l 1905.- - CONGRESSIONAL _RECORD-. HOUSE. 2785 zation possibly more even than she knew, because the position The Clerk read as follows: I which she held in it made her office a central bureau to which Resolved, That during the ceremonies incident to the acceptance of reports were made of the mor~l and intellectual signs of the the statue of Frances E. Willard presented by the State of lllinois to the Government of the United States, on Ft·iday, Febrnary 17, at _4 times ; and no man can read her annual messages to the organi o'clock, the southeast ladies' gallery be reserved fot· the Illinois stat zation of which she was the executive bead without perceiving nary commission and the relatives of tlie late l!'rances E. Willard and that she had a strong grasp of all the great social and moral such citizens of Illinois as may attend these services. problems of our time; a .grasp so strong that to-day her words The SPEAKER. Is there objection? seem often like prophecies fulfilled, where twenty years ago There was no objection. they hardly attracted the attention of the world. STATEHOOD BILL. I think the highest point in the public career of the late Sen Mr. DALZELL. Mr. Speaker, I make the following privileged ator Hanna was that last speech of his before a meeting of la report from the Committee on Rules. boring men and capitalists belonging to the Civic Federation in 'l'he Clerk read .as follows : New York. ·when standing there, without any pretensions to Honse resolution No. 497. piety or sanctity of any sort, he laid down the proposition, based Resolved, That the Committee on the Territories be, and hereby is, on a long experience as a laborer and an employer, and on an discharged from the consideration of the bill (H. R. 14749) to enable intimate acquaintance with the leaders of political thought in the people of Oklahoma and of the Indian Territory to form a consti tution and State government and be admitted into the Union on an all parties, that the rights of labor and the rights of capital can equal footing with the original States; and to enable the people of New never be established on a lasting basis of justice ~xcept as both Mexico and of Arizona to form a constitution and State government and bow in loyal obedience to the law of Christ. Frances E. Willard be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, with the Senate amendments thereto; that the said Senate amendments bad, for twenty years before her death, taught that doctrine, be, and hereby are, disagreed to by the House, and a conference asked not only in its application to the labor question, but to all the of the Senate on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the said complex social problems of these. times. bill. . r-' Her chief title as a teacher of social and m9ral science lies in Mr. DALZELL. Mr. Speaker, I move the adoption of the l this : .With a profound insight she perceiv-ed that the most resolution, and ori that I demand the previous question. . .,. . difficult problems of civilization, the problems which have The SPEAKER. The gentleman d.emands the previous que& brought the statesmanship and philosoph..y of the modern tion upon the adoption of the resolution. world to a dead standstill, if they have any solution at all 1\Ir. WILLIAMS of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, a parliamen and she confidently believed they had-they weuld find ·t at tary inquiry. last in the actual application to the daily life of the world of The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. the divine precepts which constitute the most precious part of 1\Ir. WILLIAMS of Mississippi. There is no discussion of a the inheritance of these Christian centuries. ~the demand for the previous question, is there? ~Uillli91i ~ The SPEAKER. No. ·And so I think that the general asse~bly of illinois did well 1\Ir. WILLIAMS of Mississippi. Would it be in order for me to set up this monume:bt in memory of her., The children who to say that the only way to get an opportunity to amend this . have covered it this day with flowers have paid to her a tribute rule is to vote down the previous question? [Laughter.] so simple and so appropriate that its fragrance will fill these The SPEAKER. The gentleman has already made that sug corridors long after the formal ceremonies of this hour have gestion. been forgotten. And in after generations, as long as this vener Mr. WILL~IS of Mississippi. · Did the Chair understand able edifice remains, the women of America-, as they look upon my inquiry? the chiseled beauty of that face, standing like a goddess among The SPEAKER. Yes ; the Chair replied. The gentleman has our heroes and our sages, will whisper a WOJ.'d of·gratitude to asked the question. It is not in order under the rules, but still the people of Illinois when they remember the act of her gen the gentleman has answered his own question. eral assembly, which, careless alike of_ cu tom and of prece ~Ir. 'VILLIAMS. of 1\Ii::;sissippi. I asked the question as to dent, has added to the title of their citizenship this perpetual whether it would be in order. · dignity in the Capitol of the United State!?. Applause in the 'l'he SPEAKER. Yes; the gentleman bas the fuU benefit of galleries.] · it. [Laughter.] Pending a demand for the previous question The PRESIDENT pro tempore. 'l'he que on is on agreeing nothing is in order except the vote on the previous question. to the resolutions submitted by the Senator from Illinois [.Mr. Mr. WILLIAMS of Mississippi. Tliat · was my own impres· CULLOM], which will be read. sion, but I wanted to be sure of it. [Laughter.] The Secretary again read the resolutions. The SPEAKER. The Chair is very glad to confirm the gen The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. tleman in the correctness of his impression. [Laughter.] The Mr. CULLOM. I move that the Senate adjourn. question is on ordering the previou question. The motion was agreed to ; and (at 4 o'clock and 32 minutes l\Ir. WILLIAMS of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, to save time, I p: m.) the Senate adjourned its legislative session until to-mor demand the yeas and nays. · row, Saturday, February 18, 1905, at 12 o'clock m 2786 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 17, Sulloway Van Voorhis Wanger Weems Mr. STEENERSON with Mr. MAYNAim. Tawney Volstead Warner Wiley, N.J. Thoma."!, Ohio Vreeland Warnock. Wilson, Ill, Mr. THOMAS of Iowa with Mr. LINDSAY, Tirrell Wachter Wat on Wood Mr. WRIGHT with Mr. WEISSE. Townsend Wadsworth Webber Young_ For this" session : NAY8-127. 1Ylr. CASSEL with Mr. GoocH. Adamson Finley Little Ryan Mr. DEEMER with 1\Ir. SHULL. Badger Fitzgerald Livernash Scudder Mr. SHERMAN with 1\Ir. RUPPERT. Baker Flood Livingston Shackleford Mr. WOODYARD with Mr. HARDWICK. Bankhead Garber Lloyd Sheppard Bartlett Gillespie Lucking Sherley Until further notice: Bassett Goldfogle McLain Sims Mr. BRICK with Mr. CocKRAN of New York. "Beall, TeL Granger MCL~ary Slayden Mr. DAVIDSON with Mr. RANSDELL of Louisiana. Bell, Cal. Gregg Macon Small Benton Gudger Maddox Smlt~Tex. Mr. GARDNER of Michigan with Mr. TAYLOR. Bowers Hamlin Meyer, La. Snook 1\fr. LoRIMER with :hir. McANDREWS. Bowie Harrison Miers, Ind. Southall Mr. Brantley Hay .Moon, Tenn. Sparkman Mr: MARSH with PATTERSON of Tennessee. Breazeale Heflin Padgett Spigl1t Mr. PALMER with Mr. SMITH o:f Kentucky. Brundidge HHe:nrsy, nTex. Page Stanley Mr. PEAlmE with Mr. FosTER of illinois. Burgess 0 0 tc0 Patterson,. N. C. Stephens, Tex. :Surleson Howard Pierce Sullivan, Mass. Mr. SAMUEL W. S1.IITH with Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Burnett Hughes, N.J. Pinckney Sulzer Mr. SPERRY with Mr. KEHOE. Byrd Humphreys, Miss. Pou Talbott Mr. STERLING with Mr. WILSON of New York. Caldwell Hunt Pujo Thayer Cassingham • James Rainey Thomas, N. C. Mr. BRICK. Mr. Speaker, I would like to know whether Clayton Jones, Va. RandeiJ, Tex. Trimble · Mr. CocKRAN of New York has voted? Cochran, :!4o. Kitchin, Claude Reid Underwood The SPEAKER. He did not. Cooper, TeL Kitchin, Wm. W. Rhea Vandiver Cowherd Kline Richardson, Ala. Van Duz.er Mr. BRICK. Tlien I desire to withdraw my vote and be Ct·oft . Kluttz Rider Wade recorded as present. Davey, La. . Lamar, Fla. Rixey Wallace The SPEJAKER. Call the gentleman's name. Davis, Fla. ·. Lamb Robb wne_r, ala. DeArmond Legare Robertson, La. Withams, Ill. The Clerk called Mr. BRICK's name, and he answered " pres- Denny . Lester Robinson~ Ark. Williams, Miss. ent." · Dickerman Lever Robin~on, Ind. Wynn The result of the vote was announced· as above recorded. Dougherty Lewis Ruckey Zenor Field Lind Russell The · SPEAKER. The gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. DALZELL] is recognized for twenty minutes and the gentleman ANSWERED "PRESENT "-7. from Mississippi [Mr. WILLIAMS] will be recognized for twenty Bonynge Needham Shull Woodyard minutes. Brick Prince Taylor Ml'. DALZELL. Mr. Speaker, I shaH occupy the time of the NOT VOTING-90. House only long enough to explain the etrect of this rule. It "Acheson Flack Jackson, Ohio Richardson, Tenn. adopted it will discharge the Committee on Territories from . Aiken · Fordney Johnson Ruppert Benny Foster, Ill. Kehoe Scarborough the further consideration of what is known as the "statehood Bingham Fowler Keliher Sherman bill," will work a nonconcurrence in the Senate amendments in Broussard Gaines, Tenn. L.amar, Mo. Shiras gross, and ask for a conference upon the disagr~ing votes of Brown, Pa. Gardner, Mich. Landis, Chas. B. Shober Buckman Garner Lindsay Smith, Ill. the two Houses. Gentlemen of the House will recoilect that in Butler, Mo. Gilbert Lorimer Smith, Ky. .April last the House sent to the Senate a statehood bill which Candler . Glass Loud Smith, Samuel W. created two States out of the four Territories, Oklahoma and <.:assel Goocl'l McAndrews Sperry Clark Goulden McCall Steenerson Indian Territory COD.Btituting one State and New Mexico and Cockran, N.Y. Griffith McCleary, Minn. Sterling Arizona a second State. That bill has been in the Senate until SulLlvan. N.Y. within --a · few days. It now comes ba_ck to the House with Wis. Swan soh Cousins2~=~ Hearst~~ff!!tck · ~~~=~~~Marsh Tate forty-seven amendments. The principal ·amendment, of course, Crowley Hedge Maynard Thomas, Iowa is that which constlt:Q.tes New Mexico a State and leaves Arizona Davidson Hermann Moon, Pa. Webb still a Territory. There is another important amendment which Deemer Hildebrant Olmsted Weisse Dinsmore Hill, Miss. Otis Williamson takes off a portion of Arizona and adds it to Utah. Now, Dwight Hitchcock Palmer Wilson, N. Y. these forty-seven amendments, under the rules of the House, Emerich Holliday Patterson, Tenn. Wrigh"t would be debatable in Committee of the Whole, each amendment Evans Hopkins Pearre the subject of debate and each amendment the subject of Fitzpatrick Jacks9n. Md. Ransdell, La. amendment--. · · So the previous question was ordered. Mr. LITTI~EFIELD. And vote. The Clerk announced the following pairs : Mr." DALZELL. Ad infinitum, and it is the judgment of the For this vote : Committee on Rules that, considering the state of public busi Mr. BROWN of PenD.Bylvania with Mr. WEBB. ness and the lateness of the session, it is desirable, if legisla Mr. HEDGE with Mr. TATE. tion is to be had upon this subject of statehood at all, to have Mr. McCLEARY of Minnesota with Mr. Am:EN. this bill go as speedily as possible to conference. The House Mr. OLMSTED with Mr. ·McDERMOTT. has expressed its judgment and the Senate has expressed its Mr. PRINCE with Mr. GRIFFITH. judgment, and if any agreement can be had at all it will be Mr. S:P>IITH of Illinois with Mr. GRIGGS. had in ·conference. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my Mr. JACKSON of .Maryland with Mr. DINSMORE. time. . For this day : , ' Mr. WILLI.Al\fS of :Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the Mr. ACHESON with Mr. BENNY. gentleman from Missomi [Mr. DE .ARMOND] such time as he Mr. BINGHAM with Mr. RICHARDSON of Tennessee. may desire. l\Ir. BONYNGE with Mr. BROUSSARD. Mr. DE ARMOND. Mr. Speaker, the proposition to be brought Mr. BUCKMAN with Mr. BUTLER of MissourL before the House under this rule is a very important one, and Mr. CoNNELL with Mr. FITZPATRICK. upon this side of the House we think, as we have been accus Mr. COOPER of Wisconsin with Mr. SWANSON. tomed to think for a long time, that the House ought to have Mr. Cousrns with Mr. CANDLER. some opportunity to consider amendments and to otrer amend 1\fr. DWIGHT with 1\:lr. GoULDEN. ments and to vote upon amendments. If the rule be adopted, no Mr. EVANS with 1\Ir. Hrr..L of Mississippi. ~uch privilege as that will be accorded to us and no .such .right M"r. FliCK with Mr. EMERICH. as that will be enjoyed by us. 1\Ir. FORDNEY with Mr. -GILBERT. We believe that these Territories ought to he admitted and Mr. FoWLER with Mr. CRoWLEY. ought to be admitted upon fair terms. We believe that Arizona 1\fr. liiLDEBRANT with Mr. GLAss. and New Mexico ought to constitute two distinct States. We Mr. HOLLIDAY with Mr. HITCHCOCK. believe there well might be two States made out of Indian Ter Mr. JACKSON of Ohio with Mr. GARNER. ritory and Oklahoma ; but, whatever ought to be d(}ne, we be Mr. CHARLES B. LANDIS with Mr. CLARK. lieve that the House_ou(7ht to have the opportunity to do it, and Mr. LoUD with Mr. HoPKINS. . that the matter ought not to be determined in an arbitrary Mr. MCCALL with Mr. KELIHER. fashion under a rule which cuts otr the House from an opportu Mr. McLAcHLAN with Mr. JoHNSON. nity to express its own mind or to have its own will done. Mr. MooN of Pennsylvania with Mr. SULLIVAN of New York. Mr. Speaker, there are other gentlemen here who are much Mr. OTIS with Mr. LAMAR of Missouri. better acquainted with the question than I am and whose re Mr. SHIRAS with Mr. SHOBER. marks upon the subject will be worth much more to the House 1905. GONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE·. ·2787 than any which I could make. Therefore, that some of them principle of two States instead of four will be maintained. That may be heard, I reserve the remainder of my time and yield it is all. · back to the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. WILLIAMS]. 1\Ir. I.LOYD. · I did not suppose the/ gentleman from Missouri, Mr. WILLIAMS of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I now yield ten my colleague, signed that statement, because I am sure he is not minutes to the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. LLoYD]. ~hat is termed in the press "one of the recalcitrants." Mr. LLOYD. 1\Ir. Speaker, this is certainly a very unusual Mr. B.ARTHOLDT. That is true. occurrence--that a .committee that bas the right to report to Mr. LLOYD. But I a'm concerned to express this, that the this House at this time under the rules of the House, a commit people of Arizona want a State of their own; the people of New tee that bas the highest possible privilege when it reports upon Mexico want a State :with their present .boundary. They are not a statehood bill, should never have the opportunity to consider coming here through any person whatever asking admission into statehood legislation. It is a remarkable fact that this the Union of those two Territories as one State. It is also a true House should be called upon to pass upon a matter that affects statement that the people want two States down there instead forever the destiny of ~~izona and New Mexico by uniting of one. Why, the attempted action here is superseding the will them when the people of both Arizona and New Mexico are of the people of those two Territories. I am concerned for state in direct opposition to that which is attempted by Congress and hood legislation. If there is· any Territory that ever asked for when the majority of this House is opposed to that action. · If admission into this Union· that ought to be admitted., it is the the public press states the truth, there are thirty-three men Territory of Oklahoma to-day. Never in the history of this Re on the majority side that have had to be coerced by rules and public has a Territory presented so strong a case as Oklahoma by leadership, and that actually to-day a majority of this presents. The Indian Territory presents a pitiful condition. No body are in direct opposition to that which is attempted by a Territory controlled by the United States Government bas ever majority of the majority. I have not the time to call atten been in the unfortunate condition that the Indian Territory finds tion to the history of this very important legislation. On the itself to-day. Something needs to be done. So far as I am con 9th day of November, 1903, the Delegate from the Territory of cerned, I am anxious b'y legislation that they shall obtain relief. New Mexico [Mr. RonEY] introduced a bill asking for state But I do not understand why it is that this House should· be hood for New Mexico. On the lOth day Of November, 1903, afraid of itself. In the last few days the Senate of the United the Delegate from Arizona [Mr. WILSON], carrying out the States bas seen fit to challenge the action of the President of the wishes of his people, introduced a bill asking for statehood United States because be -was undertaking something, as they for Arizona. On the 18th of November the Delegate from thouglit, that was an infringement upon the rights of the Sen Oklahoma [1\Ir. McGUIRE], representing, as be said, the inter at~. This House on yesterday asserted its rights, as it ought to, ests of his people and their wishes, introduced a bill asking by passing a resolution sending a bill back to the Senate and for separate statehood for Oklahoma. Luter, on the 5th day teliing them that they could not trample upon the rights of this of November, 1904, at the instance of certain citizens of Indian House. 'l'o-day we are faced with the proposition of coercing a Territory, the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. MooN], a mem minority of this House because the majority of it happened to ber of the Committee on Tenitories, introduced a bill asking be in power and have the power to do so. for statehood for the Indian Territory. Hearings were had I am concerned that statehood legislation shall have fair before the Committee on Territories covering nearly two and thoughtful consideration. 'rhis bill went to the Senate·on months. There are two volumes of those hearings, almost as the 20th day of AP,I'il, as I remember, ·last year. It did not large as this volume, the Rouse Digest, and yet when that im come back to us until within the last ten days. The Senate portant bill, affecting for all time the interests of the four gave it careful consideration. Tbey considered every proposi great Territories, was brought before this House, notwith tion and every amendment They discussed them all, but you standing that kind of . a bill has as much precedence, or ought and the .Members of this House have no opportunity to ·discuss to have, under the rules, as a report from the Committee on an amendment in connection with this legislation. I am con Hules itself, we were allowed three hours in which to discuss cerned that this body shall maintain its dignity; that it shall that bilL A special rule was brought in by the Committee on investigate the great questions that come before it-and no Rules saying that there should be three hours for debate, more important question has been before this body. The ques; and that no amendment should be offered excepting two tion now before it is whether four great Territories shall be amendments which the Committee on hules were concerned admitted to statehood or not; and if so, upon what terms they should become a part of the bill. shall be admitted. Mr. ·B.ARTHOLDT. Under ordinary circumstances would my I yield back the remainder of my time. [Lou~ applause on colleague [Mr. LLOYD] be in favor of simply concurring in the the Democratic side.] Senate amendments-- . Mr. DALZELL. How much time bas been consumed on the 1\Ir. LLOYD. No, sir; I am not in favor-- other side? · Mr. BARTHOLDT. The Senate bill containing, as it does, The SPEAKER. The gentleman from ¥ississippi has eight all these important provisions? minutes remaining. Mr. LLOYD. As far as I am concerned, I am not in favor of Mr. DALZELL. I yield to the gentleman from Maine [Mr. concurrence with the Senate. POWERS]. Mr. B.ARTHOLDT. So my colleague [Mr. LLOYD] would be Mr. POWERS of Maine. Mr. Speakei·, I do not know by in favor of nonconcurrence? Is not that the motion before the what authority the gentleman from Missouri claims to speak House? for the minority of. the Republican majority of this House or 1\Ir. LLOYD. 'I am in favor of concurrence in part, and I am why he has been the special person designated to present to this sure this side of the House is in favor of concurrence in part, House the wrongs of what he calls the " recalcitrants." I am but the remarkable fact is, the minority-those on this side of not awa1;e that there are thirty-three Republicans opposed to the aisle--have never been consulted at all, and this House, this legislation, as he asserts. through its leadership, bas sought for the last ten days to coerce Mr. LLOYD. Will tlle gentleman allow me to ask him a the thirty-three men on the Republican side that were in sym question? pathy with our views on statehood questions. Mr. POWERS of Maine. Certainly. Mr. B.ARTHOLD'll. If I am correctly informed, the minority Mr. LI;OYD. Do you deny that there are thirty-three Re will have representation on the conference committee just the publicans on that side of the House who are not in favor of the same as the majority, and if the majority tal\;es the chances to Hamilton bill? · send that bill to conference it seems to me that the minority Mr. POWERS of Maine. I think I can deny it with perfect can take the same chances, and that they are on an equality, as safety and with truth. far as that is concerned. · Mr. LLOYD. 'l'hen I would ask this question : If it is not Mr. LLOYD. Mr. Speaker, if we are to believe the statement true in the caucus which was recently held by your party there given" out by the public press, the petition which you have were thirty or thirty-five men against the decision which your signed., the statement signed by that side, by the majority, party arrived at? stands by the Hamilton bill. If that be true, then the minority Mr. POWERS of Maine. I will say to the gentleman from of the majority nor any other minority will ba ve any chance Missouri that I do not understand that it is any part of my in the conference. privilege or duty to state what took place in a caucus or con Mr. BARTHOLDT. That is not true, as far as I know. ference. Mr. LLOYD. The best confirmation of that will be to pro l\lr. LLOYD. I agree fully with that statement. I concede duce the petition. that. Mr. BARTIIOLDT. The petition, as I understand it, which, Mr. LITTLEFIELD. We did not have any caucus. by the way, I have not signed, but which has been signed by a Mr. POWr4.:tS of Maine. We had nothing but a conference, number of Members of this House, simply provides that the and when we are discussing anything in a conference thue • 2788 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE~ - FEBRUARY 17, might na turany be some or us for one: thing and some of us for The genileinan from Maine [1\fr. POWERS} sa:ys he has no another. . doubt that the Hamilton bill would be indorsed by a majority . Mr. LLOYD. May I ask it the information is cor:rkt that of this Honse- and the Senate amendments would be voted down.' thirty m· thirty-five persons on that side were called on to sign And yet we are furnished with the spectacle of a majority of a petition before this rule was brought in to get a:ny action the majority, supposedly entertaining the views which the gen taken on the statehood bill? tleman from Maine has uttered, absolutely refusing to permit a Mr. POWERS of Maine. If there has been any such neces minority of the majority and the minorlty"'itself to have a vote sity as that it has been unknown to me. But I wilf say to the upon the very amendments. coming from the Senate- which he gentleman from Missouri that I believe. if' tfle fair sentiments of says a majority ot the House would: not indorse-. the Democruts as wen as of the Republicans of this House in It is clear to every man who-Jmows this House that upon one reference to this bili could be expressed, if the· Democratic Mem point, at any rate, a majority of this House, including both sides bers of this House bad not been bound b-y a. cancus as they were or- it, would concur with the Senate, and that would be with re in the last session-nnd: I do not know but they have also been gard to so much of the Senate's action as ke~ps Arizona stili a in this-and if they did not feel that party fealty required a Territory rather than to unite her destiny and that of New united and solid Democratic opposition, I have no doubt that Mexico forever; she protesting against snrrendering her Tel:rl the bill called the "'Hamilton bill " would prevail by a:. good torial conditions for statehood. no matter how much she wants majority. statehood, if that statehood is to come- to her coupled with New Mr. WACHTER. Nobody wtts whipped fnto line. Mexico. It is also not doubted that the sentiment of New Mex Mr. LLOYD. I wish to say in reply to the· gentleman from ico is opposed to making one State of the two, and I challenge Maine that if both sides had bad an opportunity to vote on this the gentleman now-I dare the majority of this House-to let matter, without reference to the rules forced upon the. minority, us have u vot~ upon that question. the Hamilton bill would never have been adopted by this House. The gentleman tells us that there are not thirty-three men Ur. MARSHALL. Will the gentleman yield? upon that side who- have had to be whipped into concord. . ·Mr-. POWERS ot 1\faine~ For a question. I know n()thing about it except what the public press has re Mr. MARSifALL. I should simply like to state.. for the bene ported. It is reported that there were thirty-three ot you, fit of the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. LLOYD] that I was one and that n:o-t even a ruie would be submitted to this House of those people to whom he refers, and as be seems to have an until the majority of the majority had made those thirty anxiety regarding them, I desire to relieve hfm of any further three men constituting the minority of the majority not a:n.x:iety or respon fbillty, so- fa:r as I am concerned. [Laughter.] only promise, but sign up a promise to support this rule. Mr. POWERS of Maine. Besides. while I am favorable to Ah, Mr. Speaker, it would be interesting to know just ex- . legislation which shall give recognition to these Territories and actly who those men are. The public press this morning says make them States, yet I make this statement advisedly, after tha:t thirty out of the thirty-three have " signed up." I would having eat•efu11y investigated the matter and after having been give a penny to !mow who the three full-bloods are that are still there personally: I do not believe- that the present population off the reservation, the three blanket Indians. [Laughter.] or the future probabilities of the Territories. of New Mexico and The blanket Indians generally have come back, we hear. I have Arizona are such as to entitle them to be admitted in.to the never seen a time in my life before when the majority of the Union ag two States. I never have believed that it could be majority was not willing to trust the minority of the majority done with justice to many of the other States at the Union, and on its verbai promise at any rate. [Laughter on· the Demo In so stating I do not intend to cast any reflection upon the cratic side.] I have known them to coerce, but I neyer kne'v intelligence of the people ot those Territories. men to entertain such a poor opmion of one another when con Mr. LLOYD. Mr. Speaker.. in that connection, it the rule stitutfug a majority of this House as to refuse to take a verbal would permit us to vote on the nnfon of Oklahoma and the In promise ,.. to be good." [Laughter on the Democratic side.] dian Territory, I have no doubt that the- gentleman and I would Those who have had to sign up have had to do it in black vote together, and that nearly every Member on the floor of and white; they have had to go down upon their knees, meta this House, both Democrat and Republica:n~ would vote for that ·phorically ·speaking at any rate, and have had to append their proposition because or their a.n:xiety for statehood. names just where they were- told to append them. Gentlemen, Mr. POWERS of .Maine. Let me say one word more-. The I do not know which to feel the most proud of as an American admission of these Territoi.