7110 CONGRESSIOK.A_L RECORD-SENATE. l\l..1 _Y- 27, l
IN THE HoUSE OF REPRESEXTATI'\"ES, immediate prohibition as a war measure; to the Co~mittee on May 21, 1918. the Judiciary. Resol~;ea by the House of Rep1·esentatives (the Se1wte concurring)• By 1\fr. RANDALL: Petition of the ·Young People's Society That the two Houses of Congress assembled in the Ball of-the House of the New First Congregational Church of Chicago for war of Representatives on Monday, the 27th day of May, 1918, at 1 o'clock in. the afternoon, for the ptll'pose of receiving such communica time prohibition; to the Committee on the Judiciary. tion as the President o:f the United States shall be pleased to make t() By 1\!r. REED : Evidence to accompany House bill 12274, to them. increase the pension of John S. Brannon; to the Committee on Mr. MARTIN. I move that the Sennte concur in the resoltl Invali in n few minutes, It is, of com·se, in order under the rule. in any of the departments, it will operate just the other way. It The rule is very strict that the question of considera t ~on shall will (lepri\e those people of the ad\·antages which they might be ettled witlwut debate. ha'\"e " ·ere landlords in different cases permitted to carry out The YICE PRESIDENT. The question is on the motion of the terms of the solemn contract entered into with the tenant. the Senator froin Deiaware to proceed to the considerntion of A tenant, for instance, leased an apartment or a residence last the conference report. October under a leasE' which proyides that it shall expire on the . l\11-. FLETCilER l\fr. President, I think there are some 1st of the coming October. Congress proposes to say, nohYith Senators concerned about this matter who are not present. I standing that solemn contract entet·ed into between the land suggest the absence of n quorum. . lord and the tenant te1·minating that lease on the 1st of October. . l\11·. SAULSBURY. Possibly the Senator from Florida was it shall remain in force and· effect until the end of the war. It not iu the Chamber when the roll was called. I rai e the ques- is a monstrous proposition, helpful to nobody except the people tion ns to whether the caB for n qt1orum is in order. who are nctuully occupyiug the premises; and, ns my corre The VICE PRESIDENT. Business has been transacted since spondence will show and my information from reliable sdurces the former calL supports, those people, in a great number of instances, are·hei.·e 1\lr. ]fLETCHER. I withdraw the cn1l for a qnornm. simply because they like to be in Washington and are in nowise 'l'he VICE PRESIDENT. Tho question is on the motion of engaged in any work or nny undertaking that is helpful to the the Senator from Delaware to proceed to the consi(lerntion of Go\ernment; people, for instance, who haYe sons in the de- the conference ,report. partments, they like to be near; for their own pleasure, who are The motion was agreed to. here in disregard of the public interest. You propose to take l\lr. PLETCHER. 1\Ir. Presiuent, I desire to ay a few words property for their benefit, not for any public purpose. The Con in regnrd to the report. Apparently about the only cbange.sub- gress has no constitutional power to authorize the taking of mitted by the conferees is adding the words "unless in the property for other than public use, and then only upon ·just meantime otherwise pro>i ministration of tile Trea ury; it cannot frame fair and. work.able so moving a vision of duty. I know that you will lJegru this land, when there ;Will be suffering, ~ and when ·all those tur- ·of dny, once this joint 'resolution is :passed, ·until in ·the :Mr. GALLINGER What about the time limit concerning The Secr;etri.ry read as follows : .MA.n.CII Hli8. which there has been some controversy? llou. BEN JoHNSON, u. 1\Ir. SAULSBURY. There have been only two amendments Ho11sc of Rcp1·es~ntatives, City. made that amount to anything. One was to reduce the time DF:AR Srn : In 1900 when ,I was elected president ·of the Atlantic limit to the actual period of the war, -cutting off the year after Building Co., a large office builcling, as you know, on F Street, betwee.n Ninth and Tenth Streets NW .• it was then oc~1pied b-.y commercial the war which the House provided for, and the other was to tenn.:nts. with the exception of two ftoors which wer-e used by the Indian ~n-ect the phraseology in regard to the leases, confining it Office. The rental at that time was a little in excess of $37,500 tt solely to leases. Those are practically the only two amend- year. At a later period the Indian Office mo-.ed out into the old post-offi'OO ~~ . building. . .An application was at once made by the Bureau of Fot·estry 1\Ir. GALLINGER. So that if the war should continue for for some of the space left vncant by the Indian Office. At that time 5 years or 1{) years this statute will continue in force? the· Forestry Bureau only occupied three or foUl" small rooms in tbc old Department of A.gricultut·e Building. . Mr. SAULSBURY. Unless Congre s otherwise provided in We made a lense with the Forestry Bureau for s.pace required by the meantime, which 'Of course it could do anyway. them on one of the vacant floors, and at the request of the burea-u it 1.11·. GALLINGER Yes; but which the Senator knows Con was · stipulated that further spaee shoul-d be given as requir.ed. We little thought at that time that the requirements of the bureau wou!d gress probably will not do. reach beyond the two vacant floors for many yem·s, but the gr0wtb o! l\Ir. SAULSBURY. I can not agree to that, 1\It·. President, the bureau wa.s phenomt>nal, and from tim~ to time within a very lim because I sincerely hope, and I think every member ot the Dis ited period further space was required iU.Dtil we were compelled to GRONNA], and the Senator from Idaho [1\Ir. NuGENT] are absent 1\Ir. SAULSBURY. Un It was necessary for the estate to borrow the sum of $10,000. could afford to pay on a population of customers of 360,WO, if it The two vacant tracts of·land were leased. The manager of the was so a year ago, and now there are 450,000 people, many of estate- made arrangements with a Baltimore concern for the them the richest people of the country, who come here as his loan of $10,000 on those two tracts of land. Within a day or customers, may be making- twice in profits what he maue be :two the manager of the estate was visited by the party who had fore and what he thought he could pny for his rent when he agreed to make the loan and told that he would have to with made the lease. draw his proposition to make the loan. on that property; that Furtlleriilore, :rtlr. President, excel)t in a very small percentage if the land was to be continued to be rented at the same price of cases, this only binds one party to the contract. It takes hold that it was then during the whole war, which was an indefinite of the lessor, the landlord, and compels him to allow the tenant period, he could not .loan any money for the parties he repre to stay in, but does it compel the tenant to sta;9' in? No. sented upon any such uncertain state of facts as that. It simply Suppose the value of the property has diminished, as it has in shows how the measurll cuts- one way as to all estates that are certa.in sections of the city, and suppose the landlord would lilte being handled for the benefit of widows and orphans and to haYe the tenant continue at the old rate, does this treat both benevolent purposes. parties to the contract the same? No; it is a jug-handled I do not think there is any demand that business property in arrangement. It says that the tenant shall ~lways have the the District of Columbia should be subject to the provisions of advantage; that the landlord shall have nothing to say about it; this joint resolution. As I understand the grievance here in ' that Congress will regulate the terms of the contract which the Washington, it is 100,000 new people having been dumped on landlord. makes, and the tenant can do as he pleases. The this city in the last year, since we declarea war, tllat they want tenant is left free to abandon his contract when it is perfected. bedrooms and beds; they want shelter, so that they can get off The landlord is compelled by the United States Government to the streets~ But merchants' stores, Mr. President, are rented continue the contract willy-nilly beyond the terms of his- con in the part of the country that I come from-and I assume it is tract, to perform a contract that the United States Government true here--for periods .of 3, 5, or ~0 years. No merchant will is going to make him keep, and. to per:eorm it for an indefinite r:ent a store and put his fixtures in it and transfer the good will , period, whether it results in foreclosure or ruin to him or to a of his business to that location unless he has-a. lease sufficiently trust company or to the estates of all the peoplf:! who have their long to warrant him in making the expeniliture and taking the monel' in the fiduciary and mercantile and. banking and invest- risk. ' ment companies of this country. . Now, look at it. Here is a store which was rented 10 years I am not attacking this proposition; I think some relief ought ago, when Washington probably had a. population of 200,000 to be devised; but I say, simply because times are trying and less than are here to-day, considering the increased population peop~e are excited and· their emotions are deepJy stil:red, every that· has- been :put upon. this city since the war was- declared. time we see a grievance we must not cast down the limitations· Ten years- ago the rental of that store was fixed at whnt now and provisions of the Constitution. and rush into confiscation seems a ridiculously small figure; yet under the ope1·ation of and" anarchy and chaos. 1\Ir. President, that will not tend to this joint resolution that lease is to be continued at the rent inspire confidence in this country or in its financial institutions, fixed 10 years- ago, when the property was not wo:r.th one-quarter nor in the integrity and good judgment of' its legislators, who ot what it is wortll to-day, and it is to be so continued for an are a part of the Government itself. indefinite period, although the owner of the property may have I do thin]4 in view of what has been said about this mea.sur~. mortgaged the property based upon. the contract that he has that no serious error will be committed and no serious damage made with the lessee that he was to recover possess-ion to-day, will be done if this confer~nce report should be rejected and the and then was to sell the property and ta.ke up his. mortgage and conferees and the committees of the two branches o:t Congress :RaY his debt. The owner may be under another existing con be given a few days more to see if something more equitable can tract to-day that upon the termination of this- contract be will not be worked out. rent the property to somebody else, and yet this joint reso lution steps in and absolutely declares nugatory that second Mr. REED. Before the Senator takes his seat- contract and forces upon the landlord a contract which has Mr. BRANDEGEE. I yield to the Senator. terminated by its own terms and by the free act of the parties, Mr. REED. Touching the question of what is a fair rent to and compels that contract, now expired, to .continue in force for charge, I desire to call the attention of the Senator to the fact an indefinite period-during the war. that I. am informed the Director General of Railroads has issued · The joint resolution bristles with situations that can not be an order raising freight rates an over the United States 25 foreseen, but we may , see enough of them now to know that per cent and raising passenger rates. to 3 cents a mile, and in it is exceedingly dangerous to. vote for the measure. The only some instances to 3l cents, a raise that in some places would be answer that is made to these criticisms, all of which are just equivalent to 33! per cent. I assume if this has been done it is and-unanswerable, is that we are at·war, and that Congress can upon the basis that values. change, and wages are necessarily do anything it wants when we are at war;. that the due-process-, higher all along the line. If that is the situation; then surely it is a fact that ought to be considered in the making of an. of-law clause does not any longer exist; that we can confiscate~ for private parties, not for public purposes; that we can order equitable adjustment of rent fixing in this, Dish·ict. The joint .what a landlord shall say to one tenant as against another, one resolution seems to utterly ignore it. I wanted to call the Sen~ bidder in the open market as against another, not for govern"' ator's attention to that fact. mental purposes, not to win the war, but to interfere with the Mr. BRANDEGEE. ·r. think. the Senator's remark is very arrangement in the business community between the landlord germane. I see in the papers that the Director General has and the tenant. There is no grievance whatever about the rela raised salaries and w.ages upon the railroads of the country ta tion between the landlord and tenant in his property. The whole an amount which would total $300,000,000 if I. have the figure· question is one of housing_and lodging,. and not how much a man correctly, and has made it retroactive, so that it goes back into who rents a store on F Street or. Pennsylvania Avenue-shall pay the past. Of course, the Senator is entirely correct that the tbe landlord. whole system of values, of wages, cost of living, and cost of We are told we ought to vote for this measure because later products and materials has wavm:ed and changed all over the, on we are promised the distingwshed chairman of the confer country; it has surged up and gone back and surged up again. ence committee, the Senator from Delaware, will do his best to · Mr. REED. Let· me call the Senator's attention to another see that the Pomerene bill can get through both branches of matter. Oongress. · 1\Ir. BRANDEGEE. Very welL Mr. WADSWORTH. Mr. President, may I suggest to the Mr; REED. Interest rates have enormously advanced. Let Senator that in view of the fact that the rental value of busi us assume the case of a man who built a structure in Washing ness property rises and falls with the comparat}ve prosperity ton and who fixed the rent so as to give him a fair return upon or lack of prosperity of the business which is conducted in that the cost of that building, and a part of the cost of the building- property, this measure works a tremendous advantage to the 50 per cent of it-is represented by a trust deed that bears 4?! stm·ekeeper, we will say, who rented his property five or six per cent interest. That trust deed iB now maturing, and it can years ago and· who to-day is running. an infinitely more prosper only be renewed at 7· per cent interest. What will be the effect ous business tllan he did when he originally rented the property. of· a measure of this kind under such circumstances? Mr. BRANDEGEE. That is quite- true. l\Ir. BRANDEGEE. r am at a loss to describe the kind of 1\f.r. 'VADSWORTH. As a matter of ·common justice, a divi embarrassment the man would be in. Money is now worth in sion of the burdens or profits, whichever we may term the rental the neighborhood of 7· per· cent in the market, where it was 4 of office or business propel~ty , may be at least allowed according and 4!> per cent before. If he could not renew it at 41 per cent to the tn:osperity of the business that is going to be conducted he would have to renew it on the best terms he could get. It in it. means that his expense is doubled, yet the rent iB held by an Mr. BRAJ\TDEGEE: It seems to me so. AB I said before, act of Congress, his return from his property is held where it e\ery merchant here who based his rent on what his business was when he could borrow money at 4 or 4! per cent~ 1918. T I CONGRESSIONAL ~~COR. J)"7r.S.~~AT~ ~ • 7tl23- Mr. REED. Let me ask the Senator another question: Sup kept in status quo pending final action we may or may not be pose a man was going away and knew he would be absent from able to reach a legislative solution of a Yery serious and over the city for a period of four or fi-ve months and he wanted to powering situ a lion in this District. ha-ve his property in extra good hands. Therefore, he rented lUr. REED. Will the Senator permit a question? it at a very low rental, possibly a nominal rental. Now, desiring lUr. THOMAS. Certainly. to resume possession of it for the purpose of handling his prop Mr. REED. Does the Senator think that this measure will erty as bis own, he finds himself confronted by a law which furnish some relief against bad conditions? provides that the nominal rent shall continue indefinitely. Mr. THOMAS. If I did not think so, I would not support it. I want to ask the Senator now a question connected with 1\fr. REED. If it will furnish some relief against bad con tllat. Does he believe such a law as that can stand the test of ditions, it. will make conditions better than they are. Then the court? how will it afford a stimulus to other legislation? Mr. BRANDEGEE. No; I do not. I stated so. I gave the 1\.Ir. THOMAS. 1\fr. President, I think inasmuch as the joint Senator an instance on Saturday. I had read into the RECORD resolution while affording some relief will also produce some a letter written to me by a gentleman who is a large 1;eal-estate of the consequences which the Senator from Missouri and owner in · this city, one of the leading men of the District of others predict, the interests which are thus affected will, in Columbia, giving the experience of his brother, who bad erected stead of trying to prevent any legislation, as they are now doing, nn apartment house here within a year which contains 18 join with those of us who want to cure these difficulties in a apartments. He rented those apartments at about $200 a legislat1ve way, and iron them out in such manner as w ill month, which was a very modest rent. Eleven out of those produce the least possible discomfort and loss. Of course, that 18 tenants ha-ve let those apartments at three times what they may or may not result from the enactment of the measure, but paid the landlord for them, nnd the landlord had to take the I am inclined to think that it will aid us in an early legislative curse of it and be called a profiteer. Apartments which had solution of what may be ~ailed the District problem. been rented for $200 a month were sublet before the tenants l\lr. President, the Senator from Missouri directed the atten had moved into them at $650. It is in large measure the tenants tion of the Senator from Connecticut a moment ago to the recent themselves who have created this distress. and this profiteering, raise in freight rates upon the lines of transportation of the and not the landlords. Many a building here in Washington country. We also read in the morning press that the wages of had been almost vacant for some years. As the Senator from the men have been increased. If it were possible to reach this New Hampshire [Mr. GALLINGER], who knows the District as situation by freight and wage raises there might be no necessity well as any other Senator, at least who was chairman of the for the enactment of this ·pr any measure, because I have District Committee for a number of years, said a few years noticed with some disappointment that every application for- a ago pretty much one house out of every four had a sign " To raise of wages and salaries which comes to the Congress finds let" upon it, and I doubt if-real estate in this city, houses and favorable consideration. But, Mr. President, the misfortune, tenants, netted the owners 3 per cent on the property in the if it is one, in times like these is that every raise in fixed last 10 years on an a-verage. compensation is attended by a corresponding raise in everything Mr. GALLINGER. Mr. President- that is essential to existence. Mr. BRANDEGEE. I yield. I have iterated and reiterated this proposition so frequently 1\fr. GALLINGER. The signs were so numerous on the houses during this session of Congress that I am afraid by this time that at the instance of the Senator from Michigan [l\:Ir. SMITH] its further repetition will be more of an infliction than an en- we legislated to prevent more than a certain number of signs ·Hghtenment of the Senate. The increase in the prices of all the to be placed on any given piece of property. necessities of life, generally speaking, is more rapid and larger Mr. SMITH of Michigan~ And of a certain size. in volume than the increase in wages and salaries, and as a Mr. GALLINGER. And of a certain size. consequence, if that practice is continued, in Qrder to do away l\1r. BRANDEGEE. I put another letter in the RECORD on with an existing evil of serious proportions it will merely result Saturday from a gentleman, a real-estate man, who stated that in a race between employees whose salaries are increased and he knew of a building in a business block here that cost the the material men who furnish him the necessities of life, sus owner $100,000, and after holding it vacant for several years tenance, clothing, and so forth. So as matter of fact that sort and paying the taxes and interest out of his own pocket and · of panacea gets us nowhere. losing the rent he had finally rented it for $100 a month, the Mr. President, there is much in the contention of the Senator whole business building, in order that he might get $1,200 a from Missouri regarding the constitutional features of this year to help pay the taxes on it. He is now offered $7,000 a measure considered in its larger aspects, but subject of course year for the building, which would be 7 per cent, and taking to those fundamental conditions and principles which safeguard out 2 per cent for taxes and insurance would leave him a net of property and the rights of the citizen, the power of Congress 5 per cent, irrespective of depreciation and repairs; and now he over this District is absolute. 