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TEXAS To be chief nwchini-sts, to ranTc 'lt•ith but after ensign Winnie Everitt to be postmaster at Shepherd, Tex., in place Stephen D. Thornton. Asa l\1. Gainer. of J. C. Fain. Office became third class April 1, 1924. Alfred Ward. William J. Brennan. Arbye L. Curtis to be postmaster at Big LaJie, Tex., in place Frank P. 1\loore. George Rahm. of ·w. M. Cutbirth. Office became third class Julr 1, 1924. To be chief carpenters, to mnk 1cith bu.t after ensign VIRGINIA. William ll. Buchanan. Benjamin l\leyer. Devon R. Raymer to be postmaster at Roda, Va., in place of Garrett P. Fitzmaurice. Daniel McLeod. H. S. Estill, resigned. William F. Leahy. Harold E. Landre. WEST VIRGINll To be chief pay clerk, to 'rank 'l·t:ith but after ensign Levi Gay to be postmaster at Eccles, W. Va., in place of l\lurray D. King. J . C. Lowry, jr., resigned. MARL\~ CORPS WISCONSIN To be second lieutenants Robert R. Porter to be postmaster at Wheeler, Wis., in place l\Iilo R. Carroll. Theodore n. Millard. of R. R. Porter. Incumbent's commission expired 1.\Iarcl.J. 2~, Floyd A. Stephenson. David K. Claude. ·1924. Homer L. Litzenberg, jr. Albert L. Gardner. · Louis A. Meininger to be po-stmaster at Waukesha, Wis., Wilburt S. Brown. James P. S. Devereux. in place of A. J. Dopp. Incumbent's commission expired June Samuel S. Ballentine. Robert C. Orrison. 5, 1924. PosTMASTERS John A. Dysland to be postmaster at Mount Horeb, Wis., in place of Alois Goebel. Incumbent's commission expired June COLORADO 5, 1924. Patrick H. Gallagher, Windsor. Edwin J. Pynn to be postmaster at Hartland, Wis., in place FLORIDA of E. J. Pynn. Incumbent's commission expired l\larch 22, Richard E . Damon, Jupiter. 1924. I\Iima Gurganious, Lacoochee. Ralph H. Tolford to be postmaster at Thorp, Wis., in place KANSAS of William Wagner, resigned. Clyde 0. Brown, jr., Centralia. CONFIRMATIONS KENTUCKY Zelrner R. Hill, Jamestown. EJJecut·i!IJe nominations confinned by the Senate Februa1·y 1~ (legislative day of Febnwt·y 17), 1925 KEW MEXICO CoraL. Vaughan, State College. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE NEW YORK William 1\1. Jardine to be Secretary of Agriculture. Morgan C. Harris, Newport. GOVERNOR OF ALASKA PENNSYLVANIA Ge01·ge Alexander Parks to be Governor of Alaska. Jeremiah H. Fetzer, Coopersburg. CoAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY William I\1. Kelvington, ~eadow Lands. To be aids PORTO RICO Riley Jacob Sipe. Philip Randall Hathorne. Josefina C. Silva, Hato Rey. Allen Ames Parker. John l\lahlon Neal. TE~NESSEE Samuel Barker Grenell. Homer W. Black, Bolivar. PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY J Q.hn ID. Barnes, Ramer. To be comtnanders Florie W. ~andress, Signal Mountain. George W. Simpson. WISCONSIN Alexander M. Charlton. John I. Edwards, Hazel Green. To be Ueu.tenant commanders Hugh S. Caldwell, l..odi. Grace R. l\lorgan, Spring Green. George B. Wilson. Charles E. Rosendahl. To be lieu.Jenant cotmnaniler on the retired, Ust HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Richard E. Byrd, jr. WEDNESDAY, Februm•y 18, 1925 To be lieutenants Frank Stinchcomb. Earle C. Peterson. The House met at 12 o'clock noon, and was called to order Robert S. Savin. Francis E . Matthews. by the Speaker. William E. Smith. Joseph W. McColl, jr. The Chaplain, Rev. J ames Shera l\lontgomery, D. D., offered Frederick Strohte. Ira D. Spoonemore. the following prayer : Frank Leghorn. Charles R. Hoffecker. Hea>enly Father, we would pray: Bless the' Lord 0 my Andrew l\f. Parks. Henry L. Blil·mann. soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Ha>e Claude Farmer. Arthur P . Spencer. mercy upon us 0 Lord, according to Thy loving kindness; Leon W. 1\iills. John S. Hawkins. according unto the multitude of Thy tender mercies blot out Frank W. Rasch. Charlie S. East. our transgressions. May we observe Thy precepts diligently, Edward G. Evans. Reuben F. Davis. and deeply realize that blessed are the undefiled in the way, Thomas ~,_ Hassell. William C. Betzer. who walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they who John 0. Jenkins. keep Thy testimonies, who seek Thee with a whole heart. We To be Uetttenant (jnni
The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Tennessee asks unani England, had long been a resident in London, and yet he had the heart J mous consent to extend his remarks in the RECORD by inserting to feel and the intelligence to envisage the most important thing that ' an address delivered by Mr. AswELL of Louisiana, on the could be done for his native country. He saw that the place which l occasion mentioned. Is there objection? needed help and hope was the desolate and devastated South. He saw 1 There was no objection. that the rest of the country would go forward in prosperity and educa l\Ir. BYRNS of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, the :fiftieth anniver tion, intelligence, and efficient culture, whereaB the South would lag sary of George Peabody College for teachers, which iR located behind unless promptly and liberally assisted. He chose to exert the at Nashville, Tenn., is being celebrated this week. Many dis benevolence of his friendly spirit and the power of his money to pre- tinguished persons and prominent speakers are in attendance, vent the calamity of letting one part of our country gre>w prosperous among them our colleague Hon. JAMEB B. AsWELL, of Louisiana. and educated while the other part would be doomed to an endless Doctor AswELL is an honored alumnus of the institution anti struggle of poverty recovering from the ravages of a civil war. He for years was a member and vice president of the board of saw that this condition could no more make a united cotmtry than the trustees, having resigned that position because his duties in situatie>n which made Lincoln declare that our country could not Congress prevented his attendance on its meetings. prosper, could not even exist, one-half free and one-half slave. Mr. He delivered to-day a most excellent address on the occasion Lincoln, the exemplar of our country's magnanimity and the preserver of this anniversary celebration, one which can be read with of our eternal unity, sought and secured the physical freedom of a pleasure and profit by everyone. The address is as follows : race, while Mr. Peabody, knowing no bounds of sections or of conti nents, sought and is securing the intellectual n·eedom of all his PEABODY COLLEGE IN THE LIFE OF THE NA.T IO::-< countrymen. In keeping with Mr. Peabody's high purpose and great wisdom, Pea The greatness of the name is 'further enhanced when we know that body College was wisely located. Nashville, for more than 50 years Mr. Peabody's conception came from his own inner purpose and not t he Mecca of thousands of students annually attracted . here seeking from outside or chance sugges-tion. He was seemingly r emote from the the advantages offered by special kinds of college and university train South. He was seemingly aloof from the United States. There seems ing, is the educational center, the- recognized "Athens of the South.'' to be no evidence that this momentous decision of his 'It .JS occasioned by , Peabody College is fortunately located. During 50 years the college any outside incident or connection. No one person and ru:> concrete has grown stronger, and day by day it will grow sb·onger still, IJy event suggested this act to his magnificent vision. Surely this a ct of being in Nashville and by having a share in the va ried educational patrioti m with its sequence of philanthropy must be ranked as an inspi- enterprises centered here. Nashville is, indeed, a city of light "set ration from on high and raises George Peabody among the supreme 1 upon an hill." Peabody College for teachers shines in this light as lovers of mankind, one whom pa-triots and educators should cannonize. the llarvard of the South. His gifts to the poor of London, his gifts to his native town in Mas The primary purpose of the Peabody fqnd was to orgn.nize and sachusett s and neighboring towns, his gifts to institutions of learning, develop schools and school systems, in towns, cities, und counties. and his st atements of the purposes underlying these gifts, entitl~ The P eabody men and women who have gone out from this inst itution him to rank in educational doctrine, not only with thinkers and' as teachers, principals, superintendents, and presidents of colleges theorists, like Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Quintllian, Comenius, and universities, recognizing that the need of the hour was for leader and the other great philanthropists, but to be placed alone in his ship, have been and are crusaders of a high order. With zeal and practical wisdom of making a gift so as to realize his ideal. It bas success, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, from the Atlantic to the often been sa id, and must be accepted as literally true in the lio-ht western boundar ies of Texas and Oklahoma, and on to the Pacific of the experience of the 50 years of Peabody College, that that $2,000,- coast, basing their energies on morality and universal intelligence, they 000 which he gave for southern education has achieved more and has have been powerful factors in edueating and in bringing the im more practical significance than many times that amount of money poverished South once again to the level of the finest and best in our given anywhere else or for an·y other purpose in the world. national life. In his second letter vrritten to the trus tees of the Tbe name Peabody, therefore, is the richest heritage that Peabody Peabody Etlucation Fund, in 1869, the turbulent hour of the reconstruc- College could have, well-nigh flawless, pure, and undefiled, wise, ten tion period, Mr. Peabody said: · der, and unfailing. The name is our inspiration to greater endeavor. " I do this with the earnest hope and in the sincere trust that, It has been spread by the influence of Peabody College and its grad with God's blessing upon the gift, it may prove a permanent and I uates and students to the ends of the earth, always, we hope, unsul.. lasting boon, not only to tbe Southern States, but t o the "whole lied, a symbol of service and helpfulness. of our dear country, which I have ever loved so wNL" The name of Peabody is especially a priceless heritage recognit.~d The South, the country, and the world are uplifted and blessed be gratefully by the direct recipients of Mr. Peabody's bounty and the cause Mr. Peabody, the outstanding peacemaker a.nd builder of friend benediction of his good will, but through.o.ut the country his name is stlips, bad the vision, knew the science, an~ used the art of giving acclaimed as the symbol of wise philanthropy and matchless gener helpfully. He knew and meant to say that helping. the South to osity. educate itself would be the surest way of uniting all sections of our THE PEABODY SPIRIT common country and building a Nation great and strong t'nough to The way in which Mr. Peabody gave accounts for th.f ;:.,suits endure. effected by his munificence. Pref;ident Gilman of Johns Hopkins In discussing the subject assigned me, I shall present: (1) The Pea UniYersity said in 1895 : " Every year unfolds the excellence of the body name ; (2) the Peabody spirit; (3) Peabody achievement·. plans which received the sanction of George Peabody :md shared his THE PEABODY NAlliE bounty." Others have noticed the wisdom that was exercised in draw The Peabody name represents a citizen of the world, a friend and ing up the instructions un.der which the trusts were administered. lover of mankind, who possessed unusual charm of mall.Qer-a world Mr. Peabody had a philosophy of giving as well as an impulse to character who saw far beyond his time. With prophetic vision and give. In 1852 when he was invited to the centennial celebration of devotion to humanity, he was the pioneer, the leader of giving in a his native town he was unable to be present, but sent a gift of grati manner worthwhile in America and the world. His wise giving was tude and with it, inclosed in a sealed envelope, a toast for the occa the inspiration of Slater, Carnegie, Sage, Jeanes, Rockefeller, and all sion. When. the seal was broken the letter was found to contain these the other later philanthropists. He represented a new conception words: of serviceable giving. He unconsciously inspired and directed multi "A sentiment from George Peabody, of London: Education-a plied millions into new channels of service. He set the pace and led debt due from present to future generations." the way in helping men belp themselves by giving them a vision The first element in his giving was a feeling for the solidarity of the of their own opportunities. He expressed the highest thought and human groups that make up society, a feeling that the poorest and noblest sentiment of giving, raising it to the exalted rank of privilege the meanest jeopardize the best, and that the best should improve and uuty. the worst. The name George Peabody is dynamic, because it suggests flawless Later, when he gave $2,000,000 to the poor of London, he again philanthropy. The name is potent to-day, not so much because George enuqciated his doctrine : " It is my desire," be said, " not so mu~b to Peabody's was the first and greatest fortune of his time; not because relieve poverty as it is to prevent poverty and make it impossible." he received honors and applause like that accorded conquerors and His influence shines out as clear in this instance as his sympathy was kings; not because of his international power ; not be
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tar out over the strife, 1\Ir. Peabody saw the entire Nation and in "All the provisions hitherto described would be of no effect if we making this gift said: " I give this to the suffering South for the took no pains to procure for the public school thus constituted an good of the whole Nation." This one time, at least, did a human able master of the htgh vocati.on of illStructing the people. It being on this earth reach the height of obeying the injunction, " Love can not be too often repeated that it is the master that makes the your enemies." schooL" Not in vain did 'Mr. Peabody wish for the spread of his influence to Victor Hugo gives the scale of values for the different stages of the life of the whole Nation. Tbis gift to the South has exerted an mankind in terms of suffering and wretchedness. He reminds us that uninterrupted influence slnce 1867, when the trustees of the education if we have seen the misery of men we know nothing until we have fund began their work which brought into life our entire system of seen the misery of women. And if we have seen the misery of women public education in the South, starting that movement wbi~ 1s now we know nothing until we have seen the misery of children. In the so tremendous in its sweep. progress of education the time has come to state the case positively. More and more, Mr. Peabody became dominant in Peabody College, We should say that when we value the power of men we have not which since 1875, bas been the central agency for the Peabody Foun reached the best until we have come to value the influence of women ; dation and the chtef exponent of the Peabody spirit. From this has and when we have come to value the influence of · women we still have come the establishment of over 40 State normal schools, of which Pea not reached the best until we have clearly seen the unending possi· body College can rightfully be called the mother and the model. The billties of children. department of education or teachers' college in each southern State It is to this conception that the spirit embodied in George Peabody university fiows also from this central teachers' college and the work College for teachers has led. No greater service than this high con of the Peabody education fund. With the permanent endowment of ception of education and the clear vision of the supreme human enter Peabody College in 1909 and the large increase in assets, through gifts prise can be rendered to these United States. since that time, Peabody College will be more and more able to spread abroad the Peabody spirit. The college has ever remained true to that PEABODY ACHIEVEMENTS spirit, has ever followed the idea.ls of 1\Ir. Peabody's benefactions, and Peabody College in its 50 years of existence has participated with has ever kept the faith to render full service to education, through the enthusiasm and effectiveness in the marvelous growth o! education in teachers and the schools. The Peabody spirit, which we hope does I the United States. This influence has been exerted most powerfully, and shall ever run strong on this campus and in this institution, will 1 as wn.s natural, in the Southern States, but Peabody College has be found wherever those who have been in residence here may go. With worked for the whole country and has been at the forefront ill educa this . pirit embodied in the teachers sent out from Peabody, we shall tional leanership. hope for an unending reproduction of the gentle>, wise, high spirit of In 1875 the enrollment In the public schools of the country was George Peabody. His gifts are talked of E-verywhere. They are con 8,761,259 pupils. To-day the enrollment is 23,239,227. In 1875 the centrated in the South and are visible concretely here in George Pea sum invested in the public schools was $82,532,954, in 1922 it was body College for Teachers. The best possible wish for the South and $1,580,671,296. This enormous number of children actively at work for the Nation is that the spirit of his life may be embodied in the in the sch6ols, taught by 729,426 teachers, form a big enterprise, no lives of innumerable boyR and girls taught in the schools throughout I matte1· whether considered from the vast sums of money invested or all the breadth of our land. from the still vaster human interests involved. In that same period l\Ir. Peabody was a prophet in pointing out the great medium of since Peabody College was founded-the growth of national popula philanthropy when he said : " Education-a debt due from present to tion has expanded from about 39,000,000 to about 110,000,000. future generations.'' Ile graphically presented a subject which bas In the South the enrollment in public schools hru! increased even come to occupy more thought than any other. Education ranks as more rapidly than in· the rest of the country, whereas our population a great enterprise from the business standpoint, it ranks as a great bas not increased quite so rapidly. This achievement of the Southern hope along with religion, it ranks among the processes of improve States is all the more marvelous when it is remembered that only in ment along with the home ftnd the discoveries of science. Not only the last decade have these States acquired the same relative wealth is education thus recognizefl in this country, b1tt it bas become a and pl'osperity that was theirs before the Civil War began in 1861. world-wide enterprise of the first rank. Lance G. E. Jones, of Oxford, An enlightened body ()! traiued. teachers has contributed very England, recently said : greatly to this improvement in our southern schools. The influence " Among the movements which the future historian of social of Peabody in supplying the heads of normal schools, membel'S of development in England will find it necessary to record as char their faculties, leaders in public education, and teachers for the actel'istic of the first qn::u·ter of the twentieth century will be a schools was special and direct. In the early pioneering days from steadily increasing intl:'rest in all that concerns the education 1871> to 1890 there seemed to be insuperable obstacles to be overcome. of the people. Probably at no time hus this interest been so Poverty and ignorance seemed impenetrable, but the leadership o:t widespread as it is to-day. The signs of it axe everywhere-the Peabody began to tell and the persistence of her message and influ demand for admission to secondary schools, publicity in the press ence began to take e~ect. From 1890 to 19J0 State normal schools and on the platform, questions in the House of Commons, the were established in all the Southern States and a new era of ex~an interest of taxpayers in the proceedings of local education au sion and hopefulness gave the public schools a tremendous impetus. thorities, and even of villagers in village Rchools, alike are indic It was then that the training of teachers in the South moved forward ative of the larger place that problems of education, national with the rest of the country and has since kept pace with the national and local, are gradually filling in men's minds. Nor is the progress. change merely the fruit of renewed zeal on the part of enthusi In those early days the ldea of universal education met with special asts, or the urgent "emands of economists; rather it is a natural opposition in the Southern States. Even more opposition was felt consequence of the gradual expansion of that system of popular and expressed- for the idea of special training of teacber,s and tol! education of which the foundations were laid barely a century adequate support and salaries for an improved teaching profession in ago. the whole country. From about 1860 to 1890 the private normal " No one who pays other than lip service to the welfare of his schools, many of them with education fakers at their beads, brought country can fail to :welcome the change, for in this new and the word "normal " into national disrepute. widespread interest lies the surest hope of the future. * • • The effect of Peabody, believing that "Teaching is the noblest of Indeed, we would suggest that the great n~d of the moment is professions, but the sorriest of trades," was to reduce the number of knowledge." private and gainful normal schools and to elevate tbe State normal What bad been dimly hoped by educational prophets and seers of schools for the proper training of public-school teacherB and leaders. the past was incarnated and made practical by George Peabody, and The power of example is well illustrated in the intl.uence of Peabody Peabody College put it into the schools, and, therefore, into the life College participating in the growth of teacher training in tbe United of the Nation. Froebel said, "The problem of the world is an edu States. When Peabody opened her doors in 1875 there was not a cational one." That was a statement then accepted by a few choice single public normal school in the South. To-day there are 72 State spirits like him, now it is the slogan even of remote communities. normal schools and colleges, with 54,055 students in attendance. In The spiritual aspects of .education are realized more and more. 1875 there were 34,220 students enrolled in the normal schools of the These spiritual values are centered in the teachers far more than in United States, and in 1922 there were 232,144. the organization and administration of the schools. The wide recog Peabody College was established in 1875 as a central institution nition of this fact would please the hearts of high thinkers from for the higher training of teachers, a "West Point" to turn out Pe taloz.zi and Froebel down to the educational leaders of the present officers for the great army of teachers. It was the power of example time. Sir Graham Balfour said : this model for those believing in the training of teachers-that spread "The immediate administration of officials is simply the work so po-werfully in the nineties over all the South, and now goes tri of shouldering the burden of the teachers. Teachers should be set umphantly marching through all parts of the country. free to educate with as few hindrances as possible. Education is In growth from a small beginning to its present large aspects, Pea for the pupils first and last; all the rest of us are their servants." body College has kept ahead as the leader in the training o! teachers In somewhat the same way M. Guizot said in 183.3 before the French in the South. From 60 students in 1875 it grew to over 600 students . Chamber of Deputies: · by 1900, and now enrolls ove1· 3,000 students in the four quarters of ...
4066 CONGR.ESSION AL R.ECORD-HOUSE FEBRUARY 18 i the calendar year. It has b1azed many trails and been looked to with H. R. 10471. An act authorizing the Postmaster General to confitlence as a afe and energetic guide in its special field. In 1892, permit the use of precanceled stamped envelopes; and · when North Carolina was establishing its Normal College for Women H. R.11725. An act to legalize a pier and wharf in York at Greensboro, the uistinguished president-elect, Dr. Charles D. Mciver, Ri•er at Gloucester Banks, near Gloucester Point, Va. came to Peabo(ly an bill differs widely from the terms of the bill which the House Moore, Va. Rainey Smithwick Tucker Morehead Raker Spearing Upshaw passed a week ago, and which I am now asking to be sent Morris Rankin Steagall Vinson, Ga. to conference. . O'Connor, La. Rayburn Stedman Vinson, Ky. 1\Ir. RANKIN. But the chief difference in the amount of Oldfield Reed, Axk. Stevenson Watkins Oliver, Ala. Romjue Swank Weaver . raise is by reason of the fact that the Senate cut out the Parks, Ark. Rubey 'l'aylM", Colo. Williams, Tex. surcharge on parcels post? . Peery Salmon . Taylor, W. Va. Wilson, La. Mr. GlUEST. No; the 2-cent charge will amount to only P.ou Sanders, Tex. Thomas, Ky. Wingo Quin Sandlin Thomas, Okla. Woodrum $13,600.000 according to the estimate of the department, and Ragon Sears, Fla.. Tillman Wright the difference between the two bills is about $39,000,000 on NAYS-234 the rate schedules. Ackerma Fairchild Lindsay Scott ~Ir. RANKIN. The gentleman's . opinion is that unless we Aldrich n Fairfield Lineberger Sears, Nebr. put those charges back on the parcels post and restore the IAndrew Faust Longworth Seger other postal charges the President will veto the bill? !nthony Fenn Lowrey Shre>e Fish McDuffie Simmons Mr. GRIEST. Oh, no; I do not say that at all. I think B!~~~rach Fisher McFadden Sinclair this bill can be remedied in many of its provisions. Person- Bacon Fleetwood McKenzie Sinnott ally, I am hcpeful that the charge on parcels post will . be ~arbour Frear McLaughlin, Mich.Sltes Freeman McLaughlin, Nebr. Smith modified as it appears in the House bill. B:~:s French McLeod Snell ~Ir. RANKIN. If the gentleman's request is agreed to, I Begg Frothingham McSweeney Snyder wonder if he will give us a chance to vote on concurring in Bell · Fuller MacGregor Speaks Funk illacLatrerty Sproul, Ill. the Senate amendment to leave off the surcharge on parcels ~fa~~~ N.Y. Gallivan l\ladden Stalker post? Black, Tex. Garber Magee, N.Y. Stengle :Mr. GRIEST. In reply I can only say that I do not expect Bloom Geran Magee, Pa. Stephens to be a conferee. Bo.ylan Gibson Mapes Strong, Kans. . . ? Britten Gifford Mead Strong, Pa. The SPEAKER. Is there o bJection Browne, Wis. Glatfelter Merritt Summers, Wash. Mr. BANKHEAD. 1\Ir. Speaker, I withdraw my reservation. Brumm Green Michaelson Swing Griest Michener Swoop~ Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. ~~~!~~s Griffin Miller, Ill. Taber The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. Burton Guyet• Miller, Wat!h. Taylor, Tenn. 1\lr. BLANTON. Is it not in order now to move to concur Butler Hadley Mills Temple Hall Minahan Tbatc.ller in the Senate amendments? To take this bill from the Speak- 8~\ 11 Hardy Montague Thompson er's table anrl concur in the Senate amendments? care~ e Hawley Mooney Tilson The SPEAKER Nothing can be done except by unanimous Celler Hersey Moores, Ind. Timberlake Hickey Morgan Tincher consent. The bill is not before the House except by unanimous g~i~dtbl~ Hill, Md. Morin Tinkham consent. Cl;~~eop erson H1ll, Wash. Morrow Tydings :Mr. BLANTON. Then if this unanimous consent were Clancy Hoch Murphy Underhill Holaday Nelson, Me. Underwood granted would it not _then be in order to move to instruct our 8~~~· b~'r~ Huddleston Newton, Minn. Vaile conferees to concur m the Senate amendments? Colton Hudson Newton, Mo. Va.re The SPEAKER. The House could instruct the confe1'ees. Connally, Tex. Hull, Iowa Nolan Vestal Is there ?bjection? [Af_ter a pause.] The Chair hears none, ~~~~~;'Ohio Hull, Morton D. O'Connell, N, Y. Vincent, Mich. ~aucl 1 1 Wstei.rn~liam . E. O'Connell, R. I. Voigt and appornts the followmg conferees: Mr. PAIGE, Mr. KELLY, cooper, Wis. " 0 o O'Connor, N. X. Wainwright and Mr. BELL. Corning james Oliver, N.Y. Wason Johnson, S.Dak. Paige ·watres Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Speaker, I offer a preferential motion. 8~fs~ton Johnson, Wash. Park, Ga. Wntson I move to instruct the conferees to concur in the Senate amend- Crosser Kearns Perkins Wefald Crowther Keller Perlman Weller ments. Cullen KE'lly Prall Welsh The question was taken·; and on a division (demanded by Dallinger Ketcbam Purnell W e1·tz Mr. BL.Al\"TON) there were-ayes 13, noes 51. Darrow Kiess Quayle White, Kans. Davey King Ita.mseyer White, Me. Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Speaker, I object to tl\e vote and make Davis, ~finn. Knutson Ransley WJlliams, Ill. the point of no quorum. Dempsey Kopp Reece Williams, Mich. Denison Kurtz Reed, N.Y. Williamson The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Texas makes the Dickinson, Iowa Kvale Reed, W.Va. \Vilson, Ind. point of order that there is no quorum present. It is clear Dickstein LaGuardia Reid, Ill. Winter there is no quorum present. Dowell Lampert Richards Woodrull Dyer Larson, Minn. Robinson, Iowa Wyant l\1r. RAMSEYER. Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. Eagan Leach Robsion, Ky. Yates The SPEAKER. It is too late; a point of no quorum has Edmonds Leatherwood Sanders, N. Y. Zihlman been made. Elliott Leavitt Schafer Mr. RAMSEYER. Bat we are going to vote on the amend Evans, Iowa Lehlbach Schneider ment and the Members do not know what the amendment is. NOT VOTING-77 Anderson Foster Luce Sanders, Ind. Mr. BLANTON. To concur in the Senate amendment and Aswell Fredericks McNulty Schall thus pass this postal salary bill in favor of the postai em Barkley Free Manlove Shallenberger ployees, which dates their increase from J"uly 1, 1924. Beedy Fulbright Moore, Ill. Sherwood l\lr. BANKHEAD. Mr. Speaker, I demand the regular order. Berger Garner, Tex. Moore, Ohio Sproul, Kans. Boies Goldsborough Nelson, Wis. Sllllivan 'i'he SPEAKER. It is evident there is no quorum present. Brand, Ohio Graham O'Brien Sumners, Tex. The Doorkeeper will close the doors, the Sergeant at Arms Browne, N. J. Haugen O'Sullivan Sweet will bring in absent Members, and the Clerk will call the roll. Buckley Hooker Parker Tague Byrnes, S.C. Johnson, W.Va. Patterson 'Ireadway The question is on the motion of the gentleman from Texas Clark, Fla. Jost Peavey Ward,N. Y. to instruct the conferees to concur in the Senate amendment Clarke, N.Y. Kendall Phillips Ward, N.C. The question was taken; and there were-yeas 120, nays 2-34, Connolly, Pa. Kent Porter Wilson, Miss. Croll Kerr Rathbone Winslow not voting 77, as follows; Cummings Kindred Roach Wolff Wood [Roll No. 72] &~~fuick ~~:ley l~f~~:: w.a:r~· Wurzbaeb YEAS-1.20 Doyle LPe, Ga. Rosenbloom 'Abernetlly Cannon Garrett, Tex. Kincheloe ~·avrot Lilly Rouse Allen Carter Gasque Lanham Fitzgerald Logan Sabath Allgood Casey Gilb('rt Lankford So the motion to concur was rejected. Almon Cleary Greenwood Larsen, Ga. The Clerk announced the following pairs: Arnold Collier Hammer Lazaro Bankhead Collins T;Iarrison Lea, Calif. Until further notice : Bland Cook Hastings Linthicum Mr. Winslow with Mr. Garner of Texas. Blanton Davis, Tenn. Hawes Lozier Mr. Boie.s with Mr. Hooker. Bowling Deal Hayden Lyon Mr. Connolly of Pennsylvania with Mr. Croll. Box Dickinson, l'llo. Hill, Ala. l\fcCllntlc Mr. Wood with Mr. Jost. Boyce Dough ton Howard, Nebr. McKeown Mr. Free with Mr. Kindred. Brand, Ga. Drane Howard, Okla. McReynolds Mr. Manlove with Mr. Logan. Briggs Drewry Hudspeth McSwain Mr. Patterson with Mr. 'l'ague. Browning Driver Hull, Tenn. Major, Ill. Mr. Treadway with Mr. Buckley. Buchanan Evans, Mont. Humphreys Major, Mo. Mr. Sweet with :Mr. Ronse. Bulwinkle Fulmer jeffers Mansfield Mr. Frede1icks with Mr. Sherwood. Busby Gambrill J"ohnson, Ky. 1\lartin Mr. Beedy with Mr. Barkley. Byrnst Teun_ Gardner, Ind. Johnson, Tex. Milligan Mr. Rogers of Massachusetts with Mr. Aswell. Canfield Garrett, Tenn. jones Moore, Ga. Mr. Curry with Mr. O"Sullivan. - 40_68 CONGRESSION.A.L RECORD-HOUSE FEBRUARY 18 Mr. Sander of Indiana with Mr. Clark of Florida. dency has been obser\ed. The Hou:e is once more cominO' 1\Ir: Kendall with :\Ir. Byrnes of South Carolina. 1\Ir. :\Ioore of Ohio with Mr. Dominick. into its own. [Applau~e.] It has shown that it does not pro~ Mr. Wurzbach with Mr. Kent. pose that another body shalt rewrite the ren~nue bills which llr. Sproul of Kansas with Mr. Sumners of Te::ias. are passed by this House. It has recently ::;bown that body Ut._ Roach with ~Ir. Lee of Georgia. Mr. Ward of l'iew York witJ1 Mr. Rogers of New Hampshire. it will not permit it to do by indirection what it can not do Mr. Anderson with 1\Ir. Browne of New Jersey. directly, and it demonstrated by ~be adoption of there. olution Mr. Brand of Ohio with l\Ir. Sullivan. returning the Po t Office bill to the Senate a. infringing on the Mr. Fitzgerald with ~Ir. Cummings. Mr. Clarke of New York with M r . Johnson of West Virginia. prerogative of the Hou ·e to originate revenue measures that Mr. Graham with :.Ur. O'Brien, the House was determined to maintain its rights. It bas l'e Mr. Luce with ~Ir. Lilly. peat~dly shown in other rer::pects a di..., positiou to uphold, in ~fr. Schall with Mr. Kunz. Mr. Foster with :llr. Doyle. the rnterest of the people, the great priT"ileges which were 1\Ir. Haugen with ~Ir. Shallenberger. conferred upon it. · ~[r. Moore of Illinois with :\Ir. Favrot. Mr. Speaker, the pri\ilege which l-Yere conferred upon this Mr. Parker witll Mr. Wilson of Missis ippi. Mt·. Phillips with Mr. Kerr. House by the Constitution are the birthright of the people of Mr. Rathbone with :llr. Goldsborough. this Nation. [Applause.] We ought to uphold them to the 1\Ir. Porter with :llr. Fulbri.ght. last, anc.l I take this opportunity to commend the lea SEc. 2. That the execution of the project herein and hereby author and architects, and a number of designs were submitted for ized shall be carried out under the general supervision of the Arlington a bridge across the river, starting at the foot of B Street, or the Memorial Bridge Commi sion, in the immediate charge of the executive extension of New York Avenue, across the naval reservation officE'r of the said commission, and that said construction shall be this report was submitted to Congress, but nothing was done until entered upon as speedily as practicable in accordance :with the plans 1913, when again the matter was taken up with Congress, and submitted by the said commission and shall be prosecuted to completion in the public buildings act of l\larch 4, 1913, the following is by contracts or otherwise as may be most economicnl and advantageous provided, section 23 : to the Government and appr(}ved and ordered hy the said commission That a commission is hereby created, to consist: of the President in a total sum not t(} exceed $14,7GO,OOO, which sum is authorized to of the United States, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of tbe be appropriated from any moneys available or tbat may become avail House of Representatives, and the chairman of the Committees on able in the Treasury of the United States. Public Buildings and Grounds of the Senate and House of Represent· SEC. 3. That tlle saiU executive officer of the said Arlington Memorial atives, for the purpose of investigating and reporting to Congress Bridge Commission is hereby authorized, with the approml of the a suitable design for a memorial bridge across the Potomac River, said commission, to employ the services of such engineers, architects, from the city of Washington, to a point at or near the Arlington sculptors, artists, and other persoiJnel as shall be determined to be estate in the State of Virginia, and the said commi ·sion is hereby au necessary without reference to civil-service requirement!l and at rates thorized t(} expend the sum of $25,000 in procuring such designs and of pay autlwrized by said commission: Pro·rHrled, That such officers of for making such surveys and estimates of cost as they may deem ·the United States Corps of Engineers as may be considered necessary advisable, and report as early as may be to Congress. by said commissi(}u may be detailed by the President on this work for such periods as the commission may require. Although the above-mentioned act of 1913, creating the Ar SEC. 4. That the said Arlington Memorial Bridge Commi~sion is lington Memorial Bridge Commission, authorized the expendi hereby authorized to occupy such Government-owned lauds as may be ture of $25,000 for the purpose of investigation and report necessary for the bridge project authorized hPrein and on completion of ing to Congress a suitable design for a memorial bridge across the project to transfer· to the park system under the Chief of Engineers, the Potomac River, it was not until nine years later that an Unito:d States Army, all or such portions of such lands as the said appropriation was made in the executiT"e and independent commission may in its discretion decide to be nE>cessary. offices appropriation act, approved Jtme 12, 1922, reading as . SEc. 5. That the said Arlington Memorial Bridge Commif'siou is follows: hereby authorized to procure by purchase, in the open market or other To enable the commission created by section 23 of the public wise, as may be most advisa.ble, or by condemnation, such privately buildings act approved March 4, 1913, to investigate and report to owned lands as muy be necessary for approaches on the Virginia shore Congress a suitable design for a memorial bridge across the Potomac :md to allow B Street ~W., Wa:"hiugton, D. C., to be opened up from River, from the city of Washington, to a point at or near the Ar the Capitol to the Potomac River in accordance with the said plans (}f lington estate, in the State of Virginia, together with such surveys the said commission: Pro,;itlecl, That any condemnation carried out and estimates of cost as they may deem advisable, to be expended under this act shall be in accordance with the pro\isions of the act of under the direction of the commission and to remain a\ailable until Congress, approved August 30, 1890, providing for a site for the expended, $25,000. enlargement of the Government Printing Ofiice. This appropriation of $25,000 was to enable the Memorial SEC. 6. That the project herein authorized may be prosecuted by Bridge Commission authorized by Congress to prepare the dirE:;ct appropriations or by continuing contracts, or by both direct plans and specifications and bring them back to Congress for appropriations and continuing contracts: P1·ovided, That the expendi· its consideration. The commission has brought back their tures in any year shall not exceed the amounts for the corresponding plans and their recommendations and they are before you year as shown in the 10-year program of expenditures and construction to-day. I understand there has been spent on various plans contained in the report of the said commission. for this bridge at various times in the neighborhood of $50,000. SEC. 7. That said commission sllall annually submit to Congress, 1\ir. BLANTON. Will the gentleman yield there? through the Bureau of the Budget, a statement of sums of money pre Mr. ELLIOTT. Yes. viously expended and au estimate of the total sum of money necessary Mr. BLAN'l'ON. Is the gentleman prepared to state that to be expended in the next succeeding year to carry on the worl~ fully half of that sum has not been wasted? authorized by this act. Mr. ELLIOTT. I am not ta1king about that. I am trying to give this House an insight into the facts as I understand Mr. ELLIOTT. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to them. revise and extend my remarks. As I have said, the commission bas its report before you. 'l'he CHAIR~IAN. Is there objection? The commission is composed of Calvin Coolidge, President of There was no objection. the United States; the President of the Senate, our honored Mr. ELLIOTT. l\Ir. Chairman and gentlemen of the com Speaker, and the chairmen of the Committees on Public mittee, about 00 years ago a great President of. the "Gnited Buildings and Grounds of the House and of the Senate. States, Andrew Jackson, conceived the idea that there should They have brought the plans back and their recommenda· be built across the Potomac River between the District of tion is that the memorial bridge proper will cost $7,250,000; Columbia and the State of Virginia a bridge of ever-enduring bridge plaza and water gate, $1,000,000; Columbia Island, granite as an emblem of the union of the North and the South. $2,880,000; parkway and memorial entrance to cemetery, [Applause.] Since that time the question has been a burning $1,390,000; extension of B Street eastward to the Capitol and one in the affairs of our Nation. widening to 120 feet, $2,070,000; widening Twenty-third Street On the 4th day of July, 1851, Daniel Webster in making a from Washington Circle to B Street, $160,000. Fourth of July speech in this city said: As to the Columbia Island project, the Bridge will start Before us is the broad and beautiful river, separating two of the at the Lincoln l\lemorial and go across the river in line with original thirteen States, which the late President, a man of determined the Sheridan entrance to Arlington memorial. The west end purpose and inflexible will, but patriotic heart, desires to span of the bridge will be on Columbia Island. This island has witb arches of ever.encluring granite, symbolical of the firmly estab about 172 acres of land in it, and it is-a part of this plan lished Union of the Korth and the South . . That President was Andrew after this bridge is built to put a sea wall around the island Jackson. and to dredge the river and make another park such as we now have down in the vicinity of the Lincoln Memorial. That Since that time the question of constructing a great memo is also made ground. Then there is to be another bridge rial bridge across the Potomac to symbolize the Union of the from Columbia Island going across Little River. That is a States, the more perfect Union of the States, has been under small arm of the Potomac River that goe around on the con~ideration, and on several occasions Congress has passed west side of this island. When this is completed it will make laws authorizing the presentation of plans for this purpose. a parkway from the northeast corner of the Capitol grounds, On a number of other occasions Congress has, either tile House down along the Mall, across tile rin~r and into Arlington or the Senate, paRsed resolutions directing various investiga that is you can go fi'om the Capitol into Arlington without tions connected with this project. The most complete previous going outside of the park. effort to start construction on this bridge was made in 1901. Here is another proposition that is connected with this, and In 1901, under the sundry civil act of Congress, appro\ed that is the widening and extension of B Street. That runs March 4, 1899, it was provided that design should be secured along on the south side of Center 1\Iarket. It comes east to for a memorial bridge at Washlngton, as follows, " a memo Sixth Str~:>et and there it stops. The object of this widening rial bridge across the Potomac River, to enable the Chief of and extension is to take out that block occupied l>y the St. Engineers of the Army to continue an examination of the sub James Hotel on t.be south side of the street, and then the block ject," and in accordance with that authorization a competition on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue east of the Ford was held which was participated in by a number of engineers Building, and so when this matter goes through it will obliter.~ 4070 CON GR.ESSION AL R:fJCORD-HOUSE FEBRUARY 18 ate two blocks of buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue, one on which force themselves upon our attention in a very practical the north side and one on the south side. way. It will take $160,000 of this money to widen and rebuild Since the close of the World War, we have launched in this Twenty-third Street from Washington Circle south to the country on a postwar campaign against extravagance. We point where it strikes B Street, north of the IJincoln Memorial. have had very eminent leadership in this crusade. Admonished They have recommended that this be divided up into a 10- on all sides to be sparing in our expenditures, we have taken year program. The first year $500,000 is all that would be from our banner for a time that splendid word " Excelsior " appropriated. This amount would enable the commission to and have substituted "Economy" in its stead. We have en organize and get ready for the building. The second year tered as patriotic recruits in the ranks for this service. We $2,500,000 for work on the river piers, and the third yea~ have fought and won haTd engagements with the inspiration .$2,GOO,OOO for work on the river piers, and then the $2,GOO,OOO of that slogan, "Save till it hurts." We have sacrificed neces for work on the arches. Then $2,000,000 more for the fifth sary construction in the States. We have contented ourselve year, and that is supposed to get the bridge in condition so with <;haracter building. 1Ve have been taught to hold in abey that it can be used. The last $5,000,000 is to be $1,000,000 ance for the present our desires for Federal structures and to .a year until it is completed, and the most of it is in parking concentrate our building endeavors upon a contemplation of and the treatment of Columbia Island. those familiar lines of Holmes in The Chambered Nautilus~ 1Tow, this bridge proposition has been indorsed by the fol- lowing Presidenti!: Andrew Jackson, William Howard Taft Build thee more stately mansions, 0 my soul! signed the public building bill of 1913, Woodrow Wilson in- In this stern warfare for economy we have come hopefully dorsed the proposition, William McKinley also indorsed it, to-day to the fight at the bridge, but in this memorable battle, Warren G. Harding indorsed it, and the present President, wllere, oh where, my friends, is the valiant Horatius? [Laugh Calvin Coolidge, has indorsed it, and his recommendation is ter and applause.] Surely we faithful followers might have on file over his signature, recommending the passage of this expected to :find him keeping his appointment here. "How are bill. the mighty fallen! Perished are the weapons of the great!" When this bridge is completed it will be an outlet for the Our campaign for economy is lagging because of the absence traffic to the south and southwest of the city of 'Vashington. of Horatius at this critical point. It seems to me that to-day The great Lee Highway, which is proposed as a continental there is afforded a splendid opportunity to follow up onr highway, running fl.'om Boston, Mass., to San Francisco, will preaching with the genial conviction of example. [Applause.] pass over this bridge. In addition to that the highway lead- The statement has been attributed to Hancock that the tariff ing to :Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, and is a local issue. We seem to be learning lately that economy -south to Richmond, Va., and all points of the South, the traffic is a local issue, too. . It is intended to be exercised in all will pass over this bridge. localities in the 48 State~. but it has no application whatever Another thing I want to call attention to is that in 1932 to the District of Columbia. The keepers of these sacred pre we will celebrate the two hundredth birthday of George Wash- cincts say, "Open sesame," and tpe Treasury pours forth its ington, the first President of the United States. I understand gold. that a bill ·has already been reported to make preliminary I cnn not recall that I have heard of any proposition sug- arrangements for this centennial. gesting lavif.;h expenditures of public funds in the District of Mr. MOORE of Vh·ginia. That bill has been passed and Columbia tbat bas not been declared to be entirely in keeping signed by the President. with the program of economy that has been prepared. And so Mr. ELLIOTT. I thank the gentleman. If that centennial to-clay we are told that the Treasury has $15,000,000 in its takes place there is one place around this city tliat is appro- inside pocket that may be laudably used for a bridge in the priate to hold it, and that is the Government land at the Vir- District. And the North and the South will certainly be ginia side of this bridge. The Government has 1,~2 acres of joined in one re;:;pect-together they will furnish all the money. land over there in various places, which will make a magnifi- 'Ye are asked to tell the people we represent that they must cent spot for the holding of this great celebration. If you do deny themselves tangible evidences of Federal e ·teem as mani hold that celebration this bridge should be ready for use at fested ill public buildings and console their minds and <·ou that time, and can be ready if we pass this bill to-day. Event- sciences with the comforting thought that they are promoting ually this bridge is going to be constructed; why not now? economy, but that the District of Columbia has not attained Now is the time and this is the place. [Applause.] that high mental attitude in which it can be satisfied with l\fr. ZIHLMAN. How much does this bill appropriate dur- other than material demonstrations of national regard. ing the present fiscal year? 1\Ir. BLANTON. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield? Mr. ELLIO'l'T. It authorizes the first year an appropriation l\lr. LAJ\THAM. Yes. of $500,000. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. BLANTON. Outside of its governmental activities the Mr. LANHAM. I trust that, like all patriotic Americans, I taxpayers of the Government have already expended here for have a proper pride in the Nation's capital, but I trust also cine improvement '190,000,000. that I have a proper regard for the welfare of those who live Mr. LANHAM. I thank the gentleman for this statement in the 48 States of the Union and whose activities make the of the aggregate amount. That sum would probably be sum Capital possible. [Applause.] We are presented to-day a cient to do the necessary building throughout the country, but measure that provides for the construction of a bridge in the the country, it seems, must continue its practice of economy. District of Columbia to cost approximately $15,000,000, and we We read in the Scriptures that a little leaven will leaven the are told that it will fittingly represent the joining of the North whole lump, but when we apply this principle to the matter and the Sout:h. I think I am quite as responsive to sentiment of economy in our administration, the whole' lump, the 48 as a citizen and legislator should be, but I feel that this States of the Union, are expected to furnish all of the leaven observation about the union of the sections is merely thrown in and it is to be used almost exclusively here in the District. If for good measure. Surely the real reunion of the North and I recall the incident correctly, the brethren of Joseph found the South has been more beautifully accomplished and typified some cause to fall out with him because of his coat of many in the fighting, side by side, on the battle fields of the Spanish- colors. Is it not barely possible that if we continue to bedeck American War and tlle late wol'ld confiict of the sons of those and array the District exclusively with these various vest who wore the blue and the gray, than could be hoped for in ments of our financial bounty the 48 ~tates · in their tllread any bridge we might now authorize. [Applause.] They have bare garments may come to be a trifle jealous themselves? If mingled their blood in the sacred cause of our country, and it be expedient that we practice economy, should there not be there seems to be no urgent present necessity after that sacri- some show of consisteucy? Should we make fish of one part .fi.ce to spend $15,000,000 merely to indicate that the North of the country and flesh of another? and South are reunited. I call your attention to the further fact that this bridge is It is a pleasant prospect, of course, to peer into the future to be built entirely within the District of Colurubia, and yet, and see the capital in the years to come with its magnificent according to the terms of this mea ·ure, there is absolutely no edifices and its splendid bridges. It is alluring to fancy that provision with reference to the usual 40-60 per cent in the each structure will rival the poet's vision of the princely source of the funds. The entire contribution is to be made by palace of Kubla.i Khan, but I like to keep also within the scope those economists in the 48 States and solely from their own of my vision the practical problems which confront the people pockets. of this Nation and to help frame our legislation in keeping A few days ago the House passed a public building bill pro therewith. I realize that a bridge may have for us a special viding for the expenditure of $150,000,000. It was understood appeal by reason of the fact that in o-ur legislative deliberations that at least $50,000,000, one-third of this sum, was to be we have to span so often the chasm of conflicting thoughts and J expencled in the District of Columbia, but for fear .the District 9pinions, but there are other considerations also, gentlemen, of Columbia might be restlicted to just one-third of the appro- ·1925 . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 407f priation authorized no words of limitation were inserted. Hav Mr. ELLIOTT. I yield the gentleman two additional min ing turned over our functions in the same measure to adminis utes. trative branches of the Government, it is possible that the entire l\Ir. l\IONT.AGUE. Virginia has no control of this bridge; $150,000,000 could be spent here, but it is made sure that it is wholly a Federal undertaking, but Virginia will con $50,000,000 must be. To-clay we have the proposal to add tribute from taxation in proportion to her population and $15,000,000 more. That makes $65,000,000 in these two bills property just as any other State of the Union. that will be devoted to construction in the District of Columbia, One further remark : The House should not be misled by the in addition to the other liberal appropriations that hR\e been assertion that this bridge will cost $15,000,000. The bridge alluded to, and yet they preach to us that this is a very proper itself is only a part of the scheme involving this sum. I under observance of the doctrine of economy and well within the stand, subject to correction by the gentleman from Indiana, limits of the contemplated program. I should like to see all that the bridge itself will not cost $8,000,000. The remaining proper building done in the Nation's Capital, but I should like sum goes to improvements in and about the District in eonnec also to see all proper building done in this cou:Qtry. [Applause.] tion ~rith the bridge, improving streets and approaches to the Surely all the self-denial should not be exhibited by the good bridge. 1Ve have been pretty niggardly, in my judgment, in our people whom we have the honor to represent. Ancl so, as a effort to complete the Capitol we now sit under. I addressed faithful recruit in the army of economy, I feel that I am preseP.t myself on a former occasion to that subject. I have introduced at my post of duty to-day and that, however irksome the task a bill for some years on this subject, and I hope to address may be, true to my convictions as a soldier enlisted in these myself to the subject again in the next Congress. But the mat 1·anks, it is not incumbent upon me to add $15,000,000 more for ter under consideration is a matter of practical necessity, the the District of Columbia to. be taken out of the savings Gf the needs of commerce, of outgoing and incoming traffic. These people. If for the present we must make sacrifices in the name demands can not be met by the present bridges across the of economy, why not make those sacrifices unanimous? In a Potomac, and while we are about it, while meeting the needs of spirit of consistency, perhaps, in the words of the old song, commerce an~ of S_?cial and public conveniences, why can we "we'd better bide a wee." [Applause.] not reach a little higher and satisfy the educational, the patri· l\Ir. Chairman, I reserve the remainder of my time. otic, the traditional aspirations of a great Republic. [Ap Mr. ELLIOTT. Mr. Chairman, I yield five minutes to the plause.] gentleman from Yirginia [Mr. MoNTAGUE]. [Applause.] l\Ir. LANHAM. 'Mr. Chairman, I yield five minutes to the Mr. MONTAGUE. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the com gentleman from Tennessee [l\fr. Bn~s]. [Applause.] mittee, I submit this bill is supported by valid considerations. Mr. BYRNS of Tennessee. l\Ir. Chairman, from the vote It is not supported alone by ~eason of its memorial character, on the question of the consideration of this bill I assume it as worthy as that may be. It rests also upon considerations is going to pass, but I wish to register my protest against of utility antl practical necessity. Washington has no ade what I believe to be an unnecessary expenditure of the public quate outlet to the south or west for her incoming and out funds at this time. I am unable to harmonize the passage of going people. It is essential that this increasing traffic be a bill authorizing the expenditure of $15,000,000 for the pur properly cared for. You can have no memorial exercises at poses provided in this bill with the program of economy of Arlington across the Potomac, such, for example, as was had the President and his repeated declarations to the people of on the occasion of the dedication of the monument to the his intention to cut down the expenses of the Government. .A unknown soldier, without great inconvenience and sometimes few weeks ago be delivered an address in the auditorium of injury to the people by reason of the congestion on every this city to the employees of the Government at one of their bridge across the Potomac. Our country is growing. Our regular business meetings, and in the course of that address Capital is growing. We have a great river-perhaps no other he said: capital in the world bas one comparable to it. We should not The people of this Nation have been not only patient under the neglect to span that river not only for the uses of commerce heavy burden of war taxation, they haye been heroic. Their burden but while .so spann~ng it why should not its architecture and of taxation bas been greatly lightened, but our fight must be fot• art memorialize our nourishing traditions, typify our power, further reduction of the burden of the people. This campaign for and the peace and the glory of the Republic? [Applause.] economy bas no othe1· object. So far as it is within my power I There is economy, it is true, that should be preserved. 'Ve propose to continue my efforts for economy in Federal expenditures. haYe, I think, a Horatius at the bridge, and I would ask my What we have done must be considered only the beginnnig. delightful and valued friend from Texas not to play that role ~ROES FURTHER REDUCTIONS to-day but to heed the real Horatius, the President of the United States, who valiantly advocates its consti·uction. [Ap We have proyen that we can reduce the cost of government, uud plause.] The "economy" which the gentleman from Texas propose that this cost shall be fm·ther reduced. In this effort I would substitute for "excelsior " is countered by the Presi look to you for loyal support. When you leave this meeting to-night dent, who himself has given to this enterpri ·e his official and .carry with you a pledge to bend every effort to carry on your activi personal approval. Tb:s undertaking has been under consid ties with less money. 'l'ake with you the determination to guard eration for many years, as has been so well stated by the gen against each and e\ery unnecessat·y expenditure. tleman from Indiana. Gentlemen, I lay it down as a proposition, that if you "'-ill I have never believed that Congress should exercise a nig read the bearing::; conducted by the Committee on Public gardly policy toward the District of Columbia. I have never Buildings and Grounds upon this bill, consisting of the state felt that the people in the 48 Sta1 · ~s of the Union llad anything ment of Colonel Sherrill and one or two other gentlemen, you else in their hearts but pride and appreciation in the expendi will not find a line in those bearings to conYince any Member ture of all money necessary to make this Capital a great edu of Congress, as I read them, that the erection and construc cational and patriotic establishment. I repeat, an educational tion of this bridge is ne(:essary at this time as a public con structure that will not only meet the necessities and con venience or utility. So I say I am unable to harmonize ~rhat veniences of goyernment, but one that will satisfy tile long is said a bout the recommendation of the President for this ings of a great democracy for the beauty of architecture and e~-penditure with his declaration of a few weeks ago when he the inspiration of art. A democracy, gentleman, is as much appealed to employees, when he broadcasted to the people of entitled to the advantages of architecture, to the ennobling this country the necessity of cutting out all unnecessary ex expressions of art, as a monarchy ; and the people of America, penses. in my judgment, will gladly support these enduring expressions Why, the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. ELLIOTT] quoted of art and patriotism and historic tradition in our Capital. Andrew Jackson as being in fa\or of this proposition. The l\lr. McKEOWN. 'Viii the gentleman yield? only evidence of that is not the declaration of Old Hickory, Ur. MONTAGUE. For one question. but an eloquent statement made by Daniel Webster in a speech l\lr. l\lcKEOWN. Does the gentleman's State of \irginia which be made many years ago. The gentleman from Indiana contribute anything to this memorial bridge? said that President Taft was for it, and that President Mc Mr. MONTAGUE. I think not, except by taxation, as other Kinley, President ·woodrow ·wilson, and President Harding States. were for it, and that President Coolidge is for it. Gentle· :Mr. ALMON. The same as any other State. men, nearly 90' rears ago, according to the gentleman from l\Ir. l\iONTAGUE. Virginia contributes as much propor Indiana, a great President advocated the building of this tionately as any other State. The gentleman perhaps forgets bridge. Is it not a little significant that during all those years that Virginia does not own the land where this bridge abuts there has been no serious effort or attempt on the part of on either side of the Potomac; all of this is Government Congress to construct this bridge, but on the contrary it has }Jroperty. waited until this time, when the people are burdened with The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman has expired. taxes more than they ever were in all the history of the cotm· 4072 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE FEBRUARY 18 · try in_ peace. time, to bring, forward a proposition for, the The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from M.ichigau is recog expenditure of $15;000,000 to construct a bridge across the nized. for five minutes. Potomac River? Mv. CRAMTON. Mr. Chairman, as a member of the Com~ The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Tennes- mittee on Appropriations, for several years sitting at the feet see has expired. of the gentleman from Illino:Ls [Mr. MADDEN] and the gentle Mr. BYRNS of Tennessee. May I. have five minutes more'l man from Tenne see [Mr. BYRNs], who has just spoken I Mr. LANHAM:. I yield to the gentleman five minutes more. think I have been as consistent an advocate of economy' in The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from . Tennessee is recog- Government expenditures as any of us. nized for five minutes more. The pending proposition is one thatr appeals to the imagina lli. BYRNS of Tennes ee. It ls to be passed with the ap tion. This projeet has been conceived and worked out in a proval of the President, whose chief basis of strength with large way, and however a.ny of us may feel with reference to the people of this country is 3Jl appeal for economy and for a the propriety of the e.xpendi:tu.re we must recognize the beauty reduction of the expenditures of the National Government. of the project. • Mr. McKEOWN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield? I am frank to say that I have been under the impression Mr. BYRJ..""q"S of Tennessee. For a.. very brief question I will that I could not support the bill, although I had hoped that yield. the way would open so that I could support so great an under 1\Ir. McKEOWN... Does. not the gentleman at least think this taking; an undertaking which you know and I know some ought to go over until the new Congress comes in? time will be brough-t about. 1\lr. BYRN.S of Tennessee. Undoubtedly. A few weeks ago I stood hexe. advocating. the expenditure of two or three hun There have been three things in the bill that have seemed to me absta.eles to its favorable considel'ation, and in tabloid dred thousand dollars additional for the Bureau of Foreign form_I wa!lt to refer to them. Fir t, the cost, and the possible and Domestic. Commerce, because I was satisfied and I think conflict wtth our ·program of economy and with respect to Congress was satisfied. that that money would be well spent present burdens. on the Treasury. and would· be a. revenue producer, b.ringing in untold millions to the business and agricultural interests of our country. Those But when you come to consider that this is a 10-year con who opposed it did so on the ground of economy and the neces struction program the burden upon any one year is not large sity of reducing the expenses, of the G<>vern:ment. Eloq_uent enough to permit that one consideration to be· of controllinoo appeals were made for the overburdened taxpayer. But here impartance. I have felt that too much authority was givet~ you are asked to vote an authorization of an expenditure of the commission w?-~ reference to the development of- parks, :ji15,000,000. Four per cent interest would' amount annually but Cblonel Sherrill assures me that there is not included in to twice the sum that Congress was asked to appropriate for the pr,ogram any park dev~lopment except that immediately the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and denied. necessary in connection with the bridge construction. I am wondering what the attitude of gentlemen will be with The third item that I consider of great importance is the one referred to b.y tbe gentleman from Texas [Mr. L.ANH.AM]' reference to. this nonrevenue-producing and unneeessary ap~ propria.tion. Gentlemen, there must be a limit to the ex and the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. BYRl...,S], namely, the penditures of the Government. There must be a limit tu the ' fa-ilure of the bill to· make any· provision whatever fo1· District appropriations. that we. are heaping upon the heads and shoul contribution witfi. reference to this d~vel~pment of streets and {lers of tfie tax-paying people of this eountry. I want to see approaches in the Di-strict, and other items more especially Washington improv;ed, but I tell you, my friends, in this grean for the benefit of the District. Added to that is the failure city in. which you and I take. pride, and which is· taxed. only of the bill to make any provision by which! abutting property 14 milTs on the dollar, or $1.40 on the hundred, it seems to me owners upon those improved streets and approaches would be that upon a project to construct a bridge across the Potomac called upon or could be ealled upon to make any contribution River and wholly wfthin the- District of Columbia and involv ' t<~wa;rd the benefits they will enjoy. ing money to be el..'l)ended on improving str:eets and ap l r have prepared an amendment to r:eacll that third consid proaches, the committee should at least have proposed that the : eration which, to me, h-as seemed the one of most importance. That amendment I shall read to you, and I expect to offer it District sh-are· in that expenditure, especially when the people 1 of my State and yom·s, in addition to their Federal taxes, are when tile proper place is reached in the bill, at the end o:t: payfng- two or three tfmes more in the way of State and rriunic. section 2. Although J. do not desire to commit the gentleman,. ipal taxes· than are the people of the District of Columbia. : l' understand' that the amendment is agreeable to the chairman I say, my friends, that while I want to see this city improved . of the committee, the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. ELLIOTT]'. and beautified, and wh-ile I take· great pride in it, l am think r am advised· by Colonel Sherrill that i:t is agreeable to him, ing of the- pe.ople back ho-me wJ10 have to meet these expendi~ an€1 I a:m advised by certain very distingui-shed local citizens tures from year to yeM. I take the ground that· this is an who are much interested in the project that it is agreeable to unnece~a:.uy expenditure, at this time, and that Congress should'. them~ The amendment is : not pe1.:mit itself to be persuaded to vote for something that is Provided, That such appropriations as may be made under the unnecessary. -authority of thiH act for the execution of said pro:led shall be charge-· l\Ir. BLANTON. M.r. Chairman, will the gentleman yield? able to the Treasury of the United States and the· revenues of the Mr. BYRNS of Tennest:ee. Yes. District of Columbia in such manner as shall then be· determined by 1\Ir. BLANTON. If we pass this bill, iru tead of its- costing Co..ngress to be equitable : P1·ovi When the Connecticut Avenue Bridge was b-uilt, at a cost Mr. Wilson was for it or when 1\Ir. Coolidge signed the report of more than $1,000,000 ; when the bridge across Piney Branch, whi.ch is before us. There is thus suggested the material on Sixteenth Street, was built, and when the bridge on M feature of the matter, and that is that between thi~ great Street, across Rock Creek, was built, all being in the District Capital City and the great shrine at Arlington there should be of Columbia, the District of Columbia participated in the proper and sufficient means of approach. payment of each of them ; but now comes the proposition to When we come to consider the matter of eridge, which the construction of the bridge. Mr. Coolidge does not falter is going to cost more than $20,000,000 before it is finished any more upon that than his predecessors have faltered upon it. why, I ask, should they be taxed to build this bridge and Economy is all right. permit the immediate beneficiaries of it to escape any payment Mr. McSWAIN. Will the gentleman yield? whatever .toward its construction? ~1r. MOORE of Virginia. I regret I can not yield. I only They say the bridge is needed now. There is only one de have .five minutes. mand for the bridge at this particular time, and that is that Economy is a good cry, but nobody says that economy should those persons who have bought property at the other end of go to the point of suspending desirable appropriations altogether, the proposed bridge, in which to speculate, have had their and least of all will gentlemen claim that economy should money invested, as they think, long eno-ugh, and Congress is be carried to the extent of not doing the things that are asked to come to their relief now in order that they may necessary in the interest of the Nation, which desires not only realize quickly on their speculation in those lands and make to add to its accumulations but to perpetuate its splendid the people of the United States pay the cost and let the people memories. There is the other aspect. The bridge will be a within the District of Columbia go scot free of any payment memorial. It will be no less a memorial than the Washington toward it. Monument or the wonderful temple dedicated to the memory An amendment has been -drafted providing that under the of Lincoln. It will typify the reunion of the two sections law which is now in existence the United States shall pay 40 which were once divided by the Potomac. It will commemorate per cent of the cost of this bridge and the District of Columbia the fame of great men of both sections. In this sense it bas 60 per cent. I did not know, until the gentleman from Michi the same justification as the monument to Washington, the gan [Mr. CRAMTON] took the fi.oor, that he had an amendment monument to Lincoln, and the monument to Grant. which he was going to offer. But bear in mind another thing. The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman f1·om Virginia The people of the United States are asked to pay the entire has expired. cost of this bridge, and then, as one of the gentlemen from Vir Mr. EJLLIOTT. 1\lr. Chairman, I yield five minutes to the ginia said to me only a few moments ago, " This bridge is to be gentleman from Alabama [Mr. ALMoN], a member of the com built on lands owned by the Government." I said to him, mittee. " That is much more the reason why the people of the District Mr. ALMON. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, we have a great of Columbia should come in and pay something toward its -cost, Nation, a young Nation, but one of the wealthiest Nations in because the United States is asked to give nat only all of the the world. In some respects we have a beautiful capital, in money but all of the land upon which it is to be built!' There others we have not. I sometimes feel ashamed of some of the fore, I think, Mr. Chairman, that before this bill is passed conditions and appearances around and about our National there ought to be some provision to compel or pe:rmit the people Capital. of the District to contribute toward its cost. The people here However, I want tO.- say that this improvement is not a local are escaping with a tax rate of only one-fourth or one-fifth the one. This is a national question and is nation-wide in its rate paid in many of the cities of gentlemen who sit before me benefits. It is not; for the District of Columbia and the State now. The people here are now paying $1.40, when I see a of Virginia-Washingt~n is the capital of the Nation and be~ gentleman before me whose city levies six and one-half times longs to the people of the Nation. · that much upon the property within its confines. We are living in a progressive age. We are a progressive :Mr. BLANTON. Will the gentleman yield? people, and the fact that this bridge has been talked about for Mr. JOHNSON of Kentueky. I will. more than 75 years and has not been built is no reason why l\Ir. BLANTON. Just across this river, at the other end of we should not discharge our duty here to-day. It is a reason this bridge, lies the great Commonwealth of Virginia, whose why we should. Gentlemen talk about the expense of it, and people will come across this bridge into the District every day, most of the arguments I have heard here this afternoon and yet not one cent wiU they contribute toward the construc against the bill are criticisms of the program of economy of tion of this bridge. the present Republican administration. If the administration :Mr. JOHNSON of Kentucky. In addition to that, they decides-and it has decided-that this is in line with its pro already have a good bridge upon which to cross. This thing gram of economy, why should we on this, the Democratic, side of connecting the names of Lincoln and Lee to this project is of the aisle be howling so much about it? Every southern merely to conjure up votes for it. Its promoters are moved Member should feel a special interest and pride in the building by mercenary motives, not by sentiment. In fact, the most of this bridge, which is a part and an important connecting fertile imagination can not connect real sentiment with it, link in the Lee Highway, going through the very heart of the even by the use of the names of Lincoln and Lee. South. In conclusion, let me ask the Members to bear in mind that I am in favor of this bill as it is written and as it has been the direct beneficiaries of this bridge, under this bill, are to reported. I would like to see the amendment that is going to escape paying any part of its cost. [Applause.] be offered by the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. CRA:uTo~] The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Ken- adopted because I think it is right. I shall vote for that tucky has expired. • amendment, but if the amendment is voted down I shall vote Mr. ELLIOTT. Mr. Chairman, I yield five minutes to the for the bill as it stands. gentleman from Virginia [Mr. MooRE]. l\Iy friend, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. BLANTON], tries 1\Ir. ~ IOORE of Virginia. 1\fr. Chairman and gentlemen of to scare somebody by saying it will cost $25,000,000 before it is the committee, it is only repetition to say that this proposition completed. What does the gentleman know about what it will has two aspects; in the fi1·st place, what may be termed the cost? We have here the report signed by the engineers and rna terial aspe~t. by the President of the United States and the Speaker of the The time arrives and arrives more and more frequently when House and the chairmen of the Committees on Public Buildings there is extraordinary travel between the city of Washington and Grounds of the Senate and House, showing what it will and the Arlington Cemetery, which can not be accommodated cost. by the present facilities. The ordinary travel between the Mr. BLANTON. Will the gentleman yield? State of Virginia and Washington can be accommodated by the Mr. ALMON. No; I have not the time. The gentleman existing facilities; but when there are great celebrations in talks 40 llours while I talk a minute in each session of Con the National Cemetery that is impossible, as has been illus. gress. [Laughter and applause.] trated on many former occasions. Unless this bridge is built, Mr. BLANTON. For the benefit of the people. it will frequently happen that the people of the country will Mr. ALMON. I am not criticizing what the gentleman says, come to 'Vashington desiring to visit the Arlington Cemetery upon because he always has something to say when he speaks, but I memorial occasions and will be unable to find safe access to it. have only five minutes and can not let him have a part of it. Therefore the necessity for the construction of the bridge is That is my .only reason for declining to yield to him. much greater now than when 1\ir. Webster spoke his eloquent The engineers have been investigating this project foy 10 words or when 1.\.ir. McKinley advocated this bridge or when years and we have their report saying it will cost $14.750,000, CONGRESSIONAIJ RECORD-HOTISE FEBRUARY 18 and only $7,000,000 of that is for the construction of the bridge. in my admiration for and devotion to the memory of the The balance is for the widening and improvement of streets soldiers of the Ci"\'il War. I am the product of what was left and the approaches, and a wide street and driveway to the from both sides of the war after it was finished, and cer Capitol, and I think the District of Columbia should be re tainly my whole heart of sympathy goes out toward. any quired to pay its proper part of the cost. The total project movement to honor their memory; but this bridge does not will cost tile Government much less than $14,000,000 if the seem to me to be a ctean thing, and I do not believe that I amendment I have referred to ·is adopted, and this will be could feel right in my own eyes if I shoul<.l vote for that which spread over a period of five years. I regard as unclean, in ordeJ:> to perpetuate and honor a clean This is an age of automobiles and building of good roads memory. and bridges. Gentlemen talk about extravagance. Our States, I do not know who these men were that the man named at counties, and cities are spending millions and millions of dol the hotel. He gave the names of but two. I do not know who lars every year in building good. roads and streets and side they are, but if I had the prowess of ·word archtecture pos walks and consider it a good investment. You gentlemen did sessed by Parke Godwin, then I would paint a word picture not call extravagant the bill which we passed at this session of those four men who are now ~o eager to aug~ent their appropriating $75,000,000 to aid the States and the counties own bank accounts by promoting a wicked scheme in alleged build good roads back at home. effort to perpetuate a sacred memory. And the word picture We ought to build this bridge and open up this great high-: would say of these four : way and let the people from the South go to the North " Oh, what a quartet they are! Smart rascals and sleek and the people from the North go to the South, and servants; hand in hand in every plot to filch a nation or to have a decent and comfortable and safe way to get across foul a blessed memory ; back to back to spit on truth and honor this miserably dangerous place on this river. All of you who and defy the law's stern call. It is meet that while they live went to the burial of the unknown soldier will recall the experi they should be joined in every walk and work in life, and ences we had that day in trying to get across that old bridge. when they die placed side by side in putrid, poisoned state, Delayed for hours-men, women, and children were delayed too rank for jackals, too noxious for the worm." for hours, and many were forced to leave their vehicles and The CHAIRMAN. The time of · the gentleman from Ne walk home. There are now ten times as many automobiles here braska has expired. as there were 5 years ago, and 10 years from now there will Mr. LANH...:V.f. I yield to the gentleman two minutes more. be fifty times as many more. Mr. HO,VARD of Nebraska. I think I can finish in that Mr.. McKEOWN. Will the gentlemen yield? time. Now, gentlemen, there are two arguments in favor of l\fr. ALMON. I know what you want to say. I will not the passage of this bill, and only two, which appeal to me. say what kind of talk you are going to make, but you are One is the beautiful character of the gentleman from Indiana against this bill, and you ought to be for it, ToM. The bill is [Mr. ELLIOTT], in charge of the bill, and the other my delight going to pass, and some day you are going to be proud of this ful companion from Virginia [!fr. MooRE], who so eloquently bridge and will live to regret the day you voted here against espoused this outrage. [Laughter and applause.] this bill. [Applause.] ARLI~GTON MEMORIAL BRIDGE The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Alabama has expired. Mr. LANHAM. Mr. Chairman, I yield 10 minutes to the Mr. LANHAM. Mr. Chairman, I yield five minutes to the gentleman from Texas [Mr. BLANTON]. gentleman from Nebraska [l\Ir. HowARD]. Mr. BLANTON. 1\Ir. Chairman, this voluminous document I hold in my hand, just handed to every Member of Congress, MESSAGE :E'ROU 'l'HE SENATE is the most expensive propaganda I have ever seen distributed 'l'he committee informally rose; and l\lr. TILSON having on the floor of the House, since I have been here, in behalf taken the chair as Speaker pro tempore, a message f1·om . the of legislation. It must have cost several thousand dollars at Senate, by 1\Ir. Oraven, its Chief Clerk, announced that the least. That of itself ought to defeat the bill. Senate had agreed to the report of the committee of confer If you will look on page 983 of the REcORD for December ence on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amend 30, 1924, you will see that this bill, authorizing $14,750,000 to ments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 11753) making appro be appropriated, was taken up in the Senate of the United priations for the Departments of State and Justice and for States and then passed there in a few minutes. Any Sena the judiciary and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor tor could have stopped its passage there because they have for the .fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, a~d for other pur- rules in that body whereby bills can be stopped. And we are poses. urged to pass it now because the Senate passed it in a few MEMORIAL BRIDGE .ACROSS THE POTOMAC RIVER minutes without one voice raised against it. The committee resumed its session. I am reminded of the fact that only last night the Senate 1\fr. HOWARD of Nebraska. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, likewise without debate and within a very few minutes at I want to touch on one phase of this question that has not tached a legislative rider to an appropriation bill, raising the been touched except superficially by the gentleman from Ken salaries of Senators and Congressmen from $7,500 to $10,000. tucky. This economy program does not interest me very The RECORD shows that not a voice was rai ed there against much and it does not seem to interest anybod.Y very much. I it. It being a legislative item, any Senator could have stopped have been thinking that if our President should intrust it by making a point of order against it, for it is not in order his economy canary bird to the hands of the management of to attach such a legislative rider to an appropriation bill, this bill it would not stand any more show than ToM Mc except by unanimous consent. I suppose that when that KEowN's grasshopper would stand in a pen of hungry turkeys matter comes before the House, the like argument will then in Oklahoma. [Laughter.] be made that we should agree to the Senate amendment be Gentlemen of the House, I do not know anything about engi cause the Senate passed it in a few minutes without a voice neering, and I do not know very much about the District of being raised in opposition to it. I promi e tile House now, Columbia. I can not support this bill with or without the that when that matter is decid~d here, it is going to be de Cramton amendment, because I regard it as an immoral thing. cided by a record vote, letting each ~I.ember on a roll call Touching the moral or immoral side of it, I want to call your register his position on the question. When this legislative attention to this fact. I do not know for sure, but it seems appropriation bill was before the House, I then offered au to me that a Member of this House ought to have a word amendment to it, proposing to reduce the membersllip of this ·which would be received and believed by his fellows, and if House from 435 to 304 Members, a reduction of 131 Members, he does not he ought to be unworthy of a place here. which would have saved to the taxpayers of this Nation more Now, I am bringing to you the testimony of a Member of this than a million dollars each year, besides giving to the country House who tells me that less than one week ago there came a more efficient legislative body, where the Members would to the lobby of our hotel, Congress Hall, a gentleman who stay on the floor and attend to business and pass better legis lives in the city. He had a little map showing his own prop lation. But my proposal was turned down. erty possessions, and how much they cost him. And then he The distinguished gentleman from Alabama [l\fr. ALMON] told how he had just learned that the presidential program asks how the gentleman from Texas knows that this will cost was to provide for the building of this bridge. He said " Tl'lat $25,000,000. I know it because I have carefully investigated makes me happy, because it instantly doubles the value of all it, and because the $14,750,000 estimate is made by the engi my property." He further said that four men in Washington, neers of the ·war Depal~tment. I remember very well when working through one particular bank, would make more than they estimated for their first appropriation on Muscle Shoals, a million dollars on their possessions of land adjacent to this the special pet of the gentleman from Alabama. If he will new bridge, if this bill went through. go to the Committee on Appropriations and ask its chairman, Oh, my friends, that seems to me to be the great desire 1\Ir. MADDEN, to show him his file, he will see where the engi fo1· the building of this bridge. I yield first place to no man neers in their first estimate on the tlu·ee dams at Muscle 1926 CONG.RESSIONAL RECOED---::~OUSE 4075 Shoals said the thre·e dams ·would cost $19,500,000. The Wilson Mr. 1\lcSWAIN. .And right on the heel of finishing the new Dam No. 2 alone has cost $50,000,000. There is my answer to one there is an appropriation proposed to tear down the Old the .gentleman from Alabama. Muscle Shoals stands to-day one •alongside of it, which is better than most of our bridges as a $150,000,000 investment for the ·United States Govern down our way. ment, and when the camel first got its nose under ·the ttent ..Mr. BLANTON. Of coUl'se. Mr. Chairman, they talk about it was a $19,000,000 proposition. The Francis -scott .Key J>Utting the Cramton amendment on this bill . . He knows that Bridge, only recently completed, was estimated by these -same if it is amended that such an1endments would be stricken authorities to cost only $1,000,000, yet before we completed it out in conference. When this bill is finally passed into ·law the Congress had ·to , appropriate and spend $2,350,000 of the those in charge will allow no changes on it. I know that the people's money. That is my answer to the distinguished gen gentleman from Michigan ll\Ir. CRAMTON] got his lump..sum tleman from Alabama. plan adopted in the House, which takes · $9,000,000 out of the There has already been pa:ssed by the Senate a bill to dam taxpayers' money to spend ·here for the residents of the city the Potomac River up here at Great Falls just above Wash of Washington; but I know this also, that since that bill has ington for the benefit of the people of the District of · Co been sojourning in another body the Menibers of that body lumbia, which will save each family here 4 cents a month on have·increased the ~· $9,000,000 to $11,000,000, and you are going its light bill. That is what the evidence shows. The Senate to vote on $11,000,000 here in just a day or two. You will passed it without ·any argument. There was no opposition .have to decide whether you will ma.ke your taxpayers pay against it there. It is .estimated by Army engineers to -cost $11,000,000 of the civic expenses of the J)istrict for the next only $44,421,000. I have estimates carefully made by some of fiscal .year rand reduce still ,lower the _tax bill of $1.40 per the most .expert engineers in the United States provin_g that hundred that is now paid ·here. If that squares itself with instead of it costing only .$44,421,000, as the War Department your idea of what ought to be done by the :taxpay~s here and says it will cost, it will in fact cost this Government $75,- those of the country ..generally, well and good, but I can :not 000,000 at least be'fore we can complete it. agree tQ it. I must enter •my protest against it. Because an There was ·a time when the distinguished gentleman from other body does this we ·do not .have to follow .it. We passed Alabama [Mr. ALMoN] was an economist, and I used to follow a bill here the other day which was against .my wish-! voted him, but ever since he has been hunting votes for his ~1uscle ·aga_inst it and some of you on the Republican ·side·voted against Shoals proposition he has been one of the .gang. [Laughter.] it, but we were overcom~ by the ·high .rollers of ·the House- I can not follow him any longer. which bill permitted the Shipping .Board to employ :five men Wby should this bridge be built? We already have three at $18,000 .a year each, and . that bill .went to the ·Senate and good bt·idges. We have ~pent in the .District of Columbia the Senate changed it, increasing the number to seven,' and $190,000,000 ·for .civic purposes alone, in addition to .the .gov you are.going to have to vote on that pretty -soou. 'J'he Sen .ernmental :functions, and .there is no way of telling how ..many ate provides now that the .Shipping Board can employ seven millions of dollars .additional we ~ .have spent here for · Govern men .at -$18,000 a year each, -when .Representatives and Sen ment buildings and .for beautifying public buildings and ators ,get · $7,500 a year. Are they worth that much more ,grounds. As ·1 say, we 'have already expended $190,000,000 th.an you are? .It is time to stop all this, and I .ho_pe we ·.will ...for civic .improvements for the benefit of the residents of the .be able to strike out the enacting clause of ..this . bill, the District of Columbia. A million dollar bridge was built ..for second 1pet measure this term . of. IllY friend .from Indiana [Mr. them up here on Connecticut Avenue, .and then ~ink of .all ELLIOTT]. these other bridges across the Potomac. :The .CH.AIRl\IAN. ~he time of the g(lltleman from Texas lllr. STRONG of Kansas. "Mr. Chairman, will the,.gentleman .has expired. yield? Mr. ELLIQTT. Mr. Chairman, I yield five minutes to the Mr. BLANTON. Not now, if my friend from ..Kansas will ,gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. CooPER]. [Applause.] excuse me. Then there are the bridges to . Anacostia. :The Mr.- cOOPER of Wisconsin. Mr. ·Ohairman, I shall be very people back home paid 50 per cent of all that. :I know that this ...glad indeed to vote for this .bill, because 1 ·feel that in is the special pet of our friend from Maryland [Mr. ZIHLMAN] so doing ~ shall be discharging a duty to all the. people of the and the generalissi.nio, our special friend from Virginia, :.Judge United ·States. . [Applause.] .My ver.y good and .exceedingly WALTON MooRE. · Yes ; this is their pet. I am not sm·prised able friend the gentleman .from Texas [Mr. LANHAM]-!..~nd to see the distinguished ex-Governor of Virginia [Mr~ :1\ioN I will apply. the same adjectives to ..the gentleman .fre.m Tennes T.AGUE] get up on tp.e floor of the "Rouse and speak in favor of see [Mr. BYRNS] and my distinguished and reticent friend this bill. The construction of the bridge will .greatly benefit ,from Texas [Mr. BLANTON] [laughter] says, in effect that Virginia. this will be wasted money-money thrown ~away. But it will I wish some one would show me a river that is a State line not, in my judgment, be money -either wasted or . misapplied. between two States, where a bridge spans it, where the coot "·.Human beings," said DADiel Webster, I remember, "are com is nOt jointl~ Iilet·by the ~ people of the two St.ates. Wherever posed not of reason alone but of imagination also, and senti you find a bridge that spans. a county line, between two coun ment; and that is not wasted.or misapplied ·which i.s appropri ties,. you will find that 'both counties share. part of the expense. ated to th~ purpose of giving right direction to sentiments, and ·nere we have built bridge after bridge across the Potomac ,opening prop·er springs of feeling in the heart." into the Commonwealth O>f Virginia, and that .great Common There is a practical -side to this question. The.great neees wealth has never spent one dollar on those bridges. I used sity for the bridge has been amply demonstrated by the dis -to think that the District of Columbia needed representatives tin.guished gentlemen from Vil'.ginia [Mr. .MONTAGUE and ~Ir. 'here. They do not need any representatives. They have two MooRl!l] and others. a'his necessity is dear to me, .. as it must of the livest wires working day and night for them, without be to anyone who remembers .the day of the bul'ial .at Arling sleep or slumber, that I ever saw-the distinguished g~tle ton of the Unknown ·soldier-the vast assemblage of people, man from Mar;rland [Mr. ZIHLMAN] anti the distinguished among whom were not only the diplomats of the world, ..here at gentleman from V.irginia [Mr. MooRE]. ·what benefits the the summons of ·President Harding to attend the disarmament District benefits l\1aryland and Virginia. We built that splen conference, but also :Marshal Foch, General Dia.z, General did $3,000,000 Key Bridge -for the gentleman from "Virginia Pershing, AdmJral Lord Beatty, .the commander of the 'British and the gentleman from ·Maryland. fleet, and many other very famous officers-indeed, all of the Mr. STRONG of Kansas. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman foremost military commanders of the Allies-the _greatest .as yield? semblage of illustrious men ever together on, this earth in 1\fr. 'BLANTON. Oh, is that what the gentleman wanted to honor of a dead hero--and then remembers the literally dis inquire about? graceful scene when those ceremonies were over and we saw Mr. STRONG of Kansas. I just want to say that that bridge these diplomats and commanders, many of them, walk from was completed only last year. ArliQ.gton after waiting an hour .and a ·hill to get their auto Mr. RLAl~TON. Yes; we completed it only 'last year. They mobiles out of ·the crush. I myself, with friends, waited an ought t{)l wait at least one more year before they ask us to hour, but·finally got through. Secretru;y Hughes walked-- build another one. Three million dollars, approximately, was Mr. UNDERHILL. So did Secretal'Y Weeks. the cost of that. Mr. 'BLANTON rose. Mx. ELLIOTT. 'Not quite $3,000,000. .Mr. COOPillR ·of Wisconsin. Pardon me, I know I deprive Mr. BLANTON. Oh, the gentleman has not quite kept up the gentleman of an opportunity-- . with all of the details. To be exact, it was built at a cost of Mr. BLANTON. The gentleman mentioned my name. Will $2,350,000, but there were many extras before and after. he yield for one question? . Da you not remember that just ·as soon as it was completed 1\Ir. COOPER of WisconSin. ''Not now. Jt cwas so long ago there was a very splendid jollification meeting held up at that Members 'have forgotten what I Nlftl to OT about the Frederick, Md.? That new Key-H{)Itel reechoed with the jovial ·gentleman. [Applause,] I -have only fi -re minute·::; and must speeches that -were made there for a week afterwards. decline to' yieJtl. ~076 OONGRESSION AL RECORD-HOUSE FEBRUARY 18 This bridge is not a District of Columbia matter. It is not and unknown, but who had sacrificecl his -young life ·on the a " main street " bridge. It will be a great national memorial altar of his country. From 1·eports I am con-vinced that there bridge. No other structure in this District is a memorial was a congestion on the bridges, streets, and roads on that bridge, and therefore there is no comparison to be drawn be occasion, but no one has called our attention to any other tween it and those other bridges. This bridge will arouse occasion when those conditions existed. Only one time in the the patriotism and touch the heart of every citizen of the entire history of this Nation has there been a serious congestion Republic who crosses it. in the traffic between the District of Columbia and the Virginia The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman has expired. side, and that was when the unknown soldier was laid to rest Mr. COOPER of Wisconsin. Can the gentleman from In in the Arlington Cemetery. With this exception there has diana yield me an additional mi.Iiute? never been such a congestion of traffic as would justify the l\Ir. ELLIOTT. I yield the gentleman one more minute. construction of this bridge. l\Ir. COOPER of Wisconsin. Gentlemen seem to have for We have, with ostentatious ceremonies, buried but one un gotten that the plan is to have an avenue from this Capitol to known soldier in Arlington Cemetery since this Government the Potomac and that in that avenue will stand only the was ushered into existence. If I can read ancl understand towering shaft to George Washington and the superb, the history aright, I believe it will be another hundred years, per matchless memorial to Abraham Lincoln. Beyond will come the chance 500 years, before this great Nation will again go through memorial bridge and then Arlington, where rest in dreamless the ceremony of burying an unknown soldier ; in fact, I do not sleep the soldier dead. During the generations after you and I believe this Nation will ever again be involved in another great are forever gone millions of our countrymen will come to this war. We are not justified in spending $14,750,000 merely to Capital City and millions, as the generations pass away, will avoid another traffic jam should we at some time in the future go over that bridge to Arlington. The Capitol, Washington, bury another unknown soldier in the Arlington Cemetery. The Lincoln. the Memorial Bridge, and Arlington, the home of probafiilities of there being another traffic jam like the one re Lee! [Applause.] It is a glorious conception ! . fen·ed to are very remote. Every Member of the House should be glad of the opportunity The city of '\Yashington claims a population of approximately to vote for the pending bill. [Applause.] 500,000, but this population is not divided by the river but is all 1\fr. LANHAl\I. l\Ir. Chairman, I yield 10 minutes to the in the District of Columbilt. The three bridges we now have gentleman from l\Iissouri [l\Ir. LoziER]. adequately satisfy all traffic needs. The great city of New Mr. LOZIER. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I am opposed York, with more than 7,000,000 people, has 4 bridges. The to this bill for many reasons, any one of which I deem suffi great city of London, stretching for 40 . miles along each side cient to justify my opposition. This bill violates the first, the of the Thames River, with a population of 9,000,000 people, is last, and, in fact, every principle of economy. The enactm~nt efficiently served by 12 bridges. There are 9 bridges over the of this legislation can not be reconciled with the pronuncia river Spree in the city of Berlin, which has a population of mento in favor of economy in expenditure of public funds that 4,000,000. The city of Paris, the most beautiful capital and the has gone out from the ·white House and from the Congress. most beautiful city in the world, has 33 bridges over the Seine May I say that economy in public expenditures is not a coat River. But in all of those cities the population is dividecl by or a garment to be put on and taken off at pleasure. This bill the rivers, and, of course, more bridges are necessary to meet calls for an appropriation ultimately of $14,750,000, which will and satisfy the traffic demands. But here in the city of Wash be taken out of the Treasury of the United States, from ington the population is all on the north side of the river, and funds to which the people of the Nation, without regard to there is but little occasion to pass over the Potomac ; hence the their residence, have made their contribution. When the ad three bridges that now svan the Potomac are entirely adequate justed compensation legislation was pending the President op to serve all traffic demands. posed its passage on the ground of economy. The postal sala I have studied this bill very carefully. I have tried to read l'ies bill was vetoed by the President on the .ground of economy. every news account, every editorial, and every argument I We are denied post-office buildings because the President says could find relating to this project. I have studied all of the we can not afford them. The President has recently reduced reports dealing with the subject, and a careful study of all the rivers and harbors appropriation bills approximately available data has convinced me that this is a bad bill and· $14,000,000, about the amount he now proposes to ~pend on should be defeated. this memorial bridge project. I could give dozens of mstances The President and his associates do not say over their own of where the President has . applied the policy of economy, signatures that this bridge is necessary in order to accommo where he opposed legislation and ignored the policy of econ date the traffic. The architectural and memorial features of omy and yet practiced extravagance where he favored certain the structure are emphasized very strongly, and it is insisted legi~ation. If Congress proposes an appropriation that does that the bridge should be built as a memorial to demonsb.'ate not meet with the favor of the President, he pro~aims his de the complete unity of our people. 'l'he President and his asso votion to the principle of economy and nullifies the action ciates on the commission do not present one s!ngle practical of Congress. But many projects which are the essence of reason for the building of this bridge. extravagance meet with his unqualified approval. This bill But the President tells us that Rome had "five great ave can not be reconciled with the President's oft-repeated de nues of approach." What has that to do with this case? How mands for economy in governmental expenses. does that justify this $14,750,000 expenditure? It seems to Reduced to its last analysis, this bridge project is primarily me that there is no urgent need for "more avenues of ap for the beautification and adornment of the city of Washington. proach" to 'Vashington. It is easier to get into Washington Very little stress is laid on the bridge being required to meet than to get out. Any person, although as weak-minded arid the traffic needs of the city. The report signed by President unsophisticated as a Congres.sman, can enter Washington with Coolidge and his associates on this commission emphasized the out difficulty, but he must have outstanding ge.t;1ius and be a architectural beauties of the proposed bridge, and predicates financial wizard to get out of Washington with enough money their recommendation for the building of the bridge on the fact in his pocket to pay his way back home. Sojourners in Wash that it will not only be the greatest causeway or bridge that ington are "better off" financially when they arrive than when was ever built since the curtain went up on human history, they depart. [Laughter.] 1\Iy experience and observation but that it will be an architectural epic, a marvel of marble convince me tllat the trouble with -washington is not so much and concrete with which none of the structures of either the lack of avenues of approach as the lack of avenues of ancient or modern times can be compared, and that it will escape. [Laughter.] The Washington formula, especially sene as a memorial to symbolize the reunion between the when applied to Congres..,men, is, first, ascertain hi maximum South and the North and will honor the memories of Lincoln income; second, determine the minimum amount necessary to and Lee. the great leaders in our unhappy Civil 1Var. enable the victim to keep body and soul together ; and third, It is not seriously contended that this bridge is demanded by take the remainder. [Laughter.] Elsewhere the rule is uni traffic conditions existing at the present time or that may arise versal that a person's estate can not be administered until in the immediate future. Everyone who is informed as to the after his death, but this rule does not prevail in Washington. facts knows that the three bridges we now have between the In the Capital City the slogan is, "Don't wait, but get District of Columbia and Virginia easily accommodate the in ahead of the undertaker," and as soon as a person lands traffic, and from the traffic standpoint alone no· one will con in the District of Columbia they proceed to operate on him. tend that this bridge should be built. [Laughter.] Inasmuch as the administration on a sojourner's But the advocates of this bill tell us that when the unknown estate begins automatically on ·his arrival in the District of soldier was buried at Arlington the bridges and roads were Columbia, and being a continuing process, or " esto perpetua," badly congested. But that was an extraordinary and unprece its penalties can be a voided only by the unhappy victim dented occasion. A grateful Nation was paying a deserved fleeing the District. And if a person, once domiciled in ~ribute to an American soldie!: whose identity was _!1ndisclose4 ::washington, should, in a lucid interval, take up an abode 1926 CONGRESS! ON AL. RECORD-H01JSE 4077 elsewhere, and should thereafter, as a 1·esult of recurring of Phidias, Praxiteles, Christopher Wren, and Michel Angelo, mental infirmities, return to the District, letters of adminis they profess no pedantic familiarity. They are not experts on tration de bonis non issue instanter as wri,ts of right as soon colonnades, entablatures, faces, naves, arches, facades, and as he places foot on District soil and his financial peonage is pediments. But every American, however untutoi·ed, is an automatically renewed. [Laughter.] No, gentlemen; the cry expert on polygonal temples. [Laughter.] In this cultural ing need of the city of Washington is not more avenues of realm, in this esthetic domain, in this artistic sphere, they are approach, but more aYenues of escape. In any e\ent, the pro preeminent. To the average American the sight of a polygonal posed bridge is not needed, and the President can render his temple will cure sore eyes, and is sweeter than the nectar and country a worthwhile serYice by withdrawing his approval of ambrosia of the gods. The stolid, taciturn, impas •ive, level this project. headed Americans may look with complacency on war, pesti ·who will get the benefit of this bridge? Certainil.y the lence, famine, financial di. aster, physical affiiction, and social people of Washington, the people who will travel over the ostracism, but as a panacea for all these ills, President bridge, the people ·whose property will be tremendously en Coolidge is going to build them a polygonal temple. True tho hanced in value by the building of this bridge and the open American people are taxed $14,750,000 to build tllis bridge, ing of avenues and driveways which are a part of this project. but look what they get for their money; among many other The ·administration has no money to construct post office things, a polygonal tem11le. Athens had her Parthenon, Milan buildings in cities and towns in the Middle West where the her cathedral, Paris her Notre Dame and Fontainebleau, need for such buildings is very pronounced, but he finds Home her Pantheon and St. Peters, Spain her La Giralda, $14,750,000 of public money to expend in the construction of Constantinople her St. Sophia, India her Taj Mahal, and by a bridge, largely for the beautification and ornamentation of the grace of President Coolidge, the American people are to the city of Washington. have a polygonal temple. [Laughter.] This project is primarily a municipal project-<>ne that While "Silent Cal" was "keeping cool," talking economy will benefit the people of the city of 'Yashington, and these and incidentally running for President, he was also planning people should pay the cost if they insist upon the bridge being to spend • 14,750,000 for a bridge not demanded by existing built. conditions. Tlle President, in the instant case, is short on . In discussing this bill several days ago, I called attention economy, but long on artistic architecture. For the small 'to the fact that this is but one of 12 or 13 projects which number of architectural experts and for the elite and those have been incubated by the people of the city of Washington, who are intensi>ely cultured and who live, move, and have and which will be from time to time presented to Congress their being in the realm of the esthetic and the artistic, tlle :for approval, and which will take out of the Treasury of the Pre ·ident has planned a bridge with segmental arches, colos United States more than $200,000,000 in the next 10 or 20 sal columns, marble p;rlon ~·, granite abutments, graceful years. These projects are not primarily governmental matters, pilasters, symmetrical peristyles and exquisite bas-reliefs, but but are in essence municipal projects designed to beautify the the 10!>,000,000 common people in America who were not ~o city of Washington, and being municipal activities, the ex easily satisfied, with one voice and with one accord, joined in pense necessary to consummate these projects shot'ihl be the loud-swelling chorus: borne by the people of the District. A polygonal temple we long have sought, I hold in my hands bills, pamphlets, plans, and reports of And mourned because we found it not. projects which are now being formulated by the city of Wash ington and which Congress is expected to finance which will Coincident with which there echoed and re>erberated from involve the expenditure of a sum that will stagger reason ocean to ocean the despairing, frenzied, and pas::;iona te appeal and awaken amazement, because of the extravagant demands to Cal...-in: they make on the Treasury of the United States. I will not Give us a polygonal temple or give us ueatb. enumerate these projects for the reason that I mentioned them I assume tlle pressure of public sentiment in fR>or of a poly in detail several days ago in di ~· cussing this bill. The veople gonal temple ·was more tllan the President could resist, for of Washington are going on the theory that the United States "after ha>ing given due consideration to tlle requirements of Government is maintained primarily for their use and benefit. economy," he re<.:ommended the immediate expenditure of $14,- [Applause.] 750,000 for the construction of this so-called memorial bridge, May I call yom· attention to two novel features of this waste including a polygonal temple, doubtle s intended to satisfy tlle .ful project? I quote from page 10 of the report of the Presi aspirations and longings of the Ameri~an people. dent and his associates, on this project: In conclusion let me say that in my opinion no Member of The narrow waterway separating the island from the Virginia shore thi::; House can ...-ote for this bill and go before llis constituents will be peculiarly adapted for boating parties and is destined to grow and justify his vote. A vote in fa>or of this measure is a vote in popularity as time goes on. A number of landing places ha vc been in fa...-or of extravagance. By such a ...-ote you are taking $14,- provided along this channel, etc., etc. 750,000 of the people's money and spending it for the benefit, not of the people of the United States, but for the benefit of the Oh, how thoughtful in our President to pro\ide for boating people of the District of Columbia. This is not economy; it is partie , landing places, and footpaths for the oppressed and not right or ju t:; and, to speak plainly, it is an abuse and em downtrodden people of the District of Columbia. No money bezzlement of t.lle power and confidence your constituent"3 ha...-e for the ex-soldiers, no money for postal employees, no money reposed in you. I realize that this bill will probably pass, be for public building. , no money for hundreds of other worthy cause the people of 'Vashington, the news_l;)apers of 'Vashing projects, but $14,750,000 to build a bridge and to adorn it with ton, and the administration are all behind it. NeYertbeless it pilasters, tablets, pylons, columns, stylobates, and many other is vicious legislation, and the :\Iember who ...-otes for this bill similar architectural creations. should never hereafter so much as utter tlle word economx-. I wish every l\Iember of this House would read the report [Applause.] ~ and recommendations of this commission, as well as the plans The CNAIR~IAN. The time of the gentleman from Mis and specifications in the appendix. If you do, I am sure you souri bas expired. will conclude that the primary purpose of this bridge is to 1\Ir. ELLIOTT. l\Ir. Chairman, I yield one minute to tho beautify the city of Washington. The report does not fea gentleman fTom Iowa [l\lr. KoPP]. :ture any other phase of this project. 