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Also, a bill (H. R. 9991) granting a pension to Sadie A. 3038. .Also (by request), petition of Bradford Baptist Asso I\olf; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ciation, Canton, Pa., urging the repeal of that part of the By Mr. TAYLOR of Colorado: A bill (H. R. 9992) granting immigration law that discriminates again.~t the Japanese an increase of pension to Earl Boice ; to the Committee {)n people; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. Pensions. 3039. Also (by· request), petition of John F. Matthews, urg. By Mr. TINCHER: A bill (H. R. 9993) granting a pension to ing the enactment into law of either H. R. 2719 or S. 1535; Mary E. Walp; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 9994) granting an increase of pension to 3040. Also (by Tequest), petitions of Garfield Post, No. 25, Mary E. Buckmaster ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. G. A. R., Wichita, Kans., and Wilde Post, No. 25, G. A. R., Also, a bill (H. R. 9995) granting a pension to Sarah A. Chester, Pa., eoncerning the Stone Mountain Confederate Moss; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Monumental Assoeiation and the 50-cent memorial coins au Also, a bill (H. R. 9996) granting a pension to Sarah Bendle; thorized by Co~o-ress; to thB Committee on Coinage, Weights, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. and Measures. By Mr. VINCENT of Michigan: A bill (H. R. 9997) grant 3041. Also (by request), petition of the council of the Ameri ing a pension t() Harry E. Galusha; to the Committee on In can Institute of Consulting Engineers, opposing the enactment valid Pensions. into law of the Bowell-Barkley bill; to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 9998) granting a pension to Hattie L. Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Cowles; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 3042. Also (by I'equest), petition of Lyon Post, No. 8, G. A. R., Also, a bill (H. R. 9999) granting a pension to James R. Oakland, Calif., urging the repeal of the law authorizing the Hinds; to the Committee on Pensions. issue of 5,000,000 memorial pieces, the profits from the sale of By l\11'. VINSON of -Georgia: A bill (H. R. 10000) granting this issue to be turned over to the Stone 1\lountain Monumental a pension to Eugene A. Rentz; to the Committee on Pensions. AssOciation, of Atlanta, Ga. ; to the Committee on Coinage, Also, a bill (H. R. 10001) granting an increase of pension to Weights, and Measures. Robert L. Hester ; to the Committee on Pensions. 3043. Also (by request), petition of members of the Central .Also, a bill (H. R. 10002) granting an increase of pension to Christian Church of Flint, Mich., favoring action by the Pre8i William H. Cole ; to the Committee on Pensions. dent and Congress to' appoint a day to be known as defense By Mr. WATSON: A bill (H. R. 10003) granting an increase day ; to the Committee on Military Affairs. of pension to Virginia S. Lewis; to the Committee on Invalid 3044. By Mr. KINDRED : Petition of the Exchange Club of Pensions. Jamaica, urging the enactment of the game refuge public shoot Also, a bill (H. R. 10.004) gr.anting an increase of pension to ing ground bill; to the Committee on Agriculture. Allen F. l\fcAfee; to the Committee on Pensions. 3045. By Mr. MAcGREGOR: Petition of officers and mem By 1\lr. WELSH: A bill (H. R. 10005) granting a pension to bers of Seyburn-Liscum Camp, No. 12, U. S. W. V., Department Eugene Promie ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of New York, indorsing the provisions of Senate bill 1898; w Also, a bill (H. R. 10006) for the relief of Ernestine Mc the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Bride; to the Committee on Claims. 3046. .Also, petition of the American Federation of LaboT, By Mr. WILLIAMS of Michigan: A bill (H. R. 10007) urging Congress to enact into law Senate bill189S; to the Com granting a pension to George A. Newton; to the Committee on mittee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Pensions. .3047. By Mr. O'CONNELL of New York: Petition of the Also, a bill (H. R. 10008) granting a pension to Mary Jane American Federation of Labor, urging the Congress to speedily Bates; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. enact Senate bill 1898, the postal salary increase bill; to th4l' Also, a bill (H. R. 10009) granting an increase of pension Committee on th~ Post Office and Post Roads. to Emily F. DuBois ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 3048. Also, petition of the N~w York State League o! Sav~ Also, a bill (ll. R. 10010) granting a pension to Emma Jane ings and Loan Associati()ns, urging the United States Depart Whipple; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ment of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, to make an inter By l\lr. WILLIAMS of Illin{)is ~ A bill (H. R. 10011) grant censal survey covering building and loan associations in the ing a pension to Mary J. Fisher; to the Committee on Invalid United States and the Congress to make the necessary appro Pensions. priation to make the survey; to the Committee on the Census. Also, a bill (H. R. 10012) granting a pension to Clara Nich 3049. Also, petition from J. D. Rising, vice president of the ols; to the. Committee on Invalid Pensions. National Park Bank of New York, favoring the change of nam~ By Mr. WOOD: A bill {H. R. 10013) granting an increase of Mount Rainier (in Washington) to Mount Tacoma; to the of pension to Mary N. Hoagland; to the Committee on Invalid Committee on the Public Lands. Pensions. 3050. Also, petition of the Flatbusb ChRmber of Commerce, Also, a bill (H. R. 10014) granting an increase of pension to Brooklyn. N. Y., favoring the repeal of section 257 (b) of the Eliza J. Chenoweth; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. revenue act of 192-!; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Also, a bill (H. R. 10015) granting an increase of pension to Nancy Jakes; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 10016) granting an increase of pension SENATE to Maria Kienle; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. WURZBACH: A bill (H. R. 10017) granting an in TUESDAY, De-ceml;er 93, 1924 crease of pension to Thomas I . Kitzmiller; to the Committee on Pensions. The Chaplain, Rev. J. J. Muir, D. D., offered the following Also, a bill (H. R. 10018) granting an increase of pension prayer: to Louis Roth ; to the Committee on Pensions. Our Father, through the many years Thou hast proven ALso, a bill (H. R. 10019) granting a pension to Mary K. Thyself to be a father. Thou hast borne with us under many Stegle ; to the Committee on Pensions. distressing circumstances and Thou art always ready to hear the cry of the humble and contrite heart. Grant that this moment it may be not lip service but the yearning of souls after PETITIONS, ETC. Thee for Thy guidance, for Thy strength, for every inspiration Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, petitions and papers were laid that will help in the performance of known duty. Hear us on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: and be with us constantly till life's work is done. Tluough 3035. By the SPEAKER (by request) : Petition of River Christ our Lord we ask it. Amen. side Post, No. 118, G. A. R., Riverside, Calif., concerning the WooDBRIDGE N. FERRis, a Senator from the State of lllichigan, Stone Mountain Confederate Association and the 50-cent me appeared in his seat to-day. morial coins authorized by Congress; to the Committee on The reading clerk proceeded to read the Journal of yester Coinage, ·weights, and Measures. day's proceedings when, on request of Mr. CURTIS and by 3036. Also (by request), petition of executive committee of unanimous consen~ the further reading was dispensed with the La Salle County, Ill., Farm Bureau, favoring legislation and the Journal was approved. that will prevent the continued use by the city of Chic.ago of the Illinois River for sewage purposes .; to the Committee on MESSAGE FROM '!'HE HOUSE Rivers and Harbors. A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. 3037. Also (by request), petition of John A. Stewart, New Chaffee, one of its clerks. announced that the House had passed Yo1·k City. ~- Y., favoring the passage of the Washington a resolution (H. Res. 357) informing the Senate that a quorum ~ommemoration bill; to the Committee on Industrial Arts and of the House of Representatives had appeared and that th~ Expositions. House was ready to proceed to business. 14 CONGR.ESSION AL RECORD-SENATE DECE1\IBER 2·
The message also announced that the House had passed a CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION 1·esolution (H. Res. 356) providing for the appointment of TII.El STATE OF ALABAMA, three 1\iembers on the part of the House to join a similar com DEPART:UE:s-T OF STATE. mittee appointed by the Senate to wait upun the President and I, S. H. Blan, secretary of state, in accordance with the provisions inform him that a quorum of the two Houses had assembled of section 516 of the Code of Alabama, do hereby certify that, as and that Congress was ready to 1·eceive any communication shown by the returns of election on file in this office, Hon. J. THO::IIAS that he may be pleased to make. HEFLIN was elected to United States Senate from the State of AlalJama. The message further announced that the House haV'. passed at the general election held in this State on Tue day, the 4th day of a concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 30) providing for tt November, 1024. joint se sion of the two Houses for the purpose of holding Witness my band this 25th day of No-n-mber, 1924. appropriate exercises in commemoration of the life, character, [SEAL.] S. H. BLAN, and public service of the late 'Voodrow Wilson, former Pre i Sect·etat·y of State. dent of the United States, in which it requested the concurrence of the Senate. BOARD OF REGENTS, SMITHSOXI.AN INSTITUTION The message also announced that the House had passed a The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair announces that bill (H. R. 9138) to authorize the discontinuance of the se\en in accordance with the pronsions of section 5581 of the Re year regauge of distilled spirits in bonded warehouses, and vised Statutes, he has appointed REED SMOOT, a Senator from for other pm·poses, in which it requested the concurrence of the State of Utah, a member of the Board of Regents of the the Senate. Smithsonian Institution to fill the vacancy caused by the death The message further communicated to the Senate the intelli of the late Senator LODGE. gence of the death of Hon. EDWARD CAMPBELL LITTLE, late a COMMISSIO~ FOR THE EXTENSION AND COMPLETIO~ OF THE Representative from the State of Kansas, and transmitted CAPITOL BL~DING the re olutions of the House thereon. The PRESIDEl\'"T pro tempore laid before the Senate a let The message also communicated to the Senate the intelli ter from Elihu Root resigning his membership in the Com gence of the death of Hon. SYDl\"EY E. MuDD, late a Repre mission for the Extension and Completion of the Capitol sentati\e from the State of Maryland, and transmitted the Building, constituted under the provisions of the act appro\ed resolutions of the House thereon. April 28, 1904, etc., which was referred to the Committee on The message further communicated to the Senate the intelli Public Buildings and Grounds. · gence Of the death Of llon. "TILLIAM STEDMAN GREEXE, late a Representati\e from the State of Massachusetts, and trans REPORT OF THE SURGEON GEXERAL, PUBLIC HEALTII SERVICE mitted the resolutions of the House thereon. The PRESIDENT pro tempore lahl before the Senate a· The message also communicated to the Senate the resolutions communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmit of the House unanimously adopted as a tribute to the memory ting, pursuant to law, the report of the Surgeon General of the of the Hon. LEBARo~ BRADFORD CoLT, late a Senator from the Public Health Service for the .fi. cal year 1fl24, which was State of Rhode Island. referred to the Committee on Finance. The message further commtmicated to the Senate the reso REPORT OF THE CO:M:P'fROLLER OF THE ·cURRENCY lutions of the House unanimou ly adopted as a tribute to the The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate memory of the Hon. FRANK BOSWORTH BRA~DEGEE, late a Sen a: ator from the State of Connecticut. communication from the Comptroller of the Currency, trans The message also communicated to the Senate the resolu mitting, pm·suant to law, the annual report of the Comptroller tions of the House unanimously adopted as a tribute to the of the Currency, co\ering activities of the Currency Bureau memory of the Hon. HE:'iRY CABOT LoDGE, late a Senator from for the year ended October 31, 1924, which was referred to the the State of Massachusetts. Committee on Banking and Currency. WAR DEPARTMENT REPORTS NOTIFICATIO~ TO THE PRESIDEXT The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a: Mr. CURTIS and Mr. ROBINSON appeared, and communication from the Secretary of War, transmitting, pur Mr. CURTIS said: Mr. President, your committee which was suant to law, a report showing expenditures from the apvro appointed to join a similar committee from the House to ad priation for the encouragement of breeding of riding horses nsc the President that a quorum of the two Houses was pres for the fiscal year 1924, which was referred to the Committee ent and ready to receive any communication he desired to on Military Affairs. make have performed that duty. The President advised the He also laid before the Senate a communication from the joint committee that he will communicate in writing to the Secretary of War, transmitting, pur.~uant to law, a report rela two Houses to-day the Budget message and to-morrow will tive to a comprehensive housing program containing a series submit in writing his regular message. of charts showing the new construction required at military CREDENTIALS posts in the United States, Hawaii, and Panama, together with classified lists of sm·plus military reservations, etc., which The PRESIDEXT pro tempore laid before the Senate a cer was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered tificate of the Go\ernor of Iowa certifying to the election of to be printed. SMITH W. BROOKHART as a United States Senator for the term CO~TRACTS WITH RAILROADS FOR CARRYING THE MAILS beginning March 4, 1925, which was read and ordered to be filed, as follows : The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Acting Postmaster General, trans CERTIFICATE OF ELECTIO:s- mitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to the fixing of STATE OF IOWA, rates of compen. ation to be paid to railroad companies for EXECIJTITE DEPART:UE::\T, the transportation of the mails and special contracts therefor, To S:UITH W. BROOKHAR·.r, Greeting: which was referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post It is hereby certilied that at an election holden on the 4th day of Roads. November, A. D. 1924, you were elected to the office of United States .ADMINISTRATION OF WAR MIXERALS RELIEF ACT Sen a tor of said State, for the term of six years from and after the 4th day of Uarcb, A. D. 1925. The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a Given at the seat of government this !!4th day of Noyember, A. D. communication from the Secretary of the Interior, transmit 1924. ting, in compliance with law, a report covering all operations, ~. E. KE~DALL, including receipts and disbursements, arising out of the so Go1:ernor of tl!e State of Iotoa. called war minerals relief act, which was referred to the Com Counterslg_ned : mittee on 1\lines and Mining. [SEAL.] w. c. RA:USAY, DEPRESSION IN THE DOMESTIC LE.ATHER ~DUSTRY Secretary of State. The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a com Mr. UNDERWOOD. 1\Ir. President, I present the certificate munication from the Acting Secretary of Commerce concerning of election of my colleague, Senator HEFLIN, for the six-year Senate Resolution 256, du·ecting the Secretary of Commerce term commencing the 4th of March, and ask that it be .filed to fm·nish the Senate with data relative to depression in the with the Secretary. domestic leather industry and the competition from foreign The certificate was read and ordered to be .filed, as follows: calf upper Ieathe1·s, stating that all information which ca~ 1924 CONGRESSIONAL RECO"RD-SENATE 15
be obtained, both at home and abrood., will be collected and Valuation Docket' No. 183, the Rhode Island Co. and the furnished the Senate as expeditiously as possible, and so Nar:rangan ett Pier Railroad Co. f&rth, which was ordered t() lie on the table. Valuation Docket No.. 188, Durham & South Carolina Rail R-ULES A.."'D REGULATIONS, STEAMDOAT INSPECTION SERVICE road Co. Valuation Docket No. 306, Knoxville, Sevierville & Eastern The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a com Railway. muni~ation from the Acting Secretary of Commerce, trans Valuation Docket No. 94, Hoosae Tunnel & Wilmington Rail- mitting, in compliance with law, a complete set of general road Co. rules and regulations prescribed by the Board of Supervising Valuation Docket No. 131, Union Freight Railroad Co. Inspectors, Steamboat Inspection Service~ and approved by Valuation Docket No. 169, Paris &- Mt. Pleasant Railroad Co. the Secretary of Comme1·ce, which were referred to the Com Valuation Docket No. 63, Gainesville Midland Railway. mittee on Commerce, as follows : Valuation Docket No~ 289,. the Cumberland Railroad Co. (1) General rules and regulations, ocean and coastwise, edi Valuation Docket No. 28 16 CON GRE.SSIOK AL RECORD-SENATE DECEl\fBER 2 performed from Wa:shington, D. C., in connection with official Mr. SMOOT. A thousand copies can be printed under the busines~ of hi::; office during the fiscal. year 1924, -w-hicl! was law. . referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Mr. FLETCHER. · The committee can do that without any LIBRARY OF CONGREf;S REPORTS further action by the Congress, and then if it is desired to have more copies printed it will require the passage of a concurrent The PRESIDENT pro tempore · laid before the Senate a resolution. communication from the Librarian of Congress, transmitting, Mr. NORRIS. Of course, before we can definitely settle pur. uant to law, a report giving the aggregate number of the question as to the number of copies that shall be printed publications is. ned by the Lib1·ary of Congress proper during we will have to examine the report it. elf. I do not want to the fi ·cal year Hl23-24, the cost of paper used, the cost of haye a lot of reports printed unless that is the proper course; printing, the cost of preparation, and the number distributed, but from my reading of the outline of this report it is one which was referred to the Committee on the Library. that will be greatly in demand from all parts of the country. He also laid before the Senate a communication from the My idea is that probably we ought to have concurrent action of Librarian of Congress, tran mitting, pursuant to law, a state the House and Senate before we finally determine on the num ment showing in detail the travel performed by officers and ber to be printed. employees of the Hbrary of Congress on official business to Mr. SMOOT. ·May I suggest to the Senator that they be points outside of the District of Columbia during the fiscal printed under authority of a concurrent resolution and not by year 1924, and so forth, which was referred to the Committee committee order? If we have a committee print, it has no ou Appropriations. number, while if we have it printed by authority of a concur l'ent resolution it will have a number. We do not want to DISMISSAL OF CAUSES BY THE CO"'C"RT OF CLAIMS have two documents. It seem to me the proper way to dis The PRE,'IDE~T pro tempore laid before the Senate a pose of it will be by a concurrent resolution. commuuication from the as ' istant clerl{ of the Court of l\fr. NORRIS. If the Senate will agree to the request I have Claims, informing the Senate that the cause of Hyland C. submitted, the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry at the Kirk et al., as ignees of Adtlison C. Fletcher, versus the United yery fir t opportunity will look into it and ascertain what their ' States, congressional No. 15369, was dismissed by the court for judgment is and report back to the Senate. uonprosecution on May 19, 1924, on motion of the defendant, The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair does not under which was referred to the Committee on Claims. stand that any objection has been made. Without objection, He also laid before the Senate a communication from the the report will be referred to the Committee on Agriculture and a si ' tant clerk of the Court of Claims, informing the Senate Forestry. that the cause of Alfred A. Thresher versus the United States, TRIBUTE TO THE LATE SEXATOR LODGE congressional No. 17297, was dismissed by the court on May The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate resolu 5, 1924, for nonprosecution on motion of the defendant, which tions adopted by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Chelsea, was referred to the Committee on Claims. Mass., in honor of the memory of the life, character, and public ACTS OF THE PORTO RICA."i'i LEGISLATURE service of HENRY CABOT LoDGE, late a Senator from the State The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate cer o~ Massachusetts, which were ordered to lie on the table. tified transcripts of acts and resolutions of the special session TRIBUTE TO THE LATE SEX ·-~TOR BR.ANDEGEE of the Tenth Legislature of Porto Rico, 1924, which were re The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a 1·eso ferred to the Committee on Territories and Insular Posses lution adopted by the Court of Common Council of the City of sions. Hartford, Conn., in honor of the memory of the life, character, REPORT OX COOPERATIO~ I~ FOREIGN COUNTRIES and public service of FRA.J.