1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 411
John V. Drips, Belvidere. Lawrence Lipscomb, Parsons. Benjamin D. Kidman, IligHtone City. Jessie L. Henery, Pine Gro-ve. Willard 0. Dailey, Bison. Leonard C. Griffith, Power. Leroy A. Gage, Bryant. Waitmon T. W. Morgan, Rainelle. Arthur D. Flagg, Buffalo. Frank T. Corder, Raleigh. Leonard J. \\'alker, Carthage. Emerson E. Deitz, Richwood. WiJliam W. 8our, Ca~tlewood. Isaac C. Staats, Ripley. Frank B. Sherwood, Cottonwood. George H . Spencer, Rivesville. harles S. Kingsbury, Dallas. Justus Stalnaker, Sutton. Clyde J. Bowell, Edgerno11t. Preston R. Payne, Switchback. Winfred E. Whittemore, Estelline. Lawrence B. Kenniburg. Thomas. Alma J. McCormack, li'aiUL Abner N. Harris, Thorpe. Lee B. Buck. Flandreau. William G. Damron, War. Hattie L. Me~· er, l!'lorence. Willi H. Marshall, Wheeling. Alton E . Lewis, Henry. ·1~· Je L. Buttrick, I~nbel. 'Villiam F . D .•\ckermanu, K aylor. Lilrrille l\Iiles, Langford. SENATE. Henry Rohrer. Madi on. John G. Wordeman, 1\Iartin. WEDNESDAY, December 19, 1923. ·Jolm ::\I. William:-:, Miller. TilE: Chaplain, HeY. J. .J. Muir, D. D., offered the following AJhcrt Koehne, Oldham. in-ayer: Clarence M. l\latter, Ori<'nl. li'red S. Williams, Pierre. Our Father we eertainly ought to be a happy people for Thou OliYer C. Ros.·, Pine Ridge. dost crown our day:s with Thy goodness, and Thou dost give us Rohert G. And is, Pre. ·llo. evidence continually that Thou art watching over us. Deliver John Larson, Pukwana. us from all pessimism. :May we see the world brighter and Jolrn W. Rydell, Rosholt. more hopeful than in former days, and where . hadows may !;'red J. Seals, Spearfish. have fallen may we know of a surety that behind the dim un Edward J. Groat. Thunder Hawk. known 8tantleth God within the shadow keeping watch above Gu~t 1\1. Eggen. Vienna. His own. We hnmbly ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Vh:tor M. Dalthor11, Yolga. The reading clerk proceeded to read the Journal of yester Edward A. \Vearne, w·ebster. day'::-; vroceeding when, on request oI Mr. LODGE and by unani Guy l\l. King, We~sington. mous com;ent, the further reading was dispensed with and the Volney T. Warner, ·woonsocket. .Jourllul was approYed. John W . Woods, Worthfag. Emil 0. Yondracek, Yale. I J.JO~THLY RKPORTS OF co~t>ITIONS OF n ..HLROAD EQUIPMENT. The PRESIDEi\T pro tempore laid before the Senate a re- UTAH. port of tlle chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Peter Allan, !Hamling. submitted in com11liance with Senate Resolution 438, agreed to Henry H. Lunt, Cedar City. ll''ehruary :!6, 192~, showing for the month of November, 1923, Elsie Tallestrup, Clearcreek. the condition of railroad equipment and related data, which James C. Hill, Elsinore. was referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. Will C. Barton, Garfield. _\ 'l"l'ORl\J<~YS El\fPLOYED BY THE SHIPPI G BOARD. Ezra P. Jensen. Garland. Leo N. Gledhill, Guunison. Tile PRE81D~J..N'J pro tempore. The Chair lays before the Maranda Smith, Heber. 8enate a report from the United States Shipping Board and Harold A. Wood, Holden. will ask the Sf•<·retary to read the letter accompanying it. Goldie F. Sternnson, Lynntlyl. rn1e reading derk read as follows : Alta A. Dayton, Magna. UNITED STATES SHIPP! 'G BOARD, Henry C. Jacobs, Mount Pleasant. Washington, D ecember JB, 1923. George G. Ro eYear, Pal'k City. Tb<' PRfl, ' IDENT OF TH~1 UNITED R·rt.TES Slll:llATE, Mary Cooper, Pleasant GroYe. Washington, D. O. Frauces C. Nngland, Scofield. Srn: There is tran ruitted herewith, in accordance with re olution Thomas H . Latimer, jr., Springville. nllopt.ed b:r the Senate ou .January 16, 1923, and Senate Resolution NoL"man G. Allan, Wellsville. No. 37, a list of attorne~ .· employed by tl.J.e United States Shipping
WE "I' \IROI ~ IA. Board and by or for t:..e United States Shipping noard Emergency Fleet Corporation or their agents. H. Cecil l\lartindale, Ansted. 'l'he l nformation required under Senate resolution of January 16, Ro~a P. Oxley, Athen ..·. Hcmy A. Ru ·ell, Berkeley Spring.. 1923, wa. of such a..u extensive nature that the report could not be completed prior to the adjournment of Congres on March 4, 1923. Dorsey J. Lake, Bridgeport. I have taken the lihcrty of including in the report all attorneys Edgar I. Hatfield, Cairo. emµloyed by the Uniterl States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Cor Niua E. Nettle~. amden on Gauley. poration or their agent. down to August 21, 1923, and will be glacl John 1\1. Garrett, Dunl>ar. to furnish the committee with information regarding :my attorneys Stai·k A. Willhl
List of oottnsel an.d attorneys tnlio 1ta.ve been appointed ur ha'Ve .acted. List of ·counsel and o.ttonteys 1vho have been appointed or have acted upon the regular staff of the United States SMppmg Board FJmergenoy up-0n. the regular staff ot the United States BMpping Board Eme-rgeney Fleet Oorporation up to and inowding A.ugust jtl_, 19f3. Fleet Oorporati01l up to ana including A.ugust 21, 1923-Contlnued.
Rate of Rate of List No. 2. Dates of employment. annual com l..lstNo.3. Dates of employment. annual com· pensation. pensation.
ACTIVE. SEPA.RA. TEO-continued. .Allison, E. M .. ,jr ....•..... AJ:?pointed special counsel July 11, 1921.. .. $15,000 Anderson, W. Y. C •••••••• Appointed assistant counsel Apr. 23, 1919 .. $5,000 :Sa.J.a.ryadjusted to comply With.act of.Aug. 11,000 Promoted July 1, 1919 .. ·--·····-··--~·-··· 5,500 23, 1921. Promoted Mar. 16, 1920 ...... 6,500 Barker, Stephen...... Appointed assistant counsel Jan. 10, 19.23 •• 6 500 Resigned June 30, 1923. Beecher, Norman B .••.... Appointed special counsel July 28, 1921.. .. 10;000 .Apple, Monte.~ •••••• ___ •. Appointed assistant couns.el Feb. 8, 1918 .. . 3,000, iPromoted Mar. I&, 1922... _...... 11,000 Promoted May 1, 1918. _...... _. .4,000 Berry, Walter L ...... Appointed attorney Aug. 9, 1920 .••••••.•. 3,600 Promoted June 16, 1918 ...... 5,000 Promoted Ian. 1, 1923 ...... 4,500 Resigned Jan. 20, 1919. Boal, Arthur M ...••••.•... Appointed attorney Sept. 15, 1919_,. n· ••• 2,000 Armstrong, David...... Appointed assistant counsel Feb. 20, 1918 .. 2,500 .Promoted Jan. 1, 1920 ...... 2,500 ·Promoted May 1, 1918 ...... 4,000 Promoted May 16,J.920 ...... 3,600 Promoted Dec. 1, 1918...... · .. _.. 6,000 Promoted Nov. 1, 1920 ...... 3,900 Part time Jan. 1, 1919 ...... 3,000 Promoted Jan. I, 19.23 ...... 5,000 Resigned Apr. 5, 1919. Brown, Oliver P. M ••..... Appointed assistant counsel by transfer 5,000 Aron, Harold G...... Appointed special counsel July 18, 1921. ... 10,000 from secretary, claims commission, Jan. Resigned July 31, 1922. 1, 1923. . 'Bayles, Edwin A ...... Appointed. assistant counsel Feb. 18, 1918 .. 5,000 Promoted assistant counsel Feb. 1, 1923 ... 7,000 Promoted Sept. 16, 1918 ...... 6,000 Casey, William D .••.•.... .Appointed assistant counsel Aug . .9, .1922 •• 3, 000 .Resigned Mar. 31, 1919 . C-Olvm, Grattan . . t ...... Appointed assistant counsel July 21, 1921.. 7, 500 fBeale, Arthur M... •• • •• ••• • .Appointed ass.istant counsel June 21, 1918.. 4,000 Conway, Frederick R •..•.. Appointed assistant counsel Oct. 18, 1920.. 4, 500 .Part time Jan. 1, 1919 _...•••••••..•••••••. 1,000 Promoted.Jan. 1, 19ZL ...... 5,500 Promoted Sept. 30, 1919 ...... 4,000 Pwmoted (ior two months) June 23, 1923 .. 8,500 Resigned Oct. Zl, 1919. Demoted Aug. 22, 1923 ...... 5 500 '8ennitt, Chandler:········ Appointed assistant counsel .A.pr. 14, 1919 .. Davidge, Walter D .••..•.. Appointed assistant counsel Jan. 3, 1922 .. . 3;600 Promoted July I, 1919 ...... Promoted Jan. 1, 1923 ...... 4,000 Resigned Apr. 10, 1920. DeGoosh, Arthur W ••••... Promoted from senior examiner to assist- 3,900 Block, Herman••••••••• ·-. Appointed assistant counsel Dec. 17, 1917.. 2,500 ant counsel Eept. 1, 1920. . Resigned Feb. 9, 1918. · Dyer, Rowland S. H •••... Appointed assistant counsel Mar. 10, 1918.. iBoyle, 'Mortimer.••••••••• _ Appointed assistant counsel Aug.1, 1919 .. 5,000 'Promoted Jan. I, 1919 ...... ·~ .•.... ?~ Resigned Feb. 9, 1920. Promoted. .1Iay 1, 1919 ...... 5;400 !Brewster, Kingman ••••••• .Appointed assistant counsel Oct. 21, 1921.. 7,500 Promo.ted Nov. 16, 1921 ...... 6,500 Resigned Aug. 5, 1922. Fell, Edgar T. ·-·-••..•..- . .Appointed attorney Juna 1, 1920 ..• ·--... . 2,400 .'Buckley, Frank L...... Promoted from law clerk to assistant coun 2,000 Promoted May I, 1921...... 3,600 sel Nov. 16, 1921. Promoted Jan. I, 192.:L ...... 4,500 Resigned Apr. 30 1922. Fetzer, John E ...•.•.•••.. Appointed assistant counsel July 12, 1921.. 7,500 :Bullitt, W. Marshall ..••••• Appointed speciiJ. counsel July 21, 1921. ... 25,000 Fitch, William R--...... J>romoted :from attorney examiner to ad- 3,600 Salary adjusted to comply with act Aug. 11,000 miralty attorney Apr. 16, 1919. 23, 1921. Promoted May 16, 1920 ...... 3 900 . Resigned Aug. 15, 1922. .Promoted Jan. 1, 1923 ...... ~500 !Burchell, Arthur L...... Appointed assistant counsel Sept. 9, 1919 .. 3,600 .Appointed.assistant counsel July 8, 1921 .. . Goldsmith1 Geoffrey•• ·--- 7,500 Promoted Mar. I, 1920 ...... 4,000 Graef, Artnur W .••••••••• Appointed assistant counsel July 6, 1921... 10,000 Promoted June 16, 1920 .••••••••••••••••••• 5,000 Hallett, Ralph H .••••.••.. .Appointed assistant counsel July 13, 1921.. '6 000 Resigned Oct. 30, 19'20. Promoted May 1, 1923 ...... 1:500 Carmichel, John C ••••••••. Appointed assistant counsel. Feb 24., 1920. 3,600 Hester, C. M·-·······-· ... 'Promote.d from law clerk to assistant.coon 3,000 Resigned Sept. 30, 1921. ' sel May 16, 1923. Cavenee, C. M...... Appointed assistant counsel Sept. 7, 19UL 4,000 Ho.we, Wirt. ... ---··-····· Appointed assistant counsel Dec. 7 1922.. .. 5,000 Resigned Dec. 5, 1918. Jones, Richard F _•...••.•. Appointed assistant counsel July 26, 1921.. 7,500 Childers, Henry H~----···· Appointed assistant counsel Jan. 28, 1918. 4,000 Lederer, Alison M .•.•••••. Appointed assistant counsel Oct. 24, 1921.. 4,000 Resignild Mar. 4, 1918. Promoted Apr. 16, 1922 ...... 8,000 Cravey, George C ••- •••~. ••• Promoted from senior examiner to assist 5,000 Long, Harry...... Appointed assistant general c.onnsel .June 8.500 ant counsel June 16, 1920. 1, 1921. Resigned May ·5, 1923. Designated assistant counsel Oct. 16, 1921.. 8,500 Crittenden, E. K •••.••...• Appointed special attorney-examiner 2,580 McPhers<>EJ. Isaac V .•••••. Appointed assistant counsel June 1, 1923 .. 6,000 Ang. H 1918. Madigan, Thomas H ••• ___ . .Appointed assistant counsel Aug. 20 1921 .. 3,500 Promoted examiner Dec. I, 1918 ...... 3,000 Promoted May 1, 1922...... 4,500 Transfer to Shipping Board Dec. 11 1918 .. Promoted Mar. 1, 1923 ...... 6,000 Promoted special examiner Jan. lo, 1920. 3,300 Massey, Jerry C ...... Promoted from examiner to attorney Apr. 2,400 Resigned Apr. 8, 1920. 16, 1919. Cuthell, Chester W. .• •.• .. Appointed assistant counsel Aug 13, 1917 .. 4,000 Promoted to attorney July 1, 1919. ·----. -· 2 700 "Promoted Jan. 1, 1918 ...... 5,500 Promoted Apr. 1, 1920 ...... 3;000 Promoted Mar. I, 1918 ...... 7,500 Promoted Nov. I, 1920 .. ··········-······· 3,600 Promoted general counsel Dec. 16, 1918 ... . 10,000 Promoted Jan. l, 1923 ...... 4,500 Resigned Jan. 15, 1919. · Monty, Willis E ..••••••••. Promoted from special expert to attorney 3,.600 Darl>y, H.J ...... Appointed special counsel July 21, 1921. .. . 10,000 Apr. 16 1919. Resigned Aug. 31, 1921. Promoted Jan.1, 1923 ...... 3,900 Davis, Charles B ...... ·Appointed attorney Sept. 19, 1921...... 5,000 ·Nottingham, Wm. W •..•. Appointed attorney Aug. 11, 1919 .... -· .•. 3,000 Resigned Aug. 31, 1922. Promoted Jan. I, 1920 ...... 3,600 Deibert, Arthur H...... Appointed assistant counsel Aug.IS, 1920 .. 3,600 iPromoted assistant counsel Apr. 16, 1920 .. 4,500 Resigned Dec. 3 1922. Promoted June 1, 1921 ...... 6,000 Deignan, James H •..•••••• Appointed assistant counselJuly 5, 1918 ... 4,000 Parker, Chauncey G ••••••• Appointed special counsel Jilly 18, 1921. .. _ 20,000 Promoted Jan. 1, 1919 ....•..•••.•••..•...• 5,000 Salary adjusted to comply with act of.Aug. ll,000 Promoted March 1, 1919 ...... 6,000 23, 1921. Resigned Aug. 7, 1919. Promoted special counsel Aug. 16, 1922 ... . 20,000 Denvir, John B., jr _...... Promoted from examiner to assistant 3,000 Promoted general co~sel Sept. 1, 1922 ... . 20,000 counsel Dec. 1, 1918. (S. B. & E. F. C.) P aid by E. F. C. Promot ed assistant counsel Dec.16, 1918 .. 3,GOO Powers, Caleb ..••••••••••• Appointed assista.ut counsel Aug. 16, 1921. 5,000 Resigned 'Mar. 28, 1919. Promoted July 1, 1923 ..... ··-----· ...... 6,500 Dobyns, Fletcher...... Appointed special counsel July 29, 1921. .. . Quint on, Alfred B .•••.••.. Appointed assistant counsel Feb. 17, 1921. 15,009 3,600 Salary adjusted to comply with act o.f 11,000 Sk:innerj-Wade H .••••••••. Appointed assistant counsel Apr. I, 1922 ... 4,500 Sloane, ames R ..••••• __ •• Congress Aug. 23, 1921. Appointed assistant counsel Feb. 19, 1923. _ 6,000 Promoted July I, 1922 ...... 20,000 Talbert, James .••••••••••• Appointed assistant counsel.Apr. 14, 1919 .. . 5,000 Resigned Dec, 31 .1922. Promoted Aug. 16, 1919 ...... 6,000 Donehoo, Robert P .•• .•••• Appoint ed assistant counsel '.May 16, 1919. 3, 000 Promoted Mar. 1, 1920 ...... 8 500 "Promoted Sept. 8, 1920. _...... 4,000 Promoted July 16, 1920 ... - ...... 10:000 Resigned-July 25, 1922. Van Fossan, E. H .••.•••.• Appointed asSistant counsel Oct. 4, 1921 ... . ·Dorsey, Roy ..•.•••••.••••. AppointedlegalcounselM.ayl6,1920 ...... 2,500 Ward, Henry M.·-········· Appointed special counsel Aug. 1, 1921. .. . J1~ Resigned Dec. 21, 1920. Salary adjust ed to comply with act of 11;000 'Eastman, Chase ..•.•••.••. Appointed assistant counsel Jan. 22, 1918. 4,000 Au~. 23, 1921. Promoted Sept. 16, 1918 . _.... _.. _...... 4,800 Worthington, W. W •••••.• ApporntedassistantcounselMar. 20, 1922 ... 5,000 Promoted Feb. 1, 1919 ...... 5,000 Promoted Mar.1, 1919 ...... 6,000 Promoted assistant general counsel Apr. 7,000 Rate of 1, 1919. List No. 3. Dates of employmeat. annual Resigned Aug. 7, 1919. compensa Reappointed assistant .general counsel 7,000 tion. Sept. 3 , 1919. Resigned Mar. 4, 1920. iEdmonds, D. E ••••••••••• Appo.inted assistant counsel :rune 17, 1918. 3,000 Promoted Ang. Hi, 1918 ..... _...... ___ •.• 4,000 SEPA.RA.TED. Promoted fan. I, 1919 ...... _..... _.... . 5,000 Promoted Mar. I, 1919 .. _... __ . ____ .. _.... . 6,000 Allen, R. Gregory ••••••••• Appointed assistant counsel Mar. 13, 1922 .. S-2, iOO Promoted Mar. IO, 1920 ...... 6,500 Resigned June 3, 1922. Resigned Apr. 15, 1922. 414 OONGRESSION AL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 19,
List of counsel and attorneys who have been appointed ot· have acted List of counsel and attonieys who have been appo·intecl or have acted ttpon the regular staff of the United States Sh·ipping Board Emergency upon the regular staff of the United States Shipp';ng Board Emergency Fleet Oo1·poraticn ·up to and including August £1, 1923-Contlnued. Fleet Oorporation up to ancl including August 21, 1923-Continued.
Rate of Rate of annual List No. 3. Dates of employment. List No. 3L Dates of employment. annual compensa- com.Pensa- tion. ti on.
