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l909. .CONGRESS! ON AL RECORD-HOUSE. 16511 Also, petition of the Anti-Saloon League of Illinois, against By Mr. TAYLOR of Ohio: Petition of E. A. Peters, W. E. appointing a commission of inquiry to investigate the character Sims, and other citizens of Franklin County, Ohio, for legisla and effects of the liquor h·affic upon the welfare of the Gov tion to establish a parcels post and postal savings banks-to ernment and the people-to the Committee on Interstate and the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Foreign Commerce. Also, petition of T. E. Berry, A. M. Moore, and other citizens By Mr. GARNER: Petition of residents of Aransas Pass, of Franklin County, Ohio, favoring national highways com Tex., favoring appropriation for improvement of that harbor mission-to the Committee on Agriculture. to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. By Mr. TIRRELL: Petitions of J. M. Scarborough and others, Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Sanford Brown of Middlesex, and Worcester Grange, No. 3, of Massachusetts, to the Committee on Pensions. for the establishment of a parcels post-to the Committee on By 1'.-Ir. GRAIIAM: Petition of the Alling & Cory Company, the Post-Office and Post-Roads. the Pittsburg Iron and Wire WorkS', theW. E. Osborn Company, By Mr. 'l'OU VELLE: Petition favoring parcels-post and sav and the Logan-Gregs Hardware Company, favoring improve ings banks laws, as recommended by the Postmaster-General ment of bankruptcy act in the Sherley bill (H. R. 21929)-to to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. the Committee on the Judiciary. Also, petition for creation of a national highways commission, Also, petition of the L. L. Satler Lumber Company, against for federal aid in construction of good roads, and against appro reduction of duty on lumber-to the Committee on Ways and priation for seed nistribution-to the Committee on Agriculture. Means. By l\fr. WANGER: Petition of Trades League of Philadelphia, By Mr. HILL of Connecticut: Petition of the Methodist Epis favoring increase of salaries of United States circuit court copal Church of Litchfield, Conn., favoring H. R. 24148, for es judges to $10,000 ·and of United "States district court judges to tablishment of children's bureau in the Interior Department-to $9,000 per :m!lum-to th10> Committee on Appropriations. the Committee on Educatiop.. Also, petition of Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Association of By Mr. HINSHAW: Petition of ·citizens of Malmo, Ithaca, the Southern States, favoring retention of present duty en lum Colon, Cuereo, Tamora, and Waco, all in the State of Nebraska, ber-to the Committee on ·ways and Means. favoring a parcels-post law-to the Committee on the Post-Office Also, petition of Palmer Rich, master, and Joseph L. Briggs, and Post-Roads. · secretary, of Edgewood Grange, No. 688, Patrons of Husbandry, By Mr. JO~'"ES of Washington : Petition of certain citizens for the creation of a national highways commission and an ap of ·washington, asking for the removal of the import duty on propriation for aiding in the improvement and maintenance of jute grain bags and burlap cloth used in the manufacture of public roads-to the Committee on Agriculture. grain bags-to the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. WEEKS : Petition of Boston Society of Architects, By Mr. KNAPP: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Fred against bill appropriating $5,000,000 for purchase of a site for eric Appenzeller-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Lincoln memorial-to the Committee on the Library. By Mr. LANDIS: Petition of sundry citizens of Indiana, By Mr. WEISSE: Petition of Milwaukee Association of Credit against passage of "Senate bill 3940-to the Committee on the l\fen, favoring any amendment to improve present bankruptcy District of Columbia. law-to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. LINDBERGH: Petition of Minnesota State Horticul Also, petition of Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Association, tural Society, against free distribution of seeds by the Agricul against repeal of tariff. on lumber-to the Committee on Ways tural Department-to the Committee on Agriculture. and Means. - Also, petition of J. F. Kroes, of the North Star Lodge, No. 197, "Also, petition of citizens of Scott and Oostburg, Wis., favor International Association of Mechanics, of Brainerd, Minn., for ing establishment of parcels post and postal savings banks-to the abolishment of the piece or task work system now in force the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. at Mare Island Navy-Yard-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Also, petition of Consumers' League of Wisconsin, favoring By Mr. LINDSAY: Petition of American Protective Tariff the Beveridge-Parsons