1921. CONGRESSION _._t\L RECORD- SEN ATE. 2541 SENATE. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the amendment. FnmaY, February 4, 1921. The amendment was agreed to. (Legislatil:e day of Wednesday, February 2, 1921.) The VICE PRESIDENT. The next amendment will be stated. The ASSISTANT SECRETARY. On page 2, line 13, after the The Senate met at 11 o'clock a. m .., on the expiration of the word "pound," insert the words "except rice cleaneu for use recess. in the manufacture of canned foods," so as to read : QUAP~W I~DIAN LANDS. Rice, cleaned, 2 cents per pound, except rice cleaned for use In the manufacture of canned foods . .1\lr. CURTIS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to lay aside temporarily the unfinished business for the purpose of tak­ The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the ing up the bill (S. 4879) to amend section 1 of the act of Con­ amendment. gress upproved March 2, 1895 (28 Stat. L., p. 907), to extend The amendment was agreed to. restrictions against the alienation of lands allotted to and in­ The VICE PRESIDENT. The next amendment will be stated. herited by certain Quapaw Indians, and for other purposes. The AssisTANT SECRETARY. On page 3, after line 13, insert: The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection? 14. Fresh or frozen beef, veal, mutton, lamb, and pork, 2 .cents per pound. Meats oi all kinds, prepared or preserved, not specJally pro­ Mr. McCIDIDER. I shall not object at this time unless !t vided for herein, 25 per cent ad valorem. leads to debate. 1\lr. HARRISON. Mr. President, I understood that we had Mr. CURTIS. I call up the bill at the request of the Sena­ up the Quapaw Indian bill. tors from Oklahoma. It is a bill to extend the time of the re­ strictions which now exist against the alienation of certain The VICE PRESIDENT. That bill has been passed. The Quapaw Indian lands. The bill bas been read in full, and the bill now before the Senate is the so-called emergency tariff bill. amendments of the Committee on Indian Affairs have been l\fr. HARRISON. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a read. The bill is recommended by the Department of the Inte­ quorum. rior and fayorably reported by the committee. The Senators The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will call the roll. from Oklahoma are \ery anxious to have it passed; ot-herwise The reading clerk called the roll, and the following Senators great harm may come to those incompetent Indians. answered to their names : Mr. GORE. 1\Ir. President, I hope that the bill may be passed Ball Harris McCormick Smith, Ga. Borah Harrison McCumber Smoot without delay. · Brandegee Heflin McLean Spencer There being no objection, the bill was considered as in Com­ Calder Johnson, Calif. McNary Sutherland mittee of the Whole. Capper Jones, Wash. Moses Thomas Culberson Kellogg Nelson Townsend The VICE PRESIDE~T. The amendments of the committee Curtis Kendrick New Trammell will be stated. Dial Kenyon Overman Underwood The first amendment was, on page 2, in line 2, after the word Dillingham Keyes Page Wadsworth Elkins King Pomerene Walsh, Mass. •• Interior" to strike out the words "as set forth in the House France Kirby Ransdell of Reore~entati\es Document No. - (66th Cong., 3d. sess.)," Gay Knox Reed ~ifi~s and to insert : &>oding La Follette Sheppard Willis Gore Lenroot Shields To wit: .John Beaver, l\Iah-hunk-a-zhe-ka, now Beaver; Anna ~·aver, Gronna Lodge Simmons now Bear; Arthur Buffalo, Lizzie Cedar, Peter Clabber, Minnie Green­ back now Clabber, Harry Crawfish, '.fhomas Crawfish, Mary Crawfi3ll, l\fr. HARRISON. I have been requested to announce that the now' Skye; Francis Quapaw Goodeagle, 'Vat-t!Lh-nah-zhe Goodeagle, Senator from Oregon [Mr. CHAMBERLAIN] is absent on account Khah-Daah or Grandeagle, now Quapaw; Antome Greenback, .Joseph of illness. Greenback 'rro-gom-me, or Goodeagle; Mis-kah-get-tah, Amos Newhouse, John Quapaw, Nellie .T. Ball, now Quapaw; 'l'a-mee-heh, or Quapaw; I haYe also beeen requested to announce that the Senator from Benjamin Quapaw, Solomon Quapaw, Frances Quapaw, now Gokey; Rhode Island [1\lr. GERRY], the Senator from Arizona [1\Ir. Julia Stafford, now Shapp ; Hah-dah-ska-tun-ka, or Track; Mes-kall­ tun-ka, or Track: now Slagle-; . Flora Young Greenback, now White­ AsHURST], the Senator from Florida [l\fr. FLETCHER], and the bird; James Xavier, Anna Xavier, now Collins · Wah-she-mah-tah-het Senator from Tennessee [l\fr. McKELLAR] are detained on official 'l'rack now Martha Track Quapaw; Henry Buffalo, Clara May Buffalo, business of the Senate. Hazel' L. Buffalo, now McDunner; N<?ra Buffalo, ~ow Brook; William Huffalo James Amos Valliere; Georgia Alice Valliere, now Hampton; Mr. SHEPPARD. I wish to announce that the Senator from Iva Amelia Valliere, .Jesse Dayli9ht, Cl2.yton C. Daylight, Emma Louise Delaware [Mr. WoLcoTT] is