-ies as States is a Republican meas citizen-the majority of the majority who have haz~ the ure. The Republican ]cfembers· of this Hou8e ar~ responsible minOI"ity of the majority, or the minority of the majority who for the legislation of this House; and how mucb of truth have consented: to be hazed, always, of course, with the excep there may be-! do- not admit there is any-in the claim of' the tion of the three noble full-bloods~ whoever they are, who are gentleman from Missouri [Mr. LLOYD] that the joinfng of New still off the reservation, the blinket Indla.n~ with all the ~.fexico and Arizona does violence to the wishes of tbe House accouterments o-f war dangling from their persons. [Laughter.] as a whole, nobody can deny that a large majority of the Re Perhaps the roll call will disclose who the three are. publicans, both of this House, of the Senate, a:nd ot the coun Now, Mr. Speake?', we would like to offer another amendment, try, believe that but two States should be made of those Terri- namely, to concur in all the Senate amendments except that toTies. · numbered 46, which is the amendment that takes the strip off [Here the hammer felJ.J .Arizona and gives it to Ut.o The Clerk announced the following additional pairs:- · The SPEAKER announced as- conferees on the-part of the For this vote : • House 1\fr. BRADLEY, 1\Ir. FULLER, and Mr. l\lrERs of Indiana. Mr.·ADAMs ·of Pennsylvania with Mr. SHOBER. NATHAN C. D. B0ND. Mr. BEDE with Mr. COOPER of Texas. Mr. CUSHMAN with Mr. DINSMORE. , 'l'he SPEAKER laid before the House the bill H. R. 16G29, Mr. GARDNER of New Jersey with Mr. BADGER. an act granting an increase of pension to Nathan C. D. Bond, Mr. HUNTER with l\fr. DOUGHERTY. witlt a Senate amendment. · Mr. KENNEDY with Mr. JOHNSON. The Senate amendment was read. Mr. LoNGWORTH with Mr. SULLIVAN of 1\Iassachusetts. Mr. SULLOWAY. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House con Mr. OTis with Mr. TAI.BOTT. cur in the Senate amendment. Mr. PRINCE with Mr. GRIFFITH. The SPEAKER. The . gentleman from New Hampshire Mr. SmLEY with Mr. ·KLINE. moves that the House do concur in the Senate amendment. Mr. THOMAS of Ohio with Mr. LUCKING. 'l'he motion was agreed to. For the balance of the day : LAURA P. SWENTZEL. Mr. JACKSON of Maryland with Mr. LINDSAY. The SPEAKER also laid before the House the bill (H. R. Mr. OLMSTED with Mr. DE .ARMOND. 14575) granting an increase of pension to Laura P. Swentzel, Mr. SMITH of Illinois with Mr. MCDERMOTT. with a Senate amendment. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. The Senate amendment was read. The SPEAKER announced as conferees on the part of the 1\Ir. SULI... OWAY. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House con House Mr. HAMILTON, Mr. POWERS of Maine, and Mr. MOON Of cur in the Senate amendment. Tennessee. The motion was agreed to. . MESSL\GE FROM THE SENATE. ABEL GROYENOR. A message from the Senate, by Mr. PARKINSON, its reading The SPEAKER also laid before the House the bill (H. R. clerk, announced .that the Senate had passed bills and resolu 17411) granting an increase of pension to Abel Grovenor, with tion of the following titles; in which the concurrence of the Senate amendment. House of .Representatives was requested: The Senate amendment was read. S. 6015. An act granting an increase of pension to Thomas 1\Ir. SULI.OWAY. 1\Ir. Speaker, I move that the House con- Ritchie; cur in the Senate a_mendment. · S. 6804. An act granting an increase of pension to Mary C. The motion was agreed to. Leefe; JAMES SHAW. S. 6:192. An act granting an increase of pension to Joseph The SPEAKER also laid before House the bill (H. R. Howe; 1G859) granting an increase of pension to James Shaw, with S. 3406. An act granting an increase of pension to Amanda D. Senate amendment. Penick; The amendment was read. S. 7148. An act to grant certain lands to the State of Ohio; Mr. SULLOWAY. Mr. Speaker, i move that the House con S. 7173. An act to provide a life-saving station at or near cur in the Senate amendment. · Green~ill, on the coast of South Kingston, in the State of Rhode The motion was agreed to. Islanu; OLIVER H. MARTIN. S. 7103. An act confirming the title of the St. Paul, Minne The SPEAKER also laid before the House the bill (H. R. apolis and Manitoba Railway Company to certain lands in the 1r.489) granting an increase of pension to Oliver II. Martin, State of Montana, and for other purposes ; and with Senate amendments. Senate concurrent resolutlon 101. The Senate amendments were read. R esolv ed by the Senate (the House of Rept·esentatives concurring), That the Committee on Printing of the Senate, with two Members of Mr. SULLOWAY. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House con the present House of Representatlves who are reelected to the next cur in the.. Senate amendments. Congress, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representa The motion was agreed to. tives, or any subcommittee of said special joint committee, are hereby authorized to examine into the numbers printed of the various docu MICHAEL KEATING. ments, reports, bills, and other papers published by order of Congress, The SPEAKER also laid before the House the bill (H. R. or of either House thereof, and of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, arid if, in their judgment, the conditions as they find them warrant remedial 16389) granting an increase of pension to l\Iicltael Keating, with legislation to . report a bill at the next session of Congress making Senate amendment. such reductions in the numbers and cost of printing and such changes The Senate amendment was read. and reduction in the distribution of said publications as they may deem expedient, with a report giving their reasons therefor ; and that llir. SULLOWAY. 1\fr. Speaker, I move the House do concur the said committee is also authorized to investigate the printing and in the Senate amendment. binding for the Executive Departments executed at the Government 'l'he motion was agreed to. Printing Office and at the branch printing offices and binderies in the various Departments, and if, in their judgment, the conditions as NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL . . they find them warrant remedial legislation, to report a bill at the 1\ir. FOSS. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now re next session of Congress, making such reductions in expenses and im posing such checks as they may deem expedient, with a report giving solve itself into Committee of the Whole House on the state of their reasons therefor; and said committee is further authorized to the Union for the consideration of the bill H. R. 18467, the naval . make any other investigation calculated, in their opinion, to reduce appropriation bill. the cost of the public printing, and report the result thereof; and in making the inquiries required by this resolution said committee ·The motion of 1\Ir. Foss was agreed to. shall have power to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths, Accordingly the House resolved itself ihto Committee of the to employ a stenographer to report its hearings, to call on the heads 'Vhole House on the state of the Union, with 1\Ir. DALZELL in of Executive Departments and the Public Printer for such information in regard to the preceding matters a.s they may desire, to do whatever the chair. is necessary for a thorough investigation of the subject, and to sit 'l'he CHAIRMAN. The House is now in Committee of the during the recess of Congress. Any subcommittee may exercise the Whole House on the state of the Union for the consideration of powers hereby granted to said committee, and the· expenses of said investigation shall be paid one-half from the contingent fund of the the bill H. R. 18467, the naval appropriation bill. The ques Senate upon vouchers duly approved by the chairman of the Commit tion is on agreeing to the amendment offered by the gentleman tee on Printing and one-half from the contingent fund of the House of from New York [Mr. FITZGERALD], which the Clerk will read. Representatives. '!'he Clerk read as follows : The message also announced that the Senate had passed with Insert, after the word "dollars," on page 29, line 16: amendment bill of the following title; in which the concur "Provided, That no part of the inoney herein appropriated for dl·edg rence of the House of Representatives was requested: ing, improving, and building retaining walls in and about the reserve H. R. 17331. An act relating to a dam across Rainy River. basin shall be expended until there has been prepared ready for sub mission to Congress at its next session an estimate .of the completed GEORGE H. BRUSSTAR. cost of such reserve basin." The SPEAKER laid before the House the bill H. R. 17117, an ·Mr. BUTLER of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chairman; before that act granting an increase of pension to George H. Brusstar, with amendment is voted upon I think it is well for the committee to a Senate amendment. · understand what the purpose of it is. My colleague (Mr. The Senate amendmenC \'.-aS read. LouDENSLAGER] has the figures, and I have been looking for hlt:1. 1\fr. SULLOWA Y. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House non He was here a few moments ago. concur in the Senate -amendment and ask: for a conference. Mr. FITZGERALD. l\fr. Chairman, I suggest that this para- The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New Hampshire graph be passed over temporarily. · moyes that the House do nonconcur in the Senate amendment Mr. BUTLER of Pennsylvania. Will it be proper to ask that and ask for a conference. this paragraph be passed at tills time, to be taken up later, when 1'ho motion was agreed to. my colleague [Mr. LOUDENSLAGER] returns to the Chamber? .1905. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-- HOUSE. 2791 The ·cHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Pennsylvania {Mr. J3,000: . pumping ;plant tor fr~sh W'fi;ter, $5,000; -dred¢"mg nml filling Bunr.. ER~ a. k. nna.nilnous .con ent to pass over for the present, ~~ .$15,000 .; water. system, .$6,()00; .rn all, navy-yard, Key West, Fla., 29 000 without prejudi·ce, the pending paragraph. Is there objection? • · . · . There was no objection. · Mr. SNOOK. I .mov-e to str1.ke out the last word. Mr. Oha~r- The Clerk :read as follows : man, I had some trme; reserved uBder general debate, and I will Navy-yard, .Norfolk, Va.": Piers and -sUps, to eontinue, $50,000; .ask unanimous consent toO proceed f6r ten minutes. . . -d.redging, to cont:inue, 5,0(}0 ; electtic p.iant, extensions, $20,000 ; pav Mr. DAYTON. A point of order. I can not hear what the ing and .grading, additional, $7,500; railroad -rolling st-eck, additional, gentleman says. $3,060 ,; fiJ:e-p.roteetio:n .system, ex:tensions, 5,000 ; beating system, ex Mr. SNOOK. I ask unanimous consent to proceed for ten tensions, $3,000; ~comotive, :$6,000; und.e.rground eo-nduit syst.em, $10,000 ; ~rovement to H>O--ton shears, 15,000; telephone system, minutes. extension, ... ,.eoo ; sewers, erten ions, 3,000 ; wharf extension at 'St. The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection? Helena, $8,500; roads at St. Helena, $4r000 ; s-tor-ehouse and issuing .room for clothing at St. Helena, $3.,500; bouse for contagious diseases. Mr. FOSS. Upon the naval bHl? "$2,500; in all, navy-yard, Norfolk, Va., $148;000. • Mr. SNOOK. Upon the naval bill; that is what I wish to talk about. Mr. FITZGERAJ.D. 1\Ir. Chairman~ I wish to reserv.e a point ~I'he CHAIRMAN. Is ther-e objection? [After a pause.J of order against the language on page 31, tine ·3, ras foH\lws : The Chair hears none. House !or contagious diseases, $2,590. Mr. SNOOK. Mr. Chairman, the n-ewspapers of the country Mr. FOSS. Has the gentleman from New York TMr. FITz have been engaged in a controversy which bas reached this GERALD] off-ered an amendment? House, as to what was the cause of the defeat of our party in Mr. FITZGERALD. I wisb to reserv-e a point rof order the last national electi-on. against the provision·in the paragraph t6 which I have referred. Some have said it was due to the personal popularity of the Mr. FOSS. Wlr11t is the provision 1 Pr-esident; .some, to the prosperity which the 'COuntry has -en Mr. FI'l"ZGERALD. It relates to a bouse for contagi How can s1,1ch a course be reconciled with a wise, economic, and In this connect,ion he said : business-like administration of public affairs? The table which In making the above computation I have added in each instance tlle is attached to the report oon this bill shows that we now have appropriations for the Army and Navy for 1905, as It is obvious that the expendit~res for that year can not now be obtained, and I wished for the use of the Navy under course of construction thirty-one an . equal period of eight year1:1 to compare with the previous compu· vessels, with a tonnage of 327,170 tons-more than any other tat10n. · . nation in the world, save Great Britain, which has under course This analysis shows that the total expenditures for the War and Navy of construction 330,235 tons. and that includes fortifications, because they are under the expenditures , for the War Department-the total excess for 1898 to 1905 for these ·we are building nearly twice as much as France three two great branches as against excessive appropriations of $1 151 times as much as Russia or Austria, two and one-half times 844, 477, over the preceding eight years are $988, 697, 001. That i~ .as much as Germany, and n1ne times as much as Japan, about the actual expenditure during that period. The increases in the War whose na_val prowess we hear so much. There may be many Department were $395,994,010; in the Navy Department, $229,638,694, . reasons why tbe European nations should maintain a large And in comparing the appropriations for the Army and Navy navy that do not apply to us. ' They have grown up by the ex with those for other purposes he sums the matter up by saying Now, then, what is the increase in the army and navy appropriation ercise of the art of war. They have many entangling alliances, during this period of time? Three hundred and forty-one per cent many bitter hatreds and jealousies that have been fostered by as compared with 22 per cent. In other words, the increase for Army hundreds of years of warfare. None of these reasons apply a~d Navy and ~ortifications during the last eight years as_ compared to us with our freedom from alliances and our wonderful nat with the precedmg eight years is fifteen times the normal increase in ural resources. Our.surroundings, the teachings of the 4:athers, the ordinary expenses of the Government of the United States. I appeal to the House if these figures and statements do not our institutions, the patriotism of our citizens, demand only such show that we are pursuing a most dangerous policy. A reason a navy and army as speak for defense and do not endanger the able curtailment of the appropriations for the Army and Navy peace of the world. would not only help to wipe out the deficit in the revenues· but I have no patience with that class of thinkers who claim that would furnish money to carry out other much-needed legisla'tion u large army and navy make for peace. If so, the teachings of a 'l'he gentleman from Texas [Mr. SHEPPARD] showed the House hundred years have been in vain. This theory, carried to its• that there are many public buildings that are entirely inadequate logical co~clusi,on, would say that all the laws for the protection of society making it a crime to carry concealed weapons have for the public needs. Their extension and improvement can not been a mistake, and would turn society into a walking arsenal. be thought of while so much money goes to the Army and Navy If this is so, we should burn our histories and write new ones The survivors of the civil war have been asking Congress for for the purpose of teaching the coming generation this new and years for a service pension. They ask for a measure that will strange doctrine. I am surprised how such a doctrine can find recognize the service they rendered the country. Their de so many followers, and· can explain it only on the theory of the mand is just, and I believe should have been granted years ago philosopher who said: There_are a number of such bills now pending before the com mittee of which I have the honor to be a member. It is amazing how implicitly a fallacy skillfully clothed in words is Some of us have favored reporting one of these bills for pas ~gc[f.ted by even well-informed persons; how tenaciously they cling sage, but we are always met with the cry of insufficient rev Another reason why this appropriation should not be so large enues. I for one believe it would be good policy to take enough at this time is that the revenues will not be large enough for the from the appropriations for the Army and Navy to provide a coming year to meet the expenses of administering the Govern service pension for the surviving soldiers of the civil war~ ment. As the different appropriation bills have been brought be Mr. Chairman, we cry " Peace! " " Peace! " but year after fore Congress at this session the distinguished gentleman from year these appropriations continue to increase. Maine [1\Ir. LITTLEFIELD] has closely questioned the Member in The gentleman from Missouri [Mr. BARTHOJ~DT] in most elo charge, and he has finally shown that there is likely to be a quent and fervid language sings of the glories of internationa deficit in the public revenues for the coming year of nearly arbitration. All this does not seem to reach the present Admin $20,000,000. And I now warn the gentleman when these bills istration or touch the heart of the majority of the Committee on come back from the Senate the amendments added by that body Naval Affairs. How well •rennyson's Song of the Brook, with are likely to make this deficit much larger than he expects; and slight changes, would tell the story of the remarkable growth though the President approves of the present naval policy, it of these appropriations. must also be remembered that be said in his annual message to I chatte1·, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, Congress- ll,or pe.ace may come and peace may go, CAUTION AGAINST EXTRAVAGANCE. But I grow on forever. Battle ships and forts, public buildings, and improved waterways are nvestments which should be made when we have the money· but [Applause.] abundant revenues and a large surplus always invite extravagance and In conclusion, I would say let us have an army and nav_y constan~ care should be taken to guard against unnecessary ·increase of commensurate in size with the greatness of our country; one the ordmary expenses of government. The cost of doing Government business should be regulated with the same rigid scrutiny as the cost that will maintain our just rights at any cost. But in providing of doing a private business. that army and navy l~t us ·put our main dependence in th::i.t To show the unprecedented growth of appropriations I sub love of country and patriotism that comes from free institutions mit the following table, prepared by the distinguished gentle and is enkindled in the heart by the exercise of civil and man from Maine [Mr. LITTLEFIELD] and published in his speech religious liberty, that which bas proved a tower· of strength to of February 14, 1905 : us in every time of trouble. Let us scorn to puff ourselves up Table of expenditures, front the report of the Secretary of the Treasury. and take d~light in vain boasting. Let us cry down everythinb in our national life that looks toward unjust aggression or en~ Year. War. Navy. Indians. Pensions. Miscenane dangers the peace of the world. I ous. In short, let us hold to the beneficent teachings of a hundred years and turn our attention to promoting the peace, happine The Clerk read as follows : situation that if it does come, if our vessels are disabled, we can Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Sewer system, extensions, take them somewhere in our own country for repairs. $5,000; to continue grading, $20,000 ; iire-protectlon system, exten Now, I say nothing about the station at 1\fare Island, but at sions, $101000; electric-light plant, extensions, $10,000; telephone sys Puget Sound we have a navy-yard where the largest battle ships tem, extensions, $1,500; railroad and equipment, extensions, $6,000; boat shop for construction and repair, to equip and complete, $25,000 ; can enter, and they can come to the wharves by their own water system, extensions, $3,000; heating system, extensions, $6,000; steam in all kinds of weather and on any kind of a tide, and it locomotive · and crane track about dt•y dock, to · continue $30,000 ; is so situated and located that we ought to haye there another dredging, to continue, $10,000 ; quay wall, extension, $25,000 ; roads and walks, extensions, $5,000 ; joiner shop, for construction and re dry dock, and we ought to commence it, in my judgment, just pair, to complete, $5,000 ; machinery for yards and docks, $2,000 ; as soon as possible. What are battle ships worth if there is no piers, additional, $50,000; in all, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washing- place where they can be docked or repaired? Better have none ton, $213,500. · if we can not keep them in condition. Mr. JONES of Washington. I move to strike out the last I realize that on this bill we can not start the initiation of word. · that dry dock. I believe the chairman of the committee and Mr. Chairman, I wish to ask the chairman of the committee other members of the committee ·would be disposed to do it if if any estimate was sent in to the committee with reference to they could. I simply call attention of the House to this situa the buildillg of a new dry dock at this yard? tion because it is a matter that must be pressed and taken up Mr. FOSS. In reply to the gentleman, I will state that I in the near future. Mr. Chairman, I withdraw my pro forma have the original estimates that were sent by the Department, amendment. and it does not appear that there was a new dry dock asked for Mr. FITZGERALD. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out, in this year. line 21, page 32, the words "piers, additional, $50,000." Mr. JONES of Washington. I understood that to be the fact, The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will report the amendment. · but I wanted to be sure about it. The Clerk read as follows : I want to call the attention of the committee to the situation with reference to this yard and with reference to the docking In line 21, page 32, strike out the words "piers, additional, $50 , 000.' ~ of vessels on the Pacific coast. Mr. FITZGERALD. Mr. Chairman, it was stated at the out- The Puget Sound Navy-Yard is the only navy-yard on the set in the consideration of this bill that the Committee on Naval Pacitic coast that can be reached by a battle ship. I know that ...