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WISCONSIN. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Henry J. Goddard to be postm;ster at Chippewa Falls, Wis., in place of Henry i. Goddard. Incumbent's commission expires FRIDAY, JJ! arch 8, 1912. ·April 9, 1912. The House met at 12 o'clock noon. Robert A. McDonald to be postmaster at Grand Rapids, Wis., The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the fol· -in place of Robert A. McDonald. · Incumbent's commission ex­ lowing prayer : pired February 26, 1912. Our Father in hea-ven, strengthen, we beseech Thee, our moral and spiritual fiber, that we may resist all the forms of tempta-. CONFIRMATIONS. tion which assail us and with firm and steadfast reliance in Executive nominations confirrne cl by the Senate March 8, 1912. Thee our God and our Father follow after the things which make for righteousness in the individual, in the home, in the UNITED ST.A.TES DISTRICT JUDGE. State, the Nation, that we may exemplify· in our daily life what George M. Bourquin to be United States district judge, dis­ we know to be right in Thy sight and in the sight of our fellow trict of Montana. men, to the glorY' and honor of Thy holy name. Amen. 0oNSULS. The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and Julean H . .A.mold to be consul at Chefoo, China. approved. Claude E. Guyant to be consul at Salina Cruz, Mexico. LEAVE TO WITHDRAW PAPERS. · Douglas Jenkins to be consul at Gottenborg, Sweden. By unanimous consent, at the request of Mr. J. l\I. C. S:M:ITH, Alfred S. Northrup to be consul at Trebizond, Turkey~ leave was granted to withdraw from the files of the House, PBOMOTIONS IN THE NAVY. without leaving copies, the papers in the case of Edward Cun­ ningham (H. R. 10766), no adverse report having been made Commander Chester l\I. Knepper to be a captain. thereon. Commander Charles M. Fahs to be a captain. Assistant Paymaster George P. Shamer to be a passed assist­ QUESTION OF PEBSONAL PRIVILEGE. ant paymaster. Mr. Al\IES. Mr. Speaker, I rise to a question of personal Prof. Henry M. Paul to be a professor of mathematics, with privilege. the rank of captain. The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. Prof. Walter S. Harshman to be a professor of mathematics, Mr. Al\fES. On February 26, on page 2483 of the CoNGBES- with the rank of commander. · sroNAL RECORD, it appears that the gentleman from Iowa [1\Ir. Ensigns to be lieutenants (junior grade) t Goon] made the following statement about me, which is to the Carl T. Osburn, detriment of my character and honesty, and affects my position William S. Farber, as a l\Iember of this body. I ask the Clerk to read from the Archibald D. Turnbull, and CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. William F. Cochrane, jr. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will read. Passed Asst. Surg. John F. Murphy to be a STil'geon. The Clerk read as follows : POSTMASTEBS, I was amazed beyond my power to explain that that statement should have been made by the gentleman from Massachusetts. I can recall ARIZONA. that a few months ago, when the gentleman from Massachusetts, when the cotton bill was under discussion, said that he did not own stock and Francis D. Crable, Tombstone. was not interested in cotton mills, but that members of his family did own stock and were interested in them. The other day, when the Army CALIFORNIA. appropriation bill was before the House, the gentleman from Massachu­ Warren A. Woods, Suisun City. setts [Mr. AMES] said that he did not own stock in .ammunition con­ cerns, but that members of his family did. GEOBGIA. I want to raise the question now and have it settled once for all that not on the floor of this House, while I am a Member of it at least, will John A. Crawford, Dalton. I have my integrity impugned by a man wllo stands here not as a Rep­ ILLINOIS. resentative, but as a person representing members of his family who are i;;tockholders in concerns that would receive dividends under contracts Fred Frazier, Viola. that might be awarded. I believe that Members on the floor of · this Lizzie P. McKnight, Alexis. House should represent an American constituency, a constituency of Samuel S. Yolton, Villa Grove. men, and not a constituency of family members demanding dividends earned on Government contracts. INDIANA, Mr. Al\1ES. l\1r. Speaker, I regret the necessity that compels Albert F. Shaw, Osgood. the following statements with reference to the gentleman from KANSAS. Iowa. To destroy his reputation for honesty a.nd sincerity James H. Cleaver, Glasco. would not repair the injustice he has attempted to saddle upon Sheridan Crumrine, Longton. me or right the wrong of his baseless accusations. Everett G. Gillidett, Plains. But to protect this membership from such attacks and to Charles H. Kurtz, Mulberry. properly refute his accusations I feel in duty bound to show Roberta H. McBlain. Fort Riley. that one can not accept as facts these statements made by the George G. Nutter, Cuba. gentleman from Iowa, whether they be made about others or MARYLAND. about himself. Walter A. Aaronson, Aberdeen. Mr. Speaker, in my remarks of the 26th of February, which formed the basis for the unwarranted attack upon me by the MICHIGAN, gentleman from Iowa, I did not impugn either his integrity Martin W. Coon, Ashley. or his motives. Fabius A. Fisk, Colon. In order to show how impossible it is for rational men to Frank Mcintyre, Cheboygan. accept as fact these statements by the gentleman from Iowa, MONTANA. I desire to take his remarks concerning me, paragraph by para­ Louis V. i3o'gy, Chinook. graph, and analyze the same, to the end that those who hear Bruce R. McNamer, Cut Bank. or read may understand the curious results of the mental NEW HAMPSHIRE. processes of the gentleman from Iowa. On pages 2483 and 2184, C<>NGBESSIONAL R E CORD, February Je se C. Parker, Hillsboro. 26, the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. Goon] began his misstate­ NEW YORK. ment of facts concerning myself and the so-called Ammunition Marc D. Johnson, Randolph. Trust, which trust exists only in a neurotic imagination. OHIO. The first paragraph of his remarks concerning me reads as John F. White, Logan. follows: J A few days ago, when the Army approp~n bill was before the OREGON. House, I had something to say on the question of- the Powder Trust. After I had taken my seat I was calied out of the Chamber, and my Alfred F. Linegar, Coquille. attention was not called to some remarks made by the gentleman from Virgil B. S~aples, Vale. Massachusetts [Mr. A111Es] until they a.ppea.red in the RECORD. I was in hopes he would be here to-day, as I told him I expected to discuss WASHINGTON. this bill and to refer to his remarks. I was a.mazed when I came to John F. Spangle, Cheney. read his remn.rks to find that not only the accuracy of my statements , was questioned, but the good faith and sincerity with which I made WEST VIRGlJ.~IA. them was also questioned. Emerson E. DeitZ, Richwood. Now, Mr. Speaker, can that paragraph convey any meaning Herbert P. Graham, Keystone. to the normal mind other than that the ge;r:itleman from Iowa 3034 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-. HOUSE. M.ABOH 8,

intended us to believe that he was out of the room when I made founded attack upon my standing as a Ilepresentative in an my remarks concerning him and to which he took: exception; attempted justification of himself was not worthy his name or and also that I questioned his good faith and sincerity in his his State. absence? The second paragraph of the remarks of the Member from And, in addition, does not his statement therein read to make Iowa reads as follows: us believe that his attention had not been called to my remarks I was amazed beyond my power to explain that that statement should until afterwards, when he read the RECORD? have been made by the gentleman from Massachusetts. I can recall a few months ago, when the gentleman from Massachusetts, when the But what are the facts in the case, Mr. Speaker? The facts cotton bill was under discussion, said that he did not own stock and that the gentleman from Iowa seems to have shunned. was not interested in cotton mills, but that members of his family did The gentleman from Iowa was in the room, and not only in own stock and were interested in them. The other day, when the Army appropriation bill was before the House, the gentleman from Massachu­ the room but listening to my remarks, and not only listening setts fl\Ir. AMESl said that he did not own stock in ammunition con­ to my remarks but also interrupting them; and the proof of this cerns, but that members of his family did. fact lies in his interrupting me and asking that I yield, which I did. And his interrupting statement appears .sandwiched into Has it occurred to the gentleman from Iowa that there is my remarks on page 2118 of the RECORD. And, furthermore, scarcely a family of means in New England that some member . it was not until after I had used the major part of my first thereof does not have some interest in ome manufacture? five minutes that the gentleman from Iowa left the Chamber, And I might have expected that the reasons for my declara­ and only then in the face of my earnest verbal protest against tions relative to the interests of members of my family would his leaving. This protest of mine is shown in the eleventh pass entirely over the head of the gentleman from Iowa. line, second column, on that page. I made those declarations to show not that I was likely there­ .And, further, after his departure I made no reference to the fore to hav·e some knowledge of those subjects but to let the gentleman, except on the forty-ninth line, same page and col­ world know that because of my family connection, even if I held umn, where I expressed my doubt as to the information he had no interest of my own, I should therefore be considered as inter­ . given us, as will be seen by reference to my remarks. ested to some extent, and that any of my statements should be In addition, I challenge the gentleman from Iowa to verify considered as those of one not wholly disinterested. his statement in the first paragraph that in my remarks-to I had nothing to conceal, nothing of which to be ashamed, which he took exception-I questioned either his good faith or nothing to explain. And had I not made clear any possible con­ his sincerity. nection of mine to such industries I might have left myself open Mr. GOOD. Mr. Speaker-- to an acGusation of concealment with an ulterior purpose by . The SPEAKER. Does the gentleman from Massachusetts some loose-mouthed demagogic muckraker. yield to the gentleman from Iowa? The next paragraph of the remarks of the gentleman from Mr. ..AJ\fES. Certainly. Iowa reads: Mr. GOOD. I will say that in the statement I made I did I want to raise the question now, and have it settled once for all, that not on the floor of this House, while I am a Member of it, at least, not disclaim hearing all of the gentleman's remarks. I stated will I have my integrity impugned by a man who stands here not as ~ that I did not hear all of his remarks. I was called from the Representative but as a person representing members of his family, who Chamber immediately upon taking my seat by a newspaper are stockholders in concerns that would receive dividends under con­ tracts that might be awarded. I believe that Members on the floor of reporter, and sat in the lobby for at least two or three min­ this House should represent an American constituency, a constituency utes, and then told him he would have to excuse me. If the of men, and not a constituency of family members demanding dividends gentleman will look over my remarks carefully, he will note earned on Government contracts. that I said I did not hear all his remarks. I at no time claimed This paragraph is an honor to the fair-mindedness of the gen­ that I did not hear some of the gentleman's remarks. tleman from Iowa, a high tribute to his sense of justice of right Mr. AMES. Mr. Speaker, I will read what the gentleman and wrong. said in his remarks : This paragraph epitomizes the attitllde of mind of the gentle­ A few days ago, when the Army appropriation bill was before the man from Iowa. Honest men are not prone to suspect dishon­ Ilouse, I had something to say on the question of the Powder Trust. After I had taken my seat I was called out of the Chamber, and my esty in their fellow ·man. Honest men do not impugn the hon­ attention was not called to some remarks made by the gentleman from esty of others unless the facts of dishonesty are self-evident, and l\Iassachusetts [:Mr. AMES] until they appeared in the RECORD. I was then it could scarcely be considered an imputation. But herein in hopes he would be here to-day, for I told him I expected to discuss this bill and to refer to his remarks. I was amazed, when I came to has my honesty been impugned, and impugned under false pre­ read his remarks, to find that not only the accuracy of my statements tenses. was questioned, but the good faith and sincerity with which I made Nowhere in my remarks did I impugn the honesty of the gen­ them wus also questioned. _ tleman from Iowa; nowhere did I even question his sincerity -0r Kow, the facts in the case were that the gentleman from Iowa. his good faith;· but I am tempted to do so now. I realize that was in the room; and he was not only in the room listening to fact has no apparent place in the ratiocinations of the gentleman my remarks, and he was not only listening, but interrupted from Iowa, either in his statements about the Ammunition Trust them, . but after leaving the room, which he did against my or myself. verbal protest, I said nothing against the gentleman from Iowa That the cotton mill in which members of my family are in­ except in one or two lines. And after the gentleman left the terested is situated in Georgia and has never done any business, room there was nothing that could be construed as an attack to my knowledge, for the Goyernment is of little moment in this on him, as anyone who will read the remarks will see. controyersy. And in addition, whether the gentleman was in the room or That the ammunition mill has to compete in the open market not, or whether he heard my remarks .or not, or had his atten­ under sealed bids, and the awards are made to the lowest and tion called to them or not, I challenge the gentleman from Iowa be t bidder, is not clearly brought out by the generous, fair­ to \erify his statement in the RECORD, and in the first para­ minded gentleman from 'Iowa. It would appear that he might graph of his remarks, that in my remarks to which he took properly be accused of having fallen into a misstatement of the exception I questioned either his good faith or his sincerity. facts' iu this paragraph, as he did in the first, and of making In his presence and to his .face I called his speech a neurotic statements on a subject about which he had no information or attacl.: upon a perfectly defensible, honestly conducted in­ knowledge. dustry-the manufacture of ammunition-and then explained The following paragraphs -of the remarks of the gentleman Inter what I meant by neurotic. from Iowa make no further accusations against my integrity, For the benefit of the gentleman from Iowa I give, from and while they are similarly full of false reasonings and mis­ Webster's Dictionary, the following definition of neurotic: statements of fact, I can not properly demonstrate the same Neurotic : Acting on the nerves ; useful in nervous disorders ; of' or under a question of personal privilege. pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; of the nature of neu­ rosis; affected with neurosis; subject to neuroses. We can not afford to give any more credence to the statements To recapitulate, then, on this one paragraph of the remarks and deductions of the gentleman from Iowa, in reference to the of the O'entleman from Iowa. There appear three separate and ammunition manufacturer, than we can to his statements and utterly !:>misleading ·statements, evidently calculated to make us reasonings concerning himself or myself, and these ha\e been believe that the gentleman from Iowa was not in the Chamber proven on their own face to be inventions of an undesirable when I made my remarks, th'at he was unaware of them until kind. la.tel", "when he read them in the RECORD," and that I had ORDER OF BUSINESS. questioned his O'ood faith and sincerity. Mr. LAMB. Mr. Speaker, I move that. the House resolve Had the gentleman from Iowa made the preceding misstate­ itself into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the ments in the heat of debate there might have been some ex­ pnion for the further consideration of the bill H. R. 18960, the cuse for him; but to go off to his office and, in the course of agricultural appropriation bill. almost two weeks, reappear upon the floor-and in what ought The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Virginia moves that the to have been a carefully prepared speech-to make an un- House resolve itself into Committee of the Whole House on the 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 3035

state of the Union for the further considel'ation of the agri­ The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Georgia makes the cultural app_ropriation bill. point of order that there is no quorum present. The Ohair will l\Ir. RUSSELL. A parliamentary inquiry, l\Ir, Speaker. count. [After counting.] One hundred and sixty-nine Members The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. present, not a quorum. Mr. RUSSELL. Is not this the day specially set apart for l\Ir. HAl\ITL'l'ON of West Virginia. l\Ir. Speaker, I move a bills on the Private Calendar, a.nd is not this the day that pen- call of the House.• sion bills have preference? • The SPEAKER. The gentleman froll} West Virginia moves a The Sim.A.KER. Both propositions are true, and yet the mo­ call of the House. tion of the gentleman from Virginia is in order. Tho House Mr. FITZGERALD. l\Ir. Speaker, is not the call automatic? will understand that if his motion prevails private-bill day goes The SPEAKER. It is automatic only when the House is di- oTer. viJing upon a question. _ Mr. RUSSELL. I would like to ask my friend from Virginia 1\Ir. OANNOX 1\Ir. Speaker, the House is dividing upon the to withdraw his motion and let the pension bills be considered question of whether we shall .go into Committee of the Whole in their regular order. House on the state of the Union to consider the agricultural ap- l\Ir. J..Al\IB. If I consented to that there is no telling when propriation bill. • the agricultural bill wm be completed. Yery likely the discus­ The SPEAKER. No; that question has been disposed of. sion on these pension bills will run through the whole day. I The House refused to go into the Committee of the Whole House want to say fmther that it is -very necessary that we should get on the state of the Union for that purpose. The question is on through with this agricultural bill expeditiously. We have ordering a call of the House. before our committee nrious important measures which we can The question was taken ; and on a di vision (demanded by not consider while this bill is under consideration. We have Mr. RODDENBERY] there were-ayes 129, noes 5. the antioption bill, the oleomargarine bill. the LEVER agricul­ So the motion was agreed to. · tural extension bill, and Yarious other measures.. We sit from The SPEAK;ER. The Doorkeeper will close the doors, the 10 to 12 o'clock eTery morning, and then come in here and work Sergeant at Arms will notify absentees, and the Clerk will call all the afternoon. The older men . on the committee can not the rolJ. stand it as we11 as perhaps some of us younger ones. l\Ir. BARTLETT. l\Ir. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. ~Ir. FITZGERALD. Let rne suggest to the gentleman that The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. then" is on the calendar the diplomatic bill, the Indian appro­ Mr. BARTLETT. Will the Yote be on the motion to go into priation bill, the Post Office appropriation bill-- Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union for the con~ Tbe SPEAKER. And the river and harbor bill. sideration of the agricultural appropriation bill? l\lr. FITZGERALD. And it is necessary that the public The SPEAKER. That matter has been disposed of. The busiuess be given preference at this time. vote on this is simply a vote of present. The Clerk will call l\!r. 1\IANK Let me suggest that there is plenty of time the roll. for getting these bills through. '.rhere will be no trouble about The Clerk called the roll, and the following Members failed to the passage of the appropriation bills. answer to their names : Mr. FITZGERALD. And there is no trouble about the pas­ Aiken, S. C. Flood, Va. Kopp Powers sage of the bills to which the gentleman refers. Anthcny Foss Lafferty Pujo l\Ir. l\IA.NN. This is the day for them, and they probably Ashbrook Foster, Vt. Langley Randell, Tex. can be disposed of in a few minutes if we can consider them Ayres Fuller .Lenroot Reilly Barchfeld Gai·dner, Uass. Levy Reyburn in the House as in Committee of the Whole. Bates Gillett Lind~ay Richardson l\Ir. RUSSELL. l\Iy information is that there will be no Bingham Goeke McCreary Roberts, Mass. conte:t and no opposition to them. We haye only one large bill. Bradley Gudger McDermott Robinson Ruchanan Gn ertJ.sey MtGulre, Okla. Rothermel l\Ir. LAMB. I think I have given good reasons.why we ought Burke, Pa. Hanna McHenry Sabatb to proceed with the consideration of our bill. C:mtrill Harris McKenzie Saunders Mr. RUBEY. Mr. Speaker. I rise to a parliamentary inquiry. Cary Harrison, N. Y. McKinley ~cully Clark, Fla. Haugen Macon Sheppard The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state 't. Claypool Hawley Maher Sherley l\.fr. RUBEY. If the pension business goes oTer lo-day, does Connell Heald Mal by Slemp it not go o-ver for two weeks? Copley Heflin Matthews Smith, Cal. Cox, Ind. Henry, Tex. l\lil!er Speer The SPEAKER. For two weeks, unless there is some special Cravens Hill - l\ioon, Pa. Stack arrangement by the House. · Currier Hobson Moore, Pa. Stephens, Nebr. Mr. 1\IANN. And then, probably, some other bil1 will want to Cmry Howell Mott Taggart Davenport Howland Oldfield Taylor, Ohio take their place two weeks from now. De Forest Hubbard Palmer Townsend l\Ir. RUSSELL. .Mr. Speaker, we insist that the pension bills Denver Hughes, Ga. Parran Vreeland be put upon tlleir passage now-the day fixed by the rule. Dickson, Miss. - Johnson, Ky. Patten, N. Y. Weeks Drapt>r Johnson, S. C. Pepper Wilson, N. Y. The SPEAKER. Before the Ohair puts the question, he de­ Farr Kent Peters Young, Tex. sires to designate the gentleman from Kentucky, l\Ir. JAMES, to Fields Kindred Pon preside as Speaker pro ternpore to-morrow. The question is on the motion of the gentleman from Virginia, The SPEA..KER. On this roll call 285 Members h:rrn an­ swered to their names, a quorum. that the House re~olve itself into Committee of the Whole l\Ir. HAMILTON of West Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I move that Hom~ e on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill. further proceedings under the call be dispensed with. Tile question was taken; and on a division (demanded by Mr. The question was taken, and the Ohair announced that the IlonnENBERY) there were 67 ayes and 91 noes. ayes seemed to hnve it. So the motion was lost. • l\fr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Speaker, I ·ask for a division on :Mr. RODDEJ\"'BERY. Mr. Speak.er, I make the point that suspending further proceedings under the call. there is no quorum present, and pending that I call for the The question ""as taken; and there were-ayes 161, noes 7. yeas and nays. The SPEAKER. The ayes have it, and the Doorkeeper will l\lr. FITZGERALD. 1\fr. Speaker, the gentleman can not du open the doors. both. l\Ir. RODDENBERY. Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. l\Ir. TIODDENBEilY. Mr. Speaker, I withdraw the point of '1.'he SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. ' no quorum and demand the yeas and nays. Mr. RODDENBERY. Under the count just now by the Ohair, The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Georgia. demands the is it in order to raise the point of no quorum? yeas and nays. Those in fayor of ordering the yeas and nays The SPEAKER. It is not; the Ohair would rule it dilatory. will rise and stand until counted. [After counting.] Five Further proceedings under the call are dispensed with, and the Members have risen, not a sufficient number, and the yeas and Doorkeeper will open the doors. nays are refused. Mr. HAMILTON ·of West Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I move that Mr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Speaker, I demand the other side. pension bills in order to-day on the Private Calendar be con­ Mr. FOSTER of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, that is dilatory. sidered in the House as in Committee of the Whole. l\Ir. RODDENBERY. lfr. Speaker, I demand the other side. The SPE.AKli.""R. The gentleman from West Virginia a3ks The SPEAKER Those opposed' will rise and stand until unanimous consent that pension bills on the Private Calendar counted. [After a pause.] Evidently not one-fifth of those in order to-day be considered in the House as in Committee of present demand the yeas and nays, and the yeas and nays are the Whole. Is there objection? refused. l\1r. RODDENBERY. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to l\Ir. RODDE~BERY. l\Ir. Speaker, I make the point of order object, may I ask the gentleman presenting the reijuest how that there is no quorum present. many of these pension bills there are? 3036 CONGRESSION .AL RECORD- HOUSE. ~lilloii 8,

Ur. HAl\IILTON of West Virginia. There is only one from The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from West Virginia [~fr. the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and I understand one from HA.MILTON] asks unanimous consent that the :first reading of the the Committee on Pensions. They are omnibus bills and include, bill be dispensed with. of course, a good many smaller bills. l\Ir. RODDENBERY. .Mr. Chairman-- Mr. RODDE:NBERY . . Does the gentleman recall how many . The CHAIRMAN. For what purpose does the gentleman individual items there are? rise? Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. There are 292 in th~ bill Mr. RODDENBERY. I insist on addressing the Chair. I I am representing, and 9, as I understand, in the one from the object. I addressed the Chair before any announcement was Committee on Pensions. made. Mr. RODDENBERY. Does not the gentleman think that we The CHAIR IAN. The Clerk will read the bill. ,: could facilitate action on these bills by permitting this bill car­ The Clerk read as follows : ,: rying these items to go over· until the next semimonthly or Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he ls bimonthly pension day, so that both bills may be considered at hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to one time and co-rer the entire suflject? the provisions and limitations of the pension laws- l\lr. The name of John W. Turner, late of Company I, Fourth Regiment HA.MILTON of West Virginia. I am very frank to say to West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of the gentleman I do not know how it will expedite the bill bJ $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. putting it over two weeks. I do not know what will be up then. The name of John Eastman, late of Company H, Fourth Regiment New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the [Cries of "Regular order! "] rate of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. · Mr. RODDENBERY. I am endeavoring to say to the gentle­ The name of John Mulligan, late of Comi.:>any F, Seventh Regiment man that from what consideration I have gi-ren to this particu­ United States Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. lar bill it shows an absence of many of the egregious provisions The name of Jacob Cooper, late of Company I , One hundred and that, in my judgment, obtained in the other bills, but on account forty-ninth Re~iment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension of the pendency of the agricultural appropriation bill, in which at the rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now r eceiving. I ham been deeply and intensely interested, I have not yet had The name of George L. Catlin, late of Company E, Fifth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 time to consider thoroughly an the cases, and I will state to the per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. gentleman that so far as I have gone fewer objections occur in The name of Joseph D. Lakin, late of Company B, One hundred and thirty-sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen­ this biU than occurred, in my judgment, in the other bil1s. sion at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that he is now receivinp;. It is no fault of the committee at this time, because this The name of Julia ill. Hall, widow of John B. Hall, late of Stokes's pending report and the bill came in due time; but because of battery, Illinois Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay her a pension at I.laving up the appropriation bill for the Agricultural Depart­ the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. The name of Richa~·d Hyam, late ordinary seaman on U. S. S. Ohio, ment I have not had time to go into it as fully and thoroughly Gem of the Sea, and North Carolina, and pay him a pension at the rate and carefully as I would desire, and I am candidly of the of $30 per month in· lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of James Madison Rolain, late of Company B, Eighth Regi­ opinion if the gentleman will not press the question at this ment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate time that two weeks from now we will make greater progress of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. than we will make to-day, unless the powers that be avag them­ The name of John F. Rankin, late of Company C, Fourth Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 selves of radical procedure. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Mr. RUBEY. Mr. Speaker, a point of order. The name of James D. Roberts, late adjutant Fifty~ third Regiment The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Mr. RUBEY. I think the gentleman ought to state his ob­ The name of Ward L. Roa·cb, late of Company B, Second Regiment jections or ought not to be allowed to discuss the whole matter Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 here. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Edward Kennedy, late landsman, U. S. S. Niagara, The SPEAKER. It is all by unanimous consent. Oneita, and Princeton, United States Navy, and pay him a pension at Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. I will state to the gen­ the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. tleman from Georgia there is not an item in this bill but what The name of Moses Callison, late of Company B, Eighth Regiment Missouri Volunteer Cavalry. and pay him a pension at the rate of $80 has been gone o-rer twice, once by the examiner detailed by the per mon.th in lieu of that he is now receiving. Interior Department to assist the committee and another time The name of Elisha Enox, late of Company K, Second Regiment Mis­ by the committee itseif. · souri Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. · The SPEAKER. Is there objection? The name of Ilobert H. Dollarhide, late ?f Company E, Eighth Re.gl­ Mr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Speaker, I must object. ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Georgia objects. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Joseph E. Cox, late of Company F, Second Regiment PENSIONS. Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at thii rate of $30 Mr. HA.MILTON of West Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I move per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. · The name of Joseph C. McGarrah, latt> of Company B, Sixty-fifth that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the House on the state of the Union to consider the bill II. R. 21230. rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The SPEAKER The gentleman from West Virginia [Mr. The name of Absalom P. Carlock, late of Company A, One hundred and sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay h1m a pension HA.MILTON] mo-res that the House resolve itself into Committee at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. of the Whole House for the consideration of bills on the Private The name of Solomon Brobst, late of Company H, Seventh Regiment, Calendar. and Company G, Fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The question was taken, and the Chair announced that the The name of Charles Deitric.k, late of Company D, Forty-eighth Regi­ ayes seemed to ha-re it. ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Mr. RODDENBERY. Division, Mr. Speaker. rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Clarkson Tryon. late of Company K, Eighty-fifth Regi­ The House divided; and there were-ayes 169, noes 5. ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and p;iy him a pension at the rate of So the motion was agreed to. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Mr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Speaker, I desire to make a point The name of Charas Hartman, late of Company D, One hundred and of order that there is no quorum present. seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen­ sion at the rate of $30 per month in Heu of that he is now receiving. The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks that motion is dilatory. The name of John Walsh, late of Company C, Fifty-third Regiment [Applause.] It has not been more than five minutes since it Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 36 per was ascertained that there was a quorum, 284 l\Iembers being month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of William Sutton, late of Company G, Sixty-second Regi­ present ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Mr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. The name of Nathan N. Spence, late of Company B, Eighty-fourth Reo-iment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Mr. RODDENBERY. Although five minutes have elapsed, rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. and although a different motion on a different line of pro­ The name of Michael Moss, late of Company H, One hundredth Rt>"'i­ cedure has been before the House, the vote shows there is no ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. quorum. Is not the raising of the point of no quorum in order? The name of Johnson J. 1\liller, late of Company G, Sixty-seventh The SPEAKER. The Chair holds that the point is dilatory. Re <>"iment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at Accordingly the House resolved itself into the Committee of the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. - The name of Lucien H. Young, li.tte of Signal Corps, United States the Whole House on the Private Calendar for the consideration Volunteers and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in of the bill II. R. 21230, with Mr:-DixoN of Indiana in the chair. lieu of that be is now receiving. • The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will report the bill. The name of Michael A. Overdorfl', late of Company L, Sixth Ile~i­ ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension The Clerk read as follows : at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. A bill (H. R. 21230) granting pensions and increase of pensions to The name of Silas H. Bradley, late of Company F, Twelfth Regiment certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 dependent children of soldiers and sailors of said war. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Mr. IIAblIL'.rON of West Virginia. Mr. Chairman, I ask The name of William Mapel, late of Company F, Third Regiment. n.nd Company I, Seventh Regiment, Missouri State_Mi~itia . Cavalry, ru;id pay unanimous con~ffit that the first reading of the· bill be dispensed him a pension at the rate of $30 per month Ill h cu of that he is now with. receiving. • 1912 .. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE. 3037

The name of William H. R. Snyder, late of Company F, Fourth Regi­ a p~n_slon at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now ment Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of rece1vmg. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. .T~e ~ame of Sanford Glass, late of Company D, Eighth Regiment 'l'he name of John Smith, late of Company C, Third Regiment West Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 $24 -per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Henry C. Zurner, late of Company F, Fifty-sixth Regi­ The name of James Allen, late landsma.n on U. S. S. Ohio, Minnesota, ment New York Volunteer Infantry, and Company G, Second Regiment and Wyalusing, United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate New York Volunteer Mounted Rifles, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lien of that he is now receiving. of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John W. Moore, late of Company D, First Regiment ~e name of Arthur Branagan, late of Company C, Ninety-sixth Minnesota Mounted Volunteer Rangers, and pay him a pension at the Regunent, and Company L, Ninety-fiftn Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun­ rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. teer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in The name of Thomas Davidson, late of Company H, Seventeenth Regi­ lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Carson H. Kightlinger, late of Company G, Ei~hth rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment Missouri Volunteer · Infantry, and Company I, Forty-suth The name of James B. Robertson, late of Company D, Ninth Regiment .Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Indiana Volnnteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. - per month in lien of that he is now receiving. The name of Charlie C. Bane, late of Company F, One hundred and The name of Joseph Bennett. late of Company F, Twenty-first Regi­ thirty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen­ ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the sion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The.name of Jacob R. Zuck, late of Company B, Twenty-eighth Regi­ 'l'he name of John W. Etiff, late of Fifth Independent Battery Wis­ ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the consin Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John S. McGinness, late assistant surgeon One hundred The name of William J. Helms, late of Crunpany A, Twelfth Regiment and ninety-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay Illinois Volunter Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per him. a. pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rece1vmg. . The name of Edwin A. Atwood, late of Company H, Eighty-first The name of Dustin W. Whitney, late of Company G, One hundred • Regiment Illinois Volunter Infantry, and pay him a pension at the and forty-fourth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now 'l'he name of Harvy J. Davis, late of Company E, Eleventh Regiment receiving. Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 'l'he name of Charles Wibert, late of Company E, First Regim<.>nt per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Michigan Volunteer Sharpshooters, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Lucretia J. Allen, former widow of John C. Gallegly, of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . late of Company K, Seventy-first Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, The name of James l\f. Newland, late of Company H, Sixtieth Regi· ment, and Company I, Seventy-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer In­ and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. fantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 per month in lieu The name of John W. Blackson, late of Company F, One hundred and of that he is now receiving. fifty-third Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension The name of William M. Capps, late principal musician, Third Regi­ at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. ment North Carolina Volunteer Mounted Infantry, and pay him a The name of Edward L. Bradley, late of Company G, lilleventh Regi­ pension at the rate of $12 per month. ment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of George W. Weekley, late of Companies M and 0, Sixth of S24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. · Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay· him a pension 'I'hc mime of· Orson Simonds, late of Tenth Independent Battery Wis­ at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. consin Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Curtice C. Whittier, late of Company D, Fourth Regi­ $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at The name of Henry Meerdink, late of Company D, Thirty-fifth Regl­ the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. men t Iowa Volunteer Infantry. and pay him a pension at the rate of The name· of John J. Jackson, late of Company K, Tenth Regiment $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $40 The name of Sara J. Squier, widow of Whitman 0. Squier. late of per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Company D, '.rwenty-fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, The name of John F. Taylor, late of Company G, Fourteenth Regi­ and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. ment United States Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 'rhe name of William H. Herrick, late of Company B, One hundred per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. and twenty-second Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay .The name of William F. Holmes, late of Company F, Thirteenth him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the receiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Joseph A. Fones, late of Company C, Ninety-eighth Regi­ The name of William D. Medley, late of Company K, Seventh Regi­ .ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay bun a pension at the rate of ment West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Michael Kelly, late of Company B, Eleventh Regiment The name of Andreas Wirth, late of Company A, Ninety-first Regi­ Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a. pension at the rate of per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of William H. Davis, late of Company K, Fifteenth Regi­ ment New Hampshire Volunteer lnfantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Benjamin M. Laur, late of Company K, Forty-ninth rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Coleman R. Romine, late of Company K, Eighth Regi­ rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Henry Spencer, late of Company E, Fifth Regiment Ohio $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month The name of Henry J. Bess, late of Company E, Fourth Regiment in lieu of that he is now receiving. . 'rennessee Mounted Volunteers, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Isaac E. Walker, helpless and dependent son of James H. $36 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. Walker, late of Company A, 'l'wo hundred and third Regiment Pennsyl­ The name of Abraham M. Heifner, late of Company I, Tenth Regi­ vania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 per ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of month. . $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Helen Kirschenmann, widow of Frederick Kirschenmann, The name of Ephraim Hommel, late of Company F, Fifty-first Regi­ late ship's corporal, U. S. S. Princeton, Mount Vernon, and Tacony, ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the United States Navy, and pay her·a pension at the rate of $20 per month rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. in lieu of that she is now receiving. . The name of Seymour Wheelock, late of Company I, Eighty-third The name of John Nier late of Company H, One hundred and forty­ Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at ninth Regiment Ohio National Guard Infantry, and pay him a pension the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now r·eceiving. at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. · . The name of George C. Richards, late of Co~pany K. Fourth Regiment The name of Joseph Miller, late of Company B, Battalion of Engi­ Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, ·and pay him a pension at the rate of neers, United· States Army, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per $30 per month in lieu of that he Is now receiving. month in lieu of that he is now receiying. 'rhe name of John R. Hurd, late lieutenant colonel, Second Regiment The· name of Leroy S. Jones. late of Company B, One hundred and Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension· at the rate of $36 Eleventh Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry1 and pay him a pen­ per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. sion at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that ne is now receiving. . The name of David H. Daywalt, late of Company A, Eighth Regi­ '.rhe name of Albert Phetteplace, late of Signal Corps, United States ment, and Company B, Forty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Army, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he that he is now receiving. is now receiving. 'rhe name of Alfred Hosack, late of Companies G and H, First Regi­ The name of John W. Foot, late of Company H, Second Regiment ment :Mississippi Marine Brigade, and pay him a pension at the rate of Colorado Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ~30 $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Adam Budell, late of Company H, Fourth Regiment New The name of Thomas J. Foote, late of Company G, Twentieth Regi­ York Volunteer Cavalry, and Company A, Eighty-first Regiment New ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of James A. Gooch, late of Company A, Second Regiment The name of Charles J. Beach, late of Company H, Twentieth Regi­ Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and Company F, Fourth Regiment per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. United States Veteran Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at The name of Luther Stephenson, jr., late lieutenant colonel, Thirty­ . the rate of $30 per month in lieu cf that be is now receiving. second Regiment l\lassachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a The name of William Wollenberg, late of Company F, Third Regiment pension at the rate of $50 per month in lieu of that he is now New York Volunteer Cavalry, and Company H, Fourth Regiment New receiving. York Provisional Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 The name of Henry C. McCain, late of Company I, One hundred and per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. · twentieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension •rhe name of James M. Arbuckle, late of Company K, One hundred at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. and twentieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a Tbe . name of William Cavins, late of Company K. Thirteenth Regi­ pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name· of Margaret Nevison, former widow of Stephen D. Fqllert $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. late of Company D, Eighteenth Regiment New York Voluntee1· Infantry, The name of Sarah A. Lovelady, widow of Thomas A. Lovelady, late and unassigned recruit Sixty-third Regiment New York Volunteer In- of Company M, hospital steward, Sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer fantry, ancf_pay her a ·pension at the rate of $12 per month. , Cavalry, and pay her a pension at the rate -of $12 per month. . . The name of Heman P. Manly, late of .Company F, One hund1·ed and The name of Washington C. Shannon, late of Company K, EleYenth eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a and Seventeenth Regiments Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving.