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Evans, Lawrence B ...... Appointed special assistant, hall time, May $3,000 Lindsay, Walter J ...... Appointed assistant counsel June 3, 1918 .. $3,500 4, 1920. Resigned July 6, 1918. Promoted June 7, 1920 ...... 6,000 Lloyd, G. P ...... ••••. Appointed assistant counsel July 22, 1921.. 7,500 Promoted~ecial counsel May 4, 1921. . .. 10,000 Resigned Feb. 3, 1922. Demoted ov.1, 1922 ...... 8,000 Longfellow, Arthur ... •••• . A~~~f~ted admiralty ·attorney Oct. 11, 3,600 Designation changed special expert Jan. 8,000 1, 1923. Resigned Feb. 19, 1923. Resigned Feb. 13 1923. Lutkin, Harris C .••••.•.. . Appointed assistant counsel July 8, 1918 ... 4, 000 Fairbanks, Joseph ...... A spointed speci~ counsel July 18, 1921 .... 15,000 Promoted Dec. 16, 1918 .....•...... •...... 5,000 Sa ary adjusted to comply with act of 11,000 Promoted Feb. 1, 1919 ...... •.•..••.•...... 6,000 .Aug . 23 1921. Resigned .Apr. 10, 1919. Promoted assistant general counsel Jan. 11,000 McDavitt, J. Frank ...... Appointed attorney Feb. lj 1919 ...... 1,800 1, 1923. Promoted attorney at law uly 1, 1919 ..... 2,400 Resigned July 20, 1923. Resigned Aug. 15, 1920. Feild, .A. J .....•...... Appointed ~sistant counsel Jan. 14, 1918 . . 3,600 McElhinney, A. J .. •...... Appointed assistant counsel Oct. 8, 1920 . .. 2,400 Promoted Sept. 16, 1918 ...... 3,900 R esigned Oct. 20, 1920. Promoted Jan. 1, 1919 ...... 4,800 McGovern, Francis E ...... Appointed general counsel Feb. 5, 1920 .... 10,000 Promoted~r.1, 1919 ...... , .... 5,000 Resi~ned June 15, 1920. Promoted ay 1, 1919 ...... 6,000 McNitt, W. C . •..•.•..•.•. Appointed assistant counsel Feb. 18, 1918 . 4,000 Resigned Feb. 11, 1920. Promoted Aug. 16. 1918 ...... 5,000 Fell, John Cory...... Appointed attorney Feb. 1, 1923 ...... 2,400 Promoted Dec. 1, 1918 ...... •...... 6,000 Resigned Aug. 10, 1923. Promoted Feb. 1, 1919 ...... 7,500 Frazer, James R ...... Appointed assistant counsel .Aug. 8, 1921. .. 10,000 Pro!110tedfS.:meral counsel Apr. 1, 1919 ..... 10, 000 Resigned Sept.15 1922. Resigned ec. 31, 1919. Freedman, Abraham ...... Appointed speciai counsel Aug. 8, 1921. ... 10,000 Magill, Watson H ...... Appointed assistant counsel May 31, 1919 •. 3,600 Resigned Dec. 31 1921. Pro!11oted Aug. 16, 1919 ...... •• ...... 4,000 Freund, Sanford H. E ...... Appointed special counsel Aug. Sh 1921 .... 25,000 Resigned Feb. Ill, 1920. Salary adjusted to comply wit act of 11,000 Manson, Lester C ....••.... Appointed assistant counsel Mar. 4, 1919 .. 5,000 Aug. 23 1921. Promoted Jnne 16, 1919 ...... •.•...... 6,000 Promot;l' general counsel Shiping Board 20,000 Resigned Dec. 1, 1919. and Emergency Fleet Corporation) July Milliken, John B .••••..... Appointed assistant counsel Sept. 16, 1922. 5,000 1, 1922. Resigned Apr. 30, 1923. Resigned (paid by Emergency Fleet Cor- Mock, John...... •••.•.... Appointed assistant counsel Oct. 17, 1921.. 4,000 poration) July 15, 1923. Resigaed Mar. 1 1922. Gaines, J. H ....•...... A~ointed assistant general counsel June 9,500 Monroe, J. Blanc .•.•••.... Appointed assistant counselJan. 1, 1921. .. 3,000 , 1921. Resigned .Aug. 18, 1921. Title changed t o assistant counsel Oct. O' Loughlin, Gerald ...... Appointed assistant counsel Apr. 9, 1918 ... 2,500 16, 1921. Promoted May 16 1918 ...... •...••. 5,000 Resigned Apr. 30, 1923. Promoted Nov. 16 , 1918 . ...•..•...... 6,000 Gerkin, C. J ...... Appointed attorney May 18, 1920...... Resigned Mar. 20 1919. Promoted Sept. 1, 1920 ...... ;·~ Pattangall, W. R ...... , Appointed specW counsel June 2, 1919 .... 15,000 Promoted June 1, 1921...... 4' 500 Resigned June 30, 1919. Promoted Jan.1 1923 ...... 5:000 Patterson, Chas. F .....•.. Appointed general counsel Dec. 1, 1919 . ... 10, 000 Resigned Apr. 10 , 1923. Resigned Jan. 31, 1920. Gibbons, H.J...... Appointed assistant counsel Jan. 30, 1919 . . 4,000 Payne, John Barton ...... Appointed ~eneral counsel Oct. 3, 1917 .... 7,500 Promoted May 1, 1919 ...... 4,500 Resigned Mar. 1, 1918. Promoted July 1, 1919 ...... 5,000 Perkins, R. W . ..•.•••.•.. Appointed assistant counsel July 23, 1919 .• 5,000 Promoted Mar. 16, 1920 ...... 5,400 Resigned Nov. 28, 1919. Resigned May 16, 1921. Peters, Glenn D ...... •.. Appointed assistant counsel June 10, 1919 . . 5,000 Gregory, Alfred ...••...... Appointed assistant counsel July 27, 1918 .. 3,600 Resigned Mar. 11, 1920. Resigned Feb. 'Zl, 1918. Poore, John G ..•...... A~oi:nted assistant admiralty counsel 3,600 Groom, Harry B ...... Appointed assistant counsel Oct. 8, 1920 ... 3,600 eb. 1, 1920. Resigned Feb. 28, 1921. Promoted June 16, 1920 ...... •••..•..... 4,200 Gwinn, Ralph W ...... Appointed assistant counsel Feb. 21, 1918 . 5,000 Promoted Oct. 1, 1920 .....••.•.••.•...... 6,000 Promoted Sept. 1, 1918 ...... 6,000 Resigned Dec. 15, 1920. Resigned Feb. 5, 1919. Priest, W. B ...... Appointed assistant counsel Jan. 16, 1918 . . 4,000 Haywood, .Alfred W ...... Appointed assistant counsel May 7, 1919 ... 6,000 Resigned Jan. 2-t, 1918. Promoted assistant general counsel July 6,500 Raymond, R. L ....•.•.... Appointed assistant counsel June 10, 1918 .. 5,000 16, 1919. . Resigned July 20, 1918. Resi.gned Nov. 29, 1919. . Rice, Mervyn Ap .•...... Appointed assistant counsel Mar. 15, 1922 6,000 Helwig, Harry F ...... Appointed assistant counsel June17, 1918 . . 3,000 Resigned Jan. 10, 1923. Promoted Aug. !6, 1918 ...... 3,600 Rippy, Chas. T ...•••.•.•.. ApEointed attorney by promotion from 3,000 Promoted Feb. I, 1919 ...... 4,000 c erk Aug. l, 1920. Resigned June 23, 1919. Resigned Sept. 30, 1921. Reappointed assistant counsel June 24, 4,500 Roberts, Charles M ...... Appointed assistant counsel June 17, 1918 .. 3,000 1919. R-esigned June 25, 1918. Promoted Mar. 1, 1920 ...... 6,000 Robinson, Ira E •...... Appointed assistant general counsel Aug. 8,500 Resigned Oct. 14, 1921. 211 1920. • Hoffpauir, C. C .....•...... Appointed attorney June 7, 1920 ...... 2,400 Resigned Nov. 19, 1920. Promotej assistant counsel Oct. 1, 1920 ... 3,000 Sabine, W. T.,jr ...... Appointed assistant counsel July 8, 1918 ... 4,000 Resigned June 16, 1921. Promoted Mar. 1, 1919 ...... 5,000 Hone, Jasper R ...•...... Appointe1 attorney Sept. 5, 1919 ...... 2,000 Promoted Mar. 16, 1920 ....•.•.....•...... 6,000 Promoted Jan. I, 1920 ...... 2,400 Resigned Jan. 10, 1922. Resigned Apr. 15, 1920. Reappointed Mar. 23, 1922 ....•.••.•...... 6,500 Huger, .Alfred ...... Appointed attorney June 8, 1917 ...... 5,000 Resigned Mar. 10, 1923. Resigned Apr. 18, 1918. Saeger, W. C ..••••.....•.. Appointed assistant counsel, no salary, Hume, R. S ...... Appointed assistant counsel Nov. 14, 1921. 5,000 Oct. 1, 1917. Resigned Apr. 7, 1923. Resigned Oct. 16, 1917. Hunter, John ...... Appointed admiralty attorney Oct. 11, 5,000 Scott, Leslie P .•...... Appointed admiralty attorney Oct.11, 1921. 2,500 1921. Resigned Feb. 2, 1923. Resigned Mar. 10, 1923. Shackleford, V. R .••...•.. Appointed assistant counsel July 8, 1918 ... 3,000 Jacobsen, E. E •...... Appointe::l. assistant counsel July 28, 1919 .. 4,500 Resigned Nov. 29, 1918. Promoted Mar. 16, 1920 ...... 5,400 Shaw, Charles 0 ...... Appointed assistant counsel Oct. 4, 1920 .. 4,000 R esigned Ort. 31, 1922. Resigned Sept. 30, 1921. Johnson, H. McClure ...... Appointej assistant counsel Mar. 1, 1919 ... 5,000 Sherman, Roger ..•.•....•. Appointed assistant counsel Jan. 20, 1919 .. 4,000 Promote:LMar. 16, 1920 ...... 6,500 Promoted Apr. 1, 1919 ...... 4,500 Resigned Aug. 16, 1920. Promoted July 1, 1919 ...... •...... • 5,000 Jones, E. Powis ...... •.. .Appointe::l. assistant counsel Nov. 15, 1921. 7,500 Resigned Oct. 25, 1919 . Promoted Apr. I, 1922 ...... 10,000 Smyth, Nathan.A ...... Appointed assistant general counsel, July 15,000 Demoted, transferred to United States 7,500 14,1921. . lines May 1, 1922. Adjustment of salary to comply with act 11,000 Resigned Oct. 14, 1922. of Aug. 23, 1921. Kelly, Frank J...... Appointed assistant counsel May 1, 1920 ... 3,000 Promoted general counsel Feb. 10, 1922 . ... 11,000 Promoted Sept. 16, 1921...... 5,000 Resigned May 31, 1922. Resigned Sept. :JO, 1921. Spoor, Seward G ...... Appointed assistant counsel Mar. 13, 1919. 6,000 Keyes, Carlyle M ...... Appointed assistant counsel Feb. 3, 1919 .. 4, 000 Promoted assistant general counsel July 6,500 Resigned Jan. 2, 1920. 16, 1919. Lansdale, A. L •...... Afipointed assistant counsel by promotion 3,000 Promoted general counsel Dec. 16, 1919 .... 8,500 rom chief clerk June 1, 1918. Resigned Mar. 15, 1920. Resigned Feb. 3, 1919. Stern, Carl S ..••...•...... Appointed assistant counsel Oct. 1, 1917 .. 4,000 Laws, B. J ••••••..•...... Appointed assistant counsel July 7, 1921. .. 10,000 Promoted Jan. 1, 1918 ...... 4. 250 Resigned May 31, 1923. Promoted Apr. 16, 1918 ...... •...... 5,000 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 415
List of counsel and attorneys who ha1.:e been appointed, or have acted List of counsel an Rate of DISTRICT OFFICES-Continued. List No. 3. Dates or employment. annual com.Pensa Rate of t1on. annual List No. 4. Dates of emp10ymen~. compen District. sation. SEPARATED-continued. Stern, Carl S •••••••••••••• Promoted Sept. 16, 1918 ...... $6,000 ACTIVE-continued. Promoted asst. general counsel Feb. 1, 1919. 8,000 R esigned Mar. 31, 1919. Jones, Lake •.•••••••••. Appointed district counsel Oct. $5, 000 Florida. Stetson, Arthur H .••.••... Appointed assistant counsel Apr. 15, 1920 .. 1:920 1, 1921. Promoted June 1, 1920 ...... 4,000 Kirby, Albert G ••••••. Promoted from law clerk to as 2,500 New York. Promoted Apr. 1, 1923 ...... 5,500 sistant counsel June 1, 1923. Resigned Apr. 30, 1923. Knox, Paul W ...... Appointed assistan£ counsel 3, 000 Philadelphia. Stover, John Spoor ••••••.. .Appointed special assistant to general 7,500 Aug. 27, 1919. . 28 counsel June 1 1920. Promoted Mar. 16, 192-0 ..•...... 3,600 R esigned Feb. 28, 1921. Promoted .Aug. 10, 1920 •...... 4,500 Sutton, Esh. L .•.••.•••... Appointed assistant counsel Oct. 7, 1920 .. 5,500 McCormack, Joseph.... 4,000 New York. Resigned Dec. 9, 1921. A~~fgd19 f~.sistant counsel Talbert, R. E ••.•••••••... Promoted from special assistant to assist- 3,300 Promoted June 1, 1919 ...... ant counsel Oct. 1, 1918. Promoted July 1, 1919 ...... ?,~ Promoted Nov. 23, 1918 ...... 3,900 Promoted Mar. 16, 1920 ...... 6,000 Promoted Feb.1, 1919 ...... 4,200 McDonald, Chas. A ••.. Appointed attorney Oct. 20, 1920. 3, 600 Norfolk. Promoted Apr. 1, 1919 ...... 5,000 Promoted admiralty counsel 4,000 Promoted May I, 1919 ...... 6,000 Nov. 16, 1922. Demoted Nov. 1, 1919 ...... 5,000 Menke!, A. M ...... Appointed assistant admiralty 7,000 New York. Resigned Apr. 7, 1920. counsel Dec. 27, 1920. Thomas, A. F ...... Appointed assistant counsel Sept. 1, 192-0 .. 3,600 Resigned Jan. 31, 1921. Resigned Sept. ·30, 1921. Reappointed admiralty counsel 6,000 Thompson, Claude A •••••• Appointed assistant counsel Mar. 16, 1922. 10,000 Oct. 10, 1921. Resigned Dec. 1 1922. Michaels, M. H ...... Appointed assistant counsel Tierney, James P ...... Appointed assistant counsel by promotion 2,160 2,400 Do. from clerk Dec. 1 1921. Feb. 1, 1922. 1 Promoted May 1, 1923 ...... • 3,000 Resigned Apr. 30, 1922. Romaine, Ralph B .... . Tyson, John A ..•••••••••. Appointed admiralty attorney 6,000 Do. Appointed assistant counsel Mar.11, 192-0 .. 6,000 Oct. 10, 1921. Rc ~ igned Sept. 30, 1921. Schaffner, Walter ...... Promoted from investi!(lltor to 3,000 Do. Updike, Edwin H .•••••... Appointed assistant counsel Apr. 22, 1918 .. 5,000 admiralty attorney Apr. 1, Promoted Nov. 16, 191 ...... 6,000 1922. Promoted Feb. 1, 1919 ...... 1,000 Promoted from investif!ator to 4,200 Resigned Dec. 31, 1919. admiralty attorney Apr. 1, Walton, C. M., jr ...... Appointed assistant counsel by promotion 3,000 1923. from law clerk Mar. 1 1918. Snow, MacCormac ..... Promoted from examiner to 4, 000 Portland. Promoted Sept. 16, 191S ...... 3,600 Promoted Jan. 1, 1919 ...... 3,900 Promoted Apr. 1, 1919 ...... 4,500 p:;~~~t ra':~~t!Ef·Jrsl;igt 4,500 Resigned Aug, 7, 1919. Weadock, Paul ..•••••••••. P~i=:~tf; ·Jrsiirgi counsel 6,000 Appointed assistant counsel Sept. 19, 1917. 3,000 Aug. 1, 1922. Resigned Mar. 31, 1918. Stewart, John R ...... Wehle, Louis B ..••••••••• Appointed assistant counsel 3, 600 New York. Appointed assistant counsel Aug. 10, 1917 .. 4,000 Oct. 13, 1920. Promoted Jan. 1, 1918 ...... ~250 Promoted Apr. 1, 1923 ...... ;900 Promoted Jan. 1, 1919 ...... 6,000 WandJess, Edgar G •••. Resigned Mar. 19, 1919. Appointed assistant counsel i,500 Do. Apr. 11, 1923.. Westcott, James B ...... Appointed asfilstant counsel May 24, 1918 .. 4,000 Washington, George A. Appointed assistant counsel 5,000 -Do. Promoted Sept. 16, 1918 ...... •.. 4,800 Mar. 1 1923. Resigned Jan. 22, 1919. 1 White, J.,K...... Appointed assistant counsel West, Eugene R ••.•••••••. Appointed assistant counsel Feb. 16, 192-0 .. 6,600 6,000 Do. Resigned Feb. 2S, 1921. Au~. 291 1921. White, H.,jr •••••••••. Whitney, F. A ...... Appornted assistant counsel 4,000 Do. W. Appointed assistant counsel Ang. 27, 1917. 4,000 Mar. 1, 1923. Promoted Jan. 1, 1918 ...... 5,000 Wolfe, C. W ...... Promoted assistant general counsel Apr. Appointed assistant admiralty 4,000 Do. 6,000 coun;;:el Mar. I, 1923. 16, 1918. . Wythe, Charles E ...... Promoted Sept. 16, 1918·...... Appointed assistant admiralty 6,000 Do. 7,200 counsel Mar. 12, 1923. Promoted general counsel Feb. 1, 1919 .... . 10,000 Resigned Mar. 31, 1919. Willey, James O'D ...... Appointed assistant counsel by promotion 12, 700 SEPARATED. from law clerk Nov. 1, 1921. Resigned Nov. 1, 1922. .Ames, Alden ...... Ay~ o~ted attorney June 20, 2, 400 San Francisco • Wingo, John T ...... Appointed assistant counsel Mar. 3, 1919 ... 5,000 1 8 Promoted July 11 1919 ...... 6,000 Promoted Jan. 1, 1919 ...... 3,000 Resigned Mar. 6, 1920. Resigned Feb. 13, 1919. Wood, H.P ...... Appointed assistant counsel Aug. 15, 1921. 4,000 Amey,C. E ...... Promoted from law clerk to 3, 300 Seattle. Resigned Apr. 30, 1923. ~~~tant counsel Dec. 1, Wood, Roger B ...... Appointed assistant counsel Oct. 15, 1918 •• 4,000 Resigned Nov. 15, d.918. Resigned Feb. 29, 1920. Wright, Robert R ...... Appointed assistant counsel Oct. 17, 1921.. 5,000 Barnes, G. L ...... Appointed legal adjuster (one 2, 000 Boston. Resigned Dec. 24, 1922. h alf time) July 15, 1918. Resigned. Not available. Barber, Benn ...... Appointed assistant <}()unsel 5, 000 New York. DISTRICT OFFICES. A.pr. 28 1919. Promoted July 11 1919 ...... 6,000 Promoted district counsel Feb. 7,500 Rate of 16, 1920. Llst No. 4. annual Resigned May 31, 1923. Dates of employment. compen District. Beckett, H. B .. _, ...... Appointed a.ssistant counsel -4, 000 Portland. sation. July 19 1918. Promoted attorney Mar. 1, 6,000 1919. • ACTIVE. Resigned Mar. 15, 1920. Campbell, A. R ...... Appointed advisory counsel, 2, 400 New York. Allen, Chas. E .••.•.•.. Appointed assistant district $3,000 Portland. plus $150 per month for office counsel Jan. 1, 1923. expense, June 28, 1919. Promoted July 1, 1923 ...... 3,600 Promoted Aug. 1, 1919 .•. ·-..•. 6,000 Biddle, George ....•..•. Appointed assistant counsel 5,000 New York. Resigned Aug. 31, 1919. May 1, 1923. Carson, Adam C...... Appointed attorney Sept. 15, 4,500 Do. Conybeare, G. R ...... Appointed assistant counsel 4,000 Do. 1919. Sept. 23, 1919. Resigned May 15, 1920. Promoted Mar. 1, 1920 ...... 4,500 C-Onrad, W. Davis...... A~E1~ted attorney Feb. 1, 3,600 Do. Promoted June 16, 192-0 ...... 5,000 Dwyer, J. J ...... 9 Appointed district counsel Oct. 6,000 San Francisco. Promoted assistant admiralty 6,000 26, 1921. counsel }.fay 24, 1919. Easton, Kerner .•.•.... .Appointed assistant counsel 5,000 New York. Promoted Feb. 1, 1921...... 7,500 May I, 1923. Resigned .Aug. 30, 1921. Gray, H. M ...... Appointed admiralty attorney 7,500 Do. Cosgrove, Howard G •.. Oct. 26, 1921. A~~f}~ted attorney .Aug. 1, 3, 000 Seattle. Gray, W.~ ...... Appointed admiralty attorney 2,500 Do. Promoted May 1, 1918 ...... 5,000 Oct. 11 1921. Promoted Feb. 1, 1919 ...... 7,000 Promotea Apr. I, 1923 ...... 3,300 Resigned Sept. 24, 1920. Hawkins, J. C...... Appointed assistant counsel 3,500 Do. Crane, C. B ...... Appointed assistant district 6,000 San Francisco. Aug. 1, 1922. counselJune 9, 1919. 416 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEl\IBER 19, List of counsel and attorneys ioho have been appointed or have acted Emergency Fleet Oorporation attorneys specially employed not for upon the regular staff of tile Utiited States Shipping Board Emergency merly on the permanent staff, for xC-t·vice within the United States. Fleet Corporation tip to and imoluding August 21, 19i!S-Continued. (Employed up to and including August 21, 1923.) DISTRICT OFFICES-Continued. Amotmt List No. 7. Dates of special employment. promised District. or paid. Alexander & Dowell ...••••. Prior to March, 1921...... Sl,509. 02 EPARATED-- •. 726.10 (Doctor Edye). ('rhacher & Wright). Fessenden & Holcomb, 1922 ....•.•.•...... •...•...... 504. 52 Updike, Edwin H ...... Aug. 23-Dec. 21, 1921~ .....••...•.•••••••••. 4,500.00 Ross & Lawrence. ~Contos. 2 Francs. 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 417 Emergency Fleet Corporation attorneys specially employed, not fot't1H'lt'lY United States P r otective and Indemnity Agenoy (Inc.), designated on the vermanent staff, for service outside the United States-Con t·epresentatives, with amount of compensation, f1'01n Febnmry 80, 1923, tinued. to December 1, 1923-Continued. Amount List No. 10. Address. Amount. List No. 8. Dates of special employment. promised or paid. McCutcheon, Olney, Man- Los Angeles, Calif...... •••••.•.•...... $1,558.39 non & Greene. Fitzgerald, D. & T ...... 1921...... •....••••••.•••••••••••••.•••..•. 1 $19. 01 McKenney & Flannery .... Washington, D. C ..•...... •.•.•...... Fragoso, Antonio, Carlos 1922 ....•.•••..••••••••••••• ; •••••••••••••. 2,229.18 McI>or, Kaufman, Smith Yokohama, Japan....•...... 3,m:~ Da Rocha. & Yamamoto. Franck, Antoine .••.•..•.. 1919 ....•.•••.••.••••••••••••.•••••.•.••••• (09.19 Meredith, Holdeni._llague, Montrea'. , Canada ...•..•••••••••...... •.. 548. 0' Goutrie, L. E...... 1922 ...... •••.••.•..•••••.•••.. 226. 00 Shaughnessy & .tJ.oward. Ha~Iey &: McCormick...... Prior to March, 1921. .•••••...•••.•••••••.. I 1.10.0 Michalinos Maritime & Co. Salonica, Greece ...... •••.•••...•...... 50.28 Jackson & Co., A ..M...... 1919 ...... •.•••••••.••.•••••. 7.33 Middleton & Co ...... Newcastle, England ...... •.•.•...•.•...... 9.66 Jansson & Sundman ...•... Prior to March, 1921...... •.. g 20, 972. 46 Miller, Huger, Wilbur & Charleston, S. C•••..•.••••••••.•••....••.. 00.00 Knight, Herbert...... Prior to March, 1921 (contingent fee). Miller. LeFleur, MacDongall, Mac- 1920-21. ..•.•.•.•..•.••••••••.•••..••.••... 1,029.30 1 55.60 Farlane & Bardav. ~k~ir.tr~~b1:.· ~er· &· ~:~ ~o~i~:'~:: :: :: : : : : :: :: : : : : : : : : : : : : :: : 1&1.0:J Leman,!, Philip, Dr·...... 1920 ...... •.•••••••...... 36.84 Sullivan. ):,obo, .tJ.addock, Dr ...... Septemher, 11122 ...... •.••...... 291. 03 Pears, H. E...... • . . . . Constantinople, Turkey ...... 18. 8l Mcinnis, Lovett & Jenks.. Prior to March, 1921. ....••••...... •••.... 20.00 Pettingill, N. B. K ...•.... Tampa, Fla ...... •...... 55.95 MR.Clay,_Mnrray & Spens .. Prior to March, 1921. ..•..•.••...... •.....• 149.12 2,070.40 :Moses, .tJ.erbert...... 1922 ...... ••.• l. 362. 00 ~~n~tn~ ~0~16i; ·&· ·iir-es: · ~foabir:.ruAi~~~-~-- :: :: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 400.SS Nebel, Carlos...... 1921. ...•...... •.•.•.•..•.•...... •.... a;ooo. oo ham. Ramos, A.G .....•...... 1922 ...... •....•...... • Pitcairn, Bell, Dutch & Boston, Mass ...... •....••....•...•.•.... 108. 40 Sanderson &: Co...... 1921 ...... •.....•...•...... •...... •. a~i ~~ Sa!ltry. Schroeder, Stammann & 1921-1923 ...... •••...•...... 31. 25 Pugh & Co ...... •••.. Calcutta, India ...... •...... •...... 5.0! Nolte. Raymond, G. H ...... Providence, R. I...... 439. 30 Schu17.e-Smidt, Dr ...... 1921-1923 ...•....••...•...•••.•••.....•..•• 12.01 Rennie, J. T. & Son ...... Durham, Sou1h Africa .••••.•.•...•••..... 43.67 26. 58 Rombach & Lycklama .... RotterdamiHolland .....••...... •... 26.49 241. 66 I Ross, Lawrence & Selph ... Manila, P ...... ••...... •.. 315. 00 ~~~~~ j6~~;~ :~:ii~11~~: i~L~:: :: ::: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :1 l 19. I. 8 Stein, .Tno. & Oscar Fich... Copenhagen, Denmark ....•...... 22. 41: 3.24 1 Pounds sterling. ' Finnish marks. iPesos. 52.50 680. 99 United States Protective cmd ln Collin~, Wm. E ...... •..... Fob. 16, 1923 ...... ••••••••••••••••••••... -1 $4,800 I Cunningham, F. H ...... Mar. 1, 1923...... ••••••••••..•...... 7,000 . EXHIBIT A. 3 600 Dreyer, Joseph M ..••••.... May I, 1923-Nov. 15 on...... { 4; 800 COX'l'RACT NO. 8149. W'AsHrnoTOr., D. C., December 14, 19!!. s~:~~ch~~~~j::::::::: ±~~~1/~~ ~;;:!~~i~pioyeci"E:file~:- M~ I 'The Uxr.rEo S'.l'ATES SHIPPIKG BOARD Hilton'Jl. Ral1li1···...... •. Sept. 15, 1923...... •...... ••...... •. 11'.000 EMEUGENCY FLEET CORPORATIOK, Mead, dwin .....••••.. M>~~\l;;\on.::::::::::::::::::::::::::: i:~ Washington, D. 0. DEAR Srns: In arriving at the fixed fee set forth in subdivision (a) of paragraph G of the agreement made with you this day by the Uniteu :::.:·:.:~~ .~~:~~: ••:··~~~·:.·~~:.::.:;;. ~~~:.~ .. :~:: ~-·:: ...... :, .: I State P. & I. Agency (Inc.), of which I am president, the understanding repreBentatives, wlth amount of compensation, from Fe1Jt·11a1·y 20, 19.?3, is that my personal compensation to be received through the corpora to Deceniber 1, 11J~3. tion directly and/ or indirectly is to be an amount not to exceed $20,000 a year. List No. 10. Address. Amount. It is provided by said ag1·eemen1. that in certain contingencies all of the authorized capital stock of the said United States P. & I. Agency (Inc.), all of wllich I now own, shall become the property of the United Barbosa, Carana & Co ..... Montendeo, Uruguay ...... SH.88 Hatesons &: Co ...... Liverpool, England ....•...... 295.68 States Shipping Board. Berirenske Baltic Trans- Danzig, Poland ..•••...•...•...... 23.00 I will deposit with the 1.reasurer of the United States Shipping Board ports. Ltd. Emergency Fleet Corporation certificates for all of the authorized Beveridge, Sutherland & Leith, England .... - ~ ..•...... 1. 02 f1mith. capital stock of the United States I'. & I. Agency (Inc.), duly indor ed in Biddle, Paul, Daw on & Philadelphia, Pa ...... 35.00 blank for transfer, such stock to be delivered to and become the prop Yocum. ei·ty of the United States Shipping Board or its nominee immediately Brennan, P.A ...... •. New York ...... •..••.••..•.....•...... • 4,000. 