~K B. BR.AXDEGEE, late a Senator from The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a the State of Connecticut, which was ordered to lie on the table. communication from the chairman of the Federal Trade Com PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS mission, submitting, pursuant to the provisions of section 6 The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid befot·e the Senate the of the Federal '.rrade Commission act, a report on cooperation following concurrent resolution of the Legislature of Arkansas, in foreign countries. which was ref~rred to the Committee on Education and Labor: ·Mr. NORRIS. Mr. Pre ident, a parliamentary inquiry. I STATE OF AUKAXSA . , GOVERNOR'S OFFICE, would like to inquire whether the report will be printed ; and Little Rock, June 30, 19 s. if so, how many copies of it will be printed? Senator ALBERT B. CUMMINS, The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair has not ordered Washington, D. 0. it printed. There ought to be some action on the part of the Dmn Srn: I take pleasure in inclo. ing you herewith certified copy Senate if such reports are to be printed, because they are very of bouse concurrent resolution No. 1, ratifying a proposed amendment voluminous. to the Constitution of the United States of America, which shall give Mr. NORRIS. Before dispo~ition is made of that particular the Congress the power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of report I would like to ask some action of the Senate. I have person. under 18 years of age. no desire to do it at this moment unless it is agreeable to the Respectfully, Senate, but I do not want the report tak~.n off the President's TnOMAS C. 1\IcRAE, Goven10r. desk until I can make some request with reference to it. It is a very important report connected definitely with agricul STATE OE' ARKANSAS, tural problems and the only use of it will come from a perusal DEPARTMENT OF STATE. of it. It ought to be printed. I think there will be a great To alZ to tcllom these presents s1wlZ come, g1·eeting: demand for copies of it. I have .not yet myself been able to I, Ira C. Hopper, secretary of state of the State o.f Arkansas, do secm·e a copy of it so that I can examine it. I have only hereby certify that the following and hereto attached instrument of read the description of it contained in the letter of trans writing is a true and perfect copy ot bouse concurrent resolution No. 1, mittal, a copy of which I have on my desk. ratification of the proposed amendment to the Constitution o.f the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. How many copies does the U~ited States of .America, approyed June 28, 1924, the original ot Senator propose to have printed? which was tiled tor record in this office on the --- day of ---, Mr. SMOOT. Mr. President, may I suggest to the Senator 192-. from Nebraska that he let it go to the committee, and then the In testimony whereof I have· hereunto set my hand and affixed my committee will ask that an appropriate number of copies be official seal. Do.ne at office in the city of Little Rock, this 30th day printed. I do .not know what it will cost. Under the law the ot June, 1924. Senate can only order the printing of a certain number of (SEAL.] IRA C. HOPPER, copies without a concurrent resolution. If there is no objec Secretary of State. tion, and I presume there will be none, I suggest that that By B. T. HOFF, Depljty. course be followed. House concurrent resolution 1, amendment to the Constitution of the 1\Ir. NORRIS. I do not think there will be objection, but it United States of America occurred to me that possibly a concurrent resolution would be the proper solution of the question. I ask now that the com Whereas both Houses of the Sixty~ighth Congress of the United munication of the Federal Trade Comlnission on the subject States of America, by a constitutional majo.rity of two-thirds thereof, mentioned, together with the letter of transmittal, be referred made the following proposition to amend the Constitution of the United to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. States of America in the following wot·ds, to wit: The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection? "Joint resolution 1\Ir. FLETCHER. I think that under the rule the com "Pro.posing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States mittee itself has autho!itY to prtgt a ce~tain numbe~ of copies. of America in Congress assembled (two·thircls ot each House concur~ 1924 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE ring therein), Tllat the following article is proposed as an amendment The PRESIDE~""T pro tempore also laid before the Senate to the Con. titution of the United States, which, when ratified by the the following joint resolution Qf tile Legislature of Maryland, l('gislahll'es of three-fourths of the several States, shall be Yalid to all which was referred to the Committee on the Library: intents anu purposes as a part of the Constitution: THE STATE OF l\!An.YLANDJ "ARTICLE- O FFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. " SEC~'IOX 1. The Congress shall have power to limit, regulate, I, E. Brooke Lee, secretary of state of the State of Maryland, undeL• and prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age. and by Tirtue of the authority vested in me by · section 59 of article ". EC. 2. The power of the several States is unimpaired by this 35 of the Annotated Code of l\Iaryland, do hereby certify that the at • artid<', except that the operation of State laws shall be suspended to tached is a true and correct copy of .Joint Resolution No. 4 of the the extent necessary to gi>e effect to legislation enactell by the acts of the General Assembly of Maryland at the regular session of Congress." January, 1924, as the same is taken from and compared with the Tllcrefon; be it t·esolvea by the Gc11eral Assembly of the State of original joint resolution. . Arkansas: In testimony whereof I ha>e hereunto set my hand and have caused SECTIO~ 1. That the said proposed amendment to the Constitution to be affixed the official sf'al of the secretary of state, at Annapolis, of the t:nited States of America be, anu the same is hereby, ratified by ~Id., this 14th uay of April, in tlle year 1924. the General Assembly of Arkansas. [SEAL.] El. BROOKE LEE, ::>Ec. 2. That certified copies of this preamble and joint resolution be Secretary of State. forwarded by the governor of this State to the Secretary of State at Joint resolution recommending to the Congress of the United States ·washington, D. C., to the Presiding Officer of the United States Senate, tbat approprlate action be taken to mal\e the Star-Spangled Banner and to the Speaker of the House of Represent<'l.tives of the United the national anthem of the "Lniteu States ~ta tes. Appro-red : June 28, 1924. Whereas the Star-Spangled Banner is universally recognized by tradition and by custom a the national anthem of the United States; THOl!Afl C. ~feRAE, Got·cnwl· of the State of Arlwnsas. and IRA C. IIoPrERJ Whereas the .American Legion, representing the thought not only of Seaeta1·y of the tate of Arkallsas. the men who erved in the World War but also of the many other R. K. ::\IASOX, patriotic organizations and of the great majority of American cifuens President of the Senate. ai: large, has gone on record as being in favor of making the Star HOWARD REED, Spangled Banner the national anthem by an official act of Congress: Speaker of the House. Therefore be it Re8oll: ed by tl1e General Assembly of JJiarylana, That the Congress Tile PllESIDEXT pro tempore al:3o laid before tile Sen of the l.Inited Rtates be requested to take appropriate action to make ate tile following resolution of tile Legislatlll'e of Georgia, the Star-Sp:mglell Banner officially and legally the national anthem whicil was referred to the Committee on Interstate Com of the Dnite Whereas it is tlme to eease centralizing pow-er lllld authority ln the Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be transmitted by fue National Govel'llment in matters which nre primarily of local concern secretary of state ()! Maryland to the Spea'ker of the United States and which can generally be best done under local authority and super House 'Of Representatives and to the President of the United States vision ; and Senate. Wht>rNt there is a demand on the part of the people of Maryland Approved, April 9, 1924. f or a return to the fundamental principles of our Government, namely, (THE GREAT SEAL OF MARYLAND.] the performaner of State duties and functions by the several States : ALBERT C. RITCHIE, Governor. Tlleerfore be it FRANCIS P. CURTIS, Resolred uy the Ge11eral Assembly of Maryland, That the Senate and Speaker of the House of D elegates. Ilonsr of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled be, _ DAVID G. Mcl"'TOSII, Jt., and t hey are hereby, requested and urged to repeal all laws which President of the Senate. authorize appropriations to the several States in the form of Federal The PRESIDEIJ.\"T pro tempore laid before the Senate the ai Mr. FLETCHER. I present a letter and some resolutions 1\lr. CAPPER presented a telegram in the nature of a peti adopted by the Unitarian Laymen's League. I ask that the tion from the Joint Postal Committee of Greater Kansas City, letter and resolutions be printed in the RECORD and referred Mo., praying for the passage of legislation granting increasetl to the Committee on Foreign Relations. compensation to postal employees, which was referred to the There being no objection, the letter and resolutions "\\ere re Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. ferred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to He also presented a. resolution of the Topeka Industrial be printed in the RECORD, as follows: CounciJ, of Topeka, Kans; favoring tl1e passage of legislation UNI1'.A.RIAN LAYUEN'S LEAGUE, granting increased compensation to postal employees, whicll EXECUTI\E OFFICES, was referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Road:'!. Boston, Mass., Kovembtw f!5, 192~. l\lr. LADD presented resolutions adopted by the house of Hon. DUJ"CAN U. FLETCUER, delegates of the North Dakota State Medical As o"Ciation at Un·ited States Senate, Capitol, Bismarck, N. Dak., protesting against the passage of the so Washington, D. C. called Cramton bill governing the use of alcoholic liquors for medicinal purposes by physic-ians, and also fayoring a reduc DEAR SENATOR FLETCHER: l am directed, by -vote Of the council of the Unitarian Laymen's League, to transmit with its approval to the tion of the war tax on narcotics, which were referred to the Senate the inclosed resolution adopted at the annual convention of Committee on Finance. chapter officers of the league at their meeting in Niagara Falls, Be also presented a resolution of the Postal Club, of l\Iandan; Ontario, Canada, on September 13 last. N. Dak., favoring the passage of Senate bill 1898, granting We feel justified .in hoping that the foreign policy of the United increased compensation to postal employees, which was re States may exemplify the inspired statesmanship referred to in the ferred to the Committee on Post Offices and Po .~t Roads. resolution. BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS I NTRODUCED Cordially yours, GEORGE G. DAVIS, Bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the first Vice President. time, and, by unanimous consent, the second time, and referred as follows: Resolution adopted September 13, Hl24, by the annual convention of By l\11·. SMOOT: chapter officers of the Unitarian Laymen's League at Niagara Falls, A bill (S. 3±93) to amend the act entitled "An act to create Ontario, Canada a commission authorized under certain conditions to refund or w·hereas war inevitably causes unspeakable horrors, incalculable con>ert obligations of foreign governments held by the United suffering, and irreparable waste, dulls the moral perceptions, and States of America, and for other purposes," approved Febru breeds the ugliest passions ; and ary 9, 1922, as amended February 28, ·1923 ; to the Committee Whereas history records that international di putes of the most on Finance. acute nature can be arbitrated to the ultimate satisfaction and bene A bill (S. 34.94) to amend an act entitled "An act to estab fit of all concerned, as is witnessed .by the fact that Great Britain lish the Utah National Park in the State of Utah"; to the and the United States have preserved, unbroken, more than 100 year Committee on Public Lands and Surveys. of peace, and have mutually shown their confidence and trust by A bill ( S. 3495) authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to maintaining between Canada and the United States, unfortified by acquir·e, by condemnation or otherwise, a certain tract of land land and water, the longest international boundary line in the world; in the District of Columbia for tlle enlargement of the present and ~ite of the Bureau of Standards; to the Committee on Public Whereas the aim of every church should be the creation of such a Buildings and Grounds. · passionate concern for truth and justice, fot· love, honor,. and lllutual By l\Ir .. BALL: helpfulness, for every divine attribute, that men shall no longer resort A bill ( S. 34.96) to authorize the removal of the gates and to or tolerate injustice or aggression ; be it gate posts at the head of \Vest Executive Avenue in the Dis Resolved, That we pleuge ourselves to unremitting effort on the trict of Columbia; to the Committee on the District of Co part of our churches to function in creating a entiment that shall lumbia. make war impossible; and be it further By Mr. l\IcNARY: Resolved, That: we request the council of our league to express to A bill ( S. 34.97) to provide for the acquisition of a site and the Premier and· Parliament of the Dominion of Canada and to the the erection thereon of a Federal building at Marshfield, Oreg. ; President and Senate of the United States our profound conviction to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. First. That resort to arms is never justifiable save as a last desper A bill ( S. 3498) granting a pension to Nicholas Bier ; ate measure to restrain and control gross injustice; and A bill ( S. 349!.)) granting a pension to Esther Ann Hill Mor Second. That by patient negotiation and inspired statesmanship gan; and some international agency can and must be created for the peaceful A bill ( S. 3500) granting a pension to 'Y:illiam J. Hirschberg;· adjudication of all international disputes. to the Committee on Peu.Jons. Mr. ROBINSON presented letters in the nature of petitions By l\Ir. ODDIE: of sundry citizens of Pine Bluff, Ark., praying for the passage A bill ( S. 3501) to confer jm·isdiGtion upon the Court of of Senate bill 1898, granting increased compensation to postal Claims to render ju By :Mr. CAPPER: The bill ( S. 3507) to provid'e for the national defense; for A bill ( s. 3512) granting an increase of pension to Laura the production and manufacture of :fixed nitrogen, commercial E. Franklin (with accompanying papers) ; and fe~;tilizer, and other useful products, and for other purposes, A bill ( s. 3513) granting an increase of pension to George was read twice by its title and referred to the Committee on E. Ryan (with accompanying papers); to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Pensions. Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. President, under the order of the A bill ( S. 3514) authorizing the Court of Claims of the Senate, to-morrow has been fued for the consitleration of United State to hear and determine the claim of H. 0. House_ bill 518, relating to the dispo&\tion of the Muscle Shoals Ericsson ; to the Committee on Claims. property. During the summer the Senator from r~orth Dn.kota By l\Ir. SHIELDS: . [Mr. LAI>D], who is the only chemist in the Senate, wrote two ' A bill ( S. 3515) granting an increase of pension to Robert very interesting and learned articles in regard to this_ prop- L. Chick; to the Committee on Pensions. erty. I ask unanimous consent that those article.., may be A bill ( S. 3516) for the relief of James Craig; to the Com printed in the COKGRESSIO~AL RECORD, in eight-point type, for mittee on Military Affairs. the information of the Senate, so that they may be before the By Mr. LADD : Senate when the matter comes up for consideration to-morrow. A bill ( S. 3517) for preventing the manufacture, sale, or The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection? transportation of imitated or misbranded articles of commerce, 1\lr. MOSES. Is the request to print in the RECORD the and regulating the traffic therein, and for other purposes ; to articles referred to by the Senator from Alabama in eight the Committee on Interstate Commerce. point type? By Mr. MOSES: l\11·. UNDERWOOD. Yes. Is not that the· usual course? A bill ( S. 3518) granting an increase of pension to Elise Mr. MOSES. That may not be done without changing the Pinru:d (with accompanying papers) ; law. A bill ( S. 3519) granting -an increase of pension to Nettie ::llr. UNDERWOOD. I mean to request that the articles Lamprey (with accompanying papers) ; be printed in the usual RECORD type, whatever that may be. A bill ( S. 3520) granting an increase of pension to Myra I understand now it is six-point type. :McDonald (with accompanying papers) ; The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 1\. bill ( S. 3G21) granting an increase of pension to Ann ordered. Milnes (with accompanying papers) ; The articles referred to are as follows : A bill ( S. 3522) granting an i~crease of pension to Marion E. [From the Saturday Evening Post of November 22, 1924] .Laird {with accompanying papers) ; and WHY I AM FOR HE..--;RY FORD'S OFFER FOR MUSCLE SHOALS A bill ( S. 3323) granting an increase of pension to Mary E. Foss (with aecompanying papers) ; to the Committee on (By ElDWIN F. LA.oo, United States Senator- from North Dakota) Pensions. Only In the past 25 years have governments and scientists paid any By Mr. McLEAN: real attention to the rapidly increasing dependence o! the whole world A bill ( S. 3524) granting a pension to Ellen M. Kilbourn upon the nitrogen of the air for the preservation and increase of soil (with accompanying papers) ; and fertiJity. It was in 1898 that Sir William Crookes, in his presi A bill ( S. 3525) granting a pension to Elizabeth Hitchcock dential address before the British Association for the Advancement of (with accompanying papers) ; to the Committee on Pensions. Science, called world-wide attention to this subject and predictl'd By Mr. McKINLEY .