XL VIII--191 3038 _CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE .. ~f.AR;CII 8 ~ ~~~~-----~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"""T""~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--.~~~~~~~-- i The name of William 'l'. Patey, late e<>al · heaver, U. S. S. Ohio and. The name of William Hanger, late of Com:pany C, Twelfth Regiment Malvern, United States Navy; and pay him a pension at the rate of ~30 Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pe.runon at the rate of $30 per per month in lieu of that be is now receivin"'. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Nathaniel Finly, late o.f ~ompany F, Twenty-fourth The name of Willi Lake, late of Company I. Thirty-second Regi­ Regiment Missouri VolUllteer Infantry, and pay him a pensic>n at the ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of rate of $30 per month in lieu o.f that he is now receiving. $50. per mon~ in lieu of that he is now receiving. - The name of Hezekiah Williams, late o.f Company L, Fir t Regiment: The name cf David S. Pierce, late of Company I, Six.th Re...utment United States Cavalry, and Company B, Forty-ninth Regiment Illinois West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month of 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. in lieu of that he is now receiving. · The name of John W. Urban, late of Company D, Fil'st Regiment The name of Geor«e Morrison, late of Company H, One hundred and Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the sixteenth Regiment dhio Volunteer Infant:ry, and pay him a pen ion at rate of $40 oe.r month in lieu o1 that he is now receivin"'. . the rate of 30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name· of John W. Stonebraker, late of Company K, Sixth Regi­ The name of Bridget Kelly, widow of John Kelly, late of Company B, ment West Vircrinia Volunteer Cavalry, :md pay him a pension at the Twelfth Regiment Rhode Island Vo1untee.r lnfantry, and pay her a pen- · rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receivin". slon at the rate of 20 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. . The ·name of James Moneyhun, late of Company K, Thirty-sixth The name of George H. Sliter, late of Company H, Twenty-first Regi­ Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate ment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and Companies B and U, Elleventh of 36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment Michigan Voln.nteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the The name of John P. Brown, late of Company B, Thirty-second Ilegl­ rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is no~ receiving. ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen ion at the i·ate The name of William J. Shotwell, late of Company El, First Regi­ of $24 per JDonth in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Provi ional Enr&led Missouri Militia, and pay him a pension at The name of William :Bold, late of Company H1 Twenty-fourth Ilegi· the rate of , 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay h1m a pen ion at tho The name o1 Charles Edwards, late landsman of U. S. S. Vermont, rate of $36 per month in lien of that he is now receiving. · Indepe~dence, and Macedonian, nited States Navy, and pay him a pen­ The name of William A. Kerr, late of Company E, Second Re,,.lment sion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is' now receiving. Illinois Volunteer Cavalry and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 The name of Noah Bayes, late of Company D, Eleventh Regiment, per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. and Company B, One hundred and thirteenth Regiment, United States The name of John Graves, late of Company I, Forty-fifth Reglment Colored 'l'roops, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per mo.nth in Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pensio.n at the rate of 30 :tieu cf that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John Allen, late of Company C, Seventh Regime.nt Ver­ The name o.f Samuel Hill, late of Company C, Eleventh Regiment mont Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a perision at the rate of $l6 per Illinois Voluntee1· Cavalry. and pay him a pension at the rate of $3G month in li€u of that be is now receiving. per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Isaac Thompson, late of Company K, Fifty-first Regi­ The name of William F. M . Lacey, late of 'company El. Eleventh Regi­ ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, a.n.d pay him a pension at the rate ment, and Company K, Thirty-third Regiment, Illinois Volunteer In­ of $24 per month in lieu o! that be is now receiving. fantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of The name of John Bachtle:r, late of Compan~ D, Twelfth Regiment, that he is now r~eiving. New York State Militia Infantry, and Company B, One hundred and The name of Mary ~ . Wildason, widow of Esrom Wildason, late of thirty-third Reeaiment ·ew Yo.rk Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen­ Company G, Sixteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay her sion at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. a pen ion at the rate of 12 per month. The name of John H. Lennon, late landsman, United States Navy, and The name of William J. Jil-aser, late of Company· E, Fourth Regi­ pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now ment l\lieRigan Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate receiving. of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Calvin M. West. late of Company F, First Regiment Ten­ The name of Alonzo P. Sharp, late of Company I, Twelfth Regiment nessee Volunteer Cavalry. and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per Illinois Volunteer Infa.nti.-y, and pay him 11: pension at the rate of $36 month in lien of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Zachary T. Russell, late of Company I, Fifty-second The name of Mary C. Roos, wido.w of Everett J . Roos, late of Com­ Regiment Ill,inois Volunteer Infantry, n.nd pay him a pell.Bion at the pany E, Nineteenth Regiment New York State Militia Infantry, and pay h.er a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. now receiving. The- name of Su an Howarth, widow of Abraham H. Howru.·th, late of The name of John R. Taylor, late of Company A, Ninety-sixth Regi­ Company , Seventh Regiment Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, and ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay bim a pension at the rate oi pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month. in lien of that she is $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receivin"'. now receiving. The name of William Kirst, late of Company A, Ninth Regiment 'l'he name of Vincent H. Gaskill, late acting assistant surgeon, United Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of States Navy, and pay l.lim a pension at the rate at $30 per month in 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Peter Giesman, late of Company F, Eleventh Regiment The name o1 Jona.than Bigelow. late of Company K, Ninety-fifth Regi­ Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pens.ion at the rate of $3Q ment Ohio Volun.teer Infantry, and Company H, Twenty-third Regiment per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Veteran Reserve Corps, a.nd pay him a pension at the rate o'f $30 per The name of Alice Bryant, hel{lless and dependent child of Chru.·les month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . Rryant, late of Company B, Twenty-first Regiment New York Volunteer The name of El.mer W. Welsheimer, late o.f Company G, Seventy-thiro Cavalry, and pay her a pension at the rate of 12 per month. Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Edward J. Harshman, late of Company G, Fifty-fourth $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Matthew F. Stuckey, late of Company K, One hundred rate of 30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. and sixty-eighth Regiment Ohio National Guard Infantry, and pay him · The name of Jacob W. Perry, late of Company D, Third Regiment a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that he is. now receh- Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 30 lng. . per month in lieu 9f that he is now receiving. The name of John P. Wilson, late of Company C. One hundredth The name of Frederick Hei8e, late of Company El, i:rteenth Regi­ Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at ment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate the rate of 36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John Stander, late of Company D, First Regiment Mis­ . Tbe name of Frank Lafond. late of Company G, Seventeenth Regi­ souri Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of ment Wisconsin Volunte€r Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate $36 per month in lieu o! that he is now receiving. of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The nam~ of-Thomas L. Ritchardson, late of Company 1, Fourth Regi­ The name of Cornelius Cline, late of Company D 1 Twenty-seventh ment Tennessee Mounted Volunteers, and pay him a pension at the rate Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of of $24 per month in lieu of that be is now reeeiving. $36 per month in lieu of that be is now rece:tving. The name of Perry Walker, late of Company B, Fiftieth Regiment The name o.f muel Rochester, late of Company I, Forty-first Regi- Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. and pay him pension at the rate of ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 30 $40 per mo.nth in lieu of that he is now reeeivillg. per month in Heu· of that he is. now receiving. The name ot James M. Chapel, late of Company A, Second Regiment The name of William H. Elmore, late of Company F, First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 30 Alabama and 'l'enne ee Independent Vidette Cavalry, and pay him a per month in lieu of that he is :i;iow reeeiving. pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. The name of John D. Neff, late of Compa.ny B, Seventy-fourth Regi­ The name of George Eimer, late of Com{lany I, Sixth Regiment New ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the York Volunteer H-envy Artillery, and pay bim a pension at the rate of rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $30 per month in lieu of that he is n<>w receiving. ~he name of Edward Church. late of Company B, Fiftieth Regiment The name of Lewis B. Hunt, late of Company K, One hundred and Missouri Volunteer In!antry, and pay him a pens.ion at the rate o! 24 sixtieth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry. and pay him a pension per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Caroline Holman, widow of Francis H. Holman, alias The name of Jane A. Walsh, widow of Robert Walsh. late of Com­ Frank H. Holman, late of Company I, Twent:v-seventb Regiment Iowa pany C, Sixth Regiment New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay 1Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of 12 per month. her a pension at the rate o1 $20 per IJ?Onth in lieu of that sbe is now The name of Emily C. Bruner, late of Company B, Eighth Regiment receiving. . Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay her a J?ension at· the rate of $20 The name of Mary Etta Brewer, widow of Barret J. Brewer, late of per month in lieu of that she is now receivrng. Seventeenth Itegiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a The name of F1·ancis M. Herring, late of Company H, Fiftieth Regi­ pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of. that she is now ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of receiving. · . . . '36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name ef John Scheur1ch, late of Companies F and D, Thirtieth - The name of Edwin Bloom. late of Company E, One hundred and Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the seventy-sixth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu o.f that he is. now receiving. The name of Amos G1-aham, late of Company El, Sixty-seventh Re"'i­ The name o! J'ames Dnd'well,. late of Battery I, First Regiment lllinais ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pens.ion at the rate of ~24 nte ot $36 per month in lieu ot that he is now receiving. per month In lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Rachel Ann Keitlein, widow of Daniel R. Keiflei& late The name of Henry B. Mitchen, late of Company B, Third Regiment of Companies G and J, Seventy-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania volun­ Delaware Volunteel' Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $-30 teer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per mo.nth. pel' month in lieu of that he ls now reeeiving . The name of Moses. E. Sturtevant, late of Company H, Third Regi­ The name of Zebina M. Hunt, late of Company A, EightQ Re~iment me11t Michigan Volunteer- Cavalry, and pay hi!ll. a pension at the rate of New Yo.1-k Votnnteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pen.s1on 'at the $50 per month in lieu af that he is now receivmg. .rate of 3:0 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Alfred K. Yoong, late of Company G, Eighth Regiment, · The name of William Jessotll late of Company H, Seventh Regiment Company F. Fift:y-secon.d Regiment, and Company L, Sevent~enth Regi­ Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate ot ment, Kentucky Volunteer ~nfanh'y, and pay him a pension at the rate .$31) per month in lieu of that he is now reeetving, - · of $30 per month in lietl of tbat he is now receiving. '

1912. - CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 3039

The name of Belle A. Corbin, w1dow of John A. Corbfn, late of Com­ The name of Nancy Gaven, former widow of Asa J. Moore, late of pany G, Ninety-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay her Company D, Sixteenth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay a pension at the rate of $12 pet month. her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. '.rbe name of Ira Kennicutt, late of Company H, Eighth Regiment The name of Sharp Hagerty, late of Company B, Second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of William El. ~fcLimans, late of Company C, Seventy­ The name of Edward A. Spaulding, late of Company K, Eighth Regi­ seventh and Forty-third Regiments Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, ment New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he the rate of $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. is now receiving. The n.ame of Charles Mullen, late of Company :ID, Eleventh Regi­ The name of William F. Marshall, late of Company I, Thirty-sixth ment Mrnnesota Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of :ji40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. T!te name of Lemuel E. Sinsabaugh, late of Company H, Forty-sixth The name of Albert Barfield, alias Albert Pound, late of Company C, Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at Twenty-fourth Regiment United States Colored Volunteer Infantry, the rate of $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in Ueu of that he .The nai;ne of Henry C. Beebe, late of Company G, Veteran nattalion, is now receiving. · First Regiment Colorado Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at The name of Peter Goergen, late of Company F, Ninety-first Regiment the rate ·of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Grant Root, helpless and dependent child of Stephen M. $24 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. . Root, late of Company E, Twelfth Regiment West Virginia Volunteer The name of Harrison H. Riddle, late of Company I, Fifty-runth Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 per month. Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of William H. Gilliland, late of Company I, Eighth Regi­ rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. m~nt~ and Compa~y K, Tl>;irty-seventh Regiment, New York State The name of Elon S. Balcome, late of Company H, Eleventh Regi­ Militia, and pay him a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu ment .Kew York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of that he is now receiving. of 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The n~me of Hollis M. Payson, late of Company I, Fifteenth Regi­ The name of Hollis D. Kendall, late of Company I, Sixtieth Regi­ ment Marne Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ment New York Volunteer Infantry, and Company G, Thirteenth Regi­ $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate '.l;he name of Sumner P. Boies, late of Company F, Third Regiment of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Mame Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 The name of William Riley Helms, late of Company F, Sixteenth per month. , Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and Company E, Fourteenth :r'he ~ame of Harvey Law, late of Company A, Twelfth Regiment Regiment New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pen­ W1sconsm Volunteer Infantry, and p9.y him a pension at the rate of sion at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name or David W. Clements, late of Company B, Sixtieth Regi­ ~be name of Luranah A. Ebert, widow of William C. Ebert, late of ment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Uruted States provost marshal's department, and pay her a pension of . 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. at the rate of $12 per month. The name of Henry C. Fairchild, late of Company I, Seventh Regi­ The name o~ John Andrews, late of Companies D and H, First Regi­ ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ment Connecticut Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Edward B. North, late of Company G, Ninety-fifth The name of Noah Shidler, late of Company H, Thirteenth Regiment Rel£iment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, !lnd pay hi~. a pension at the rate Ohi? Volunteer Infantry, and Compa_?.y D, Seventy-third Regiment of 0)36 per month in lieu of that he is now receivmg. Ind1aha Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 The name of James D. Burcham, late of Company E, Sixth Regi­ per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate ~he name of Albert Carlile, late of .Company D, Nineteenth Regiment of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Oh10 Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the. rate of $36 The name of James Jenkins. late of Company H, One hundred and per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. twentieth Regiment New York Volunteer Inf.antry, and pay .him a The name of Isaac El. Reed, late of Company G One hundred :ind pension at the rate of $24 per month in heu of that he is now forty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him receiving. . . a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now The name of Luvenia Walkinshaw, widow of Joseph C. Walkinshaw, receiving. late of Company I Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer . The ~ame of 9uver P ..Huffman, late of Company G, One hundred and Infantry and pay h'er a pension at the rate of $12 per month. sixty-nmth Regiment Oh10 Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension The name of Joseph M. Horning, late o.f Company D, One hundred at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving and forty-second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a The name of William F. Emrick, late of ·Company G Ninth Regiment pension at the rate of . $24 per month in lieu of that he is now New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of receiving. $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Charlotte Atkinson, former widow of Thomas B. W. The nl;lm~ of Daniel Weaver, late of Comp.any G, Ninety-fifth Regi­ }j'rancisco late of Company H, Fifth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer ment Illmo1s Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Infantry,' and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of that she is now receivmg. The name of Thomas E. Enloe, late of Company A Seventh Ileaiment The name of Sarah Knepley, wi.dow of Edward C. Knepley, late of Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension' at the rate of $30 Company E. L'irst Regiment Pennsylvania V~lunteer Infantry, ai:id pay per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. her a pension at the rate of $20 per month m heu of that she is now The name of Richard Morrow, late of Company A, One hundred and eighty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and pay him re<;jh~inngame of Jennie M. Metz, widow of Thomas J. Metz, late of Com­ a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of th'at he is now pany B One hundred and twenty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volun­ receiving. teer Infantry• and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in The name of Cimon .A. Wellman, Jate of Company A, Second Rea-i­ lieu of that sne is now receiving. ment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the r;te The name of Samuel C. Rhoat, late of Company C, Ninety-third Regi­ of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Martha M. Hildreth, widow of Samson A. Hildreth late rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of Companies B, F, and K, Fourteenth Regiment Ohio Voluntee~ In­ The name of Warren Morrill, late of Company D, Sixth Regiment New fantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay hIID a pension at the rate of that she is now receiving. $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Belona B. Moran. widow of James T. Moran, late hos­ The name of Joseph Carter. jr., late of Company B, Tenth Regiment pital steward, One hundred and sixteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of po per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of that she is nc.w receiving. - 'Ibe name of Frederick Markgraff, late of Company F, Sixty-eighth The name of Robert C. Guy, late of Company C, Sixth Regiment Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of li)36 of $20 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John G. Milliken, late of Company F, Ninety-eighth Regi­ The name of William P. Dunlap, late of Company I, One hundred ment and Company B, Seventy-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infan­ and third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a try, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that pension at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. he is now receiving. The name of Edward J. Davis. late of Companies D and E, One hun­ The name of Charles A. Berry, late of Company E, First Regiment dred and forty-sixth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry. and pay Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 him a pension at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of tht he is now per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. re~vin~ · The name of Viola Phillips, widow of John' B. Phillips, late of Com­ pany C One hundred and twenty-eighth Regime.nt Ohio Volunteer In­ The name of Amelia D. Lewis, widow of Schuyler H. Lewis, late of fantry 'and pay Iler a pension at the rate of $12 per month. Company H, 'l'enth Regiment New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and The 'name of Isaa<' P. HinesJ late of Company C, Forty-third Regiment pay her ~ pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is Ohio Volunteer Infantry, ana pay him a pension at the rate of $2·1 now receiving. p er month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Mrrry E. Martin, widow of George G. Martin, late The nn.me of James McKelvey, late of Company K, Second Regiment, lieutenant colonel First Regiment United States Colored Volunteer In­ and Company E, Eighteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and fantry, and pay her a pens10n at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is that she is now receiving. now receiving. The name of Charles W. Gibbs, late of Company F, Forty-fourth Regi­ The name of Elizabeth Graham, widow of George Graham, late of ment New York Volunteer Infantry, and Company E, Twenty-first Regi­ Company B, Ninety-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay ment Veteran Reserve Corp!3, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. receiving. The name of Samuel 0. Lee, late landsman, U. S. S. Ohio, Vermont, The namP. of Charles T. Garrard, late of Company H, Seventh Regi­ and Potomske, United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay llim a pension at the rate of $30 of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. · The name of James Howe, late of Company F, Fiftieth Regiment The name of Jolin .W. Stoker, late of Company H, Thirty-first Regi­ Massachusetts Militia Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate $30 per month in l• ~u of that he is now receiving. of $3G per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Joseph W. Haynes, 1ate of Company A, Seventeenth The name of Joseph A. Hanks, late of Companies A and E, Twenty­ Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at elghth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Charles Britton, late of Company I. Fourth Regtment Tbe name of David Gilchrist, lnte of Company Il, Thirty-sixth Regi­ United States Infantry, and Company D, One hundred and ninety-fourth ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. and pay him a pension at the rate of $3G Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the per month in lieu of that l!e is now receiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ·3040 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. :U.ARCH 8,

The name of Cornelius Van Note, alias William Rid.gway, late lands­ The name of Samuel M.. Zartman, late of Company K, First Regiment man, U. S. S. Potomac, Penobscot, and Feru:not, United States Navy, Ohid Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of and pay him a pension at' the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. is now receiving. The name of Catherine Karcher, widow of Frederick J. Karcher, late The name of Daniel H. Crider, late of Company El, Fifty-fourth Regi­ of Company A Third Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and ·pay him a pension at the her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now . rate of $36 per· month in lieu of that he is now receiving. receiving. · The name of George El. Patterson, late of Company B, Eighth Regi­ TP,e name of James Buckley, late of Independent Battery G, Pennsyl­ ment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the 1·ate vania Volunteer Light Artillery, ar,1 pay him a pen ion at the rate or of 50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receivi.Iig. The name of Seymour Avery, late of Company L, First Regiment The name of John H. Baty, late of Company I, One hundred and Vermont Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension. at the rate of $36 twenty-t!llrd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and Inde­ per month in lieu of that he ·1s now receiving. pendent Battery Pennsylvania Light Artillery, and pay him a pension The name of Jacob ID. Riley, late of Company H, Third Regiment ilt the rate of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now r eceiving. Pennsylvania Provisional Cavalry, and pay him u. -pension at the rate The name of Charles Fitzgerald, late of Company II, Sixth Regiment of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen,Sion at the rate ·of $:10 per Tbe name of Smmn J. Huff, widow of Eldred Huff, late of Company month in lieu of that he is now receiving. A, Fourth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and pay her a pension at '.rhe name of John HockenbeTy, late of Company I, Fifty-fifth Re~i­ I ment Pen:p.sylv:;mia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at tne . the rate of $20 per month m lieu of that she is now receiving. rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Nehemiah W. Porter, late of Company A, Eleventh '!'he name of John W. Smith, late of Company G, Twenty-fifth Reai­ Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 4o rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Charles Pettys, late of Company C, Sixth Regiment The name -0f Henry C. Farmer, late of Company 1D Forty-eighth Regi­ Michigan Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $3G ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of .Per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Mary De Krieger, widow of Peter W. De Krieger, late The name of Henderson Scott, late of Company E. Thirty-ninth Regi­ of Company C, Tenth Re!dment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay ment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate her a pension at the rate of 12 per month. of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receivin"'. The name of John W. Ramsey, late of Company I, Two hundred and 'l'he nal!'.le of William Ca!ey, late of Company H, One hundred and eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay bim a n!nth ReglIDent Penn ylvama Vol1;lllteer Infantry, and pay him a pen­ pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Slon at the rate of 30 per month m lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Hugh Lappin, late of Company I, Seventieth Regiment, The name of Margaret C. Malone, widow of Robert Malone, late of and Company D, Seventy-third Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, Company D, One hundred and ninety-second Regiment Pennsylvania and p:iy him a pension at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month is now receiving. - in lieu of that she is now receiving. 'fhe name of John M. Oldham, late of Company C, Forty-fourth Regi­ The name of James T. Singleton, late of Company A, Sixth Re,..iment ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Sixty-sixth Company, Second Bat­ Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate 'Or $36 talion, Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him a pension at the rate of per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Andrew Smith, l~te of Companv H, Ninth Regiment Mis­ The name of Julia A. Rulo, widow of John Rulo, late of Company D, souri State Militia Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 Thirtieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension per month in lieu of that he is now reeeiving. at the rate of 20 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. The name of James E. Greene, late of Company A, One hundred and The name of Jerome B. Evans, late of Company D, Sixty-fourth Regi­ fortJ:-eighth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of pension at the rate ~f $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $30 per month in lieu of that he is ·now receiving. The n.ame ~f Lewis Il. Walker, late of Company G, Forty-third Regi­ The name of James M. Bishop, late of Company C, Fourth ·Reaiment ment 1\Iissouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, and pay bim a pension at the rate of $36 of $24 per month 1n lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiv.i.ng. . '.I'he name· of George E. Wilson, late of Company D, Sixth Re"'iment The name of David C. Chadwick, late of Company F, Twenty-fourth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the ;ate of Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate 36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The fo1·egoing bill is a substitute for the following House bills re­ The name of Jabez G. Cole, late of Company I, Fifty-second Regiment ferred to said committee : Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of H. R. 179. John W. Turner. H. R. 5579. John R. Hord. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 240. John Eastman. H. R. 5580. David H. Daywalt. The name of Samuel S. Hall, late of Company H, Sixth Regiment H. R. 241. John Mulligan. H. R. 5581. John W. Foot. Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 H. R. 272. Jacob Cooper. H. R. 5583. Thomas J. Foote. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. B. R. 279. George L. Catlin. H. R. 5584.. James A. Gooch. · The name of Delia l\I. Williams, widow of David T. Williams, late of H. R. 669. Joseph D. Lakin. H. R. 5728. Luther Stephenson, jr. Company A, Seventh~sixth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and IT. R. 670. Julia E. Hall. H. R. 5797. Henry L. McCain. · pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is H. R. 695. Richard Hyam. H. R. 5834. William Cavins. now receiving. H. R. 1000. James Madison Rolain. H. R. 5837. Sarah A. Lovelady. The name of Daniel Williams, late of Company El, Sixty-sjxth Regi­ H. R. 1015. John F. Rankin. H. R. 5843. Washington C. Shannon. ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a p.ension at the rate of H.P... 1138. James D. Roberts. H. R. 6009. Sanford Glass. $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 1350. Ward L. Roach. H. R. 6152. Henry C. Zurner. The name of Edward G. Handley, late of Company I, One hundred H. R. 1546. Edward Kennedy. H. R. 6~39. Arthur Branagan. and twenty-second Regiment Illinois yoll!nteer Infantry:. and pay ~ a H. R. 1784. Moses Callison. H. R. 6276. Carson H. Kightlinger. pension at the rate of ~ 24 per month m lleu of that he is now receivmg. H. R. 1799. Elisha Enox. H. R. 6289. Charlie C,. Bane. '.fhe name of Jefferson Jackson, helpless and dependent child of Elijah H. R. 1924. Robert H. Dollarhide. H. R. 6467. Jacob R. Zuck. Jackson, late of Company. , Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, H. R. 1925. Joseph E. C'ox. H. R. 6571. John S. McGinness. and pay him a pension at the rate of 12 per month. II. R. 2021. Joseph C. Mc~arrah. H. R. 6 1. Dustin W. Whitney. The name of Charles Herriman, late of Compuny El, Ninth Re0 'iment H. R. 2143. Ab alom I'. Carlock. H. R. 6933. Charles W. Wibert. Iowa Vo1unteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $"36 per H. R. 2157. Solomon Brob t. H. R. 6942. James M. N'ewland. month in lieu of thnt he is now receiving. H. R. 2304. Charles Deitrick. H. R. 6980. Willi:im M. Capps. The name of George W. Strong, late of Company G, Third Regiment H. R. 2334. Clarkson Tryon. H. R. 7144. George W. Weekley. New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a 11ension at the rate of H. R. 2360. Charles Hartman. H. R. 7215. Curtice C. Whittier. , $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 2512. John Walsh. H. R. 7445. John J. Jackson.. The name of Silas Rossell, late of Company G, Sixteenth Regiment H. R. 2;i50. William Sutton. H. R. 7448. John F. Taylor. Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of H. R. 2618. Nathan N. Spence. H. R. 75 0. William F. Holmes. • 24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. J;!. n. 2622. "Michael loss. H. R. 7643. William D. Medley. The name of Charles A. Reed, late assistant surgeon Ninth Regiment H. R. 2G41. Johnson J. Miller. H. R. 7744. Andreas Wirth. Iov.a Yolunteru· Infr.ntry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 per II. R. 2642. Lucien H. Young. H. R. 7746. Benjamin M. Laur. month-in lieu of that he is now receiving. · H. R. 264~. Michael A. Overdorff. H. R. 7792. Henry Spencer. The name of Alonzo T. Hickey, late of Company D, Seventy-seventh H. R. 2843. Silas H. Bradley. H. R. 7854. Isaac lD. Walker. Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and .pay him a pension at H. R. 3038. William Mapel. H. R. 8052. Helen Kirschenmann. the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 3276. William H. R. Snyder. H. R. 8125. John Nier. The name of William H. Stauffer, late of Company G, Sixth Regi­ H. R. 3325. John Smith. H. R. 8280. Joseph Miller. ment Pennsyl>anin. Vol unteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension H. R. 3468. James Allen. H. R. 367. Leroy S. Jones. at tbe rate of 30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. H. R. 8671. John W. Moore. H. R. 8507. Albert P~etteplace. The name of Godfrey K. Biber, late of Company D, One hundred and H. Il. 3717. Thomas Davidson. H. R. 8717. Alfred Hosack. forty-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a H. R. 3811. James B. Robertson. H. R. 9084. Adam Budell. pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 4082. Joseph Bennett. H. R. 90!')7. Charles J. Beach. The name of Martin V. Curry, late of Company G, First Regiment H. R. 4117. John W. Stiff. H. R. 9309. William Wollenberg. United States Volunteers, and pay him a pension at the rnte of $36 per H. R. 4302. William J. Helms. H. R. 9352. James M. Arbuckle. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 4380. Edwin A. Atwood. H. R. 9596. 1\la.rgaret Nevison.. The name of Anthony Lowman, late of Company B, Sixty-seventh H. R. 4394. Harvy J. Davis. H. R. 9508. Heman P. Manly. Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at H. R. 4395. Lucretia J. Allen. H. R. 9612. William T. Patey. R. the rate of ~4 pe1· month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 4474. John W. Blackson. H. 970 . Nathaniel Fin1y. The name of Isaiah J. Moore, late of Company B, Sixty-third Regi­ H. R. 4516. Edward L. Bradley. H. R. 9712. Hezekiah Williams. ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 11ay him a pension at the rate of H. r.. 4532. Orson Simonds. · H. R. 9726. George Morrison. $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 4590. Henry Meerdink. H. Il. 9763. Brid ~et Kelly. The name of Hem·y McKenna, late second-cla s fireman, United States H. IL 4633. Sara J. Squier. H. R. 9822. George H. Sliter. 4636. H. R. 9043. William J. Shotwell. ships North Carolina, Susquehanna, and Vermont, United States Navy, H. R. William H. Herrick. H. R. 104 1. Charles Edwards. and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he H. R. 4837. Joseph A. Fones. H. R.10714. Noah Bayes. is now receiving. H. R. 4891. Michael Kelly. H. R. 10751. .John Allen. The name of Christopher T. Pearce, late of Companies G, C, and B, H. R. 5124. William H. Davis. H. Il. 10870. Isaac Thompson. ·Fifth Regtment Rhode Island Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him H. R. 5184. Coleman R. Ilomaine. H. n.. 10974. John Bacbtler. a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now re­ H. R. 5234. Henry J. Bess. H. n.. 11088 John H. Lennon. ceiving. H. R. 5353. Abraham M. Ileifner. H. R. 5384. Ephraim Hommel. H. R. 11140. Calvin M. West. The name of Charles L. Burgess, late of Company D1 Twenty-third Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate H. R. 5575. Seymour Wheelock. H. R. 11153. Zachary T. RusselL of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. H. R. 5576. George C. Richards. H. R. 11283. 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H. R. 11287. Vincent H. GaskilL H. R. 16.515. David Gikbrist. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman in charge of the bill {.llr. H. R. 11288. Jonathan Bigelow. H. R. 16528. Nancy Gaven. H . R. 11289. Elmer W. Welsheimel' H. R. 16541. Sharp Hagerty. HA.MILTON] is entitled to recognition. H. R. 11291. Matthew F. Stuckey. H. R. 1:6543. Edward A. Spaulding. Mr. RODDENBERY. A further parliamentary inquiry~ H. R.11348. John P. Wilson. II. R.1'6545. Charles Mullen. The CHAIRl\iAN. The gentleman will state it. H. Il. 11526. John Stander. H. R. 16707. Lemuel :ID. Sinsa- H. R. 11562. Thomas L. Ritchard· baugh. Mr. RODDENBERY. l\Iay I appropriately obtain informa- son. H. R. 16724. Henry c. Beebe. tion at this time whether I shall be permitted to be reeognlzed H. R. 11629. Perry Walker. H. R. 16798. Gr.a~t Root. . . 1 by the Chair for the purpose of general debate on this bill for H. R. 11740. James M. Chapel. H. R. 16858. William H. Gilhland. h. h I d · t b · d? ' H. R. 11939. John D. Neff. H. R. 16917. Hollis M. Payson. w ic purpose es1re o e recogmze H. R. 12049. Edward Chureh. H. R. 16924. Sumner P. Boies. The CH.AIRMAN. General debate is in order at this Ume, H. R. 12068. C:iroline Holman. H. R. 16964. Harvey Law. but the gentleman from West Virginia [Mr. Hurn.TON] has H. R. 12069. Emily C. Bruner. H. R. 17055. Luranah A. Ebe.rt. th fl "l'Uh. h. ·f · H. Il. 12143. Francis M. Herring. H. R. 17091. John Andrews. e oor. inLeD ,u.,e .concludes, I the gentleman is reeog- H. R. 12183. Edwin Bloom. H. R. 17:342. Noah .Shidler. nized-- H. R. 12186. James Dodwell. H. B. 17344. Albert Carlile. Ir. RODD~"'BERY. I .desire to state to the Chair at this H. R. 12378. Henry B. Mitchell. H. R. 17385. Isa.ac El Reed. . . . . H. R. 12501. Zebina M. Hunt. H. R.17652. Olive1· P. Hu.fi'man. time that I wtsb·to be recogruzed m order. H. R. 12540. William Jessop. H. R. 11656. Wil~m F . Emrick. Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. What time does the H. IL 12563. William Hanger. H. R. 17657. Damel Weaver. t1 fr G · [,..! R ] t? H. R. 12598. Willis Lake. H. R. 17693. "Thomas .m. Enloe. , gen eman . om eorgia i.1 r. OD:DENBERY wan . H. n. 12666. David S. Pierce. H. R. 177il8. Richard Morrow. ~fr. RODDENBERY. The time allowed by the existing · H. R. 12~77. John W. Urban. H. R. 17729. Cimon -.A.. We:Ilman. rules-one hol.rr H. R. 12706. John W. Stonebraker. H. R. 17730. Martha M. Hildreth. ' '!If 'CT A 11.3. Cornelius Cline. H. R. 18193. Nehemiah w. Porter. of them .are increases of pensl(ms which have heretofore been H. R. 13980. Samuel Rochester. H. R. 18398. Charles Petty~. granted by Congress? H. R. 14023. W!i.11iam H Elmore. H. R. 18408. iwy De Kreiger. l\Ir HAMILTON of West Virginia No sir Seventeen of H. R. 14147. George Eimer. H. R. 18465. J<>hn W. Ramsey. · · 1 • · H. R. 14148. Lewis B. HUllt. H. R. 18468. Hugh Lappin. them are original pensions to widows, granted the first time. H. R. 14150. Jane A. Walsh. H. R.18474. Joh.n M. 01dham. Mr. BARTLETT. In this bill? H. R. 14153. Mary Etta Brewer. H. R. lB.512 . .Tulia A. Rulo. u '1:'T A 1\f'ILTON f w t v· . . . y . Th . H. R. 14208. John Scheurich. H. R.18517. Jel"ome B. Evans. .ru.r . .ll...lilU. ... o es ng1ma. es, sir. ey are prm.- H. R. 14294. Amos Graham. H . R. 18520. Jam~s M. Bisho~. cipally granted to widows. H. R. 14337. Raebel Ann Keiflein. H. R. 18574. David C. Chadwick. .Ur. BARTLETT. The reason I asked the question was that H. R 14395. Moses E. Sturtevant. R. R. 18610. Jabez G. Cole. I kn •t th ul f th 'tte d h b f H. R. 14426. Alfred K. Young. H. R. 18663 . .Samuel s. Hall. ew i was e r e -0 e comm1 e, an as een or H. Il. 14522. Belle A. Corbin. H. R.18667. D.elia 1\1. wmiams. many years, both in the House and the Senate, with rm.·e excep- H. R. 145~6. Ira Kennieutt. H. R. 18700. Daniel Wiliiams. _ tions tha.t you do not increase th~ pension when the pensioner's H. n.. 14569. William E. McLimans. H. R. 18744. Edward G. Handley. . ht' t ,.,_ · · b ·ai t H. R. 1457-0. William F. Marshall. H. R. 1875.3 . .Je!Ierson Jaeks<>n. rig o l\ilaw a pension is y spec1 ac . H. R. 14604. Albert Barfield, alias H. R.18816. Charles Herriman. Mr. RAlHLTON of West Virginia. It depends on the statute. Albert P-0und. H. R.18879. George W. Strong. .Mr BARTLETT I thought the aentleman said that 17 of H. R. 14609. Peter Goergen. H. R. 18896. Silas Rossell · . · '°' H. R. 14732. HarriS-On H. Riddle. H. R. 19016. Charles A. Reed. these were mcreases. H. R. 14798. Elon S. Balcome. H. R. 19109. Alon.zo T. Hickey. 1\fr. HAMILTON of West Virgini.a. No, sir. H. Il. 14799. Hollis D. Kendall. H. R. 19110. Wilham H. S~auffer. Mr. BARTLE'J:'T. I misunderstood the gentleman. H. R. 14801. William Riley Ilelms. H . n. 19112. G<>dfrey K. Biber. H. R 14802. David W. Clements. H. R. 19199. Martin v. Curry. Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia.. There are increases, but H. R. 14803. Henry C. Fairchild. H. R. 19251. An~hony Lowman. not necessarily increases over pensions granted by special acts. H. R. 14985. Edward 'B. North H. R. 19352. Isaiah J. Moore. 111 BARTLETT I · te ted · th tt b I H. R. 15152. James D. Burcham. H. R. 19466. Henry McKe.nna. " r. · . am m 1es m e ma er, ecause H. R. 15198. James Jenkins. H. R.1950'1. Christopher T. Pearce. , have gken that as an anss.ver to persons in my district who de- H. R. 15275. Lavenia Watkin h!l.w. H. R. 19520. Charles L. Bu:gess. sired to have bills introduced. H. R. 15283. Joseph M. Horning. H. R. 19534.. Samuel M. Za1tman. 11 Ir '1:'T .i. 111 ON f W t v· · · Th •ttee h H. R. 15437. Charlotte Atkinson. H. R. 19597. Catherin~ Karcher. " . .D...tUl ILT o es rrgmia. e com.nu as a H. R. 15439. Sarah Knepky. H. R. 19610. James Buekley. rule-rule No. 2-by which only in very exceptional cases they H. R. 15513. Jennie 1\1. Metz. H. R. 15538. Samuel C. Rh.oat.• ii ~ ~~H: ~~~ 1!· ~f:Ierald. ' will increase pensions gr::mted b~ Con~ress un~er speein.l act .• H. n. 15821. Wauen Morrill. H. R. 19614. John Hockenbery. Mr. BARTLETT. This committee is enforcmg that rule m H. R. 15823. Jose!)h Carter jr. H. R. 1962'2. John W. Smith. this House? H. R. 15881. Frederick Markgraff. H. R. 19668. Ilenry C. Farmer. Mr. HA.liIILTON of West Virginia. Yes; the best we can. I H. R. 15953. J-0hn G. Milliken. H. R. 19676. Henderson Scott. . . . H. R. 16162. Charles A. Berry. H. n. 19744. William Carey. do not know that there are any eases m thlS bill that '\\OU d H. R. 16368. Viola Phillips. a. R. 19747. Margaret C: Malone. Tioln.te that rule. H. R. 16371. Isaac P. Hines. H. R.19942. James T. S~ngleton. 1\Ir BARTLETT I simply wanted to know for mv own in- H. R. 1G372. James McKelvey. H. R. 20037. Andrew Smith. · · ~ H. R. 16~76. Elizabeth Graham. H. R. 200 9 ..Tam es E. Greene. formation, because I have had correspondence on the subject H. R. 16379. Charles T. Garrard. H. R. 20176. Lewis H. W.afker. with residents in my district, and in a few cases have had in- H. R. 1G406. John W. Stoker. H. R. 2-09l3. George E. Wilson. quiries as to pensions under the invalid-pension law and appli- H. R. Hi502. Jcseph A. Hanks. cations for pensions for soldiers -0f the Spanish-American War During the reading, where Congress has granted a pension by special legislative act Mr. RODDENBERY. :Mr. Chairman, I do not think there Then in such cases the committee does not increase that pension? is a quorum of the committee present. l\lr. HA.MILTON of West Vit·ginia. That is the rule of the The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will count. [After counting.] committee, but in candor I will say to the- gentleman that it is One hundred and four !embers a1·e present-a quorum-and not entirely inflexible. I recall to mind one or two cases in the Clerk will proceed with the reading of the bill which that rule has not been followed. The Clerk proceeded, and t!oncluded the reading of the bill. Mr. BARTLETT. I think it is a rare exception, but I have l\Ir. HAMILTON of West Virginia. Mr. Chairman, this omni­ known.some case~ since I haYe been here. I have known one or bus bill, including 17 original pensions and 275--­ two cases where Congre s has increased the pension of the pen­ Mr. RODDE1\"'BERY. A parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Chair- sioner who was pensioned by special act of Congress. The man. reason why I made the inquiry was that I understood the gen­ The CHAIRl\IAN. The gentle~an will state i.t. tleman to say that there were 17 cases of that kind in this bill. Mr. RODDENBERY. Is not now, at the conclusion of the .Mr. HilfILTON of West Virginia. No, sir; I did not mean to reading of the bill, the first time parliamentarily appropriate say that. to ask unanimous consent that the report of the committee on l\Ir. ALEXANDER. Mr. Chairman, the rule of the Committee the bill be read? on Invalid Pensions provides that in no instance will a pension Mr. RUSSELL. We object to the reading of the report. be increased where the original pension was granted by special 3042 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-. HOUSE. 1'f.AJJOII 8,