00 Bro'.ldhurst, E mentioned, acting subject to the control and direction of the owner, the agent will meet all such ex,penses, including taxes, as· may be and the agent is ready to agree to perform such services ; and incurred by the .agent otherwise than in the performance of its duties Whereas for the purpose of directing and supervising the activiti-:ls hereunder. of the agent, the owner lntends to appoint a supervising committee (b) Such additional amount as may be sufficient to meet the actual of three members, hereinafter referred to as the committee: expenses, other than those mentioned in subdivision (a) of this article, Now, therefore, in consideration of the mutual and qependent incurred by the agent in the performance of its services and approved promises hereinafter set forth, and of other good and valuable con by a member of the committee. siderations, the parties agree as follows : The owner will deliver to the agent forthwith upon the execution of 1. The owner hereby appoints the United States P. & I. Agency this contract the sum of $12,000, to be held by the agent separate and (Inc.) its agent, with the duties and powers hereinafter set forth. apart from its other funds as a revolving trust fund to be used by the The owner will forthwith appoint a supervising committee of three agent 1n payjng, from time to time, as they have been earned or ex members, with the powers and duties herein set forth, and which, pended, its fees and current operating expenses hereunder. As of except as herein otherwise provided, may act 1n any matter through the 1st <>i each month the agent shall present to the owner a state two of its members, either at a meeting of the committee or by writing ment showing the payments made from such fund, accompanied by signed by any two members. The membership of the committee !s detailed vouchers and receipted bills. Upon receipt of such statement, subject to change at any tim1?, written notice of any such change approved by a member of the committee, the owner will pay to the to be given to the agent. agent the amount thereby shown to be required to bring the revolving 2. The agent hereby accepts its appointment hereunder as such agent trust fund up to $12,000 and maintain it at that figure. Any balance and the authority hereby conferred upon it, and agrees to perform all in the said fund upon the completion of this contract shall be returned its duties hereunder fully, faithfully, and diligently, according to the by the agent to the owner. The aforesaid revolving trust fund shall best of its ability; and to that end the agent agrees to furnish at its be kept on deposit in an a.ccotmt subject at all times to draft 1n whole own cost and expense the services of its president, its vice president, a or in part by the treasurer of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. If at manager of the cargo claims department, a manager of the personal the end of any calendar year, beginning with the year 1923, or in case injury claims department, 11 manager of the investigation department, of the prior termination of the said agreement, at the end of the and its secretary nnd treasurer. The agent shall exercise reasonable period during which compensation is payable to the agent, there shall care in the selection of its officers and employees and agrees to remove be any unexpended balance of its fixed fee after paylng and pr<>viding or discharge any officer o.r employee on the written request of the com for the expenses to be borne by it as provided for in subdivision (b) mittee. of paragraph 6 of this contract, such balance will be accounted for and 3. The duties of the agent are as follows: paid buck by the agent to the owner. (n) To inve tigate all claims against the owner and/or its vessels 7. The agent shall keep such accounts as may be required by the of the J..'ind that have heretofore been covered by the insurance afforded owner and in a manner ap:proved by the owner, and said accounts by the said American Steamship Owners' Mutual Protection & Indem shall be subject to inspection by the owne.r at an times. nity Association (Inc.) and other claims which may be referred to the 8. The agent will cause to be deposited with the treasurer of the agent by the owner. UT.lited States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation certifi (b) To negotiate settlements of such claims subject to approval b!' cates for all of the authol1zed capital stock of the United States the owner as hereinafter set forth. P. & I. Agency (Inc.), duly indoxsed in blank for transfer, such stock (c) To assist the owner in the preparation for trial of all claims of to be delivered to and become the property of the United States Ship the kind enumerated in subdivision (a) hereof which may be litigated, ping Board or its nominee immediately up<>n the o-ccurrence of either subject to the control and direction of the general counsel of the of the following events, to wit : owner. (1) Service of notice by the owner upon the agent of termination of (d) To perform all such miscellaneous services as are nece sary or its authority as hereinafter provided. incidental to the protection of the owner and the determination of its (2) Upon the resignation, withdrawal, or other separation of the liabilities in connection with such claims, such as arranging for sur president of the said United States P. & I. Agency (Inc.), or the serv veys of cargoes alleged to be damaged or of other injuries to property ice of written notice, in accordance with the terms of this agreement, claimed to ha'"°e been caused by the owner or its vessels, providing for of a request that a change be made in the office of president of the meillcal examinations and care of persons injured in cases where the said corporation. owner may be liable, and otherwise. 9. The agent will, whenever required by the owner, furn1sh a bond (e) To keep such statistics concerning claims against the owner and satisfactory to the owner for the faithful handling, disbursing, and the records of its managing operators in connection with such claims as accounting for the moneys and funds received by the agent hereunder. may be required by the owner. 10. All power and authority hereby conferred upon the agent may (f) To maintain an office and an adequate staff in the city of New be terminated by action of the United States Shipping Board at any York for the conduct of its business and to employ and direct the activi time and for any reason on written notice delivered or malled to the ties of such field agents in this country and abroad as may be dlncted agent at its otfice in New York City. The agent may terminate this or authorized by the owner. contract at any time upon 30 days' written notice to the owner. In The agent shall jn all respects and at all times be subject to the case of termination of the authority of the agent by the owner, the direction of the committee. agent's right to compensation in accordance herewith shall continue 4. The powers and authority hereby conferred upon the agent are as for 30 days, during which period the agent shall be obligated to con· follows: tinue to perform such of the duties herein imposed upon it as shall (a) To make settlements for and on behalf of the owner, and to be required by the committee. prepare for execution in behalf of the owner contracts embodying settle In witness whereof the parties a.bove named have caused this con ments of claims of the kind referred to in subdivision (a) of article 3 tract to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written. hereof; provided, however. that the said settlements shall be subject to (SEAL.) UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD. the written appro>al of the owner given ~ follows : By UNITED STAT.l\'lS SHIPPING BO.AJ!D Where the amount to be paid by the owner shall not exceed $j,OQO the EME.RGDNCY FLEET CORPORATION. owner's approval may be given in its behalf by one member of the com Attest; mittee. Where the amount to be paid by the owner shall exceed $5,000 CLIFFORD W. SMITH, Secretary. the approval must be given by at least two members of the committee. By J. W. McINTOSH, Director of Finance. (b) Within the limits of instructions given by committee to dira~t the (SEAL.] UNITED STATES P. & I. AGENCY (INC.). activities of all managing operators of the owner's vessels in connection Attest: with the handling of claims. M. F. FERGUSON, Secretary. 5. The agent and all its officers will de>ote themselves excluslv~Iy to By N ATHA~ A. SMYTH, President. the work called for under this contract, except as may be otherwise per .Approved as to form : mitted by the committee; provided, however, that the agent will not BOLITHA J. LAWS, perform any service or do any work for parties other than the owner .Assistant to the General Oou11sel. or its agents or representutives unless a written agreement providing Approved: therefor shall first have been entered into between the agent and the SA?\FO.RD H. E. FREUND, owner. Gene1·ai Oounsel. 6. There ball be payable to the agent from the date hereof the fol CHANOE OF REFERENCE. lowing amounts: (a) .A fixed fee at the rate of $6:5,000 per year. l\Ir. LODGE. I ask permissi<:m to have changed the reference For and in consideration of said fixed fee the agent will furnish, of the bill ( S. 1188) to protect the public against fraud by pro without further cost to the owner, the services of the officers enumer hibiting the manufacture, sale, or transportation in interstate ated in article 2 hereo!, and will pay their personal expens~s. including commerce of misbranded, misrepresented, or falsely described travel expenses, in the conduct of the agent's business, except such ex articles, to regulate tbe traffic therein, and for other pur traordinary expenses as may be authorized by the committee, and poses, which I introducecl on tlle 15th instant. It was re- 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 419 ferred by mistake to the Committee on the Judiciary. It For the purposes of this resolution the committee is authorized to should have been referred to the Committee on Interstate hold hearings, to sit during the sessions or recesses of the Sixty-eighth Commerce. Congress at such times and places, to employ such counsel, transporta The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, the Com tion experts, and clerical and other stenographic as istance as it may mittee on the Judiciary will be discharged from the further deem advisable. The committee is further authorized to send for per comdderation of the bill and it will be referred to the Com sons and papers; to require, by subprena or otherwise, the attendance mittee on Interstate Commerce. of witnesses, the production of books, papers, and documents; to ad minister oaths; and to take testimony, as it may deem advisable. The PETITIONS. cost of . tenograpbic service to report such bearings shall not be in The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before tlle Senate reso excess of 25 cents per hundred words. The expenses of the committee lutions of the Old Colony Alliance of the Woman's Home Mis shall be paid one-half from the contingent fund of the Senate and one sionary Association, in the State of Massachusetts, favoring an half from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives. amendment to the Constitution to prohibit child labor, the pas The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Tbe Senator from New sage of legislation to enforce the eighteenth amendment and Hampshire asks unanimous consent for the immediate consider the Volstead Act, and also the passage of legislation to punish ation of the concurrent resolution. Is there objection? lynchers and to suppress mob violence, which were referred to Mr. KING. I would like to inquire of the Senator from New the Committee on the Judiciary. Hampshire if he does not think the importance of the concur Mr. LADD presented the petition of J. 0. Manger ancl 200 rent re ·olution calls for its consideration by the Committee on other citizens of Alamo, N. Dak., praying for the enactment of Commerce. Speaking for myself, it seems to me that a com legi~lation to stabilize the price of wheat, which was referred mittee which have given a great deal of attention to waterways, to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. an cl doubtless the ·subject of tbe concurrent resolution, are He also presented the petitions of V. Muggli and 8 other citi prepared to make some report ; or if not, they are ready to go W. zen::; of Carson, of F. Haas and other citizens of Hazen, of on with the examination. It occurs to me that a concurrent A. Perch and 26 other citizens of Elgin, of J. R. Blakely a_nd resolution of such importance ought to go to that committee, 13 other citizens of Van Hook, of 0. E. Liske and 50 other citi and let them determine whether or not th~re is any necessity to zen of Parshall, and of F. W. Blaich and 23 other citizens of create another committee or commission to make an investiga Sweet Briar, all in the State of North Dakot~, praying for tion with which they are familiar and which they are now mak Lncren.sed tariff duties on wheat, flax, and its 01ls and substi ing in part at least. tute oils used therefor, which were referred to the Committee Mr. WADS WORTH. Would the Senator from New Hamp on Finance. shire object to a reference of the concurrent resolution to the ~fr. WILLIS presented a petition of employees of the Owens Committee on Commerce? Bottle Co., of Toledo, Ohio, praying for the adoption of the so 1\1r. KEYES. I would like to make a brief statement. There called Mellon tax-reduction plan, which was referred to the is a committee now making the investigation under authority Committee on Finance. of the Senate. During the last Congress a select committee l\fr. WALSH of Montana. I present a large number of pe was appointed, and it is functioning to-day. It has authority to tition· numerously signed and identical in character. I ask act through the Sixty-eighth Congress. It has done some work that the body of one petition, without the signatures, may be during the pa t summer. All the concurrent resolution does is printed in the RECORD, and that tue whole number may be re to make it a joint inve tigation by having Members of the ferred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. House act with the Senate committee. It creates no new com There being no objection, the petitions were referred to the mittee so far as the Senate is concerned. Committee on Foreign Relations, and the body of one of them Mr. SMOOT. I ask that the concurrent resolution may go wa ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows : over until to-morrow at least, so that an investigation may be We, the undersigned, do petition the President of the TJnited States made of it. and the Congress thereof tllat immediate action be taken leading to the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection is made ; and the participation of the United States in the Permanent Court of Inter concurrent re. olution will go to the calendar. national Justice, believing this to be the first step toward the outlawry .ASSIST.AN'!' CLERK FOR THE COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF of war and of that fuller and more far-reaching international co COLUMBIA. operation which shall encl war. MONTANA LE.I.GUE OF WOi\IE~ VOTERS. ~fr. KEYES. From the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate I report back favorably FUNERAL EXPENSES OF THE LlTE SENATOR DILLI ~aHAM. without amendment Senate Resolution 13, authorizing an assist ~fr. KEYES, from the Committee to Audit and Control the ant clerk to the Committee on the District of Columbia. I ask Contingent Expense of the Senate, to which wa · referred Sen unanimous consent for the immediate consideration of the reso ate Resolution 67, ·ubmitted by Mr. GREENE on the 15th in lution. stant, reported it without amendment, and it wa · considered by The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Secretary will report unanimous consent and agreed to, as follows : the re olution for information. Rc!lolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be, and be hereby is, au The resolution ( S. Res. 13), submitted by Mr. BALL on the thorized and directed to pay, from the contingent fund of the Senate, 6th instant, was read, as follows: the actual and necessary expen ·es incurred by the committee appointed Resolved, That the Committee on the District of Columbia be, alld by the Vice President in arranging for and attending the funeral of the it hereby is, authorized to employ during the Sixty-eighth Congress au Hon. William P. Dillingham, late a Senator from the State of Ver· assi taut clerk at the rate of $2,000 per annum, to be paid out of the mont, upon vouchers to be approved by the Committee to Audit and contingent fund of the Senate. Control the Contingent Expen es of the Senate. l\lr. JONES of Washington. I understood from the Senator WATERWAY FRO~ THE GREA'l' LAKES TO THE GULF' OF MEXICO. from Delaware [Mr. BALL] that this was to be simply a session appointment. According to the wording of the resolution it ~Ir. KEYES. From the Committee to Audit and Control the seems to be for the entire Congress. Coutingent Expenses of the Senate I report back favorably 1\lr. BALL. I did not know it had been so drawn. I shall with amendments Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 2, provid be perfectly satisfied with a session appointment. The resolu ing for a joint committee to investigate the problem of a water tion was prepared in the financial clerk's office, and I did not way from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. I ask for notice that point particularly. the immediate consideration of the concurrent resolution. 1\lr. JONES of Washington. I think it should provide "dw· Mr. CURTIS. Let it be read. · ing the first session of the Sixty-eighth Congress." Then, per The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Secretary will read the haps, at the next session similar provision may be made. concurrent resolution for information. Mr. FLETCHER. l\!ay I ask how many clerks the committee The concurrent resolution ( S. Con. Res. 2) submitted by :arr. now bas? 1\lcCoRMICK on the 10th instant, was read, as follows: Mr. BALL. The committee has no more clerks than has the R esolved by the Senate (the House of Representativ es conc1in·ing), Senator himself or any Senator who has no committee. We That a joint committee, to consist of five Senators, to be appointed by have 11ad four all told, and the work of the committee is so the President pro tempore of the Senate, and seven Members Qf the great that it can not be performed with the present force. Hou e of Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House, I could not permit my clerks to take their usual vacation dur is hereby authorized to investigate the problem of a 9-foot channel ·in ing the summer. I. can not permit them to take the Christmas the waterway from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of MexicQ and the vacation, because we must prepare the report on traffic condi problem of the navigability of the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri tions in the District of Columbia. I think the committee is en Rivers. titled to an additional clerk. 420 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 19, The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The request of the Senator SELF-STYLED MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS. from New Hampshire is for the immediate consideration uf the Mr. BORAH. From the Committee on Education and Labor resolution. Ls there objection? I report back favorably without amendment Senate Resolu l\.Ir. JONES of Washington. With the understanding the tion 61, and ask for its immediate consideration. Senator from Delawue has expressed, I shall not object. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Secretary will read the l\.Ir. FLETCHER. Why not amend the resolution? resolution for information. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolution ls not yet The resolution ( S. Res. 61), submitted by Mr. CoPELAND on before the Senate. Is there objection to the consideration of the 12th instant, was read, as follows: the re olution? The Cbair hears none. Ml'. JONES of Washington. I now suggest the amendment Resolved, That the Committee on Education and Labor be, and hereby which I spoke of a moment ago. is, authorized to inquire into and ascertain the following facts: The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment will be (a) If the United States mails have been used by self-styled medi· stated. cal institutions and Ol'ganizations known popularly as " diploma mills " for purposes of fraud in connection with the sale of degrees or diplomas The READING CLERIC On page 1, line 3, after the word" the,, insert ,.. first se ·sion of the." o as to read "to employ during in· preparation for medical practice. the first ses ion of the Sixty-eighth Congress an assistant (b) If the public health has b.een injured by the activity of such c:lerk," and so forth. self-styled medical institution and " diploma mills." The amendment wa:s agreed to. (c) If graduates of any ucb low-standard institutions are employed The resolution as amended was agreed to. by the United States Public Health Service or any other branch of the Government. EMPLOYMENT OF ASSISTANT CLERK TO COMMITTEE ON NAVAL (d) If the standing of American medical institutions and of our A.FF.AIRS. medical profession generally bas been injured in other countries by the 1\Ir. KEYES. From the Committee to Audit and Contr:>l the action of such self- tyled me Mr. l\IcKELLAR. Does the Senator from Delaware know struct, maintain, and operate certain bridges across Fox River; whether or not the bill is constitutional? to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. BALL. I desire to say, however, that the bill is not a By Ur. NORRIS: revenue bill. A bill (S. 1541) granting a pension to Mary l\L Stewart; and l\Ir. McKELLAil. In my judgment it is a bill proposing to A bill (S. 1542) granting a pension to Charlotte Woods; to raise revenue. It is therefore clearly unconstitutional, and the the Committee on Pensions. question of its constitutionality ought to be looked into. It is A bill ( S. 1543) for the relief of George ID. Harpham; to the an important bill, and I object to its present consideration. Committee on Claims. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection is made, and the By l\Ir. SPENCER: bill will go to the calendar. A bill ( S. 1544) granting an increase of pension to l\Iary A. BILLS INTRODUCED. Manley (with accom:panying papers) ; to the Committee on Bills were introduced, read the first time, and, by unanimous Pensions. consent, the second time, and referred as follows: By l\fr. KING : By Mr. IlURSUl\1: A bill (S. 1545) to transfer to the Interstate Commerce Com A bill ( S. 1521) authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to mission certain authority now vested in the United States Ship enter into a contract with the Elephant Butte irrigation dis ping Board ; to the Committee on Commerce. trict of New Mexico ancl the El Paso County water improve By Mr. SHIELDS : ment district No. 1, of Texas, for the carrying out of the pro A bill ( S. 1546) to amend the war risk insura-pce act to pro visions of tbe treaty of January 16, 1907, between the United vide for monthly allowances in lieu of compensation, and for States of America and the United States of Mexico, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Finance. other purposes; to the Committee on Irrigation and Recla By Ur. REED of Missouri: mation. A bill ( S. 1547) to carry out the findings of the Court of By l\Ir. SHlilPPARD: Claims in the case of city of Glasgow, Mo. ; to. the Committee on A bill (S. 1522) to amend an act entitled "An act relating to Claims. the liability of common carriers by railroad to their employees PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO VOLSTEAD ACT. in certain cases," approved April 22, 1908 (with accompanying Mr. EDGE. l\1r. President, I introduce two bills, and I wish papers) ; to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. to make a briif statement as to their object. The bills propose A bill (S. 1523) for the relief of D. W. Fidler, Liberty loan amendments to the so-called Volstead Act, upon which I desire subscriber of the National Bank of Cleburne, Tex. (with accom to address the Senate at a later period. panying papers) ; to the Committee on Claims. . The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bills will be read by By Mr. PHIPPS : title. A bill (S. 1526) for tlle relief of the Rio Grande Junction The bill (S. 1524) to amend the national prohibition act, as :nanway Co.; to the Committee on Claims. supplemented, in respect to the definition of intoxicating liquor; A bill ( S. 1527) to vest title to school lands in the State in and which the lands are situated, if a proceeding is not instituted The bill ( S. 1525) to amend the national prohibition act, as before the Department of the Interior within 12 years after the supplemented, in respect to the issuance by physicians of pre State is admitted to the Union or within 12 years after the scriptions for intoxicating liquors, were severally read twice by survey of the school-land sections was approved, to determine their titles and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. whether such lands were of known mineral character; to the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys. CH.ARLES FORT, PARRIS ISL.A.1m, s. c. By Mr. ROBINSON: l\.Ir. S:\lITH. Mr. President, I introduce a blll to which I A bill (S. 1528) authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to should like to have the committee to which it may be referred accept the fee simple title to- a certain tract of land adjoining give as expeditious attention as possible. It is a matter of his the Hot Springs .i. Tational Park, Ark., donated to the United toric interest to all of us in the Senate. 'lltates of America for use in connection with Hot Springs Na- Parris Island, s. o., was the place where the first French set- tional Park; to the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys. tJers landed. They were Huguenots and built a fort to protect By Mr. WALSH of Montana: themselves, which was known as Charles Fort. It ls perhaps A bill ( S. 1529) for the erection of a public building at the site where the first white settlers ever made a permanent Glendive, Mont., and appropriating money therefor; to the Com- settlement on the coast of North America. The remains of the mittce on Public Buildings and Grounds. old fort are still traceable and have been located. Descendants By ~1r. JONES of New l\Iex.'i.co: of those settlers and members of the Huguenot Society of my A bill ( S. 1531) granting a pension to Adelaide Wolford; and State are making arrangements to have a meeting next year to A bill ( S. 1532) granting a pension to Ernest H. Hill; to be attended by certain representatives of the French Govern- th~ Committee on Pensions. ment, of the English Government, and of the American Gov- By Mr. DIAL: ernment at this historic spot. The fort was named Charles Fort A bill ( S. 1533) for the relief of Sulllvans Island, S. C. ; to in recognition of the King of France at the time this exodus the Committee on Claims. occurred. By l\ir. JOHNSON of California: A bill (S. 1534) authorizing the President to reappoint Maj. There is now nothing there to mark the spot. Parris Island Btti-ry Walter Stephenson. United States Army (retired), to is at thi~ time owneu entirely by the Government. The l\larine the position and rank of major, Coast Artillery Corps, in the Corp have a station located there. Those particularly inter- United States Army; to the Committee on l\lilitary Affairs. ested in this matter merely desire that some enduring monu- Ily Mr. BORAH: ment be erected that will mark the location of the first settle- .A bill (S. 1535) granting relief to persons who served in the ment of that splendid strain wbich has perhaps influenced the Military Telegraph Corps of the Army ll.uring the Civil War; history of this country more than any other. As the bill is in- to the Committee 'on Military Affairs. troduced it calls for an appropriation of $10,000, if so much Ily l\fr. UNDERWOOD : mar be necessary, to mark with an enduring monument Charles A bill ( S. 1536) for the relief of Capt. James G. Oakley; to Fort. the Committee on Claims. I should like to state further, l\lr. President, that the reason By Mr. MOSES: . I have taken the time of the Senate to make this explanation A bill ( S. 1537) granting an increase of pension to Albert is that I think, if there is a spot in all America which ought Young (with accompanying papers) ; to the Committee on to be marked so that future generations may know the history Pen ions. of the country and the influences that have molded it so By l\Ir. WAD SWORTH: splendidly, Charles Fort is the one spot that should be so A bill (S. 1538) to create a bureau of civil aeronautics in the marked. I hope the committee to which the bill may be ref-erred. Department of Commerce, encourage and regulate the naviga- will designate the proper Federal officials who will have the tion of civil aircraft, and for other purposes; to the Committee disbursing of the money to mark this spot. on Commerce. The bill (S. 1530) providing for the marking with an endur· By l\Ir. McKINLEY: ing monument the site of Charles Fort, S. C., was read twice by A bill ( S. 1539) extending the time for the construction of a its title and referred to the Committee on .Appropriations. bridge across Fox River by the city of Aurora, ~·· ~nd granting I DI8CHARGE OF OIL IN UNITED STATES COASTAL WATERS. the consent of Congress to the removal of an ex1stwg dam and to its replacement with a new structure; and 1\Ir. BROUSSARD submitted an amendment intended to be A bill ( S. 1540) granting the consent of Congress to the city I proposed by him to the bill ( S. !J36) to protect navigation from ~t Aurora, Kane County, Ill., a municipal corporation, to con- obstruction and injury by preventing the discharge of oil into 422 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DEOEl\fBER 19, the coastal navigable waters of the United States, which was The resolution (S. Res. 94) was read, as follows: referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and be is hereby, printed. directed to submit to the Senate at an early date information in refer~ INDEBTEDNESS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF RUSSIA. ence to the acquisition of sites for public buildings, appropriation l\Ir. LADD. I submit a resolution which I ask may be printed available for the erection Qf a building on each site, and amount esti~ and lie on the table. mated necessary to be appropriated for the erection of a suitable build~ The resolution ( S. Res. 92) was read, ordered to be printed, ing on each site heretofore acquired, to wit : and to lie on the table, as follows: (a) Name of each city or town (by States) where the Government has acquired a site on which no building has been erected ; Resolved, That the Secretary of State be, and ts hereby, requested, (b) Date title to each site was acquired; If not incompatible with the public interest, to transmit to tbe Senate, (c) Consideration paid for each site; for its information, all papers, documents, or other matter in hls pos· (d) Amount appropriated by Congress for the purchase of each site session pertaining to the indebtedness of tbe Government of Russia to and/or the erection of a building thereon ; the Government of tbe United States; the names of all persons, com (e) Balance of appropriation available for the erection of a building panies, and corporations, if any, owing allegiance to the United States on each site ; - to whom the Russian Government is indebted, and tbe terms and cir (f) Amount estimated necessary for CQngress to appropriate for the cumstances under which the indebtedness was contracted, the amounts erection of a suitable building on each individual site heretofore of indebtedness to each person, company, and corporation heretofore acquired over and above balance of appropriation available. mentioned, together with tbe rules, regulations, and requirements for mulated by the Department of State, if any, which are made a condition The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the im precedent to the exercise of the incontrovertible rigbt of every Ameri mediate consideration of the resolution? can citizen to exchange his products for the products of the citizens or l\.Ir. FERNALD. l\fr. President, I quite agree with what the subjects of a friendly nation with whom we are not now and never Senator from Florida [Mr. FLETCHER] has had to say about this have been at war; and information as to whether there exists at this resolution. This information will be very necessary for the. .time, o.r bas existed since the armistice, any secret agreements, confi Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds before they are llential understandings, diplomatic arrangements, or verbal compacts able to act on the subject matter; and while it is very generally between officials of the Department of State and the officials of any understood that there will be no omnibus public buildings bill foreign goYernmen ts with the view of prohibiting, restricting, or re at this session, it will be necessary to construct some public tarding trade between the peoples of these countries and the people of buildings. I shall be glad, therefore, to have the resolution: Rus ia; also all documentary evidence, if any, in the possession of the passed. department as to the activities of the Russian Government in spread The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the ing propaganda during the past three years detrimental to our institu pre ent consideration of the resolution? The Chair hears none. tions and encouraging the overthrow of our form of government. The resolution was considered by unanimous consent and agreed to. HEARINGS BEFORE COM~IITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR. ALFRED B. WILLIAMS. Mr. BORAH. I submit a formal resolution authorizing the Mr. Sil\IMONS submitted the following resolution ( S. Res. Committee on Education and Labor to hold hearings. I ask 95), which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the unanimous consent for the immediate consideration of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the resolution. Senate: The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Secretary will read the resolution. Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate be, and he hereby, is, authorized and directed to appoint Alfred B. Williams an additionar The resolution ( S. Res. 93) was read, as follows: messenger, who shall be paid at the rate of $1,440 per annum from the Resolved, That tbe Committee on Education and Labor, or any sub contingent fund of the Senate, upon >ouchers to be approved by the committee thereof, be, and hereby is, authorized during the Sixty Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senat'W eigbth Congres to -send for persons, books, and papers, to administer until otherwise provided for by law. oaths, and to employ a stenograph~r at a cost not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words to r eport such hearings as may be had in connec THE VETERANS' BUREAU. tion with any subject which may be before said committee, the ex Mr. WALSH of Massachusetts. In the absence of the chair penses thereof to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate, man of the special committee of the Senate investigating the and that the committee, or any subcommittee thereof, may sit during affairs of the Veterans' Bureau, and at his request, I offer a the sessions or recesses of the Senate. resolution dealing with the expenses of that committee and ask The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolution must be re that it be referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the ferred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Contingent Expenses of the Senate. Expenses of the Senate, and will be so referred. The resolution ( S. Res. 96) was referred to the Committee l\Ir. BORAH. I am very anxious to have the resolution to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, as adopted before the recess, as the committee may want to in- follows: • vestigate this awful problem of propaganda. Resoli:ed, That the select committee appointed unller Senate Reso- SITES, LOCATIONS, ETC., OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS. lution 466, March 2, 1923, to investigate the United States Veterans' Bureau, is authorized to expend an additional amount, not exceeding Mr. FLETCHER. l\lr. President, I submit a resolution for $26,500, for clerical and other services, which shall be paid out of tbe which I am going to ask immediate consideration, because I contingent fund of the Senate. think the information that it calls for is already in hand in the SENATOR FROM TEXAS Treasury Department. It bears on this question: - · In a number of instances we have already chosen sites for Mr. SPENCER. I am authorized bY. the Committee on Privi- public buildings. In some instances we have made appropria- 1 leges and Elections to report a resolution in behalf of the com tions for buildings on those sites, and the appropriations have mittee authorizing it to investigate alleged unlawful practices been found inadequate and insufficient. I understand that the in the election of a Senator from the State of Texas. The policy is that we shall ha\e no public buildings bill at this resolution is in the same form as the resolution which the Sen session. I take it, however, that Congress will feel disposed ate adopted in connection with the Newberry contest in the at least to take care of what the Government has already last Congress. It involves the expenditure of money and acquired. This resolution simply asks the Treasury Depart- therefore will have to go to the Committee to Audit and Con ment to advise the Senate as to the location and number of the trol the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. I ask permission sites already acquired in different parts of the country and as to report it and have it so referred . . to appropriations already made for buildings which need to be There being no objection, the resolution ( S. Res. 97) was re supplemented by further appropriations. I think that the infor- ferred to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent mation is already in the possession of the Treasury Depart- Expenses of the Senate, as follows: ment and that no possible expense will be involved in getting Whereas charges of excessive and illegal expenditures of money, it together. It will be very helpful to us in framing a bill that and of unlawful practices have been made in connection with the pri will take care, in the public interest, of the buildings and sites mary nomination and the election of a Senator from tbe State of Texas, which have alTeady been partially proYided for. which election was held on the 7th day of November, 19-22 : Therefol'e I ask for the immediate consideration of the resolution. be it l\fr. CURTIS. Let the resolution be read. Resolved, That tbe Committee on Privileges and Elections, or any The PRESIDENT pro teIQpore. The Secretary will read the subcommittee thereof, be, and it is hereby, authorized and directed to resolution. investigate the said charges and coUlltercharges, it any, of excessive 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 423 and illegal expenditures of money and of unlawful practices in con unanimous consent for the present consideration of the resolu nection with the said election of a Senator from the State of Texas, tion. including the proceedings for the nomination of candidates at the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah asks primary heretofore beld, and to take possession of the ballots, poll unanimous consent for the present consideration of the resolu li ts, registration lists, tally lists, and all other documents and records tion which has been read. Is there objection? relating to the said primary nomination and election; and the Sergeant Mr. BORAH. l\fr. President, I should like to ask the Senator at Arms of the Senate and his deputies and assistants be, and they to defer his request for a moment. I have sent for the Senator are hereby, instructed to carry out the directions of the said Com from Connecticut [Mr. BRANDEGEE]. I should like for him to mittee on Privileges and Elections, or any subcommittee thereof, in be here when the request is made. that behalf; and that the sa.id Committee on Priv3leges and Elections, Mr. KING. Very well. I have no objection to that. or any subcommittee thereof, be, and It is hereby, directed to proceed Mr. McKELLAR. Mr. President, may I ask the Senator from with all convenient speed to take all necessary steps for the preserva Utah if he also asks for information as to the amount of com tion of the said ballots, poll lists, registration lists, tally lists, and pensation where it is paid in the way of fees instead of other documents, and to recount the said ballots, and to take and salaries? pre erve all evidence as to the various matters alleged in the said Mr. KING. No; I merely ask for the amount of compensa charges and countercharges and any answers hereafter filed, and of tion paid to the various attorneys. If the word " compensa any alleged fraud, irregularity, and excessive or illegal expenditures of tion " is not sufficiently comprehensive to embrace fees I will money, and of any unlawful practices In the said election and pri be compelled to answer the Senator from Tennessee in the mary, and as to the intimidation of voters or other facts affecting negative; otherwise, I would answer him affirmatively. the result of said election. Mr. McKELLAR. Would the Senator be willing to amend Resolved further, That the Committee on Privileges and Elections, the- resolution? or any subcommittee thereof, be authorized to sit during the sessions Mr. KING. I have no objection to amending it. of the Senate and during any recess of the Senate, or of the Congress, Mr. McKELLAR. So as to include the words "whether paid and to bold its sessions at such place or places as it shall deem most as salary or as fees " ? convenient for the purposes of the investigation; and to have full Mr. KING. Mr. President, I shall ask that such an amend power to subpcena parties and witne ses, and to require the production ment be made, but in view of the absence of the chairman of of all papers, books, and documents, and other evidence relating to the the Committee on the Judiciary, I shall ask for the present said investigation; and to employ clerks and other necessary assistants, that the resolution lie over until to-morrow, and then I shall and stenographers (at a cost not to exceed 25 cents per 100 words), to ask for its consideration. take and make a record of all evidence taken and received by the com The PRESIDING OFFICER. The resolution will lie upon mittee; and to keep a record ~f its proceedings; and to have su:!h evi the table. dence, records, and other matter required by the committee printed. Resolved fm·ther, That the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and his WATERWAY FR01£ THE GREAT LAKES TO THE GULF OF MEXICO. deputies and assistants are hereby required to attend the said Com Mr. McKELLAR. Mr. President, a few moments ago the mittee on Privlleges and Elections, or any subcommittee thereof, and to Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. KEYES] reported from the execute 1ts directions; that the chairman or any member of th<.? com Committee to Audit and Conh·ol the Contingent Expenses of mittee be, and is hereby, empowered to administer oaths; that each of 2) the parties to the said contest be entitled to representatives and r:ttor the Senate a concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. providing neys at the recount and the taking of evidence; that all disputed ballots for a joint committee to investigate the problem of a waterway and records be preserved so that final action may be had thereon by from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Objection to the of the full committee and the Senate; that the committee may app('lfnt consideration the concurrent resolution was made by the subcommittees of one or more members to represent the committee at Senator from Utah [~Ir. KING]. We have submitted the matter the various places in the making of the recount and the taking of evi further to that Senator, and he bas authorized us to say that dence, and the committee may appoint such supervisors of the recount he withdraws the objection. I therefore ask unanimous con a it may deem best; and that the committee may adopt and enforce sent that the concurrent resolution may be now considered. such rules and regulations for the conduct of the recount and the taking The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the of evidence as it may deem wise, not inconsistent with this resolution; immediate consideration of the concurrent resolution? · Mr. OVERMAN. I ask that the concunent resolution be and that the committee shall report to the Senate as early as may be, read. and from time to time, if it deems best, submit all the testimony and the result of the recount and of the investigation. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Secretary will read the Resolved further, That the expenses incurred in the carrying out of concurrent resolution. these resolutions shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate The concurrent resolution (S. Oon. Res. 2), submitted by Mr. upon vouchers ordered by the committee, or any subcommittee thereof, McCo&i.ncK on the 10th instant, was read as follows : and approved by the chairman of the committee. Resolved by the Senate (the Ho1tse of Representatives concurring), ATTORNEYS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. That a joint committee, to consist of five Senators, to be appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate, and seven Members ot the Mr. KING. I submit a resolution and ask that it lie on the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House, table. I shall a$ for its adoption at a later date. is hereby authorized to investigate the problem of a 9-foot channel in l\lr. JONES of Washington. I ask that the resolution may the waterway from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and the prob be read. lem of the navigability of the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers. The PRESIDING OFFICER (l\ir. LENROOT in the chair). For the purposes of this resolution the committee is authorized to The Secretary will read the resolution. hold hearings, to sit during the sessions or recesses of the Sixty-eighth The resolution ( S. Res. 98) was read, as follows: Congress at such times and places, to employ such counsel, transporta Resolved, That the Attorney General is directed to report to the tion experts, and clerical and other stenographic assistants as it may Senate the number of district attorneys, assistant district attorneys, deem advisable. The committee is further authorized to send for per also special attorneys, and special assistants in the employ of the De sons and papers; to require, by subprena or otherwise, the attendance of partment of Justice, together with the compensation or fees paifl to witnesses, the production of books, papers, and documents; to admin each, the number of such attorneys who have been appointed to special ister oathR; and to take testimony, as it may deem advisable. The work or are employed upon special work for the department, and also to cost of stenographic service to report such hearings shall not be in r eport the number of attorneys and legal advisers who have heretofore excess of 25 cents per hundred words. The expenses of the committee resigmid from or left the service of the department and have been shall be paid one-half from the contingent fund of the Senate and one assigned to special work, investigations, or activities, including therein half from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives. a statement of the Increased compensation allowed such attorneys over Mr. OVERMAN. Mr. President, I should like to have a and above the compensation allowed when they were in the regular statement as to the estimated cost of this investigation. employment of the Department of Justice. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is, Shall the 1t1r. KING. Mr. President, I will inquire if there is any request for immediate consideration be granted? objection to the pre ent consideration of the resolution? It Mr. LODGE. Mr. President, before it is granted I should merely asks the Attorney General for information relatiYe to like to ask why this resolution does not go to the committee to the number of attorneys in his department, whether they are which it belongs, the Committee on Commerce? special, and W"hether any who have been what might be Mr. McKELLAR. Mr. President, if I may answer the Sena denominated general attorneys have been separated from the tor from Massachusetts, I will say, as a member of the Com service and been appointed special attorneys, with increased mittee to Audit and Control tbe Contingent Expenses of the compensation, and, if so, what the amount of the increase was. Senate, that all of these resolutions which appropriate money It seems to me it is information we ought to have, and that for investigations have to go to that committee under the law, the Attorney General can very promptly furnish it. I as"k as I understand. I am quite sure that is correct. 424 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEJ\IBER 19' l\fr. LODGE. If they are sent there by the Senate, then Mr. OVERMAN. That is what I want to get at. If they they do. have the testimony, why spend $10,000 more? Mr. l\fcKELLAR. This resolution was sent there by the Sen l\Ir. BROUSSARD. That is the limit. The House expects to ate, and it came to our committee in regular order, and the hold hearings, and that is a limit which is proposed on the part committee has unanimously reported in favor of it. I should of the House. We are through. like to say to the Senator that all that the resolution does is Mr. OVERMAN. It seems to me, then, that the matter ought this: At the last session of Congress a special Senate committee to come from the House. · was appointed by the Vice President to have hearings about The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is upon agree this matter. That committee has held those hearings; but. the ing to the concurrent resolution as amended. Senator from Illinois [Mr. l\fcCoRMICK], the chairman of the The concurrent resolution as amended was agreed to. committee, desires to have the House take part in the delibera tions, and this resolution merely continues the work that has CONSTRUCTION OF FEDERAL HIGHWAYS. already been done. Mr. ROBINSON. Mr. President, under the constitution o:t The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the the State of Arkansas, adopted in 1874, bonds could not be is ued present consideration of the concurrent resolution? The Chair either by the State or counties or cities in the State for pur hears none. The question is on agreeing to the amendments poses of public improvement. proposed by the committee, which will be stated. Some years ago what I will term a device in the nature of The amendments were, on page 2, line 4, after the word roa'd-improvement districts was resorted to, and the supreme "such," to strike out "counsel, transportation experts, and"; court of the State held upon a test case that it was competent in line 5, after the word "other," to strike out "stenographic"; for these improvement districts to issue bonds for internal im in line 12, after the word "committee," to insert "which shall provements, notwithstanding the constitutional provision to be limited to $10,000 "; and in line 14, after the word "Repre which I have just referred, and which, by its terms, applied sentatives" and before the period, to insert a colon and the to the State and its subdivh;ions. following proviso : Under the road-improvement district plan a large numlJer of organizations were created and attempts to construct high Provided, !That Senate Resolution No. 411, agreed to January 25, ways were made, some of which proved successful and others 1923, be, and the same hereby is, discontinued in force and effect. of which proved more or less dlsastrous. Under that plan the So as to make the concurrent resolution rer.d: entire cost of construction was levied against the lands alleged Resolv ed by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), to be benefited by the improvement. That a joint committee to consist of five Senators, to be appointed by In that State were large areas which had not been im the President pro tempore of the Senate, and se>en Members of the proved. :Many of these areas were held by foreign syndicates, House of Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House, and their assessed values were comparatively small. The road is hereby authorized to investigate the problem of a 9-foot channel in improvement district plan imposed upon all lands within the the waterway from the 'Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, and the district taxes for the purpose of constructing the highways, problem of the navigability of the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri and those taxes in many instances proved oppressive, in somQ Ri>ers. cases to an extent almost confiscatory. For tbe purposes of this resolution the committee is authorized to Throughout the Nation there was an agitation in favor of bold hearings, to sit during the sessions or recesses of the SL'Cty-eighth highways. The old methods of travel had been abandoned. Congress at such times and places, to employ such clerical and other The automobile in a sense bad revolutionized travel and made assistants as it may deem advisable. The committee is further au nece . ary the construction of highways extending through thorized to send for persons and papers ; to require by subpama or counties and States, and even the construction of transconti otherwise the attendance of witnesses, the production of books, papers, nental highways. and documents; to administer oaths; and to take testimony, as it may The road-improvement district plan was not satisfactory. It deem advisable. The cost of stenographic service to report such hear resulted in the construction of highways within districts which ings shall not be in excess of 25 cents per hundred words. The ex did not connect with highways constructed in other districts. penses of. the committee, whir.:h shall be limited to $10,000, shall be The piecemeal system, while not satisfactory, enabled the paid, one-half from the contingent fund of the Senate and one-half people to build roads aggregating several thousand miles. from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives : P1·ovided, Under the con titution of the State it was difficult to adopt a 'rhat Sepate Resolution No. 411, agreed to January 25, 1923, be, and plan which was entirely satisfactory. the same hereby is, discontinued in force and effect. Two or three years ago the department made a thorough in vestigation, it claimed, of the conditions existing in all of these The amendments were agreed to. road improvement districts where further construction "\\as l\lr. LODGE. Mr. President, I did not understand from the contemplated to determine questions relating to Federal aid. reading whether there is any provision for the House to pay a The result of that investigation is known as the James report. portion of the expenses of this investigation. It was held as confidential by the department, and, according to The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The provision is that one. press reports, the governor of the State of Arkansas, the chair half of the expenses shall be paid from the contingent fund of man of the highway commission, and members of the highway the House. commission of the State, even the leading Republican of Ar l\fr. OVERMAl~. Mr. President, I should like to ask the Sen kansas, ~Ir . H. L. Reynolds, all were denied the privilege of re ator from Tennessee a question. . The Senator stated, as I un ceiving the report or of giving publicity to it. uerstood him, that this investigation had already been made The Governor of the State of Arkansas convened the legisla and the bearings held. How much money was spent out of the ture of the State in extraordinary session early during the contingent fund of the Senate in making that investigation? present year, and after a bitter contest an act was pa sed l\ir. McKELLAR. I can not say with accuracy, but the chair known as the Harreldson law, which provided for heavy taxes man can give the Senator the exact figure. I think it is about upon gasoline, automobile licenses, and perhaps for some other $2 000. I am not sure. taxes for road purposes, and an arrangement was effected by 1\Ir. OVERMAN. This resolution proposes to spend $10,000 which half of the burden imposed upon the lands in the re more? spective improvement districts of the State should be trans ' Mr. McKELLAR. Not exceeding that, and the expense is to ferred to the State as a whole and paid out of these taxes I be divided between the House and the Senate. have just referred to. A provision was made for the adequate, Mr. OVERMAN. It comes from the contingent funds of both maintenance of the highways of the State. The Harreld on Houses? Act, except in particulars which had no relation to Federal aid, 1\Ir. MCKELLAR. Yes, sir. was identical with the measure approved by the Department ot Mr. BROUSSARD. l\Ir. President, if the Senator from A.gri culture. North Carolina will permit me- After the passage of that measure the department announced The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from that it would enter upon an investigation to see whether the North Carolina yield to the Senator from Louisiana? requirements prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture in a l\ir. OVER1\1A..N. I do. letter, based upon the James report, to which I have referred, Mr. BROUSSARD. The special Senate committee has held had been met. The investigation was made, and although its hearings. The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to we may have been unable to obtain any information from permit the use of this evidence on the part of the House. If the Bureau of Public Roads or from the Secretary of Agri the concurrent resolution is passed, it will become a joint com culture direct, my information, which I believe to be reliable, mittee and the expense will be divided between the two Houses. is that the Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads approved Otherwise the House would have to go to the same trouble and of the arrangement with a view to the immediate restoi-a expense that the Senate committee has gone to for the purpose tion of Federal aid to the State of Arkansas, Federal aid e> f procurlng the evidence. having been withdrawn, principally because of the Lack of any 1923. CONGRESSION AI.J RECORD-SENATE. 425 adequate provision for the maintenance of the highways under Whereas it is charged that there has been waste and extravagance the State law. in the expenditure of said Federal moneys and that the same to a great Mr. CARAWAY. l\Iay I ask my colleague a question? extent have been and are being dissipated without adequate returns in l\Ir. ROBINSON. I yield. the work accomplished ; and 1\lr. CARA.WAY. In all the Senator's service here, during the Whereas it is further charged that a large and improper proportion incumbency of the present Secretary, has he been afforded any of said Federal moneys has been and is being consumed in adminis kind of assistance in working out any problem touching any trative, supervisory, and overhead charges, which do not represent work down in our State? expenditures for actual road construction and for which the engineer Mr. ROBINSON. None whatever; and from my home in the ing and road officials of the several States are entirely competent, with city of Little Rock, approximately six weeks ago, I wired the out direction or interference of Federal officials, and that in many cases Secretary of Agriculture, asking him the status of the issue such Federal direction and influence is unnecessary and otherwise respecting Federal aid in Arkansas, and received a reply that Mr. undesirable ; and MacDonald, the head of the Bureau of Public Roads, was Whereas it is further charged that Federal engineers and agents absent from the office; that nobody in the department knew having control <>f the distribution and application of said moneys have anything about the Arkansas case except Mr. MacDonald; that unduly interfered with the authority and powers of the officials of the upon Mr. MacDonald's return I would be furnished the infor several States having charge of road construction therein and have mation called for. imposed impractical plans and specifications for road c<>nstruction and I waited until three weeks and more had elapsed and then I have designated impractical routes for road improvement without regard telegraphed Mr. MacDonald at the Bureau of Public Roads in to the particular requirements of the case and of the local conditions Washington, asking him for the information. I asked him if to be accoDlIDodated; and a decision had been reached by the department as to whether Whereas it is further charged that impractical and extravagant proj the State of Arkansas bad complied in general terms with the ects for road construction have been formulated in the several States requirements for Federal aid, and if it had not done so, in which will require hundreds of millions of dollars for their execution what particulars it had failed, and if the Harreldson Act was and completion and that some of the States have committed themselves not substantially in conformity with the act approved and to such extravagant projects and obligations upon unauthorized repre promulgated by the Department of Agriculture. I have had sentations that Federal moneys would be forthcoming for the execution no reply to that telegram. and completion of the same: Now therefore be it Mr. CARAWAY. May I ask my colleague another question? Resolved, That a special committee shall be appointed, composed of Mr. ROBINSON. I yield. three members of the Senate, to be designated by the President of the Mr. CA.RAW AY. In the whole program of constructing Senate, which committee is hereby authorized and directed to make highways in Arkansas has the Federal Department of Agri inquiry into the subject of Federal aid to the States in the construction culture ever offered a single suggestion toward more eco of post roads, under the act entitled ".An act to provide that the nomically or more honestly administering the law in that United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post State? roads, and for other purposes," approved July 11, 1916, and other acts l\Ir. ROBINSON. Certainly it has made no suggestion to amendatory and supplementary thereto, includiug the allotment and me, although, of course, it is not perhaps within my jurisdic expenditure of the appropriations made by said acts, the methods of tion to deal directly with that subject; but I myself, in con and expenses of administration, supervision, and overhead charges not junction with a great engineer, well known to my colleague, actually expended in road construction ; the work accomplished by such Col. John R. Fordyce, visited the Bureau of Public Roads in expenditures; whether or n-0t wasteful and extravagant practices have Washington some months ago, with a view to ascertaining been followed; whether or not a propaganda has been carried on t<> what the requirements were. induce larger and further appropriations by Congress for said purposes, For some reason the department has withheld information, and whether or not extravagant and impractical projects for road con not only to my colleague and myself but to the governor of struction have been formulated upon unauthorized representations that the State, to the highway commission, to the leading Republi Congress would make appropriations for the completion of such pr<>j can of Arkansas who said to me a few days ago that it was ects; whether or not the Federal engineers and agents having control absolutely incomprehensible to him; that he could neither get of the distribution and application of Federal moneys have unduly an explanation nor a justification of the arbitrary and unrea interfered with the authority and powers of the officials of the several sonable course pursued by the Department of Agriculture in States having charge of road construction therein and have imposed the administration of the laws relating to highways as they impractical plans and specifications for road construction without affect the State of Arkansas. regard to the particular requirements of the case and the local condi It is admitted that there inhere difficulties in the system tions to be acoommodated; and whether or not a judicious and prop-er of road improvement by districts. There has been in some use has been made by the States of the personal property and equip cllses extravagance. There may have been graft in some ment tran ferred to them by the United States, and to report their cases. But there can be no justification for the course the findings and recommendations in the premi es to the S-enate ; and for department has taken in referenec to the matter. They inves this purpose they are authorized to sit during the sessions or recess of tigated the subject fully and then they withhold the informa Congress at such times and places as they may deem advisable, to send tion from the State authorities. Now, under the pretense of for persons and papers, to administer oaths, to summon and compel wanting to make an investigation an order has been issued by the attendance of witnesses, and to employ such clerical and expet·t the President directing the suspension of the execution of the stenographic services as shall be necessary, and to pay the necessary law enacted by Congress. We will see whether that system expenses under such inquiry out of the contingent funds of the Senate can prevail. upon the audit or order of the chairman or acting chairman of said Mr. KING. l\fr. President, apropos of the discussion which coDlIDittee. has just taken place by the Senators from Arkansas, I offered Mr. KING. Mr. President, while that resolution was offered a resolution during the first session of the Sixty-seventh Con nearly two years ago, some of the facts therein recited are gress providing for an investigation of the activities of the pertinent to-day. I resubmit the resolution. I shall not ask for Department of Agriculture in connection with highway con the present consideration of the resolution, but I shall ask that struction. No action was taken upon the resolution. I should it lie on the table, and, with a further amendment which I like to have the resolution read now as a part of the dis shall hope to offer at an early day, I shall ask the consideration cussion. of the Senate for the resolution. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection? The The resolution ( S. Res. 99) was ordered to lie on the table. Chair hears none, and the resolution will be read as re [See resolution No. 27 of the Sb..'i:y-seventh Congress, which quested. had just .been read by the reading clerk.] The resolution ( S. Res. 27, 67th Cong., 1st sess.), submitted by l\fr. KING April 12, 1921, was read, as follows : APPOINTMENTS OF POSTMASTERS. Whereas the Congress of the United States, by the act entitled "An l\1r. 1\fcKEU.iAR. I submit a resolution, which I ask may act to pr<>vide that the United States shall aid the States in the con lie on the table·. struction of rur8:1 post roads, and for other purposes,'' approved July The resolutiou (S. Res. 100) was read and ordered to lie on 11, 1916, and by other acts amendatory and supplementary thereto, has the table, as follows : authorized the appropriation of moneys of the Federal G<>vernment to Resolved, That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, directed the amount of $266,750,000 for the purpose of aiding the several States to repoct to the Senate at the earliest practicable moment the names In the construction of rural post roads, which sum has been allotted to of every first, second, and third class postmaster in the United States, the several States as directed in said act ; and since March 4, 19~1, appointed over one or more ex-service men higher Whereas oommitments and contracts covering more than two-thirds on the eligible list, giving such names and post offices by States, and of said moneys have been made and nearly one-half of said moneys has also giving the names of ex-service men appointed postmasters lower already been expended ; and on the ~ligible list, furnishing the lists by States. 426 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 19, THE CALE~DAR. bill at an early day, and I ·had hoped tllat Senators would read the bill and the report. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. LENBOOT in the chair). Morning business is closed and the calendar is in order. Mr. ROBINSON. In view of the statement which has been l\Ir. LODGID. There is one item on the calendar which I made by the Senator from North Carolina, I haYe no objection should like to have disposed of. to the consideration of the bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Secretary will state the l\Ir. OVERMAN. I do not think anybody will object to the first bill-on the calendar. passage of the bill. It is recommended by the heads of various departments; it has been recommended by a joint committee 3fANUFACTURE OF t!UPPLIES A:E LEAVENWORTH PENITENTIABY. of the other House and the Senate, and a similar bill has been The bill ( S. 794) to equip the 'United States penitentiary, introduced in the House of Representatives. I think the bill Leavenworth, Kans., for the manufacture of supplies for the ought to be passed at once, in order that we may give the use of the Government, for the compensation of prisoners for convicts at the Leavenworth Penitentiary something to do and their labor, and for other purposes, was announced as first in turn them out with a trade, and not turn them out as hardened, order. demoralized criminals, as has be~n the case in years past. l\Ir. ROBINSON. Mr. President, I see this bill was reported Mr. President, I understand there is no objection to the con by the Senator from North Carolina [Mr. OVERMAN]. If he is sideration of the bill, and I ask for its immediate consideration. prepared to do so, I should like to have him make a statement The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the pres as to the necessity of the passage of the measure. ent consideration of the bill? 1\Ir. OVERl\IAN. l\Ir. President, this is a bill which should There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the be immediately passed. It has been considered by the Judiciary Whole, proceeded to consider the bill, which was read, as fol Committee of the Senate and by a joint committee of both lows: Houses. Be it enaoted, eto., That the Attorney General of the United States The bill, as stated by the Senator from Arkansas [l\Ir. is authorized and directed to establish, equip, maintain, and operate RoBINSON], is reported by me from the Committee on the Judi at the United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kans., a factory or ciary of tbe Senate, I having introduced the bill in the Senate factories for the manufacture of shoes, brooms, and brushes to supply by instructions of the joint committee of both Houses of Con the requirements of the various departments of the United States gress. Government. The factory or factories shall not be so operated as to At the last session of Congress a joint committee was ap abolish any existing Government workshop, and the articles so manu pointed for the purpose of investigating the question of pro factured shall be sold only to the Government of the United States. viding work for convicts in the United States penitentiaries, The Attorney General is hereby further authorized to employ the and that committee was instructed to report the result of its inmates of the institution herein mentioned, under such regulations as investigation to Congress. he may prescribe, in the work or business of manufacturing shoes, Some years ago a bill similar to the one now pending was brooms, and bra.shes, and in erecting all buildings necessary to con passed. It provided work for the convicts in the penitentiary duct said businesses, and the products of such businesses shall be at Atlanta, Ga., enabling them to manufacture goods for gov utilized In said penitentiary or sold to the Government of the United ernmental purposes only without coming in competition with States for the use- of the military and naval forces and other Govern outside American labor. The bill provided particularly that ment departments. the convicts should make the necessary raw material for the SEC. 2 . .That articles so manufactured shall be sold at the current manufacture of mail bags. That system has proven very effi market prices as determined by the Attorney General or his authorized cient, so that where there was formerly a demoralized condition agent, and all moneys or reimbursements received from such sales of affairs -so far as the convicts in the penitentiary at Atlanta shall be deposited to the credit of the working capital fund created by were concerned there has been great improvement. The this act. prisoners have been given something to do, and consequently SEC. S. That the Attorney General is hereby authorized and em they are easily controlled. They are also afforded an oppor powered to provide for the payment of the inmates or dependents upon tunity of making some little stipend which they can send back inmates of said penitentiary such pecuniary earnings as he may deem to their families. Another result is that they come out of the proper, under such rules and regulations as be may prescribe. Such penitentiary with knowledge of a trade. earnings shall be paid out of the working capital fund. This bill proposes that in reference to the United States SEC. 4. That" there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans., the same course shall be of li;200,000, to be used for the erection of a factory or factories and pursued which has been put in operation in the penitentiary at such ·other buildings as may be necessary, and for the purchase of suit Atlanta, Ga. In the Leavenworth Penitentiary there are now able equipment and machinery to carry out the purposes of this act. 4,000 convicts who have absolutely nothing to do. They are SEC. 5. That there is to be created a fund, to be known a.a the work therefore hard to control, become more or less demoralized, ing capital, which shall be available for the carrying on the industrial and are ·sent out hardened criminals, while if this legislation enterprises authorized herein or which may be authorized hereafter by is enacted they can be instructed in a trade, kept at work, and law to be carried on in said penitentiary. The working capital shall allowed to make something while in the penitentiary. I repeat, consist of the sum of $250,000, which sum is authorized to be appro the system has operated very successfully in 1\.tlanta. It has priated. The receipts from the sale of the products or by-products of not only been self-sustaining but enabled the convicts to earn the said industries and the sale of condemned machinery or equipment from $100,000 to $150,000 every year. shall be credited to the working capital fund and be available for ap The pending bill proposes to appropriate a sufficient sum to propriation by Congress, annually, for the purposes set forth in this erect a plant ail'd to afford a working capital at the Leaven act. worth Penitentiary, in order to enable shoes to be made there SEc. 6. That at the opening of each Tegular -session of Congress the for the use of the Army and Navy, which require 1,300,000 Attorney General shall make a detailed report to Congress of the re shoes every year. If passed, this proposed legislation will give ceipts and expenditures. made hereunder, the quantity of material of employment to over a thousand convicts in the making of shoes difl'erent kinds bought or otherwise acquired and used, the number or and in the running of the machines for that purpose, and also persons employed, the hours of labor and the wages paid, the amount in the manufacture of brooms fo~ the Navy and the Army. and kind of goods manufactured and the prices paid therefor, the That is the proposition which is reported by the Committee on amount used in said penitentiary, the amount sold, the prices, and total the Judiciary to the Senate. amount received therefor. I should be glad if Senators would read the report of the SEC. 7. That said working ·capital shall be disbursed unde1· the committee on the bill and would note the financial statement of direction of the Attorney General ana shall be available for the pur the penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. They could then see what is chase, repair, or replacement of machinery or equipment, for the pur possible to be done in the penitentiary at Leavenworth by chase of raw materials or parts, for the employment of necessary giving employment to these poor devils who, as I have stated, civilian officers and employees at the penitentiary and in Washington, at present have nothing to do and are therefore hard to control for the repair and maintenance of buildings and equipment, and for all l\lr. ROBINSON. Mr. President-- other .nece.·sary expenses in carrying out the provisionB of this .act. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator ·from North SEC. 8. That the products of said industries shall not be disposed of Carolina yield to the Senator from Arkansas? except as provided in this act. Mr. OVERMAN. Yes. SEC. 9. It is hereby made obligatory upon the various departments Mr. ROBINSON. The Senator from North Carolina has re of the Government to purchase the products of the business herein ferred to the report of tl10 committee on this bill. I -sent for authorized to be carried on in the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans., the bill and the report and was informed that no written report until the supply therein produced is exhaust'ed before purchasing else on the bill bad been made. where. Mr. OVERlllA.N. The report is here; I had it printed some SEC. 10. '.rhat all laws and parts of laws to the exten\ that they are time ago. I also gave notice that I was going to call up the in conflict with this act are repealed. 1923. OONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 427 The bill had been reported from the Committee on the Judi The PRESIDING OFFICER. Eighty-one Senators have. ciary with an amendment in section 5, page 3, line 11, afte1· the answered to their names. A quorum is present. The Secretary word "annually," to strike out "for the purposes set forth in will call the roll upon the election of a chairman of the Com this act," so as to make the section read : mittee upon Interstate Commerce. SEc. 5. That there is to be created a fund, to be known as the The reading clerk proceeded to call the roll. working capital, which shall be available for the carrying on the in Mr. BAYARD (when his name was called). I have a pair dustrial enterprises authorized herein or which may be authorized here with the junior senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. REED], who after by law to be carried on in said penitentiary. The working capital is absent I transfer that pair to the junior Senator from shall consist of the sum of $250,000, which sum is authorized to be Colorado [Mr. ADA.MS], and will vote. I vote for Mr. SMITH, appropriated. The receipts from the sale of the products or by-products l\Ir GLASS (when his name was called). I have a general of the said industries and the sale of condemned machinery or equip pair with the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. McLEAN]. In his ment shall be credited to the working capital fund and be available for absence I withhold my vote. Were I privileged to vote I should appropriation by Congress, annually. vote for l\Ir. SMITH, and the absent Se.nator would vote for The amendment was agreed to. Mr. CUMMINS. The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the l\fr. KENDRICK (when his · name was called). I have a amendment was concurred in. general pair with the Senator from Illinois [1\Ir. McCORMICK]. The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read · In the absence of a transfer I withhold my vote. I ask that the third time, and passed. this announcement may stand for the day. 1\Ir. KING (when· his name was called)'. For the day, I AllDI'fIONAL SENATE PAGES. desire to announce that I have a pair with the senior Senator l\lr. LODGE. There is a Senate resolution on the calendar, from Pennsylvania [1\Ir. PEPPER]. In view of his absence, and being the only other item there, which I should like to have my inability to procure a transfer, I can not vote. If I were considered at this time. at liberty to vote I should vote for 1\1r. SMITH, and the Senator The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Secretary will read the from Pennsylvania woulll vote for Mr. CUMMINS. resolution referred to by the Senator from Massachusetts. Mr. FLETCHER (when l\Ir. TRAMMELL's name was called). The reading clerk read the resolution ( S. Res. 30), submitted I desire to announce that my colleague [l\lr. TRAMMELL] is by l\Ir. LonoE on the 10th instant, as follows: unavoidably absent. He is paired with the Senator from Rhode Island [l\Ir. CoLT]. If my colleague were present he would vote Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms be, and he hereby is, author for l\lr. SMITH, and I understand that his pair would vote for ized and directed to employ during the present session of Congress l\Ir. CUMMINS. five additional pages for the Senate Chamber, to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate at the rate of $2.50 per day each. The roll call having been concluded, the ballot resulted-for l\lr. CUMMINS 32, for Mr. SMITH 36, for l\Ir. COUZENS 13, as The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the pres follows: ent consideration of the resolution? FOR MR. CUMMINS-32. l\Ir. JONES of Washington. Mr. President, this resolution Ball Edge Lenroot Smoot went over the other day at my request. I understood that the Brandegee Elkins Lodge Stanfield re olution provided an increase of five in the force of pages in Bruce Ernst McKinley Sterling Burs um Fernald McNary Wadsworth the Senate, but I am now informed that is not correct and that Came mu Fess Moses Warren the resolution merely puts the force of pages at the number Couzens Greene Oddie Watson which has been provided during several past Congresses. Curtis Hale Phipps Weller Per onally I think that permanent provision should be made Dale Keyes Shortridge Willis for this force, if it be necessary, but in view of the state of FOR MR. SMITB-36. affairs to which I have referred I shall not oppose the con Ashurst Fletcher Neely Shields sideration of the resolution. Bayard George Overman Simmons Broussard GeITy Owen Stanley l\Ir. LODGE. l\lr. President, the statement of the Senator Caraway Harris Pittman Stephens from Washington is entirely correct. The five additional pages Copeland Hi>rrison Ralston Swanson have been provided for by resolution similar to the one now Dial Heflin Ransdell T"nt1erwood Dill .fonPs, N. l\Iex. Reed, Mo. Walsh, Mass. pending year after year. I myself have offered the resolutions Edwards McKellar Robinson Walsh, Mont. providing for their employment. They are really a part of the Ferris Mayfield Sheppard Wheeler present force, and the Senator from ·washington is quite right FOR MR. COUZENS-13. in saying that they ought to be provided for by permanent ap Borah Gooding Jones, Wash. Shipstead propriation. They were made necessary by the great increase Brookhart Bowell Ladd in the telephone service of the Senate, and the additional pages Capper · John ~ on, Calif. Norbeck are required in order to maintain that service. I hope there Frazier Johnson, Minn. Norris will be no objection to the consideration of the resolution. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Upon this ballot the total The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is upon agreeing number of Senators voting is 81 ; necessary for a choice, 41. to the resolution. Thirteen Senators have named Mr. CouzENS, 36 Senators have The resolution was agreed to. named 1\Ir. SMITH, and 32 Senators have named :Mr. CUMMINS. will CHAIRMAN OF I TERSTATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE. There is no choice. The Secretary call the roll for an other ballot. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There being no further busi The reading clerk proceeded to call the roll. ness upon the calendar, the pending question before the Senate l\Ir. GLASS (when his name was called). Making the same is the unfinished business, which is the election of a chairman announcement as on the previous roll call, I withhold my vote. of the Committee on Interstate Commerce. l\lr. KING (when his name was called). l\Iaking the same Mr. LODGE. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a announcement that I made on the preceding vote, I withhold quorum. my vote. If permitted to vote, I should vote for l\Ir. SMITH. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The absence of a quorum is The roll call was concluded. suggested, and the Secretary will call the roll. l\Ir. BAYARD. Making the same statement as to my pair The principal legislative clerk called the roll, and the follow and its transfer as on the preceding ballot, I vote for Mr. ing Senators answered to their names: SMITH. Ashurst Ferris Ladd Shortridge The ballot resulted-for Mr. CUMMINS 34, for Mr. SMITH 36, Ball F ess Lenroot Simmons Bayard Fletcher Lodge Smith for Mr. CouZENs 13, as follows: Borah F1·azier McKella1• Smoot FOR MR. CUMMINS-34. Brandegee George McKinley Spencer Brookhart · Gerry McNary Stanfield Ball Elkins Lodge StaJlfield Broussard Glass Mayfield Stanley Brandegee Ernst McKinley Sterling Bruce Gooding Moses Sterling Bruce Fernald McNary Wadsworth Cameron Greene Neely Swanson Bursum Fess Moses Warren Capper Hale Norbeck Underwood Cameron Greene Odille Watson Copeland Harris Norris Wadsworth Couzens Ilale . Phipps Weller Couzens Harrison Oddie Walsh, Mass. Curtis Harreld Shortridge Willis Curtis Heflin Overman Walsh, Mont. Dale Keyes Smoot Dale Howell Owen Warren Edge Lenroot Spencer Dial Johnson, Calif. Phipps Watson Dill Johnson, Minn. Pittman Weller FOR MR. SMITH-36. Edge Jones, N. Mex. Ralston Wheeler Ashurst Dial George Jones, N. Mex. Edwards Jones, Wash. Reed, Mo. Willis Bayard Dill Gerry McKellar Elkins Kendrick Robinson Broussard Edwards Harris Mayfield Ernst Keyes Sheppard 1 Caraway Ferris Harrison Neely Fernald King Shipstead Copeland Fletcher Heflin Overman 428 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEJ\IBER 19' OW.1' :1 Reed, Mo. Simmons Underwood Thff PRESIDING. OFFICER. Does the Senntor- from Mis Pittman Robinson Stanley Walsh, Mass. Ralston Sheppard Stephens Walsh, Mont. souri yield, and if so, to whom? . Ran <1ell Shields Swansou W.heeler Mr. REED of Missouri. The Senator from Connecticut rose FOR MR. COUZENS-13. to a point of order. · · l\lr. BRANDEGEID. In the nature of a parliamentary in Borall Gooding Jones, Wash. Shipstead - Brookhart Howell Ladd quiry I asked whether the question is debatable or not. If lt Capper John on, Calif. Norbeck is debatable, of course that would settle it, but we have no Frazier Johnson, Minn. Norris ruling of the Chair. There is a diversity of opinion on the The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this roll call tbe total fioor as to whether it is debatable or not. number of Senators voting is 83; necessary to a choice, 42. l\Ir. ROBINSON. If the Senator makes a point of order, I Thirteen Senators have named Senator CouZENs, 36 have named would like to be heard on lt. Senator SMITH, and 34 have named Senator CUMMINS. There Mr. BRANDEGEEl. I make the point of order without any is no choice, and another ballot will be taken. discourtesy to the Senator from Missouri, however, but it is l\Ir. LODGE obtained the floor. the only way to proceed that I see. Mr. REED of Missouri. Mr. President-- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator make the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from l\Iassa point of order? chusetts yield to the Senator from :Missouri? Mr. BRANDEGEE. I do. l\Ir. LODGE. I yield. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Connecticut l\Ir. REED of Missouri. The Senator was about to make a makes the point of order that the motion is not debatable. motion? Mr. ROBINSON. lli. President, clearly it is debatable. The l\lr. LODGEJ. I was. general rule of parliamentary law is that any motion is de l\Ir. REED of Missouri. Will he withhold it for a moment? batable unless the rule of procedure applicable to it restricts l\Ir. LODGE. Certainly. debate. There is nothing in the rules of the Senate which limits l\lr. REED of 1\lissouri. l\1r. President, the Congress has debate upon it. been in session now for over two weeks. It is presumed that Further, I want to point out the fact that the Senator from there is business of importance to be transaded by this body, Missouri was proceeding just as a number of other Senators and by some it is thought the business is of great importance. have proceeded, and he had announced that he had about con We have consumed a large part of the time in a dispute as to cluded his remar&3. During the course of our voting upon the the particular individual who shall preside over a s-ingle com pending question the Senator from Washington [Mr. JoNEs] mittee. To my mind the performance is childish to the last ro e and read into the RECORD a carefully prepared addres . degree. We all know that there is but little difference to the The Senator from Connecticut [Mr. BRANDEGEE] did not object country whether the Senator from Iowa [Mr. CUMMI -s] or the when the Senator from Washington exercised the privilege of Senator from South Carolina [1\lr. SMITH] or the Senator debate, and no one objected. Clearly the issue is debatable, and from l\Iichigan [Mr. CouzENS] shall sit at the head of the it might be very illuminating if Senators chose to debate it committee table instead of sitting at one side of the table. awhila · Each member has a vote. Each man can assert his rights l\Ir. REED of 1\fissouri. Mr. President, I have a long-distance and accord his judgment quite as effectively as a member as telephone call of importance and I want to answer the tele he could. as chairman of the committee. All these gentlemen phone. I was through except to say that I think the business. will be there to record their judgment. of the country demands action-and this was all I was going l\1oreover, the busine s of the Senate and the country can to say-and unless this matter is ettled on the first day after proceed without a chairman for this committee. The com we reconvene, assuming that it is not to be settled to-day, I mittee can meet and itself- select some- one to preside, or it shall insist that we proceed to other busine s, and I think that can proceed without anyone presiding, for a presiding officer a majority of the Senate ought to take a similar position. It is at a committee meeting is generally almost u eless as a presid time to quit boys' play, and that is all this is. ing officer. There is nothing to preside over. The members Mr. BRMTDEGEEJ. Mr. Pre ident, on the point of order I get together as they ought to do and talk over questions. simply want to say that it is quite immaterial to me whether Mr. BRA.NDEGEE. l\Ir. President-- debate is allowed on this question or not. I did not object to Mr. REED of Missouri. To hold up the business of the the Senator from Washington making a statement the other day country-- because it did not occur to me that it was out of orde~ It The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Mis- did so occur to me after he had concluded, and I told him souri yield to the Senator from Connecticut? then that I thought he had been out of order. l\Iy point of Mr. REED of Missouri. I will yield in just a moment. order was made simply upon the thought that we have a rule Mr. BRANDEGEE. I rise to a question of. order. that a motion to proceed to the consideration of a matter be Mr. REED of Missouri. I hope the Senator will n0t make fore 2 o'clock shall not be debatable. The motion was origi it, for I. am about through. nally made before 2 o'clock. It was carried, we have been Mr. BRANDEGEE. L want to have an understanding proceeding to an election, aJJ.d we were in the course of ballot before I agree not to make the point of order. I have assumed ing. I dld not suppose that during the balloting debate was that we were in the midst of balloting on a motion and that in order. it was not debatable because the original motion was made in The PRESIDING OFFICER. May the Chair make an in the morning hour before 2 o'clock. When it was made four quiry of the Senator from Connecticut? While it is true that or five days ago it became the unfinished business, and the a motion to proeeed to consider a matter before 2 o'clock is parliamentary status in my opinion is as it was- when the not debatable, when the Senate has voted to so consider it motion w;is made. is it not debatable? I have no objection to the Senator debating the question; I Mr. BR~'DEGEE. l\Iy an:wer is that it was not debatable think it is of advantage to do so, but I simply want to have originally. 