1\.Iy contention is that the con is to be compelled during the indefinite period of this war to stitutional basis of this legislation is found in that clause of continue the rent of the building for $1,200 a year, for which the Constitution which gives to the Congress exclusive jurisdic he was offered $7,000 for a legitimate purpose, a purpose that tion over the District. This District was created for the one will not hinder the winning of the war at all, and he is com purpose, and for the one purpose only, that it might be for all pelled to let his tenant make the difference between $1,200 and time the seat of government of the Republic. Provision was $7,000. His tenant can turn around .and rent it for $10,000 if made by the fathers in the framing of the Constitution for just he wants to. Under the joint resolution every tenant who early such a place, and as a matter of course the jurisdiction of the enough foresaw what was .liable to happen and rented apart Congress of the United States, representing the legislative au ments and buildings at a cheap rent and then sublet them at thority, attached to and became absolute over that particular four and five times what he paid for them is protected. The spot, wherever it might be located. Its territorial dimensions joint resolution ought to be entitled "A joint resolution to protect have up to this time been greater than the pressure of govern the profiteers in the collection 9f their extortionate profits," mental actiVities upon it, but even in times of peace those activi for it guarantees and gives immupity to every tenant profiteer ties were constantly increasing. who bas deliberatly raised rents from thl~ee to four times what The Government at every session of Congress extends the they ought to be without the expenditure of a dollar on his boundaries of its jurisdiction and takes in some particular part. · sphere or element which up to that time was by negation, at Mr. President, as I have said, I am unable to vote for the least, supposed to be beyond its constitutional power and au conference report at this time. I think it can be bettered. - thority. The result has been a multiplication of bureaus a:nd 1\f.r. THOMAS. 1\Ir. President, no man can gainsay the seri of commissions ad nauseam. ous nature of the objections urged this morning against favor We have long ago become a bureaucracy, a condition that is able consideration of this measure. That it will operate un inevitable, Mr. President, when Government activities are justly and unfairly in some. directions is inevitable. Any bill unduly extended. So at the time war was declared against which has for its purpose the regulation of prices must inevit Germany the activities of the Government had so multipli&l ably react somewhere, and sometimes the consequences of the and had so extended that the pressure upon the territory of the reaction may be more serious than the benefit derived from the District was already noticeable. With the war that pressure measure. became enormous and the smaller expansions in times of peace But I am not impressed with the contention that because of were infinitesimal as compared with the sudden influx into the these things the conference report should be rejected. Funda District of Columbia of v:ast hordes of new employees, -whose mentally the joint resolution, if it shall operate inequitably, will presence and whose labor are essential to the proper transac be a powerful stimulus to the early framing and enactment of tion of governmental business. They must be here. -They ha-ve - a measu.1·e that wil be reasonably equitable, all things considered, no choice about it until the Government shall, as I think it and without something of this kind whereby conditions are should during the period of the war, transfer some of these CONGRES IONAt lt"EQORD~SENATE . tbureaus and ·commissions to other cities of the Union. 'In'deed Senator that we being at -war· the ·Government' has the right to ' that, ·to my minu,..is the best solution of the problem ·of human commandeer and take over such property· as is necessary to the congestion in this District. There is no 'reason in the ·world progress of the -\VU.t. lBut the Golernmellt in thnt case ·takes it why the Fuel > ·Government -when we· came to -legislate with reference to mat- Mr. REED. Mr. President, if the Senator will allow me, so -t:ers within t11e ·states, do 11ot exist in the DiStrict of Columbia that it will not be left in that shape, my proposition is that and do not limit :the Federa'l ·Government's rights ·here. In other when a reasonable limit has been reached the Government shall words, the .Federal -Government in the District of Columbia is a take 'all the excess. complete sovereign? Mr. THOMAS. Is not that au interference with property l\1r. THOMAS. Yes. rJghts? . . 1\fr. lli•~ED. And yet the Senator will agree with me that the l\Ir. REED. Not at all; that is the exercise of the right of ·rights of the Federal Government-that is, of Congress and of taxation; and, as was well said by a justice of the Supreme the President-are subject to the general .limi~tions of the Court, the right of taxation is the right of confiscation. We Constitution; that is to say, a man living even in t:be District have almost gone to that ,point ,in reference to 'Some •of the ·ex of Columbia has ca·tain rights 'Under the Constitution and to ·cess-profits taxes whiCh we have nlready passed, and '1 am reaqy the protection of the law of the land? · to .go further, and -r think this ·Congress will go ·further, if we 1\fr . .,THOl\fA.S. Yes. follow the P.resident. 1\lr. REED. · One ·of those 1·ights is that •he shall not be de- Mr. 'SAULSBURY. l\!r. Pre3i Senate Clwmber, pair d and not voting, the Chair declares the important to determine weights and measures for the District conference report agreed to. of Columbia than to pas the Army bill, I shall not object. ~Jr. 1.\IcKE~ZIE. -1\Ir. Speaker, reserving the right to object, . AD.TOURNME::.\"T. I thoughf we had an understanding that bills corning from the l\Ir. 1.\IAR~IN. I move that the Senate adjourn. Committee on 1\Iilitm·y Affairs, except on speciaL days, should The motion was agreed to; and (at 4 o'clock and 35 minutes have the right of way. Now, if the request of the gentleman p. m.) the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, Tuesday, :llay 28, from Kentucky is C{)n ented to, why of course it wiD. make u 1018, at 12 o'clock meridian. special day for the consideration of his bills and cut out consid et·atlon of the. military app1.·opriati.on bill, which ought to be con sidered without a moment's delay. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. KITCHL.~. Mr. Speaker, I hope the gentl€man from Ken tucky will '\'\'ithdraw his request now, and that he ~ll make it ~-!O:NDAY, l1fay ~7, 1918. follo·wing the pill age of the military appropriation bill. The House met at 12 o'clock noon. 1\Ir. JO~SO~ of Kerrtueky. 1\.Ir. Speaker, I will modify the The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offe ed the fol request-- lowing prayer : 1.\:Ir. KI~Clill:N. I haYe made arrangements with the chair We lift up our hearts in grn.tituU.e to Thee, our Father in man of the Committee on Military Affairs to take up that bill Heaven, for all the uisdosures Thou hast made of Thyself, to-day. especially for the disclo. ures in the incompara.bfe life, character, lli. JOliKSOX of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, I will modify my and wonderful precepts which fell from the lip of the Master, reque t by asking unanimous con ent that I be given Di trict which not only teach us the way and the .truth and the life-but day immediately follo\nng the di po ition of the military appro- especially for the comforting and ·reassuring words: priation bill. - "Come unto me all re that labor and are heavy lauen, anti I l\fr. GILLETT. Mr. Speaker, that very likely will be a week will give you rest. in ad-vance, :md I do not think we ought to tie up the time that " Take my y6ke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek far ahea.d. and lowly in. heart: and ye hall find rest unto your souls. The SPEAKER I there ob;jection? " For my yoke i en y, and my burden is light." Ur. GILLET-T. I object to that. Again: The SPEAKER. The gentleman from 1\Iassach:u:setts objects. " Let not your heart be trouble(] ; ye beliere in God, believe J OI.:~T MEETrnG OF THE TWO HOU ES. also, in me. l\Ir. KITCHL'i. Mr. Speaker~ I a k immediate consi Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania: · All right. - T~e name !lf Ricbaru J e ffer~on , late of Company II, Eighty-thit·•t Regime;nt Uruted State ~ Colored Volunteer Infantry, and pay him· The SPEAKER. The gentleman asks unanimous consent to a p~n. Ion at the rate of $1::0 per month in lieu of that be is no\v dis pen ·e with the first reading of the ·bill. Is there objection? recet vmg. - There was no objection. The _name of .John T. Gre~ory, _la te of St-c&nd Battery Indiana Volun teer L1ght Artillery, and pay him a. pension at the rate of $40 per The bll:l H. R. 12229 was read for amendment, as follo"\YS: month in lieu of that he i:s now receivmg. A bill (II. R. 12229) granting pensions and increase of pensions to cer· The name of William A. Morton. late of Company D, First Re~iment tain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and Missouri Engineers, and pay him a pension at the rate of $GO pe1· dependent children of soldiers and sailors of said war. month in lieu of that he i · now receiving. The name of Frank Godfrey, late of the United States Nav:v null Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior bt>, and he is pay him a pension at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that 'be is hereby, authorized and directed to placP. on the pension roll, subject to now receiving. the provisions ancl limitations of the pension laws- The name of Joseph W. McKee, late of Company M, Fifth Regiment 'L'he name of William Wilson, late of Company B, Se-venty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer lleavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. the l'ate of $40 f'er month in lien of that he is now receiving. The name of Frank AI. Daniels, late of Company E, One hundred The name of Minnie O'Connor, helpless and dependent child of John and sixty-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen C. O'Connor, late of Company D, Seventh Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer sion at the rate of $25 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Infantry, and pay he.r a pen ion at the rate of $12 per month. The name of George W. Shaw, late of Company I, One hundred an(l The name of Thomas AlcLarnan, late of Sixth Independent Company, fifth Regim~t Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension Ohio Sharpshooters, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Rostun C. Welch, late of Company D, First Regiment The name of James H. Good.rlch, late of Company F, Sixteenth Regi Oregon Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 ment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Edwin L. Wilber, late of Company C, Thirtieth Regi The name of Anna Eschbach, helpless and dependent child of Da-vid A. ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Eschbach, late of Company F, Fifty-se-venth Regiment Ohio \olunteer of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. Infanh·y, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. T?-e name of Daniel 0.-.C. l\Iarip.e late of Company C, Eighty-seventh The name of Simon E. Foust, latE' of Company D, One hundred and Regunent Indiana Volunteer Infanuy,1 and pay him a pension at the fiftieth Regiment Pennsyh·anla Volunteer Infn.ntry, and pay him a pen ~:ate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now recei-ving. sion at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now recei>ing. · The name of David AI. Bedwell, late of Company C, Fifty-ninth Rt>gi The name of John C. Briggs, late of Company C, Fifteenth Regiment ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate WP.st Virginia Volunteer Inf.'lntrv, and pay him a pension at the rate of of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. · $50 per month In 1ieu of that he ls now receiving. The name of Augustus B. Dotson, late of Company A. Second Re!n The name of Tyler AI. Shroyer, late of Company H, Twelfth Regiment ment Ohio Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $;J0 We t Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Cyrus Pinkerton, late of Company D, Thirteenth Regi The name of John T. Rvseberry, late of Company I, Fifteenth Regi- · ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay bun a pension at the $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rutt- of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. . The name of Morgan S. Bechtel. late of Company G, One hundretl '.rhe name of Jamc W. IIlll. late of Company G, One hundred and and fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a thirty-sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen pension at the rate of $15 I!E'r month. • cion at thE' rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Richard H. Kirby, late of Company F, Se>enteenth Regi The name of Thomas Crick, late of Company A, Fifteenth Regiment ment Kentucky Volunteer Ca>alry. and pay him a pension at the rate Kentucky Volunteer Cayn.lry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now recei>ing. The name of James Kirby late of Comi5any F, Fifty-eighth Regi The name of Henry C. Holbrook, late of Company G, One hundred ment United States Colored Volunteer Infantry, and pay 'him a pension nnd sixty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . sion at the rate of $30 per month in-lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Jacob Buzzard, late of Company I, Fourteenth Regi The name of Katharine Schellschmidt, divorced wife of Ferdinand ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Schellschmidt, latf> of the band, Eleventh Regiment Indiana Volunteer $30 per month in lieu of that he is now recei>ing. : ~ · Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $25 per month. The name of Rose n. Sutherlin, helpless and dependent child of Elias The name of Robert H. Clark late of Company B, First Regiment Sutherlin. late of Company E, Twelfth Regiment Indiana Yoluntt-er Connecticut .Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the Infantry, and r,>ay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. rate of 50 per month in lieu of that he is now recei>ing. The name of Benjamin A. Linvill, late of Company F, One hundred The name of Edmund Coward, lute of Company E, Second Regiment and thirty-fourth Regimt-nt Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pav him a New York Veteran CavalL·y, and pay him a pensiOn at the rate of $30 pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is new receiving. The name of John Hatch, late of Company E. Tenth Regiment Michi gan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 The name of Aln. son W. Covell, late of Company M, Second Regiment per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Humphrey Bay, late of Company C, Second Regiment 40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Nebraska Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $3li The name of Martin A. Monroe, late of Company C, First Regiment per month in lieu of that he is now recei>ing. · \ermont Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate . The name of Benevell Haugh, late of Company K, Eleventh Regiment of $·30 per month in lieu of that ne is now receiving. Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at The name of Charles S. Martin, late o! Company A, Fifty-sixth Regi the rn.te of $40 per month in lieu of that be is now recei-ving. ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Ilenry Howe, late of Company A, Fifty-ninth Regfmen t 40 per month in lien of that he is now receiving. Ohio Volunteer . Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $50 The name of Charles T. Wolfe. late unassigned, Second Regiment Ohio per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month The name of Absalom Erickson, late df Company I, Fourth Regiment in lien of that he is now receiving. . . Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $40 ~ The name of Elizabeth AI. Keefe, helpless and dependent child of per month .in lieu of thllt he is now receiving. Martin Keefe, late of United States Army, and pay her a pension at the The name of David H. Walker, late of Company D, One hundred rate of $12 per month. :md seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Yolunteer Infantry, and pay him The name of Alden F. Wooster, late of Company B, Fourth Regiment a pension at the rate of $25 pt-r month in lieu of that he is now :Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . The name of Samuel P. Burns, late of Company H, Two hundred and The name of Arthur C. Gregg, late of Company B, Twentieth Regi second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry~ and pay him a 1>ension at the rate of sion at the rate of $30 per month in lien of that lie is now rt'celving. -!0 per month in lieu of that ne is now receiving. The name of Perry Jarrett, late of Company C, Se-venty-fourth Relti The name of Thomas J. Shisler, late of Company F, Fifty-first ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at tlll! R egimeHt Missouri Volunteer Infantry, .and pay him .a pension at the rate ot $50 per month tn lieu of that he is now recei-ving: rate of "30 per month in lien of that he is now receiving. The name of George W. Parks, late or Company G, Forty-ninth Regi The name of John W. Whitbeck, late of Company A, Ninth Regim'ent ment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the of $30 per month in lien of tbat be is now receiving. rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ~ The name of William H. Bascue, late of Company I, Eleventh Rt>gi The name of Charles C. Twyford, late of Company K, Twenty-fifth ment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, arid pay him a pen ion at the rate Regiment ·nlinois Volunteer Infantry, and Company H, Fifth Regiment of $50 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. · Missouri State Militia Cavalry. and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Andrew J. Durgin, late of Company I, Twenty-ninth $40 per month in lien of that be is now receiving. Regiment Maine .Volunteet• Iri.fantry, and pay bim a pension at the Tbe name of Andrew J. Bass, late of Company D, Thirty-third Regi rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay -him a pension at the rate of '.fhe name of Sidney J. Crocker, late of Company C, Thirteenth Regi $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry, and One hundred and ninetieth The- name of Edward C. Jeffries, late of Company K, and B, Sixty Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay ' him a pension at seventh Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $50 per month in lien of that he ·is now receiving. the rate of $50 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. ,. The name of .Joseph D. !!'ulmer, late of Company A, One hundred The name of Ilenderson Smith, late of Company I. Thirtieth Regi and seventy-eighth Regiment rennsylvn.nia Drafted Militia Infantry, ment Kentuck:y VoluntcE'r Mounted Infantry, and pay him a pension at and pay bim a pension at the rate of $30 per mouth in lieu of that the rate of $36 per month in lien of that he is now receiving. he is now receivmg. , . . • The name of Franklin Haddock, late of Company AI, Eighth Regiment Tb<: name of Enoch E. Boyd, late of Company D, One hundred and 1\Iis ·ourl State Militia Ca>alry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ninety.