(by request) : starvation for millions unless the nitrogen problem could be speedily A bill (S. 3;j26) granting pensions and increase of pensions solved, declaring that "all civilized nations stand in deadly pet·il of to certain Indian war veterans and widows, to certain Spanish not having enough to eat."' It is well known that without nitrogen war soldiers and their widows, and for other purposes ; to the we can not gt·ow food crops or cotton for clothing, and without nitrogen Committee on Pensions. no nation can carry on modern warfare. By 1\fr. McKINLEY: But "there's a divinity that shapes our ends, roughbew them how A bill ( S. 3527) for the relief of Mary B. Jenks ; to the we will," and it bas been divinely arranged that the nitrogen in the Committee on Claims. air over every square mile of the earth's surface amounts to 20,000,000 By Mr. SPENCER: tons; the gaseous nitrogen of the air, however, is extraordinarily inert A bill ( S. 3528) granting an increase of pension to Christo and chemically rebellious. pher S. Alvord; to the Committee on Pensions. The nitrogen problem is : How can this air nitrogen be economically converted into a solid or liquid product so that it can be used? This By Mr. ELKINS: is a problem in industrial chemistry and national economics. 3529) A bill (S. granting an increase of pension to Valentine With respect to the purely legal questions arising in the solution Horst ; to the Committee on Pensions. of the Govel'nment's nitrogen problem, considered in connection with By Mr. PITTMAN: llenrr Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals, I must be guided by the in A joint resolution ( S ..J. Res. 147) limiting grazing charges fallible authority of the lawyers of the Senate, reserving some layman on forest reserves; to the Committee on Agriculture and views of my own as to the Federal water power act and its applica Forestry. tion to the proposal of Henry Ford. By l\Ir. DIAL: As to the questions of chemistry involved in the solution of the A joint resolution (S. J. Res. 148) to repeal a joint reso Government's Muscle Shoals problem, however, I have some decided lution proposing nn amendment to the Constitution in respect opinions of my own, based upon the history of air-nitrogen develop to child labor ; to the Committee on the Judiciary. ments nnd upon my own study and experience as a chemist; and with By Mr. CAPPER: this viewpoint I approach the Government's problems at Muscle Shoals A joint resolution ( S. J. Res. 149) authorizing the Secre and present my views to the readers of tlle Saturday Evening ·po t. tarv of War to loan cobs, bedding, and camp equipment, not In a series of two articles the Ron. GEORGE W. NORRIS, United inciuding tentage, for . the' use of the Modern Woodmen of States Senator from Nebraska and chairman of the Senate Committee America Foresters at their national quadrennial encampment on Agriculture and Fore try, bas presented to readers of the Saturday to be held at Milwaukee, Wis., in June, 1925; to the Com E-.ening Post his views as to why Henry Ford's offer for Muscle mittee on Military Affairs. Shoals should not be accepted by the Senate. In general, Senator By Mr. McKINLEY: NoRRIS and myself have been in accord on legislative mattC'rs. We A joint resolution ( S._ J. Res. 150) authoiizing the Secre have much in common. We are both identified with the progressive tary of War to loan cots, bedding, ru1d camp equipment, not element in the Senate which is earnestly endeavoring to advance the including tentage, for the use of the' 1\!odern Woodmen of interests of the people through constructive legislation in which America Foresters at their national quadrennial encampment party politics is made secondary to the general welfat·e. Both of us to be held at Milwaukee, Wis., in June, 1925; to the Commit come from a region in which the fertilizer question, though of grow1ng tee on Military Affairs. importance, is as yet one of the very least of the farmers' troubles. :M:USOLE SHOALS It can not fairly be s:tid that either of us bas adopted his views in order to secure a selfish benefit in his home State. Mr. UNDERWOOD. l\Ir. .:'resident, I introduce a bill in Though a progressive in Government policies, I am a conservative reference to the di ·position of the Muscle Shoals property. in commercial chemistry ; a.n,d with respect to the Ford offer I have I ask that the bill may be printed in the usual form, and to say to that group of Senators with whom I am usually in accord also as a substitute for the pending Muscle Shoals bill, being what President Coolidge once said to the senators in the Massachusetts House bill No. 518 ; in other words, I ask to have the bill Legislature, " Be as radical as science and as reactionary as the printed in both forms. multiplication table." The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so I regard the Government as exceptionally fortunate in having re ordered. ceived an otrer from Henry Ford when no one else would make a pro- 1924 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE • posal, and consider it very unfortunate that Chairman NORRIS has Second, Germany, prior to the war, was importing aoout 600,000 made unjust attacks on the Ford offer which have not been of a char tons of Chilean nitrate annually, while to-day she is independent of acter calculated to lead to a calm, logical, and fair decision. The Chile through the operation of her war-built air-nitrogen plants. amount of useful power which Mr. Ford would get has been greatly FERTILIZER CO~TS exaggerated, while the power necessary for the manufacture of fer Third, au~orities are agreed that combined niti·ogen in the form tilizer under any fair interpretation of the terms of Mr. Ford's otrer of ammonia, which costs the farQler from 20 to 25 cents a poun d has been grossly underestimated. The extent of Mr. Ford's obliga when purchased in the form of mixed fertilizers, can be manufac tions the amount of money which Mr. Ford or his company could tured at Muscle Shoals for 5 to 6 cents a pound by several well out of the transaction, the value of the property which Mr. mak~ known processes. Ford would receive, the title under which he would receive it, the Fourth, for eight years there has been an increasing volume of ex significance of the lease period, the etrect of the Federal water power pert testimony to the etrect that the nitrogen and phosphoric-acid act, the degree of public regulation of the business, the insurance of industry properly established at Muscle Shoals can reduce the cost the dams against destruction-in all these and 1n many other par of fertilizers deliYered the farmers by one-half. ticulars reckless statements of half truth or less than hal! truth have to Nitrogen is an essential element in practically every kind Qf explo been made, grotesquely distorting the picture ; misstatements which sive, and in addition is the most expensive fertilizer ingredient that have been systematically broadcast throughout the C(}untry. the farmer must buy. The Muscle Shoals development was made for In view of these circumstances I am not sul'prisea that Mr. Ford, the definite and clearly expressed purpose of procuring nitrogen for after three years of unnecessary delay an:l unjust criticism, has seen explosives in time .of war and for fertilizers in time of peace, and the fit to withdraw his otrer. While I deeply regret that he has done so location was selected for two reasons : First, because it afforded the and gravely fear that the Government will never again secure an large amount of electrical power which now, as then, is an absolute equal pr(}posal, I am confident that the Senate will not overlook the necessity not only for 'the rather obsolete cyanamide process but fQr fact that Mr. Ford has stated that he is still ()pen to a counter propo any known feasible process of producing a concentrated combination sition from the Government. There is a special significance 1n this of nitrogen and phosphoric acid, the two chief fertilizer elements; statement, because when the Secretary of War sold the Gorgas second, because it is close to the great Tennessee phosphate fields and steam-power plant which was a part of the property included in can be econoinically supplied 'vith raw materials for fertilizer pro Mr. Ford's bid, he thereby made it impossible for Congress to accept duction. . the Ford proposal in accordance with its terms. Any legislation for It was made clear during the extended hearings before our committee its acceptance therefore necessarily must be in the nature of a that if we would divorce the nitrogen industry from reliance upon counter proposal, and that is exactly what the McKenzie bill is-a water power we immediately must turn to coal; but the country counter proposition. knows Qnly too well how a coal strike can paralyze transportation and In spite of Mr. Ford's reported withdrawal I therefore cherish the industry. Shall we deprive our future fertilizer industry of water hope that the benefits of the Ford. offer at Muscle Shoals will not be power and make agriculture itself dependent upon the good grace and lost. tolerance of the coal operators and their miners? For many yeaTs it has been proposed to improve the navigation The domestic price of by-product nitrogen fertilizer is fixed by our of the Tennessee River at 1\Iuscle Shoals in northwestern Alabama domestic monopoly-mostly coal operators-in accordance with the by means of two large navigation-power dams and QDe very small price of Chilean nitrate, and the latter is fixed by a world-wide dam for navigation only. Of these, only one, the Wilson Dam, is monopoly called the Chilean Nitrate Producers' Association. Our being built. farmers fare no better at the hands of the by-product coke monopoly ESSENTIAL FACTS than they do at the hands of the Chilean nitrate monopoly. It seems At Muscle Shoals the Government has built two nitrate plants. to me that if we want to get cheaper fertilizer for American farmers Nitrate plant No. 1, with a capacity of only 30 tons of nitrogen in we must find some other road than by permitting the fertilizer industry · the form of ammonia a day, was an unsuccessful experimental plant to be exploited by coal and coke operators, who have already declined to sell American farmers cheaper fertilizers, regardless of any tech costing $13,000,000. Nitrate plant No. 2, which cost $67,000,000, is nical advantage in doing so. the largest nitrate plant in the world employing the cyanamide My position as to the use of the Muscle Shoals power in the manufac process. Its capacity is 40,000 tons of pure nitrQgen a year. This is ture of fertilizers squares exactly with that of Dr. E. H. Hooker, presi equivalent to about 250,000 tons of Chilean nitrate, or about 70 per dent of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association and of the Hooker cent of the entire amount imported from Chile annually for use by ElectrQchemical Co., who is one of the leaders 1n the application of American agriculture. 'Unfortunately there is ample evidence that electric power to chemisti·y in the United States. Doctor Hooker told this plant will have to be radically changed to produce the improved QUr cominittee that if the full opportunities for fertilizer manufacture concentrated fertilizers that are admittedly possible, while the cost are to be realized at Muscle Shoals, then the amount of power that of such changes and additions, from estimates given by the Hon. would be necessary to meet the growing demand for fertilizer " will MAnTIN B. MADDEN, chairman of the Honse Committee on Appropri probably increase rather than decrease, although it will be less per ations, will be at least ~2r.,ooo,ooo. unit." Senator NoRRIS claims that these expenditures would cost Mr. This is exactly what is planned in the Ford offer, which is the only Ford nothing, as he could repay himself by selling houses and lots proposal in which there is no limit placed upon the amount of power to employees. Making the liberal estimate of $2,000,000 as the to be used in fertilizer manufacture. It is confidently expected that the value of the 571 houses-of which 263 are negro cabins with walls amount-of power per tQn of fertilizer will decrease, but that the total of tar paper-there would remain $23,000,000 to be realized from power to be used in fertilizer manufacture will constantly increase. the sale of lots. This is absurd for two reasons: First, the nitrate From the very outset, however, Mr. Ford's minimum !ertiUzer obliga plant property can not be made to produce such a vast number of tions would require the entire supply of dependable Muscle Shoals salable lots; and second, Mr. Ford is not going to Muscle Shoals to power and would compel him tQ improve some of the secondary or engage in the real-estate rusiness. Irregular power to carry them out. The first question to be settled in disposing of this property is The proposal of Senator NOBBIS that we divorce the power from the the policy to be pursued. The Government's investment at Muscle fertilizer and limit the amount of power to be used in the manufacture Shoals Is the money of all the poople. The project should be so of fertilizer to not more than 25,000 horsepower of primary or depend disposed of as to bring the greatest good to the greatest number. able power and 75,000 horsepower of secondary or irl'egnlar power and In determining how to secure this result, there are two quelrtions to engage in a cooperative business relation with the Alabama Power Co. be answered : and its associates 1n order to distribute the larger portion Qf the First, shall power production and distribution or fertilizer manu power, although a satisfactory arrangement to the associated power facture be paramount? interests and to the fertilizer group wlll never have my support. Public To decide upon a policy intelligently we must first have t.he facts, utilities have had absolute dominatiQn of our water powers in this and when all debate and controversy have been swept . aside theTe cQuntry for a generation, but never yet have they accomplished a ny still remain four great outstanding facts that are generally ad thing of importance to the farmer, although they themselves say ln mitted: the Teport of the committee on public policy, ~ationa.l Electric Light First, in spite of the fact that our domestic production of nitrogen Assoc~-":ion, at their convention in June, 1922: in the form of by-product sulphate of ammonia has incrensed from "N_ 1a.tion such as ours is stronger than its agriculture. * • 183,000 tons in 1914 to 591,000 tons in 1923, our dependence upon Any movement, therefore, to build up the city at the expense of the Chile for nitrate has increased from 564,000 tons in the fiscal year !arming community is shortsighted." 1914 to nearly double that amount, or 962,000 tons, during the OPPOSITION TO THE PLAN fiscal year ending June 30, 1924. Moreover, this increase in domestic Yet that association circulated pamphlets violently attacking the production of by-product nitrogen, instead of being accompanied by Ford plan as a means of reducing the farmer's expenses and increa s a decr ease in price, has r esult ed in an increase from $2.69 a hundred ing his crop yields and declaring that Dam No. 3, an important pounds in 1914 to an average of $3.14 a hundred pounds in 1923. part of the project, should not be built at all. CONGRESSIONAL RECO.RD-SENATE DECEl\IBER 2 • 22 When I review in the hearings the record of the power companies snmcrs up to that date ·have paid Chile an export tax of more than which were asked to bid on Muscle Shoals, I feel that the Govern $212,000,000 for the mere privilege of buying nitrates from that ment would get the worst of it in any business deal it might make country. with them. Mr. Duke, who controls the Southern Power Co., op rOSSIBLE SAYIXGS erating in North and South Carolina, and which company Mr. Yates testified would be a part of the superpower system-:hlr. Duke, re The comparative economic benefits of the 1\Iusclc Shoals power, when plying to the invitation sent to him by General Beach, .condemned utilized in fertilizer manufacture as against public-utilities service both the operation of the nitrate plant and the completion of the through a superpower system, are evident when it is recognized that water power, and specifically pointed out to General Beach that the the farmers' expenditures for fertilizers in the 11 Southern States power could not go to the Carolinas. from Virginia to Arkansas, as shown in the following table and upon Three of the associated power companies which made an offer for the map, were $207,000,000 in 1920, while the expenditures for electric :Muscle Shoals, following the publication of the Ford proposal, bad lighting and power purchased from all public utilities as recently as already replied -to General Beach's invitation in 1921, declaring that 1922 in the same States amounted to only $109,000,000. neither the Government nor private enterprise could afford to com A saving of 50 per cent of the farmers' fertilizer bill in these ll plete the water-power development at the Wilson Dam. Among the States would be a greater economic benefit to the people of that group of power companies which have opposed the farmers in their region than would result if every purchaser of public-utility light and efforts to gain the acceptance of 1\Ir. Ford's offer, the ringleader is power in those States were supplied at 10 cents on the dollar. Such the Alabama Power Co., a company whose contract with the Govern a reduction would be absurd and manifestly impossible, while it is ment was sharply criticized by the Attorney General, who stated : generally conceded that the cost of fertilizers can be reduced one-hal "When its inttica te provisions are closely scrutinized and their at Muscle Shoals. full significance realized, it becomes at once apparent that the com Annual errpendUtt1·es for ligllt and power ftm~ished by public utilitiP pany lost no opportunity of turning to its own adYantage every possi compared ~c ith annual e.rpendiiures for (e1· tili~c1·s in the South eastern States ble change of circumstances." These are the companies which proposed to use Muscle Shoals as [From reports of U.S. Census Bureau] a convenient auxiliary to their own private power development. I want no such partners or near-partners in any superpower policy at Expendi tures for Muscle Shoals. light and Expendi If the Ford offer is r ejected, I am for Government operation ; and State power pur tures for if this policy is adopted, I am in favor of buying out the Alabama chased from fertilizer, all public 1920 Power Co., just as the Ontario Hydroelectric Power Commission utilities, bought out the Ontario rower Co., the Toronto Power Co., and 1922 others, in its program of Government operation in Canada. I do not believe that our great Government shoulu play second fiddle to any Virginia __ ------___ ---- ___ ------$13, 940, 025 $17, 277, 705 group of power companies in any plan of power distribution. North Carolina _____ ------15,876,891 48,796,694 Senators may vote down the Ford offer, but when they do they South Carolina ______---- ______----- 8, 982,735 52,546,795 Georgia ______14,674,302 46,196,434 should realize that the Ford proposal is the only one in which the Florida ______----______---_------7, 143,546 10,316,929 re-sponsibility of operating Nitrate Plant No. 2 to full capacity is Alabama ______-- __ -0------10,259,689 14,066, 108 guaranteed and the o()eration carried on at private and not at public Tennessee _____ ------12,043,389 3, 525, 133 expense. hlr. Ford's obligations are not limited to nitrogen alone. 