'Vhe motion was not debatable. The motion pre an understanding that if I refrain fi:om making a point of vailed and the roll is being called. Owing to the fact that order against him, and if others shall want to debate the there is no choice, the matter becomes the unfinished business; matter they shall also be allowed to do s-o. the roll continues to be called without anybody moving its call. Mr. REED of 1\Iis ouri. I think r can settle this question The 8hair announces each time that " there is no choice and in a moment. I ro e to make these remarks because I saw the the ~ecretary will proceed1 to call the roll for another ballot," Senator from l\Iassachu etts [l\1r. LonGE] on his feet and I which means that the roll call is in progre s all the time. assumed he was about to make a motion to proceed to the con The PRESIDING OFFICER. l\fay the Chair suggest that sideration of executive business, and therefore I wanted to say the pending question is the election of a chairman of the In what I am saying and have said, and I have about concluded. terstate Commerce Committee and not subject to debate while Mr. BRA.NDEGEE. I possibly may want to reply to the the roll is being called, but the Chair would be glad to be ad Senator, and it may be that on the 3d o1J ;Tanuary some other vi ed of any rule that cuts off debate after the roll call is Senator will want to debate the question on the next ballot concluded, if any one desires· to so debate. that is taken, and I would like to have an understanding, if Mr. BR.ANDEGEE. If there is no rule, then the point of the Senator is going to proceed, that it is debatable. order is not well ta.ken. All I. want is to have it decided ·one Mr. REED of Missouri. Very well ; I am perfectly willing way or the other by the Chair and not have the courtesies· of that it shall be considered debatable. debate extended to one Senator or to a dozen, and then when l\Ir. CURTIS. Is that by unanimous consent? somebody else triP.s to debate it have the Chair sustain a point l\Ir: ROBINSON. Mr. President-- of order and shut him off. 1\fr. UNDERWOOD. It can. not be by unanimous consent, Mr. LODGE. Mr. President, it is obvious to my mind- because it is unquestionably debatable anyway. It is an issue Mr. NORRIS. l\Iay I ask the Senator if he is going to maka before the Senate. a motion? 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN ATE. 429 Mr. LODGEl. I am. 1\Ir. HEFLIN. Is it the purpose of tlle Senator not to have Mr. NORRIS. I think we ought to have a decision from the any more roll ea1ls to-day? Chair on the point of order. Mr. LODGE. I think that is the inevitable deduction from Mr. LODGE. I thought the Chair had ruled upon it. what I have said. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair has not ruleG. Mr. HEFI.tlX Then, before an executive session is moved- Mr. LODGE. I beg the Chair's pardon; I thought he had The PRESIDING OFFICER. Just a moment. Is there ob ruled. jection to the request of the SenatOT from Massachusetts that The PRESIDING OFFICER. No. The Chair would be glad during the session to-morrow nothing but routine morning b1L'3i to be advised as to whether there is any such rule. The Chair ness shall be transacted? There being no objection, it is so is ~ot advised at present of any rule which prohibits debate on ordered. this question while the roll ls not being called. l\fr. HEFLIN. :.llr. President, if the Senator is through I l\Ir. ASHURST. Mr. President, it is true that the motion was should like to say a word. ' made before 2 o"clock, or. before the Senate had been in session Mr. LODGE. I am not through; I have the floor, and was two hours, but not having been disposed of after two hours of about to make a motion to go into executh'e session, but I se ion it became the unfinished business. Upon our desks each will yield to the Senator. morning for a week the calendar has been placed, and at the Ur. HEFLIN. Mr. Presi'dent, I merely wish to call the atten bottom it says "Unfinished business." The present occupant of tion of the Senate and of the country to the fact that the Ren the chair is a trained, thorough, fair presiding .officer, but he ate met on December 3 at 12 o'clock and on that day adjourned would forever destroy that reputation for fairnes if be were to at 12.45, being in session only 45 minute . Then, on Decem say in the Senate that there is unfinished busine.. s that can not ber 4, the Senate met at 12 o'clock and adjourned at 12.0~. so be debated. that the session lasted for just two minutes. On December 5 The PRESIDING OFFICER. In view of the remark ot the the Senate met at 12 o•clock and adjourned at 3 minutes after Senator from Arizona, the Chair is constrained to hold that the 12, being iu session exactly three minutes. On December 6 que tion is debatable. the Senate met at 12 o'clock and adjourned at 2 o'clock, aftet· l\fr. CARAWAY. Mr. President, I would llire to ask a par having been in session for only two hours. On December 10 liamentary question. If the unfinished business is debatable, the Senate met at 12 o'clock an·d adjourned at half past 2 will there ever be an end to the unfinished business? being ill session on that day just two homs and a half. On De~ The PRESIDING OFFICER. The unfinished business may cember 11 the Senate met at 12 o•ciock :ind adjourned at 1.55 always be disposed of by a vote of the Senate that ome other having been in session on that day for 1 hour and 55 min: business shall displace it. utes. On December 12 the Senate met at 12 o'clock and ad Mr. WHEELER. l\Ir. President, I would like to say• just a journed at 1 o'clock and 5 minutes, after being in session for few words in answer to the Senator from Missouri [Mr. REED]. 1 hour and 5 minutes. On December 15 the Senate met at The people of my State and a number of other States in the 12 o'clock and adjourned at 12.40, being in session just exactly West voted on the Esch-Cummins law at the last election. It 40 minutes. On December 17 the Senate met at 12 o'clock and was made one of the important issues of the last campaign. adjourned at 2 o'clock and 35 minutes p. m., being in session Nearly every man running for public office in those States made 2 hours and 35 minutes. On December 18 the Senate met at freight rates and the Esch-Cummins law an issue, and those 12 o'clock and adjourned at 3 o'clock. On December 19 tlle who championed the Esch-Cummins law were defeated by the Senate met at 12 o'clock, and it is now 15 minutes past 2. people. We will be in session three hours to-day. We have been iJ.1 When the people of these States voted against the Esch session for only 16 hours after a vacation of nine months, and Cummins law they in terms voteu against the coauthor of the the Republican majority seems powerless to proceed with the law; they voted to keep the senior Senator from Iowa [Mr. busine s of the Senate and the business of the :country. just Cmnrrns]. the chairman of . the Interstate Commerce Com meeting and adjourning, when we should remain in sessio~ and mittee, off that committee. do omething for the tax-burdened, pillaged, and sorely op If the chairmanship of the various committees does not pressed _people of the country. The farmer frequently works amount to anything, if the chairmanship of the Interstate as many hours in one day as you have worked in nearly three Uommerce Committee does not amount to anything, then I weeks. For these sixteen and a half hours that we have been would like to ask the distingu!shed Senators on the other side in session during the month of December the taxpayers of the of the aisle why it is that they object to the Senator from United States have had to pay over $30,000 in Senators' salaries. Wisconsin [Mr. l1A FOLLETTE], who should rightfully be the l\lr. LODGE. Mr. President, I have nothing to say witll chairman of this committee? Why do they object to bis beinO' reference to the very interesting statistics cited by the Senator chail'man of this important committee? ~ from Alabama ; I do not doubt they are correct, except they If it is mere child's play to vote for chairman of the Inter omit to show the resistance which bas been interpo ed by the state Commerce Committee, I would like to ask these distin Senator from Alabama to the early adjournments to which he guished Seuators why i it that they refuse to vote for any refers. I now move that the Senate proceed to the consiclera other progressive, 1\fr. HOWELL, Mr. COUZENS, or even Mr. tion of executive business. SMITH? M:r. SIMMONS. l\fr. President-- I submit that the people of the country do not look upon the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Ma::;sa election of the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Com chusetts yield to the Senator from North Carolina? mittee as mere chill.l's play. They want to see as chairman of ~Ir. LODGE. I yield. that committee a man with progressive ideas on tbe matter of Mr. SIMMONS. Is there anything frf>m which it appear~ in transportation and not the man who has championeu the cause any way that we should not proceed to the consideration of of the railroads in the United States Senate. general legislative business? 1\fr. LODGE. I was about to moYe to proceed to the con Mr. LODGE. Nothing of which I know, except that there is sideration of executive business, but before doing so I wish to nothing on the calendar. · l\1r. SIMMONS. When does the Senator propose to be2in to ask unanimous consent that as a matter of convenience to a great many Senators it hall be understood tbat to-morrow consider legislative business? "' when we meet tllere will be nothing transacted but routine Mr. LODGE. We are ready to do so at any moment. It can morning business. I make that request. be done now at any time. ~Ir. SUHIONS. Is it the purpose of the majority to wait The PilESIDI~G OFFICER. The Senator from Massachu Retts asks unanimou · consent that when the Senate meets to until \Ye have decided the question as to who is to be chair morrow nothing but routine morning business shall be trans man of the Interstate Commerce Committee- before they beofa acte Mr. LODGE. Why other committees have not brought busi The PRESIDIKG OFFICER. The Senator from Massachu ness before the Senate I do not know, but I know that the setts bas the floor. Committee on Foreign Relations, of which I happen to be l\1r. HEFLIN. The Senator from North Carolina, I undei· chairman, has acted on the question of the confirmation of stand, has the floor. I should like to ask him a question. every nomination that has been before it, numbering Some 50 or Mr. LODGE. I yielded to the Senator from North Carolina. 60. and has also acted on five treaties. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from l\lassachu· Mr. SIM1\10NS. That is not legislati're business; it is execu setts has the floor. Does he yield to the Senator from Ala tive business. bama? Mr. LODGE. I am aware that it is executive business; I Mr. SUDIONS. I was speaking by the courtesy of the Sena- learned that some time ago. tor from l\1a sachusett '. • Mr. Sil\11\10NS. I understood that there was a very great Mr. HEFLIN. Will the Senator from l\Iassachusett permit demand on the part of the people of the country for speedy me to make a statement? action by this Congress upon very important public questions, Mr. LODGE. Certainly. . and yet if there has been any committee meeting for the pur l\1r. HEFLIN. The Senator from Massachusetts stated that pose of considering matters of legislation in which the people the objection came from this side of the Chamber. Objection of the country are vitally interested I have not heard of it. did come from the Democratic side, because the bill was not in 1\.Ir. LODGE. I can not inform the Senator about the action proper form. As it comes from the Republican side it is un of otller committees. constitutional. · It provide for the raising of revenue, and all l\1r. Sil\11\IONS. It looks like we are drifting along and such bills must originate in the House of Representatl ves. That giving our whole time to the consideration of the one question is why it was objected to. of the chairmanship of the Committee on Interstate Com l\1r. l\lcKELLAR. ~fr. President, will the Senator from 1\fas merce-- sachru etts yield 'l l\fr. LODGE. Tbe Senntor's party can settle that at any The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from 1\lasf!a· moment. chusetts yield to the Senator from Teune see? :;,\Ir. SIMMONS. To the utter neglect of the business of the Mr. LODGE. I yield. • country. l\Ir. McKELLAR. I am the one who objected. Mr. BORAH. l\Ir. President, if the Senator from Massachu l\fr. LODGE. I know that. setts will yield, I should like to say that the Committee on l\Ir. McKELLAR. The bill referred to is a plain re-veuuA Education and Labor llas· reported a resolution and had it raising bill. passed. [Laughter.] Mr. LODGE. I am not discussing the merits of the bill. :l\fr. Sll\11\10NS. I should like to inquire of the Senator from Mr. :!IcKELL.AR. Well, I am. The Senator has made the Idaho, What is the character of that very important legislative statement that I objected to the consideration of the bill, antJ. measure? I want to give the reason why I objected. :Mr. CARA. WAY. It had to do with the kind of a doctor that Mr. LODGE. Then, I insist upon my right to the floor. shoulc.1 kill a man, whether he should be a homeopath or an The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Mas achu allopath. setts l\lr. LODGE. I yield first to the Senator from Iowa, who UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS. asked rue to yield a little while ago. Guy H. Martin, of Idaho, to be United States attorney for the Mr. BltOOKilA_Il':r. I ID.sh to suggest that the other side district of the Canal Zone, vice A. C. Hindman, d~ceased. (l\Ir. ought not to lay all the blame for the delay respecting the Martin is now serving under a recess appointment.) <.:hairmanship OJ. the Committee on Interstate Commerce on Seth W. Richardson, of North Dakota, to ba United States this side of the Chamber, because I remember several occa attorney, district of North Dakota, vice Melvin A. Hildreth, sions when there would have been an election had not one of the removed. (Mr. Richardson is now serving under a recess Senators on tlle other side changed his vote. appointment.) l\1r. LODGE. I wish now to renew my motion that the Seuate proceed to the consideration of executive business. UNITED STATES 1'1AllSHALS. Mr. STANLEY. Will the Senator from Massachusetts yield Douglas Smith, of Alabama, to be United States marsllal, a moment'? middle district of Alabama, vice McDuffie Cain, term expired. '.rhe PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Massa (Mr. Smith is now serving under a recess appointment.) chusetts yield to the Senator from Kentucky? John W. Van Heuvel, of Alabama, to be United States mar l\1r. LODGE. I want to give an opportunity for all the shal, southern district of Alabama, vice Christopher C. Gewin, witticisms that can he uttered. term expired. (Mr. Van Heuvcl is now serving under a rece s Mr. -ST.A.NLEY. I ask the Senator to yield merely for a appointment.) moment. R. Q. Lillard, of Tennessee, to be United States marshal, Mr. LODGE. I yield. middle district of Tennessee, vice Edward Albright, resigned. ~Ir. S'l'ANLEY. Mr. President, I differ from my colleagues (Mr. Lillard is now serving under a recess appointment.) with great hesitancy, especially with such able representatives POSTMASTERS. of sovereign States as have addressed this body this after noon-the great Senator from :Missouri [Mr. REED], the bril ARKANSAS. liant Senator from Arkansas [Mr. CARAWAY], the genial Sen Ilessie Bevill to be postmaster at Kensett, Ark., in place of ator from Alabama [Ur. HEFLIN), and the great chairman of the Bessie Bevill. Incumbent's commission expired August 5, 1923. Finance Committee when the Democrats were in power [l\lr. George W. Stanfield t<> be postmaster at Corning, Ark., in Snnro:xs], and so ou; but, nevertheless, I am constraiued to say place of C. E. Skinner. Incumbent's commission e:irpired Au that I agree with none of them. [Laughter.] I emphatically gust 5, U>23. dissent from all that all of them have said, and all by my little Abram J. Hansberry to be postmaster at Ozark, Ark., in lone. ome self I thank Him from whom all blessings flow that place of T. C. Fleeman, resigned. the Republican Party have not turned impotence into action. COLOR.ADO. Judging by the things they have done, what Democrat, what Laura Mohler to be postmaster at Towner, Oolo. Office be patriot, what lover of his country, could either ask Congress or came presidential October 1, 1923. the leaders in Congress to put this thing in motion again? Do l\1ary E. McCormick to be postmaster at Penrose, Colo. Office we want another tariff bill? Do we want another tax bill? became presidential October 1, 1923. Do we want another railroad bill? Has the Fordney-McCumber burtlen grown so light that W"e- want it increased? Has Re DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. publican tinkering with taxation grown so agreeable that we William M. Mooney to be postmaster at Washington, D. C., in W"ant them again to put mgre burdens upon the backs of the place of M. 0. Chance, resigned. poor and further relieve the coffers of the rich? Are freight FLO:&IDA. rates o light that we want them again to burden the shipper Ernest B. Wells to be postmaster at Lawtey, Fla. Office be in order to enrich the carrier? What act of that party in its came presidential July 1, 1923. short and evil life justifies any Democrat in urging it again to blunder or imperil the happiness of your country or add to the ILLI:\"OIS. miseries of a people now groaning under its incompetence or William J. West to be postmaster at Odin, Ill., in place of corruption? W. J. West. Incumbent"s commission expired December 6, rn2~. For one I say may God at least give us paralysis if He can Charles N. Smith to be postmaster at Madison, Ill, in place not give us reformation. [Laughter and applause in the gal- of George Reinemann, removed. Jeries.] · Stanley L. Ryno to be postmaster at Easton, Ill., in place of 'l'he PRESIDING OFFICER. Any demonstration of approval R. L. Wilson, resigned. or disapproval in the galleries is prohibited by the rule, and INDllNA. the galleries will be cleared if it is in evidence again. Donald D. Hobbs to be postmaster at CarmeJ, Ind., in place of J. C. Davis, removed. EXECUTIVE SESSION. IOWA. ~Ir. LODGE. I move that the Senate proceed to the con John C. Dow to be postmaster at College Springs, Iowa. sideration of executive business. Office became presidential October 1, 1!)23. The motion was agreed to, and the Senate proceeded to the KANSAS. consideration of executive business. After 2 hours and 10 min utes spent in executive session the doors were reopened, and Frank A. Moore to be postmaster at Tribune, Kans., in place (at 4 o'clock and 40 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until of F. A. Moore. Incumbent's commission expired July 28, 1!)23. to-morrow, Thursday, December 20, 1923, at 12 o'clock me Renus A. Jordan to be postmaster at Claflin, Kans., in place ridian. of J. D. Stevenson, resigned. MINNESOTA. NOMINATIONS. George A. Anderson to be postmaster at Austin, 1\Ilnn., in place of C. F. Cook. Incumbent's commission ei"Pired July 28, E:recuti,,;e 1101ninations received by the Senate Decembe1· 19, 1923. 1923. Edwin Nelson to be postmaster at Wendell, Minn., in place of A. R. McManus, resigned. 00M11:USSIONER OF IMMIGRATION. MISSOURI. William W. Tuttle, of Louisiana, commissioner of immigra tion at the port of New Orleans, La. Abraham 1\1. Smelser to be postmaster at Grandin, Mo. Office became presidential October 1, 1923. CoLLEC'l'OR OF CUSTOMS. George D. Harris to be postmaster at Slater, Mo., in place of Earl C. McFarland, of Portland, Oreg., to be collector of F. A. Howard. Incumbent's commission expired August 12, customs for customs collection district No. 29, with head 1923. quarters at Portland, Oreg., to fill an existing T'acancy. Mr. Charles H. Duncan to be postmaster at Tarkio, Mo., in place McFarland is now serving under temporary commission issued of T. J. Davis, deceased. during the recess of the Senate. ?tIOXTA.NA. COMMANDANT OF THE COAST GUARD. Rose C. Spangler to be postmaster at Superior, l\font., in place of R. W. Spangler. Incumbent's commission expired Commander Frederick C. Billard to be commandant of the August 5, 1923. Coast Guard of the United States, witb the rank of rear ad James H. Hadzor to be postmaster at Sheridan, Mont., ill miral, to date from January 11, 19-24, in place of Admiral Wil place of J. H. Haszor. Incumbent's commission expired Au liam Edward Reynolds to be retired January 10, 19~4. gust 5, 1923. 432 CONGRESSIONAL ltECORD-SENATE. · DECEl\lBER 1g' NEBRASKA. CONFIRl\1ATIONS. James C. Elliott to be postmaster at Westpoint, Nebr., in Exeouti,i:e nominations confi,nned by the S enate December 19, place of W. H. Harstick. Incumbent's commis ion expired 1923. August 5, 1923. UNITED STATES 0oNSULAB SERVICE. Frederick A. l\fellberg to be postmaster at Newman Grove, Nebr., in place of F. A. Mellberg. Incumbent's commission ex TO BE CONSULS OF CLASS 4. pired August 5. 1923. James B. Stewart. Hugh H. Watson. John S. l\fyers to be postmaster at Grant, Nebr., in place of Frank C. Lee. 0 car S. Heizer. J .