-second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him n pen $40 per month in lieu of tbat he is now receiving. _ simi at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving.· ~ The name of Char·les Keiderling, late of Company D, Thirty-fifth • The name of ·Arthur M.- Hayes, late or· Company K, "Eighteenth Regi- RegJment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the ment Indiana ·Vo]unteer Infantry, .and pay hun a pension at the rate rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . • of $3G per month in lieu of that he is now recei_ving. · The nam~ of ·John P. Oa.k e.~, late .of Company K, Thirteenth Regiment The name of George W. Leliman, late of Company D, Seventeenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 Regiment Ohio Yolunteer Infantry; ancl pay him a t. pension at the mte per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. , · . of $3G per month in lieu of ·that be is- now rec.eiving. The name of. .Tosiah Ketchum. late of Comp;m:r A, Eightieth R egiment The .name of Channing C. Davis, late of Company D, Forty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantr_,., and pay him a pen ion at" the rate of :S40 per l!egjment Jowa Volunteet· Infantry, and pay hirri a pen ion at the rate month in lieu of that be i n ow recehing. of $~G per month in lieu of tbut he is now receiving .. 1918. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 7129 The nam<.' of Daniel Berkebile, late of Company G, Twenty-first The name of Joseph Boyer, late of Company A. OnP bun(h c:l and Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteet· Cavalry, and pay him a pension at fiftieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, antl pay him a pension the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Jacob Jewell, late of Company F, One hundred and The name of James G. Overstreet, late of Company I, Thirteenth twenty-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pensic!l at the at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Henry S. Rider, late of Company L, Twenty-second The name of Ephraim J. Smith, late of Company E, Seventh Regi Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and Third Regiment Penn ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $50 sylvania Provisional Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Phebe A. Vaughn, former widow of Charles S. Foote, The name of Jacob M. Wilhite, late of Company D, One hundred late of Company E, Ninety-second Regiment New York Volunt eer In and thirty-fifth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a fantry, and pal her a pension at the rate of $25 per month. pension at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now re The name o Mary L. Greenwood, widow of J040eph Greenwood, late ceiving. of Company I, Forty-third Re~ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, The name of Adam B. Shepherd, late of Company G, One hundred and and pay her a pension at the rate of $25 per month. forty-fifth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen The name of Carrie E. Magason, belpless and dependent child of sion at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. James C. Magason, late of Company H, Fifth llegiment Vermont Volun The name of Isaac J. Byers, late of Company B, Seventy-first Regi teer Infantry, a.nd pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per mon1h. ment Ohio Volunteer Inf::mtry and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Newton Sigsby, late unassigned, One hundredth Regi $30 per month in lieu of that ne1 is now receiving. ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Andrew Moore, late of Company H, One hundred and $30 per month in lieu of. that he is now receiving. twenty-thil·d Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen The name of John L. Bryan, late of Company G, Fifty-second Regi sion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Lillie Bircut, helpless and dependent child of Charles $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Bircut, late of Company A, Twenty-third Regiment Ohio Volunteer The name of William I. Britton, late of Company D, Forty-third Regi Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per month. ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Edward McConnell, late of Company C, Eleventh Regi $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment New York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Eli McMinnis, late of Company A, Flftb Regiment Ohio of $40 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. Volunteer Cavalry, and Company I, Twenty-second Regiment Ohio The name of Thomas F. Regan, alias George S. Bennett, late of Bat Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $3G per month tery C, First Regiment New York Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay in lieu of that he is now receiving. him a pension at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now The name of Alfred P. Pep:(>er, late of Companies F and C, First receiving. Regiment Delaware Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the The .name of William Schneider, late of Company H, One hundred rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. and eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry1 and pay him a pension The name of John W. Rogers, late of Company F, First Regiment at the rate of $.36 per month in lieu of that he 1s now receiving. Delaware Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 The name of William C. Runyan, late of Company B, Second Regi per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Ohio Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $50 The name of George A. Coverdale, late of Company C, First Regiment per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Delaware Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $40 per-month The name of Hezekiah Smith, late of Company A, One hundred and in lieu of that he is now receiving. forty-fourth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a The name of Exira C. Gilmore, widow of Joseph C. Gilmore, late of pension at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Company G, Ninety-third Regiment Ohio . Volunteer Infantry, and The name of Deborah A. Pierce, former widow of Charles L. Gould, pay her a pension at the rate of $25 per month. late of Company H, Thirty-seventh Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infan The name of Winfield S. Stalnaker, late of Company B, One hundred try, and pay her a pension at the rate of $25 per month. and forty-second Regiment Indian.a Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a The name of Abel S. Fennel, late of Company E 1 Eighth Regiment pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu ot:..that he is now receiving. Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pensiOn at the rate of Th~ name of Edward M. Hayhurst, late of Company E, One hundred $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. and twenty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infanb:y, and pay him a The name of Erastus A. Buck, alias Erastus N. Buck, late of Capt. pension at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Graham's company, Fourteenth Regiment Missouri Volunreer Infantry, The name of Durbin Longfellow, late of Company B, Fifty-first Regi and pay him a pension at the rate of $25 per month. ment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Daniel W. Nye, late of Company K, First Regiment In of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receivinf!. diana Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of _Allen Kelly, late of Company I, Eighteenth Regiment The name of Francis E. Robb, late of Company F, Third Regiment Indiana· Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 per per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John B.· Lynch, late of Company D, Sixth Regimertl: The name of Lusina Clouse, widow of David C. Clouse. late of Com Delaware Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 pany B, First Regiment Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, and pay her a pen per month i.n lieu of that he is now receiving. sion at the rate of $25 per month. The name of Bennett W. Burton, late of Company B, Fourteenth Regi The name of Willlam G. Files, late of Company D, Fortieth Regiment ment Kentucky Volunte81' Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $40 of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Henry M. Hutchinson, late of Company C, Fortieth Regi The name of Charles Owens, late of Company A, Twenty-ninth Regi ment Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry,- and pay him a pension ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of at the rate of $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. - The name of Thomas Leonard, late of Company D, Twentieth Regi The name of Henry C. Carr. late of band, Third New York Volunteer ment, and Company E, Twenty-ninth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer In . Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in fantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of lieu of that he is now receiving. that be is now receiving. . The name of George W. Justice, late of Company E, Eighty-third The name of David P. Dunkle, late of Company C, Eleventh Regiment Regiment, and Company D, Forty-eighth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and Company A, Twenty-first Regi Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $40 per month in lieu ment Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay him a pension at the rate of $3G of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John G. Clark, late of Company K, Fourth Regiment The name of Luther H. Angleberger, late of the Sixteenth Battery, New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pensio.n at the rate of $36 rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that _lu! is now receiving. The name of James H. Layne, jr., late of Company A, Twenty-fifth The name of John L. Wheel~r, late of Company I, Seventeenth Regi Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the ment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receivin"'. rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Lewis M. Cales. late of Company E, One hundred and The name of Sylvester Peters, late of Company D, One hmadred and forty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry1 and pay him a pension at thirty-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he 1s now receiving. a.t the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Mary A. Hinlmah, widow of William Hinlmah, late of The name of Benjamin A. Sturtevant, late of Company B, Twenty Company C, One hundred and forty-ninth Regiment illinois Volunteer third Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension Infantry, and pay her a. pension at the rate of $25 per month. at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is li.OW receiving. The name of Mary A. Blake, widow of John A. Blake, late of Company The name of Aaron McEndre, late of Company E, One hundred and C, Fifty-fifth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a eleventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pensiou pension at the rate of $25 per month. at the rate of $50 per m.:>ntb in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Ann F. Wise, former widow of Andrew M. Wise, late of The name of Pleasant Crissip, late of Company A, Forty-eighth Regi Company F, Fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a. ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate or pension at the rate of $25 per month. $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Gilbert Joslin, late of Company H, One hundred and The name of Clara J. Shoemaker, widow of I sac Shoemaker, late of fifty-second Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a Company K, Forty-eighth Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, ._Jnd pension at the rate of $25·per month in lieu of that he is now receiving.· The name of Emma L. Randall, widow of George W. Randall, late of pay her a pension at the rate of $25 per month. . Company B, One hundred and ninety-fourth Regiment New York Volun The name of Bradford P. Thornberry, iate of Company D, Third Regi· teer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of $25 per month. ment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Anderson Boyd, late of Company G, Thirty-ninth Regi of $40 pel¥ month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him .a pension at the rate The name of George C. Marshall, late of Company II, One hundred of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. and thirtieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him The name of Augustus McClaflin, late of Company A, Sixty-sixth Regi a pension at the rate of $36 pet· month in lieu of that he is now re- ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ceiving. · ~30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John D. Jameson, late of Companies G and C, Eighth The name of James M. Wilson, 2d, late of Company B, First Regiment Regiment, and Company C, Fourth Regiment, -Kentucky Volunteer In Indiana Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate fantry. and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. that be is now receiving. The name of Thomas J". Morris, late of Company B, Seventy-fourth The name of Jesse Redman, late of Company K, Ninety-seventh Re-gi· Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of William Durham, late of Company C, One hundred and The name of Henry N. Tippett, late of Company A, One hundt·ed and sixteenth Regimen't Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen thirty-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension sion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. LVI-452 CONGRESSIONAL RECOR.D-HO ·E. !lAY 27, 'l'he name of William D. Medley, late of Company K, Seventh Regi The name of Woodbury Smith, late of Company D, Twt>nty-seventh ment West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the Regiment Missouri Volunteer In.!antry, and pay him a pen ion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of 'that he is now receiving. rate of 40 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name pf James B. Wild s, lute of Company K, Fiftieth Regiment The name of .Martha J. Griffin, helpless and dependent chlld of ¥assachusetts Militia Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of George Griffin, late of Company K, One hundi'ed nnd tenth Regiment $36 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. g~ri'th~olunteer Infuntry, a~d pay her a pension at the rate of 12 per The name of John M. Thomas, late of Company G, Sixty-third Regi ment Pennsylvania Volunteer I&fantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Levi W. Short, late of Compan· A, Fifth Regiment Ohio rate of $50 per month 1n lieu of that be is now receiving. Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a ~ension ·at the rate of $40 per The name of John W. Martin, late of Company H;,. Sixty-second Regi month in lieu of that he is now receivmg. ment, and Company G. Sixty-seventh Regiment, uhio Volunteer In The name of Benjamin J. Switzer, late of Company D, Twenty-nlntb fantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the I'a.te that he is now receiving. of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now recei..ving. The name of Stewart N. McGuire. late of Company D, Forty-fifth The name of Elbert N. Cowan, late of Company K, Thirty-seventh Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. '.rhe name of I aac N. Dysard, late of Company F, Fifty-fourth Regi The name of James Harrold, late of Company 1\I, Second Regiment ment Kentueky Volunteer Mounted Infantry, and pay him a pension at New York Cavall·y, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month the rate of $50 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Edward BracUey, late of Company K, Third Regi,ment The name of Jasper Williamson, late of Company I, One hundred and United States Colored Voluntee1· Iniantry, and pay him a pension at thirtieth Regiment Indiana Volgnteer Infantry, and pay him a pension the rate· of 30 per month in lteu of that he is now receiving. at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. '.rhe name of John T. Burten, late of Company H. Fourth Regiment The name of James A. Hartline, late of Compan:v C, One hundred and Ollio Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of S40 per sixty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Drafted Militia Infantry and pay month in lieu of that he is now receiving. him a pension at the rate of ~30 per month in lieu of that he is now The name of ·~bristopher C. Olewiler, late of Company H, One hun receiving. dred and eigbty-seyenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and The name of Adam P. Maize, late of Troop K, Third Regiment United pay him a pension at the rate of $&0 per month in lieu of that he is riow States Volunteer Cayalryh and pay him a pension at the rate of ::;so receiving. per month in lieu of that e is now receiving, The name of Robert J. Keltner, late of Company H, Sixth Regiment The name of Jesse Halicom, late of Company H, Forty- eyenth Re!d Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia, and pay him a pension at the ment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at tlle ra"'te rate of $40 per month in Heu of that be is now receiving. of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now re{:eiving. ' The nrune of James B. Paige, late of Company G, Ninth Regiment New The name of Isaiah M. Phillips, late of Company I, Sixth Regiment York Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $40 per Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pen ion at the rate of $40 month in lieu of that be is now receiving. per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Jacob Custer, late of Company A, One hundred anti The name of Anna Bell O'Neal, widow of George E. O'Neal, late of fifty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at Company G, Thirtieth Regiment Ohio Voluntee1· Infantry, and pay her the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. a pension at the rate of 25 per month. The name of Benjamin Bayle s, late of Company B, One hundred and T~e name of Sylvester A. Simpson, late of Company F, Fortieth fifty-si::\.'t11 Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the at the rate of : 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $5.0 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Drucllla T. Collier, widow of Frank M. Collier, late of The name of John Coomb , late of Company H, Eleventh Regime11t Company F, First Regiment Maryland Volunteer Infantry, and pay her Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate or a pE>nsion at the rate of 25 per month. $40 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Charles A. Wilson, late of Company C, Thirteenth RE>gi The name of Laurence Mericle, late of Company E, Fifteenth Regi ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate ment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 30 per month tn lieu of that he is now receiving. ' of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Keziah Zink, widow of Henry C. Z1nk, late of Company The name of Myron S. Towne, late of Company H, One hundred and F, S.U:th RE>giment Iowa Voltretecr Infantry, and pay her a pension at for~-tbird Regiment Penn ylvania Volunteer Infunb·y, and Forty-fifth the rate ot 25 per month. Regiment United tates Colored Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a. Tb(> name of James Kinser, late of Company G, One hundred antl pension at the rate of 50 Pel' month In lieu of that be is now receivin"'. forty-fourth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen The name of George W. Silver , late of Company A, One bundr d sion at the rate of 36 per month in Jieu of that he is now receiving. and twenty-s1xth Regiment lllinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him The name of G£:orge W. Toland, late of Company C, One hundred and a pension at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that lu! is now twenty-third Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen receiving. sion at the ·rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Stephen Clifrord, late of Twenty-fifth Battery, Ohio The name of Hugh l\IcGuckian, late of Companies A and I, Third Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $50 R egiment Rllofle Island Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pen per month in lieu of that he Is now receiving. sion at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Daniel Jones, late of Company E, One hundred and The name of Frun<'is M. Newgcn, late of First Regiment Alabama and ninety-first Re"'iment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension Tenne~ ee Independent V'idette Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the at tho rate of 30 pei· month in lieu of that be is now receiving. 