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MARYLAND Mr. TILSON. I understand that if the wi::-;hes of gentlemen H. Vincent Flook, Boonsboro. in charge of the bill are carried out, it will require the entire Thoma::-; B. Griffith, Cockeysville. day for its consideration. Geurge M. Evans, Elkton. l\Ir. GARRETT of Tennessee. l\Ir. Speaker, I think the sug Elwood L. lUurray, Hampstead. gestion offered by the gentleman from Connecticut is agreeable, l\iilton D. Reid, New Windsor. so far as I know. I have heard in a general way, but not in William Melville, SykesT"ille. an authoritative way, that it is the desire of gentlemen immedi Harry L. Feeser, Taneytown. ately interested in the conference report on the so-called Mc El!as N. nic.Alllst~r, Vienna. Fadden bill to have four hours of debate. Then I a~sume there Emest \-\' . Pickett, Woodbine. will be some motions made, altllough of the character of the Hobart B. Noll, 'Vood~tock. motions I am not yet advise) entitled "An act providing for the John M. Albers, Thiensville. cession to the State of Yirginia of sovereignty O\er a tract of O;:,tt'ar C. ·wertheimer, Watertown. laud located at Battery Cove, uenr Alexandria, Va., and for the Mathias F. Adler, Waunakee. sale thereof by the Secretary of War," in wllich the concurrence of the House is requested. The message also announced that the Senate 11ad agreerl HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to the report of the committee of conference on the disngreP ing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate a:JlUary ~1, lfniD.:lY, J JD ' 7 to the l>ill (H. R. 14uu7) entitled ".An act making approvria The House met at 12 o'clock noon. tions for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the Tl1C Chaplain, Rev. James Sllera Montgomery, D. D., offered fi::-;cal year ending J nne ~0, 1028, and for other purposes." the following prayer : The message al~o announced that the Senate 11ad agreed to the amendments of the House of Representatives to the follO\Y Onr heaYenly Father, give us a happy sense of all our bless ing bills: ings and help us to look upon the bright side of our circum S. GG-:1:. An act confirming in States and Tf'rritories title to l::itan,·es. l\Iay ·we not be unmindful of all Thy benefits and lands granted by tile United States in the aid of common or enable us to yield our hearts to Thee. In all our ways and public schools ; and and in all our labors may we acknowledge Thee to be our S. 1857. An act to confer jurisdiction on the Court of Claims Sovereign and bring to Thee our acceptable offerings. Give us to certify certain findings of fact, aHd for other purposc::i. the vower of faith that lifts above skyward and sees beyond The message also announced that the Senat9 had passed the night line. There is nothing in life, nothing in death, and bills of the following titles : nothing beyond the graYe that is able to separate us from our H. R. 15012. An act to ameud the act entitled "An act to )!~ather and His love. All glory be unto Thy holy name. Amen. extend tho time for the completion of the municipal bridge Tlle Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and upproaches, and extensions, or additions thereto, by the city of approved. St. Louis, within the States of Illinoi.s and .Missouri," approved. February 13, 1024 ; and HOUR OF MEErlNG MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1027 H. R. 15530. An act to extend the time for the construction l\Ir. TIL~ON. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that of a bridge across Red River at :E'ulton, Ark. when the Hou~e ndjourns to-morrow, Saturday, it adjourn to meet on Monday next, January 24, 1927, at 11 o'clock a. m. I TREASURY AXD POST OFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL-cOXFEREXCE do this in order to llave more time available for the considera REPORT tion of the so-called McFadden bill, which I understand will be 1\Ir. MADDEN rose (applause, the membersllip rising) and called up for consideration at that time. said: Mr. RL\IS::JYER. l\1r. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? Mr. Speaker, I call up the conference report upon the bill Mr. TILSON. Yes. (H. R. 145G7) making appropriations for the Treasury and l\Ir. RAMSEYER Is it the program to give the entire day Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, o>er to a discussion of that bill? 1028, and for other purposes. Before the Clerk proceeds with 1927 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2083 the reailing of the conference report, I wish to thank the Bouse personal effects of scientific personnel of that service upon for the Yery courteous reception it has accorrtation of foreirn sum propose<] insert " $172,400,000" ; and the Senate agree to mails by steamship, etc. : Approprintes $8,700,000 ns propo~~ey of the reporting sernces, as proposed in the Senate amendment. salt-mnrsh areas, to uetermine the exact character of the bre<>lling On No. 4. : Corrects a typographical error. places of the salt-marsll mosquitoes, in oruer that n uefinitc idea may On No. 5: ~Iakes the appropriation for trayeling expenses be formed as to the best mctholls of controlling the brcellln); of such of the Public Health Service available for transportation of mosquitoes, $2'5,000, to be cxpenued by the Public Health Scrvi.cc in 2084 CONGRESSIONAL R.ECORD-HOUSE ~ANU.A.RY 21 cooperation with the Bureau of Entomology of the Department of The soldiers who followed his banner bad unlimited confi Agriculture." dence in his ability, and their love for him was v~ry great. His Mr. MADDEN. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following amend name always excited enthusiasm. When wounded at Chancel ment, which I seml to the desk. lorsville Gen. A. P. Hill assumed command, and when he was The Clerk read as follows : also wounded General Stuart took his place, a-nd as he rode along the Confederate line and shouted, "Rememl>er Jackson," Mr. MADDEN moves to recede and concur in Senate amendment No. the enthusiasm was intense and they drove the Federal troops 7 with an amendment as follows : In lieu of the matter inserted by before them in utter rout and confusion. said amendment insert the following: On the pages of history in the years to come Cbancellorsville " For completion of the survey of the salt-marsh areas of the South will be recorded as perhaps the most brilliant of the many Atlantic and Gulf States, to determine the exact character of the victories of Gen. Robert E. Lee. breeding places of the salt-marsh mosquitoes, in order that a definite . History will recall Lieut. Gen. Stonewall Jackson as the idea may be formed as to the l>est methods of controlling the breeding most conspicuous figure in that great and historic battle. of such mosquitoes, $10,000, to be expended by the Public Health When General Lee received a note from General Jackson tell Service in cooperation with the Bureau of Entomology of the Depart ing him that he had been wounded, the look of pain which ment or Agriculture: p,·ot•idecl, That any unexpended l>alance of the passed over his face was noticed by all present. General Lee appropriation of $25,000 for the fiscal year 1927 for similar purposes ~en t him this note : is hereby reap propria ted and made available for the fiscal year 1028." GI!lNEIUL: 1 have just received your note informing me that you The SPFJAKER. The question is on agreeing to the amend were wounded. I can not express my regret at the occurrence. Could. ment. I have directed events I should have chosen for tho good of the coun The amendment was agreed to.· try to be disabled iu your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory, Mr. MADDEN. That is all, 1\Ir. Speaker. which is due to your skill and energy. STONEWALL JACKSON Very respectfully your obedient servant, n. E. LEE, General. The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the order of the House the Chair recognizes the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. When his aid-de-camp read· to him General Lee's note he STEDMAN]. [Applause, the Members arising.] said: Mr. STEDMAN. Mr. Speaker, this is the anniversary of General Lee is very kind, but be should give the praise to God. the birthday of a man whose life won the esteem and unchang Mr. Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, ing love of his countrymen and whose great qualities attracted made a truthful statement when he said: the admiration of thousands who elwell in distant lands. On the 21st of January, 1824, at Clarksburg, Va., was born Lee and Jackson together on the same field are invincible. Thomas Jonathan Jackson, recognized on the pages of history He was removed by orVirginia will never again echo to the tions bestowed upon them by their countrymen. cheers of the brave men who followed his banner with a death John Jackson, his great-grandfather, landed in America in less devotion, unsurpassed anywhere in any land. 1748. He traced his origin to the Lowlands of Scotland. The muffled drum's sad roll has beat A supreme faith in the existence of a Divine Providence The soldier's last tattoo; who rules the affairs of men was the basis of his character. No more on life's parade shall meet The characteristics which marked his life were his devotion That brave and fallen few. to his wife and mother, to the State of Virginia, and to On fame's eternal camping ground Gen. Robert E. Lee. Their silent tents :ne spread, He was the impersonation of the highest physical and moral And glory guards, with solemn round, courage. On the plain~.; of Mexico and the battle fields of this The bivouac of tile dead. Republic he exhibited those great qualities which have always distinguished the American soldier. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead! Writers of military history have compared him favorably Dear as the blood ye gave; No impious footstep here shall tread with Gen. Robert E. Lee; other~ have likened him · to General Grant. Both were great soldiers. Those who record the The herbage of your grave; events of the era in which he lived will place his name in the Nor shall your glory be forgot front rank of those who have shed luster upon their native While fame her record keeps, land. Or honor points the hallowed spot When asked upon the battle field, "How is it that you can Where valor proudly sleeps. keep so cool and appear Ho insensible to danger in such a [Applause.] storm of shell and bullets?" he answered, " God has fixed the FIRST DEFICIENCY BILL, 1927 time for my death; I do not concern myself about that; I feel as safe in battle as in bed." Mr. WOOD. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House resolve In the walks of private life he never hesitated to advocate itself into the Committee of the Whole HouRe on the state of any measure which he believed to be right, regardless of public the Union for the further consideration of the bill H. R. opinion. 16462, the first deficiency bill, and pending that motion I ·would Allied to his courage was a spirit of chivalry which prompted like to ask the gentleman from Tennessee if we can not agree him to assist the weak and helpless. upon time for general debate. None in distress, if entitled to relief, ever appealed to him Mr. BYUNS. Mr. Speaker, I will say to the gentleman I in vain. have requests up to the present time which will probably take In July, 1842, he first answered to his name on the parnde an hour and u half, probably not quite so much. I can not ground at ·west Point where he graduated. While at West say definitely, but I would like to have an hour anlom Hull, William E. Peavey Yaile Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee. M.r. Speaker, I object to the Cleary Johnson, Wash. Perlman \Velsh, Pa. Connolly, Pn. Kendall Phillips Wingo vote for the reason there is no quorum present. Cooper, Ob.io King Purnell Woodrum The SPEAKER Evidently there is no quorum present. Crumpacker Knutson Quavle Woodyard The question was taken ; and there were-yeas 354, nays 0, Cullen • Kunz Heed, Ark. Wurzhach Curry Lee, Ga. Scott Yates not voting 79, as follows : Dickstein l\!cb'adden Snell [Roll No. 13] YEAS- 354 So the motion was agreed to. The Clerk annouuced the following pairs: Abernethy Dou~hton Kahn Quin Ackerman Douglass Kearns Hagon Until further notice: Adl,ins Dowell Keller Hainey Mr. Anthony with Mr. Canfield. Alddch Doyle Kelly Hamseyer 1\lr. Chindblom with :Ur. Wingo. Allen Drane Kemp Hankin 1\lr. Curry witlt 1\Ir. Sullivan. All~oou Drewry Kerr Ransley 1\lr. Frothingham with 1\lr. Lee of Georgia. Amlresen DriYer Ketcham Hathl.Jone Mr. Kendall with ~Ir . Goldsborough. Andrew Dyer Kiefner Hnyburn Mr. McLaughlln of Michigan with 1\Ir. O'Connor of New York. Appleby Eaton Kiess Hccce Mr. Knntson with Mr. Taylor of West Virginia. Arentz Edwarus Kincheloe Heed, N.Y. 1\fr. Pllillips with :Mr. Meau. .Arnoluns LaGuardia Hom;e Mr. Purnell with 1\Ir. Barkley. Dailey Fairchild Lampert · Rowbottom Mr. Connolly of Pennsylvania with l\Ir. Cleary. Bankhead Faust J,anham Rubey 1\Ir. Snell with Mr. need of A 1·kansa.s. Harbour Fenn Laukforu Hutherford 1\Ir. Cooper of Ohio with Mr. Moore of Kentucky. Bl'Ck Fish Larsen Sul.Juth Mr. l!' rench with 1\Ir. Oliver of New York. Beedy Fisher Lazaro Sanders, N. Y. 1\!r. Graham w.ith 1\Ir. Howard. Beers Pitzgeralrill Luce Sinnott Mr. Sproul of Illinois with Mr. Peavey. Boylan Garber Lyon Smith Hran<1, Ga. Gardner, Ind. l\IcClintic Smithwick The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. lJrnnd, Ohio Garner, Tex. 1\lcUuffie Somers, N.Y. !Uriggs Garrett, Tenn. l\IcKeown Sosnowski Accordingly the House resolved itself into the Committee of Rrigbam Garrett, Tex. McLaugl!lin, Nebr. Speaks the Whole House on the state of the Union for the further con llt·owne Gasque hlcLeo1l Spenring sideration of tile bill H. R. 16462, the first deficiency bill, with Browning GihRon 1\Ici\lillan Sproul, Kans. Brumm Gifford McReynolds Stalker Mr. HAWLEY in· the chair. · JJuc:h:tnan Gilbert l\IcSweeney Steagall The CHAIRMAN. The House is in Committee of the WlJOle Hulwinkle Glynn MacGregor Htedman House on the state of the Union for the further consideration Burdick Goodwin Madden Ste>enson BurtnPSS Green, Fla. Magee, N. Y. Stol>bs of the bill H. R. 16462, the first deficiency bill, which the Clerk Hurton GreC'n, Iowa 1\Iagee, Pa. Strother will report by title. !Bushy Greenwood l\Ia~rady Summers, Wash. The Clerk read as follows: Byrns Griest Major Sumners, Tex. Camp hell Griffin l\1a11love Swank A bill (H. R. 1G4G2) making appropriations to supply urgent rlefi· Cannon Hadley Mansfield Sweet Carpr>nter Hale Mapes Tuber ciencies in ccl'taln appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, Car~s Hall, Ind. Martin, La. Taylor, Colo. 1027, and prior fiscal yem·s, and to proviue urgent supplemental appro· Carter, Calif. Hammer Martin, Mass. Taylor, Tenn. priations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1027, anu for otltcr Carter, Okla. Haruy Merritt •.remple purposes. Chalmers Harrison Michener Thatcher Chapman liasti11gs Miller 1'homns Mr. WOOD. l\lr. Chairman, I yield two minutes to tho Cll 1·istop1Ierson Haugen l\lillignn Thompson gentleman from Michigan [1\lr. CRAMTON]. Clague Hawley Mills 1'hurston Cochran Hayden Montague Tilson Mr. CRAMTON. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to Cole liersey 1\Ioore, Ohio 1'imber1ake revise and exte·nd my remarks. Colli(ll' Hickey J\Ioorc, Ya. Tinkham The OHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Michigan asks unani· eomns Hill, .Ala. l\Iorehead ~·ollcy Colton Hill, 1\Id. Morgan Treadway mons consent to revise and extend his remarks. Is there objec Connally, Tex. Hill ·wash Morin Tucker tion? [After a pause.] The Chair hears none. Connery lloch • l\Ionow Tydings Cooper, Wis. Hogg l\Inrphy Unf" Y Jeffers Parks Walters [From the New York Herald-Tribune, January D] Davis Jenkins Patterson Warren Deal Johnson, Ill. Peery " 'ason By Stephen T. l\Iather, Director National Park Service, Department of Dempsey Johnson, Ind. Perkins Watres the Interior Denison Johnson, Ky. Porler \Vat on Dickinson, Iowa Johnson, S.Dak. Pou Weaver • As a r~sult of recent newspaper articles referring to the cutting of Dickinson, Mo. Johnson, Tex. l'rall Wefnld timber in Yosemite :National Park, some misapprehension may l.tave been Dominick Jones Prat.t Weller created in the public mind as to whether there are being carricu ·out i~ 2,086 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 21 the national parks the principles of complete conservation on which within the exterior boundaries of national parks, as well as of money. these areas depend for their continued existence. Perhaps a few words This was to provide for just such situations in national parks. outlining the work of the National Park Service and the broad policies The pending Interior Department appropriation act, wilicil has on which it is based will clear up any misunderstanding that may have passed both Houses of Congress, contains an item of $50,000 for the arisen. purchase of privately owned lands within the boundaries of any na One point I particularly want to stress here is the effort that bas tional park, to be expended only when matched by equal amounts of been made during the last 11 years to obtain private holdings within donation from private sources. This is one of the most constructive the boundaries of the national parks fo;_· donation to the United States. pieces of national park legislation to be passed in years, and is due Through my efforts private contlilmtions amounting to some $150,000 to the personal interest in national parks taken by Representative have been raised to purchase magnificent stands of Sequoia gigantea Lours C. CRAMTON, of Michigan, chairman of the subcommittee of the and other private holdings in Sequoia National Park. These were House Appropriations Committee handling Interior Department ap turned over to the United States to be the property of the people for propriations. all time without cost to the Government. The only appropriation so I find that changes in park boundaries made during the last year far made by Congress to purchase lands for park purposps was in 1910, have been considerably discussed. No -changes in the boundaries of when $50,000 was appropriated to supplement $20,000 subscribed any national park can be made without act of Congress. Formerly through tile National Geographic Society to purchase an important when the land proposed for addition to a national park bad national stand of trees in the giant fore~t of Sequoia Park. forest status the Public Lands Committees of Congress referred bills PRIVATE HOLDINGS PROTECTED providing for such change of status for report to both the Department of Agriculture, under which the national forests are administered, and Private holdings within national parks are as much the property of their owners as is land elsewilere. The Government can not take it -to this department. !rom them or regulate the use of the lands so long as such use is COMMISSION STUDIES BOUNDARIES not contrary to National or State laws. This is only fair, as the Nearly two years ago, however, the President's committee on outdoor rights of the property bolder must be protected. Congress recognized recreations appointed a commission to study the question of adjusting this fact by including in the acts establishing sevPral of the parks park boundaries when Forest Service lands were involved and when a clause protecting tile valid property rlr;hts existing at the time of any conflict of opinion existed between the two bureaus. Dr. HENRY the creation of the park. W. TEMPLE, Representative from Pennsylvania, is chairman of this Unfortunately in the Yosemite National Park much land was in commission, of which the Chief of the F'orest Service and the Director private ownership. Long before the park was created lumber inter of the National Park Service a re members. The two other members are ests -owiied thousands of acres of land there, and Congress bas never well-known conservationists. During the last year Congress, acting indicated a willingness to buy these lands and thus eliminate the upon the recommendations of this commission, passed laws changing private holdings. It did, however, authorize the making of timber the boundaries o.f Mount Rainier and Rocky Mountain National Parks. exchanges, and the service has l.Jeen able to arrange with the Yosemite In the former case the change in boundaries, a total increase of 1 Lumber Co., the present owner of a large majority of the holdings, square mile, was made to substitute at three corners of the park natural for the exchange of timber in out-of-the-way sections of the park boundaries formed by rivers in place of artificial land lines, and thus for stands in prominent places. simplify administration. In the case of Rocky Mountain National Park An example of this is the Wawona Road, one of the principal high a total elimination of 1!>11.! square miles was made to eliminate a con ways into the park. Here magnificent stands of timber along the siderable group of private holdings on the east side of the park which roadway were saved through the cooperation of the lumber company hampered administration, and also to eliminate all of a small body of in giying this to the Government in exchange for other timber at water on the north side used as a storage reservoir. Half of this more inaccessible places, and which cost the company more to cut. r eservoir already lay outside park boundaries. During the year th~ It is unfortunate that any park timber had to be sacrificed to save boundaries of Sequoia National Park were also changed by act of Con the timber in private ownership in much-used parts of the parlt. gress, with a resultant increase in area to more than twice its former Since some timber had to go, however, Congress, departmental officials, size. Since the Forest and Park Services agreed to the change of aud conservationists generally agreed that the timber along the road land status from forest to park, this project was not investigated by ways must be saved if possible. Undoubtedly by the time the cut the coordinating commission. over, more isolated sections become needed for use by park visitors PARK ADDITIONS llECO:\-IMENDED reforestation will have advanced sufficiently to bring these sections The commission also studied the Yellowstone extension and strongly back to a measure of their original attractiveness. recommended the addition of the magnificent Tetons and the upper LUMBER COMPANY COOPERATES Yellowstone River country to the park. These recommendations were The Yosemite Luml.Jer Co. has cooperated heartily in these ex transmitted to Congress with draft of a bill to effect the change. No changes and where cutting is done on park lands it is carefully action was taken on the bill, as the question of eliminating a portion supervised by the park forester. During the last year the company of the southwestern corner of the park for reservoir purposes was employed an average of 446 men at its logging camps during the brought up in congressional committee. This elimination \vas, and working season. During this time they cut and shipped to their mill always will be, strongly opposed by the National Park Service and by 8!>,973,031 feet board measure of logs taken !rom 1,935 acres of land, all true conservationists, as this is a strikingly scenic portion of the of which 3!)0 acres were company-owned land in the park, 1,351 acres rntrk and should be preserved, without tourist development, just as it company-owned land in the Stanislaus National Forest, and 194 acres is for all time. Government-owned land in the Stanislaus National Forest and cut Other park projects studied by the commission were the extension under a sale contract. of Crater Lake and Yosemite National Parks. The Yosemite Luml.Jer Co. also owns a number of stands of timber The purpose of the National Park Service in all its auministration along the Big Oak Flat Road into the park, some of this being inside of the national parks, whether with reference to timber cutting, lantl tile park boundary but the greater part outside on the approach. exchange, or the care of visitors, is to comply with the requirements Plans are now being worked out between the Purk Service, the Forest of the organic act creating the bureau. This act specifies that "the Sen-icc, the California State Highway Commission, and the lumber service thus established shall promote and regulate the use of the company to save l)art of this timber, and the company bas agreed to Federal areas known as national parks, monuments, and reservations Ilolarious kinus, particu tration repeateuly. I even discusseu tlle matter witll and larly for irrigation and power purposes. So strongly have tbe people of sought the advice of certain gentlemen at the other enu of the the country rallied to the ueft>_nse of the varks, howeveJ.', that Congress Capitol on both siues of the Ohamber. bas lfept tbern iuvlola.te. The National Park Service Is endeavoring in I sought information from those who I thought could tl.tink every way possible to live up to the highest standare of the:-;e members are eacll to be n.'perieuceu ultimate pcrmnnent remedy would come through cooperatives nnd skilleu in prouucing anu marketing one of the five basic large enough in scope to be national in their effect, and to commodities nameu in the bill, auu the sixth member, who is contain more than a majority of the prouucers of each com to be chairman of the l.Joaru, is to represent the public. So far modity. In line with that thought I have tried to present a as I know, no other bill has given tllat con:::;ideration to the cooperative marketing bill, ~hich is no~ on the Hou~e C~l\mlar, public. and is known as the Curhs-Ar-::well bill. I want 1t d1shnctly This bill eliminates the councils, tlle traveling councilq to nnderstoou that tllis agricultural export corporation bill is auvise the Presiuent, and the commodity advisers, the army a new bill and an emergency bill. It has nothing whatever of men to h·avcl over tlle country at public expense. It pro to do with my olu bill. -ride:-; that the President sllall appoint these six men after I llnve concluded that an immediate emergency relief bill consulting with the producers of each commodity, and no re should be enacted by the Congress without waiting for the striction is placed uvou them except that they must be skilled expam;ion of the present cooperatives. In my earnest eff?rt and experienced in these commoditie . The result is tllat the to do the best and right thing I can not support an equalizatiOn operating expenses proyided by this hill are not $-500,000, a:::; in fee. I can not supp.ort it, becam;e it is my honest conviction tht~ otller bills, l.Jut $2fi0,000. that it i unconstitutional and unworkable. I f;hall not discuss This farm board, when appointed, is fi.Uthorizell to establish it now, but it is worthy of notice that no prodm~er in the agri nu agricultural export corporation for eaeh commouit;r; to ap cnltuml or industrial life of this Nation llns ever been taxed point a boaru of directors con~isting of five men to set it up with a fee to pay the loss, and it is significant that in tlle entire and put it to work to buy, to hold, to ell the rmrplus of that history of the civilized world no country has ever assessed sucll commodity. This export corporation will proceeu uot to l.Juy at a fee upon its producers, not in a single instance. the lowest 110s~ible price to be gotten from the poor farmer, I am eagerly anxious in this crisis of depressed agriculture but to buy at a rea··ounble price now, nnu holu tmtil the vrke for the Conbrress to giye irrimeuiate, sane, and effective relief. increases, and sell again. Tho l\icNary-Huugen bill on this point is utterly hopeless, for Take the cnse of cotton, because it is now in au emer..,eue:-. the reason that should it paRs l.Jotll Houses and run the gantlet Tllis cotton export corporation, if organizeu to-morrow, woulcl of the presidential veto it would immediately be brought before announce that it is ready to buy the surplus cotton at 15 <'ent:-; the Supremo Court of the United States on the unconstitution a pound ; not trade uown to the lowest, but to suy the fnit· fllitv of the equalization fee. Tile law would be lleld in the price is 15 cents. The price of cotton would 1ise immediately Sn1ircme Court yery probably for several years, as all informed to that level and higher. As soon as the price ri. ·es this exvort gentlemen know. It is generally known that wlleu the Haugen corporation will sell. The result wi_ll be that the export cor l.Jill was l.Jefore the last session of this Congress several groups poration can stnbilir.e the price of cotton within a limit of one of consumers had made definite 11lans to carry the bill, if penny, and both prouucers and consumers of these C'ommoery fact thnt this great export corporation 2088 CONGRESSION 1-\._L R.ECOR.D-IIOUSE JANUARY 21 was authorized, properly financeu, given full autlwl'ity, anu tion ·is the primary or fund:unental problem. In my l>ill I ready to IH:t at a moment'::; notice, would be sufficient to holtl have proposecl the most potential force that I cun conceiYe in the pl'ice to a fair le•el. controlling production. How? This export corporation will Now, let me refe-r by comparison to the two other bills, not be holding your surphi-; this year. critically but by comparison. In the Hangen bill it is insisted The directors will say to the produr.cr::~ of a commodity, by its provonents that tlw main object is to maintain a favor "This is your SUI1Jlus that will be on tlle market next year, able domestic market without reference to the world market. and if you contjnne to overprorluce you will destroy yourselves." The greatest blessing to the southern seaboard along the These d.i ectors would ~peak with more vower and more effect Atlantic in recent years bas baen the marvelous and beneficial to the vrodnccrs than any other l>ody that has JJeen suggei'tetl development of cotton mills. TllC wllole economic life of tllat IJy any other meaHure or f.lif.;cns sion. great area of our country haR heen cllhnged and improvorl. My bill hn::; beeu ('l'itidze<.l by a few of the timid ancl some These cotton mills in the soutllern section of the Atlantic of the uninformed becnu~e it is said it puts the Gon'mment seaboard last year used 4,500,000 bales of our crop, more than in hufy not make some moTe and foreign mal'ket:::~, tlley do not have bu:::~iness enough to keep in the OoJtgTess to take the ill slwuld hecome a law and maintain a and to take the Govemment out of l>ig lmsbtess every,,·here fayorable d~nne::::tic market, with u better price for cotton in through the tariff'! [Applunse.] If they are ::;incere, why America than in Europe, it doc::; not take any philosopher to do th y not start a movemeut to take the Government out of see the re ~ mltf:! . The Europc:m cotton mill::; wonltl get cotton the production end of ag-riculture? 