10,074,903 3, 597,450 1 3, 559,674 4, 288,165 but include other commercial fertilizers, of which they are only 7, 578,467 3,840, 469 two-phos()horic acid and potash. The capacity of Nitrate Plant Arkansas ______== =------======------======- 5, 734,324 2, 572,678 ~111~~ -= ~ 1------1·------No. 2 means sufficient nitrogen for 2,000,000 tons of 2-8-2 commer Total __ __ ------______------____ 109, 868,005 207, 024,560 cial fertilizer-worth about $60,000,000-annually, while the total consumption of commercial fertilizers in the United States in 1921 was 5,183,523 tons; so it is very evident that the minimum fertilizer It is also true that the farmers constitute by far the majority of the production proposed by Mr. Ford is by no means the insignificant por population in these States, for census returns show that more than 75 tion of the total American consumption which the opposition would per cent of the population is classed as rural, so that the weUare of · lead the country to believe. 17,000,000 out of a total of 22,000,000 of people depends directly, froru The very fight which these interests are making to pre>ent the year to year, upon their use of commercial fertilizers. acceptance of the Ford offer belies their statement that the production To say, as Senator NoRms uoes, that we must have a public-utility would be so small as to have little or no effect on the price of fet· development at ~luscle Shoals and that "any other development, espe cially at public expense, is an injury and a fraud to the people of th,. tilizers in general. Their able spokesman and bond ~xpert, Francis E. Frothingham, of Coffin & Burr, Boston bond brokers, frankly acknowl conntr,\·, and particularly to the peo ple of the Southern States," was edges the corn when, not denying the possibilities for cheaper and voted untrue by the southern llepresentatives in the House, who voted better fertilizt>rs at Muscle ShoaL<;, he urges in the Boston Transcript for the acceptance of ·the Ford proposal with but one dissenting vote. that the power should be awarded to the Alabama Power Co., and Tht>re can be no question that in the Southeastern States a super fertilizer policy rather than a superpower policy not only secures the complains that "As to the fertilizer end of this problem, it has been given an undue importance and has had a disturbing influence on the greatest good but it secures that good directly for the greatest number, entire discussion." With the unanswerable facts in favor of the while indirectly there is not a State in the Union but will share in it farmers at Jlluscle Shoals, and against the contentions of the power economic benefits. interests, it is no wonder that Jllr. Frothingham feels pinched by the Those who are in favor of a superpower policy at Muscle Shoals anu disturbing influence. against a superfertilizer policy owe it to the farmers to show that th C:'i r plan will do as much for the people by reducing the cost of power Since nitrogen and phosphoric acid constitute more than 75 per cent as the Ford pl It is true that power distribution is not a requirement of his offer, In spite of the monopolistic character of these. three great interests, • but this is in the intere-st of the greatest possible production of fer would be willing to grant them a 100-year lease to develop this- tilizer. Neither Henry Ford nor nnyone else can agree to manufacture 1,000,000 horsepower site on the St. Lawrence if they wiTI include in nih·ogen and other commercial fertilizers according to demand and at their offer the fe-rtilizer provisions of the Ford proposal. I do not be the same time agree to distribute his power supply to meet the public lieve, however, that these interests would make such an "offer-they utility demand in the Southeastern States. never have at Muscle Shoals. Meanwhile I suggest that our engineer Every bidder recognized this fact, and all except Henry Ford limited representatives on the St. Lawrence Commission study the Government the power which they proposed to use in fertilizer production. This is operation plan of the Ontario Hydroelectric Power Commission with one important reason why I am for. the Ford offer. a view to recommending a similar plan for the Government operation The second question of policy is whether we shall have Government of the great water-power site at the Long Sault on the St. Lawrence ownership and operation or private ownership and operation at Muscle for the benefit of eastern farmers, and at Priests Rapids on the Co Shoals. lumbia for the benefit of farmers of the West. There are many things which this powerful Government of ours I may be pardoned a bit of a diversion perhaps in connection with can do more effectively than any pri>ate citizen or corporation. In the the Columbia River. In my studies of the power possibilities of our case of Muscle Shoals, however, as I view it, the policy of Government streams I could find no data that appear at all conclusive as to · the. operation is in greatest danger from its own best friends. Neither a water power that can be developed on this mighty international stream. nation nor an individual can rush into commercial chemistry without Few of our people realize that the Columbia drains an area twice as. risking heavy losses. In such a venture one of the very first ques great as all the Middle Atlantic and New England States combined, tions which any private executi>e would ask is, What will it cost? and its tributaries extend through Washington and Idaho into Montana Neither Senator NoRRIS nor any other advocate of Government opera and Nevada. . tion at Muscle Shoals bas suggested an estimate of the investment that On the other hand, I find that such an insignificant and unknown would be required, nor of what the returns would be if the Govern stream as the Catawba River in South Carolina bas developments ment undertakes this enterprise. totaling nearly 500,000 horsepower, and an unknown tributary of the But these same people demand from Mr. Ford very specific guaranties, Coosa Tiiver, Ala., called the Tallapoosa River, has furnished sites and because Mr. Ford did name definite terms, he, also, as a prudent for six large storage dams, where the engineers bad reported but one. business man, prlltected himself by limiting the payments during the The Columbia and its tributaries can develop more water power preliminary period of six years at Dam No. 2 and three years at Dam within our borders than the St. Lawrence; but the public doos not No. 3, during which time he and his associates could not use any con appreciate the Columbia River~ because its power possibilities have siderable amount of power. During this period they would be working never been surveyed, and I repeat my statement that this Government llUt wayg and means for utilizing this large amount of power primarily can well afford to spend $500,000 for such a survey. for ·cheaper fertilizers with useful by-products wherever possible. Returning to Muscle Shoals, the difficulties which make it dangerous Nevertheles~ Senat&r NORRIS and others denounce Mr. Ford's otrer as for Government operation are not merely the difficulties of power de not constituting a sufficient return to the Government, although Sena velopment. The air-nitrogen fertilizer indush·y exists in large com tor NORRIS in his bill is unwilling to hazard any estimate whatever of mercial form only in Germany, while in the United States there is no any future return. Tile important fact is that no other bidder bas such deve1oped industry and there a~e n~ precedents to follow. One offered a return equal to Mr. Ford's, together with a definite obliga of the most competent electrochemical engineers. in the United States tion to manufacture fertilizer to the full capacity of nitrate plant No. well expressed the situation before ~lUI" committee when be said, " This 2 as a minimum, except at the expense of the Government. art is changing so fast that yo.u can hardly follow it." At Muscle Shoals only 241,000 ho:rsepower of a total of 850,000 horsepower will be available continuously throughout the year, and WHY INVITE FAILURE? when the remainder, or secondary power, is aYailable at all it will be In this new industry any plant, howl!ver well designed, admittedly so unreliable and ir~gular that no 1·easonable man would build large may become obsolete even before its constructiE.m is completed, as our industries dependent upon it for their operation. large Muscle Shoals plant already bas become. How, then, can any COSTS UNDETETIMIXED reasonable man insist upon taking the taxpayers' money by the scores of millions of dollars and sinking it in great fertilizer plants under This large l'iecondary power is a problem which, under the Norris such conditions when, with the F(Jrd Having thus had an extraordinary opportunity to pay for their new when called upon-strong industries, able to carry on the intensive plants out of war-time profits, the dye industry, led by the General research which we must have if we are to continue in 1·easonable Chemical Co. and the Du Ponts, came to Washington and declared that security. the high tariff of 30 per cent ad valorem plus 5 cents a pound w~ch We may agree to the limitation of armament, but we can not limit had been placed on foreign dyes by Congress in 1916 was not su1ncient. the production of peace-time necessities; and when these necessities In declaring to the Senate Committee on Finance what the dye industry can be turned quickly to present~ay military purposes they become an wanted, Mr. Irenee Du Pont, president of E. I. Du Pont de Nemourr,• & unbridled menace in the hands of a foreign enemy. Nitrogen, for in Co., stated : stance, bas its peace-time use in fertilizers, chemicals, and refrigerntion. "What do we want? I say an embargo, ~with a permit to bring in Aluminum and other ligltt metals are needed for motor cat·s, household these things we do not make for a 10-year period. I say we want, utensils, commercial airplanes, welding, and electrical uses, while second, a tari.ff in addition to the embargo. The embargo may mis chemicals for war gases are used in dyes, textiles, paper, and a multi carry; put as high a duty as you can get behind the embargo wall. I tude of other manufactures. No limit can be placed upon the peace-time want further, then, and at the risk of seeming to get a monopoly, to production of nitrogen, light metals, and gases, and no nation need feel urge that you should provide that the Sherman law does not apply to secure which ignores or neglects them. the dye industry if it is thought necessary in the opinion of some Gov Applying this to Muscle Shoals, the possibilities of the future are ernment official." nothing short of bewildering. So the dye industry, whose unregulated profits bad been absolutely First, there is the oppurtunity to combine nitrogen fixation for ferti- · protected by the President's war-time embargo on dyes of 1917, se lizer purposes with the production of light metals, such as aluminum, by cured a continuation of the embargo in 1921 which continued until a number of processes. For example, report No. 100 of the United 1922, when the tariff was increased to 60 per cent ad valorem and 7 States Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory describes a modification of cents a pound; and to-day only a few specialty dyes are imported, while the so-called aluminum-nitride process whereby an electric furnace the average cost a pound of the dyes used in this country is about three product called ferro-aluminum is employed, and cites references showing times their pre-war cost. that the production of ferro-aluminum is nothing new, fot· it has been On one band we have this dye industry, owned by the powerful east known to electrometallurgists since 1885. ern financial interests, with its war-built plants long since paid for out Estimates of the cost of production are given showing that with con of war-time profits, securing this remarkable aid at the expense of the ditions to be bad at Muscle Shoals the entire cost of nitrogen for fer American people in the name of national defense ; on the other band, tilizer purposes can be charged against the aluminum, and even then the we have the Ford offer to establish a nitrogen industry for the produc cost of the purified raw material from which aluminum is made can be tion of the nitrogen that is absolutely necessary for every pound of reduced 40 per cent. our military explosives, and of the greatest benefit to agriculture as When our Government nitrogen laboratory, which since 1919 has well. One readily receives an absolute embargo against competition made a specialty of the study of improved processes, admits that the from abroad at the bands of Congress, free from any limitation what raw materials for aluminum can be reduced 40 per cent in cost and ever4on its profits; the other, asking no tariff protection and with a at the same time the nitrogen, which is the most expensive element voluntary linlitation of profit to 8 per cent on the fair actual annual in commercial fertilizers, can be supplied free of charge for fet·tilizer cost of production, and with a board of farmer to fix the price and to manufacture, it must be admitted that the prospects for the produc say what is fair, is denounced as a subsidy and denied a decision for tion. of fertilizers at Muscle Shoals and their sale to farmers at more than three years. about half of the present prices is a reasonable expectatio:t;l. Since the Why the difference? It is this : In the case of the dye industry production of aluminum is an important factor in reducing the cost Congress has heard and promptly responded to the voice of big busi of fertilizers at Muscle Shoals, I would be disposed to give prefer ness, while in the case of the Ford offer Congress has failed to answer ence to any satisfactory offer which provides for its production in to the appeals of the farmers for a decision. connection with fertilizer manufacture; not only at Muscle Shoals I have nothing whatever against the American dye industry-! recog but at the magnificent power site at Croil Island in the St. LaWI·enoe nize its great value as a military asset; but I protest against tile dis River and at Priest Rapids in the Columbia River, to which I re crimination which says that these favors to the dye industry are justi ferred in my previous article. Geologists are predicting the early fiable and the acceptance of Henry Ford's otl'er is unjustifi.able. exhaustion of the best of our copper deposits and the cheapening of Though the power and fertilizer interests which are fighting the aluminum well may become an impot·tant factor in maintaining the Ford offer are willing to deal with Government bureaus or special leading position of the United States among the industrial nations officials, they have shown no inclination to deal directly with the repre of the world. sentatives of the people in Congress or to deal with the consumers them CHEUICAL POSSffiiLITIES selves. Consistent with this attitude, their spoke~men have recom Nitrate plant No. 2 is the greatest calcium carbide plant in the mended that all o1fers be rejected and the entire matter be referred to world, and the products of calcium carbide alone rival those of coal a commission as a me~ns of defeating a vote on the Ford otl'er in Con tar in their possibilities of variety and usefulness. One great branch gress. In this connection they have pointed to the President's mes consists o! th~ derivatives of carbide after it has been combined with sage in which be suggested a small joint committee of Congress to nitt·ogen, forming the well-known fertilizer compound, calcium cyana ...deal with the Muscle Shoals question. This is a very different proposal mide. The United States Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory reports from the commission plan. It does not recommend that jurisdiction of that it has studied a few of the many compounds which can be made tbe Muscle Shoals question shall be taken out of the hands of Congress. from cyanamide, such as urea, the most concentrated form of ex A commission with power to act would relieve Congress from its re- clusively nitrogen fertilizer known, dieyanodiamide, melamine, guanyl , sponsibility to the farmers, however, and if it chose to recommend the urea, guanidine, and urethane. Among others which have received distribution of the power and to leave the farmers at the mercy of the less attention might be mentioned carbamic acid, amidodicyantc acid, Chilean Nitrate Producers' Association, the way would be open for it carboxyguanidine, biguanide, ammeline, biuret, allophanic acid, cyana to do so. minoformic acid, iminodicarboxyllc acid, and others. As Dr. F. G. Armies and not arbitration have settled the fate of nations for cen~ Cottrell, director of the Government's nitrogen laboratory, states in turies, but civilization has come to realize that neither armies nor his annual report, " Some of the large number of cyanamide deriva arbitration can assure national safety in these days of deadly scientific tives have already found distinct uses in the manufacture of military achievement. explosives, in medicine, and in the arts. This class of compounds A high naval authority recently said, " The poison-gas clause of the forms the natural starting point for a whole fteW field in cbemi try limitation of armament treaty is merely an internationally expressed much as certain coal-tar compounds lay at the base of the pt·esent nope that may be expected possibly to prolong the regime of peace. dyestuff Industry." • • • The discovery of a new gas may mean the routing of an army, Another series of products of calcium carbide are the derivatives the annihilation of a navy, or the loss of a war." of acetylene, the gas which is formed when calcium carbide is treated I am very much opposed to war, but I realize that under these con with water. Acetylene is most generally used for illumination, and in ditions our country well may observe a day dedicated to the national connection with oxygen produces in a special torch a very hot flame defense. The voluntary mobilization of 17,000,000 men and women is useful for cutting and welding steel end other metals. Combined with inspiring and impressive, but it is a pitiable mockery of preparedness if water, acetylene forms acetaldehyde, which, when oxidized, becomes our patriotism is not backed up by industries prepared to furnish the acetic acid, which was used in a large way during the war for the necessities of present-day warfare on short notice. preparation o! materials for smokeless powder and dope for airplane PEACE-TIME NECESSITmS wings. Acetic acid, however, when heated in the presence of a catalyst Men may be mobilized quickly, but no general order will produce is converted to acetone, a valuable sOlvent e pP.cially useful in the great tonnages of nitrates for explosives nor of light metals and other making of smokeless powder, celluloid, chloroform, iodoform, sulpbonal materials for efficient aviation equipment nor of deadly toxic gases !or And many other organic compounds. Acetone is the base used to pro cnemical warfare, ttnless we have in this country large, well-established duce bromoacetone, which was used by the Germans as a tear gas. industries making peace-time products which can supply these war needs Its uses in organic synthesis defy enumeration. To mention one in- 1924 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 27 teresting example, when acetone Is reduced by nascent hydrogen Again I say, I am opposed to all wars; but I have just read a trans gene1·ated by the action of an amalgam of sodium on water, a lation of an article lately published in .Japan insisting that a .Japanese dibydrox:yalcohol is formed, called pinacol. American war is unavoidable and the sooner it comes the better it This was made by the Germans in large quantities during the war will be for .Japan, and stating that after America has developed its and converted by heat and pressure into dimethylbutadiene, which, air forces, .Japan, struggle as it may, can do nothing. I refuse to when merely stored in a sealed vessel, maintained at a temperature of believe that we ever will have any war with .Japan ; yet I can under about 60° c~tigrade for about two months, was converted by a process stand what Mr. Ford meant in his recent public statement that Muscle called polymerization into synthetic India rubber. Shoals might prevent war. Cheap power and cheap salt at Muscle Shoals naturally lead to FOREIGN EYES ON CONGRESS another varied field of valuable products. First, there is cheap metallic At 2 p. m. on December 3, 1924, the Norris and McKenzie bills sodium by a number of available processes. The making of sodium come up for consideration in the Unitert States Senate. If the Norris has been suggested in recent scientific literature as a feasible means bill is passed, then it will probal>ly fail in the House. If both bills for the chemical storage of electrical power. Cheap metallic sodium are voted down, no legislation for disposing of Muscle Shoals can be opens the door to another series of electrochemical processes fox pro ducing combined nitrogen for fertilizers along with many useful by expected at the short session. Without legislation, the 260,000 horse power which will be ready for service at t!Je Wilson Dam in June, products, particularly aluminum and magnesium. I would not ven ture an estimate of what it will cost to bring these new processes to 1925, will stand idle till Congress passes legislation for disposing of successful production on a commercial scale, and no advocate of Gov the Mm;cle Shoals power in 1926. ernment operation at Muscle Shoals has suggested any approximate In conclusion no better confirmation of the position which I have estimate. The amount, however, certainly will be large, and under taken regarding the Ford offer could be found than that contained in the Norris bill ·it will come out of the Federal Treasury. I much a recent dispatch from Santiago, Chile, published in the Wall Street prefer to let Henry Ford undertake this job at his ex:pen;;;e. Journal, as follows : Other applications of salt, in connection with fertilizer production, "Henry Ford's withdrawal of his offer to take over the Muscle yield chlorine, the well-known war gas; or, combined with sulphur, Shoals project bas resulted in a considerable boom in the Chilean produce sulphur· monochloride, useful in vulcanizing rubber, and nitrate industry," and a United Press dispatch goes on to say that w!Jich, when combined with ethylene, produces the mustard gas which " Chile has followed the whole Muscle Sboals controversy with the nearly won the war for the Germans. Another combination of chlorine keenest interest and considered Ford the greatest menace to the future is chloride of lime, useful as a bleaching powder and disinfectant, of the national nitrate industry. Withdrawal of his proposal was little fro111 which are obtained chloroform and phosgene, another war gas short of a boon to this country. Nitrate shares in London-the prin with a peace-time usefulness in dye manufacture. Another branch of cipal market for Chilean nitrate stocks-rose from two to three points the electrochemical salt tree produces sodium cyanide, a . useful diE..