. act of Congress. I wish to say to the gentleman in charge of the to that time he becomes totally paralyzed and requires constant bill that if you are going tq depart from that practice you ought attention, he should be given additional aid. to modify your rule. I have answered scores of letters, which Mr. BARTLETT. I have that identical case in mind. I have received in cases where parties have applied for increases Mr. KENDALL. I am describing the gentleman's case. under those circumstances, calling attention to this rule, and up Mr. BARTLETT. Then there is no reason why this rule to this moment I did not understand that it had been violated. should be enforced. The soldier ought to be entitled to addi­ Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. In a few cases only, but tional benefits commensurate with his condition. I agree with not in this bill. the gentleman. Can the gentleman answer this question Mr. ADAIR. There are no cases of that kind in this bill? Whether the Bureau' of Pensions has authority to increase th~ l\Ir. HAMILTON of West Virginia. No; I think not. pension of a pensioner who draws his pension by reason of a Mr. ALEXANDER. You ought to live up to the rule. private act? Mr. BARTLETT. l\fr. Chairman, I would like to ha\e the l\fr. KENDALL. Not at all, uil.J.ess his disabilities growing gentleman from West Virginia [Mr. HA1uLTON] answer the ques­ out of his service are considered. tion he started to answer. I am interested in this matter. l\Ir. BARTLETT. I understand the presumption is that when l\Ir. ADAIR. I want to say, in answer to what the gentleman you pension a man by legislative act he can not get a pension at from Missouri [l\Ir. ALEXANDER] has said, which in a way re­ the Pension Bureau under the general law. fiects upon the committee of the House, that so far as the Com­ l\lr. KENDALL. That is a mistake. If he wants to resort mittee on In-valid Pensions of the House is concerned it does not to the general law and can establish that he is entitled to more now and ne-ver did have a rule of that kind. The rule making pension than Congress has allowed him, he has a right to do it. such a distinction was adopted by the Senate Committee on Pen­ Mr. BARTLETT. He must be refused at the Pension Office sions, but I am informed by some of the older Members in the before we can consider his bill. House-and I belie1e the gentleman from New Hampshire [l\1r. Mr. KENDALL. Other circumstances may arise- SULLOWAY] will bear me out in that statement-that the House Mr. RUSSELL. I think I can explain in just a word about committee has no such rule. what the action of the committee has been and the reason for its Mr. ALEXA~1DER. You mean you have no rule at all? action. As stated by the gentleman from Indiana,- as I under­ Mr. ADAIR. No written rules; and ha1e not had. stand, the Senate has written rules. We have not written rules. Mr. ALEXANDER. These are the rules we understand that We have unwritten rules that have guided us. Bills passed the committee has, and when we write for information to the by the House must also be passed by the Senate. The House committee those are the rules we get. committee thought it was practically useless for us to give the Mr. ADAIR. Does the gentleman refer to the Senate rules? second increase where a man had previously one special bill, Mr. ALEXANDER. No; to the rules of the House Committee because the Senate would turn it down anyway, and has been on InYalid Pensions, when we ask for the rules of the com­ doing it. mittee. This is the first time I ever knew that that was not so. I understand the action of the committee on these cases bas Mr. ADAIR. They are not the rules of the House committee. been about this : Notwithstanding the Senate rule and our-un­ We turned over to the gentleman all the rules that we haye in written rule, where a man has been granted an increase by our possession. special act, but since that time his disabilities have become Ur. BARTLETT. Will the gentleman allow me another greater, we felt, and I think the committee feels, and the House question? feels, that it would be unjust to deny him the right he is justly l\fr. HAi\IILTON of West Virginia. Yes, sir. entitled to. But if there has been no increase in the disabili­ ties since the private act was granted, the committee has not l\Ir. BARTLETT. I did not raise this question idly, Mr. felt that it ought to undo the work done by the previous com­ Chairman. I have three cases that I recall now where I have mittee and the previous Congress by recommending an increase. introduced bills, and I have been informed by the Committees Mr. ANDERSON of Ohio. Mr. Chairman, for the purpose of on Invalid Pensions and on Pensions of the House and the Com­ correcting the impression regarding the granting of second mittee on Pensions of the Senate-and I want to say not by any special bills and as to the unwritten rule referred to by the particular member of the Committee on Invalid Pensions-but gentleman from Missouri, I think you will find by referring to it is the general understanding that where a special bill has the printed rules of the committee that rule 2 applies. passed, granting a pension and fixing the amount, it is not l\lr. KENDALL. Will the gentleman from West Virginia increased in these bills coming from this committee except in yield? very rare instances, with rare exceptions. That, as I under­ stand, is the history of it for years in this House. It has been l\fr. HAMlLTON of West Virginia. I will .yield to the gen­ the practice of the committees of both Houses, both the House tleman. and the Senate, not to increase a pension when the pension Mr. KENDALL. I want to say that this argument is eu~ had its origin in a special legislative act. I have acted upon tirely unnecessary, because there are no such items in this bill. that. I had one case here some years ago in which I secured a l\Ir. BARTLETT. I understood that there were. pension for a Federal soldier who liyed in my district, in which Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. I do not remember ol case that rule was not adhered to, as my friend from New any that are in this bill; there may-be one or two. Hampshire [l\fr. SULLOWAY] will recall. It was a very worthy · Mr. BARTLETT. Then the gentleman from Iowa is mistaken. case, and the gentleman from New Hampshire aided me Mr. KENDALL. I am making• the statement on the au­ materially in securing the increase for the old man, who was thority of some members of the committee on whose judgment recognized as being entitled to the increase, but because of the I rely. fact that the original pension had been granted by .Congress, Mr. HAl'\fILTON of West Virginia. I say tllat the gentleman they did not want to increase it. The old man was at that time from Georgia [l\Ir. BARTLETT] is entitled to a candid answer on helpless, and the Senate committee did make an exception to this matter. the rule in that case, informing me, however, that they would Mr. BART·LETT. And I know I will get it. not do so again. l\fr. HAMILTON of West "Virginia. I have known one or two I ha-re very few applicants for pensions in my district. Most cases where the statutory pension has been increased. I think of those who apply are veterans of the Spanish-American War there is a printed rule of our committee on a card which has the and the Indian wars, but I have secured pensions for some who rule 2 which the gentleman from Ohio speaks of, but I ne-ver were in the Federal Army during the War between the States. was present at any meeting when it was adopted. I use the expression that the President prefers. I have uni­ Mr. BARTLE'l"l'. I am not making any complaint. As I formly told them that their pensions could not 1:1e increased, be­ stated to the gentleman, my pension cases are yery few; but cause of this rule of both the House and Senate that a pension when the committee have sent to Members of the House printed .not (;ranted through the Pension Bureau, but originating by leg­ Tules which govern them in the reporting of bills, and we have islative enactment, could not ·be increased. informed our constituents who desire pensions that they would Mr. ALEXANDER. I have sent them notice to that same not be accepted, we want to know whether the committee in­ effect. · tends to stand by the rule. l\lr. BARTLETT. If the committee is going to make any Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. The Committee on Pen­ more exceptions, I ha-re one or two cases that should be granted. sions, of which I am not a member, has an inflexible rule of tbat Ur. h."ENDALL. It has been the popular understanding here kind, and there is where the most of the caEes to which you in the House, I think, that the rules of the Pension Committee refer come from. .. exclude from further relief a soldier who is in receipt of a pen­ Mr. BARTLETT. I have had one bill before the Committee sion under a private act. That is not, however, a fixed rule of on Invalid Pensions that ran up against this rule. the committee. While it is a regulation which has been recog­ Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. While that rule is printed nized more or less, it ought to be relaxed. If a soldier is pen­ on the card, I know it is not an in:flexible rule. sioned at $24 a month under an act of Congress, and subsequent Mr. FOWLER. Will the gentleman yield? 1912. CONGRESSIONAL REOORD-·HOUSE. 3043

Mr. HA!llLTON of West Virginia. Certaiilly. the full committee. I do not recall. any case in which the ex­ Mr. FOWLER. I desire to know if the Committee on In­ amin.er has mnde an adverse report where the claim has been valid Pensions does not have a set of rules in book form, ~lfowed by the committee, although I make that as a general and if rule No. 2 does not declare in substance that where a statement, and I may be mistaken in rega1:d to it. I think this soldier has been pensioned by a private act under no circum­ bill ought to pass. stances will the committee consider an application for an addi­ Mr. HOWARD. l\lr. Chairman, I would like to ask the gen­ tional private act. tleman a question about one particular claim in this bill which l\lr. HA.MILTON of West Virginia. I think the gentleman is I have seen, and the only one to which I desire to interpose right about that. I think there is such a rule printed on a card, any specific objection. Probably the gentleman can explain it. but I never was present at a meeting when the rule was adopted, It is to be found on page· 38 in the report, being H. R. 6980, and I think I have been present at every meeting while I have the case of William M. Capps. I read from the report: been in the city. William M. Capps, aged 70 years, served as a principal musician Mr. FOWLER. Does the gentleman understand that the rule in Third Regiment North Carolina Mounted Infantry from J anuary 15, 1865, to August 8, 1865 (seven months), and is not now a pensioner. was adopted and intended to be universal and to prevent Mem­ Address, Edwin, Tenn. bers of Congress from encouraging those who are drawing pen­ In his Confederate service he was known as Manley W. Capps and sions by private act from making application for a 8econd pri­ in the Union Army as William Capps and William M. Capps. His claims under acts of June 27, 1890, and February 6, 1907, were vate act? rejected becau~e of a prior voluntary service in the Confederate Ai-my:, Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. As I stated a while ago, and as he enlisted in the Union Army subsequent to January 1, 1865, I d-0 not think the rule ever was adopted. How it got into print the joint resolution of July 1, 1902, afforded no relief. His claim under the general "law was rejected June 30, 1899, upon the ground of no that way I do not know. It may have been adopted by some record of alleged rheumatism, and special examination had failed tD prior Congress. establish it as of service origin. l\lr. FOWLER. I should be glad"to have some gentleman in­ The last medical examination, Septeml5er 3, 189:.l, rates him for rheu­ mat ism, weak heart, and weak mind. form me how it became a rule, because I have written a num­ Dr. G. C. Williams has treated him during the la.st 18 years for rlleu- ber of old s

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l\Ir. HOWA.RD. Then, as a matter of fact, the gentleman in She was formerly pensioned.under-the act of July 14, 1862, at $8 per month by reason of death of Anthony P. Gaven her second husband his charge of this bill admits that he knows nothing except what death being due to service disability. Her children by the first husband is incorporated in this report? and soldier's were pensioned under act of July 14, 1862, from October 1\Ir. HAl\HLTON of West Virginia. Nothing except what is 28, 186.5, when Nancy established marriage relations with Gaven. . Apphcant and soldier, Asa J. Moore, were married about 1851 and shown in the official ·report, and it is shown that this man served liv~d together until his enlistment, September 9, 1864. They had five .seven months in the Union Army and he was rated for disa­ children . .. He dled in service March 19, 1865. Shortly the1·eafter bilities. It. is shown :i:ight here in this report. Nancy took up with Gaven, also a soldier, and, having become a Catholic, married him by ceremony February 15, 1878. They lived l\Ir. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman-- together until his death, August 31, 1897. The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman from West Virginia After being pen.sioned as his widow until 1903, her name was dropped yield to the gentleman from Georgia? from the roll on th:e gro!-Ind that she was not the legal widow, since he (Gav~n} had a pr10r wife. herself an applicant for pension . .Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. I am answering his This woman was Ann. Burke, who succeeded by Judgment or com­ question. promise in obtaining the estate of Anthony C. Gaven. .Ann alleged that Mr. IIOW.A.RD. You say he had a ratable disability; why Gaven and Nancy eloped in 1866. Nancy having been pensioned as the widow of Asa J. Moore from the did not he get a pension from the Pension Office? date of his death, March 19, 1865, to· October 29, 1865, the date of her Mr. HA.MILTON of West Virginia. Because he had no alleged marriage to Anthony C. Gaven, the Bureau of Pensions denied status under the general pension law. her restoration on the ground that her conduct since the death of -the soldier and the passage of the act of August 7, 1882, was in violation l\Ir. TRIBBLE. hlr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield of the provision of said act. - fume? · Nancy has been the wife of two soldiers, pensioned as the widow .Mr. HA.MILTON of West Virginia. Yes. of each, and dropped from the roll as such widow for reasons given -above. . 1\Ir. TRIBBLE. On page 88 of the report I find this state­ She is now 76 years old. The officers of the Church Federation of ment: Charity, of Lebanon, Mo., in pleading for the restoration of her name to Ile-- the pension roll, say that she married Anthony C. Gaven in good faith, not knowing that he had a wife living (which view is not shared by That.is, this old soldier­ the Pension Bureau), and that she felt herself innocent of intentional died in service March 19, 1865. wrongdoing. Further, she is an invalid, confined to her bed; that she lives with her widowed daughter, who is totally blind and who is also l\fr. HA.MILTON of West Virginia. What line of the bill, confined to ber bed, and the two require the constant care of a trained and what page? nurse, an1 thf'y have neither money, property, nor income. - The Member introducing this bill states that he has known the sol­ Mr. TRIBBLE. I am reading from page 88, near the middle dier, Anthony C. Gaven, the applicant. and her daughter for years. of the page: Just before coming to Washington last November he visited them, appli- Shortly thereafter, Nancy­ cant and daughter. He says: ' "In the corner of the room was the mother, sick, feeble, and almost Nancy was the soldier's wife- helpless ; in the center of the room, upon an invalid's bed so arran~ed took up with Gaven, also a soldier, and, having become a Catholic, as to be wheeled around the room, lay the daughter; so afHicted was the married him by ceremony on February 15, 1878. daughter she could only move the tips of her fingers ; she could not turn her head from side to side, and she was blind. Nancy Gaven has no She took up with him and lived with him until that time property; she and her da·.ighter are depep.dent upon the county court and then married him. Now, further down, you will :fi,.nd ther-e and upon the charity of the people of Lebanon." that the soldier, Gaven-the soldier she married-also had a This case enlists the sympathy of all and calls for congressional relief. wife at the time he married her, by the name of Anne Burke, A pension of $12 per month is recommended. and Anne Burke came to the front and administered 011 the .!\fr. LOBECK. Read the last part. estate, took his property, and there is no question, as proven .l\Ir. H.A.l\IILTON of West Virginia. l\Ir. Chairman, I have by the record, that this woman was never legally married to the· made ·a promise to a gentleman who wants to speak -against man on whose name she got a pension. Now, will the gentle­ pension legislation generally. I think it is right for him to be man explain to the House how this committee gives this woman, heard on this bill, and I now yield to the gentleman from Texas who is not legally married, never was legally married, a pen­ [Mr. CALLAWAY] for 20 minutes. sion when the Pension Bureau says that she was not? Let me l\Ir. CALLA W A.Y. :Mr. Chairman, I have always had great read this: admiration for the truly brave, whether on the battle's front or . The Bureau of Pensions denied her restoration on the ground that in the walks of civil life. The first thing, though, I ever took a her conduct since the death of the soldier and the passage of the act live interest in reading was the histories of battles. I never of August 7, 1882, was in violation of the provisions of said act. The officers of the Church Federation of Charity, of Lincoln, Mo:, in plead­ tired of reading of the Battle of New Orleans, when Jackson's ing for the restoration of her name to the pension roll, say that she Kentucky and Tennessee riflemen lay behind the cotton bales married Anthony G. Gaven in good faith, not knowing that he had a wife living (which view is not shared by the Pension Bureau). until Pakenham's redcoats came close enough for Jackson's men to see the whites of their eyes. Now, my question was this: Here is a woman who was not married to this man. She lived with him in an unmarried state l\fy blood boiled when I read and reread the story of the for 10 years, as the record shows, and then married him, he Alamo, how the heroic Crockett, the dauntless Fannin, and the having a living wife. How can this committee, in the face of indomitable Bowie, together with 157' other fit companions, ·held this fact and the Pension Bureau protesting against it, proceed out against the Mexican army from the 23d of February to the 6th of March. I believe that man can not die better than when to give thi's unmarried woman a pension? facing fearful odds for the idols of bis country and the temples l\fr. HAl\HLTON of West Virginia. It seems to me that the marriage is not the bad part of this. It seems to me a woman of his gods. who lived with a man for a number of years, not being his wife, I have seen through the eye of history, in supremest admira­ when she became his wife that, notwithstanding her former bad tion, Napoleon at Lodi, Marengo, and Austerlitz; had a storm conduct; she ought not to be condemned for that. in my blood when reading the statement of the drummer boy Now, as to this report here the committee has to take the that "he had never been taught to beat a retreat." examiner'.s report on this to a large extent. We can not go into I have traced in awe the maneuvers of the valley campaign e-rery question minutely. It would take a year to do it. made immortal by the genius of Stonewall Jackson. Mr. TRIBBLE. You did turn down the Pension Bureau's I yield to no man in worship of the heroism disl'llayed bY. report when they investigated. She drew two- pensioilll. The Americans in our Civil War. It was never equaled in the his· report says : tory of the world and it will never be duplicated by mankind, for Nancy has been the wife of two soldiers, pensioned as the widow of our people have met their last time in mortal confiict. That is each ; dropped from the rolls as such widow for reasons given above. the saddest page in human history, but it is made the most Mr. HA.MILTON of West Virginia. We did not turn down brilliant with exhibitions of superhuman fortitude. the Pension Bureau's report. If the Pension Bureau had power I honor those who immortalized themselves in that strife, and to act in it we would not take it up at all. they look alike to me whether on the one side or the other. I l\fr. TRIBBLE. They had the power, but found against it. have no feeling in the matter whatsoever. I was born, long Now, on page 24, I will ask you another question. after ·the war had ended, in a State that neYer felt a hostile Mr. LOBECK. I want to ask the gentleman from Georgia foot, and reared by a Confederate father who bore no taint 'of to read the last pa.rt of the statement on page 89. malice. He taught me that fanatics on both sides caused that l\Ir. TRIBBLE. I did not yield to the gentleman from Ne­ fratricidal strife, and the memories of its ·horrors should pass braska. I ask, .l\Ir. Chairman-- and this country be an indissoluble Union in feeling, as it is Mr. KE1'1D.A.LL. l\Ir. Chairman, I ask for order. in fact. l\Ir. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to I honor them whether their jackets were blue or gray, and I inse1·t in the RECORD the entire case. will go as far as who goes farthest in paying them homage and H It. 16528. Nu.ncy Gaven, aged 16 years, is 1.he former widow of doing them honor, but honor can not be paid in do1lars and Asa J. Moore, who served as a private in Company D, Sixteenth Regi­ cents. When reduced to a contract basis, the apples of Hesperi­ ment Wiscon:::in Infantry, from Septe.mber 9, 1864, to March 19, 1865 des turn to Dead Sea fruit. The debt of gratitude paid in cash ,(ei!;ht months), and is not now a pensioner under any act, Address, Lebanon, Mo. is no longer a debt. It is effaced foreyer.

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I owe my life to a man who risked his own to pull me from a THE FIRST DEPARTURE FROM .JUSTICE AS THE STA!\DARD. swollen stream when I was a boy of 13. He has always been In 1890 an act was passed putting- my hero. I can never pay him the debt of gratitude I owe him. all persons who served 90 days or more • • • and who may here­ It never occurred to me · that I should become his slave, even after be suffering from any mental or physical disability, upon the list had he asked it. ot invalid pensioners. He taught me early in life that a debt of gratitude can not This was the first change in the principle of pension legisla­ be paid with money, nor honor reduced to a cash basis. tion. Disability due to service had been the rule in pensioning So it is with State or Nation. When materialists want to the soldiers of the Revolution, the War of 1812, and of all other check up the debt of gratitude and the value of honor and go wars up to that time. to the United States Treasury for the purpose of paying it in That act also provided a pension for the widow of every sol­ pensions, it makes me sick. Sick because I can see the grandeur dier or sailor and each of his minor children no matter what \ of this Ilepublic, born of our fathers' blood and sanctified by the cause of his death, conditioned only that they were de­ our mothers' tears, passing away. It shows the trend of our pendent on their own effort for support. This condition did thought, the bent of this age of avarice and commercialism. It not apply to the widows and minor children of officers. It would lead a man each time he does a patriotic deed to esti­ provided a pension for them except when they had a yearly mate the Yalue of it. When he has a generous impulse the net income exceeding $250. thought will occur, "What dividend will it pay?" His suffrage, This was the first general act that abandon~ justice as the which should be a service to his country, will be worth so guide. This was the first act which was generous and liberal. much. In dealing with the soldiers of the Revolution we had ne>er The progress of pension legislation in this country is a fruit­ taken generosity for our guide and liberality for our limit. We ful field for study. It reveals the remarkable power of the had never abandoned justice. The loadstar of this Republic human faculties for development in any direction, whether for from its inception was adhered to in pension legislation until the weal or the woe of this country's future. we got 25 years fr.om the Civil War and the Grand Army of the PENSION LAWS BASED 0){ .JUSTICE. Republic was organized, cultivated, and encouraged and its po­ litical possibilities realized. In 1863, when all the promises made by those in authority When a representative abandons necessity and justice in the to encourage men to go to the front were fresh in mind; when expenditure of the public money he has weighed anchor, reefed legislators knew the hardships undergone by men in the line; sail, torn out his rudder, thrown away his chart and compass, when boon companions of the pension beneficiaries made the and battened down the hatches. He is on the high seas, subject laws· an act was passed which certainly they thought did jus­ to the pressure of the winds. He is adrift, headed for no port, tice to their comrades who suffered from the service. "This act hedged about by no limitations. was amended in some details in 1873. • This has been the condition in pension legislation since the These acts gave pensions to all injured in the service, their act of 1890. Thera was no justice in that act. What was the widows and minor children, and graduated the allowance ac­ reason for putting a man on the pension roll who suffered no cording to the injury received. injury from his service. in that great war. He was as well and They made special provision for those who. lost a leg, an arm, able as if he had never had that grand, glorious, and unique ex­ !In eye or hearing. These acts had the ring of justice in them. perience. What was the reason for putting a woman and chil­ They were passed by men who had gone through that conflict. dren on the pension roll whose husband or father had seHed They were passed for the benefit of those with whom they had in the Army? I have yet to see a man who served on either side suffered in tllat struggle. Those who legislate at that time in that great conflict who did not regard it a distinction and a were the best equipped to do the subject justice of any who grand experience. It is an honor to him and to those who come haYe ever acted upon it, or of any who can ever act upon it. after him. He never tires of talking of it. Why should he be They knew the promises made as an inducement to get men to pensioned if he suffered no injury on account of it? Why should go to the front. They knew the conditions under which they the toilers be taxed to pension the widow of a man who en­ entered the service. They knew the personnel of the men who listed as much as three months but was never injured and answered the call. They knew the motives that actuated them whose death was in no way due to his service? Is there any and the bounties received. They knew the trials and tribula­ reason for the children of such soldier being pensioned-the tions of that awful strife. They knew what the loss wns- in children who point to their father's service as family heritage finance and what it was in experience. They knew what it of which they are proud? meant, not from hearsay, not from cultivated retrospection, not Why, on this bill introduced to-day, carrying 290 special pen­ from fancy, not from the standpoint of political expediency, nor sioners, I see there is a person who served 3 months and 18 party adrnntage. They knew from actual experience, from see­ days put on for special pension of $30 a month. He has been ing it and suffering it. drawing a pension of $15 a month since 1907. He enlisted in No one complained at those laws. The beneficiaries did not May and quit in August. He had _a summer vacation. It says , contend that those Jaws were parsimonious nor stingy. They that he suffered no injury in the war, but n,ow he is affiicted were based on justice. Justice typified by the blind Goddess with rheumatism. He is in no worse fix than thousands taxed with the balances in one hand and the sword in the other. The to pay this pension. · kind of justice that inspires confidence. The kind of justice that But having embarked on a scheme of generosity in pension makes a republic based on the consent of the governed; a stable legislation, bounded by liberality, the act of 1890 was, of course, government. The kind of justice that makes a happy and a the beginning and not the end of pension legislation. Thousands contented people. of private pension bills were passed each Congress; 9,623 were Garfield, chairman of the Appropriation Committee in 1876, passed last Congress, and when theEe bills are passed it will presepting the pension appropriation bill under those acts, make 1,500 for this Congress. Representatives in the infected which carried $28,951,288 and provided for 232,137 pensioners, districts vied with each other in fulsome ·flattery of the old said: heroes. They worked themselves up to arguing, and, wo~se, l\Iy idea is if the gentleman will allow me, that we have reached, evw to feeling, that heroism should be rewarded by somethm_g and perhaps passed, the summit of appropriations {or this object; that it took a number of years to develop, to get through with the regular more substantial than renown; that honor was empty unless it form of laws to admit to the rolls the persons entitled to pensions, and was accompanied with cash. that the time must necessarily come when we shall pass the climax and begin to go downward. I suppose we have already . passed the THl!l CONDITIONS Dl PENSIO:N" TERRITORY. maximum. The Republicans, finding the.rnselves hard pressed in .close l\lr. ADKINS. We reached the maximum two yea.rs ago. We appro­ priated last year $500,000 less than the year previous, and we appro­ districts and States, fell back on the old prejudices engendered priated this year a million less than the appropriation in the previous by the war and made believe the Republicans were the only pension bill. friends of the soldier. They asserted that the Democrats were Garfield had rendered distinguished military service. He had southern sympathizers and should they come into power would been with. the men on the firing line; he had heard the roar of refuse more pensions and cut what they had. The Democrats shot and shell ; he had bad comrades fall around him; he had met this ai;gument by advocating even more liberal .allowances heard the groans of the dying; he had brought back to the than the Republicans had dreamed of. IlepresentatH"es of oi;.e grief-stricken wife the sad tale of how her life's dear lord went party prized the other in platform declarations, and were m down with his face to the foe, a patriot serving his country. turn prized. This continued from ye_ar to year ~nd from He had a mind that knew justice and a heart to do it. He election day to election day. They cultivated a sent~ent ~nd helped enact those laws. As chairman of the Committee on created a condition to which they are slaves-~ernle, abJect Appropriations h·e was carrying out the laws he had helped to slaves. Their time and energ-S is absorbed in pension promo­ enact when he said, in 1876, all were on the rolls who were tion, and when they are foiled in their efforts, _or. e>en ques­ entitled to pensions. tioned about the "logic of their position, they get ~r~·1taMe; they 3046 OONGRESSION AL RECORD-HOUSE·. MA.ROH 8,

. - do not argue. They flatter tfie soldier and' malign their oppo­ THE END' OF THE NUMERICAL. IINCREASE. nents. Their condition is to· be· pitied rather than condemned. In moo an -act was passed prol'idlng pensions for all widows THE TAXPAYERS, NOT THE T.A:X: EATERS, A.Rill THE HOPE. and mmo~ chifdre.rr of soldiers who served 90 days or more who · There is but one way to stay this drift; that ii;, combat it did not have a net income o:t or exceeding $250 per year. Dur­ at the source. It can not b.e stopped by argument nor by an ing these years the increase in appropriations evidence the en­ appeal to the· reason nor the sense of justice of tnose who a.re terprise and organization of tliose who reeeived pensions. That directly. or ind1re.ctly the benefici:lries. The average mah is year th~ pension appropri::rtion bill carried $142;303,887. blind to argument that fs against his interest. He is impervious In 1901 the generous and libera.I legislators passed an act to reason or logic that touches. his pocket He has no sense of which provided : justice when he is ffnanciaIJy affected. The founders of this ·That liere-afte-r tlle age of 62 yearn and over shall be considered a Republic recognized these human. weaknesses and wisely pro­ permanent specffie- disability within the meaning of the pension laws. vided that no judge nor juror should sit on a case in which This- made pensionable e--very man who served 90 days or the judgment or verdict would directry or indirectly affect him mure during the Civil War, except those wlio had not at that personally. The beneficiaries of pensions are average' men, time reached the age of 62 yea1'E. All who served in the war neither better nor worse than other men. reached the. pensronable status during the year 1910. Seventeen 'l'he CRAIRUAN. The time of the gentleman has expired. was as young a3 any could enlist and all who were 17 in 1865 Mr. GALLAWAY. lllr._ Cha.irman, I ask unanimous consent were 62 in 1910. Since then,. every man who served on the to continue for fi\--e minutes. Union side for 90 days, and that without reference to whether h-e Mr. HAJ\IlLTON of. West Virginia. How much time have I was rich or poor, capable or incapable, a. creditable citizen o.r a left,. lli. Chairman?, disereditable citizen,. wheth~ a citizen of the United States or a The CHAIRML"N'. The gentleman from West Virginia has citizen of some foreign country, hasdra:wn a pensioo. The Uni.on five .minutes more. soldiers have all got on the pension rolls. The. widew::i of lJnion :Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginla. I yield four minutes, soldiers are all on the pension rolls, the children of Union tllen, to the gentleman from Texas [Ur~ CALLAWAY]. soldiers are all on the pension rolls, the helpless and idiot chil­ JUr. CALLA WAY. I tl1ank the. gentleman .. But for fear ilhe dreni or rela ti"res of Union soldiers-are· a:ll on the. pension rolls-. sentiment has been so cuitfrated'. and the enthusiasm so aroused 'I'he ::LVerage- taxpayer who has pa;tiently bome· the burden by the po1Itica1 devotees of tile old soldi.er tha:t a simple state­ lmc.omplainingly thFough: all these years, while expense has ment of a truism calling attention to a fa.ct will not suffice, grown Jike Ja~k's bean stalk to the colossal um of one- hundred and for fear there are many who have been closer f.oIIowers n:nd sixty millions per year, expected pension legisJa ti on to of tile fulsome flattery of the post-bellum political orators. than ceas~ "But alack! and alas! it has been ever thus from child­ of real historyr and for fear some might think r came :from to..o hood's hour, we have seen our fendest hopes decay."" far South to· do exact justice to, these northern heroes,. 1l want to THE BEGINNING OL' THE LIMITLESS INCJlEASE. quo ~ e from Obarles Francis .Adams, a general in the Union The next move was to increase the amount of the allowance, A1auy, to show. that these parti-cular warriors were mottled and since numerically they were at their row's end. mixed,, even as other aggregations of men are.: In 1908 they passed1 an act increasing the pensions of widows '.I/he beginning of a war is :i.lwa.ys, in the natme o! a picnic-a stimu. married prfoT to 1890 from eight te twe1ve dol1ars per month. Iating novelty ; everyone is anxious to have a band in it in some silape or manner. But after the gl-ow of the th-st enll to arms dies· away and Na voice· was uaised against this act, which shoved appropria­ r:eal war reveals its grim, repulstve. aspectr the response to e:l.Ch re:.­ tions from $111'.;464,522 in 1908 to $155,894,049 in 1900. newal o!. that call to ai:ms grows les& andi less in volume, until in The pension forces; emboldened by such successes, pressed the case of om~ Civil War, within the very first year of the struggle (.April, 1862) vorrmteering practically ceased. nder such cireum­ through the House- of Rep1·es-entative-s of the Sixty-first Con­ stances, as- e-v.eryone a:t all informed on that subject knows. pertectly gress the Sulloway pension bill. It d1ea: on the Senate· calendar. well, there is but one- true course· to pursue--reeourse. should be had That was the boldest and most extravaga.nt general act ever to a system of conscription exa:ctfn.g, stern, and even cruel Permit­ ting the fewest possible grounds of exemption, it should accept no ex­ seriously considered by Congress. ' ll would have taken euses. Our Government in the Civil Wa:r, however, never dared have a $50,000,000 to meet its wovisions. It woutd ha-rn rarsed the teal recourse to that drastic but al-One- e1l'ective- tneasure. Conserlp.­ yearly pension expend.ltures to two hundred million, or about tion, in the States. of the Confederacy a stern., unrelenting reality, was $10 for· each voter in the Unite-d States, a little more than seven in the loyal States a scarecrow. Enacted und~I." the pressure of neces~ sity into a law, that law was used as a threat to compel, local com­ times as much as- Gen. Garfield said tlley were entitled to 36 munities to band together to fill their quotas- somehow. Recourse- was. years before. The pension advocates say the ranks are thinning, then. naturally had to the bounty system, and this eai:ly in the second year of the war. The frightful losses incurred in McClellan's penin­ Let us look at the figures. In 1876 there were 232,137; in 1911, sular campaign thus had· to be made goed. 892,098, nearly four times as mn.ny as there we.re 36 years. be­ The communities~ local and otherwise, then combined:; enlisting fore, when Gen. Garfield said all were on the rolis who were agencies were established ; and men sold themselves and were bought and delivered singly and in lots at so much a head, like cattle. It entitled to pensions. They have been able so far to suppiy more , was a wretched system, cowardly, wasteful, inhuman ; but under it­ pensioners by law than have been taken away by nature. and it was puxsued for three years-men were quoted much as bullocks A. PE:'fSIO"''ER FTRS~ A. PA:l'RIOT A.FTEllWA.IlDS. at Smithfield, a fair ave1:age valuation being, say, $3 to $6 a pnund, the only difference from the Smithfield basis of dealing being that The complexion of the Iower House of Congress cba.nged in quality was not consfilered. Anything went. 1910, but we were soon to learn that a pensione1! is a pensioner, · Needless to say,. the- material forwarded to the- front under such a system-the bogus conscription sy:stem~onstantly deteriorated. In The Democrats came in. The Democrats, whose shibboleth for the Army this was notorious not only to everyone who held a.. commis­ 40 years has been that- sion, but to every mh.n in the ranks called upon to associate- with those Public money should not be spent except what is necessa-cy: in the forwarded under guard to fill up the war-worm battalions. Des-ertf-on honest and economical administration of public affairs. and bounty jumping having become a calling were reduced to a sys­ tem. As the war went on the recruits, recent importations from The Sherwood pension bill, variously estimated to add from Europe or picked up in the slums and' from the gutters of the great forty-six to seventy-five millions to Olli" present pension expendi­ cities, we.re notoriously looked upon by the veterans of 1861 with averted eyes ; objects of contempt; they were treated with scant con­ tures, which approximate one hundred and fifty-three millions sideration. Yet these, •·the cankers. of a calm world and a long peace," for this year, accompanied the Democratic shibboleth into the to a large extent, constituted. what are now known as war-worne vet­ Sixty-seeond Congress and knocked that shibboleth into a erans, glorious heroes, and worthy pn.trlots. To one who personally recalls the events of that struggle, its hard, "cocked hat..'' Gen. SHERwoon's Democrn:tic bill prizes Sur..Ler­ realistic, and mercenary features, the present-day utterances conce-rn­ WAY's Republican measure. It goes it one netter. It is. in line ing it are a constant som·ce of amused astonishment. In skimming with the manner in whi'ch the conditfons have been created in over the columns of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD such can not but mar­ vel at the amount of cant and fustiafr-na.useating. twaddle, perhnps, the State&"that send pension slaves to this House. A Democra.tie would not be too -e:x:treme a term-deemed useful properly to lubricate Honse pledged to economy nncl Ilonesty in the pub-lie, expendi­ the creaking district machinery. • tures rammed that bill through. They forced it through in the But lest some doubting Thomas should question that author­ face of the statement of Mr. FITZGERALD, chairman of the Appro­ ity and still be of the opinion that every man in uniform was a priations Committee, that- courageous patriot and a. hero eut to sene and save his coun~ Ita enactment sounds the death knell of the hopes of the Democratic Party successfrrl.ly to reduce exp1:!:nditures and lower substantially tarilf try, I will put in a few words from Abraham Lincoln : He taxes. said- • They forced tt through in the face of the statement of the he was shocked· to· find: that of 140,000 whomi we are paying for in gentleman from New York [Ur. HA.RmsoN], a member of the Pope's army only 60,000 could be found. McClellan brou"'ht away 93,000 from the Peninsula, but could not to-d-ay count .over 4'5,000. Ways and Means Committee-- That the tariff on sugar could not be reduced should this biU become As regarded demoralization, the President said: a: law. There was no doubt that some of '"our men permitted themselves to be it captured in order that they might leave on parole, get discharged,, and They r.ammed it through for the purpose of getting with go home. Where there is such rottenness, is there not reason to· fear enough soldier votes ta bring them l:'>a.ck to Congress and possiDTy for the country? carry their States for the party. · 1912 .. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 3047

THE REAL PURPOSE OF THE SULLOWAY AND SHERWOOD BILLS. A.dams·, .on the influence of such gifts as have been made by It was an effort to beat the Republicans to it. The advocates thi_s Government in pensions. He said: of that measure argued that should the Republicans ever get The matter of provision to be made for those who for any reason are insufficiently provided for is no new question. On the contrary, in one back in power they would pass then a pension bill that would form or another it has as a problem oc~apied the attention of the in­ perpetuate them in power. The proponents of that measur.e dividual man, the legislator, and the business administrator or director claimed the Republicans would win unless that bill was passed. almost since the beginning of time. And if, as a result of all human experience, through largesses, distributions, charitable bequests and If it was passed, the Democrats would return. The question, foundations, poor laws and workhouses, doles, outdoor reliefs, asylums, then, was, according to the arguments, whether the Democrats, and pensions-the panem et circenses of all times and kinds-one fact having the power, should buy that vote with pensions or let it stands forth more distinct and indisputable than most others it is that promiscuous and indiscriminate benefactions and givings are a curse go to the Republicans, who have heretofore held it with pension.s. to all concerned. In such case the demand always exceeds the sup­ If that \Ote can be bought with pension money this year, it ply ; feeding on itself, the thing red grows with an exceeding growth. can be bought with arry other kind of money. If it has to be Impairing self-respect, it saps the desire of self-help. It creates de­ bought at this election, it will have to be bought at the next pendents and begets mendicants. election and at the next one. It is not worth the price. That this is a correct statement of the effect of giving is known to every student of human nature. THE REAL SEQUEXCE OF SUCH LEGISLATION. And he said, further: It is not only the cost to this Government in dollars and cents, That our pension system tends to pauperize the community by under­ it breeds indolence and vice in the recipients; it undermines mining that sense of self-respect always incident to self-support ha1·dly admits of denial ; that indiscriminate giving, regardless of individual self-respect by removing the necessity for self-reliance; it saps requirements, restricts the funds available for the relief of the truly independence and begets dependence. deserving and really needy is a self-evident prQposition. That such a The CHAIRMAN. The time of .the gentleman has expired. condition of thipgs calls for reform is obvious. Mr. RUCKER of Colorado. Will the gentleman yield for a THE SHERWOOD BILL IS NOT THE END OF PENSION LEGISLATION. quei:ition? A. cursory examination of the sireeches made by the advocates l\Ir. CALLA WA.Y. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent of the Sherwood pension bill shows conclusively that they do to conclude my remarks. not offer that measure as the concluding pension act, but The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman asks unanimous consent to simply as one of their pension acts. The gentleman from Ohio conclude his remarks. Is there objection? [l\fr. ASHBROOK], in giving his views on the Sherwood pension l\Ir. RUCKER of Colorado. .Mr. Chairman-- bill,. said: rrhe CHAIRMAN. Will the gentleman from Texas yield to I am a firm believer In generous and liberal pensions. the gentleman from Colorado? He then stated that he would incJude widows without re­ l\Ir. CALLA. WAY. Yes. striction, and that he wanted 'to strike out the thousand-dollar Mr. RUCKER of Colorado. Is the gentlem·an going to vote income provision of the Sherwood bi11, and said those opposed against this bill? to all kinds of pension legislation worked that provision into l\Ir. CALLAWAY. Yes; I am going to vote against every the bill. Then he asks: pension bill. I think we are already overloaded with pension Why let these gentlemen dictate to those who are friends of the burdens. soldiers? Let the soldiers' friends make this bill. l\Ir. RUCKER of Colorado. Has the gentleman more than · Another proponent of this measure states clearly tlrnt lliis fiye :Members among his colleagues on this side of the Chamber bill is prepared at the instance of and for the benefit of the to join with him in that vote? soldiers. He says: . l\1r. CALLA. W A.Y. I never asked that question. It is not a Hence we have tried to do what seems best for the soldiers by pre­ question of how many will vote with me. The question with paring this bill * • •. l am also for this bill, because I have ascertained from the soldiers of my district that they are in favor ot me is whether or not I am right. this, the Sherwood bill * * *. Here is a letter advising me of a. l\1r. HMIILTON of West Virginia. Mr. Chairman, I have meeting held in my district only one week ago by one of the largest only one minute left. Grand Army posts in the district that I represent. The CHA.IRl\fA.N. The committee gave unanimous consent Then he reads the letter as an argument for the bill. for the gentleman from Texas to complete his remarks. The foregoing are but samples of the arguments made for .Mr. OLMSTED. Mr. Chairman, I suggest that the Chairman the Sherwood pension bill, that if passed wil1 increase the tax did not put that question to the committee. burdens somewhere between forty-six and seventy-five millions The CHA.lRl\IAN. The gentleman from Texas has asked of dollars. The public "Welfare, the future of the country, the unanimous consent for sufficient time in which to complete his effect on the electorate of the land, or the burden upon the al­ remarks. Is there any objection? ready overburdened taxpayers does not enter into these argu­ Mr. OLMSTED. 1\1r. Chairman, I object to unlimited exten­ ments, but the question is what do the soldiers want; and the sion of time. promise to them is that their Representatives will get for them Mr. FOSTER of Illinois. Mr. Chairman-- now and in the future everything that they can get, and what Mr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Chairman, I rise to a point of they can get seems to be .limited only by what the Treasury order. bas. · The CHA.IRl\IAN. The gentleman will state it. l\fr. LoNGWORTH, of Ohio, who "Voted against the Sulloway bill l\Ir. RODDENBERY. The Chair had definitely stated the in the last Congress, in discussing tbe Sherwood bill stated that request for unanimous consent and had ruled thereon, and de­ he was going to vote for it now that the Supreme Court has bate has fol1owed thereunder. held the corporation-tax law constitutional, and "that we can The CHA.1R1\IAJ.~. That is true; but the Chair did not put afford to pass some pension legislation." He said when the the motion to the committee. Sulloway bill was before the House last year the Secretary of Mr. BEA.LL of 'fexas. Did not the gentleman from West the Treasury appeared before the Ways and Means Committee Virginia reserve his minute and then demand recognition imme­ and stated that we could not meet a $50,000,000 charge on the diately after the gentleman from Texas concluded? revenues without a bond issue or without additional taxation. l\fr. OL.1\IS'l"ED. Mr. Chairman, I object, as I say, to an We got the additional taxation in the corporation tax, therefore. unlimited extension of time. The gentleman might talk a week. It has always been my conviction, and I believe it is the con­ Mr. CALLAWAY. It will take me about four minutes. viction of the a·rerage man, that those who are affected by 'l'he CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Texas asks unani- judicial decisions should not determine the judgment, but that mous consent for four minutes more. ls there objection? the judgment should be rendered by those who are not per­ Mr. OLl\lSTED. I have no objection to that. sonally affected and those who can not be affected by the judg­ The CHAIRMAN. The Chair bears no objection. ment; and the law of the land should not be made by those who l\Ir. CALT.iAW .A.Y. It supports in idleness thousands who are personaUy affected by the laws or who are direct bene­ should be p,ngaged in creatirn employment. They would be ficiaries under the law, and I do not belie\e that pension grants better off if forced to rely on their own efforts, and would add should be determined by our ability to levy and collect taxes. to the world's wealth instead of absorbing substance they l\1y views, though, are wholly at variance with the arguments never createcl. and statements above quoted. The aboYe quotations evidence That is exemplified, l\Ir. Chairman, in the difference to-day in the influence and motives actuatirig pension legislation. the feeling of dependence of the soldiers of the North and the THE POLITIC.AL POWER OF THE ORGANIZED PE!iSIONERS. feeling of indfpendence of the soldiers of the South, who have And Mr. A.dams farther said : llad to depend upon their own energy and exertions for their It is safe to say that there is to-day in Washington, or in the world, support. no influence which, in its power to break down opposition and to bring about the legislative results it desires, at all comparable to the in­ I want to quote here from no less authority than Gen. fluence which has grown up and become· organized under the existing Charles Francis A.dams, a great-grandson of President John United States pension system ~ 9048 OONGRESSION AL REOORD-HOUSE.7 MARCH 8,

