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1937~ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 105 By Mr. PLUMLEY: A bill (H. R. 2178) for the relief- of Also, a bill (H. R. 2215) for the relief of Gallup's, Inc.; to widows of certain Reserve officers of the Army who died the Committee on Claims. while serving with the Civilian Conservation Corps; to the , Also, a bill

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE his annual report for the fiscal year ended June ao: 1936, A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. which, with the accompanying report, was ordered to lie c~ Haltigan, one of its reading clerks, announced that the the table and to be printed. House had passed the joint resolution (S. J. Res. 3) to pro­ REPORTS OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS hibit the exportation of arms, ammunition, and implements The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from of war from the to Spain. the Librarian of Congress, transmitting, pursuant to law, ENROLL~D JOINT RESOLUTION SIGNED his annual report, together with the report of the Register The message also announced that the Speaker had affixed of Copyrights, both for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1936, his signature to the enrolled joint resolution (S. J. Res. 3) to which, with the accompanying reports, was referred to the prohibit the exportation of arms, ammunition, and imple­ . Committee on the Library. ments of war from the United States to ·spain, and it was STUDY OF INVESTMENT TRUSTS AND COMPANIES-PRELIMINARY signed by the Vice President. SUMMARY FELICITATIONS ON THE REELECTION OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Com­ from the president of the Senate of the Republic of Cuba, mission, transmitting, pursuant to law, a preliminary sum­ embodying a resolution congratulating and felicitating mary of the progress of the study of investment trusts and Franklin Delano Roosevelt upon his reelection as President investment companies conducted by the Commission, which, of the United States, which was ordered to lie on the table. with the accompanying document, was referred to the Com· mittee on Banking and Currency. THE LATE SENATOR FLETCHER, OF The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate resolutions PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS . adopted as a tribute to the memory of Hon. Duncan U. The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the follow­ Fletcher, late a Senator from the State of Florida, by the ing concurrent memorial of the Legislature of the State of Chamber of Commerce of Tampa and the Democratic Execu­ Arizona, which was referred to the Committee on Finance: · tive Committee of the Fourth Congressional District· of Concurrent memorial relating to the inclusion of tribal Indians Florida, which were ordered to lie on the table. · within the provisions of the Old Age Assistance Act To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Congress of the THE LATE SENATOR TRAMMELL, OF FLORIDA United States of America: · . The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a resolution · _Y~ur memor~alist respectfully represents-:-;- Section ~ of the Federal Social Security Act, approved August 14, adopted as a tribute to the memory of Hon. Park Trammell, . 1935, requJ.res that States accepting the provisions of the said act, . late a Senator from the State of Florida, by the.Democratic · as · they rel-ate to old-age assistance, must impose · no citizenship Executive Committee of .the Fourth Congressional District of requirement which excludes any citizen of the United States. - The act of Congress approved June 2, 1924 (ch. 233, Public Laws Flor~da, which was ordered to lie on the table. of the United States, 68th Cong.), provides: "That all noncitizen FIVE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF FOUNDING OF SWEDISH _Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States be, PARLIAMENT and they are hereby, declared to be citizens of the United States." It follows that a strict interpretation of the acts above cited Will The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from ·entitle reservation Indians having the qualifications specified in the the Assistant Secretary of State, enclosing copy of a note Social ~ecurity Act, and in State acts contorming thereto, to old­ rece.ived from the Swedish Legation in Washington, together ag_e ass.:.stance up to $30 per month. The total number of Indians in the United States (annual with certain publications issued in connection with the cele­ re}:ort of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the year 1932) is bration of the five hundredth anniversary of the founding 317,234. Of these the State of Arizona has 48,162, or above 15 of the Swedish Parliament, which, with the accompanying percent of all the Indians of the United States. documents, was referred to the Committee on ·Foreign Whatever may be true of the Indian tribes of other States Arizona tribes contain a large percentage of old Indians, who, a~ Relations. regards the age requirement, will be eligible for old-age assistance. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY The additi_on of these aged Indians to the old-age assistance rolls would impose a burden upon the State of Arizona which it could The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from hardly bear, and which it should not in reason be expected to bear. the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to iaw, The area of Arizona is approximately 72,931,860 acres. Of this his annual report on the state of the finances for the fiscal total, 19,566,339 acres, or 26.8 percent, lies within Indian reserva­ tions. Much of this Indian land embraces particularly choice areas. year ended June 30, 1936, which, with the accompanying None of it is taxable, nor are the Indians who occupy it contribu­ report, was referred to the Committee on Finance. tors to the cost of maintaining the State government. REPORT OF THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY Aside fro~ the fact ~hat Arizona, as shown by the above figures, has an Indtan populatwn altogether out of proportion to her total The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from population and wealth, and an Indian territory likewise dispro­ the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant portionate to her total area, it would also clearly appear that the matter of economic security for the Nation's Indian citizens iS to law, the annual report of the Office of Education upon the entirely a Federal responsibility. affairs of Howard University for the fiscal year ended June Wherefore, your memorialist, 30, 1936, which, with the accompanying report, was referred The House of Representatives of the State of Arizona (the senate to the Committee on Education and Labor. concurring), respectfully but earnestly requests: 1. That the Congress of the United States do so amend the CLAIM OF J. HARVEY BLANCHARD Social Security Act as to specifically except from its provisions relating to old-age assistance, or old-age pensions, all nontaxable The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from tribal Indians residing upon reservations. the Acting Comptroller General of the United States, trans­ Approved, November 23, 1936. mitting, pursuant to law, a report and recommendation con­ cerning the claim of J. Harvey Blanchard for certain prop­ The VICE PRESIDENT also laid before the Senate the fol· erty damages, which, with the accompanying. papers, was lowing resolution of the Assembly of the State of California, referred to the Committee on Claims. which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations: Resolution relative to memorializing and petitioning the President REPORT ON TEXTILE INDUSTRIES and the Congress of the United States to authorize the con­ The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from . struction of the Central Valley project and to make an appro­ the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, transmit­ . priation therefor ting copy of a report transmitted to the President of the Whereas California is in urgent need of the development, ·con­ servation, and stabilization of its water resources to prevent the United States entitled "The Textile Industries in the Last abandonment of thousands of farms and homes and to avert tre­ Half of 1935-Part ill-The Silk and Rayon Textile Indus­ mendous financial losses; and try", which, with the accompanying document, was referred Whereas the State of California has prepared a comprehensive coordinated plan for the progressive economic development of. the to the Committee on Education and Labor. water resources of the State, carefully formulated over a period of REPORT OF SECRETARY OF THE SENATE (S. DOC. NO. 1) 14 years, which provides for the control of floods and salinity en­ croachment, the improvement of navigation, the conservation and The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from stabilization of water supplies·for municipal, irrigation," industrial the Secretary of _the Senate; transmitting, pursuan~ to law, ~ and mining uses, and for the generation of electric power; and • 1937 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 107 Whereas the Legislature of the State of California in 1933 passed Resolved, That the Congress be urged to complete, as soon as the Central Va.lley Project Act, which was signed by the Governor possible, international treaties to prevent the discharge of oil on and was thereafter approved by vote of the people of the State at the high seas, in order that the present destruction of waterfowl, a special election held on December 19, 1933; and shellfish, and other natural resources may be stopped, and dam­ Whereas the said Central Valley Project Act created the Water age to coastal property eliminated; and be it further Project Authority of the State of California to execute and ad­ Resolved, That the secretary of the Commonwealth forthwith minister the Central Valley project, which project is a coordinated forward a copy of these resolutions to the President of the United plan for the immediate needs of the great Central Valley of Cali­ States, to the presiding officers of both branches of Congress, and fornia; and to the Members thereof from this Commonwealth. Whereas said Central Valley project has been investigated and approved by 13 agencies of the Federal Government and has The VICE PRESIDENT also laid before the Senate the been recommended for Federal financing; and following concurrent resolutions of the Legislature of the Whereas said project has further been recommended by the State of Michigan, which were referred to the Committee President's committee on water flow and by the National Resources Board as one of the country's foremost projects for a national pro­ on Finance: gram of public works; and Concurrent resolution memorializing the President and Con­ Whereas the House of Representatives has passed H. R. 6732, gress of the United States to amend the Social Security Act authorizing the improvement of the Sacramento River in accord­ to provide for the immediate payment of benefits, and the ance with the plan as set forth in House of Representatives Docu­ holding of reserves in the several States ment No. 35, Seventy-third Congress, which recommends a Federal Whereas the State of Michigan has adopted a "pay as you go" contribution of $12,000,000 to the cost of the Kennett Dam of the policy, with success and approval of the people of this State, so Central Valley project; and that Michigan today is an outstanding example of sound govern­ Whereas the said project will be self-liquidating, and the cost ment; and thereof will be returned to the Federal Government from revenues Whereas the provisions of the Social Security Act now provide obtained by the sale of water and power; and for the building up of large reserves in Washington and the use Whereas the consummation of the said project will enable 50,000 of such reserves by the Federal Government for the uses of the American people to sustain themselves by their present means of Government in its operation, giving in return to the fund only livelihood, and will prevent their being thrown into the ranks of promiees to repay such borrowings in the future; and the unemployed, and, further, will stop the reversion to desert of Whereas the moneys which go into such reserves are tru.:,t one-half million acres of highly developed and settled lands valued liabilities of the Government to the workers of this country and at $100,000,000; and should not be used for any other purposes; and Whereas a greater degree of flood protection in the Sacramento Whereas the Social Security Act also provides for the payment Valley is highly desirable; and of large sums for assistance of the aged, children, blind, and Whereas the construction ·of said project will give employment health welfare, which have been considered immediate demands; to thousands of workers, now unemployed, not only in California and but throughout the Nation, thereby relieving unemployment in Whereas the needs of the unemployed worker are as pressing tnany branehes of industry, particularly in the heavy manufac­ as the needs of the aged, children, and blind when necessity arises; turing industries ih the East and Middle West; and and . . . Whereas the Secretary of the Interior did heretofore report to Whereas the reserve funds should belong to the workers of each the President that said project was feasible from engineering, agri­ State from which they are collected, and should be held in such cultural, and :financial standpoints, and was