-in last week as soon as news of withdrawal of the Ford offer was fectant and of great value in extracting gold and silver from their received." ores, and in the manufacture of insecticides and fungicides for spray Other ofrers for Muscle Shoals were submitted to committees of Con ing fruit trees, and in the production of a deadly war gas called gress and Senator NORRIS has declared to the readers of the Saturday cyanogen chloride. Caustic soda is another product from which there Evenin~ Post that any and all of them were better than the proposal are obtainable various soap compounds and drugs valuable in medicine, of l\Ir. Ford. 'l'he facts are, however, that neither the announcement of while as a by-product is produced the hydrogen gas that is essential in any of these offers nor their rejection by the committees produced tho the manufacture of nitrogen fertilizers by several of the most modern slightest flurry in the Chilean nitrate industry, either in London or processes. Chile. The nitrate industry, however, quickly r ecognized that the Fot·d RISKS .Al\D HAZARDS offer meant that something effective would be accomplished in freeing the farmers of this country from the domination of these monopolists, It has always been ~bought difficult to cause clay and salt to react and thelr industry made no secret of its satisfaction and relief when upon each other directly at high temperatures because of the volatility the Ford proposal was withdrawn. of the salt. It now appears that this difficulty has been overcome, and patents have been issued for processes which indicate that this In view of these undeniable facts I can only express my regret and reaction promises to be made commercial. This may mean substan chagrin that the United States Congress, by delay and inaction, should tially cheaper metallic a.luminum, for it indicates that the problem of have lost this great opportunity to secure a boon for American agri large-scale production of anhydrous aluminum chloride at low cost cultm·e. It is my earnest hope that it will be possible to secure another proposal that will be the equal of the Ford offer, but I fear that the may so.on be solved. This is very significant aside from chem~cal war fare, for the Bureau of Mines reports that the use of 1G pounds of Government will never receive another like it. this chloride per barrel of oil increases the yield of gasoline from the Tbe President claims that common sense is the country's greatest present average conversion of 30 per cent of the crude oil to a conver asset; if so it appears that the time bas come for the President to join sion of 60 to 85 per cent, so that the production of gasoline from a with Congress in applying some of this asset to the Muscle Shoals given amount of crude oil can be more than doubled without material situation. changes in the present refining plants. This chloride afso bas a multi CO TSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS tude of other uses in the manufacture of many dyes, perfumes, drugs, 1\Ir. FLETCHER. 1\Ir. President, I introduce a bill making and pharmaceuticals, and is employed on a large scale in carrying out appropriations for the construction of certain public buildings. the Friedel-Crafts organic reactions. It is a \ery short bill and I ask that it may be printed in full in Has Henry Ford offered to double the production of gasoline from the RECORD of to-day's proceedings. crude oil, or to carry out any other particular one of these interesting The bill ( S. 3511) making appropriations for the construc ch<'mical possibilities at Muscle Shoals? No, of course not; but it is tion of certain public buildings was read twice by its title, re along just such a road of by-product production that success in the ferred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be large-scale manufacture of cheaper and better fertilizers will be found, printed in the RECORD, as follows : nnd his offer of commercial research will surely and inevitably lead Be it enacted, etc., That the following sums be, and t.he same are him along just such roads as I have described, for l\1r. Ford proposes: hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely : " To determine by reasearch whether by means of electric furnace (a) ll'or increase in the limit of cost of construction of those ce1·tain methods and industrial chemistry there may be produced. on a com public buildings, heretofore authorized by Cong1·ess to be constructed mercial scale fertilizer compounds of higher grade and at lower prices and for which appropriations were made, referred to in Senate Docu than farmers and other users of commercial fertilizers have in the ment No. 28, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, $15,130,780, or so past been able to obtain, and to determine whether in a broad way much thereof as may be nece sary. the npJ?lication of electricity and industrial chemistry may accomplish (b) For the construction of public buildings on those certain sites, for the agricultural industry of the country what they have eco heretofore acquired, for the construction of which buildings no appro nomically accomplished for other industries; and if so found and priations were ma.de, referred to in Senate Document No. 28, Sixty determined, to reasonably employ such improved methods." eighth Congress, first se?ssion, $23,557,500, or so much thereof as may Those who desire to see the policy of Government ownership and be necessary. operation succeed in this country will do well to let this complex and uncharted field of industrial chemistry, with its in!)vitable succession 1\Ir. FLETCHER. In connection with the bill just inh·o of mistakes, loss and great expense, severely alone. That is one duced by me I request to have incorporated in the RECORD ex .- of the compelling reasons why I am for the offer of Henry Ford. cerpts from the annual reports of the Postmaster General for As a chemist, I have every confidence that at Muscle Shoals proc the fiscal years ending June 30, 1922, pages 2, 3, 4, and 5, June esses can be made commercial for producing nitrogen for the preserva 30, 1923, page 19, and June 30, 1924, page 13 (as indicated), hav tion and increase of the fertility of our farm lands, with aluminum ing particular reference to the desirability of Government as a by-product to give us light metal alloys for aircraft. Thus we ownership of post-office quarters; also Senate Document No. 28 will free ourselves from our dependence upon a foreign country for of this Congress, together with a letter dated 1\lay 17, 1924, nitrates. from the Secretary of the Treasury to the chairman of the 28 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE DECEMBER 2 Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, referring Nomes of cities where sites only or sites and bttilcUngs have beet• to a similar bill introduced by me on March 20 last, which was authorized, Umit of cost of each project, etc.-Continued referred to the Committee on Appropriations, all of which I Amount Balance Esti- send to the desk. Place Date site Cost of acquired site author- avail- mated Increase The document was, of course, printed for the information of ized able amount Members of Congress and the public, but I understand that the demand for it is large and the supply exhausted. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) The PRESIDENT pro tempore. In the absence of objection, ------the request of the Senator from Florida will be agreed to. Ca.llfomia: { '$20 000 The matter referred to is as follows: Bakersfield------Aug. 23, 1911 $17,500 1 13~ 0251 $135, 000 $250,000 $115, ()()() 40, oool ______[Senate Document No. 28, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session] ModestoLong Beach.---- ______Feb. 14,1914 4.0,000 750,000 ...... Dec. 28, 1916 17,000 20,000 ------175,000 ------ERECTION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS Red Blutr______Jan. :u, 1917 9,800 160,000 50,200 135,200 85,000 Ban Bernardino __ Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response June 17, 1913 16,600 20,000 200,000 San Luis Obispo_ Oct. 30, 1916 7,500 18(), 000 72,500 115,000 42,500 to Senate Resolution 94, information relative to sites acquired and San Pedro ______Site not se- 160,000 60,000 500,000 440,000 appropriations necessary for the erection of certain public buildings lected. Colorado: TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Canon City----- May 8,1915 11,000 15, 000 ------140,000 ------Washington, January U, 19!.9. Durango ______110 000} Jan. 24,1912 10,000 { a : 100, 000 250, 000 160, 000 The PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE. Monte Vista ____ _ 100 000 Montrose______May 22,1916 3,900 10,000 ------100,000 ------Sm : In response to Senate Resolution 94, directing the Secretary of Mar. 31, 1916 15,000 15,000 ------400,000------the Treasury to furnish certain data in reference to public buildings, Sterling __ ------July 31, 1917 15,000 Connecticut: 15,000 ------' 125, ()()() ------I have the honor to submit the following : Branford._------June 8,1917 9,600 1 55, 000 4.5, 400 Manchester ____ • 60, 400 15, 000 The information desired, together with certain additional data not Aug. 22, 1911 12,000 15,000 ------100,000 ------specifically called for by the resolution, but without which the state Mystic_------Putnam ______Mar. 22,1917 4,000 1 55, 000 51, 000 76, 000 .25, ()()() Sept. 16, 1911 8,500 1 65, 000 66, 500 106,500 00,000 ment in regard to the status of authorized buildings and sites would Delaware: is Newark ______not be complete, set forth in Ex.Wbit A, as follows : Dec. 18,1914 4,000 6, 000 ------60,000 ------(a) Name of each city or town (by States) where authorizations District of Colum bia: have been made for acquisition of a site, construction of a building on State, etc., De- site already owned, or for site and building, r 5 . partment •••• ------(b) Date site was acquired; or, if not acquired, its present status. Florida: De Funiak (c) Consideration paid for each site. Springs ______Jan. 9,1917 (4) 6, 000 ------70,000------(d) Amount authorized for site, site and building, or for building Key West. ______Nov. 3,1915 Kissimmee- ____ _ 52,750 80, 000 ------450,000------· only. Oct. 9,1914 5,000 6,000------70, 000 ------Oct. 17, 19H 6,000 85,000. ______· (e) Balance available for building. Lake City------ 7,500------Marianna_------Nov. 16, 1916 4,000 1 70, 000 66, 000 151, 000 85, 000 (f) Estimated cost of buDding on site authorized. Georgia:Canton______(g) .Amount of increase required where existing authorization is Aug. 29, 1916 5,000 5, ()()() ------50,000------Douglas ______Aug. 22,1917 3,500 1 55, 000 61, 500 insufficient. Eatonton______76, 500 25, 000 Madison ______Apr. 10, 1917 3,000 5, 000 ------55,000------There is also submitted Exhibit B, which includes the names of July 21, 1917 5,000 5,000 ------65,000 ------, certain projects, mentioned in Exhibit A, .where drawings have been Monroe __ ------ May 29,1916 5,000 5,000 ------65,000 ------Rossville._------Apr. 3,1915 5,000 5,000 ------70, ()()() ------prepared, or are contemplated, for buildings of a very simple type Sandersville ____ _ Aug. 12, 1915 Thomson______5,000 5,000 ------65,000------j that may possibly be provided within the existing limit of cost by the Sept. 25, 1915 5,000 5,000 ------55,()()()------Toccoa ______Jan. 28, 1915 5,000 . adoption of much cheaper methods of construction than has been Waynesboro____ _ 5, 000 ------65, ()()() ------.Apr. 13,1915 4, 093 5, ()()() ------70,000 ------. the practice heretofor~ of this department; or by furnishing space to West Point ______.Apr. 28,1916 6,000 1 50, 000 44, 000 69, 000 25, 000 ; satisfy present needs only, without room for future expansion; or by Idaho: not including accommodations for Government activities that may CaldwelL------June 28,1915 8, 500 10,000------100,000 ------Coeur d'Alene __ _ May 3, 1912 13, 200 1 100, 000 86,800 251,800 165,000 : be located in the places named but where the legislation is for a post Nampa. ______Jan. 15, 1917 6, 200 10,000 ------125,000 ------: <>ffice only. Sand Point______.Aug. 6, 1916 (1) 1 70,000 70,000 115,000 45,000 Respectfully, .A. W. MELLON, Dlinois: Batavia_ ------Not selected. 1 95,000 95, ()()() 95,000 None. Carlinville______Mar. 10, 1917 Seat·etat·y of the Treasury. 8, 000 10,000------95, ()()() ------EXHllHT .A Carrollton ______Sept. 14, 1918 7, 000 100, ()()() ------Chicago, West 7,000 ------Names of citi~s .where si.tes only or .sites and buildings have been Side ______------81,750,000------· author1zea, ltm'lt of cost of each proJect, a·mount authorized in each Chicago, East case, cost of land tohere sites hav e been acquired, date of acquisit·ion Sixty-third ____ ------6 50,000------~Y Gover;nm ~nt,. bala~ce available, estimated cost of pt·oject, and Cicero ______June 19, 1915 6, 000 7, 000 ------100,000------1.nm·ease 1.n lu;at t•equt-red Geneseo ______July 15,1920 10,000 160,000 50,000 100,000 50,000 Havana_------Nov. 14,1916 9, 000 10,000 ------110,000 ------Date site Esti- Highland______Sept. 30,1914 4, 000 7, 000------80,000------Place acquired mated Increase Jerseyville______Sept. 9, 1918 6, 250 I 65, 000 58,750 98,750 40,000 amount Mendota ______Sept. 8,1917 10,000 10,000------70,000 ______Metropolis _____ • Site not se- 1 50,000 60, 000 100, 000 50, 000 (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (/) (g) lected. Mount CarmeL_ Sept. 23, 1914 20, 000 1 75, 000 55,000 115,000 60,000 Paxton.------Site not se- I 60,000 60,000 100, ()()() 40,000 Alabama: lected. Albertville ______SprlDg Valley ___ _ June 27, 1921 6, 000 June 9,1917 $2,500 $5,000 ------$55,000------Woodstock ______10,000.------75,000------ Andalusia.·----· Feb. 26, 1915 4, 975 110, 000 $65, 000 .Aug. 23, 1917 15, 000 17,000 ------llO,OOO ------.Attalla .. ------Apr. 20, 1918 4,000 15~:~~ ---~~~~ 55,000 Indiana: Greenville ______Jan. 23, 1917 5,000 5, 000------Bluffton.______Oct. 9, 1918 11, 500 I 70, 000 58,500 98, 500 40, 000 Sylacauga. ______Sept. 10, 1914 ~&; ~ ------· Clinton______Jan. 4, 1917 6, 800 1 60,000 53,200 73, 200 20, 000 Union 5, ------Springs __ _ .Aug. 2Q. 1914 ~:i 5, ------55,000 Decatur_------Sept. 20, 1919 9, 000 10,000 ------125,000 ------Alaska: Greensburg______July 26, 1917 12,000 12,000 ------140,000 ------Lebanon ______Apr. 3,1917 9,000 10,000 ______Fairbanks ______Sept. 30, 1915 400,000------115,000 ------Juneau.-·------ Sept. 2, 1911 M::: ~:&;- - -in;500 477,500 300,000 Linton ______Aug. 18,1916 5, 500 8, 000------95,000 ------Arizona: Mount Vernon __ Sept. 15,1911 7, 500 7, 500------100,000------1 Noblesville ______Dec. 11, 1917 10,000 10, 000------110,000------Globe ___ ------Nov. 14,1911 15, ()()() { 8 1~: g'Jg·} 100, 000 225,000 125,000 North Vernon ___ May 16, 1918 10,000 1 60,000 50,000 85, 000 35, 000 Prescott ______Apr. )3_,1!H5 Plymouth ______Not purchased------10, 000 ------80,000 ------Tucson ______.Apr. 29,1914 7,600 '· ~------250,000 ------ Rochester------_____ do______1 70,000 62,000 112, ()()() 50, 000 i25, 000 ------· .Arkansas: Salem __ ------_____ do ______------5, 000 ------60,000 ------Brinkley_------ Sept. 30, 1918 Warsaw------Oct. 27, 1921 10,000 10,000 ------ 100,000 ------55, 000 ------Iowa: Conway------June 16, 1915 ~;; ;:!;~;;;;;~;; 100,000 ------ElDorado ______Albia. ______Juno 19,1917 5, 000 5, ~ ------Mar. 2,1922 5, 000 5, 000 ------175, ()()() ------100,000 ------Forrest City ____ _ May 28,1917 Cherokee ______July 19, 1916 12, 000 I 70,000 58,000 103, 000 45,000 Marianna ______4,500 5, ()()() ------65,000 ------Feb. 7,1917 2, 750 1 50, 000 47, 250 92, 250 45, 000 Des Moines _____ .A~g. 15, 1919 65, 000 21()()• • 000} 250,000 600, 000 350, 000 North Little { 1 2 0 000 Rock (.Argen- Fairfield______Sept. 18, 1916 7, 000 ~o: 000 ------ 100,000------1 ta) ______------Dec. 14,1920 9, 500 10,000------100, ()()() ------Marengo __ ------Dec. 29, 1915 3, 500 5, 000 ------75,000------Prescott ______.Aug. 24, 1914 (<) 1 50, 000 50, ()()() 65, ()()() 15, 000 1 Site and building. Russellville______Feb. 17, 1917 5, 000 I 50, 000 45, 000 130, 000 85, 000 'Site. Stuttgart______Not purchased------5, 000------90,000 a Building. 1 Site and building. 4Donaeed. 2 Site. a Proposition taken up by Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds in their aBuilding. rerort to the Senate. 'Donated. These matters will require a survey of the entiJ·e Chicago situation. 1924 CONC+RESSION .AL RECORD-SEN ATE 29 Names oj cities 1c1ten3 sites only or sites and buildings have bee,. Names of cities whe1-e sites only 01· sites and buildings have been autllm·ized, limit of cost oJ each project, etc.-Continued authorized, lim~t of cost of each p,·oject, etc.-Continued Esti- Esti- Place Date site Cost of ~~~~t B::fl~ mated Increase Da.te site Cost of ~~t B~!il~e acquired Place acquired mated Increase site . ized able amount site ized able amount (a) (b) (c) (d) (t) (j) (g) (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (j) (~ ------1·-----·1------1·-----1------Iowa-Contd. New Mexico; Kcwton __ ------July 13, 1917 $10,000 $10,000 ------$125, OOQ ------East Las Vegas .. Dec. 27, 1917 $9, 000 1 $125, 000 $116, 000 $116, 000 None. Oelwein ______Aug. 23, 1915 8,000 8,000 ...... 85,000 ------New York: Ka:1sus: Bath ______Dec. 9,1914 13,000 llolton ____ ------Sept. 22, 1911 4,500 7,500 90,000 15,000 ------90,000 ------Binghamton..____ Mar. 22, 1916 100,000 100 000 I I 25,000 ------· Kentucky: ' ------{ a 475,000------Barbow-ville _____ Bronx ______July 17,1914 Nov. 9, 1921 5,000 5,000 ------50,000 ------275,900 e 285,000 ------Central City ____ June 17;1915 7,500 7, 500 60,000 Cohoes.------Feb. 1, 1916 58,500 1140, 000 81, 500 116, 500 $35, 000 Elizabethtown __ Dec. 23,1916 4,000 7,DOO ------75,000 ------Dllllkirk______Mar. 21, 1914 Erninf:'nce. ______8, 0001 ------______------20,000 20,000 ------170,000 -----·--- Oct. 11,1915 6,850 65,000 ------Fort Plain..