detained on official business. Hlansett Alphonso Greenback. Jr., Lulu May Greenback, Mary Mollie The VICE PRESIDENT. Fifty-eight Senators have ans,vered GreenbaC-k, Amy Greenback, Woodro'!V Wilson Greenback, John Gre~n­ back Alphonso Greenback, sr., Beatrice C. Peters, now Shapp ; .Tuamta to the roll call. There is a quorum present. Aim~ Dawes, Agnes Tra<:k, Dennis Wilson, Erwin Wilson, Martin l\fr. WILLIAUS. l\1r. President, yesterday e\ening, just Wilson Mary Wilson, Louise Wilson, Robert A. Whitebird, Helene Irene Whitebird, Thomas Xavier, Elnora Quapaw, and Lucy Lottson before I expresset:l a willingness for the Senate to take a recess Heaver. or an adjournment, I had expressed some degree of astonish­ ment at the position which bad been assumed by the Senator So as to read : from North Dakota [l\1r. McCuMBER]. He had taken the posi­ That section 1 of the act of Congress approved March 2, 1895 (28 tion that, considering the fact that the manufacturing classes Stat. L., p. 907), in so !ar as the same _rel_ates to ~he allotme-?ts of land to the Quapaw Indians and to rcstrictwns agamst alienation of had in the past robbed the agricultural classes through the said allotments, be, an~ the same. is her~by, amen~ed s_o as to provide instrumentality of the tariff, which was absolutely true, it now that the restrictions which now exist agamst the alienatiOn of the lands allotted to and allotted lands inherited by the Quapaw Indians named became necessary for the agricultural classes to rob the manu­ in the letter of January -, 1921, of the Secretary of the Interior, to facturing classes back again so as to get even. wit, John Beaver, etc. Neither within a State, amongst its industrial classes, nor The amendment was agreed to. outside of a State, amongst the nations of the world, can any The next amendment was, on page 3, line 9, before the word real good or permanent good be obtained for civilization or "years," to strike out the word "ten" and insert the word populations by a policy of retaliation. Nothing is more clearly "twenty-five," so as to read: demonstrated in the economical world, in the moral world, and in the social world than that fact. The same are hereby extended for the further and additional pnlod of 25 years from the date of this act. You can not get even with another man by retaliation. EithE:r he can whip you or you can whip him, but there is no The amendment was agreed to. such thing as preserving equality and justice between you in The bill was reported to the Senate as amended and the that way. If it be wrong for him to rob you, it is equally amendments were concurred in. wrong for you to rob him, and two robberies can never make The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a thiru reading, read an indemnity, just as two wrongs can never make one right. the third time, and passed. l\fr. President, I rose partially for the purpose of saying EMERGE~CY TARIFF. that, but partially for this purpose: I am a little afraid that The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the con­ my position in the Senate has been a bit misunderstood. I sideration of the bill (H. R 15275) imposing temporary duties am not filibustering against the pending bill ; I do not care upon certain agricultural products to meet present emergencies, when the bill comes to a vote, provided it comes to a \Ote by to provide revenue, and for other purposes. the orderly procedure of the business of the Senate; but when The VICE PRESIDENT. The pending amendment will be Senators call unon me to agree to a request for unanimous stated. consent, that is a different proposition. I am perfectly willing for the Senate to attend to its business without any filibuster. The ASSISTANT SECRET.d.BY. On page 2, line 1, strike out the I think that the right of filibustering, if it be a right, is a pos­ figure " 30 " and insert in lieu thereof " 40," so as to read : session so valuable for a minority that it ought never to be Wheat, 40 cents per bushel. wasted. It ought never to be used except for great funda- 12542. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN ATE. FEBRUARY 4, '------------------------------------------------------..------------------------------------------------------ mental and vital purposes. I would nse i± to preser-ve the the less than fifty-odd per cent linng in the towns as a part of principles of the Constitution ; I would use it for the preserva­ the agricultural population. l1tion of white supremacy upon the Pacifi-C coast or down South; The Senator is riding to a fall; he is ridi:ng exactly to the ri would use it for any great fundamental, vital purpose, and same fall, and he is repeating the very arguments that were n:y to prevent anybody interfering with it; but to use it for a used by the landlord interests of Great Britain in supporting mere fiscal matter llil.s never met with my approval.