of Dr. H. A.. Mahaffey, Hillsboro, Tex., of our people, we now have cheering indications that the favoring tax exemption to physicians on Federal income for tide of battle has turned and that a victory, due in no small charity practice; to the Committee on Ways and Means. measure to the successful working of this planned economy. 10828. By Mr. KEE: Petition of .citizens of West , is at hand. favoring the passage of House bill 7122, providing for pen­ We may now analyze the strategy employed to achieve this sions for adult blind persons; to the Committee on Pensions. victory and, with the thought of utilizing it in the event ot 10829. By Mr. REED of Dlinois: Resolution of American another depression, evaluate it calmly and contemplate im­ Homestead Protective Association of Chicago, ID., urging provements in it to prevent in the future the repetition of Congress to amend the Frazier-Lem.ke bill 2066 so that all those errors which could not have been avoided because of the city and town property owners may have the same recourse necessary haste employed in putting our plan into execution. and the same protection as farmers under said bill; to the Obviously our most grievous sin was our lack of prepara­ Committee on Agriculture. tion for the emergency of 1929. The warnings of economic 10830. By Mr. RICH: Petition of citizens of McKean prophets had fallen upon deaf ears during the days of easy County, favoring the Wheeler-Crosser bill (H. R. 11609); to money, and disaster, following in the wake of a market col­ the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. lapse, found America an improvident nation, taken completely 10831. By the SPEAKER: Petition of the National Retail off guard, stunned by the enormity of the catastrophe, and Lumber Dealers Association; to the Committee on the too bewildered to muster the necessary defenses. Judiciary. True, there- was a period of panicky conferences of the Nation's leading financiers, who assured us that confidence · HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES alone would win the battle, that the worst of the depression was over, and, ignoring the lengthening breadlines, that pros­ TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1936 perity was just around the comer. And there were eloquent The House met at 12 o'clock noon. but futile pleas that industry pull itself out of the depression The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera. Montgomery, D. D., offered by reemploying the unemployed. But while these haphazard the following prayer: efforts were successful in bolstering up a few failing corpora­ tions and in salvaging a few scattered investments, no effec­ Eternal and Immortal One, may we draw nigh to '!bee and tual attempt to relieve the Nation's widespread distress was breathe Thy holy name in prayer? · Blessed be the name of made until after President Roosevelt's inauguration. the Lord our God, which hath not turned away our prayer Emergency agencies were hastily organized, and plans were nor his mercy toward us. We pr:ay Thee to make our tem­ laid for priming the business pump with Federal money to pers patient, our lips gentle, and may we bear the fruits of hasten the restoration of economic normality. The Congress goodness. Arm us, Heavenly Father, with the strong, manly made vast appropriations, but the lack of preparatory studies virtues, that we may be chivalrous champions of the right and adequate plans for the execution of these relief programs against wrong. We pray for any who may dumbly suffer for made most difficult the task of stemming the depression and others' sake and for any who keenly feel-the faults of those turning the tide of battle. The Public Works Administration, they love.- Consecrate each family tie; light heaven on all the principal agency charged with creating useful employ­ hearthstones and fill them with divine blessings. Keep this ment, opened its campaign without the aid of surveys, which everlasting truth in all our minds: "The path of the just is would have expedited greatly its huge undertaking. as a shining light that shineth more and more unto the To encourage the employment of jobless workers in con­ perfect day." Let Thy will be done in every heart as it was struction and in the industries supplying materials, P. w. A. in the heart of the Master. Amen. invited departments of the Federal Government and States, The Journa1 of the proceedings of yesterday was read and counties, municipalities, and other local governmental bodies approved. to submit applications for ftm.ds to carry on useful projects. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE Only the Federal departments were prepared to expend this money judiciously, only they had surveyed the work to be A message from the Senate, by Mr. Home, its enrolling done, and had available the blueprints to carry out the job. clerk, announced that the Senate had passed bills of the Local governmental units were taken completely by sur­ following titles, in which the concurrence of the Bouse is requested: prise. The invita;tion to enroll in a public-works program s. 3744. An act to amend the act creating the Federal found them for the most part unprepared to submit appli­ Trade Commission, to define its powers and duties, and for cations for works. And yet every community in the coun­ other purposes; and try, from the largest city to the smallest hamlet, felt the s. 4524. An act to provide a civil government for the Virgin urgent need of additional municipal improvements to safe­ Islands of the . guard the health of its people, to provide decent modern care for its sick and indigent wards, to give modern educa­ P. W. A. GETS DOLLAR'S WORTH OF WORK FOR EACH DOLLAR SPENT tional accommodations to its children. Every community Mr. BEITER asked and was given permission to revise and was aware that its municipal plant was in need of some im-­ extend his remarks in the REcoRD. provement, and every community was faced with a; grave un­ Mr. BEITER. Mr. Speaker, with the great depression of employment problem, yet few of them had prepared the 1929 now in full retreat and our long-fought battle back to plans and estimates on which to base a request for Federal industrial normality near success, we may now survey the aid, which would serve the dual purpose of employing their destruction of that great economic battlefield and ponder on jobless and modernizing their plants. how differently our strategy might have been planned, on There was no na.tional survey showing the location of how more wisely we might have employed the weapons that needed works, no outline for a campaign which sought to were so hastily forged when this administration assumed attack the largest unemployment centers and provide there the high command in the battle. employment for workers who wanted jobs in the building 1936 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 6679 of . undertakings whose value to society should not be ques- seems to me that one of the most urgent needs of our Gov­ tioned by the taxpayers who would bear their .cost. ernment at the present is that of a well-equipped agency There were two possible methods of operation for P. W. A. whose function shall be in times of econoniic peace to make It might have sprung into action hastily, scattering with all preparations for mustering the Nation's strength in the lavish hand the money entrusted to it in the construction event it is needed in an economic crisis when business fails­ of poorly planned undertakings of questionable social worth, in its role as the employer of the Nation's workers. The or it could proceed cautiously and necessarily more slowly, first steps in long-range planning have already been taken. evaluating each application, checking the plans with the Under Administrator Ickes, the National Resources Board idea of securing a dollar's worth of work for each dollar was organized and has been operating with a grant of · spent, making certain that the Federal Government would P. W. A. funds. This agency is primarily concerned with find its loans repaid. providing · an inventory of our great national resources and Public Works Administrator Harold L. Ickes chose the with preparing a program for their intelligent development. latter course, and I believe he showed great wisdom in his· While its work will doubtless be of great aid, not only in choice. Applications for Federal funds to be us~ in con- directing future expansion but in mapping areas for im­ struction of state or municipal projects poured into his provement to be developed if America is faced with the office by the thousands. The fantastic, the