______Site not pur- 1 65, 000 65, 000 95, 000 30, 000 Falmouth.------Nov. 21, 1914 5,000 5, 000 ------60,000 ------chased. Harrodsburg ____ Mar. 24, 1917 7,500 85,000 Long Island City Apr. 13, 1915 40, 000 1 200, 000 160, 000 310, 000 150, 000 Horlgenville ____ 10, ooor------.Aug. 28, 1917 2,600 5, 000 ------55,000 ---·----- Lyons______D~c. 18,9117 15,000 15,000 ------90,000 ------Madisonville. ___ Dec. 29,1916 5,000 90,000 ------Nyack______Aug. 10,1911 15, 500 15, 500 ------100,000 ------~Murray ___ ------May 3, 1917 4,000 ~ ::1:::::::::: 60,000 ------Oneida ______Mar. 29,1917 14,350 20,000 ------110,000 ------Paintsville. _____ Aug. 10, 1917 4,000 5, 000 ------60,000 S~nac Lake____ Jan. 12,1917 18, 500 I 90, 000 71, 500 111, 500 40, 000 Pikeville ______Not purchased 75,000 ------7, 500 ------Syracuse______Oct. 6,1911 2 325, 000} Prrstonsburg____ Mar 12,1918 3,000 60,000 ------{ 1, 600, 000 1, 050, 000 't8' ggg ------Utica. ______Sept. 20, 1911 BJK>lbyville ______June 10, 1911 .10,000 { 100,000 $50,000 3~:,· ~88:~ ---~~~·-~ 800,000 ------a ro; oooi} $50, ooo Yonkers ______June 22,1917 338, 000 I 500, 000 160, 300 550, 000 390, 000 Loui!'iana: Walden ______Nov. 19,1914 Morgan City ____ 60, oool ______7, 600i{ ! ~g. ~~ 57, 500 87' 500 30, 000 Dec. 7,1921 6,000 6,000------Waterloo ______Thibodaux ______Mar. 15,1918 5,000 150,000 45,000 60,000 15,000 June 2,1911 19, 000 3 55; ooo l ~ 55, 000 90, O:xJ 35, 000 Maine: North Carolina: Caribou ______2 10,000} Edenton______Aug. 2,1916 4,000 Sept. 20, 1911 1o,ooo{ 3 50,000 80,000 30,000 Lenoir______7, 500 ------85,000 ------50,000 Aug. 24,1915 4,500 90,000 ------Fort Fairfield ____ Feb. 8,1915 18, ()()() 180,000 62,000 77,000 15,000 Lumberton ______8,000 ------Hallowell ______Sept. 16, 1914 10,000 10,000 ------115,000 ------Mar. 13,1912 6,500 20,000 ------70,000 ------Mount Olive ___ _ Aug. 25, 1920 2,000 5,000 ------75,000 ------Maryland: Mount Airy____ _ Site not pur- 5,000 ------100,000 ------Salisbury------Apr. 21,1917 10,500 190,000 79,500 104,500 25,000 chased. ~Iassachusetts: Rockingham. ___ _ Amherst ______No appro- 5, 000 ------75,000 ------June 5,1923 10, ooo 180,000 69,500 99,500 30,000 priation. July 2, 1917 20,000 19(), 000 70,000 135,000 65,000 Leominster------Malden______Rutherfordton __ _ Jnly 21, 1917 4,000 5,000------65,000 ------Site to be do- 150,000 • 150,000 250,000 100,000 Thomasville____ _ Sept. 13, 1917 8,000 1 55 000 47"000 82, 000 35, 000 nated. Wadesboro______No appro- 5:000 70,000 ------225 000 ------~--- • Newburyport_ ___ May 3,1912 25, } 70,000 14.0, 000 70,000 priation. ooo{ 170:000 Wilson______May 2 ,1909 10,000 160,000 50,000 250, 000 200, 000 Provincetown ___ Dec. 10, 1917 7, 500 8, 000 90,000 ------North Dakota: Southbridge ___ ._ Nov. 11, 19l5 18,000 180,000 62,000 122,000 60,000 Fargo ______Apr. 9,1915 23,500 25,000 ------600,000------south Framing- Dec. 19, 1916 18,000 25,000 145,000 ------23, 1911 210 ()()()} 260,000 bam. Jamestown______Dec. 7, 500 { 3 75; ooo' 75, ooo 185,000 Waltham ______Oct. 17, 1911 46,051 1115,000 68,900 178,900 110,000 Ohio: Winchester----- J'.iar. 31, 1916 19,500 175,000 55,500 120,500 65,000 Akron ______Aug. 28, 1914 86, 280 I 400, 000 313,720 1, 000, 0.00 686, 280 Michigan: Conneaut ______Nov. 3,1911 15,000 15,000 ------2 1~15, 000:------Benton Harbor._ June 2, 1917 2-5,000 25,000 160,000 Boyne City______------Delphos ______{Not pur- 7 000 { 10,0001------Aug. 14, 1911 8,000 10,000 ------70,000 ------' ------I 90, 000~------Cn.lumet______Not purchased 20,000 120,000 ------cbased. } Cheboygan ______1 ----62;ioo Oct. 2,1906 7, 900 70 000 F:l, 100 25,000 Fremont__------Apr. 2,1912 12, { a 100, 145, 45, IIastings ______181' 000 ooo ~M: &gg} ooo ooo ooo Dec. 30,1918 6, 300 74,700 124,700 50,000 1 Midland ______Nov. 8,1916 6,000 160' 000 54,000 99, ()()() 45,000 Jackson______July 31, Hlll 10,000 10,000------85,0001------Wyandotte ______Site not pur- 175:000 75,000 150, ()()() 75,000 Kenton______Nov. 2, 1916 chased. Millersburg _____ Feb. 26,1918 1~:~ 18~:~----~~~~ ~~~:~l--~~~ Minnesota: Napoleon______Sept. 15,1915 7, 500 7, 500 ------115,000,------Duluth ______Apr. 15,1911 86,700 95,000------650,000 ------Newphia ______Philadel- _ Fairmount______Site not pur- 65, 000 60, 000 115, 000 55, 000 July 20, 1915 12,400 12,500 ------120,000 ------chased. Niles ___ ------May ?:1, 1911 15,000 15,000------110,000 ------Sandusky_----- Mar. 30, 1917 55, 000 I 215, 000 160, 000 280, 000 120, 000 l\Iontevideo _____ Aug. ~.1911 50,000 110,000 60,000 St. Marys ------Sept. 25, 1917 6, 500 7, 500 ------75,000 ------.Mississippi: Steubenville____ _ Sept. 23, 1912 35, 000 ?:10, 000 235, 000 ~5, 000 None. Urbana ______13,000 15,000______115,000 21), 000} June 3, 19ll Holly Springs ___ Feb. 2,1914 6, 500{ 345,000 43,500 73,500 30, ()()() Washington Water Valley ____ .Apr. 29,1916 5,000 150,000 45,000 75,000 30,000 Court House._ Ff:'b. 6, 1915 15, 000 1 80, 000 65,000 115,000 50,000 Missouri: Wilmington _____ Not purchased ------1 75,000 75,000 130,000 li5,000 Aurora ______Apr. 19,1909 6, 975 10,000 ------90,000 ------Oklahoma: Caruthersville___ July 18,1918 4,000 Frederick______Mar. 8,1917 6, 800 10,000 ------90,000------5,000 ------75, 000 ------Hobart. ______May 28,1915 10,000 Centralia ______Sept. 11,1914 6,000 7,500------10,000 ------110,000------Farmington _____ Jan. 30,1918 5,000 5,000 ------·- 1gg; ======Oregon: FAyette ______Mar. 28,1917 4,000 1 55, 000 51, 000 91, 000~ - 40, 000 St. Johns ______Notpurcbased -··----- 5, 000 ------55, 000 ------Harrisonville.___ Oct. ?:1, 1916 5,000 I 52, 500 47, 500 67. 500 20, 000 Pennsylvania: I 100,000 Lamar ______Aug. 22,1914 7,000 10, 000 ------65,000 ------Donora ______Not selected .• ------76,000 75,000 25,000 Lebanon ______Dec. 16,1914 6,800 7, 600 ------75,000 ------Dubois______Oct. 5, 1912 25,000 { : ~: ~} 85,000 135,000 50,000 Liberty ______Sept. 28,1917 6,000 1 60, 000 54, 000 69, 000 15, 000 Franklin ______Feb. 1.1915 19,000 1100,000 81,000 Iountain Grove Oct. 12,1916 6,000 7, 500 ------80,000 ------161, 000 80, 000 !:::ill:eston ______June 16,1917 7,500 75,000 ------Kittanning ______Sept. 30, 1909 15,000 15,000 ------125,000 ------7,500 ------Lancaster ______Oct. 1,1917 127,833 138,278------Trenton_------~ Jan . .25,1910 3,000 10,000 ------90,000 ------500,000 ------T'nionville ______Feb. 26,1917 7,500 55,000------Lewistown ______May 15,1917 16,500 '75,000 58,500 103, 500 45, 000 7,500 ------1 Wt>st Plains _____ Aug. 29,1914 "5,000 7,500 ------75,000 ------McKees Rocks__ Sept. i, llH6 14, 500 80,0001 65,000 100, 000 85, 000 Nebraska: Olyphant______Not selected ______1 65,000 65,000 85, 000 20, 000 Central City ____ July 17, 1917 (4) 1 55,000 55,000 75, 000 20, 000 Pittsburgh______Pending __ .-- 950,000 950 •• 000 ------,- - -- 2,250,000------1 80 000 230, 000 150, 000 Nf:'vada: Pittston __ ------Mar. 25, 1919 20,000 100 000 65,000 ______Fallon ______! June 11,191:7 1,500 155 000 ~3. 500 65,500 12,000 Rochester------Aug. 4,1911 2{1, 000 30,,000 ______,_ __ _ ('>()Jdfield ______Not acquired 175; 000 75,000 75, ()()() None. Sayre______Not selected ______180 80 000 130, 000 50, 000 New Ilampshire: State College ____ Feb. 9,1916 14,400 1 75,0000001 60,600 120, 600 60, 000 8omersworth ____ Dec. 23,1920 7, 500 7, 600 ------60,000------Tamaqua______Not purchased ------I 75,000 4.8, 000 123,000 75,000 New Jersey: 220000} Tarentum______July 28, 1911 20,000 { a ; ~ 60,000 125, 000 65, 000 Bayonne ______Nov. 19,1913 60 000 25, 000 J1 ;~; ~} 100, 000 250, 000 ll5Q, 000 Tyrone.------Aug. 2, 1918 25,000 25,000 ------'150, 000------Waynesbw-g_____ Not selected 175,000 75,000 140, 000 000 East Orange_____ Oct. 9, 1911 26()000} oo, 48, 696 a 125; 000 125, 000 390, 000 265, 000 Rhode Island: Millville ______Nov. 26,1912 14,700 1 55,000 40,300 115, 300 75,000 Warren______June 8,1916 10,000 10,000 ------75, oooi ______Montclair ______Nov. 11,1914 30, 000 1 130, ()()() 100, 000 250, 000 150, ()()() South Carolina: Dillon ______Oct. 9,1914 7,500 7,500 75,000 ______Pa saic ______Apr. 7,1913 25 000 25 000 p 7 50,000 ------Lancaster______------, • ------\3 425,000 ------Mar. 30,1915 8,000 150,000 42,000 82, 000! 40, 000 Red Ba.n1c ______, June 3, 1914 25, ()()() 25, 000 ------125,000 ------South Dakota: s_~Icm ______~ar. 2,19I7 Chamberlain ___ _ Not selected 16(),000 60,000 75, 000 15, 000 10, ()()() 10,000 ------100,000 ------Milbank______\ meland ______Nov. ·8,1915 10, 000 1 70, 000 60, 000 120, 000 60, 000 July 7, 1917 4,000 7, 500------65, ()()() ------Woodbury______Nov. 12,1912 15, ()()() 1 70, 000 55, 000 80, 0001 25, 000 I Site and building. 1 ite and building. t Site. JSite. a Building. •Building. s Additional land. •Donated. g This matter will require a survey of the entire Bronx situation. r New site or additio.nalland. 10 Additional for site. , :30 1 I CONGRESSIONAL RECOR.D-SENATE DECEl\IBER 2 Names of cities 1~:here sites only Ot' sites and buildings ha~:e 'been Ohio: Kenton, Steubenville, and Washington Court IIouse. authori-zed, limit of cost of each project, etc.-Continued Pennsylvania: Dubois, Franklin, Lewistown, Pittston, and State College. 1 Balance Esti Tennessee : Franklin. Place Date site Cost of ~~':-t avail mated Increase acquired site ized able amount Texas: Gilmer, Mount Pleasant, and Pittsburg. Vermont: St. .Johnsbury. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) Wisconsin : Mineral Point. WyomiJ1g: Buffalo and Cody. South Dakota Continued. TREASURY DEPARTME~T~ Vermilion--·-·-- Jan. 4,1917 $2, SOD $7, j ------$85,000 ------Washington, May 11, 1924. Tennessee: The CHAin~J'A~ Co:uMITTEH o:.~ ArPROPRIATio~s, Athens.------··- Doo. 24, 1914 li, 000 I 50, 000 $45,000 115, 000 $70,000 United States Senate. Elizabethton ____ Not purchased------2 500 2 10 2, 500 ------I ' ------{ s 70,000 ------Sm: Reference is made to your recent request for a report on Senate Franklin ______Jan. 17, 1917 6, 200 1 55, 000 48, 800 128, 800 80, 000 bill 2882, for increase in the limit of cost of certain public buildings ' Huntingdon _____ Aug. 13, 1915 2, 500 2, 500 ------75,000 ------J\Iemphis sub- heretofore authorized and for which appropriations we1·e maue, re~ postoffice ______:!\tfar.14,1918 90,000 1210,000 120,000 750,000 630,000 ferred to in Senate Document ~o. 28, in total amount $15,130,780; Rogers\'ille ______Dec. 30,1916 2,250 3,000------65,000------TuJlahoma______June 28,1919 6,000 150,000 44,000 74,000 30,000 and for construction of public buildings, on sites heretofore acquired, Texas: for which buildings no appropriations were made, referreu to in said Atlanta____ ------Sept. 19, 1912 4,000 document, in amouut $23,557,500. Coleman ______5, 000 ------65,000 ------Oct. 12, 1915 1 5,000 ------70,000 ------Detailed information in regard to the projects In the two sections of Comanche______Aug. 13, 1918 3, 000 1 50, 000 47, 000 87,000 40,000 CrO<'kett ______Sept. 23, 1915 6,000 6, 000 ------85,000 ------the bill was transmitted to Congress in letter of January 24, 1924 Dallas ______Apr. 18, 1914 250,000 2,000,000------(printed as Senate Document No. 28), a copy of which is attached to 0 eorgetown ____ _ 300,000 ------Oct. 5, 1914 5,000 5,000 ------85,000------this report and maue a part tllereof. Gilmer ______Jan. 23, 1917 5,000 1 55, ()()() 50, 000 70, 000 20, 000 ' nuntsville ______Jan. 25, 1912 5, 000 5, 000 ------85,000 ------It bas been found possible to award contracts for buildings at cer Memphis______Mar. 16, 1916 3, 600 7,500 ------75,000 ------tain o:t' the places of the type and construction described in the last Mount Pleasant. Dec. 29, 1916 5,000 1 55, 000 60, 000 80, 000 30, 000 paragraph of the said letter and furnishing the minimum accommoda Orange __ ------Apr. 10, 1915 5,000 1 60, 000 55, 000 110,000 55, 000 Pittsburg______Feb. 21, 1917 5,000 1 55, 000 60, 000 65, 000 15, 000 tions possible under tlle legislation. This reduces tlle total amount Seguin ______May 19, 1914 (4) 7, 500 ------80,000 ------reQuired under section (a) of the bill to $14,860,780. .,weetwater ______Nov. 19, 1914 •raylor______6, 500 7,500 ------90,000------The passage of t his bill would permit the construction of those Mar. 31, 1915 5, 000 5,000 ------115, ()()() ------1Jtah: buildings authorized and limits of cost fixed under act of March 4, Nephi_------May 17, 1918 5, ()()() 5, 000 ------65,000------1013, which, on account of the Increased cost of labor and materials, Vt>rnaL _____ , ___ Mar. 15, 1918 4, 750 1 50, ()()() 45, 250 130, 250 S..'i, 000 can not now be t>rccted within such limit . The completion of these Vermont: projects ant.l the erection of Federal buildings in many places wher~ • St. J ohnsbnry ___ 'June 28, 1917 8, 500 I 100,000 91,500 146,500 55,000 Virginia: sites only ha>e been authorizecl would be a substantial help in relieving Buena Vista ____ Apr. 4,1919 4, 000 5, 000 ------i5, 000------thl} congestion in the rostal Service. ('ape Charles ____ Not purchased------7, 500 ------75,000------Manassas ______Doo. 19,1919 3, 750 6,000------65,000------In connection with the foregoing you are aclvised that the depnrt West Point______Sept. 23, 1915 5, 000 5, 000 ______55,000 ------meut is informed that the appropriations contemplated by this bill are Woodstock.----- July 23, 1917 4, 000 5, 000 ------65, ooo 1 ______in conflict with the financial program of the President. \V~~~t_o~~------Oct. 25, 1917 5, 500 7, 000 ------75,000------1 Respectfully, Pasco------JuJy 12,1916 10,000 10,000------75, 0001---'------A. w. MELLO~, St>attle 11______Jan. 11, 1912 169,500 {! ~gg; ~} 300,000 1!4,800, 000 4, 500,000 Sec-retary of tho T•reasury. West Virginia: IIinton ______Mar. 14,1913 5, 027 { : ~; 8881} 50,000 85,000 35,000 [From Annual Report of the rostma. te.r General for the fis·cal year ending .Tune 30, ;1024] Tew Martins- June 20,1916 12,250 12, 500 ~ ------85, ooo1______ville. The Postal Ser-Yice is growing steadily and its requirementg are 1 Philippi______Apr. 13, 1914 8, 000 8, 000 ·------60,000------tlifficult to meet without constant recourse to enlarged quarters, Williamson ______Oct. 28,1911 6, 500 ,50, 1, 500'} 50,000 250,000. I 200,000 { 3 000 which are sectu·ed on a rental basis at an expense much greater than Wisconsin: that "\\"hich would result from Government construction and owner Madison ______Nov.19,1923 336,448 1550,000 213,552 853,552 640,000 ship. A ya t sum is paid annually for these rentals. The reasons Milwaukee, west No appro- 100,000 ------350,000------1 ~ ~~. in f~:wor of some plan of Government ownership of po t-office build fineral Point___ Dec. 9, 1921 4, 468 1 60,000 55,500 70, 500 I 15,000 l\Ionroe ______Aug. 1,1911 7,500 7,500 ______110,000 .•...... ings for postal use where an economy would be realized is set fot·th Tomah______July 18, 1917 8, 000 I 55,000 47,000 72, oooj 25,000 in detail iJ1 my letter to the Joint Commission on Postal Service, Waupun ______Sept. 3,1913 3, 400 5, 000------80,000------which reads as follows: Wyoming: 01Jl!!C.El OF TH.El POST;>.IASTER GENERAL, 27000} Buffalo______Sept. 14, 1911 7, 000 { 3 62: 500 62, 500 97,500 35,000 Wash·lngton, D. 0., August 21, 1922. Cody ______Apr. 20,1912 2 6,000} 000 JorxT Co~uussro~ ox rosTAL SF.nvxcE, 4, 500 { 3 50,000 50, 125, 000 76, 000 Washington, D. 0. Green River _____ Ort. 6,1911 6, 000 6, 000 ------70,00075, ------Newcastle ______Doo. 22,1916 4, 400 5,000 ------ooo·______MY DEAR Sms: There arc at present 5,846 post offices in leased I quarters ant.J 1,119 post offices in builllings owned by the Government. 1 dte and building. The aggregate annual rental pait.l for the occupan~y of these 5,84G s ~ite. a Building. leased quarters is $!),:!62,515.47, but this aggregate does not include • Donated. the amount paid for quarters not under lease, which when adtled to 1o Additional for site. 0,2G2,:>1J.4 7 makes a present total annual rental bill of $11,660,056, u Present site not suitable; changes in legislation contemplated. u Kew site and building. not incluuing garages, to be paid by the Government from appro priation made to the rost Office Department. There are at prt;!sent 5 ExHIBIT B Government-owned buildings actually under construction and 11 undeJ.• LIST OF EUILDX:'i'GS 1:\' CLUDED IN EXHIBIT A WHERE DRAWIXGS HAVE contract for construction in which post offices will find quarters. BEE~ rnEPAllED OR ARE CONTEMPLATED The earnings of the Post Office Department have doubled in the last California: Bakersfield, Red Bluff, and San Luis Obispo. 10 rears. This e>er-increasing postal business demands and must have Georgia: Douglas and .West roint. space in which it may be efficiently and economically carried on. Dur Idaho: Sandpoint. ing the la ·t holiday season several cities handled heavy parcel-post Illinois: Geneseo, Jerseyville, anu Mount Carmel. business on the sidewalks under protection of guards but without Indiana: Bluffton, Clinton, and North Vernon. protection against the weather. This increased volume o:t' postal busi Kentucky : Shelbyville. ness has forced the use of basements and subbasements and has brought Louisiana : Thibodaux. about a congestion in workrooms in some of our larger cities. This ;\Iaryland: Salisbury. condition, caused by inadequate and unsuited quarters, is detrimental Massachusetts : Leominster. to the comfort and physical well-being of m::tny postal workers, is Michigan : Cheboygan and Midland. subversive to t>ffi.ciency of ser>ice, and from any viewpoint is wholly Mississippi: Water VaHey. undesirable. Renewal leases entered into from March 4, 1921, to Missouri: Fayette and Liberty. August 5, 1022, show an increase in space of 71 per cent over the space Ne\ada: Fallon. in the expired leases, but in this calculation the space of additional post Kew Jersey: Vineland. offices established at various places since the expiration of the afore New Mexico: East Las Vegas. said leases bec.ause of the nece sities of the service is not included. New York: Cohoes, Saranac Lake, Waldent and Waterloo. If this new and additional space be included, then there is an in- 1924 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-- SENATE 31 crease of 153 per cent over the e.rp-ired leases-. The per cent of original investment dlstribnted over a term of years, so that at the increase in the rental of these renewed leases over the expired leases end of the lease the Government has nothing, but is obliged to start is 147, but this does not include the rental for the. new and additional over again, still at the mercy of lessors, with no· efficient weapon to post offices, which when added make an increase of 342 per cent over compel fair prices. the rental of these expired leases. My answer to the second of the above questions is also in the nega In addition to the amount of $11,660,056 annually paid for the tive. It frequently is impossible to lease buildings having satisfactory rental of post-office quarters there are 76 garages throughout the worltin!r conditions, such as natural Ught and ventilation. In erecting country under lease, for which the amount o! $588,921 iEJ annually Government-owned buildings id~I working conditions would be pro· paiu for rental. This sum of $588,921 when added to $11,660,056 vided, thereby insuring the health and comfort of employees, which· brings the total amount of rental paid by the Government for buildings should always be given fu:st consideration. Then, too, such buildings leased for postal uses up to $12,248,977. Confronted with this would be erected in accordance with plans· and specifications either annual expenditure of $12,248,977 for rental of real estate for postal made or approved by the Post Office Department based upon its ex uses, which will annually steadily increase, two questions at once perience with a view to efficiency of service as well as to cost of arise for answer with reference to first-class post offices, the larger service.. second-class post offices, and the larger classified stations and their The Joint Commission on Postal Service expressed the opinion in branches-:- First, viewed solely from the financial side, is the present its report to the Senate and House of Representatives that the site plan of leasing in keeping with the best business methods and prac immediately west of the present general post-office building at New tices? Second, aside from the financial point of view, is the present York City, commonly called the Pennsylvania Railroad site, was a plan giving the best postal service resultS'? desirable site for a. building to relieve the present congested condi· My answer to the first question is in the negative. I am decidedlY tion of the general post office at New York City. The department of the opinion, and I believe that your business experience and obser began negotiations to lease for a period of 20 years a building to be vation will support my view, that annually a great saving in money erected on thls site, but no agreement has been made. Of the offers will result if a policy of Government ownership were adopted. I do not submitted· to the department the aggregate rental for 20 years ranged advocate Government ownership of all offices, stat1ons1 and garages, from $19,245,695 to $24,900,000. If the Government would purchase for manifestly at times and on occasions it is better business< to lease this site and erect the building and become the owner instead of lessee, than own. But I do advocate and urge Government ownership in at the end of 20 years. the aggregate expenditure would be considerably those cases where an economy would be realized and where goad busi less than the lowest offer, and in addition the Government would own ness judgment demands owuership rather than tenancy. Of coul"se, at the property. What is said of the advantage of ownership as against times efficiency of service will suggest leasing rather than ownership tenancy of this New York City site can with equal force be said of enn when a considerable money saving could be effected by ownership, other sites. Where the bus:in.ess and circumstances justify Govern· but these cases are exceptional, and good judgment can always be ment ownership it seems unbusinesslike for the Government to deny to depended upon to leave such C"ases to the leasing plan. itself and fo1·ego all the advantages, financial and otherwise, ot Many reasons can be given in support of t'he Government ownership ownership and become lessee with a money loss and with. all the other plan, among which are the following: many attendant disadvantages of tenancy. 