The present Secretary of the Treasury, the Hon. ·Franklin MacVeagh, referring to the present Oivil War pension system, State or country. Number. Amount. in April, 1911, said : That it had lost its patr.iotic aspect and now become a political list. FOREIGN COUNTRIES. These statements show that the men making them knew and 1 $108.00 this 16 2, 8.52. 5!) appreciated the conditions actuating the men of House in 103 18,36!.90 their vote on pension questions. 36 6,41 .80 6 1,0S9.00 According to the statements, arguments, and actions of those 4 792.0') from the infected territory, pensions determine elections. It is 2 216.00 .not party principles; it is not tariff, high or low; it is not 24 4, 279.10 whether the Government shall be administered honestly and II I I I I I I Ii II I I I! ii iI!!\ I! I! ii Ii 6 ' $1,044. ()() 1 180.00 economically; it is not whether the few shall continue by means lillti iii ii I~~ 4 698.0J of law to take toll from the many; it is not how urdensome the 1 144.03 taxes shall be, but how much pension are we to get. Lest some 3 298.00 I!:~;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~:~~~~~~:~~~~~~~:~~~~:~~: 1 148·. 40 man should say that I am radical in my statement of the mo­ Canada ...... 2, 712 4E3,539.6:l tives and influences in this House that backed these measures 1 9G.OJ and pushed them. through, I shall quote Mr. HUGHES of New 2 594.0J ~F~~~~:~~~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 12 'l,'2fi8.0'l Jersey, a member of the Ways and Means Committee and seven China .•••••.••..•••.••••••...... ••.•...... •..•..... 18 3,209.4() years a Member of this body. He put it bluntly but truthfully, Comoro Islands ...... 1 120.00 Costa Rica .....•...... •...... •...... 4 517 . 50 courageously, and like a patriot, not a tlmeservei:: Cuba ...... •...... '...... co 10,G9G.80 Fifty million dollars a year is too big a price for the counlry to pay Danish West Indies ...... •...... •...... 2 324.00 to bring me back to Congress. · Denmark...... n 9,092. 30 Dominican Republic ...... 2 241.00 He was speaking of tbe Sulloway bill. If his words mean Dutch West Indies ...... 6 948.10 England ...... 4£6 E6,650.80 anything, they mean that bill was a vote purchaser. 3 330. ()() I am going to add here a statement showing the number of ~m!iruia.s:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 1 pensioners in each State and Territory, each insular possession, France ...... 76 ...... i3; 54.9~ 67 Germany ...... 532 95,853.33 and each foreign country on the rolls June 30, 1911, and the Greece ...... •...... 8 1,941. 41 amounts paid during the fiscal year 1911, together with dis­ Guatemala ...... 3 465.00 bursements for pensions and for.maintenance of the pension sys­ Haiti...... 1 108.00 Honduras ...... •...... 2 252.00 tem from 1866to1911. This does not give an adequate estimate of Hongkong ...... 3 597.00 the political influence of pensioners unless in looking at it you India ...... 17 3,031.10 multiply the number of voters by their political activity and con­ Ireland ...... {62 82,370.60 Isle of Man ...... •...... 3 395.50 centration of effort. Isle of Pines ...... 2 372. 00 Italy ...... ,..61 10,875.30 Jamaica ...... 7 1,876.23 St.ate or country. Number. · Amount. Japan ...... 34 6,060.23 Korea ...... 1 36.00 Liberia ...... 7 912. ()() UNITED ST.A TES. Madeira ...... · ...... 1 345.00 Malta ...... Alaba:m.a...... 3,648 $596,445. 74 2 324.00 Mexico ...... 189 33, 705. 70 Alaska. . . • • ...... 83 15, 466. 02 Netherlands ...... Arizona...... S38 139, 171.26 10 1,668.00 Arkansas...... 10,567 1,642,C-05.59 Newfoundland ...... 4 612.00 New Zealand ...... 16 2,8~7.50 California...... 29, 531 5, 067, 136. 23 Nicaragua ...... Colorado...... 9, 138 1, 619, 447. 75 2 288. 00 Norway ...... 77 13, 725.10 Connecticut.:...... 11, 201 1, 872, 539. 05 Panama ...... Delaware...... 2,555 454,244. 10 34 6,048. 90 District of Columbia...... 8, 241 1, 471, 994. 53 1 240.00 Florida...... 4, 747 815,836. 77 ~~~~~~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 14 2,496. 10 5 828. 00 ?fuiligi_~ ·:::. ~ ~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~;~ lli: :: ~ 18 3,197.60 Illinois ...... :.. ... 61, 374 10, 833, 222. 56 f~~!:~-_ :::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::: 1 144. 00 Samoa ...... 1 96.00 Indiana. . • • ...... • . . . . • • ...... 54, 290 10, 281, 779. 61 Scotland ...... Iowa...... 31, 402 5, 698,518. 38 86 15,333.67 Kansas ...... 34 725 6 169, 168. 06 1 216.00 1 ~f~~~l~~ _I~!~~~._ :::::: :::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::::: 1 144.00 South Africa ...... 11 1, 728.00 f;~~!I::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 2g;m tM~:m:~ Spain ...... 3 432.00 Maine...... 15,894 2,946,461.42 St. Helena ...... Maryland...... 12, 015 2, 132, 611.17 l 144. 00 Sudan ...... 1 473.57 Massachusetts...... 37,301 6,271,153.27 Sweden ...... Michigan...... 37,508 6,803,461.80 81 14,443.10 Switzerland ...... 68 12,126. 43 Tasmania ...... 2 2,332. 90 ~~J~i:.~-: ~ ::: ::::::: :::::::: :::::: :::::::::::: :::: ::: :t~~ ::m: ~t~ Tonga Islands ...... • ...... 2 432.00 Montana...... 2, 438 404, 917. 85 23 3,565.00 Nebraska...... 14,63.5 2,507,084.41 4 909.60 Nevada...... 415 69, 970.12 ¥~i~~ii~:::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 1 144.00 New Hampshire...... 7,102 1,324,358.53 Wales ...... •...... •...... •.... 31 5,526.30 20, 978 3,490,412. 71 New Jersey...... Total...... 5,476 New Mexico...... 2, 134 391, 671. 69 978,471. 98 New York...... 75,182 13,172,308.83 North Carolina...... 3,897 654,072.49 Disbursements for pensions an~~~-:::;::::::::::::::: ~:::::: :: ::: : : : : :: ::: : : : : : : ~ ~t ~:~ 1881 ...... 50, 583, 405. 35 1,072,059.64 51, 655' 464. 99 268,830 Panama ...... ___2. ____1_92_.o_ '.l 1882 ...•...•...... 54, 313, 172. 05 l, 466, 236: 01 55, 779, 408. 06 285,697 1883 •. ••··•••····· 60,427,573.81 2, 591, 648. 29 63, 019, 222.10 303,658 Total...... : ...... 178 37, 499. 52 1884. •••····•···•· 57, 912, 387. 47 2,835, 181. 00 60, 747, 568. 47 322;756 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE.

Disbwrs.ement8 for pensions. and for main:tenarwe of pension system, Mr. TRIBBLE. Mr. -Chairman, reserving the right to object, 1866 to 1911-Continued. I do not want to concur in any agreement that will affect our rightB under the five-minute rule. Does this affect our rights Cost, mainte- Number Fiscal yem:. Pai:das pensions. na.nce, and ex.- Total. of pen- under the five-minute rule? pens.es. sioners. The CHAIRMAN. It does not in any way affect the five- - minute rule. Is there objec.tion to the i·equest of the gentleman from West Virginia? 1885 .••••••••..... $65, 171, 937.12 3, 392, 576. 34 $68, 564, 513. 46 345,125 365, 783 There was no objection. 1886 . -···-···-···- ()4,.091, 142: 90 3, 245., 016. 61 67,336,159. 51 1887 ·····-·----·-- 73, 752, 997. 08 3, 753, 400. 91 77, 506, 397. 99 4.06,007 The OHAIRl\IAN. The gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Ron­ 78, 950, 501. 67 3,515,057.27 82, 465, 558. 94 452,557 DENBERYl is recognized for one hour. 1888 . •••••·•·••··· 489, 725 1889. ••••••••••··· 88, 842, 720. 58 3, 466, 968 . .{(} 92' 309-, 688. 98 l\fr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. Does the gentleman from 1890 .• -· ·-·. • -·. ·- 106, 093, 850. 39 3,52£,382.13 100, 620, 232.(>2 537,944 1891 ••••••••••••.. 117 ,312,690. 50 4, 700, 636. 44 122,013,.326. 94 676,160 Georgia want to use some of his time now? 1 92 •••••.••...•.. 139,394, 147.11 4, 898, 665. SQ 14.4, 292, 812. ~1 ~76,068 Mr. RODD~13ERY. Yes. 1893 ...... 156, 906, 637. 94 4, 867, 734. 42 161, 774, 372. 36 966,012 1894 •••••.•••..•_. 139, 986, 726.17 3, 963', 9"76. 31 143, 950, 702. 4& 969,544 .Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. Otherwise, I would be 1&95 ••• ········-. 139,.812, W4. 30 4, 338, 020. 21 144, 150,314. 5.1 970,524 glad to yield to the gentleman from 1\Iissouri [lUr. RUBEY]. 1896 ... _...... 138, 220 I 704. 46 3,991,375.61 142, 212, 080. 07 970,673 1\Ir. RODDENBERY. That can be done at any time. I shall • 189-7 ...... 139, 949, 717. 35 3, 987, 783 . 07 143, 937, 500. 42 976,014 have no objection. 1898 .. ·-·········· H4, 651, 879. 80 4,114,09-L 46 148, 785, 971.26 993, 714 1899 ...... 138, 355, 052. 95 4,147,517. 73 142,502, 570. 68 991,519 The CHAIR1\1Al~- The gentleman from Georgia [Mr. RoI>­ 993,529 19GO . ••••·•·•••••· 138, 462, 130. 65 3,841, 706. 74 142,303, 887. 39 DENBERY] is recognized~ 138, 531, 483. 84 3,868,795.44 142, 4.00, 279. 28 997, 735 1901. ····-····-·· 999,440 I\Ir. RODDENBERY. Mr. Chairman, in the discussion of all 1902. •••····•····· 137, 504, 267. 99 3, 831, 378.. 96. 141,335, 646. 95 1903...... -·· 137' 759, 653. 71 3, 993, 216. 79 141, 752,870. 50. 996 545 pension legislation since I have been a .Member there has 1904 .•••••••••.••. HI, 093, 571. 49 3,849,366.25 144, 942, 937. 74 994:762 been a manifest absence of dealing with that .great question 1905 .•••.•••..•••. 141, 142, 861. 33 3, 721, 832'. 82 144, 864, 694. 15 098, 441 without interjection now and then and ever and anon of 1906 •••••.•.. -· -·. 139, 000, 288. 25 3, 523,269. 51 142, 523, 557. 76 985,971 .1907. --·· ·--· -· ••.. 138, 155, 412. 46 3, 309, llO. 44 141, 464, 522. 90 96.7,371 nonessentials, of appeals to sympathy, of recounting the heroic 1008 .•••..••••••.. 153, 093, 080. 'Zl 2, 800, 963. 36 155, 894, 049. 63 951,687 deeds of the past. But notwithstanding all that has taken 1009 ..•••••...••.. 161, 973, 703. 77 2, 852, 583. 73 164, 826, 287. 50 946, 194 1910 .•••..•.••.••. 1.59, 974, 056. 08 2, 657' 673: 86- 162, 631, 729. 94 921,083 place to do honor and justice to the Army of this ~oun,try, 892,G93 1911 •• ·-·····- ~ ·· 151, 325, 160. 35 2, 517, 127. 06 159, 842, 287. 41 Members, in my respectful .and candid judgment, have not exercised that caution, that prudence~ that the real soldier 'de­ TotaL...... 4, 133, 936, 285. 93 120,S79,861. 74 4, 254, 816, 147". 01 - -·------serves and that the taxpayers of the country are entitled to. ~ There has not been that caution against placing upon the If it has come to this, that the giving of _pensions is to pur­ pension rolls of this country the names of persons who, neither' chase votes ; votes in the 'pension districts of this country that by service to the country nor sacrifice for it, deserve to be dete1:·mine elections, National as well as State, what must be the there; and I am rising now to direct the attention of the House consequence when that condition is understood and appreciated to the fact that wlµ.le noble names go upon that roll no ignoble by the millions of yeomanry who each year pay their taxes and names should mar the brilliant page of the great array of have heretofore biennially marched over the hills to deposit an Union soldiers who fought for their conscience and for their honest, unselfish ballot in the hope that this Government would country as they saw it. I desir.e to say to you that it is a dis­ do even-handed justice to all? [Applause.} honor to the country and a discredit to the soldiers upon the The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from ·West Virginia [Mr. pension rolls to put side by side with them the names of per­ HAMILTON] has one minute remaining. sons who never served their country, of men who deserted Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. Mr. Chairman, I ask thei-r country, of men who, by legerdemain, by artifice, by, nnanimouB consent that general debate be closed in one hour favoritism, and by fraud are now enrolled ~n this great page and five minutes; one hour of the time to be controlled by the of honor. We shall discuss it somewhat presently. gentleman from Georgia [l\fr. RonDENBERY] and five minutes by myself. Two May months have passed since I came here. On each re­ The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from West Virginia [l\fr. curring Memorial Day, to Arlington, beneath the arch builded: HAMILTON] aBks unanimons consent that general debate be there, and in full view of the massive co;nstruction of the Amphi­ closed in one hour and five mlnutes; one hour of that time to theater of Fame, which has carved upon it the names of the be controlled by the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. RoDDENBERY] illustrious men of the days of 1860~1865, in full view of the im­ and five minutes to be controlled by himself. Is. there objection? posing columns of the southern colonial home where the great Mr. BARTLETT. l\Ir. Chairman, reserving the right to ob­ Lee lived and began his matchless career, I have journeyed ject-I do not know that I will object-I desire to call the at­ with my little children and the other and greater half of my, tention of the Chair and the attention of the committee to the household. There, beneath the trailing vines and under the fact that the fixing of general debate is not in the power of the clear heavens, while the swelling notes of the Marine Band Committee of the Whole. It rests with the House. Now; I am were set in full attune, where but lately the President of this not going to object, but I do not desire---- country stood wrapped in the folds of his country's flag, doing 1\fr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. If the gentleman will honor and reverence to the soldiers of the Union in that great . yield to me a moment, I would say that I fully understand that strugglei I and my household have sat, amid the harmony of I could not do it by a vote, but by unanimous consent, if the that far-famed aggregation of musicians, and under the inspir­ committee so desires. ing voice of the orator, the President of the Republic. Along 1\Ir. BARTLETT. Well, l\Ir. Chairman, I am not going to with all the rest, we offered up om devotion, we mingled our object to its being done by unanimous conBent. I do not oppose applause, and tendered our- share in doing honor to the soldiery that, but I do not Iike these precedents--that are sought to be of the Republic and all that is noble in it. . set, and I merely rose for the purpose of calling the attentio-n And when we come to discnBs this subject, I would have gen­ of the committee to it. I think it is a bad precedent, and it tlemen on either side understand that we approach it with noth­ ought not to be accepted as a precedent without some sort of ing save the conception we have of a just conBideration of this protest. I do not object. legislation. I recall well two weeks ago, when this subject was l\lr. RODDE:NBERY. Mr. Chairman, reserving the right to considered, there was no voice then to explain one of these bills. _object. Before acquiescence-in the request, I desire to state that I do not complain, gentlemen. It is a part of the decree of the I understand that the request of the chairman of the subcom­ political life of the country in itB legislative procedure. There mittee provides for genernl debate for one hour and five min­ was no voice then :raised in explanation. There was no colloquy utes, one hour to be e(}ntrolled by myself and five minutes by indulged in with fairness that light might be thrown upon this himself. Of course it is to- be noted that the. gentleman from legislation. I will not say there was contempt, but there was ,West Virginia has already consumed one hour of general debate. silent inaction. By and by the powerful Committee on Rnles Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. Oh, certainly. I mean five was called together, and in council they prepared what they call minutes besides that. I want to yield that time to the gentleman a rule to close debate, to close amendment, to close considera­ from Missouri [l\Ir. llUBEY], who desires to explain a bill here. tion, and to throttle and to shackle this body of the people's I do not want a minute of it for myself. representatives. At this moment I see neither the gentleman Mr. RODDENBERY. I want to say, Mr-L Chairman, in order from Texas [Mr. HENRY] nor the gentleman from Pennsylvania that my colleagues on this side who. desire time may have- it, L:Mr. DALZELL] ; but when that committee repaired to their room one hour may not be sufficient. I expect to use an hour my­ to prepare that rule under a Democratic House, I would ask self. Thus far no Members ha·rn requested to be- given time. those- gentlemen, if they were here, who dictated the rule of If they desire it before this agreement is entered into I should February 23? . like to be a.p-p_rised of it. I have- no desire to utilize all the Whose hand wrote the rule · of February 23, which was time. brought forth to shut off deb-ate and considemtion in a: Demo- ·3050 OONGRESSION AL .RECORD-HOUSE~ :MARCH 8,.

cratic House? Was it HENRY or was it DALZELL? Go to th.e the soldiers of the Civil War are now pensioned under the act room of the journal clerk of the House and see the chirography of February 6, 1907, and apply for increase only as they become of that rule and see whether the gag was that of HENRY or 79 or 75 years of age. that of DALZELL. See whether or not, in formulating the rules Yet, be it remembered, gentlemen, that long before 1907, be. for the Democratic majority, it was written by the hand of a ginning with 1861, pension statutes were passed, and vast -num. Democrat or by the hand of a Republican. Gentlemen, the bers under those statutes have been receiving pensions. Year by voice was the voice of Jacob, but the hand was the hand of year the pension allowance has been increased. In 1878, 1890, Esau. No party expediency, no danger of party future, shall 1899, 1900, and 1907 the restrictions of examination were modi· let me give my assent that the rules of procedure of the Demo­ tied, and the rules were relaxed in order to make easier the ob· crats of this House shall be drafted by the arch Republican taining of a pension ; the construction of the Commissioner of gagger of the last 20 years, the gentleman from Pennsylvania · Pensions has been liberal, has been generous-sometimes well· [Mr. DALZELL], without a protest and without calling attention nigh to a fault. to the fact. I will take up somewhat directly the pension legislation. The The bill now before us is smaller by some 60 or 70 names laws have been extended to the widow and the children and to than that of two weeks ago. I note the improvement. dependents, and I do not challenge it immoderately. Various I scarcely find tO-day any of these $50 pensions in it. They statutes ·provide for furnishing a limb or an arm, and give the tell us the committee has agreed not to put in any more over soldier the right to take his arm or his lower limb, or to take $50. They say, gentlemen, that hereafter the committee will money in lieu of it. not indulge individual Members to rise in their places and The Treasury of the Republic, supplemented by treasuries quiescently adopt amendments that they have drafted. So after of great States, have provided homes for them, and they are -all, if we may say it, perhaps a little publicity connected with there, cared for in comfort, and in addition are permitted this pension legislation will not be detrimental to the country to draw as high as $17 a month pension in addition to care ancl or degrade the Union soldier. support in the home. I here declare to you that I am not one I say to you now that within the last fortnight there have of those who would undertake to consign the Union soldier to a come in my daily mails letters from Union soldiers-not from home whether be wills or not. If, perchance, in Iowa, in In­ the South-there have.. come from inmates of soldiers' homes diana, Pennsylvania, or some other State, ill provided though letters protesting against this procedure and favoritism. There he may be, he desires to spend his remaining years in less com­ have come from presidents of western universities letters of fortable quarters, with less food, with less raiment, than in a approval of the position we have taken on this question. T~ey soldiers' home, I would not deny that te him. It is but a have read the RECORD. There have come from the State of tribute to, and evidence of, his patriotism. It tells a . story New York, the State of Pennsylvania, the State of Massachu­ that swells the hearts of all of us; that the man, though he setts, the State of New Jersey, and elsewhere communications may be infirm and needy, loves to linger about the scenes of from citizens, some of whom say they wer~ soldiers in the wa~-, his childhood and to live and die at the hearthstone of his emphatically indorsing the position we have taken in the inter­ boyhood and manhood. I 'vould give to them adequate pensions est of the just appreciation and treatment of the soldiers of the to get the necessities, and let the home be optionul with them. Union Army and in defense of the burden bearers of the coun­ But, Mr. Chairman, that is no justification for an adulterous try. At some future day we may have an opportunity and the woman being on the pension roll nor for a deserting soldier · permission to file them in the RECORD or to read them from the drawing from the Treasury of this Republic. According to the floor of_the House, giving :Members the information as to the report of the Commissioner of Pensions criminal prosecutions opinion some men in this country entertain in regard to this are infinitesimal, but you say that it is a broad statement that reckless exploiting of both political parties in the name of the many undeserved ones go on the list. The same commissioner tottering, crippled, and aged Union soldiers. undertook to check the pension roll in a very gentle, very effemi­ Gentlemen, it is absolutely appalling that men in their solid· nate way, and with apparent great trepidation to peruse the tude for their political fortunes, far transcending their solici­ rolls and make some interrogation as to the record and deserv· tude for the Union soldier, -should tremble when public discus­ edness of some of them. His report Members have seen. It sion of this question is raised. Gentlemen dare not deny the says that some were found who were perpetrating fraud on the statement from their own lips, from their own utterances-it Government, and he says further : is heard in the hotel corridor, it is heard in the cloakrooms, Last fall it became apparent from letters received in the bureau and certain press articles that the impression obtained in some parts of the and, more than that, it is beard privately on the floor of the country that the pension roll was honeycombed with fraud. House-that this pension question is literally embedded in our politics, and that it will be political suicide to ventilate it. Now, make ready to hear: To settle the question beyond all controversy by determining whether God spare such patriotism and such statesmanship! the pension roll was a roll of honor or otherwise, I obtained favorable Observe here to-day l\fembers of the House, when specific permission from those in authority over me to check up the pension cases of pri'rnte pensions are brought to the notice of gentlemen roll. I mean by that, ascertaining whether every person drawing a pension is entitled to it. The task is no small one, us the bUl'eau must who bring in the bill, that they stand without explanation because first get the names and the last-known post-office addresses of the pen­ they can not make it, I assume. They stand without reason sioners from the pension agents, and then field men must go from and without justification for taking a. condemned soldier and a pensioner to pensioner to learn whether the proper persons are drawing questionable widow and placing them on the pension roll, when the pensions. I doubt not there are thousands of true soldiers who deserve And, gentlemen, what is the objection that we hear inter· Tecognition, and I would not deny it to them. posed on the floor of this House to such a procedure? It is Ob, the history of the pension legislation of this country! not that there is no fraud on the pension roll, but that it will I can not read it without being tedious and exhausting. But cost more money to detect the fraud than it will to pay it. My we turn to the Commissioner of Pensions' report for 1911. The God, what does such an argument lead us to? In other words, number of individuals in the military and civil service of the gentlemen, they are there, but let them remain; do not uncover United States during the Civil War is estimated at two million them, for it will cost money. two hundred and odd thousand. The number of survi:vors of We owe it to the integrity of the Republic, we owe it to the the Civil War on the pension roll at the close of the fiscal year integrity of the legislative body . of the country to investigate. was 539,000. We owe it to the Union soldier and his descendants and to the It is stated by the commissioner that but about 25 per cent past and future history of our country to rid this roll of honor· of the Union soldiers now survive, and I do not question his of fraud, of perjury, of perfidy, of national shame. statement. We find now on the pension roll the entire remnant I read again from the commissioner's report: of that great army that for four years met that other great The special examiners employed upon this work have paid particular attention to the marital relation of the pensioners and have reported army, the like of whQse heroism on either side the annals of thereon and the data so obtained will assist greatly in disposing of no history transcend. They are there. Has the country neg­ widows 1 claims when the same are filed. lected them? Has it declined from any geographical portion Why, if they found no fraud, what help would it be? of this Republic to do honor and pay tribute and yield sup­ Here is more of the farce : port from our Treasury to them in their need, their infirm­ Whenever it has been ascertained that a pensioner is known by any ity, or in their age? I deny it. A thousand general statutes name other tban tbat under wbicb pensioned a full investigation has well-nigh have been enacted to provide for every conceivable been made to prove identity and age at enlisunent,1 which will also be contingency. of benefit in adjudicating claims which may hereafter be filed. In the same report we come to the special private pen­ And so purging the pension rolls is ended. The people of this sion bills. They began very modestly, but now run to the country will not stand for that whitewash. Standing \vell­ enormous number of twenty-two thousand and odd privileged nigh alone before you, and with little open approval from Mem­ acts for those who were fortunate enough to ingratiate them­ bers, I say to yott now, and mark it, that the patriotic soldier, selves into the favor of their l\Iembers of Congress. Most of the patriotic woman, the patriotic journal, the patriotic popu- 1912. CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD-ROUSE. s-051.·

lace, will not let the pension history of this Nation and tts glory of _.1889, cites an in.st:mce of a. widow who had remarried eollectin..., in one. sum_ the accrued pension which was allowed to her on account of be clouded and enrobed in curtains of fraud and of dishonor. the death of her soldier husband. By the beneficence of· this provision The day of reckoning will come. If this is unpatriotic, .then in the act of 1888 she was enabled to collect nearly $4,000 for the appealing for the honor o.f the Nation is unpatriotic. If this is use and benefit of her second husband. In 1890 the so-called invalid-pension act was passed, granting to demagoguery, then demagoguery is a sleuth in pursuit of fraud. anyone who had served 90 days 01~ more, and who then or may there­ If this is calculated to disrupt political parties or to embarrass. it after suffer from a mental or physical disability not the result of is no less calculated to render a measure of service to the people his_own vicious h_abits, which incapacitates him from the performance of manual la?or m such a degree as to prevent him from earning a who send us here. Read the history of this Republic, and where support, pens10ns ranging, from $6 to $12 per month, according to the js there.any neglect of the American soldier? As early as 1861 degree of disability. The disability need not be due to the service· it the Volunteer Army was placed on the same basis of pay for may .have been. caused. by any act not due to the vicious habits of 'the app_hca~t. This pension act constitutes both a health and accident disability as applied to the Regular Establishment. A year policy, issued by the Government. Reference to the table of disburse­ later $8 per month was added, and there follows, compiled by ments., .which will. be hereafter incorporated, shows an immense in­ the junior Senator from Florida, a well-nigh complete tabula­ crease m the pens10n rQll, on account of this act of 1890. Let it be borne in mind that provision had already been made for disabilities tion of the general pension history of the country, and I shall due to the service, and let it also be borne in mind that by act of 1883 hand it to the reporter and let him incorporate it as a part of the rate allowed for disability due to the service was $30 per month · my remarks. But, mark you, when our pension outlay is tabu­ in other words, the rates under the general law are higher than the rates under the act of 1890 ; and yet we are forced to meet face to lated and summed up, it appears that the Treasury of this face, the. fact that immediately 110,000 more persons were pensioned Government has contributed for pensions four billions of dollars. lll?-der this act than under all the others combined; and that, beginning As early as 1861 the Volunteex: Army was placed on the same basis with 1890, we were placing on the pension roll a class that could no~ show, .even by ex part.e proceedings, disability due to service. By of pay for disability as applied to the Regular Establi~hment. A year later $8 was fixed for noncommissioned officers and priv!ltes and $30 for th;is act widows were pensioned at the rate of $8 per month who were officers of the rank of lieutenant colonel and above, To widows dlµing without other means of support than their daily labor. In 1900 how­ widowhood, or, if none, to children under 16, then 'to mothers, then to eve~, they were given a pensionable status, if they were dependent upon dependent sisters under 16, pensions were granted. In 1864. an elaborate then· labor for support, and had only a net income of $250 · and in specific disability pension bill was passed, providing a table of rates for l!J08 they were pensioned irrespective of whether they were dependent certain-named injuries ranging fiom incapacity to perform manual µpon their labor for support, and irrespective of whether they had an labor to the loss of hands arms, feet, legs, hearing, and eyesight, the mcome. In 1892 the Army nurses were pensioned at $12 per month. r?-tes of which have been mcreased1 from year to year. General provi­ In the pension appropriation bill of 1906 a provision was made that sion was made for those who had not suffered such serious loss but who the age of 62 should be considered a permanent, specific disability ~or any reason were so disabled as to render them incapable of perform­ within the meaning of the pension laws. By the act of 1907 pensions mg manual labor, and it was left to the Commissioner of Pensions to were granted to any person w.ho served 90 days or more in the Civil determine this general class. On page 122 of a compilation prepared by War, or 60 days in the War with Mexico, upon the sole ground of age. the CommissiE>ner of Pensions in 1905 will be- found the rates fixed by Those who have reached the age of 62 are entitled to a pension of him for disabilities not specified by this act of 1864.. The allowance $12 per month ; 70, $15 per month; 75 or ovei:, $20 per month. fixe~ for inability to perform manual labor, due to the military or naval It has been a. curious incident of our pension legislation that when­ seIVice, was 15 per month.. This amount was increased in 1883 to $30 ever the pension roll shows a decrease, legislation has been enacted per month, and it bas been the la.w since 1883 that anyone so disabled the result of which has been to increase the annual amount; as the m the service as to be incapacitated to perform manual labor shall re­ numbers have decreased, the allowances to those yet survivino- have ceive a pension of $.30 per month. In 1866 brothers and fathers were been so increased as constantly to require an increased expendi~re added to the pensionable class. In 1868 arrears of pensions were al- If, temporarily, this matter bas been overlooked for any reason, early 10\yed to pensioners on acco1~n~ of death, disea~e, or d.is 256. 36 250,802 ing the statute of limitations in. order to avoid the payment of hls just 1881. ··········--··· :50, 583, 405. 35 1, 072, 059. 64 51, 655, 464, 99 26-S,830 debts. In the circumstances usually attendant upon the- enthusiasm 1882 •••••••••••••••• 54, 313, 172. 05 1, 466, 236. 01 55, 779, 408. 06 2&5, 697 aroused by pension oratory the provisions of the act of 1868 were for­ 1883 •• --· •• -··. -· ··-·. 60, 427, 573. 81 2, 591, 648. 29 63, 019, 222.10 303,6.58 1884 ••••.••••••••••. 51, 912, 387. 47 2, 835, 181. 00 60, 747, 568. 47 gotten. The almo~t irresistible impulse to take inventory of all the 322, 756 ills and aches that flesh is heh· to and attribute them to imaginary 1885 •••••••••••••••• 65, 171, 937.12 3, 392, 576. 34 68, 564, 513. 46 345,125 disabilities due to a war that had passed into history 15 years before 1886 ••• ·-··--··-···· 64, 091, 142. 90 3, 245,016. 61 67, 336, 159. 51 365, 783 was ignored. At last war neurasthenia was recognized. The com.mis­ 1887 - •••••••••• -. -· - 73, 752, 997. 08 3, 753.,.400. 91 77,506,397.99 406,007 1888 •• ······-······· 78, 950, 501. 67 3,515,057.27 82, 465, 558. 94 452,557 sioner, in bis report of 1879, pointed out the easy method of obtaining 88,842, 720. 58 pensions and the temptation to commit fraud. An amendment was 1889. ··---··-~-·- 3, 400, 968. 40 92, 309' 688. 98 489, 725 offe.L-ed to. have the United States represented and not allow the pro­ 1800. -· -- - -- ••••• -- • 100, 093, 850. 39 3, 526, 382. 13 109, 620, 232. 52 537, 944 ceedings to continue ex parte. This amendment was rejected. The 1891 •.•••••••••••••• 117 I 312, 690. 50 4, 700, 636. 44 122, 013, 326. 94 676, 160 Government was not to be represented; no reflection was to be cast 1892 ••• -············ 139, 394, 147. 11 4, 898, 665. 80 144, 292, 812. 91 876,068 upon the imagination of an applicant or the: diagnosis of: bis friendly 1893.. ••• -·----··. ~ •• - - 156,906, 637. 94 4, 867, 734. 42 161, 774, 372. 36 966,012 139, 986> 726.17 3, 963, 976. 31 143, 9i0, ~OJ. 48 969,544 physician.. It was considered undignified to ~u.estion the right of any 1894. ""•• -••.. -·. -•. 1895 •.• ••. -••• ·····-•. 139, 812, 294. SO' 4, 338, orn. 21 144, lEO , 314. 51 910,524 pensioner to receive in a lump sum compensation for disabilitie.s which 138, 220,

adequate method of searching carefully these rolls. Oh, but comes necessary to so speak, I shall not hesitate to be even they say it throws the old soldiers in a state of turmoil while in more specific, assuming all responsibility therefor. And, more­ their last days. Gentlemen, the old soldier who in Pennsyl­ over, I say to the gentleman who asks specific in tances of men vania, who in Virginia, who in Georgia, who in Tennessee, in who liave perjured themselves to get on the pension roll, invoke obedience to command, with armor buckled about him, with the power of this House to afford an exhaustive and impartial musket on his shoulder, marched without a trernor and without investigation. It will develop startling facts. Beyond all per­ a fear into the face of cannon and into the d e<.LLh of musketry, adventure it will verify and establish my statement that crooked will never tremble when you seek to investigate his military records have been straightened; that the charge of desertion record and his services. He will welcome it and it will add has been legislated away; that the deserters have been trans­ new luster to his valor and to his glory. Ah, but on the other lated from oblivious shame into well-rewarded pensions; that hand, when you go to investigate, when you go to inquire, when widows with mercenary motives have imposed on aged soldiers yo~1 go to ferret,. when you go to pry, when you go to seek out and bound them in wedlock that they might survi're to draw the stealthy pensioner, the meat hunter, the guard hanger, the their pensions. It will further develop that women who liYed rear trailer, the tree dodger, the mountain hider, the deserter, lives of questionable repute, as reports of this committee show, the impostor, the traitor, the belligerent who never fought, he are finally rewarded from the Treasury of the Republic; that will quake and will tremble until his knees will smite together. bounty-seeking men who ensconced themselves safely on the And you say that it is no part of a government's legislative side of the Confederacy when the fighting was light on that duty? These. utterarices I lay upon the consciences of Repre­ side and translated themselves to the Army of the Union when sentati"ves, and they shall reach the eyes and thought of the the fighting was light there have gotten on the pension roll. I people of this country. If there be treachery and disloyalty challenge the House to inaugurate the inYestigation. ill the e utterances, I shall be condemned and despised, and 1\Ir. CLINE. Have you more than one instance where the deserve no better. If these words, on the contrary, touch upon committee of this House has pensioned a man, or proposed to a festering spot of national shame and finally · redound to the pension a man, who deserted from the Confederate service in honor of the Republic, I shall be content. mind right now? l\Ir. CLINE. Will the gentleman yield? l\Ir. RODDENBERY. Not right now. But that reminds Mr. RODD.E...~BERY. I do . . me-- l\Ir. CLINE. I haYe been very much entertained · by the Mr. CLI'NE. Just one other question. You got away very wholesale charO'es of fraud and moral ~lepravity on the part of rapidly from general legislation to special legislation. Uy re­ the Pension Office of this country and the men who are admin­ marks were directed to the general legislation of this House, istering it, the impeachment. of the integrity and personal honor and then you undertook to back up your arguments by here and of every Member of Congress here, and if it is true, as the there a scattei·ing instance that crops out in the special bilJs gentleman says, about Members of Congress voting the public that are filed in this House. I want to ask the gentleman money out of the Treasury to secure their return to seats in whether he is able to say that Congress has ever refused to in­ this body, those men ought to be impeached. Yestigate any fraud that was properly brought before it? . I'low, in this statement that the gentleman made, would not .i\Ir. RODDE:NBERY. Not being possessed of the information, he be kind enough, in assuming that there is a large amount of I can not inform the· gentleman. fraud in the administration of the office of the Pension Bureau, 1\Ir. CLINE. What steps has the gentleman taken to have the to cite to us a few instances, to get down to brass tacks, to give Pension Office inyestigated by filing a bill and having it referred some facts upon which he bases his allegatiQn. The general to the proper committee, in order to find out whether there was statement that fraud is a bad thing and a man ought not to any fraud in the execution of the pension laws? hare the benefit of fraudulent action, by the Committee on l\fr. RODDENBERY. I will say to the gentleman, in the first Pensions, is conceded by everybody, but why not give· us some .place, there is no necessity for that procedure, but if there is specific instances, enough at least to vitiate the law and make I am taking steps now-decided steps, unequ,ivocal steps, une­ it a reproach to the Members who have enacted it. I would \asive steps, and fearless steps, if you please. like to· hear the gentleman on this point. Mr. CLINE. I want to ask you if it would not facilitate the investigation to file a bill of that character? The gentleman l\lr. RODDENBERY. I am glad to have the interruption of understands this, that with the broad, sweeping declaration, the gentleman. No word from me can impeach the .Members of without bills of particulars, or without bringing the matters to this House, but the utterances we make in that regard are made the notice of the officers in the administration of this bureau, public and will go in the CoNGRESSION.AL RECORD, and we stand except by his mere unsupported declaration, no one will pay now and hereafter everywhere by every one of them. I need attention to them. not say to the gentleman. who asked for a bill of particulars, l\Ir. RODDENBERY. Perhaps they will not, but the country that his own ears have heard his colleagues say, "This thing will. · l\Iark you, now, thee words. Some of you have already will beat us for reelection." heard from home, and I can look you in the face, and in my 1\Ir. CLINE. I beg to correct the gentleman there. own good time, if need be, I will call names. You have heard The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman yield? already. I will read further from the report of the Commis­ Mr. RODDENBERY. I do. sioner of Pensions : l\lr. CLINE. I have no recollection of hearing any gentleman The special examiners on this work have succe ded in causing the on the floor of this House say-- arrest of two bogus special pension examiners- . 1\f r. RODDENBERY. Not publicly; I did not say publicly; Is it any disloyalty for a Member in his place to ask for an I stated in conversation, privately, about the hotels. investigation, when your own commissioner shows that bogus l\lr. SHACKLEFORD. 1\Iay I ask the gentleman a question? pension examiners are going over the country imposing on the Mr. RODDENBERY. When I :finish with the gentleman old soldiers of the Republic whom you so much loye and we all from Indiana. honor? · Mr. CLINE. If the chairman pleases, I want to purge my­ That report further says: · self from any inkling of that kind, so far as I am concerned, . As well as ascertaining the names of two others for whom a thorough for I have no recollection of any man who has taken an oath search is now being made. to support the Constitution of the United States and discharge his duties as a Member of this body so far compromised And we read: him elf as to say that he would support either in public or pri­ It was decided to check up the rolls- vate a pension bill for the purpose of getting back into this Where? body. At Washington and Knoxville pension agencies, and by the result to Mr. RODDENBERY. 1\fr. Chairman and gentlemen, as the determine whether the rolls of the other agencies should be looked into. remarks and exposures of Gen. Adams have been so oft quoted, Now look at this investigation. The Commissioner of Pen­ I shall not present them again. You are familiar with them. sions says: We will tak~ Washington and Knox-rille to check But I will say to the gentleman from Indiana [1\fr. CLINE] up by and see whether the other pension agencies shall be in­ that he can not seek to break either the force of the awful quired into. They find, according to this recording and their truth of the general's statement read on -the floor, for which ·checking· of the books of the pension examiners, fraudulent I stand responsible now and ever hereafter, by demanding a names on the roll And how much more in\estlgation has been bill of particulars. I am no prosecutor nor pursuer of the in­ reported to the House? None. The investigation died in its dividual Members of this House, but there is no one here, on birth. Ah, my friend, when he wants to know if I can not give the floor or off of it, that dares tell me that the utterances I one more case, reminds me of the old darhry who was charged make are untrue. ·with c]licken stealing. When the oyerwhelming evidence ap­ Some of them have been politically trembling, so they have pe:ued that Jones had a coop with 30 hens and two roosters in ex:pre ed themsel\es. In my own time and without fear and it, and it was proved that Ephraim took a yellow-legged hen without faltering, when in my judgment as a p.ublic duty it b .~ and ~ red-combed rooster; when the_witnes _ses had established 1912. - CONGRESSIONAL -RECORD-HOUSE. 3053