1·ate of ·go per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Benjamin F. Ford, late of Company G, Seventeenth ThE> nan1e of Jvel SkE>lton. late of Company D. One hundrt>d and Regiment West Virginia Volunte~r Infantry, and pay him a pension twentieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Julia L. Vaught, former widow of James R. Reed, late The name of Hnrvey Jackscn, late of Company I, Second Regiment of the Eleventh Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light • Artillery, Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 and pay her a pension at the rate of 25 per month. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ; The name of Susan B. Churchill, widow of Elroy ChurchilL late of The name of George Cook, late of Company II, Eighth Regiment Co!llpany A, First Rerlroent New York Volunteer Mounted Rifles, and Michtgan Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 30 Company A, Twenty-tlilrtl Veteran Reserve Corps, and pay her a. pen pt>r month in lif'u of that be is now receiving. sion at the rate of $25 .Qer montb. The name of Stephen C. Devol, late of Company A, Thirty-sixth Regi The namE> of Wiltiaru 5. Strode, late of Company G, Fiftieth Rt>giment ment Ohio Volunt<'er Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 36 per month in lieu of that he i now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Tbe nnnie of John M. Pike. late of Company G, Eighth Regiment Ver The name of Samuel Davis, late of Company F, Fiftieth Regiment mont Volunteer Inhmt.,-, and pay him a pension at the rate of 40 per Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pens1on at the rate of ~30 month in lieu of that be is now receiving. . per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Allen B. O'Conner, late of Company I, Twenty-seventh The name of Albert M. Lull, late of Company A. Forty-sixth Regi Regl.ment Iown Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pens.lon at the rate ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ~ 40 per m0ntll in lieu of that he is now receiving. of 30 per month i.n lien of that he is now receiving. The name of Montrose Washburn, late of Company C. Sixteenth Regi The name of Edward D. MUlls, late of Company K. Fifty-third Regl~ ment Tilinois Volnnt€'er Infantry, and pay him a pensioll at the rate o! ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $50 per month i.n lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Daniel A. Larkin, late of Company C, Forty-fourth Regi The name of Alfred Lukens, late of Company K, One hundre-d and ment Illinois Volunte r Infantry. and pay him a pension at the rate thirty-third Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him pension of $36 per month jr: lieu of that he is now receiving. at the rate of $27 per month In lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Henry T. Henson, late of Company I , Thirty-eighth The name of Elliott B. Peck, late of Company E. Elevt>nth Regiment Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ratf' of $50 per month in lieu of that he 1s now recefvin~. $36 per month in lieu of that he is now rereiving. The name of Abraham Crist, late of Company M, Elgbth Regimpnt Tile name of Joseph Forbes, late of Company M, Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 30 California Volunteer Infantry. and pay him a pension at the rote of per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Austin P. Hemphill, late of Comp:my G, Eighty-first . ThE> name of Charles J. Schoonmaker, late of the Unite-d States Navy, Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 pe1· month in lieu of that he rnte of $50 per month in lieu of that he is now rece-iving. is now receiving. The name of John Fink, lai:e of United States Navy and pay him a The name of Arcllie Morgan, late of Company F, Twelfth Regiment pension at the rate of $40 per month In lieu of that be Is now receiving. West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Jolln Wesley Melton, late of Company H, Eighth Regi of 30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. ment Kentuck-y Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Frank Statrord, late of Company B, Sixteenth Regi of 40 per month in lien of that be is now receiving. ment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Lewis W. Crane, late of the band, Fortieth R~)rtment $50 per month in lieu of that he ts now receiving. Oblo Volunteer Infar.try, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per The name of William Amspack.er, late o.f Company B, SeventePnth month in lieu of that he is now receiving.. Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pemtion at the rate The name of Emma 0. Lewls, former widow of Abram Barden late of 40 pe-r month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of Company A. Fifty-second Rtgiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry' and The name of WUilam T. O'Bannon, late of Company A, One hundred Company G, Fifteenth Regiment Illinois V.olu:1teer Cavalry, and pay ana thirty-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen her a pension at the rate of 25 per month. . sion at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that be is now rP<' iving. The name of J"esse A. Sisk. late of Compaz:·· lf, Seventh Regiment · The name of Matthias Keller, late of Company B. One hundrt>d und Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and pa.y him a pension at the rate of &6 per sixty-third Regiment Oh10 Vo!unteer Infantry, and pay bim a pension month in lieu of that he is now receiving. at the rate of $30 per month in lie-u of tbat be is now rf eiving. The name of. Willlam M. Darnel, Jatn of Company A, Fm.i:y-ninth The name of Alexander Yates, late of Company A, Thirty-ninth Regi RegimE>nt Missouri Volunteer Infanh·y, and pay him a pension at the ment Kentucky VoluntPer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate rate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. 1918. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 7131 The name of Sarah Keys, widow of William T. Keys, late of Com The name of William H. Ross, late of Company D, Eighth R egiment pany I, Seventy-second Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of her a pension at the rate of $25 per month. $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Archibal IJ. R. 11779. Edward D. Millis. H. R. 11902. Jesse Stewart. The bill S. 3799 was read fo1· amendment as follows: n. n.11781. Alfred Luken . . H. R. 11904. Gustave Bentz. An act (S. 3799) granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain H. R. 11783. Elliott H. Peck. H. R. 11905. Larkin Kennedy. soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and de ] I. R. 11793. Joseph Forbes. H. R. 11917. Allen Morris. H. R. 11918. Dallas Poston. pendent relatives cf such soldiers and sailors. ·· II. R. 11795. Charl«?s J. Schoon- Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and be 1 maker. H. R. 11926. Joseph Elble. hereby, authorized and directed to place on the .Pension roll, subject to H. R. 11797. Archie Morgan. H. R. 11937. Duil:y Duquette. H. R. 11944. Jobn H. Crabb. the provisions and limitations of the pension laws- H. R. 1180 . Frank Statrord. The name of M~lvina Coqulllard, widow of James Coqoillard late H. R. 11811. William A.mspacker. H. R. 11972. Mary A. Abbott. captain Company E Seventh Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, H. R. 11812. William T. O' Bannon. H. R. 11979. Emanuel Rowley. and pay ber a. pens1on1 at the rate of $25 per month, tbe same to be H. R. 11813. Matthias Keller. H. R. 11991. John H. Wilson. paid her without deduction or rebate on account of former alleged over H. R.l1815. Alexandet· Yates. H. R. 11992. George W. Reed. payments or erroneous payments of pension. II. R. 11823. Sarah K eye . H. R. 12006. Lydia E. Johnson. The name of Henry Wenzel, late of Company K, One hundred and H. R. 11845. Archibald M. Vaughn, H. R. 12023. Paul Webster. forty-eighth Regiment Penn ylvania Volunteer Iil1antry a.nd pay him a. alias William Burch. H. R. 12027. Edward· Hostutler. pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he fs now receiving. H. R. 11846. William Kildow. H. R. 12065. William H. Roden- 1.'he name of Samuel S. Wilson, late of Company C, Twelfth Regiment H:R. 11852. John H. Beatty. beck. Pennsylvania. Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate ot H. R. 11859. Bertha Hansmann. H. R. 12073. Mathew Gullett. $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. II. R. 11864. Alfred Blake. H. R. 12094. Paul A. Lynch. The name of Samuel H. Brooks, late of Company I First Regiment ll. R. 11879. Iargaret L. Cisney. H. R. 12104. Ellen Froman. Maryland Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 H. IL 11885. William D. Jones. H. R. 12120. James .A. Jones. p er month in lieu of that be is now receiving. H. R. 118 8. Joshua Woodworth. H. R. 12129. Daniel Parker. Tbe name of George W. Bass, late of Company E, Fiftieth Regiment H. R. 11889. Archibald P. Cooper, H. R. 12164. John F. Porter. Missouri Volunteer Infantry, anll pay him n pension at the rate of 27 sr. H. R. 12168. John P. Simer. per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. H. R. 11891. William E. Blanchard. H. R. 12195. William H. Ross. The name of Charles E. Wilcox, late of Company A, Thirty-third Regi H. R. 11892. Martha R. Benner. H. R. 12208. Henry G. Gardner. men.t Illinois .Volunteer Infantry, and captain Company B, Ninety-seoond H. R. 11900. Thomas Thacker. Regrrnent Urnted States Colored Volunteer Infantry, and pay bim a pen Mr. RUSSELL: Mr. Speaker, I offer the following committee sion at the rate of 50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Adam Eckert. late cf Company H, Third Regiment Minne amendment. sota Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per The SPEAKER. The Clerk ''"ill report the amendment. month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Albert Boon, late of Company A, Seventh Regiment Illi The Clerk read as follows: nois Volunteer Ca-valry, and puy him a pension at the rate of $36 per Insert at the enrl of the bill the following: month in lieu of that he ls now receiving. "The name of Elizabeth Wise, former widow of John Dodson, late of The name of AlbE:rt S. Greene, late of Company A, Seventeenth Regi Company I, Ei.,.hty-eighth Regiment Illinois Infantry, and pay her a. pen ment Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate l:lion at the rate of 25 a month." of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The SPEAiillR. The question is on agreeing to the commit The name of John Burns, late of U. S. S. Potomac and Horace Beals United States Navy, and pay him a. pension at the rate of 30 per month tee amendment. in lleu of that he is now receiving. The amendment was agreed to. 1.'he·name of Robut Liddell, late of Company B, Eighth Regiment Con I necticut Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a. pension at the rate of $36 . 1\Ir. RUSSELL. 1\Ir. Speaker, offer the following amend- per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. ment. The name of Amos D1ckin on, late of Company K, Eleventh Regiment The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report it. Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate ef 36 per month in lieu o.l' that he is now receiving. The Clerk read as follows : Tbe name of Henry A. Dayton, late of Company E, Nineteenth Regi AmPndment by Mr. AsHllROOK: Insert as a separate paragraph the ment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. and pay him a pension at the following: rate of . 40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ·• The name of Elizabeth S. Reed, widow of Caleb R. Reed, late acting The name of Theodore C. Bates, late of Company F, Second Battalion assistant or contract surgeon, Dnited States Army, and pay her a pen Fourteenth Regiment United States Infantry, a.nd pay bim a pension at sion at the rate of 25 per month, in lieu of that she is now receiving." t.be rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John W. Marks, late of Company B Ninth Regiment West Tho SPEAKER.' The question is on agreeing to the amend Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pens10n a.t the rate of $30 ment. per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of Alexander Reed, late of Company A, Seventeenth Regi The amendment was agreed to. ment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The SPEAKER. The question is on the engrossment and rate of 40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. tbir The name or Loreta Blevins, widow of Dillion Blevins, late of Co:m The name of Thomas M. Johnson, late of Company A, Twelfth Regi pany F. Thirteenth Re:.Pment Tennes ee Volunteer Cavalry, and pay ment Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the her a pen ·ion at the rate of $37 per month in lleu of that she is now rate of $3U per month 1n lieu of that he is now receiving. receiving: Prot'ided, Tbat in the event of the death of Robert 'I. C. The name of James S. Gray, late oi Company B, Two hundred and rnevins, helpless and depenclent chilli of said Dillion Blevlns, the addi sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen tional pension lte.rein granted hall cease and determine : .And provided sion at th'e rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now recPiving. f~trther, That 1n the event of the death of Loreta Blevins the name cf The name of Isaac Wharton, late of Company H Third Regiment the said Robert T. C. Blevins hall be placed on the pension roll, sut West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, and pay biro a pension at the rate of ject to the provisions antl limitations of the pension laws, at the rate $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of 12 per month from and after the date of the death of the said The name of Increase E. Watson, late of Company K, Twenty-fourth JA>-retn Ble\rjns. Regiment Maine V&lunteer Infantry, and pay biro a pension at the rate The name of ITannah McAdams, widow of Patrick :\lc.Adams, ]ate of $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. . crgeant major, Seronll Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and The name of Mark Whitney. late musician, band, Thirteenth Regi pay bel' a pension at tb~ rate of $12 P£r month. ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Ferdinand Fetter, late of Company I, Eleventh Regiment of $40 per month in lieu o1 that he is now receiving. Illinois Voluntee1· Infantry, and p9.y rum a pension at the rate of $3G The name of John W. Stokes, late of Company F, One hundred ancl per month tn lien of that he is now receiving. thil"ty-fourth Regiment Ohio National Guard Infantry, and pay him a The name of John W. Iloyt, late of U. S. S. Silver Lake and Rea pension at the rate oi $38 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Ro1/er, nitcd States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 The name of !\Ielville N. Freeman, late of Company D, Thiru Regi per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and Company D, Ninth Regiment Vet The name of John B. Donaldson, late of Third Independent Battery eran Reserve Corps, and pay him a. pension at the rate of $40 pe:r Iowa Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay biro ·a pension at the rate oi month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $30 per month 1n lieu of that be is now receivin"'. The name of George C. Bonney, late of Company K, Twelfth Regi The name of John E. Clark, late of Company C, First Regiment .A.la ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, ancl pay him a pension at the rate b:una and Tennessee Independent Vidette cavalry, and pay hlm a pen or $36 per montb in lieu of that he is now rece-iving. sion at the 'rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Algen S. Leach, late of Company B, Tenth Reg:iment Ken The name of William H. Patterson, late first lieutenant Company I, tucky Volunteer Cavalry, and Company G, Fifty-third Regiment Ken Thirty-eighth Regim nt Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen tucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay biro a pension at the rate of $30 per sion at the rate of $40 per month in lien of that he is now recPiving. month in lieu of that he is now receiving-. . The name of Clifrorcl A. l.Rwis, late of Company E, Fourth Regiment The name of William W. Findley, late of Company D, Fifteenth Ohio Volunte<>r Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of 30 R~giment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and pay rum a pension at the rate per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Joltn Curies, late of Company G, ~ ·inth Regiment Ohio The jllame of Georgiunna Thomas. widow of Jacob Thomas, alias Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month Jacob Dontha, late of Company F, Eighth Regiment United States in lieu of that he is now receiving. Colored Volunteer cavalry, ancl pay her a pension at the rate of $25 'l'he name of George Wells, late of Compan;v E, Sixty-first Regim nt per month in Hen of that she is now receiving. Massachusetts Volnntee1· Infantry, and pay hiiD u pension at the rate The name of Thomas J. Ga.trord, late of Company K, Seventeenth of $30 per month in li~u of that he is now receiving. Regiment Oruo Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Derrick Huck, late of Company A, Seconll Rc~ment of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. MassachusE-tts Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the The name of Sarah J. Brilea, former widow of Noah W. Briles, 1ate rate of $36 per month in lieu of that h~ is now receiving. of Company I, First Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and pay her The name of Seth Bailey, late of Company K, One hundred anll forty a pension at the rate of $25 per month. eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of John A. Wise. late of Company B, Forty-fourth Regi~ rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Iowa Volnnteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of The name of Abbie L. Lockwood, widow. of IIorace H. LocJrn-ood, late 40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . of Company D, Se<'ond Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and The name of Rosa Flake, widow of Levi Flake, late of Company A, First Independent Company Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and pay her a pen Tenth Regiment Minne ota Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a · pension sion at the rate of $20 per month. at the rate of $25 per month. The name of Irvin M. Hill, late of Company D, Seventh Regiment The name of John M. Holmes, late of Company F, First Regiment Minnesota Voluntee.r Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $40 Wisconsin Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate per month in lieu of that he is now recciving. of 30 per month in lieu of that he is now receivin~. The name of John W. Mc.Yillen, late of Company B, Mci,augblin's The name of John E. Roger , late of Company D. Tenth Regiment, squadron, Ohi"D Volunteer Cavalry, and