• '. Myers. Incumbent's commission expired August 5, 1923. William L. Jenkins. Joseph W. Ballantyne. TO BE CONSULS OF CJ,ASS Ii. NEW MEXICO. H. Merle Cochran. Jolin P. Hm·ley. I .... ouis L. Burkhead to be postmaster at Columbus, N. Mex., Joseph E. Jacobs. Chester W. Davis. in place of L. L. Burkhead. Incumbent's commission expired Dayle C. McDonough. William C. Burdett. July 28, 1923. George A. Makinson. John D. Johnson. NEW YORK. TO BE C'ON S ULS OF CLASS 6. Edgar F. Cummings to be postmaster at Beacon, N. Y., in Jolin F. Simons. place of J. H. Mara. Incumbent's commission expired August Edward l\I. Groth. 5, 1923. Clarence J. Spiker. John R. l\1inter. Louis H. GoUI·ley. Hooker A. Doolittle. Elsie V. Webb to be postmaster at Union Springs, N. Y., in Eliot B. Coulter. Don S. Haven. plaee of L. W. Yawger. Incumbent's commission expired April Edmun!'J B. Montgomery. 27, 1920. A. Wallace Treat. Rudolph W. SclloYerling to be postma ter at Bayville, N. Y., TO BE COW' ULS OF CLASS 7. in place of L. D. Ilill, resigned. Jack Dewey Hickerson. Nathaniel P. Davis. NORTH CAROLINA. Robert D. Murphy. Clark P. Kuykendall. J. Lee Murphy. George P. Waller. John H. Elliott to be postmaster at Stony Point, N. C. Office Howard K. Travers. Albert II. Gerberich. became presidential October 1, 1923. George P. Shaw. Thomas McEnelly. NORTH DAKOTA. Harold D. Finley. Christian T. Steger. Ella C. Sweeney to be postmaster at Berthold, N. Dak., in Donald F. Bigelow. James V. Whitfield. place of D. F. Sweeney. Incumbent's commission expired Jan James R. Wilkinson. Walter S. Reineck. uary 24, 1922. Robert D. Longyear. Rudolf E. Schoenfeld. Elizabeth J. Olson to lJe postmaster at :Medina, N. Dak., in Ray Fox. Edward B. Thomas. place of A. J. Olson, resigned. Julian C. Greenup. Howard Bucknell, jr. Donald R. Heath. OHIO. COAST GU.ARD. John Roth to be postmaster at Exc~llo, Ohio, in place of Alonzo Keeton, resigned. Quincy Bogardus Newman to be engineer in chief with the ank of captain (engineering). OKLAHOMA. 1\lary l\fcCutcheon to be postmaster at Schulter, Okla. Office POSTMA STEM. became presidential October 1, 1923. ARKANSAS, OREGON. Mary Brown, Alpena Pa s. Louis Reitzammer, Arkansas City. harles R. Tyler to be postmaster s.t Yamhill, Oreg., in place Roy W. Stevens, Ashdown. of C. R. Tyler. Incumbent's commission expired August 29, Bing Moody, Bald Knob. 1923. Jason 0. Burns, Batesvil1e. PENNSYLVANIA. Thomas T. West, Beebe. William A. Bailey to be postmaster at Southwest, Pa. Office Joseph S. Cotner, Branch. became presidential July 1, 1923. Milton R. Stimson, Brinkley. Edward 0. Neubert to be postmaster at Saxonburg, Pa. George A. Clark, Calico Rock. Office became presidential October 1, 1923. King J. Basham, Clarksville. l\Iary A. Kerr to be postmaster at Boyers, Pa. Office became Kay S. Rolley, Crawfordville. presidential October 1, 1923. Redford G. Miles, Des Arc. SOUTH CAROLINA.. Edith l\f. Cook, De Valls Bluff. Philip J. Smith, Dumas. James A. Parler to be postmaster at Elloree, S. C., in place Robert 1\1. Deason, El Dorado. of J. A. Parler. Incumbent's commission expired August 5, John El. Bittinger, Grady. 1923. Garland S. Russell, Green Forest. David H. Taylor to be postmaster at Cameron, S. 0., in place William J. Rumsey, Hardy. of D. H. Taylor. Incumbent's commission expired August 5, Oliver A. Hill, Hartford. 1923. John T. Harper, Huntsville. Dana T. Crosland to be postmaster at Bennettsville, S. C., in William H. Ashburn, Joiner. place of D. T. Crosland. Incumbent's commission expired A.u Charles L. Jones, Junction City. gu t 15, 1923. Earnest R. Clark, Knobel. TENNESSEE. Thomas H. Perry, Louann. Rufus N. McCaslin to be postmaster at Dickson, Tenn., in George H. C. Palmer, McGehee. place of J. T. Patten, resigned. James L. Willson, Moro. TEXAS. Harry L. Shambarger, Mulberry. Thomas A. Hunt, Murfreesboro. Vivian B. Boone to be postmaster at Fabens, Tex. Office be Paul Smith, Nettleton. came presidential April 1, 1923. Ned P. Atkin, Parkdale. William N. Moore to be postmaster at Fort Worth, Tex., in Walter G. Baker, Peach Orchard. place of R. E. Speer. Incumbent's commission expired Septem Frank Weldin, Piggott. ber 5, 1922. William J. Vick, Prescott. VIRGINIA.. James H. Ward, Quitman. Benjamin A.. Dratt to be postmaster at Woodford, Va. Office Robert Dail, Ravenden. became presidential October 1, 1923. John S. Bowden, Russellv1lle. Henry 1\I. Stowe to be postmaster at Bedford, Va., in place of Hugh T. Brown, Scott. T. W. Richardson, resigned. Simon L. Gustafson, Searcy. Reuben P. Allen, Smackover. WASHINGTON. Edwin S. Thompson, Springdale. Henning E. Johnson to be postmaster at Du Pont, Wash. John W. Honeycut, Strong. Office became presidential October 1, 1923. Nona El Robertson, Thornton. 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 433 Ilo:a Wallace, Washington. Charles W. Woodward, Kellogg. Stella Winn, Winslow. Dora M. Schenken, Keystone. George E. Davis, Wynne. Albert G. Ogren, Kingsley. CONNECTICUT. Emma A. Gibbs, Klemme. .Tohn W. Cook, Beacon Falls. Maurice L. Curtis, Knoxville. Henry G. Linsley, Branford. Edwin E. Starr, Lake Park. Frank LaFavre, Central Village. Edward Thaves, Lakota. C'arl W. Brage, Darien. James J. Pruitt, Larchwuod. T.1C'ontine l\l. Root, East Berlin. .Andrew F. Bittle, Lisbon. ~arnh L. Ruic, Farmington. Lambert H. l\1eier, Lowden. W. Burton Allen, Litchfield. Maurice A. Brewer, l\Ialcom. Ernest F. Brown, Manchester. Irven L. Donner, l\lalvern. James J. Fitzpatrick, l\feriden. Gus E. Holmberg, l\Ianning. Hope C. Niemann, l\larcus. ~ourtland C. Potter, Mystic. 'Valter E. Brown, Naugatuck. Harland J. Maurer, 1\Iechanicsville. !Ropold J. Curti · , Norfolk. Claude I. Patterson, l\lecliapolis. 1\Iargaret C. Kelly, Noroton. William E. l\lale ·, :Milo. William P. Leete, North Ha-ven. Anna A. 1\Ieek, l\Iinburn. U~-rus I. Byington, Norwalk. George Guyan, Monticello. Cni;;per K. Bailey, Nol'wi<'lt. Jame F. Albert, Moravia. J1'red R. Alford, Oak\ille. John i\f. Garrett, l\loulton. 'Villiam C. Bushnell, Plantsville. CJ1arles S. Rogers, l\Iount Pleasant. " ilUam P .• 'tone, Salisbun·. William S. McKee, Muscatine. Nelson E. Weleh, omers. Edward E. Simpson, Nashua. Walter Il. Palmer, Sound Beach. Rose M. Ward, Neola. John P. l\lcHrath, Routhington. James 1\1. Crawford, New London. Henry :Muir, Thoma ton. Roy H. Bailey, Newton. Robert E. Tnft, Union-ville. Alexander J. Irwin, New Virginia. William C. Saunders, Waterford. Lanah A. Lawler, North English. .John V. Abbott, Watertown. Carl A. Wissler, Oakdale. Adele P. Brush, West Cornwall. Christopher C. l\lon·1-·, Oakland. Hnrrie E. Stat·ks, Winstecl. John B. Balkema, Orange City. Jo ·eph E. Crissinger, Oxford. IOWA. Louis F. Bousquet, Pelln. 1\els .A.. Christensen, Alta. 1\laude E. Barkley, Pierson. Eclward .J. Kooreman, Alton. Kearney F. Elder, Portl:lmouth. Lucian C. Tilden, Ames. Keith Gray, Postville. Arthur L. Remley, Anamo a. Edward Oldis, Preston. Eddy L. :Newton, Anita. .Jo G. Milligan, Pula ·kl. Howard C. Walter, Arnolds Park. Jolm S. Baxter, Red Oak. Ro · S. King, Barnes City. George M. Wright, Russell. Allen A. Mickelson, Battle Creek. Ining J. Foy, Ruthven. "'alter H. Herzog, Baxter. Lloyd n. Hughes, Sac City. George L. Beeler, Bellevue. Lucille Brouillette, Salix. Elda Bendigkeit. Bennett. Chester C. Yellaud, Sheffield. John C. Erton, Blairsburg. Willis W. Overholser. Sibley. J. Tracy Garrett, Burlington. Walter E. Witten, Sloan. Sigvart T. Kittlesby, Calmar. Grant E. Olson, Soldier. Cora E. Tyler, Carson. Edward R. Beucler, Spencer. L1o.ru Lock, Castana. George W. Sisler, Stanwood. Howard C. Copeland, Chariton. John D. Herriott, Stuart. • ue G. Cross, Chelsea. John A. Hale, 'l'ripoli. Freddie Baldwin, Chester. Alvah S. Dukes, Unionville. Ella Yeager, Cincinnati. Dwight C. Kessler, UniYe.rsity Park. William H. Beacom, Clayton. Tabitha Yelsma, Ute. Omar IL Brooks, Cleghorn. Lennie L. Hoffman, Vail. 'Yilliam M. Crosier, Coggon. Ada C. Trindle, Van l\leter. Orlean P. ltiordan, Correctionville. Layton E. Brown, Victor. Frauk lU. Williams, Council Bluffs. Clarence A. Knaack, \ 1{alcott. 'Yilbur C. Patterson. Cresco. Jessie E. D. Palmer, Walnut. "'illiam Linnevold. Decorah. Gabriel Pederson, Waterville. Thomas Phillips, Dedham. Chester 1\.1. Burnside, ·waucoma. Re ·. ·ie E. Scheib, Delmar. George H. Leasure, Williamsburg. John F. Homer, Dewitt. .James A. Smiley, Winfield. A LXV-28 434 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER '19,_ Orla C. Coffin, Deer Wood. Otto M. Christinson, Glasgow. Ralph C. Peterson, Dilworth. John R. Lloyd, Great Falls. Theresa E. 'I'horeson, East Grand Forks. James R. Minugh, Harlem. Cora 'l:horson, Echo. Fre I.,eon Ferbel, Fords. William D. Sinclair, Hannaford. H oward N. Parker, Gibb. boro. Duncan McLean, Hannah. Heister Clymer, Haddonfield. .Walter P. Osborne, Hunter. l\lary E. Cubberley, Hamilton Square. Allee I. Muir, Inkster. James 0. Norris, Hightstown. Ole H. Larson, Killdeer. Arabelle C. Broander, Keansburg. Elizabeth Cochrane, Knox:. Frank Pierson, Lawrenceville. Simon M. Ronning, Kramer. Renview L. Hull, Lebanon. Catherine. Lynch, Lakota. Oscar Drake, Manasquan. Joseph H. Huseby, Leeds. Stephen Bartha, Mays Landing. Henrietta Rooks, Linton. Elvord G. Chamberlin, Montclair. Ole S. Aaker, Minnewaukan. Ruth E. Amerman, Neshanic Station. Nelson M. Chamberlain, Page. .John H. Tyrrell, Perth Amboy. John C. Black, Plaza. James F. Beardsley, Pompton Lake. Lottie A. Lund, Powers Lake. William A. Sweeney, Red Bank. Albert F. Harris, Reeder. Edward T. Sherwood, Rosemont. Bernard E. Rierson, Regan. Nathaniel S. Hires, Salem. Frank E. Elliekson, Regent. Frank Hoffman, South Amboy. Albert 1\1. Marchand, Rolla. Harry H. Hilyard, Williamstown. Ralph H. McKean, Sanborn. William H. Albright, Woodbury. John P. Breslin, Sanlsh. John A. Smith, Wrightstown. Carl L. George, Sarles. l\"'EW MEXICO. Marvel 1\1. Mackin, Streeter. Seth E. Garlanu, Tioga. Nell P. Drolet, Farmington. Chase E. Mullinex, Tolley. NORTH CAROLINA. Charles S. Laidlaw, Wales. John F. Barlow, Banners Elk. Albert .J. Drake, Westhope. William H. Manning, Bethel. Robert M. Mares, Wheatland. William D. Farthing, Boone. Frank Heglund, White Earth. Andrew J. De Hart, Br~· son City. Axel G. C. Strom, Williston. John H. Hobson, Cleveland. Arnold E. Lien, Wyndmere. George E. Sweet, Cornelius. Norbert J. Joyce, Zap. Alice W. Starr, Creswell. OHIO. John F. Mathes, East Durham. Arthur J. Richardson, Ashtabula. James H. Darden, Faison. William D. Daugherty, A very. J obn S. Downing, Fayetteville. Garnet N. Engel, Avon Lake. Herman E. Upchurch, Four Oaks. Ambrose B. Wingate, Beach City. David E. Morgan, Glenwood. Fred 0. Simpson, Belle Center. James A. Wyche, Hallsboro. Charles A. Bower, Bowerston. Andrew J. Runion, Hot Springs. Ralph P. Crane, Bowling Green. Marvin E. Barrett, Jackson. Effie W. Mansfield, Brilliant. Leah J. Franck, Jacksonville. Albert H. Soles, Buchtel Edith E. Holton, Jamestown. Carl A.. Brown, Bucyrus. Jacob M. Stancil, Kenly. Fred D. Lodge, Columbiana. Robert W. Taylor, Lucama. Alexander C. McDonald, Coshocton. Seaton M. Woodley, ~lackeys. Starling F. Trimble, Crestline. Lonnie R. Cowan, Marion. Arthur M. Eidson, Cygnet. Nora Stedman, Moncure. Frank G. Pittenger, Dennison. William F. Ballard, Mount Holly. Charles W. Shaffer, Doylestown. Flora E. Schlalach, Moyock. Alva A. Loomis, Ellet. Clifton H. Chamberlain, Murfreesboro.. Guy W. Reuter, Fort Reco-,·ery. Rosa J. Cooper, Nashville. Earl H. Koger, Frankfort. James L. Edwards, Newport. Alanzo B. Yarnell, Freeport. Andrew T. Barkley, North Charlotte. Harry R. Hurn, Gallipolis. John H. Williams, Pikeville. Normon B. Ervin, jr., Gibsonburg. George W. Cox, Raeford. James Lewis, Girard. Henry J. Whitt, Roxboro. Fr·ed Brockmeyer, Glendale. Calvin L. Hill, Saluda. Frank W. Howard, Grafton. Jacob H. Quinn, Shelby. Edward L. Jones, Granville. Robert H. Dixon, Siler City. Fred B. Reed, Green Springs. Sudie M. Morgan, Spindale. Warren H. Noble, Greenwich. Grace B. Fagg, Stoneville. .Jennie Pfeiffer, Grover Hill. James L. Baker, Tyner. William H. Tracy, Harrison. Mae A. Elliott, Union Mills. Charles D. Bush, Jeffersonville. Richard A. Price, Weldon. Michael Effinger, Lanca ter. Arthm H. Gibbs, Whittier. William P. King, 'Vindsor . Ella L. Alstadt, Laurelville. Lincoln A. Slusser, Louisville. Fronie Perry, Wingate. Francis M. Fletcher, McComb. NORTH DAKOTA. Mary E. Basore, McGuffey. Joseph J. Saddler, Amidon. Raymond G: Copeland, 1\Iagnetlc Springs. Guy E. Abelein, Anamoose. Charles W. Kennedy, l\lagnolia. Reuben P. Semrau, Balfour. William A. Cunningham, l\falvern. Irwin E. Walton, Bantry. Louis K. Carroll, Manchester. E\an S. Brown, Buffalo. Walter S. Bradford, Mansfield. James Taylor, Cando. Heyward Long, l\fartins Ferry. Nellie Ribb, Donnybrook. Charles E. Penquite, Ma. on. 0 ·car J. Haner, Douglas. Jc:hn McCleery, l\1asury. Earl M. Sanness, Enderlin. Pearl C. Brown (Mr.) , :.\li William L. Fortney, Nankin. Clara l\I. Cain, Bradford. William G. Come, Newark. Lena B. Tankersley, Chapel Hill. Calvin L. Hartline, Newcomerstown. Jessie Reagan, Clifty. Harry 1\1. Day, New Richmond. Lucile Brown, Cornersville. Albert S. Nye, New Washington. Albert W. Layne, Dunlap. Cloyd 1\1. Kieffer, Orrville. Lon McCaleb, Dyersburg. Robert G. Goff, Painesville. Charley M. Mount, Franklin. Marsllall 0. Brooke, Peebles. Stephen H. Bedwell, Friendship. William E. Whitcomb, Perrysville. James T. Smith, Fountain City. Nora Kassell, Philo. John G. Seay, Germantown. Frank B. l\1cCullough, Plain City. Herod H. Jenkins, Hartsville. William l\I. Johns, Plymouth. John J. Graham, Knoxville. Aaron W. Hartley, Pomeroy. Ernest C. Lowery, Leoma. George A. Fisher, Port Clinton. Bassil G: Taylor, Mason. Clarence R. Seymour, Ravenna. Edgar P. Stubblefield, Morri. on. Olive Toland, Rayland. Joseph F. Morrow, l\1ountpleasant. Alta N. Johnson, Rushsylvania. A. Henderson Johnson, Newbern. Egbert H. Alack, Sandusky. Hugh G. Haworth, New l\Iarket. James A. Downs, Scio. William S. Weatherly, Puryear. Fred 0. Foster, Seville. William E. Stone, Selmer. Alva H. Anderson, Shelby. Wilbur Walker, Tiptonville. Harry Oldham, Sidney. Cyrus L. Fairless, Trenton. Carl S. Penn, Smithfield. TEXAS. Charles M. Sauder, Smithville. Anderson J. Hixson, Abbott. Russel A. l\1edaugh, Spencerville. Lindsey C. Payton, Abilene. Elmer E. ·weaver, Sugarcreek. Roberta G. Sterrett, Albany. Oral H. Hilborn, Tiro. Mack M. Pittman, Annona. William W. Keepers, . Uhrichsville. Ernest E. Cornelius, Athens. Ralph L. Stamm, Versailles. J oel A. Reese, Ballinger. George W. Hassenier, Wapakoneta. Defsy N. Garrard, Batson. William E. Reed, West Lafayette. Frederick W. Guffy, Belton. Milton W. Stout, West Liberty. Edith :!ll. Bursey, Brackettville. OKLA.HOMA. Harry N. Cook, Bracly. Roy Patton, Ames. ~ Elizabeth A. Kirkpatrick, Bullard. Frank S. Nipper, Apperson. \Villiam P. Lace, Burleson. Royal F. Hall, Boise City. Henry M. Budge , Campbell. Roy Patterson, Capron. Claude F. Riley, Canton. Orva A. Crouch, l\1ay. Winnie B. Carroll, Center. Robert A. Covington, Pernell. Josie D. Jackson, Center Polnt. Frank W. Fuller. Ringwood. Alfred A. Thomas, Chandler. William A. Vassar, Tryon. John W. Tr:putt, Cisco. Severee L. Massie, Tyrone. Homer Glascoe, Clarenclon. Robert W. Small, Webb City. James L. Reed, Clarksville. Etta Varley, Collinsville. OREGON. John 1\1. Clark, Como. Fred D. Wagner, Ashland. Owen D. Holleman, Corpus Christt Henry A. Barrett, Athena. Wellington T. Cutler, Crockett. Diana Snyder, Aurora. Chess W. Barr, Cross Plains. Arthur C. Wahl, Banks. William A. Conner, Dawson. Willis C. Cady, Beaverton. Robert H. Fenton. Denton. James J. Hogan, Bend. Wilson T. Lawler, Deport. William H. Hays, Brownsville. Arno L. Wahrmund, Eagle Lake. Arley A. Sollinger, Canyon City. Francis C. Elam, Edgewood. Curtis C. Heidrich, Chiloquin. Theodore B. Newman, Fairfield. Lester A. Cawfield, Crane. Charles H. Cmajdalka, Fayetteville. William G. Hoover, Fossil. Charles W. Silliman, Ganado. Andrew R. Siegmund, Gervais. James P. Hewitt, Giddings. Frank W. Castor. Haines. Virgil G. Pritchett, Gladewater. William T. Phy, Hot Lake. Andrew J. Harrison, Goldtbwaite. Nellie Elliott, John Day. Emma J". Cleveland, Grand Prairie. Emma L. Hufstater, Knappa. William I. Rogers, Gunter. Fred P. Cronemiller, Lakeview. Eva Currie, Happy. William R. Cook, Madras. James M. Everett, Hedley. Duncan E. Douglas, l\larshfield. Mamie B. Mustaine, Honey Grove. Elmer Hopkins, Milton. Allen 1\1. Huddleston, Hubbard. Otis A. Wolverton, Monmouth. John K. Seale. Hull. Gaphart D. Ebner~ Mount Angel. Maude I ... Tucker. Idalou. Oliver P. Shoemaker, Newport. Charles F. Adams, Jacksonville. Evelyn D. Davenport, Oak Grove. Helen M. Peel, Jourdanton. Pauline W. Platt, Ontario. David W. Thompson, Keltys. Grace ,V. Gamwell, Powers. Charles E. Smith, Kerens. Clifford S. Benson, Reedsport. Ann!e D. Russell, Ki1gore. Nellie P. Satchwell, Shedd. Nicholas C. Nail, Krum. Corn :Macoon, Warrenton. Helen C. Wallace, Kyle. SOUTH CA.ROLIN A. John A. McFarland, Ladonia. James D. Dyer, Lamesa. Loka W . .Rigby, Moncks Corner. Carl F. Kluge, Linden. TEN!\"'ESSEE. Evans H. Angell, Longview. John F. Gaines, Gaine boro. Maude W. Hoople, Lorenzo. Ilaltis L. Kemp, Adamsville. William L. Evans, Lufkin. Beecher D. Phillips, Algood. James E. Cook, Mart. John P. Gallaher, Ashlan<'!. City. August C. Koep el, Mathis. John L. Harris, Bethel Springs. William M. Owens, Memphis. 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 437 Harvey J. McKinzie, Midlothian. I recommend that, in order to effect a settlement of these Arthur J. Thomas, Mineral Wells. claims in accordance with the recommendation of the Secretary Marion G. Hedrick, Mirando City. of State, the Congress, as an act of grace and without reference James M. Cottle, Moran. to the question of the legal liability of the United States in the Helen Newton, Morgan. premises, authorize an appropriation in the sum of $1,000, Wenzel K. Richter, Moulton. $500 of which is to be paid to Mr. Arend Kamp and $500 to be George T. Wood, Olney. paid to Mr. Francis Gort. · Mildred Hughes, Onalaska. 0ALVIN COOLIDGE. Hattie M. Culpepper, Palmer. THE WHITE HousE, December ~o. 192'3. Bessie Jackson, Paint Rock. TRANSACTIONS OF E~!ERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION. Claud A. Minton, Pioneer. The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a com Jasper W. Blount, Quinlan. munication from the chairman of the United States Shipping Homer G. Robinson, Quitman. Board in response to Senate resolution 388 (agreed to January Arthur N. Brown, jr., Richland. 4, 1923, submitted by Mr. Krno), reporting the names of all offi Elmer I. Wade, Rockdale. cers and employees of the Emergency Fleet Corporati-0n, together Gayle T. Snedecor, Rosenberg. with a statement of the salaries or compensation paid to each, Kelsey R. Dort, St Jo. a list of all persons who have received passes or gratuitous John M. Cape, San Marcos. transportation on vessels operated by or for the account ol Riley M. Foster, Saratoga. Emergency Fleet Corporation, etc. Henry L. Cullender, Seminary IDU. Mr. JONES of Washington. I wish to call the attention of Grover C. Stephens, Sierra Blanca. the Senate to a fact in reference to this report. This is a report Walter Kurz, Somerset. made upon a resolution similar to many which we pass from May l\Iurray, Sonora. day to day. I am reliably informed that it cost $50,000 to get Nelson L. Yates, Stratford. up the report. Josie I. Coleman, Tehuacana. TllP. PRESIDE1'"'T pro tempore. The communication and James I. Dunn, Tioga. accompanying report will be referred to the Committee on Ralph D. Gilbert, Trinity. Commerce. Vera Butler, Troup. REPORTS OF THE SERGEANT AT ARMS. John A. Emmitt, Tulia. Roscoe L. Garver, Van Alstyne. The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a report R. Emory Howle, Venus. of the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate on the sale since Decem Edward 1\1. Tracy, Victoria. ber 5, 1922, of property condemned in accordance with law and William G. McClain, Waxahachie. the proceeds thereof deposited with the :financial clerk of the Alphonso S. Butler, Winona. Senate (S. Doc. No.12), and also a report, made pursuant to law, giving a complete account of all property in his possession and WYOMING. in the Senate Office Building belonging to the Senate, as of Florence Hullett, Chugwater-. December 3, 1923 ( S. Doc. No. 13), which were ordered to lie on Grace B. Morrow, Clearmont. the table and to be printed. C. Golden Welch, 'Cowley. SENATOR FROM TEX.AS. Fred W. Smith, Glenrock. J"ohn T. Platt, Kemmerer. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the Alvah J. Macy, Moorcroft. Senate certain additional papers and books with respect to the Harry Fawcett, Newcastle. election of a Senator from Texas and refers them to the Com Harry R. Ellison, Parkert'on. mittee on Privileges and Elections. Conrad Johnson, Pine Bluffs. PETITIONS. L. Roy Ness, Powell. The PRESIDE::NT pro tempore laid before the Senate resolu John A. Stafford, Rock Springs. tions of the Sorosis Club of Fort Worth, Tex., favoring the Robert E. Chittick, jr., Shoshoni. participation of the United States in a permanent court of international justice so as to foster world peace, which were referred to the Committee on Foreign Re1ations. SENATE. l\Ir. HARRIS. I present resolutions and communications from my State favoring the adherence of the United States to THURSDAY, December ~O, 1~3. the Permanent Court of International Justice, which I ask may be printed in the RECORD and referred to the Oommlttee The Chaplain, Rev. J. J. Muir, D. D., offered the following on Foreign Relations. prayer: There being no objection, the matter refe1Ted to was ordered Our Father, we thank Thee for the season of the year which to be printed in the RECORD and· referred to the Committee on is now ours. We thank Thee for its hallowed associations and Foreign Relations, as follows: for all that it brings to us of joy and peace, and humbly be· Resolutions as to the Permanent Court of International Justice. seech of Thee that the peace that passeth all understanding Whereas there is before the Senate of the United States a proposal may gauison each heart and life. As we separate for a time that we adhere to the Permanent Court of International Justice re we beseech of Thee to each one that Thou wilt grant journeying cently set up by most of the great natioDB for the deciding of issues mercies and that in the home circle there may be the greatest which, unles·s judicially decided, might result in war; and happiness, each contributing to the welfare of the other. The Whereas all of our past history has committed us, both in theory Lord bless all the homes of our loved country. Save us from and practice, to the peaceable settlement of international disputes, dissension and sorrow, and be always with us, to the joy of ·and it is our manifest duty to proceed further in this path; and Thy great name. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Whereas the need and value of such a court have been admitted and The reading clerk proceeded to read the Journal of yester asserted by Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, and Harding, day's proceedings, when, on request of Mr. CURTIS and by and by other leading statesmen in all parties : Be it unanimous consent, the further reading was dispensed with and Resolved by the North Georgia Oonference of the Methodist Episcopal the Journal was approved. Church, South, in sessi