1\Ir. KOPP. 1\lr. Chairman, in the brief lime allotted to me, l\ly colleagues, " Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the it is manifestly impossible for me to give all the reasons I streets of Askelon," but confidentially, one of the cTowning have for supporting this bill, and therefore I ask unanimous achievements of this bridge project is a polygonal, or many consent that I may have tbe privilege of extending in the sided temple at the junction of the bridge and the Lee High RECORD my remarks on the subject of public economy. way. I said a polygonal, not a polygamous temple. How ex Tlle CHAIRl\IAN. The gentleman from Iowa asks unani ceedingly fortunate that we are to haye a polygonal temple. mous consent to extend his remark::; on the subject indicated. ,What could more fully meet and satisfy the national aspira Is there objection? tions and supreme longings of the American people? l\1ethinks There was no objection. this monumental structure woulu be a monumental failure 1\Ir. KOPP. Mr. Speaker, all will agree that nothing is more if President Coolidge and his associates had not made pro essential at this time than public economy. The people are :rision for this polygonal temple. heavily taxed and they want relief. Cert.afnly additional bur Like Job, the ancient Idumaean sage, the Amelican people dens should not be piled upon the:r backs. are patient and long-suffering. In architectural details they Therefore the amendment of the Senate increasing the sala are not at all times exacting. Of the technique of bridge ries of the Senators and Representatives h; wholly indefensi building they claim no special kn~wledge. With the creations ble. I can not concur in such a course. I am absolutely op- LXVI--258 4078 C0NGRESSION AL RECORD-ROUSE FEBRUARY 18 posed to ft. When the matter comes before the House I hope Mr. WINGO. Yes; and this is our country, this is ·our it will be voted down. river, and Lee's home is our home, and Lee's highway is a This is no time to raise our own salaries. We were not sent southern highway, and this bridge is a part of it. [Applause.] here for that purpose. We were -sent here to give the people The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Arkansas ()Ur best thoughts and efforts. Their welfare should now be has expired. our·one concern. Mr. ELLIOTT. Mr. Chairman, I yield live minutes to the Banh--ruptcies and foreclosures have been far more prevalent gentleman from New York [Mr. OLI'VER]. [AppL. ·[Laughter ancl applause.] I would be glad to have the gen real estate by contract, voluntary purchase, or condemnation, tleman from 'Visconsin attend our conference for a little in order to carry out the broad scope of this proposition. I while if he behaves. [Laughter.] I favor this bill because believe that this feature of the possibility ·of priT"ate specu~ it will memorialize the fact that the road between the heart lators sitting by and our spending money to enrich them of the North and the heart of the South is straight, beautiful, ought to be eliminated. and with that elimination the House and· short. The bill 'till connect the Lincoln Memorial with will walk up almost to a man in favor of it. Adopt tlle Cram~ the home of General Lee. This bill will provide a monument ton amendment and this amendment and the House can agree to the fact that their followers for all generations will meet on this expenditure of public money. in friendship and affection and loyality to our beloT"ed country, 1\Ir. MOORE of Yir:;;inia. Mr. Chairman, I desire to suggest America. to the Chair that the amendmnet offered may not be germane The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from New to section 5, because the amendment is outside of that section. York has expired. The Clerk will read the bill for amendment. So far as the other portions of the bill are concerned the The Clerk read as follows : amendment is not germane because it goes into a matter of a Be it enacted, etc., That the commission created by section 23 of character which indicates that the amendment defeats itself. the act approved March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. p. 885), is hereby author It is a real estate transaction. It does not seem to me, unless ized and directed to proceed at once with the construction of u me we are to extend the scope of the bill far beyond anybody's morial bridge across the Potomac River from the vicinity of the conception, the germaneness of the amendment can be upheld. Lincoln Memorial in the city of Washington to an appropriate point in The CHAIRMAN. The Chair would like to ask the gentle the State of Virginia, including appropriate approaches, roads, streets, man from South Carolina if he is willing to answer an inquiry, boulevards, avenues, and walks leading thereto on both sides of said whether the amendment carries out any of the plans sub river, togethet· with the landscape features appertaining thereto, all in mitted by the commission ; whether this project is included in accordance with the design, surveys, and estimates of cost transmitted the plans prepared and submitted by the commission which by s:iid commission to Congress under date of April 22, 1924 : P>·o has heretofore submitted a report to Congress? viclell, That said commission may make such changes in design and Mr. McSWAIN. No; I think not, in all candor. location of said bridge without increasing the total cost of the project Mr. ELLIOTT. l\Ir. Chairman, I want to call attention to as in its discretion may be found to be necessary or advisable. one fact, that Analostan Island is a new project. There is a riT"er running between Columbia Island and Analostan Island, M:r. McSWAIN. l\Ir. Chairman, I offer an amen(lment. and to connect Columbia Island to Analostan Island it would The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from South Carolina be necessary to build another bridge. I can not see where this offers an amendment, which the Clerk will report. is germane any more than it would be to condemn land in the The Clerk read as follows : State of Virginia because the bridge is going to be constructe proximity to the dignified treatment herein described, but would also committee that the hospital should be razed to the ground and be llighly desirable on account of its natural beauty and suUabillty new structures erected on the present site of the inadequate· for park purposes. and dilapidated wooden buildings, but he says further sub- Those may be very desirable· and commendable suggestions, stantially : · ' but they are not contemplated within the legislation now be I inclose herewith a communication from General Lord, of the Bureau fore the committee. The Chair is of opinion that not only is of the Bu-dget, who says that tbe expenditure of $3,000,000 would not the amendment not germane to the s~tion to which it is be in harmony with the economy plans of the President. offered, but it is not germane to any portion of the bill, and the Ohair sustains the point of ordeT. Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield? M.r. O'CONNOR of Louisiana. 1\-lr. Chairman, I move to Mr. O'CONNOR of Louisiana. Not now. Three million dol strike out the last word. I shall vote for this bill. I have a lars for a hospital to take the place of the dilapidated wood reverence for the great names in American history, for the structm·es that are a disgrace to the American civilization of great events, the great chapters, the great epochs of om· his which we all boast! Too much money for a hospital! Think tory. I suppose I reverence the names of Lincoln and Lee as of it! The Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew H. Mellon, a greatly as any other American. I feel that no misuse of our member of the Cabinet, believes a new and modern hospital great names will be made in the near future in order to accom should be erected and operated to serve the wants and relieve plish selfish and extravagant and so-called utilitarian views. the misery of those that served this Nation upon the seven But I do know, however, :Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the seas, but the overlord of a bureau which threatens to over committee, that the city of Washington is filled with monu shadow its creator blue-penciled the humane and patriotic rec ments commemorating the valor, wisdom, and glory of patriots ommendation. and statesmen who are no more, and that these monuments Give the Cresar crowns and arches ; let his brow the laurel wei·e builded largely out of the funds of the Nation. I do twine; build ornamental bridges in the n.ame of heroes and know that one of the greatest monuments in all the world, and our honored dea.d ; but forget not your countrymen who are we are all proud of it, has been erected by the Nation to com breathing their last in hospitals that are menaces to their memorate the glory of the Father of his Country, and that one diseased bodies and shattered minds, instead of a place of of the most beautiful and attractive- of all temples of fame has hope if not a sanctuary for their last sad moments. The been constructed to commemorate the wisdom, the virtue, and Secretary of the Treasury bows in humble submission, and the patriotism of Lincoln. Now we are going to build a further so does the Senate. Dollars are saved to be spent in beautifi memorial in the name of our illustrious dead. And I say well cation. Art, architecture triumphs, but justice to our sailors done. But I can not forego the temptation to invite your and soldiers is prostrated and scorned. Another illuminating attention t~ the fact, in the interest of future consistency, instance of how concrete rises superior to the claims of flesh that there are other names in American history almost as and blood. Through an appropriate bill, which was referred illustrious as those of Washington and Lincoln that are appal· to the proper committee, a light vessel was sought for the ently practically ignored at the present. I can not resist the entrance to the Mississippi River. The Secretary of Commerce, temptation to invite your attention to the fact that there are :Ur. Hoover, a member of the Cabinet, reported that in view great battle fields in the United States of America that, in view of the fog banks- of the neglect shown them, are evidently conside:red a disgrace that accumulate in the Gulf of Mexico <>If the Passes and which con instead of an honor to American history. I know that some of stitute a peril to navigation it was essential to establish a l1ght vessel the Members \vill be tempted to smile at my reference to the to protect life and property. But-but, I inclose you herewith a com Battle of New Orleans and the Plains of Chalmette; but if munication from General Lord, the Bureau <>f the Budget, who says there be a g1·eater event in the hi tory of this country than that the expenditure <>f $300,000 is not compatible with the economic the Battle of New Orleans I would like some Member to invite plans of the President. my attention to it, and if there be a more illustrious name in the martial annals of America than that of Andrew Jackson Oh, yes ; it is all right in the name of sentiment and fine I ask somebody to point to that name. The Plains of Chal historic names to spend $14,500,000 further to beautify the mette as they stand to-day are a disgrace to the martial greatest Capital in all the world with an ornamental and history of this country, and I am tempted at times to believe stupendously attractive bridge that may or may not be neces that there is a willful side-stepping of the full significance of sary, but it is incompatible from an economic policy to take the Battle of Xew Orleans. proper care of dying soldiers and sailors who have fought the I can not blind my eyes to the fact that even now there is a good fight, and about to take or bid an everlasting farewell to suggestion on foot for apparently utilitarian purposes to re the country they served so well. Let them perish in disease mo>e the statue of Andrew Jackson from Lafayette Square in breeding, dilapidated hospitals-" they are paupers whom no front of the White House. Why·? Is that name one or some body owns." thing we wish to forget? Is it disgraceful to American his It is incompatible to spend $300,000 on a light vessel that tory"! Down alongside the Plains of Chalmette is a so-called may protect the lives of many, many of your countrymen who national cemetery, where men equally as brave as those that do honorable service on the seas and through storm and stress perished on other battle fields are lying, and the present con struggle to bring their good ship into a port and haven of dition of that cemetery is a stigma upon the fame of this refuge. Oh, yes ; it is tim.ely to build great magnificent bridges country. and triumphal arches and mausoleums and temples of fame But I did not intend to speak about the Plains of Chalmette, and in behalf of a sentiment that may or may not be eith'Sr because Brother TILSON and others think I should reserve that lasting or of any great permanent value, for, as Gray says for the 8th of January. I desire for a moment to touch on in his immortal Elegy : the humanitarian chapter placed in this RECoRD to-day by Can storried urn, o.r animated bust, the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. .AL:LGoon]. Why should Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath '1 we be thinking so solemnly and expressing ourselves in such Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, tear-stained tones about concrete bridges, however sentimental Or fiatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death? some of the reflections mig·ht be, while flesh and blood are palpitating "\vith agony and dying eyes are fastened upon the Apparently the Capital can have wonderful bridges and wretched surroundings of dilapidated hospitals furnished its arches and magnificent tombs, even if they are not necessary sailors and employees by the richest Nation on earth? either to the fame of the dead or the comfort of the living, but The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Louis the Budget can not take care of those who are serving this iana has expired. generation by affording them proper hospital service and proper 1\Ir. BLANTON. 1\Ir. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent light vessels. [Applause.] Give us the bridge for t he memories that the gentleman's time be extended for five minutes. of the past, and the great names that are associated with it The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection? by the proponents of this measure. nut build the marine 1\Ir. MOORE of Virginia. :Mr. Chairman, I shall not objeet hospital for those who are soul sick and weary as a result of now, but I shall object to any similar requests in the future. a service that makes th.e sa;i.lor the d'rift of the world and the The CHA.l.R.l\i.AN. Is there objection? tangle of the seas. Establish the light vessel, not so orna There was no obj~tion. mental or costly as the memorial bridge, but far more precious 1\fr. O'CONNOR of Louisiana. Down in New Orleans, in the to the storm-tossed mariner than all the architectural tri second congressional disb:ict, which my. colleague [1\Ir. SPEAR umphs and ornamental wonders that gem and adorn all the ING] has the honor to repre. ent, is a so-called marine hospital. capitals of the earth. The buildings are dilapidated, they are going to pieces. The 1\Ir. ELLIOTT. 1\lr. Chairman, I move that all debate on sick sailors of our country a1·e crowded into the halls. Secre this section and all amendments do now close. tary of the Treasury Mellon says in a 1·eport to a Senate The motion was agreed to. 1925 CONGRESS! ON AL RECORD-HOUSE' 4081 :Mr. BOYLAN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the last The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman from Maryland de word. sire to be heard? The CHAIRMAN. The committee has just decided that de Mr. ZIHLMAN. I desire to call the attention of the Chait. bate on this section and all amendments shall now close. to the far-reachlng purport of this amendment. This is a The Clerk read as follows: bill to authorize the construction of a memorial bridge across SEc. 2. That the ex~ution of the project herein and hereby author the Potomac Ri1er on property which, as the gentleman from ized shall be carried out under the general supervision of the Arlington Kansas [.Mr. TL~CHER] has explained, belongs to the Federal Memorial Bridge Commission in the immediate charge of the executive Government. It is proposed by this amendment to reach officer of the said commission, and that said construction shall be into the funds of the taxpayers of the District of Columbia entered upon as speedily as practicable in accordance with the plans and assess them for a part of the construction cost of this submitted by the said commission and shall be prosecuted to comple bridge. tion by contracts or othe1·wise, as may be most ecouomical and ad It is true that under the organic act and in conformity with vantageous to the Government and approved and ordered by the said law Congress has the power and exercises that power in commission in a total sum not to exceed $14,700,000, which sum is appropriating for improvements of a municipal nature in the authorized to be appropriated from any moneys available or that may District of Columbia. But this legislation goes much further become available in the Treasury of the United States. than that. It providBs for the levying of an assessment upon the citizens of the District of Columbia for the construction Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota. l'tfr. Chairman- of property upon a Government reservation, which is en The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from South Dakota. tirely inconsistent with the purposes of the bill and is not Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota. Mr. Chairman, I move to germane either to the title or the subject matter of the bill_ strike out the last word. I want to ask unanimous consent to 1\lr. BLACK of Texas. l\1r. Chairman, I desire to address proceed out of order for one minute to make an announcement the Chair on the question of germaneness. with reference to the presentation of claims by Members of The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will hear the gentleman. Congress to the Veterans' Bm·eau, giting some information to 1\lr. BLACK of Texas. This bill seeks to appropriate some the House. thing more than $H,OOO,OOO out of the Treasury of the United The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from South Dakota asks States to build a memorial bridge, so called, and it is to be unanimous consent to proceed for one minute for the purpose constructed within the District of Columbia. In Hinds' Prece stated. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The Chair hears dents, volume 5, page 486, is cited this case : none. Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota. Mr. Chairman, every Mem To a bill providing generally for a union staiion in the District of ber of the House recognizes the fact that a great :percentage of Columbia an amendment levying a special tax iu the District to defray his time is taken up in presenting clalms of disabled soldiers the cost of the station was held to be germane. to the Veter:ms' Bureau_ Approximately two years ago the Now, to that bill the gentleman from illinois [Mr. Cannon] Senate made an arrangement with the Veterans' Bureau to offered this amendment : in have a claims man from the bureau the Senate Office Build That in order to meet the extraordinary expenses entailed by the ing to handle these matters, thereby saving the time of Sen provisions of this act, the rate of taxation on the assessed real and ators in going back and forth between the office building and personal property in the District of Columbia for each of the next five the bureau. years is hereby increased 25 per cent. The Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation, of which I have the honor to be chairman, has r ecently taken up this A noint of order was made on that amendment on the ground matter with the Director of the VetePans' Bureau and made that it was not a germane amendment, and the Chair in ruling an arrangement that the director will maintain in the House upon it held that it was a germane a-mendment and permitted Office Building a service of the kind which I mentioned. It the House to vote upon it. will be in room 436 of the House Office Building until the ex Now, I can not see any reason wlly, if that amendment was piration of this term of Congress, at which time it may be in order upon a bill to construct a union station in the Dis necessary to move to some other room. The work will be trict of Columbia, an amendment would not be in order on a under the direction and control of Mr. J. 0. C. Roberts, a skilled bill to construct a memorial bridge to pro.vide that 40 per cent lawyer in the Veterans' Bureau, who has been helping both of the cost shall be paid out of the Treasury of the United the- House and Senate Committees in general legislative mat States and 60 per cent out of the revenues of the District of ters, and a practical claims man of experience will be in the Columbia. office at all times dflring office hours. A messenger service will I think the amendment of my colleague [Mr. LANHAM] is be maintained between Mr. Roberts in the House Office Build clearly in order. ing and the Veterans' Bure.:'lu and be available for all Members The CHAIRMAN. The Chair is ready to rule. The Chair of Congress and their secretaries in transacting such business. is of opinion that the decision cited by the gentleman from [Applause.] Texas [Mr. BL.A.CK] is as nearly in point as are most of the hlr. LANHAM. l\fr. Chairman, I desire to offer an amend- precedents that we have in the deliberations of this committee ment. or of the House. In that case the chairman of the committee, The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will report the amendment. M..r. Olmstead, of Pennsylvania, said with reference to that bill: The Clerk read as follows: Thls is a bill to provide for a union railroad station in the District Amendment offered by Mr. LANHAM: Page 2, line 19, after the fig of Columbia, and for other purposes. It ts reported ftom the Com ures "$14,750," insert "40 per cent of"; and at the end of line 21. mittee on the District of Columbia. It provides fqr the establishment sti1ke out the period and insert the following: "and 60 per cent out of a park in the District of Columbia and for the opening of streets, of nny money in the Trea81ll'y of the United States to the credit of the and imposes considerable expense upon the District of Columbia. District of Columbia which is not otherwise appropriated." It also imposes some expense upon the Treasury of the United States. Mr. ZIHLl\fAN and Mr. TINCHER. l\1r. Chairman, I make If, as has been suggested, an amendment were offered increasing the the point of order. tariff upon imports to meet such charges, the objection would at once The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Kansas makes the be made that under the rules such a measure must be referred to a. point of order, and also the gentleman from Maryland. different committee-the Ways and l\!C'ans. In otb~r wo~·ds, the rules 1\Ir. ZIHLl\:lAN. That it is not germane to this legislation. of the House would make an amendment touching the tariff not ger- The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will hear from the gentleman mane to Ruch a bill as this. . from Kansas. But with the District of Columbia the ca~ is different. If the Mr. TINCHER. Mr. Chairman, as I understand the bill, amE'ndment of the gentleman from Illinois were offered as a separate it provides for the building of a memorial bridge on property measure, it would go under the rulE's to the same committc>e which bas owned by the Government on what is known as the Mall, the reported this bill. The District Committee has jurisdiction of revenues GoYernment owning the property the same as the property in as well as expenditures, and could without infringing any rule include the Capital on which are built the Lincoln Memorial and the in one bill the purposes of the bill and also of the amendment. While WaRbington Monument. If an amendment to take funds be not entirely clear from doubt, the Chair is of· the opinion that the longing to the District of Columbia and use them in the con amendment providing re,-enue to meet the expenditures entailPd by the struction of a Government building or bridge or monument provisions of the bill itself upon the District of Columbia is g<>t'lllane to would be germane to the bill, then it would be entirely prope:r the hill, and therefore overrules the point. of ortll.'r. to offer an amendment providing that Kansas or Nebra:;;ka The effect of that ruling was, as stated by the gentleman or other States might have money taken out of their treasury from TexaR [1\lr. BLACK]. thflt the proviRion inc·reasing the and used for this purpose. I do not think the amendment is rnte of ta x.atiun on the a:-~:-:e 'l't>rt real all(l pprsoual property germane in any way to the bill which is before us. in the DlBtrid of Columbia iu e:...eh of the next tli·e Jiscal yenrs 11082 CONGRESSIO:N 1\-L RECOR.D-HOUSE FEBRUARY 18 by 25 per cent was held in order upon the bill providing for gentleman would, I suppose, at the next session of Congress, the e-rection of a Union Station in the District of Columbia, if we were building a little addition to the National Capitol, and for other purpo es. In the present ca ·e the purpose of the be entirely justified in asking the residents of the Dish·ict of bill is to provide for the construction of a memorial bridge Columbia to stand 60 per cent of the cost of making that addi across the Potomac RiYer from a point near the Lincoln Me tion. Why not make this thing retroactive and collect from morial in the city of Washington to an appropriate point in them 60 per cent of the cost of the Grant Memorial, the Wash the State of Virginia, and for other purposes. ington Monument, and the Lincoln Memorial, which are in The re. ide-nts of the District of Columbia and the taxpayers direct line with the Arlington Cemetery and the Mall, where of the District of Columbia will doubtless to some extent be this bridge is to be? benefited by the construction of this bridge. The bridge will Let us vote the bill up or down, and why make '4 monkeys " of add to the beautification and improYement of the District. ourselves and justify the people of the District of Columbia in The abutting property owners will receive some benefit from thinking that we are willing to just play with them all the the improYement. Without going further into the discussion, time? [Applause.] and, of course, without expressing any opinion on the merits, l\Ir. ELLIOTT. l\Ir. Chairman, I hope this amendment will the Cilair is com;trained to believe that this amendment is in not prevail. The sole Qbject of this amendment is to place the order; and the Chair will make the further observation that majority of the cost of this construction on the District of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, from which Columbia, while we are trying to build a national structure. this bill com.es, has jurisdiction of building operations in the I hope the amendment will not prevail, and I move that all J)istrict of Columbia. debate on this amendment do now close. Mr. MOORE of Virginia. But it has no authority to ap Mr. BL.A.N'l'ON. I have a perfecting amendment to the propriate. Lanham amendment. The CHAIRMAN. This is not an appropriation but an au Mr. ELLIOTT. Then I move that all debate close in five thorization of an appropriation to be made, certain portions minutes. out of the District revenues and certain portions out of the The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Indiana moves that Treasury of' tile United States. The Chair does not under all debate on this amendment and all amendments ·thereto, stand that the amendment offered by the gentleman from and on the section ? Texas seeks to appropriate. It simply directs the method by Mr. ELLIOTT. Yes. which the appropriation may be made under the authorization Mr. CRAMTON. The gentleman knows that I have an of the bill. amendment at the Clerk's desk and I would like five minutes Mr. ZIHLMAN. The Committee on Public Buildings and on that. Grounds have no power over the question of tax rates in the Mr. ELLIOTT. Then I will moYe that all debate on the District of Columbia. whole section close in 10 minutes. That will give the gentle The CHAIRMAN. The District Committee was the one in man from Michigan [Mr. CRAMTON] and the gentleman from volved in the case which the Chair referred to a moment ago. Texas [Mr. BLANTON] the time they desire. Mr. CRAMTON. And there is nothing in the pending The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Indiana moves that amendment with reference to the tax rate in the District of all debate on this section and all amendments thereto close in Columbia, although it may affect the tax rate. 10 minutes. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair overrules the point of order. The motion was agreed to. l\Ir. LANHAM. 1\Ir. Chairman and gentlemen of the com Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Chairman, I offer a perfecting amend mittee, the purpose of this amendment is, of course, readily ment. understood. In the current law applying to appropriations for The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Texas offers an the District of Columbia 40 per cent comes out of the public amendment to the amendment, which the Clerk will report. funds and 60 per cent comes out of the District revenues. The Clerk read as follows: This amendment simply seeks to carry into effect the current 11olicy with reference to this bridge construction in the District Amendment offered by Mr. BLANTON to the Lanham amendment: of Columbia. This bridge is to be entirely within the District At the end of the Lanham amendment insert a colon and add the of Columbia. I personally can see no reason why it should be following proviso, to wit: u Provided, That no mon<>y authorized herein excluded from the ordinary rule applying to building of this shall be expended and no constl'uction be commenced until the State character. I do not care to take up the time of the committee. of Vit·ginia shall reimburse the United States Government in au amount I think the provisions of the amendment are clearly under aggregating one-half of the sum that is to be expended." stood. Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Chairman, this bri!ge is to serve not hlr. TINCHER. :Mr. Chairman, I under tand that the com only as a memorial bridge over the Potomac River, but it is to mittee has reported favorably a bill to construct a memorial serve the people of the District of Columbia first and secondly bridge aero ·s the Potomac Ri>er on what is known as the the people of the State of Virginia. 1\Iall, which is Government property, as a Government proposi- You take, for instance, our old friend who used to preside tion. · over the Rules Committee, and who was the czar of this I shall not enter into a discussion of whether you are going House during the last 10 days of the Sixty-se>enth Congress. to build the bridge or not, but I have been here long enough to I see him out in the cloakroom now. The very minute you know that there is always more or less misunderstanding be construct this bridge you double and treble the value of his tween the House of Representatives and the people of the Dis already valuable property over the1·e in Virginia. He is in trict of Columbia. I hope the House will always be right in terested as a citizen of Virginia in having this bridge built its controversies with the residents of the Distl'ict ()f Columbia. and he should contribute his share. He will come over that Personally, if the residents of the District of Columbia $14,750,000 bridge every day into Washington and go over it should appeal to me as a :Member of Congress to vote to permit back home. There are hundreds of other citizens of Virginia them, the residents of the District of Columbia, to contribute who will come back and forth over it and who have their and hel}:r-different from the other people of the :Nation-to children in the Washington schools here and they will use that huild additions to the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington :Monu bridge every day. me-nt, or any otiler Government monument or memorial in the Mr. DEMPSEY. Will the gentleman yield? District of Columbia on Government ground I would vote M1·. BLANTON. Certainly. against it. If we are going to build this bridge, we ought to 1\Ir. DEMPSEY. This bridge does not go anywhere near lmild it as a national memorial bridge. [Applau e.] the property owned by the gentleman to whom the gentleman The people of the District of Columbia pay their income. tax f1·om Texas has referred. the same as the people of Virginia, Kansas, or any other sub 1\Ir. BLANTON. The gentleman can not make us believe divi!)ion of the United States, and there is no excuse on earth that, because we know where the gentleman liYes. I ha>e been for even permitting them, much less inviting or commanding by · there frequently and I know just exactly where the gen tllem, to pay 60 per cent of tile cost of a memorial bridge lead tleman lives. ing to the sacred ground in Arlington Cemetery. 1\Ir. DEMPSEY. So have I, and it is not anywhere ncar I can understand how some residents of the District of this bridge. Columbia form the idea tlley do concerning tile Congress. Mr. BLANTON. And neither is the Capitol, and neither Ju:st tbink wllat this would amount to. I suppose tile amend is the Washington 1\Ionument, and neither is the Lincoln Me-: ment is offered for the purpose of defeating the bill, because morial right at it, but the Lincoln :Memorial is about 200 or surely no man in Congress would seriously vote in favor of 300 yards from it. Wby, .we all know that the gentleman I l)t>rmitting the District of Columbia to contribute 60 per c~nt refer to lives on the main road to Alexandria. Will the gen toward the building of a national memorial to stand for all tleman deny that? When you go down that road you can time on Gon~rnment property, and if he would, then that same cross either the old bridge or the new one, ~ccording to tho 1925 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOlTSE ~083 dictates of your own fancy. You will not have to go over Twenty-fourth Street. I do not know where that improvement the old bridge. I opine if I lived over there I would go over runs to. the new bridge when it was built, and I can stand on that I have no desire to have the people of the District asked to old bridge and shoot an arrow over to where you are going pay any part of this project so far as it is a monumental to build the new one. memorial, but in so far as it is purely local in the improvement I will tell you what I used to do when my constituents of boulevards and streets, or otherwise, I insist the District would come' here. I used to take them on that old bridge and ought to pay. [Applause.] And this amendment, if you please, I would say to them in going over to Alexandria and over to is not born of antagonism to the bill. Colonel SheiTill, the Washington's old home, Mount Vernon, "Now, it is proposed executive officer of the commission, and Mr. Charles Glover, to construct a bridge across this river over yonder," and I would called upon me this morning to ask my support of the bill. I point out where it was going to be. Then I would call atten told them the obstacles to it in my judgment. Colonel Sher tion to where the new Key Bridge is located, which when first rill expressed a willingness to have such language put in as I estimated upon by the War Department they told us would am suggesting. I asked him if he would accept such an amend cost $1,000,000, and before we got through with it cost $2,350,- ment, and he said he would and 1\fr. Glover was likewise agree 000. And I would ask them whether they thought this new able to it. I consulted with Mr. MarcelluS Shields as to its bridge was necessary. And each and every one of them said drafting and then submitted it to those gentlemen who have it was not, and to think of building it was ridiculous. accepted the amendment as to its terms, and my friend the The CHAIRMAN. The time of- the gentleman from Texas gentleman from Indiana [Mr. ELLIOTT] has no objection to its • has expired. terms. They all recognize its fairness and its propriety. The :Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to only objection is that word comes from one Member of the proceed f9r one more minute. _ United States Senate that the House must not adopt any l\Ir. MOORE of Virginia. Mr. Chairman, I object. amendment to this bill or it might endanger it over there. Mr. BLANTON. The generalissimo of this bill objects. Two weeks left in this session and still we can not cross a The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment to "t" or dot an "i" in a bill carrying $14,000;000 to be taken out of the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas. the Federal Treasury, which is partly for the improvement of The amendment to the amendment was rejected. boulevards and streets that are no proper charge on your con- The CHAIRMAN. The question recurs upon the amendment stituents or mine. · offered by the gentleman from Texas [Mr. LANHAM]. Furthermore, there is nothing in the bill which assesses the The question was taken ; and on a division (demanded by 1\Ir. abutting property owner for benefits. That provision is in BLACK of Texas) there were-ayes 41, noes 124. cluded in my amendment. You will lmderstand that those So the amendment was rejected. most familiar with the bridge project make no objection to its 1\lr. CRAMTON. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment which terms, their only object-ion being based on fear of delay in the I send to the Clerk's desk. Senate. I hope it may be adopted. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Michigan offers an The amendment simply provides that when the time comes, amendment which the Clerk will report. when Congress shall actually appropriate the money, Congress The Clerk read as follows : will then decide what part shall be equitably charged to the Of Amendment offered by 1\Ir. CRAMTO~ : At the end of section 2, insert District in the light information Congress then has. I hope the following: "Pt·ovided, 'rhat such appropriations as may be made the Ilouse will accept the amendment. under the authority of tlli.s act for the execution of said project shall Mr. LINTHIOU.l\1. l\1r. Chairman, I asij: for a division on be chargeable to the Treasury of the United States and the revenues the question. of the District of Columbia in such manner as shall then be deter The CHAIRl\IA.N. In the opinion of the Ohair the amend mined by Congress to be equitable ; Provided fuTther, The opening, ment is divisible under paragraph 6, rule 15. The question is widening, ex:teuding or improvement of any streets of the District of on the first part of the amendment, the first proviso, without Columbia in connection with thi's project shall be subject to assessments objection will be reported for the information of the com for benefits in nccordance with the laws governing similar work under mittee. the Commissioners of the District of Columbia." The Clerk read as follows: Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Chairman, I make a point of order At the end of section 2 insert: "Provided, That such appropriations as may be made under the authority of this act by the execution of against the amendment that this amendment, in the first place, said project shall be chargeable to the United States and the revenue is not germane to, the purposes of the bill ; that the bill itself of the District of Columbia in such manner as shall then be deter comes from a committee that has nothing to do with the mined by Congress to be equitable." streets and alleys of the District of Columbia and has nothing to do with the fiscal relation existing between the District of The CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to that Columbia arid the United States; and has nothing to do with portion of the amendment just read. the taxing propositions of the District of Colll!llbia; in other The question was taken; and on a division (demanded by Mr. words, this comes from the Committee on Public Buildings and CRAMTON) there were-91 ayes and 79 noes. Grounds. The committee that would have jurisdiction over Mr. TINCHER. l\ir. Chairman, I ask for tellers. such an amendment as is proposed by t'he gentleman from Mr. CRAMTON. I make the point that the demand for tell- ~1ichigan [l\1r. ORAMTO~] is the Committee on the District of ers comes too late, the Ohair having announced the result. Columbia whose jurisdiction bas been fixed by the rules of the Mr. TINCHER. I withdraw the request. House. Tllis amendment deals solely and exclusively with the So the first part of the amendment was agreed to. jurisdiction of that committee and is wholly out of order. The CHAIRMAN. The question recurs on the second part Mr. CRAMTON. Does the Chair desire to hear from me at of the amendment, which the Clerk will report. all? The Clerk read as follows : The OHAIRMA...... ~. The Ohair is ready to rule. In the opin Prot'id.ed further, That the opening, widening, extending, or improv ion of the Ohair this amendment falls within the argument ing of any street in the District o! Columbia in connection with this made awhile ago upon the amendment offered by the gentleman project shall be subject to assessment for benefits in accordance with from Texas [Mr. LANHAM], and in the view of the Ohair is the laws governing similar work under the Commissioners of the Dis even less obnoxious to the rule of germaneness than it might trict of Columbia. be argued _that the so-called Lanham amendment was, and the The CHAIRMAN. The question is on tlle lattm· part of the Chair, therefore, overrules the point of order. amendment. 1\Ir. CRAMTON. Mr. Chairman-- The question was taken, and the second part of the amend 1\lr. l\10NTAGUE. Will the gentleman permit me to ask him ment was a_greed to. a question? 1\ir. NEWTON of Minnesota. Mr. Chairman, I offer the fol Mr. CRAMTON. I have only five minutes and I can not lowing amendment: yield. The Clerk read as follows : l\Ir. MONTAGUE. I simply wanted to ask if the gentleman's amendment was divisible. There seem to be tWo propositions At the end of the amendment just adopted, insert: rr Provid.ed, That involved. if the bridge is constructed otherwise thau by contract, there shaH be kept accurate and itemized accounts of all costs, including labor, mate 1\fr. CRAMTON. That is a parliament~ry question. This bill provides: First. for a memorial bridge; second, rials, rental, repairs, insurance, depreciation of plant and equipment, it provic1es for the improvement of " appropriate approaches, and all other items and engineering cost properly chargeable to the ronds, street!':, boulevards, avenues, and walks leading thereto," construction of said bridge.'' including. for instance, t he improvement of B Street from the The OHAIR:VIAL~. The question is on the amendment offered Capitol to the bridge, a distance of 2 miles nearly, arid also by the gentleman from l\Ilnnesota. L1084 OONGRESSION AL RECORD-HOUSE FEBRUARY 18 The question was taken ; and on a division (demanded by of over $300,000 per rear which maintains the Mawftou-'1?1. and 1\lr. NEWTON of l\linue~ota) there were-111 ayes and 35 noes. r ide on the Southland and the Nm·t11l-cma "·henever he wants to So the amendment was agreed to. cruise. I hope the bill will be defeated. The Clerk read as follows : The Clerk read as follows : SEc. 3. That the said executive officer of the Paid Arlington Memorial SEc. 5. That the said Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission is Bridge Commis ion is hereby authorized, with the approval of the said hereby authorized to procure by purcha e in 1he open market, or other commission, to employ the services of. such engineers, architects, sculp wise, as may be most advisable, or by condemnation, such pri>ately torR, artists, anti other personnel as shall be determined to be neces owned lands as may be neces ary for approaches on the Virginia shore sary without reference to civil service requirements and at rates of and to allow B Street NW., Washington, District of Columbia, to be pay authorized by said commission : Pt·odded, That such officers of opened up from the Capitol to the Potomac River iu accordance with the United States Corps of Engineers as may be considered necessary the said plans of the said commission: Prodded, That any condemna by said commis ion may be detailed by the President on this work for tion cm·ried out under thls act shall be in accordanre with the pro such periods as the commission may require. visions of the act of Congt·es , approTed Angust 30 1890, providing for a site for the enlargement of the Government Printing Office. Mr. ~IcKEO'-'"N. Mr. Chairman, I offer the following amenument. l\lr. 1\icSWAIN. 1\fr. Cllah:man, I offer the following amend~ The Clerk read as follows : ment which I send to the desk. The Clerk read as follows : Page 2, Une 22, strike out section 3, and in lieu thereof insert: "S.r:c. 3 .• aid commis._ion may request !he President to detail on Page 3, line 23, after the word " commi sion " sh·ike out the colon, this work, for such period as may be required, officers of the United insert a comma and the following: " antl ·aid commission is hereby States Corps of Engineers." authorized and directed _first to acquire by purchase or co:QdPmnation Analostan Island and to beautify and develop the same in connection ll!r. McKEOWN. Mr. Chairman, I just want to say that we with such approaches, boulevards, aTenue ·, walks, and adornments as have got the tine ·t engineers in the Corps of Engineers that are compatible with the plans of the commission." there are in the world. There is no necessity of going to the expense of hiring engineers to build this memorial bridge. :E'or 1\lr. l\'IOORB of Virginia. Jlr. CI1airman, I make the point that reason this anwnclment ought to be adopted. I have been of order. opposed to the bill, but I want as good a bill as can be written. l\Ir. l\IcSWAIN . l\Ir. Cllait·man, I suppose the gentleman It will save a lot of money to let these engineers of the from Virginia makes the point of order upon the ground of Army do thi.'" work. We have as good as there are in the germaneness, but I think that I <.:an meet that now with abso world; and if we llave not, we ought to have, because we spend lute satisfaction to even the gentleman from Virginia. The money enough for them. Chair will obser \e the amendment is now directed to section 5, The CHAIR~!AN. Tile question i on the amendment offered which gives to the commission authority to acquire by tmr by the gentleman from Oldahoma. cha e or condemnation lands either in Virginia or in tbe Di - The que.-·tion was taken; and on a division (demanded by trict. This island is in the Di. trict of Columbia, because all of 1\!r. McKEowN) there were--ayes 50, noes 75. us know, and I am going to ask the gentleman from Virginia So the amendment "·as rejected. to corroborate that proposition, that the District goes to the 'l~he Clerk read as follows : southern sllore of the Potomac River, so that AnaJo. tan Island i.' in the Di trict of Columbia. '.rhi. bill undertakes to give SEc. 4. That the said Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission is the commission the power to condemn it, and the commission hereby authoriz"d to occupy such Government-owned lands as may be in the bill a written can acquire this island. \Vbat I propo e necessary for the bridge project authorized herein, and on completion to do is to direct them to acquire it before they e\er do a thing of the project to transfer to the park system under the Cliief of En toward the construction of the bridge, hecanRe if they delay gineers, "Cnitcd States Army, all or such portions of such lands a • the said commission may, in its discretion, decide to be necessary. until the bridge is in proces of ·onstruction nml then decide to acquire it, they will have fo pay tw·o or three times as much l\lr. SCHAFER. ~Jr . Chairman, I move to strike out the for it as tlley would haye to do now before they break ~round last word. I regret that I am unable to follow my distin for the bridge. In the interest of economy, in conformity with guished colleague from Wi "con. ·in [l\lr. CooPER] in supporting the plan of the commission, I think it ls necessary that this be th!s measure, although I believe him to be the able t Repre· done at this time. This is not now like the other amendments. sentati\e in thi. botly. [A!)plause.] We heard and read much This is to build . treets and roa(ls, Loulevards, just as .they are about economy in the last campaign. The distinguished gen directed already to do with reference to Columbia Island and tleman of the steering committee [l\Ir. TINCHER], in his recent the approaches to the bridge. speech here, practically tate On a . uivision ( uemnnded by Mr. 1\IcSw.Ar~) there we~·e consisting of five members be appointed by the President, of whom ayes 37, noes 113. not mo're than three shall reside in the District of Columbia, who So the amendment was rejected. shall appraise such property before the same shall be purchased." l\Ir. ELLIOTT. 1\Jr. Chairman, I move that all debate on Mr. 1\IcKEOWN. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the com this section and all amendments thereto close in 10 minutes. mittee, this amendment gives the commission the right under [Cries of "Vote!"] the bill to purchase the property. They ought to have the The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Indiana moves that right. I provide a board of appraisers to be appointed by the all debate on this section an permanent wol'ld peace, that there may ne\er come again this substanti\e amendments quite different in character and in awful scourge of '"'ar·? purpose, and the Chair is informed that they were voted upon Last 3·ear Congre~", by reason of this program of economy, separately in the committee, so the Chair is disposed to think was enabled to reduce the cost of government to the taxpayers the House has the right to Gardner, Ind. LaGuardia Morln Stengle Mr. Newton of Missouri with Mr. Lindsay. Garrett, 'l'enn. Lampert Morris Strong, Pa. Mr Mills with Mr. Pon. Garrett, TeL LaEaJ.'O NeL'5on, Me. Swoope Mr: Seger with Mr. Salmon. Gasque Lea, Calif. Newton, Minn. Taylor, W. Va. · Mr. Kurtz with Ur. Ward of Xorth Carolina. Gibson Leacll O'Connell, N. Y. Temple Mr. Crowther with Mr. Doyle. Gifford Leatherwood O'Connell, R. I. Thatcher Mr. Wurzbach with Mr. Geran. Gilbert Leavitt O'Connor, La. Thompson .Mr. Frear with 1\fr. Griffin. Green Lee, Ga. O'Connor, N.Y. Tilson Mr. Kelly with Mr. Logan. Greenwood Lehlbach Oldfield Timberlake Mrs. Nolan with Mr. Quayle. Griest Lineberger Oliver, N.Y. Tinchel"' Mr. Sears of Nebraska with Mr. Sulli"an. Guyer Linthicum Paige Tinkham Mr. Perlman with Mr. Rainey. Hadley Longworth Peery Tucker Mr. Hall with Mr. Morrow. llarri on Luce Prall Tydings Mr. Curry with Mr. Humphreys. Hawes McDuffie Purnell Underhill Mr. Woodruff with Mr. Glatfelter. Hawley McFadden Ragon Upshaw Mr. Parker with Alr. Clark of Florida.. Hayden McKenzie Raker Vaile 1\lr. Roach with Mr. Woltl'. • Hersey McLaughlin, Nebr,Ransley Voigt Mr. Edmonds with Mr. Berger . Hickey McLeod Reece Wainwright Mr. BYRNS of Tennessee. l\lr. Speaker, I am paired with Hill, Md. McReynolds Reed, N. Y. Wason Holaday MacLafferty Reid,Ill. Watkins the gentleman from Virginia, Mr. HooKER. I wish to with Hudson Magee, N. ~. Sanders, Ind. Watres draw my vote of" no., and answer "present." Hull, Iowa Magee, Pa. Sanders, N.Y. Watson :Mr. GERAN. JUr. Speaker, I desire to vote. Hull, Tenn. Mapes Schneider Weller Hull, Morton D. Martin Scott Wertr; The SPEAKER. Was the gentleman in the Hall and listen- IIull, William E. Mead Shreve White, Me. ing when his name should have been called? Jacobstein Merritt Sinclair Williams, Ill. Mr. GERAN. No; I was in the cloakroom. James Michaelson Sinnott Wilson, Ind. Johnson, S. Dak~ Miller, IlL Sites Wingo The SPEAKER. The gentleman does not qualify. Kearns Miller, Wash. Smith Winslow The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. Keller Mlnal1an Snell Winter On motion of Mr. ELLIOTT, a motion to reconsider the vote Kent Montague Snyder Woodrum Ketcham Mooney Spearing Wright whereby the bill was passed was laid on the table. King Moore, Va. Stalk~ Yates l.fiLESTONES IN THE WAR AGAINST THE NARCOTIC PERIL Kopp Moores·, Ind. Stedman · Zihlman NAY8-125 Mr. LINEBERGER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to extend my remarks in the RECORD on the narcotic problem. Allgood Fulmer 1\Iajor, m Speaks Arnold Funk Major, Mo. Sproul. Til. There was recently held a great international conference in Ayres Garber Manlove Steagall Geneva, Switzerland, at which the United States was ably Barbour Hammer Mansfield Stephens represented by a Member of this Honse. I wish also to include .Be<'k Hardy Michener Stevenson Bell Hastings Milligan Strong, Kans. therein certain printed data from the International Narcotic Black, Tex. Hill, Ala. Moore, Ga. Summers, Wash. Education Association bearing on tills subject. Blanton Hill. Wash. Morehead Swank · The SPEAKER. Is there objeetion to the request of tile Boies Hoeh Morg.an Swing Bowling Howard, Nebr. Murphy Taber gentleman from California? Box Howard, Okla. O'Sullivan Taylor, Colo. There- was no objection. Boyce lluddleston Oliver, Ala.. Taylor, Tenn. The matter referred to is as follows: Brand, Ohio Hudspeth Park, Ga. Thomas, Ky. Briggs Jeffers Parks, Ark. Thomas, Okla. MILESTONES IN THEl WAR AGAINST TilE NARCOTIC PERIL Browning :Tohnson, Ky. Perkins Tillman Bulwinkle Johnson, Tex. Quin Underwood (By Capt. Richmond P. Hobson) Canfield Johnson, Wash. Ramseyer Vestal The readers and friends of the International Narcotic Education Cannon Jones · Rankin Vincent, Mich. Carter Kincheloe Rayburn Vinson, Ga. Association of Los Angeles and all those interested in stemming the Christopherson Kvale Reed. Ark. Vinson, Ky. rising tide of narcotic drng addiction will be interested to learn of Clague Lanham Richar-ds Weaver two important milestones that emphasize the primary importance of Cole, Iowa Lankford Robinson. Iowa Wefald Collier- Larsen, Ga. Robsion. Ky. Welsh education in this vital reform. Collins Lowrey Ro~ue White. Kans. At their annual convention in New York City in December tl1e Cook Lozier Rubey Williams, Mich. Association of Life Insurance Presidents adopted tbe following reso Dickinson, Iowa Lyon Sanders, '.rex. Williams, Tex. Dowell McClintic Sandlin Williamson lutions: Drane McKeown Schafer Wilson, La:. " Recognir;~lng the serious And growing menace ot narcotic drug Driver McLaughlin, llich Sears, Fla. Wilson, Mis~. addiction to the integtity of society and the public health; and Enms, Iowa McSwain Sherwood Foster McSweeney Simmons believing that the remedy is through education rather than penal French MacGregor Smithwick or punitive laws; ANSWERED "PRESENT "-2 "ResolL·ed, That this association recommends to all life insur Byrns, Tenn. Knutson ance companies that they support every wise movement or agency NO'.r VOTING-100 which will bring home to the people of this country, and particu Anderson Frear Larson, Minn. Roach larly to the young, the dreadful results of narcotic drug addic Anthony Fredericks Lilly Rogers, Mass. tion." Aswell Free Lindsay RogerR. ?