1. The Go"\fernment can borrow money on practically a 4 per cent It is not my present purpose to suggest or advocate an! particular basis to build post offices, whereas when it leases it pays a rental way for the execution of this general plan of Government ownership o! sufficient to permit the lessor to borrow money at T per cent, and in buildings for postal use. My present purpose is to call attention to some cases as much as 10 per cent. In other words, by this lease the necessity for the adoption of this general plan of Governmen.t policy tbe GoveJ'nment is indirectly paying 7 per cent and 10 per ownership of buildings within the limitation of go.od business judg· . cent interest on money when it is able to borrow at 4 per cent. ment, as hereinabove pointed out, as against the leasing system. I 2. When the Government owns a post-office building it is free from regard the present plan of leasing as unbuainesslike, and in view of taxation, whereas when it leases an office it is indirectly paying taxes this present practice I hope the Congress may enact the necessary at the rate of about 2 per cent on the investment and many times at a: legislation to effect the change herein suggested and advocated. very much higher rate. When a building required for postal uses I earnestly solicit your support and cooperation. r epresents an investment of a large amount of money it is readily seen Sincerely yow·s, that the taxes alone whlcl1 the Government must pay to the lessor in HUBERT WORK, the form of rent is a very considerabfe sum. Postrnastm· General. 3. Another way of stating in a combined form the two preceding propo sitions is tha·t the ordinary lessor usually obtains about 10 per cent gross [From Annual Report of the Postmaster General for the fiscal year on his investment, whereas if the Government owned the property, build ending June 30, 1922] ing it with 4 per cent money, it would be costing the Government GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP about one-half as much as it is obliged to pay in the form of a lease for the use of a building. • Attention again is invited to the unbusinesslike method of securing 4. If the Government adopted the p(}licy of owning its post-office quarters for post offices and postal stations under the leasing system. buildings, it would be in a position to take property by right of emi In many cases tlle Govellnment is paying fu annual rent from 1'0 to 17 premi~s 1922, nent domain, whereas it can not take a leasehold interest by such right. per cent of ·the value of the o.ccupicd. On August 21, 5. In our negotiations for leases with ·prospective lessors we are a letter was addressed by the then Postmaster General to the Joint Commission on Postal Service setting forth very fully the depart· confronted with the fact that we can' not build, and therefore we must ment's views with reference to Government ownership of post-office pay what they ask. If we could say to bidders, "Unless you bring buildings. This letter was published in full in the last annual report, your rental down· to a certain reasonable figure the Government will and the conclusions contained therein have been considered by me and put up a building of its own," we would then have a powerful weapon receive my full approval. of negotiation where we now ha-ve none. But that is only possible when the Government has adopted a policy of ownership and provided funds to carry out such a policy. [From Annual Report of the Postmaster General for the .fiscal yeru· 6. Leased buildings are constantly being outgrown, confronting the ending June 30, 1924] department with the necessity of either adding additional space or GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP seeking an entirely new location. With a lease policy and without I desire again to invite attention to the unbusinesslike method of the right of condemnation the additional adjacent space is often held securing quarters for post o:fll.ces ana postal stations under the leasing at unconscionable figures, and we are often compelled to pay far more system. In many ca~s the Government is paying in annual rent a than we know to be reasonable on account of the situation. large per cent of the value of the premises occupied. In 1922 the then 7. When a Government post office or postal building is erected by a Postmaster General addressed a letter to the Joint Commission on lessor, in a very large percentage of cases it enhances the. value of Postal Service settin.g forth fully the· department's -views with refer all property in the vicinity, so that it becomes necessary to renew such ence to Government ownership of post-office buildings. In the last lease at much higher figures, wher~s if the Government owned the report mention was made of my full approval of those r ecommenda building it would receive the benefit of the enhancement of values tions. which it has created. 8. The lessor who builds a post office or postal station for- the • • • • • Goyernment on a contract for lease for 10 or 20 years is obliged FUNERAL EXPENSES OF THE LATE SENATOR COLT to figure on absorbing either the whole or a large percentage of the Mr. GERRY submitted the following resolution (S. Res. original cost of the building, and this he does. He is obliged to do 265), which was referred to the Committee to .Audit and Con this because he knows he may be compelled at- the end of. th~ lease to trol the Contingent EA-pensos of the Senate: reconvert it into other uses. The result of such a lease policy is that Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate is hereby authorized and • the Government not only pays about 10 per cent on the original inv.est directed to pay from the contingent fund of the Senate the actual and ment but it pa-ys in addition theJ:eto a certain per cent of aU tha necessary expenses incurred by the committee appointed by the Presl- 32 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE DECEl\IBER 2l dent pro tempore in arranging for and attending the funeral of the MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE-E '~ROLLED BILLS SIG ~ ED Ilon. LEB.Ano. B. COLT, late a Senator from the State of Rhode "Island, A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. · upon vouchers to be approved by the Committee to Audit and Control Chaffee, one of its clerks, announced that the Speaker of the the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. House had signed enrolled bills and a joint resolution of the LEILA A. GBIFFDi following titles, and they were thereupon signed by the Presi dent pro tempore: :Mr. S::\liTH submitted the following resolution ·( S. Res. 266), which was referred to the Committee to Audit and Con S. 2265. An act to provide for a rearrangement of the public· alley facilities in square 616 in the District of Columbia, and trol the Contingent Expenses of the Senate: for other purposes; Resol,;ed, That the Secretary of the Senate is hereby authorized and S. 3397. .A.n act to remit the duty on a carillon of bells to be I directed to pay from the contingent funcl of the Senate to Leila A. imported for the Church of Our Lady of the Rosa1·y, Provi· 1 Griffin, daughter of Ricbaru S. Anderson, late a messenger of the dence, R. I.; Senate, a sum equal to one y~ar's compensation at the rate he was H. R. 6426. .A.n act granting pensions and increase of pensions . receiving by law a t the time of his death, said sum to be considered to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy , inclusiye of funeral expenses and all other allowances. and certain soldiers and sailors of wars other than the Civil F~EltiL EXPENSES OF THE L.ATE SE~ATOR BRANDEGEE War, and to widows of such soldiers and sailors; H. R. 9561 . .A.n act making additional appropriations for the 1\fr. :McLEAN submitted the following resolution ( S. Res. fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, to enable the heads of the 267), which wa. referred to the Committee to Audit and Con several departments and independent establishments to adjust trol the Contingent Expenses of the Senate: the rates of compensation of civilian employees in certain of Resoleed, That the Secretary of the Senate is hereby authorized and the field services ; and directed to pay from the contingent fund of the Senate the actual and S ..J. Res. 85. Joint resolution authorizing an appropriation neces. ary expenses incurred by the committee appointed by the Presi for the participation of the United States in the preparation dent pro tempore in arranging for and attending the funeral of the and completion of plans for the comprehensive observance of Hon. FRANK B. BRANDEGEE, late a Senator ft·om the State of Connecti that greatest of all historic events, the bicentennial of the birth cut, upon vouchers to be approved by the Committee to Audit and Con day of George Washington. trol the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. DEFICIE~CY APPROPRIATIONS-cONFERENCE REPORT F~ERAL EXPENSES OF THE LATE SE~ATOR LODGE The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Morning business is closed. Mr. W .A.RREN. l\1r. President, we have just received a mes Mr. WALSH of Mas~achusetts submitted the following reso sage from the Hou e of Representatives having to do with the lution ( S. Res. 268), which was referred to the Committee to completion of some of the unfinished business of the last ses Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate: sion. There is another matter of importance which did not R esolved, That the Secretary of the Senate is hereby authorized and reach the stage which was reached by the bills which have directed to pay from the contingent funu of the Senate the actual just been sent to the desk from the House of Representatives and necessary expenses incurred by the committee appointed by the and which merely lack the signatures of the t!\'0 Presiding President pro tempore in arranging for and atteniling the funeral of Officers. I refer to a bill that was in conference at the last the Hon. HENRY CABOT LoDGE, late a Senator from the State of Massa session and lacked the finishing touches of consideration. It is chusetts, upon vouchers to be approved by the Committee to Audit very important that that bill should be acted upon at the and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. earliest moment. It is the second deficiency appropriation bill HANDLING OF MAIL MATTER and proposes to appropriate about $175,000,000 or $180,000,000. It affects every department of the Government and almost Mr. STERLING submitted a resolution ( S. Res. 269), which every known interest of the Government, because it is a clean-up was read, considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to, as for the year of amounts necessary to close accounts, to pay follows: employee , and to settle other pending obligations. It is im Whereas there was included in the appropriation bill for the Post portant because many of the beneficiaries are suffering for the Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1024, an item want of the money which the bill proposes to provide. It is of $500,000 for the purpose of completing the work of determining important because the Budget Bureau should know what has the cost to the department of handling the various classes of mail been provided for these expenses of the last year, so that they matter; and may arrange the budget for the next year accordingly. The Whereas it is understood that said report has been completed: There departments should know what disposition is to be made of fore be it the meastue. R esolved, That the Po tmaster General be respectfully reque ted to Therefore I propo.se to call up the conference report at this submit said report to the Senate of the United States. time. All that will be required will be, first, a motion to re FINAl~CIAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS consider ; second, a motion to adopt the report of the conferees ; and third, a recession on the part of the Senate from the only Mr. L.A.DD submitted the following concurrent resolution two remaining items that were in disagreement. So I now ask ( S. Con. Res. 22), which was referred to the Committee on unanimous consent to reconsider the action by which the con Foreign Relations : ference report on the second deficiency appropriation bill was Resolved bv tl!e Senate (tl!e House of Representativ es conettt'ring), recommitted to the committee of conference. That the President be, and he is hereby, requested to direct the De 1\lr. PITT:\IAN. Mr. Pre ·ident, I wish to join in the re partments of StatE', Treasury, and Commerce, the Federal Reserve quest of the Senator from ·wyoming. During the last se ~ sion Board, and all other gencles of tbe Government which are or may be an order was made under a unanimous-consent request submit concerned thereunder, to refrain henceforth, without specific prior ted by me at that time. I wish to say that there has been an authorization of the Congres , from- entirely atisfactory adju tment, so far as I am personally H) Directly or indirectly engaging the responsibility of the Gov concerned, with regard to the matters that caused my protest. ernment of the l:nited States, or otherwise on its behalf, to supervise I regretted very much at that time to make the protest. I the fulfillment of financial arrangements between citizens of the agree with the Senator from Wyoming that it is very import United States and sonreign foreign Governments or political subdi ant to consider this matter immediate1y. visions thereof, whether or not r ecognized de jure or de facto by the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the United States Go'"crnment; or · request of the Senator from Wyoming? The Chair hears none, (2) In any manner what<> oever giving official recognition to any and it is o ordered. arrangement which may commit i;he Government of the United States Mr. 'V.A.RREN. Now I move the adoption of the conference to any form of military intervention in order to compel the observance report on House bill 9559. of alleged obligations of sovereign or subordinate authority, or of any The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The report will be read. corporations or individuals, or to deal with any such arrangement The report was read, as follows : except to secure the settlement of claims of the United States or of United States citizens through the ordinary channels of law provided The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the therefor in the respective foreign jurisdictions, or through duly author two Houses on certain amendments of the Senate to the bill ized and accepteu arbitration agencies. (H. R. 9559) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in HOUSE BILL REFERRED certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations The bill (H. R. 9138) to authorize the discontinuance of the for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes, seven-year regauge of distilled spirits in bonded warehouses, having met, after full and free conference have agreed to rec and for other purposes, was read twice by its title and referred ommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as to the Committee on Finance. follows: 1924 OONGRESSION AL RECORD- SENATE That the Senate recede from its amendments numbered 32, 1918, between the United States and the Imperial irrigation dlstrict 35, and 36. should be paid into the reclamation fund, we r ecommend approptiate That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend legislation directing that such moneys be credited to the Arizona . ment of the Senate numbered 28, and agree to the sn.me. California-Yuma project, including the hle. a division, upon an equitable Amendment numbered 27: That the House recede from its basis. disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 27, and We understand the term "equitable pasis" to mean taking into con agree to the same with an .amendment as follows: At the end sideration the differences in soil, topography, and location of each of the matter inserted by said amendment insert the following : farm unit on a project, with a special reference to the influence of " Provided, That no part of the sums herein appropriated shall these and all other essential factors upon the ability of each such unit be used for the commencement of construction work on any to produce crops of value·as compared with <>-ther farm units up.on the reclamation project which has not been recommended by the same project. Commissioner of Reclamation and the Secretary of the Interior This committee finds that this project was authorized to provide and approved by the President as to its agricultural and engi water for the irrigation of certain lands on both sides of the Colorado neering feasibility and the reason~bleness of its estimated con River in the vicinity of the town of Yuma, Ariz. struction cost"; and the Senate agree to the same. CO:STRACT LANDS Amendment numbered 30: That the House recede from its The land in California is in an Indian reservation. The lands in disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 30, Arizona were destined to be irrigated partly by gravity and partly by · and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu a. pumping plant. The lands now included under water-right contracts of the sum named in said amendment insert " $375,000 " ; and embrace the following : the Senate agree to the same. Acres Amendment numbered 31: That the House recede from its Indian reservation lands in California disposed of to white set- ·disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 31, tlers------6, 100 Reservation lands in California remaining with the Indians____ 8, 100 and agree to the same with an amendent ,as follows : In lieu Valley lands in Arizona ______48, 800 of the sum named in said amendment insert " $315,000 " ; and l\Iesa lands in Arizona ______· ------; --- 6, 000 the Senate agree to the same. (There are mesa lands having a total area of about 34,000 acres sus Amendment numbered 33: That the House recede from its ceptible of irrigation by works ret to be completed.) disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 33, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In COST OF WATER lliGHTS lieu of the sum named in said amendment insert " $375,000 " ; The project cost of water rights in California has been fixed by and the Senate agree to the same. notice at $55 to $66 per a cre. The project cost of water rights in Tile committee of conference have not agreed on amend Arizona, in the Yuma \.alley, has been fixed by public notice at $75 ments numbered 29, 34, 58, and 59. per acre. The project cost of water rights on mesa lands in Arizona is estimated at $200 an acre. · F. E. w AHREN, CHARLES CURTIS, EXPENDITURES NOT IXCLLDE D IN THFJ FIXING OF PROJECT COSTS AND w. L. JONES, WHICH ARE NOT KOW REPRESEXTED BY ANY ASSETS WHICH CAN BE LEE s. OVERMAN' CHARGED TO SETTLERS WM. J. HAR.