the fact he rose with great complacency when asked, " Ephraim, acquiesce in anything which brings infamy, dishonor, and what do you say?" "\Veil," said Ephraim to the judge, "the corruption to the pension system of this Republic. From witnesses suy they had 32 chickens in dat coop, an ef they only our roll I would strike no poor and disabled man who braved pro-rn dat I got two of them I do not know what they have got danger or faced death; but on this roll I would tolerate no man· to complain of when I left all the others." [Laughter and ap­ who failed in the hour of conflict, who deserted on the day of plause.] battle. Nor will the people. But the bills you present anq the That is the trouble with the gentleman. One case, two cases, reports you make cast suspicion in their very language on 40 per are sufficient, I imagine, to put the Congress and the country cent of thefu. Turned down because the evidence before the Pen­ upon inquiry. Gentlemen pass over it now with great com­ sion Commissioner did not show they were disabled ; turned down placency, but the end is not yet. I am glad to know that on because it did not show service; turned down by the Pension the 8th day of l\farch, Ul12, the Democratic leaders of the Commissioner because it did not appear that the women were House ha\e so progressed and have so relented of their gag-rule related to the soldiers in a legal way; yet they are reported to tactics of two weeks ago that they will not repeat it now. Congress, and under the favor of the legislators of the Nation [Applause.] If nothing else has been achieved, if nothing given a pensionable status, and thereby given access to the el e has been attained except to deter this mighty committee Treasury. · in its mad rush to gamble in the pension rolls further, this Gentlemen, pursue that course if it is right, and I shall come much has been accomplished. They seem to deem it wise to to shame quite justly. Adhere to this policy, but know well stop before passing the threshold of another Cannon rule. that whoever deserves the opprobrium of the country, in the · I rejoice that the members of the committee will now occa­ end will receive it. Go on if you will with this special legis­ sionally rise and answer questions respecting special bills and lation, selecting out the favored. few, and feed them from the pri"fate pension favors. It was not so two weeks ago. · I chal­ Government Treasury. In the days to come retribution will be lenge you to go to the country on the various cases presented visited upon those who perpetrate it. Vast as are the numbers this morning, particularly the one presented. by my colleague of the survivors of this great war; momentous as were the from Georgia, Mr. TRIBBLE, and one exposed by my colleague, issues they determined, as trembling in the balance was held l\Ir. How ARD, of Georgia. . the fate of our Republic; great as was that crisis, no greater I challenge you to take those specific cases to the country and in horror was that crisis than the other crisis that our country undertake to ha\e the people approve your findings. They will confronts-that of turning the pension roll of this country into overrule you with their ballots and condemn you with their a ron of pillage and of plunder. When the . wealth producers votes from one end of this country to the other. Such bills are and burden bearers of the country, week :tfter week, see writ­ indefensible and can not be apologized for. ten upon the American pension roll the names of persons such We may just as well now approach these pension bills as we as some of these, it marks a chapter in the history of this approach other legislation. Bring these measures in and let Republic that every brave citizen and every courageous soldier the public gaze be turned upon them. Here is a report covering will frown upon. It is no encouragement to patriotism. It is 118 pages, containing 293 separate private pensions. The report no inspiration to youth. It. is no honor to true men who merit is fun of instance:;; telling of the turning down of the applicants their just reward. by the Pension Bureau; and yet, gentlemen, these bills are I implore gentlemen of the House, in the love of country, to brought here to be voted upon and passed before any l\Iember cast scrutiny upon further legislation of this character and can obtain from the Commissioner of Pensions or War Depart­ guard well the roll of honor of American heroes. Do not be ment tbe complete war record and military career of the sol­ partial, do not discriminate. I shall, if my strength lasts, in­ dier. I may confront my friend from Indiana [Mr. CLINE], terrogate the committee hereafter with regard to some of whom I regard highly, before four more weeks have passed, these particular items. I have submitted to you what I be­ with pension ancl war records of some of these pension grafters lieve, upon careful and calm reflection, will have a different that will well-nigh answer all of his inquiries, but in 48 hours it consideration than you have hitherto accorded. These ob­ is impossible to study out and delve into the military records of servations by me, as a servant of a patriotic constituency, have 290 men. been made. Upon them the country may pass its own judg­ Ah, why delve into it to-morrow, when the bill is passed? ment. My duty, as I see it, to the utmost is performed. I Whv delve into it next week:, when these names are on the shall serve with you here in future days, and shall ask no less pension roll? Why not come and let them be investigated and and no more fair consideration for this legislation than is asked looked into and studied out now? We owe it to the true and accorded to other measures. soldier; we owe it to judicious legislati9n; we owe it to our­ The power of the majority may, in the language of another, selves and to the country. Do the pensions we now pass com­ "work its will," but, mark you, gentlemen, when the power of port with the careful analysis and most scrupulous judgment of the majority of this counh·y in the days that are gone. in the House? Other bills will come in here by and by. Gentle­ working its will, has ignored the will of the people that ma­ men, take no unction to yourselves that you can place the brunt jority has come to grief and by the sovereign at the ballot box of this feeble resistance to this legisl~tion on one man, and has been' defeated. l\Iay I finally warn you, my Democratic crush him and go on. Gentlemen, take no solace to yoursel\es co1leagues, that so long as we exercise the right and the power that because, forsooth, the vote on this floor is overwhelming, of our majority by doing the will of the American people with you can pass these bills over the resistance of a small .number courage, -with justice, and with judgment we may expect and and nothing but faint echoes be left behind you. we will retain the confidence and approval of the voters of this These days will come again. Then for no vexation, for no par­ land. liamentary delay, for no political advancement shall we pursue When we turn our majority into a tyranny, into an autocracy the course our judgment dictates and directs. Come, gentlemen, composed of one, or into a dynasty composed of a few, con­ hereafter with these bills fewer in number and purer in charac­ trary to the fundamental principles of a Democracy, contrary ter. Come with these bills increasing pensions for soldiers who to the patriotic convictions of our people, then, gentlemen, the have straighter records and less of kinks. Bring in here the day of our undoing comes, and then will we forfeit national names of widows who are not so distantly related to the alleged trust and national confidence. husbands that the Pension Commissioner said he could not find Mr. LITTLEPAGE. Will the gentleman yield? that the woman enjoyed any legitimate marital relations. Come l\Ir. IlODDENBERY. How much time have I remaining, Mr. with bills for widows who do not need a special law to establish Chairman? their relations with the soldier, after four different applications The CHAIRl'iIAN. The gentleman has two minutes. to the Commissioner of Pensions have been turned down. Mr. IlODDENBERY. I can not yield. I wish the gentleman Bring the names of men wl10se records in the Army are so clear had interrupted me earlier and then I would gladly have yielded. that it does not take a special report of the Pension Commis­ I must respectfully decline now. sioner or a special act of Congress to take away the stain of No star in the emblem of this Republic should ever be dimmed desertion and to restore them to the status of faithful American by the stain of an ignoble name on our pension roll. No flag soldiers. Bring forth the needy soldiers of this Republic, and that wa-ves over an American democracy should ever be any­ bring with them their dependent children and their helpless thing less than the insignia of popular government. widows, and we will pension them as they desire, and the To this democratic Republic it is imperative that the peoples' country will a·pprove. · Representatives guard the Treasury, legislate for the masses of But no longer think that there shall be brought forward this our countrymen, maintain with honor the roll of our soldiery, species of legislation to be passed as sausage through the mill establish by wise laws equal and exact justice between all men, without resistance and without impediment. Be not impatient whether widows, whether soldiers, whether farmers, whether on this question. Conscious of your great majority, with full laborers, whether taxpayers. The bone and sinew of this Re­ knowledge of your power and your right to legislate, go on, public which achieves its fortunes, creates its wealth, will never oh, men, go on, but, mark you, the American people will never hesitate to bear with cheerfulness the just burdens of raising XLVIII--102 9054_ CONGRESSIONAL-RE.CORD-· -HOUSE.: ;_~ MARoH 8~1 - ~~.....,...,------_...------~~~------..--,.------~~~------...::-...... _. ____ ~~~~~--'4·I millions of wisely eTI)ended r~venue, but the- yeomanry of these Mr. ANDERSON of Oh,io. !tfr. Chairman, will the gentleman·' ' States will rebel and refuse to follow that. party or that majority yield? - ,1 which plqces about their QetheL' idea than that they were Mr. HMULTON of West. Virginia. Yes, sir. both of high ehn.racter. Mr. TRIBBLE. I understand that is purely a clerical error? I want to say further th.at on Sunday, bef,ore I started to .Mr. HAMILTON o:t West Virginia. Yes; I will read what--. Washington I visited this little- home. I went into a little cot- Mr. TRI.BBLEJ. Tha.t is all the answer I desire. t-age, and in that cottage I witnessed a scene which, I say to you, lli. RAMIL_TON of West VirginiaL It is. the indorsement of my friends, I bope I ma.y never again witness in a.11 my life. Mr. Albert, the ex.a.min.er, saying that it· is an inadvertence, and In one corner of the room, in an invalid chair, was the widow it ought to be $30. whose case is now under discussion. In the center of the room, The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will report the ameudment., upon a cot so constructed as to be easily moved from place to The Olerk read! as. follow.s: place, lay her invalid daughter, a woman from 30, to 35. years Strike out, in line 8, page 1, the word «-twenty-tour" and insert. the of age. This daughter could move only her fingers and her- word," thirty." toes. She was absolutely un.a.ble to [email protected] herself, even to turn . Mr. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman, in reply to what Gov. IlunEY her head from side to side. Not Qnly- that, but that daughter· has just said-- was blind-from her eyes had been shut. out for· many years l\Ir. H,AMILTON of West Virginia. Mr. Chairman, l ask for the light of day. In that condition this young woman, the a vote on· this amendment. daughter· of a soldier and the daughter of this claimant, had The CHAIRMAN. The motion is. debatable, and the- gentle- been lying for more than 10 years. They have absolutely no man from Georgia has a right to debate th~ amendment. property. They have been supported by the J?eople or my1 own Mr. RUSS.ELL. But the gentlema:o.· does. not want to talk to city, and this $12' a month that in justice to he1- has been this.amendment. awarded by this committee will not pay' for the nurse hire Mr. TRIBBLE. I have the floor under the rule. I desire necessary to take care of them during the Ieng· days and nights to say, ~fr. Chalrman, that there- is not a man in this House they must lie there and suffer. f-or whom I have a higher regard than I have for my friend The CHAIRMAN. The time of' the gentlemu.n has expired. :from Missouri [1\lr. RUBEY]. I think he. is a man of the high- Mr. ANDERSON of Ohio. Mr. Chairman, I ask. unanimous est honor; but Gov. RUBEY failed: to explain a few thing to consent that the gentleman be given two· minutea more. ·this House. I am satisfied that it is very easy to explain these The CH.A.IID.IAN. Is there objection? things to my friend from West Vii:gini:i here, who is am.'ious There was no objection. to help his soldier friends, but my friend from West Vh'ginia, Mr. RUBEJY. Mr. Chairman, during' all these years this before he goes back to his constituents, had better read the claimant and her invalid daughter h.ave been. kept up by the report of this committee and a few things contained. therein people of my town. The w.oman: who came and claimed to, be· before he makes such u broad statement~ I know my friend the wife by a former marriage got every bit of the property from West Virgiuia to be. one of the best Re.vre eota.tives among that belonged to Gaven and to-day the e people. aJ;-e upon the the new Members and a. just and: fair man. Now, the commit­ chnrity of my city and county. That case is a worthy one, and tee made this statement. It says: if there were against the character of this claimant the- least Shortly thereafter- possible stain I would not be here a.sk.ing this. House to gi:ve· That, is, after 1865, when tttis. woma.n.'s husband died- her a pension. 1 Nancy took up with Gaven. 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 3055 I And she lived with him in that state until 1878, Q.nd then "There is a very clear and marked distinction between the she became a member of the Catholic Church, and under the position of the two great political parties of America as to how rules of the Catholic Church they forced her to marry him. power to tax should be exercised in the levying of revenue at 1\11·. RUBEY. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield? the customhouses. The CHAIR1\1A...."N". Does the gentleman from Georgia yield REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS ALWAYS sTooD FOR PROTECTIO~: to the gentleman from Missouri? "The Republican Party has maintained the doctrine that Mr. TRIBBLE. No, sir; I have only five minutes. The taxes should not only be levied for the purpose of revenue, but gentleman has had his say. also for the purpose of protecting the home manufacturer from The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman yield? foreign competition. Of necessity protection from competition Mr. TilIBBLE. No, sir; I ha\e only five minutes. carried with it a guaranty of profits. In the last Republican The CHAIR.l\IAN. The gentleman refuses to yielcl. :i :Mr. TRIBBLE. Now, l\1r. Chairman, I call attention to platform this position of the party was distinctly recognizeu when they declared that they were not only in fa\or of the this fact. Here is a bureau refusing to accept the proposition protection of the difference in cost at home and abroad, but that this woman did not know that a wife of the man with whom she lived and later married was living; they refused it. also a reasonable profit to American industries. Now, look to the action of the committee. It promptly over- DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR TARIFF FOR IlEVE:N'UE ONLY. rnles the bureau and grants a large pension. I call attention "The Democratic Party favors the policy of raising its to another fact, that when this man died his wife turned up taxes at the customhouse by a tariff that is levied for revenue promptly. She was there to get the property, and yet in the face only, which clearly exclud~s the idea of protecting the· manu­ of nll these facts the committee comes into this House and says facturer's profits. In my opinion, the dividing line between that these people had been living together for 25 or 30 years, the positions of the two great parties on this question is very and Nancy did not know that this other woman was in existence. clear and easily aseertained in theory. Where the tariff rates But she was there when the property was to be administered. balance the difference in cost at home and abroad, including Now, l\fr. Chairman, I desire to call attention to some other an allowance for the difference in freight rates, the tariff must cases as I go along. On page 24, and I desire gentlemen to read be competitive, and from that point downward to the lowest it, there they say, "this woman's claim was rejected in 1909 on tariff that can be levied it will continue to be competitive to the ground that she was not the legal widow of the soldier, as a greater or less extent. Where competition is not interfered she had a former husband living and undivorced when she mar- with by levying the tax above the highest competiti"rn point, the ried the soldier." Now, l\lr. Chairman, this question is not con- profits of the manufacturer are not protected. On the other tradicted, nobody undertakes to deny that proposition, but what hand, when the duties levied at the customhouse equalize the do they do? They come in here and undertake to protect her by difference in cost at home and abroad, and in addition thereto saying that when she married she was so young, under the laws they are high enough to allow the American manufacturer to of the State the marriage was imalid. Let us see whether it make a profit before his competitor can enter the field, we have was invalid or not. The courts of the State of Pennsylvania invaded the domain of the protection of profits. Some men make this ruling, and it was in that State where the parties assert that the protection of reasonable profits to the home lived and where the contest came up : manufacturer should be commended instead of being con- The Pension Ilureau held, following a decision of the courts of demned, but, in my judgment, the protection of any profit must Massaclrnsetts. wherein it was held that the age of consent in that of necessity have a tendency to destroy competition and create Commonwealth, as by the common law, was 12 years for females and 14 for males, and that a marriage between two infants above these monopoly, whether the profit protected is reasonable or un­ ages was valid without the consent o! their parents or gnanlian, not- reasonable. withstanding the statutes prohibit magistrates, etc. UNFAIRNESS OF PROTECTION. The court says the Pennsylvania statute on this question is- "You should bear in mind that to establish a business in a Men:ly directory and was a corrective measure and aimed at the pre- forei·f!n countr·y requi'res a va~t outlay both in time and capital. vention of youthful marriages, and that there was no provision declar- ~ - ing such marriages void in the event tha.t they were good as at common Should the foreign manufacturer attempt to ~stablish himself law. in this country he must advertise his goods, establish selling The court and Pension Bureau held the marriage valid. agencies aud points of distribution, before he can successfully The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman has expired. conduct his business. After he has done so, if the home pro- .Mr. HOWARD. l\lr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to ducer is protected by a law that not only equals the difference proceed for just one minute, not for the purpose of entering into in cost at home and abroad, but also protects a reasonable or a discussion of this subject. unreasonable profit, it is only necessary for him to drop his The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Georgia asks unani- prices slightly below the point that the law has fixed to pro­ mous consent to proceed for one minute. Is there objection? tcct his profits, and his competitor must retire from the coun­ [A.fter a pause.] The Chair hears none. · try or become a bankrupt because he would then have to sell l\lr. HOWARD. l\Ir. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to his goods at a loss and not a profit if he continued to compete. print in the RECORD speeehes made by the Hon. OscAR W. UNDER- The foreign competitor having retired, the home producer could · woon, of Alabama, on " The protection of profits " before the · raise his price to any level that home competition would Southern Soc!ety of New York on December 16, 1911, and on allow him, and it is not probable that the foreigner who had "George Washington" before the State Society of the Cincin- already been dri\en out of the country would ngain return, no nati in Philadelphia on February 22, 1912, and on "Federal matter how inviting the field, as long as the law remai.:iecl on Government and public roads" before the American Automobile the statute books that would enable his competitor to again Association Convention on January 16, 1912. put him out of business. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Georgia [Mr. How- INIQUITY OF '.l'HE PROTECTI01\ oF PROFITS. ARD] asks unanimous consent to extend his remarks in the RECORD by printing the three speeches he has designated. Is "Thirty or forty years ago, when we had numbers of small there objection? [After a pause.] The.Chair hears none. manufacturers, when there was honest competition without an l\fr. HOWA.RD. ~he following are the speeches referred to: attempt being made to restrict trµ.de, and the borne market PROTECTION OF PROFITS, was more than able to consume the production of our mills ADDRESS OF IION. OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD, OF .ALA.BAM.A., DELIVERED AT THE and factories, the danger and the injury to the consumer of ANNUAL BANQ UET OF THID SOUTHERN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ON THJ!j the country was not so great or apparent as it is to-day, when 16TH D.A.Y OF DECE~IIlER, 1911. the control of many great industries has been concentrated in " The kaleidoscope of political issues must and will contin­ the hands of a few men or a few corporations, ben...ause do­ ually change with the changing conditions of our Republic, but mestic competition was prohibited. When we cease to have there is one question that was with us in the beginning and competition at home and the law prohibits competition from will be in the end, and that is the most effective, efficient, and abroad by protecting profits, there is no relief for the consumer fairest way of equalizing the burdens of taxation that are except to cry out for Government regulation. To my mind levied by the National Government. Of all the great powers there is no more reason or justice in the Government attempt­ that were yielded to the Federal Government by the States ing to protect the profits of the manufact~uers and producers when they adopted the Constitution of our country the one in~ of this country than there would be to protect the profits of dispensable to the administration of public affairs is the right the merchant or the lawyer, the banker or the farmer, or the to levy and collect taxes. Without the exercise of that power wages of the laboring man. In almost every line of industry we could not maintain an army and navy; we could not estab­ in the United States we have as great natural resources to lish the courts of the land; the Government would fail to per­ develop as that of any country in the world. form its function if the power to tax were taken a way from "It is admitted by all that our machinery and methods of it. The power to tax carl'ies with it the power to destroy, and doing business are in advance of the other nations. By reason it is, therefore, a most dangerous governmental power as well of the efficient use of American machinery by American labor, as a most necessary one. in most of the manufactures of this country the labor cost per 3056 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE~ MARCH 8, 1

unit of production is no greater here than abroad. It is ad­ "Those of you who enjoy membership in this society may well mitted, of course, that the actual wage of the American la­ be congfatulated, for it is a privilege greater tban membership borer is in excess of European countries, but as to most in any order of aristocracy or nobility of however distinguished articles we manufacture the labor cost in this country is not rank or origin, because eligibility for it means that you can more than double the labor cost abroad. When we consider trace your ancestry back to the great men who served this Na­ that the average ad valorem rate of duty levied at the custom­ tion in an accomplishment which has had more to do than any house on manufactures of cotton goods is 53 per cent of the other single event with the shaping of the political progress value of the article imported, and the total labor cost of the not only of this country but of the world. production of cotton goods in this country is only 21 per cent IMPORTANCE OF COMMEMORATIVE EXERCISES. of the factory value of the product, that the difference in "All of us, however, that have not this privilege may bave labor cost at home and abroad is only. about as 1 is to 2, and a that 10 or 11 per cent of the value of the product levied at the share which should not yield eT"en to you in gratitude to those customhouse would equal the difference in tb.e labor wage, it who wrought such momentous things. And it is on such occa­ is apparent that our present tariff laws exceed the point where sions as this, which are altogether too few, that duty and they equalize the difference in cost at home and abroad, :ind interest as well should prompt us to resolve to see to it that we realize how far they have entered into the domain of pro­ grave matters affecting the 'public welfare shall not hereafter, tecting profits for the home manufacturer. as often as they have been in the past, be subordinated to our personal or political affairs. In such a way we sh:lll make the WOOL, IRON, AND STEEL. wisest use of this day. "This· is not only true of the manufacture of cotton goods, "The place and the time are not appropriate for us to at­ but of almost every schedule in the tariff bill. To protect tempt anything like an inventory of our assets as a people, for, profits of necessity means to protect inefficiency. It does not as men of different political faith, we might not be in accord as stimulate industry, because a manufacturer standing behind a to how the inventory should be ta1ren. There are some acquisi­ tariff wall that is protecting his profits is not driven to develop tions we have made which, from my point of view, are to be his business along the lines of greatest ~ciency and greatest regarded as unfortunate, since in securing them it may be said economy. This is clearly illustrated in a comparison of the that we have overlooked what concerned our national well­ wool and the iron and steel industries. Wool has had a. being. All of us at times are capable o:t forgetting that things specific duty that when worked out to an ad valorem basis in life ha\e a relatlve as well as an ab~lute value. If, in ob­ amounts to a tax of about 90 per cent of the average value of taining something, we have lost something, we are not, in mak­ all woolen goods imported into the United States, and the duties ing up the items of our resources, whether national or personal, imposed have remained practically unchanged for 40 years. to disregard the debits; but we are to have a balance sheet so During that time the wool industry has made comparatively that we know how it really is with us. The headlong rush for little progress in cheapening the cost of its product a.nd im­ possessions or advantage exposes us to the risk of many a proving its business methods. On the other hand, in the iron rough fall; and as time goes on the homely adage, 'All is not and steel industry the tariff rate has been cut every time a gain that is got into the purse,' has a widening application to tariff bill has been written. Forty years ago the tax on steel nations as well as to men. rails amounted to $17.50 a ton; to-day it amounts to $3.92. SUBJECT STATED. Forty years ago the tax on pig iron was $13.60 a ton; to-day it "Yet certainly at a time like this, though we may hope to is 2.50. The ·same is true of most of the other articles in the say little, if anything, new, we can, whether Democrats or Re­ iron and steel schedule, and yet the iron and steel industry has publicans, without debate or controversy, take counsel with our­ not languished, it has not been destroyed, and it has not gone to selves as to some of the underlying considerations which have the wall. It is the most compact, virile, fighting force of all made our Nation what it is, and which, if adhered to, will keep the industries of America to-day. It has long ago expanded it strong and righteous and capable of resolving the doubts and its productive capacity beyond the power of the American surviving the dangers likely to confront us as time goes on: people to consume its output and is to-day facing out toward and to what wellspring so· tefreshing and invigorating can we the markets of the world, battling for a part of the trade of better have recourse than to the career and to the words of foreign lands, where it must meet free competition or, as is often Washington! Some of us have no great respect for the so­ the case, pay adverse tariff rates to enter the industrial fields called referendum; but we all ought to approve of a referendum of its competitor. of what politically is new and untried and uncertain and of DUTY 011' THE GOVERNMEN'T--GENUINE TARIFF REDUCTION TO A lUJVJ!JNUE­ doubtful worth to his counsel, from which proceeded always light PRODUCING BASIS ONLY. and judgment. " Which course is the wiser one for our Government to take? HONOR ROLL OF THE FOUNDERS. The one that demands the protection · of profits, the continued "It is an inspiration to the loyal American citizen merely to policy of hothouse growth for our industries, the stagnation call the roll of the men in whose brain and heart was born the of development that follows where competition ceases, or, on conception of the Republic, who laid its foundations so deep and the other hand, the gradual and insistent reduction of our lasting that there is no height to which we might not build, tariff laws to a basis where the American manufacturer must whereon to keep burning a great light for our guidance and for meet honest competition, where he must develop his business the guidance of all people; who drew a Declaration of Independ­ along the best and most economic lines, where when he fights ence which voiced, as it has never been voiced before, the long­ at home to control his market he is forging the way in the ing of m~n for political liberty; who carried the Colonies · economic development of his business to extend his trade in through a well-nigh hopeless struggle; who devised the Articles the markets of the world? In my judgment, the future growth of Confederation-that 'firm league of friendship '-as a of our great industries lies beyond the seas. modus vivendi for a people under arms, and then supplemented "A just equalization of the burdens of taxation and honest it with a Constitution that welded together into an indissoluble competition, in my judgment, are economic truths; they are not Union the interests to which war had given only temporary co­ permitted to-day by the laws of our country. We must face hesion-a Constitution ·which, under the interpretation of John toward them and not away fr-0m them. Marshan, wa·s to be, as he said, a document not of definition but "What I have said does not mean that I am in favor of of enumeration, and therefore of increasing and broadening sig­ going to free-trade conditions or of being so radical in our nificance such as perhaps no other similar writing before has legislation as to injure legitimate business, but I do mean that ever had. the period of exclusion ha.s passed and the era of honest compe­ " ' There were giants in the earth in those days.' In no other tition is here. period in our history, or perhaps of the history of the world, " Let us approach the solution of the problem involved with were there gatherecl together so many gifted men, each with his the determination to do what is right, what is safe, and what special capacity for contribution to the success of a nation's is reasonable." cause, as Washin"'ton, Jefferson, Franklin, .Madison, Patrick GEORGE WASHINGTO~. Henry, the Adamses, Edmund Randolph, Robert Morris, Charles ADDRESS OF THE HON. OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD, OF ALABAMA, DELIVERED AT Carroll, of Carrollton, and James Wilson, too! so intimately iden­ THE ANNUAL BANQUET OF THE STATE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, tified with this Commonwealth of Pennsylvama, and all the other HELD IN PHILADELPHIA ON WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1912. heroes of discontent, of war, of reconstruction, or of the estab­ "Surely by no other body could this great anniversary of the lishment of the Union. ·Nation be more appropriately celebrated than by your society "To shine at all in such a galaxy was to shed a great light; of splendid traditions, for Washington n-0t only took an impor­ but the calm and steady light of Washington was, by common tant part in its formation, but, in large measure, became its consent, the brightest in glory there. In pecuµar equipment directing head during the early days when its continued exist­ for each class of work required to be done, he may have been ence was threatened by adverse criticism. outshone. The protest against English misrule may have come 1912. 00NGRESSION AL RECORD-HOUSE. 9057· from better-disciplined minds than his; even more brillillnt ~­ affectionate friend. He was the Gamaliel at whose feet the tary resourcefulness than he possessed there m~y have ~een; ~n people sought wisdom. He was, in truth, the Father of his consh·uctive statesmanship he _perhaps had his superiors; m Country, as he enjoined upon us all those virtues and practices knowledge of the political problems to be worked out by the which can keep us strong and just and prosperous at home and American Colonies through a constitutional form of governmel'.lt, respected in the councils of the world. his insight was not always the clearest. LESSONS OF HIS LIFJ!}-CH..A.RA.CTERISTICS. CENTRAL FIGURE OF THE Tll1ES. " So many are the lessons we can gather from his life and his "Nevertheless, it can be confidently said that Washington work that one is justified in saying•that on an occasion like this combined in himself, more than did anyone else, a gre~ter the time is too limited even to enumerate them. Yet there are number of those unique qualities essential to make what might one or two things which we may well recall at a time when so easily have been a crude experiment of revolt a success upon many of us are disposed to seize upon the first expedient which which the world still looks with increasing admiration. In the seems to make for popularity or progress and when old-fash­ prosecution of the war with unrivale? p~tience under dish~art­ ioned truths•give way to strange doctrine; for, unlike many of ening conditions and numberless privations and cruel disap­ us, he did not, in conduct or in speech, seem of the view that a pointments; in his conh·ibution to the steps leading up to the thing is necessarily valuable because it is new. Courageous, but Constitutional Convention, during all the time from the first regardful of the value of precedent,, certainly with truth it can meeting of the Virginia and Maryland commissioners down to be said that he had what a distinguished foreign diplomat .re­ the calling and holding of the convention; in his advice to that cently declared we as a people have-the tenacity of tradition convention and in his presiding over it; in his administration and the audacity of progress. of the Presidency where he :put aside the petty things of politics; "The lines of calm serenity and deterlnination along which in his relinquishment of office when, for th,e. a~king, it ~as Washington workt?d out his life were rarely Yaried. Persistent within his possession during all the years of his lif~, Washing­ of purpose, he was never obstinate or unreasonable in judgment ton, in influence and wisdom and judgment, is the central figure of those times, and in just fame stands alone. And should we nor without the realization that the means to be selected must ask ourselves to-night which of these men could ha"\'e been have reference to the end to be attained; he did not make of spared in the work that was accomplished, we could not, with consistency a fetich, but change of plan with him was a matter all onr admiration for any other man, conceive the outcome of deliberation and conviction; he accommodated the plans of _ as it was without the commanding presence of Washington. his official life, as he did his plans as a general, to the need of " Ile did not foresee all the perplexing problems with which the hour, making use of all the resources he could command for the purpose of influencing men by conversion to a course of we have to deal to-day in our tariff or in our great corporati?~s, action believed by him to favor the successful outcome of worthy in our currency, in our foreign possessions, ~r in a reconcilia­ tion of the rights of labor and capital; he did not foresee the effort. Not without a shrewdness far beyond that which we are vast task we all have, whether native or foreign born, of taking accustomed to attribute to him, he never resorted to measures the new material constantly coming to our shores and assimilat­ or methods that were cheap or beneath his dignity. Seeing great ing it into our growth and molding it into a loyal and intelli­ visions, he was no mere dreamer of dreams ; and what he ac­ (J"ent support of our institutions; he did not foresee the menace complished for political liberty in association with the develop­ ~f destructive socialism nor the extent to which, unfortunately, ment of our national prosperity is an object lesson to us all we were to go in substituting party interest for political principle, that the ideal may go hand in hand with the practical for the though as to this he gave us paternal warning. Nevertheless he realization of its highest ambition. He was patient and for­ did foresee sufficient of our problems to be able to commend to bearing under unjust censure and coarse libel, and displayed us a course the principles of which, if steadily adhered to, charity toward friends and enemies as each class had the need should bring us safely throJigh all the perils to which we may be for it; he could be what so many of us find it impossible to be-­ exposed. While he did. not outline the by-laws, so to speak, temperate in speech and conduct and considerate of the opinions that must, from time to time, be framed and adopted for the of others; but when the occasion forbade it he made no sur­ detailed life of this country, he did understand as no one else render to compromise. The choice of no party for elevation to understood the organic principles upon which were to rest the office and the foe of undue partisan zeal, he recognized the likeli­ security fl.lld the welfare of our national life. And subject al­ hood that party lines must be reckoned with; he adhered always ways to his urgent advice against permanent alliances with to the fundamental things upon which the character of nations foreign powers, like a high priest among men he preached the must be built if they are to be enduring;. and above all he has gospel of tolerance, of benevolence, of peace, of reasonableness, never been weighed in the balance by posterity and been found and of righteousness toward all peoples. wanting in tha.t sincerity which, in the end, is the convincing "Not without faults, not without limitations of intelligence argument, the best strategy, and the surest way to keep our self­ or of those qualities which go to make up the perfect man, respect. Washington manifested in word and deed the best that has gone DISTINGUISHING COMMON SENSE AND PRACTICAL TURN Oli' MIND. to dignify and make great and honored American manhood. " His distinguishing common sense and practical turn of mind 'When there is taken into consideration what he did for us and served him well in the administration of his high office. Few, for the peoples of the earth that have followed or are ready to if any, mere generalities or quixotic schemes for action were ndopt our example by transferring so much of his conceptions suggested by him; but, on the contrary, he seemed to be master and accomplishment as may be made to take root and grow in of the underlying principles of the business needs of the coun­ their soils; what he did toward establishing the principle that try as he had been of the plans of his campaigns. At a time men have the capacity to govern themselves, and that those when so many of us are disposed to put upon the statute book chosen to represent the people are to be their servants and not nostrums for relief from our industrial and financial and eeo­ their rulers, and that public officials are engaged in the admin­ nomic evils, it will be well for us to call to mind the striking istration of a trust; when we consider that but for his trium­ contrast between the moderate volume and temperate character phant leadership this Republic would never, perhaps, have been of laws enacted during his Presidency and so much of our born and that but for the example of his successful administra­ tion 'of the Presidency the experiment of self-government might present-day legislation of the experimental sort, reflecting often have collapsed or retrograded into a kingdom, we must all agree merely a view of to-day that is likely to be the heresy of to­ that Washington performed a service for us and our posterity morrow, and attempting to deal with the objectionable tendency and for all the nations of the earth gi·eater than any like before it is seen that it will not be arrested of itself, or before service ever performed by the nobility or the genius or the sacri­ we have sufficient understanding of it to be in a position to fice of any other one man. know or apply the appropriate remedy. Accordingly the rec­ ommendations und the legislation of Washington's administra­ FAREWELL ADDRESS. tion were not along guesswork lines; but the elements of sober­ " To appreciate the bold outlines of his personality and at ness, patience, and wisdom which he so invariably m!lnifested the same time the patriarchal attitude he was entitled to as­ were typical of the plans he favored and adopted to brmg order sume toward the Republic, which was so much of his own mak­ out of financial and industrial chaos, promote industry among ing, we have only to read his Farewell Address-that wonderful the people, and restore their energies by opening up new sources product of affection and intelligence and insight. We can not of revenue and prosperity, and by assuring men that they think of it as written by any one of his contempora1ies. The should gather and be secure in the possession of the harvest tone of it forbids this. Not one of them could have made use of their labor. In all this he held true to the promise of his of its language without being open to the charge of affectation messages to Congress and to all his utterances and acts, and or nrrogance. The words of dignity and injunction and warn­ justified the expectation of the Nation-that he was to be as ing came naturally from him, for they were the words of the faithful and intelligent a ser-mnt in the work of peace as he guardian to the Nation as his ward, or, as he said, of an old and had been amid the struggle for independence. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. }f.A.ROH 8, I'SlJ58 _, ...