<\ffairs had not authorized any new improvements in the ·dif-: the .members of the committee are very friendly to this ym·d, ferent navy-yards of the country. ·That was one of the reasons and I feel that they have done all that they felt they could possi given for the· refusal to consider . at all an .amendment to im bly do toward the development of the yard this year. Admiral prove the water front at the navy-yard in New York. It seems Endicott, on page 221 of the hearings, with reference to this from the hearings before the committee that in addition to this yard, in answer to the question as to certain items, whether or $50,000 which . is appropriated for the purpose of comp_leting not they could be left over, said this : piers, there is also contained in the paragraph a provision ap I should say that as Ptrget Sound is almost our only reliance on the priating $25,000 for the extension of quay walls, which will Pacific coast we ought to be a little liberal with that yard. serve to some extent the same purpose. I do not suppose hi 'l'hen in the hearings the question came up as to whether tlny the present temper of the committee this amendment will pre llattle ships had been taken care of at this point. I find that one vail, but I wish to make this statement so as to emphasize the of the J)lembers of the committee (Mr. VREELAND) made this fact, that it _was not quite accurate for the chairman of the statement: commitee to say at the outset that no new improvements had You have not had any battle ships there, have you? b~en authorized in this bill for the differe~t yards of the country. This is a new-one. ln other words, it seems that some members of the com 1\Ir. FOSS. . Will the gentleman allow me an interruption? mittee had an idea that· no battle ships had ·ever been taken to Mr. FITZGERALD. Yes. the Puget Sound Navy-Yard. The admiral replied: Mr. FOSS. The gentleman from New York will note that the· I think there have been. I speak of battle ships because they are one of the largest vess_els. The large cruisers can not come up to Mare word " additional-" appears after the word '' piers," which indi Island Navy-Yard because of the low water there, and must go to Puget cates that it is the carrying out of a plan already entered upon. Sound also. Mr. FITZGERALD. •.rJ;lat does not appear from the hearings, if Every battle ship that bas been docked on the Pacific coast the gentleman will pardon me. There are ·Some piers there riow. bas been at the Puget Sound Navy-Yard, and among the vessels This is to provide add,itional piers. There is no plan or project that have been docked there have been the Oregon, the Wiscon that provides for any stipulated number of piers in addition to sin, and the Iowa, battle ships, and the Brooklyn and the New those now in existence. I do not say that these additional Yo1·k, large cruisers, drawing almost as much water as the piers are not necessary for the proper equipment of the yard; battle ships. but I do say that if the committee is to carry out the plan The dry dock at Puget Sound is of wood, and yet its record announced, that prevailed in the framing of this bill, the item in efficiency, I think, will compare favorably with, if not surpass, should go out, as it is a new improvement. that of any other dry dock in the United States. Mr. DAYTON. Mr. Chairman, I do not desire to make reply, We are in this situation: A wooden-dry dock can not last for and yet I thinl\: the statement of the gentleman from New York ever. This dock has been tested thoroughly by the largest ves [Mr. FITZGERALD] ought not to go on record entirely unchal sels in the Navy. The Iowa has been there and docked several lenged. The piers at this navy-yard are not new work. This times, and the Or·egon has been docked there several times. The is simply for an extension of those that have already been time is coming in the near future when repairs will have to be built. They were commenced in the years gone by, and this made at this dry dock. We have only one dry dock on the Pa extension is necessary to meet the increasing demands upon the cific coast, and that is at Puget Sound, where battle ships can yard. · The statement made by the chairman of the co.mmittee, be dock¢. That dry dock is apt to become unavailable at the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Foss], was simply used in the almost any time, and whenever that time comes then there is general sense of starting a new project, starting a new yard no place on the Pacific coast where one of these large battle or a new building in a new yard. These piers have been started ships or war vessels can be docked. and have not b~en completed. The piers in themselves are a It seems to me that it would be wisdom on the part of this continuing work, at least in a sense, and this is simply an addi Government to begin at once the construction of another dry tion to those already placed there. dock at Puget Sound Navy-Yard, because it will take some time Mr. FITZGERALD. Mr. Chairman, I simply wish to call the to construct it. The dock there now is bound to get out of re attention of the gentleman from W~st -Virginia [Mr. DAYTON] pair, and then the question will confront this Government, Where to the statement of Admiral Endicott before this committee. can we send the ships to have them repaired if anything should The cbai~man of the committee read: happen to it? They could not come in there, and they would Piers, additional, $50,000. Admiral ENDICOTT. I think they are needed. We need some landing have to go to Esquimalt, in British territory, or some other for slips there. · eign point. If in framing this bill we have an idea that we are Mr. LouoE=-sLAGER. On the same plan we follow in regard to these likely to get into trouble with a foreign country, it seems to me other items, chould not they be cut? that we ought to have proper docking facilities on the Pacific Admiral E~DI C OTT. I f will take $50,000 to complete one pier. coast rather than to be looking after battle ships. It seems· to me Now, there is nothing in the hearings which indicate or whicb that it would be the height of wisdom, if we must have retrench show that any piers have ever been authorized for this yard. ment anywhere, to take some of the money that it is proposed There are piers there now, and this is an addi tiona! pier. It is to use in building battle ships for the construction of a dry dock, a new authorization. It is a new work under the statement of which, in my judgment, will be imperatively needed on the the chairman of the committee, and if the committee is to be :pacific coast in the near future. On the Pacific Ocean will be sustained this new work should not be authorized. It is not the war operations if any ever come. We ought to be in such a an extension of existing piers. 2794 GONGRESSION AL 'RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 17, · Mr. BASSETT. Mr. Chairman, I. wish to say a ·word up6n M . BAKER. Mr. Chairman, I can not allow tbe remarks the general subject (}f the neglect ·of the New York Navy-Yard. of my .good friend, my eoHeague !from New York {Mr: BASSETT], An i.nspecti(}n -of the appropriati-ons to the various navy-yards to go without some comment from me. I repre en~ on this floor along the Atlantic coast shows that the New York Navy-Yard has a part ()f tbe city 'Of Brooklyn, which, in conjunction with that suffered the deepest cut 'Of any fro-m the Department ·estimates, , my friend !rom the se-venth ·d1strict [Mr. Jl) TZGlmALD] repre although it is the largest and most important yard !in the coun- . sents, constitutes the navy-y rd territory. I suppose as large try. Nearly all the economizing is aimed at this navy-yard and a proportion of the employees of that .navy-yard live in my dis very little or none at all at the others. The New York Navy- tric_t as live in the district ·Of my friend ,[Mr. FrrzGERALD]. Now, Yard js situated where in time of war it is the natural base for Mr. Chairman, I deny that the people of Brooldyn.are . interested, the protection -of the large Atlantic ·coast cities. It stands as a people, in large appropriations for that navy-yard I repu.di where ships in service could .be repaired most handily in tinie ate that proposition. The people of Brooklyn may very properly 'Of war. Tbey can enter and depart through the Sound or -desJre protection from outside attack, but the question of whether through the Narrows. The State -of New York is now about to these ships are built in Brooklyn or whether they are built ,in spend the sum of $100;000,000 for the enlargement ana improve- San Fran~cisco or whether they are built in any other part Qf ment of the Erie Canal between New York City and Buffalo. the -country is of no moment to the people of my ci.ty. Tbose Through this canal ·and the Oswego Canal many of the smaller people who believe that war is a danger, tb~t . there,.is a po si naval boats can in an emergency be taken to the Great Lake~ bility of _war, those people very properly feel they should be It does not matter so much where battle ships are built, but the protected. I sympathize with those people, ridiculous as I rlgbt location for .repairs in time -of wa:r is ot the utmost impor- think this talk of war is, but the question of where these ships tance. There is no navy-yard so located for usefulness as this are going to be built has nothing to do with the protection that New York Navy-Yard, and yet there has been a plain and unmis- these ships shall accord to Bl.·ooklyn or any .Part of the ·conn taken tendency during late years to cut down the estimates of try. The ships that are built in the Brook1yn Navy-Yard will the Department in building it up and in equipping it with mod- just as likely prote·ct the people ot San Francisco or New Or ern appliances au · ·Another man was sent for on the day of his wife's death. He docking -the vessels of this Government, while the IJeague thereupon killed both· his ·children, a girl of 2 years and a new-born Island Navy-Yard,- considered by every naval official, hy the boy, with a hatchet and placed them in their mother's coffin. In another case a man killed his wife, his children, and himsel!. Department, and every Member of Congre-ss who has given it We are told that in some towns of Poland where the wives of consideration to be the ideal spot, has had but $1,121,000 ex re.:~ervists-the men who have been called out to go to Man vended on that naval station, and in that this expenditure ciluria and fight Japan-have thrown themselves in front of the has given at least 10,000 feet of increased dockage on the re trains that were to transport their husband~ to that war, and serve basin, besides three or four thousand feet on the river Ilave been crusiled to deatil. Think of that! Does that spirit, front. the spirit that says that war is wrong, and that the people of the I submit, Mr. Chairman, that the members of this committee Russias Ilave no natural grievance against the people of Japan, silould not support the motion of the gentleman from New get nny expression tllrough tileir Government? No. York, because it is not a local question. It arises above and be But I want to ask this House if there is any expression given yond that, and is a national question. The Department, the upon this floor to the Ilundreds of thousands and millions of peo naval officers, and every committee of the Government that has ple in tilis country who feel the same as tilose people do, that visited it make the statement, unqualifiedly, that this is the war is inherently wrong, that it is not unavoidable--and men best reserv~ station in tbe United' States. Let us, therefore, rise will persist in saying upon this floor that it is unavoidable--and above locality, and vote that this .appropriation shall stay in tile way to avoid it is not to appropriate a Ilundred millions of the bill without any limitation. dollars to expand your Navy, but rather the way to avoid it is to Mr. RIXEY. 'Vill the gentleman yield to a question? say to the other great nations of the world, "Come, join with us .Mr. LOUDENSLAGER. Certainly, sir; with much pleasure. in an agreement whereby an immediate and large reduction can Mr. RIXEY. I do not understand this motion is to strike be made of the enormous armaments now in existence." Thus, out anything. Mr. Chairman, shall we obviate the possibility of such fearful Mr. LOUDENSLAGER. Without limitation, I said. scenes being hereafter enacted anywhere in the world as are pic Mr. RIXEY. Let me call your attention simply to this: No tured in this cablegram. part of the money is to be spent until an estimate is prepared The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from New and presente a first-class navy-ynrd. Fo.r. many years no steps were taken by Mr. DAYTON. Not at all ; not any more than I am afraid the Government toward the fulfillment of this promise. During for them to submit their estimates upon any other proposition. all that time t4e yard at New York was being built up and put But it is not neee.s ary to submit their estimates upon a propo ~ in its present stage of efficiency. So I think it comes with sition that is not demanded and may never be required. This very ill grace from the representatives of that city that now basin can be extended from year to year as the requirements the yard at Philadelphia, which does not conilict in any wp.y make it necessary,_ and Congress and the Department will be with the yard at New York, because the p·u.r.poses o.f the two· able to estimate what these conditions are from year to year. yards are entirely distinct and apart, should be cut out from lt is wholly unnecessary to estimate what the future will re the promised development by placing this limitation upon the ap quire, because neither the Department nor anybody else will be propriation. This yard at Philadelphia possesses the advan able to tell what that requirement may be. tages of this fresh water for a laying-up station, and the. most Mr. BUTLER of Pennsylvania. I submit to my colleague valuable part of that yard, for which this appropriation is in that this is nothing more than a storehouse for ships, and as we tended, has been denied by the gentleman from New York. bulld ships we can increase the size· of the· storehouse. Why, Mr. Chairman, when the Spanish war broke out the Mr. DAYTON. To put such a limitation on this is to make an monitors: that have. been used in the civil war and had been invidious distinction as to this work, compared with all the stored up there for nearly forty years, so far as their hulls were other works that are being done in the Navy. concerned, were in sound condition, and we.re brought out, re Mr. FITZGERALD. Mr. Chairman, this discussion has been fitted inside with .new machinery, and put into commission for ·very illuminating. It has been instructive, not only so far as harbor defense during that warr this project is concerned, but so far as it shows the conception Now, sir,. as has already been stated by the gevtleman from some gentlemen have as to their duty regarding various items in New Jersey, nearly a million dollars have been expended for the the bill. purpose, in the New York Na:vy-Yru:d, for which this appropria Let me say to the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania tion is made; and I take it that. the gentleman from New York that I am not opposed to the building of thi.s. fresh-water pond [Mr. FITZGERALD] raised no point as to estimates being made to store up obsolete ships of the Navy. Pe1·haps it may be nec in order to delay or hinder that work. I say it comes with ill essary to have some place where they will be safe some day. I grace. from New York, which has received so much at the hands am not opposing yet the amount appropriated in this bill for of' the Government, a:b.d whose yard has been so fully developed, the continuation of this work. My amendment merely proposes to try to hinder or delay in any way the development of this to require the Secretary of the Navy to submlt an estimate of yard which the Government has recently taken up and is now the completed cost of this fresh-water pond. Why do I do that? putting in process of completion. . I have made an exhaustive examination of the appropriation As far as concerns "the other items which he in-cludes under acts for ten years, and I find that in that time there has been his restraining order, the retaining walls and other things, they expended for this purpose $1,289,920. I find in the hearings are equally important in the development of this yard. · before the Committee on Naval Affairs the statement by the · I trust, sir, that this hindrance. which the gentreman tries to Chief of the- Bureau of Yards and Docks that this is a progres-· put in the way of the. development of this yard will not meet sive improvement, and that it will take from fifteen to twenty with the approval of this House. This navy-yard is now ap years more to complete it. · proaching a condition where its usefulness is being fully de Let me call the attention of the committee to the manner in veloped, and in a few years, with further moderate appropria which this improvement has progressed. In 1903 $50,000 was tions, it will be in a state to fulfill the great -purpose for which appropriated to build the retaining wall and $25,000 for dredg~ the Government is trying to fit it. . ing. In 1904 $50,000 was appropriated for the retaining wall · Mr. DAYTO~. ~tr. Chairman, I hope this amendment will and $25,000 for dredging. For the present fiscal year $80,000' not prevail. I agree with everything that has been said by the was appropriated for the retaining wall and $30,000 for dredg gentleman from · New Jersey· touching the importance of hav ing. In this bill $100,000 is provided for the retaining wall and ing this fresh-water basin at League Islan tary-and that is the: only form in which it can be submitted- amendm-ent so as> to have. an ~mate that we may know to have prepared re..'l:dy fOF submission tO> Coogress an estimate from his strrndpoint the business reasons and the total cost of what it will cost to comp-lete this basin before he expends of this improvement, and when he has failed to- convince the any· of the money appropriated under this itemr House of tb:e- advisab-ility of that he: at onee arises and mo:ves I submit that, as wise legislators. as men anxious to- serve to cut down the estimate for the League Isi.a:nd Navy-Yard, the best public inte-rests, with this knowledge that in ten years and, as I sayy sh-owing the real motive that actuated the gen there has been expended twelve hun-dred thousand dollars, and tleman.. If hfs motive was simply· to get an estimate· f.or the that it will be neeessrury to keep up the ex:pendimes, lru:!reasing completion of the full work 611 this basin it could.not be done,. year by year, for twenty years mo-re, it is time to know where Mr. Chairman, because the- size of this basin, looking to the and when this project wm stop. · · future, mUS-t be in proportion to- tlle· United States Na-vy and tbe Gentlemen have referred to· the· fact that they are surpri:s·ed, number of ships that are to be laid up the:rey and it would be IJecause I come from a section ot the country where tbere is a :false econ~my and a very unwise procedure to limit the size o:t navy-yard, that I · should point out what I believed to be · this basin unless at the same time he puts. in an amendment lim vicious legislation afl:ecting some: other navy-yards- Mr. Chair- iting the ftrtu:re development ot the United States Navy, and man, I have never in this House advocated any measure for tlla.t is the reas()n why tlle project of the gentleman could not be the improyement of the yard at New_ York which, in my judg- eru.·~i:ed! out. ment, was not warranted. I never attributed to anybody im- I am glad that the gentleman, like· the Russian, has shown proper motives because they have opposed appropriations fo-r the Tartar of his animus. that yard. I believe that some of the money expended for Mr. FITZGERALD. · I\fr~ Chail'IIlan, Will the gentleman yield dredging in New York has not been ~isely expended. I will for a question? say in reply to the gentleman from Pennsylvania that he and Mr. -DHAIRI\tiANr Does the gentleman yield? his• fellow-citizens evidently appreciate a good bargain, for in Mr. ADAMS or Pennsylvania. Certainly. giving this $500,000 island to the United States Government Mr. FITZGERALD. Does tbe gentleman not know that if I for the purpose of being converted into a naval station they were·opposed! to the basfn r wouid move- to strike out the entire have obtained as a return the expenditure in sixteen years of appropriation? $7,386,000 at that station. I do not say it has not ~n neees:- Mr. ADAMS of" Pennsylvania. No.~ be·cau8e· the gentleman sary; but I do say· that, in my judgmentr this amendment is knows he could not carry it, and, like the Tartar, he is devious good legislation and should prevail. 1 in his ways. and trying to accomplish as much as he can. · Mr. FOSS. ~Ir. Chairman, I hope that this amendment will The CHAIRMAN. 'J:lhe question is on agreeing ro tlle amend- be voted down. Admiral Endicott was before the committee and ment offered by the gentleman from New York. stated that the dredging and sea-wall work on. that basin has The question was taken, nnd the amendment was rejected. been necessary, and he said : , .. I think the time is coming when The Clerk read as follows : -a great mapy of those vesse!s will have to be laid up, and we Navy-yard, Pensacola, Fla.: Central power house (to comprete}, have· to have space there and wharfage and storage there." It $44,500; toots :for yardS' and docks:, $2',000; water system, $1.0,000;. Js the only navy-yard in the North where there is a fresh-water fire-protection sysrem, $5,00Ct; closets: and lavatories, $3,500 ~ garbage- crematory, $7,500 ; machinel"'y for central power: house (to· cost $120,• basin. It is a very large basin,. which will ac.commodate forty 000), $50,000; naval prison, $20,000; railroad track and equipment, ·or fifty ships, and it is the only fresh-water basin we have got in $!0,000; telephone system, extensions, $Z,OOO; elevator foo: building the country anywhere. I do·not know how much it will be neces- No. 1, $1,000; in all, navy-yard, Pe~sacola, $155,500. . . sary to enlarge it in the future, but we have appropriated as Mr. FI~GERALD: ~Mr. Chrurman, ~ make the _po~t of the necessities have required, as the gentleman from West Vir- OTda: a~amst the P:rOVISlon for a naval pr~on, -$20.000, m hne 8 ginia [Mr. DAYTON] has stated, and I trust that this amendment I ~bmrt that . ~tIS. nota part of the eq:mPment o.f a ~avy-yar~ will be voted down at this time and I call for a vote~ It IS an authoriZation for a naval priSon~ I submtt that 1t The CHAIRMAN. The que~tion is on.agreeing tO' the amend- ! ~es 'Yithin thC" mling m~de a few years since holding that ment offered by the gentleman from New York. · It was unproper to approprrate fo-r a barracks at 3.: n~vy-ya~ · The question was taken r and the Chair announeed that the .The CHAIRMAN. Does the- gentleman from Illmo1s . desrre noes seemed to- have it ' ~o be heard? Mr. FITZGERALD. Division, Mr. Chairina:n. . Mr~ FOSS. Ml!: Ch~irm~; it is a part of the na"Val estab.- The committee divided; and. there were-ayes 36, noes 73. lis~ent. A. naval pnson ~ . ~ much a part o~ th~ ~val es.. So the motion was rejected. tabhshment as any ()ther building or any._other mstitu.tion COlli Mr. FITZGERALD. Mr. Chairman, I offer the following nected With the Navy. We have two at the present time, one nmendment. at Portsmouth and one at Boston, and they are both of them in The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New York offe-rs an the navy-yards, on land owned by the Government. nmendment, which the Clerk will report. ?-'h~ ~HAIRM.A...llf. The Chair will .state that the decisions on · :Mr. FITZGERALD. In line 23, page 28, strike out "one hun- this pornt are verr. numerous and pomt both ways, but ~e ten ured" and insert "eighty," and in line 5, page 29, strike out de?CY of the- deciSions re?IDtlY made ha~ been to sustam the ;., se;enty-tive" and insert "'thirty." I will offer that as one pomt of or.der. The- Chmr feels constrruned to do the same. · runendm~nt. · - The Chair sustains the point of order. Tbe OHAffil\IAN. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows : The Clerk read as follows: Naval station, New Orleans, La.: Improvement of water front, $50,000 ; levee improvement and grading; $.10,000; pa-ving; $10,000 ; Page 25,. in line 23, strike out , .. one hundred,. and insert "eighty;• sewer- system .. extensions. $5,000; water SYSi~ extensions, $5,000; so as to read : " to continue retaining wall about reserve basin, maehinery and' tools for y:u:ds· and docks. shop, $5,000 ; fire-protection $80,000·; •• and on page 29, in lines 5 and 6, strike out n seventy-five •• system, $10,000; in all, navy-yard., New Orleans,. $95.,000. · :md insert ••thirty,' so aa to read "thirty thousand doll~Ws." Mr_ RIXEY. Mr_ Cha..inna~ I move to strike out the last l\.fr. FITZGERALD. !Ir. Chairman, I simplY wish to state word. Mr". Chairman, during the past gession of Congress the In reference to this amendment that the amounts I have moved Department started out to develop. a naval station at Guan-qt- · to substitute are· tlle amounts allowed for the present fiscal . namo, on the island of Cuba. According to the progralllHle we year. They were $35.000 more than the amounts allow¢ for ·were to pay to the Cuban Republic $137,000, which we were- to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904. The only evidence before ; get buck in the rental we. were to pay of $~000 a year.. Under the committee is the statemenir of the Chief' of Bureau of the terms. of the. contlraet the Republic of Cuba was to se~u~ ,Yards: and Docks that it could be economically expended during the title to the property from the individual owners•. . U ap the ·coming year. This mon~y is expended under contract It pears from a. letter from the Department, which I will insert, ls simply a question of bow mucfi money will be given. as to that the island of Cuba has not perfected its title to this prop. h-ow much money will be expended by contract, and as this erty, and as a consequence this Government has only paid about committee has been animated so. much by the spirit of economy $35,000 of tile $13.7,000 During the past session of Congress :tnd the desire to keep the bili down to small limi-ts, end~avo-r- an appropriation was carried in the naval bill of $200~000 for ing to keep it below $100,000,000, I trust that it will accept the purpose of building a dry dock at Guantanamo on the this small amendment to save $65,000, which could just as island. · easily be expended at any other time during the coming twenty . In the hearings. before the committee it appeared that no. CO'~· ,years during whieh they will be at work on this fresh-water tract had been made for this dry· dock fur two reason , as I , uri basin. derstand. First, doubt was expressed as to whether Guan:tu..