wasteful, the problem of providing work relief in another depression, we useless were carefully weeded· out by trained engineer ex- should have some other agency whose chief concern should aminers and approval was given only to those projects which be the development of plans for specific projects in every promised to keep a substantial number of workers from part· of the country. This agency should be so organized relief rolls and which served some useful need in the com- and equipped that its files will contain full information on munity in which they were to be erected. the construction :leeds of every community, so that in the This selection of the undertakings in which the Federal event of a serious une;mployment crisis, work may be started Government was to participate was a long, laborious process. at once on some useful undertaking, providing· a welcome, The care exercised in determining that no F~deral money economically sound substitute for a Federal dole. · should be wasted required time and brought from hostile At ,the present time the Public Works Administration, of critics the charge of unnecessary delay. The progi-am' nioved all Federal agencies, is best prepared for the work of long­ slowly, but moved as rapidly as judicious administration range planning. It already has on file thousands of applica­ would permit. The haste demanded by critics would have ne- tions for worthy undertakings which have had to be filed, cessitated waste, and extravagance in,Americ.a's fust public- because sufficient funds for their execution were not avail­ works program would have so seriously discredited the theory able. Hundreds. of these .projects have been carefully exam­ of public works that its employment in future depressions ined and approved by P. W. -A.· engineers, economists, and would be indeed difficult. lawyers and their constructfon wa!ts only the need for employ- Instead, in reviewing the accomplishments of P. W. A., we ment and the app~opriation of the necessary funds. These find that it has been so successful in routing the depression approved applications might well serve as a nucleus for a that· its future use as a tested theory seems inescapable. permanent collection of plans for public works, which might P. W. A. has undertaken the construction of approximately well be assigned to the care of P. W. A., which would be 24,000 projects. Of this number, 15,500 were carried on under entrusted with the task of keeping the file up to date, ready the auspices of the regular departments of the Federal Gov- for use in any emergency. ernment and the remaining 8,000 and more by P. w. A. in . I feel certain that I echo a sentiment popular throughout cooperation with the local government units which received the country when I say that we should charge some Federal grants of Federal money. A recent statement of Adminis- agency with the permanent duty of compiling and keeping a trator Ickes reveals that approximately 3,400,000 men have timely inventory of the Nation's public-works needs. Ameri­ been given 1 year's employment on P. w. A. projects. Mr. cans of the future calling upon this survey to assist them Ickes and the administration should be proud of the fact that and their fight through another depression, and finding it the P. W. A. construction program, involving between three ready for use, will be grateful for our foresight. and four billion dollars, has not been marred by scandal, and UTAH PIONEER TRAILS AND LANDMARKS ASSOCIATION that even the most captious critics are agreed in granting Mr. ROBINSON of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous that its projects have been supervised intelligently and con- consent for the immediate consideration of the bill . March 1936 to the extent of $75,903,000. other commodities that had to be bought by the farmers and (C) That the C. C. C. camp boys sent $15,575,000 of their home owners. The unbalanced drop is what caused the earnings back to their homes to take care of their fathers, greatest depression and economic panic our Nation eyer ex­ mothers, and fa.mily. - perienced. During these 3% years the business curve and (D) Reduced the annual average of forest-fire destruction the buying-power curve kept coming down and down and 40,000 acres. down, and during all of these 3¥2 years Mr. Hoover, Mr. The boys put in 57,000 man-days fighting forest fires Mellon, and Mr. Morgan and the rest kept telling us that this between April 1933 and April 1936. business curve would turn its nose up around the corner next They protected the forest to the extent of building week, next week, and next week. 2,500 miles of truck and trail roads. The sad part of that national calamity was that the dic­ (G) They built 2,200 miles of foot and horse trails. tators would not let President Hoover do anything to prevent They constructed 460 vehi.cle bridges. this decline of weekly wages and farm prices. They told him (1) They cleared fire hazards from 13.520 acres of forest to sit still and keep quiet and wait until prosperity came lands. around the comer. . (J) They reduced fire hazards along 3,600 miles of road­ We all know that we were within a. few months of a ways. revolution in this country when the Roosevelt administra­ They have built 58 towers and lookouts. tion and the Seventy-third Congress put into effect the (L) They built and now maintain over 1,600 miles of teJe .. N. R. A. and the C. C. C. camp movement. Both Demo­ phone lines. crats and Republicans now agree that had Congress not Of course, these a·re only material accomplishments. The passed these two bills and put them into effect we would big accomplishment is that these camps make men out of have had an industrial and social revolution in this country. boys. They build better communities for us to hand down As soon as these acts of Congress started to operate in to our children. 1933, wages and farm prices started to be stabilized. The In my district we have six C. C. C. camps and there is no business curve in production instantly turned upward. The way of judgjng the social values that our next generation farmer received more for his commodities. Labor received will receive because of this work, and the dollar value they more per-day. In other words, buying power was increased will receive will amount into the millions. and we cannot have prosperity unless we have ample buy­ Yes, my friends, the c. c. C. camps., or institutions simi­ ing power. We cannot have ample buying power unless all lar to them-we may call them by another name-are here men have work· at a reasonable wage. to stay. We would haNe many a. revolution today if we Just as soon as the farmers and the laborers and the little­ attempted to take them away, because youth knows that business men become conscious of the always true fact that this sort of development of our national resources is a de­ production and prosperity always go band in hand With velopment that will mean food, shelter, and clothing to them ample wages and shorter working h9urs, then we will be in a as they grow older. position to throw off this boogaboo of man-made depression. We all know that the recent depression was a man-made PERlfi.SSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE depression. International bankers and Ll"berty Leaguers Mr. GOLDSBOROUGH. Mr. Speaker, on tomorrow, after and their kind made this man-made depression. They will the reading of the Journal and the disposition of matters on do it again if they can :flashlight the people into believing the Speaker's desk, I ask unanimous consent to address the their soap-bubble propaganda. This upward tum in busi­ House for 10 minutes. ness was a direct result of the application of · the N. R. A. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the and the institution of the C .. C. C. camps throughout the gentleman from Pennsylvania? Nation. · There was no obJection. 