adaptab~e for settle­ States rather than through a central organization with its expen­ ment and farm homes; that the estimated construct10n cost was sive governmental machinery: Now, therefore, be it adequate and that the anticipated revenues would be sufficient to Resolved by the house of representatives (the senate concur­ return the cost to the United Stares; and did approve and recom­ r ing), That the Michigan Legislature hereby respectfully requests mend the construction of said project, which recommendation was the President and Congress of the United States to enact amend­ thereafter approved by the President; and ments to the Social Security Act providing for immediate pay­ Whereas the President did, by virtue of the author:ity of the ment of benefits, and the holding of the reserve trust funds by Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, approved April 8, 1935, the several Stares from which the funds are collected from the allocate the sum of $15,000,000 from the appropriation made under workers of such States under such protective restrictions as Con- said act to the Department of the Interior, Reclamation Service, gress may impose; and be it further . to be reimbursable in accordance with the reclamation law, for Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the the construction of the Central Valley project; and Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, Whereas said project is now in the ~ourse of construction in to the President of the Senate of the Congress of the United accordance with said allocation, and it is imperative that continu­ States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the ing appropriations be made under congressional authorization to Congress of the United Stares, and to the Michigan Members in assure the successfUl completion of the project; and the Congress of the United States. Whereas the cost of said project has been carefully estimated by competent Federal and State authorities to be $170,000,000, and will The VICE PRESIDENT also laid before the Senate a reso­ be repaid tb the United States, in accordance with the reclamation law, out of the revenues of said project; and lution adopted at Minneapolis, Minn., by the board of direc­ Whereas there is now pending before the Congress Department tors of Associated Bankers of Minnesota, favoring an of the Interior appropriation bill H. R. 10630, which, among other amendment to the Revenue Act of 1936 to enable millers things, authorizes construction of said Central Valley project by to refund impounded processing taxes to those other than the United States and appropriates for the construction thereof the sum of $16,000,000 for the fiscal year 1937: Now, therefore, be it customers with whom they had a bona-fide written agree­ Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, That the ment to make such refunds, which was referred to the State of California., through its assembly, recommends the Central Committee on Finance. Valley project to the President and to the Congress of the United States as of first and prime importance to the State of California, He also laid, before the Senate the petition of John J. and respectfully requests that the construction of said Central Val­ Haistings, of New York City, praying fqr an old-age pension ley project be authorized, and that adequate funds be appropriated of at least $100 a month to those over 70 years of age, which so that the construction of said project may be continued, to the was referred the Committee on Finance. end that the same may be completed, thereby conferring lasting to benefits not only upon the people of the State of California but He also laid before the Senate the petition of the National upon the entire Nation, and thus affording substantial unemploy­ Pension League of Los Angeles, Calif., praying for the en­ ment relief now vitally necessary and rehabilitating a vast area actment of a national pension act for the aged, which was ot valuable and highly developed lands, thereby enabling thousands of American families to sustain themselves on their present farms; referred to the Committee on Finance. and be it further He also laid · before the Senate a resolution adopted by Resolved, That certified copies of this resolution be transmitted the Brooklyn Young Men's Chamber of Commerce, of by the chief clerk of the Assembly of the State of California to Brooklyn, N.Y., favoring the payment of foreign debts owed the President and to the Vice President of the United States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to the Senators and to the United States by means of the issuance of certifi­ Representatives of the Stare of California in the Congress. cates of indebtedness by foreign debtor governments, pay­ The VICE PRESIDENT also laid before the Senate the able only in services or commodities bought and consumed following resolution of the House of Representatives of the within the debtor countries, which was referred to the Com­ General Court of Massachusetts, which was referred to the mittee on Finance. Committee ·on Commerce: He also laid before the Senate the petition of Newton T. Resolutions memorializing Congress in favor of adequate enforce­ Mattoon and other citizens of Lapwai, Idaho, and vicinity, ment and sutncient appropriations of money to eliminate oil praying for an investigation of the administration of old­ pollution from coastal waters age assistance in the State of Idaho, which was referred to Resolved, That the House of Representatives of the General the Committee on Finance. Court of Massachusetts hereby records itself in favor of the en­ forcement of Federal laws for the prevention of oil pollution in He also laid before the Senate resolutions adopted by the coastal waters, and urges the appropriation of sufficient :funds for Board of Aldermen of Chelsea, Mass., the Council of the the proper enforcement thereof; and be it further City of Cleveland, Ohio, and the CUyahoga County

tees of the Senate. The resolution conforms to that adopted · The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The assignments ~11 be at the last session with two exceptions: In this resolution read. the Committee on Pensions is increased from 10 to 11 mem­ The Chief Clerk read the assignments; bers and the Committee on Printing from 7 to 8 members. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, the I ask that the resolution be read, and that then it may be two assignments will be considered together. agreed to. Mr. ROBINSON. I move the adoption of an order in· The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolution submitted corporating the names just read. by the Senator from Arkansas will be read. The order was read and agreed to, as follows: The Chief Clerk read the resolution (S. Res. 37), as ' Ordered, That the following shall constitute the standing com· follows: mittees of the Senate o! the Seventy-fifth Congress: Resolved, That paragraph 1 of rule XXV of the Standing Rules On Agriculture and Foreetry: Messrs. Smith (chairman) , Wheeler, of the Senate be, and it is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: Thomas of Oklahoma, McGill, Bankhead, Bulow, Mrs. Caraway, "1. The following standing committees shall be appointed at the Pope, Hatch, Bilbo, Moore, Schwellenbach, Gillette, Ellender, Norris, commencement of each Congress~ with leave to report by bill or McNary, Capper, Frazier, and Shipstead. otherwise: On Appropriations: Messrs. Glass (chairman). McKellar, Cope­ "Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, to consist of 19 Sen­ land, Hayden, Thomas of Oklahoma, Byrnes, Tydings, Russell, ators. Adams, McCarran, Overton, Bankhead, O'Mahoney, McAdoo, Tru­ "Committee on Appropriations, to consist of 24 Senators. man, Burke, Du.tfy, Hitchcock, Green, Hale. Nye, Steiwer, Townsend. "Committee to Audit and Control the Conting.ent Expenses of and Bridges. the Senate, to consist of 4 Senators, to which shall be referred all To Audit and ~ntrol the Contingent Expenses of the Senate: resolutions directing the payment of money out of the contingent Messrs. Byrnes (chairman), Tydings, Bachman, and Townsend. fund of the Senate or creating a charge upon the same: Provided, On Banking and Currency: Messrs. Wagner (chairman), Glass, That any such resolution relating to substantive matter within Barkley, Bulkley, Reynolds, Byrnes, Bankhead, McAdoo, Adams,

the jurisdiction of any other standing committee of the Senate 1 Maloney, Radcillfe, Brown of Michigan. Hitchcock, Hughes,---, shall be first referred to such committee. ---, Townsend, Steiwer, Frazier, and Lodge. "Committee on Banking and CUrrency, to consist of 20 Senators. On Civil Service: Messrs. Bulow (chairman), McKellar, George, "Committee on Civil Service, to consist of 10 Senators. Logan, Neely, Diet erich, Byrd, White, Gibson, and Frazier. "Committee on Claims, to consist of 13 Senators. On Claims: Messrs. Bailey (chairman), Black, Logan, Burke, "Committee on Commerce, to consist of 20 Senators. Schwellenbacb, Brown of Michigan, Ellender, Hughes, Schwartz, "Committee on the District of Columbia, to consist of 15 Sen­ ---, Capper, Townsend, and White. ators. On Commerce: Messrs. Copeland (chairman), Sheppard, Bailey, "Committee on Education and Labor, to consist of 13 Senators. Mrs. Caraway, Clark, Overton, Bachman, :qilbo, Donahey, Guffey, "Committee on Enrolled Bills, to consist of 3 Senators, who Maloney, Radcliffe, Pepper, Lee, McNary, Johnson of California, Nye, shall exam!ne all bills, amendments, and joint resolutions b~fore Vandenberg, White, and Gibson. they go out of the possession of the Senate, and which shall have On the D!strict of Columbia: Messrs. King (chairman), Glass, power to act jointly with the same committee of the House of Copeland, Tydings, Lewis, Bankhead, McCarran, Reynolds, Bilbo, Representatives, and which, or some one of which, shall examine Overton, Hitchcock, Hughes, Capper, Austin, and Bridges. an bills or joint resolutions which shall have passed both Houses, On Education and Labor: Messrs. Black (chairman), Copeland, to see that the same are correctly enrolled, and, when signed by Walsh, Thomas of Utah, Murray, Donahey, Holt, Pepper, Ellender, the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate, shall forth­ Lee, Borah, La Follette, and Davis. with present the same, when they shall have originated in the . On Enrolled Bills: Mrs. Caraway (chairman), Messrs. Lonergan Senate, to the President of the United States in person, and report and Vandenberg. the fact and date of such presentation to the Senate. On Expenditures in the Executive Departments: Messrs. Lewis ncommittee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, to (chairman), Wagner, Van Nuys, Pittman, Barkley, Davis, and consi ~t of 7 Senators. Lad~. · "Committee on Finance, to consist of 21 Senators. ·on Finance: Messrs. Harrison (chairman), King, George, Walsh, "Committee on Foreign Relations, to consist of 23 Senators. Barkley, Connally, Bailey, Clark, Byrd, Lonergan, Black, Gerry. "Committee on Immigration, to consist of 14 Senators. , Guffey, Bulkley, Brown of Michigan, ---, La Follette, Capper, "Committee on Indian Affairs, to consist of 14 Senators. Vandenberg, Townsend, and Davis. "Committee on Interoceanic Canals, to consist of 8 Senators. On Fore~gn . Relations: Messrs. Pittman (chairman), Robinson, "Co1llllllttee on Interstate Commerce, to consist of 20 .Senators. Harrison. George, Black, Wagner, Ccn:nally, Lewis, Bachman, "Comm!ttee on Irrigation and Reclamation, to consist of 17 Sen- Thomas of Utah, Van Nuys. Duffy, Pope, Murray, Chavez, Schwel­ ators. lenbach, Borah, Johnson of California, Capper, La Follete. Vanden~ ••committee on the Judiciary, to consist of 18 Senators. berg, White, and Shipstead. "Committee on the Library, to consist of 10 Senl:>tors, which shall On Immigration: Messrs. Russell (chairman). King, Copeland, have power to act jointly with the same committee of the House of McGfil. Maloney, Moore, Schwellenbach, Holt, Andrews, Hughes. Representatives. Johnson of California, Austin, Capper, and Shipstead. "Committee on Manufactures, to consist of 13 Senators. On Indian Affairs: Messrs. Thomas of Oklahoma ( chah-man), "Committee on Military Affairs, to consist of 17 Senators. Wheeler, Ashurst, Bulow, Hatch, O'Mahoney, Donahey, Chavez, "Committee on Mines and Mining, to consist of 13 Senators. Johnson of Colorado, Lundeen, Frazier, La Follette, Steiwer, and "Committee on Naval Affairs, to consist of 17 Senators. Shipstead. "Committee on Patents, to consist o! 7 Senators. On Interoceanic Canals: Messrs. Clark (chairman), Duffy, Hay­ ''Committee on Pensions, to consist of 11 Senators. den, Pepper, Ellender,---, Bridges, and Lodge. - "Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to consist o! 19 On Interstate Commerce: Messrs. Wheeler (chairman), Smith, Senators. Wagner, Barkley, Neely, Dieterich, Lonergan, Brown of New Hamp­ "Committee on Printing, to consist of 8 Senators, which shall shire. Bone, Donahey, Minton, Moore, Truman, Andrews, Johnson have power to act jointly With tbe same committee of the House of of Colorado, Schwartz, White, Davis, Austin, and Shipstead. Representatives. On Irr:igat~on and Reclamation: Messrs. Bankhead (chairman), "Committee on Privileges and Elections, to consist ot 17 Senators. Sheppard, Prttman, Ashurst, Adams, Pope, McCarran, Overton.. "Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to consist of 14 Hatch, O'Mahoney, Burke, Chavez, Lee, McNary, Johnson of Cali- Senators, which shall have power to act jointly with the same com~ fornia, Townseruj, and Nye. · · . mittee of the House of Representatives. On the Judiciary: Messrs. Ashurst (chairman), King, Neely, "Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, to consist of 15 Sen~ Van Nuys, McCarran, Logan, Dieterich, McGill, Hatch, Burke, Pitt­ a tors. rna~, Connally, O'Mahoney, Hughes, Borah, Norris, Austin, and "Comlll.ittee on Rules, to consist of 13 Senators. Ste1wer. "Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs, to consist of 17 On the Library: Messrs. Barkley (chairman), McKellar, ThOIIlJ\S Senators." of Oklahoma, Mrs. Caraway, Bilbo, Moore, Radcliffe, ---, Gibson, and McNary. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the On Manufactures: Messrs. Bulkley (chairman), Smith, Shep­ adoption of the resolution. pard, Russell, Brown of New Hampshire, Overton, Gerry, Guffey, The resolution was agreed to. Brown of Michigan, Johnson of Colorado, La Follette, McNary. and Lodge. Mr. ROBINSON. On behalf of the majority, pursuant to On Military Affairs:· Messrs. Sh·eppard (chairman), Black, Lewis, the resolution just agreed to, I submit the list of assign. Logan, Reynolds, Bachman, Thomas of Utah, Minton, Pepper, John~ ments to committees. son of Colorado, Lee, Schwartz, Lundeen, Austin, Nye. Bridges. and The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The assignments will be Lodge. On Mines and Mining: Messrs. Logan (chairman), Pittman, read. Hayden. Enlow, Pope, Thomas of Utah. Guff.ey, Holt, Johnson of The Chief Clerk read the assignments submitted by Mr. Colorado, Schwartz,---, Frazier, and Davis. ROBINSON. 0~ Naval Affairs: Messrs. Walsh .(chairman), Tydings, Smith, Mr. McNARY. On behalf of the minority I submit the McGrll, Russell, Bone, Byrd, Dieterich, Brown of New H~pshire, Gerry, Holt, Andrews, Gillette, Bale, Davis, Johnson of Californi~ assignments to the vari_ous committees. · and Gibson. ·I