'Ve lluve spe11t hilliom< chcape;t.· than tlle .American cotton milh<, and therefore these cot of dollars in the past through our agricultural colleges, onr ton mills in America would l>e destroyed, IJocause their export experiment f;tations, ancl exten~iou servke. Let ns see alJout trade would he taken away. It would be very l:'erioni; for the tlle.·e thre-e bills in connection with the Government in busi cotton grower::; in .Americn. to have our cotton mill::; dcstroyey the " most that the Govt!l'muent shonld do sometlling for the immediate re f.'fficient producer." Anyone wlw is informed knows that we~t lief of agriculture, hem· can it do anything effectively unle ·::; ern 'l'exas and Oklahoma have developed a situation ennlJHug it does put up Home money to stal>ilize prices 't It is the them to grow more cotton thm1 could be grown at the ~anne only '"ay the Go•ernment can do anythiu~ speedily and fnr expense and same energy on the southeastern seal>oard. I wnt; nisll iunucdiatc relief. The Govcmment can ~et behind tlle informed in western rrexas three months ago that :.t family cnn fnnners and eneouruge them, as bas been done in Denmark cultivate 100 acres in cotton aur1 produce as much as 50 bnles fot· 60 yenrs, and the farmers ~d\1 l>uild. up illeir own organi l>y using im!)roved machinery, while in the State of South zations ; but if you nre not willing to do th~t ~lowly, !Jut iusi~;t Carolina, where they have to furni!'lh fertilizer for evHy foot of upon doing something overnight, you have to put up some tlwir lands, a fnl!lily can not produce one-fourth tllat nmonnt. mouey, the same as you haYe out D or 10 cents a vound, but ~['he only difference is that one of the l>illf-l leads you tl1J'ough along the seal>card, in South Carolina-! take that as an mysterious 11hrascology anrl in a vague, r nnn(labout, and d umg example-the cost of pro(luction lJy tlle "most efficient pro- ing way propo::;cs to pay hack this lj)~;JO,OOO,OOO f.JOm etime, dueer" is from 18 to 20 cents a pound. • solllehow, and somewhere out of an equalization fee that i:-; If, then, the price were stabilized or fixed to meet the costs doubtful in its operating performanceH. The other undertal\:eH of production of tho soutlleastern grower in South Carolina, to say that it ~s not quite so mulll in business wllile it en aud a rea::;onable profit be added, tlle margin to tlle far western tleavors to lead the mind away throug-h the cooperatives intc• producer would be excessive and would lead to a rapid im:re:l.se a maze of indiddual corporation:-;, hut the mouey in each bill lu acreag-e witll larger and larger crop::l. Soon this rear's recurd eome~; out of the same revolving funout for all these years. If, on the other hand, tlle price l>e ~.tabilized on western cot:>ts 'l'hi:; export eorporation to be set up hy this bill is a priva:tc of production plus a reasonable profit, tlle farmers of the old corporation. The bill spec:i.fica1ly 11rovif.les that tlJ.e director:-< belt will find cotton growing unprofitable and must cease to shall 1wt he eonsidered as officers of the Government. This plant the crop. In contrast, production in the 'Vest will l>e export corporation is removed from the restrictions ot the anti exteuded more and more until Texas, New 1\lexico, Arizona, and trust law. ·why? Because then the export corporation can buy Califomia are a continnou::; cotton field, destroying tlle cotton tlJ.e crop outright. In all parts of this country, in the coril, in producers on the Atlantic seaboard. tJw cotton, and iu the tobacco sections, you will find that tlw Uertainly the Congre~s should take no action whicll benefits farmers have put tllcir llo~dings into cooperative warehouses one vart of tlw Cotton Belt at the expense of tho other. and have been paid GO or 75 per cent only, while the balance 1\ly friends, the l>ill I present does not camouflage or put up is tiecl up. The farmers can not get tlle cash. This lJill 11ro a sHwke screen. It goes straigllt to the business eucl of it. vic1es a plan by 'Yhich this export corporation can buy those Here i::; a corporation that is in the mnrket to bny aud to sell holdings from the coovcratiYcs outright and pay them tlle full and to stabilize the vricc of that commodity. The same thing value. would apvly with more facility to ritE\ to tol>acc'O, to wheat, or lVfy hill does not make any provision for any loans. The to corn. The couditionH are slightly different, l>ut the effect farmers, as I know them, do not want any more lt1ans. They would be the same. want cash and a reasonable price for their produds. [Ap Much has been said in the other l>ills and in the!!e Yarious plause.] long-drawn-out uh;cussions about overproduction: I want to Uentlcmeu, I beg you to consider this proposition. If we 11ause here, gentlemen, to remind you of n :::;erious fRet. In want farm relief that will relieve; if we want to at'compliRh every country in Europe where I studied tllis question I found the thing we haYe l>een talking about here for five years; if we a united, organized moYement to compel the production of foo(l are ~incere. let us get behind a bill that eYery mnu \Vho rca1h; prodncts at home. Tllat makes our futuro \Vith reference to 1llay understand and recuguir.e that it will go clirec:tly to the exports even more seriout:>. In Belgium to-day they have a law heart of tllis great question. [ \.pplause.] prohibiting the exportation of any food products. They require Mr. 'V.ASON. l\Ir. Chairmnn, I yield 15 minutes to the all bread to contain 10 per eent of rye in order to make the gentleman from New York [Mr. FrsH] . Belgian people usc their own rye. In Sweer:-; Germany, with all her efforts, is now 11roducing only two of tlle American Legion who are nJ:..;o l\lcmbers of the Honse of thirllS of the food she needs, but in tllis country o\·erproduc- Uetweseutatives. Our distinguished colleague was a delegate 1927 CONGRESSIONAL R.ECOR.D-HOUSE 2089 of the Unitecolonel in the Reserve countless women and children in crowded cities "·ill be de Cor11s of the chemical section of our Anny, has used his greut stroyed, will be massacred by the use of invisible and oclorless influence and hns a sociated himself witil the chemical manu poison gas either shot by long-range guns or clropped in huge facturers ancl chemists as treasurer of n national chemical quantities from airplanes. defense organization to spread all kincls of propaganda to the Mr. WAIN,VRIGHT. Will the gentleman yield? American I>eople against this treaty, and try to make out that 1\lr. FISH. I yield to the gentleman, yes. the use of gus in warfare was necessary and humane. 'l'he Mr. '"~INWRIGHT . Are we not to-day prohibited by opponents of the protocol try to make belie\e that poison ~a s treaty from using poison gas, and are not all the powers is a 8ort of 11leasant perfume for the soldiers, aucl af ter inllal 'vho are parties to the 'Vashington treaty adopted at the ing it they were Rent to the rest camvs anersllip of these organizations witiJ the I charge Jolm Thomas Taylor with having instigated the fallacy that lt is a discrimination against them have failed. resolution ad.opted. l.Jy the ...\merican Legion against the poison The number to be benefiteu by thi1:1 act wns estimah·d by the gas treaty. Director of the Veterans' Bureau in his letter of Jannary G, 192G, to I charge him with hav-ing used. hi~ official position in the be 1,848, and the lucrensed annual cost to the Govel'Dment, basell Legion to pull the wires and to railroad tile resolution through upon the figures of the Veterans' Bureau, is $1,1D0,052, being the two Legion Conv-entions. ilifference between the amount to be paid under thi" blll, $2,835,312, I charge bim with carrying on a tremenuous propaganda, and the amount the 1,848 are now reccivin~ as compensation, financed. by th2 chemical iud.ustries to defeat the. poison gas $1,G45,260. treaty in the Senate. I charge him with haYing attempted to baml.Joozle the Mem Members of the Honse, do not forget tllat this bill is in the bers of the other boll.Y, which has to pass on the treaty. interest of the dir-:abled men who went al.Jroacl to save the civili I charge him with using tlle Legion conh·ary to the av-owed. zation of the worl£1. I did as you probably did. after the United principles of the Legion as set forth in its preamble to defeat State. enterpll that great conflict. I said to the young men this humane propo al. of my di~trict and of my State, "If you go to the front, in so I charge him ·with misrepresenting the v-iews of the rank and. far a~ it lie~ within ruy power, I prumi::;e you I shall for the file of the v-eterans and misleading our colleagues iu the other balance of rny life use my beHt eudeavor::i to see that you are treated. as tile wardl::! of the Government." God help me! 1\Iy bod~ into belieYing that tlley will incur the wrath of the legionaires if tlley vote for the gas treaty. two boys went and one of them never returned. Let us uot I cllarge him with l.Jeing the treasurer of an association of forget the dPbt that America owes to these men who actually chemical officials who!' ted. a congressional inquiry into this Cllairman, I llave said. what I intm1ded to say. In the matter. Speaki11g for myl::!elf alouo as one service man, I feel last days of the session the Hules Com1llittee is all powerful. thut the service men in the House would welcome an inquiry One man can accomplish l.Jut little. I know very well that. not only into the activities of the cllemical as::>ociation lrut Hnt I appeal to tl10se wllo are in authority in this HouRe, to our tlle activities of tlw AmericR.n Legion and. lobbyists in Wash r-::plend.id and accomplished Speaker, to our generous, amiul.Jle, ington, in order that we mR.y keep the Legion al.Jsolutely clean and comJ.l't'tent leader on the majority side, to my bosom friend of charges of tllis or any other character. at the head of the Committee on Rules, that we forget any .Mr. FISH. It might be adv-isable. In conclusion, I want di:ffere11ces that may be indicated by that middle aisle and. to state that .I will go along with the gentleman from Ohio l1ring this righteous measure l.Jefore the House l.Jefore the gavel at any time or at nny place to try to do awRy with and al.Jolisll shall fall on the 4th day of March. [Applause.] the use of all forms of poisonous gas in any fnture war, and, 1\fr. BYRNS. l\lr. Chairman, I yield 15 minutes to the gen in my mEnd, unlesl::! we do so, poison gas in tlle form of Lewisite tleman from Georgia [Mr. LANKFORD]. or mnsturd gas will l.Jecome the means of conn·~~ing sudden illr. LANKl!'ORD. Mr. Chairman, ou ilfar<:h 2, 1n25, as ap and. horrible death to countle~s noncoml.Jatants, particularly pe-ars in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD of tllat date, page 5233, I women and children, and will become the abomination and used. the following language : desolation of modern civilization. [Applause.] Mr. ~peaker, another Congress has come and gone and there has l\Ir. BYRNS. 1\Ir. Chairman, I yield 10 minutes to the been made much the same record as heretofol'(!. Nothing worth while gentleman from Korth Oaroliua [1\ir. Pou]. has been rougbt out at tlle very last of Congress under measure. [Applause.] It bas been stated., and not denied, such circumstances as to insure their certain defeat. Then there will that in one way or another an overwhelming majority of the be the usual noise about the farmers' relief bill being lost in the last membership of the Holli.lc not only llas expressed a desire to have or closing homs of the session. an opportunity to vote on tbis measure, but has indicated a 1\Ir. Chairman, another term in Congress · bus come and. will puqlol::!e to support the bill if it is permitted to come before soon be gone since I made the remarks just quoted., and it now the Hou c. T~Yicc the. bill has passed. the Senate. It was held appears tllat the same old program of farm relief is to be up during the last session in the face of a most urgent appeal again performed. This is my ninth session as a 1\Iernbcr of from its supporters for action, and it seems as little as the this body, and each time tile program has l.Jeen. bills galore, proponents of the measure can aRk tbnt an opportunity for a wonderful " write nps " on farm relief, splendid. hearings, many vote be given. I read from "the report on this bill as a re speeches, a great big noise, and nothing done. I am on tip minder to the membership of the Hou:-:e : toes of expectancy at every session. It looks lil>:e something Of nine cla ses of officers who served in the World War, this is the is about to be done all the while for the farmer, but so far only cl!lss from whom the right of retirement is being withheld. nothing worth while has materi~lized. Even the junlor oillcers averaged nine years older tbnn the enlisted It seems there is a chance to pass a good bill now, but we men and had greater responsibilities bot11 in and out of the Army, I hear it said on every side that the House will not pass any 1927 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2091 farm bill ; if it does the body at the other end of the Capitol nite in its terms and, to my mind, furnishes at least the key will not accept and pass it, and if it finally reaches the Presi to the solution of the farm problem. Let us pass a bill which dent he will promptly veto it. \Vhy does this situation exist? will need neither explanations nor apologies and whicll will Why has it existed for these many years? Why is it to exist, give the farmer relief as definite as that afforded the Dl!lnu I fear, for many years yet to come? There are too many cur facturer by the tariff. rents and countercurrents and too many bills and counterlJills. I am making these ouservations hoping and praying that There is too much confusion and not enough concert of action. Congress may yet give the farmer aid as definite and helpful The bills presented, as a general rule, are too indefinite, leave as has been given others all the ·e years. [Applause.] too much in doubt, and vest too much authority in boards and l\fr. BYRNS. l\Ir. Chairman, I yield five minutes to the gen organizations which may be composed of enemies of the farmer. tleman from Nebraska [l\Ir. l\IOREIIEAD]. All this mystic maze is cam;ed by men, ofttimes conscientiously Mr. M,OREHEAD. l\fr. Chairman and. Members of the seeking to help the farmer, but who are jangled and out of House, it is not my intention to take much time of the House tunc. The farm organizations will not all agree on any one at this time. bill and ofttimes change their front overnight. No great vic Nebraska was largely settled by soldiers of the Civil War. tory was over won \Vith and for such disorganized forces. They deserve a great deal of credit for the splendid progrel:ls I wish we could get together. I introduced a bill to create a made in Nebraska. They established homes, reared their fami Federal cotton corporation with authority and capital sufficient lies, ane been increased to $50 per month, she could five men, named by the hoard; which is a Gover·nment corpora have had a neighuor girl come to look after her and kept her horne. tion, to hauclle what he calls a surplus of that commodity, Tile soldiers' relief committees of Douglass and Lancastt>r Counties while unuer the Haugen bill overprodndion can be controlled. are now in the midst of their annual siege to proviue help for such by two influences. First, you have au agency, which is a co widows as this one. But they can only furniMh coal and a few operative ageney, whicll must agree upon the price of the groceries; no money. commodity, and therefore they know 'vhen there it! an over- These widows, whose husbands did splendid service in the Army production; ~:;tabilizing will be more difficult, and that will make from 1861 to 1865, did even better service for GO years as pioneers them cautious. Second, that same agency that names the in onr Commonwealth, and their wives did even more. Now they price is an agency that is made up of coope1;ati>e producers of appeal to the country whose unity and prosperity were secured by that commodity. Which would be the strouger in the matter of their husbands in their early manhood, and they feel that they are influencing the production iu the amount of the prouuct, a entitled to some recognition. I am sure that our Nebraska CongreRR- corporation of fi>e men under the Aswell bill or a cooperative men will !eel just as I do about it, only it seems difficult for them producers' 01~ganization under the Haugen bill? In my judg to secure the time and attention needed to get action in .the matter. ment, there can be no question about it. The next question was The slight increase in pension of all Civil War veterans at the last that be tried to make the point that a sur.plus and a domestic ~;ession of Congress should satisfy them for the present, anu all pension consumption of a commouity should be recognized. \Ve want it legislation having to do with Civil War veterans should center upon recognized., but if you take the cotton cousumption and the this action in behalf of the widows of our dead comrades. domestic consumption of the mills of the South at the present We, in 1'\ebraska are not greatly interested in the ·project started time, the price wbicl1 they must pay is determined by the in the National Tribune to increase the pension of veterans from $65 world's price because there is no tariff 011 cotton. If you will to $125 per month. That matter can wait, but the increase for get the channelizing agency of the Haugen bill that will gather f!Oldlers' widows .ought to be immediate. We now have an efficient com- this commodHy in one market, it will at least influence the mittee representing the national encampment in the person or ex- domestic price and somewhat influence the world's price and Governor Van Sant, of Minnesota, and a letter from him received world's consumption of that commodity. In other words, you yeRterdny advises that he expects to be in Washington this week or will influence both prices, and tllere is an automatic relation next. I have advised him to call on you as a Representative of our between the uomestic price and the world price on cotton Nebraslca delegation, and I shall be greatly obliged !or any assistance because there it! no tariff on cotton. Third, in regard to the the Nebraska delegation can afford him. question of finam:e. You ha>e a Goverument corporation undet· I suppose the bill !or the increase noted above will be presented by this bill that he says is going to stabilize tlle price of cotton by Congressman ELLIOTT in the House, and I hope he will not delay tlle buying the surplus. At what price? At a reasonable price; matter. As the Associated Press pays so little attention to these and if there is any loss under his bill, who stands the loss? matters connected with Civil War veterans, I shall be greatly ol>li~eH were always frustrated by the Senate. When a bill problem, and now I want to sugg~st to ~:ou th.e names of the favorable to the Indian war veterans came up for discussion it never men they agreeu upon . who are gomg to 1~veshgate and make lurked an honorable Senator to move that "This bill be now passed report in reference to the agriculhual situation: lfirst, w.e over." Every time it reappeared it was met by th1~ Sflmo Rtutrcd club ha>e Hobert W. Bingham, of Louisville, Ky., publisher of the and knocked into silence until the hour hand of tlle rloc·k struck the LouisYille Courier-Journal. He is the same gentleman, the enu of the session. former bead of the National Council of :n'armers' Cooperative A blll renewing the attempt to end the injustice so lon~ shown to tho Marketing As~ociation; and, according to t.he CoNonEssro~AL Yl.'ternns of Indian wars is now, I understand, once ruo1·e before the HEconn of 1\far<:b 20, 192G, oYer a statement s1gueu by Mr. Bmg - House, and I am sure you "'ill stand by your past record and give it llam he bad secretly agreed with the PresiUeut , of the United your support. Even should the bill pass the Rouse, escape assassina Stat~s the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Agri tion in the Senate, and become a law, it woulu be a trifling drain on cultur~ that his organi7;ation, the National Council of Farmert!' the National Treasury, Compare its volume witll that of tile enormous CooperatiYe Marketing Association, would support no farm leg wealth. mineral and agricultural, which has bt>en evolved from the islation of any far-reaching intention presented to Congress. Rtates that once formed the "great North American desert" since the Tbh! agreement was made without the knowledge or. consent year 1866-nnd the argument of economy would have to blush with of the members of his organization, and was almost umvcrsally shame. repudiated by the cooperative associations making up his or In that :vcar n soldiPr of the Eighteenth Infantry, I was mustered ganization. for pay at· old Fort Kearney, and now in the twilight of my eighty Now how can yon expect the farmers of this country to be sncond year. I have in human probability but a short dt~tance to go enthusiastic about waiting for 1\Ir. Bingham to make further till I como to the end of the valley, and will be laid to sleep in this finding~ with respect to the farm problems of thh; country wl~en glorious State of Nebraska which I helped to win from the desert. he bas entered. into au agreement of that kind and is sa~mg I appl.'al then for ju:'!tice, not so much for myself, as for the younger that we ought not to have farm legislation until further light men who in the same cause sPrved their country at a later day, bravely can be thrown on tlle subject? . . and loyally against the same fierce and savage. foes. The next man is Mr. Fl N . Brown, of New York C1ty, chtur I am, dear Mr. 1\lOREHEAD, man of the boaru, St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. I Yours very truly, am in sympathy with the problems that t~e railroad ~en have JOHN P, SUTTON, to solve but when a railroad man is sittmg on one ~Ide of a 1\lr. WOOD. Mr. Chairman, I yield 10 minutes to the gentle table a1{d it is nece:;sary in order to have farm relief to make man from Iowa [Mr. DrcKINSON]. a reduction in freight rates, bow is that railroad man, sitting 1927 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2093 ou the other side of the table, to consider that problem dis cash out of the rural communities, whore it ought to stay in passionately and disinterestedly when lle knows that a reduc order to finance local institutions in those localities. Do you tion of rates is to come out of the earnings of his road? Do think that man can divorce himself from the interests of you think his findings will be yery helpful to the producers of Gen'eral l\Iotors in a case where he would be called upon to this country in solving their problems? determine how to solve the farm problem and reduce motor The next is Mr. E. M. Herr, of New York City, president of sales if the farmers are buying too many cars"? the Westinghouse Electric & l\1nnufacturing Co. The theory of The next man is Paul l\f. Warburg, of New York City, chair many of the electric-power people is that the best way to solve man of the International Acceptance Corporation. " 'ell, suffico the farm problem is to haYe the farmer do all his work by it to say that Mr. Warburg knows a good deal more about electricity, and those people are putting out propaganda all international finance than he will en>r be aule to know about OYer this country tending to do away with all other appliances the actual trials and tribulations of the food producer and tllc except high-line senice to do the work on the farm. If we do raw-product producer. not solye the farm problem before you solve it by means of I wanted to bring this to the attention of the House, uecnn:'le electricity, there will be a lot of hungry people in this country. there are a great many men who believe that .it will be neces The next is Mr. J. G. Lonsdale, of St. Louis, Mo., president sary to get the Yiews of our big business men in order to soll'e of the National Bank of Commerce. There is only one objection the farm problems. to that man, and that is that he is a fellow who has always I notice they paid a compliment to me nnd said that- loaned his money at a rate of interest as lligh as the traffic will bear, and when he loans money to the farmer he does it Despite the farm-l.Jloc criticism of the purposes of this inquiry, as >oiced l.Jy Mr. DrcKI!\SOs, the newspapers of the country continue to in order to make the returns on his loan as high as possible. give the idea support. The great problem of the bankers in this country is to stabilize the price of money. They could no longer agree themselves They can support the idea if they want to, but I do not ou that question until they had to go into competition with want Congre.ss to wait for their finding., because, in my judg the farm-loan system. Nobody ever dreamed tllat the farm ment, their findings will be in the line that we ought to con loan system would control a large proportion of farm loans in tinue to study the problems of the farmer until they nre entirely this country, but it has had a stabilizing effect. It is for- bankrupt and they can not profiteer any more again::;t his . tunate that the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. AsWELL] came interests, and then they will have to say that Cougre::;s can ba<:k here convinced that stabilization is necessary in farm serve the farmer only by far-reaching legislation. [Apvlau::;e.] products. That is ·what we have been asking for, but it took The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Iowa him throe years to get to where we were three years ago, has again expired. because we were for stabilization at the very beginning of l\fr. WOOD. l\1r. Chairman, I yield one minute to the gen this contest. tleman from New York [Mr. l\!AcGREGOR]. Mr. S'l'RONG of Kansas. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman Tile Cll.AIH.l\-IAN. Tho gentleman from New York is reco~ yield there"? nizeu for one minute. Mr. DICKINSON of Iowa. Yes. Mr. l\1AcGREJGOR. Mr. Chairman, it came to my attention Mr. STRONG of Kam~as. Evidently he has not read the some time since that there might ue some question as to the committee bearings on the Strong stabilization bill before the lighting equipment of the Naval .Academy. I know you nrc Committee on Billlking and Currency. all interested in the boys at that acatlemy. I have had some Mr. DICKINSON of Iowa. Yes; that may be true. If he correspondence with the Superintendent of the Nuval Academy has not already read them, he should read them. with reference to this proposition and I simply want to 11ut The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Iowa in the RECORD a letter from the 11dmiral upon that subject hns expired. which may be of interest to the l\Iemuers. Mr. DICKINSON of Iowa. May I have two minutes more? The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New York n~ks l\Ir. 'VOOD. I yield to the gentleman two minutes. . unanimous consent to extend his remarks in tlle RECORD by The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Iowu is recognized im;erting the letter referred ·to. Is there oujectiou "l for two minutes more. There was no objection. Mr. DICKINSON of Iowa. The next man is William Cooper The said letter follows : Procter of Cindnuati, Ohio, pre.~ ident of the Procter & Gamble UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY, Co-. Who are they? They are grea.t manufacturers in this Anna-poliR, .Md., January 19, 1927. country of commodities that can be used as substitutes for Ron. CLARENCE :i.\!ACGREGOR, M. C., dairy products. They were interested in llaving the tari.ff low HV!tse of Roprcscnta.tivcs, TVasltin{fto1l, D. 0. enough to suit their business on copra and coconut oil and l\IY DEAR MR. MACGREGOR: ~ e plying to your letter of January 18, peanut oil used as substitutes for dairy products. Yet when 1!)27: you come to solve the farm problem do you think Mr. Procter The lighting of midshipmen's rooms has been the subject of constant can divorce himself from the interests he is iuentified with and study and supervision at the Naval Academy. In 1910, aR the result 'favor the lines of production which arc in competition with of an extensive aud very elaborate survey by experts, there was r~ . hi~ line? " 7 ith a man so situated, passing upon the dairy moved the system of direct lighting and an indirect system put in to interests of our country and the cottonseed interests of the replace it. The system as installed at that time was the result of the country is it thinkaule that he could render a decision that will best information on the subject available. favor the dairymen of the North and the cotton raisers of the Since that time the Ugbting in midshipmen's rooms bas been the sub South? ject of further observaton and study in relation to the possibility of its Tho next man is Arthur B. Rogers, of' Minneapolis, Minn., producing eye strain. Last November I llau the subject again looked pre~:;ident of the Rogers Lumber Co. I am going to pass that into and there were certain recommendations made at the time, some of man. He is a big lumberman. He is interested in selling which we have been able to carry out, others we have not. It is an lumber to the farmer, and tile lumbermen are interested in the interesting coincidence that only lRst evening on making my rounds I prosperity of the farmer for that reason. He could not clivorce determined to again take up the liglltlng question to ascertain it~:~ pres him~clf from tho viewpoint of the man whoso interests prompt ent general situation and whether the results were what we were trying him to look toward the profits he can make on lumber. to obtain, when tlle morning mail brought your letter. The next is Mr. John Stewart, of Chicago, Ill., presid·ent of A short time ago in asking some of the midshipmen how the ligllts in the Quaker Oats Co. That is the company, you will remember, their rooms were, I received the laughing reply to the effect tllat the that declared an extra dividend of $4.50 on every share of com trouble was not wi.th the lights but wns due to the fact that the mon stock of that company iu 1923, at the time when they were majority of midshipmen study lying on their beds instead of sitting at buying our oats in Iowa at from 18 to 22 cents a bushel when the table. Of course, while I believe there i an element of truth in they knew it cost 45 cents a bushel to produce them. that statement, I do not belie>e it is n fundameutnl element in the situ 'l'he CIIAIRl\.'IAN. The time of the gentleman from Iowa ation, althougll it may be contributory. has again expired. We have found that in some cases the inuirect reflectors and uulbs Mr. DICKINSON of IOWIL l\fay I have two minutes more? were being Impaired in their usefulness through dust shutting off part l\Ir. WOOD. I yield to the gentleman two minutes more. of the light. To· offset this there was instituted a regular systelllil tic The CHA.IHl\IAN. The gentleman from Iowa is recognized inspection. At the present time we are doing O>er the ceilings of the for two minutes more. rooms in the midshipmen's dormitory so as to insure greater reflection Mr. DICKINSON of Iowa. The next man is Alfred H. and diffusion of light from this source. I am f11rtller taking steps to Swayne, of New York City, vic'e president of the General Motors get expert advice upon th~ lighting situation as it now stands and wlH Corporation. I paid my compliments the last time I was on the take further steps upon the receipt of this advice. floor to this concern in the matter of furnishing automobiles Cases involving sight tllnt ~:~tcadily come into existence ofilcially upon the installment payment plan, a plan which in my judg gt·oup themselves into two clasHes: First, that due to eye strain; and, ment bas been the mopping sy~te!ll that bas taken the current seconu, that due to color blindness. The first element fluctuates from '2094 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-.HOUSE JANUARY 21 year to year, the second element has been increaslng. The first cle Mr. BANKHEAD. I yield to the gentleman from Oklahoma. ment, as a whole, is dependent a good deal upon the physical develop Mr. HASTINGS. I want to ask what information General ment of the individual midshipman and the intelligence with which he Hines gave as to whether or not the banks more or less gen uses the resources and appliances at his disposal. The second is in- erally throughout the country, after understanding the rules . creasing because, with the advancement of Iillowledge on the subject, it and regulations made by the Veterans' Bureau, were making bas been found that many original tests for color blindness did not loans upon these adjusted certificates? definitely prove color blindness where color blindness existC'd, and we Mr. GREEN of I owa. General Hines gave us full informa have had cases of people who were later on actually found to be color tion on that subject, or, at least, as full as he could. He gave blind-some of them in the general service after graduation-who at us the number of loans that had been made in each State, and the previous test did not appear to be color blind. It is also known said, in substance, that in some States the banks were coop that while color blindness is normally congenital it can be developed and erating very actively and that in these States probably there may occur at a period later than that at which a. particular test did not was no neces~lty for any legi~lation, but that in other States disclose its cxistenee. the banks had been rather slow and reluctant to act, and, in With reference to thC' gC'nC'rnl situation; It is constantly in our minds his judgment, it would be well to have legislation. and a mattet· of sitpervision and I have written at length with reference 1\fr. BANKHEAD. I wish to thnnk the gentleman for his to it because of the interest shown in your letter. very courteous answer to my question. Sincerely yours, 'l'he CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Alabama L. M. NULTON, has again expired. Rear Admiral, United States Navy, Su,pedntendent. Mr. WOOD. 1\fr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of tile 1\Ir. BYRNS. l\lr. Chairman, I yield five minutes to the time remaining on my side. . gentleman from Alabama [Mr. BANKIIEAD]. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman is recognized for 63 1\fr. BANKHEAD. l\lr. Chairman nnd gentlemen of the minutes. com»1ittee, I hope the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. GREEN] will Mr. ·wooD. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, not leave the floor. I ha...-e asked this time in order to inter this is not a very large bill when \VC count the printed pages, rogate him about a matte-r. There has been a great deal of yet it appropriates a very sub::;tantial sum of money, the de discussion upon the floor of the House within the last few tails of which I will try, as briefly as I can, to give to the days with reference to the situation that has arisen in regard committee. to the adjusted compem;ation law for the benefit of our World The amount recommended to be appropriated in this bill is 'Var ...-eterans. The 1\Iember~ of the Hou::;e, of com·se, are $183,8G7,884.01, of which ~20,000 is on account of the legisla intimately acquainted with that unfortunate situation. Under tive branch-and I may say in passing that that item is to the law as we pa~Red it-some of us voting for it under pro cover an appropriation made for two widows of 1\lembers who test as not representing our real views on the bonus question- have died-leaving $183,847,884.01 for the executive branch of . it is provided that banks may make loans to these soldiers the Go...-ernmeut. upon these certificates. We have seen a great deal in the The amount recommended in the bill is $19,800 more than the press within the last few days to the effect that before this total of the Budget estimates. This net increase is hrought session of Congress adjourns some legislation would be passed about by a d·ecrease of $200 in the estimates submitted by the to meet that very distressing situation. The Committee on Executive and an increase of $20,000 for items under the House Ways and 1\leans, of which the distingui hed gentleman from of Representatives not transmitted through the Budget that I Iowa is chairman, naturally will have charge of that legisla have heretofore mentioned. tion, in my opinion, and I think the country is so largely inter I may say to the committee there were many other items ested in this matter-the bankers, soldiers, and the repre submitted from the Budget that arc not reported in this bill sentatives of the soldiers here in the Hous~that it would for the reason that we felt they were not of such urgency that be well if the gentleman from Iowa would make a short they should be includ.ed in tlli::; measure, but could wait until statement here and now as to whether or not any remedial the final deficiency bill, which will be pas~ed before our a<1 4 legislation is contemplated by his committee at this time, and, journment. if so, when. The items includ.e(1 in the bill are of such a character os to 1\lr. GHEEN of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, if the gentleman warrant their inclu ion in an urgent bill at this time. Ot·her yields to me for that purpos~ items pending for consideration in connection with deficiency Mr. BANKHEAD. Mr. Chairman, I yield the gentleman the appropriation measures .,b.ave been postponed for consideration balance of my time in order to make such statement as he in connection with the final deficiency bill of the session which may care to make. will come to the House approximately a month later. The Mr. GREEN of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I am very much items in the bill are deemed to be of such importance that their pleased to have an opportunity to make a statement. This delay until the end of the sc~sion is not justified. morning, by request from me, General Hines came to the 'Vhile the total of the bill is large, the number of items is committee room of the Ways and Means Committee to meet compartttivcly small. The main items arc as follows : Hcfund . myself and some other members of the committee, together of taxes illegally collected, $175,000,000 ; fighting forest fires with representatives of the drafting force of the House and in national forests, $2,155,000 ; forest roads and trails under Senate, and to examine into the various bills that have been contract $1,400,000; naval air station, Pensacola, Fla., on presented and also to receive such recommendations as General account' of hurricane damage, $800,000; marine railway, Bnu Hines himself might pre::;ent to the committee, this being pre Diego naval station, $200,000; naval station. Lake Denmark, liminary to. calling up the matter in the committee for an N. J., $347,000; mine depot, Yorktown, Va., $580,000; fighting assignment for hearings and preparation of a bill on the fires and repairinn- ·flood damage in national parks, $235,000; subject. We spent some time on the matter this forenoon Inland 'YaterwaysoCor11oration, $2.000,000; judgments of co urts, and General Hines left in written form the recommendations $374,940.29; and audited claims, $o38,199.39. he had to make with reference to certain provisions enabling REFUNDING INTERNAL·REVEXUE TAXES llis department to make loans, and some suggestions were made with reference to some other amendments. The amount recommended for the refunding of internal I have no doubt that just as soon as the committee gets revenue taxes illegally collected is !$175.000,000. 'rhe last previ through with its present hearings a day will be set for bearings ous appropriation made for similar purposes was the Hnm of on the various bills that have been presented to the committee. $149,250,000 contained in the deficiency act approved 1\Ia~l'h 'While I have no authority to speak for what the final action of 3, 192G. This amount was expected to last until December Hl, the committee will be, my judgment would be that the com 192G. The completion and approvnl of several very lnrge refund mittee will report out a bill to remedy the situation and take cases, aggregating $21,!300,000, which at the time the ~stimute action to get it over to the Senate in plenty of time to have was prepared were not anticipated. to eventuate durmg that it become a law, if the Senate is disposed to act on it during period, depleted the funds more rapidly than uf'lnal, and the this session. It is a matter which require some little study, appropriation practically became exhau~tcd on N~vemher ; la. t. and the committee did not want to be overhasty about it. My There were on band as of Janunry 3, approximately u2,7-1G opinion is, from remarks that have been made around the table approved claims awaiting payment in the to.tal. amount of $:m,- by members of the committee, that the committee realizes the 259,721.1G. The item recommcndetl in the ~111 IS to cover th~~e ·necessity of legislation on that subject. claims and those which it is anticipated w1ll be nllowed dnrmg The CHA.IUl\lAN. The time of the gentleman from Alabama the remainder of the calendar yenr. Refund claims pnid during has expired. the .fiscal year l926 which ended on .Tuue 30 last, totaled $17-1,- Mr. BYRNS. 1\Ir. Chairman, I yield the gentleman one addi 120,177.74. This a~onnt covered 308,188 <:!aims, averaging $5G4 tional minute. each. Mr. HASTINGI1. Will the gentleman from Alabama yield in \\'"bile the amounts previou~1y appropriated for refund }mr- ol'e erected in units of consequence, during the years I have been in Congress and for 5 or 6 and they are to be separated from other units by a a long time before that, they ha\e depended upon deficiency distance of at least one-half mile. All of these units are to be appropria tlons. connected by road, and as I have stated, each one of the maga This sum is the second largest amount expended in any year zines is to be surrounded by an earthen barricade so that in for forest-fire fighting. The season of 1926 was an extreme the event of an explosion, instead of the explosion going side fire year. The number of fires -was 6,400, many of which were ways it will go up, and in the opinion of the engineers, who due to severe electrical storms. The area burned over was are supposed to be experts in this kind of construction, one approximately 722,000 acres out of the net national forest area of them or two of them or the whole unit can explode with of 158,750,000 acres. Reports of the damage resulting from the out causing the explosion of any other unit They are also fires have not been completely compiled. Out of the eight e.rected so that in case of their explosion there will lJe no national forest districts affected, damage and loss is reported destruction of property outside belonging to 11ri\ate individuals. from two, and the amount for these runs over $3.500,000. As a result of the Lake Denmark disaster. thousands and thou The sum of $1,400,000 is recommended for forest roads and sands of claims have been filed by owners of property living trails to coyer contracts entered into in accordance with law. within 10 O!: 15 miles on account of the destruction of their LXVIII- -132 2096 CONGRESSIONAL R.ECORD-HOUSE J ANU.A.RY 21 property. A "Very amusing incident is related in the records by the Congress authorizing a capitalization of $5,000,000. where a man who lived some 20 miles away filed a claim Three· million dollars has alre~dy been used in the purchase of against the Government because of the fact that the explosion stock, all of which went to pny a loan of that amount that had lwd destroyed hi::) spring. The experts examined the situation been negotiated by this corporation to take over the properties and found that the spring had been destroyed, and they were of of the Government that were operated entirely under govern the opinion that this man was entitled to damages, but before mental control plior to the enactment of this law depending the tinal award was made, somethlng happenecl so that the entirely upon appropriations made from year to year. This' spring commenced l'unning again and the damage claim was activity has demonstrated that this service can be performed not paid. at a profit. We were operating, prior to this new law, at a The amount also includes the neces::;ary funds for clearing loss of about $000,000 a year. Within four years they have sites, proper drainage about the structures, communicating succeeded in changing that loss to a profit of $250,000 a year. roads, telephone and fire alarm systems, and incidental expenses. The purpose of tliis appropriation, as I will indicate, is for the An item of $200,000 is included in the bill for replacements buying of more barges and the taking over of leased property and repairs of the marine railway at t.he naval station, Sun upon the upper Mississippi. Diego, Calif. A recent examination of the underwater portion l\lr. OLIVER of Alabama. Will the gentleman yield? of the marine railway at this point reveals that it has been Mr. \VOOD. I yield. seriously affected by the teredo resulting in the necessity of Mr. OLIVER of Alabama. I assume, from tlle gentleman's replacing approximately 600 feet of the railway extending from statement, that be lias been impressed, as well us other mem the shore line into the watm·. The need for the replacement i:.; bers of the committee, with the fact that the affairs of t.his urgent. There are SO destroyers at the station out of commis corporation have been well administered by General Ashburn. sion and 25 destroyers with the fleet which rely upon the !"ail 1\fr. 'VOOD. They have been splendidly administered, tllld way for repair and overhaul. Tile use of the railway for such as I have said, while it is still under quasi-Government opera purpo. es is almost constant throughout the year. After the tion, it has demonstrated beyond peradventure the possibilities recent examination it was deemed advisable in the interest of and tbo necessity of inland waterways. The evidence in the safety to discontinue the u ~e of the railway for the destroyers ilcarings discloses that through the operation of this waterway, pending its repair. The urgency of the item is apparent for, the farmers of the West, not only in the States immediately in the absence of it, repairs usually accomplished on the marine contiguous to this waterway but adjacent Stutes, have benefited. railway, could only be had by taking the vessels to Mare Island within tile last year to the extent of more than $6,000,000. or Puget Sound at considerable expense. They have received at least 3 cents more per bushel upou The expense of towing o11e of these vessels from San Diego their wheat than they would have received had it not been for to Mare !::,;land or Puget Sound would almost amount to the thc~:;e waterway facilities. They have fixe!l a price OH wheat cost of this repair. This teredo is a sea animal. He is very and grain to tile Western farmer, and while we arc i1,1dnlging small but has a "Voracious appetite, anrarily put out of com situation outllued to the committee indicated that with the mission by the hurricane and resulting high water. Emer expenditure of !f:878,000 for the Warrior division the facilities gency repairs have been made out of a total of $125,000 ad could be so employed us to turn the loss on the 'Varrior into vanced to the station out of the current aviation maintenance a profit. appropriation. It was necessary to delay training by deferring Expenses on the Warrior division for barge rentals, towboat the classes due there on November 15 until January 15. Out of charter, per diems on detained freight cars, etc., aggregate at the $125,000 allotted from current funds only the most urgent the rate of $165,600 per annum. 'Vith the $878,000 it iH con items have been cared for to date. This sum has been used for templated to eliminate these rentals and charges by tho pur repairs to the bridge to reeAtahlish traffic with the mainland, chase of 1 steel towboat at $250,000, 24 steel barges costin;; restore water SUDply and telephone lines, repair 54 planes re $528,000, and provision for a terminal warehouse costing ceiving minor damages, and to make emergent J·e11nirs to build $100,000. The chairman of the corporation stated to the com ings and facilities to protect them against the elements and mittee that with the addition of this el}nipment, the elimina restore as far as possible the activities which would permit a tion of the rentals and other expcpses, and the utilization to rcsumDtion of flying operations as soon as possible. The items the best advantage of the ileet thu~:; augmented, that .the War included in the recommended sum contemplate the restoration rior (livision, with a constantly increasing tonnage aYailable, to the current maintenance appropriation of a portion of the would show a profit. $125,000 advanced therefrom for emergency repairs, the re The remainder of the $2,000,000 of additional capital stock, placement of two hangars practically completely destroyed, the namely, $1,122,000, is for use in connection with the ~:;crvlcc on r eplacement of the motor-test stand and engine storehouse, and the upper Mississippi River. Service on this division is author provide for repairs to hangars, shops, storage facilities and ized by section 201 (cl) of the transportation act of 1020 and storehotLcs, water-front structures, station utilities, and mis specifically mandated by section 3 (a) of the act of Juue 3, cellaneous structures and facilities. 1024. The facilities purcha cd during the war and authorized WA:R DEP..lRTMENT for use on the upper river by the trp.m;portation act of 1920 The sum of $2,000,000 is recommended for the puechase of were leased to Fl. Ji'. Goltra, of St. LouiA, and their return to the remainder of the authorized capital stocl( of the Inland the Government wa::) involveu in litigation which finally re Waterways Corporation. The autllorized capital of the cor sulted in favor of the Government and their return to the poration is $5,000,000, of which $3,000,000 has heretofore been corporation. These facilities originally cost $3,840,000 and havo appropriated. The Inland Waterways Corporation is author recently beCll reapprai:;:ed at $1,700,000. The fleet is now em ized to operate water-carrier service on the upper and lower ployed in the lower Mississippi River service. Pending the Mississippi Rivers and the \Varrior River. Service at present return of the fleet to the GoYernmcnt and anxiouH for the in-· is practically entirely con.fined to the lower l\liHsissippi River auguration of the service on the upper river as the law pro (St. Louis to New Orleans) ancl the ·warrior River. The vided, a priYate company consisting of bnsine:.s men of the $2,000.,000 proposed in the bill is divided between the projects Northwest 'vas organized with a capital of $600,000. With t.his for the upper :Mississippi (St. Louis to St. Puul and Minne company, the Upper Mississippi Barge Line Co., the corpora apolis) and the Warrior River projects, resP€ctiyely, in the tion made a contract for the construction of 2 towboats and sums of $1,122,000 and $878,000. 11 barges and provided in the contract, under certain limita I wil:lh to say that every member of this committee should tions, for the rental or purchase of these facilities by the cor read the hearings held by the subcommittee, especially the poration. The corporation is adding to these leased facilities testimony of General Ashburn. It affords, to my mind, the 1 towboat and 4 barges through an allotment of $310,000 most complete vindication of the possibilities of inland water from the profits of the corporation on the 1\fississiJ)pi-,Varrior way transportation. Here is a corporation that is entirely service. This would bring the- upper river fleet to 3 towboats owned by the United States Government unde!: a bill pa~se d un!]. 15 barges. 1927 CONGRESSIONAL R.ECOR.D-HOUSE 2097 However, a study of the potential tonnage on the upper Mr. WEPALD. I would like to get in my mind the exact river indicates that such a fleet would lJe totally inadequate for natur-e of this operation. Is the Government in charge of the the required service and could not operate eJfectively with corporation? the fleet now in service on the lower river. The minimum 1\ir. WOOD. The corporation authorized under the law vro equipment believed by the corporation and thoHe who have vides for the issuance of $5,000,000 of f:tock. It is a corpora given the question expert study is 5 to\Vboats and GO barges, tion in form, operated by the Government. The directors are which is 2 towboats aml 45 l>arge.s more than the facilitie::; selected by rea~on of their well-known ability; they have one. now available or in prospect through lease or construction. managing director, who is General.Ashburu. 1.'he amount in the till for the upper Missi:-;sippi, l!\1,122,000. Mr. 