1936_ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 6681 FLOOD CONTROL OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER divorced from the Mississippi River, and the owners of properties within the floodways shall receive agreed or juSt compensation for Mr. DEROUEN. Mr. Speaker; I ask unanimous consent to all flowage rights and easements conveyed or taken. extend my remarks in the RECORD and to include therein an This plan of levees and floodways is a plan that has been con­ address which the senior Senator from Louisiana [Mr. OVER­ stantly and unqualifiedly recommended by the Mississippi River Commission and the dtiferent Chiefs of Engineers since 1928. It is TON] delivered on April 27 before the National Rivers and according to them the sure, safe, and most economical plan that can Harbors Congress. be adopted. It is sufficient unto itself. If carried into . effect. as The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the contemplated by my bill, it will solve forever the flood-control prob­ lem of the lower valley. Gen. Edward M. Markham, present gentleman from Louisiana? Chief of Army Engineers, declares that this combination of levees There was no· objection. and floodways is the only answer that they have been able to Mr. DEROUEN. Mr. Speaker, under the leave to extend uncover, discover, and make to this age-old problem of flood control in the lower Mississippi Valley. my remarks in the REcoRD, I include the following address It has been proposed to dispense with fioodways by the use of by Hon. JoHN H. OVERTON, Senator from Louisiana, before the :flood-detention reservoirs on the headwaters of the streams tribu­ convention of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress in tary to the Mississippi. After a thorough study of reservoirs, the Mississippi River Commission and the Chief of Engineers in 1928 Washington, D. C., on April 27, 1936: submitted, through the Secretary of War, a report on the subject; Mr. President and members of the National Rivers and Harbors and it was their deliberate and expert judgment, confirmed the Congress, permit me to express my very warm appreciation of the other day by the testimony of General Markham before the Senate honor which you have conferred upon me in requesting me to Committee on Commerce, that reservoirs do not dispense with the address this magnificent convention of the National Rivers and necessity of either floodways or levees. A system of reservoirs that Harbors Congress, composed of representatives from all parts of would have a constant and substantial influence in lowering flood the United States. stages would cost $1,250,000,000, as against the plan contemplated When I selected as the subject of my discourse the topic of flood in the pending bill that is estimated to cost for its completion control of the lower Mississippi Valley there was then pending the sum of $272,000,000. The people in the valley favor and the upon the calendar of the United States Senate a bill that I had engineers recognize the value of reservoirs as additional factors introduced, providing for the completion and expansion of a plan of safety. But I am safe in making the assertion that it is the of flood control in the alluvial valley of America's greatest river. consensus of expert engineering opinion and the view of the over­ I am happy to stand before you today with the realization that whelming majority of the people in the valley that reservoirs are this bill was last week passed by the Senate without a voice raised not a safe substitute for either floodways or levees. in opposition to it and with only one dissenting vote cast Permit me to make the observation that, in my humble judg­ against it. ment, the time has come in the history of this Nation when the The bill has now been sent to the House of Representatives for Federal Government should busy itself not only with the regula­ action, and, together with an overwhelming majority of the people tion and control of Mississippi floods but with all major interstate residing in the valley, I entertain the fervent hope that it will flood situations throughout the Nation that are destructive of life, within the next few days be reported by the Committee on Flood property, and industry, regardless of where they occur. A most Control of the House and at an early date be passed by that body thorough consideration is now being given, and, I may add, a deter­ and approved by the President of the United States. mined effort is being made by Congress to .provide, in the so-called This bill, S. 3531, presents no new or novel plan of flood control. omnibus bill, a formula of national policy having for its object It provides for the completion, modification, and enlargement of Federal intervention to prevent these major flood disasters. And, the plan proposed by Gen. Edgar Jadwin, Chief of Army Engineers, in conclusion, I express the hope that before this Congress adjourns in 1928 and adopted by Congress in the Flood Control Act of a reasonable and practical omnibus flood-control bill will receive May 15, 1928. the sanction of-Congress and the approval of President Franklin D. The main features of the 1928 act were the declarations by the Roosevelt, who is, from a national viewpoint, giving sympathetic National Congress that flood control in the lower Mississippi Valley consideration to all major problems of flood control throughout the is a national responsibility; that the States in the valley and their continental United States. local subdivisions had contributed $292,000,000 to protect them­ selves from the floodwaters borne down upon them from an area PUBL.IC DOCKS, WHARVES, AND WAREHOUSES representing 41 percent of the territory of the continental United States; that no further local contribution should be required except Mr. DIMOND. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to mainly the furnishing of rights-of-way for levees on the main stem withdraw the bill (H. R. 9011) to amend the twelfth item of of the Mississippi River and the maintenance of the levees after section 460 of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1899 con.Struction; and that the National Government would at its own (30 Stat. 1336), as amended by section 29 of the act of June expense pay the cost of construction of levees and floodways and the cost of flowage rights. · 6, 1900 (31 Stat. 331), which was introduced by me and The bill that I had the honor of sponsoring does not undertake referred to a committee but upon which no action has ever to modify the philosophy and purpose of the Flood Control Act of been taken. 1928; it does not undertake to enlarge Federal responsibility or to decrease local contribution. Its chief object is to provide for the The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the completion of the project undertaken pursuant to the act of 1928, gentleman from Alaska? to modify it in accordance with the engineering recommendations There was no objection. of the Mississippi River Commission and the Chief of Army Engi­ neers, and to authorize an additional appropriation of $272,000,000 RECORD OF THE ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION for its execution. The plan recommended in 1928 by the Army Engineers and the Mr. HAINES asked and was given permission to extend Mississippi River Commission, based upon almost half a century his remarks in the RECORD of intensive study of this great problem is a plan of levees and Mr. HAINES. Mr. Speaker, under the leave to extend my of floodways. It was declared then by the Commission and by the remarks in the REcoRD I include the following address which Army Engineers, and is today their firm judgment, that a system of levees only is wholly insufficient. The levees must be supple­ I delivered at Quakertown, Pa.., on April 14: · mented by floodwa.ys. They are being built as high and as broad I want the citizens of this progressive community to know that as it 1s feasible, practicable, economical, and safe to build levees. it 1s both a privilege and pleasure for me to join with you upon But when major floods descend the mighty Mississippi, in the such an occasion and because of the fact that you have in Congress majesty if its strength and in the fierceness of its wrath, laughs one of the finest men it was ever my privilege to be associated with. to scorn these great artificial barriers, crevasses through and breaks OLLIE FREY (for we like to call him "Ollie") is a most worthy them down and spreads its devastating and destructive flOOds into representative of his people. He has the respect of all who know the alluvial plain. In its uncontrolled ravages it plays no fa­ him and is recognized as an able legislator and intensely interested vorites and respects no area. It selects its own outlets and dis­ in the people he has the honor to represent. I want to express the charges its ruinous floods alike over woodland and swampland, hope that you will give him your united support and send him prosperous farms and happy homes, towns, and cities. From time back, for it is only by length of service that men can be of the most immemorial the great Father of Waters has demanded and, levees value, and this is so true in the legislative halls of the Nation. or no levees, it will continue to demand relief outlets for the We are in the midst of another great national campaign. excess waters of