I , · · v' While believing that free intercourse with· nations would, which exceeds its just limits be foreign or domestic, whether it be the encroachment of all branches on the rights of the people or that of to use his own words, promote policy, harmony, and interest, he on~ branch on .the rights of others, in either case the balanced and well­ 1 did not part company with statesmanship, for be added: adJusted machmery of free government is disturbed, and, if the derange­ " There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real ment go on, the whole system must fall. favors from nation to nation ; it is an illusion which experience must CHARACTER OF WASHI~GTON. cure and which a just pdde ought to discard. COORDI:'.'IA.TE BRA);CHES OF THE GOVERNMENT TO BE HELD IN THEIR "At all times and amid all conditions Washington rang true RESPECTIVE BOUND.A.RIES. to the note of a splendid manhood. Hypocrisy and a trafficking "There is a great need, too, for us in this day when constitu­ in expedients for popular applause no more match with his life tional restraint has become' irksome to many, never to turn a than the crime of murder. He had little of the captivating style deaf ear to the stirring appeal of Washington to his people­ of speech or manner; but regard for the nobility of his charac­ that the departments into which our Government is constitu­ ter, rather than any rhetorical art or charm of personal ad­ tionally divided shnll be kept with detemrined hand within their dress on his part, kept wavering lines from retreat in battle and respective boundaries. Speaking here not as a pjrty man but ,from mutiny amid privations and suffering to which orir neglect as a citizen of the Republic, my obserrntion and reflection have had exposed the soldiers of the Revolution. The men in the shown me how treacherously easy is the transition from centrali­ ranks and above the ranks were zealots, ready to be shot to zation of go-rernment-which those of the Republican Party set death or starved to death or frozen to death for the sake of so much store by and which a good many of us Democrats are such an inspiring leader, eyen when the Colonies had forgotten inclined to acquiesce in-to a personalization of government and to clothe and to feed them after they had -carried victorious then to usurpation of government. Washington in all his career ~rms in this unequal contest with the greatest military i1ower uttered no greater truth than when he declared that a constitu­ m the world. He suppressed the dissensions of the men he tional government, under such circumstances, becomes almost, as gathered about him for the administration of his hi0 ·h office a matter of course, a despotism. For a long. time, fortunately, and lessened their antagonism; and, as a man of aff~irs and this was the view of the American people; antl when they have the possessor of wealth, he had so mastered essential business departed from it a long and omnious step has been taken, not principles that he knew how, by encouraging manufacture nnd only in the commission of error but toward establishing evil thrift and enterprise, to bind up the wounds of a people wasted precedent. and impoverished by the exhaustion of prolonged war. What a " Said· he in his stately language: priceless possession to his countrymen is the splendid record of the achievements of such a many-sided, we11-balanced, noble " It is important. likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administra­ man. tion, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres "So all discussion of Washington ends-whether it be in the avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach brief address or in the pages of the biographer or .historian­ upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the with panegyric, and without the opportunity of the most exact­ form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of ing criticism to point to any conspicuous act of his which we power and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human wish heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this fosition. The neces­ to-day would to have otherwise, either for his fame or sity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of polltica power, by dividing for the example of his life. and distributing it into dltferent depositaries, and constituting each the "No wonder that Webster said- guardian cf the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern ; some of them in our coun­ "AJ?lerica has ~rnis~ed to the world the character of Washington. try and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary us And ii our American rnstitutions had done nothing else, that alone to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or would have entitled them to the respect of mankind. modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution "He stands among the great men of this country and among designates. But let there be no change by usurpation;· for though this the great men of all countries, not only ·on the many pedestals in one instance. may be the instrument of good, it is the customary of our handiwork, but on the eminence of our admiration and weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient gratitude, as a splendid, commanding, heroic figure, the embodi­ benefit which the use can at any time yield. ment of those h·aits which go to make up true manhood and "Years afterwards Daniel Webster merely put into the true greatness in the world. What Tennyson not unfairly said matchless eloquence of his paraphrase this thought when he of Welllngton can even more justly be said of Washington­ directed bis protest at apparently so slight a departure from that he both saved and served the State; that for him the this principle as the proposal of the President to take from the path of duty was the way to glory, and that there should be proper Cabinet officer. the right to determine upon the depository eternal honor to his name. of the funds of the United States: PRESENT-DAY PROBLEMS OF THE REPUBLIC. " It was strongly and forcibly urged yesterday by the honorabl.­ "And let us and all loyal Americans resolve that the spirit Member from South Carolina that the true and only mode of present: of Washington, so manifestly in the midst of us on such occa­ ing any balance of power in mixed governments is to keep an exact balance. Tliis is very true, and to this end encroachments must be sions as this, shall go with ·us, as with gratituge and hope re­ resiste$l at the first step. The question is, therefore, whether, upon the newed and loins girded about we face the future. That future h·ue principli:s o~ the Constitution, this exercise of power b;v the Presi­ will not open for us always a pleasant prospect. We shall not dent can be Justified. Whether the consequences be prejudicial or not if there be an illegal exercise of power it is to be resisted in the prope1: always be blessed with prosperous times. Corresponding to manner. Even if no harm or inconvenience results from transgressln[! those temporary setbacks to our. health wherein Nature gives the boundary, tlie intrusion ls not to be suffered to pass unnoticed~ her warnings whenever we are making too great a draft upon Every encroachment, great or small, is important enough to awaken the attention of those who are intrusted with the preservation of a mind or body, we shall have our periodical depressions when constitutional government. We are not to wait till great public mil'!­ we are imprudent in the-affairs- of our business life. These chiefs come, till the Gove1·~ment is overthrown, or liberty itself put into need not unduly concern us, for, as we come to have a stable extreme jeopnrdy. We should not he worthy sons of our fathers were we oo to regard great questions affecting the general feeling. Those currency and a better understanding of the economic woTkings fathers accomplished the Revolution on a strict question of principle. of the laws of supply and demand and do not overlook some The ParEament of Great Britain nsserted a right to tax th<:' Colonies in considerations which are not always in accord with the strife all cases whatsoever; and it was precisely on this question that thev made the Revolution turn. The amount of taxation was trifling, bu·t for mere money return, these depressions should be appreciably the claim itself was inconsistent with liberty; and that was, in their less and less in number and irnportunce. eyes, enough. It was against the recital of an act of Parliament "We have, however, problems of a more serious nature con­ rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they tool( up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They fought seven fronting us for solution, and doubtless they will increase as years ngainst a declaration. They poured out their treasures and their time goes on. We, as a people, have tolerated the doing of blood like water in a contest against an assertion which those less· things which must be undone or made right and not condoned; sagacious and not so well schooled in the principles of civil liberty would have regarded as barren '{lhraseology or mere parade of words. we have at times set too muC'h store by mere material surress '.rhey saw in the claim of the Bntlsh Parliament a seminal attitude of and judged as ofJD.inor consequence things which broaden and mischief, the germ of unjust power; they detected it, dragged it forth elevate and ern1oble a nation; we have made compromise with from underneath its plausible disguises, struck at it; nor did it elude either their steady eye or their well-ilirected blow till they had extir­ things of evil import. We have at times been unmindful of the pated it and destroyed it to the smallest fiber. On this question of rights of others as we have hurried on to the realization of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag ambitious plans, and in our indifference to the demands of good against the power to which, for purposes of foreign contest and sub­ rogation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared; a citizenship we ha"Ve been guilty of or acquiesced in a courne of power which is dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her conduct that has given rise to sullen expressions of an unrest possessions and military posts, whose morning drum beat, following tile to which we can not afford to be unconcerned listeners, for un­ sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken sh·ain of the martial airs of England. checked unrest is likely to breed discontent and discontent, in " The necessity of holding strictly to the principles upon which free its turn, disorder. And unless we frankly recognize this we governments are constructed, and to those precise lines . which fix the sba11 ha>e no reasonable hope of correcting the conditions partitions of power between different branches, is as plain, if not as cogent, as that of resisting, ns our fathers did, the strides of the parent which arouse, if they do not altogether justify, those expres­ .country against the rights of the Colonies; because, whether the power sions, and which are a menace not only to our continuing pros- 1912 .. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 8059 perity but to our self-respect and our repute in the world. nin~? Because they realized the necessity of maintaining and Agaill and again, as time goes on, in obedience to popular establishing a road system. It is the duty of the Federal Gov­ clamor, we shall be tempted to enact statutes 1,mjust to labor ernment to vitalize that power. For that reason for many or capital and not representing reflection and conviction, or years I have been in favor of the Government of the United statutes which are fairly certain to be incapable of enforcement States either establishing post roads or lending its aid to the and to bring the administration of the law into contempt. We building of post roads throughout the country. It is the only shall be ·tempted to hesitate and temporize concerning things way you can build them. If the Go\ernment had gone on in demanding prompt and courageous action for the public wel­ the work it commenced in the early part of the last century, fare. Again and again we shall stand perplexed in which when it started to build the Cumberland Turnpike; if it had direction to go when we shall have come to the crossroads of continued that work up to to-day, without any great burden public duty and mere party expediency or even self-interest. resting on the American people, we would ha ye had as magnifi­ Our way will be so shut in by doubt that we shall hesitate even cent a system of roads in the United States as you cnn find as to a single step forward and upward. But there is one thing in any of llie continental countries of Europe. But we aban­ abo\e all things to which we may cling with a certain faith, doned it because we thought the railroads had come to take its that so long as we keep with ourselves a covenant to return to place. It is far more important to the great majority of the and abide by llie principles of Washington's Farewell Address, people of the United States to have a road that carries llieir so loug as his character shall be remembered and revered by us, produce from the farm door to the railroad station and from so long as we shall set his life and his devotion before us as the the store in the town back to the farm door than it is to further best type and example of American citizenship to · admire and develop a great railroad that will carry them to N"ew York or emulate, this country can not falter in true progress nor in the San Francisco. The exception is the man who travels any end come short of its high mission in the world. For then, great distance on the railroad train; it is th~ everyday life of during all time to come, we shall have for our political gnid.­ the mass of the American people to tra;el along the dirt road ance as a people the inspiration of his presence, which will be from their homes to the railroad stations. to us what for the moral guidance of men the Word of the Lord EUROPEAN HIGHWAYS. was to the psalmist of old-a lamp unto the feet and a light "There is not a country in Europe that has established a unto llie path." system of national highways that has not done so with the THE FEDERAL GOVER~MENT AND PUBLIC Ro.ws. aid of the central government. There were no good roads ADDRESS OF THE HON. OSCAR W. fil'DERWOOD, OF ALA.BA-MA., DELIVERED worth speaking of in England as long as they maintained the DEFORD THE AlIEnIC.L"'f AUTOllOBICE ASSOCIATION COXVENTION JA.."t\UAitY 16, 1912. antiquated -system of local taxation alone to develop a road " I thank you for the opportunity that has been given me to system, and it was not until the Parliament lent aid to the say a few words on a subject that is of such great importance to building of good roads that a great system of roads was built the American people. up in England. And the same is true of France; it took na­ "There were no wiser men, more patriotic men, that have ever tional aid to establish a system of roads in France. To-day been connected with this great Government of ours than the men they haYe the greatest system of roads in the world. who established it. They were enabJed to look far into the COURSE OF PROCEDURE SUGGESTED. future and realize that a great civilization was to grow up out " I know that the opposition to this argument is based on the of a wilderness. In establishing this Government of ours they fact that it will cost money, and I do not deny the argument, delegated certain powers to the Federal Government and re­ If you are going to build a great system of roads in the United sened the balance to the States. As to matters of local gov­ States it will cost millions of money, but you can not expect to ernment, almost all the powers were reserved to the States, and build them in a day; it will take decades to complete the work; only the necessary powers to create a central government to you will never build them if you do not make the start. protect us against foreign foes, to enable us to establish a sys­ "We can begin by giving national aid to assist the States, or tem of judiciary, and to maintain armies and navies were dele­ we can commence by building se\eral great national highways, gated to the Federal Government.· But in their wisdom they like the Cumberland Pike, that was completed a century ago deemed it necesEary and proper to declare in the Federal Con­ and yet remains as a monument to the wisdom of our fathers. stitution that llie National Government should ham the power "As to which is the best system it is not necessary for us to to establish post offices and post roads. determine now. The question for the people who are in fa rnr SYSTEM OF POST TIOADS AUTHORIZED. of good roads to-day to determine is the question as to whether or not the Federal Gol"ernment shall again undertake the great "I do not believe in the :H'ederal Government encroaching work, and after that is determined then you can decide as to upon the rights of the States any more than I believe in the which is the proper plan to carry out. Sta tcs encroaching on the rights of the Federal Gowrnment; but I do belie-rn that the great Central Government owes it to NECESSITY FOR A RATIONAL WORKING PLAN. the people of the United States that it should enforce, carry " I shall not take llP your time, but I want to make just one out, and maintain the great powers of government that ha\e suggestion to you in a practical way. Your association adrn­ been delegated to it by the States; and one of those great powers cates one way for the building of these great highways; you carries with it the right to see that a system of post roads for nnd that another good-roads association advocates some other intercommunication between the people within the States and plan, and yet another association another plan. I understand the people beyond the borders of the several States is estab­ that there are four great associations in this country which lished. fa"rnr the building of national highways, and I do not believe "The fathers of our Republic recognized that fact. You know that there are any two of them that have agreed on the same as well as I do that one of the Yery first questions that was agi­ plan. Now, as long as that condition exists you are not going tated before the Federal Congress was the building of a great to build on any plan. I have this one suggestion to make to post road across the continent to bind and hold the States to­ you, and it is not my own thought-it has been suggested to me gether. They spent millions of dollars in building the Cumber­ by one who is wiser than I am-that instead of advocating one land Turnpike, and we should have gone on building Federal system to-day by this association and another system to-morrow roads throughout the United States if Watt had not invented by another association, go to the Congress of the United States the steam engine, and if the iron rail had not taken the place and say to them, 'Appoint a joint committee to consider the o:t the macadamized road. Then we abandoned Government aid building of post roads in the United States'; give them author­ to the dirt road and gave Government aid to the iron road. ity to hear everybody that wants to come before the committee; The great railroads that reach across this continent were built give them authority to find a verdict as to which is the best way with Government aid, because they were 'establishing post to start this great national movement by proper legislation, and roads.' then you have concentrated the power in the hands of the men FEDERAL AID IN ROAD BUILDING. who in the end must exercise it; you have centralized that "Xow, my friends, we are coming back to the starting point. power where it can be used for action. They may not agree to Another inYention has come; the people of this country now what you want or I want, but it will be along some line that are traveling in automobiles as well as in railroad trains. will produce results. The mail, the most important single business in the United HANDICAP OF B.A.D ROADS. States, is being delivered at the farmer's door, instead of the " Just one word in conclusion. My friends, I remember once farmer coming to the town and takng his mail out of the post­ being on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, and I saw a great ofiice box. We are coming back to the point where it is neces­ white fleet of ships, that had traveled around the world, sailing sary again for the people of the United States to have a good . into a foreign port, the national emblem of our great country system of pub1ic roads. The States have delegated the power was flying at the masthead. As they came steaming up the to the Federal Government to aid in securing that system of harbor I thanked God I was an American and felt proud that public roads. Why did they delegate that power in the begin- we had the greatest fleet that ever sailed around the world. ·3060 CONGRESSIONAL-RECORD-HOUSE. 1\fARCH 8,

I remember once standing along the line of a railroad system in M,r. AUSTIN. When the gentleman concludes his remarks a distant country, and as I saw a train of freight cars being I will reply to him. hauled along the track I noticed the locomotive that was pulling Mr. RODDENBERY. I have no criticism of the particular the cars, and it was a Baldwin locomotive, built in America, claim. I am asking now why the discrepancy, why the dis­ builded by our own people, carrying the commerce of the world, crimination, and why the partiality? Now, gentlemen, I recog­ and I felt proud that I was an .American and thanked God t~at nize that in a multitude of measures you can not have absolute I was born under the Stars and Stripes of my country. But uniformity. I likewise recognize that there may be some good then I went up into the mountains of Switzerland and in Italy, reason why the hornblower should have $36, and why the and I saw those magnificent turnpikes, graded roads, running musket bearer should have $24, although the musket bearer up the mountain sides, smo-0th as this floor, guttered on the walks no longer save upon crutches, and has no rough hillside to sides, carrying off every drop of water, perfectly smooth, where give him a resting place. But why do not you show it? But the people even in that mountainous country could carry their the hornblower? How about him? The report should show produce to market at the lowest possible outlay; then I thought some information before you should expect enlightened men to of the terrible roads that I had seen in my own home State, vote for it. that I had seen in almost every State of the Union, and for :Mr. RUSSELL. l\Ir. Chairman, will the gentleman yield? once, and the only time in my life, I had to bow my head with The CH.AIRMAN. Does the gentleman from Georgia yield shame and could not declare that so far as our road system was to the gentleman from .Missouri? concerned that I was proud of being an American citizen." - Mr. RUSSELL. May I ask the gentleman from Georgia a The CHAIRl\I.A..i~. The question is on the amendment of the question? gentleman from West Virginia [Mr. HAMILTON]. l\fr. RODDENBERY. Yes. The question was taken, and the amendment was agreed to. l\ir. RUSSELL. To what two cases does the gentleman re­ The Clerk read as follows : fer? The Rolain case? The name of John Eastman, late of Company H, Fourth Regiment l\fr. RODDENBERY. That, and the one relating to John New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lien of that he is now receiving. :Mulligan, on page 4 of the report, the last item on the page. I will now ask my friend to exply.in that case. He is getting l\fr. TRIBBLE. l\fr. Chairman, I .move to strike out the last $24. The report does not show whose bill it is, but when you go word. On page 24 I continue the case. The report says: back home, whoever is the author of the bill, you tell that old It appears from the proof filed in the case · that the claimant was first married in Massachusetts on August 14, 1850, to one Ivory G. soldier why you could not get the $24 for a fighter, while some­ - Philips- · body else .got $36 for a hornblower. .And that she was never divorced. Now, Mr. Chairman-­ The CH.A.IR.MAN. The time of the gentleman has expired. Mr. RUSSELL. Mr. Chairman, I rise to a point of order. Mr. RUSSELL. Just a word, .Mr. Chairman. I think I can The CHAIRl\1.A.N. The gentleman will state it. explain it to the gentleman. I just want one moment, Mr. Mr. RUSSELL. The gentleman from Georgia [Mr. TRIBBLE] Chairman, a word on behalf of the committee, because I feel is not discussing the paragraph under consideration. that the collllilittee is more or less arraigned in every one of The CH.AIRMAN. Under the five-minute rule a l\fember must these assaults upon this bill. confine himself to the paragraph read. The Chair holds that Mr. RODDENBEUY. I do not mean to arraign the com­ the point of order is well taken. mittee. I am arraigning the bill. :Mr. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman, I will leave that discussion, .!\Ir. RUSSELL. I want to show, Mr. Chairman, the reason then. The discussion on the floor of this House· to-day shows which the gentleman has not discovered in these cases. John to every man present the laxity of the committee in reporting Mulligan, to whose case the gentleman refers, is about of the bills-- - same age as John F. Rankin. Mulligan is 71 years of age, and · L Mr . .A.NSBERRY. Mr. Chairman, I make the point of order Rankin is 71 years of age. Both served q.bout the same length that the gentleman is not discussing the paragraph. of time. Mulligan's injuries did not result from his service. The CH.A.IRl\f.AN. The Chair sustains the point of order. He is drawing a pension under the age law, while Rankin is The gentleman must confine himself to the paragraph just read. drawing a pension because of injuries from which he now Mr. RODDENBERY. The Chairman having ruled upon the suffers, resulting from his service in the .Army. That is a dis­ question-- · tinction that has been recognized,· both in the Bureau of Pen­ The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Georgia [l\Ir. TRIB­ sions and in the Committee on Invalid Pensions and by this BLE] is recognized. House. [Applause.] Mr. TRIBBLE. I simply wish to ask a question. No such The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will report the amendment. rule as this has been invoked in this House before. If the name The Clerk read as follows: of John Smith were not mentioned in a paragraph, we can not On page 3, line 11, strike out the word "thirty-s ix." mention the name of John Smith? Mr . .AUSTIN. l\fr. Chairman, the gentleman from Georgia The CH.AIRMAN. The rule of the House is that under the [Mr. RODDE IBEBY] demanded an explanation from either the gen­ five-minute rule a Member must confine himself to the subject tleman.having this bill in charge or from the author of this item of the amendment offered. That has always been the rule of carried in the bill. It gives me pleasure to say to the gentleman the House. The Clerk will read. that I am the author of the bill to increase the pension of John Tlle Clerk read as follows: F. Rankin, a man whom I have favorably known for perhaps The name of John F. Rankin, late of Company C, Fourth Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 20 years. While I do not hope to satisfy the gentleman from $3() per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Georgia [l\fr. RoDDENBEBY], or the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Mr. RODDENBERY. I move to strike out the words "thirty- CALLAWAY], who seem to be absolutely reckless and unwilling six dollars," in line 11. to believe that the pension roll is a roll of honor, yet there are The CH.AIRMAN. The Clerk will report it.he amendment. Members on the floor of this House to whom I wish to speak The Clerk read as follows : in reference to the merits of this particular case. Page 3, line 11, strike out the word "thirty-six." This man, as the record and report show, is more than 70 Mr. RODDENBERY. I ask the attention of the author of the years of age. He rendered faithful service in the Union Army bill, or the chairman of the subcommittee, 'to the fact that it for almost three years, enlisting from one of the East Tenne see appears in this case that John F. Rankin is 71 years old, and regiments, raised right in the heart of the Southern Confed­ served as a musician in Company C, Fourth Regiment Tennes­ eracy, where it cost something to be loyal to the Union. .!\fr. see Volunteer Cavalry, two years and seven months; that he is Rankin is a poor man, honest, worthy, and deserving, and the now a pensioner at $22 a month on account of slight deafness. medical testimony in his case shows that his disabilities are The medical testimony shows that the applicant has a small, not single, but triple, and that owing to the nature and char­ rough, and hilly farm, which he rents, and that his small in­ acter of the disabilities .from which he suffers he is precluded come from this source and his pension constitute his sole sup­ from making a living by manual labor. port It is recommended that he be allowed an increase to $36. Somet _ing has been said about the particular service that he Now, mark you, here is a musician, owning a little farm and rendered, namely, that he was a musician. Those were two having a small income, and we have just passed an item where years and seven months of faithful service for your country, another soldier was 71 years of age, served three years, not as a and. for my country. It often required music to enthuse and musician, .but as a fighter and a soldier, has no property at all, rally the boys under the Stars and Stripes, and it took music suffers from divers and sundry afflictions, and the proposition is .to rally the boys under the stars and bars. That magic music­ to give him $24 a month. What I would like the gentleman to Dixie--carried many boys into the Southern Confederacy, under explain is \Yhy the soldier who served three years and fought, the southern flag. and who ·has no property, who is absolutely helpless, gets $24, But the man who left his home to fight for the flag of the and the horn tooter, who is now getting $22 .and has a farm, Union and the man who left his home for the Southern Con­ gets $36. .And there is deep silence upon the face of the waters. federacy both displayed heroic courage, whether he was a

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musician or an officer or a private, and I believe that justice Mr. TRIBBLE. May I ask the gentleman a question? reigns in the breast of men in this House, regardless of which Mr. RODDENBERY. I yield to the gentleman. side of this Chamber they sit upon. [Applause.] I despise and l\fr. TRIBBLE. Does it not occur to the gentleman that he hold in utter contempt this constant arraigning and abusing the is the only one that can get the floor on this side of the House? Union soldiers in this House and• in certain publications, and l\fr. RODDENBERY. I can not accede entirely to the views this constant challenging of the motives and intentions of my of my colleague. colleagues ln fa:vorably reporting and voting for these bills, Mr. AUSTIN. I suggest that the gentleman yield to his and I resent it. My colleagues upon this side and upon that colleague. side are performing thefr duty under their oaths just as well l\lr. RODDENBERY. Here is a pensioner 71 years old who as the .Member from Georgia [l\fr. RoDDENBERY] and the Member has been drawing a pension for years and years, and the com­ from Texas [Ur. CALLAWAY]. .My worthy colleagues on this mittee, with the hand of favoritism, with the mighty power of sicie and upon that side have the honor and the glory of our an unrestrained and well-nigh unresistant majority, propose to common country at heart, and ill does it become the gentleman gi--re this soldier, 71 years of age, $36 a month, when the very from Georgia or the gentleman from Texas to impugn the honor item before it is for an old, decrepit, infirm man, with long and the patriotism of their action in this House. [Applause.] service in the Army, now tottering under the weight of 79 years, The CHAIRUAN. The Clerk will report the amendment. who gets but $30 a month. There is written into this bill 'l'he Clerk read as follows: discrimination, favoritism, partiality, and pull-I do not know Ou page 3, line 11, strike out the word "thirty-six." whether it is political pull or patriotic pull-whch enables one man to get $36 when he is only 71 years of age and this The CHAIR.MAN. The question is on agreeing to the amend- ment. poor old man, 79 years old, with the heavy weight of years resting upon him, gets only $30. When he gets only ~30 the · The question was taken, and the amendment was rejected. The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read. pensioner next below him in this bill, no more infirm, no ~nore patriotic, no more valiant, gets $36 a month. I want the ~uthor The Clerk read as follows: of the bil1, who acqniesces in the finding of the committee, to · The name of Ward L. Roach, late of Company B, Second Regiment $30, he Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $2i exp1ain why it is that his constituent gets only wllcu per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. · is nigh onto 80 years of age, while on the same page another man draws $36, when he is not as old and is no more infirm. Mr. RODDENBERY. l\Ir. Chairman, I move to strike out the If you do not answer here, you can not escape explaining when word "twenty-four," in line 19, page 3. you go home. You will not answer me, but when you go home The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will report the amendment. answer your constituent, his sons, and his grandsons, and his The Clerk read as follows: kindred throughout the bailiwick. On page 3, line 19, strike out the word "twenty-four." Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. As I read it, it only pro­ Mr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Chairman, I take this paragraph up vides for $30 in the bill. because I feel very much encouraged that gentlemen who are l\fr. H.ODDENHEHY. Ou the top of page 11, $30 is recom- the authors of bills, for the first time in two years since I have mended, so the report says. , been a Member of this Rouse, venture to rise and tell the merits Mr. ILu.iILTON of West Virginia. Then I do not under­ of their case. stand the gentleman. · Here is a man, Ward L. Roach, 73 years old, a private in his l\lr. RODDENBERY. .AJl of which goes to show that the company, who has been drawing a pension for many years. At chairman of the committee himself, the way this legislation is the rnme time he is a justice of the peace. He has an income ramrodded through, does not know which bill he is voting on, from his. office as justice of the peace-a minimum of $200 a I tell you it is unjust legislation; it is not intelligent legisla­ year-and· his present pension is $180 a year. The committee tion, it is not fair legislation when a mun of ability, a mnn of recommend that he be given $24 a month. skill, a man of learning, a member of the committee investigat­ • We have just passed an item which gives a pension of $20 ing a claim stands here and does not know what pension he is to the widow of a Union soldier, which widow married the voting on. But it is no reflection on him. It is the iniquitous soldier during the war, and is old and feeble and is charged with railroading system. the support and maintenance of an infirm mother. I would like l\fr. H.Al\flLTON of West Virginia. I wanted to know what to have the author of the bill or some member of the committee paragraph the gentleman indicated. · explain why it is that it is just to gi--re a man who is a justice Mr. RODDENBERY. This is roughshod, ill-digested, legisla­ of the peace, so possessed of his faculties, so physically capaci­ tion that the powerful majority rushes through over a· helpless tated that he can preside in that capacity and earn $200 a year colleague who is able only to make a few more objections. at the minimum, an increase of pension from $180 a year to [Laughter.] $288 a year, while you only give to the widow of this soldier Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. Mr. Chairman, a parlia­ who fought, who is helpless and dependent, and who, in the lan­ mentary inquiry. guage of the report, is a war widow, old and pennilesi;;, without The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will state it. resources, but $20 a month? I want to know what explanation Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. What line and page was the author of this bill will give to this old widow and to his the gentleman's amendment offered to. I was unable to hear. constituents, when she in her distress, her poverty, and her dire The CHAIR.MAN. The Clerk will report the amendment condition gets but $20 a month, while right on the same page a again. vital, living judge, a justice of the peace, getting $200 a year The Clerk read as follows: for his services and $180 a year pension, gets an inc1~ease to $24 Page 4, line 17, strike..out the paragraph consisting of lines 17, 18, 19, a month? Gentlemen, you may not undertake to explain satis­ and 20. factorily to me, and the inquiry I make may meet with your silence, but God spare you when the wrath of your constituents The CHAIR.MAN. The question is on the amendment offered meets you at the next election. by the gentleman from Georgia. Mr. A~"'DERSON of Ohio. :Mr. {Jhairman-- The question was taken, and the amendment was lost. Ur. RODDENBERY. I yield my time to the gentleman. ME SAGE FROM THE SENATE. ' l\Ir. ANDERSON of Ohio. I am glad the gentleman from Georgia has found one claim where he approves of 'the com­ The committee informally rose, and Mr. BARTLETT having mittee's action, when he stated that this poor widow is entitled taken the chair as Speaker pro tempore, a message from the to $20 a month. Senate by Mr. Crockett, one of its clerks, announced that -the l\Ir. RODDENBERY. You ought to make it $30. Senate had agreed to the amendments of the House of Repre­ Mr. Al\"TIIDRSON of Ohio. Would you vote for it? sentatives to the bill (S. 4151) to authorize the Minnesota & l\Ir. RODDENBERY. I will vote for it. International Railway Co. to construct a bridge across the The question being taken, the amendment was rejected. Mississippi River at or near Bemidji, in the State of Minnesota. The Clerk read as follows : - The message also ,announced that the Senate had agreeci to The name of Joseph C. McGarrah, late of Company B, -Sixty-fifth the amendments of the House of Representatives to the bill Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the (S. 339) providing for the reappraisement and sale of certain rate of $36 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. lands iu the town site of Port Angeles, Wash., and for other Mr. RODDENBERY. Ur. Chairman, I move to strike out purposes. the paragraph. There are --rery many of these items to which The message also announced that the Senate had passed the I should be glad to address myself, but I am absolutely unable following resolution: physically to continue at great length on these different items. Resol-ved, That the Secretary be directed to request the House of Representatives to return to the Senate the bill ( S. 4238) to provide Therefore I lea.Ye it to such gentlemen around me as may want for the use of the American National Red Cross in aid of the land and these matters investigated to pursue the subject: · naval forces in time of actual or threatened war. · CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MARCH 8,

The message also :innounced that the Senate had passed the l\fr. RUBEY. l\fr. Chairman, I mo,Te to strike out the last following resolution, in which the concurrence of the House of word. The testimony in this report is made not for a court, but Representatires was requested. it is made for the information of Members of this House. Senate concurrent resolution 18. !\fr. TRIBBL~. May I ask the gentleman a questien? ItesoZved by the Senate {the House of Representatitres c01tC'llN'ing), Mr. RUBEY. Yes. • . That the Secretary of War be requested to make a supplemental or ad­ Mr. TRIBBLE. Is it not a fact that for 50 years this pen­ dition.al report or estimate concerning the work of levee construction in the improvement of the navigability of the Mississippi River on the east sio-n legislation, both special and general, has gone through this bank thereof, from Vicksbur~ to Bayou Sara, for use in connection with Hourn, and not a man, until the present session, has raised his S. 4 "5:3, being a bill to aid m construction of levees and embankments voi e to contest a single case? on the east. side of the Mississippi River. Mr. RUBET. UnfortunateJy for me, I will say that I-­ PENSIONS. Mr. TRIBBLE. Then, is the gentleman passing on pensions as The committee resumed its session. a comi, or is he just throwing down the bars and l~tting every- · The Clerk read as follows: body come in without even allowing a Member of Congress to contest or investigate? The name of Henry Meerdink, late of Company D, TWrty-fifth Regi­ ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of l\Ir. RUBEY. Is that a question or a speech? · $30 per month in lie~ of that he is now receiving. M.r. TRIBBLE. The gentleman can take it as h~ pleases. l\lr. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the last l\fr. RUBEY. Mr. Chairman, replying to that, I will say that, word. I say, sir, that the spectacle we have seen here to-day on unfortunately for me, I have not been a Membe!: of Congress the floor of this House, it seems to me, should convince everyone dudng the last 50 years, but the records of this Congress show that during the preceding two years there were passed through that the meth-0ds that have been adopted in the past and the methods ade>pted at the present time by this committee are lax, this Congress over 9,000 private pension bills in a Republican and that the country will not stand for it. Congress, and during that time not a Democrat from Georgia Mr. ANSBERRY. .Mr. Chairman, I make the point of OTder or from any other Southern State got up here and tried to pro­ that the gentleman is not talking to the amendment. · hibit it or tried to Clelay Congress in passing these bills; but the moment we get into control, the moment the Democrats get Mr~ TRIBBLE. I am talking about this case. Mr. ANSBERRY. The gentleman is not speaking to his into the majority and try to do the. right thing for the old soldier, amendment. we ha Ye men on our own side of the House-only two or three­ The CHAIR.MAN. The Chair sustains. the point of order and who are trying to obstruct legislation, who are b.j'ing to do the gentleman will proceed. these things, not for the general good of the whole country but Mr. ANSBERRY. I make: the point of order that the gentle-_ for the purpose of sending back home some speeches that will man can :p.ot proceed unless he proceeds in order. help them in their respective dist1icts. [Applause.] Mr. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman, may I ask the gentleman a Mr. TRIBBLE. I will give notice that the gentleman will question-? not save any time by that point of order. I will be here all Th-e CHAIRMAN. Does the gentlemrui yield:? the time, during this session and the next, and I may be here Mr. RUBEY. Yes. in other days, perhaps, in future sessions; and I should not Mr. TRIBBLE. The gentleman says that I am making no be surprised: that some of you will be at home when I am here. effort, and the other gentleman from Georgia is making no ef­ I am not afraid of my pension stand. I "haye not attempted to fort, for the good of the people we represent. I ask the gentle­ critrcize anybody in my entire discussion of the pension legisla­ man if this Democratic Congress has not gone along here and tion. If you take my first speech of December 9 and read it-- refused to appropriate anything for public buildings; if it has 1\Ir. ANSBERUY. l\fr. Chairman I make the point of order not refused to appropriate anything for battleships, th.e defense that the gentl~man should proceed in order. of our homes; and I ask the gentleman if it has not gone along • .Mr. TRIBBLE. I put the gentleman on notice that he will here an to him in order that Mr. ANSBERRY. The gentleman only shows his lack of this pension legislation should be paid? The gentleman's charge knowledge of the rules by calling it a gag rule. is not sustained by the facts. The people of my district and the . M:r. TRIBBLE. Now, l\Ir. Chairman, they ask in this para­ country at large appreciate the sincerity of this ·fight. graph to extend the pension· to a woman whom the gentleman l\lr. RUBEY. Mr. Chairman,. if the gentleman from Georgia from Missouri, Gov. RuBEY, says wars a good record. will give us an opportunity to legisJatc, before this Congress ac1- .Mr. RUBEY. Mr. Chairman, a parliamentary inquiry. journs we will do the things that the people of this country want The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will state it. done and lea-ve undone- the things that they do not want done. Mr. RUBEY. What paragraph is being discussed? l\Ir. TRIBBLE. I will ask the gentleman another question. l\fr. TRIBBLE. Page 24 of the report. The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman from Missouri yield Mr. RUBEY. But we are not passing the report. to the gentlem:m from Geo.rgia? l\fr. TRIBBLE. I · beg the gentleman's pardon> this is not Mr. RUBEY. Certainly. the case of the gentleman from Missouri. In the case before Mr. TRIBBLE. Ha-re not gentlemen had the opportunity the Honse they propose to pay a pension to a woman who never right here on the floor of the Honse, and is not the agricultural obtained a divorce from a previous husband'. I notice through­ bill grinding along dny ufter day right now, and do not the gen­ out this report of the committee, and if gentlemen will read tle.men come in here and join forces and cut down the agricul­ it they will see, that they quote from .Members of Congress. tural bill in order that gentlemen may pay the pensions that They say in their finaings that Congressman So-and-so made they are asking for their districts? certain statements in regard to such and such a party. I sub­ Mr. RUBEY. No; absolutely we do not. mit, Mr. Chairman, that it is not a fair investigation by the The CHA1RMAN. The time of the gentleman from Missouri ce>mnlittee. If the Congressmen want their testimony to go in has expired. this record then it ought to be put here in a.ffida vit form an.d Mr. BOOHER. U1:. Chairman, I have heard a good deal of not in the way it is. I challenge gentlemen to read the re­ discussion to-day on pension matters. I have heard the two port through from one end to the other, and if they do they will gentlemen from Georgi.a [Mr. RoDDENBERY and 1\Ir. TnmBLE] find frequent occurrences of Congressmen's statements. They talk about patriotism and love of the old soldier. I have heard would not be received in any court in this land as te timc>.ny. them declare time and time again that they believe in pension­ Mr. ;RUBEY. Will the gentleman yield for a question? ing the worthy soldier, and during. all of this discussion they :Mr. TRIBBLE. I will. hnxe shown a disposition not to be satisfied with the report of Mr. RUBEY. Would the gentleman take a statement made one of the great committees ef this House upon the very thing by one of his colleagues and place in it as much credence as he they claim to be so pah·ioticaJly in farnr of; and they man.if est would in his sworn affidavit? more bravery and more patriotism when they can attack a bill MT. TRIBBLE. There is not u colleague. in this Congress that comes here proposing to- put a poor old woman, the widow whose statement I would not take. of two soldiers, on the pension list than they do in attacking the .1\fr. RUBEY. Then, why does the gentleman want his affi- pension of a. soldier-- davit? · Mr. HOW A.RD. Mr. Chairman, I ri~e to a point of order. Mr. TRIBBLE. The1·e is not a court in this country that . The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will state it. would take a Congressman's statement, even though he holds the Mr. HOWARD. I make the point of orde1· that the gentle­ distinction of being a Congressman, without his putting it in man. from Missouri is not confining his argument to the sec­ legal form, and all I am a king for is legal form, and I have the tion under discussion. right to do that. i\Ir. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman,. I hope the gentleman from The CH.AIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Georgia Georgia will withdra·w that objection. has expired. - Mr. HOWARD. I will not do it. 1912. ·coNGRESSION AL RECORD-HOUSE. 3063

The CHAIRMAN. The point of order is sustained and the Mr. HOW.ARD. I make the point of order that the gentleman gentleman from Missouri will proceed in order. is not discussing the paragraph of the bill under consideration. l\Ir. RODDENBERY. Mr. Chairman, I make the point of The OH.AIRMAN. The gentleman from Indiana will proceed order that the gentleman is entirely within his rights. in order. .- The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Missouri will pro­ Ur. OLINE. I will do so, with pleasure. ceed in order. Mr. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman, I insist upon the point of Mr. BOOHER. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from .Georgia order if the gentleman will not allow me to ask him a question. [Mr. TRIBBLE] objects to a pension being· paid to the widow The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman yield to the gentle­ of an old soldier, and I was talking about the bravery of men man from Georgia? who can attack the report of the committee when it proposes l\fr. OLINE. Not at the present time. l\Ir. Chairman, for to pension the widow of a soldier who served his country long every dollar that the State of Georgia has paid into the public and well at the front. Treasury of the United States they have taken out nearly $5. The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman yield to the gentleman Mr. HOWARD. l\Ir. Chairman, I raise the point of order. from Georgia? The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will state it. l\Ir. BOOHER. Na. I have heard these gentlemen say that l\Ir. HOWARD. That the gentleman is not discussing the we may go back to our districts, and when we hear from the paragraph of the bill that is under consideration. people back there, there will be vacant seats on- this side The OHAIR.MAN. The gentleman from Indiana wi11 proceed of the Chamber. -I want to say to the gentlemen that they may in order. go back to my district in Missouri, and if they will go out in l\Ir. HOWARD. And that his argument is not germane. the open and attack the reputation and the character of the Mr. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman, I raise the point of order. widow of an old soldier, when the committee has reported in The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will state it. favo1· of her, the good women of my district will drum them out l\Ir: TRIBBLE. The Chairman instructed me that I was of the country; and if they have the same kind of women in out of order, and I call upon the Ohair to pass upon the ques­ the South, as I know they have, they would receive the tion of whether the gentleman is now out of order. 'Same treatment there. [Applause.] Why, the great State of I do not propose for the gentleman to assail my State, and not l\1iss9uri sustains a Confederate soldiers' home by taxation. be heard from, if that is the purpose of the gentleman. She sustains a Union soldiers' home by taxation, and a Repub­ 1\Ir. OLINE. I am just referring to the bare question and lican member of ijle legislature of that State introduced a making answer to the very proposition the gentleman invoked. bill taking over the Confederate Soldiers' Home as a State The CHAIRMAN. The Ohair sustains the point of the gentle- institution. We tried to sustain it by popular subscription, man. The gentleman will proceed in order. but the burden became too great, and without a dissenting vote Mr. OLINE. For every dollar expended-­ in the legislature it was taken over as a State institution. Mr. HOWARD. l\Ir. Chairman-- [Applause.] We are threatened now that if we vote to give a The CHAIRMAN. The House will be in order. The time of pension to some poor old widow woman of $12 a month that this the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. OLINE] has expired. Government is going to sink beneath the weight which that pen­ [Laughter.] sion will place upon the backs of the people. I am willing to Mr. HOWARD. Mr. Chairman, I rise to a point of order. take my share of the responsibility. [Applause.] I have a l\fr. OLI1\T]Il. Mr. Chairman, may -I be allowed to extend my brother who lies buried over there in the soil of Virginia. He remarks in the RECORD on this point? died in defense of the flag we love so well. I am speaking from The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection? that P(\int of view, and I say to my .friends from Georgia that Mr. HOW.ARD. Mr. Chairman, I object. they are mistaken in the patriotism of the people of this coun­ Mr. EDWARDS. Reserving the right to object, I ask unan­ try. [Applause.] You are mistaken when you try to compel imous consent that the gentleman may proceed in order, to fini sh this House to believe against your better judgment that this his remarks, for five minutes. kind of conduct will meet the approval of even your own con­ The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Georgia [Mr. En­ stituents. I know it will not meet the approval of the people W .ABDS] asks unanimous consent that the gentleman from Indi­ that I represent here and a vast majority of the people whom ana [Mr. OLINE] may be allowed to proceed for five minutes. the l\Iembers of this House represent. I believe in private pen­ Is there objection? [After a pause.] The Ohair hears none. sion bills. I believe in them more than I did in the Sherwood Mr. HARDWICK. I do not believe that my friend from bill when I voted for it. Indiana [Mr. OLINE] intends to make an assault on the State I believe the way to help the needy cases, to help the old of Georgia here to-day. men and old women who need support in their last . days, is Mr. OLINE. Oh, no; I have no such purpose and have made through private pension bills, and I a.m glad that the Demo­ no assault. I am just answering the gentleman. cratic members of the Committee on Invalid Pensions are not Mr. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman, I make the point of order I behind the Republican Committee on Invalld Pensions in taking ought to have the right to answer the gentleman. The Ohair care of these old soldiers. [Applause.] We can go back to our will not allow me to discuss those questions. I propose to people and say that we have maintained the record of taking answer the gentleman if he assails my State. care of the needy and dependent soldiers and their widows; The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. CLINE] and that is the way the people look at this matter. I am not is recognized for five minutes. Does the gentleman yield to the talking from a sentimental standpoint, but from the standpoint gentleman from Georgia [l\Ir. HARDWICK]? of doing right by these old men and women. Mr. OLI1\TE. I do not want to violate the rules of the The gentlemen from Georgia have the undisputed right to House. If the gentleman insists on the point of order, I will oppose the granting of pension of every kind, and no one take my seat. questions their right to do so. But to assail the reputation Mr. HARDWICK. Will the gentleman yield for just a of this old_ widow requires neither _the e:xhibition of courage moment? or patriotism, and I can not help but think my friends are mak­ l\!r . .OLINE. Certainly. . ing a very grave mistake. Mr. HARDWICK. I did not understand that my friend was The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman has expired. assailing the State of Georgia . . l\1r. OLINE. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the last two Mr. OLINE. Bless you, I want Georgia to get everything words, for the purpose of making an observation in reply to a she can get for rivers and harbors and public buildings, but I do statement of the gentleman from Georgia; who reproached us not want her to come back and take the well-earned support for not introducing a river and harbor bill and a public build­ from the old soldiers who spent four years to teach the State ings bill in this House-- that it was wrong and bring her back into the Union. Mr. TRIBBLE. I beg the gentleman's pardon. I said noth­ l\fr. HARDWICK. I want to thank the gentleman in behalf ing about rivers and harbors bill. of the delegation from Georgia for the very splendid tribute l\Ir. CLINE. Do not take up my time. I want to call the be has paid to the members of that delegation for the efficiency attention of the gentleman from Georgia to what this Oongr~ss and zeal with which they serve .their constituents. I want to has done for Georgia in the last five years. It has paid into the thank the gentleman also because in all of these things we have Public Treasury internal revenue estimated at $2,325,000. They received he has helped us to get the appropriation. have taken back in river and harbor improvements $2,632,000. l\Ir. MANN. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman is not proceeding There has been paid to the citizens of Georgia by the Fed~ral in order, and I ask that the gentleman from Indiana may pro­ Government in pensions $2,116,000, and now we are just erecti!l-g ceed for five minutes with general debate, and that the gentle­ and completing 30 buildings in 30 cities of the State of Georgia man from Georgia [Mr. TRIBBLE] be.permitted to answer in five at a cost of $4,000,000. [Applause.] minutes. Mr. HOWARD. Mr. Chairman, I raise the point of order. The CHAIRMAN. The pro forma amendment will be con­ The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman ~ill state it. sidered as withdrawn, and the Clerk will read. 80611 QONGRESSIQN AL. RECORD- HOUSE. MAROH 8,