'VFJFA.LD. And according to the splendid statement is, therefore, to procure the 2 additional towboats and 45 the gentleman has made, H is a suecess 't barges. The committee invites :->pccinl attention to the state M r. WOOD. AbsolutC'ly. ments of General Ashburn and Representative NEWTON of Mr. OLIVEU of Alabama. Will the gentleman yield? l\Jilmcsota concerning the possibilities of success of water car Mr. ·woOD. I will. riage on the upper river. Iu the opinion of GPneral Ashburn, l\Ir. OLIVER of Alabama. In the gentleman's earlier state the additional facilities on the ·warrior River will place the ment he ~a id, in addition to the net profit last year, there · :\lississippi-Warrior division in such a profit-making situation had IJeeu reflected a large saving for the RhiPilN'S, and years thnt the corporation will be able to meot any losRes which previou8, including last year, something like $6,000,000. _ might r esult from the initiation of service on the upper river Mr. WOOD. Yes; and that to my mind is one of the things division. that ought to be eoru;tautly in our mind. It is not so much I wish to statP here that in estimating their profit of what t11e corporation is doiug itself in earuing profits, hut what $2:,0,000 on this entire operation on the Mississippi and 'Varr·ior it ·is doing toward earning profits for the sl.lippers o.f this Rivers. they have deducted 3 per cent for depreciation and country. lo:-:s. They have taken into consideration all the things that H ere is another thing: It was thought for a long time that would 'be taken into cont-:iclC'ration, depletion and everything the water transportation wns going to afford ruinous competi else, except jnterest, IJy any ordinary business corporation. tion with the railroad transportation. The railroads of this So again I emphn!';i?.e the fact that under this management country fought it for a consideral>le time, but it now is most they have demonstrated the possibility and the feasibility and grntifying to learn that the railroad transportation companies the practicability and the f'Couomic value of inland water in this country are in ardent accord with the development of ways. [Applause.] these waterways, and they have determineu that in their de The stock of this corporation is entirely owned hy the velopment it will result in a profit to them rather than a loss. Government of the United State::; and the corporation is man Mr. NE,YTON of Minnesota. Will the gentlemau yield? a~ed 'by one of the directors who is the managing directot·. Mr. \VOOD. Yes. There are five other directors chosen from different Rections 1\ir. NEWTON of Minnesota. That has teen the attitude, with of the country who have no int erE>~;t whatever in conflict with this exeeption: In the effort that this corporation is making 'vaterway transportation, IJnt who, by reason of their busine. •s to get t1·a:ffic on the upper river they have not hod the coopera ability, by reason of their activity in the affairs of business life, tion of the railroads of that locality that they should have have been selected all the way from St. Paul to New Orleans, and had in view of the pronouHcee!lr r epeating. Do I understand the gentleman to say these acti\·ities. If the people of the United States would that, considering the investment in transportation facilitie::; realize how important it is to develop our waterways, as they on the Missi~sip11i and 'Varrior Rivers, as well as adjacent long ago realized it in Holland, we would not be long in de streams on the 1\fissis~;ippi, and counting amortization, ec·ause of the different classification of man has spoken of into consideration. freight aU of freight carried by the barge l\1r. AHENTZ. Do~ the company contemplate the trans line, or what is it that causeH this new state of feeling? portation on t~1e smaller rivers-do they toke steel coming 1\lr. WOOD. l\ly judgment is that it is beeause of the very from Pittsl>urgh over rivers up that way so that thi::; freight sensible ::;urvey made by those who are in the management of mar be taken care of and delivered further er of items under the government of the District of operation? We know that cargoes are delivered to New Columbia are provided to cu,re for urgent needs. 1.'he items Orlean::;, transferred to barge.lines so that not only could they for the asses!:loJ.:'s office, the jm·cnile conrt, and the Public make $200,000 profit but an immense profit could result. Utilities Commission are due to laws recently enacted and Mr. WOOD. We were told by General Ashburn that there carry out the express wi:->h of Cougre:-:s in those acts. The is cooperation, but there is still oppoTtunity for greater coop amount for furniture for the 1\incfarlnnd Junior High School eration. To my mind there should be the closest cooperation is due to the early completion of the addition to that builfling between our shipping lines and the inland waterways, so that and its occupancy for class-room purposes. The amounts for all the grain that goes to New Orleans for export should 'be uniforms for. the police aud fire departments arc in ncconlance shipped in United States vessels as far as is possil>le. with the act of last l\1ay and provide the allotments for those Mr. WEFALD. Will the gentleman yield 1 purposes for the last six months of the current fL;.;cal year, fol Mr. WOOD. Certainly. lowing a detailed l:lurvcy of the requirements for the full rear. 2098 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE There is a very full and complete tabulation of the amounts forecast when we will get a speCial deficiency bill makin"' recommended by the Budget and the action of the committee appropriations for some of the public buildings enumerated i; thereon to which I invite the attention of the Committee of the the report made to Congress the other day? Whole. [Applause.] Mr. BYRNS. I am not authorized to speak on the subject Mr. BYRNS. Mr. Chairman, I propose to take only a few but I think I can say with some degree of confidence that that moments of the committee's time. The bill has been very will come along in the next deficiency appropriation bill about fully explained by the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Woon], the last of February or the first of March. who is in charge of it. There is nothing controversial about A general deficiency bill always passes just before the close it. It comes to the House with a unanimous report of the of a session. committee. As the gentleman from Indiana says, it contains Now, there is another item to which I wish to call attention. only urgent items, necessary to l.le carried at this time, items There is an appropriation of $1,400,000 for forest roads and like those to which he refers, and also judgments rendered trails. Now, it was frankly stated by those who appeared in against the Go\ernmcnt and audited claims, which are draw behalf of that appropriation that it would not be sufficient. In ing interest. Later there will l.le a general deficiency appro other words, it requires $3,000,000 to take care of the authori priation bill which will carry other items now pending before zations and contracts which have been heretofore made for. the committee. the fiRcal year 1927. But now what does the Budget propose The gentleman from Indiana has told you that this bill ex to do? Instead of making an appropria t1on direct of $3,000,000 ceeds the Budget estimates by $10,800. I repeat, however, it is proposed-and I am not criticizing the department for what he said by way of an explanation, that that is due to the it is the Budget's proposal, so the department officials st~~ fact that this bill can·ies $20,000 to pay the families of de to take this $1,600,000 out of the appropriations carried in the ceased Members of Congress, which sum was not. carried in agricultural appropriation bill for 1928 and then come back in the Budget. Had it not been for that fact the l.lill would show December and ask Congress in a deficiency bill to restore that a reduction from the Budget estimates. amount with a deficiency appropriation. There are only two or three items which I particularly wish Now, I am not making any question of the amount needed.· to discuss. One is the ~175,000,000 appropriated for the re I am not raising any question of the amount appropriated her~ fund of taxes. The Treasury Department ran out of money or tl1e amount taken from the 1028 appropriation bill but I nm on No\ember 1 of last year. They had made their previous protesting against this action of the Budget in n~t making estimate upon the idea that they would have enough money to these estimates for direct appropriations rather than borrow carry them until January 1 of this year, and Congress had from Peter, so to speak, to pay Paul. I know in private affairs appropriated the full amount et timated. But it was explained that is always poor business. In other words, they are going by Mr. Nash, the very efficient and highly competent deputy to borrow of the 1928 appropriation bill $1,600 000 in order to commi sioner, that due to several court decisions, and large take care of this particular work from now to July 1 with cases which unexpectedly came on during the summer and fall, the express statement that in December they will com~ back the money was consumed by November 1. This estimate of for a deficiency to make up for it. This, of course, is to hold $175,000,000 is exp'ected to be sufficient to meet all requirements down appropriations at this time, but it will hn"Vo to l.le from November 1 of last year until January 1, 1028. I am appropriate(! later, and the people do not get a true picture. making no question about the amount, l>ecause, of course, Con Now, the gentleman from Indiana has referred to the appro gress should appropriate every dollar that it is decided bas priation carried for inland waterways corporation. There is been paid into the Treasury by a taxpayer under a misappre nothing that I can add to the force of his clear statement. hension of fact or through a mistake; but I do question the This bill carries $2,000,000 to complete the purchase of custom of the Budget in taking this sort of appropriation out $5,000,000 worth of stock which was authorized l>y Congress of its usual channels and making estimates for it in a deficiency to be subscribed by the Government, which is the sole stock appropriation bill. In other words, the Budget Bureau has holder. But I do want to emphasize what the gentleman from adopted the plan of submitting its estimates for refund of Indiana has said to the effect that the conduct of the admin taxes by calendar years rather than by fiscal years, and it istration of this corporation has demonstrated the "Very great will be noted that the regular appropriation bills carry no sums value of the inland waterways of this country. I do not whatsoever for this purpose. Of course, it means the same know of anything that has done more to demonstrate the thing to the Treasury of the United States, it does not involve value of the inland waterways to commerce and to agriculture an additional dollar. if properly developed and properly managed. Formerly, within 1\Ir. 1\IANSFIELD. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield? the last year I should say, according to General ARhburn, the Mr. BYRNS. Yes. managing director, the profit on the lower Mississippi was ahout l\lr. M~~SFIELD. Tlw taxes were paid in by the calendar $486,000 for 11 months ending November 30. There was a year, were they not? loss upon the Warrior River and upon the upper Mississippi, 1\lr. BYRNS. Oh, yes. but with this loss subtracted, as the gentleman from Indiana Mr. MANSFIELD. Would it not be proper for the refunds says, the profits of the corporation am?unted to ~250,000 last to run in the same way? year. General Ashburn says that of this $2,000,000 additional Mr. BYRNS. I submit that bas nothing to do with the point stock $878,000 will be used to purchase barges and towboats that I make, because if Congress were to make its appropriations upon the Warrior River, and the erection of terminals and from July to July, of course they would be taken care of. he will turn the operation on the Warrior River into a profit The fact that the taxes are paid during the calendar year making affair, and that after this expenditure he will make has nothing to do with the custom which the Budget has $165,000 upon the operation, which is 18 per cent on the adopted of submitting its estimates for a deficiency bill rather amount which he proposes to spend on it. than for the regular bills. The point of my objection is that Mr. C.ARSS. Will the gentleman yield? while it does not mean the expenditure of a single extra dol 1\fr. BYRNS. I will. lar, while it does not cost the people any more, yet it does 1\fr. CARSS. The gentleman states thot the operation of not present a true picture of just what is being appropriated these barge lines has resulted in a profit of about $250,000? as we go along. For instance, we are appropriating in this Mr. BYRNS. Yes; something a little the rise of tllat. bill over $58,000,000 which it is expected will be expended 1\Ir. CARSS. There js alRo to l>e tnl,en into consideration for the refund of taxes from July 1 of this year until January a reduction of freight rates, which would tend to rednce the 1 of next year ; or, in other words, during the first six months cost of living and increase the value of the products shipped. of the next fiscal year. The result is that when you come to Mr. BYRNS. I was speaking simply of the number of total the appropriations made during the present session of dollars made by way of a profit. Of com·se, there is to be Congress you will find that Congress is appropriating $-58,- taken into consideration what the gentleman bas to say and 000,000 more than is actually needed or intended during 1027, also the increased value of farm products, particularly to and when you total t.he appropriations. that are made for those who live in the Northwest. I want to read to you just 1028 they will be $~8,000,000 less than they actually are. The what General Asbl>urn said upon this subject, because I think result is, when -you come to the matter of comparison from it is very interesting and illuminating: year to y0ar we find a diff'erence of $116,000,000, which, of Mr. llYnNs. As I understand you, if this $2,000,000 is allowcu to course, will be set up by the Budget as showing less appro you, it is your very firm opinion tllat ultimntely every branch of priations for 1028 than for 1027. this service, and I mean by branch the upper and lower Mississippi, :Mr. O'CONNOR of Louisiana. 1\-Ir. Chairman, will the gen the Warrior, and the Uobflc to Now Orleans, will be not only self tleman yield? sustaining, but will prove profitable? Mr. BYRNS. Yes. General AsrrnUR)I. Thnt is my opinion. 1 think thnt the first thing Mr. O'CONNOR of Louisiana. Although not relevant to the that will come lnto the profit column-this is my opinion ; I am remarks of the gentleman, I ask him if he is in a position to only guessing at it-1 think very shorUy, with this ruoney, the -1927 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2099
Warrior itself will be Relf-sustaining. The building up on the upper J very efficient administration and great business executive riV"er is going to be a little bit hard to start with. ] ability of General Asilburn w:th his ad·risory board of five JUr. llrRNs. I understand that it will take time to build up. . 1 gentlemen of pronounced ability and succe~s in life, and who General Asnnr.nN. I feel this way, Mr. Congressman, that With are devoting a portion of thE-ir time and energy to making tili::; this money as ca11ital, with the ~Ii ss issippi and the Warrior ou a corporation a success. payin~t basis. we will he making enough money to keep adding to l\Ir. HA~TINGS. M,,r. Chairman, will the gentleman yield this upper Mississippi and fighting our fights up there. I do not there for a moment? · think we shall ever h:we to come back to Congress again; I think Mr. BYRNS. Yes. thir; $5,000,000 wm carry out onr program: . . . . . Mr. HASTINGS. Referring to the item appropriating $1,400,- Mr. llYnNs. In addition tllereto, you w1ll be furmslung fnc1htles 000, as autilorh:ed by section 23 of the Federal highway act, to the shippers in a vast numb0r of States for the movement of approved November 9, 1921, it is stated that the amount au grnin an1l grain products and li>estocl• and coal, etc., at cheaper thorized to be appropriated was $7,GOO,OOO for that purpose, rates for transportation. and tilat this amount was not appropriated. In the past few M:OYEl'liENT oF GRAI:>< years there has been authorized to be appropriated $7G,OOO,OOO grain for highways and $7,500,000 each year for roads and trails in General AsrrncR~. Yes; I should like to tell yon about this our nationnl forests, making an authorization '- f an appropria movement, if you will a1low me. tion of $82,500,000. I take occasion to invite the attention of Mr. Wooo. We shall be glad to bear yon. the gentleman to the fact that for this coming year on the General AsrrBunN. The barge line is carrying about 1,000,000 agricultural appropriation bill only $71,000.000 instead of $7G, lmshels of grain 11 month-diu carry 1,000,000 busllels of grain where OOO,OOO was appropriated. It was stated by the chairman of grain was mo>ing. That is G~1J cents a hundred pounds cheaper the subcommittee in charge of the bill that an additional than they cnn get it to export by all rail. The records of the amount might be added on a deficiency appropriation lJill merchants exchange of St. Louis, where all this grain, or a large later-tilat is, the remaining and additional amount authorized quantity of it is bought, show that when we are functioning in that hut. not ap11roprlated-and it was tilen stated that there was way the farmer getA 3 cents a bushel more for his grain than if be some $3,000,000 that would remain unused of tile appropriation shipped it all rail. We save 6% cents 11 hundred pouncls on 10,000,000 already made after June :JO next. If you add the $71,000,000 bushels, which is a great saving on freight. Not only that, but every and tile :t:3,000,000, you will have only $74,000,000, and therefore one of the farmers \Tllo has sold his grain has received 3 cents you would be authorized to make contracts for Federal aid to a bushel more than he would have received hall our scrV"i ce not been roads c uot come up paring tlle amount of refunds with the amount of extra aHsess to the full amount of the autilorizution should during the year ments and collection~ that ha\e been made? certify that they are prepared to , pend all tile money necess9.ry 1\fr. BYRNS. Yes. I think tbe devartment has made a to meet the contrilJutlon made by the Government, the heatl of splendid f::howing along thnt line. The total refunds made up the department can come up later and a~k for it, and I. have to date, from 1D17 up to tilis day, are $721,646,777.29, whereas no doubt it lrill be provided in a deficiency appropriation bill. as the result of the audits "'hich ascertained the amount of The CH..A.IRi\IA .... T. The time of tb.c gentleman from Ten the refunds there has actually been collected and paid into th<.' nessee ha::; · expireu. All time has expired. The Clerk will Treasury by way of additional as~essments and collections read. $3,318,170,GD1. The Clerk read as follows : 1\lr. KETCHAM. That is a ratio, roughly speaking, of about Be it enacted, etc., That the following Rums arP nppropriated, out 4Y:l to 1? of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply 1\Ir. BYRNS. Yes. urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending Now, 1\ir. Chairman, in conclu~ion, I think that General Ash burn, tile very efficient and capable director of this Inland June 30, 1027, and prior fiscal years, and to provide urgent sup ·waterway Corporation, is to be very highly commended and plemental appropriations for the fiscal YNlr ending June 30, 1027, complimented for the splendid work he is doing iu connection and for other purposes; namely : with tilis corporation. [Applause.] The administration of tilis 1\Ir. BLAN'l'ON. l\Jr. Chairman, I move to strike out the corporation, to my miml, is one of the very shining exceptions last word. to w-hat usually happen~ when the Government undertakes to The CHAIRMAN. The gentlt:•lllan from Texas moves to go into 'Qusiness, even in an indirect way, and it is due to the strike out the last word. 2100 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 'JANUARY 2f :\Ir. BYRNS. I ask unanimous consent, l\1r. Chairman, that hearings just a few excerpts to demonstrate just whnt a mess tile gentleman from Texas may proceed for 10 minute.-; out this "corporation counsel" llad made of them: of order. The CfLURl\IAN. Is there objection to the request? Mr. BLANTON. Here is another suit that is Sf'ttlecJ, the District of Tllrre was no objection. Columbia against the Washington 'l'erminal Co., for $10,007.54, cmller, 1!124; that is gone, is corporation counsel, who draw::; a salarr of $6,000 a year, and it not? Answer me. who has a :;;mall army of assistants, has not lJeen doing the law Mr. Sn:rrrExs. Snme situation. ·work of the District; be has not been looking after the people's ~lr. llw~TO.N. Then, here is another one, a tax suit against the iutercst, and that Gib.-on committee, composed of five law~ers "IT'ashington Terminal Co. for $57,047.:!3. It was tlismiRscC Repuhlicum; and two Democrat&-C'ame to the unammous We lo t that $G7,000, uiu we not, Mr. Stephens? agreement that the office as constituted wns not qualified to Mr. STEPll&~s. That is in the same situation. handle the legal lm. ·ines:-: of the District; that it was not ab~e ~It·. BLaNTON . .After being on the docket since 1V17 it was dismissed to cope with the lligh-class lawyers employed by tlle public without settlement. Then here is another one for $G7,G09.30 taxes utilities of tllis g-reat city. Let me quote you some of the that was fileu in 1!J20. It was dismise;ed in Novembm·, 1!)24. It is evidence from that hearing : gone, is it not? COXCERXINO TilE DISTniCT:S CORPORATIOX COUXSEI•, MI:. FllAXCIS IT. Mr. STEPIIENS. Same situation. S'l'EPHE:-IS Mr. BLANTON. A ca~;e is nevet· tried at the instnncc of a defendant, :.\Ir. S'rEPIIEXS. I wnf! admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of is it, Mr. Stephens? the District of Columbia. Mr. STEPIIEXS. Very seldom. i\Jr. BLA.NTO~. Upon examination or diploma? Mr. BLANTON. Defendant-s IIEXS. Yes, sir. Mr. BLANTO~. They do not have to pny out any money until you Mr. BLANTO~. How long before you became employell by the District get juugment against them, h trial on them, do they not; that is always the case? practice? l\Ir. STEPHENS. Nearly always. Mr. STEPIIENS. Yes. Mr. BLANTON. In civil us well as criminal cases, is it not? If there :Mr. BLANTO~. Diu you bave any goo!l-s!zeu cnscs in the Suprem·e is nnybo counsel is a renl good, live, active lawyer? Do you not think we need E L SEWHERE FnAXK J . HOGA.X CO:\IES TO HIS TIESCt:!E that down there in thnt office? B ut when I was conuucting the Penning llearing before the 1\Ir. STEPHEXS. It would be very desirable to have a good live Committee on the Juuiciary, every time I would press uown man down there, a man with considerable expel'ience, if you could on this corporation counsel he woulu be protected by the re get one for the salaries we offer. nowned Frank J. Hogan, as ~hown by the following excerpts: ~fr. BLAXTON. You are gt'tt-in·g $G,OOO. no you not know there l\lr. BLAXTON: I will ask you if it is not fnct that at this time arc over a hundrell circuit judges in Texas right now holding court a scveml big corporations of the District of Columbia owe the District down there, trying men for their livt's, trying ca~es involving prop erty \Yorth millions of dollars, who do uot get but $4,000 a year? over $000,000 of taxes, and tllat some of it llas been pending since 1012? Is not that a fact ? ::\Jr. STEPIIEXS. No; I dirl not know that l\Ir. STEPHENS. I do not know how much money is owing in taxe~. lnl'. BLA:\'~I.'OX . Well, tbrre are. The salary of a <'it·cuit judge in I know we have number of suits in the office, some of wlllch have Texas is about H.OOO . In Yirginin it is only *5,000, I understnull. a been pending since lfll:!. They get less than .rou llo right over here in the Commonwealth of Virginia-circuit jndges. ~Ir. llL-~XTOX. Have you not figured it up nnd recently tr:tified that it amountell to about $!lGO,OOO? ~Ir. STEI'IIJ::XS. 'Tht>y are not paid enough. :i\lr. STF.PITJ~xs . ·o, sit·. Ur. BLAXTON. 'l'bey flo g-ooll, houest work; they try c:1ses, keep their dockets clear. It is not the salary, Mr. Stephens, altogetller, l\lr. BLAXTON. Have ;\ ou not figm·Prl up the amount lately? :Mr. STEPllENS. Not sint·e I made that liHt. that requires the ~ervicrs of a good lawyer; it is his devotion to duty. l\Ir. BLA~'l'ON . What estimate woulll you put on the a~grr.g- ;t te :.\lr. STEI'HExs. I ngrce with you. amount tbat is due now? REXDEHFD ~X UXLAWFUL Ol'IXfON FOlt CO~DilSSlOXJ•:R HCDOLPU :i\1 r . STEPHE-:>~s. I should say auont $:.!00,000. ::\lr. GILDJ::RT. Commis,;iouer Ru!lolpll testified llere that lle obtained :\It·. BLAX'l'ON. It is not $900,000? an opinion from the corpotation counsel's office that llis connection :\Ir. Sl'El'HBXS. "'e llave no suits petlding in oul' office that rcocll with the corpomtion of Hudolph & 'Vest as a large stockholder-a t!Jat nmount. stockholder in excess of more than one-third of the stock-was approved l\Ir. BLAXTON. I am talking about all the amount« that the Di. tl'ict by an opm10u. Did you personally prepare tllat opinion? i:-; now claiming that certain corpornlio11s owe it iu taxes. l\Ir. S'l'EI'HEXS. Yes, sir. :'IlL·. Sn:rnEJss. w·e do not have tho,;e figures in our offlct>. They ~lr. GILBERT. Dming tlte last fiscal year that firm sold to the belong· in the collector's office. District hardware to the extent of se'l'"enty-one thous:Ind untl some odd Mr. BLAXTOX . '\ould tl!Py not run llll to nuont :j:tHIO,OOO? uollnrs. He being a third stockholder, Rome $~:~,000 of that, aftt>r ::\lr. ST&PJIE::-rybot'!y1 ~Ir. GILB11rt'l'. Would the fact that you held your posit-ion merely l\ll·. BLANTON. I am talking a!Jout past-{1ue taxes, long si11ce ]last during his approval affect an opinion that you would render to his due by corporations. prejudice to such a great extf:'nt? I will ask you if there i;:; not n suit now wndin~ agninst the l\Ir. STF.P!IEXS . It is vel'Y difficult to say llow much a mnn might Washington Terminal Co., No. G42ii::, whieh wa,; filed January 3, lDl,., uc tempted, if h is position depended. upon it. A man would like to for U0,:.!23.22? think that his judgment would be unuiused, wh atevet· the conSf:'fJUCDces. ~lr . STEPilF.:Xs . Ti.lnt is correct. 1 It is n ratlwr rare trait in human nntme, however , for that to llappen. Mr. BL~NTOX. Auu there has IJeeu JIO tt·la l ? 'J here ha~ ueen no :Mr. GrLBI:;UT. What salary do you draw? finnl trial? I\lr. s·.rEPTIBXS. Six thousand. l\lr. HOGAX. Wl1y do yon not let llim ans,Yer? Mr. GrLnEnT .•\.nd you ure at the beau of the District's lf:'gal business'! * • ... "' ... l\Il'. S-.rF.rrn~xs. Yes, sir. ~l r. BL.\NTON. ~Ir . Stephens, as corpor:1tion counsel you rendcre1l l\ll'. GILBJmT. Anrl there is pending in the courts now liti:;a1:on an 011inioll tltut Commissioner Huclolpll, one of the Culllmis!:liollet· ~. involving millious of doll:u·H; is not that a fact? could still retain h is interest in Uudolph & We~t and still be H com· ~Ir . Sna•rrEss. I do not know what the amount involved is. mis:sioner, llid you not ? l\lr. GJJ.m·;RT. Wt>ll, there nre six corporations that, according to ::.\lr. Dl'ER. I do · not think that is material to tlle chur~cs again~;t the tax assessot·, have $9Gl,OOO-i1early a m illion dollars-in bnck l\II'. F1•nning. tuxes from those six cowpanies that is now in litigation. There Is l\lr. BLAx'l·o.-. The statute, as I reutf'mber it, is that no puhlic one item of practically a million dollars of t hat alone. So the IJus i official may let a. contract whereby lle wny profit, or tbnt no cnrnlllis nes::~ of which you :ue the legal beau must run into muny millions sioners can let a contract whereby any oue of them m•lY profit. of dollars, does it not'? ~rr: HooAN. Of course, there is no law on that suhj('ct. :Ur. STEriiEXS. The bnsinct"s of the corporation runs into that; I ~Ir . llLAXTOX . I think there is a tatute law in that respect. doubt if the litigation involved in our office mns into tllosc figures. ~fr . HEnsrcY. What do you propo~e to show?