its supercharged channel. It is inevitable that You have already heard, and will continue to hear, a great deal we accede to the river's inexorable demand, but wisdom, prudence, concerning the accomplishments of the Democratic Party, under and foresight dictate that we provide and control the necessary the wise leadership of one of the greatest men of all times, Frank­ diversion channels. lin D. Roosevelt. The record of this administration is subjected to Therefore, under the adopted plan, the completion of which is the most vicious attacks ever uttered against any man; hence, it is sought by the Overton bill, it is proposed that we instead of the most fitting that I should, upon an occasion like this. refresh your river select and provide the necessary outlets. It is contemplated memories and call to your attention the dark days of the recent that the surplus floodwaters which the main and leveed channel past. Our memoii.es· are very short, and perhaps it is a good cannot hold be subtracted from the river and through other chan­ thing that we can forget; but it will do no harm fm- me to recall nels be safely borne to the Gulf of . These diversion chan­ the dark days through which the Nation had to pass under another nels are to be located where they will be most effective and where administration, and caution you not to be deceived or to permit they will do the least damage. These floodways and spillways will yourselves to be exploited for the selfishness of those who want to be leveed so as to confine the surplus waters thus permanently destroy the efforts toward industrial and social security and the 668~ .CONG~ES_ SIO~AL RE_ CO;RD-H;OU _S~ splendid ga.lns we have made in the past 2 or 3 years. What was could tell what would have happened to the farmers after .the the condition of the country in 1932-33? I know our political courts ruled out the Triple A. Without a doubt the farmers would enemies don't want us to "bring that up". but let's exa.mine the go back into the old rut from which they were rescued. We have record. tried again to help them in the new SoU Conservation Act, which Let's go back to March 4, 1933, and find what the condition of the we hope the courts will not invalidate. The farmers are such a country was a.t that time. I say to you that the country was in potential force in this Nation, for we differ from most of the great utter despair and chaos. The awful picture of desolation that nations of the world in that we grow more foodstuffs than we can obtained a.t that time is something we would all like to forget, for consume, so that it is of such vital importance that we are inter­ we had a grea~ mass of our fellow citizens who did not know what ested in his welfare, for it reflects itself immediately upon our to do or where to go. We were a panic-stricken, bankrupt people own national welfare, and affects the workers in the mills and in a great land of full and plenty on every ha.nd. with hungry men, manufacturing plants, as well as the commercial and financial ac­ women, and children in our large centers of population destitute tivities. There is so much that can be done for the farmers that and homeless, roaming from one place to the other, living upon the will be- helpful to the balance of the Nation that 1t is of the greatest generosity of others almost in as bad a condition. That ghastly pic­ importance that we have his welfare in mind. ture of hunger and privation, bringing untold su1fering, chilled the Only 14 percent of the farmers in the United States enjoy elec­ huge ranks of the unemployed wtth stark fear and burdening them tric energy on the farms at this time, and less than 15 percent of with the sense of hopelessness and destruction. I say to you, ladies these farms have running water in their homes. I am sure every­ and gentlemen, it was the coming of Franklin D. Roosevelt at that one can appreciate the potential business value to every line of time that saved the Nation and brought cheer and hope into the human endeavor 1f we could give the farmers an adequate pur­ breasts of milllons of fine Americans who were about to give up. chasing power, so as to give the stimulus so necessary in our We had 70 percent of our people at that time who did not have cities and towns. Start the farmers on the road to prosperity and enough income to provide themselves with the real necessities of you will enjoy national prosperity, but not tmtll you do this can life. A voice rang out on that memorable March 4, saying no one you realize it. Of course, we have the problems of the towns and ' is going to starve in this country, and because that promise has cities to solve. When the Government plans for slum clearance been kept, it is now necessary that an administration must defend ~d better homes for Americans, we are immediately accused of itself. I'll confess to you that it is the first time in my more than being socialistic and communistic, as well as every other objec­ half a century>s experience that I have known any administration~ tionable name to our form of government. We have millions of be abused and criticized for bringing back better conditions. The men and women living in houses unfit for human habitation. Democratic a.dministration, under the leadership of Mr. Roosevelt, This administration would like to see every man, woman, and has tried to keep that promise, not by words but by action. child in this country live in decent homes, have a job, paying an It _is not the first time, however, that men have been abused for a.dequat;.e wage, and I am quite certain you will agree with me that taking up the cause of the masses. George Washington, Lincoln, we have tried to· give the necessary stimulant to aid private in­ Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and even dustry to absorb those that are employable. Theodore Roosevelt were abused in their day, some of them suffer­ ing abuse almost equal to that which is now to be heaped upon When we give consideration to this great group of our fellow this great President of ours. Woodr<;>w Wilson was crucified by citizens, we are told that we are interfering with private industry powerful political enemies, and even today some men in high and slowing up the wheels of industry. places would like to drag his fair name through the dirt and slime, Would those who oppose our program prefer that we pay a dole which is the most shocking thing that can come from men who rather than give work to our people on projects approved and call themselves patriots. It is not for me, • however, to rise here sponsored by local communities? No matter what we attempt to and defend these great men, for their records have been made, do, we are in a campaign, and fault will be found With everything. and you and I have been made better by their having lived and We are accused of throwing away the taxpayers' money; we are tolled and sacrificed. told to balance_the Budget. We are told that our national debt Today we are erecting monuments to their memories, as we will is so ~urdensom~ that we are _placing obligations upon our pos­ do to Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt when God calls him home, but terity that they will not be able to carry_. All of this is loose talk, to me it is most unfortunate that a great people must resort to for 1! you will examine the record you will learn that the per­ such low and degrading principles to achieve political ends. I capita indebtedn~ss of the United States is not as high today as it say to you here and now that when the pages ot the history o! was in 1919. In 191~ the per-capita debt was $246.09, while today these days will have been written, no name will be more honored it 1s •238.44, even though we have had to spend a lot of money to than that of the present occupant of the White House, for our preserve the Republic. Note I say "preserve the Republic." I posterity will be the recipients of the advanced program we have believe _that had the old policies been continued, we might not launched, and which Will be continued and brought to completion now enjoy the kind ot Government we have nor experience the 1! our people are wise as I think them to be. All the progress the gains so much sought after. It might be well, too, for you to world has ever made it owes to dissatisfied men and women. I know that instead of having a per-ca.ptta annual interest rate of am not alarmed a.t all because of the dissatisfaction in some $9.58, as we had in 1919, today we have a.n interest rate per capita quarters, but I am rather encouraged when I know that all of of .6.04. this leads to the reforms which the people themselves