Mr. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous co~nt to then, another Member brings forth the rules and shows to the have printed and :inserted in the RECORD, in connection with the members of the committee in the presence of the Honse written section under discussion-- rules on certain questions. I would like to know if this case Mr. l\fANN. Mr. Chairman- - comes within the rules, if they have any. I state emphatically The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Illinois is r0C()gnized. that the law is against this claim, and challenge denial. l\Ir. MANN. · I ask that the gentleman from Indiana [l\Ir. Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. What claim is it? CLINE] may be permitted to proceed in general debate for five Mr. TRIBBLE. It is mentioned on page 75. minutes, and that the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. TBIIIBLE] be Mr. RODDENBERY. It is at the bottom of page 30 of the permitted to answer in five minutes. bill. Mr. ANSBERRY. To that I object. Mr. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman, Bene A. Corbin was the wife l\Ir. RODDENBERY. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out of a soldier, and as the wife of a soldier, who has pensionable the paragraph. In the consideration, Mr. Chairman and gentle­ right, under the laws of the United States, she has a right to men, of this yery important paragraph I desire to" say by way draw a pension. But, Mr. Chairman, she married again, and she of kind reply to my friend from Missouri [Mr. BooHER] that surrendered her right to a pension. After she had lived with the neither of the gentlemen from Georgia made any reference to man whom she married the second time she decided that she the widow of the soldier which can not be found in the exact would rather have a pension than the man, and she deserted him, language of the report of the committee, the report itself show­ secured a divorce, and now comes in here and asks this commit­ ing that this widow "took up with" a man. We only quoted tee to grant her a pension, and they ·give it to her. Now, is that the report. I want to say to my friend, now, from Indiana [Mr. within the law? It is against the law and the statutes of the CLINE] that we are glad to have the report as to what is trans­ United States, and you gentlemen must know it, although it may piring in the State of Georgia, but I will also admonish him be within the rules prescribed by the gentlemen of this com­ that we do not advocate giving one appropriation in order to . mittee, but your rules are not law. I am calling for the enforce- get another. ment of the law. · .Mr. ANSBERRY. Mr. Chairman, I make the point of order Now, I think that I have a right to know, Mr. Chairman, and that the gentleman is not addressing himself to this amendment. the right to investigate, when these cases come before this The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will proceed in order. House, and ascertain whether or not the committee is acting Mr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Chairman, I desire to proceed de­ within the spirit of the law and within the letter of the law. liberately and in order and say that under this section, which Why, we have been criticized by gentlem~ here, who refer to provides an appropriation and deals with the amount of pen­ the gentleman from Georgia as being the first e1er to rise and sions that go to the various sections of the country, although undertake to obstruct legislation for pensions in this House. it may be true, as stated, that the disposition of these pensions In the name of God, is it not time for some man to have the and other appropriations are not in exact balance, yet if it nerve and the manhood to get up and contest such claims as were not for the balance of trade of $200,000,000 that comes from are brought before this House some time or other? the South in the way of the cotton product we would have a The CHA.IR.MAN. The pro forma amendment will be con­ panic in this country-- sidered as withdrawn. [Cries of "Read!" "Read!"] The .Mr. ANSBERRY. I make the point of order. Clerk will read. Mr. RODDENBERY (continuing)•. That Morgan, Guggen­ The Clerk read as follows: heim, and all the rest of them could never stop. The nam~ of William F. Marshall, late of Company I, Thirty-sixth The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Ohio [Mr. ANSBEBRY] Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate makes a point of order. _ of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Mr. Al~SBERRY . The gentleman is not pToceeding in order. Mr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Chairman, I IDOYe to strike out Mr. RODDENBERY. Relating to this item in this paragraph, the paragraph, for the purpose of calling the gentleman's at­ which I move to strike out, Mr. Chairman, I desire to say it teution to a certain matter. I shall not detain the committee adds a tax equally on every citizen of the country, and the great unduly. southern country that maintains the balance of trade in favor of Mr. RUSSELL. What is the name of tlmt case! this Government is willing to pay its just and full proportion Mr. RODDE~TBERY . It is on page 31, line 12. I will not for its soldiers,· and, if necessary, we will increase the amount detain the committee; but I think the attention of the com­ of any item that deserves it. mittee und of the House ought to be called to this fact : Here Mr. ANSBERRY. Mr. Chairman, a point of order. is the name of William F. :Marshall, a. soldier, and if you will The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Ohio will state his look at the committee report you will see that there is a lack point of order. • of uniformity in the rates. He gets 40 a month, and just Mr. ANSBERRY. l\Iy point of order is that the gentleman is before it there is a widow. She is given only $12 a month. I not proceeding in order. can not understand why a widow is not just as dependent and The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will confine himself to the just as helpless as a man and why she should get only $12 a motion and proceed in order. . month and he should get $40 a month. And just before that Mr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Chairman, I am proceeding in there is a soldier, and lie is given $50 a. month. It presents order in the discussion of this paragraph, inasmuch as it this situation : deals with a public expenditure. I welcome it if it is a deserv­ Here is a Congressman's soldier who gets $50, while another ing case. We can afford it, considering our yast resources, our gets $12; and here is a widow who gets $12, and another vast commerce, including our vast exportation of that com­ gets $30. It does seem to me that in the careful, painstaking modity which keeps the balance of trade in our favor. We will wisdom of the committee there ought to be some remedy for bear all the burdens of the country with you and ask no favors, that. I am not seeking to delay the committee or to make a and will do justice to every single inteTest of this country. vexatious objection. Mr. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to Mr. RUSSELL. I know the gentleman is asking the question include in this discussion the report .in this case. in good faith. Now, does not the gentleman from Georgia The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Georgia .[.Mr. Tnrn­ know that it is the policy of Congress and of the Pension De­ BLE] asks unanimous consent to insert the report in the RECOBD. partment, and always has been-whether right or wrong, I do Is there objection? not now assume to say-not to pay widows of soldiers as much Mr. ANSBERRY. I object as the soldiers themselves who did the fighting are paid? The CHA.ffilUAN. The question is on agreeing to the motion Mr. RODD~BERY. That is quite true. to strike out the section. Mr. RUSSELL. That is all there is in that point. The question was taken, and the motion wa.s rejected. Mr. RODDENBERY. But does .not the gentleman think it The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read. would be more equitable, more just, and more patriotic to take a The Clerk read as follows: bill like this, with all its variations from $12 to $50 a month, The nruµc of Belle A. Corbin, widow of John A: Corbin, late of Com­ and recommit it and let a proposition come in to equalize the pany G, Ninety-sixth Re

all widows $20 a month? Would the gentleman vote for a bill as to what the committee is going to do. May I respectfully like that? inquire of the two gentlemen from Georgia, Mr. ROJ)DE~Bi;;RY Mr. RODDENBERY. If I get the opportunity I will move to and l\Ir. TRIBBLE, whether they have a number of other para­ recommit the bill with instructions to the committee to report graphs in the bill which they desire to discuss? immediately $24 a month for all soldiers and $20 a month for all l\Ir. TRIBBLE. Answering for myself, I will say that I h~ve widows ·in this bill; and if you will permit it to be recommitted several. and reported to the House I will vote for it, because it will sav.e Mr. RODDENBERY. Unless matters arise in the future un­ the country many thousands of dollars over the present proVI­ expectedly, I have only two. There are a number I would like sions of the bill and be more equitable. to address myself to, but I am physically unabill to do so. l\fr. RUSSELL. That was the nature of the Sherwood bill, There are, however, two others that I do desire five minutes in so far as the soldiers were concerned. Did the gentleman vote which to call attention of the members of the subcommittee and for that bill? the Members of the House to inconsistencies. Mr. RODDENBERY. No; I did not~ but that bill covered the Mr. MANN. May I further inquire if it is the gentleman's cases of people worth $100,000 apiece. They ought not to be intention to make a motion to recommit? pensioned. Mr. RODDENBERY. It is. Ir. RUSSELL. I think not'myself1 I agree with the gentle­ Mr. MAL°"Q'N. .And does the gentleman intend to insist on a man on that. quorum? Mr. RODDENBERY. ·The gentleman and I agree. Then, Mr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Chairman, it is very important to there was in that bill a provision that a soldiei: in a soldiers' have a quorum here on this legislation. home might draw $30 a month. That was not fair. There were l\Ir. MANN. If the gentleman will indulge me, it seems to other insurmountable objections. me it would be wise for the committee to rise. It is very evi­ Ur. ANDERSON of Ohio. The gentleman says he would like dent that there is- only one or two ways in which these primte to recommit the bill and give all soldiers $24 or $30 per month. pension bills· can be passed. One would be by a rule such as .Will not the gentleman take into consideration a soldier who was brought in two weeks ago ; another would be by a rule • bas reached the age of 62 years as against the case of a soldier which would authorize the Speaker to recognize a member of who is 80 years old, as this old soldier is at the present time? the committee to make a motion for suspension of the rules to Will the gentleman not take into consideration a soldier who pass- the bill. I should think likely, if the opposition is to be served 90 days as against a soldier who served over. 4 years? continued, that in the state we are in, as far as the business of Will he pension all soldiers alike, regardless of age, servicey or the House is concerned, the House would be justified in agree­ di ~ability? ing- to a rule which would authorize the Speaker on Fridays to 1\Ir. RODDENBERY. No. I would draft a bill covering recognize a l\Iember for a motion to suspend the rules and pass soldiers- the private pension bill. If that is to be the case and. we are to The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Georgia have that or some other such method it might as well be. applied ias expired. to this bill at another session as to sit here for several hours The question being taken on the motion to strike out the to-night and; then not be able to pass it. It is perfectly manifest paragraph, it was rejected. that the House can not get a quorum to-night. The Clerk read as follows : 1\fr. RODDENBERY. May. I inquire with reference to the The name of- Albert Barfield, alias Albert Pound, late of Company C, motion to suspend the. rules and. pass the bill, if there is any Twenty-fourth Regiment United States Colored Volunteer .lnfantry, and rule of the House now that J}revents a motion to suspend the pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in Heu of that he is now receiving. rules on 1\fonday, on suspension day? . .Mr. MANN. There is no rule of the House-, but with the ex­ Mr. ANSBERRY. Mr. Chairman, I move, to strike out ception.. of the war claims b~ which in the last Congress was "twenty-four," in line 19, and to insert in lieu thereof" thirty." passed under a motion to suspend. the rules, the Speaker has I desire to call the attention of the committee to the fact never heretofore recognized a Member for a motion to suspend that this man, evidently a colored soldier, is suffering from the rules to pass a private bill curvature of the spine, partial paralysis, and total blindness. Mr. RODDENBERY. I have no doubt that the gentleman In my opinion he should be paid $30 a month. from Pennsylvania could. assist the gentleman of the Rules .Mr. ANDERSON of Ohio. Which one is it? Committee on this side in the preparation of such a rule. Mr. ANSBERRY. Albert Barfield, on page 31, line 16. On Mr. M..Al\1N. It would not require the ingenuity of the gentle­ this particular proposition I am quite in line with my patriotic man from Pennsylvania. .Any gentleman who has been in the "" friend from Georgia [Mr. RoDDENBERY], who has done so much House for two or three terms, who has seen a large share of the this afternoon to point out errors in the bill. . legislation of Congress pass through the House under motion· to. Mr. ANDERSON of Ohio. Will the gentleman yield? suspend the rules, without which Congress would be soon tied Mr. TRIBBLE. Certainly. up on. legislation scr that it could not extricate itself, would Mr. ANDERSON of Ohio. I would like to advise my col­ readily recognize the fact that a large share of the business is league that it has been the practice of the committee not to ;passed under suspension of the rules, and would readily sug­ grant an increase exceeding $24 where the soldier served less gest that that would be the proper way to make a motion to than a year. While I would vote for the increase in this case pass a bill which two·thirds of the House desires to pass after to $30, or in all similar ca.Bes, it is against the practice of the short discussion. committee. Mr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Chairman, I was altogether of the Mr. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman, I desire to say this in re­ 1 opinion of the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. MANN], that with­ gard to the gentleman s amendment: '.Iibis fight on special pen­ out any assistance we on this side could prepare rules of this sions started principally on the motion of a gentleman. on the sort, until it was brought to my attention two ·weeks ago that other side over there to increase a pension on the floor of the recourse was had to the great learning and ability of the gen­ House from $25 to $70. To this I have called attention in tleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. DALZELL], and· he safely guided previous remarks. The attention of the country was .called to us through into the land of gagdom. that particulal' fact. I have been assured by members of this Mr. Li\.MB. Oh, the gentleman from Pennsylvania, having committee to-day that no more Member~ will be allowed on the been long a member of the majority of the House that did busi­ floor of the House to increase a pension without carrying it ness, that passed more good legislation than any qther legisla­ back to the committee and have the committee act on it first. tive body in the same length of time, knows how it is done. Mr. ANSBERRY. Mr. Chairman, I will withdraw the amend­ The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Dlinois ment. I only wanted to test the gentleman's patriotism. has expired. · Mr. RODDIDNBERY. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. Mr. Chairma~ what is the paragraph. So far as this gentleman from Georgia is con­ before the House? cerned so long as I am a Member of Congress, I will not The CHAIRMAN. Nothing. The Clerk will read. willfully, knowingly, and deliberately vote to give a nigger $24 The Clerk read as follows: or 30 and the widow of a white soldier only $12-never. The name of James D. Burcham, late of Company E, Sixth Regiment The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the motion of the gen- Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 tleman from Georgia. to strike out the section. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The question was taken, and the amendment was rejected. Mr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Chairman, is it in orden at this The Clerk read as follo~s: stage to suggest the absence of a quorum? The name of Edward B. N-0rth, late of Company G, Ni.net.r-fifth Regi­ The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will count. One hundred and ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of sixteen Members present, a quorum. $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Mr. MANN. Mr. Chairman, I ask that the Chair count l\.Ir. MANN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out tlle Just again. I am not willing to have the Chair guess at what is a word to see if we can get some information in the committee quorum in this committee under any circumstance. 3066 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. }fAROH 8,

The CHAIR.MAN (after counting). One hundred and eight­ she was dependent on the pe()ple of Lebanon and the church een Members present. . The Clerk will read. federation. The Clerk read as follows: I want to say to you that I think it is getting to be a. pretty The name of Joseph Carter, jr., late of Company B, Tenth Regiment severe hardship when the people of Georgia, to whom they New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the refer, are not only called upon to carry the pension list of some rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of the Western States, but to carry on that list the dependent l\Ir. RODDENBERY. Mr. Chairman, I move that the com­ paupers who are not entitled to pensions. Now, l\fr. Chairman, mittee do now rise. what are the facts? I weigh well my words, and I do not mean 'l'he CHAIRMAN. The question is on the motion of the to criticize the committee, but I say they have not inyestigated gentleman from Georgia that the committee do now rise. these cases. These cases, I presume, come up in the committee • The question was taken, and on a division, ·demanded by room as they usually do in committee rooms, and the members ! Mr. RonDENBERY, there were-ayes 24, noes 70. of the committee are busy. They have passed up to this time l\f r. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman, I make the point of order about 600 cases. The gentleman can not get up on the floor . that there is no quorum present. of this House and say that they have inspected and passed upon Mr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Chairman, I ask for tellers. the claims of these pensioners by. personal investigation. There­ The CHAIRi\f AN. All those in favor of ordering tellers will fore I am not criticizing• the committee. I have never in any rise and stand until counted. of my pension speeches or remarks on the floor of this House l\fr. ELLERBE. Mr. Chairman, a parliamentary inquiry. criticized any man or set of men. You can read my speeches The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will state it. from the beginning, and you will find that that is true. What Mr. ELLERBE. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from Georgia are the facts of this case? I will give them. on my left [Mr. TRIBBLE] makes the point that there is no The husband, according to the report of the committee, A. J. quorum present. After he had done that, the gentleman from Moore, died on March 19, 1865. Listen l\ir. Chairman. This Georgia on my right [Mr. RoDDENBERY], who has been very does not come from the mouth of my friend from Missouri silent to-day, demanded tellers. I ask now if it is not, first, [Mr. RUBEY]. I know he is an honest man, if there is an honest • the proper thing to do for the Chair to decide the point of no man on the floor of this House. He is my friend, and I love quorum? him; but these words do not come from him. But these words i\fr. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman, I insist on the point of order go to the country, and the country stands upon this record; and that there is no quorum present. I insist that the division dis­ what does the record say. It says: closed the fact of the absence of a quorum. Shortly thereafter Nancy took up with Gaven, also a soldier, nnd, .Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Chairman, I make the point of order having become a Catholic, married him by ceremony February 15, 1878. that that point of order is dilatory. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman's time has expired. . With- The CHAIRMAN. The Chair has just counted a quorum. out objection, the proforma amendment will be withdrawn. l\Ir. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman, when the Chair counted it l\Ir. TRIBBLE. Now, there is the record. again ·on a division, the absence of a quorum was disclosed. The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read. The CHAIRMAN. The number of those who stood up on the The Clerk read as follows: division did not constitute a quorum, but a number of gentle­ The name of 1'.fary E. Martin, widow of George G. 1\!artin, late lieu­ men did not stand up. There was a quorum present. Those in tenant colonel First Regiment United States Colored Volunteer Infan­ farnr of ordering tellers will rise and stand until counted. try, and pay her a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that [After counting.] Twelve gentlemen, not a sufficient number, she is now ~eceiving. and tellers are refused, and the Clerk will read. l\fr. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the last The Clerk read. as follows : word. Now, I want to conclude my remarks as to Nancy Ga.ten. The name of Frederick Markgraff, late of Company F, Sixty-eighth l\Ir. ANSBERRY. Mr. Chairman, I make the point of order Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the that he can not conclude his remarks concerning this person rate of $20 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. while we are on another item. l\fr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Chairman, a parliamentary in­ The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Georgia will proceed. quiry: From what page is the Olerk reading? .Mr. ANSBERRY. He mmts to talk about a case which we · The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk is reading from page 35. have passed. Mr. RODDENBERY. l\1r. Chairman, is it in ·order for the l\Ir. TRIBBLE. If the House- Cbair to ascertain if the Clerk made a mistake and skipped 1\fr. ANSBERRY. I did not want you to discuss a paragraph page 34? which has been passed. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair presumes that the Clerk has The CHAIR.MAi~. The gentleman from Georgia [Mr. TRIBBLE] , . read consecutively. The Clerk will proceed with the reading. may proceed in order. The Clerk read as follows: l\fr. TRIBBLE. I respectfully submit it has been stated on The name of David Gilchrist, late of Company B, Thirty-sixth Regi­ the floor of this House here to-day that the committee had no ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of disposition in the world to shut out the light of truth. $36 per month in lieu of th

[ aa-y that no 'Woman can :wing to some de- is now .i:eceiving. . feet in ·Cobb's statement, a man rwjth an .alias, t~ken after 80 Mr. RODDENBERY. MI'.. :Chairman, in regard to this pa.r- ye~us, the bureau had -declined :to take his u:noo..rrobara.t-ed state- ticuiar pension, I mov:e to ·strike .out the paragraph. It i.s OD ment. Now, l\Ir. ()hairman, the bureau ·says.: ipage 44, line 11, pa.ge 104., ef the l'eport; the seeo-nd item. One Charles Cobb, a gambler, informed .one Pattiek .IL Daly, whom This alleged soldier, ·who I .dottbt not was a soldier as the he met in Cbeyenne (Daly being froD1 Quincy), that sruwer, whom he reco-rd shows, now 72 "years .old, dre-w a pension., <>f $6 a montih knew as Johnson, died in a prospecting tour in the faU o.f 1876 :in for many years. Later, under .Wsting law, he ·drew .a peB.s.ion Colorado, he, De Kreiger, ·alias [)aly, 'being .one of a ·part.Y ·of four, of ~12 tor several .Year-s., imd still later, ·llllder anotbe1· law, he .Cobb also being of the party. -Owing to some d.iserepandes jn ·Cohb"s 'f' s.tateme.. nts, taken 30 years .after the reputed gea,th, the bu.x;eau declined drew a pension of $15 a month for some tiroe. Now, the com· to ac.cept ·his \ln.corrollo.rated statement. mitt~e recommends th.at his pensio.11 ·be increased to $36 a This committee .does not furnish :the Bouse with the .untruth- month, which is more than doubling it at -0ne stroke, .while ful things ·Cobb furnished the bureauJ a:'ef-e.rred to, but calls on ju.st above it, on the :Same page, is the case ef a widow, 64 this House to give her a pension with this kind .of ·eviclence_. re- years old, who is dependent, who .married .the ·soldier just ,jected by .the bureau. .after the :w.a:r. Th-e ·sol-die.r ,died, .ancl ·now the committee rec- The CHAIRl\I.AN~ The .time of the gentleman has &pir:ed. · -0mmend $20 for the widow. 1 want to suggest to rthe gentle­ ~fr. HUGHES of New Jer.sey. Mr. Chairman, will the gentle- man tli:at the difference between $20 and $36 shows :a disp.ro· man yield? portionate amount that can not be defended. So I wish to The CH.AIRl\IA.N. The gentleman has no time t-0 yield. His ·sugg£.-st agaln to this committee that th-ere are in this bill some time has expired. items that should nave been mwe carefully considered. Mr. HOW.ARD. Mr. Chairman, I move to sbi:ike i0ut the Ja.st :Mr. AKIN .of New York. Is this going to be another case two words. 'Where tbe old lady put the dingbats on the old i:nan? l\Ir. Chairman, I am inclined .to disagree with my en- .attention of the committee and the attention of the House is sion roll. [Laughter.] called.to these excesses. Let us be more careful. Let us t>e no But this is rather a peculiar case. It seems· from the evi- less jus.t than the Republicans were, but more cautious than dence submitted to the committee that this man and bis wife they were, more careful than they were. Not to save money at frequently fought; that upon several r0cca.sions from 1866 to the expense of the soldiers of the countryJ but to save mone,y, 1870 they had numerous and sundry fist .and cuff fights, and it from undeserving cases, ·so that we may well compensate the must be apparent that the wife at length .got the better of the soldiers of the eountry and protect our taxpayers. · old man in the melees along about in 1870J .and he ran away, The Republicans nave 1been reckless in e:x:penditures, as we and because .of that fact they have not .heard of him, and be- hav.e charged for 15 years, ~and they ha:ve been reckless in gran't­ cause he ran ·Off and nev.er came back they assume that .he is mg pensions. ·The Rep;ublicans have manifested a r.ecklessness dead. [Laughter.] · that it is .our Democratic duty to the country and to the soldiers Now, Mr. Chairman, seriously, it looks to me us .though this to stop. It is our public duty as Democrats to deal justly with case should ·have been more seriously investig-ated by the com- these soldiers, but to correct the errors into which the Republic~ mittee before they brought in .their report. .ans fe'll, and to avoid the recklessness in which they indwg-ea. l\ir. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman, will the ,gentleman yield? and iet the country and the soldiers know that .the Democrats, l\fr. HOW ARD. Yes. :without regard to North, East, South, or West, will pension the .l\fr. TRIBBLE. l\fy colleague has been solicitor gen-era'.l in . deserving soldier, 'but will not recklessly and unguardedly let an Georgia, has he not? .excessive amount or an improper pension be ,appropriated frQm Mr. HOWARD. Yes. the Treasru',Y of the country. l\Ir. TRIBBLE. Did you .eyer draw a ~bill 'of indictment in The CHAIR.l\!AN. '.rhe time of the gentleman has expired. behalf of a man who had an :alias and believe.d him on oath! Mr. RODDENBEIBY. I withdraw the proforma amendroen~ Mr. HOWARD. I never did, and I never expect to. N.ow, it The Clerk read as follows~ seems that so.mebody tried to 'boost up this old lady's claim. It The name of Julia A. Rulo, widow of .JoJJn Rulo~ late .of C.emp.apy D, developed that there were fou1· gamblers, all hailing from that Thirtieth Regiment Indiana Volu;iteer Infantry, .and pay b~r :a pecnsion section of the country from which my distinguished colleague, at the ·i·ate oi ·$20 per mo..n.th in Ji.e-u of that she J:S .now i·ec.eiYing. Judge RUCKER, hails, aud these gamblers, .each with an alias, .M1·. (JL!N.El l\Ir_ {:Jhairman, I move to strike <>ut ''twenty,. got togeth:er and submitted evidence to the Pension Bureu.u, 'and and insert "thirty," in line 23, page 44. the Pension Bureau refused to believe thcir testimony aB.d The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Indiana moves ta grant a pension to this woman. Now it appears from the state: 1 :strike out the word "twenty" and insert the word "thirty." 3068 CONGRESSION .AL RECORD-HOUSE. MARCH 8,

Mr. TRIBBLE. Mr. Chairman, I renew my objection, and I three soldiers in consecutive order, with different pension allow­ renew the statement that I made previously that I have had ances, all with service in the Army. Now, it- is equity that I assurance from members of this committee- desire to impress upon the committee, and the responsibility .Mr. CLINE. Mr. Chairman, I believe I have the floor. and duty of the Democrats to investigate and to correct this The CHAIRl\f.AN. The Chair thought the gentleman did not discrin1inating practice. Do not let gentlemen get impatient desire to speak, and for that reason he recognized the gentleman and disturbed about the future of the party because of the from Georgia. disposition we have indicated here for discussion. .My Demo­ Mr. CLINE. I do not want to make any extended remarks or cratic brethren, rather than make much of dangers here, to cast any reflection upon the committee, because it would be should turn to Kentucky, to that brilliant Democratic editor, a violation of their rule to change this rate. of 50 years' party allegiance, who lately continually dips his I do want to call attention to this woman. They were scathing pen in gall and excoriates the uame and fame of the married in 1856. He served nearly four years in the service, governor of one of our States-a Democrat, who aspires to the and died in 1910. They lived together about 60 years. She is Presidency. If you want harmony do not turn here, but go to totally blind, partially paralyzed, requires the care and assist­ the great Democratic editor and bid him lay down his bitter pen ance of another person all the time, and I think her pension and with Democratic loyalty pay high respect and tribute to ought to be increased to $30. ?mother potential national Democrat. You Democratic leaders Mr. TRIBBLE. 1\fr. Chairman, I realize the fact that the of this side, who have the power and who control the destiny House will pass the gentleman's amendment. I make my objec­ of our party-have it in the palms of your hands-I bid you tion in the face of the fact that they will pass it. But, gentle­ leaders counsel yourselves together with the other Democratic men, it sets a precedent; another man will come in here and leaders who are now striking at the very heart of the great repeat the same thing that we had on the floor previously and common~r and let them pour the oil of _peace and not the vitriol which started this fight on pensions. Now, the gentleman's of discord upon his head, for, nlthough he may neYer wear the amendment can go to the committee and the committee can bring crown of gold upon his brow, we should not press down upon it back in two weeks from now, and we can consider it. The him the wreath of thorns. [Applause.] Therein lies. party chairman of tlle subcommittee assured me that hereafter the harmony and the people's triumph. committee would not entertain amendments on the floor of the The Clerk concluded the reading of the bill . House; that they would insist on amendments increasing pen­ .Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. .Mr. Chairman, I move sions going back to the committee and having a bearing on that the committee do now rise and report the bill with amend­ them before they would entertain them on the floor of the House. ments to the House, with a recommendation that the amend­ l\Ir. HAMILTON of West Virginia. Mr. Chairman, I will ments be agreed to and that the bill as amended do pass. have to say, in justice to the gentleman who has just spoken, The motion was agreed to. that I did assure him that the committee would do all in its Accordingly the committee rose; and Mr. FITZGERALD having power to defeat all amendments except committee amendments. assumed the chair as Speaker pro tempore, l\fr. DrxoN of In­ Kow, in justice to the committee, I hope this amendment of the diana, Chairman of the Committee of the Whole House on the gentleman will be defeated. state of the Union, reported that that committee had !tad under The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered consideration the bill II. R. 21230, and had authorized him to by the gentleman from Indiana. · report the same back to the House with sundry amendments. The question was considered, and the amendment was lost. with the recommendation that the amendments be agreed to The Clerk read as follows: and that the bill as amended do pass. The name of Delia M. Williams, widow of David T. Williams, late o! l\Ir. HA.MILTON of West Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I move the Company A, Seventy-sixth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and previous question on the bill and amendments to final passage. pay her n pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous question. l\1r. RODDE~BERY. l\Ir. Chairman, I move to strike out The question was taken; and on a division (demanded by the last paragraph read. Here is a widow, according to the re­ Mr. RonDENBEBY) there were-ayes 80, noes 2. port, that presents a case in which it is recommended that she Mr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Speaker, I make the point of be allowed $2()'° a month. On the preceding page there was a order that there is no quorum present. soldier in the Army who is no more dependent, and the commit­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evidently there is no quorum tee has just yoted to give him a pension of $4-0 a month. present. The Doorkeeper will close the doors, the Sergeant at There is a manifest disparity in those cases. Soldiers all Arms will notify absentees, the question will be taken on through this bill are given $30 and $36 and some $40 a month. ordering the previous question, and the Clerk will call the roll. Right behind comes a widow who is on1y given $12 or $20 a The question was taken; and there were-yeas 170, nays 9, month. Now, in the consideration of this measure there should answered "present" 19, not voting 195, as follows: be a. just and sufficient reason given for discriminatfon and large amounts. Gentlemen here do not explain it. YEAS-170. Adair Ellerbe Kennedy Rouse The majority party in this House is charged, and qur sub­ Akin, N. Y. Esch · Kinkaid, Nebr. Ru bey committee is charged, with duty and public responsibility to Alexander Faison Kinkead, N. J . Rucker, Colo. deliberate1y and intelligently and justly consider these ques­ Allen Farr Kitchin Rucker, Mo. Anderson, Minn. Fergusson Korbly Russell tions, and not grant a pension of $40 to one valiant soldier, Anderson, Ohio Ferris Lafferty Scully $30 to another, and $15 to one infirm widow, and $30 to Ansberry Fitzgerald Lamb Shackleford another. I submit to you, gentlemen, in all candor and al1 Austin Floyd, Ark. Langham Sharp Barchfeld Fordney Lever Sherwood fairness, that we owe it to the country and to the soldiers Barnhart Fornes Lewis Simmons and to the widows, in dealing with these things, to administer Bathrick Fowler Lindbergh Sisson the pension laws justly. We ought to demonstrate what we Berger Francis Littlepage Sloan Blackmon French Littleton Smith, J . M. C. claimed for 15 years, that we have more capacity for intelligent Booher Garner Lloyd Smith, Tex. and fair and judicious legislation than our Republican friends. Bowman Garrett Lobeck Stanley Are we pledged to imitate them? To be sure we have followed Brown Goldfogle McCoy Stedman Bulkley Good . McKinney Steenerson the distinguished ex-Speaker in one of our rules, but must we Burke, S. Dak. Goodwin, Ark. McLaughlin Stephens, Cal. do it in our 1egislation? Can not we begin where they left Burke, Wis. Gray Mci\lorran Sterlin"' off and where they recklessly expended money and dishonored Burnett Greene, Mass. Maguire, Nebr. Stone "' Byrns, Tenn. Gregg, Pa. Mann Sulloway the pension roll, can not we economize and clean it out and Campbell Hamilton, W. Va. Mays Switzer pay fair pensions to the real soldiers? Cannon Hamlin Uoore, Pa. Talcott, N. Y. Let the people of this country understand that we are capable Clark, Fla. Hardwick Morgan Taylor, Colo. Claypool Hartman Morrison Thistlcwood of doing justice to these old soldiers, and purge the roll of Cline Haugen Moss. Ind. Thomas those who do not deserve it. It is our responsibility, it is our Cooper Hawley Murdock Tilson duty to the ,rountry, it is our duty to the soldiery, and our duty Crago Hay · Murray Tuttle Crumpacker Hayden Neeley Underwood to ourselves. Cullop Heald Nelson Utter The CHA.IBl\IAN.· Without objection the pro forma amend­ Dalzell Helm Norris Volstead ment of the gent1eman from Georgia will be withdrawn. Daugherty Hensley Nye Vreeland Davidson Higgins Padgett Watkins The Clerk read as follows : Davis, Minn. Hill Pickett Wedemeyer The name of James E. Greene, Inte of Company A, One hundred and Davis, W. Va. Holland Porter Whitacre forty-eighth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a Denver Howell Post White pension at the rate ot $3U per month in lleu of that he is now receiving. Dickinson Hughes, N. J. Powers Wickliffe Dixon, Ind. Hull Pray Willis l\Ir. RODDENBERY. .l\Ir. Chairman, I do not want to inter­ Dodds Humphreys, Miss. Rainey Wilson. Pa. po£e except for a moment. The committee will notice that the Doughton Jackson Raker Wood, N. J. Driscoll, D. A. Jacoway · Hauch Young, Kans. last three T1ensions-James E. Green, $30 . a month; . Louis H. Dwight James Rees Walker, $24 a month; and George El Wilson, $36 a month- Dyer Kendall Roberts, Nev. 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 3069