Dllll<'TINQ ALO~U FOR SLX YEARS ~lr. BLA:>~TON . I propoRc to show lJ.v !\1r. RtHlolpll, another mclJib<'r of the Boar11 of Commi-Mr. BL..L"\"TO~. When you firAt took office in your first term as lUr. BLL'\'l'O)[, Up to how long ago? commissioner, yon publh:~hed in the pres~:~ of Washington, (lid you JI.Ir. RUDOLPH. Lust week, not, the statement that you had severed your connection with the Mr. BLAXTON. Up to last week the fireman did it?. firm of Uudol11h & Wes t? Mr. llUDOLPH.. Yes. Mr. HuooLrH. I efore the about $10,000 a year. committee of our distinguished colleague from Ve.rmont [Mr. Mr. llLA)[TO~. It is about that. Gmso~] we were there able to get his answers : Mr. HUDOLPTI. Yes, sir. l\lr. GIBSO)[. You may proceed. Mr. BLA)[TO)[. Hudolph & West does the big part of its class of Mr. BLANTON. I desire to ask a question or two. Mr. Commi.ssioner, busin<>ss with the District, does it not? holding a thi1·d of the stock of Rudolph & West Co., and it being ~Ir. UUDOLPII. I tlo not know. capitalized at $150,000, that would make you own app1·o:rtmutely ~[r. BLAXTOX. Well, the figures showed there was $71,000 of business $GO,OOO of stock 'I somewhere with $15,000 to the nearest competitor. Mr. RuDOLPH. I snld "approximately," l\Ir. Blanton, because I don't Mr. ll.UDOLPII. Something like that. know the number of shares that I do hold. & llt·. BUXTON. Uudolph West were getting $71,000 and the nearest hlr. BLAXTO N. And it's paying 20 !Wl' cent dividends, that would bring competitor about $15,000. you in by computation · approximately $10,000 a yeur divitleilds from ~It·. R oDOLrn. '.fhose figures were shown me on the he,lring. Rudolph & West Co. ? i\Ir. BLA~TO)[, You do not say they are not correct7 :Mr. ll.uDOLPIL Yes. l\It·. llUDOLrH. No; I do not say there arc not correct. Mr. BLANTO)[. If their bm;incss· were more luc1·ative than it is, your Mr. BL~NTOX. Now, with regaru to the Second National Bank, you dividends would be more lucrative 7 are now and ha-.e been for some time a director of thnt bank? Mr. RUDOLPll. Certainly, Mr. R UDOLPH. I am a nominal director, I have not time to attend Mr. BLA::-o'l'OX. And if tbc p1·ofits were less, naturally your profits meetings. would be less? Mr. BLANTON. Yon arc a director. Mr. RUDOLPH. Yes, sir. Mr. RUDOLPII. My name is kept on the list. Mr. llLA.NTON. You realize, a.s a business man and as a commissioner, Mr. BLAXTOX. And you own :.tock in that bank 7 that if tllet·e were a suit pending in the Supreme Court of the District l\11·. RUDOLPH. Yes. where Rudolph & West Co. was a party, eithctors of the Second National Bank. quotation ··. What other hotel-ts owned by any of them? )1r. BLA::\TOX. Isn't that stock unusually hig-h? l\Ir. nuooLPH. They have some stock in tbe Continental Hotel. Mr. RUDOLPH. All bani< stocks are high. l\Ir. BL.\XTOJ\. You do know that for some time tbe WUlard Hotel Mr. BLANTO)[, You can hardly buy 1.hnt on the market? aml the Continental Hotel have been renting the space in fr"'llt of l\Ir. RuDOLPH. No; it h; held very close. \heir hotPl, or around their hotel, to certain taxicab companies for a -:\Ir. BLAXTO)[, It is held Yery close? certain amount, 10 per cent of their gross earnings? l\IJ', RUDOLPH. Ye::1. ::\Ir. llUDOLPII. I do not know whnt the arrangement is. ::\Ir. BW.NTOX. Your :100 t-~hares nt the present market value arc :llr. BLA~'l'OX, But you do know they are uoing that? wort-h a11proximntely bow much? ~Ir. RUDOLPII. Ob, yes. :\Ir. Rt:DOLrii. Something around $7G,OOO. , )Jr. DYER. I do not see the purpose of this. I do not sec where 1\:Ir, BLAXTOX. What <.lividentli:! uoes the l:;cconu National Bunk pay? lir. FenDing is connected with this? :Mr. ltUDOJJPH. Eight per cent on par. :llr. BLJ.XTOX. I will s)10w- you a little later that the Hom;e pasf!ed SPECIAL CO::\CF.SSIUNS TO H01!ELS an amendment to tbe traffic bill that was de~:>i~ed to stop that, and that :l-Ir. E'enning and the traffic director, together with Major Hesse, Mr. BL.l, 'l'OX. Ur. eollnday tops the list of ronr board of directors the supPrintennd National Did it ever occur to you that that action was not jus t Pxactly l'i~;ht Bank director~. to the little school children, the school children of Washington, who ~r. llLAXTON. But it is owned by directors in the Second National have to pay 8 cents every day? Bank? . l\1r. RUDOLPII. The stock-market value or selling price of stocks of l\fr. RUDOLPII. Yes; they ha\e stockholdings in it, but there are others a railroad company has nothing to do with little children. not connected with the Second National Bank also that have stock in it. Mr. BLANTON. No. In this way it has not, Mr. Commissioner. Mr. BL.tXTON. Mr. Commissioner, do you know that a Mr. Fowler, That stock market put millions of dollars of profits while they were who is an attorney for 70 independent taxicab companies, claimed sleeping at night into the pockets of the stockholuers of the railroad qnder .oath, testifying brfore a Senate committee in the Capitol not company. long ago, that tLe record in your court of appeals here in the District 1\Ir. RUDOLPII. Yes. showed that the Willard Hotel received $80,000 a year as its part of Mr. BLANTON. While every time a little cllild, any one of the 6G,OOO the taxicab and sight-seeing IJus receipts~ Did you know tllat? school chiluren who have to go to school on the street cars because l\fr. RUDOLPH. No, sir. tht>y live blocks and blocks away from the school, and they have to ride l\fr. B~"'lTON. I don't know whether that is true or not. am in- somewllere--every time they ~o to school and back home it takes 16 clined to belie\e that it can not be true; it seems too great a sum. cents out of their pockets unless they buy tokens. Mr. HUDOLPH. Why, yes. Mr. RuooLPII. They ought to buy tokens. Mr. BLANTON. But be testified that. I have a statement from a Mr. BLANTON. That would not be very mucll less. It is taking reliable attorney here in the District that the Willard Hotel has a con money from the pockets of the little school children and putting it into tract tllis ycn.r with a taxicab company whereby it is to receive as much the pockets of the street-car stockholders. as $15,000 for the taxicab privilrge of using tlie sidewalk and out in Mr. RuooLPII. I can not see it that way. the street in front of the hotel, which really belongs to the Government, Mr. BLANTO:-i'. If the commissioners will meet to-morrow under the doe~n't it? public utilities act and pass a regulation to annul your action in raimng the fare and providing that the fare will be 5 cents, I will tender you Mr. RUDOLPII. Yf'S. my services as an attorney of 30 years' experience to fight your case Mr. BLA:STON. As a commissioner you know that all the streets and to the Supreme Court of the United States. all the sidewalks belong to the Government, don't you? 1\fr. RUDOLPH. I do not want to do anything like that, because the Mr. RUDOLPH. Yes. company would have to go out of business. l\fr. BLA.."'fl'ON. And the Government has that property for the use of Mr. BLANTON. Let it. its people, hasn't it? Mr. Ru'DOLPII. The people want to ride. 1\fr. RUDOLPH. Yes. Mr. BLANTON. And there will be 20 . companies that will want to Mr. BLANTON. All of its people, not just hotel people? come in to-morrow and take their place. ~lr. HUDOLPII. Yes. Mr. RUDOLPH. I don't think so. l\fr. BLANTON. Then I am Informed also that the Continental Hotel, 1\Ir. BLANTON. You try it. which is owned by directors of the Second National Bank Building 1\fr. RUDOLPII. I am afraid to. You will have to excuse me there. ! don't kno.lY.., whether these reports that I am getting are true or not, Mr. GILBTilUT. Of course, It was the income that made the stock rise. but I am giving you the benefit of them as commissioner, because I Mr. RuooLPII. I don't know whether that is it. believe that you will run them down in the interest of the people and Mr. GILBERT. What made the stock rise? see what there is in them-! am informed that the Continental IIotel Mr. RUDOLPII. I don't know. bas entered into a contract with a certain taxicab company whereby it Mr. GILBERT. Wasn't it the profits that the company was making~ is to receiye as much as $3,GOO this year for taxicab privileges. Mr. llUDOLPII. No doubt it had something to do with inducing some Mr. RGDOI.. PH. Yes. people to buy the stock. Mr. BLANTON. Do you think that is fair to the people of the District Mr. GILBERT. Of course, the profits of a corporation are the things of Columuia if that exists? that determine the value of the stock? Mr. RUDOLPH. I don't see that it is unfair. 1\fr. RUDOLPH. Yes; the ability to pay dividends. Mr. BLA!'fTON. In front of the Willard Hotel there is space for H Mr. BLANTON. You spoke about getting your law and opinions from taxicabs? your corporation counsel, Francis H. Stephens? Mr. RuoOLPII. I don't know. That is a traffic matter, and I am not Mr. RUDOLPII. Yes. familiar with that. Mr. BLANTON. You depend absolutely on him for the law? Mr. BLANTON. I want to get you familiar with some traffic matters. Mr. RUDOLPH. Yes. Mr. RunoLPrr. I would rather not be familiar with them, lmt if you Mr. BLANTON. Whatever he tells you is the law, of course, tllat is want to-- your law? Do you know Mr. Hamilton? Mr. BLANTON. As one "'Iembcr of Congress I would prefer that all Mr. RUDOLPH. \ery well. of you commissioners sllould know something about some of the business Mr. BLANTON. What position has he held until recently with respect of Washington. to the Capital Traction Co.? 1\fr. RuoOLPII. It is ·our duty to know something about it. Mr. RuDOLPH. He was president of the company. hlr. BLANTO!'f. About the trnffic business. The Willard Hotel re 1\fr. BLANTO:-i'. Did you know that he is a main authority and power serves that whole block for its taxicabs and its sight-seeing busses, and in Georgetown University? if I as a common Con~ressman were to go down and try to park there 1\lr. RUDOLPII. He is dean of the law scllool there. to-night, I couldn't do it. Why llaven't I, as representati•e of 350,000 Mr. BLANTON. Yo.u knew he was a dean? people in my district, a right to park my own car there just as much 1\Ir. RUDOLPII. Yes; I knew that. as the WilJnrd Hotel bas a right to park 14? Can you answer me tllat? 1\lr. BLANTON. You knew that in what was called a revaluation case 1\ir. HUDOLPH. Not very well. which was in court, where the Capital Traction Co. had its valuation STREET CARS DAILY CHARGE E.S:TORTIOXATE FARE increased $11,000,000, your attorney, Francis H. Stephens, appeared there for the people as corporation counsel; and the judgment of the Mr. BLANTON. l\fr. Commissioner, I will just state a fa.ct or two COlll't recites that be did not object, l.Jut that e•ery ~ontention mulle by which ar~ conceded, and then I will aslc you a question. the railroads was agreed to. by him? Did you know that? It is conceded that the charters of the Capital Traction Co. and :Mr. RUDOLPII. No. the Washinriton Railway & Electric Co. and tlle enabling act which Mr. BLANTON. Well, the judgment recites that. authorized them to do business provided that they can not charge Mr. RUDOLPII. I did not know it. over o-cent fare. The higher courts have held that that is a very valuable right, that bill giving the street railway companies their char COMMITTEE UNANIMOUSLY AGREED ters, and that they shall I.Je held ~:~trictly to their charters. When the Our Gibson committee agreed unanimously that this District questiou came up about increasing the fare-in othe1· words, 1919- needed and was entitled to an able, efficient, learned, energetic, 2104 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 2f and dependable "people's counsel " to cope with the skilled, may be acquainted with l\Ir. Hogan or may not be makes any seasoned attorneys of the public utilities here. The foregoing difference. e...-idcnce was taken just before Congress adjourned last sum Mr. ·BLANTON. I recommend to every public utility in the mer And some of us who are in possession of all of the facts United States that wants to escape proper taxation and wants kno~· exactly why Commissionei· Rudolph resigned so that his to raise its charges against the people to an extortionate rat~ resignation took effect only a few dUYE! before the Congress to employ Frank Hogan, and I recommend to every millionaire met in this present session. Regardless of the numbe~ of crook in the United States who wants to unlawfully take from 11rominent Wa. hingtonians who attended hi~ farewell banquet, the Federal Government the millions that belong to the people, Commissioner Rudolph knew tha,t we were gomg to hammer that when they get in the clutches of the law to get Frank him some about the careless manner l!e had used in transacting Hogan to represent them. He knows how to get them out of the public business-here. . court and keep them out of penitentiaries. But I want to sny So our District Committee introduced and passed a bill cre that the people of this District, the people of Washington, have ating a separate utilities commission, separate and apart a right to expect that there shall be u lawyer of outstanding from tlle District Commissioners, and creating a new office ability ami of outstanding acquaintance and experience with known as the people's cotmsel, thinking that under the urgent utility matters here selected as their counsel to cope with the necessities of the case there would be appointed a man learned very best lawyers that these public utilities hire. I ha...-e in tlle law, capable and experienced, and able and willing to shown here that the street-railway companies, one of them, handle tlle public-utilities businC!':S for the people here in the that is now charging little school children, GG,OOO of them, 8 District. cents car fare, if you please--! have shown that its common There has been nominated for that office a young fellow stock weut up from 3 ' 14 in 1922 to 250 in Decembet·, 1025, who personally may be all right, but as. a lawyer ll~ is prac which put millions of dollars into the pockets of its stock tically tmknown here to the legal fratermty, I am s.o rnform~d. holders, and you need an outstanding laW3'er to stop it, because Why some of the most prominent lawyers here rn the DIS the charters of the railway companies here proviouy·s HoO'an and that I never saw hlm in my life. son-in-law who may come from a good family, 'Yho may 'be a l\lr. BLANTON. I know him, ann I have served the people fine youn~ fellow personally, be confirmerl when he is not across the table from him here in hearings before Congress, qualified? o What the people need is a good law~er. 'Vhat the and I uo not feel I have been contaminated by him, because I people need is a man who will know bow to go mto the court ha'e not allowed myself to become too intimate with him. house an agreed to. l\Ir. MORTON D. HULL. Will the gentleman yield? The Clerk read as follows : 1\ir. GREEN of Iowa. Yes. 'l'REASURi: DIDPARTME~T 1\fr. MORTON D. HULL. Does the amendment provide in the refund of these taxes that hare been illegally collected BUREAU OF IXTER~AL Rl'lYENUE what they shall do before they can get the refund? Refunding taxes illegally collected: For refunding taxes illegally Mr. GREEN of Iowa. 'l'lle amendment provides that if a collected under the provisions of sections 3220 nnd 3ll80, ltevised manufacturer will agree to pay this money O\er to persons Statutes, as amended lJy the revenue acts of 1018, 1021, 1024, and really entitled to it, the consumers who used the parts, that 102G, including the payment of claims for the fiscal year 1028 and the refund shall be paid to them. prior years, $175,000,000, to remain available until J une 30, 1928: Mr. JACOBSTEIN. How do you know that the refund has Protidcd, That a report shall be made to Congress of the disburse been legally made to the proper consumer? ments hereund!'r as required by snch acts, including the names of all 1\Ir. GARNER of Texas. They are to have affidavits from persons and corporations to whom payments are made, together with the ultimate consumer. the amount paid to each. :i.\-lr. GREEN of Iowa. The refund is to be made to the Mr. GREEN of Iowa. l\fr. Chairman, I offer an amendment. original taxpf.Lyer, but he has to provide by a bond for the The CHAIRMAN. '1."1le gentleman from Iowa offers an payment to the ultimate consumer. amendment, which the Clerk will report. l\Ir. JACOBSTEIN. I want to congratulate the committee, The Clerk read as follows : but is not this the first effort of this kind to protect the con sumer in respect to illegally collected taxes? Amendment offered by Mr. GREEN of Iowa: Page 8, line 2, after the l\lr. GREEN of Iowa. As a rule the tax bas not ucen word " each," insert a semicolon and the following: "P1·ot>ided further, passed on. That no part of this appropriation shall lJe availalJle to refund any Mr. LAGUARDIA. It is very fair and equitable and a good nmount paid by or collected from any manufacturer, producer, or im precedent to establish. porter in respect of the tax imposed by subdiviKion :l of section GOO Mr. McLEOD. Mr. Chairman, I make a point of order of the revenue act of 1924, or subdivision 3 of !>ection 900 of the against the amendment. revenue act of 1021, or of the revenue act of 1018, unless the Com The CHAIRMAN. The point of order comes too late. missioner of Internal Revenue certifies to the proper disbursing officer Mr. BEGG. A parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Chairman. that such manufacturer, producer, or importer has filed with the com The CHAIRMAN. The gentlemnn will state it. missioner, under regulations prescribed by the commissioner with the l\Ir. BEGG. The gentleman from Michigan advised me that approval of the Secretary of tile Trea!>ury, a bond in such sum and he tried as soon as the amendment was read to get recognition with such sm·etiPs as the commissioner deems neees~ary, conditioned to make the point of order. upon the immediate repayment to the United States of such portion The CHAIRMAN. The Chair heard no l\fembee addres~ the of the amount refunded as is not distributed by such manufacturer, Chuit· for that purpose. There was u little time elapsed before producer, or importer within six months after the date of the payment the g;cntlemnn from Iowa began his discussion. of the refund to the persons who purchased for purposes of consump Mr. SWING. I will gay, Mr. Chairman, that I heard the tion, whether from such manufacturer, producer, importer, or from gentleman from Michigan R11eak two or three minutes ago any other 11erson the articles in respect of which tlle refund is made, trying to get recognition to make tlle point of order. as e\idenccd lJy the affidavits in such form and containing such stnte Mr. CHALMERS. I suppose the gentleman from Michigan ment as the commissioner may prescribe of such purchases, and that thought I was going to make the point of order. such bond, in the case of a claim allowed after the passage of this act, Mr. MoLEOD. I did not make the point of order beeause was filed b!'fot·e the allowance of the claim lJy the commissioner. I d id not get recognition. · l\lr. WOOD. l\lr. Chairman, the committee accepts the amend- The CHAIRMAN. The Chair can not take cognizance of ment. that. The point of order come·s too late. l\Ir. CH.ALMERS. Mr. Ohairmun, v.·ill the gentleman yield? Mr. CHALMERS. Mr. Chairman, I put the question to the Mr. GREEN of Iowa. Yes. chairman of the "~ays and Means Committee lJecau~e of articles l\1r. CHALl.VlERS. As one member of the committee, I would that are manufactured in my home cit{ known as gauge glasses. like to haYe an explanation of this amendment. In 1023 the Libbey Glass Co., an Importnnt manufacturing l\lr. GREEN of Iowa. The reason for the amendment can concern of my home city, appealed to me to help them in solv lJe very briefly stated. Under the revenue ads of 1018, 1021, ing the problem of dumping foreign manufactured gauge glasses and 1924, an excise tax was imposed on the sale by manufac in this country. The gauge-glass industry was one of the im turers of certain automobile parts and accessories. That has portant branches in their factory. Gauge glasses are uRed in · now been repealed, I might say. locomoti\es, stationary engines, and so forth. They were im 1\Ir. CHALMERS. \Vill the gentleman yield right there? ported and sold to the jobber in this connh·y at a figure so low Mr. GREEN of Iowa. I had not quite finished my sentence. that the LilJbey Glass Co. was not able to pay the American Mr. CHALMEUS. I wanted to question that lust statement wage without a loss. that the excise taxes on automobiles had been repealed. I found, after making a study of the tariff act of 1022, known Mr. GREEN of Iowa. The tax on automobile parts and ac as the Fordney-l\icCumlJer lnw, that gauge glasses were not cessories was repealed. mentioned in any of the schedules. They were, therefore, listed Under the provisions of these acts, tuxes were collected on by the appraisers in the unclassified schedule. This ga\e an certain parts that were used not only in automobiles but also ad valorem duty of 55 per cent. I did discoYer, after making used sometimes in other machinery and in connection 'vith a study of the law, that glass tubing was definitely mentioned other articles. in one of the schedules and thnt the tariff on glass tubing was The question arose as to whether these urticleR that were 6G per cent ad valorem. I was able to persuade the authorities sold separately were subject to a tax, and ill certain instances that the gauge glass should he scheduled under paragraph 218, the court held that they were not. Now the manufactur ers tubing and rods, which gave them an ad valorem tariff of 65 11er CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE· JANUARY 21i cent. After due notice a Treasury order was sent out to that 1\fr.