will de­ It is because of wise administration and the interest of the tax­ mand. Mr. Gladstone, the greatest of all statesmen, made this payers is being protected that this is true. statement: "That in every political controversy in the last 50 It ~ doubtful if any country in the entire world can show a more yea.rs the leisured classes, the titled classes, have been-in the wrong. constructive achievement of a like period. than that accomplished The common people, the toilers, these have been responsible for by this administration. Since the ba.nk holiday and the passage of · nearly all the social-reform measures which the world accepts one of th~ major acts of this administration, namely, the Federal today." If we will examine the pages ·of our own national history Deposit Insurance Act, ba.nk failures have been few; in fact, only we Will find this to be true here in the United States. You can 31, and nobody paid any attention to them, for our people knew point to no great reform 1n this country of ours without finding their money was safe, and they were paid off almost immediately. that it was bitterly opposed by the wealthy and special-privileged Compare this with the more than 6,000 failures immediately pre­ groups. - . ceding this administration, and you can have the most partisan Now, what was the condition of our great country just prior to enemy of our party admit that we did accomplish something. To:. this Democratic administration? Well, the farmers, which com­ day our banks are safe. Safer than at any time in our national prise almost one-third of our population, could not sell. their prod­ history, and the ·work of relief is progressing, even though we are ucts. because the city and town people could not buy. faced with obstacles never dreamed of in March 1933. Those were They had no purchasing power, for, mark you. my friends, when the days when citizens all over the Nation wrote and wired to our people have no purchasing power we simply cannot expect to Representatives to "back up the President; go along With anything move the wheels of industry. The farmers were bankrupt. A be mig.ht request." million farmers lost their farms in a period of a few years during Now I note that the same group are very loud and vocifero\1.9> in th~ dark days. Industry was practically at a standstill during their abuse of the President. They want to make me feel that that same period, for just as surely as -you and I are here, if the everything that was done is wrong, even though they have been farmers are not prosperous, the entire Nation su1fers, for it does rescued. I can't help but think that they are now biting the hand reflect itself immediately. This Nation cannot hope to go on with that fed them. Businessmen are not consistent, because the record half our people prosperous and the other half destitute. Between is before us, and I note that unemployment has declined on Janu­ the years 1920 and 1932 more than 10,000 banks closed their doors, ary 1, O¥er January 1 of 3 years ago, 30 percent; cotton has ad­ and many of these banks did not reopen again. During Mr. Hoover's vanced 92 percent; wheat has advanced 111 percent; corn, 152 term of omce more than 6,000 banks were closed. If you will ex­ percent; industrial production, 51 percent; steel, 251 percent; auto­ amine this record that I am talking about, you will learn that some mobiles, 326 percent; wholesale prices, 83 percent; _total exports, of these banks paid no dividends to their depositors and that it 34 percent; imports, 37 percent; listed stocks, 134 percent; and brought wrack and ruin to individuals and communities, as well as listed bonds, 22 percent-also a 19-percent advance in power pro­ untold hardships. duction-and yet, 1f you read the headines and editorials in our What a calamity that was, and will it ever be forgotten? I know newspapers, you would reach the conclusion that the country is our friends on the other side don't want us to bring this matter going to the dogs. It just doesn't make sense to me, but, of course, up, but we are examining a record and, of course, the record is not when you know that more than 80 percent of the newspapers are complete unless we examine .all of it. controlled by special interests, who have controlled this Govern­ I know something about this, my friends, for I had a lot of my ment for so many years, it is perfectly obvious that one must not own people affected. The courage of Mr. Roosevelt saved the day, expect any consistency. Back in 1930 we passed a tariff bill that and his action in declaring a bank holiday gave the necessary became a law, and this was the beginning of the end in this coun­ breathing spell and saved our people from making further runs on try. Every economist of any note advised against its enactment. banks that would have led to complete fina.ncial disaster. Thank but the party then in power heard their "master's voice" and

FORT BRADY RESERVATION Graesser, a lieutenant (junior grade), United States Navy, The Clerk called the next bill, H. R. 190, granting author­ retired. ity to the Secretary of War U> license the use of a certain The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the consideration of parcel of land situated in Fort Brady Military Reservation the bill? to Ira D. MacLachlan Post. No. 3, the American Legion. for Ther~ being no objection, the Clerk read the' bilL as 15 years. follows: There being no objection, the Clerk read the bill, as Be it enacted etc That from and after the date of enactment follows: of this act Walter M. Graesser, lieutenant (junior grade) , United States Navy, retired, shall have the rank of a lieutenant on the Be It enacted, etc., That the Secretary of War be, and he 1s retired list of the United States Navy: Provided., That the said hereby authorized and directed to grant to Ira D. MacLachla.n Walter M. Graesser shall not receive any increase in retired pay, Post. No.. S, the American Legion, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., a. license a.llowances, or other benefits as a. result of the passage of this act. to use and occupy a. certain piece or parcel of land, with the build­ ing thereon, described as follows: The bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the "Beginning a.t a point in the easterly boundary of Fort Brady Military Reservation 248.9 feet northward from the southeast third time, and passed. and a motion to reconsider was laid corner of the reservation; thence north 65°59' west 49.8 feet to on the table. the easterly edge of a. roadway; thence north 0°0' 144.8 feet HENRY THORNTON MERIWETHER along the easterly edge of the roadway; thence south 65°59' east 108.8 feet to the easterly boundary of Fort Brady Military ·Res­ The Clerk called the next bill, S. 3581, for the relief of ervation· thence south 24°1' west 132.3 feet along the easterly Henry Thornton Meriwether. boun

The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, EDWARD B. WHEELER AND STA'tE INVESTMENT CO. was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to recon­ The Clerk called the· next bill, H. R. 3715, authorizing the sider was laid on the table. reimbursement of Edward B. Wheeler and the State Invest­ ARTHUR L. HECYKELL ment Co. for the loss of certain lands in the Mora grant, New Mexico. The Clerk called the next bill, H. R. 11341, for the relief The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the immediate con­ of Arthur L. Hecykell. sideration of the bill? Mr. HOPE and Mr. HANCOCK of New York objected, and, There was no objection. under the rule, the bill was recommitted to the Committee on Mr. COSTELLO. Mr. Speaker, there is a similar Senate Naval Affairs. bill (S. 427) on this subject, and I ask unanimous consent ALICE D. HOLLIS that it may be substituted for the House bill. The Clerk called the next bill, S. 3516, for the relief of The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the Alice D. Hollis. gentleman from California? There being no objection, the Clerk read the bill, as There was no objection. follows: The Clerk read the Senate bill, as follows: Be it enacted., etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he Be it enacted., etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he 1s hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money ln the is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Alice D. Hollis, widow of Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Edward B. Wheeler, of Las William Stanley Hollis, late a consul general of the United States, Vegas, N.Mex., and the State Investment Co., of New Mexico, who the sum of $7,000, such sum representing 1 year's salary of