- Mr. ADA.l\IS of Pennsyhrania. 1\.fr. Chairman, it is a eom- namo, was· the proper place for· a gueat navrcl station; and~ sec:. mon saying that "if you scratch a Russian you will find a ond, because the .Republic .of' Cuba ha.d not seeu:red title. At !I'arta.r." The gentleman from New York in his pathetic. ap.- least one bureau chief gave it as: hls opinion. that it waSJ not a peal to this House said that he had no· antagonism to the proper pl:ace for .a great naval statio~ because it could never be na-vy-yard at League Island and only wished to offer hi& · properly fortified. Same members ot tbe committee who. visited: 2798, ·CONGRESSIONAL RECOR~D~H .0USE~~ - · FEBRUARY 17-, Cuba and Guantanamo were of the opinion that it could not be repair work ot the Navy can properly be done; naval stations fortified-could not be defended-and that no great naval sta are embryonic navy-yards-places which are in the process of tion should be established there, and that the dry dock ought equipment for the purpose of doing repair work. ~ not to be built there~ I am at liberty to refer in this connection At this session it seems that the committee desires to econo to the opinion of my colleague upon the committee, the gentle mize. It is anxious to keep the appropriations down. .There is man from Louisiana [~Ir. MEYER], who visited that locality and no immediate necessity for this improvement. The naval serv gave it as his opinion, and I take it he may be regarded as an ice will not be affected if it be not authorized, and I therefQre authority, that Guantanamo ·co ·uld never be properly fortified submit that this is another good place for the committee to ap and. defended. I take it that it is for these reasons that no con ply the knife and to economize and save some money to the tract has been made for the building of the dry dock, and the Government. I hope the amendment will be agreed to. : $2\)0,000 appropriated during the past year bas not been .ex The CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the .amend~ pended. I call attention of the committee to the further fact ment offered by the gentleman from New York [Mr. FITZ that the present bill carries no appropriation for the Gaanta GERALD]. · ' namo site. Under these circumstances, and, in view of the fact The amendment was rejected. that the Secretary of the Navy when he came before the Naval The CHAIRMAN. What_is the poin-t of order of the gentle~ Committee stated that, unless some provision was . carried in man from Illinois [Mr. Foss]? . · · this bill indicating that the House did not want to go on with Mr. FOSS. Mr. Chairman, I call for the reading of the the development of that station and did not want .the contract amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. made for the dry dock; he would fe~l compelled, under the au RIXEY]. thority given him at the past session of Congress in tlle last bill, The Clerk reread the amendment. to make the contract for the dry dock, I am constrained, Mr. Mr. FOSS. Now, Mr. Ohai.rman, in the appropriation bill of Chairman, to offer an amendment, which I think will indicate last year we established a naval station at Guantanamo, Cuba. to the Secretary that it is the opinion of this Hou~e that be Among the appropriations that were made at that time was f?hould not proceed further with the contract for the dry dock at this appropriation for a dry dock, $200,000, without any qualifi Guantanamo. . - cation or limitation whatever. Now the gentleman from Vir I will print as part of my remarks the following letter : ginia [Mr. RIXEY] seeks by this amendment to change existing NAVY DEPARTMENT, law. Part of that appropria_tion bas been expended. Washington, February 1.+, 1905 . Mr. RIXEY. No; not at all. . SIR: The naval reservation at Guantanamo Bay was surveyed by . a Mr. FOSS. Well, whether it bas been or not it makes no joint commission composed of Senor Premelles, on the part of Cuba, difference whatever. · and Rear-Admiral Coghlan, on the part of the United States. The land and improvements were valued by the Cuban commission as follows : Mr. RIXEY. There have been no contracts PlUde, either. Mr. FOSS. It was an appropJ:iation that was made without El Cuzco ------$35,577.55 any condition or qualification, and· the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. RrXEY] can not now at this late day change or divert the ~a~~~~i~~~======~======~i:ii8:~g purposes of the appropriation _as originally made without change El Bouqueron ------6,274.60 Buildings about Fisherman's Point______2, 456. 02 of existing law. Light-house and aids to navigation______10, 465. 40 Mr. RIXEY. 1\fr. Chairman, I call the attention of the Cha~r to page 352 of .the Manual, the third paragraph from the Total ------137,421.71 'l'he Cuban Government turned over to the United States authorities bottom. all of this ,property . with the exception of El Bouqueron, a portion of The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. which estate was owned by a railroad company, which coml?any was RIXEY] refer to the paragraph relating to reappropriation of an not willing to be dispossessed of its property at the valuation given by the Cuban commission. The question was turned over to the Cuban unexpended balance? courts and as yet has not· been settled. The titles of the property .1\fr. RIXEY. Yes, sir. known as the El Cuzco estate have been turned over to the Depart The CHAIRMAN. This is. not a reappropriation. It is turn ment, UI\d its value paid-to the Cuban Government. The Cuban Govern ment has also been informed that the money to pay for the remaining ing into the Treasury an appropriation already made. estate is available, but as yet no further request, has been made for Mr. RIXEY. Is not that reappropriation? It is directing additional payments. It is believed that the Cuban authorities are that it shall be paid into the Treasury. It is diverting it from· settling the question of titles, but the owners of the estates, with the · exception of El Bouqueron, have signified their willingness to accept the course for which it was appropriated. the valuation as given by the Cuban commission mentioned. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will say that the question Very respectfully, raised by this amendment and the point of order made by the --- Secretary. gentleman from Illinois [Mr. . Foss] seem to be entirely new. Hon. G. E. Foss, ~ 'There is no precedent at all. House of Repr·esentatives, Washington, D. 0. Mr. MUDD. Mr. Chairman-- 1\Ir. Chairman, with this statement I now withdraw the pro 'l'he CHAIRMAN. The Ohair will recognize the gentleman forma an1endment and offer· the following amendment. from Maryland [Mr. MuDD]. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Virginia withdraws Mr. MUDD. Mr. Chairman, there was a somewhat similar his pro forma amendment and offers the following amendment, point of order decided, if I recellect right, in the Fifty-fifth which the Clerk will report. Congress. I remember at one session of that Congress, upon The Clerk read as follows :- an amendment offered by myself, ·an appropriation was made of After line 20, page 33, insert: ' $500,000 for the construction of buildings at the Naval Acad "Naval station, Guantanamo, Cuba: The unexpended balance on July 1, 1905, of the $200,000 heretofore appropriated for a dry dock is hereby emy, at Annapolis, Md. In a ·subsequent session-! can not re directed to be covered into the Treasury." call the language of the provision-the chairman of the com J 1\Ir. FITZGERALD. Mr. Chairman, before the amendment of mittee, the late Mr. Boutelle, of Maine, offered a proposition the ' gel).tleman from Virginia [:Mr. RIXEY] is submitted I wish which contemplated the nonexpenditure of the money, and pro to 1offer an amendment to the paragraph on which the gentle vided further for an investigation by a commission into the man was speaking. needs of the academy and other matters therein referred to. \~ The. CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New York [Mr. FrTz There was an elaborate discussion as to this provision upon' a otiili] can offer his amendment now, which the Clerk will re point of order, similar to the one now made, under section 2 of port. ·The other amendment will be disposed of afterwards. Rule XXI of the rules. I think it was practically an analo t The .Clerk read as follows : . gous case to the one now presented. After the discussion, the -' !On'I''page 33, lines 13 and 14, strike out" improvement of water front, gentleman from New York [Mr. SHERMAN], I think, being ill $50,000." . - the chair, the point of order made by myself was sustained . ':Mr:· FITZGERALD. This is a new improvement authorized upon· the ground, as set forth at some length by the then oc at ·a navy-yard, which the gentleman from Illinois [Air. Foss] cupant of the chair, that the provision changed existing law. stated a day or two ago would not be incorporated in this bill. The suspension of the appropriation or the rendering inop Tl:iere is no real necessity for this improvement, because it ap erative the appropriation, as proposed by' this amendment, is, pears from the hearings before the Naval Committee that they in my judgment, clearly a change of existing law. seldom send a ship to this naval station. It further appears ....\ .. provision for an appropriation of money, while it does not that ·ther.e is only one bureau of the Navy Department which is say, and it is not necessary to say, specifically that the money able to do repair work at that station. The Bureau of Con shall be expended, is, of course, an order that the money shaH struction and Repair alone is equipped to do repair work there. be expended. To appropriate tbe money, though no more lan I call the attention of the committee to the fact that this is des guage be used than that necessary to make the appropriation,. lguated as" naval station," and it appears in the hearings before is an authorization to expend the money. It is, in effect, to the committee that .there is a distinction between naval stations say to the Department: " This money Congress authorizes and and navy-yards. Navy-yards are well-equipped plants where. directs you to expend in a certain way." It does not, as a genP.ral 1905. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 2799 thing, require the Departments to expend it in a particular time, to this. item. In the plan adopted, I think two or three years but carries unquestionably an authorization; and the giving of ago, it limited the cost of t_he new b-ufldings to $10,000,000? an authorization is law, is m¥ing law ; and that in this case Mr. FOSS. The gentleman is correct. law i~ repealed if the amendment now offered is adopted. · Mr. SOUTHARD. Was any definite plan or scheme adopted Mr. BUTLER of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chairman, I think the for the rehabilitation of this institution? pr:esent occupant of tbe chair has held that an appropriation for Mr. MUDD. There was a plan adopted for these buildings. a dock at a navai station is a provision of law. If the Chair Mr. SOUTHARD. Were the buildings named in the statute will bear with me one minute, when this item was reached in authorizing the construction of the building? the bill last year no point of order was made. We all antici Mr. 1\IUDD. Not in the statute; the provision under which pated if the poirit of order had been made that provision would , the a~thorization was made required that the Secretary should have gone from the bill. I submit, Mr. Chairman, that this adopt a complete plan before proceeding with the- buildings. legislation to provide for the creation of this dock whieh is not That complete plan, under that authorization, was adopted and held to be a necessary part of a naval station-to take it out d~signated the building~ WO]l'd necessarily be legislation. Mr. SOUTHARD. 'Vas that the plan known as the "Flagg Tbe CHAIRMAN. It does not seem to the Chair that the plan?" provision _in the last appropr~ation bill upon this subject is Mr. MUDD. I so understand. existing law in the sense that the amendment would come Mr. SOUTHARD. None of the buildings included in the within the provision of Rule XXI. The Chair can see no reason Flagg plan were dropped out of this estimate of $10,000,000? .why an unexpended balance- can not be reappropriated, as, in Mr. MUDD. Not that I am aware of~ point of fact, is proposed in this case. Instead of appropriating Mr. SOUTHARD. All of these buildings are now under con- the money to the dock at Guantanamo, it is proposed to cover it tract? · · into the Treasury of the United States. If it is competent to Mr. MUDD. Nearly all of them that have not been com~ divert an appropriation already made for one purpose to an pleted. I think there is a statement in the hearings by the other purpose, it is equally competent to divert an appropria Superintendent of the Academy showing the buildings n.Ot as tion made for a certain purpose back again into the United yet under contract. On· page 287 of the hearings · there· is a States Treasury. The Chair therefore overrules the point of statement to the effect that the. only buildings'· not under con order. 'l'he que tion is on agreeing to the amendment offered tract to-day are the administration building, which wili cost • by the gentleman from Virginia. - · forty or forty-five thousand dollars; the power house and shops; The question was taken; and the Chairman announced that and I find later on it is said that the gymnasium has not been the ayes seemed to have it. contracted for. Outside of these minor ·buildings an tile rest' . Mr. FOSS. I call for a division, Mr. Chairman. have been constructed or are under contract and advancing 'l'he committee divided; and there were-ayes 45, noes 67. with satisfactory progress. · ~o the amendment was rejected. Mr. SOUTHARD. The $10,000,000 is intended to carry out The Clerk read as follows : · and complete the plan adopted by the Secretary of the Navy. Naval station, Olongapo, P. I.: Re_pairs to existing buildings, :Mr. 1\fUDD. For completing the plan adopted by the Secre $~5,000 · drainage canal, to complete :ti25,000 ; water system, to ex tary tn pursuance of the authorization of Congress. tend, $20,000 ; roads and bridges, $5,000 ; sewer system, $15,000 ; Mr. SOUTHARD. And this $800,000 is necessary to can-y tools for general use, $2,000 ; hoisting machinery, $4.,000 ; rock crusher and appurtenances, $4,000; in all. $100,000. out the authorization i · Mr. MUDD. Yes. Mr. FITZGERALD. Mr. Chairman, t move to strike out, on Mr. SOUTHARD. I withdraw my pro forma: ·amen·dment. ~ pnge 33, line 25, the words " Repairs to existing buildings, The Clerk read as follows : · · $25,000." , Naval' War College, Rhode Island,' 'buiidlnga·:· For· furniture for The Clerk read as follows : officers' quarters in building No. 10, formerly -belonging to training sta Page 33, line 25, strike out "Repairs to existing buildings, $25,000." tion, $2,000; for alteratiQilS to main war college bu.ildin.g to lmproye lecture room, provide more committee :room~ and offices, new entrance Mr. FITZGERALD. .· Mr. Chairman, it seems that at this in rear, and change main stairway repairs , to. ~nd 'painting ot main station at Olongapo, P. L, there are a number of build building, repairs to electric i~staliatlons , and· proviCli'ng new feeder ings erected by the Spaniards for temporary occupancy. from generator station, $3,000 ; in all, $5,(fP,O.' • . , · · · · This appropriation is intended to permit repairs of those build Mr. FITZGERALD. Mr. Chair'inan, I move: to strike out the ings. In the appropriation act for the present fiscal year last word. I desire to _ask the chairman·--o-r the comfulttec there is also contained an appropriation of $25,000 for the whether in the appropriation act for the present fiscal year pro same purpose. It seems to rile that if we are to continue vision is not made for furnishing the officers' quarters formerly from year to year to expend $25,000 in repairs upon buildings belonging to the training station? I :find i~ ~e appropriatl{)n which were erected merely for temporary purposes it would act for the present fiscal year this language; . ·. _ _ be much better to discontinue the use of those buildings en Altering building formerly belonging to the training station, fitting tirely. In the appropriation act for the present year there is the same for occupancy by officers of War College, $6,500. Furnitm·o $862,395 appropriated for this station at Olongapo. In addi for the extension of War College, 1,625. tion there is in this bill, on the very next page, an item of Is there not included in this item furniture for whlch provision $500,000 placed at the disposal of the Chief of this Bureau for is evidently made in this bill? · repairs and for maintaining in proper condition navy-yards and Mr. FOSS. I think not. stations. I can see no reason why any repairs necessary to Mr. FITZGERALD. Is the gentleman able to state that the these buildings should not be made from the general appropria appropriation bill for the present fiscal year which carries an tion contained in the next page; and I add that it seems un item of $6,500 for fitting this building for the purpose of being wise to continue appropriations fo;r repairs of buildings erected utilized by the officers, is not in a measure duplicated here? for temporary purposes and not much value to the Government. Mr. FOSS. I am not able to ·hear the gentleman by reason of .Mr. FOSS. I call for a vote.· so much confusion. · · The question was take~ and the amendment was rejected. Mr. FITZGERALD. · I call the attention of the chairman of Mr. BAKER. Mr. Chairman,. I move to strike out lines 24 the committee to this language in the appropriation bill for the and 25, on page 33, and lines 1 to 7, on page 34. present fiscal year : The Cler~ read as follows : Altering the building formerly belonging to the training station, fit· ting the same for occupancy by officers o:f the War College, $6,500. Strike out the whole of the paragraph, beginnlng with lines 24 and 25, on page 33, and from line 1 to line 7, on page -34. Does not that -provide for the furnishing? Mr. FOSS. If it did, it is not sufficient this year. _ [Mr. BAKER addressed the committee. See Appendix.] Mr. FITZGERALD. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out all Mr. Fdss. Mr. Chairman, I call for a vote. of ·lines 6 and 7, page· 36. · 'l'he CHAIRMAN. The question iS on agre~ing to the amend- The CHAIRMAN. The Olerk will report the amendme:r;J.t. ment offered by the gentleman fTom New York. The Clerk read as follows : The question was taken ; and t~e amendment was rejected. On page 36 strike out lines 6 and 7, "for furniture of officers' quar· The Clerk ·read as follows : · . ters in the ·nuildlng numbered 10, formerly belonging to the training station,· $2,000." Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy : Toward the construction of building~ . and for other n~cessary impravements at the Naval Academl, Mr. FITZGERALD. I do that, Mr. Chairman, because I find Annapolis, Md., as authoriZed by the acts of Congress approved June 7, · in the appropriation act for the present fiscal year :m item 1900, and March 3) 1903, $800,000. · which apparently covers this same provision, and unless th~ Mr. SOUTHARD. Ur~ Chairman, t move to Strike out the ~entleman from Illinois knows that the item in his bill is nee~ last \Vord. ·J do that- for the· purt>ose of asking the gentleman essa.ry and ·shoui.d be made, it seems to· me it is h. good tiling from Illinois,· chairman of the committee, a question that refers to strike it out. · · 2800. CON.GRESSIONAL RECORD-_HQUSE. , FEBRUARY-17, Mr. FOSS.· Mr. Chairman, there is a · differe.nce JJetween the S. 6471. An act granting an increase of pension to Francis two irems; the iteJI1 in: the la.st year's bill prf)vided for altering H. Scott-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the building and fitting the same for occupancy, referring_to . a · S. 6472. .Ap act granting an increase of pension to Samuel ~~ang~.JI! . CO~~cti_on · of the building. .It S. 7093. An act granting an increase of pension to William S. 5405. An act granting an increase of pension to John Dawson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Leal'y-to the Committee on Pensions. S. 7095. An act granting an increase of pension to Lewis :M. Senate concurrent resolution 101: Duff-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. - Resolved by the Senate (the House of_ Rept·esentatives concurring),. S. 7096 . .· An act granting an increase of pension to Ainanda H. That the Committee on Printing of the Senate, with two Members of _ th~ pres~nt House of Representatives who are reelected to the next ~on· Burrows_::_to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. gress, ·to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, S. 7124.- An act granting an increase of pension . to Harris or any subcommittee of said special joint committee, are hereby au Howard-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. thorized to examine into the numbers printed of the various documents, reports, bills, and other papers published by order of Congress, or of S. 7125. An act granting an increase of pension to Lorenzo either House thereof, and of the CoNGRESSIONAL RECORD, and if, in their D. Cousins-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. judgment, the conditions as they find them warrant remedial legisla S. 7155. An act granting an increase of pension -to Adelaide tion to report a bill at the next session of Congress making such reduc tions in the numbers and cost of printing and such changes and · re Worth Bagley-to the Committee on Pensions. duction in the distribution of said publications as they may deem e~ .. S. 101. An act granting an increase of pension to James M. pedient, with a report giving their reasons therefor ; and that the s!-ud Shippee-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. - committee is also authorized to investigate the printing and bindmg for the Executive Departments executed at the Government Printing S. 107. An act granting an increase . of pension to Joel H. Office and- at the branch printing offices and binderies in the various Warren-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · · · Departments, and if, in their judgment, the conditions as they find them · S. 6009. An act granting an increase of pension to James H. warrant remedial legislation, to report a bill at the next session of Con Briggs-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · gress, making such reductions in expenses and imposing such checks as they may deem expedient, with a report giving their reasons ther~ S. 6010. An act granting an increase of pension to Justus A. for ; and said committee is further authorized to make any other invest_I Chafee:-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. gation calculated, in their opinion, to reduce the cost of the pubhc printing, and report the result thereof ; and in making the inquiries re S. 6045. An ac~ granting an increase of pension to Almon W. quired by this resolution said committee shall have power to send for Bennett-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. persons and papers, to administer oaths, to employ a stenographer to S. 6075. An act granting an increase of pension to Samuel 1\I. report its bearings, to call on the beads of Executive Departments and the Public Printer for such information in regard to the preceding mat Jones-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ters as they may desire, to do whatever is necessary for a thorough in S. 6076. An act granting an increase of pension to James B. vestigation of the subject, and to sit during the recess of C~ngress. Clark-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.· Any subcommittee may exercise the powers hereby granted to satd com mittee, and the expenses of said investigation shall be paid one-halt S. 6096. An act granting an increase of pension to Charles from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers duly approved Grass-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. by the chairman of the Committee on Printing and one-half from the · S~ · 6099. An act granting an increase of pension to Dempsey contingent fund of the House of Representatives- Ferguson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Rules. · S. 6185: ·All act granting an increase of pension to Thomas ENROLLED BILL SIGNED. Read-to the Committee on Pensions. Mr. WACHTER, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, re S. 6354. · An act granting an increase of pension to Pierce ported that they had examined and found truly enrolled bill 1\IcKeogh-to the Committe~ on Invalid Pensions. . of the following title; when the Speaker ~igned the same: · S. 6357. An act granting an increase of pension · to Alvan P. H. R.13G40. An act granting an increase of pension to Eugene Granger-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Hepp. S. 6374. An act granting an increase of pension to Lewis WITHDRAWAL OF PAPERS. 'secor_:.to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By unanimous consent, leave was granted to 1\Ir. SLEMP to S. 6388 . . A.n act granting an increase of ·pension to George W. Hadlock-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. withdraw from the files of the House, without leaving copies, S. 6415. An act gra:Q.ting an increase of pension to Daniel the papers in the case of George P. Larkin, Fifty-eighth Con· Bolen-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . gress, second ·session, no adverse report having been made S. 5108 .. An act to amend an act for the prevention of smoke thereon. in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved ACCEPTANCE OF STATUE OF FRANCES E. WILLARD. February 2, 1899-to the Committee on ,the District of Columbia. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will read the special order. S. 6015 .. An act grant1ng an increase of p~nsion to Thomas The Clerk read as follows : Ritchie-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. F t'iday, Februat·y 17: On motion of Mr. Foss, by unanimous consent~ S. 6804. An act granting an increase of pension to Mary C. Resolved, That the exercises appropriate to the reception and accept- ance from the State of Illinois of the statue of Frances E. Willard, Leefe-to the. Committee on Invalid Pensions. erected in Statuary Hall, in the Capitol, be made the special order for S. 6492. An net granting an increase of _pension to Joseph Friday, February 17, at 4 o'clock. Howe-to the Committee on Invalid Pension . Mr. FOSS. Mr. Speaker, 'I _will ask the Clerk to read the s. 3406. An act granting an. increase of pension to Amanda communication which I send to the desk. D . . Penick-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. The Clerk read as follows: ~ S. · 7148. An act to-grant certain lands to the State of Ohio EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, to the Committee on the Public Lands. Springfield, FebPuary 16, 1905. S. 7173. An net to provide a life-saving station at or near To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United, States: By authority of the act of the general assembly of Illinois the gov. Greenhill, on the ·coast of South Kingston, in the State of ernor of Illinois heretofore appointed Anna E. Gordon, Mary E. Metz Rhode Island-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign gar, John J. Mitchell, W. R. Jewell, and Mrs. S. 1\I. D. Fry to consti Commerce. tute a commission to procure a statue of Frances E. Willard for erec tion in Statuary Hall, in the Capitol at Washington, D. C. S. 6443. An act granting an increase of pension to Terence I am informed by the commissioners that the statue was made by J. Tully, alias James Fox-to the Committee on Invalid Pen- Helen li~. Mears, of New York City; that it is completed and has been sions. _ , placed in position and is now ready to be presented to Congress. I have been further informed by Miss Anna E. Gordon, chairman of S. 7021. An act granting an increase of pension to Catharine the commissioners, that a resolution is to be presented accepting said R. Reynolds-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. statue.. · As governor of the State of Illinois, therefore, I have the S. 202. An act granting a pension to Harriet E. Penrose honor to present to the Government of the United States the statue hereinbefore referred to. · to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Very respectfully, CHAS. S. DENEEN, S. 6859. An net granting an increase of pension to Lizzie D. Gove·rnor of Illinoi~. Wise-to the Committee on Pensions. Mr. FOSS. 1\Ir. Speaker, I submit the following resolution, S. 6743. An act granting a pension to Joseph A. Aldrich-to whic'h I send to the desk, and ask that it be considered as pend· the Committee on Invalid Pensions. - in g. S. 6701. An act granting a pension to Charles B. Spencer .The Clerk read as follows : to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. R esolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate conettrring); S. 6571. An act granting an increase of pension to John Van That the statue of D'rances E. Willard, presented by the State of Illinois, Lea.r-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to be placed in Statuary Hall, be accepted by the United States, and that the thanks of Congress be tendered the State for the statue of one S. · 6515. An act granting an increJI.se of pension to George of the most eminent women of the United States. Murphy-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Resolvea, 'I' hat a - copy of these resolutions, duly- authenticated, be . S. 6477. An act granting an increase of pension to Alice S. transmitted to the governor of the State of Illinois. Shepard-to the Committee oli Invalid Pensions. :Mr. FOSS. Mr. Speaker, Congress, on July 2, 1864, passed a S. 6417. An act granting an increase of pension to Lucy F. law authorizing the President to invite all the States to pro Cruttenden-to th~ Committee on Invalid Pensions. · vide and furnish statues in marble or bronze, not exceeding two s. 5973. An act granting a pension to Jane N. Clements-to in number for each State, of deceased persons who have been the Committee on Invalid Pensions. citizens thereof and illustrious for their historic renown or for , S. 5909. An act granting a pension to Russell A. McKinley · distinguished civic or military service, such as each State may to the Co~nmittee on Pensions. deem to be worthy of this national commemoration, and when XXXIX-.176 2802 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-- HOUSE. so furnis.l;led the f?ame shall · be placed in the old H_ali -of: the Susanna M. D. Fry; Evanston; · W. R. Jewell, Danville, and Mrs. House of Representativ~s in the Capitol of the United States, Mary E. Metzgar, Moline. which is set apart, or so much thereof as may be necessary, as The commissioners awarded the execution of the statue to a National Statuary Hall. - Helen Farnsworth Mears, and she has brought out in Carrara In pursuance .of this nineteen States have presented statues mari;)J~ tb,e refined womanliness, the nobility and strength or of illustrious citizens; fourteen States have :filled their quota: character, the .sweetness and sl.mplicity, and the- intense yearn Massachusetts, Winthrop and Adams. ing to help humanity which characterized Frances E. Willard _New Hampshire, Stark and Webster.. as an educator, philanthropist, and friend.\ Vermont, Collamer and Allen. _ The sta1;u~ l~. ot CaJ;rara marble, a little more than life size, Rhode Island, Greene and Williams. and represents· Miss Willard standing in an easy, graceful posi Connecticut, Sherman and Trumbull. tiOI~. - ~~ ;right arm is slightly e~tended, the hand resting upon New York, Clinton and Livingston. a reading desk; tb~ left arm -i~ at. her side with a few pages of . ~ New Jersey, Stockton and Kearney. manuscript in the hand. The pose of the head is very lifelike Pennsylvania, Fulton and Muhlenberg. as Miss Willard appeared when looking out upon an audience. Maryland, Carroll and Hanson. The face is strong and spiritual. West Virginia, Kenna and Pierpont. The pedestal is of Vermont marble and bears tile following in Ohio, Allen and Garfield. scription-: Missouri, Benton and Blair. " Ah ! it is women wl'lo have given the costliest hostages to fortune. Texas, Houston and Austin. Out into the 'battle of life they have sent their best beloved, with fear Maine, King. ful odds against them. Oh, by the dangers they have dared; by the hours of patient watching ·over beds where helpless children lay ; by IndiRna, Morton. the incense of ten thousand prayers wafted from their ~entle lips to Michigan, Cass. heaven, I charge you give them power to protect along life s treacherous Wisconsin, Marquette. highway those whom they have so loved."--Frances E. Willard. Kansas, Ingalls. Presented by the State of Illinois, Illinois has her Shields, and now presents the statue of February XVII, MCMV. Frances E. Willard, one of the foremost women of her time. In pursuance of a resolution adopted by the House of Repre- The -following act was passed by the legislature of Illinois sentatives on January 19, 1905, which I, as Representative of the with practical unanimity on February 28, 1899, and signed by district in which Frances E. Willard lived, had the honor to in _the governor : troduce,· we are here assembled at this hour to receive and ac Whereas Congress has invited each State of the Union to furnish cept from the State of Illinois the statue of this noble woman, statues in marble or bronze of two of its deceased citizens, illustrious now erected in Statuary Hall. for their -historic renown or for distinguished civic or military service, and deemed worthy of national commemoration;. and to have the same Frances E. Willard was of New England ancestry. She was ~aced in the NatiOnal Statuary Hall, ln the \.:apitol, at Washington, born in 1839, in the little village of Churchville, about 14 miles west of the city of Rochester, N. Y. ·When but 3 years of age ·~h~r~~~ the State of Illinois has furnished but one of Its statues, and before the close of this century it should complete the number al her parents moved to Oberlin, Ohio, and five years afterwards lotted to it ; and they settled in Wisconsin, near the town of Janesville, where Whereas Illinois has been noted for its illustrious warriors, jurists, her father ·purcbased a large farm on the banks of Rock River, . and statesmen-Grant, Shields, Logan, Palmer, McClernard, Davis, Trumbull, Breese, Scofield, McAllister, Lincoln, Douglas, Yates, Lovejoy, and here she spent twelve years of her life. At the age of 17 and countless others, like McDougal and Baker, who won fame in other she entered the female college of Milwaukee, where her aunt States ; and . was professor of history, and remained there a year, and then Whereas the fame of none of these was more heroically won or more richly deserved than that of one of our de~eased citizens, illustrious for pursued her studies further at the Woman's College of the historic renown and distinguished for civic service in Europe and Northwestern University, at Evanston. She stood at the bead America in a new, unexplored field of Christian endeavor, the etrect of of her 'class and became editor of the college paper, and was a whose etrorts and achievements and the influence of whose spotless life and sublime example has been so marked that the world has wondered natural leader among her companions. Upon graduation slle and admired the author, organizer,· and advocate of purity and temper chose the profession of a teacher, and had she continued would ance, Illinois's most illustrious deceased citizen, Frances E. Willard, the have made one of the great teachers of the country, as she bad uncrowned queen of purity and temperance, whose ashes repose in peace on the shores of Lake Michigan at Elvanston, Ill. Her life, like that of a natural fitness for this work. For a time she taught at a her Redeemer, was devoted to the spiritual welfare of mankind, and the female college in Pittsburg, Pa., and at the Genesee Wesleyan world at large has been materially benefited by her prayers and sacri Seminary, Lima, N.Y. fi'ces. Radiant with a halo of all the· virtues, her face shone with the light of intelligence. Her marvelous abilities energized all around and After a two years' trip abroad, she returned to Evanston, about her, while her gentleness, tact, and self-sacrificing spirit calmed her home, and was elected dean of the Woman's College there, every storm that rose in the councils which were praced and blessed by where she worked with great success for three years. Then her presence. Her grand life is a " beacon light ' to the good and the true of all sexes, races, and creeds in the civilized world, and her won- she resigned her position and entered upon the greater work to . derful achievements are lights and landmarks on the cUtrs of fame, which she was called. · which will for all time illumine the paths of millions of women wherever She became President of a Chicago Woman's Christian Tem civilization has a footing, which· is where woman is duly appreciated ; and · . . perance Society, and soon after prepared her first lecture on Whereas the priceless heritage of such a life belongs of right to ILU "The New Chivalry," which pi·oduced such favorable comment nois; and that she was besieged with a large number of engagements to Whereas she glories in it, and deems it " worthy of national com m('moratlon: " Therefore, speak, and thus began her career as a public speaker. To immortalize it and to show all nations how exalted a sphere Miss Anna A. Gordon, in her work on " The Beautiful Life of woman occupies in this great State, the following law is hereby placed Frances E. Willard," -states tha~- upon our statute books : "An act to select commissioners to expend not to exceed $9,000 in pur The story of Miss Willard's early Chicago work reads like a romance. chasing a heroic bronze or marble statue of the late Frances E. Wil Into it she fiung herself with the ardor of a St. Francis d' Ass lsi. She lard,· and to proviae a pedestal to be appropriately inscribed and or made the little great, the weak a power. She who had studied books namented, and also to defray the expense of transporting the· same !J.OW studied humanity. to Washington, D. C., when completed, and erecting it in the National In October of the same year she was the moving spirit in the Statuary Ball, at Washington, D. C. 1 organization of the Illinois Woman's Christian Temperance ' SECTION 1. Be it enacted. by the peopl-e of the State of IZlit~>ois rep resented in the generat assembly, That five persons, to be selected by Union, and in November following she assisted in the organiza the governor of the State, be, and they are hereby, authorized and em tion of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union at powered, as commissioners, to purchase a heroic statute of the ~ late Cleveland, Ohio, and became its secretary, so. that within a few Frances E. Willard, to be cast in standard bronze metal or marble, and a pedestal or base for the same, and also to defray the cost and ex brief months after the choice of her career we find her an active penses of transporting them, when completed, to Washington1 D. C., and force in the local, State, and national union . In 1879 she was erecting them in the National Statuary Hall at the Capitol, said com elected president of the national union, and was reelected year missioners shall not hereby be empowered to obligate the State of Illi nois to pay any amount in excess of the su·m stated in section 3 of this after year until she died. act. In 1883, with Anna A. Gordon, ber devoted friend and assist , " SEc. 2. Said commissioners are to receive no pay nor compensation ant, she visited every State and Territory in the Union, travel of any kind for their services in the fulfillment of duties required of them by this act. · ing 30,000 miles and organizing loeal unions e\erywhere. In " SEc. 3. For the purpose of defraying the cost of said statue, pedestal, the same year Miss Willard founded the World's Christian Tem and all other costs and obligations hereinbefore stated and set forth, or incident thereto, the sum of $9,000, or so much thereof as may be neces perance Union and became its president. She visited England sary, is hereby appropriated out of the State treasury, and the auditor in 1892, and was given a great reception in London, participated of public accounts is hereby required to draw his warrant on the treas in by fifty philantbropical societies and some of the foremost urer of the State for such sum as may be expended, upon bills of par men of Great Britain. She returned home and pursued her ticulars, to be approved of by the governor." work with greater zeal and energy until she departed this life The commissioners appointed by the govet·nor were ~fiss in the city of New York February 17, 1898--seven years ago Anna A. Gordon, Evanston; J. J. Mitchell, Chicago; l\Irs. to-day. · 1905. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· HOUSE. 2803 Time would fail me to describe the wonderful work accom dead leader of the great temperance movement amoniv women. • • • There was but one Miss Willard. .. • • She s worthy to rank plished by this woman. Edward Everett Hale, in his tribute to with J"efferson, for she formulated a declaration of independence for her, said: her sex. Miss Willard has commanded and deserved the love and respect of Bishop Vincent said: millions of the women of this country. With unanimous loyalty, enthusiastic wherever they could express it, they chose her every year }<'ranees Willard was a dreamer and a doer. She saw visions and to be the president of their great temperance organization, whose work wrought them into orations and devices and achievements. undet· her leadership bas been ' extt·aordinary. Its history thus far bas Doctor Barrows said : been the same thing as the biography of Frances Willard. That his tory is not simply the narrative of a noble life. It is an important Her grand life is a prophecy and harbinger of the good time which illustration of wise administration. Her annual messages to her cun has been so long ou the way. Miss Willard will be mourned in all stituents are better worth reading than the messages of the President the continents. I found her name as familiar and dear in Asia as in of the United States for the same time. They were messages to people America. she loved and who loved her, written with the enthusiasm of love letters John D. Long, speaking of her life, said: by a woman singularly well educated, broad in her whole view of llfe, It has been a life of devotion to humanity. Her services in the cause and in her very heart, and in every syllable which her heart prompt~:d, of temperance and good morals have been of inestimable value. Her brave and true. exampl_e and influence will henceforth be a part of the forces molding The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, of which Miss the advancing civilization of our country and the world. Willard was the controlling spirit, is the greatest organization Dr. Josiah Strong said: of Christian women ever banded together for a great cause. She was one of the great women of the world, and made all people It grew out of the great Woman's Temperance Crusade of her debtors. 1873-74. It has sixty-four auxiliary unions, fifty-six are State, Anthony Comstock said: and six are Territorial, and the other nvo are the District of Columbia and Hawaii. It has been organized in every State Earth bas been enriched by her life and presence. and Territory of the nation and locally in 10,000 towns and Canon Wilberforce pitid tribute also to her personal influ cities. Its national motto is: "For God, for home, and native ence, her platform gifts, her wonderful power of organization, land." Its badge is the white ribbon, symbolical of purity and her single-heartedness. and peace and the preservation of the home. Its principles Rev. F. W. Farrar, dean of Canterbury, said: are: "To educate the young; to form a better public senti Miss Willard set a very noble example of self-denying labor on behalf ment ; to reform, so far as possible, by religious, ethical, ~nd of. a great cause, and she showed how grand a work ml\Y be achieved scientific means, the drinking Classes ; to seek the transform by a single-hearted toller inspired by the love of God and man. ing power of divine grace for ourselves and all for whom Dr. George C. Lorimer has said: · we work, that they .and we may willfully transcend no law If Miss Willard had been a man she would have rivaled Cobden and Bright in philanthropic statesmanship; if she had been a man she of pure and wholesome living; and finally we pledge ourselves would have excelled Adam Smith In promoting the wealth of nations; to labor and to pray that all these principles, founded upon if she had been a man she would. have ranked with Wilberforce and the Gospel and Christ, may be worked out into the customs· of Garrison in advancing the cause of emancipation; if she had been a man she would have shared the laurels of Carnot the elder as an or· society and the laws of the land." ganizer of armies and of Grant as their persistent and successful com The World's _,Voman's Christian Temperance Union is com mander. But being a woman-well, posterity, I am sure, will assign posed of national unions which have been organi~ed in over her a unique niche in the temple of fame. fifty nations, with a total membership of about half a million. The State of Illinois presents this statue as a tribute to the These facts give a better idea than anything else of the great life of Frances E. Willard, and in a larger and truer .sense as a work Which has been accomplished by Frances Willard, the tribute to woman and the magnificent progress she has made founder of the 'Voman's Christian Temperance Union. under our free institutions. Above an things Frances Willard was an organizer. She or The past century has been one of great progress in art, in ganized for women through women. She often said : literature, in science, in all things; not that it has produced the Alone we can do little, separated we are the units of weakness, but greatest poets in the world, nor the greatest authors, nor the aggregated we become batteries of power. · Agitate, educate, organize these are the deathless watchwords of success. greatest orators, but the century will be conspi.cuous in that edu Whittier has summed up her life work in these lines: cation, enlightenment, and advancement have come to the many and not to the few. But the greatest progress has been that of She knew the power of banded ill, But felt that love was stronger still, woman. .And organized, for doing good, Mrs. John .Adams, a little over a hundred years ago, in speak The world's united womanhood. ing of the women of her time, said that " female education in [.Applause.] the best families went no further than writing and arithmetic, Frances Willard was an orator. She had the gift of eloquence and in some few and rare instances music and dancing." What to a remarkable degree. Both Beecher and Phillips have paid a marvelous change has been wrought in the succeeding years tribute to her power over audiences. Her voice was clear and in the education of woman. penetrating and had in it that peculiar quality which held her Oberlin College, in Ohio, was the first institution to grant a audience entranced. She had a message and she told it with diploma to women, in 1838. Since then the highest institutions, great simplicity, but with greater power. Gunsaulus and Hil with few exceptions, have been thrown open to both sexes, and lis, two of the most eloquent preachers of our day, have testi are granting degrees to women in theological, medical, ruid legal fied to her powers of oratory. The former said: schools, and the world has marked the magnificent progress If a great heart, fed by fiery streams from on high, glowing and which woman has made. molten with burning love for humanity, issuing forth its indignant de nunciation of evil, pouring out incessant streams of argument against A few years ago Susan B. Anthony ·in an article said that well-dressed error and fashionable wrong, kindling with lightning-llke "fifty years ago woman in the United States was without a heat thousands of fellow-beings until they also flash to holy wrath recognized individuality in any department of life," but now we which scathes the slayer and lllnmines the slain ; if lifting millions of human beings from out the noise and dullness of unreason into the find her in aU occupations and in all professions dividing honors serene radiance of reason, so that they are willing to obey the highest with men. . . ideals and to serve at a.ny cost the noblest demands of humanity and It might be asked, Why should the State of Illinois, which has God ; if these be the characteristics or results of eloquence, then, with out doubt, Frances Willard must be considered one of the most eloquent produced so many illustrious men, offer the statue· of a woman, of tbe orators of our time. the first to be placed in yonder hall among warriors and states Hillis has said : men and pioneers and discoverers, who have wrought mightily Her greatest oratorical triumphs were In villages and cities, where for their country on the field of battle, in the halls of Congress, some hall not holding more than a thousand people was crowded with on the frontier, and in civil life? Why did not Illinois send appreciative listeners. At such times sbe stood forth one of the most gifted speakers of this generation, achieving effoTts that were truly here a statue of Liilcoln, that divinely gifted man whom James amazing. What ease and grace of bearing! What gentleness and Russell Lowell called "the first American," or why should she strength! What pathos and sympathy! How exquisitely modulated not place here in yonder hall the statue of the great Douglas, her words! If her speech pid not flow as a gulf stream; if it did not beat like an ocean upon a continent, she sent her sentences forth, an whose life was interwoven with that of :Lincoln, the two mighty arrowy flight, and each tipped with divine fire. antagonists in the greatest debate of modern times? !!'ranees Willard was universally mourned as one of the great Some might ask, Why not place there the statue of Ulysses S. est women of her time. Bishop Newman said of her: Grant, the foremost general of the century, a man who wrought For intelllgence and f'loquence she was the foremost woman of her nobly for the salvation of his country and the preservation of generation. Such was the breadth of her catholicity that she recog the Union, and no sooner had the war clouds disappeared than nized goodness wherever found. Her philanthropy touched suffering he became the great advocate of peace, a perpetual peace be humanity in all lands. • • • Let womanhood emulate her virtues imitate her example, cherish her memory, till purity and temperance tween all sections of our common country in the eternal bonds shall become coextensive with the business and abode of humanity. of American brotherhood? [Applause.] · Bishop Fallows said: But these great men of Illinois whom I have named belonged I have heard many women-women who have achieved greatness to no State, but were given long since to the Union. No but 11ever have I heard one who was so finished and eloquent as