• lliLL of Maryland. No. This is a prov1J3lon for the effect. From this the importers appealed to the court of State of Maryland. I say to the gentleman from Texa~; thtlt appeals, and after a hearing this order was revoked and gauge I would not take an, appointment as a United States ju<.lge glasses were knocked down to the old schedule of 55 per cent. under any circumstance. This rate is working a great hardship upon American labor 1\fr. BLANTON. I wish the gentleman would turn it over and American industry. I suggest that the Ways and Means to me. Committee and the membership of this Ilouse take this tariff Mr. HILL of :Maryland. Very well. I am very glad, Mr. injustice under consideration in the next revision of the tariff Chairman, that the gentleman from Texas has raised that ques law. tion, because I think it is well to have it understood that I This company was threatened with pressure that would personally have no interest in the passage of this bill except cause them to close down, and it was during the time I was the extraordinarily congested condition of the business of the taking a vacation from Congress that I entered into a study United States courts in the State of Maryland. of the problem, made a trip to Washington, Philadelphia, and From 1913 to 1915 we had two Unite<.l States judges. One New York, and disco\ered that they were classifying gauge was appointed as an assistant to the existing ju<.lge, who was glasses in the unclas~ified list, because the tariff law does not entitled to retire, but who was willing to serve the Govern p1ention gauge glasses. ment for a few year~; longer and did serve the Government This is an article of high quality and ought to have been until his death. Both courts were working until the death of grnded in a higher sclledule. I did discover that in one Judge Morlis. Both were continually occupied by not only schedule they provided for the importation of glass tubing at Go-vernment cases but by other cases. When Ju<.lge l\Iorris G5 per cent ad valorem. I appealed to the proper authorities, died there remained but one judge. There has been no change and after due consideration the srhedule was raised on gauge since that time except in the enormous increase of the work glasses, and the ruling was made to cover this and it was put of the courts. In the Sixty-seventh Congress I introducf'll a into the gla s-tubing schedule. Of course, the importers fought bill for an additional judge. A similar bill was favorably re the the raise of 10 per cent. ported in the Sixty-eighth Congress with the indorsement of This worke<.l a great injustice to American manufacturers and the Chief Justice of the United States and the council of judges American labor. I take this opportunity of calling the atten and the Attorney General, and the bill came very nearly pass tion of the committee to the problem, and I hope that in the ing under suspension of the rul'es when S11eaker GILLETT recog next study of the tariff question they will gi-ve consideration to nized me. However, certain other gentle.men who had judge this item. bills of their own which had not been brought up at that time Mr. GARNER of Texas. Mr. Chairman, un<.loubtedly the did not see fit to contribute to the two-thirds vote necessary to Ways and :Means Committee, if the Republicans make it up as pass my bill. In this session of Congress Senator BnuoE and they di<.l before, after the gentleman has made his statement to I introduce<.} similar bills for this purpose. The ~enate bill the Republica.!]. membership, will give consideration to the mat has passed the Senate and has been reported favorably by the ter; but I am wondering how it is that the great State of Ohio House committee. At this point I ask unanimous consent to in the making up of the last tariff bill fare<.l so badly. I am include in my remarks certain extracts from the House report wondering why it is that the Republicans of the Uouse coming and the Senate report. from the State of Ohio, and in the Senate from that State, 1.'he CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Mnrylnn84.64 ; under the War Department, $8,445.10 ; in all, suits to which the United States was not a party, 742 crimlnal cases, $9,42!>.74, together with such additional sum as may be necessa.ry to and 437 bankruptcy proceedings. The increase iR, perhaps, better pay interest on the respective judgments at tl.Je rate of 4 per cent from sliown on statement D, which shows that while there WPrc 221 cnfl s the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. other than bankruptcy proceedings pending on .Tunc 30, 1!>22, there Mr. HILL of Maryland. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out were 1,G8u such cases pending on June no, 1925 ; and that the bank the last word. I do that for the purpose, under this title ruptcy proceedings undisposed of have increased from 284 on Juue "Judgments, United States Courts," of calling to the attention 30, 1922, to 437 on June 30, 1925." ·of the House the situation with reference to some of the United The statements C and D will be found in the House report rcferreu to. States courts which really calls for immedinte action on the There is nlso printed herewith and made a pnrt of thlA report the part of the House. I have had put on the Consent Calendar a resolution of the 1\Iaryland llar Association recommending the enact· bill which has passed the Senate providing for an additional ment of this legislation: district ju<.lge in Maryland, and rise to say n few words to the "The executive committee of the nar Association of Marylanll re House at this time in reference to the extraordinary need which spectfully represents to the Senators and to tlle Members of tlle Honse exists for the prompt passage of that bill. of Representatives from Maryland, and to the members of the .Tndi· Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yiel<.l? clary Committees of each of the Houses, that to their personal knowl-· Mr. HILL of Maryland. Yes. edge the need of an additional United Stntcs district judge for tile :Mr. BLANTON. Is this for the gentleman? district of Maryland is instant and urg-ent. The present judge of tllo Mr. HILL of Maryland. I beg the gentleman's pardon. I do district keeps his court in session for unusually long hours and he is not understand. gifted with an exceptional capacity for the prompt llispatch of bnHl· Mr. BLANTON. Is this a provision for the gentleman from ness. Nevertheless, the new cases annually institut('(l greatly exceed Maryland [Mr. HILL]? the number with which it is possible for any one judge to deal, so that 1927 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2107 the length of tl1e p('nding docket of the court is steadily and rapidly The great bulk of the casc3 in Marylauu ari::;e in Tialtimore or its incrc:udng. Speedy trials are no longer possible. Persons mistakenly immediate environs. A large percentage of the civil cases are im accused are kept for long periods under the shadow of unmerited portant and difficult, and the trials thereof consume much time. In charg-es, and tlw guilty ha>e no fear of speedy justice overtaking them. 192-..!: one case consuzn.cd six weeks in its trial. ''On the civil s ide of the court the enforced delays are so great as ADMIRALTY DeSIXESS to amount in some instances to a denial of justice. "The Judicial Council of the United States has twice recommended The city of Baltimore being a large r:;enport, a very considerable part that an additional judge be provided. The Dep:ntment of Justice bas · of the time or the court is devoted to at11Jl iralty business, and this class concurred in this recommendation. Without legislation nothing further of ca'se:o: , like the others, is increasing in \"olume. can be done, and we are therefore constrained to a11peal to you for B.\XKRl'rTCY Bt:SDe support of the approval of tbc ITouse wlJen it passed on June 8, . 19~G. H. R. 10821. bar of the State as well as city, irre.::pective of party affiliations. As a [S. llept. No. GD4, 60th Cong., 1st sess.] matter of fact, a very large majority of the bar of llaltimore are members of the Democratic Party. l\Ir. Cummins, from the Committee on the Jucliciary, submitted the We have been particularly fortuuate in llaving a district juuge of following: untiring industry and good h ealth. He has been compelled to do more • * than the average judge or lawyer coultl stand. The limit of his endur FAC'l'S REG.AllDTXG THE BILL At:'l'HORIZI~G AN ADDITIOXAL JL'DGfl I~ TilE ance bas been reachee matters. to amount in some in tanccs to a denial of justice. "Tho .Judicial Council of the United States has twice recommended 1922 1923 924 1925 that an additional judge be proviued. Tllc Department of Justice bas ------t------1------concurred in this recommendation. Without legislation nothing further Cases c'loeketed ______------__ 1, 043 1. 473 CasPs disposed oL ______1, 997 2, 847 can be done, and we are then-fore constrained to appeal to you for 1, 033 1, 347 1, 652 1, 859 il.amediate action to relieve a condition of things which is already Pending at end uf year, i.e., July L ___ __ ------221 347 692 1, tlHO intolerable and which threatens speedily to become scandalous." On Fcbruat·y 1, 1D:!6, tile num!Jer of cases pemliug greatly exceeded l\lr. HILL of Maryland. Mr. Chairman, I haYe here two 1,G80. letters, one from a former president of the Bar Association, Mr. MAUYLAND HAS O~LY O~E DISTRICT JUDGE Jes:c Bowen, and one from a group of lawyers who vractice 'l'b() volume of caF:es disposed of has been made possible only by before the court. There is uo politics in tbi~ in a Democratic ho1 which llnve ue0n n.r~;ued and which may be argued until sucl1 time as OnDER OF BUSIXESS TO-MORROW you may be rdieyed of a portion of your work. l\1r. GARRETT of Te1mes8ee. ~\Ir . Speaker, may I have the Before statiug tlle conclul'ions arrived at we desire to emphasize the attention of the gentleman fl·om Connecticut for a moment? I fact thnt we ba>e viewed with grave apprehension the possibility, or, think it may be of interest to the memlJcrship if the gentleman more accuratrly, tlle prol>ability, that you will be pbysically unable to could give us an idea of the order of bu:sine;:;s to-morrow. :;;ul'tain the pressure to which you have bf'en subject because of your l\1r. TILSON. :.Mr. Speaker, tbere arc two r,;hort bills on the fforts to do the work of yonr court which is at least sufi.lcient to calendar from the Committee on Ways and M0ans, which arc occupy tllc time nnu rel)uire the labor of two judges. In other words, claimed by that committee to be privileged billl-.l. The question l'ince your ap110intment yon ha>e tried, unaided, to transact a volume has been rais d as to whether or not they are, in fnct, privileged of judicial business which would tax the capacity and energy of two bills, but no very serious ohjet:tion seems to haye been made to judges. the meritH of the bills tllemsclve:-~ . Therefore I ask unanimous ~'ot only as :your fri ends, but as interested in 1he proper administra consent t11at it !:>ball 1Je in order to-morrow to consirler tbe:·e tion of justice in this district, we de~lre to warn yon against per two 1Jill~ under the general rules of the Honse. One is the llill mitting your con!'!cientious pPnd entirely ynur labors in 1\Ir. TILSON. Yes. order to gi>e you an Ol)portunity to recover from the effects of your i.\Ir. GARRETT of Tennc:-sec. I shall have to object to t.llnt overworlc in the ab.-eucc of the gentleman from TcxaH-- If, in your judgment, you are unwilling 1o heed our warning, we :\lr. TILSON. 'Vitllout deciding as to the privilege of these think that if you n rn to continue your work you should su!'!pcnd the two bill:-:, I am a. king that tlJey may be consiiding for an ndditlonal juc.lgc for this ed, and I ·would like to see bim and tllat the bill as amended uo puss. get unanimous consent to take this bill up and pass it without The motion was agreed tG. further delay. Accon1ing-Iy the committee rose; and the Rpeaker having re Mr. TILSON. When a bill bas been reported by a com sumed the chair, Mr. lli,.,.LEY, Chairman of the Committee of mittee all(l that committee wi hes to have the bill consiclereu the Whole House on the state of tlle Union, repoL'ted that that and comes to me it is my pradice to give attention anu tllcn COllllllittec ha dug llnd under consideration the bill H. R . act according to the circumstances, as I shnll do in tllis case. lG-162, the first deficiency bill, had directed him to report the Mr. BLANTON. I am confhlcnt, by reason of the cmergenc:y, f'nllle back with sundry ameudment~. with the recommendation thnt the gentleman will take that in hancl nnd help to get the that the amendments be agTeca to and that the bill as amended bill on the floor and passeu by unanimous consent. do pasf!. 1\lr. TILSON. I shall be glad to cooperate with the COlll Mr. ·wooD. 1\lr. Speaker, I move the preyious question mittec in charge, but I usually '\\nit until I reach a bridge upon the bill and nll amendments thereto to final passage. before I undertake to cross it. ~he previous question was ordered. Mr. LAGUARDIA. The chairman of tbc Committee on Ways The SPEAKER. Is a sepH rate vote demanded on any amend and Mean~ announced to the Honse this afternoon that the ment? If not, tlle Chair will put tllem in gross. matter was receiving attention and thnt they wonlU report tllo Tile que:o;tion w~ts taken, and the amendments were agreed to. bill out in a very short time. The bill was ordered to be engrossed antl read the third time, l\Jr. SEARS of Florida. I understand the gentleman from was rend tlle third time, and passed. 1 Connecticut states that to-mor1·ow, nfter passing the first bill, On motion of 1\Ir. Woon, a motion to reconsider the vote by I we woulu take up the bill H . R. 8!)!)7? which the bill was passed was laid on the table. I Mr. TILSON. In ea::;e it is held to be a privileged bill. 1927 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2109
LAW ENFORCEMENT Forest Reser-vation Commission, was reac.l and referred to the Mr. KETOH.Al\1. Mr. Speftker, I ask unanimous consent to Committee on Agriculture. · address the House for 1:i ve minutes. The Ohair thinks, however, that a message of this character The SPEAKER. The gentleman from l\Iichigan ask:-: unani should more properly go to the Committee on the Puulic Lands, mous cousent to address the House for live minutes. Is there as it deals directly with the question of public land::~. Both objection'? chairmen agree to this refcronce, so ·without objection the There wns no objection. Ohair will refer the message from the Committee on .Agriculture l\Ir. KETCHAM. Mr. Speaker aud gentlemen of the House, to the Committee on tlle Public Lands. those of us who are interested in the 1n·oblem of law enforce There was no objection. ment are sometimes di:::!couraged by the headliues that we see LEAVK OF .ABSEN"CE in the great metropolitnn newspapers, indicating that that By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted to l\Ir. proulem is too great for them to soh·e. I think some one said ALMO - for to-dny, on account of illnes~. not a long while ago tllat if you want to know what the real ADJOUll::"l:l-IEN 'f scutiment of the ~~merican people is, do not read the great 1\lr. TILSON. Mr. Speaker, I mo-ve that the House clo now metropolitan newspapers, bnt read the county seat newspape1·s adjourn. tbrou;J;hout the United ~tates. As inclicutivc of whut the sen timent of tllesc communities is on this question, I ·wish to de The motion was ngree supvort needed lt>gislntion for the prompt deportation of such foreigners ns shall be convicted of crime and that our immigration laws (10 a. m.) be strengthcneu, so us to exclude all foreigners until they shall show To fix the salaries of certain ju(lges of tile 1.'erritorie:-; of the a clean record in their own country. United States (H. R. 14560). Anii, for om·delves, we solemnly promise onr own active efforts in the support of law and ordN· and of those who arc in places of au . EXECUTIVE OOM.MUNIOATIONS, ETC. thority so long- as they fniihfully aud fearlcf;sly fulfill their oaths of Under clause 2 of Rule XXIV, executh·e communications office; and that, so long ns God shall give us strength, we will work, were takeu from the Speaker's taule and referred as follows: T"ote, pray, and fight for thoHe principles wllich will tend to bring about 893. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmit cleuncr lives in a safer community. ting r eport of the. rents received from proverties located on That was adopted by a unanimou:3 vote. [Applause.] sites of proposed public buildings purchased by the United ~lr. UPSHA"\Y. Will the gentlemau give us the name of the State· Government in the dty of Washin"ton; to the Com comumnit.v if he does not mind? mittee on Public Buildings auc.l Grounds. Mr. KETCHAM. I llu>e no objection to naming the town. 894. A letter from the Secretary of the Ka>y, transmitting I am proud of it. It is oue of the flelightful communities in proposed draft of a bill, "To provide for date of precedence my district. Tlle town is Fen-ville, Mich. of certain officers of the Staff Corps of the Navy"; to the Mr. lliLL of 1\inryland. Does uot the gentleman think it is Committee on Naval .Affairs. n -very sad thing that prohibition should ruin a little town like 805. A letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting that? proposed draft of a hill to authorize the Secretary of the ~Ir. KETCHAM. I think it is a sad thing that such men as Na'Vy to lic r... nJHh;. Mr. IIOOPER: Committee 011 War Claims. H. R. 16155. A Ry 1\lr. l\fcl.;AUGHLIN of Nehraska: Joint resolution (H. J. bill for tbc -ralidatiou of tile ac(1nisition of Canadian proper Res. 335) vro\idiug for tile vrihting of 20,000 eo pie~ of n vi<.: tic::; hy the War Devartment anPRIYATE BILLS AND RESCH~l 'l'IONH CHANGE OF REPEREKCE under clauRe 1 of Rule XXII, private bill~ nuill (H. H. 1622f>) granting an increase of pension to By l\lr. COOPICR of Wi <:Otmin: A bill (H. H. 1Ht>;J8) grantiu~ Catherine Etberedg; Committee on Pensions di. charged, and a pension to Henry F. Clement; to the Committee on Invalid referred to the Committee on Invalid l?enFJions. Pensions. A l>ill (H. R. 16228) granting a pension to Rebecca L. Onis; .Also, a bill (H. n. 1655!>) granting a ven:::;iou to Augie W. Committee on Pensions diS<:harged, and referred to the Com 'Vcatiler·spoou; to the Committee on Iu-ralitl Pen. ·ious. mittee on Invalid Pensions. By l\lr. CROSSER: A l>ill (H. R. 1G560) for the relief of A bill (H. R. 16221) granting an increase of pension to Samuel ·weinsteiJt; to the Committee on Claim:::. · Lucinda L. l\Iayden ; Committee ou Pensions discharged, and By J.Ur. FREE: A bill (TI. R. 11.3561) grunting an inc:reaNe 1·eferre<1 to the Committee on Invalid Pen~ions. of f>eusion to Sarah L. Bowman; to the Committee on Im·alhl A l>ill (H. R. 16-1G7) for the relief of ,V. Schottenl>erg; Com l,eusions. mittee on Patents discharged, and refcned to the Uommittee By 1\Ir. MUUPHY: .A bill (H. R. 16562) grauling an in on the Pul>lic Lands. crea8e of vem;ion to Lena A. Fowler; to the C(..lnnnittcc on A l>ill-(H. n. 611) for the relief of Capt. J. Fleming Bel; Invalid Pensions. Committee on Claims db<.:harged, and referred to the Com . By Mr. OLDb'IET.JD: A. bill (H. R. 1G56a) gruutillg pe.rmi~ mittee on War Claims. sion to l\luj. Charles Beatty ~Ioore, United ~tates Army, to accept the following decorationH, namely, tile Legion of Honor tendered him by the Hcpublic of !france, auu the officers ero:o:s PUBLIC BILLS .A.L~D RESOLUTION of the order " Polonia Restitnta " tcll(lered him by tlle Hc Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, pul>lic bills and resolutions pul>lic of Poland ; to tile Committee on Mili.t:ny .Affairs. were introduced and sever~lly referred as follows : By Mr. PARKI~H: A l>ill (H. R 16uG4) granting a llell~ion By illr. LAGUARDIA.: A. l>Hl (H. n. 16. 