her were declared by the Supreme Court of the United States (United. deceased husband, who died while in the Foreign Service. States v. State Investment Co. (1924), 264 U. S. 206) to be the owners, respectively, of certain lands in the tract known as the The bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the Mora grant, located in San Miguel and Mora Counties, N.Mex., an third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid amount to be computed by the Secretary on the basis of $2.20 per acre for every acre of lands embraced within the claim of any bona - on the table. fide entryman on such lands holding under patent from the United HELEN CURTIS States or under any entry allowed by the Department of the In­ terior, the recovery of which lands by the said Edward B. Wheeler The Clerk called the next bill, S. 4135, for the relief of Helen and the State Investment Co. is barred by the stipulation entered Curtis. into between such parties and the United States on January 23, There being no objection, the Clerk read the bill, as follows: \918. Such payment shall operate as a full settlement of all claims of such Edward B. Wheeler and the State Investment Co. against Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he the United States or the owners of such lands for damages for the is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the loss of such lands. Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Helen Curtis, widow of James L. Curtis, late American :Minister to Liberia, the sum of The bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the $5,000, equal to 1 year's salary of her deceased husband. third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid The bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the on the table. third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid A House bill (H. R. 37i5) was laid on the table. on the table. DR. FRANK W. LAMB ROBBIE COATES The Clerk called the next bill, H. R. 5752, to extend the The Clerk called the next bill, H. R. 397, for the relief of benefits of the United States Employees' Compensation Act Robbie Coates. of September 7, 1916, as amended, to the dependent bene­ There being no objection, the Clerk read the bill, as follows: ficiaries of Dr. Frank W. Lamb. Be it enacted, etc., That the United States Employees' Compen­ There being no objection, the Clerk read the bill, as follows: sation Commission be, and the same is hereby, authorized and Be it enacted, etc., That the United States Employees' Compen­ directed to place on the rolls o! those receiving compensation the sation Commission is hereby d.irected to extend the benefits of the name of Robbie Coates, of Gloucester County, Va., and pay to him act of September 7, 1916, as amended, entitled "An act to provide compensation for disabilities sustained while working as an em­ compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries ployee of the United States Shipping Board at the rate and with while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", like effect as he would have received if his claim had been filed to May Wynne Lamb and Frank Wyman Lamb, widow and child, within 1 year from the time his disabilities were incurred, as respectively, of said Dr. Frank W. Lamb, formerly an employee of reqUired by the statutes. the Bureau of Indian A1fairs, who died on December 23, 1918, as the result of influenza contracted on or about December 15, 1918, while With the following committee amendment: 1n the performance of his duties in the Territory of Alaska. Page 1, strike out all of lines 3 to 11, inclusive, and insert the following: With the following coii?IDittee amendment: "That the limitations of time in sections 15 to 20, both inclusive, Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: of the act entitled 'An act to provide compensation for employees "That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise their duties, and for other purposes', approved September 7, 1916, appropriated, the sum of $5,000 to May Wynne Lamb, of Juneau, as amended, are hereby waived in favor of Robert Coates, of Glass, Alaska, in full satisfaction of her claim against the United States Gloucester County, Va., and the United States Employees' Com­ for the death of her husband, Dr. Frank W. Lamb, formerly a com­ pensation Commission ls authorized to receive and consider his missioned medical officer of the Bureau of Education, Department claim, under the remaining provisions of said act, for tuberculosis of the Interior, who died December 23, 1918, at Old Hamilton. alleged to have been contracted as a result of his employment on Aiaska, as a result of infiuenza contracted while in the perform­ ships of the Reserve Fleet Division of the United States Shipping ance of his duties: Provided, That no part of the amount appro­ Board Merchant Fleet Corporation during the months of October, priated in this act in excess of 10 percent thereof shall be paid or November, and December 1921; October and November 1923; and delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of October 1924: Provided, That claim hereunder shall be filed within services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall 6 months from the approval of this act: Provided further, That no be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any benefits shall accrue prior to the approval of this act." person violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any The committee amendment was agreed to. sum not exceeding $1,000." The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to recon­ The committee amendment was agreed to. sider was laid on the table. The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, The title was amended to read as follows: "A bill for the was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to recon­ relief of Robert Coates." sider was laid on the table. The title was amended. JOHN T. CLARKSON F. E. HALL The Clerk called the next bill, H. R. 1349, for the relief of The Clerk called the next bill, H. R. 7363, for the relief of John T. Clarkson. F. E. Hall. Mr. COSTELLO, Mr. DRISCOlL, and Mr. HANCOCK of There being no objection, the Clerk read the bill, as follows: New York objected, and, under the rule, the bill was recom­ Be it enacted., etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he mitted to the Committee on Claims. 1s hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the 1936 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE_ 6695 Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $2,500 to F. E. be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any Hall for injuries suffered by him in the arrest of a. narcotic peddler person violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty on July 9, 1933, in the city of Memphis, Tenn., while the said Hall of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in was acting as a United States narcotic agent. any sum not exceeding $1,000." With the following committee amendment: The committee amendment was agreed to. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, "That notwithstanding the provisions and limitations of sec­ was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to recon­ tions 15 to 20, both inclusive, of the act entitled 'An act to pro­ vide compensation for employees of the United States suffering sider was laid on the table. injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other C. E. RIGHTOR purposes', approved September 7, 1916, as amended, the United States Employees' Compensation Commission be, and the same is The Clerk called the next bill, H. R. 7839, for the relief of hereby, authorized and directed to receive and consider, ·when C. E. Rightor. filed, the claim of F. E. Hall for disability alleged to have been There being no objection, the Clerk read the bill, as incurred by him on July 9, 1923, while in the employ of the Bureau of Narcotics, Treasury Department, as a. narcotic agent, and to de­ follows: termine said claim upon its merits under the provisions of said Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and act: Provided, That claim hereunder shall be filed within 6 months he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money after the approval of this act: Provided further, That no benefits in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to C. E. Rightor, of shall accrue prior to the enactment of this act." Mountain Lakes, county of Morris, State of New Jersey, the sum of $155.61 in· full settlement of claii:n against the Government of The committee amendment was agreed to. the United States for reimbursement of travel and other expenses The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, incurred in the discharge of official duties with the Federal Emer­ was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to recon­ gency Admini.stra.tion of Public Works, from June 4, 1933, to June sider was laid on the table. 