\.H. Berger Freeman Lognn Rosen-bloom This resolution prepares the way for the active cooperation of the Browne, N.J. Fulbright McNulty Rouse insurance world. Buchanan Garner, Te:x. l\Iadden Sa!Jath Press dispatches report that the delegates to the Geneva conference Buckley Geran Mills Salmon Butler Gtatf'elter Moore, Ill. Schall on narcotic drugs, now in session under the direction of the League of Byrnes, S. C. Goldsborough Moore, Ohio Sears, Nebr. Nations, while differing widely on other matters, adopted a resolution Cable Graham Morrow Seger for recourse to education in solving the narcotic problem. This con Carew Griffin Nelson, ·wis. Shallenberger firms the wisdom of the methods advocated by the International Nar Clark, Fla. Hall Newton, Mo. Sproul, Kans. Clarke. N.Y. Haugen Nolan Sullivan cotic Education Association and opens the way for carrying out a gen Connolly, Pa. Hooker o·Brien Sumners, 'l.'ex. eral program for all lands. Croll Humphreys Parker Sweet Crowther :Tollnson, W.Va. Patterson Tague This issue of the journal devotes most of its space to our document Cummings J ost Peayey Treadway on the Petil of Narcotic Drugs, prepared for the use of teachers and Curry Kelly PerlllUln Vare parents. To this document we invite the close attention of readers and Davis, Minn. Kendall Phillips Ward, N.Y. request their constructive criticism and suggestions. Davis, Tenn. Kerr Porter Ward, N.C. Dominick Kiess Pou Wolfl:' The object of the document is to supply teachers anu parents with Doyle Kindl·ed Quayle Wood suitable materials and through them to bring about quickly the in Edmonds Kunz Rainey Woodruff struction of the children and the youth concerning the peril of narcotic Favrot Kurtz Rathbone Wurzbach Fitzgerald Langley Reed, W.Va.. Wyant drugs. The spread of addiction among our youth has become alarm So the bill was passed. ing. Investigation and analysis lead to 1he conclusion that in most The following pairs were announced : cases the victims al'e " caught" because of their ignorance of the peril On this vote : and its tragic consequences. Instructing them is not only a matter of the utmost importance but one of great urgency. l\Ir. Anthony (for) with l\Ir. Buchanan (against). Mr. Hooker (for) with Mr. Byrns of Tennessee (against). We therefore appeal to every reader to help us. The q11ickest l\Ir. Patterson (for) with Mr. Peavey (against). and most effective method is for Congress to print tbf' document aR Mr. Kiess (for} with Mr. Butler (against). a public document and distribute it under the frank of Senators and Until further notice: Members throu"'h superintendents and principals, to teachers and 1\Ir. Wyant with Mr. Garner of Texas. pupils, the pupils taking their copies to their parents and guardians. Mr. Davis of Minnesota with M:r. Lilly. To this end a concurrent resolution is pending in both Houses, Sen 1\!r. Freeman with Mr. Tague. Mr. Varo with Mr. Davis of Tennel'lsee. ate Concurrent Resolution 10, House Concurrent Resolution 34. · Let Mr. Madden with Mr. Carew. each reader write to his or to any other Sen a tors and Congressmen, - 1925 CONGRESS! ON A_L RECORD-HOUSE 4089 requesting sympathetie interest in the resolution and cooperation for The motive and urge th-at constantly drive the traffic- on are the its passage, r-equesting copi-es of same. Would each reader also enormous profits, the jobber and retailer betw-een them often 1~ealizlng secure the adoption of appropriate r-esolutions by organizations of more than a thousand per- cent ppofit. Add to this the lure for the which he is a member whether religious or civic. armies of impoverished addicts of getting the drug for themselves Would each reader further cooperate by speaking to his friends, through recruiting and supplying new· addicts. neighbors, and leading citizens enlisting similar cooperation on their The profits a1·e so great because the poor addiet, under the awful In morphine, the formula, C17H 19N03, contains 17 atoms of carbon, It is the custom to give away heroin free· to the youth till he or 19 of hydrogen, and 1 of nitrogen, 3 of oxygen. The formula of she is " hooked." When children are away from home it is a safe cocaine is C17H!!1 NO,. In the case of heroin, acetic and hydrochloric practice to accept nothing as a gift to eat, drink, or. whiff, not even acid introduce additional complexity, giving more powerful poisoning from a supposed friend. When you decline the first offer the boy or properties, producing morphine-diactylate, having the formula C!!lll:J:J\Os. girl aiding the peddler will taunt you or challenge you and say " try Protoplasm, the living material from which all living parts are built, anything once," "you will get a kick out of it," "watch me," "come is composed of proteins, water and a little salt. Its life processes re to our ' snow party ' and watch the other fellows do it." Alas! Once quire a regular supply of food and oxygen and regular elimination of is once too often. The poison is so swift that the poor youth will waste products. Some poisons attack the protoplasm itself; some seek the next party for to.ellef, and the next. A " snow party " a day interfere with its necessary life processes ; some do both. for a week will probably drag a youth into the bondage of addiction The highly organized alkaloidal poisons combine readily with proteins, worse than death from which experience teaches there is no sure and easily penetrate the wall or sheathing that protects the living escape, cells. Consequently, we would expect the result to be not only violent The narcotic poison penetrating the upper brain naturally inflicts derangement in the usual acth'ities and life processes, but permanent the deepest and swiftest injury upon the parts that are the tenderest, injury to the structure. the most complex and unstable, which are developed latest in human Since the nervous system is the most highly organized part of the evolutionary progress and distinguish the man from the brute. This whole human organism, it is not surprising that these complex alkaloidal part of the brain may be considered as the temple of the spirit, the poisons should show their chief effect upon the nervous system and seat of altruistic motives, of character., of those high, God-like traits should attack man more than the lower animals. Since, of the nervous upon which an advanced and enduring civilization are built. system, the upper brain is the most delicate, it is not, surprising that The transformation in character is swift in the young, and swifter this part should be quickly attacked and deeply injured, although it with cocaine and heroin than with the other narcotics. In an in· is from damage to the functions of the lower brain that death occurs credibly short time, a youth of either sex " hooked " with the " snow with a fatal dose. · gang" loses the results of good heredity and of careful home training. PHYSIOLOGY Self-respect, honor, obedience, ambition, truthfulness melt away. Narcotics are soluble in fat, so they penetrate the fatty sheathing Virtue and morality disintegrate. The question of securing the drug that protects the brain from most harmful substances in the blood supply becomes absolutely dominant. To get this supply the addict current, and in this way the poison comes quickly in contact with the will not only advocate public policies against the public welfare but delicate, highly organized gray matter. will lie, steal, rob, and if necessary, commit murder. Thus we can One of the earlier phy iological effects is to stop the action of the understand how intimately addiction is connected causatively with parts that cause the sensatiou of pain, and this is what gives narcotics crime. \b{'it' chief legitimate value in the practice of medicine, but even In In addition to the general antisocial traits of all addicts, the heroin the effect of deadening the sense of pain, the action of the drug is addict has two special characteristics. First, for a period after taking that of a poison. The medicinal is contracting. the drug he experiences an " exaltation of the ego," looks pon him In the same way these poisons attack the delicate, carefully pro· self as a hero. Bent upon getting money to buy his drug, he will dare tected organs of r eproduction, impairing the sexual powers of the male, anything, thinks he can accomplish anything. The daylight holdups, causing the femnle addict to become sterile, and undermining the robberies, and murders committed by these young criminal heroin ad· germ plasm by Yirtue of which the species renews its life from gen diets eclipse in daring all the exploits of Jesse James and his gang, eration to generation. This can be said also of cocaine addicts. Tyrode (Harvard) in his Pharmacolo.;zy, sums up the symptoms of Secondly, the heroin addict has a mania to bring everybody else into morphine addiction as follows: "D<>p raYit y of the mind; general de addiction. It may be said in general that all addicts have a desire bility ; loss of weight and appetite; loss of sexual powers; sleepless· for company and wish others to share with them the problem of secur ness; eczema; contracted pupils; diarrhea, alternating with constipa· ing the drug supply, but in the case of the heroin addict, it is an tion; and finally death from malnutrition." absolute mania for recruiting. lie thinks, dreams, plots to bring all The case i. f1U92 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE FEBRU.t.~RY 18~ havior. The beginning of these character traits should be made 1n 1. The social sciences-history, cjvics, geography, and economics babyhood. Some of the most important are as follows : form a natural setting for studying the problems of drug addiction (1) Suspicion of any kind of secret or underhand amusement. as they affect our civilization: (2) Belief that to refuse to do a thin~ that everyone else in the (a) Its effect on our criminal problem; (b) its effect upon the group is doing because it is an underhand or harmful thing to do is home; (c) its effect upon the individual's ability to earn a living; brave, not cowardly. {d) its gr·owing menace, as indicated by the history of the production (3) A feeling of horror and fear of drug addiction. and use of narcotic drugs; (e) its world significance, the necessity for ( 4) A tendency to feel afraid of strangers who offer things to eat, international control, and attempts at international regulation at vari drink, or snift'. ous conferences. (5) A belief that the effect of an act on future happiness and use China's attempt to rid herself of the opium menace and the selfish fulness is more important than a temporary immediate enjoyment. greed of the other world powers should be studied as a significant (6) A tendency to weigh the consequences of any unfamiliar act historical event. Emphasis shoula be placed upon the fundamental before engaging in it. idea that narcotic drugs should •be kept out of human reach by world (7) An unwillingness to "try anything once," such as eating, drink control of the production in all -countries, of raw opium and cocon. ing, or sniffing unknown substance or using the hypodermic needle. leaves so that there is no surplus beyond the supply needed for medical " Once " may be too often. and scientific purposes. This should show the future citizen his re (8) Confidence in the parents and a habit of freely discussing with sponsibility in relation to the support of any -legislatiYe measures them all of the day's happenings. As the result of such an attitude regarding drugs. the child or yo.utb would be likely to tell his parents of his first ex 2. Biography and literature may be used to show the devastating periences with drug vendors or suspicious characters. This might effect o.f drug addiction in the lives of famous characters in history lead to the early discovery of "snow parties." Aftet• the drug has and literatures; e. g., Poe and DeQuincy. been used and the drug habit formed the addict becomes very secretive, 3. In chemistry, the student may learn the composition of narcotic and it is difficult to discover the existence of the menace. drugs, reach a scientific understanding of why they are poisons, and (9) Feeling of responsibility for supporting legislation regarding what their chemical action is. This will necessarily be simply pre control of narcotic drugs and keeping informed regarding expert sented in high schools, but the student will gain the scientific point opinion of what the most effective type of legislatHm is. of view. (10) The ideal of self-control, of being able to control one's own 4. In biology or physiology, the student may learn the eff~>cts of actions for the best good of family, friends, and community, as well poisons upon the growth and life of living tissues, and upon the or· as personal well-being. If this ideal has become consciously worth ganism as· a whole. He may learn here that the use of narcotic drugs while to the boy and girl, they will seek to avoid anything such as destroys the powers of reproduction, and this will give him the the drug habit, which makes self-control impossible. scientific basis for understanding the disastrous effects of drug addic (11) The ideals of good citizenship, good workmanship, and good tion upon the preservation of the race. sportsmanship. These ideals require that the boy and girl do every 5. In psychology, the student discovers the laws of habit formation, thing possible to keep themselves physically, mentally. and morally fit; the effect of dri1gs upon the nervous system, and the terrific difficulties that they observe all habits which keep them in good condition and in breaking the drug habit. a~oid all habits and indulgences which impair theit· ability and use LES~ON IV fulness. (12) The ideal of reliability. The boy or girl who can be depended EXAMPLES l!'OR LESSO;xs IN SCHOOLS upon is respected and admired. The use of narcotic drugs undermines Two detailed suggestions for lessons on the drug problems: all qualities of trustworthines~. Boys and girls who pride themselves These lessons are not to be taught word for word in all situations. on being dependable, trustworthy, and reliable will not knowingly use 'l'hey are included to give a concrete idea of certain principles · of narcotic drugs. method especially LESSON III (1) The use of a real problem as tbe basis of the lesson. The first lesson would be taught if there were definite rumors or evidence of IDEALS AXD KXOWLEDGE drug traflj.c among children in the neighborhood. The second, if news The important habits and ideals related to the prevention of the papers and· magazines were printing articles concerning the prevalence illegitimate use of narcotic drugs have been briefly outlined. It wHl and danger of drugs in the community. have become evident that although .they are the backbone of preveJ?tion, (2) The presentation of story or facts in such a way as to have the they must be supplemented by knowledge. convictions and conclusions come from the children-not from tlle A considerable body of knowledge has been presented in preceding teacher. pages. Some suggestions follow regat·ding the use of this information (3) Lessons dealing with the drug problem should be taught with with school children, and the different approaches that are possible. all tbe earnestness and force of per~:;onality that' is possible by a teacher who feels the importance. of this subject. ELEME:: Suppose you have a friend who doesn't measure up. '\\hat are you TEACHER. Yes. Heroin is made in the form of a white' powder that going to do about it? can be easily " sniffed." Others require a hypodermic needle. Can P PIL. Try to get -him to improve. you see how that makes heroin especially dangerous? TEACHER. And if he doesn't? P uPIL. Yes. ::\lost people would be suspicious of the use of a needle, PuPIL. Well, if you've done an· you can, and he still does things but the white powder would look quite harmless to anyone who didn't you do not like, you'd better get another friend. know what it was. TEACHER. I read recently a story about a fine boy who chose the TEACHER. Exactly so. Is there any other factor which makes these wrong friends. On the outskirts of a great city lived a carpenter, a drugs so dangerous? man over 70 years old, hardy and strong and skillful in his work. PUPIL. They can be easily smuggled in. He liked his work-the ringing blows (Jf the hammer, sure antl swift; TEACHER. Yes; it is estimated that $20,000 worth of opium can be the rough boards becoming smooth and straight under his skiilfnl packed in one suit case, and that 2,000 addicts can be produced with planing; the great beams reared up against the sky. His wife \vas 1 ounce of heroin. AB John said, that makes it easy for people to industrious, saving, cleanly, thoughtful of his welfare and com fort. smuggle it 1nto the country and sell it to their victims. The next They had an only child, a boy whom the father loved ft·om the question-" Do many people take drugs'' is more difficult to answ e r~ moment of his first helpless crying. As soon as Donald could walk, why? he went with his father into the carpenter shop., made unstable P PIL. P eople keep it a secret-they feel it is a disgrace. mountains of cedar-scented sawdust, decorated his own curly head TBACHER. Yes. The actual number of drug addicts has been esti with the curly wood shavings, and tried to belp his father by band· mated to be from 250,000 to 2,000,000. Poison authorities at Leaven ing him nails as he needed them. worth jn 19!:?1 reported 15.5 per cent of drug addicts and in 19!:?2, 24 When he grew ohl enough be liked best of all to come to the shop per cent. The chief physician of Sing Sing says that there was an and with his father's help build little houses and boats and furni increase in addicts of 900 per cent from 1919 to 1922, What do ture. In vacation, when he was 12 years old he helped his father these figures show? build a fine new house in the neighborhood. Every morning the two would walk off together, talking and pointing out different types of PuPIL. That it is becoming a more serious problem all the time. houses, building materials, and roof lines, and window groupings. TEACHER. Yom· next question asks " Does taking a drug one or two times do any harm?" Does being bitten by a poisonous snake once " You will be an architect some day, not just a builder like me,'' twlce do any harm? Does playing with fire once or twice ever do any said the father. "Perhaps you will m!lke plans for great churches or or harm? Taking a drug once may result in the drug habit. '.fhe more tall office buildings of ste~l, many stories high, reaching up abo\e all powe1·ful the drug, the more certain its quick habit-foi'ming effect. the others." Heroin taken six times w.ill make an addict...:....a slave to the drng. And the boy too dreamed plans of great buildings, and studied his (Tells the story of Wallace Reid and his unsuccessful fight with the lessons with these dreams in mind. He was strong, like his father, drug habit.) and in the senior year of high school was captain of the football team. One day an older boy, wbom he had never seen before, came into (The teacher similary takes up a discussion of the other questions tbe school yard at recess time. He gathered a group of boys together. proposed, in e\•ery case drawing conclusions and suggestions from the Donald came also. He heard him whisper, " To-night at the deserted children, and supplying juformation herself as needed.) house, Christopher Street, at 8 o'clock." · Teache1· finally asks: What are your conclusions concerning this Donald · was curious. Ilc went at the appointed time. He went problem of drug addiction? again the next night, and again and again. He couldn't !'ltop going. Pupils make summary. He had to have the white powder-the drug-be bad taken that TEA CHI'lR. Wbat can we as a class do to prevent the spread of the first night just to see what it was like. In six nights he was no drug evil? longer free. He was a slave to the drug. He failed in the tests. He Pupils give suggestions : could not respond to the football signals. The game was lost, when If we ever get into a situation where boys or girls are ahout to take the team depended on him to carry the ball down the field. any of these drugs we can tell them what the consequences would be, But now be didn't care. lie cared for nothing but to get the drug and prevent them f1·om taking the drug. We can help make outdoor that had made him a slave. lie stole money to buy it. He stole sports more popular than indoor sports. money that his mother had saved, denying herself comforts for many We can report to the police any suspicious-looking people. years. We can take medicine only when the doctor gives 1t to us. One night he went out, and did not return. Disgraced, discouraged, TEACHER. 'l'hese at·e good suggestions. We will be prepared to be be lost himself in the great city. His father tried to find him, hoping master of any situation of danger if we meet it, and all other times there might be some way to cure him of the terrible drug habit. forget about it, get thrills from outdoor sports as John said, and "till Many days the poor old mother and father searched and waited and every unforgiving minute " by doing something profitable and inter hoped. But the boy did not return. esting to ourselves and worth while to others. The neighbors were full of pity for the kind old man who still DEPART~IE~S OF STATE, COMMERCE, AND LABOR .APPROPRIATION BILL went to his work as usuaL Bnt instead of the strong, ringing strokes of the hammer, tbe blows became weak, and sometimes he Mr. SHREVE. Mr. Speaker, I present a· conference report would sit with bowed head and with tears in his eyes. The eyes on the bill (H. R. 11753) making appropriations for the Depart which would now n ever see the great buildings that his son, once so ments of State,· Commerce, and Labor, for printing, under the fine and strong, and dear to him, had helped to plan. rule. LESSON V ENROLLED BILLS SIG~ED SAMPLE LESSON FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL-HYGIENE rEnlOD Mr. ROSENBLOOM, from the Committee on Enrolled BilL~. TilACHER. Se,·eral of the students this week brought in clippiug:3 reported that they had examined and found truly enrolled from newspapers about drug addiction. [Reads parts from clippings.] bills of the following titles, when the Speaker signed the same: 454~. An These clippings say that _the drug menace is a very seii!)us problem. H. R. act authorizing the Secretary of Commerce What are some points you would consider in deciding how important to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, a certain tract of land in the District of Columbia for the enlargement of the the problem is? present site of the Bureau of Standards; PUPIL. What kinds of drugs are most dangerous~ PUPIL. Are drugs being easily made and sold? H. R. 9095. An act to incorporate the American Wa1· Mothers; PUPIL. Do many people take drugs? . · H. R. 10471. An act authorizing the Postmaster General to PuPIL. Does taking !l drug one or two times do any harm? permit the use of precanceled stamped envelopes; PUPIL. Can a person who hns been a drug addict ever be cured? H. R.11725. An act to legalize a pier and wharf in York PUPIL. What effect do the -drugs nave on health and character? River at Gloi1cester Banks, near Gloucester Point, Va.; PuPIL. What etrect does the person who takes drugs have on other S. 2397. An act to provide for refunds to veterans of the people? 'Vorld War of certain amotmts paid by them under Federal TEACHER. (Writes the qu~tions &uggested on the board.) These irrigation projects; are all important points. Let us try to answer the first question. S. 2718. An act to authorize the payment of an indemnity Wbat drugs are mentioned in the clippings read? to the Government of Norway on account of losses sustained PUPIL~ Opium, morphine, cocaine, heroin. by the owners of the Norwegian steamship Hassel as the result TEA.CHER. When we think of the eft'ec_ts of opium smoking-. ome of of a collision between that steamship and the American steam- the Chinese victims look scarcely human-it would seem that opium ship Attsable; must be the most dangerous. But morphine is nearly ten times more S. 2835. An act to amend an act entitled "An act authorizing powerful than opium. Would thet·e be any · otbt>r factor beside the insurance companies or associations and fraternal beneficiary conceuti·ation, making one of these more dangerous than anothex·? societies to file bills of interpleader," approved February 22, PUPIL. If one were easier to take than another. · 1917; L:XVI-259 ~094 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE FEBRUARY 18 s. 3193. An act to authorize the appointment of commis THE SHATTERED DREAM OF A FARMER BOY-MY MOTTO FOR STRUG sioners by the Court of Claims and to prescribe their powers GLING YOUTH EVERYWHERE, " LET NOTHING DISCOURAGE YOU; and compensation; NEVER GIVE UP !" S. 4152. An act to authorize the .Secretary of War to grant Mr. UPSHAW. Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the House, a perpetual easement for railroad right of way over and upon 40 years ago to-day occurred the accident on a Georgia f-arm, a portion of the military reservation on Anastasia Island, in resulting in the physical handicap which you have witne sed the State of Florida ; ~ these six years since I have been in Congress. The fellowship S. J. Res.172. Joint resolution to authorize the appropria with my colleagues has been so delightful and I have been of certain amounts for the Yuma irrigation project, Adzona, asked so frequently the natural question as to how this handi and for other purposes ; cap occurred, that I have thought perhaps all my colleagues S. J. Res. 95. Joint resolution t9 authorize the American Na might be interested now in hearing the little story of that fall tional Red Cross to continue the use of temporary buildings in which went down the rosy dreams that gladdened youth, the now erected on square No. 172, Washington, D. C.; shining castles that cheered me, and the bright, sweet hopes S. 3630. .An act authorizing the Secretary of War to convey that in..'ll)ired and led me on in those beautiful halcyon days of to the Federal Land Bank of Baltimore certain land in the youth. city of San Juan, P. R. ; I was a farmer boy with freckled face and r~d hair. I had S. 3760. An act·to amend in certain particulars the national defense act of June 3, 1916, as amended, and for other pur stirring ambitions. 1\{y father, who had been a merchant in Atlanta for several years, became afraid that his boys might DOes; fall prey to the gilded temptations of city life. Because he S. 3648. An act granting to the county authorities of San loved his boys better than he loved money he moved us a way Juan County~ State of Washington, a right of way for county from Atlanta-away from the devilish barrooms with all their roads over certain described tracts of land on the abandoned allied temptations-and carried us over into' Cobb County to military reservations on Lopez and Shaw Islands, and for g1.·ow up amid the beauties, glories, and wholesome inspira other purposes ; S. 3895. An act to authorize the coinage of silver 50-cent tions. of rural life. pieces in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anni My father, who had been a school-teacher for many years, v~rsary of the Battle of Bennington and the independence of had sought, in the sacred precincts of an old-fashioned Chrls Vermont, in commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary t.ian home, to plant vital principles of Christian character in of the admission of Ollifornia into the Union, and in commem the hearts of his children and to place the star of worthy oration of the on~ hundredth anniversary of the founding of ambition in the sky of our liv-es. Fort Vancottver, State oi Washington; And so when our farm life began in good earnest he read to S. 2287. An act to permit the Secretary of War to dispose us by the winter fire in the evening the Southern Cultivator of and the Port of New York Authority to acquire the Ho and Henry GradTS radiant editorials in the Atlanta Constitu boken Manufacturers' Railroad; and tion. He tried to help us to see how many boys had gone forth S. 1918. An net to consolidate the office of public buildings from farm life to one of edueation and power and countless and grounds under the Ghref of Engineers, United State!!! laurels and worthy victories. Army, and the office of superintendent ·of the State, War, and There was still with us the memory of how he had carried Navy Department Buildings. his three boys to an oratolical contest at the State fair in Atlanta. My oldest brother-Herschel, a lad of 13-spoke on ENROLLED BILLS AND .JOINT BESOLUTIO~ PRESENTED TO THE that memorable day on Dawson's Remedy for Sectional Hos PRESIDENT FOR HIS APPROV.AL tility. My second brother--Lucius, with flaming tongue a:nd Mr. ROSENBLOOM, froln the Committee on Enrolled Bills, hair redder than mine-had thundered forth the Seminole's reported that this d.ay they had presented to the President of Defiance, while the present Representative from the fifth the United States for his appro-ral the following bills: district of Georgia-a fiery, wiry urehin of 8-brought up the H. R. 9765. An act granting to certain claimants the prefer· rear with that immortal initiative of the American platform, ence right to purchase unappropriated public lands; The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck. H. R. 8000. An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury I had followed that fiel'ce onslaught upon a defenseless poople to remoYe the quarantine station now situated at Fort Morgan, with Regulus to' the Oarthagenians, had purloined my oldest Ala., to Sand Island, nen:r the entrance of the port of Mobile, brother's Remedy for Sectional Hostility, and topped off the Ala., and to constr1ret thereon a. new quarantine station; mimic contest in old Crew Street School, Atlanta, with " Sink H. R. 4441. An act to amend section 4044 of the Revised or swim, live or die, survive or perish." Statutes as amended ; It is littl-e wonder that with sueh training I began soon after H. R. 103. An act for the inclusion of certain lands in the landing in th~ country to perpetrate my linguistic and Plumas National Forest, Calif., and for other purposes; " tonguistic" offenses upon the nearest natives among my Cobb H . R. 9494. An act to enable the Board of Supervisors of Los County neighbors. My first victim was an old mouse-colored Angeles County to maintain publle camp grounds within the mule named Hannah (not the original "Hard-Hearted Han Angeles National Forest; nah, the Vamp from Savannah"). H. R.10287. An act authorizing preliminary examination and I walked betw~een my plow handles and made speeches to survey of the Caloosahatchee River, in Florida, with a view to that old Georgia mule that I expected to make some ·day in the the control of floods ; Halls of Congress. I could actually repeat to you to-day some H. R.11474. .An act to fix the time for holding the terms of of the sentences that I imposed on that poor old defenseless the United States District Court fo1· the Eastern District of mule, and to be honest about it, that old mule died soon after Virginia at Alexandria ; she heard m.y speeches. [Laughter.] H. R. 2745. An act for the relief of J. M. Farrell; And as they had such an effect on the mule I have been H. R. 265G. .An act to permit the correction of the gen&al wanting to try them on Congress ever since [laughter], espe a ccount of Robert G. Hilton, former Assistant Treasurer of cially that branch of Congress which, trampling the Consti the United States; tution beneath its feet and defying the flag that has been made H. J. Res. 325. Joint resolution extending the time during stainless by governmental process before the eyes of the watch '\Vhieh certain domestic animals which have crossed the bound ing world, tc:; trying to dig up John Barleycorn and help him ary line into foreign countries may be returned duty free ; again by legal license to trample our Nation's ideals and H. R. 9095. An act to incorporate the American War Mothers; debauch the youth of America. :a. R. 4548. An act authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to But back to the subject. On the morning of the 18th of acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, a certain tract of land February, 1885, I was not plowing. It was raining lightly, in the District of COlumbia for the enlargement of the present and I was hauling wood. Having beg1.m the year with the site of the Bureau of Standards; promise of my father that it would be my last year on the B. R. 8741. An act for the relief of Flora M. Herrick; farm, at the end of whic-h I was to start to school to prepare H. R. 7911. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treas myself for college and for life, I remember how I sprang upon ury to sell the appraisers' stores property in Providence, R. I.; that wagon with the thought, "This task must be done to-day." H. R. 9308. An act to authorize the app(}intment of Machinist But it has never been done yet by me. Henry F. Mulloy, United States Navy, as an ensign in the regu Standing astride tbe frame the team started suddenly be lar Nacy; fore I got my balance and I fell backward, striking my spine H. R. 0061. An act for the reli-ef <>f Russell Wilmer Johnson; on the crosspiece in the wagon frame. A negro man working and . . near by came and helped me off the wagon. Feeling only slight H. R. 6581. An act authorizing the Postmaster General ·.to pain and not thinking my hurt serlous, I walked to the hou e, provide emergency mail serTice in Alaska. about a half mile away, went to bed for about a week and 1925 CONGR.ESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE Lt095 I actually thought that I might be able to go back to work within short rides about the country, I began to make speeches and a month. encourage the organization of other literary clubs, until we But that day, toward which I looked so eagerly, never came. fina.lly organized the Cobb County Literary Convention, that I walked about the house and ya.rd for about a month, and held its annual celebrations for the inspiration of Cobb Corm finally imprudently yielded to the wish to go back to the ty's country boys and girls. Baptist Sunday school at Powder Sp~·i~gs, of which I was Getting on my wire spring, I went to Marietta, Acworth, aml secretary. I h!ld bee~ conve~ted a~d Jome<;t the. church there finally to Atlanta, and l'aised the money that made possible the summer before, bemg baptized With my sister mold Powder our new hall. At its dedication many prominent citizens of Springs Creek on the third Sunday morning in August. Marietta and Atlanta were present to rejoice with me' in one I had the feeling that I wanted to "sign for a full scholar,'' of the happiest days of vision and victory which any shut-in as the country citizen said about building up the cross-roads had ever known. school, and felt that I must lose no time in my new life as a MY LITERA.RY FlllSTLI:- as Atlanta, then your' boys and girls, with strong arms and tional Park in the State of Utah n; without amendment (Rept. strong backs, and strong purposes, and strong manhood and No. 1514). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on. womanboou can do anything on earth that God wants· them the state of· the Union. to do! Mr. SPROUL of Illinois: Committee on the Post Office and If I could pack it all into one thought, one phrase, that I Post Roads. S. 3967. An act to authorize the Postmaster would Joye to plant in the heart of every boy and girl in this General to rent quarters for postal purposes in certain cases land that we love so well, it would be this: without a formal written contract; and for other purposes ; without amendment (Rept. No. 1515). Referred to the Com A purP,ose linked to God. mittee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. [Applause.] Mr. HAUGEN: Committee on Agriculture. H. R. 12348. A THE PACIFIC COMMISSARY CO. bill to create a Federal cooperative marketing board, to pro vide for the registration of cooperative marketing, clearing l\Ir. STRONG of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, I call up the confer house, and· terminal market organizations, and for other pur ence 1·eport on the bill S. 2357, an act for the relief of the poses; without amendment (Rept. No. 1517.) Refened to the Pacific Commissary Co. - Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. is The conference report as follows: Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota: Committee on World War Veterans Legislation. H. R. 12308. A bill to amend. the CONFERENCE REPORT World War veterans' act, 1924; withont amendment (Rept. No. The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the 1518). Referred to the Committee of the Whole Honse on the two Houses on the amendments of the House to the bill S. 2357, state of the Union. an act for the relief of the Pacific Commissary Co., having met, after full and free conference have agreed to recommend and REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PRIVATE BILLS AND do recommend to their respective· Houses as follows: RESOLUTIONS That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amend· ' ments of the House and agree to the same with an amendment Under clause 2 of Rule XIII, as follows : In lieu of the fm.m proposed insert " $10.841.73 out Mr. THOMAS of Oklahoma: Committee on the Public Lands. of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appTopriated"; R R. 12071. A bill permitting the sale of lot 9, 16.63 acres, and the House agree to the same. in section 31, township 2 south. range 17 west, in Bay County, JAMES G. STRONG, Fla., to P. 0. Black; with an amendment (Rept. No. 1511). ARTHUR B. WILLIAMS, Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of CHARLES F. X. O'BRIEN' 1 the Union. Managers on the part of t!te House. ARTHUR CAPPER, CHANGE OF REFERENCE RoBT. N. STANFIELD, Under clause 2 of Rule XXII, committees were discharged THOl.US F. BAY..Um; · from the consideration of the following bills, which were re Managers on the t)art of the Senate. ferred as follows : · The bill (H. R. 12320) granting a pension to Sarah Miller i The confe1·ence report was agreed to. Committee- on Pen ions discharged, and referred to the Com ADJOURNMENT mittee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. ELLIOTT. Mr. Speaker, L move that the House do now adjourn. · PUBLIC BILLS, RESOLUTIONS, AND MEMORIALS' The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 5 o'clock and 14 minutes p. m.). the House adjourned until to-morrow, Thurs Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, bills, resolutions and memo rials were introduced and severely referred as foll~ws : day, Februa,ry. 19, 1925, at 12 ~'clock noon_ By 1\lr. EDMO!\.lDS: A bill (H. R. 12339) relating to the carriage of goods by sea; to the Committee on the Merchant REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC BILLS AND ~Iarine and Fisheries. RESOLUTIONS By Mr: WATKINS·: A bill (H. R. 12340) authorizing- and directing the Postmaster General to grant permission to use Under clause 2 of Rule XIII, special canceling stamps or postmarking dies in the Portlattd Mr. DRIVER: Committee an Public Eands. S. 4120. An act Oreg., post office; ·to the Committee on the Post Office and to promote the production of sulphur upon the public domain; Post Roads. with amendments (Rept. No. 1508). Referred to the Com mittee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. By Mr. ARNOLD: A bill (H. R. 12341) to authorize the Mr. LUCE: Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation. States of Indiana and Illinois in the States of Indiana and H. R. 11633. A bill to authorize an appropriation to provide Illinois to construct a bridge across the Wabash River at the additional hospital and out'-patient dispensary facilities for city of Mbunt Carmel, Wabash County, Ill., rutd connecting persons entitled to hospitalization under the World War Gibson County, Ind. i to the Committee on Inter. tate and For veterans' act, 1924 ; with an amendment ( Rept. No. 1509). eign Commerce. Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of By ~1r. HUDSPETH: A bill (H. R~ 12342) authorizing and the Union. directing the Postmaster General to grant permission to use 1.\Ir. REED of West Virginia: Committee on the District of special canceling stamps or postmarking dies in the El Paso Columbia. H. R. 12213. A bill to enable thE:' Rock Creek and Tex., post office ; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post PotoiAac Parkway Commission to complete the acquisition of Roads. land required for a connecting parkway between Rock Creek By Mr. LARSON of Minnesota: A bill (H. R. 12.343) to Park, the Zoological Park, and Potomac Park ; without amend create an additional judge in the district of Minnesota ; to the ment (Rept. No. 1510). P..eferred to the Committee of the Committee on the Judiciary. "Whole Hou e on the state of the Union. By Mr. NEWTON of Minnesota: A bill (H. R. 12344) to ex . l\Ir. JOHNSON of Washington: Committee on Immigration tend tlle time for the commencement and ·completion of the and Naturalization. H. R. 1224.6. A bill providing for the pay bridge of the Valley Transfer Railway Co., a corporation, ment of extra compensation to immigrant inspectors and other across the Mississippi River in the State of Minnesota; to the immigration employet>s for overtime work; without amendment Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. (Rept. No. 1512). Referred to the Committee of the Whole By Mr. VARID: A bill (H. R... 12345) to make an appropria House on the state of the Union. tion for the cooperation of the United States in the Sesquicen l\Ir. SPROUL of- Illinois: Committee on the Post .Office and tennial Exhibition commemorating the signing of the Declara Post Roads. S. 3162. An act authorizing the Postmaster tion of Independence in the city of Philadelphia; to the Com General to make monthly payment of rental for post office mittee on Appropriations. premises under lease; without amendment ( Rept. No. 1513). By Mr. JONES: A bill (H. R. 12346) declaring an emergency Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of in respect to certain agricultural commodities, and for other the Union. purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture. 1\Ir. COLTON: Committee on the Public Lands. S. 3494. .An By Mr. RICHARDS: A bill (H. R. 12347) to amend an act en act to amend an act entitled. "An act to establish the Utah Na- titled "An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 1925 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 4097 grant extensions of time under oil and gas permits, and for By 1\fr. WYANT: A bill (H. R. 12355) granting an increase other purposes," approved January 11, 1922; to the Committee of pension to Marie Lenhart; to too Committee on Invalid on the Public Lands. Pensions. By Mr. HAUGEN: A bill (H. R. 12348) to create a Federal Also, a bill (H. R. 12356) granting a pension to Nora cooperative marketing board, to provide for the registration of Remaley; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. cooperative marketing, clearing house, and terminal market Also, a bill (H. R. 12357) granting an increase of pension to organizations, and for other purposes; to the COmmittee on Martha B. Wallace; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Agriculture. By Mr. MILLER of Washington: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. PETITIONS, ETC. 359) authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain horses, Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, petitions and papers were laid bridles, saddles, and saddle blankets to the thirty-sixth tri on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows : ennial conclave committee of Knights Templar for use at the 8830. By Mr. BLACK of N-ew York: Petition of residents thirty-sixth triennial conclave Knights Templar of the United and citizens of Brooklyn, N. Y., opposing the compulsoTy Sun States, to be held at Seattle, Wash., in July, 1925; to the day observance bill (S. 3218) and any other religious legisla Committee on Military Affairs. tion which may be pending; to the Committee on the District By Mr. VESTAL: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 360) provid of Columbia. ing that the select committee of the House of Representatives 3831. By Mr. COLE of Ohio: Petition of Ohio bakers for ac appointed to investigate the Air Service be authorized to make tion to prevent War Baking Oo. from maintaining a price .. their final report not later than December 15, 1925, to the level lower in the State of Ohio than in ather States; to tbe Sixty-ninth Congress, and for other purposes; to the Committee Committee on the Judiciary. on Rules. 3832. By Mr. GARBER: Petition from Roy H<>ffman, briga By Mr. MAcGREGOR: Resolution (H. Res. 446) to pay dier general, Officers' Reserve Corps, for $7,000,000 appropria salary and funeral expenses of late sundry employees, respec tion to give a 15-day period of training to each reserve officer tively, of the House of Representatives ; to the Committee on once in three years and an annual 15-day period ; to the Com Accounts. mittee on Millt8.l'Y Affairs. By Mr. GIBSON: Resolution (H. Res. 447) creating a special 3833.. By Mr. GALLIVAN: Petition of Hon. Thomas W. committee on the government of the District of Columbia ; to Proctor, of Boston, member of committee for Massachusetts of the Committee on Rules. the national committee to procure adequate compensation for By the SPEAKER (by request): Memorial of the Legisla the Federal judiciary, urging passage of House bill 9221, pro ture of the State of Montana to Congress, calling attention to viding for additional compensation for Federal judges ; to the the urgency of accelerating construction work upon the Flat Committee on the Judiciary. head irrigation project, and making further and adequate 3834. By Mr. GR AH/tM: Petition of Plliladelphia Boord of appropriations therefor ; to the Committee on Appropriations. Trade, Philadelphia, Pa., favoring the enactment of Senate blll Also (by request), memorial of the Legislature of the State 4008, proposing amendments to the act -creating a Federal of New Mexico, requesting Congress to extend the authority Trade Commission ; to the Committee on Interstate .and For of the Secretary of Agriculture under Senate Joint Resolution eign Commeroe. 52 so that advances or loans may be made to farmers in the 3835. By Mr. HAWLEY! Petition of the citizens of .Oregon drought-striclien areas of New Mexico for planting and raising to the House of Representatives not to concur !in the passage .crops in New Mexico; to too Committee on Agriculture. of the compulsory Sunday -observance bill (S. 3218) nor to pass Also (by request), memorial of the Legislature of the State any other religious legislation which may be pending ; to the of Nebraska, asking Congress to provide by law for a survey Committee on the District of Columbia. of the Missouri River from Kansas City, Kans., to Sioux City, 3836. By Mr. MAcGREGOR: Petition of Bu:ffaJ.o Lodge, No. Iowa; to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. 1, International Shtpmasters' Association, Buffalo, N. Y., urg Also (by request), memorial of the Legislature of the State ing the immediate erection of a lighthouse on Lansing Shoals, of Utah, asking Congress to take favorable action on S. 4060 La.ke Michigan; to the Committee 011 Interstate and Foreign and H. R. 11555, which provide suitable recognition for the Commerce. services of Lieutenant Maughan; to the Committee on Military 3837. By Mr. MONTAGUE~ Petition of 16 eitizens <>f Rich Affairs. mond, Va., protesting agairist the passage of Senate bill 3218, Also (by request), memorial of the Legislature of the State the compulsory Sunday ob.servance bill, and all <>ther similar religious legi~lation ; to the Committee on the District of C.o- of Utah, petitioning Congress to make an appropriation for the lumbia. . investigati()n of Utah's potash deposits and experimentation on 3838. By Mr. NEWTON of Minnesota: Petition signed by producing from them high-grade potassium salts; to the Com sundry citizens of Minneapolis, Minn., in protest against the mittee on Appropriations. compulsory Sun{!ay observance biD, and all other similar leg By Mr. LEAVITT: Memorial of the Legislature of the State islation; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. of Montana, calling attention to the urgency of accelerating 3839. By Mr. SWING: Petition of residents of Anaheim, construction work upon the Flathead irrigation project, and Calif., protesting against compulsory Sunday .observance la ~s ; making further adequate appropriations therefor; to the Com to tM Committee 6n the District of Columbia. mittee on Appropriations. 3840. By l\lr. WEFALD; Petition .of 115 citizens of Pelican Rapids, Minn., urging the House of Representatives not to PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS concur in the pas age of the compulsory Sunday observance bill ( S. 3218), nor to pass any other religions legislation which Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, private bills and resolutions may be pending; to the Commlttee on t:he District of Columbia. were introduced and severally referred as follows : 3841. Also, petition of nine citizens ()f Mineral Center, Minn., (H. R. By Mr. ANDREW: A bill 12349) granting an increase urging the H{)use of Representatives not to coll(!ur in the of pension to Frances M. Gooding; to the Committee on Invalid passage of the compulsory Sunday observance bill ( S. 3218), Pensions. nor to pass any other religious legislation that may be pend By Mr. BEGG: A bill (H. R. 12350) granting an increase of ing ; to the Committee <>n the District of Columbift. A. pension to Sarah Dalrymple; to the Committee on Invalid 3842. Also, petition of 16 citizens of Becker County, Minn.~ Pensions. nrging the House of Representatives not to eoncur in the By Mr. GARDNER of Indiana: A bill (H. R. 12351) grant passage of the compulsory Sunday cl>servance bill (S. 3218), ing an increase of pension to Margaret A. Kennison ; to the and not to pass any other religious legislation which may be Committee on Invalid Pensions. pending ; to the Committee on the District {)f Columbia. By Mr. LOWREY: A bill (H. R. 12352) to provide for -pay 3843. Also, petition of 33 citizens of Roseau County, Minn., ment of the amount of a war-risk insurance policy to per&>ns urging the House of Representativ.es not to concur in the de ignated as beneficiaries of First Lieut. Lewis Wesley passage of the compulsory Sunday observance bill ( S. 3218), Kitchens, deceased ; to the Committee on War Claims. nor to pass any other religious legislation that may be pending; By Mr. MILLER of Washington: A bill (H. R. 12353) for to the Committee on the District of Columbia. the relief of the Sea-Coast Packing Co. of Seattle, Wash.; to 3844. Also, petition of 63 eitizens of Greenbush, Minn., urg the Committee on Claims. ing the House .of Representatives not to eoncur in th~ passage By Mr. RAMSEYER: A bill (H. R. 12354) granting an in of the compulsory Sunday observance bill { S. 3218), nor to crease of pension to 1\-Iargaret Hendricks; to the Committee on pass any other religious legislation which may be pending ; Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Lf098 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE FEBRUARY 19 3845. Also, petition of 25 citizens of Norman and Red Lake S. 1918. An act to consolidate the office of public buildings Counties, Minn., urging the House of Representatives not to and grounds under the Chief of Engineers, United States concur in the passage of the compulsory Sunday observance Army, and the office of superintendent of the State, ·war, and bill (S. 3218), nor to pass any other religious .legislation th.at Navy Department Buildings. may be pending; to the Committee on the Distnct of Columbia. PETITIONS .AND MEMORIALS The PRESIDE:L\"T pro tempore laid before the Senate the SENATE following joint memorial of the Legislature of l\Iontana, which was referred to the Com.mittee on Irrigation and Reclamation : THURSDAY, Feb'ruaMJ 19, 19'25 House joint memorial 1 (introduced by Dellwo) to the Congress of the ·(Leg-is.lative da.y ot T'llesday, Februar·y 11, 1925) united States calllng attention to the urgency of accelerating con The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, on the expiration of struction work upon the Flathead irrigation project, and making the recess. further and adequate appropriations therefot· The PRESIDENT pro tempore (Mr. CUMMINS) . . The Senate IN THE HOUSE will receive a message from tbe House of Representatives. January 8, 1925 : Read first and second time and referred to com MESSaGE FROM THE HOUSE mittee on irrigation and water rights. A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Far January 14, 1925: Committee recommends that bill do pass. Re rell, its enrolling clerk, announced that the House h~d agr~ed port adopted and referred to printing committee. to the report of the committee of conference on the d1sagreemg J.anuary 15, 1925: Reported correctly printed. Report adopted and votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the House to the referred to general orders. bill ( S. 2357) for the relief of the Pacific Commissary Co. The message also announced that the House had passed the January 16, 1925: Recommended favorably by committee of whole. bill ( S. 3173) to provide for the construction of a memorial Report adopted and referred to engrossing committee. January 22, 1925: Reported correctly engrossed. Report adopted bridge across the Potomac River from a point near the ~in coin Memorial in the city of Washington to an appropnate and referred to calendar for third reading. point in the State of Virginia, and for other purposes, with January 23, 1925: Read three several times and passed. Title an amendment, in which it requested the concurrence of the agreed to. Transmitted to senate for its concurrence. .Senate. IN THE SENATH ENROLLED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS SIGNED January 26, 1925: Read first and second time and referred to com The message further announced that the Speaker of the mittee on irrigation and water rights. Hous·e had affixed his signature to the following enrolled bills January 28, 1925: Committee recommends that bill be concurred in. and joint resolutions, and they were thereupon signed by the Report adopted. Bill referred to general file. President pro tempore : January 29, 1925 : Committee of the whole recommends that bill be H. R.10471. ·An act authorizing the Postmaster General to concurred in. On motion segregated and rereferred to committee on permit the use of precanceled stamped envelopes; irrigation and water rights. H. R. 11725. An act to legalize a pier and wharf in York February 2, 1925 : Committee recommends that bill be concurred in River at Gloucester Banks, near Gloucester Point, Va.; as amended. Report adopted. Bill referred to general file. S. 2397. An act to provide for refunds to veterans .of the February 3, 1925 : Committee of the whole recommends that bill World War of certain amounts paid by them under Federal be concurred ln. Report adopted. Bill referred to calendar for third irrigation projects; reading. S. 2718. An act to authorize the payment of an indemnity February 4, 1925 : Read third time and concurred in as amended. to the Government of Norway on account of losses sustained Title agreed to. Returned to bouse. by the owners of the Norwegian steamship Hassel as the result of a collision between that steamship and the American steam· IN THE HOUSE ship A usable; February 5, 1925 : Placed on general orders for concurrence in sen S. 2835. An act to amend an act entitled "An act authorizing ate amendments. Committee of whole recommends bill be concurred insurance companies or associations and fraternal beneficiary in as amended. Report adopted. Referred to engrossing committee. societies to file bills of interpleader," approved February 22, February 6, 1925 : Reportro correctly engrossed. Report adopted 1917; . and referred to calendar for third reading. Read thr~e several times S. 3793. An act to authorize the appointment of commis and passed. Title agreed to. Referred to enrolling committee. sioners by the Court of Claims and to prescribe their powers February 7, 1925: Reported correctly enrolled. and compensation ; . S. 4152. An act to authorize the Secretary of War to grant A memorial to the Congress of the United States call1ng attention to a perpetual easement for railroad right of way over and upon the urgency of accelerating construction work upon the Flathead a portion of the military reservation on Anastasia Island, in irrigation project, and making further and adequate appropriations the State of Florida; therefor S. J. Res. 172. Joint resolution to authorize the appropria·· To the honorable Senate and House of RepresentatiL·es of tl~AJ United tion of certain amounts for the Yuma irrigation project, Ari States in Congress assembled: zona, and for other purposes ; SECTIO!'{ 1. Whereas if bas been brought to the notice of the legis S. J. Res. 95. Joint resolution to authorize the American Na lative body of the State of Montana that upon the Flathead project, tional Red Cross to continue the use of temporary buildings an irrigation project being constructed and operated by the United now erected on square No. 172, Washington, D. C.; States Indian Reclamation Service in the lower Flathead Valley, a s. 3630. An act authorizing the Secretary of 'Var to convey shortage of water for irrigation purposes has existed during the past to the Federal Land Bank of Baltimore certain land in the season on account of the delay in completing said project ; and city of San Juan, P. R.; Whereas it is the conviction of this body that profitable crops can s. 3760. An act to amend in certain particulars the national not be produ(!{'d upon this project without irrigation, and that there is defense act of June 3, 1916, as amended, and for other pur an ample supply of water available upon the completion of said poses; project ; and s. 3648. An act granting to the county authorities of San Whereas farmers and business men settled upon said project almost Juan County, State of Washington, a right of way for county 15 years ago with the assurance that its works wpuld be completed roads over certain described tracts of land on the abandoned and placed in full operation without unnecessary delay. They have military reservations on Lope~ and Shaw Islands, and for sacrificed from 10 to 14 years of their lives, together with capital other purposes ; brought in from former enterprises. They have demonstrated, with s. 3895. An act to authorize the coinage of silver 50-cent the limited supply of water at their disposal, that profitable crops pieces in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anni can be raised if they are assured an ample supply of water for irriga ver ·ary of the Battle .of Bennington and the independence of tion purposes ; and Vermont, in commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary Wbereas this development and the influx of new settlers taking place of the admission of California into the Union, and in commem oration of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of at present creates a need for water for irrigation purposes which is Fort Vancouver, State of Washington; imperative: Therefore be it S. 2287. An act to permit the Secretary of War to dispose Resolt•ed by the Nineteenth Legislative Assembly of the State of of and the Port of New York Authority to acquire the Hobo Mont~Mia, That ordinary justice to, and a fair consideration for the )ren Manufacturers' Railroad; and right of, the farmers and business men aforesaid demand that no cur-