44) to umenu sec to Annie Craft; to th·e Committee on Invalid PcH~ious . tion 44.26 of the Revi~ed Statutes of the Uniteel States, as Alfio, a l>ill (H. R. 1G5GG) granting an increase of pen:-:ion to amended by the act of Congres~ approved l\fay 16, 1006 ; to the Emma \V. Hay:;; to the Committee on In-ralid Pensions. ommittee on the Merchant ~larine and Fisheries. Ry Mr. RANKIN: A biJl (H. R. 16566) grantiug a pen:-;ion By i\lr. PARKER (by request) : A bill (H. R. 16545) to to Albert Heury l1Jdge; to the Committee ou In-ralid PeuHiuus. regulate tlle marking of J}latinum imported into the United Jly l\lr. RO\VROTTOill: A bill (H. H.. 1H:>U7) grantin~ nu Htates or transported in interstate commer<.:e, and for other increase of veusion to Pllillis Gilchrist; to the Committee on purposes; to the Committee on InterHtute and Foreign Com Im·alid Pensions. merce. B~ :l\lr. SINNOTT: A. hill (H. R. 165G8) granting au incre11:-;e A..lsn, a bill (H. R. 10546) to amend the F('deral water power of pension to Sarah A. 'l'illard; to the Cuwmittee ou Peu:-;iou~. ad, and for other purpose~:;; to the Committee on Inter~tate and By ~lr. SNELL: A l>ill (H. H. 10560) grnntiu~ nn iuereal'e Foreign Commerce. of pcnl-lion to Ida S. Brui:;ted; to the Committee on Iuvnlid By 1\Ir. SI?\~OTT (by departmental request) : A.. !Jill (H. R. Pensions. 16547) for the di.position of certain lauds in :l\fichigill (H. R. 1G570) for the relief of Comelim; Har 'Yi consin and the adju:-1tment of claim arising from erroneous rig-an; to tile Committee on Navnl .A.fiairs. surve~·s ; to the Committee on tile Public Lantis. B~· l\lr. STALKBU: A hill (H. R. 1G571) granting :tn ill By 1\Ir. VESTAL: A l>ill (H. R. 16548) to auwnd sections 57 crease of pension to Lida Crane ; to the Committee on Invalid and 61 of the act entitled ".A.n net to amend all(l consolidate the Pcu~ions. · acts respecting copyright," apvro-red March 4, 1009; to the Com Also, a bill (H. R. 16572) granting nn incrC'ase of pen~iou to mittee on Patent:-:;. l\lat-y L. Campbell; to the Committee on Jm·n li(l Pensions. By ~lr. ENGLEBRIGHT: A bill (TI. n. 16549) to autl10rize .Also, a l>ill (H. R. 16573) granting nu iiH.:l'en:-;e of pension the Secretary of the Navy to ue...-elop an ammunition depot on to Amelia Scott; to the Uommittee on InYalid Pcn~ions. Government land' at or near Secret Valley, or Honey Lake, in By Mr. S'VAHT7J: A uill (H. R. 16574) gmutiu~ 1.1n increase Lassen County, Calif. ; to the Conimittee on Naval Affairs. of pension to l\lat·garet J. Hiuehart; to the ( 'ommittce on By 1\lr. Sl\IITH: A l>ill (H. R. 16550) authorizing the Secre InYalid Pension.•. tary of the. Interior to emr)loy engineers and economi ts for By l\Ir. VINCENT of Michigan: A hill (H. R. 10575) grantin~ consultation purposes on imp.ortant reclamation work; to the a pension to l\leli sa Babcoek; to the Committee on InYalhl Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation. Pensions. By l\lr. OLDFIELD: A hill (H. n. 165~1) amenuing the Fed eral higlnvay act; to the Committee on Road~. PJ<~TITIONS, ETC. By 1\Ir. LEAYITT (by departmental request) : A l>Hl (H. R. Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, petitions awl lJHVers were laiu 16552) to increase the amounts which may be expended for on the Olerk's desk and referred as follows : educational pnrposes from the funds of the Ohoctaw and Semi 5240. By l\1r. ARNOLD: Resolution from the congregation nole Nations, Okla. ; to tbe Committee on Indian Affairs. of the l!'irst United Brethren Church of Hobinson, Ill., recoll!- 1927 CONGR.ESSION AL RECOR.D-HOUSE 211I mending tlte passage of the Lankford Sunday closing bill; to 5267. Also, petition of Eliza J. Arthur and seYe-n other vet the Committee on the District of Columbia. erans and widows residing at Auburn, Ind., asking immediate 5250. By Mr. AYRES: Petition of citizens of Wichita, Sedg liberalization of the Civil War pension laws; to the Committee wick County, Kans., in behalf of legislation for Civil War on Invalid Pensions. "teterans and widows ; to the Committee on Im·aliu Pensions. 5268. By Mr. HOOPER: Petition of l\frs. M. Adell Davis and 5251. By Mr. BEERS : Petition from citizens of Blain, Pa., 11 other residents of Coldwater, Mich., in favor of pending fuvoring the passage of bill to increase the pemdon of Civil legislation to increase the present I'a.tes of pensions for Civil War veterans and their widows; to the Committee on Invalid 'Var veterans, their wiuows, and dependents; to the Com Pensions. mittee on Invalid Pensions. 5252. By Mr. RLOO:M: Petition of citizen~ of the city of G269. Also, petition of W. II. Foster and 132 other residents New York, requesting disposition of the Musde Shoals matter of Albion, Mich., in favo1· of pending legislation to increase tho at this session of Congress, either Government operation or to a preAcnt rates of pensions for Civil War vetera,ns, their widows, hidder (not in the power group) who will agree to operate and dependents; to the Committee on InvaliU Pensions. the nitrate plants and dam immediately at full capacity, and 5270. By 1\Ir. HUDSON: Petition of citizens ·of the sixth uistribute hoth power anu fertilizer at a price not to exceed a congressional district of M:ichigan, urging relief for tile vet fair rate of return; to the committee on Militai'Y Affairs. erans of the Civil War and their wiuows; to the Committee on 5253. By l\Ir. BOYLAN: Petition of American Manufacturers' Invalid Pensions. }1)xport As~ciation, 233 Broadway, New York City, urging upon 5271. By 1\Ir. KEARNS: Petition of residents of Batavia, the Senate the rttal importance of enacting the Hoch bill (H. R. Ohio, requesting action on the bill to increase the pensions of 3858) 5288. By 1\Ir. SWARTZ: Petition of certain residents of Har ~une 30, 1927, and for other purposes, was read twice by its risburg, Pa., urging the pas..~age by Congress of a bill granting tltle and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Increase of pensions to Civil War veterans and the widows of APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE TREASURY AND POST OFFICE DEPARTMENTS Civil War veterans; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 5289. Also, petition of certain residents of Lykens, Pa., urging The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the action the passage by Congress of a bill granting increase of pensions of the House of Representatives receding from its disagreement to Civil War veterans and the widows of Civil War veterans; to the amendment of the Senate No. 7 to the bill (H. R. 14557) to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office De 5290. By Mr. SWING: Petition of certain ret:idenfs of Santa partments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for Ana, Calif., urging the passage by Congress of a bill granting other purposes, and concurring therein with an ::unendruent, as increases of pensions to Civil War veterans and the widows of follows: Civil 'Var veterans; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. In lieu of the matter inserted by said amendment to insert the following: 5291. Also, petition of certain reslueuts of San Diego County, "For completion ot the survey ot the salt-marsh areas o! the South Calif., protesting against the passage of House bills 10311, Atlantic and Gulf States, to determine the exact character of the 10123, 7179, 7822, or any other compulsory religious measure breeding places of the Salt-marsh mosquitoes, in order that a definite that may be introduced; to the Committee on the District of idea may be formed as to the best methods of controlling the breeding . Columbia. of such mosquitoes, $10,000, to be expended by the Public Ilealth Serv- 5292. By Mr. THOMPSON: Petition of 60 citizens of Putnam ice in cooperation with the Bureau of Entomology of the Department County, Ohio, asking for passage of House Uill 10311, the Sun- of Agriculture: Prov1dca, That any unexpended balance of the appro day rest bill; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. priation of $213,000 for the fiscal year 1027 for similar purposes is 5293. By ~r. VESTAL.: Pet~ti.on of \Oter~ of J~y gislative business which follows. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, at Montpelier, this 20th day of January, A. D. 1027. MESSAGE FROM TilE HOUSE [SEAL.] llAUSO:N c. MYRrCK, A message from tlw House of Representatives, by 1\fr. Chaffee, Deputy Secretary ot Sta.te. one of its clerks, announced that the House had passeHOUSE BILL REFERRED STATE OB' VEBMONT, Tile bill (H. R. 16462) making appropriations to supply OFFICE OF TilE SlllCitETARY OF S·.rATil). urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year I het·eby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of joint resolution ending June 30, 1927, anlic prop by the King of Italy, reported it without amendment. erty, including buildings and. structures damaged or destroyed by the hurricane of September 20, 1926, at the naval air sta ENROLLED BILLS PBESENTED tion, Pensacola, Fla., etc., from $800,000 to $1,500,000 intended Mr. GRMENE, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, re to be propos·ed by him to House bill 16462, the first deficiency ported that on January 22, 1927, that committee presented to appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1927, which was ordered the President of the United States the following enrolled bills : to lie on the table and to be printed. S. 564. An act confirming in States and Territories titlo to He also submitted amendments intended to be propo ~e d by lanFOnTY TO OXE GOVERNOR OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS For three days there appeared in this newspaper and 24 other Capt. Waldo Evans, United States Navy, retired, to be Gov Scripps-Howard newspaper a coupon containing this question : Cl'nor of the Virgin Islands ceded to the United States by Den " On the basis of the reasons presented to date by President Coolidge mark, vice Capt. Martin E. Trench, deceased. and Secretary of State Kellogg, do you think the Government is justi fied in assuming a position that may lead to war with Mexico?" UNITED STA'rEs CoasT GUARD R.eturns collected to date show that 28,707 readers took the trouble George W. McKean to be temporarily a lieutenant in the to mark these coupons and send them iu to the various newspapers. Of Coast Guard of the United States, to take effect from date of these 28,0!!7 answered no, while GlO answered yes. oath. Forty voted no for every one that voted yes. That, we believe, indi _The above-named person has passed satisfactorily the exami cates a fair cross section of the American mind on this subject. nations prescribed for appointment. The American people want no war that is uunecessary ; they want REAPPOINTMENT IN TIIE OFFICERS' REsERvE CoRPS oF TIIE ArnrY no wnr that can be avoided with honor. They have revealed with GENERAL OFFICER these ballots-and their telegrams and letters of protest-their feeling Brig. Gen. Edward Gottlieb Heckel, Reserve, to be brigadier to the White House and State Department. general, Reserve, from February 4, 1927. This is the explanation, in our opinion, of the present wobbling around and about l>y Secretary Kellogg on the question of arbitrating PosTMASTERS the present differences of the Government with l\Iexico. ALABAMA 'l'he >ery fact that Kellogg is talking at an about arbitration John R. Harris to be postmaster at Wadley, Ala., in place shows that the dangerous program on which he had embarked has of J. R. Harris. Incumbent's commission expires February 10, lleen set l>ack many weeks. Our belief is that be will wobble presently 1927. into the direct path of reasonable negotiations with our southern Tyler 1\I. Swann to be postmaster at Roanoke, Ala., in place neighbor. Already he has stopped talking about Jl.lexican Bolshevism. of T. l\1. Swann. Incumbent's commission expires :h'ebruary 10, lie hal:! stopped talking about "official" Mexican gun running to 1927. Nicaragua. .He bas stopped talking about alleged danger to the canal Arnold R. Woodham to be postmaster at Opp, Ala., in place we expect to build some oay across Nicaragua. He is discussing, of A. R. Wood.ham. Incumbent's commission expires February instead, ways and means of arl.Jitratlon. 1, 1927. If it pleases him to declare that be bas not " changed his position," ALASKA let him ha>e that pleasure. Martin J. Martin to be postmaster at Nenana, Alaska, in 'I'bc fact remains that shortly before the people of this country place of l\I. J. Martin. Incumbent's commission expires Febru began flooding Washington with their protests agaill.St his course ary 10, 1927. Kellogg bad told the Mexican ambassador here that our Government ARKANSAS bad iu mind a reconsideration of its arms-embargo policy. Such a reconsideration could have meant only one tbinw the unloosing ot William D. Swift to be postmaster at Lincoln, Ark., in place gn'at · quantities of arms and munitions into Mexico. That was to of ·w. D. Swift. Incumbent's commission expires February 14, IJring on a civil war which would end in the downfall of the Calles 1027. government. James W. Oglesby, jr., to be postmaster at Gravette, Ark., Or the threat of it was to compel the Calles government to accede in place of J. ·w. Oglesby, jr. Incumbent's commission expires to the demands of our own Government. February 9, 1927. That way led straight to war with Mexico. '.rhe Washington P<>st, CALIFORNIA administration organ, made this clear. Flournoy Carter to be postmaster at Oxnard, Calif., in place "The l:ltirriugs of revolution in Mexico are unmistakable," saio the of FlournoY. Carter. Incumbent's commission expires February Post. "The embargo on arms to :Mexico should be lifted simulta 14, 1927. ~ neously with the \Yithdrawal of r ecognition. A. break of diplomatic Daniel G. Thomas to be postmaster at Colton, Calif., in place relations is inevitable. If another government should be set up in of D. G. Thomas. Incumbent's commission expires February 8, Mexico, it should be recognized." 1927. That was tP.e succession of events desired by certain American Walter P. Cockley to be postmaster at Calexico, Calif., in interests. The Secretary of State hau taken the first step along this place of W. P. Cocklcy. Incumbent's commission expires Feb slippery path when he threatened the Mexican Government with a ruary 14, 1927. change in our arms-embargo p<>licy. COLORADO Forty to one the American people have shown they want none of this. Ralph R. Shaw to be postmaster at Silverton, Colo., in place Secretary Kellogg recognizes his error and we believe be will find a of R. H. Brown. Incumbent's commission expire2G. · place of V. E. Buckingham. Incumbent's commission expires KENTUCKY February 12, 1927. Jasper N. Oates to be postmaster at Nortonville, Ky., in place Milton T. Hunt to be postmaster at Warsaw, IlL, in place of J. N. Oates. Incumbent's commission expires February 5, of 1\I. T. Hunt. Incumbent's commission expires February 5, 1927. 1927. Martin llimler to be postmaster at Himlerville, Ky., in place ·william R. Watts to be postmaster at Paxton, Ill., in place of Martin Himler. Incumbent's commission expires February of W. R. Watts. Incumbent's commission expires February 5, 5, 1927. 1927. George W. Cloyd to be postmaster at East Bernstadt, Ky., in Edgar B. Walters to be postmaster at Oblong, Ill., in place place of J. H. Fortney. Incumbent's commission expired April of E. B. Walters. Incumbent's commission expires February 20, 1926. 10, 1!>27. Emma M. Oldham to be postmaster at Bloomfield, Ky., in ·walter w. Ward to be postmaster at Maroa, Ill., in place place of E. M. Oldham. Incumbent's commission expires Febru- bf w.- ,V. Ward. Incumueut's commission expires February ary 5,-1927. _ 10, 1927. George T. Joyner to be postmaster at Bardwell, Ky., in place Mode Morrison to be postmaster at Manteno, Ill., in place of G. T. Joyner. · Incumbent's commission expires February 5, of 1\Iode Morrison. Incumbent's commission expires February 1927. 5, 1927. . - Samuel R. Eckler to be postmaster at Dry Ridge, Ky., in Thomas F. Olsen to be postmaster at De Kalb, Ill., in place place of l\1. B. Bishop, resigned. of T. F. Olsen. Incumbent's commission expires February 10, 1927. LOUISIANA Merle C. Champion to be postmaster at Byron, Ill., in place Pierre 0. Broussard to be postmaster at Abbeville, La., in of M. C. Champion. Incumbent's commission expires February place of P. 0. Broussard. Incumbent's commission expires 10, 1927. February 5, 1927. J ames ll. Truesdale to be postmaster at Bunker Hill, Ill., in James M. Cook to be postmaster at Oakdale, La., in place of place of J. H. Truesdale. Incumbent's commission expired Janu J. M. Cook. Incumbent's commission expires February 7, 1927. ary 9, 1927. '- MARYLAND Paul l\1. Green to be postmaster at Bluffs, Ill., in place of P. ,M. Green. Incumbent's commission expires February 12, William 0. Yates to be postmaster at La Plata, Md., in place 1927. of "\V. 0. Yates. Incumbent's commission expired January 10, INDIANA 1927. John C. Hodge to be postmaster at Zionsville, Ind., in place MASSACHUS~S of J. C. Hodge. Incumbent's commission expires Februilry 14, Elmer E. Landers to be postmaster .at Oak Bluffs, Mass., in 1!>27. - . place of E. E. Landers. Incumbent's commission expires Febru Ernest A. Bodey to be postmaster at Rising Sun, Ind., in ary 8, 1927. place of E. A. Bodey. Incumbent's commission expires Janu l\fen·itt C. Skilton to b'e postmaster at East Northfield, l\lass., ary 30, 1927. in place of l\1. 0. Skilton. Incumbent's commission expires Edward A. Spray to be postmaster at Frankfort, Ind., in place February 8, 1927. of E. A. Spray. Incumbent's commission expired December 4, Erastus T. Bearse to be postmaster at Ohatham, Mass., in 192G. place of E. T. Bearse. Incumbent's commission expires Febru Samuel Haslam to be postmaster at Edinburg, Ind., in place ary 8, 1927. of Samuel Haslam. Incumbent's commission expires February John C. Angus to be postmaster at Andover, Mass., in place of 14, 1927. J. C. Angus. Incumbent's commission expires February 8, Joseph W. l\Icl\fahon to be postmaster at-Covington, Ind., in 1927. - place of J. W. McMahon. Incumbent's commission expired James F. Healy to be postmaster at Worcester, Mass., in place December 4, 1!>26. of J. F. Healy. Incuml>ent's commission expires February 14, IOWA 1927. . Charles F . Chambers to be postmaster at West Union, Iowa, Amasa W. Baxter to lie postmaster at West Falmouth, Mass., in place of C. F. Chambers. Incumbent's commission expires in place of A. W. Baxter. Incumbent's commission expires February 8, 1927. February 8, 1927. Otho 0. Yoder to be postmaster at West Branch, · Iowa, in Elizabeth l\f. Pendergast to be postmaster at West Acton, _place of 0. 0. Yoder. Incumbent's commission expires February l\1ass., in place of E. l\1. Pendergast. lncumbent's commission 8, 1927. expires February 6, 1927. August Rickert to be postmaster at Schleswig, Iowa, in place Robert 1\l. Lowe to be postmaster at Rockport, 1\Iass., in place _of August Rickert. Incumbent's commission expired December of R. 1\l. Lowe. Incumbent's commission expires Fel>ruary 8, 4, 1926. 1927. Maurice E. Atkins to be postmaster at Milton, Iowa, in place MICHIGAN of A. P. Hoskins. Incumbent's commission expired December David F. Jones to be postmaster at Unionville, 1\lich., in place 13, 1926. of D. F. Jones. Incumbent's commission expires February 6, Smiley B. Hedges to be postmaster at Kellerton, Iowa, in 1927. place of S. B. Hedges. Incumbent's commission expires Feb Uob C. Brown to be postmaster at Stockbriuge, Mich., in ruary 8, 1927. place of R. C. Brown. Incumbent's commission expir'cs Febru Albert El Fentress to be postmaster at Greeley, Iowa, in place ary 6, 1927. of A. E. Fentress. Incumbent's commission expires February 8, Ernest Paul to be postmaster at Pigeon, Mich., in place of 1!>27. Ernest Paul. Incumbent's commission expires February 5, Lewis H. :Mayne to be postmaster at Emmetsburg, Iowa, in 1927. place of L. H. l\Iayne. Incumbent's commission expires Febru Robert E. Surine to be postmaster at Nashville, Mich., in ary 14, 1927. place of n. E. Surine. Incumbent's commission expires Feb Kate C. Warner to be postmaster at Dayton, Iowa, in place of ruary G, 1927. K. C. Warner. Incumbent's commtssion expired December 4, William C. Thompson to be postmaster at Midland, Mich., in 192G. place of W. C. Thompson. Incumbent's commission expires KANSAS February 8, 1927. Franklin C. Thompson to be postmaster at Stafford, Kans., Henry Bristow to be postmaster at Flat nock, Mich., in place in place of F. 0. Thompson. Incumbent's commission expires of Henry Bristow. Incumbent's commission expired August 29, January 29, 1927. 1926. Winifred Hamilton to be postmaster at Solomon, Kans., in Robert Wellman to be postmaster at Beulah, Mich., in place place of Winifred Hamilton. Incumbent's commission expires of Robert Wellman. Incumbent's commission expires February February 1, 192~. 6, 1927! 2116 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JANUARY 22.
