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6022 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE APRIL 10 Mr. WARREN. The Senator can do that either before or CONFIIll\IATIONS after we go into executive session, as he likes. Mr. ROBINSON. I think we had better have the absence Executit'e nominations confirmed by the Senate April 10, 1924 of a quorum suggested now. • POSTMASTERS Mr. SWANSON. l\lr. President, will the Senator yield to me before that is done? ILLINOIS l\Ir. ROBINSOX Yes. Edward F. Ledoyt, Sandwich. l\1r. SWA...~SON. There is a little joint resolution I want MISSOURI to get through which I called up this morning. Philip M. Beesley, Robertsville. l\Ir. W A.RREN. 1\Ir. President, I will yield the floor at this Oley S. Cardwell, St. Clair. time, as it is necessary to have an executive session. I dis like very much to have to suffer the delay, especially as there OREGON is a special order for to-morrow, and we have agreed to recess. Thomas F. Johnson. Hood River. I hall be under the necessity in the morning of appealing to Charles E. Lake, St. Helens. the Senator in charge of the immigration bill for time. In PENNSYLVANIA the meantime, I urrender the floor to those having other busi John D. Moll, Bernville. ness to place before the Senate at this time. Harry A. Garner, Wyomissing. INVESTIGATION OF INTERNAL REVENUE BUREAU SOUTH D..ll{OTA Mr. WATSON. 1\Ir. Pre ident, I ask leave to submit a Hellen S. Angus, Humboldt. resolution and have it lie over un<ler the rule. Beatrice l\I. Dobson, Winfred. Mr. ROBINSON. Does the Senator want to have it read? Mr. W A.TSON. Yes. TEXAS Mr. NORRIS. Let us have it read. Ewald Straach, Miles. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Secretary will read Lena Greenwade, Rochester. the resolution. Jam es L. Davis, Tenaha. The resolution (S. Res. 210) was read, as follows: Reed J. Smith, Van Horn. Resolved, That the special committee to investigate the Bureau of WASHINGTON Internal Revenue, appointed under authority of Senate Resolution 168, Rudolph R. Staub, Bremerton. agreed to March 12, 1924, be, and it is hereby, discharged from Lear U. Linck, Longview. further consideration of the matter under inquiry by the said com mittee. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolution will lie over HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES under the rule. SURG. GEN. HUGH S. CU:llillNG THURSDAY, April 10, 19~4 M:r. SWANSON. Mr. President, I brought up this morning The House met at 12 o'clock noon. the question of passing a joint resolution, but thought it proper The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., offered to defer the request until just before adjournment. the following prayer : Surgeon General Cumming, of the United States Public Health Service, was given a Legion of Honor decoration and 0 God, grant that in every problem we bring to Thee, in also the highest decoration in Poland on account of his services every question for which we ask Thy wisdom, that our sonls in a medical way during the war. The House bas passed a may be blest. Always help us, dear' Lord, to get our moral bill permitting him to accept these decorations. The Foreign perspective right, and our spiritual proportions true. Give us Relations Committee of the Senate bas unanimously reported each day to realize that we are now and always in the immedi this joint resolution. He is now in Europe, and if these decora ate presence of God. Help us to reconsecrate ourselves to all tions are to be conferred it would be well to have it done while that is worthy. In our great calling may we withhold nothing he is in Europe. that shall serve our country and help the burdened world. Let I a k unanimous consent to call up at this time Senate Joint the sublime truth of Calvary's Cross be our gui<le and in pira Resolution 100, Order of Business 367. tion. Amen. l\fr. WARREN. Mr. President, I shall have to object to that. The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was reac1 anc1 We are now about to go into executive session; and I move approved. that the Senate proceed to the consideration of executive business. HON. WILLIAM RUFUS KING, VICE PRESIDENT, SENATOR. CONGRESS Mr. SWANSON. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a MAN, D!PLO~IAT, STATESUAN quorum. Mr.. ABERNETHY. Mr. Speaker, I a k unanimous con ent The PRESIDENT pro · tempore. The Secretary will call the to exten<l my remarks on the bill (H. R. 8544) "·hich I intro roll. duced yesterday to erect a monument in commemoration of The roll was called, and the following Senators answered to William Rufus King, former Vice President of the United their names : States. Adams Ferris :M:cKellar Shipstead The SPEAKER. The gentleman from North Carolina asks Ball Fess McKinley Shortridge unanimous consent to extend his remarks tn the R ECORD on the Bayard Fletcher McNary Simmons bill which he introduced. Is there objection? [After a pause.] Brandegee F razier Mayfield Smith The Chair hears none. Brookhart George Moses Smoot Broussard Glass Neely Spencer Mr. .ABERNETHY. l\fr. Speaker, one of the great men pro Bursum Hale Norris Stanfield duced in this country was William Rufus King, horn in Samp Cameron Harreld Oddie :Sterling Capper Harris Overman Swanson son County, N. C., and who died in 1853 as Vice Presi<lent of Caraway Heflin Owen Trammell the United States. Col t Howell Pepper Wadsworth Upon his death President Fran"!rlin Pierce, in a me sage lo Copeland Johnson, Calif. Phipps Walsh, }font. Cummins J obnson, Minn. Pittman Warren Congress, said of him : Curtis J ones, Wash. Ransdell Watson Dale Kendrick Reed, Pa. Weller Since the adjournment of Congre s the Vice Presillent of the L'n iLetl Dial King Robinson Willis States bas passed from the scenes of ea rth without having entered upon ... Dill Ladd Sheppard the duties of the station to which he had been called by the voice of The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Sixty-seven Senators 11ave his countrymen. Having occupied almost continuou ly for more than BO answered to their names. There is a .. quorum present. years a seat in one or the other of the two Houses of Congresll, and hav ing by his singular purity and wt ··uom secured unbounded coaft fl ence EXECUTIVE SESSION and universal respect, his failing ' health was watched by the Xatiou 1\Ir. CURTIS. I move that the Senate proceed to the con with painful solicitude. His loss to the country, under all the circun.1 · sideration of executive business. stances, bas been justly regarded as irreparable. The motion was agreed to, and the Senate proceeded to the His death made such a profound impression upon the country consideration of executive business. After 1 hour and 20 that we find such men as Senator Stephen A. Douglas, of Illi minutes spent in executive session the doors were reopened, nois; Senator Lewis Ca s, of Michigan; Senator Robert l\1. T. and the Senate (at 6 o'clock and 5 minutes p. m.) took a recess Hunter, of Vfrginia; Thomas H . .Benton, tI1eu Congressman until to-morrow, Friday, April 11, 19~-l. at 12 o'clock meridian. from Mfasouri; the great Senator Edward Everet~ of Mas a- 1924 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-_ HOUSE 6023 chusetts · Congressmen Sampson W. Harris, of Alabama; Joseph The members who have preceded me have stated, and well stated, R Chandler, of Pennsylvania; l\lilton S. Latham, of California; the illustrious career of the deceased, tracing his course through a long graduation, always rising, of public honors from the general as Taylor, of Ohio; Phillips, of Alabama! A~he, of North Carolina; and others pa)ing gTeat tribute to his life, character, und at sembly of his native State to the second office of his country-the tainments in addresses published in 10,000 memorial volumes Vice Presidency of this great Republic. authorized by Congress. To me it only belongs to join my voice to theirs, and to the voices The great Edward Everett among other things said of him: of all who knew him, in celebrating the integrity and purity of his ille--the decorum ol his manners, his assiduous and punctual atten Few of the public men of the day had been so intimately associated tion to every duty-and the ability and intelligence which he brought with the Senate as the late Vice President. I think he had been a to the discussion of the national affairs during his long service of 30 Member of the body for more years than any person now belonging to years. tt. Besides thls, a relation of a different kind had grown up between Faithful to his adopted State, he exhibited when duty to her per him and the Senate. The Federal Constitution devolves upon the mitted the beautiful trait of filial n.ffection to the honored State <>f his people, through the medium of the Electoral Colleges, the choice of the birth, a State which has so many claims upon her children-besides Presiding Officer of this body. But whenever the Senate was called that of having first given them the vital air-for their constant and to supply the place temporarily, for a long course of years, and till grateful remembrance, wheresoever they may go.. he ceased to belong to It, it turned spontaneously to him. As friend, as associate, as native of the same State with the late He undoubtedly owed this honor to distinguished qualifications for Vice President King, I appear on this occasion and feel it to be in me.