110 PONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JANUARY 8 On Patents: Messrs. :McAdoo (chairman), Smith, Bone, Rad· fee of the United States during the World War; to the cli.tre, Duffy, Norris, and White. On Pensions: Messrs. McGill (chairman), Wheeler, Walsh, Bulk· Committee on Finance. ley, Lonergan, Thomas of Utah, Minton, Schwartz Frazier Town- By Mr. WALSH: send, and Shipstead. ' ' A bill (S. 424) to authorize the Secretary of the NavY to On Post Offices and Post Roads: Messrs. McKellar (chairman), proceed with the construction of certain public works; Hayden, Bailey, Bulow, Byrnes, Logan, Brown of New Hampshire O'Mahoney, Murray, Chavez, Holt, Ellender, Green, Lundeen: A bill (S. 425) to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to --,Frazier, La Follette, Gibson, and Bridges. proceed with the construction of certain public works; On Printing: Messrs. Hayden (chairman), Walsh, Black, Tru­ A bill (S. 426) to authorize the Secretary of the NavY to man, Pepper, Lundeen, Vandenberg, and Lodge. proceed with the construction of certain public works· and On Privileges and Elections: Messrs. George (chairman), King, Smith, Connally, Bulkley, Logan, Bachman, Brown of New Hamp­ A bill (S. 427) to authorize the Secretary of the N~vY to shire, Duffy, Hatch, Minton, Hitchcock, Green, Austin, Johnson of proceed with the construction of· certain public works; to California, Nye, and Bridges. the Committee on Naval Affairs. On Public Buildings and Grounds: Messrs. Connally (chairman), By Mr. CAPPER: Ashurst, Tydings, Walsh, Maloney, Truman, Chavez, Andrews, Gil· lette, Green, --, Austin, Hale, and Shipstead. A bill (S. 428) to extend the times for commencing and On Public Lands and Surveys: Messrs. Adams (chairman), Pitt­ completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri man, Ashurst, Wagner, Hatch, O'Mahoney, Murray, McCarran, An­ River at or near Atchison, Kans.; to the Committee· on drews, Hitchcock, Lee, --, Nye, Steiwer, and Borah. On Rules: _Messrs. Neely (chairman), Robinson, Copeland, Har­ Commerce. rison, McKellar, Black, Adams, Byrd, Lewis, Gillette, Hale, Steiwer, A bill granting. a pension to Lillian M. Johnson; A bill (S. 467) for the relief of Walter Weston Pierce (with A bill (8. 495) granting a pension to Alice H. Palmer; accompanying paper); to the Committee on Naval Affairs. A bill

employ a stenographer, at a cost not exceeding 25 cents per hundred Whereas it is desired by the Senate· to have information concern­ words, to report such hearings as may be had on any subject ing such regional offices for the purpose of proposed legislation: before said committee, the expense thereof to be paid from the Therefore be it contingent fund of the Senate; and· that the committee, or any Resolved, That the Federal Home Loan Bank Board furnish to subcommittee thereof, may sit during any session or recess of the the Senate, at the earliest practicable moment, the number of Senate. regional offices, the number of persons employed in each, the names and addresses of the various otficials and employees of such offices, HEARmGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON NAVAL AFFAIRS when they were appointed, the salary of each, the general duties Mr. WALSH submitted the following resolution (S. Res. of such offices, and for what reasons, 1f any, regional offices were 44), which was referred to the Committee to Audit and Con­ established in States where there are State orga~ation.S or set-ups. trol the Contingent Expenses of the Senate: DATA RELATIVE TO COTTON COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATIONS Resolved, That the Committee on Naval Affairs, or any subcom­ Mr. McKELLAR submitted the following resolution

------~·~· ------~ 118 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JANUARY 8 has taken place In tb.e economic oondltions of the country. Receipts: Treasury receipts in the fiscal year 1938 are The Revenue Act of 1936, which was designed for the purpose expected to reach a total of $7,293,607,000, -an increase uf of repla-Cing revenue lost through the invalidation of proc­ $1,465,456,000 over similar receipts for 1937 and $3,177,650,000 essing taxes, of providing sufficient revenue to amortize the over 1936. This gain is largely due to an increase in income cost of the adjusted -compensation payments, and of equaliz­ taxes as a result of improved business conditions and the mg tax bur~ns. gives every indicatiDn of satisfactorily ac­ operation of the Revenue Act of 1936. complishing those purposes. I should like at this point to The amount expected to be collected in 1938 from income emphasize the importance of maintaining the productiveness taxes is $3,365,300,000, a gain of $992,400,000 over the fiscal of the present tax structure, so that we may properly provide year 1937. Miseellaneous internal revenue wili produce for the fulfillment of our fiscal program. $2,508_,332,000, or $233,364,000 more than is expected from Under legis1ation .-enacted during the 1ast session of Con­ this source for 1937. The tax on unjust enrichment and the gress, which created authorizations for future appropria­ tax-es on carriers and their employees, from which $82,{)00,000 tions aggr.egating more than $1,500,(){)0,000, there is included and $134,552,000, respectivelY, will be derived in 1937, will about $130,000,000 in the estimates of appropriations con­ produce no revenue in 1938~ since under existing law these tained in this Budget. Such authorizations are contained taxes expire during 1937. The first full year uf tax eollectim~ in the new Federal Highway Act, the Rivers and Harbors under the Social Security Act will result in revenue of and the Flood Control Acts, and the Rural Electrification Act. $774,800,000 in 1938, which sum is $450,200,000 greater than There is also included $812,225,000 for social security 1 the anticipated -revenue in 1937, when collectit.ms will be for grants and for the Government's contribution to the old­ only '6 months. It is believed that customs revenues will rise age reserve aecount, more than ·double the expenditures for from $446,800,000 during the present fiscal year to $41i3,- these purposes in 1937, and there will be for several years 000,000 in 1938, a gain of $16,200,000. Miscellaneous re­ still further increases in these requirements. It should be ceipts, however, will decrease $8,950,000, the 1938 oollections pointed out that these expenditures will be offset to a large being estimated at $151,550,000, as compared with ·$1GD,- extent by the increasing revenues under the Social Security 500,000 during 1937. From realization upon assets $30,- Act. 625,000 will be received, while in 1937 receipts from this No estimate of appropriation is presented for the needs source will amount to $31,830,000. of the Civilian Conservation Corps, since its extension be­ Expenditures: The expenditures for 1938 contemplated yond March 31 of this year is dependent on the acti{)n of under this Budget (exclusive of those from postal revenues) Congress. In furtherance of my recommendation for the will total $6,157,999,000, or approximately $2 ,323,000~000 iles3 enactment of legislation to continue it as a permanent than is ~ow estimated for 1937. General expenditures for agency of the Government, there is included in the "Supple­ regular activities amount to $5,841,968,000, as compared witli mental items" an amount sufficient to meet the expenditure .$5,664,647,000 in 1937, an increase of $177,321,000. The 1937 requirements for the fiscal year 1938. estimate, however, contains an amount of $563,500,000 for The following table shows the 'Ctistribution, on a func- , completion of adjusted compensation payments to veterall3, tional basis, of the expenditure figures contained in this so that the comparable increase ov,er 1937 is :$740,821,000. Budget and compares them with similar figures for previous For recovery and relief there is included in the expenditures years: I for 1938 the amount of $316,031,000, which, of course, is net Actual and estimated expenditures of the Government tor the fiscal the full amount that will be required for relief during that years 1932-38 (classifica_tions include expenditures from both year. As previously indicated, it is our present hope that the general and emergency funds) additional amount to be requested for this purpose will not [In millions of dollars] exceed $1,537,123,000. Thus the total expenditure for re­ covery and relief during 1938 would be $1,853,154,000, or Estimated Actual $963,003,000 less than the amount estimated for 1937. Again .I emphasize the contribution which employers can make to 1938 1937 1936 1935 1934 1933 1932 this attainment. ------The general expenditures include $860,000,000 for interest Regula~; operating expendi- on the public debt, an increase of $25;000,000 over the amount tures: Legislative, judicial, and for the present fiscal year, and $401,515,000 for statutory civil establishments ____ 771.8 859.0 781.1 597. i 572.5 697.5 978.8 ' debt retirements, a decrease of $3,010;000. Exclusive of the Na-tional defen e ______991.6 964..9 911.6 709.9 540.3 667.8 707 6 pensions and · 1 service on the· public debt and the payment .of adjusted com- Veteransbenefits' ______577.5 1, 1.«.'7 2,351.4 607.1 556.9 863.2 984.8 pensation to veterans, there is a net increase of $718,831,000 Interest on the public 1 debt_------_ 860.0 835.0 749.4 820.9 756.6 689.4 599. 3 in expenditures for regular activities as compared with 1937. ------·------This increase is accounted for as follows: For increased re- 52 2 TotaL ______3• 200· 9 3• 803· 6 4. 793· • 735· 6 • 426· 3 2• 917· 9 3•"270. 5 quirements under the Social Security Act, $436,337,000; for Public works______908.3 1, 146.7 868.7 704.3 551.9 427.7 439. 5 additional expenditures under the general public works pro- . == === ' $ unemployment relief; gram, 132,519,000; for national defense to provide for the Direct relieL______13. o 100.7 591. 7 1, 914.1 715.8 350.7 ______: increased strength of the Army as directed by Congress and relief (W. Workand C. W .. A.)______P. A. I. 21,400. 51,264.4 11.3 805.1 ------to provide for replacement of naval vessels in .accordance Civilian conservation with eXisting authorizations, $92,882,000; for the necessary 5 1 Corps------~------_<'_> __3_ 68_·0 _486._3 _~__·5 _ 33_ _·9 _---_--_- _---_--_-- funds for the activities of the Railroad Retirement Board Total______13.2 1, 875.2 2, 342. t 2, 360.9 1, 8C2. 8 350.7 ------and for rural electrification, $39,566,0GO; and for increased == = =I=== Loans (net)______1 153.3 3 419.9 a 1'75. 2 80.5 788. 6 8'74. 4 404.. 0 needs of other activlties, ·$17,527,000. Subscriptions to st.ock______17. 2 51. 5 69. 3 156.8 826. 5 110. 7 6'Zl. 0 The ======I= Surplus and public debt: sur_plus for the fiscal year Agriculturaladjustmentpro- 1938, as presented in this Budget, is $1,135,608.000, after pro- gram______482.4 4.67. 6 M2. 6 7~. o 290.3 ------viding for debt retirement. Excluding provision for debt re- Less revenues.. ______--_--_--_-- _---_--_-- _ 76_·6 _ 5_21_·4. _ 353_·0 _---_-_-- _------tirement, the surplus will amount to $1,537,123,000. As I Net______482.4 467. 6 466. o 221.6 '62. 7 ----.A.------have previously stated, it is hoped the additional needs for 'Social security_------836. 0 399. 6 28. 4 ·------__ .:. ____ ------relief during the fiscal year 1938 will not require expenditure Debt retirement __ ------401. 5 .o4. 5 403 . .2 573. 6 359.9 4.6L 6 ~12. 6 of this MiscellaneotiS______1. 8 2. 0 6. 8 2L 1 8. 7 ------more than latter amount. On this basis the estimated Supplemental items______4.50. 0 750.0 ------~ gross public debt, on June 30, 1938, will be about the same