Company C, Fifth Regiment Ohio a.D.d Company G, Thirty-second Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Volunteer Caval.I·y, and pay him a pension at the mte of $3" per month and pay hJm a pension at the rate of $50 per month in lieu of that he in lieu of that he is now receiving. is now 1·eceiviilg. The name of Bradford G. Ostrander, late of Company C, li'iflh Regi The name of Wllliam S. Reed, late of Company C, Twelfth Regiment ment New York Volunteer Heavy Artlller~, and pay him a pension at Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of the rate of $3G per month in lieu of that nc is now receiving. $3G per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of William A. Reeves, late of Company A, Ninth Re~iment The name of Augustus A. Clawson, late of Company A, Third Regi Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of SoO per ment Oruo Volunteer Cavalry, aq_d pay him a pension at the rate of month in Ueu of that he is now receiving. · $30 per month in lieu of that lte lS now re eiving. The name of Fred Eneker, late of Company C, Fort.y-seventh Regi The name of We ley B. Reed. late of Company .A, Trurty-ninth Regi ment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay hlm a penS1on at the rate ment Mls ouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now rece1ving. of $50 pe1· month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Wlll1am Booth, late second lieutenant Company C, Second 'rbe name of Homer E. Benton, late of Company B, Thirty-eighth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $30 per month in lieu of tltat he is now receiving. The name of George Campbell, late of Company D, First Battalion, The name oi' Nathan H. Ellis, late of Company D, Twenty-third Seventeenth Regiment United States Infantry, and pay him a pension Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay ltim a pension at the at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of William W. Daniels, late of Company C, Sixth Regiment The name of Walter E. Elli , helple s and dE>PendE>nt son of Walter B. Michigan Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 Ellis. late of Company 11, Ninth Regiment New llampshire Volunteer per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Infantry, an{l pay him a pension at the rate of $12 per month. The name oi William Behre. late musician, band, general service, The name or George Engleman, late of Company E, Forty-fifth Regi United States Army, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 per ment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate · month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $24 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Charles F. Runyan, late of Company I, Thirty-ninth ThP. name of Thomas V. Malone, late of Company I, Thirty-ninth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay Wm a pension at the rate Regiment Missoul'i Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the of ~30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $27 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of John H. Denny, late of Company G, Twenty-first Regi The name of George W. Flagg, late of Company F, 'econd Rt.'giment ment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of Vermont Volunteer Infantry, anll pay him a pen ion at the rate o.f $50 ·$30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now rece,ving. The name of Benjamin F. Sage, late of Company D, Twentieth Regi The namf.' of Albert II. Wood, late of Company D, Twenty-fourth ment Connecticut Velu.nteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Watkin H. Jones, late of Company E, Eleventh Regi The name of Thomas McCarty, late of Company L, Se-venteenth Regi ment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate ment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $36 per month in lien of that he is now receiving. The name of James Cummins, late of Company E, Eighty-fifth Regi 'l'be name of Henry J. Edge, alias Jason Edge, late of U. S. S. Benton, ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate Unitt>fl States avy, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per ol. $50 per mont~ in lien of that he is now receiving. month in lien of that he is now receiving. The name of George G. La.ughead, late of U. S. S. Ouachita,. United The name of Andrew West, late of Company K, Eleventh Regiment, States Navy. and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in and Company D, Tenth Regiment, West Virgln.ia Volunteer Infantry, lieu of that he is now receiving. and pay him a pen ion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that The name of Scott Thompson, late of U. S. S. General Lyon and he is now receiving. . Great Western, United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate The name of Geol'ge D. Abraham, J[ t of Company J, Sixty-fifth Regi of 36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, antl pay him a pension at the rate The name of Samuel C. Howe, late of Com}1any A, Ninth Regiment of 36 per month in lieu of that h<> is now receiving. Maine Volunteer In:fantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 The name of Uriah G. William, , late of Company A, ene hnntlreu ::mll per month in Ueu of that be is now receiving. ninety-fifth Re~iment Ohlo Volunte The uame of Harry M. Sherman, late of Company G, Twelfth Regi- former widow of 1\Iarvln Norris, late of Company F, One hundred and ment United States Infantry, and pny him a pension at the rate of $~0 fifty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. · pension at the rate of $20 per month. . The name of Henry Thomas, late of Company E, Thirty-sixth Regi- The name of George W. Thompson, late of Company G, Eighteenth ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him u pension at the rate of Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the $40 pet· montb. in lieu -of that be is now receiving. · rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . The name of William J. Seals, Jute of Company D, Second Regiment The name of Milton N. Campbell, late of Company L, Ninth Regiment East Tenne see Volunteer Infanh·y, aud Company B, Fourteenth Regi- Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $3G per ment Kentucky Yolunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate month in lieu of that he is now receiving. of $40 p t> r month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Isaac N. Stotts, late of Company I, One hundred and 'Ihe name of Alexander D. Smalley, late of Battery F, First Regi- ninety-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension menl Maine Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him a pension at the at the rate of 3G per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of ~0 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. The name of William II. Woodward, late of Company D, Flfty-slxth The na me of Emery 0. Pendleton, late of Company I, Fifteenth Regi- Regim~nt Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the ment Maine Yolunteet· Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of rate of $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. -~30 per month in lieu of that he is now receivin~. The name of Richard B. Daniels, late of Company K, Eleventh Regi- The na me of Esburn Nutt, late of Company H, Thirtieth Regim~.nt. ment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, ana pay him n pension at the _Laine Yolunteer Infantry, nnu pay him a pension at the rate of $30 rate of $1W per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now r eceiving. The name of Thomas Day, late of Company D, First RP.giment Maine The name of Freeman D. Myrick, · late of Company C. Thirteenth "Volunteer Ca>alry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $40 per month Regiment, and Company K, Thirtieth Regiment, Malne Volunteer In- in lieu of that he is now receiving-. fantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of The name of Jared Wheeler, late of Company A, Eighth Regiment Con· that he is now receiving. necticut Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen ..Jon at the rate of $;;0 The name of Moses F. Huru late of Company H, Eleventh Regiment per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Maine Voluntet>r Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $4.0 The name of George B. Gilbert, late of Company C, Twenty-second per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Regiment Maine Volunteer Infa.ntry1 and pa.y him a pension at the t·atc The name of Willin.m E. Hayden, late of t:ompany E, First Regiment of $30 per month in lieu of that be IS now receiving. Ohio \olunteer Cavalry. and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per The name of John II. Annas, late of Company F, Sixth Regiment month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $3G The name of Samuel McClure, late of Company B, Twelfth Regiment per month in lieH of that he is now receiving. · Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him i:t pension at the rate of The name of Delos Nee_r, late of Company K, One hundred and thirty· $40 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. third Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension The name of Henry McClure, late of Company G, Thirteenth Regiment at the rate of ~30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Kentucky Yolunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of ~36 The name of George Murray, late of Company F, 'l'we!ftb Regiment per mouth in lieu of that be is now receiving. Pennsylvania Re crves Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at The name of Michael 0. Sullivan, late of Company II, Sixteenth the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. RegimPnt Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Daniel H. Pettengill, late o! Company C, Seventh Real- rate of $GO per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. mcnt New llamp hire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the The name of Patrick Walton, late of Company A, Sb:teenth Regl- rate of $:>0 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. mcnt. and Company D, Th1rteenth Regiment, Kenh1ch--y "Volunteer In- The name of Josiah C. Tandy, late of Company H, 11'ourth Regiment fantry. and pay him a: pension at the rate .ot $36 per month in lieu or New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate that be is now receiving. of $40 per month in Jieu of that :ae is now recehing. ThP name of Francis Mathews, late of U. S. S. Miclligan, Jolm Adams, The name of Addiso.n S. Martin, late of Company B, Second Regiment nnd t:; antee, United States Navy and pay him a pension at the rate of New Hamp hire Volunteer Infan~ry, and pay him a pension at the rate '30 per month in lieu of that he1 is now 1·eceiving. of $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Amariah K. Wheeler, late of Company E, Coast Guards, 'l'he name of James CburchUl, late of Company I, Twelfth Regiment )[aine \'olunteer Infantry, and pay btm a pension at the rate of 21 per Wisconsin Yolunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of montb in Ueu of that be is now receiving. $30 per month in lieu of that he 1s now receiving. Th f Th J H • t f c G '1' 0 t thir 1 The name of Thomas Percival, late of Company K. First Re... iment Ti e gin~ e~~mdhfo Vol~~~!er 'rn~1~~:e~~ ~a~ h~m~a~~nsion ~f uf~ ra~~ Callfornia Yolunteer Cavalry. aud pay him a pension at the rate "or $30 of '40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. pet· month ln lieu of that he is now receiving. 'l'he ua me of George 0. Pearl, late of Company II, Eighteenth Re!ti- The name of Joseph Martln, late of Compan.v K, First Regiment New ment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Hampshire Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of rat e of ."40 per montb. in lieu of that he is now rcceh·ing. $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . Tbe name of Ina L. Murdock, helpless and dependent child of George The name of Angu.S C. Burns, late of Company F, First Regiment w. Murdock. late of Company G, Fifteenth Rel!:iment Ohio Volunteer United States Volunteer Sharpshooters, and pay hJm a pen ion at the InfantlT, and pay her n pension at the rate of $12 per month. rate of 36 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. The name of Daniel W. Shawhan, late of Company D, Thirteenth The name of Corneliu McGoff, late of Company D. 'l'hird Re~im nt Tiel!iment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate "Vermont Volunteer Infantry, anu pay him a pension at the rate of !!:3G of $3G per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving ~ h f H T Snyder late of Company D F th R · t The name of Nathaniel Wilt, lat<: of Company n, Third Regiment T c name 0 enry · • . • our cg~men Potomac Home Briga Tbe name of John H. Bird, late of Company A, First Regiment Arkan S. 672. George W. Grigg. S. 2569. William E. Hayden. sas Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $a0 per S. 683. William L. V. Kite. S. ~577. Samuel McClure. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 688. Daniel B. ~!ills. S. 2578. Henry McClure. The name of William White. latE:' of Company G, Second Regiment S. 690. William O'Callagban. S. 2585. Michael 0. Sullivan. Arkansas Volunteei Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 S. 703. John Wones. S. 261~. Patrick Walton. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 767. FI'ederick S. Webber. S. 2621. Francis Mathews. The name of Joseph P. C'tRe, late of Company E, One hundred- and S. 880. Jerome ::\IcWethy. S. 2630. Amariah K. Wheeler. fifty-six:th R giment Indiana Volunteel' Infantry, and pay him a pen ~· 1012. Mary L. King. H. 2636. Thomas J. lla.rgrave. sion at the rate of $27 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. . 1179. James Campbell. S. 2647. George 0. Pearl. The name of Wa hington RichQ.rllson, late of Company K. One hun S. 1235. Bdwanl Patrick. S. 2664. Ina L. Murdock. drw nnd ninth Regiment, and Company F, Elerenth Regiment. illi S. 1237. William H. Wyckoff, S. 2680. Daniel W. Shawhan. nois Volunteer Infantry; and pay him a pension at the rate of $::i0 per S. 1280. IIugh S. Ryan. S. 2689. Henry T. Snyder. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 1356. Harvey Johnson. ~. 2707. George H. Fo~. The name of Edwin S. Metcalf, late of Company B, Seventh Regi S. 1375. Myron Gillmore. S. 2723. John OpenchalD. ment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate S. 1391. l\Iarion A. Babcock. S. 27 40. Seward Newtson. of 40 per mouth in lieu of that he is now r~ceivlng. S. 1404. Benjamin F. Brock. S. 2743. Isaiah P. Watts. The name of Daniel 'Va~scoy, late of Company E, Third Regiment S. 1439. Lorcta Blevins. S. 2752. Edward Sams. We. t Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of S. 1467. Uannah McAdams. S. 2815. Thomas G. Davison. $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 1470. Ferdinand Fetter. •.•. 2828. Nancy Ilacl~leman: The name of Luther L. Rewalt, late a sistant surgeon, Twenty-first S. 1488. John W. lloyt. S. 28~~. John L. Rushton. RE:'giment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cayalry, and pay him a pension at S. 1491. John B. Donaldson. K 2842. Charles W. WormelL the rate of $30 per month -in lieu of that he i.<~ now receiving. S. 1500. John E. Clark. S. 2847. Sylvanus Smith. The name of Margar t Dick, former widow of Andrew Snyder, late S. 1508. William H. Patterson. S. 2855. George W. Hall. of Company D, Eleventh Regiment Wiscousin Volunteer Infantry, and S. 1518. Clifford A. Le'W'is. S. 290-!. George W. Gilbert. willow of James Dicks, late of Company F, Forty-first Regiment Wis S. 1614. Georgianna Thomas. 2909. Mcllenry Smith. consin Volunteer Infantry, anll pay her a pension at the rate of $25 S. 1615. Thomas J. Gafford. S. 2915. John Acton. per month. S. 1664. Sarah J. Briles. S. 2927. Adrian J. Ilayward. The name of Benjamin F . Morse, late of Company E, Eighth Regi S. 1826. John A. Wise. . 2930. Emma A. Hoskins. ment Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and pny him a pension at the rate S. 1831. Ro~a Flake. S. 2940. George W. Thompson. of uO per month in lieu of t bat he is now rec:eivinl!'. S. 1833. John M. Holmes. .'. 2942. 1\lilton N. Campbell. The llilme of JamEs M. Widener, alias James W. Foster, late of Com S. 1834. J olln E. Rogers. S. 2944. Isaac N. Stotts. pany I, First R~giment Illinois Volunteer Light Artillery, and pay him S. 1837. William R Heed. S. 2949. William H. Woellward. a p l'nsion at the rate of $36 per month in lieu of that he is now S. 1.851. Augusto.<~ A. Clawson. S. 2952. Richard B. Daniels. r ceiYing. . S. 1858. Wesley B. Reed. t:;. 295.~. Thomas Day. '.rhe name of William H. Isenberg, late of Comp:111y I, One hundred S. 1860. Homer E. Benton. S. 2961. Jared Wheeler. :lDd eleventh Regim~nt Tilinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen S. 1883. Nathan II. Ellis. S. 2963. George B. ·Gilbert. sion at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 1899. Walter E. Ellis. S. 2966. John H. Annas. The name of Thomas K. Hastings, late first lieutenant Company H, S. 1950. George Engleman. S. 2976. Delos Neer. Oue hundred and fifth Regiment Pl'nnsylvania Volunteer Infantryt n.nd S. 19!.12. Thomas V. Malone. S. 2!189. George Murray. pay him a pension at the rate of $40 per month in lieu of that ne is S. 2025. George W. Flagg. S. 2990. Daniel IT. Pettengill. now receiving. S. 2042. Albert II. Wood. H. 2991. Josiah C. Tandy. Th name of William W. Thurston, late of Company I, Sixtieth Regi S. 2048. Thomas McCarty. S. 2992. Addison S. 1\Iartin. ment Tilinols Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of S. 2050. Henry J. Edge, alias S. 3005. James Churchill. $-10 per month in lieu of that he is now recl'lving. Jason Edge. S. 3012. Thomas Percival. The name of William W. Gordon, late of Company II, Nineteenth S. 2062. Andrew West. S. 3013. Joseph Martin. Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the S. 2067. OCQrge D. Abraham. R. 3016. Angus C. Burns. ra1e of $4.J per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. S. 2074. Uriah G. Williams. S. 3017. Cornelius McGoff. The name of John Dewir~ late of Company B, First Battalion, Ne S. 2077. John C. Emery. S. 3020. Nathaniel Wilt. braska Veteran Volunteer ~..:avalry, and Company G, First Regiment S. 2078. William H. 'Iripp. S. 3023. Joseph Smith. Nebraska VoluntePr Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 S. 2085. A1onzo Pendtand. S. 3084. Theodo.re M. Burge. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 2087. Thomas l\I. Johnson. • . 3092. Carrie 1\I. Smart. The name of James M. Millirons, late of Company D, Eighteenth S. 2092. James S. Gray. S. 3C93. Hiram B. Newlon. Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay hnn a pension at the S. 2096. Isaac Wharton. S. 3094. John F. Brainard. rate of $50 pE:r month in lieu of that he is now receiving. ' S. 2102. Increase E. Watson. S. 309-5. Isaac D. Rowden. . The name of Geo1ge L. Danforth, late of Company C, Eighth Regi S. 2127. Mark Whitney. S. 3099. Edwin E. Baker. ment Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate ' S. 2135. John W. Stokes. S. 3100. Enos S. · Whitcomb. of $40 per month in lien of that he is now receiving. S. 2143. Melville N. Freeman. S . 3102. Chester R. Smith. The name of Cbe~ter S. Pease, late of Cempany H, Ninth Regiment S. 2148. George C. Bonney. R. 3118. Horatio P. mith. Maine Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $36 S. 2150. Algen S. Leach. S. 3134. Franklin Venable. per month in Hs:.u of that he is now receiving. S. 2153. William W. Findley. S. 3135. William 11. Capshaw. The name of John D. Swift, late of Company B, Sixth Regiment Ken S. 2187. John Curies. S. 3136. Jan1e ll. Fontaine. tucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $40 per S 2198 George Wells. S. 3137. Thomas Fulkerson. month in Hen of that he is now receiving. s: 2199: Derrick Iluck. S. 3156. Michael H. Skinner. Th"C name of Theodore Routh. late of Company E, One hundred allJ S. 2227. Seth Bailey. S. 3166. William J. Smith. forty-fourth Regiment Indl ma Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pen S. 2231. Abbie L. Lockwood. S. 3167. John H. llird. sion at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that hE:' is now receivin~. The name of Elisha D. Turner, late o( Company D, Twenty-nftb S. 2244. Irvin M. Hill. S. 3168. William White. Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the S. 2248. John W. McMillen. S. 3169. Joseph P. Case. S. 2249. Bradford G. Ostrander. S. 3170. Washin~ton llicbardson1 rate of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 2284. William A. Reeves. S. 3179. Edwin S. Metcalf. The name of Arnohl Bauer, late of Company B, Fifty-eighth Regi S. 2285. Fred En ka·. S. 3199. Daniel Vanscoy. ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of S. 2286. William Booth. S. 3238. J,uther L. Rewalt. $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. S. 2292. George Campbell. S. 3250. Margaret Dicks. The name of 8:vlvesteL· Oatman, late ot Company D, On~ hundred and twenty-sixth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a S. 23()4. William W. Daniels. S .. 3318. Benjamin F. Morse. p{'nsion at the rate Gf $40 per month in iieu of ,that he is now receiving. S. 2306. William Bebre. S. 334!.J. James M .. W.irtencr, alia~ The name of Imogen P. Ingersoll.·widow of ~..:harles T. Ingersoll, late R. 2307. Charles F. Runyan. James W. Foster, actin"' n.ssistant surgeon, United States Volunteer Infantry. and pay R. 2337.• John II. Denny. S. 33u0. Williain II. Isenberg. her a pension at the rate of $2::i per month in lieu of that she is now S. 2365. Benjamin F. Sage. S. 3351. Thomas K. Hastings. rec-eiving. . S. 2369. Watkin H. Jones. S. 3361. William W. Thurston. The name of Wilford IIE:'rrick, late unassi-gned, Third Regiment Wis S. 2385. James Cnmmim. S. 3398. William W. Gordon. consin Volunteer Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 S. 2392. George G. Laugbead. S. 3407. John Dewire. per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 2419. Scott Thompson. S. 3421. James M. Millirons. The name of Henry Newell, late of U. S. S. Ohio, Ossipee, and Pt·ince S. 2428. Samuel C. Howe. S. 3447. George L. Danforth. ton, United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of $40 per S. 2446. David l. Hain. S. 3463. Chester S. Pease.. month in lieu of that he is now receiving. S. 2466. Lafayette Fasnaugh. S. 3499. John D. Swift. The name of George Crawford, late of the U. S. S. Pdncetou and S. 2498. John V. Reed. S. 3501. Theodore Routh. Cornubia, United States Navy, and pay him a pension at the rate of S. 2502. James M. Shuey. S. 3502. Elisha D. Turner. $30 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. S. 2505. Harry M. Sherman, S. 3503. Arnold B.auer. The name of Lulu M. Joseph, widow of Mark Joseph, late of Com S. 2508. Henry Thomas. S. 3507. Sylvester Oatman. pany K , Seventh Regiment Indiana Volunt~ Infalltry, and second S. 2519. William J. SeJJh S 3565 Imogen P Ingersoll lieutenant Company L, Fir t Regiment ln rag-e 3::l, lines 22 to 2u, inclusivl!, strike out the following: The CHAIRl\IAN. The gentleman from Ohio asks unanimous "The name of George .L. Danforth, late of Company e, Eighth Regi con ent that· the first rending of the bill be dispensed with. Is ment Ycrmont Volunteer Infantr~·. and pay him a pension at the mte of $40 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving." there objection? · The SPEAKER The question is on the third readin~ of the l\Ir. MOORE of Pennsylmnia. Reserving the right to object, Senate bill. Mr. Chairman, this uill comes at n time when the House is The bill was ordered to ue read a third time, was read a crowded and when there may not be fair consideration given to third time, and passed. . amendments that may be offered. I understand other amend Qn motion of 1\lr. RussELL, n motion to reconsider the ¥ote ments will _be offered. I want to know if the gentleman from by whlch the bill was passed was laid an the table. 1\Ir. MOORE of Pennsylvania. It is. proper at this point in severe and protracted. You have passed a long series of meas-" the proceedin~ to offer an amendment to the bill? ures which required the .debate of many .doubtful questions of The CHAIRMAN. The bill is not being read for amenument, judgment and many exceedingly .difficult questions of principle and therefore it is not in order to offer amendments at this as well as of practice. The summer is upon us in which labour time. The Clerk will read. anu counsel are twice arduous and are constantly apt to be im The Clerk read as follows: paired by lassitude and fatigue. The ele<:tions are at hand and The name of Edith L. Morgan, willow of Altie M. Morgan, late of we ought as soon as possible to go and render an intimate ac Company G, Twenty-second Regiment United States Infantry., War with count of our trusteeship to the people who delegated us to act Spain. a nd-pay her a pension at the rate of $25 per month, and $2 per month additional on account of each of the two minor children ef the for them in the weighty and anxious matters that crowd upon said Altic M. Morgan until they reach the age of lG years.· us in these days of critical choice and action. But we· dare not Mr. l\100RE of Pennsylvania. 1\Ir. Chairman, I make the point go to the elections until we have done our duty to the full. of order that there is no quorum present. These are days when duty stands stark and naked and even l\lr. 'V ALSH. We are in the committee now, with closed eyes we know it is there. Excuses are unavailing. The CHAIRMAN. Evidently there is a quorum present. The We have either done our duty or we have not. The fact will be Clerk wiU read. as gross and plain as the duty itself. -In such a _case lassitude The Clerk read as follows : and fatigue seem negligible enough. The facts are tonic and 'l'be name of George C. Rimes. late of Company E, Thirty-fifth Regi suffice to freshen the labour. m ent United Stab's Volunteer Infantry, War with Spain, and pay him And the facts are these: Allditional revenues must manifestly a pen 1on at the rate of $24 pet· month in lieu of that he is ·now recei"dng. be provided for. It would be a most unsound policy to mise 1\Ir. MOORE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chairman, a parliamentary too large a proportion of ttem by loan, and it is evident that inquh'j·. the four billions now provided for by taxation will not of them The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will state it. selves sustain the greatly enlarged budget to which we must l\lr. 2\IOORE of Pennsylvania. The Clerk has been reading the immediately look forward . . We can not in fairness wait until bill iu a tone of voice that is not distinct in the House. It is the end of the fiscal year is at hand to apprise our people of not the fault of the Clerk, but it is due to the fact that the the taxes they must pay on their earnings of the present calen House is not in order. I desire to make the point of order that dar year, whose accountings and expenditm·es will then be the committee is not in order. closed. We can not get increased taxes "unless the country The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman desire to make a parlia 1...--nows what they are to be and practices the necessary economy mentary inquiry or to make a point of order? to make them nYailable. Definiteness, early definiteness, as to Mr. 1\IOORE of Pennsylvania. A point of order, since the what its tasks are to be is absolutely necessary for the success Chair has ruled on the question. I make the point of order that ful administration of the Treasury ; it can not frame fair and the House is not in order. workable regulations in haste; and it must frame its regula 1\Ir. h.~Y of Ohio. Mr. Chairman, I mo-re that the committee tions in haste if it is not to know its exact· task until the Yery do now rise. _eve of its performance. The present tax laws are marred, more · 'l'he motion was agreed to. oYer, by inequities which ought to be remedied. Indisputable · Accordingly the committee ro e; and the Speaker haying re facts, every one; and we can not alter or blink them. To state sumed the chair, Mr. JoHI\""SON of Kentucky, Chairman of the them is argument enough. Committee of the 'Vhole House, reported that that committee And yet perhaps you ·will permit me to dwell for a moment had llnd unCler consideration the blll .(H. R. 12211) granting pen upon the situation they disclose. Enormous loans freely spent sions and increnRe of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors in the stimulation of industry of almost every sort produce in of the Regular Army and Navy. and certain soldiers and sailors flations and extravagances which presently make the whole eco of wm·s other than the Civil War, and to widows of such sol nomic structure questionable and insecure and the Yery basis of . diers :md sailors, and had come to no resolution thereon. credit is cut away. Only fair, equitably distributed taxation, of RECESS. the widest incidence and drawing chiefly from the sources which Mr. KITCHIN. 1\fr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that would be likely to demoralize credit by their very abundance, the House stand in recess until 5 minutes to 1 o.'clock. can prevent inflation and keep our industrial system fr.ee of The SPEAKER. The gentleman from North Carolina asks speculation and "'aste. We shall natm·ally turn, therefore, I unanimous consent that the House stand in recess until 5 min suppose, to war profits and incomes and luxuries for the addi utes to 1 o'clock. Is there objection? tional taxes. [Applause.l But the war profits and incomes There was no objection. upon which the increased taxes will be levied will be the profits Accordingly (at 12 o'clock and 48 minutes p. m.) the House and incomes of the calendar year 1918. It would be manifestly stood in recess. unfair to wait until the early months of 1919 to say what they .At the expiration of the recess the House resumed its session arc to ·be. It might be difficult, I should imagine, to run the and was called to order by the Speaker. mill with water that had already gone o-ver the wheel. JOINT MEETING OF THE SENATE AND llO"t;SE. 1\loreover, taxes of that sort will not be paid until the .June of next year, and the Treasury must anticipate them. It must At 12 o'cl(lck mHl 56 minutes p. m. the Doorkeepe~·. J. J. Sin use the money they are to produce before it is due. It must nott, announced the Vice President of the United States and the sell short-time certificates of indebtedness. In the autumn !1 Members of the United States Senate. much larger sale of long-time bonds must be effected than has The Members of the House rose. yet been attempted. What are the bunkers to think of the cer The Senate, preceded by the Vice President, and by their tificates if they do not certainly know where the money is to Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, entered the Chamber. come from which is to take them up? And how are inYestors 'l'he Vice President took the chair at the right of the Speaker, to approach the purchase of bonds with any sort of confidence and the l\lembers of the Senate took the seats reserved for them. of knowledge of their own affairs if they do not know what The SPEAKER. On the part of the House the Speaker an taxes they are to pay and what economies and adjustments of nounces the following committee to conduct the President into their business they must effect? I can not assure the country the Chamber: 1\Iessrs. KITCHIN, SHERLEY, FLooD, WEBB, GIL- of a successful administration of the Treasury in 1918 if the LETT, C..\NNON, ·and MooRE of Pennsylvania. . question of further taxation is to be left undecided until 19W. The ·vrcE PRESIDENT. On the part of the Senate the The consideration that dominates every other now, and makes Vice President announces as a like committee Senators MARTIN, e-rery other seem h·ivial and negligible, is the winning of the SIMMONS, CHAMBERT..AlN, SAULSBURY, PENROSE, CoLT, and KEN war. [Applause.] We are _not only in the midst of the war, we YON. are at the very peak and crisis. of it~ Hundreds of thous:1nds of At 1 o'clock and 2 minutes p. m. the President of th~ United our men, carrying our hearts with them and our fortune~, nre in States, escorted by the committee of Senators and Representa the field, and ships are crowding faster and faster to the ports tives, entered the Hall of the House and stood at the Clerk's of France and England with rep:iment after regiment, thou~:1nt1 desk amid prolonged applause. after thousand, to join them until the enemy shall be beaten aml ; The SPEAKER. Gentlemen of the Sixty-fifth Congress, I brought to a reckoning with mankind. [Applause.] There can present the President of the United States. [Applause.] be no pause or intermission. The great enterprise must, on the contrary, be pushed with greater and greater energy. The ,-ol .ADDTIESS OF THE PRESIDENT (ll. DOC. NO. 1141). ume of our might must steadily and rapidly be augmentetl until Gentlemen of the Congress, it is with unaffected reluctance there can be no question ·,of resisting. it. If that is to be a ccom that I come to ask you to prolong your session long enough to plished, gentlemen, ~~ney must :sustaiil it to the utmost. Our provide .more ad~Juate resources for the Treasury for the con ·financial programwe must no more be left in doubt or suffered duct of the war. . I have: reason to· -appreciate as ·fully as.you do to lag than _om· ·ordii:it:Ice _ progra~me or our ship programme .oe how arduous "the- session hns been. Your labours have· been our niunltlons programme ·or our p1'ogramme for mnking mil- 7138 CON GR .ESSION 1~L· ft.ECO RD-IIOUSE. ]fAY 27, lions of men ready. These others· are ·not programnies, indeed, Thereupon the \ice Presiilent and the :Members of the Senate but mere plans upon paper, unless there is to be an unquestion- returned to their Chamber. .. able supply of money. . PENSIO~S. ' That is the situation, and it is the situation whiCh creates the 1\Ir. KEY of Ohio. l\Ir. Speaker, I moTe that the Hou e re duty, no choice -or p~eference of ours. There is only one way sol\e itself into Committee of the Whole House fot the considera to meet that duty. "W.e must meet it without selfishne s or fear tion of the bill H. R. 12211, the pension bill. of consequences. Politics is adjourned. The elections w.m go 1\Ir. SHERLEY. Will tlle gentleman "ithhold that for a to those who think least of it; to those who go to the constituen moment? It is my understanding that the gentleman intends to cies without explanations or excu es, with a plain record of duty fini h the bill by a quarter of 2 o'clock, and, f11iling in that, faithfully and disintere tedly performed. !• fo.r one,, am ahva.ys ,-nu not further press it to-day. confident that the people of this country Will gi\e a JUSt Teru1ct 1\Ir. KEY of Ohio. 1\Ir. Speaker, I -do not like to stand in the upon the service of the men who Jl.Ct for them when ~e fac!s way of the chairman of a big committee who has an important are such tl.lat no man can disguise or conceal them. There lS bill up, but at the same time 1\"e had a distinct agreement that no danger of deceit now. An intense and pitiless light beats we could proceed with pension bills after tlle oil bill was out upon every man and every action in this tragic plot of war that of the way. In view of the fact that the bill will n-ot take more is now upon the stage. If lobbyists hurry to Washington to than 10 minutes to finish, we ougl'lt to be able to get through attempt to tUl'n what you do in the matter of taxation to their before a quarter of 2 o'clock, but I do not want to be tied up. . protection or advantage, the light will beat also upon them. .Mr. SHERLEY. And I do not want to tie the House up, which There is abundant fuel for the light in the records of the is more important than tying the gentleman up. If the gentle Treasury With regard to profits of every sort. The profiteering man will agree to move that the committee rise at a quarter of 2 that can not be got at by the restraints of conscience and love if the bill is not finished, I shall not insist on a division. of country can be got at by taxation. [Applause.] There is Mr. MOORE of Penn..''~ylvania. l\Ir. Spe.ah.rer, I call the atten such profiteering now and the information with regard to it is tion of the Chair to the unanimous-consent agreement by which a\ailable and indisputable.. the pension bills haYc the right of "·ay. Saturday's RE OBD I am advising you to act upon this matter of taxation now, shows this colloquy : gentlemen, not because I do not know th~t you can see and ~nter Mr. STAFFORD. Mr. Spoaker, I desire also to submit an inquiry, and pret the facts and the duty they impose JUSt as well and With as that is whether the order which was entered by unanimou consent to clear a perception of the obligations involved as I can, but be consider pension bills would not make tho.se pensii>n bills in o1·der on Monday? cau e there is a certain solemn satisfaction in sharing with you The SPEAKER. The Chair is inclined to think that it would. the responsibilities of such a time. The world never stood. in Mr. COOPER i>f Wisconsin. It is my impression that there was unani ~uch case before. l\Ien ne\er before had so clear or so movmg mous-consent agreement in respect to taking up the pension bills. Mr. RussELL. There was a unanimous-consent a~ement to take a nsion of duty. I know that yon will begrudge the work to up the pension bills folloWing the disposition of the ou bill. · · be done here by us no more than the men begrude us theirs who The !:iPEAKER. The Clerk informs the Chair that the order was that lie in the trenches and sally forth to their death. There is a the pension bills were to follow the dispo. ition of the oil bill. Mr. RussELL. And if we adjourn now those bills will be in order on stimulating comradeship knitting us all together. And this task Monday. to which I invite your immediate consideration will be performed The Srl!l.1KER. They would. under favorable influences if we will look to what the country Mr. SHERLEY. Pension bills are in order, but t.he House is thinkin"' and expecting and care nothing at all for what is has a right to determine whether it wants to go into Committe. being sail' and believed in the lobbies of Washingb~n hotels, of the Whole on the pension bills. If the day is to be taken where the atmosphere seems to make it possible to belieYe what up with pension bills, I am going to give the House a chance is believed nowhere else. [Applause.] to determine whether it is more important to pass pension bills Have you not felt the spirit of the Nation rise and its thought than it is an important deficiency bill fo1· the pro ecution of become a single and common thought since these eyentful ~ays the war. came in which we have been sending our boys to the other Side? 1\fr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. I think the gentleman will I think you must read that thought, as I do, to mean this, that save time to let the· pension bills go through. the people of this country are not only uni~ .in the resolute - 1\!r. CAl"'rn'ON. Will the gentleman yield? . purpose to win this war but are ready and Willing to bear any l\1r. MOORE of Pennsyl\ania. If I have the right to yielcl. bUl'den and undergo any sacrifice that it may be necessary for 1\Ir. CANNON. This is a pri\ate pension bill. Has tl.le gen them to bear in order to win it [Applause.] We need not be tleman any reason to believe that there will not be ample time afraid to tax: them, if we lay taxes justly. They know that within 10 days or 2 weeks to pa s all these pension bills, and (loes the war must be paid for and that it is they who must pay for not he think it is mm·e important to consider the deficiency bill it, and if the burden is justly distributed and the sacrifice n:;tade a commo:a sacrifice from which none escnpes who can bear 1t at and the Army bill, in order that tlley may get to the enate., all they will carry it cheerfully and with a sort of solemn pride. with a view of bastenlng as early an adjournment as po ib~? ha\e always been proud to be an American, and was never 1\fr. l\100REJ of Pennsyh'ania. I do not think the pension bill i 15 20 more proud than now, when all that we have said and all that 'vill take more than or minutes. we have foTeseen about our wople is coming true. The b'l'eat Mr. KEA.TL.