10, 1933, inclusive. XATHERINE rRICK With the following committee amendment: The Clerk called the next bill, H. R. 7642, for the relief of At the end of the bill insert: "Prcnrided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this act in excess of 10 percent thereof Katherine Trick. shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney There being no objection, the Clerk read the bill, as follows: on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and Be tt enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwith­ is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the standing. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Katherine Trick, of Bald­ be deemed guilty of a. misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof win, Mich., the sum of $10,000, such sum representing the damages shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000." to her caused by the death of her husband, Frank Trick, who died of injuries received when struck on the head by a splinter of wood The committee amendment was agreed to. while Civil Works Administration employees were engaged in dyna­ The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, miting stumps in connection with the Baldwin trout-rearing ponds was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to recon­ project. sider was laid on the table. With the following committee amendment: FIELDS B. ARTHUR AND ARTHUR L. ALLEN Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: "That the Secretary of the Treasury 1s hereby authorized and The Clerk called the next bill, H. R. 8091, for the relief of directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise Fields B. Arthur and Arthur L. Allen, copartners, doing busi­ appropriated, to the administrator of the estate of Frank W. Trick, ness as Arthur & Allen, and as assignees of Edward F. Rizer deceased, formerly of Baldwin, Lake County, Mich., the sum of $700, to be disbursed for the reasonable hospital, medical, and and A. B. Hoffman; also for the relief of the Colorado Culvert funeral expenses of said Frank W. Trick, who died of injuries re­ & Flume Co., a corporation. ceived when struck on the head on March 15, 1934, by a stump There being no objection, the Clerk read the bill, as of wood dynamited by employees of the Federal Civil Works Ad­ ministration engaged in work on the Baldwin trout-rearing ponds follows: project at Baldwin. Mich.: Provided, That such Administrator Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he shall also disburse a sum, not in ~cess of ~150, from the amount is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the herein appropriated for services rendered by any attorney or agent Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,004.67, with in connection with prosecution of the claim of the dependent interest from February 2, 1932, at 8 percent per annum, to Fields widow of Frank W. Trick, Katherine Trick, now deceased, and B. Arthur and Arthur L. Allen, copartners, doing business as Arthur for the prosecution of this claim: Provided further, That any & Allen, for labor and materials on the construction of the Blue amounts paid hereunder shall be deemed to be in full satisfaction Lake Road extension no. 584, in the San Isabel National Forest in of all claims against the United· States for any services rendered Huerfano County, Colo.; the further sum of $56.70, with interest as a. result of the injury and death of Frank W. Trick as herein from October 4, 1930, at 8 percent per annum, as assignees of described." Edward F. Rizer, for civil-engineering services on said project; and the further sum of *66.35, with interest from September 13, 1930, at The committee amendment was agreed to. 8 percent per annum, as assignees of A. B. Hoffman for labor on The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, said project. was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to recon­ SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury sider was laid on the table. not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $596.51, with interest from NEWARK CONCRETE PIPE CO. February 2, 1932, at 8 percent per annum, to the Colorado Culvert & Flume Co., a corporation, for materials furnished on the construc­ The Clerk called the next bill, H. R. 7794, for the relief of tion of the project mentioned in section 1 hereof. the Newark Concrete Pipe Co. There being no objection, the Clerk read the bill, as fol­ With the following committee amendment: lows: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: "That the Comptroller General of the United States is hereby Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and authorized and directed to settle and adjust the following claims he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money of creditors who furnished services or supplies to E. M. Harris & in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and there is hereby Sons, Sugar City, Colo., under their contract, .Al&-3951, dated July appropriated for such payment, to Newark Concrete Pipe Co. the 18, 1929, for the construction of the Blue Lake Road extension no. sum of $1,824.41 in full settlement for damage due to explosions 584, within the San Isabel National Forest, Huerfano County, Colo,, at the naval ammunition depot, Lake Denmark, N. J., July 10, and who were prevented from bringing a. timely suit under the pro­ 1926. visions of the act of August 13, 1894, as amended (33 Stat. 811), against the surety of said E. M. Harris & Sons, after their default With the following committee amendment: in the performance of said contract, by the Government's failure Page 1, line 5, after the word "appropriated", strike out the to notify them of the final settlement date of said contract: balance of line 5 and all of lines 6, 7, 8, and 9, and insert "to the "(1) Fields B. Arthur and Arthur L. Allen, copartners, doing busi­ Newark Concrete Pipe Co., Newark, N. J., the sum of $656.20, 1n ness as Arthur & Allen, in a sum not exceeding $1,004.67; full satisfaction of its claim against the United States for damages "(2) Colorado Culvert & Flume Co. in a sum not exceeding to property owned by it at Wharton, N. J., on July 10, 1926, as a $596.51; result of explosions at the naval ammunition depot, Lake Den­ "(3) Glen Haller, in a sum not exceeding $247.60; mark, N. J.: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated "(4) Kenneth Austin, in a sum not exceeding $110; 1n this act in excess of 10 percent thereof shall be paid or deliv­ " ( 5) A.. B. Hoffman, in a sum not exceeding $66.35; ered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of serv­ "(6) J. W. Jones, in a. sum not exceeding $43; and Ices rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall "(7) lloyd Lasswell. 1n a sum not exceeding t22. 6696 _CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MAY 5 "SEc. 2. There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Eastern District of New York to hear, determine, and render Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $2,090.13, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay said claims. judgment upon the claims of Achille and Albert Retellatto." "SEc. 3. No part of the amount appropriated in this act in excess ESTATE OF HATTIE M. DUNFORD of 10 percent thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection The Clerk called the bill

With the following committee amendments: ETHEL AlUttES On page 1, line 6, after the word "Texas", insert "in full settle­ The Clerk called the bill favor, in the United States District Court 1936 .CONGRESSIONAL ~ECORD-HOUSE 6699