Grand total______1 6,158. 0 8, .SO. 8 8, 803.16,854.4 6, 752.0 5, 143.0 5, 153.6 · amount as at the elose of the fiseal year 1937. This does not take into account any change which may occur as a result of the Treasury policy in holding as ¥"' inactive" future acqui­ 1 To be increased by any amount appropriated by Congress for recovery and relief for the fiscal year 1938. As indicated in the message, it is hoped the amotmt will not sitions of gold. exceed $1,537,123,000. 2 Funds for continuation of the Civilian CoDS(lrvation Corps are included under Appropriations: The total appropriations recommended in 44Supplementa1 items.'" this Budget aggregate $6,839,000,000, including those for the a Excess of credits, deduct. • Excess of revenues, deduct. Postal Serviee, Di.strtct 'Of Columbia, and probable supple- 1937 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 119 mental items, while the appropriations already made and of course, to provide additional revenue. Sources of addi­ prospective supplemental items for the fiscal year 1937, ex­ tional revenue are indicated in the report. clusive of requirements for recovery and relief, total $6,261,- FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. 000,000, an increase of $578,000,000 for 1938. This increase JANUARY 5, 1937. is due to additional appropriations amounting to $309,000,000 FISCAL RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE DISTRICT on account of the Social Security Act, $80,000,000 required OF COLUMBIA (S. DOC. 12) under the general public-works program, and $189,000,000 on The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a account of departmental requirements, including the national message from the President of the United States, transmit­ defense. The appropriations made and contemplated for ting a report on the fiscal relations between the United recovery and relief for 1937 total $2,215,000,000, whereas it is States and the District of Columbia, which was read, and, hoped that corresponding appropriations for 1938 will not with the accompanying report, referred to the Committee on exceed $1,537,123,000. Appropriations and ordered to be printed, with illustrations, PART IV as follows: THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA The first section of the 1937 District of Colll.lllbia Appro­ A message from the President of the United States trans­ priation Act, approved June 23, 1936 (Public, No. 762, 74th mitting the report on Fiscal Relations Between the United Cong.), contains the following provision: -States and the District of Columbia for the consideration Not to exceed $50,000 shall be available for expenditure, under of the Seventy-fifth Congress the direction of the President, for making an independent study of THE WHITE HOUSE, the fiscal relations between the United States and the District of Washington, D. C., January 8, 1937. Columbia and enabling him -to report to Congress at the be4 ginning of the next regular session, what, in his judgment, is a To the Congress of the United States: fair and equitable amount to be paid by the United States as an Pursuant to the provisions in the 1937 District of Columbia annual contribution toward the expenses of the government of Appropriation Act approved June 23, 1936 (Public, No. 762, the District of Columbia; such sum shall be available for personal services without regard to the civil-service laws and the Classifica­ 74th Cong.), I have the honor to transmit herewith for the tion Act ·of 1923, as amended, and for such other expenditures as consideration of Congress the following report on Fiscal may be necessary in connection with such study. Relations Between the United States and the District of · Pursuant to the above I appointed a director and an ad­ Columbia. · visory committee of three members to conduct an inde­ ·The major recommendations in this report ~re outlined. in pendent study of the various elements and conditions · my 1938 Budget message as transmitted to you on this date. affecting the fiscal rela~ions between the United States and I have considered these findings and recommendations in col- · the Distrlct of Columbia. . laboration with the Advisory Committee and the Director of . The report contains detailed findings and recommenda- · the Study, and I earnestly commend these to· your close con- · tions with the supporting. data and information collected sideration at this session of Congress. I urge early enact­ from the Federal and District Governments in Washington ment of the necessary legislative measures to assure a con­ and from 17 comparable American cities and the capital tinuing equitable determination of fiscal relations between ­ cities of 21 foreign countries. the two governments. Special attention is invited to sections 10 and 13, which The application of the basic principles and recommenda­ show that while the extent of local governmental services in · tions as ·outlined and detailed in the report is reflected in the District of Columbia is substantially equal to that in 17 the following three-point formula, which I recommend be comparable cities, both the property tax and the total tax carefully considered by the Congre~s with a view to enacting such legislation at this session as may be necessary to estab­ load in the District of Columbia are lower than in any of lish equitable fiscal relationships between the two govern­ these cities. FRANKLIN D. RoosEVELT. ments. I. Intergovernmental contractual services: Contractual arrange­ By unanimous consent, the following business was trans- . ments shall be established for the reimbursement of the cost o! specific intergovernmental services supplied either government by acted: the other. Appropriations therefor shall be included in the re­ TAX EXEMPTION ON TICKETS FOR INAUGURAL CEREMONIES spective annual departmental budgets. KING. I II. Capital outlays of joint interest: The National Capital Plan­ Mr. From the Committee on Finance, report ning Commission (proposed in the report) shall determine the ex­ back favorably, without amendment, Senate Joint Resolu­ tent of the respective Federal and District interests in capital out­ tion 18, and ask unanimous consent for its immediate con­ lays and improvements to be included in the District budget. sideration. III. Per capita governmental costs: Pending the grant of broader powers of local control over purely local affairs, the excess of the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The joint resolution will District governmental costs per capita over the average of those in be read. . · comparable cities shall be assumed by the Federal Government: The joint. resolution (S. J. Res. 18) to exempt from the Provided, however, That such excess District governmental costs tax on admissions amounts paid for admission tickets sold shall be assumed only after allowance has been made for reim­ bursements due to unusual costs occasioned by congressional by authority of the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies on enactments. the occasion of the inauguration of the President-elect in I also recommend that, concurrently with enactment of January 1937 was read as follows: Resolved, etc., That all amounts paid for admission tickets sold any legislation which carries into effect the provisions of by authority of the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies of the this continuing formula, the substantive law providing for Inauguration of the President-elect in January 1937, said com­ annual Federal contributions of a fixed percentage of Dis­ mittee to be appointed with the approval of the President-elect, shall be exempt from the tax on admissions imposed by section trict appropriations be repealed and that the system of an­ 500 of the Revenue Act of 1926, as amended, all the net proceeds nual Federal lump-sum contributions be abandoned. from the sale of said tickets to be donated by the said committee . The application of this formula to the 1938 Budget esti­ to charity. mates would provide for a net reimbursement by the Fed­ Mr. KING. Mr. President, I wish to say a word in ex­ eral Government to the District of Columbia of $2,533,357, planation of the joint resolution. It is an emergency meas­ made up as follows: ure which provides for the exemption from tax of the I. Intergovernmental contractual services ______$1, 996, 407 tickets for seats which are sold for the inaugural ceremonies. n. Capital outlays______536, 950 It is the usual joint resolution adopted in all like circum­ m. Excess per capita District of Columbia govern- stances. mental costs------Mr. McNARY. Mr. President, the request of the Senator Total------2,533,357 from Utah does not come within the sphere of my usual After the application of the formula there will still be a objection. I have discussed the matter with the Senator deficit in the general revenue account of the District of from Utah, and I am in accord with· his desire for present Columbia of about $9,800,000, which will make it necessary, · consideration of the joint resolution. 120 CON_GRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JANUARY 8 Mr. KING . .I may say that the joint resolution is. suP­ His amazing and colorful career, from Canadian immi- . ported unanimously by tl:le members of the co~ittee: grant to 14 years of honored· and honorable service in the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the Senate of the United States, from an humble car checker on present consideration of the joint resolution? ' the railroads in Detroit to partne.rship with Henry Ford in There being no objection, the joint resOlution was con­ the greatest single industrial triumph of all time, from the sidered, ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read pinch of meagerest means to the affipence of a great for­ the third time, and passed. tune-all this is the epic drama of American opportunity QUARTERING OF TROOPS PARTICIPATING IN INAUGURAL CEREMONIES at its maximum. All this is self-made life in its fullest tide. Mr. CONNALLY. From the Comnlittee on Public Build·· Such men do not often come our way. Such careers rarely ings and Grounds, I report back favorably without amend­ exist outside of story books. Such a death deserves the ment Senate Joint Resolution 17, and ask unanimous con­ Senate's apostropne in this memorial moment of farewell. sent for its immediate consideration. Senator CouzENs was born in Chatham, Ontario, August 26, The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The joint resolution will 1872. He died in Detroit on October 22, 1936, after a long be read. battle with ill health, which he bore with typical stoic The joint resolution to provide for the bravery. The 64-year interim was crowded with such drama quartering in certain public buildings· in the District of and achievement as rarely chapters one human life. In 1890 Columbia of troops participating in the inaugural cere­ he came to Detroit and labored in a freight yard. Five years monies was read, as follows: later he was in the office and on his way. Three years later he was married to the faithful, gracious, and devoted help­ Resolved, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized mate of his life. Five more years-he met Henry Ford and to allocate such spa~ in any public building under his care and supervision as he deems necessary !or the purposes of quartering Detroit's industrial miracle began. He became the dynamic troops participating in the inaugural ceremonies to be held on · secretary and business manager of the new Ford Co., which January 20, 1937, but such use shall not continue after January was swiftly to become the prodigy of modem times. Sixteen 22, 1937. Authority granted by this resolution may be exercised notwithstanding the provisions of the Legislative, Executive, and relatively short but vivid years, through which he fought his Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, way to industrial fame, and he retired with a great fortune 1903, approved April 28, 1902, prohibiting the use o! public build­ as his reward for carrying his full part of a colossal burden ings in connection with inaugural ceremonies. to the goals of unprecedented success. Mr. CONNALLY. Mr. President, the joint resolution pro· Meanwhile his :flair for public service already had appeared. vides that the Secretary of the Interior, as the custodian of In 1913 he served as a street-railway commissioner, announc· public buildings, shall be authorized to allocate as he may ing immediately his devotion to ultimate municipal owner. deem necessary certain public buildings for the purpose of ship, which he subsequently achieved. Three years later he quartering troops participating in the inaugural ceremonies. became police commissioner, and it is a part of Detroit's The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the municipal history that organized vice promptly met and sur­ request of the Senator from Texas for the present considera­ rendered to its unyielding master. In 1918 he was elected tion of Senate Joint Resolution 17? mayor and a model administration laid the foundations for There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to con­ the greater Detroit which he knew lay ahead. Four years sider the joint resolution, which was ordered to be engrossed later he was appointed to a vacancy in the United States for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. Senate, and here he served effectively until his death. · THE LATE SENATOR COUZENS, OF MICIDGAN These are but the major entries on the swift-movink calen­ Mr. VANDENBERG. Mr. President, since last the Sen­ dar of a busy and fruitful and dramatic life. We may sketch ate gathered in previous session death has stricken JAMES them in a passing moment. But behind the sketch lies char­ CouzENS, late the distinguished senior Senator from Michigan. acter and will power and integrity and judgment