MINNESOTA NEVADA Carl W. Carlson to be postmaster at Melrose, 1\'linn., in place John 0. Foster to be. postmaster at Lovelock, Nev., in place of of J. H. Seal, deceased. C. F. Erickson, declined. Charles F. l\lallahan to be postmaster at Jackson, Minn., in place of C. F. Mallahan. Incumbent's commission eA.-pires Feb NEW HAMPSHIRE ruary 6, 1927. Edson 1\I. Barker to be postmaster at Plymouth, N. H., in Thomas R. Ohnstad to be postmaster at Cannon Falls, Minn., place of E. M. Barker. Incumbent's commission expires Febru in place of T. R. Ohnstad. Incumbent's commission expires ary 14, 1927. February 1, 1927. Alice R. Thompson to be postmaster at Antrim, N.H., in place William C. \Viench to be postmaster at Bagley, Minn., in place of A. R. Thompson. Incumbent's commission expires February of H. J. Gun<.lerson. Incumbent's commission expired August 14, 1927. 23, 1025. NEW JERSEY MISSISSIPPI J. Hosey Osborn to be postmaster at Passaic, N. J., in place William W. Cain to be pos-tmaster at 'Vest, Miss., in place of J. H. Osborn. Incumbent's commission expires February 10, of ""· ·w. Cain. Incumbent's commission expires February 14, 1927. 1927. Horace E. Richardson to be postmaster at Cape May Court Thomas C. Kite to be postmaster at Weir, Miss., in place of House, N. J., in place of H. E. Richardson. Incumbent's com T. C. Kite. Incumbent's commission expires February 14, 1027. mission expires February 10, 1027. Allene M. Mitchell to be postmaster at Sunflower, Miss., in place of A. M. Mitchell. Incumbent's commission expires Feb NEW YORK ruary 14, 1927. Giles B. Schermerhorn to be postmaster at Ausable Chasm, Louis B. Phillips to be postmaster at Eupora, Miss., in place N. Y. Office became presidential July 1, 1926. of L. B. Phillips. Incumbent's commission expires February Lester B. Dobbin to be postmaster at Wolcott, N. Y., in place 5, 1927. . of L. B. Dobbin. Incumbent's commission expires February 14, Willie Ramsey to be postmaster at Drew, Miss., in place of 1927. Willie Ramsey. Incumbent's commission expires February 14, George M. Lewis to be postmaster at Whitesville, N. Y., in 1927. place of G. M. Lewis. Incumbent's commiRsion expires February MISSOURI 10, 1927. Fred C. Smith to be postmaster at Vernon, N. Y., in place of James A: Allison to be postmaste'l' at Waverly, Mo., in place F. C. Smith. Incumbent's commission expires February 10, 1927. of J. A. Allison. Incumbent's commission expired December 8, James I. Fanning to be postmaster at Southold, N.Y., in place 1926. of J. I. Fanning. Incumbent's commission expires February Arthur T. King to be postmaster at Warrensburg, Mo., in 14, 1927. place of A. T. King. Incumbent's commission expires February Chauncey II. Brown to be postmaster at South Dayton, N. Y., 10, 1927. in place of C. H. Brown. Incumbent's commission expires Ben B. Smith to be postmaster at Potosi, Mo., in place of February 14, 1927. B. B. Smith. Incumbent's commission expires February 10, BesseR. Griffin to be postmaster at Quogue, N. Y., in place of 1927. B. R. Griffin. Incumbent's commission expires February 10, Cyrus R. Truitt to be postmaster at Novinger, Mo., in place 1927. of C. R. Truitt. Incumbent's commission expires February 10, Burton E. McGee to be postmaster at Norfolk, N. Y., in place 1927. of B. E. McGee. Incumbent's commission expires February 10, Andrew L. Woods to be postmaster at Naylor, Mo., in place 1927. of A. L. ·woods. Incumbent's commission expires February 10, Benjamin F. King to be postmaster at Madrid, N. Y., in place 1927. of B. F. King. Incumbent's commission expires February 10, Roy R. Quinn to be pOstmaster at Moberly, Mo., in place of 1927. R. R. Quinn. Incumuent's commission expires February 10, Joseph Ogle to be postmaster at Greenport, N. Y., in place of 1927. Joseph Ogle. Incumbent's commission expires February 10, John F. Hull to be postmaster at Maryville, :Mo., in place 1927. of J. F. Hull. Incumbent's commission expires February 10, Earl W. Kostenbader to be postmaster at Groton, N. Y.,- in 1927. place of E. W. Kostenbader. Incumbent's commission expired John L. Oheim to be postmaster at Kimmswick, Mo., in place August 4, 1926. of J. L. Oheim. Incumbent's commission expires February G, Oby J. Hoag to be postmaster at Greene, N. Y., in place of 1Q27. 0. J. Hoag. Incumbent's commission expires ~'ebruary 10, 1927. Margaret C. Le ter to be postmaster at Desloge, Mo., in place William D. Creighton to be postmaster at JJ'ort Covington, of M. C. Lester. Incumbent's commission expires February 10, N. Y., in place of ,V. D. Creighton. Incumbent's commission 1927. expires February 10, 1927. Harry E. Carel to be postmaster at Blue Springs, Mo., in place Adolph N. Johnson to be postmaster at Falconer, N. Y., in of H. E. Carel. Incumuent's commission e.A.-pires February 10, place of A. N. Johnson. Incumbent's commission expires Febru 1927. ary 10, 1927. MONTANA Mary H. Avery to be postmaster at Elmsford, N. Y., in place Prince A. Mowbray to be postmaster at Brady, Mont., in place of M. H. Avery. Incumbent's commission expires February 10, of H. Y. Gard, resigned. 1927. Fred N. Weed to be postmaster at Terry, Mont., in place of Henry W. Roberts to be postmaster at Clinton, N. Y., in place F. N. Weed. Incumbent's commission expires February 0, 1027. of H. ,V, Hoberts. Incumbent's commission expires February 10, 1927. NEBRASKA Harry F. House to ue postmaster at Chester, N. Y., in place of John Becker to be postmaster at Stanton, Nebr., in place of H. F. House. Incumbent's commi!:lsion expiL·cs February 10,1927. John Becker. Incumbent's commission expires February 9, 1927. NORTH CAROLINA Roscoe Buck to be po ·tmaster at Springview, Nebr., in place John C. Sno<.ldy, jr., to be postmaster at Red Springs, N. C., of Roscoe Buck. Incumbent's commission expires February 7, in place of J. C. Snoddy, jr. Incumbent's commission expires 1927. February 6, 1927. Charles G. An~erson to be postmaster at Shelby, Nebr., in Luther J. Tucker to be postmaster at Maxton, N. C., in place place of C. G. Anderson. Incumbent's commission expires Feb of L. J. Tucker. Incumbent's commission expired June 8, 1926. ruary 7, 1927. Fannie M. Carter to be postmaster at Weldon, N. C., in place Ray L. Mallory to be postmaster at Pierce, Nebr., in place of of R. A. Price, deceased. R. L. Mallory. Incumbent's commission expires February 9, Tina M. Dixon to be postmaster at Walstonburg, N. C., in 1927. . place of G. C. Dixon, decea~:~ed. William C. Hagelin to be postmaster at Friend, Nebr., in place Lewis E. Norman to be postmaster at Elk Park, N.C., in plv.ce of W. C. Hagelin. Incumbent's commission expires February of L. E. Norman. Incumbent's commission expires Februa1·y 6, 14, 1927. 1027. William R. Brooks to be postmaster at Campbell, Nebr., in James H. Carlton to be postmaster at Burgaw, N. C., in place place of W. R. Brooks. Incumuent's commission expires Febru of J. H. Carlton. Incumbent's commission expires February G, ary 9, 1927. 1927. --
1927 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-. SENATE 2117
NORTH DAKOTA John H. Payne to be postmaster at Johnston, S. C., in place William R. Jordan to be postmaster at Luverne, N. Dak, in of J. H. Wright, removed. place of W. R. Jordan. Incumbent's commission expires Febru SOUTH DAKOTA ary 1, 1927. John H . Deuschle to be postmaster at Ravinia, S. Dak., in OHIO place of J . H . Deuschle. Incumbent's commission expires Feb ruary 6, 1Q27. ~ Della Boone to be postmaster at Spencer, Ohio, in place of Della Boone. Incumbent's commission expires February 3, TENNESSEE 1927. Harold T. Hester to be postmaster at Portland, Tenn., in Gilbert M. Brehm to be postmaster at Somerset, Ohio, in place of H. T. Hester. Incumbent's commission expires Febru place of G. 1\I. Brehm. Incumbent's commission expires Feb- ary 8, 1927. runry 6, 1927. Willis F. Arnold to be postmaster at Jackson, Tenn., in place Harry L. Mefford to be postmaster at Ripley, Ohio, in place of W. F. Arnold. Incumbent's commission expires February S, of H. L. Mefford. Incumbent's commission expires February 6, 1927. 1927. Merle Morgan to be postmaster at Graysville, Tenn., in place Lee B. Milligan to be postmaster at Lowellville, Ohio, in place of Merle 1\.forgan. Incumbent's commission expires February 8, of L. B. :1\ffiligan. Incumbent's commission expires February 3, 1927. 1927. Clarence E. Locke to be postmaster at Ethridge, Tenn., in Oscar C. Wheland to be postmaster at Gnadenhutten, Ohio, in place of C. E. Locke. Incumbent's commission expires Ji'ebru place of 0. C. Wheland. Incumbent's commission expired De- ary 8, 1927. eem ber 4, 1926. TEXAS William M. Carlisle to be postmaster at Gambier, Ohio, in b ' · · F b Surry S. Boles to be postmaster at Thorndale, Tex., in place place of W. M. Carlisle. I ncum ent s commiss1 on expires e - of S. S. Boles. Incumbent's commission expires l!.,ebruary 6, ruary 8, 1927. 1927 Herbert E. Whitney to be postmaster at Danville, Ohio; in : . . 1 c f H E Whitney. Incumbent's commission expires Feb- 1 Tilmon Y. Allen to be postml'!-st~r at R;1ce, Tex., m place of ~a: 0 9 · · T. Y. Allen. Incumbent's comm1ss10n expires February 6, 1927. 1 8 1 27 u~!nry A. T~ylor to be postmaster at Cleveland, Ohio, in place Simpson I. Dunn to ~e post~aster a~ ~ort Art~ur, Tex., in of H. A. Taylor. Incumbent's commission expires February 9, place of S. I. Dunn. Incumbents commission expires Februat,y 1927. . 6, 1927. . . . . Cora M. Burns to be postmaster at Beloit, Ohio, in place of Ethel M~lh_gan to be postm~ster at. P~ttsbur~, Tex., m place C. 1\I. Burns. Incumbent's commission expires February 3, 1927. of Ethel Milligan. Incumbents commiSSJ,on expires February 6, Charles C. Shaffer to be postmaster at Alliance, Ohio, in place 192~· . f C C Sl 1affer Incumbent's commission expires February 12 · _Pierce Mayer to be postmaster at. C<;>rsiCana_, Tex., in place of ~ · · • ' Pierce Mayer. Incumbent's comm1ssion expues February 14, 927. 1927. OKLAHOMA Murt J . Sullivan to be postmaster at Comanche, Tex., in place Dory E. McKenney to be postmaster at Custer, Okla., in place of M. J. Sullivan. Incumbent's commission expires February 14, of D. El :McKenney. Incumbent's commission expires February 1.927. 9, 1927. McDougal Bybee to be postmaster at Childress, Tex., in place l!~on·est L. Strong to be postmaster at Clinton, Okla., in place of McDougal Bybee. Incumbent's commission expires February of F. L. Strong. Incumbent's commission expires February 14, 6, 1927. · 1927. Alfred w. Orr to be postmaster at Livingston, Tex., in place OREGON of A. M. Smith, removed. Oscar Daley to be postmaster at Vale, Oreg., in place of Oscar Henry C. Kramp to be postmaster at El Paso, Tex., in place of Daley. Incumbent's commission expires February 13, 1927. J. J . Ormsbee, deceased. Clarence G. Snyder to be postmaster at Keasey, Oreg. Office VERMONT became presidential July 1, 1926. Ray H. Dearborn to be postmaster at South Fairlee, Vt., in PENNSYLVANIA place of R. H. Dearborn. Incumbent's commission expires February 14, 1927. William Evans to JJe postmaster at West Grove, Pa., in place Verni'e S. Thayer to be postmaster at Readsboro, Vt., in place of 'Yilliam Evans. Incumbent's commission expires February of V. S. Thayer. Incumbent's commission expires February 5, 10, 1927. 1927. Franklin Clary to be postmaster at Sharpsville, Pa., in place Herbert L. Bailey to be postmaster at Putney, Vt., in place of Franklin Clary. Incumbent's commission expired December of H. L. Bailey. Incumbent's commission expires February 14, 28, 1926. 1927. 'Villiam J. Winner to be postmaster at Sandy Lake, Pa., in Lester E. Boyce to be postmaster at Ludlow, Vt., in place of place of W. J. Winner. Incumbent's commission expired De L. E. Boyce. Incumbent's commission expires February 14, cember 28, 1926. 1927. James S. Fennell to be postmaster at Salina, Pa., in place of William H. Lang to be postmaster at Beecher Falls, Vt., in J. S. Fennell. Incumbent's comzpission expired September 11, place of W. H. Lang. Incumb'ent's commission expired Sep 1926. tember 12, 1926. Jnmes H. Kirchner to be postmaster at Mahanoy City, Pa., in place of J. H . Kirchner. Incumbent's commission expired VillGINIA September 22, 1926. Manley W. Carter to be postmaster at Orange, Va., in place of 8amuel F. Williams to be postmaster at Le Raysville, Pa., in M. W. Carter. ·Incumbent's commission expired December 19, place of S. F. Williams. Incumbent's commission expires Feb 1926. ruary 1, 1927. William S. Sparrow to be postmaster at Onley, Va., in place of Otto R. Baer to be postmaster at Irwin, Pa., in place of 0 . R. W. S. Sparrow. Incumbent's commission expired December 30, Baer. Incumbent's commission expires Februa1·y 12, 1927. 1926. l!"' rank H. Cratsley to be postmaster at Imperial, Pa., in place Ernest P . Burgess to be postmaster at Fort Union, Va., in of F. H. Cratsley. Incumbent's commission expires February 9, place of E. P . Burgess. Incumbent's commission expires Febru- 1927. ary 5, 1927. · H arry H. Wilson to be postmaster at Blairsville, Pa., in place Louis H. Stoneman to be postmaster at Columbia, Va., in of H. H. Wilson. Incumbent's commission expires February 10, place of L. H. Stoneman. Incumbent's commission expires Feb 1027. ruary 5, 1927. Frank E. BaiTon to be postmaster at South Montrose, Pa. WASHINGTO~ Office became presidential July 1, 1926. Elmer 1\I. Armstrong to be postmaster at Washougal, Wash., F rank R. Diehl to be postmaster at Lehighton, Pa., in place in place of E. M. Armstrong. Incumbent's commission expires of w·. D. McCormick, removed. February 6, 1927. Lillian R. Menkee to be postmaster at Hunters, Wash., in SOUTH C.AROLIN A place of L. R. 1\Ienkee. Incumbent's commis. ion expires Febru- Virginia M. Bodie to be postmaster at Wagener, S. C., in place ary 14, 1927. · of V. M. Bodie. Incumbent's commission expires February 7, Stanley J. Slade to be postmaster at Bridgeport, Wash., in 1927. place of H. C. Freeman, deceased. 2118 CONGR.ESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JANUARY 22
WEST VIRGINIA MISSOUIU George C. Smith to be postmaster at Yukon, W. Va., in place Walter C. Haferkamp, Augusta. of G. C. Smitb. Incumbent"s commission expired September 22, Prentiss H. Percifull, Cowgill. 1926. Floyd 0. King, Leasburg. Harry R. Adams to be postmaster at Spencer, W.Va., in place Robert F. Stalling, Lexingtc,n. of II. R. Adams. Incumbcnt"s commission expires February 5, Henry C. Brantley, Newtown. 1927. Clara S. Beck, Norborne. Ralph L. Teter to be postmaster at Belington, W. Va., in place Harvey H. Fluhart, Stewartsville. of R. L. Teter. Incumbent's commission expires February 1, Felix J. Boesche, Unionville. 1927. Harris L. Fox, Willard. WISCONSIN MONTANA JoReph F. Matts to be postmaster at Verona, Wis., in place of J. F. Matts. Incumbent's commission expired March 7, 1926. John 1\f. Bever, Bridger. Peter F. Piasecki to be {><>fltmaster at Milwaukee, Wi~ in John B. Goodman, Gildford. place of P. F. Piasecki. Incumbent's commh;sion expires Febru· .Arthur C. Baker, Hamilton. ary 13, 1927. NEBRASKA Anton Schiesl to be postmaster at Laona, Wis., in place of Anton Schiesl. Incumbent's commission expires January 29, Alfred W. Cosson, Amherst. Elza Ury, Chapman. 1927. Floyd D. Bartels to be postmaster at Blue River, Wis., in James O'Nele, Pleasanton. place of F. D. Bartels. Incumbent's commission expires Febru· NEW JERSEY ary 5, 1927. .Annie E. Hoffman, Allenhurst. William A. Shaw to be postmaster at Blackcreek, Wis., in William R. Mayer, Cresskill. place of G. A. Braemer. Incumbent's commission expired March Charles ,V. Bodine, Morristown. 7, 1926. George I. Harvey, Palmyra. WYOMING Richard W. Rosenbaum, Sea Isle City. Arthur W. Crawford to be postmaster at Guernsey, Wyo., in Thomas F. Zettlemoyer, Sewaren. place of A. W. Crawford. Incumbent's commission expires Feb· Hillis K. Colkitt, Vincentown. ruary 3, 1927. NEW YORK Sarah M. Todd, Castle Point. CONFIRMATIONS William S. Finney, Cayuga. E.rectt,tive nont.i-natio?UJ confirmed by the Senate January 22 Benjamin W. Wellington, Corning. ( ~egislativc daty of J a·nuary 21), 1921 Hattie D. Lyon, East Setauket. PosTMASTERS Wayland H. Mason, Fairport. Max J. Lahr, FilJmore. ARKAl'iSAS Wade E. Gayer, Fulton. Edgar H. Finch, Crossett. Sister Mary M. McCue, Gabriels. George Rule, jr., Lonoke. James H. Layman, Haines Falls. FLORIDA George W. Van Hyning, Hoosick Falls. Rubye C. Fenton, Homosassa. Clarence D. Tarbell, Ithaca. ILLI:-I"OIS George F. Yaple, Loch Sheldrake. Henry S. 'Vbitney, Manlius. Harry B. Rigsbee, Downers Grove. Charles .A. Gaylord. North Tonawanda. Benjamin A. Miller, Geneva. Stuart W. Smyth, Owego. Syrena B. Roth, Hinsdale. Robert .A. Lundy, Ray Brook. Michael J. Moore, Maple Park. F. Wallace Doylng, Scarboro. Sankey S. Good, Naperville. Charles C. Allen, Schuylerville. Owen A. Robison, Palmyra. Thomas S. Spear, Sinclairville. John R. Burris, Virden. Charles A. Van Sise, Syosset. INDIANA William H. Young, Voorheesville. Frank Lyon, Arcadia. Henry Neddo, Whitehall. Morton Hefner, Delphi. Hattie M. Craw, Jonesboro. NORTH CAROLINA Garrett W. Gossard, Kemptons. Hugh C. Holloman, Aulander. Je;:;se E. Harvey, Markle. Charles F. Smathers, Canton. Ralph W. Gaylor, Mishawaka. NORTII DAKOTA Louis Pfeiferle, National Military Home. Earl R. Hoyt, Pekin. J. Dexter Peirce, Larimore. George E. Jones, Peru. Marie A. Borrud, Ross. Orville B. Kilmer, Warsaw. OHIO IOWA Edgar R. Holmes, Millersport. Clara J. Mitchell, Mount Pleasant. Hervey W. Dahlstrom, Farmersburg. Chnrlie D. Harvey, North Fairfield. Charles A. Clark, Fort Des Moines. William H. Aickin, Orwell. KANSAS Leora Morris, Warrensville. Frank W. Coleman, Oskaloosa. OKLAHOMA KENTUCKY Ralph E. Godfrey, Crescent. Elizabeth M. Godsey, Hardburly. Sam A. Snyder, Hennessey. MARYLAND Lura Williams, ·Manitou. Otis E. Dale, Mountain Park. William L. Whittington, Crisfield. William W. Wagner, Orlando. Samuel G. Nuttle, Denton. Mark Gough, Tipton. Clayton J. Scarborough, Girdletree. William C. Colvin, Westville. Ehyood C. Orrell, Greensboro. Susie S. Thompson, Hillsboro. PENNSYLVANIA David S. Hickman, Snow Hill. Ida M. Mingle, Birmingham. MICHIGAN Daniel M. Saul, Kutztown. Thomas J. Morgan, Nanticoke. Teffell R. Ward, Big Bay. SOUTH CAROLINA MISSISSIPPI William 1\1. Harris, Barnwell. Henry W. Wamsley, A. and 1\1. College. Cornelius V. Thurmond, Mound Bayou. TENNESSEE l\:Iabel A. Anderson, Northcarrollton. Li:(.:zie Roney, Fountain Head. -- 1.1927 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD----HOUSE 211.9 TEXAS [Roll No. 14} Adkins Esterly McSwain · Scott Bugh W. Cunningham, Eliasville. Anthony ll'alrchild Madden Sinclair Joseph C. Council, Granger. Ayres Fizgerald, Roy G. Manlove Somers, N.Y. Bell Fredericks l\Icad l::>osnowski E. -Qtho Dri~kell, Mansfield. Bixler Gallivan Alichaelson Spearing Bertha :Moore, Trinidad. Black, N.Y. Glynn . . Mills Sproul, Ill. Dyde Manning, 'Vilis Point. Bowles Goldel' Montgomery Stephens Boylan Goldsborough Mooney Sullivan UTAH Britten Gorman . Moo1·e, Ohio Swartz Leon P. Ralphs, Ferron. Buchanan Graham :Morin Taylol', N.J. Burdick llaugcn Nelson, Wis. Taylor, W. Va.. VERMONT Canfield Hudspeth Norton Tincher Bernard W. Crafts, Bradford. Carew Hull, Tenn. O'Conn~ll, N. Y. Vare Carter, Okla. Johnson, Wash. O'Connor, N.Y. Voigt Lewis S. Richardson, Chester Depot. Ccllcr Kendall Oliver, N. Y, Weller Fred R. Lloyd, Fair Haven. Chindblom Kindred Parker Welsh, Pa. Charles F. 1\IcKenna, Montpelier. Cleary King Peavy WbitehKans. Connery Lee, Ga. l:'crlman White end William C. ·white, Northfield. Connoily, Pa. Lindsay Phillips Wingo WEST VIRGINIA Cullen Lineberger l'urnell Woodrum Curry Linthicum Quayle Woodyard Homer B. Lynch, Gormania. Dicl•stein Mcl!'adden Reed, Ark. John T. ·weaver, Sprigg. Drewry McLau~hlin, Mich.Robinson, Iowa Edgar Hamlly, Twin Brmu:h. Englebright lUcLcoa Schafer The SPEAKER. Three hundred and forty Members have WISCONSIN answered present ; a quorum. Ferdinand A. Nierode, Grafton. Mr. HAWLEY. Mr. Spen,ker, I move to dispense with furtbe1~ David L. Mann, Horicon. proceedings under the call. Carrie K. Lehner, Juneau. The motion was agreed to. Robert J. Harland, Marshall Mr. HAWLEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask that the bill ~ay lJe read. Jnmcs D. Nicholson, Milltown. The Clerk read the bill, I!S follows : Elmer E. Haight, Poynette. CoraL. Evenson, Rio. Be it e-nacted, etc:, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorizeu Ralph W. Lathrop, Wauzeka. to execute, in the name of the United States, and deliver to (1) the Union Trust Co., Providence, R. I ., upon receipt from such trust com WITHDRAWAL pany of $1,806, nnd (2) the National Bank of Commerce, Philadelphia, ra., upon receipt from such bank of $16,676.71, an agreement of indem lila:eoutive nom-ination withdrawn from the Se-nate JU1tuary ~2 nity binding the United States to make reimbursement to such banking (leg isla ti1..'e d-ay of January 21 ) , 1927 institutions upon condition that such banking institutions are re POSTMASTER qujred to make payment to bona ·flue holders upon presentation of check No. 358, in the amount of $1,806, drawn by Evarista Larravee, WISCONSIN riO Seymour Street, Providence, R. I., on the Union Trust Co., Provi nenjamhi Y. Hallock to be postmaster at Verona, in the State dence, R. I ., certified by such trust company, payee believed to be· of Wisconsin. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department, dated between June 1 and August 29, ;1.922; and check No. 1000, in the amount of HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $16,676.71, drawn by Levin, Deluge & Kerschbaum, 35 South Third Street, Philadelphia, . Pa., o.n the National Bank of Commerce, Phila SATURDAY, J (JfJ~'UUll'1J 9293, _1993'7 delphia, Pa., certified by such bank, name of payee not ascertainable, date believed to be in calendar year 1921 or 1922. The House met at 12 o'clock noon. The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., offered The bill was o~dered to be engrossed and read a third time, the following prayer : was read the third time; and passed. · On motion of Mr.. HAWLEY, a motion to reconsi.der the vote 0 Lord God, to-day we write again upon the stone of our by which ~be bill was passed Wl!S laid on the table. memorial: " Hitherto hath the Lord helped us." Continue to give us Thy daily ministries, that we may know what is DEP.ARTMENTS OF STATE AND JUSTIOE, THE JUDICIARY, AND THE the good and acceptable way. In Thy light we shall see light; DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE AND LABOR .APPROPRIATION BILL may we follow its gleam. This is the ideal attainment of man. Mr. SHREVE, from the Committee on Appropriations, by Deliver us from all bigotry, all narrown·ess, and as Thy humble diJ.·ection of that committee, reported the bill (H. R 16576) servants may we seek to do Thy wilL Do Thou fulfill in us Thy making appropriations for the Departments of State and Jus gracious promise, namely, "I will go with thee all the way." tice and for the judiciary, and for the Departments of Com· Through Christ. Amen. merce and Labor for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for other purposes (Rept. No. 1837), which, with the accom The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and panying papers, was referred to the Committee of the Whole approved. House on the state of the Union and ordered printed. INDEMNITY AGREEl!ENTS IN THE COLLECTION OF MONEYS DUE THE Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee reserved all points of order. TREASURY CUBAN P .ARCEL POS'f BILL Mr. HAWLEY. Mr. Speaker, I call up the blll (H. R. 16391) 1\'Ir. GREEN of Iowa. 1\Ir. Speaker, I call np the bill (II. R. to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to execute agree 8997) to amend Sections 2804 and 3402 of the R~vised Statutes, ments of indemnity to the Union Trust Co., Providence, R. I., commonly known as the Cuban parcel post bill, as a privileged and the National Bank of Commerce, Philadelphia, Pa., a privi bill, and move that the House resolve itself into the Committee leged bill from the Committee on Ways and Means. of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the considera- The SPEAKER. The gentle-lllilll from Oregon calls up the tion thereof. · bill H. R. 16391 , which the Clerk will report. · Mr. GARNER of Texas. :Mr. Speaker, I make the point of The Clerk read the title of the biU. order that this is not a privileged bill, and that the gentleman :Ur. HAWLEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that from Iowa can not call it up in this way under the rules of the this bill may be considered in the House as in Committee of House. the Whole House on the state of the Union. · My understanding of the bill is that it docs not affect the reve- · The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the. request of the nue of the Government; that)s to say, it docs not change in gentleman from Oregon? any particular any tax levied at the customhouse or under the There was no objection. Internal Revenue Bureau of the Government. l\Iy understaud l\Ir. SEARS of Florida. 1\'Ir. · Speaker, I make the point of ing of the rule is that unless the bill 'on its ·face shows that it oruer that no quorum is present. does affect the revenue, it is not a privileged bill. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Florida makes the This is all I desire to say in connection with the point of point of order there is not a quorum present. Evidently there order, Mr. Speaker, that nowhere in the bill does it in any way is not a quorum present. show that it increases or decr~ases taxation, either at the cus l\fr. HAWLEY. Mr. Speaker, I move a call of the House. tomhouse or through the Internal Revenue Bureau. A call of the House was ordered. · . · · 1\fr. GREEN of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I only dcs}.re to be heard The Clerk called the roll, when the following Members faileu briefly on the point of order, because I· have no doubt the matter to answer to their names : has already been called to the attention of the Speaker. 'l~his