NAYS-9. Mr. BUCHANAN with Mr. LAFEAN. Byrnes, S. C. Harrison, Miss. Roddenbery Tribble Mr. DIEs with Mr. AfcGumE of Oklahoma. Callaway Howard Stephens, Miss. Witherspoon Edwards Mr. FLOOD of Virginia with Mr. HELGESEN. ANSWERED "PRESENT "-19. .. Mr. GEORGE with Mr. HOWLAND. Adamson Fait'chlld Hamilton, Mich. Parran Mr. GoDWIN of North Carolina with Mr. HUBBARD. Bell, Ga. F'ocht Houston Ransdell, La. Candler J.i,ostcr, Ill. 'Lee, Ga. §parkman Mr. GOEKE with Mr. HUGHES of West Virginia. Dupre Gallagher McGillicuddy Woods, Iowa Mr. GRAHAM with Mr. HUMPHREY of Washington. Estopinal Gould Page Mr. GREGG of Texas with Mr. NEEDHAM. NOT VOTING-195. Mr. GUDGER with Mr. KNOWLAND. Aiken; S. C. Doremus Konop Prouty l\fr. HABDY with Mr. LA. FOLLETTE. Ainey Draper Kopp Pujo Ames Driscoll, M. E. Lafean Randell, Tex. Mr. HEFLIN with Mr. LAWRENCE. Andrus Evans La Follette Redfield Mr. JOHNSON of Kentucky with Mr. LONGWORTH. Anthony Fields Langley Reilly Mr. TAYLOR of Alabama with Mr. TAYLOR of Ohio. Ashbrook Finley Lawrence Reyburn Ayres Flood, Va. Lee, Pa. Richardson Mr. TOWNSEND with Mr. TOWNER. Bartholdt Foss Legare Riordan Mr. TURNBULL with Mr. wABBuRTON. Bal'tlett Foster, Vt. Lenroot Roberts, Mass. l\fr. UNDERHILL with Mr. WEEKS. Bates :F'uller Levy Robinson Beall, Tex. Gardner, Mass. Lindsay Rodenberg Mr. TAGGAllT with Mr. YOUNG of l\IichigAn. Bingham Gardner, N. J. Linthicum Rothermel Mr. -YOUNG of Texas with Mr. WILSON of Illinois. Boehne George Longworth Sabath Mr. WILSON of New York with Mr. WILDER. Borland Gillett Loud Saunders Bradley Glass McCall Sells Mr. HENRY of Texas with Mr. LENROOT. Brantley Godwin, N. C. McCreary Sheppard Mr. JOHNSON of South Carolina with Mr. Loun. Broussard Goeke McDermott Sherley Mr. JoNEs with l\fr. McCALL. Browning Graham McGuire, Okla. Sims Buchanan Green, Iowa McHenry Slayden Mr. KINDRED with Mr. McCREARY. Burgess Gregg, Tex. McKellar Slemp Mr. KONIG with Mr. McKENZIE: Burke, Pa. Griest McKenzie Small Burleson Gudger McKinley Smith, Sarni. W. Mr. LEE of Pennsylvania with Mr. McKINLEY. Butler Guernsey Macon Smith, Cal. Mr. LEGARE with l\fr. MADDEN . . Caldei· Hamill Madden Smith, N. Y. Mr. LEVY with Mr. MATTHEWS. Can trill Hammond Maher Speer Mr. MooN of Tennessee with Mr. MILLER. Carlin Hanna Malby Stack Carter Hardy Martin, Colo. Stephens, Nebr. Mr. MooRE of Texas with Mr. MORSE of Wisconsin. Cary Harris Martin, S. Dak. Stephens, Tex. Mr. O'SHAUNESSY with Mr. Mo'IT. Catlin Harrison, N. Y. Matthews Stevens, Minn. Clayton Hayes Miller Sulzer Mr. Pou with Mr. KENT. Collier Heflin Mondell Sweet Mr. RANDELL of Texas with Mr. PA'ITON of Pennsylvania. Connell Helgesen Moon, Pa. Taggart Mr. REDFIELD with Mr. PAYNE. Conry Henry, Conn. Moon, Tenn. Talbott, Md.. Copley Henry, •.rex. Moore, Tex. Taylor, Ala. Mr. SAUNDERS with Mr. PLUMLEY. Covington Hinds Morse, Wis. Taylor, Ohio Mr. Sn.rs with Mr. PRINCE. Cox, Ind. Hobson Mott Thayer l\fr. SLAYDEN with Mr. .REYBURN. Cox, Ohio Howland Needham Towner Cravens Hubbard Oldfield Towensend Mr. STACK with Mr. ROBERTS of Massachusetts. Curley Hughes, Ga. Olmsted Turnbull Mr. STEPHENS of Nebraska with Mr. RODENBERG. Currier Hughes, W. Va. O'Shaunessy Underhill Mr. STEPHENS of Texas with Mr. HAMILTON of Michigan. Curry Humphrey, Wash. Palmer Warburton Danforth Johnson, Ky. Patten, N. Y. Webb Mr. SULZER with l\Ir. Samuel W. SMITH. Davenport Johnson, S. C. Patton, Pa. Weeks Mr. SWEET with Mr. SPEER. De Forest Jones Payne Wilder For the session : Dent Kahn Pepper Wilson, Ill. Dickson, Miss. Kent Peters Wilson, N. Y. Mr. BARTLETT with l\Ir. BUTLER. Dies Kindred Plumley Young, Mich. Mr. GLASS with Mr. SLEMP. Difenderfer Know land Pou Young, Tex. Mr. RIORDAN with l\fr. ANDRUS. Donohoe Konig Prince Mr. PUJo with Mr. McMoRRAN. So the previous question was ordered. Mr. .ADAMSON with Mr. STEVENS of Minnesota. The Clerk announced the following pairs: Mr. COLLIER with Mr. WooDs of Iowa. Until further notice: Mr. FonNis with l\fr. BRADLEY. Mr. GALLAGHER with Mr. FuLLER. For balance of day : Mr. SHERLEY with Mr. GILLE'IT. Mr. HOUSTON with Mr. KAHN. l\Ir. OLDFIELD with Mr. BINGHAM. Until March 11 : l\fr. SHEPPARD with Mr. BATES. Mr. WEBn with Mr. l\IooN of Pennsylvania. Mr. HOBSON with Mr. FAIRCHILD. Mr. DIFENDERFER with Mr. FOCHT. Mr. FIELDS with l\fr. LANGLEY. Mr. DAVIS with Mr. PROUTY: Mr. MACON with Mr. SMITH of California. Until March 13 : Mr. GOULD with l\Ir. HINDS. Mr. HARRISON of New York with Mr. OLMSTED. l\Ir. RrcHABDSON with Mr. MARTIN of South Dakota. Until March 20 : l\fr. TALBOTT of Maryland with Mr. PABBAN. Mr. PATTEN of New York with Mr. MALBY. Mr. FOSTER of Illinois with 1\Ir. KOPP. l\fr. FOSTER of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I understand the Mr. McDERMO'IT with Mr. Foss. gentleman from Wisconsin, Mr. KoPP, did not vote. l\Ir. HUGHES of Georgia with Mr. DRAPER. The SPEAKER pro temporc. He is not recorded as voting. l\Ir. AIKEN of South Carolina with Mr. .A.rNEY. Mr. AYRES with Mr. AMES. Mr. FOSTER of Illinois. I voted " aye." I would like to l\lr. BEALL of Texas with l\fr. ANTHONY. withdraw my vote. l\lr. BORLAND with l\Ir. BARTHOLDT. Mr. HAMILTON of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I desire to in­ l\fr. ASHBROOK with l\fr. BROWNING. quire if the gentleman from Texas, l\fr. STEPHENS, voted. The SPEAKER pro tempore. He is not recorded as voting. Mr. BRANTLEY with Mr. BURKE of Pennsylvania. l\fr. BURGESS with Mr. CARY. Mr. HAMILTON of Michigan. I am paired with the gentle­ Mr. BURLESON with Mr. CATLIN. man from Texas and I desire to withdraw my vote of "aye" l\lr. CA.NTRILL with l\Ir. COPLEY. and answer " present." Mr. CABTER with Mr. CURRIER. Prior to the announcement the following took place, l\Ir. CLAYTON with l\Ir. CURRY. Mr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Speaker, a pa rllamentary inquiry. Mr. CONNELL with Mr. DANFORTH. Is the Chair prepared to announce the result? l\Ir. CONRY with Mr. DE FOREST. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair is wa iting until the l\lr. CoVINGTON with l\fr. MICHAEL E. DRISCOLL. Sergeant at Arms under the rule brings in absen tees sufficient Mr. Cox of Indiana with Mr. FOSTER of Vermont. to make a quorum. Mr. Cox of Ohlo with l\fr. FULLER. Mr. RODDE:NBERY. Mr. Speaker, I understand, then, that l\Ir. CURLEY with Mr. GARDNER of New Jersey. a quorum is npt present. I had heard no announcement of the Mr. DAVENPORT with 1\Ir. GREEN of Iowa. result of the roll can. . l\Ir. DENT with l\Ir. GRIEST. The SPEAKER pro tempore. No announcement hns been Mr. DICKSQN of Mississippi with Mr. GUERNSEY. made and none will be made at present, or until the Sergeant Mr. DOKOHOE with Mr. HANNA. at Arms executes his orders. Mr. DOREMUS with Mr. HARRIS. Mr. MANN. The Chair directed the Ser()'eant at Arms to Mr. FINLEY with Mr. HAYES. notify absent Members, and we are simply waiting for them. Mr. PALMER with Mr. CALDER. That is all we can do. XLVIII --1f.l3 3070 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. MARCH 8,.

Subsequently, ADJOURNMENT. l\Ir. RODDEJ\1BERY. 1\fr. Speaker, I rise to a point oi order. Mr. HAMILTON of West Virginia. l\ir. Speaker, I move that The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state it. the House do now adjourn. l\Ir. RODDENB:IDRY. I submit that under the rules of the The motion was agi·eed to. House, when a call is made and a quorum does not appear, and .Accordingly (at 9 o'clock and 20 minutes p. m.) the House the Speaker in the exercise of his i:ights directs the Sergeant at adjourned until to-morrow, Saturday, l\farch 9, 1912, at 12 .A.rms to produce the Members at the bar, the Sergeant at Arms o'clock noon. is required to detain those who are present and trring in the absentees. I make the point of order that Members are going out as fast as they come in. EXECUTIVE COl\UfUNICATIONS. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will state that so Un~er clanse 2 of Rule XX.IV, executive communications far as the Chair is informed the Sergeant at Arms is performing were taken from the Speaker's table and referred as follows: his duty. 1. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, recommending 1Ur. RODDENBERY. So far as the Chair observes? certain changes in his estimate of appropriation for the Treas­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. So far as the Chair is informed. ury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, under Subsequently, head of "Distinctive paper for United States securities" and l\Ir. RODDENBERX. Mr. Speaker, a parliamentaxy inquiry. "Expenses of national currency" (H. Doe. No. 603); to the The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state it. Committee on Appropriations and orde1·ed to be printed. l\Ir. RODDENBERY~ Is it in order for me to submit a few 2. A letter from the Secretary of the Trea ury, .transmitting remarks? copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of the Inte· The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair thinks not. rior submitting estimate of appropriation for installation and Subsequently, purchase o.f power press for the reproduction of United States l\Ir. RODDENBERY. l\fr. Speaker,. a parliamentary inquiry. maps, etc. 1 issued by the General Land Office (II. Doc. No. 602) ; The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state it. to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. l\Ir. RODDENBERY. While the- Chair is waiting to obtain the presence of ·a quorum, would it not be in order, by unan­ imous consent to have some Members who introduced these bills REPORTS OF COMl\fITTEES ON PUBLIC BILLS AND explain the merits of their bills that they have not had time to RESOLUTIONS. explain as yet 'I The SPEAKER pro tempore. That is not a parliamentary Under clause 2 of Rule XII1, bills and resolutions were sev· inquiry, and it would not be in order in the absence of a erully reported from c-0mmittees, delivered to the Clerk, and re­ .quorum.. ferred to the several calendars therein named, as follows ~ Subsequently, Mr. SIMl\IONS, from the Committee on Ag1·iculture, to which l\lr. RUCKER of l\Iissouri. l\fr. Speaker, I ask unanimous was referred the bill (H. R. 21291) to regulate the importation consent that the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. RoDDENBERY] of nursery stock and otber plants and plant products, to enable be allowed to address the House for 10 minutes. the Secretary of Agriculture to. establish and maintam quaran­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. It would not be in order. There tine districts for plant diseases and insect pests, to permit and is no business before the House. regulate tho movement of fruits, plants, and vegetables there­ 1\lr. RUCKER of MissoUI'i. I assume it would not be busi- from, and for other purposes, reported the same with amend­ nes ·. It would be simply a speech. ment, accompanied by a report (No. 398). which said bill and Subsequently, · report were: referred to the Committee of the Whole House on Ur. RODDENBERY. Mr. Speaker-- the state of the Union. The SPEAKER pro tempore. For what purpose does· the Mr. STEPHENS of Texa~ from the Committee on Indian gentleman rise? Affairs, to which was referred the joint resolution (H. J. Res. Mr. RODDENBERY. Merely to observe, l\Ir. Speaker, 263) to authorize allotments to Indians. of the Fort Berthold that-- Indian Reservation, N. Dak.~ of lands valuable for coal, re.· The SPEAKER pro tempore~ It is not in. order to make ob­ ported the same with amendment, accompanied by a report (No. serrn tions. The gentleman will be in order. 399), which said bill and report were referred to the Committee Subsequently, of the Whole House on the state of the Union. ~fr. RODDENBERY. Mr. Speaker, may I ask the Chair if it may not be possible for us to obtain a quorum, so as to dis­ pose of this matter before adjournment, in order that we may CHANGE OF REFERENCE. take up the Agriculture appropriation bill promptly in the Under clause 2 of Rule XXII, the Committee on Claims was morning and proceed with it'l discharged from the consideration of the bill ( ll. R. 19776) The SPEAKER pro tempore ~Mr. UNDERWpGD). The Chair for the relief of the heirs of Bluford West, deceased, and the will state to the gentleman from Georgia that the House,. ac­ same was referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. cording to the parliamentary rules of the Ho.use, is endeavoring to obtain a quorum, and the Sergeant at Arms is notifying absentees to appear before the bar of the House. PUBLIC BILLS, RESOLUTIONS, AND MEMORIALS ~11:. RODDENBERY. I certainly hope the Sergeant at Arms INTRODUOED. ,will succeed, so that we can reach the consideration of the Under clause 3 of Rule XXII1 bills, resolutions, andmemorinls :Agriculture appropriation bill. were introduced and severally referred as follows : 'l'he result of the vote was announced us above recorded. By Mr. AYRES: A bill (H. R. 21531) making an appropria­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. A quorum is present. The mo­ tion is agreed to, and a quorum being present, the Doorkeeper tion for the deepening of the channels of the East Rtver, in the harbor of New York; for the improving and deepening of the will open the doors, and further proceedings under the call will approaches to the wharves of said river on both sides thereof; be dispensed with. for the improving and deepening of the channels known as SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REFERRED. Little Hell Gate and the Harlem Kills; to reduce the velocHy Under clause 2, Rule XXIV, the following concurrent resolu­ of the tides in the East River ancl its connecting channels, and tion was taken from the Speaker's table and referred to its up.­ for other purposes; to the Committee on Rive1·s and Harbor . propriate committee, as indicated below ; By l\lr. PETERS: A bill (H. R. 21532) to incorporate the Senate concurrent resolution 18. Rockefeller Foundation; to the Committee on the Judiciary. ' · Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurfin,g), By Mr. HAMILTON of Michigan: A bill (H. R. 21533) That the Secretary of War be requested to make a supplemental or ad· amending section 2 of an act entitled irAn act to increase the ditional report or estimate concerning the work of levee construction in the improvement of the navigability of the Mississippi Rjver on the pension of widows, minor children, etc., of deceased soldiers east bank thereof from Vicksburg to Bayou Sara for use in connection and sailors of the late Civil War, the War with Mexico, the with s. 4353, being a bill to aid. in. c~nstru~tion of levees and embank­ various Indian wars, etc., and to grant a pension to certain ments on the east side of the MisSJSSlPPJ. River. . widows of the deceased soldiers and sailors of the late Civil _.to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. War," approved April 19, 1908; to the Committee on Invalid ENROLLED BILL SIGNED. Pensions. The SPEAKER announced his signature to enrolled bill of By Mr. THISTLEWOOD: A bill (H. ·R. 21534) making ap- the following title : propriation for the improvement of the Government roadway s. 4151. An act to authorize the Minnesota & International leading from Mounds, l\f ound City, and from the Cache River !Railway. Co. to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River Bridge to the national cemetery near Mound City, IlL; to .the at or near Bemidji, in the State of Minnesota .. Committee on ~1ilitary Affairs. 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE. 3071

By M:r. RAKER: A bill (H. R. 21535) to authorize the Sec­ By Mr. HAMMOND: A bill (H. R. 21558) granting an in­ retary of the Interior to secure for the United States title to crease of pension to William Frisbie; to the Committee on patented lands in the Yosemite National Park, and for other Invalid Pensions. purposes; to the Committee on the Public Lands. By Mr. HAYDEN: A bill (H. R. 21559) to correct the relative By l\fr. MO:NDELL: A bill (H. R. 21536) providing for ex­ and lineal _rank of an officer of the United States Army; to the tension of time in which to make water-right payments on ac­ Committee on Military Affairs. count of inability, caused by loss of crops or other misfortune, By Mr. RAYES : A bill (H. R. 21560) granting an increase of to make payment at maturity; to the Committee on Irrigation pension to Harlow Reilley; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of Arid Lands. Also, a bill {H. R. 21561) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. BELL of Georgia: A bill (H. R. 21537) to provide for Benjamin P. Simpson; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the erection of a public building at the city of Toccoa, Ga.; to Also, a bill (H. R. 21562) granting an increase of pension to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. James A. Dowell; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 21538) to provide for the erection of a pub­ By Mr. HOUSTON: A bill (H. R. 21563) granting an increase lic building at the city of Jefferson, Ga.; to the Committee on of pension to John W. Vandergriff; to the Committee on Invalid Public Buildings and Grounds. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 21539) to provide for the erection of a pub­ By Mr. HOWARD : A bill (H. R . 21564) for the relief of the lic building at the city of Commerce, Ga.; to the Committee on heirs of Lewis Boatner, deceased; to the Committee on War Public Buildings and Grounds. Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 21540) to provide for the erection of a pub­ By Mr. KENDALL: A bill (H. R. 21565) granting an increase lic building at the city of Canton, Ga.; to the Committee on of pension to Ezekiel Bogard; to the Committee on Invalid Pen­ Public Buildings and Grounds. sions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 21541) to provide for the erection of a pub­ By Mr. KONOP: A bill (H. Il. 21566) granting a pension to lic building at the city of Buford, Ga.; to the Committee on Michael E:ennedy; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Public Buildings and Grounds. Also, a bill {H. R. 21567) granting a pension to William J. D. Also, a bill (H. R. 21542) to provide fo_r the erection of a pub­ Pope; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. lic building at the city of Lawrenceville, Ga.; to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 21568) granting an increase of pension to on Public Buildings and Grounds. James l\Ieikle; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 21543) to provide for the erection of a pub­ By l\Ir. MACON: A bill (H. R. 21569) granting an increase of lic building at the city of Winder, Ga.; to the Committee on pension to Susan C. Virgin; to the Committee on Invalid Pen­ Public Buildings and Grounds. sions. By l\Ir. ADAMSON: A bill (H. R. 21544) to provide for the By l\fr. McCREARY : A bill (H. R. 21570) granting u pension physical valuation of properties of carriers subject to the act to Edwin M. Deemer; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to regulate commer}!e and to secure information concerning Also, a bill (H. R. 21571) granting an honorable discharge to their stocks and bonds and boards of directors; to the Commit­ Johll 0. Long; to the Committee on Military Affairs. tee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Also, n bill (H. R. 21572) granting an honorable discharge to By Mr. FERRns: A bill (H. R. 21545) to credit and pay to Emanuel Damsohn; to the Committee on Military Affairs. the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia Also, a bill (H. R. 21573) granting a pension to Susannah M. all moneys collected under the direct tax levied by the acts of Geiss; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Congress appro\ed, respecti\ely, July 1, 1862; l\Iarch 7, 1864; By l\Ir. McKINNEY: A bill (H. R. 21574) granting an in­ July 13, 186G; and March 2, 1867; to the Committee on War crease of pension to Hiram Rusk; to the Committee on Invalid Claims. Pensions. By Mr . .MOON of Tennessee: Resolution (H. Iles. 444) to By Mr. l\Ic:MORRAN: A bill (H. R. 21575) granting an in­ change tllc rules of the House temporarily for the considera­ crease of pension to Nicholas La Croix ; to the Committee on tion of H. R. 2127!); to the Committee on Rules. Invalid Pensions. By .Mr. NYE: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 265) making public By Mr. NYE: A bill (H. R. 21576) to correct the military acknowledgment of the servir.es of Capt. John Ericsson; to the recorcl of '.rl1omas N. Jimerson; to the Committee on Military Committee on Naval Affairs. Affairs. By Mr. LA FOLLETTE: Concurrent resolution (H. Con. Iles. By l\fr. PATTON of Pennsylrnnia: A bill (H. R. 21577) grant­ 43) to provide for printing Public Health Bulletin No. 51 ; to ing an increase of pension to Henry C. Holter ; to the Com­ the Committee on Printing. mittee on Invalid Pensions. By l\fr. RAUCH : A bill (H. R. 21578) granting an increase PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS. of pension to William F. l\I. Balsley; to the Committee on In­ valid Pensions. Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, private bills and resolutions By l\fr. RIORDAN: A bill (H. R. 21579) granting a pension were introduced and severally referred as follows: to Herman E. Jansen; to the Committee on Pensions. By l\Ir. ALLEN: A bill (H. R. 21546) granting a pension to James W. l\IcLaughlin; to the Committee. on Pensions. By Mr. SCULLY: A bill (H. R. 21580) granting an increase of pension to F-rancesca Perrine; to the Committee on Inmlid By l\Ir. ANDEllSON of Ohio: A bill (H. R. 21547) granting Pensions. an increase of pension to Joseph Butler; to the Committee on By l\fr. SHERWOOD: A bill (H. R. 21581) granting an in­ In\alid Pensions. crease of pension to Egbert F . Scott; to 1.he Committee on In­ By Mr. AUSTIN: A bill (H. R. 21548) for the relief of E.· L. valid Pensions. George; to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. SMITH of Texas (by request): A bill (H. R. 21582) By Mr. BARCHFELD: A bill (H. R. 21540) granting a for the relief of the estate of S. H. Carter; to the Committee on pension to Anne L. Holbrook; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Claims. By Ur. BELI.i of Georgia: A bill (H. R. 21550)° granting a By Mr. THAYER : A bill (H. R. 21583) granting an increase pen;oion to Robert Wilson; to the Committee on Pensions. of pension to Julia J . Kendall; to the Committee on Inrnlid Also, a bill (H. 21551) granting a pension to Edward Rob­ Pensions. n. By l\fr. TOWNER: A bill (H. TI. 21584) granting an increase ertson ; to the Committee on Pensions. By i\Ir. DOREMUS: A bill (H. R. 21552) granting a pension of pension to Ezra Salter; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to Nettie WeidenlJein; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. YOUNG of Michigan: A bill (H. R. 21585) granting By Mr. DANIEL A. DRISCOLL: A bill (H. R. 21553) grant­ an increase of pension to Fred Myers; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ing a pension to Caroline Reichold; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By l\Ir. EDWARDS : A bill (H. R. 21554) for the relief of PETITIONS, ETC. the estate of William F. Graham; to the Committee on War Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, petitions and papers were laid. Claims. on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: By .!\Ir. FRA..i~CIS: A bill (H. R. 21555) granting an increase By the SPEAKER: Petition of the Women's Protectire Local of pension to Oliver Harding; to the Committee on Invalid "'Cnion, of Cabo Rojo, P. R., urging that residents of that island Pensions. be granted American citizenship; to the Committee on Insular By Mr. GREGG of Texas: A bill (H. Il. 21556) for the relief Affairs. of Theresa S. Randolph, heir of Meredith P . Tanner, deceased; By l\fr. ALEXAl\"'DER: Petition of the Women's Christian to the Committee on War Claims. Temperance Union, of Pattonsbury, Mo., for passage of Kenyon­ By Mr. HAMLIN: A bill (H. R. 21557) for the relief of John Sheppard interstate liquor bill; to the Committee on the Beverly; to. the Committee on Military Affairs. J udiciary. 3072 OONGRESSION AL RECORD-HOUSE. MARCH 8,

By Mr. ANSBERRY: Petition of John McConnell and others, By Mr. :MICHA.EL E. DRISCOLL: Petition of the Methodist of Henry County, Ohio, for parcel-post legislation; to the Com­ Church of Minoa, N. Y., favoring the pru;sage of the Kenyon­ mittee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Sheppard interstate-commerce liquor bill; to the Committee on By Mr. B.ARCHFELD : Petition of Bricklayers• Union, No. 2, the Judiciary. of Pittsburgh, Pa., for a thorough investigation of the affair at Also, petition of voters of Manlius, N. Y., favoring adoption Lawrence, Mass., and the causes thereof; to the Committee on of House joint resolution 168; to the Committee on the Judi­ Rules. ciary. Also, petition of the Chamber of Commerce, of Pittsburgh, Pa., By Mr. ESOH: Petition of citizens of Neillsville, Wis., pro­ indorsing the Sulzer bill to insure accuracy in weights and testing against Lever agricultural bill; to the Committee on grade of original packages; to the Committee on Coinage, Agriculture. Weights, and Measures. Also, petition of citizens of Monroe County, Wis., for parcel­ Also, papers to accompany "bill granting a pension to Annie post legislation; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post L. Holbrook; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Roads. By Mr. BOW.UAN: Petition of Parmelia Constine, secretary By Mr. FERGUSSON: Petitions of citizens of the State of of the Hebrew Immigrant A.id Society, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., New Mexico, for changes in the public-land laws; to the Com­ opposing the Dillingham immigration bill; to the Committee mittee on the Public Lands. on Immigration and Naturalization. Also, petition of New Mexico Christian Endeu vor Union, in Also, petition of C. I. Frayler, favoring a parcel post; to the favor of House bill 9433; to the Committee on the Post Office ColllIDittee on the Post Office and Post Roads. and Post Roads. Also, memorial of citizens of Hazleton, Pa., asking that Law­ By Mr. FORNES: Petition of United States Civil SeY\\e.e rence, 1\Iass., strike be investigated; to the Committee on Rules. Retirement Association, for enactment of the Hamill bill; to A lso, petition of Dr. J. W. Williams, of Baltimore, l\fd., favor­ the Committee on Reform in the CiYil Service. ing continuation of appropriation to Columbia Hospital for Also, petition of Union No. 23, International Printing Press­ 1Women; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. men and Assistants' Union of North America, for increa. ed . Also, petitioli of Equal Rights A.ssociatoin of Kentucky, compensation to pressmen and assistants in the Government favoring woman's suffrage; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Printing Office; to the Committee on Printing. Also, petition of the Active Workers' Association of Luzerv.e Also, petition of Municipal Council, United Spanish War County, Pa,, favoring the illite1·acy test for admission of immi­ Veterans, New York City, for enactment of House bill 17470; grants; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. to the Committee on Pensions. By l\fr. BROWNING: Petition of the Memorial Presbyterian Also, petitions of Simpson-Crawford Co., and Louis l\f. Hart, Church of Wenonah, N. J., for passage of the Kenyon-Sheppard of New York City, protesting against Hou e bill 16844; to the bill; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. BULKLE):" : Petition of 41 citizens of Cleveland, urg­ Also, petition of Fancy Leather Goods l\fanufacturers' Asso­ ing that a provision be incorporated in the naval appropriation ciation of New York, for enactment of House bill 5601; to the bill for the construction of one battleship in a Government navy Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. yard; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. By Mr. FOSS : Petitions of citizens of the State of Illinois, By Mr. CAMPBELL: Petition of citizens of Coffeyville, Kans., for enactment of Berger old-age pension bill ; to the Committee for passage of House bill 16450; to the Committee on the Judi­ on Pensions. ciary. By Mr. FULLER: Petition of Deutsche Krieger Verein of By Mr. CANDLER: Petitions of Masonic Lodge of Corinth, Peru, Ill., against the passage of any legislation now pending the Woman's Christian Temperance Unions of Saltillo and concerning interstate-commerce shipments of intoxicating liq­ Tupelo, and the Woman's Christian 'I'emperance Union State uor; to the Committee on the Judiciary. officers of Mississippi, for enactment of Kenyon-Sheppard inter­ Also, petition of Royal l\1antel & Furniture Co., of Rockford, state liquor bill; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Ill., opposed to the passage of the Underwood bill (H. R. 20182), By Mr. CATLIN; Petition of the German Allin.nee of Mis­ concerning the proposed duty on China wood oil; to the Com­ souri, protesting against interstate liquor legislation; to the mittee on Ways and Means. Coaimittee on the Judiciary. Also, petition of G. H. Gurler, of De Kalb, Ill., in opposition Also, petition of the Polish National A.lliance, protesting to tbe passage of the Lever bill, so far as it concerns tbe dairy against immigration restriction laws; to the Committee on Im­ interests; to the Committee on Agriculture. · mi(7ration and Naturalization. Also, petition of Daniel Thiel, of Pecatonica, Ill., in opposi­ Also, petition of Northwe t Missouri Press Association, op­ tion to the proposed extension of the parcel-post service; to the ,... posing an increase in second-class postal rates; to the Com­ Committee on the Post Office and Po t Iload.,. mittee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Also, petition of Waldron l\Iurphy Camp, No. 20, United Span­ Also, petition of Hilmer Commission Co., of St. Loui , fu"\'"or­ ish War Veterans, of Chicago, Ill, favoring the passage of the ing amending the oleomargarine 'Law; to the Committee on Crago bill (H. R. 17470), to pension widows of Spanish War Agriculture. veterans ; to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. CLINE 1 Petitions of the Woman's Christian Temper­ Also, petition of citizens of La Salle County, Ill., for the ance Union of Fort Wayne and the Presbyterian Church of Ray, creation of a department of health; to the Committee on Inter­ Ind., for an effective interstate liquor law; to the Committee on state and Foreign Commerce. the Judiciary. .BY Mr. GOEKE : Petition of 36 citizens of Li.ma, Ohio, asking Also, petition of Local Union No. 37, International Union of that one battleship be built in a Government navy yard; to the Steam Engineers, for construction of one battleship in a Gov­ Committee on Na·ml Affairs. ernment navy yard; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. By l\fr. GRAHAM : Petition of Post No. 411, Grand Army of Also, petitions of citizens o_f the State of Indiana, protesting the Republic, protesting agn.inst incorporating the Grand Army ~gainst parcel-post legislation; to the Committee on the Post of the Republic; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Office nnd Post Road . .Also, petition of Nationa.l Anti-Injunction League, for enact­ · By Mr. DALZELL: Petitions of the Methodist Episcopal ment of House bill 11032; to the Committee on the Judiciarv. ~hurch and citizens of Wilmington, Pa., for enactm~t of Ken­ By Mr. GREGG of Pennsylvania : Petitions of the Uetho.llist .yon-Sheppard interstate liquor bill; to the Committee on the Episcopal Church of Alverton, First Baptist cliurch of Mount ~udiciary. Pleasant, and Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Butler By Mr. DICKINSON: Papers to accompany bill for the relief County, Pa., for enactment of Kenyon-Sheppard interstate 9f CI.audius L. Pyle (H. R. 2077); to the Committee on Invalid liquor bill; to the Committee on the Judiciary. l?ens10ns. Also, petitions of citizens of Latrobe and Newton, Pa., a king By Mr. DOREMUS: Petition of Campbell Avenue 1\Iethodist that the duties on raw and refined sugars be reduced; to Jho iJ.Dpiscopal Church, of Detroit, Mich., for passage of Kenyon­ Committee on Ways and Means. · · ~heppard interstate liquor bill; to the Committee on the Also, memorial of Retail .Merchants and Business ~fen s As­ ~udiciary. sociation of southwestern Pennsylvania, for ratification of arbi· By Ur. DANIEL A. DRISCOLL t Memorial of the Carriage, tration treaties, etc.; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Wagon, and Automobile Workers' International Union of ::t"orlh Also, memorial of Butler County (Pa.) Business Men·' As· '.America, relative to strike at Lawrence, l\fa£s.; to the Commit­ sociation, in fa.rnr of 1-cent letter postage; to the Cornmitteo tee on Rules. on the Post Office and Post Roads. Also, petitions of Catholic societies of Buffalo and Garden­ By Mr. GREGG of Te:s:ns: Petition of citizens of Gal ye ton, :ville, N. Y., in .regard to measures r€lating .to Catholic Indian Tex., protesting against parcel-po. t legislation; to the Commit­ mission interests; to the Committee on Indian A.ff airs. tee on the Post Office and Post Roads. 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE . 3073

By l\Ir. HAJ\HLTON of Michigan: Petition of citizens of By Mr. l\IALBY: Petition of citizens of Talcville, N. Y.1 Paw Paw, Mich., protesting against House bill 9433; to the Com- favQring the passage of the Postal Progress League parcel-post mittee on the Post Office and Post Roads. bill; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Also, petition of citizens of Paw Paw, l\Iich., protesting Also, petitions of Union Church, Parishville, N. Y.; Christian against enactment of Senate bill 237; to the Committee on the Endea'°or Society, Champlain, N. Y.; and Woman's Christian District of Columbia. Temperance Unions of l\Ialone and Champlain, N. Y., fa_yoring Also, petitions of Grange No. 178, of St. Joseph County, and the passage of the Keri.yon-Sheppard bill to withdraw from in­ citizens of Hartford, Mich., for parrel-post legislation; to the terstate commerce protection liquors imported into dry territory, Committee on the P.ost Office and Post Roads. for illegal use; to the Committee on the Judiciary. _ Also, petiti-0n of citizens of Saugatuck, Mich., in ·opposition Also, petitions of Fort Covington Gra.nge, ]).,ort C-Ovington, to parcel-post legislflti.on; to the Committee on the P.ost Office N. Y., and Schuyler Falls Grange, Schuyler Fans, N. Y.~ pro­ and Post Roads. testing against the repeal of the tax on oloomargarine; to the Also, petitions of citizens ·Of the State -0f Michigan, for pas- C-Ommittee on Agriculture. . sage of Kenyon-Sheppard interstate .liquor bill; to the Com- By Mr. MARTIN of South Dakota: Petition of citizens of mittee on the Judiciary. Big Stone City~ S. Da.k., in oppositi-On to Lever bill and in favor By Mr. HAMLIN: Petition of numerous citizens of Spring- of Haugen bill; to the Committee on Agrieulture. . field. .Mo., favoring old-age pensions; to the Committee -0n. Pen- By Mr. MOON of Tennessee: Papers to .accompany bill for sions. the ;relief of Hayes Brummett ( H. R. 21151) ; to the C-Ommittee By Mr. HENRY of Connecticut.: Petitions of the Woman's on Pensions. · Christian Temperance Union of New Britai~ and citizens of By Mr. MOORE of Texas: Petition of druggists of Houston, Bristol, Conn., protesting against repeal of anticanteen law; to Tex., protesting against certain legislation; to the Committee on the Committee on Military Affairs. Agriculture. By Mr. HINDS: Memorial of the Woman's Christian Tern- By Mr. MORGAN: Petitions of the Woman's Christian Tern .. perance Union of North Berwick, Me., f.or legislation restricting perance Unions,

Kenyon-Sheppard interstate liquor bill; to the Committee on SENATE. the Judiciary. By Mr. SIMl\fONS : Petition of the Citizens' Temperance SATURDAY, M m·ch 9, 191~. League of Kendall, N. Y., for passage of the Kenyon-Sheppard The Senate met at 2 o'clock p. m. interstate liquor bill; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D. By Mr. STEPHENS of California: Petition of the Whittier -The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. Quarterly Meeting of the Friends' Church and the Men's League of the Friends' Church of Whittier, Cal. ; from the First Meth­ "MINIDOKA RECLAMATION PROJECT IN IDAHO. (S. DOC. NO. 384). odist Episcopal Church of Covina, Cal.; and from numerous The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica­ citizens of Pasadena, Cal., for the passage of the Kenyon­ tion from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response Sheppard bill to withdraw from interstate-commerce protection to a resolution of the 26th ultimo, certain information relative liquors imported into "dry" territory for illegal use; to the to water users on the Minidoka reclamation project in the State Committee on the Judiciary. of Idaho, etc., which was referred to the Committee on Irriga­ By Mr. STERLING : Petitions of citizens of Dwight and tion and Reclamation of Arid Lands and ordered to be printed. Lincoln, Ill., protesting against parcel-post legislation; to the FINDINGS OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS. Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate communica­ By Mr. SULZER: Petition of citizens of New York City, for tions from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmit­ enactment of House bill 17253; to the Committee on Ways and ting certified copies of the :findings of fact and conclusions of Means. · law filed by the court in the following causes: Also, petition of the United States Civil Service Retirement Mary E. Broders, widow of Henry B. Broders, deceased, v. Association, for enactment of Hamill bill; to the Committee on United States (S. Doc. No. 385) ; Reform in the Civil Service. Walter H. Coon v. United States (S. Doc. No. 386); Also, petition of Playground and · Recreation Association of W. R. Milward, administrator of Charles Milward, deceased, America, for enactment of House bill 17681; to the Committee v. United States ( S. Doc. No. 387) ; on the District of Columbia. Robert W. Pool v. United States (S. Doc. No. 388); Also, petition of Buffalo (N. Y.) Cooperative Store Co., for Robert A. Ragan v. United States (S. Doc. No. 389) ; 1-cent letter postage; to the Committee on the Post Office and Alice Reade, widow of John Reade, deceased, v. United States Post Roads. ( S. Doc. No. 390) ; Also, petition of Municipal Council, United Spanish War Rachel I\f. Reubelt, widow of John A.. Reubelt, deceased, v. Veterans, New York City, for enactment of House bill 17470; to United States (S. Doc. No. 391); the Committee on Pensions. Harriet B. Riley, widow of William E. Riley, deceased, v. Also, petition of Simpson-Crawford Co., of New York City, United States (S. Doc. No. 392); protesting against passage of House bill 16844; to the Commit­ Adam Schuh v. United States (S. Doc. No. 393); tee on Interstate and For~ign Commerce. Samuel C. Scott v. United States (S. Doc. No. 394); Also, petition of J. Whitridge Williams, of Baltimore, 1\fd., for Henry A. Smith v. United States (S. Doc. No. 395); an appropriation for Columbia Hospital for Women; to the Com­ James P. Taber v. United States ( S. Doc. No. 396) ; mittee on the District of Columbia. Also, petition of E. J. Babcqck, of University of North Dakota, Andrew J. Thomas v. United States (S. Doc. No. 397); Fred von Baumbach v. United States (S. Doc. No. 398); for enactment of House bill 6304; to the Committee on Mines William E. Woodruff v. United States (S. poc. No. 399); and and Mining. Also, memorial of National Injunction League, indorsing Jacques Kalt v. United States ( S. Doc. No. 400). House bill 11032; to the Committee on the Judiciary. The foregoing :findings were, with the ·accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. By Mr. TOWNER: Petition of Commercial Club of Clarinda, Iowa, protesting against the proposed parcel post; to the Com­ MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. mittee on the Post Office and Post Roads. A message from the House of Representatives, by D. K. Also, petition of citizens of Sharpsburg, Shambaugh, and Hempstead, its enrolling clerk, announced that the House had Braddyville, Iowa, against parcel post; to the Committee on passed a bill ( H. R. 21230) granting pensions and increase of the Post Office and Post Roads. . pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and By 1\Ir. UNDERHILL: Petitions of numerous citizens of New certain widows and dependent children of soldiers a.nd sailors York, urging the construction of one battleship in a Government of said war, in which it requested · the concurrence of the navy yard; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Senate. · .Also, petition of numerous citizens of Dundea, N. Y., protest­ The message also returned to the Senate, in compliance with ing against parcel-post legislation; to the Committee on the Post its request, the bill ( S. 4238) to provide for the use of the Office and Post Roads. American National Red Cross in aid of the land and narnl By l\Ir. VREELAl\TD: Petition of Friendship Seventh-Day forces in time of actual or threatened war. Baptist Church, Friendship, Allegany County, N. Y., for pas­ The message further announced that the House had disagreed sage of Kenyon-Sheppard bill, to withdraw from interstate­ to the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 19.23 ) to commerce protection liquors imported into " dry " territory for amend section 90 of the act entitled "An act to codify, revise, illegal use; to the Committee on the Judiciary. and amend the laws relating to the judiciary," approved l\farch Also, petition of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, of 3, 1911. Nile, N. Y., for pa sage of Kenyon-Sheppard bill, to withdraw ENROLLED BILL SIGNED. from interstate-commerce protection liquors imported into The message also announced that the Speaker of the House "dry" territory for illegal use; to the Committee on the Judi­ had signed the enrolled bill (S. 4151) to authorize the Minne­ ciary. sota & International Railway Co. to construct a bridge across By Mr. WHITE: Petition of citizens of Cambridge, Ohio, pro­ the :Mississippi· River at or near Bemidji, in the State of Min­ testing against parcel-post legislation; to the Committee on the nesota, and it was thereupon signed by the ~ice President. Post Office and Post Roads. · By l\Ir. WOOD of New Jersey: Petitions of Young People's PETITIONS .AND MEMORIALS. Branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, of South The VICE PRESIDENT presented petitions of the King's Bound Brook, N. J.; the Baptist Church, of Flemington, N. J.; Daughters Circle of Clarkesburg, Va., of the congregation of Mount Carmel Baptist Church, of Lambertville, N. J.; Reformed the Christian Church of Ensley, Ala., and of the Woman's Church, of Peapack, N. J.; and Woman's Christian Temperance Christian Temperance Unions of Middlesex County, l\Iass.; Union, of Trenton, for the passage of the Kenyon-Sheppard bill; Van Meter, Iowa; Palmyra, Wis.; Granville, Ill.; and of Kan­ to the Committee on the Judiciary. sas City, Kans., praying for the adoption f an amendment to Also, petition of Locktown Grange, No. 88, Patrons of Hus­ the Constitution to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and importa­ bandry, of Locktown, N. J., asking for a reduction of the duty tion of intoxicating liquors, which were referred to the Com­ on raw and refined sugars ; to the Committee on Ways and mittee on the Judiciary. Means. He also presented resolutions adopted by the Russian River By Mr. YOUNG of Kanshs: Petition of citizens of Cawker Chamber of Commerce, of California, praying that an appro­ City, Kans., protesting against parcel-post legislation; to the priation be made for the improvement of the Yosemite Na­ Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. tional Park, which were referred to the Committee on Public Also, petition of citizens of Cawker City, Kans., for regulation Lands. of express rates and classifications; to the Committee on Inter­ Mr. BURTON. I present two memorials protesting again t state and Foreign Commerce. the reduction of the tariff on watches and watch movements