and tena­ He needs no eulogy, because his monument is in his works. cious purpose and tireless energy and indefatigable industry. Himself a man of ef!:ective deeds, rather than of words, Such things do not consecutively happen by mere accident . . he would be the last to welcome fc.lsome praise. He would However kindly fate may be, such a record reflects the genius want the record to speak for itself. But those of us who of the man himself. knew him well and labored with him-as was my intimate It is inevitable that positive men should, upon occasion, privilege for 8 Senate years-owe it to candor and to the just clash with others. It was inevitable that this man should appreciation of a great and unusual character that the book· have this emphasized experience. Sharp political differences should not be closed without at least a brief summation of were part of his intense career. But even those with whom the facts and the realities. · he most violently disagreed respecting policies and decisions Whether in the field of competitive business, where he did not hesitate to pay tribute to the man himself when the scaled the heights of industrial power and authority; whether final great accounting came-just as Senators who, upon this in the gentler forums of philanthropy, where he was the best fioor, may have often differed with his viewpoints, are at one and most generous friend that underprivileged children ever with the closest of his colleagues in tribute to his character, had; whether on the battlefields of public service, where he his honor, his courage, his independence, and his worth. ever sought what he believed to be the mass advantage, he When he spoke on the Senate fioor his words were brief, left his "sterling" mark indelibly upon everything he touched. pungent, and pointed, and always commanded attention and He was peculiarly the personal embodiment· of vigor, cour­ respect and intluence. · No Senator ever was more active or age, integrity, industry, independence, and self-reliance-re­ more aggressive in committee work and in the development lentlessly devoted to any task which won his loyalty. No of important legislation. He was the ranking minority mem­ more positive and rugged personality has influenced our ber on the Finance Committee and similarly on the Interstate time. Even those who strongly disagreed with him could not and Foreign Commerce Committee, the latter of which he . withhold their acknowledgment that when once his course ably served as chairman when his party was in power. At . was chosen and set he never wavered-regardless of conse­ the time of his death he also was serving on the Banking quences-to journey's end. and Currency Committee and the District of Columbia Com- : He was equally the personification of kindly, selfless affec­ mittee. He was utterly faithfUl in attendance upon all of his tion and constructive compassion for the downtrodden, · the committee labors, and no problem within his jurisdiction poor, and the unfortunate-particularly devoted,· in heart escaped the searching, constructive, fearless scrutiny of his and prodigal purse, to stricken youth. This sympathy domi­ vigilant study; Rarely did he miss a roll call on the Senate ll.ated both his public dedications and his private benefac­ floor despite the infirmities of his final years. His influence tions. His Commonwealth of Michigan is dotted with healing affected many major legislative trends. Indeed, it often sanctuaries which silently but eloquently bespeak his merci­ initiated far-reaching legislative movements. ful aid. These "carry on" in his tradition though their Always and forever he fought whatever he deemed tO be generous patron is at rest. · special privilege. Always and forever he championed what 1937 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 121 he believed to be mass advantage for the men· and women the history of the Nation. Forty-four children in school were who toil. It was the passion of his public life. killed and many injured by the blasting of a bomb placed by· One commentator in high place correctly said, upori his a probably demented 'and disappointed township school offi­ passing, that "his independence meant more to him than any cial. Senator CouzENs rebuilt the school and repaired, so far gift within the power of the people"-and added, in homely as he could by further generosity to the stricken families, the but truthful praise, that "as a Senator he voted his con­ injury done. Many are the stories which are now being told science and not his bank account." of his generosity to individuals. The President of the United States declared: In the business world a hard taskmaster, he was, never­ In the death of Senator CoUZENs the Senate of the United States theless, chiefly responsible for the great increase in wages and the people of Michigan and the Nation have lost a leader which occurred in the automobile industry in Michigan. whose convictions were a part of the best that America aspires As our people scan the list of the illustrious dead of the · for and whose courage was a match for his idealism. Senator CoUZENs did not enter public life because he sought great State of Michigan, they are placing at the head the . either fame or power, but rather because of a service he believed name of our friend, the great business executive, statesman, he could render to the cause of progressive thought and political and humanitarian, JAMES CouzENS. This generation admires · uprightn€ss. He was a party member, but his prior obligation was him; the coming generation will love him; for after his own to the well-being of the people whom he served. He never hesitated 1n that service. family his chief concern was the children of Michigan. As The death of Senator CoUZENS to me is a great loss. But more a Detroit newspaper said: than that it is a great loss to the multitudes of Americans whose Michigan mourns in him a man and a public servant who always needs and problems were always 1n the forefront of his thought did ably and wholeheart€dly what he thought was right. · and action. Every man and woman in this august assembly knows that No epitaph could say more. It is the true assessment of a I speak the simple truth when I say he was honest, he was notable life and service. The Senator is gone. But he still courageous, he was charitable. lives in the tremendous benefactions which he generously Mr. McNARY. Mr. President, the fitting and eloquent showered upon his State; in the annals of a commerce in eulogies delivered by the senior Senator from Michigan [Mr. which he triumphantly pioneered; in the accomplishments VANDENBERG] and the junior Senator from the same State of a public service which was rich in its influence and [Mr. BROWN] need no supplementation at my hands. I had achievement; and in the records of the Senate, where his not intended until a moment ago to make any observation. imprint will linger while memory remains. My relationship with the late Senator CoUZENS existed Mr. BROWN of Michigan. ¥!'. President, I would not over a period of many years, and it was intimate. My love venture to speak in the Senate today, my third day in this for him was deep. He was a man of the highest character body, if I did not feel it to be my duty to the late Senator and probity, a generous philanthropist, a patriotic citizen of COUZENS to do SO. the loftiest type. During the remainder of my years I shall Senator CoUZENs was my friend; I do not think I would be bear a sweet memory of the fine friendship that existed be­ here today if it had not been for his endorsement of me in tween the two of us. I think his life is sketched by the the recent election. His death removes from American pub­ immortal bard who said: lic life one of the most extraordinary figures· of our time. I He was • • • lofty and sour to them that loved him not, will not dwell upon his business success, but I am going to But to those that loved him sweet as summer. relate a little incident which he narrated to me in his home just about 3 months ago today. He told me of the sale of Mr. ROBINSON. Mr. President, by a peculiar coinci­ his stock in the Ford Motor Co. some 15 or 20 years before. dence the late Senator CoUZENS, of Michigan, and I were A friend, John Lodge, who was afterward mayor of Detroit, born on the same day. In our conversations we often men­ a close associate of Senator CoUZENs, was shown the check tioned that fact. During the course of our joint service in for $29,000,000 by the Senator with, I think, some degree of the Senate we became very intimate friends. pardonable pride. Mr. CouZENs saicl, "John, what do you It is seldom that an individual achieves notable success in think of that check?" Mr. Lodge replied, "Mr. Commis­ two distinct spheres of activity. As has been pointed out by sioner"-Senator CouzENS was then the police commissioner both the Senators from Michigan [Mr. VANDENBERG and Mr. of the city of Detroit-"let me carry that around for a little BROWN], the efforts of the late Senator CouZENS in the while, will you?" Mr. CouzENS let him have the check. He business world met with very remarkable success. This brought it back the next day and said, ''Do you know, Mr. prompts me to say that the capacity to accumulate wealth Commissioner, how much it cost you to let me · carry that often seems to involve a distinct although somewhat inde­ check around for a day? At the bank interest, about $2,400 finable faculty. We have all noted that there are those a day-$100 an hour.'' The Senator turned to me and he whose every move and every effort apparently are rewarded said, "BROWN, I did not realize how much money it was until with profit. The late Senator CoUZENs demonstrated that then." peculiar faculty. He made money and possessed, during Mr. President, the passing of Senator CouzENS removed the late years of his life, a very large fortune. from the State and Nation one of our most vigorous char­ He was not only successful in the business world, but, as acters. He was equally successful in the business and in the has been disclosed by the remarks of other Senators, he was political world. Politics in the ordinary sense of the term did almost equally successful in the world of public affairs, in not interest him. He went into politics through the only politics. But the one thought that I would leave with my avenue then open in· Michigan-the Republican Party. He hearers is that his success in both spheres of activity was in took no part in political organizations. He never attended a spite of rather than because of the personal characteristics political convention. He did feel that as a Senator from which usually mark men who triumph in the business world. Michigan he could accomplish something for his country and in private business and in public business. his State. The Senate and the Nation know the result. He Usually, I think, as a natural consequence of long-con­ was nationally minded; the interests of the Nation came first. tinued attention to what are unavoidably selfish interests in Some of his Il).ost courageous acts called forth extremely the accumulation of wealth one loses or fails to develop those bitter criticism from interested groups in his own State. elements of personal character and that disposition which He, nevertheless, took care of the interests of Michigan. are essential to the enjoyment of life. So in a long political A rather brusque exterior concealed a most generous career it has come to be my conclusion, from a somewhat nature. He was certainly the greatest benefactor of the careful study of the subject, that the tendency is to develop needy and helpless in the history of my State; probably the . selfishness. greatest in the Nation. He gave away over $30,000,000- I shall not elaborate that thought; but it may be of suffi­ more than he retained for himself and his family. It was cient interest to those who hear me to prompt them to pursue not entirely a methodical. disinterested, impersonal giving. my assertions with a view to reaching their own conclusions. The needs of the moment deeply affected him. In May 1927, I reiterate that if one gives himself over to the practice of at Bath, Mich., occurred one of the roost dastardly crimes in seeking office repeatedly and through a long period of time, 122 _CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JANUARY 8 he usually developS a distinct measure of selfishness, one of est and to the interest of the ordinary citizen and small · the natural tendencies against which public men often strug­ businessman: gle; and if they fail to combat it they are less pleasing to A large :Portion of property, represented by Government their companions and really less useful in some respects at the and municipal securities-these now total something over end of their careers than they were at the beginning. forty thousand million dollars---escapes taxation, thereby There is no doubt, as has been said on this occasion with causing a great loss of revenue to · governments. Billions of force and with eloquence, that the late Senator CouzENS was dollars of wealth escapes payment of its fair share of the independent and that he was courageous. He demonstrated burdens of government by investment in tax-exempt securi­ his independence on this floor, and particularly in his com­ ties. Tax-exempt securities violate the sound principle of mittee work. It is not necessary to review the occasions on ability to pay and unfairly discriminate among taxpayers. · which his courage and his independence were displayed in The presence of tax-exempt securities in the market dis­ this body and in the committees to which he was assigned for courages