the statue can ever add to their fame, and no monument can ever 2804 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE~ FEBRUARY l7,- tower as high as the magnificent character which they left to mother's love 'l _She, after all, bas been the mighty controlling their country. Why confine them within the bounds of Statu- influence in our national life. [Applause.] . ary Hall? They have stood for many a year out under the Frances EJ. Willard herself once said: "If I were asked what American sky, the dome of the everlasting Union, and re- was the true mission of the ideal woman, I would say, • It is ceived the veneration of every American citizen for the mighty to make the whole world motherlili.e.'" works which they wrought in the nation's life. Illinois, therefore, presents this statue, not only as a tribute The Illinois legislature, without the slightest disrespect to to her whom it represents-one of the foremost women of her great sons, in its wisdom believed that the time had come America-but ~s a tribute to woman and her mighty influence when woman should be honored and when her statue should upon our national life; to woman in the home; to woman iri be placed in the American Pantheon, and who shall say that all the occupations and professions of life; to woman in all woman has no right there? [Applause.] What voice will be her charity and philanthJ'opy, wherever she is toiling for the lifted to protest? Has all the wonderful development of our good of human~ty; to woman . everywhere, who has ever stood country ever since the time when that frail bark landed with "for God, for home, for native land!' [Great applause.] - its precious cargo of human freight on Plymouth Rock been Mr. GRAFF. ·Mr. Speaker, the legislature of the State of accomplished by men? Has woman played no part in this tre- Illinois passed. an act which was approved by Governor John mendous national development? Has she exercised no infiu- R. Tanner February 28, 1899, entitled ".An act to select a com ence on our national life? · mission to expend not to exceed $9,000 to purchase a heroic Who does not recall the bravery of those noble women who bronze or marble statue of the ' late Frances E. Willard, and to endured the hardships and deprivations of life, for conscience provide a pedestal, to be appropriately inscribed and orna sake, along with their fathers, their husbands, and their mented, and also to defray tqe expenses of transportation of brothers in the first few years of the Plymouth colony? And same to Washington, D. C., when completed, and erecting it in all along down through the history of our country has not _the national Statuary Hall " in this city. The preamble of that woman been the companion of man in the trials and tribula- act reads as follows: tions, in peace and in war, doing her part as nobly as he, Whereas Congress has invited each State of the Union to furnish laying the founda.tiOJlS of the. state, and building upon them a : statues in marble or bronze of two of its deceased citizens, illustrious government of liberty, equality, and fraternity to all? for their historic renown or for distinguished civic or military serv- Time would fail me to enumerate many instances where wo- ice, and dMmed worthy of national commemoration, and to have the same placed in the National Statuary Hall in the Capitol at Washing- man has played a conspicuous part in our national history. ton, D. c.; and Who does not recall Molly Pitcher, who fired the last gun at Whereas the State of Illinois bas furnished but one of its statuest Fort Clinton, and afterwards received a lieutenant's commis- f:JeJei~rlt ~h:nfose of the century should complete the number al- Bion fro:r:q Washington? - Whereas Illinois has been noted for its illustrious warriors, jurists, Who does not recall Catherine Schuyler setting fire to the and statesmen-Grant, Shields, Logan, Palmer, McCiernand, Davis, ain fields for fear that the British might reap the harvest? Trumbull. Breese, Schofield, McAllister, Lincoln, Douglas, Yates, Love gr joy, and countless others, like McDougal and Baker-who won fame Who does not recall Narcissa Whitman, the first white woman in other States; and to settle in the State of Washington, who, with her husband, Whereas the fame of none of these was more heroically won or more Dr. Marcus Whitman, went as a missionary to the Indians and richly deserved than that of one of our deceased citizens, illustrious for historic renown and distinguished for civic service in Europe and Amer lost her life in the opening tip of the far western country? lea in a new. unexplored field of Christian endeavor, the effect of whose Who does not recall how the early mothers wrought in the de- efforts and achievements and the influence of whose spotless life and · ht W st h ? H th d d sublime example has bMn so marked that the world has wondered and ve1 opmen t o f th e m1g Y e everyw ere OW ey en ure admired the author, the organizer, and advocate of purity and temper- the hardships and braved the dangers of life in the paths of ance, Illinois's most illustrious deceased citizen, Frances E. Willard, the civilization ·and builded the home and planted the sanctuary uncrowned queen of purity and temperance, whose ashes reP.ose in and worshipped their God out on the outposts of civilization, peace on the shores of Lake Michigan at Evanston, III. Her life, like that of her Redeemer, was devoted to the spiritual welfare of mankind. which later became the fortifications of freedom, of liberty, and the world at large has been materially benefited by her prayers and enlightenment. [Applause.] and sacrifices. Radiant with a halo of all the virtues, her face shone Nor, sir, can we forget the gentle ministering angels of the -with the light of intelligence. Her marvelous abilities energized all around and about her, while her gentleness, tact, and self-sacrificing camps and hospitals during our wars, and particularly during spirit calmed every storm that arose in the councils which were graced our great civil war. On one side or on the other, for while and blessed by her presence. Her grand life is a "beacon light" to the there was a division of sentiment between two sections of our good and the true of all sexes, races, and creeds In the civilized world, and her wonderful achievements are lights and landmarks on the cliffs great country there was no sectionalism in the gentleness and of fame, which will for all time illumine the paths of millions of women the thoughtfulness of the ministrations of the American woma.Ii wherever civilization has a footing, which is where woman is duly ap- whetber she lived in the North or in the South [applause], and pr~~J;~;s a.fu~ priceless heritage of such a life belongs of right to 1111- many a northern soldier had his wounds bound up and went on nois ; and his way through the attention and care of the noble women of Whereas she glories in It and deems It " worthy of national commem- oration :" Therefore, tbe S outh · [APP I ause. ] To immortalize it ani! show to all nations how exalted a sphere American history iildeed would not be complete without men- woman occupies in this great State, the following law is placed upon tioning the name of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who through the our statute books. • • • mutterings of Uncle Tom awoke the conscience of the people to . The commissioners appointed by Governor Tanner were: "man's injustice to man," and Julia Ward Howe, whose famous 'Miss Anna A. Gordon, Evanston; Mrs: Susanna :M. D. Frye, Battle Hymn of the Republic stirred the souls of men to victory~ Evanston; W. R. Jewell, Danville; Mary E. Metzger, Moline; and Clara Barton [applause], who helped to bind the wounds J. J. Mitchell, Chicago. which war bad made. · · The commissioners appropriately awarded the fashioning In every field of human endeavor she has nobly done her of this statue to an American woman, Helen Farnsworth 1\Iears. part. Why, the mere mention of the names of Mary Lyon, Mar- By this act of the State of Tilinois through jts legislaturet garet ]j'uller, Harriet Martineau, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, the first statue of a woman is to stand in Statuary Hall among Han·iet Hosmer, Charlotte Cushman, Mary Livermore, Lucretia other famous Americans who have done sufficiently great work Mott, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Helen to justify some State of the Union in thus honoring their mem- Keller, Helen Gould, Bertha Palmer, Jane Addams, and others I ory. . might mention can to mind the influence and power of woman Of the population of the United SU;ttes, there are 37,178,127 in the development of American civilization. [Applause.] females, and 38,816,448 males. In the moral and religious work Nor should I forget that woman above all other women, of the world woman is conceded by · all to have taken a part whose life and all its energies are consecrated to the home; who and exerted an influence fuHy commensurate with her propor quietly and patiently wends her way without any other thought tionate numbers. _ Yes, I believe her to have been the larger than the development of the young life or lives around her, who factor in the moral and religious advance of mankind. in after years may riSe to call her blessed; content to live, per- In the last half century her intellectual life has rapidly chance, in a narrow sphere, educating her children, fitting them widened with the growth of. education and intelligence. In for higher stations in life than she ever hoped to occupy, giving those nations at the present time, where is now found the them advantages she never could have, inspired by that one largest measure of political liberty, the highest standard of 1iv gr¢at thought of doing for those she loved-! refer to that noble ing, and the greatest individual prosperity and happiness are to woman whom each man calls ' mother.'' [Applause.] be found for woman the greatest civil rights, the largest free. How often do we hear men who have achieved the greatest dom of action, the widest field of opportunities. success in human life with one accord turn and say that their In nearly every State of the Union the restraints of the com suecess is due to her. Perhaps no instance is so conspicuous mon law have been removed by legislative action and woman in recent years as that of our martyred McKinley. What poet has been given every legal right excepting that of suffrage with can say proper tribute, what author can give full praise, or well-nigh a universal acquiescence. what orator can ever describe the height and depth of a In a few States the unrestricted right of suffrage has been 1905. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE~ 2805 , accorded her, and in many others the right to vote for school and national figures, but no one of her kind ever became so uni~ officers has been extended to her. versally known and loved throughout the entire land in the In no other nation of the world has the political rights of humblest homes. She reached down into the lives of the mil women been broadened as rapidly as they have in this country. lions and made her influence felt, and broadened and sweetened Her prominence in the educational work of the United States lives and changed their purpose for the better to the extent. meets with no denial. Her impress up6n- the llfe of the nation perhaps, that no man or other woman of America has ever done. has become more and more apparent, and always for good. She [Applause.] has contributed her full share in the achievements of our na She broadened her culture and enlarged her knowledge of tion. . She has not only molded the character ~nd trained the life by study abroad in Europe and in the East, but all of the intellect of our citizenship, but has been a worthy and equal powers of this richly endowed woman were devoted to the companion with her sons and husband in after life in their pri- single purpose of her life. :vate enterprises and their public duties: ' The motto of her order," For God, and home, and native land," If the most distinguished of those who are immortalized in was manifest in her every effort. She tightly conceived that marble in yonder hall could speak their belief as to the greatest the homes of America should be the safeguards of the nation, factor in their secured fame, the answer would undoubtedly be, and hence her philanthropic work was devoted to the eleYation "My mother." of the home life. Her face is familiar to almost every child Therefore it seems to me that the decision of my State was as well as those of maturer years from ocean to ocean. Ana a most appropriate and wise one in selecting in this day and what is more important the principles for what that face stood age from her illustrious sons and daughters the best known are quite as familiar. She addressed large audiences in eYery and most universally loved woman in the United States, Frances city of 10,000 people and upward in the United States and in E. Willard, as the one to be commemorated in marble and stand many of smaller population. She met the test of the orator, in the national Capitol, as an evidence of our appreCiation of a for she won converts and changed lives through the medium singularly. beautiful and useful life. of her speeches. · Descended from Puritan stock, ·with an ancestry especially As an orator. she ever remained the woman, and throughout notable in religious and educational work; born in New York, her work her methods were distinctly womanly. Her activity taken as a child to Ohio, and moving from thence later in the was simply wonderful, and the energy which she was able 'tO typical prairie schooner to her forest home in Wisconsin, where sustain with her delicate body was a constant surprise to her she spent here girlhood, ·and finally commencing her young friends. She practically had no leisure. And the influence of .womanhood at Evanston, Ill., and retaining her home there, to the female organizations which were under her chief control be brought back at the time of her death to be buried, she was have certainly left a deep and permanent impress upon Amer essentially an American. ican life and that of the world. Did she complete the vast work Born on September 28, 1839, at Churchville, N. Y., and passing in which she was engaged? Did she consummate the complete away February 20, 1898, at New York City, she witnessed the reformation of the world? Ah, no. It is manifest from all development of American civilization from a primitive condition history that the moral evolution of mankind is most exceed.fugly through its development of almost sixty years. - The measure slow. Is to succeed the test of greatness? From the illustrious of a human life is its motive rather than its accomplishments. men whose figures and memories are perpetuated in yonder Back of the great achievements for the nation ·accomplished hall select one whose great work was accomplished to its full ' through the guidance of Abraham Lincoln are the motives which extent! Not one. The future is full of problems for the cen moved him, the principles which controlled him. turies. It is- for each man and woman to do his little part. To-day we have enjoyed the blessings which are the fruition Be it said, however, that the moral tone of the people of the o.f his work so long that we hardly stop to appreciate them; United States is higher, the field of woman enlarged and fuller but the American people still hunger for every stray incident of hope, and the future of the United States is brighter for the concerning his personal life which in any ·way aids in the life of this woman, honored by the State and nation because further interpretation of the character of this man, who in the her work was good and immortal, because Frances E. Willard midst of failure would have remained the lover of humanity. yet speaks. [Applause.] [Applause.] · Mr. Speaker, I take great pleasure and congratulate my fel. · As with Lincoln, the closer one studies the incidents of the low-citizens of this Republic upon the fact that we place woman life of Frances E. Willard the fuller the details of her daily upon a higher standard than is done in any other civilized life and· its purposes are made known, the more evident it be nation in the world. [Applause.] The dissemination of educa comes that she was first and foremost of all a lover of humanity tion in the last twenty years has brought about new ideals and that the one purpose of her life was to devote it to the concerning the proper elements which make up the successful best advantage for the uplifting of her kind. mother, which enables her to perform all of the duties connected She regar!Jed her life as a "charge to keep," and it is said with the fashioning of human souls, with the building of human that she was guided by the spirit of the rocking-chair lullaby character, with the forecasting of the future of human lives. sung to her by her father: It is no longer believed in the United States that a woman is To serve the present age, sufficiently informed and equipped if she is able to do the My calling to fulftll, Oh, may it all my power engage physical duties connected with the household. We now under To do my Master's will. stand that she has the most delicate task of all other occupa From a lisping child she was nurtured under religious influ tions. She has the most important task for the future of the ences and imbued with the thoughts that her life should be de Republic, because this Republic rests for its safety upon the voted to lligh and noble purposes, and hence after her education character of its citizenship. The child is the father of the had been completed at Northwestern University and she had man, and it is the women of America who give direction to the commenced her life work's further preparation as dean of the trend of mature life; it is the women .who first implant the .woman's college at· Evanston her constant aim was to impress character of aspirations which afterwa,rds, manifest themselves upon her students the importance of a purposeful ·life. ln the active manhood of the United s 'tates. So I say, Mr. The oft-repeated question to her girl students was, " What Speaker, that the State of Illinois is goi.ng forward in taking .oo you intend to do in life?" The great object to her in educa this new step, when she presumes that the women of the United .tion was the development of character. " What shall we do States, with the important duties which they have to perform ,with our fives?" was the question ringing through her life as to society as well as to their families, have a right to ,a part a teacher and reformer. She was proud of her sex. She strove in this Hall, commemorated to the forms of those ·who have to· elevate it. She endeavored to ·broaden its opportunities, tQ done great work in the world. [Applause:] enlarge its usefulness, to increase its influence, to uplift its Mr. LITTLEFIELD. Mr. Speaker, by ·an act of Congress ap purposes. If her life was viewed from the standpoint of her proved July 2, 1864, the .President was authorized "to invite illil.uence upon the women of the United States, without regard each and all the States to provide and furnish statues in marble to her work elsewhere or upon men, she still would be the or bronze, not exceeding two in number for each State, of de greatest figure of our country in woman's work and woman's ceased persons who have been citizens thereof and illustrious betterment. [Applause.] for their historic renown or for distinguished civic or military Her educational work gave a distinct impetus to the higher services." The" old Hall of the House of Representatives" was education of women and accident played an important part in set apart " as a National Statuary Hall ". for the purpose m·di, taking her from this field into the larger national work for cated. Thus was established the · Valhalla of the Republic. purity and temperance. She displayed wonderful powers of Nineteen· States only have thus far placed their candidates for organization and executive ability. as head or the Natiop.al Wo statuary fame therein. Five of these-Illinofs, Indiana, Kansas, man's Ohristian Temperance Unio.ri and as president of the Maine, and Wisconsin-have but one representative each. The iWorld's Woman's Christian T.emperance Union, the latter of reason for the selection of some of these candidates does not ~hich she founded. Other women have become distinguished appear to be conspicuously obvious. · " 2806 CONGRESSIONAL_R~CORD--=HOUSE. FEBRUARY 17, The services and historic renown of such men as. Roger Sher he~rjng Judge_Douglas discuss the political issues of the · day. man, Jonathan Trumbull, 0. P. Merton, John J. Ingalls, Samuel .At that time he had never met Mr. Lincoln, who was in town Adams, Charles Carroll, William King, Robert Fulton, Robert R. atten~ng court Mr. Weldon was present in Douglas's room Livingston, Lewis Cass, Thomas H. Benton, Daniel Webster, ~t the hotel when Douglas declined an invitation to divide the James .A. Garfield, Nathanael Greene, Roger Williams, Samuel time with Mr. Lincoln. Houston, and Jacob Collamer are so well known as to fully On a side_board were liquors of various kinds. Lincoln came justify them in filling a niche in this Hall of Fame. - in and Douglas _intr9duced him to Mr. Weldon. Social drink Some of them contributed in a large degree to the building of ing was then a well-nigh universal custom, and in a few _minutes _the Republic. It is a singular and interesting fact that while Douglas said: "l\Ir. Lincoln, won't you have something to the list of our Presidents contains many of the most distin dr~~" _ To this Mr. Lincoln replied: "No, Judge, I think not" guished men of our history, only one, James .A. Garfield, "What," said Dougla,s, "do you belong to the temperance so one of the most intellectual .of them all, has found a place ciety?" "No," rejoined Mr. Lincoln, "I don't belong to any here. While " military services " is an eligible feature, be t~~perance society, but I am temperate in this, to wit, I don't sides that chivalric old warrior of San Jacinto, Samuel drink anything." This ii;lcidel;lt I have from the Judge's lips. Houston, none of them can be said to have achieved any dis . Nor did he hes_if4te to preach in accordance with his practice. tinction in the trade of war except the gallant soldier Gen. On Washington's Birthday, February 22,1842, in his own home James Shields, who until to-day has been the sole representa city, he delivered _one of the most remarkable temperance ad tive from the State of Illinois. He has the unique distinction dresses extant. Referring to the drink habit, he said: of having represented three States in the Senate of the United Let us make it as unfashionable to withhold our names from the tem States. Except as they are so made by this selection, not many perance pledge as for husbands to wear their wives' bonnets to church, of them are or will be " illustrious for their historic renown." and Instances will be just as rare in the one case as in the other. It is possibie that in many instances the most appropriate se Speaking of the dignity and vital importance of the temper lections i:nay not have been made, and that but for these statues ance reform, he said : some of them would never have emerged from kindly oblivion. If the relative grandeur of .revolutions shall be estimated uy the great amount of human misery they alleviate and the small amount That Illinois has been for some time represented only in part they inflict, then indeed will this be the grandest the world shall have is from no lack of worthy material. : She has long had eminent ever seen. Of our political revolution of "7G" we all are justly proud. men worthy of this great honor. Some of the most distinguished It has given us a degree of political freedom far exceeding that of any other of the nations on the earth. In it the Old World has found 11 men of our history, so great and distinguished that they stand solution of that long-mooted problem as to the capability of man to out like mountain peaks almost alone in the sky line of historic govern himself. . -perspective, belong to Illinois. _ In it was the germ which has vegetated and stlll is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind. But with all these No soldier deserves more or will live longer in the hearts of glorious results past, present, and to come it bad its evils too. It his countrymen for great services rendered, from Washington breathed forth famine, swam in blood, and rode on fire, and long, long until now, than the unassuming but indomitable Grant. His after the orphan's cry and widow,s wail continued to break the sad silence that ensued. '£hese were the price, the inevitable price, paid !or fame is Illinois's. the blessings it brought. · The student of our political history will never read of a more Turn now to the temperance revolution. In it we shall .find a . brilJiant figure than the little giant of the West, the great war stronger bondage broken, a viler slavery manumitted, a greater tyrant deposed. In it more of want supplied, more disease healed, more sor Democrat, the prince of debaters, the patriot, Stephen .A. Doug row assuaged. By it no orphans starving, no widows weeping. By it las. [.Applause.] In Illinois he lived and died. none wounded in feeling, none injured in interest. 