~G. 1\lr. Speaker, there is only one amendment to be offei~the amendment of the gentleman from Penn days ha\e come when the only thing that they ask for or admire sylvania-and I therefore ask unanimous consent that the bill is duty greatly and adequately done; when their only wish fo1· be considered in the House as in Committee of the Whole, with America is that she may share the freedom she enjoys; when a the understanding that at the end of the reading of the bill great, compelling sympathy wells up i;1 their hearts for men for amendment the gentleman from Pennsylvania be giYen 10 e\erywhere who suffer and are oppTessed; and when they see at last the high uses for which their wealth has been piled up minutes in which to explain his amendment and the gentJ.eman and theh· mighty po·we.r accumulated and, counting neither blood from Ohio [Mr. KEY] be given 5 minutes in which to reply. That nor treasure now that their final day of opportunity has come, will dispose of the whole matter. rejoice to spend and to be spent through a long night of suffer · The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Colorado asks unani mous consent that this bill be considered in the House as in in<>' and terror in order that they and men everywhere may see th~ dawn of a day of righteousness and justice and peace. Shall Committee of the Whole, that it shall be read through for we grow weary when they bid us act? [Applause.] amendment, and at the end of the reading the gentleman from May I add this word, gentlemen? Just as I was leaving the Pennsylvania 11\lr. MoonE] shall have the ri"ht to offer an White House I was told that the expected drive on the western amendment and ha\e 10 minutes in which to advocate and ex plain it, and at the end of his 10 minutes the gentleman from 1 front bad apparently begun. You can realize how that solemn Ohio [Mr. KEY] shall have 5 minutes, and that that shall be ized my feeling as I came to you, and how i.t seemed .to strengthen the purpose which I have tried to express m these lines. the end of it. I have admired the work of this session. The way in which Mr. WALSH. Does that compTehenu the disposition of the the nvo Houses of the Congress have cooperated with the Execu furtl1er reading of the bill? - · tive bas been generous and admirable., and it is not in any spirit :Mr. KEATING. And that the fir treading of the bill be dis of SU""""e.sting duty neglected, but only to remind you of the pensed with. The gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. SHERLEY] _ comm~~ cause and the common obligation that I have ventured suggests that we agree to end the entire proceeding by 2 o',lock. to come to you to-day. [Applause.] If we can get through by that time, I am willing that that should be put in. At 1 o'clock and 20 minutes p. m. the President retired from The SPEAKER. And the nu·ther condition that the whole the Hall of the House. tllinrr shall be ended by 2 o'clock. J~ there obje tion? At 1 o'clock nnd 21 minute p. m. the Speaker announced that lli. STAFFORD. I object to the last provision; we will t he joint session was dissolYed. probably get through anyway. 1918. CONGRESSIOX_._\_L RECORD-HOUSE. 7139 1\Ir. KEATING. Tl1en I "·ithdraw the latter part of the re- The name of llub<'rt W. Wilson. late captain. :Medical Cot·pF:, Second RegiruPnt Infa11try, Idaho National Guard. ~Iexican. bm;der defense. a~ -=- 7140 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. . }fAy 27, The name of Emma L. Green, dependent mother of Frank M. Green, The name of Belle R. Reid, dependent mother of Wayne R. Jacobs, alias Marshall F. Green, late of Company D, First Regiment outh la~e o! Company A, First RegU:nent Colorado Volunteer Infantry, War Carolina Volunteer Infantry, War with Spai.n, and pay her a pension w1th Spain, and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of that she is now receiving. of that she is now receiving. The nstme of Charles W. Kerlee, late of Troop I, First Regiment United The name of Jame Duff. late of Company I, First Regiment Florida States Cavalry, Regular Establishment, and pay him a pen ion at the Volunteer Infantry. War With Spain, a.nd pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. rate of $12 per month. Tlle name of Catherine Mahady, deP.endent mother of John J. ~ady, The name of :Mary S. Hollinshea.cl widow of Rueben P. Hollinshead late of Battery E, First Field Artillery Minnesota Nationnl GuardS, late of Company H, Fir t Regiment South Carolina Volunteer Infantry' Merlcan border clefen e, and pay her a pension at the rate of $12 per and Hospital Cot•p , United States Army, War with Spaitt, ancl pay month. her a pen ion at the rate of $25 per month. The name of James P. Dooley, helpless child of James Dooley, late The name of Alice A. Thorburn, dependent mother of Orin B. Thor of ompany B, Second Regiment Indiana Volunteer War with Mexico, burn, late of Company B, Thirty-fourth Regiment Michigan VOlunteer and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 per month. In!antry, War with S"pain, and pay her a pen ion at the rate of $20 '.rhc nflllle of Richard Groebe. late of Troop B. Sixth R giment United per month in lieu of that ill> is now receiving. States Cavalry, Jitegular Establishment, and pay him a pension at the The name of Charles Schiller, late of Troop B, First Rt>giment United rutP. of $12 per month in lieu of that be is now receiving. States Cavalry, Regular Establishment, and pay him a pension at the The name of Katie Clilrord, widow of Jerry Cliffonl, late of CQmpany rate of $17 per month in lieu bf that he is now receiving. II. Twenty-fir t Regiment United States Infantry, War with Spain, and The name of Gustav T. W. Schmidt, late of Battery F, Fifth United pay her a pension at the rate of $25 per month, and $2 per month addi States Artillery, War with pain1 and pa.y him a pension at th rate o! tional on account of. each of the six minor children of the said Jerry $12 per month in lieu of that be 1s now receivi.Bg. Cliflord until they reach the age of 16 years. The name of Lois E. Magee. widow of L on D. Magee late of Com The name of Charl H. Hearing, late of Company A, Third Regiment pany F, Forty-sixth Regiment United States Volunteer infantry War lllinoi Volunteer Infantry, War with Spain, and pay him a pension at with Spain, and pay her a pension at the rate of 25 per month, and the rate of $17 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. $2 per montJ;t add:itiqnal on account of the minor child, Leon D. "llagecp The name of Frances L. Young, dependent mother of Henry E. Young, jr., of the sa1d Leon D. M~ee, until he reaches the age of 16 y ars. late of Company K, Sixteenth Regiment United tates Infantry, War The name of Hugh McGnckain, late of Company I Fifth Regiment '"'ith 'pam, and pay her a pension at the rate of 20 per month in lieu ~ssachnsetts Volunteer Infantry, War with Spain, and pay him a pen of that she is now receinng. Sion at the rate of $17 per month. The name of Jo ~c ph R. Cook, late of Company F, One hundred anll The foregoing bill i a sub titute for the following House bats Rirty-first Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, War ·with Spain, and pay him a pension at the rate of $12 per month. referred to the Ccmmittee on Pen ions: The nrune of William Ja.me McDermett, late of Company H, First H. R. 512. Florence ~Iarqui . II. R. 843. Alonzo J. Mayo. Regiment Colorado Volunteer Infantry, War with Spain, and pay him a H. R. 681. Edith L. XIorgan. H. R. 9201. Alfred A bton. pension at the rate of 12 per month. II. R. 8:>0. George C. Rim . H. R. 9304. Ambrose M. Barrett The name of Fred F. Newell, late of Company G, Nineteenth Regi H. R. 990. Etta M. Browning. H. R. 9486. Rdward P. Aler. · ment United States Infantry, War with Spain, and pay him a pension H. R.1047. Sarah B. Greene. ll. R. 9601. Eliza. th Jones. at the rate of 12 per month. H. R. 1067. Ethan ll. Allen. H. R. 9710.. Tohn M. Flynn. The name of Su an E. Brown, widow of Jcs!':e Brown. late of Company H. R. 1224. Edward Blackmer. H. R. 9762. Leon P. Che ley. D, Third Regiment United States Dragoons. War with :Yexico, and pay II. R. 1237. Annie Neate. H. R. 9770. Rutb R. HelTlllan. her a pension at the ra.te of $25 per month in lieu of that she is now B. R. 125 . Charles H. Payne. H. R. 9828. Lawson Elli.\..WOrth. rec:eiving. H. R.1857. Fred A. Angelo. H. R.10003. Emma L. GrP.1-n. The name of Thomas R. Poole, late of Company K. :Ninth Regiment H. R. 1915. Layima M. Goe. H. U. 10074. Cbarlf>s W. Kcrlee. Jllinols Volunteer Infantry, War with Spain, and pay him a pension H. R. 2191. Samuel E. Spencer. H. R. 10137. Catherine Mahady at the rate of $12 per month. II. R. 2250. Nicholl L. Ncl.s<>n. H. R. 10168. Jame P. Dooley. · The- name r.f Salatblel Woodruff, late of Company II, Second Bat II. R. 2498. Rufus Boer. ll. R. 10221. Richard Gro b :! . talion United State Engineers, Re~ar E tablisbment, and pay him a H. R. 2648. •rucker MeG. SJmmons. H. R. 10311~ Katie CHtl'oru. pension at the rate of $12 per montn. H. R. 2'751. William M. Lugent. H. R. 10391. Charles H. Hearing. The name of Joseph Jile , late of Company F, Fifteenth Regiment H. R. 2'1g.D. John P. Hickel. II. R. 10428. France L. Young. :Mlnn ota Volunteer Infantry, War with Spain, and pay him a pension H. R. 37o0. Mary A. DancE-y. H. R. 10!'i99 . .J()l';epb R. Cook. at the rate of $12 per month. H. n. 3877. Clara H. Lamb rt. IL n.. 10601. William Jam Me- The name of Frank H. Campbell, late of band, First Regiment North H. R. 3958. E.-lith V. Bowman. D rmett. Carolina Volunteer Infantry, War with pain, and pay him a pension II. R. 4456. Webb W. Belknap. II. R. 10607. Fred F. Newell. at the r te of 0 per month in Hen Qf that he is now receiving~ ll. R. 4810. Douglas D. Powell. II. R. 10634. So an E. Brown. '.rhP name of Henry A. Jaeg]e, late of Company M, Tenth Regiment H. R. 4811. Wm. Reed. II. R.10667. Thomas R. Poole. Ohio Volunteer Infantl·y, War with Spain, and pay him a pension at the H. R. 5155. Margaret E. Patton. II. R. 10726. Salathlel Wooclru1'!'. mte of Sl2 p er month. H. R. 5162. Grant H. BilL H. R. 107Su. Jo ph Jiles. The name of J'ames H. Sc.hne-ji"ler, late of Company C, First Regiment II. R 5582. Ernst A. Selander. ll. R. 10767. Frank H. Campbell. .Arknn as Volunteer Infantry, Wn.r with Spain, and pay him a pension H. R. 5657. Edward F. O'Toole. H. R.10778. Henry A.. Jaegle . at the rate of $17 per month. H. R. 5702. Ora May Larkin. H. R. 10815. Jam H. Schneider. The name of Lafayette York, late of Companies H and C, Fourth H. R. 6040. llnbert W. Wil on. H. R. 10835. Lafayette York. Regiment Tennes ee Volunteer Infantry, War with pain, and pay him H. R. 6416. Jas. E. Johnson. H. R.10838. Mary A. Law on. a pPnsion at the rate of $12 per month. - H. R. 6826. Lyman F. Gray. H. R. 10907. Mary 0. Barbee. The name of Mar~ A. Law on, widow of Spen er B. Lawson, late H. R. 6927. Carroll A. Cantrell. H. R.10910. Thomas A. Jenkins. of Company E, Fifth Regiment Tenne ee Volunte r Infantry, War with H. R. 6929. Laura G. Hight. II. R.10943. Carrie E. Dennts. Mexico, and pay her a pen ion at the rate of 25 per month in lieu of II. R. 6930. Martha Johnson. H. R. 11081. Lafayette Martin. that be is now receiving. H. R. 6052. Edward Suckow. 11. R. 11149. Louis H. Krafl't. The name of Mary 0. Barbee, widow of Samu 1 P . ..Barbee, late of II. R. 7097. George Archambault. H. R. 11184. Charles Depue. Company B, Seconrl Regiment Kentucky Volunteer , War with Mexico, IT. R. 7299. Samuel N. Manro. li. R. 11229. Walter Sewell. and pay her a pension at the rate of $25 per month in lieu of that she is IL R. 7300. Jake Blizzard. II. R.l1288. arah Ann Cantrel1. now receiving. H. R. 7452. George P. Vance. H. &.11386. Add1e Burn • The name of Thomas A. Jenkin . late ·of One hundred and seventirth H. R. 7500. Lindley Herrington. II. R. 11389. John L. C. Ellis. Company, Coast Artillery Corps, Regul r Establishment, and pay him II. R. 7600. Jules J. Tomer. II. R. 11428. Mary E. Wainwright. a pen ion at the rate of 17 per month in lieu of that he is now recelving. II. R. 7817. Clara A. Crosby. H., R.ll510. Herbert R. Dotlcl. The name of Carrie E. Dennis, dependent mother of Guy C. Denni , H. R. 7 32. James H. Powell. H. R.l1545. Rebecca Stronther. late of Company C, Ninth Regiment Unit d States Infantry, War with H. R. 7834. Henry Gra.t. II. R . 1Hi87. Belle R. Reid. H. H. 7963. Ellen Mulligan. H.. R.11613. James Duft'. Spain, and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in :i.ieu of II. R. 8216. Ollie Lae.hn.. H. R. 11647. Mary S. Hollinshead. that she is now receiving. JL R. 8319. Arthur F. Stowell. JL R. 11681. Alice A. Thorburn. The name of Lafayette ?r!urtin, Jate of CQmpany G, Fifteenth Regi H. R. 8441. Je se D. Nelson. H. R. 11810. Gu tav T. W. 'chmidt. ment United tate Infantry, War with pain, and pay him a pension II. R. 8469. Jame A. Swaim. II. R. 11724. Charles Schiller. at the rate of 30 per month. H. H. 8589. Genevra M. Lamb. H. R. 119TI. Loi E. Magee. The name of Louis H. Kr:Uft, late of Company D, Second Regiment H. n. 8610. Elizabeth W. M er. II. R. 11976. Hugh McGuckain. Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, War with Spain, and pay him a p n JL R. 8800. Amelia Davis. sion at the rate of $12 per month. The name of Cha.rlt>s Depue, late of CQmpany D, Eighteenth Regiment 1\lr. KEY of Ohio. 1\Ir. Speaker, I offer the following . com United Stat~ Infantry, War with Spain, and pay him a pension at the mittee amendment, with the report accompanying it, which I rate of $50 per month in lieu of that he is now receivin!l'. nsk to in the This amemlment is n. bill in 'l'he name of Walter Sewell, late of Company I, ~·ourth Regiment be printed REcoRD. United States Volunteer Infantry. War with Spain, and pay him a pen advertently left out of the omnibus bill. It ba been con idered sion at the rate of $12 per month. by -a subcommittee and by the whole committee, and I ask unani The name of Sarah Ann Cantrell, widow of Merl'il Cantrell, late ol Walter's Con1pa.ny and captain of a company, Georgia Volunteer • In mou consent that the report be printed in the IlEcoBD. dian Wars, and pay her a pension at the rate of $20 per month in lieu The SPEAKER. Is there objection? of that she is now receiving. There w:ts no objection. The name of Addit> Uurns, widow of Thomas Burns, late of Company I, Second Regiment Ohio Volunteers, War with Mexico, and pay her The Clerk read the amendment, as follows: a. pen ion at the rate of 25 per month in lieu of that she is now At the end of the bill insert a new paragraph as follows : receiving. . That the Secreta"ry of the Interior be, a:nd he ls her by, authorized and The name of John L. C. Ellis, late of Company H, Ninth Regiment directed to place on the pension roll, subjeet to the provisions an :Mt·. MOORE of Penn ylvania. And be is already there. The House has done its uuty according to its best judgment 1\Ir. KEATING. He is, by a special act adopted during the and ability. I think both the House _and Senate have freely and Sixty-first Congress, put through here probably before tllis rule liberally cooperated in giving legislation that will enable the wns adopted by the Pension Committee. war to be conducted efficiently for the first year, and I pray at 1\Ir. KEY of Ohio. It was. an early date it will be a successful close for our country as l\lr. KEATING. The Pension Committee adopted the rule be well as for our allies and the world. cau e of discussion bad on the floor of this House in which the Now, I want to say that you do not know anu I uo not know committee was criticized for passing just such bills as the geu how the most of this money is to be spent. Oh, it is to be pent tlewan is endeavoring to insert in this omnibus meastu-e, and for the support of the Army, support of tbe Navy, the building the committee felt it ought to adopt such a rule to protect itself, of ships. advances to the allies. The money is to be expenued to vrotect thi Hou e, and to protect the pension roll of his Na by the Commander in Chief of the Army anu Na\y, the President tion. I hope the 1\Iembers of this House are not prepared lo of the United States. place on this bill such a claim as the gentleman presents even Now, no great amount like the sum we ba\e appropriated in response to so affecting an appeal as he makes. tbis year can be e~'J)en<.leu without waste. Tbere must be some '.rhe SPEAKER The question is on the amendment o:ffereu waste. God alone could make the expenditure of this vast sum by the gentleman from Pennsylvania. without something of waste. ·we are entitled, however, to believe The question was taken, and the Speaker announced the noes and demand tllat we will have the minimum of waste. All tllat seemed to have it. human patriotism can do, all of knowledge that can be ccm On a division (demanded by 1\lr. 1\IooBE of Pennsylvania) manded, all of integrity that can be brought to the front. shall there were--:-ayes 16, noes 27. be brought to the front, and there will be as little waste as pos So the amendment was rejected. sible. But whether it be little or more, we must "·ait and see. 'l'he bill was ordered to be engrossed and read the third time, I am not here to prophesy that there will be undue waste. If was read the third time, and passed. we are to have reckless waste or wicked graft at all, it will be On motion of Mr. KEY of Ohio, a motion to reconsider the bad enough at the close of the war for us to realize it. But in vote by which the bill was passed was laid on the table. the meantime, as the expenditm·es are being made, we should URGENT DEFICIE -CY .APPROPRIATION BILL. inquire to the best of our ability, without blocking the wheels ~Ir. SHERLEY. 1\Ir. Speaker, I move that the House resolve for carrying on the war, what can be done to prevent waste it elf into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of and prevent graft. the Union for the consiueration of the bill H. R. 12280, a Of course, we are all for the winning of the war. There can bill making appropriations for urgent deficiencies, anu pending not be a speech made by anybody, hardly, but that it close witll that motion I ask unanimous consent that general debate be " the flag," " the Republic," "humanity," "the winning of the <.lispense<.l with. · war,"" r_ighteousness." 'Yell, we are fighting for all those thing . The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Kentucky asks unani Sometimes it is on the tip of my tongue to fall in and make mous consent pending the motion, that general debate be dis language avowing my pah·iotic support of the Government in this pense ~1 'Yitb. Is there objection? great emergency. 'Vords are cheap 1mless action is wise-- Not everyone that sayeth "Lord...!. Lord," shall enter into the kingdom, Mr. CANNON. 1\lr. Speaker, I have application for 10 min but he that doeth the will of the JJ·ather. utes and I would like about 5 minutes myself. 1\fr. SHERLEY. 1\Ir. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that A.nu we have got to do it-not the will of the Father from <.lay general debate be limited to 30 minutes, 15 minutes to be to day, because He does not send us special messages-but we controlled by tbe gentleman from Illinois [1\fr. CANNON] and have got to act to the best of our ability according to the aspira 15 minutes by myself. tions and the hope of the people in order to win the war. And The SPEAKER. The gentleman from KenhlCk"Y asks unani whoever fails in doing his duty, whether be is legislator or mous consent that general debate be limited to 30 minutes, one whether be is in the Army or the Navy, no matter where he is, half of that time to be controlled by llimself and one-half by must answer for patriotic anu intelligent effort. [Applause.] the gentleman from Illinois [1\Ir. CANNON]. Is there objection? 1\fr. Chairman, I yield 10 minutes to the gentleman from New [After a pause.] The Chair bears none. The question is on York [Mr. 1\l.AGEE]. going into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of Mr. MAGEE. l\lr. Chairman, I am \ery much interested in tbe Union. appropriations by Congress. And I was very much interested in '.rhe motion was agreed to. what the President stated to us only a few moments ago. I uo Accordingly the House resol\eu itself into the Committee of not recall the exact language the President use<.l, but in sub the Whole House on the state of the Union for the consideration stance, as I remember, it was that we could go home or in somQ of the bill H. It. 12280, the urgent deficiency bill, with Mr. way render an account of our stewardship to the people. HousToN in the chair. Now, I do not know what account of steward hip I can render. The CHAIRMAN. The House is in Committee of the Whole When I go home, my people ask me, "What are you doing with House on the state of the Union for the consideration of the the billions and billions of dollars that Congress is appropriat bill H. It. 12280, whicll the Clerk will report. ing?" I have to answer that I do not know. They cnn not The Clerk read as follo\\s: understand that. A bill (H. R. 12280) making appropriations to supply additional Now, the former distinguished chairman of the Committee on nrgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, Appropriations, 1\fr. Fitzgerald, last December estimated, ns I 1918, on account of war expenses, and for other purpose . recall, that tbe Government would need $12,000,000,000 for the 1\Ir. SHERLEY. 