investment in new enterprises, and it is highly labor by the Senate. The pleasing memory that I have of desirable that such investments be encouraged, not dis­ my departed friend does not so much come from those couraged. aggressive and sterling elements of character as from the Tax-exempt securities tend to encourage extravagance in singular and very notable fact that, in spite of his triumph government and governmental agencies, and such extrava­ in business and in spite of his succeSs in politics, he was one gance should be discouraged, not encouraged. of the most generous and sympathetic men it has been my Tax-exempt securities are in effect private subsidies and · privilege to know. If proof of that fact were desired, it is to special privileges, and are contrary to sound public policy. be found in the addresses of the two Senators from Michigan, By withdrawing ·money from private enterprises, ·tax­ who have recounted the circumstances that througho.ut the exempt securities increase the rate of interest required for period of his prosperity, when an ordinary man would have all enterprises· not carried on by govern.ment, and thereby· been engaged in promoting his own interests to the exclusion add to the cost of living as well as the cost of doing business, of those kindly activities -which denote the philanthropist, the The present administration, a8 I ·understand, has declared late Senator CoUZENs was giving of his wealth and of his the issuance of tax-exempt securities unsound and unde­ exceptional intelligence to the betterment of th~ condition sirable, especially from the social viewpoint. Its evils were ' of the underprivileged, for whom at all times he displayed pointed out several years ago by Andrew W. Mellon, then tender sympathy. Secretary of the Treasury. A similar position, I believe, has Mr. CONNALLY. Mr. President, I desire to say only a been taken by nearly every student of sound fiscal policies. few words with respect to JAMES CouzENs, late a Senator I say the time has come .to do more than declare tax­ from Michigan. exempt securities unsound and contrary to public policy. Since I have been a Member of this body I have served I say the Congress should take steps to end their issuance, on the Finance Committee of the Senate with Senator and I hope that this Congress will submit my amendment, ­ CoUZENs: Not only did I have high. admiration for his or one along the same lines, to the States for early ratifica­ ability and great respect for his character and courage tion. I intend to press for action on this. proposal. but there grew up between us a very deep personal affection. EXECUTIVE SESSION TAX-EXEMPT SECURITIES Mr. CAPPER. Mr. President, I have today reintroduced Mr. ROBINSON. I move that the Senate proceed to the a proposal . was adopted. An international convention for the suppression of the cir­ Mr. President, that is not all the case against tax-exempt culation of and the traffic in obscene publications, which was securities by a good deal, but it sets forth very well the open for signature at Geneva from September 12, 1923, to reasons why business and industry should be opposed to · March 31, 1924, and to which the adhesion of the United the further issuance of tax-exempt securities. · states has been invited

bacteriological methods of warfare, signed at Geneva, Swit­ RUERENCE OF TREATIES AND NOMINATIONS zerland, on June 17, 1925 (Executive G, 69th Cong., 1st sess.). On motion by Mr. RoBINSON, it was A convention signed between the United States and the Ordered, That on calendar days of the present session of the Republic of Panama on July 28, 1926, for the settlement of Congress when no executive session is held nominations or trea­ certain points of di.fference between them which have arisen ties received from the President of the United States may, where no objection is interposed, be referred, as in executive session, out of the exercise by the United States of sovereign rights in to the appropriate committees by the Presiding Otficer of the the Canal Zone by virtue of the Panama Canal treaty of Senate. November 18, 1923 . recess of the Senate, vice Jesse Isidor Straus. A treaty between the United States and the Dominion of Joseph E. Davies, of the District of Columbia, to be Am­ Canada for the completion of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence bassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United · deep waterway, signed on July 18, 1932 . APPOINTMENTS IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE An international convention for the suppression of the The following-named persons to be Foreign Service offi­ traffic in women of full age opened for signature at Geneva cers, unclassified, vice consuls of career, and secretaries in on October 11, 1933 (Executive H, 74th Cong., 1st sess.). the Diplomatic Service of the United States of America, to A convention between the United States of America and which offices they were appointed during the last recess of . the Republic of Argentina with reference to sanitary regu­ the Senate: lations concerning plant and animal products, signed at Maurice M. Bembaum, of Illinois. Washington May 24, 1935 . Robert E. Wilson, of Arizona. A convention between the United States of America and H. Merle Cochran, of Arizona, lately a Foreign Service the Republic of Panama, providing for the transfer to Pan­ officer of class 2, to be a Foreign Service officer of class 1. ama of two naval radio stations, signed at Washington on Walter A. Leonard, of Tilinois, now a Foreign Service offi­ March 2, 1936

U. C{}l. Clarence Lynn .sturdevant, Corps of Engineers, Maj. Joseph Je3se Teter, Adjutant General~ Department, from October 1, 1936. · from .Jlliy 1, 1936. Lt. Oot .James Hetiry BurnS, .Qrdnanee De].Jartment, from · Maj. Lewis Clarke Davidson, 'Infantry, from July 1, 1936., October 1, 1936. Maj. Dwight David Eisenhower, Infantry, from July 1, Lt. Ool. Everett Strait Hughes, Ordnance I)epa.rtment, 1936. . from October 1, 1936. Maj. Harold William J~mes, Infantry, from JulY t 19'36. Lt. Co-l. Thomas Jefferson Smith, Ordnance Department, Maj. Hume Peabody, Air Corps_. from July 1.. 1936. from October-1, 1936. Maj. Martin ..John Ol3rien, Coast .Artillery Corps, from · Lt.· Co1. Roger Sheffield Parrott, Field· Artillery, from July 1, 1936. . October 1, 193 fi. :Maj. JoSeph CUmming Haw, Coast Arti.ller.y Corps, from Lt. Cd. Oliver And:rews Diekinson, Field Artille!'y, from July l, 1936. October 1, 1935. Maj. Janres Basevi Ord, J:nflmtry, from Jniy 1, 19313. · U. -Cnl. Riehard Edgar Cummins, Cavalry, from 'October - Maj. Earl Larue Naiden, Air Corps, tram Jmy 13, 193'6. 1, 1936. Maj. Henry McElderry Pendleton.. ca-valry_, from August U. Col. Telesphor Geor~ Gottschalk, Pield Artillery, from 1. 19J6. October 1, 1936. · • Maj. Iverson Brooks SUmmers. Adjutant Generars De­ Lt. Col. Harvey Douglas Higley, Pield Artillery, from partment, from August 1, 193ft October 1, 1936. Maj. Edmund de Trevflle Ellis, Quartermaster Corps_, from Lt. Col. :.James Wilbur Lyon, Chemical Warfare Service, August 10, 1936~ from October .28, 1l}J6. Maj. Robert William strong, Cavalry, from August 19, Lt. Col. Rodney Hamilton Smith, Coast Artillery Corps, 1936.. . from November 1, 1936, subject to examination r-equired by Maj. Clifford RandaU J',ones, Coast Artillery Corps, from Jaw. September 1, 193'6. Lt. Col Albert Lawrenee Lousta1ot; Ooast Artillery Corps~ Maj. John Beugnot Wogan, F'reld Artillery, tram Septem- from November 1, 19.36. ber l, 1.9a6.. · · Lt. Col. Richard Donovan, Coast Artillery Corps, f'l"om Maj. Clesen Henry Tenney, Coast Artillery Corps, from· November l, 19.36. · Seprem.ber 1, 1936. Lt. Col. Robert Clive Rodgers, Cavalry, from Deeember Maj. Clifford Barrington King, FLeld Artillery., from Sep­ 1, 1936. tember 1, 1936. Lt. Col Homer Havron Slaughter, Infantry, from Decem­ Maj. Frank Edwin Emery, Jr~. Coast .Artillery Corps, ir.om ber 1, 1936. September 5, 1936. Lt. Col. Sanderford Jarman, Coast Artillery Corps, from Maj. Edwar-d Caswell Wallington, Chemical Warfare Serv­ December 1, 1936. ice, from September 18, 1936. Lt. Ool. Clair Warren Baird, Coast Artillery Corps, from Maj. Carl Ernest Ho,cker, Coast ArtiTiery Corps, from December 1, 1936. October 1, 1936. Lt. Col. Edward Willis Putney, {Joost Artillery Corps, from Maj. Joon William Leonard, Infantry, from October 1, December 1, 1936. 1936. . Lt. Col. Henry Clinton Kress Muhlenberg, Air CorpsJ from Maj. Richmond Trumbull Gibson, Coast Artillery Corps, December 18, 1936. from October 1, 1936. lit. ecenaber I; 1936. 1937 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 129

Maj. Thomas James Hanley, Jr~~~ Air Corps, from Decem­ Capt. H:a.l Marney Rose, CavaJry, ·from July 1, 1!}36. ber 1, 1936. Capt. John Ter Bush Bissell, Field Artillery. from July 1, Maj. Jacob John Gerhardt, Infantry, from Deeember 1936. . 1, 1936. Capt. John Bellinger Bellinger, Ort. Marion Carson, cavaJry, from June 26, 1936. October 1, 1936. Capt. Rossiter Hunt Garity, Cavalry, from June 29, 1936. Capt. Herbert Allen Gardner, Quartermaster Corps, from Capt. Robert MacDonald Graham, Cavalry, from July 1, October 1, 19:36. 1936. Capt. Joseph Idus Lambert, Cavah:Y, from October 1, 1936. Capt. Leo Buffington Conner, Cavalry, from July 1, 1936. Capt. Leonard B. Gallagher, Corps of Engineers, from Capt. Arthur Burnola Custis, Ordnance Department, from October 1, 1936. ·July 1, 1936. Capt. Clarence Nelson Izy, Corps -of Engineers, from Octo­ Capt. Loyd Van Horne Durfee, Infantry, from July 1. 1936. ber 1, 1936. Capt. Desmond O'Keefe, Judge Advocate General's De­ Capt. Hugh Whitt. Pina.nee Department, from October 1, partment, from July 1, 1936. 1936. LXX.XI--9 130 CONGRESSIONAL ):tECOR~ENATE JANUARY . 8 Capt. Ray Aloysious Dunn, Air Coi-ps, from · October 1. Capt: . Johil Conrad · Christophel, Quartermaster Corps, 1936. . from December 22, 1936. Capt. Hamilton Hall Treager Glessner, Signal Corps, from Capt. Asa Irwin, Quartermaster Corps, from December 23, October 1, 1936. 1936. Capt. Crawford McMann Kellogg, Chemical Warfare Capt. Van Leslie Prather, Quartermaster Corps, from De· Service, from October 1, 1936. cember 24, 1936. Capt. James Anderson Beirne Gibson, Ordnance Depart­ Capt. Edward Peter Doyle, Quartermaster Corps, from ment, from October 1, 1936. December 24, 1936. Capt. Frederick Foster Christine, Air Corps, from October Capt. Robert Lake_Miller, Quartermaster Corps, from De· 1, 1936. cember 29, 1936. Capt. Albert Lobitz, Quartermaster Corps, from October 1, ·To be .-captains, with rank from ·January 22, 1937 1936. First Lt. Earl Clinton Robbins, Air · Corps. Capt. Patrick Kelly, Quartermaster Corps, from October First Lt. Andrew Joseph ·Kerwin Malone, Air Corps. 1, 1936. First Lt. Russell Keillor, Air Corps. Capt. Simon Jacobson, Quartermaster Corps, from October First Lt. Ernest Harold ·Lawson, Air Corps. 1, 1936. First Lt. John Edward Bodle, Air Corps. Capt. Edward William Lachmiller, Quartermaster Corps, First Lt. Russell Scott, Air Con)s. · from October 1, 1936. First Lt. Burton Murdock Hovey, Jr., Air Corps. Capt. Talmage Phillips, Quartermaster Corps, from Oc­ First Lt. ~ichard Eastman Cobb, Air Corps. tober 1, 1936. Capt. Jolm Paul Tillman, Finance Department, from To be captains, with rank from January 23, 1931 October 1, 1936. · First-Lt. Dale Davis -Fisher, Air Corps. Capt. Charles Harrison Brammell, Field Artillery, from First Lt. Henry Weisbrod Dorr, Air Corps. October 1, 1936. First Lt. Carlisle Iverson Ferris, Air Corps. Capt. John Aubrey Wheeler, Ordnance Department, from First Lt. Elwood Richard Quesada, Air Corps. October 1, 1936. First Lt. Willard Roland Wolfinbarger, Air Corps. Capt. Earl Spiker Schofield, Air Corps, from October 1, MEDICAL CORPS 1936. To be majors , Capt. Arthur Walter Stanley, Quartermaster Corps, from _ Capt. Bema Thomas Bowers, Medical Corps, from July October 28, 1936. . Capt. Hehry Ja:q1es Conner, Quartermaster Corps, from 25, 1936 . Capt. Leon Lloyd Gardner, Medical Corps, from August November 1, 1936, subject to examination required-by law. 11, 1936. . . Capt. Arthur Emel Simonin, Air Corps, from ·November 1, Capt. Prentice Laurl Mobre, Medical Corps, from Septem­ 1936. Capt. Graves Barney McGary, Quartermaster Corps, from ber 5, 1936. C~pt. John Morris Hargreaves,·Medical Corps, from Octo.: November 1, 1936. _ ber 1, 1936. · Capt. Frank ODriscoll Hunter, Air Corps, from November Capt. Don Longfellow, Medical CorPs, from OctOber 20, 1, 1936. . Capt. Arthur William Parker, Quartermaster Corps, from 1936. ·~: ~ C~pt. William Frank DeWitt, Medical Corps, from Novem-. November ·1, 1936. , . . . . , ber 15, 1936. ' Nove~ber 1, . Capt. Herbert Lee Jackson,. Cavalry, from To be captains 1936. . . . Capt: David Sidney. Seaton, Air. Corps, from November 1, First Lt. Reinhardt Ludwig Schmidtke, Medical Corps, from July.l, 1936 .. _ .. · . _ . 1936. . - ~ - Capt. : Schenk Henry · Griffin, Corps of Engineers, from · First Lt. Jolm Edwin Granade, Medical Corps, from July November l, 1936. . . 3, 1936. . Capt: Harold Huston George, Air Corps, from November 1, First Lt. Clifford Otto Bishop, Medical Corps, from July 9, 1936. ·1936. 1 Capt. Alden Harry Waitt, Chemical Warfare Service, from First Lt. Robert Estes Blount, Medical Corps, from July -November. 1, 1936. . · . · · . . 10, 1936. • Capt. Sterling Clifton Robertson, Infantry, from Novem- · First Lt. Paul Hamilton Jenkins, Medical Corps, from July ber is, 1936. . 11, 1936. Capt. Richard Landrum Smith, Corps of Engineers, from · First Lt. Walter Philippe Manning, Medical Corps, ~ from ·December 1, 1936. , , July 17' 1936. Capt. Harold Arthur Barnes, Quartermaster Corps, from First Lt. Ray Edward Curtie, Medical Corps, from July 26, December 1, 1936. . . l936. Capt. William Hammond Waugh, Corps of Engineers, from First Lt. Heinz Kuraner, Medical Corps, from August 5, December 1, 1936. . 1936. Capt. Clarence Barnard, Ordnance Department, from De-:- First Lt. Emmett Leroy Kehoe, Medical Corps, from Au- cember 1, 1936. . gust 9, 1936. Capt. Joseph Laurence Aman, Ordnance Department, from · Ffrst Lt. Clarence Harold White, Medical Corps, from December 1, 1936. August 14, 1936. Capt. Walter Jay Reed, Air Corps, from December 1, 1936. First Lt. Raphael Allen Edmonston, Medical Corps, from Capt. St. Clair Streett, Air Corps, from December 1, 1936. September 1, 1936. Capt. Ranald Trevor Adams, Field Artillery, from Decem- First Lt. Knox Dunlap, Medical Corps, from September 1, ber 1, 1936. 1936. Capt. Jolm Van Ness Ingram, Quartermaster Corps. from First Lt. Stephen Dominic Berardinelli, Medical Corps, December 1, 1936. frQm September ·2, 19.36. Capt. James Stevenson Crawford, Ordnance Department, First Lt. William Joseph Power, Medical Corps, from Sep- from December 1, 1936. · tember 9, 1936. Capt. Nichols, Infantry, from December First Lt. Lawrence Carter Ball, Medical Corps, from Sep- 1, 1936. tember 18, 1936. Capt. Archie Donald Cameron, Infantry, from December First Lt. John Knox CUllen, Medical Corps, from Septem· 1, 1936. ber 24, 1936. · Capt. stewart Hancock Elliott, OrdnanCe Department, . First Lt. Howard Willia.m Doa.n, Medical Corps, from Oc· from DE;cember 18, 1936. tober 1, 1936. · 1937 CONGRESSIONA'L RECORD-SENATE 131