bill, relative to child labor-to the Com League, against a permanent nonpartisan tariff commission-to mittee on Labor. the Committee on Ways and Means. Also, petition of J. W. Miller, favoring H. R. 7620, establish ing a naval militia-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Also, petition of Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Association, against reduction of duty on lumber-to the Committee on Ways SuNDAY, January 31, 1909. and Means. By Mr. LOUD : Petition of citizens of Alpena, Mich., for cre The House met at 12 o'clock noon and was called to order by ation of a national highways commission-to the Committee on the Speaker pro tempore, Ron. AMos L. ALLEN, Representative Agriculture. from l\Iaine. Also, petition of merchants of Harrisville, Mich., against The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the fol parcels-post and postal savings bank laws-to the Committee on lowing prayer : the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Our God and our Father, whose name is sacred to the heart By Mr. McGAVIN: Petition of board of directors of New of every true man and the inspiration of every noble deed, help berry Library, against a tariff on books-to the Committee on us to realize that the highest service we can render to Thee is Ways and Means. willing and unselfish devotion to the welfare of our fellow-men, By Mr. MAYNARD: Paper to accompany bill for- relief of which reflects itself on the pages of history, sacred and profane, James J. Booth-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. in song and story, in monuments of bronze and granite. By Mr. MILLER: Petition of citizens of Pottawatomie County, We are here to-day in memory of one who served his State Kans., for legislation pensioning members of the United States and Nation with patriotic fidelity and devotion and has left Telegraph Corps in the civil war-to the Committee on Invalid behind him a record worthy of emulation. Pensions. Inspire us with courage, zeal, and fidelity, that we may be Also, petition of certain citizens of Kai\saS, favoring parcels worthy and pass on to the reward of those who, true to them- post and postal savings banks laws-to the Committee on the . selves, reflect in thought, word, and deed the character of their . Post-Office and Post-Roads. Maker. Also, petition of certain citizens of Burlington, Woodson Comfort, we pray Thee, his friends, colleagues, and those County, Coffey County, and Greenwood County, all in the State near and dear to him by the bonds of kinship with the blessed of Kansas, against passage of Senate bill 3940-to the Com hope of the immortality of the soul, and Thine be the praise mittee on the District of Columbia. forever, in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. By Mr. REEDER: Paper to accompany bill for opening In ·dian reservation suggested by H. L. Dellaplaines-to the Com EULOGIES ON THE LATE HON. LLEWELLYN POWERS, OF MAINE. mittee on the Public Lands. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will read the order By Mr. SPERRY: Petition of citizens of Orange, Conn., favor for the day. ing the establishment of a rural parcels post-to the Committee The Clerk read as follows : on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. On motion of Mr. GuERNSEY, by unanimous consent, Also, resolutions of the State Business Men's Association of "Ordered, That" there be a session of the House at 12 m. Sunday, Connecticut, against the establishment of parcels post-to the January 31, for the delivery of eulogies on the life, character, and Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. public services of the Ron. LLEWELLYN POWERS.._ late a Member of this By Mr. STEVENS of Minnesota: Petition of Foley Brothers House from Maine." and Kelly and others, of St. Paul, against a duty on tea or Mr. GUERNSEY. Mr. Speaker, I send the following resolu coffee-to the·Committee on Ways and Means. tions to the desk and ask to have them read by the Cl~i'k. 11652 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE., JANUARY 31, The Clerk read as follows: which refunded the money he had advanced from his private House resolution 530. purse. Soon after his retirement from the governor's chair he was RcsoZt:ed, That the business of the House be now suspended that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. LLEWEL chosen to fill out the unexpired term of the Fifty-seventh Con LYN POWERS, late a Member of this House from the State of Maine. gress occasioned by the death of Congressman Boutelle, in 1901, Resol-r;ed, That as a particular mark of res\>ect to the memory of and was returned to Congress with each succeeding election, but the deceased and in recognition of his distingmshed public career, the House, at the conclusion of the memorial exercises of the day, shall he· was obliged to \vithdra w from the renomination to the Sixty stand adjourned.