'l'he greatest figure in .American history-yes, one of the And what a noble ally is this to the cause of political free greatest figures in the history of the world-the immortal, celes dom. With such an aid its march can not fail to be on and-on tial, martyred Lincoln, belongs alike to Illinois. She has many until every son on earth shall drink in rich fruition the sorrow other illustriQus sons. With all this wealth of material Illinois quenching draught of perfect liberty. Happy day, when all ap to-day places in this great Pantheon the statUe of a beautiful petite ·is controlled, all passions subdued, all manners sub Christian woman, who has a deserved and world-wide renown jected, mind-all-conquering mind-shall live and move, the for " distinguished civic " services. monarch of the world. Glorious consummation. "Hail, fall By her own efforts she had "achieved greatness." Without of Fury! Reign of Reason, hail! " This rings with no uncer this legislative recognition her name and fame were secure. It tain sound was written on the fleshly tablets of millions of human hearts The momentous character of this great question never ·was beyond all power of effacement The beautiful marble, the and probably never will be stated more forcibly, vigorously, enduring bronze, or the eternal granite were not necessary to effectively, and truthfully. He was a most vigorous and perpetuate it It was as firmly fixed "as though graven with effective advocate of that logical corollary of total abstinence an iron pen and lead in the rock forever." for the individual, prohibition for the State. He spent weeks This is the first time· that our Valhalla has been graced, in Illinois campaigning for the adoption of the Maine ·law in adorned, and honored by_the statue of a woman. Frances Eliza that State. The following excerpts were the keynotes of his beth Willard can fittingly and appropriately represent her sex speeches: in this distinguished and honorable company. Illinois honors This legalized liquor traffic, as carried on In the saloons and grog herself by giving to womankind this noble recognition. It is a shops, is the great tragedy of civlllzation. The saloon has proved itself most gratifying reflection that if the mighty and sainted shade to be the greatest foe, the most blighting curse that bas ever found 11 home in our modern civilization, and this is the reason why I am a of the departed Lincoln could have been consulted it would have political Prohibitionist. Prohibition brings the desired result. It no doubt concurred with hearty enthusiasm in this selection. suppresses the saloon by law. It· stamps and brands the sa_loonkeeper She was the especial representative of a great cause in whose as a criminal in the sight of God and man. • • * By licensing the saloon we feed with one band the fires of appetite principles he religiously believed and whose tenets he faith we are striving to quench with the other. While this state of things fully practiced. .Abraham Lincoln was a total abstainer. The continues let us know that this war is all our own-both sides of it sincerity of his habits and practice in this regard were sub until this guilty connivance of our own actions shall be withdrawn. jected to the highest test when the committee to notify him of I am a Prohibitionist because prohibition destroys destruction. his nomination as a ;candidate of the Republican party for the In 1863 he declared that- Presidency visited him at his modest home in Springfield. The reasonable man of the world has long since agreed that intem perance is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all evils among .After having rece"ved ·the momentous message, in the pres mankind. • ence of that distinguished and notable gathering he said: That his wide and varied experience never changed his earlier Gentlemen, we must pledge our mutual health in the most healthy views is clear from the statement made by him to Mr. Mervin beverage which God has given to man. It is the only beverage I have ever used or allowed in my family, and I can not conscientiously de on the very morning of his assassination : . part from it now on this occasion. It is pure Adam's ale. After reconstruction, the next great work before us is the prohibition In a private and confidential letter written June 11, 1860, in -of the liquor traffic in all of the States and Territories. referring to this incid(mt, he wrote : Inspired by this high and lofty purpose he entered the pres Having kept house sttteen· years and having never held the "cup" ence of his Maker. to the lips of my friends then, my judgment was that I should not, in Abraham Lincoln was neither a crank, a fanatic, a hare- my new position, change my habits in this respect. brained enthusiast, nor a hypocrite. None of us need be How the moral courage and absolute sincerity of the man is ashamed to follow where he nobly led. [.Applause.] His foot exemplified by this incident While he did not make his views steps have made it holy ground. If the shades of the departed offensively conspicuous, he did not hestitate when occasion revisit the haunts of men, we may feel assured "that he would called to a vow them. behold with the greatest of satisfaction the recognition of the Bon. Lawrence Weldon, of Washington, D. C., a distinguished cause in which he believed with his whole heart by the erection and able judge of the Court of Claims, traveled from his home of this memorial to the memory of this brilliant and dev-oted to Bloomington, Ill., on September 12, 1854, for the purpose of woman. 1905. -CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 2807 ; This statue ·in oUr Valballa is a fit a.ild merited recogni Whittier beautifully and appropriately says, in lines addressed tion of all that is highest, noblest, and best in womanhood. to her: She knew the power of banded ill. In the evolution and development of the race from barbarism But felt that love was stronger still. to Christian civilization woman has been gradually emancipated And organized for doing good from the subordinate and servile position to which the aborigi The world's united womanhood. nal savage, at a period dominated by physical force and unfeel She deliberately relinquished the brilliant P.osition of dean o:f the ing, ignorant brutality, had arbitrarily relegated her. While first woman's college connected with a univers1ty in America to go out penniless, alone, and unheralded, beeause bet spirit had caught the her emancipation is not yet complete, it has been tardily keeping rythm of the women's footsteps as they bridged the distance between pace with our developing civilization and is in no small degree the home and the saloon in the pentecostal days of the temperance :the indicati9n of that development. .She is now no l_onge~ crusade.. She relinquished that which women hold dearest and most Something better than his dog, sacred, the shelter of home. . A little dearer than his horse. It was that other woinen might, under their own "vine and She Is not only the equal, but, in many respects, Immeasur fig tree," enjoy the blessings of a pure and virtuous home that ably the· superior of the lords o! creation. Still, in some re she sacrificed and toiled and endured. She found the Woman's spects before the law, with its many relics and suivivals of Christian Temperance Union a national organization. She made the dark ages, she still wears the badge of inferio~ity. " These it international. Its labors were confined to one country; she Miss Willard struggled manfully to remove. Notwithstanding made its activities world wide. Its motto of "For God and the arbitrary disadvantages under which she has labored, home and native land," with divinely inspired evangel hope and ,women have in a~l ages given us shining examples of greatness faith, she transformed to " For God and home and every land." and genillB. that need not shrink from comparison with the In 1883 she became the president of this organization, based sterner sex. upon" personal-purity of life, including total abstinence from all . Sappho; it is conceded, has never been surpassed in sweetness narcotic poisons, the protection of the home by outlawing the and grace by any lytic poet, ancient or modern. Plato called her traffic in· intoxicating liquors, opium, tobacco, and the sup the " tenth muse " and Aristotle ranked her with Homer. pression by law of gambling and Sunday desecration; the en Socrates sat at the feet of Aspasia and learned philosophy. She franchisement of the women of all nations ; and the establish taught Pericles statesmanship, and is said to have written some ment of courts of national and international arbitration which of his most famoU.S orations. The modest, pure, guileless girl of shall banish war from the world." . · . 17-Joan of Arc-took the command of an army and led it to Before her untimely death she had the Infinite satisfaction .victory with a success that makes the fame and supernatural of knowing that it was firmly planted in fifty different . c~un genius of the great Napoleon pale their "ineffectual fj.res." It tries, where, in the common language of the heart, though in has been well said " she is easily and by far the most extraor many different tongues, it "ministered to all good and tn}.e dinary person the human race has ever produced. " women who are willing to clasp hands in one common effort to The enlightened enterprise and lofty public spirit of Isa protect their homes and loved ones from the ravages of drink," bella of Spain made it possible for Columbus to discover the by "an organization without a. pattern save that seen in New World, which was destined to become the home of the heavenly vision upon the mount of fa.ith, and without a peer mightiest republic the world ever saw. among the sisterhoods that have grouped themselves around the Saint Theresa. was cannonized by the Pope for the great re cross of Christ." Millions were brought within the reach of its forms she wrought in Catholic orders, and the value of her re elevating, humanizing, Christianizing influences. These gentle ligious writings. p6rsua.sive ministrations proceeded in the faith that "the ban Queen Elizabeth, although crafty and cruel, was learned .and ner and the sword were never yet. the symbol of man's grandest able, and the Elizabethan period is one of the most splendid in victories," and that the time was at hand "to listen to the English history. voice of that inspired philosophy which through all ages has Enlightened beyond her titne, the Empress Marie ThereSa beeri ·gently saying, ' the race is not to the swift nor the battle abolished torture and the ii:lqulsition, and was one of the great- to the strong.' " est of the Austrian rulers. · While she had extraordinary executive and adminish·ative Catherine of Russia. was the patron · of learniJ:ig, and ruled ability, she could not have accomplished her great work had she ,With a truly masculine vigor. not been divinely blessed with qualities and graces of the mind~ Profound in moral and political philosophy, unequaled in heart, and person that are seldom found combined. llialectic discussion, Madame De Stael had the proud distinc Attractive, engaging, and beautiful in person, with a musicai tion of compellilig the haughty and intolerant Napoleon to voice of marvelous sweetness and purity, intellectual, logical, banish her twice through fear of her pen that was "mightier persuasive, and eloquent, she had a platform presence and man than the sword." ner that made her easily one of the most eloquent and effective · Abigail Adams was one of the incomparable mothers of the of orators. ·Revolution, whose letters to her son are uplifting and enno If true eloquence is to be measured by the effect produced bling, and still the highest guide to right living. upon the hearers, she had few equals and no superiors. Queen Louise of Prussia, the noble and good, was the mother No repetition of he.r }anguage can reproduce the charm that ·ot kingly kings. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was easily among clothed it as it fell from her lips. She brought all the wealth the first of modern poets. George Eliot was the Shakespeare of culture and rearning to her work. That she realiz·ed the of women, a novelist of the highest order. The world-renowned importance of the highest ideals in literature and keenly appre philanthropist, the John Howard of her sex, was found in Flor- ciated the infinite harm of covering vice with an attractiv~ garb " ence Nightingale. Rachel, the magnificent, reached the highest and minimizing its wickedness and infamy, was vividly portrayed altitude of dramatic expression. In Jenny Lind the human by her address on the presentation of the portrait of Mrs. Hayes. .voice. in ·song found its most popular and attractive expression. She then said·: In the professor's study in beautiful Brunswick, within the What shall be said o:f the wizard pen of the romancer, with Its bound shade of Bowdoin's classic walls, the phillipic was written that less sweep t!U'ough time and space? Alas, . with what borrowed livery ~as the most powerful factor in precipitating the fratricidal of the imagmation has it not disguised the dangers of the moderate drinker and -bedecked the brutal pleasures o:f the debauchee. . Heroes struggle that was not to end until human slavery was no inote. have been men mighty to drink wine, and heroines have found their After Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and the prototype in Hebe, cupbearer to the gods. From the sensuous pages of Dred Scott decision no human powel' could avert the crisis. And the Greek romancers, through medireval taJe and legend, the reelihg pages of Fielding, the chivalric pageantry of Scott, the splendid society ,when the struggle came this stanza- drama o:f Thackeray, and the matchless character panoramas o:f Dickens, In the beauty o:f the lilies Christ was born across the sea, down to our own society iloveis; in all the witching volumes over With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me ; which the beaming eyes of youth have lingered the high lights of con As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, vivial enjoyment have been brought out in most vivid word painting. While God is marching on- and its black shadows as studiously concealed. Now be it remembered that the poet, the artist, and the novelist-mighty Interpreters of nature of Julia Ward Howe inspired the courage, sustained the valor, and the soul-will always maintain their empire over the human heart renewed the patriotic fervor, and steeled the arm of the battling so long as It is a willing captive to the love of beauty, and the beauty hosts of freemen. of love. So that until we win an assured place for the temperanee reform in these supremely in.fluential realms of thought and expres To such as these we can well bow down and worship. They sion our success can not be considered as permanent. Until genius, are the splendid creations of a great race. with her starry eyes, shall be gently persuaded to lay her choicest In this brilliant galaxy of great women Frances Elizabeth trovhies at the feet of temperance th.ere will remain for us much terri ,Willard has placed her name. Her deeds have written it there. tory to be possessed. Educated, cultured, refined. She was a journalist, all author, The most striking and unique· incident of her work was the and a professor, but she aban,doned them all that she might de celebrated Polyglot Petition for Home Protection presented "to vote her life to the advancement' and promotion of. the cause the governments of the world." It was signed throughout the that was near and dear to her. The sacred cause that has the civilized world, and iri fifty different languages. The signa soul-inspiring watchword " For God and home and native land." tures mounted upon canvas, four columns abreast, made more 2808 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY -l 7, than a mile of canvas and nearly five miles of solld signatures, The home is the basic unit of our Christian civilization. It is 771,200 in all. It represented by societies and associations the foundation stone upon which our free institutions rest. over 7,500,000 persons. It was ten years in circulation. In Upon its integrity, purity, and character the character and qtlal an P-loquent and impressive speech, Miss Willard presented it to ity of our civilization depend. It is a holy shrine. Whatever President Cleveland February 19, 1895. The English branch profanes it pollutes the sacred temple of liberty itself. Who was headed by Lady Henry Somerset, the magnificent English ever defends and ennobles it insures to our children and our woman who is leading in temperance reform in England. On children's children the blessings of freedom and the enduring of the American petition, like Abou Ben Adhem, and for the same . a" gevernment of the people, for the people, and by the people." reason, Neal Dow's name " led all the rest." A civilization based -upon a lecherous and debauched home is _ More than fifty years ago General Dow, at the request of the rotten at,tb,e cQre. _ _ _ broken-hearted wife of a drunken husband, called upon a sa ·statesmen, warriors, and patriots may strive and build and loon keeper and urged him not to sell to the unfortunate man. achieve, but all their striving, building, and achieving is in He was ordered out of the saloon with the remark, " There's my vain, even " as sounding brass and the tinkling cymbal," if it license on the wall. This man is one of my best customers.. disregards the eternal moral verities and does not conserve the I'll not offend him." " Do you mean that you will go right on true happiness and the highest welfare of mankind. This selling whisky to him?'' said Dow. "I shall sell to him just divinely gifted woman bent every energy, shaped every purpo e, as long as he can pay fo; his drinks," replied the saloon keeper. and devoted every aspiration of a godly life to the consumma As General Dow left the saloon he said, " The people of the tion of this happiness and welfare. It is meet that her work ~tate of Maine will see how long you will go on selling." In should be thus recognized. 1851 came the Maine law. With the exception of two years- This statue stands, and always will stand, as the highest 1856-1858-it has been steadfastly adhered to ever since, and truest embodiment of all that is noblest, best, and divinest though not as continuously and effectively enforced as it ought in the womanhood of America and the enduring memorial of to be. It has been estimated from actual sales taken from old " whatsoever things are of good report" in our Christian civili account books that prior to 1851 the people of Raymond, then zation. [Great applause.] a small town of 1,149 souls, with a valuation of about $150,000, Mr. RAINEY. Mr. Speaker, forty-one years ago, when the consumed more liquor in every period of eighteen years than two great sections of our country still contended in awful bat the entire valuation of the town. To-day no liquor tax is paid tle, Congress passed an act making out of the old hall of the . in the town, and while its population has decreased to 823, its House of Representatives a national gallery, to wllich each valuation has increased to $213,576. The soil and climate of State was invited to contribute the statues of two of her most Maine are not such as make the development and accumulation famous citizens. Since then the States hav~ been responding of wealth an easy task. The natural facilities that contribute until now nineteen of them are represented here. to that end are much inferior to those found in the Middle In this halJ of fame statues of warriors and of state men States, the South, and the great West. stand side by side. Nature has done little for her beyond furnishing the opportu Men acquire fame upon the battlefield, amid the pomp and nity for the development of an energetic, enterprising, vigorous, glory of war. '.rhis opportunity is denied to women. Men ac hardy, intelligent, and sturdy peopJe. They have sent thousands quire fame as diplomats and statesmen, but this opportunity also upon thousands of their hard-earned savings during the last two is closed to women; and so we have in Statuary Hall figures of decades into the far West, attracted by the expectation of a heroic size presented by the States; nearly all of them are the profitable return thereon. Very few of these thousands ever portraits in stone and marble and bronze of men who have had have returned, or ever will return, thus diminishing her savings access to these great fields of human e_ffort and human ambition; and impairing her wealth. for them the door of opportunity stood always open. There is nothing in her policy or law that differentiates her Until to-day no State has contributed the statue of a woman. from her sister States except the prohibitory law. The only No one imagined forty-one years ago, when this act was pa ed, reliable indicator of the thrift and prosperity of a people is its that the heroic figure of a woman would ever stand beneath that savings. In this respect the people of Maine, fostered by legis Dome. But the world is growing in more ways than one; and lation that preserves their earnings, challenges all comparison. the world is ready now to believe that a courageous womanly In 1850 she had no savings banks; in 1900 she had deposited woman makes as heroic a figure as a brave manly man. [Ap- $66,132,677 in her savings banks. While she ranks only thir pl::mse.] - teenth in population among the States of the Union, there are When the act was passed which established this hall of fame only six that outrank her in the amount of savings deposits, men were winning the right to a place here upon the field of and only seven which have a larger number of depositors. battle at the head of crushing squadrons of cavalry, or directing Illinois, with about seven times the population of Maine, has the movement of long lines of infantry, amid the roar of $7,000,000 less savings deposit. Ohio, with nearly six times cannon and all the din of war. 'Their statues-some of them the population of Maine, has $22,000,000 less deposits. Penn are already here, and there are more to come. But the real sylvania, with nine times the population of Maine, has only battle which made this a nation, one and indivisible, was $40,000,000 more deposits. In other words, Maine has in her fought and won after the surrender at Appomatox; after the savings banks $95.22 for every inhabitant. Illinois has only men of the blue army had returned to their northern homes ; $13.43; Ohio, $10.71; and Pennsylvania, $16.12. While Maine's after the men of the gray army had sadly gone back to ruined population bas increased since 1850 only 20 per cent, her valua plantations throughout the pleasant _Southland. The real vic tion per capita has increased 252 per cent. A single concrete, tory was won long after the green grass was growing and unimpeachable, significant fact like this, bearing living witness the flowers were blooming•upon the graves of the men who fell to the efficacy of her settled policy, is of more value than reams in this, the greatest civil war the world ever saw. It was a of newspaper columns full of ill-considered and unfounded as victory won in a battle waged by men and women of the sertions that the law has been a practical failure. [Applause.] South, standing shoulder to shoulder wi~h men and women It is entirely true, as eloquently and incisively declared by of the North-a peaceful struggle to quench the fires of sec Governor Cobb, of Maine, in his recent noble message, that this tional hate and antagonism. law " lies very close to the heart and conscience of thousands It was at this time that there came out of the North a new of the men and women " of Maine. leader-not a leader of armed men, . but a leader of unarmed Miss Willard believed in the wisdom and efficacy of this legis women-a woman of supreme capacity mental and moral and lation. Sincere and zealous enthusiast as she was, she was physical. Illinois to-day p~esents her statue, exquisitely carved essentially and always broad mmded, catholic, and tolerant in out of the whitest of Carara marble, to the nation as her con her views. She knew that intelligent discussion and free and tribution to this great hall of fame. [Applause.l open agitation would in the end disclose and firmly establish In the years which followed the war one of the forces most the truth. In her last important public utterance she laid potent ·to sweep away the mists and let in the sunlight upQn down Cobden's rule as her guide: " Never assume that the mo North and South alil\:e was the army of women, led by Frances tives of the man who is opposed to you in policy or arguillent E. Willard, marching through the North and the South following are one whit less.pure and disinterested than your own." Com the white banners upon which she had inscribed the motto, menting, she said : "For God and Home and Native I.Jand." · In the dark days But; alas, it is our custom to consider that wisdom will die with us, which followed the war she furnished the common ground upon and that truthfulness first had its . being when. we were born. While which all could stand, whether they lived under bright skies the facts are; speaking broadly, that being subject to o. certain pressure in of education certain great masses of men look upon them in another where the magnolia blooms ·or under grayer skies the colder way, · and nothing short of that argumentation which politics furnishes North. - will enable both _groups to reach at last an equilibrium of thought by She led the fight for the home, ~or personal purity, for better , leavening the entire lump with two ditrerent kinds of education, so -habits of living, for the rights of children, for the uplifting of that one view shall modity the other. How true is it that the greatest of all these is charity. women. Upon these great subjects she delivered addresses in 1905.·. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE.· -2809 almost all the towns and cities of the country containing a popu In none of Colorado's institutions for higher education, ·save lation of 5,000 and upward. On on~ of her campaigns she trav the technical schoo~ of mining engineering, is any line of sex eled 30,000 miles, speaking almost every day in crowded halls distinction drawn. Yearly these institutions ·are not only and churches. · more and more adding distinction and bringing honor to our · With chains of gold stretching across the gulf which divided ~tate, but they are approaching more and more the Ideals of the sections she bound together the homes of the North and the the woman who was not only a gt'"eat reformer, philanthropist, homes of the South until the dividing chasm disappeared and a and religious worker, but a great, positive force in the educa mighty nation moyes forward under one banner with resistless tional world. force to the tremendous destiny prepared 'for it by· the oliln.ipo Of the six Members of this House who have been sent here tent God. If peace hath its victories, it is peculiarly appro:. in part by women's votes, three are from the C~ntennial State. priate that Miss Willard's statue should stand here under this It is therefore proper-that I should, on behalf of that State dome. In the State which produced a Lincoln, a Douglas, and and its noble women, add my voice to the volume of' tribute to a Logan we consider her one of our greatest citizens. [Ap the life of her whose statue now holds this highly honored plause.] position. · The past century has been called the woman's century. Dur In her life she graced and adorned every circle. She added ing the latter half of the century a woman sat on -the throne-in strength and force to every council. She promoted and ad England, and under her gentle and wise influence literature. and vanced every good cause to a degree that we do not yet fully ap the arts flo·urished and the commerce of the English nation preciate. Others have recounted in glowing terms the features whitened every sea. During the same· period of time the woman of her life, and have told what she did for civilization and hu we honor here to-day, with gentle strength, was fighting for the manity. I do not care to attempt to add anything to what has success of all the higher moral forces. She made her opportuni been said along these lines. Miss Willard stands now as a type ties-none of them were inherited. She did not come into a of the loftiest endeavor of the later years of the nineteenth cen throne by divine right; but her purity of purpose, her loyalty at tucy. Such a life and such a work knows no sex. It is for man- all times, her tenderness, her breadth of human sympathy, her kind. : resistless energy, won "for her. the title of "the uncrowned To-day the nation joins in welcoming this newest addition to queen," and in the hearts of five million true women of the land our Hall of Fame. Jt· recognizes and PllYS glad tribute to her she reigned supreme. intellectual ability, her self-sacrificing work for her ,race, and Three hundred years ago, on the banks of a beautiful river in the grandeur of her moral worth. It takes her into full· fellow .far away India, at fabulous cost, a king erected a tomb in mem ship with her heroes of war and peace, her great lawmakers ory of a woman. With towering minarets of whitest marble it and administrators, as one of those who have done great things stands to-day the most splendid building · ever erected by man. for their native land. '.rhe women of America have erected in memory of Frances E. .The State whose advent, into the sisterhood of States mark.ed Willard a monument not made of marble, which crumbles with the opening of the second century of the · nation's life can not the passing centuries, but made of that enduring material which and will not be unheard among those who at this time are giv withstands the ravages of time-a monument of human love and ing utterance to the universal regard for her who is the cause human admiration and human sympathy. [Applause.] and occasion of these exercises. Not only here, but in the lives She was a true child of the prairie. During the fifty years and homes of her people she will perpetuate and cherish her of her active career she lived in the State of Illinois, and from memory and strive to emulate and follow her example. her modest, quiet cottage in the village of Evanston, where Illinois, the home of her mature life and the_ scene of her only the murmurs of the great lake broke the stillness, she is greatest work, has given her an undying fame in the beautiful sued forth, a modern Joan of Arc, to fight the nation's ene marble which now graces our halls. The nation has accepted mies-aglow with purpose-wearing the armor of truth and the gift of that marble to cherish and protect. It is for Colo WOD?-anly purity. She has won a place in the temple . of the rado, with the other States, to secure for her a monument more truly great. Frances E. Willard is dead, her soul has gone be lasting than bronze, which is to be erected in the loving hearts yond the stars, but her memory lives. of the thousands whose lives she bas enobled and uplifted. The State of Illinois-always the home of great men-mind The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. MANN). The question is ful of the fact that she is entitled to no more places in this on agreeing to the resolution. · · ball, presents now to the nation the statue of this woman, cun The question was taken, and the resolution was unanimously ningly carved, by a woman, out of the finest and the whitest of agreed to. · marble. [Long-continued applause.] Mr. FOSS. 1\fr. Speaker, i move that the House do now ad Mr. BROOKS. Mr. Speaker, Colorado owes much to Illinois. journ. From her we derived our form of State constitution; from her 'l'he motion was agreed to; and accordingly (at 5 o'clock · also we took many of our statute laws; from her came many of and 48 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned to meet to-morrow the pioneers who helped to give form and shape to the State's at 12 o'clock noon. new life; but no debt of Colorado to her mother State exceeds In importance -that which· she owes for the precious gift of EXECUTIVE CO.Ml\IUNICATIONS. memory of the life and character of Frances· E. Willard. Her self one of the nation's empire builders, she appeals with pecul Under clause 2 of Rule XXIV, the following executive com iar force to the thousands of noble, constructive men and women munications were taken from the Speaker's table and referred who look to such examples for tlreir guidance and for their as follows: support. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, subm,itting recom Miss Willard was unusually adapted to meet such needs. mendations in reference to appropriations to meet the expenses She had in her own life seeri and been a part of the growth and of collecting the revenue-to the Committee on Appropriations development of two of our great Commonwealths. She had and ordered to be printed. · ' played a· m<>st important part in directing and ennobling the A letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a life of those communities before she entered upon her larger report. of the Commissioner of the General Land Office· relating and more enduring labors. The men and ·women of Colorado to the adjustment of railroad land grants-to the Committee on who are trying to reproduce in the mountain surroundings of the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. that State the ideas and ideals for which she gave her whole A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a life's devotion find at every step abundant material in her his copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce and tory to serve as their own model and to · hei· they look for Labor submitting an estimate of reappropriation for salaries leadership. and expenses of the Bureau of Corporations-to the Committee Her life has not been without its definite, tangible present on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. . results in that State at least. Much that she labored for· has A ·letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a: there been achieved. Colorado is one of the four States of the copy of. a communication from the Director of the Mint submit Union which have accorded to woman full civic rights, which ting an estimate of appropriation for machinery at the Denver recognize in fullest m.easure her equality before the law, mid mint-to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be place her on a plane m all respects equal to that occupied by printed. h~r brothers. It has been a successful ' experiment, and the A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, h·ansmitting a people everywhere give it a full measure of approval. In every · copy of a communication from the Postmaster-General submit line ot civic activities that community has received . and has ting an estimate of depciency appropriation for miscellaneous appreciated the benefit of woman's counsels, help, and active articles-to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be constructive work; and these counsels and that help have had printed. a most stimulating effect in every 'phase of life. A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims. trans- 2810 OONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 17, mltting a copy of the findings filed by the court hi the case of Mr. RUCKERt from the Committee on the Public ·Lands, to Andrew Crouch, Newton Crouch, and B. L. Butcher, executors which was referred the bill of the House (H. R. 15021) for the of estate of Jacob Crouch, against The United States-to the relief of Gilbert Shaw, reported the same with amendment,_ac Committee on 'Var Claims, and ordered to be printed. companied by a report (No. 4631) ; which said bill and report were referred to the Private Calendar. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC BILLS· AND RESOLUTIONS. CHANGE OF REFERENCE. Under clause 2 of R~le XXII, the Committee on Accounts was Under clause 2 of Rule XTII, bills and resolutions of the fol discharged frolJl tp,e, co:t;l.Sidm'ativn of the resolution (H. Res. lowing titles were severally reported from committees& delivered 501) to pay Butler B. 1Iare. $223.33 for services rendered and to the Clerk, and referred to the several Calendars therein named, as follows: ~he same was referred to the Committee on Claims. Mr. CAMPBELL, from the Committee on the District of Co- lumbia, to which was referred the House joint resolution BU~L!~ BILLS, RESOLUTIONS, AND MEMORIALS. (H. J. Res. 214) for extension of time of Washington and Gettys- Under clause ·3 bf Rule XXII, bills, resolutions, and memorials burg Railway Company, of Maryland,. reported the same with amendment. accompanied by a -report (No 4632) ,· which said of the following titles were introduced and severally referred as follows! joint resolution and report were referred to the House Cal- By Mr. . STEENERSON: A bill (H. R. 19026) permitting the entr_~~- BABCOCK, from the Committee on the District of Co- building ot a dam across the Ml~slsslppi River near: the village lmnbia~ to which was referred the bill of the Senate (S. 4938) . of Bemidji, Beltr_aml County, Mmn.-to the Committee on In regulating the use of telegraph wires in the District of Colum- terstate and Fore?gn o.>mmerce. bia, reported the same without amendment, accompanied- by a By Mr. . HUNT·· A blll (H. R. 19027) to amend an act to pro report (No. 4633); which said bill and report were referred to mote t~e "'safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. eompelhn~ com.moz;t carriers e~gaged in interstate commerce to . He also, from the same committee~ to which was referred the equip their cars ~Ith automati.c .couplet:S and continuous brakes bill of the House (H. R. 18975) to authorize the levying of cer- and their locomotives with drivmg-wheel brakes, and for other tain special assessments, reported the same without amendment, purposes, approved March 2~ 18~3, as amended Aprll1.1896, ~nd accompanied by a report (No-. 4634); which said bill and report March ~· 1903-to the Comnuttee on Interstate and Foreign ,were referred to the Committee of. the Whole House on the CoBmmMer~eC. USHMAN. A bill (H. R ') f th li f f th state of the Union Y r. · · • 19028 or e re e o e Mr. NEEDHAM, from the Committee on the Public Lands, Ala~ Central Railway Company-to the Committee on the to which was referred the bill of the Senate (S. 3376) to author- Pubhc Lands. . . ize the Secretary of the. Interior to acquire for the Government, . By Mr. MANN· A bi~l (H. R. 19029) to regulate t~e construe by exchanges .of public lands, the ownership of the private tion of dams ove: navigable waters-to the Committee on In4 lands within certain public parks in the State of California, terstate and Forei~n Co1f1D1erce. . . reported the same without amendment, accompanied by a re- By 1\{r. LACEY· A bill (~. R .. 19?30) . to authorlZe the de port (No. 4635); which said bill and report were referred to velopment of water powers ~n the district o~ Alaska, and for the Committee of the Whole. House on the state of the Union. other purposes-to the Co~~ttee on th~ Pubhc Lands. Mr. GILLET of New York, from the Committee on Public By Mr~ SHEPPARD: . ~JOin~ resol~on (H. J. Res. 219) for -Buildings and Grounds, to which was referred the House joint . the publication of eulogies. delivered m Congress on John. W. resolution (H. J. Res.168) determining the material of the public Oranfor~, late a Representative in Congress-to the Committee building of Clev~land, Ohio, report~ the sa~e without. am.end- on~r~.nfiiLLET of New York: A resolution (H. Res. 505 )' ment, ~ccomparued by a report (No. 4636) • which srud JOint providin"' for the consideration of H R. 18973-to the Co 't~ resolution and report were referred to the House Calendar. tee on Rules • mrru Mr. YOUNG, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to · . 4 .which was referred the bill of the Senate (S. 4838) to increase . By Mr. LITT~FI~LD · A resolution (H. Res. 506) provid the efficiency of the Medical Department of the United States mg fo~ the consideration of H. R. 7298 and H. R. 17932-to the army_, reported the same with amendment, accompanied by a Comnuttee on Rules.. report (No. 4637) ; which said bill and report were referred to -.the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS. Mr. WADSWORTH, from the Committee on the District of_ Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, private b1lls and res lutjons ·columbia, to which was referred the bill of the Senate (S. 1635) of the following titles were introduced and severally referred for the extension of M street east of Bladensburg road, and for as follows : . · other purposes, reported the same with amendment, accom By Mr. ADAMS of Pennsylvania: A blll (H. R. 19031) for. panied by a report (No~ 4638) ; which said bil1 and report were the relief of Henry S. Hannis & Co.~to the Committee on referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of Claims, the Union. Also, a bill (H. R. 19032) for the relief of Nathan Van Bell and others-to the Committee on Claims. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PRIVATE BILLS AND By Mr. GRIFFITH: A bill -(H. R. 19033) granting an in- RESOLUTIONS. ~ crease of pension to David Watson-to the Committee on In- valid Pensions. , Under clause 2 of Rule XIII, private bills and resolutions of By Mr. IJA.MLIN: A bill (H. R. 19034) granting an increase the following titles were severally reported from committees, of pension to Anderson Weese--to the Committee on Invalid delivered to the Clerk, and referred to the Committee of the Pensions. l\Vhole House, as follows: By Mr. HOWARD: A bill (H. R. 19035) for the relief of the Mr. PRINCE, from the Committee on 1\filitary Affairs, to heirs of W. R. Poole-to the Committee on War Claims. .which was referred the bill of the House (H. R. 815} to correct By Mr. HULL: A blll (H. R. 19036) for the relief of Bert E. _the military record of James Houselman, reported the same Barnes-to the Committee on Military Affairs. - .without amendment, accompanied by a report (No. 4628); By Mr. LITTLE : "<_ A bill (H. R.. 19037) to remove the charge ,which said bill and report were referred to the Private Calen- of desertion from the military record of Robert Shoddon-to the dar.. Committe~ .on ·1\filitaey Affaits. He also, from the same committee, to which was referred the · :By Mr. LIT'JlLEFIELD: A bill (H. R. 19038) granting an in4 bill of the Senate (S. 2560) for the relief of G. G. Martin, re- crease of pension· to A. B.- Washburn-to tbe Committee on In· ported the same without amendment, accompanied by a report valid Pensions. _ · . . . I( No. 4629); which said bill and report were referred to the Also, a bUl . (H. R.- 19039) granting a pension to Rosetta J. Private Calendar. Gould-to the_Committee on Invalid Pensions. , l\1r. POWERS of Massachusetts, from the Committee on the By :Mr. MACON: A bill (H. R. 19040) granting an increase District of Columbia, to which was referred the bill of the Sen- of pension. to Michael MeManus-to the Committee on Invalid ate (S. 3043) for the relief of the estate _o! the late John Jacoby Pensions. • reported the same with amendment, accompanied by a report By Mr. RIXEY: A bill (H. R. 19041) for the relief of the '(No. 4630) ; which said bill and report were referred to the Itrustees Qf Lebanon Union Church, of Lincolnia, Fairfax County, ·Private Calendru·. . Va.-to the Committee on War Claillij)._ . . · . 1905. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-. HOUSE. 281J. . Also, a bill (H. R. 19042) for the relief of the vestry of St. By Mr. MACON: ·Paper to accompany bill for relief of • 'Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, of· Haymarke~, Prince Michael McManus-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. William County, Va.-to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. MABON: Petition of Washington Camp, No. 494, By Mr. WILLIAMS of Illinois : A bill (H. R. 19043) grant Patriotic Order Sons of America, of Port Royal, Pa., favoring re ing an increase of pension to Joseph Ellis-to the Committee striction of immigration-to the Committee on Immigration and on Invalid Pensions. Naturalization. By Mr. LITTLEFIELD: A bill (H. R. 19044) granting an By Mr. MINOR : Petition of citizens of Wisconsin, against increase of pension to John A. Greenlaw-to the Committee religious legislation for the District of Columbia-to the Com on Invalid Pensions. mittee on the District of Columbia. ' Also, a bill (H. R. 19045) granting a pension· to. ·J arne's L. By Mr. NEVIN : Petition of the Middletown Machine Com Dyer-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. pany, favoring bill H. R . .9302-to the Committee on Ways and Means. · Also, petition of the Dayton (Ohio) 1\Ianufacturing Compa.ny, PETIT~ONS, ETC. favoring bill H. R. 9302-to the Committee on Ways and Means. Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, the following petitions· and Also, petition of citizens of Germantown, Ohio, asking con papers were laid on the Clerk's desk and referred _as follq_ws: currence of the House with the Senate temperance clause in the . By the SPEAKER: Resolution of the Chamber .of Commerce statehood bill-to the Committee on the Territories. of Milw.aukee, for a law prohibiting dealing in options-to the Also, petition of Swin Valley (Ohio) Grange, No. 657, favor Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. ing bill H. R. 13778-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Also, resolution of the Chamber of Commerce of Milwaukee, Commerce. . · thanking the President and those who voted for the Esch-Town Also, petition of the Okeana (Ohio) Epworth League, against send bill:_to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com the seating of REEp SMOOT, and favoring laws to prevent seating merce. of any Mormon in House or Senate of the United States-to the By Mr. ADAMSON: Petition of the agent of the tobacco Committee on the Judiciary. planters, manufacturers, and laborers in the Philippines, ask Also, petitions of 64: citiz·ens of Elgin, 65 citizens of Academia, ing a · modification of Dingley tariff law on products from the 21 citizens of Finley, 66 citizens of Greenwich, 67 Citizens of Philippines-to the Committee on Ways and Means. Akron, and 64 citizens of East Liverpool, all in Ohio, against By Mr. BURLEIGH: Petition of Palmyra (Me.) Grange, religious legislation for the Distriet of Columbia-to the. Com: against repeal or change of the Grout oleomargarine law-to the mittee oo. the District of Columbia. Committee on Agriculture. Also, petition of citizens of Dayton, Ohio, asking Congress By Mr. CASSINGHAM: Petition of V. S. Whisler, of Kill ional influence in favor of universal and perpetual peace--to the buck, Ohio, against religious. legislation for the District of Co Committee on Foreign Affairs. lumbia-to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Also, petition of Jackson Grange, No. 403, of II'armersville, By Mr. COOPER of Texas : Petition of citizens of Alvord Ohio, favoring bill H. R. 13778-to the Committee on Interstate Tex., against religious legislation for the District of Columbia~ and Foreign Commerce. to the Committee on the District of Columbia. By Mr. OTJEN: Petition of the board of directors of the By Mr. DENNY: Petition of representatives of the Baltimore Merchants and Manufacturers' Association of Milwaukee, rela ·Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, against per tive to transportation-to the Committee on Interstate and For mitting the sale of intoxicating liquor in Indian Territory after eign Commerce. it becomes a State--to the Committee on the Territories. Also, petition of the board of directors of the Chamber of Com Also, petition of 370 citizens of Maryland, favoring the Sen merce of Milwaukee, opposing the Esch-Townsend bill-to the ate amendment to the statehood bill to prohibit selling of liquor Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. in the Indian Territory after it becomes a State--to the Commit AI o, resolution of the Chamber of Commerce of Milwaukee, tee on the Territories. Wis., for legislation preventing dealing in options-to the Com By Mr. DRAPER: Petition of Division No. 87, Brotherhood of mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. I.ocomotive Engineers, of Troy, N. Y., against passage of the By Mr. REEDER: Petition of citizens of Waldo, Kans., fa Townsend-Esch bill-to the Committee on Interstate and For Yoring the Hepburn-Dolliver bill-to the Committee on the Ju eign Commerce. diciary. Also, petition of the Chamber of Commerce of New York, against ill-advised legislation relative to freight rates-to the By Mr. RIXEY : Paper to accompany bill for relief of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. vestry of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal· Church, of Haymar By Mr. ESCH : Resolution of the Chamber of Commerce of ket, Va.-to the Committee on War Claims. Milwaukee, against trading in options-to the Committee on By Mr. ROBINSON of Arkansas : Petition of Division No. Interstate and Foreign Commerce. 442, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, of Jonesboro, Ark., By :Mr. EVANS : Petition of Camp No. 421, of Schellburg, favoring bill H. R. 7041-to the Committee on the Judiciary. Bedford County, Pa., favoring restriction of immigration-to Also, petition of Division No. 332, Order of Railway Conduct thE.' Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. ors, of Jonesboro, Ark., favoring bill H. R. 7041-to the Commit By Mr. FULLER: Petition of citizens of Mason, Ill., against tee on the Judiciary. a parcels-post law-to the Committee on the Post-Office and By Mr. RODEY: Petition of citizens of San Juan County, N. Post-Roads. . 1\Iex., against religious legislation for the District of Colun1bia__..:.. Also, petition of the represen~tives of the tobacco planters, to the Committee on the District of Columbia. manufacturers, and laborers in the Philippines, asking a reduc Also, petition of constituent of Mr. RonEY, of Silver City, tion of the Dingley tariff on Philippine products imported into N. Mex., against reduction of the tariff on cigars and tobacco the United States-to the Committee on Ways and Means. from the Philippines-to the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. HAUGEN: Petition of citizens of Allamakee County, Also, petition of. citizens of Socorro County, N. Mex., asking Jowa, against religious l_egislation for the District of Columbia concurrence of . the House in the Senate amendments to the to the Committee on the District of Columbia. statehood bill-to the Committee on the Territories. By Mr. JAMES: Resolution of the Kentucky legislature, ask By Mr. RYAN: Resolution of the National Business League, ing an appropriation for the improvement for the Pond River- for repeal of the desert-land law-to the Committee · on the to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. . , Public Lands. By Mr. LACEY: Petition of the Federation of Labor of Cedar By Mr. SPERRY: Petition of the Hill Brass Company et al., Rapids, Iowa, against the reduction of the tariff on cigars-to favoring free alcohol in the arts and manufactures-to the the Committee on Ways and Means. , . Committee on Ways and Means. · · By Mr. LIND: Petition of Paul A. Dahl and numerous other By MF. SULLIVAN of New York: Resolution of the Na citizens of Minnesota, praying that the provisions of the act of tional Business League, asking for repeal of the desert-land Congress of February 20, 1904, authorizing the . sale and entry law, the commutation clause of the homestead law, and the of certain lands on the Chippewa Reservation be amended so as to timber and stone law-to the Committee on the Public Lands. authorize final proof at the end of fourteen months and upon Also, resolution of the National Board of Trade, relative to payment of $200, irrespective of the amount due--to the Com- forestry and irrigation-to the Committee on Agriculture. mittee on Indian Affairs. · Also, petition of the representatives of the Philippine tobacco By 1\fr. LITTLEFIELD: Petition of 87 citizens of Dixfield, industry, asking free entry of their products into the United Me., against repeal of the Grout oleomargarine law-to the States-to the Committee on Ways and Means. Committee on Agriculture. By Mr. TOWNSEND: Petition of 'citizens of Jackson, Mich., Also, petition of 85 citizens of Dixfield, Me., favoring a parcels against religious legislation for the District of Columbia-to post law-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. the Committee on the District of Columbia.
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