First Lt. Kenneth Ross Hagen, Medical Corps, from De­ PROMOTIONS IN THE PHILIPPINE SCOUTS cember 20, 1936. TO BE MAJORS First Lt. Robert Weston Boal, Medical Corps, from De­ cember 20, 1936. Capt. Fidel Ventura Segundo, Philippine Scouts, from June 26, 1936. · First Lt. Lewis William Kirkman, Medical Corps, from December 23, 1936. Capt. Salvador Formoso Reyes, Philippine Scouts, from July 1, 1936. DENTAL CORPS To be lieutenant colonels APPOINTMENTS TO TEMPORARY RANK IN THE Am CORPS IN THE REGULAR ARMY Maj. Brantley Ingold Newsom, Dental Corps, from Sep­ tember 23, 1936. TO BE COLONELS WITH RANK FROM AUGUST 26, 1936 Maj. Oscar Peter Snyder, Dental Corps, from October 27, Lt. Col. Arnold Norman Krogstad. 1936. Lt. Col. Walter Hale Frank. Maj. Rex McKinley McDowell, Dental Corps, from October Lt. Col. Frank Darwin Lackland. 27, 1936. Lt. Col. Herbert Arthur Dargue. Maj. Charles Melville Taylor, Dental Corps, from October Lt. Col. Harrison Henry Cocke Richards. 27, 1936. Lt. Col. Ira Adelbert Rader. Maj. Thomas Lovett Smith, Dental Corps, from October 27, Lt. Col. Douglas Blakeshaw Netherwood. 1936. Lt. Col. Lewis Hyde Brereton. Maj. George Ray Tressel, Dental Corps, from October 27, Lt. Col. Hugh Johnston Knerr. 1936. Lt. Col. Eugene Alexander Lohman. Maj. Frederic Harold Bockoven, Dental Corps, from Octo­ Lt. Col. Follett Bradley. ber 27, 1936. Lt. Col. Shepler Ward FitzGerald. To be majors Lt. Col. Leslie MacDill. Capt. Everitte Favor Arnold, Dental Corps, from July 5, Lt. Col. Lawrence Sprague Churchill. 1936. Lt. Col. Clarence Leonard Tinker. Capt. Marvin Edward Kennebeck, Dental Corps, from Sep­ Lt. Col. Martin Francis Scanlon. tember 9, 1936. Lt. Col. Byron Quinby Jones. Capt. Walter Edwin Chase, Dental Corps, from November Lt. Col. Davenport Johnson. 12, 1936. . Lt. Col. Walter Glenn Kilner. To be captain Lt. Col. Henry William Harms. First Lt. Oscar John Ogren, Dental Corps, from July 27, TO BE LIEUTENANT COLONELS WITH RANK FROJI AUGUST 26, 1938 1936. Maj. William Orman Butler. VETER~ARY CORPS Maj. John Graham Colgan. To be lieutenant colonels Maj. Vernon Lee Burge. Maj. William Benjamin Wright, Jr. Maj. Mott Ramsey, Veterinary Corps, from July 11, 1936. Maj. Raymond Edward O'Neill. Maj. Gerald Woodward Fitz Gerald, Veterinary Corps, Maj. Dudley Blanchard Howard. from July 19, 1936. Maj. Floyd Emerson Galloway. Maj. Daniel Sommer Robertson, Veterinary Corps, from Maj. Calvin Earl Giffin. August 3, 1936. Maj. Stephen Joseph Idzorek. To ·be maj~s Maj. Harrison William Flickinger. Capt. Herbert Morris Cox, Veterinary Corps, from August Maj. Carl William Connell. 29, 1936. Maj. Thomas Settle Voss. Capt. Laurence Robert Bower, Veterinary Corps. from Maj. Thomas Watson Hastey. 1 August 29, 1936. Maj. Morris Berman. To be captains Maj. Walter Bender. First Lt. Wayne Otho Kester, Veterinary Corps, from July Maj. Albert Michael Guidera. 1 8, 1936, Maj. James Francis Doherty. First Lt. Robert Arthur Boyce, Jr., Veterinary Corps, from Maj. Lynwood Benjamin Jacobs. l July 12, 1936. . Maj. Frank Wilbur Wright. First Lt. Clarence Leonard Taylor, Veterinary Corps, from Maj. Edgar Peter Sorensen. I July 18, 1936. Maj. Robert Olds. MEDICAL ADMINISTRATIVE CORPS Maj. Ross Gordon Hoyt. To be first lieutenants Maj. William Bentley Mayer. Maj. Richard Henry Ballard. Second Lt. Paul Christian Borup, Medical Administr~tive Corps, from July 21, 1936. Maj. Ralph Hudson Wooten. Second Lt. Philip Wright Hockersmith, Medical Adminis­ Maj. Harold Mark McClelland. trative Corps, from July 21, 1936. Maj. Wolcott Paige Hayes. Maj. Edmund Walton Hill. CHAPLAINS Maj. Walter Francis Kraus. To be chaplains with the rank of lieutenant colonel Maj. William Eugene Farthing. Chaplain 368. o 486. 3 ~. a 331.9 _____ ~---- on hand. The working balance will be further reduced by ----r------~-- net expenditures of about. $42,000,000 for trust aecmmts ·anct TotaL ------13. 2 l , 875. 2 2, 342. ~ 2,-3611 g !y852. & 351L 7 __ _ $100,000,000 for the retirement. of national bank notes- now Loans (net)______a 153. 3 3 41If. 9 f'l75. 2 80: 5 788. 6 874. 4 40-t. cr a part of the public debt. This: will reduce the worlting; Subscriptfons to stock______11. 2 ' 51. 5 00..3 IM..8 826. 5 no.. 'Z 621'-0: balance from $2,2Z5,000,06G on June 3n, 1936, to $U83,- · Agricultural adjustment pro- gram______481~ 467.6 M2.-6 U3.0 290.3______------000,000 on June 30, 1937. The gross public debt at the end Less revenues ______------,...----- 76...6 5214 363.01------_ of the current fiscal year is estimated at $35,0Z6,000,000, --+---t---1------· an increase over 193o ot $1,248,000,000. Net______482.4 467.6 466.0 221.6 • 62.7 ------===== J ====F==== J ===~==== J ======The estimated debt at the. end of the fiscal year is based S'ocial secnrity______836. 0 399.6 28.4 ------______------on contemplated expenditures set out in this Budget and Debt retirem~ 401. 5 4M. 5 (03. ? . 573. 6 359. 9 W . 6 ~If MiscellaneoU&...... -.----- L 8 2. o 6. 8 21. 1 8. 7 ------does not take into account any change which may occur Supplemelrtal items'"______450.0 750.0 ------= = .- == as a result;. of the Treasury policy in holding as "inactive" Grand total____ . ____ 1 6,158. 0 8 00.8 8.803.16,854. 4 6, 752.0 5, 143.0 5, 153.6 - future acquisitions of gold. · Fiscal program for :f!Jj8" 1 To be increased by anj' amount appropriated by Congress fur recovery and reliet The expected iru:rea.se- revenue. and decrease in ex­ for the-fiscal year 1938. As indicated in the message, it is hoped th&" amount will not m m.eed: $1,537 ,123,_1X1l. penditures for relief both reflect the. general improvement s Funds for continuation of the Civilian Conservation Corps- are inclUded under which has taken place in the economic. conditions. of the "Supplemental items." • Excess- of tftdi~ deduct. eountry. The Revenue Act of 1936,, which was designe4 'Exces& ot xe.veuues.. deduct.. 136 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 8 Receipts: Treasury receipts in the fiscal year 1938 are ex­ Postal Service, District of Columbia, and probable supple­ pected to reach a total of $7,293,607,000, an increase of mental items, while the appropriations already made and $1,465,456,000 over similar receipts for 1937 and $3,177,- prospective supplemental items for the fiscal year 1937, ex­ 650,000 over 1936. This gain is largely due to an increase in clusive of requirements for recovery and relief, total $6,261,- income taxes as a result of improved business conditions and 000,000, an increase of $578,000,000 for 1938. This increase the operation of the Revenue Act of 1936. is due to additional appropriations amounting to $309,000,000 The amount expected to be collected in 1938 from income on account of the Social Security Act; $80,000,000 required taxes is $3,365,300,000, a gain of $992,400,000 over the fiscal under the general public works program; and $189,000,000 year 1937. Miscellaneous internal revenue will produce on account of departmental requirements, including the na­ $2,508,332,000, or $233,364,000 more than is expected from tional defense. The appropriations made and contemplated . this source for 1937. The tax on unjust enrichment and the for recovery and relief for 1937 total $2,215,000,000, whereas taxes on carriers and their employees, from which $82,000,000 it is hoped that corresponding appropriations for 1938 will and $134,552,000, respectively, will be derived in 1937, will not exceed $1,537,123,000. produce no revenue in 1938, since under existing law these PmiV taxes expire during 1937. The first full year of tax collec­ THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA tions under the Soeial Security Act will result in revenue of · The first · section of the 1937. District of Columbia Appro­ $774,800,009 in 1938, which sum is $450,200-,000 greater than priation Act, approved June 23, 1936 (Public, No. 762, 74th the anticipated revenue in 1937, when collections will -be for Cong.), contains the following provision: only 6 months. It is believed that customs revenues will Not to exceed $50,000 shall be available for expenditure, under the rise from $446,800,000 during the present fiscal year. to $463,- direction of the President, !or making an independent study of the 000,000 in 1938, a gain of $16,200,000. Miscellaneous re­ fiscal relations between the United ,States and the Distr1c~ of will $8,950,000, 1938 Columbia and enabling him to report to Congress at the beginning ceipts, however, decrease the collections of the next regular session, what, in his judgment, is a fair and being estimated at $151,550,000, as compared with $160,500,- eq~itable amount to be paid by the United States as an annual 000 during 1937. From realization upon assets $30,625,000 contribution toward the expenses of the government of the .Dis­ will be received, while in 1937 receipts from this source will trict of Columbia; such sum shall be available for personal services without regard to the civil-service laws and the Classification A'Jt amount to $31,830,000. of 1923, as amended, and for such other expenditures as may be · Expenditures: The expenditures for 1938 contemplated n~cessary in connection with such study. . .. _ under this Budget (exclusive of those from postal revenuesr Pursuant to the above, I .appointed . a director and an will total $6,157,999,000, or approximately $2,323,000,000 less advisory committee of three members to conduct an inde­ than is now estimated for 1937. General expenditures for pendent study of the various elements and conditions affect- . regular activities amount to $5,841,968,000, as compared with ing the fiscal relations between the United States and the $5,664,647,000 in 1937, an increase of $177,321,000. The District of Columbia. 1937 $563,5.00,000 estim-ate, however, contains an. amount of The report contains detailed findings and recommendations for-completion .of adjusted compensation payments to vet­ with the supporting data and information collected from the erans, so that the comparable increase over 1937 is $740,- Federal and District Governments in .Washington and from 821,000. For recovery and· relief there is included in the 17 comparable American cities and the capital cities of 21 expenditures for 1938 the amount of $316,031,000, which, of foreign countries. course, is not the full amount that will be required for relief The application of the basic principles and recommenda­ during that year. As previously indicated, it is our present tions as outlined and detailed in the report is refiected in the hope that the additional amount to be requested for this following three-point formula, which I recommend be care­ purpose will not exceed $1,537,123,000. Thus the total ex­ fully considered by the Congress with a view to enacting such penditure for recovery and relief during 1938 would be legislation at this session as may be necessary to establish $1,853,154,000, or $963,003,000 less than the amount esti­ equitable fiscal relationships between the two governments. mated for ~ 1937. Again I emphasize the contribution which I. Intergovernmental contractual services: Contractual arrange­ employers can make to this attainment. ments shall be established for the reimbursement of the cost ot The general expenditures ·include $860,000,000 for interest specific intergovernmental· services supplied either government l?Y on the public debt, an increase of $~5.000,000 over the amount the other. Appropriations therefor shall be included· in the re- for -the · present fiscal year, and $401,515,000 for statutory spective annual departmental budgets. · II. Capital outlays of joint interest: The National Capital Plan­ debt retirements, a decrease of $3,010,000. Exclusive of the ning Commission (proposed in the report) shall determine the service on the public debt_and the payment of adjusted com­ extent of the respective Federal and District interests in capital pensation to .veterans. there .is .a net_increase of $718,831,000 outlays p.nd improvem~ts to be inctudeC:l in the D~rict budget.. ill. Per-capita governmental costs: ·Pending the grant of broader in expenditures for regular activities as compared with 1937. powers of local control over purely local affairs, the excess of the This increase is accounted for as follows: For increased re­ District governmental costs per capita over the average of those in quirements under the Social Security Act, $436,337,000; for. comparable cities shall be assumed by the Federal Government: additional expenditures .under the general public works pro­ Provided, however, That such excess District governmental costa shall be assumed only after allowance has been made !or reim­ gram, $132,519,000; for national defense to provide for the bursements due to unusual costs occasioned by congressional increased strength of the ·Army as· directed by Congress and enactments. to provide for replacement of naval vessels in accordance I also recommend that, concurrently with enactment of any with existing authorizations, $92,882,000; for ~e . necessary legislation which carries into effect the provisions o! this· funds· for the activities of the Railroad Retirement Board continuing formula, the substantive law providing for annual and for rural electrification,. $39,566,000; and for increased Federal contributions·of a fixed percentage of District appro- needs of other activities, $17,527,000. ·priations be repealed and that the system of annual Federal Surplus~ and public debt: The surplus for the fiscal year lump-sum contributions be abandoned. 