1\lr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. From what information I uow tbnt the first reading of the bill be dispensed with. can get,· the Committee on Military Affairs of the House will 'l'he CHAIRMAN. Is there objection? [After a pause.] ask for that amount alone. It seems to me that at the rate we The Chail· hears none. are going, by June 30, 1919, if wm· continues that long, we shall ~Il·. SHERLEY. I suggest the gentleman from Illinois use probably be called upon to authorize expenditures aggregating some of his time. $40,000,000,000. . Mr. GANNON. Mr. Chairman, I have no desire to take up Now, there is no question about the temperament of the Ameri much time upon this bill in general debate. What little I shall can people. They are willing to contribute the last cent thE'y lmve to say will be touching the bill. The gentleman from Ken have to carry on this war and win it. But they want to know tucky, who, no doubt, is more familiar witb the bill than I am, where their money is going-what you are doing witb it. will explain it in his 15 minutes, or as the bill is reached tmder I remember on a former occasion here, when the pre ent di - the five-minute rule. tinguished chairman of the Committee on Appropriations criti I just want to call attention to the bill. It carries in round cized the late Maj. Gardner of Massachusetts because, as I re numbers $123,000,000; it recommends appropriations and au call, that distinguished hero had stated in some public utterance thorizations, and as.I recollect it, in round numbers about $5,000,- "that Congress was spending money like a lot of drunken 000 les than estimated for. It was prepared after very con- sailors." I do not wish to speak in a spirit of critici m or in a iderable hearings and after much of consideration. I will not spirit of partisanship. I have \Oteu for e\ery war measure attempt to ana1yze it in my time. demanded by the Executive for the successful prosecution of The appropriations through this fiscal year, since the com the war since I have been a l\fember of the Hou e. There has mencement of the war, amount to $18,892,027.56, and con not been any. spirit of partisanship in my actions or in my stat'e tracts have been authorized in addition to the amount of $2,511,- ments. But I must say, to speak the way I feel about it, that 562,925.50, adding the amount the deficiency carried in this bill, the expression "that we spend money like a lot of drunl bill reported and passed under the gentleman's direction not very that they· had no money available for the purpose and have. long ago, more than $50,000,000 was taken without a word of been inclined to suggest that Congress was derelict in not mak-· hearing-·-·- ing the appropriation. · 1\fr. SHERLEY. Yes; and the answer to tbaflies, not in the Mr. SHERLEY. Their suggestion was gratuitous and un fact that it was taken but whether it was taken and spent warranted. W'hen they certify the claims to Congress, if they wisely; and about that fact the Committee on .Appropriations are proper and just claims, regularly audited, they will be car hope to be able to give to the House further information. ried in the general deficiency bill. 1\lr. LONGWORTH. I would be very glad if the committee l\Ir. ROGERS. The Treasury Department has never certified would. · them to Congress? 1\Ir. SHERLEY. I know the gentleman will be glad, and I am l\Ir. SHERLEY. I am informed by the clerk that they lla\e quite sure that I will be glad to give the gentleman the informa not come to the Committee on Appropriations and I have no tion. knowledge that they ever ha\e been certified. l\lr. MADDEN. Will the gentleman yield for another ques Now, l\Ir. Chairman, there is an addition to the large sums tion? I do not want to embarrass the gentleman. I have mentioned-$33,000,000 authorized for the Medical Corps. l\lr. SHERLEY. Certainly. The gentleman .never embar That $33,000,000 embraces a number of items-supplies, there is a more keen appreciation and realization on the part of in other words, to see whether the community bud reached what the. War Department of the need of further carefully scrutiniz they phrased us ilie saturation point. They also undertook to ing tlle uemanu in the way of additional clerks, and that steps determine whether it was possible to open up other localities as have been taken and are now on the way for a careful inspec b·ibutaries to such manufacturing establishments where the tion of the bureaus of that department looking to the elimina workmen were employed by improving methods of transporta tion of unnecessary employees. The committee bas met the tion. Failing in either of those methods and having by n sur situation by an appropriation which it belieyes is sufficient for vey of the men employed and to be employed come to tbe con the department to the 1st of July. clusion that there was need of additional housing, they then l\Ir. McKENZIE. 1\!r. Chairman, will the gentleman yield 1 uuuertook, as far as possible, to get that housing provided by 1\Ir. SHERLEY. Yes. the voluntary action of citizens in the community, or the cor Mr. McKENZIE. Is the $900,000 mentioned on page 6 of the porations affected., or by boards of trade, or other civic organi bill to take care of deficiencies between now and the 1st of zations. July? They desire wherever it is practical to aid some orgai1ization Mr. SHERLEY. It is to carry their existing organizations to of the community ruther than to undertake directly Government the 1st of July, and to allow not what they estimated for the building and Government ownership. In some cases they have increase between now and then, but for ,..,-hat the committee been unable to get any sort of local aid. They suggestetl that estimate ought to be the increase between now and then. Most they propose in a number of instances to loan 80 per ceut of the of it is to take care of the existing personnel. The gentleman cost of building a giyen number of houses, the loan to be will also notice that there is a provision which limits to five made to a subsidiary corporation created for that purpose by people the number that can be employed under this fund at the corporation employing the workmen for whom housing salaries as high as $5,000 each. The department urged that is sought. For instance, the Bethlehem Steel Co. might the amount be placed at $7..,500, and that they be not limited create a subsidiary .corporation which would agree to furnish as to the number, anu the Secretary himself presented rather the lund and 20 per cent of the cost of the building, and the strong reasons in favor of that. In view of the well-known Government would then furnish the additional 80 per cent, tak sentiment of the House the committee diu not feel justified in ing a first mortgage upon the houses so built, and in some in going' that far, hut it diu feel that it was warranted in permit stances with an agreement as a part of the terms of the loan ting five men to be employed .at not more than $5,000 each. that within a period of five years after the close of the wm·, there l\1r. Chairman, this Government is faced with a realization should be a \aluation of the property to determine what it that it either has to accept the voluntary services ormen, antl would cost to reproduce it as it was in the first instance, and to then l>e sul>ject to all of the criticism that grows out of t11at the extent that that represented a less sum than the actual cost, practice, or it must pay real salaries to get real men of ability. the mortgage should be reduced. In other words, the Oovern In life you never get something for nothing, and particularly ment in such cases is assuming what might be called the wm; is that tl'ue of the Go\ernment. cost of building. If, for instance, 100 houses were constructed at 1\lr. Chairman, I shall hope, in the consideration of the bill,. $3,000 each, and it ,,.-as determined after the war upon a valua to adYise the committee touching any item that is in it respect tion that those houses could be constructed at the time of such ing "-hich inquiry may be made. In order not to delay its valuation for $2,800 each, there would be a wiping off of $200 for consideration I ask for the reading of the bill. each house upon the entire 100 houses, and to that extent the The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read the bill. mortgage which bad been taken by the Government would be The Clerk read as follows: considered satisfied. Touching the rest of it, there shoultl be For carrying out the provisions of the act entitletl "An act to au paid 5 per cent interest as the law passed by Congress provided, thorize the President to provide housing for war needs," approved May 16, 1918, including rental of offices in the District of Columbia, con and at the termination of the period of the lo:::m, the payment of tingent and miscellaneous expenses, printing and binding, and personal the principal. That has bee:1 the plan proposeu i-n a number of services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $00,000,000, to con- cases. In some other instances, particuh.!'ly in connection with tinue available during the fisca.l year 1919. . Section 7 of the act entitled "An act to authorize the President to navy yards where the Government 'owns the establishment that provide housing for war needs," approved May 16, 1918, is amended needs to haYe the housing for its workmen, it has been proposed to read as follows : that the Government itself would build. l\Ir. ROBBINS. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the last It deYeloped in the hearing that the· problem was largely one wot•d for the purpose of asking the chairman of the committee of permanent housing, not because of the desirability of housing n. question in respect to the housing proposition. Has the de permanently, but because of the character of the workmen who partment adopted a plan to be "·orked out as a general proposi 'rere to be suppliecl with houses. Temporary housing is prac tion in providing houses by which they ask the people in the com tical for much unskilled labor and for a limited amount of skilled munity to organize companies and subscribe a certain portion labor. Single men can to a limited degree be so taken care of,· of money, and then the War Department through the General but for the skilled mechanics who have their famili(!s it is · \Vm· Board or the Housing Commission, I believe they term it, necessary to provide them something better than could be sup will supply the remainder? For instance, if the local people plied through temporary barrack construction, and the differ supply 80 per cent, will the Housing Commission supply 20 per ence between the b\o in cost would not be such as to warrant cent, or what is the plan of working out this housing proposi putting up simply temporary buildings. So while they have tion, if any plan has be.en adopted? practically in every instance refused to agree to the full demand l\Ir. SHERLEY. I shall endeavor us briefly as I can to answer of the locality as to the number of houses to be built, their pro the gentleman's question, although there nre 100 pages of testi gram looks in large measure to the building of permanent houses mony that were taken by the committee in an effort to get an that can be sold, and are to be sold where the Goyernment owns answer to just such a question. them, to workmen who will live in them and ,vm expect actually l\Ir. ROBBINS. I asked the question in good faith, because to own them. 'Vhere the Government makes a loan and takes of applicants from my own district. a mortgage the house will be of such a character and in such l\Ir. SHERLEY. I know that, and I am not quarreling with locality us to assure the return to the Govern.ment of the money the gentlemau at all. I am just explaining to him that it is a that is loaned. At least that is both the hope and expressed Jittle difficult, as he will appreciate in n moment, to answer belief of those gentlemen. Now, as I stated. in other instances, briefly ·his question. The proposed plan or plans will vary ac they are undertaking by aiding in transportation to solve some cording to localities. There was originally created in the Coun of the problems. The gentleman will find on page 8 of the cil of National Defense a committee for tbe purpose of studying hearings a list of the cities where there haYe been requests for housing problems. Out of that committee afterwards grew the purchasing houses and where they have come to some conclu creation of a commission in the Departmeut of Labor, of which sion as to the amount of money that they woultl probably expend :Mr. Eiulitz is the head, and a number of other prominent gentle at such places. On page 9 is a list of other cities that have men are associated with him to study this problem. ma 1\Ir. ROBBINS. That an wers Tery fully the ioquiry. I Now, 1 suspect, without recalling tho details, though we noticed page 8 and 9, and had read the li ;t of places that applied, had some testimony by the Shipping Board in the sundry civil but no town I bad in mind seems to have been included in this bill a to Bristol, that this is the situation, namely, that they list. Butler, Pa., whose application was presented, on behalf of found that as a bu iness proposition it was betteL' to take cer the board of trade with members of the board of trade, does not tain lands that could be obtained in sufficient quantity at a rea seem to be included, and Erie, Pa., which I was advised at the sonable rate; and they are building the e house anti opening same time had been favorably acted on, does not seem to be up the treets with a view of sub ~ equent sale of the hou es, included. This is only, howeTer, an omission that is not fatal rather than to undertake to buy expensive land tbat migllt !lot ut all. be as suitable for the purpo e. And it might be quite possible, :ur. SHEllLEY. I do not recall -either of those instances. as the gentleman ays, and I have no. doubt it i , that in that in but it is only fair to say the lists presented there a·ro tentaUve. stance they are opening up new stl·eet . . I think this o_ught to be said, and I say it without reference to Now, there is another question in that connection, and that is the two in tances that the gentleman cites, that there ought to one of the reason · wily, in my jutigment; it is desirable to au be impressed through the membership of this House upon the thorize in this bill the creat ion of a corporation. If the Govern communities of this country the \ery great duty that rests upon ment buys these lot. and erects the buildings on them, the prop such communities to take care of this burden as far as it is erty cease to be taxable for either municipal, county, or State po sible; that they are not to assume that because the Gov~ purpo es ; and, of course, it ls not to be expected tba t if you ernment has seen fit to appropriate moneys for housing that take out of a community certain of its taxable a sets the com it means thereby that it is to do all of the hou ing that needs munity will of its own accord furni! h ml.Ulicipal facilities. And to be done. The community that gets the benefit of great in~ in the hearing lt was sugcre ted that one of the things that was dustrial activities on accOlmt of war orders, that has an ex de irable to do, instead of having the Government go into the pan e and a growth and a prosperity groWing out of that, has creation of municipalities, was to enter into agL·ee.ments with a \ery defuiite pronounced patriotic -obligation in turn to assume existing I;Dunicipalitie , where it was practicable, for the exten burdens that flow from those benefits, and not to look to the sion of tbeir ewera.ge and water and lighting and streets aud Treasury of the United States to house all tho people who fire and police facilitie in consideration of having ad 1\lr. SHERLEY. The $11,000,000 for training camps was for 1\lr. SHERLEY. I do not agree to anything of the sort. I training camps for any training camps outside of tho e con 3nll doing good work at 6 n tlny to the 'other department paying The C1erk read us follO\YS : tllem $ a Mr. 'YA'irSO.... ~ The Cl e r: ~ reml as follows: man employed in t11at work to~day who feels proud of his work, Transportation of remnins: For transportation of remains, including and seYeral of them have tol(l me . o. The engineers who are the same oi.J.lf cts ·pecified under this bead in the naYal appropriation employed will tell you they are not doing ailytl1ing worth " "bile. act fo1· the ti t:cal yenr l!l18, $300,000. It is an outrage to continue work of that kind when everybo The Clerk re:ul a follows: ORDER OF BUSI~~ESS. IIOUSE OF m :rnESENl:ATlYES, l\11·. KITCHIN. ~Ir. Speaker, before making the motion to For stationet·y for Representatives, Delegates, anu Resitlent Commls aujomu, I want to say that the· gentleman from A.l'abama [l\Ir. . lonen:;, inclutling 1,000 for . tationery for the use of tbe committees DE);T] intend.s to call up the military bill to-morrow. And we n n1l officers of the Ilou , $1,625. "ill adjourn over for Memorial Day. I would like to ask unani l\lr. l\IOOTIE of Penn ylnmia. 1\!r. Speaker, I move to sh'ike mous con ent to dispen e with the business in order on next out the Ia ·t wortJ. I do this for the purpo e of asking the gen Calendar We(]nesday. tleman to recur to page 14 and to the item headed" Public work , The , PEAKEH. The gentleman frt:>m North Carolina asks Bureau of Yards and Docks," and including- unanimous consent to di pen e on Wednesdn,y with the bnsi r t'pairs and preservation at navy yards aml stations: For repairs and nes in order on Calendar Wedne (lay. Is there objection? pt·esen·ation at navy yards, fuel depots, fuel ,plants, aud stations, '2,100,000. There \\US no objection. Will the gentleman kindly state whether the Navy is now ADJOUR::'DIE...~T FRO"ll WEDNESDAY UNTIL FRIDAY. accumulating coal at fuel depots and whether t11is contemplates :\lr. ET.fCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the erection of new ones? I am asking this now out of order, the House, when it adjoums next 'Veunesday, may adjourn to llecam::e I was obliged to leave the Hall for a wllile. meet on li'ri<.1ay at 12 o'clock. · · l\11·. SHEHLEY. That did not develop in the bearings at all, The SPEAKER The gentleman from North Carolina asks and thi deficiency had nothing to d.o with that matter. It is a unanimous consent that tlle Hou. e, when it adjourns ·next repair item and imply relates to general repairs aml preserva 'Yednesday, adjourn to meet next Friday. Is there objection? tion at navy :rards. There wns no objection. 1\Ir. l\lOOllE of Penn ·rl>ania. It does not contemplate new PR"C\TI.:~G COPIES OF THE !'"RESIDENT'S MESSAGE. fuel ·tations? Mr. GARNER. :Mr. Speakel~, I want to ask unanimous con 1\Ir. SHEllLEY. It is a repair item entirely, and the hearings ent that the number of copies that can be printed within the did not in any sense deYelop anything relative to such state $500 limit, without re. olution, of the President's message, de ment. liwre is recommended (H. Doc. No. 1134) ; to the Committee on Public AJ~o, memorial of Frank Sextus and other re ·i(lent- of Ala Building::; and Grouuus anu ordered to be vrinted. meda County, CaL, fayoring the minimum wage bill; to the Com 2. A letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, trans mittee on Labor. mitting copy of communication from the Secretary of 'Vnr sub By l\Ir. F{!LLER of Illinois: Petition · of Denison Coffee Co. ; mitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation sionK UES~AGE ::s-RO~[ THE HOUSE. By !\£1'. "'IV~UDOW: A bill (H. R. 1230G) granting a pen~ion to A message from the House of llepresentatives, by J. C. South. ::l\lnrgnrct A. I~inney; to the Committee on Invalid Pen ions. it.,; Chief Clerk, announced that the House had passed the bill (S. 37!>9) granting pensions and increase of pensions to certaill soldiers and sailors of the Cinl War and certain widows and