at Lynchburg, V&., aga.lnst Ralph Soll1tt & Sons Construction Co., GEORGE RABCINS~ contractor for the construction of a Government bullding undel' contract Tisa--3198, dated May 26, 1932, conc.erntng a party wall; The Clerk called the next bill, S. 3685, for the relief of a claim of John L. Abbot for $350 as attorney's fees for assisting George Rabcinski. in the defense of Ralph Sollltt & Sons Construction Co. in such There. being no objection, the Clerk read the bill, as suit; and the claim of Ralph Sollitt & Sons Construction Co. for follows: · a balance of $248.30 on account of its costs in connection with the matter, and to allow said amounts 1n full and final settlement of Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and their respective claims. There is hereby appropriated, out of any he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in moneys 1n the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to George Rabcinski, $1,633.60, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the payment former private, Company E, Three Hundred and Fifty-ninth Regi­ of said claims: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated ment Infantry, the sum of $140.37, being the par value of one 1n this act 1n excess of 10 percent thereof shall be paid or delivered Second Liberty Loan bond together with interest which had ac­ to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services crued prior to its call, and for which he has paid the United States rendered 1n connection with this claim, and the same shall be by deduction from his pay as an enlisted man, and which bond unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any was erroneously delivered to persons unknown and not designated person violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty by him to receive it: Provided, That no part of the amount appro­ of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined 1n priated in this act in excess of 10 percent thereo! shall be paid any sum not exceeding $1,000. or delivered to or received by any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with said The Senate bill was ordered to be read a third time, was claim. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or read the third time, and passed, and a. motion to reconsider attorneys, to exact, collect, withhold, or receive any sum of the amount appropriated in this act in excess of 10 percent thereof was laid on the table. on account of services rendered in connection with said claim, TEXAS PACIFIC-MISSOURI PACIFIC TERMINAL RAILROAD OF NEW any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violat­ ORLEANS ing the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misde­ meanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not The Clerk called the next bill, S. 3544, authorizing adjust­ exceeding $1,000. ment of the claim of the Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Ter­ minal Railroad of New Orleans. With the following committee amendments: There being no objection, the Clerk read as follows: Page 1, line 7, strike out the word ''Regiment"; and in the same line, after the figures, strike out the word "being" and insert "in Be it enacted, etc., Th&t the Comptroller General of the United full satisfaction of his claim against the United States for.'' States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to settle and adjust the claim of the Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal The committee amendments were agreed to. Railroad of New Orleans for reimbursement of its expenditures for The bill as amended was ordered to be read a third time, labor, material, and rental of equipment in repairing the damage to its car-ferry incline tracks located at Gouldsboro, La., within the was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to recon­ limits of the New Orleans Harbor, which were damaged on Septem­ sider was laid on the table. ber 18, 1931, by the slnklng thereon of a concrete bank-protection mattress during the Government's construction operations under MARCELL US E. WRIGHT ET AL. an approved project for revetment work within the llmits of New The Clerk called the next bill, S. 3769, for the relief of Orleans Harbor, and to allow in full and final settlement of said Marcellus E. Wright and Lee, Smith & Vandervoort, Inc. claim not to exceed the sum of $1,440.75. There is hereby appro­ priated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropri­ There being no objection, the Clerk read the bill, as ated, the sum of $1,440.75 or so much thereof as may be necessary follows: to pay said claim: Provided, That no part of the amount appro­ . Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he priated in this act in excess of 10 percent thereof shall be paid or iS hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the delivered to or received by any agent or agents, attorney or attor­ Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Marcellus E. Wright and neys, on account of services rendered 1n connection with sa1d claim. Lee, Smith & Vandervoort, Inc., associate architects, of Richmond, It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, Va., the sum of $13,952.50 in full settlement of their claims against to exact, collect, withhold, or receive any sum of the amount· appro­ the Government of the United States as architects and for engi­ priated in this act in excess of 10 percent thereof on account of neering services rendered during the year 1933 and up to and services rendered in connection with said claim, any contract to the including December 31, 1934, 1n connection with the erection of contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions o! the parcel post building at Richmond, Va.: Provided, That no this act shall be deemed gullty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic­ part of the amount appropriated in this act in excess of 10 percent tion thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or The bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the con­ third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid trary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this on the table. act shall be deemed guilty of a m!sdemeanor and upon conviction DAMPSKIB ~~ELSHAP ROSKVA thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. The Clerk called the next bill, S. 3645, for the relief of The bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the Dampskib Aktieselshap Roskva. third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid There being no objection, the Clerk read as follows: on the table. Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he RANDALL KRAUSS is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the The Clerk called the next bill, S. 3839, granting a pension Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,999.38, or so much more or less as might be required to purchase exchange not to Randall Krauss. to exceed the amount of £399 17s. 6d., to Dampskib Aktieselshap There being no objection, the Clerk read the bill, as Roskva, of Oslo, Norway, owners of the steamship Ros~va., in full follows: and final settlement of all_ claims whatsoever against the United States for d.amages to the Roskva arising from the collision between Be it enacted, etc., That the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs that vessel and the United States Army tug Ama.ckas

SUGGESTED AME~MENT TO PARAGRAPH (B), SECTION 601, PAGE 21, mittee on Labor. OF S. 5 By Mr. FISH: Joint resolution CH. J. Res. 580) to provide On page 21, section 601 (b), strike lines 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, a medium for the adjudication of· the remaining claims of and 25, and insert in lieu thereof the following: "Provided, That no American nationals against the Government of Germany, advertisement of a drug or device shall be deemed to be false under this act if it is disseminated only to members of the medical, contemplated under the terms of the Treaty of Berlin, dated pharmaceutical, or dental professions, or appears only in the scien­ August 25, 1921; to the Committee on Ways and Means. ttflc periodicals of these professions, or is disseminated only for the By Mr. LANHAM: Joint resolution CH. J. Res. 581) to purpose of public-health education by persons not commercially interested, directly or indirectly, in the sale of such drugs or authorize the Secretary of War to lend War Department devices." equipment for use at the Frontier Centennial to be held at REASONS WHY THE ABOVE AMENDMENT SHOULD BE ADOPTED the city of Fort Worth, Tex., from July 1, 1936, to November Paragraph (b) of section 601, page 21, of S. 5, as it passed the 1, 1936; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Senate makes no distinction between advertising of a drug to the lay public and advertising the same to physicians and other profes­ sional men. Exactly the same test is set for advertising to the PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS medical, pharmaceutical, and dental professions as is laid down for advertising to the laymen, which is unfair and unnecessary. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private bills and resolutions Many new drug preparations advertised only to the professions were introduced and severally referred as follows: named are being brought out each year and the advertising directed By Mr. DIMOND: A bill