1938'; as- presented in this Budget, is· $1~135,608;000 after pro­ The application of this formula to the 1938 Budget esti­ viding for debt retirement . . Excluding provision for ~ debt mates would provide for a net reimbursement by the Federal retirement, the surplus will amount to $1,537,123,000. As I Government to the District of Columbia of $2,533,537, made ha,v.e previously stated, it is hoped the additional needs for up as follows: · will relief during the fiscal year 1938 not require expenditure · I. Intergovernmental contractual services ______$1, 996, 407 of more than this latter amount. On this.basis the estimated n. capital outlays______536, 950 gross public debt on June 30, 1938, will· be · about the same m. Excess per capita District of Columbia govern- amount as at the close of the fiscal year 1937. This does not mental costs------4 take into account any change which may occur as a result of ~taJ ______2,533,351 the Treasury policy in holding as "inactive" future acqui­ sitions of gold. Mter the application of the formula there will still be a Appropriations: The total appropriations recommended in deficit in the general-revenue account of the District of this Budg~t aggregate $6,839,000,000, including those for the Columbia of about $9,800,000, which will make it necessary, of 1937 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 137 course, to provide additional revenue. Sources of additional The SPKAKER.- Is there objection? revepue are indicated in the report. . I Mr. SNELL. Reserving the right to object, and I shall not FRANKLm D. ROOSEVELT. object, to this. request~ but it seems to me at the beginning JANUARY 5, 1937. of Congress we ought to have a definite understanding as to whether we are going to have inserted in the RECORD maga­ FISCAL RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE DISTRICT zine articles prepared by experts. I think that is a question OF COLUMBIA for the majority to decide, and it might be well to have it The SPEAKER laid before the House the following mes­ decided at the outset. sage from the President of the United States, which was The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the read, and, with the accompanying papers, referred to the gentleman from Kentucky? Committee on. the District of. Columbia~ There was no objection. Y...r. O'CONNELL of Rhode Island. Mr. Speaker, I ask To the Congress of the United States: unanimous consent to extend my own remarks in the RECORD. Pursuant to the provisions in the 1937 District of Co­ The SPEAKER. Without objection, it is so ordered. lumbia Appropriation Act approved June 23, 1936 (Public, There was no objection. No. 762, 74th, Cong.), I have the honor to transmit herewith Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to for the consideration of Congress the following report on extend my remarks in the RECORD and to include therein a "Fiscal relations between the United States and the District copy of a letter written to Andrew Jackson by his mother . . of Columbia." The SPEAKER. Is there objection? The major recommendations in this report are outlined in There was no o~jection. my 1938 Budget message as transmitted to you on this date. Mr. FADDIS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to I have considered· these findings ~nd recommendations in extend my own remarks in the REcORD. collaboration with the advisory committee and the director The SPEAKER. Is there objection? of the study and I earnestly commend these. to your close . There was no objection. consideration at this session of Congress. I urge· early en­ Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent actment of the .necessary .legislative measures to assure a to extend my remarks in the REcoRD by printing an address continuing equftable determiriati<>n of fiscal relations be­ delivered by me in_Washington, D. c., on December 10 ex­ tween the two governments. planatory of a measure I have introduced in this House. - Speciai attention is invited to sections 10 and 13 which The SPEAKER. Is there objection? · show that while the extent of local governmental services in There was no objection. the District of Columbia is substantially equal to that iii 17 Mr. RAYBURN. Mr. Speaker~ on Monday there will be comparable cities, both the property tax and the total tax no business unless some Member has leave to address the load in the District of Columbia are lower than in any of House. On Tuesday there is a special order for the gentle­ these cities. man from Maryland [Mr. GoLDSBOROUGH] to address the FRANKLIN D. RoosEVELT. House for 1 hour. THE WHITE HOUSE, January 8, ~937. On Wednesday there will be nothing unless the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. WooDRUM] may be able to report his SWEARING IN OF MEMBER independent· offices appropriation bill, and I now ask the Mr. MoTT appeared in the. Well of the House and took the . gentleman from Virginia about the prospect of his doing so. oath of office. · Mr. WOODRUM. Mr. Speaker, replying to the gentleman BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS from Texas, the subcommittee began informal hearings on Mr. FERNANDEZ. Mr. Speaker, this being the one hun­ the independent offices appropriation bill on the 1st of dred and twenty-second anniversary of the Battle of New , December. Those hearings are just about completed. The

Orleans, I ask unanimous consent to address the House for 1 bill could be made ready except for the fact that the chair­ 3 minutes. i man of the Committee on Appropriations, the gentleman The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the from Texas [Mr. BucHANAN] thought it best not to mark up gentleman from Louisiana? the bill until the new members on the subcommittee were · There was no. obj-ection. appointed. I can have the bill ready in 2 or 3 days, if the Mr. FERNANDEZ. Mr. Speaker, it would not be properly gentleman from Texas [Mr. BucHANAN] wishes it. reminiscent to permit this day elapse without making men­ Mr. SNELL. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? tion of the memorable Battle of New Orleans. Mr. Speaker, Mr. RAYBURN. Yes. this day represents the one hundred and twenty-second an­ Mr. SNELL. As I understood the gentleman's statement, niversary of that great keystone battle, which was fought there will be· no regular business on the program on Monday victoriously by Gen. Andrew JackSon and his comparative except one speech by unanimous consent. handful of volunteers froin Tennessee, Mississippi, and Mr. RAYBURN. There is nothing on Monday except the Louisiana on January 8, 1815. Much has been said of this gentleman· from Vermont· [Mr. PLUMLEY] has been granted battle in the past and much should be said in the future, 5 minutes in which to address the House. The gentleman hut today I am content to , limit my remarks to a few from Maryland [Mr. GoLDSBOROUGH] has been granted 1 minutes just to have observation made. At a later time I hour as a special order on Tuesday. will renew my efforts to have a great national park estab­ Mr; SNELL. Otherwise there will be no special business lished on the plains of Chalmette and the actual battle­ on Monday or Tuesday? grounds adjacent. thereto-in:the parish o! St.~ Bernard, near , Mr. RAYBURN. No legislation. the great city of New Orleans, La. Whit we have there now ADJOURNMENT is simply a· monument and some acreage under the National Mr. Speaker, I move that the House tlo now adjourn until Park .Service of the Interior and a ·national cemetery under Monday next. the War Department. . What should be done to perpetually The .motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 12 o'clock commemorate this outstanding accomplishment and event is and 58 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned until Monday, for our great National Government to establish a national Jainuary 'it, 1937, at 12 o'clock noon. military park there,. such as was advocated· in the last-· ses­ sion of Congress and which passed this HOUSE}. [Ap:p~ause.l EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. EXTENSION OF REMARKS Under clause 2 of rule :xxrv, executive communications Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to were taken from the Speaker's table and referred as follows: insert iii the .RECORD an article on the Ohio RiVer, its futura 169. A letter from the Chairman of Sectu'ities and Ex-­ as a water-supply ·sow:ce, by H. W. Streeter.. sanitary engi- change Commission, transmitting.. a: preliminary summary neer of the United States Public Health Service. ~ . of the progress of the study of investm.ent trusts and 138 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· HOUSE JANUARY 8 investment companies being conducted by the Commission penses, Public· Works Branch, Procurement ·Division, during in pursuance of section 30 of the Public Utility Holding the fiscal year ended June 30, 1936; to the Committee on Company Act of 1935; to the Committee on Interstate and Expenditures in Executive Departments. Foreign Commerce. 170. A letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting an annual itemized report of the American National Red Cross PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1936; to the Committee Under clause 3 of rule XXII, public bills and resolutions on Military Affairs. . were introduced and severally referred as follows: 171. A letter from the Chairman of Board of Tennessee By Mr. ANDREWS: A bill (H. R. 2232) declaring Scaja­ Valley Authority, tram:mitting a statement of allocations quada Creek, Erie County, N. Y., to be a nonnavigable made, through section 14 of the Tennessee Valley Authority §tream; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ Act, making an investigation of Wilson Dam, the steam merce. plants at Nitrate Plant No. 1 and Nitrate Plant No.2; to the Also, a bill amination and survey of Town River, Quincy, Mass., author­ amending title 29, sections 101 and 113 (c) of the United ized by _the River and Harbor Act approved August 30, 1935 States Code; to the Committee on the Judiciary. . By Mr .. CELLAR: A bill to provide rettrement June l3, 1934 to authorize the Affairs. coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the one By Mr. O'CONNOR Qf Montana: A bill (H. R. 2254) pro­ hundred and fiftieth aniliversary of the establishment of the viding for the suspension of annual assessment work on min­ Northwest Territory; to the Committee on Coinage. Weights, ing claims held by 'location in the United States; to the and Measures. Committee on Mines and Mining. Also, a bill (H. R. 2273) to authorize settlement for cer-· By Mr. PIERCE: A ,bill f Oklahoma: A · bill (H. R. 2257) to sons who served in foreign -service with the United States· provide old-age compensation for the citizens of the United Army during the Spanish-American War, including the ·States, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Ways Philippine Insurrection and Chinese Boxer Rebellion; to the and Means. Committee on Pensions. By Mr. SHORT: A bill CH. R. 2258) granting the consent By .Mr. BOYER: A bill f memo­ consummation of the :independence G.f the Rhilippine Islands; rial statues of Maj. Prank North -and Capt. Luther H-. North; to the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on· t he liibrary. Also, a bill " to-provide for the admission of 50 By Mr. WALTER; A bill (H. R. 221)5) to regulate the SU­ Filipinos· to the United states Naval Academy pending the preme Court in connection with determining constitutionality con.Summa-tion Gf the 'independence of .the ·philippine Islands; of acts of Congress and statutes of the several States; to the to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. FADffiS: A bill for the relief of Max Natenson; United States District Court for the Eastern District of South to the Committee on Pensions. Carolina to determine the claim of Lewis E. Magwood; ·to the By Mr. EATON: A bill for the relief of Edward James Also, a bill for the relief of Mrs. A. H. Law­ Also, a bill

. Also, a bill (H. R. 2403) for the relief of Elmer Bur­ c Also, a ·bill (H. R. 2438) for the relief of Henry V. Pattin; lingame; to the Committee on Military .Affairs. to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill for the Claims. relief of Dr. M. Kellogg Mookerjee; to the Committee on By Mr. STEFAN: A bill