&:rs, The original plans for this project provided for a main canal start Managers on the part of the Senate. ing from the Lagun.a Dam to divert water from the Colorado River, ~1ARTIN B. 1\lADDEN, which was to extend down to the Yuma area on the east side of the D. R. ANTHONY, Jr .. river, crossing in its course the Gila River. After $580,936 had been Managers on the part of the House. spent it was found that this route was not feasible, and it was aban doned. There are no assets to balance this expenditure, and it has Mr. ASHURST. Mr. Pre ident, will the Senator yield to not been included in fixing the cost of water rights. me at this juncture? - In order to protect the farms on both sides of the river from flood The PRESIDENT pro tempore.' Allow the Chair to state ing and erosion, it became necessary to build a levee and in some his understanding of the present parliamentary situation. The places to riprap the banks . The building of this flood-protection system Chair understands that the conference report is now before the had developed until the costs stand at present as follows: Senate for consideration. I?dian 1:eservation levee ______. $867, 287. 12 Mr. WARREN. It is, and I therefore mo\e the adoption of Yuma valley levee______1, 374, 122. 93 the report. ¥~~av~i¥;Yl~;;;:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~:==~~~==~=~~~==~~=~~ !~~: ~~~-~~ The PRESIDE~"'T pro tempore. The question is on the mo Imperial Valley irrigation districL------.- - -- 1 56, 512: 29 tion of the Senator from Wyoming, that the Senate agree to Total ______2,715,952.51 the conference report. Mr. ASHURST. Mr. President, I shall vote for the motion, The cost of this levee system bas not been included in the estimates and I hope it may prevail. Those who deigned to pay any on which the different project costs of water were fixed. It is an ex attention to what I said just before the session of Congress penditure which settlers could not afford to pay and which has not been closed on June 7 last will remember that I suffered a grievous charged against them. It needs ~o be disposed of definitely, and the disappointment because two certain amendments adopted by committee m.D.kes a recommendation with r egard to it. the Senate on June 5 were eliminated by the conferees. I be In fixing the PI:oject costs that settlers were required to pay, the lieve the Senate conferees used every effort at their command entire expenditure on the Laguna Dam Vl"ll.S included (about $2,- to hold these amendments. In the heat and sensation of the 223,000). Subsequently a right to use this dam has been sold to the hour of adjournment I may not have done the conferees the Imperial irrigation dis.trict in California for $1,600,000. The question full justice to which they were entitled; but I am profoundly has arisen as to whether this sum when paid shall be placed in the convinced that they used every honorable effort to bold these generai reclamation fund or credited on water-right contracts of two Senate amendments. settlers under the Arizona-California-Yuma project. rhave faith in the justice of the United States Senate. I With regard to these different matters the committee recommends: believe that at the eligible and appropriate time the Senate (1) That the $580,036 expended on the Arizona main canal, which will readopt and insist upon the two amendments that were was subsequently abandoned, be deducted from the general reclama thrown out of the bill by the conferees. I refer to the one pre tion fund as money lost beyond recovery. sented by my colleague and to the other presented by myself. (2) That the levee system be regarded as a public work of the Belie\ing in the justice of the Senate, and relying upon the Unlted States, similar in character to other protection works built inherent strength of these amendments, I vote for this con under the rivers and harbors act along navigable streams, because the ference report, and ask unanimous consent that a ~compara United States holds that the Colorado River is a navigable stream, tively few paragraphs from the report of the committee of and in pursuance of that holding the Government has built protection special advisers on reclamation, namely, the fact finding commis- works at Yuma and a levee on the California side of the stream in : sion, urging these amendments be included in the HECO:RD at hlexico, known as the Oockerson Levee, at an expenditure of $1,000,000. this point. 'l'hese have been treated as improvements under the rivet-s and harbors 'l'he PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection? The act, no charge for repayment having been made _against anyone. Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. The committee recommends, therefore, that legi.Blation be secured The matter referred to is as follows : under which the expenditure for the construction, operation, and main ARIZONA-CALIFORNIA·YUMA PRO.TECT tenance of these levees- by the reclamation fund shall be. treated as Notwithstanding it has been held under existing law that all moneys an expenditul·e of the General Government, similar to expenditures l'eceived and to be received under a. certain contract, dated October 23, 1 Reimbursed. _;tXVI-3 34 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE DECEl\-IBER 2 under the rivers and harbors act, and that the reclamation fond be That a joint committee, to consist of five Senators and seven Mem reimbursed by an appropriation equal to the amount of this expenditure. bers of the H;ouse of Representatives, to be appointed by the President · The committee recommends that expenses incurred in the main pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representa tenance and operation of the levee system to be provided for under some tives, respectively, shall be named, with full power to make all arrange cooperative ag1·eement between the States of California and Arizona ments and publish a suitable program for the joint session of Congress and the War Department simlla,r to other cooperative agreements for herein authorized, and to issue "the invitations hereinafter mentioned. the maintenance of levees on the Mississippi and other rivers, and that That invitations shall be extended to the President of the Unlt~d no part of this cost be included in the operation and maintenance States, the members of the Cabinet, the Chief Justice and Associate expen~s of this project. Justices of the Supreme Coort of the United States, and such other We further recommend: invitations shall be issued as to the said committee shall seem best. 1. All excess holdings of lands in farm units should be disposed of That all expenses incurred by the committee in the execution of the to bona fide settlers. provisions of this resolution shall be pa1d, one-half from the contingent 2. Disposition of all unpaid charges in accordance with Resolution fund of the Senate and one-halt from the contingent fund of the House No. 24. of Representatives. 3. Adoption of the new plan of repayment in accordance with The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the Resolution No. 23. immediate consideration of the concurrent resolution? The YUl.IA AUXILIARY P¥0JECT (MESA. DIVISION OF THE YUMA PROJECT) Chair hears none. The question is upon agreeing to the con • • • • • • • current resolution. This division was constructed under the provisions of an act of The concurrent resolution was unanimously agreed to. Congress approved January 25, 1917, known as "An act to provide for an auxiliary reclamation project in conjunction with the Yuma THE BUDGET project in Arizona (39 Stat. 868) ." The drastic provis~ons of this act The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the are impossible of fulfillment, and only a few of the settlers have been Senate the Budget •message of the President of the United able to meet their contracts. They, too, will soon fail, as the charge States, which will be read. for water will bankrupt them. The reading clerk read the message, as follows : The committee recommends: That an early study be made by the Bureau of Reclamation of this To the Congress of the United States: division with a view of making recommendations to Congress for financial I transmit herewith the Budget of the United States for the relief, or the disposal of the division, if adequate relief is not feasible. fiscal year ending June 30, 1926. The receipts and expendi tures shown in detail in the Budget are summarized in the l\Ir. ASHURST. The fact finding commission was ap following statement : pointed by Secretary ·work. All the members thereof, in Summary cluding the chairman, were and are well known throughout the country as experts upon irrigation matters, and this com- Estimated, Estimated, mission unanimously concurred in the justice and necessity 1926 1925 Actual, 1924 of the two amendments to which I have referred. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is upon ao-r·eeing to the conf~rence report. Total receipt.s ______$3,641,295,092 $3, 001, 968, m $4, 102,044, 701. 65 t>~ Total expenditures (including The report was agreed to. ' reduction of the public debt Mr. WARREN. Mr. President, in the report as first made, required by law to be made there were five items in disagreement. Tllree of them were from ordinary receipts) ______s, 267,551,378 3, 534, 083, 808 3, 506,677,715. 31 agreed to on the floor of the House after the last report was Excess of receipts ______373, 743, 714 67,884,489 505,366,986. 31 made so that tllere a:re but two items in disagreement now, amendments numbered .2ft and 34. One of those items refers In transmitting to Congress December 3, 1923, the Budget to an appropriation for Spanish Springs, Nev.; the other to for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, I recommended that the position and salary of the Director of Reclamation. So, taxes be reduced. This recommendation was warranted !Jy Mr. President, to cover those two items, I move that the Sen the statement of our finances as presented to Congress in that ate recede from its amendments numbered 29 and 34. Budget. It was there estimated that under the tax laws then l\ll:. PITTMAN. Mr. President, one of these items is the in force the surplus of receipts over expenditures would be one that caused discussion at the last session. I am entirely $329,639,624 for the fiscal year 1924 and $395,681,634 for the atisfied now that every member of the Committee on Ap fiscal year 1925. Taxes have been reduced. The benefits to propriations of the Senate recognizes the justice of that item. the people of this reduction went back to the commencement of The Department of the Interior has again recommended the · the calendar year January 1, 1923. The confidence of the item ; the Budget has again provided for it; and I feel every Chief Executive and of the Congress that our re\enues could assurance that it will be a part of the forthcoming Interior be safely reduced has been fully justified. The fiscal year Department appropriation bill, which will be here in a few which ended June 30, 1924, was closed with a surplus of clays as I understand. Therefore I again gladly join with receipts over expenditui"es of $505,366,000. This was $175.- the ~hairman of the wmmittee in supporting his motion. 727,000 in excess of the estimate made on December 3, 1923. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Wyoming Increase of $117,367,000 in receipts and decrease of $58,3GO,OOO moves that the Senate recede fr-om its amendments numbered in expenditm·es produced this unexpected additional s-q.rplus of 29 and 34 to House bill 9559. $175,727,000. The motion was agreed to. We have now completed five months of the current fiscal Mr. WARREN. 1\Ir. President, that carries the bill to pas year, which ends June 30, 1925. This affords an index of the sage. I ask that the enrollment may immediately follow and probable reduction in our revenues under the current tax law. that the enrollment committee may hasten the presentation of It also affords an index of the limits within which our expend the bill to the Presiding Officers of both Houses, so that it may itures can be kept under the continuing policy of economy. reach the President at an early date. A revision of the estimate of receipts and expenditures for The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the the fiscal year ending Jlme 30, 1925, indicates to-day that the request'? The Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. receipts will be $3,601,968,297 and the expenditures $3,534. MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR THE LATE WOODROW WILSON 083 808. This forecasts a surplus of receipts over expenditures 1\Ir. ROBINSON. 1\Ir. President, the concurrent resolution for' the current fiscal year of $67,884,489. This estimate is which pas ed the House of Representatives yesterday relating most significant. On the one hand, we anticipate receiving t~is to memorial services for the late former President Wilson is on year $400,000,000 less revenue than we had last year, due prm the President's table. I ask that it be laid before the Senate. cipally to the reduction in taxes. On t~e othe~ hand, w~ must The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Arkansas provide $114,000,000 for the extraordinary mcre.ase m ex asks unanimous consent for the immediate consideration of penditures made necessary by the. \Vorld War ad~usted com House Concurrent Resolution 30, which the Secretary will read. pensation act. Yet wear~ confident that the year will be closed The reading clerk read the concurrent resolution, as follows : with a surplus of more than $67,000,000. Our aim hould ~e Resolved by the House of Represe-ntat·tves (the Senate conc-twr'ing), not only to conserve this prospective surplus but to add .to It That Monday, the 15th day of December, 1924, be set aside as the For the fiscal year 1926 it is estimated that the ordinary day upon which there shall be held a joint session of the Senate and receipts will be $3,641.295,092 and the expenditures $3,~6!,551, the House of Representatives for appropriate exercises in commemora 378. This indicates a surplu,s of $373,743,714. In addition to tion of the life, character, and public service of the late Woodrow theRe receipts and expenditur-es it is estimated that the postal Wilson, former President of the United ·states. receipts will be $647,410,000 and the expenditures chargeable \ II 1924 CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD-SENATE .35 ------~------~- \ thereto $637,376,005. This forecasts a surplus in postal reYenue tions actually made for 1925 should include the supplemental i of $10,033,995, which amount is included in the estimated estimates for 1925 which were presented to Congress for con 1 general surplus of $373,743,714. sideration in the second deficiency bill, fiscal year 1924, and 1Ye come now to the estimates of appropriations contained the bill to adjust compensation of employees in certain of the 1 in this Budget. The Chief Executive is pledged to economy in field seryices. These two bills failed of enactment before the the requests he makes upon Congress for funds for the execu- adjournment of Congress June 7, 1924. In the following table tive branch of the Government. This pledge is kept in these a comparison is made of the estimates of appropriations for 1 estimates of appropriations. They call for a total of $3,092,- 1926 with the appropriations actually made for 1925 and the 1143,841.48, exclusive of the Postal Service. A fair comparison supplemental estimates submitted for that year which are . of the estimates of appropriations for 1926 with the appropria- awaiting final legislative consideration: Estimates of appropriations for 19£8 compared with appropriations for 19£5, plus 8Upplemental uti mates for 19£5 which are awaiting final legislative consideration Estimates of Supplemental appropriations, Appropriations, 1925 estimates sub Total for 1925 1926 mitted for 1925 ... Legislative establishment. ______Executive Office ______$15, ow, 545. 80 $14, 229, 816. 00 $50,000.00 $14, 279,816. 00 439,960.00 397,847.50 43,520. ()() 441,367.50 lnd~:If~~:!c~~mmission .. ______----______~- _------______Employees' Compensation Commission______: ______997,375.00 947, 115. 00 . 64,920. ()() 1, 012, 03.'i. 00 2, 301, 500. 00 2, 650, 600. 00 ------944; Oii" 2, 650, 600. 00 Federal TradeBoard Commission.for Vocational ______Education______------______8, 222, 270. 00 6, 380, 000. 00 ooo: 7, 324,000.00 .,. General Accounting Office. ______------______950,000.00 1, 010, 000. 00 ------1, 010, 000. 00 Rousing Corporation ______-·-______3, 701, 960. 00 3, 724,612.00 75,240. ()() 3, 799, 852. 00 743,915.00 808,100.00 74,315.00 882,415.00 Interstate Commerce Commission ______------______------____ _ 4, 913, 500. 00 4, 272, 284. 00 369,580. ()() 4, 641' 864. 00 State,Shipping War, Board and andNavy Emergency Department Fleet Buildings Corporation·------______24, 330, 000. 00 30, 344, 000. 00 ------. 30, 344, 000. 00 2, 342, 880. 00 2, 433, 115. 00 ------2, 433, 115. 00 Tariff Commission ______------______721,500.00 681,980.00 1, 260.00 683,240.00 Smithsonian Institution and National Museum ______817,890.00 869, 101. 66 ------869, 101. 66 United States Veterans' Bureau._------__ ------___ ------{05, 700, 000. 00 349, 065, 000. 00 135, 892, 898. 00 484, 957, 898. 00 Other independent offices. __ ------__ ------1, 578, 045. 00 1, 777, 186. 79 30,000. ()() 1, 807, 186. 79 Department of Agriculture __ ------______HO, 092,750.00 70, 956, 024. 00 7, 091, 162. 00 78, 047, 186. 00 Department of Commerce._------______------______------____ _ 22, 741, 514. 00 23, 942, 905. 00 1, 904, 650. 00 25, 847, 555. ()() Department of the Interior_------______------267, 785,596. 17 290,473, 724.06 3, 845, 439. 80 294, 319, 163. 86 Department of Justice ______------__ ------______24, 917, 822. 00 21, 371, 430. 00 1, 258, 186. 50 22, 629, 616. 50 Department of Labor--- ______: _------_---- ______---_.------_----- ______8, 335, 260. 00 7, 981,516.51 694,829.96 8, 676, 3411. 47 Navy Department ______------______------______------______289, 783, 978. 00 277, 208,327. 00 498,030.00 277, 707, 257. 00 16, 130, 652. 51 15,027,646. 29 737, 110. 00 15,764,756. 29 163,847,741. 00 147,414,605. ()() 33, 243, 4.95. 00 180, 658, 100. 00 War~~~t:sgili!~;;f!teni======~======Department, including Panama Canal._------338, 551, 230. 00 334, 553, 786. 13 12, 599, 808. 54 347, 153, 594. 67 District of Columbia______----___ -----______32, 335, 827. 00 27, 682, 067. 00 2, 672, 048. 21 30, 354, 115. 21 Ordinary------1, 777,377,711.48 ] ' 636, 202, 788. 94 202, 091, 39~ . 01 1, 838, 294, 181. 95 1======~======1 =====~===1=~~===== Reduction in principal of the public debt: Sinking fund._------_------___ 323, 175, 000. 00 310, 000, 000. 00 ------.. -- .. 310, 000, 000. 00 Purchase of Liberty bonds from foreign repayments------208,600.00 ------... ------208,600.00 Redemption of bonds and notes from estate taxes ______------100,000. 00 100,000. ()() Redemption of securities from Federal reserve bank and Federal intermediate credit bank ------franchise tax receipts:_------______950, 000. 00 1, 152, 200. 00 1, 152, 200. 00 Redemption of bonds-, etc., received as repayments of principal and as interest payments• on ------·----- obligations of foreign governments------160,641, 130.00 160, 345, 60L 00 ------160, 345, 601. ()() l------1------i------l------484, 766, 130. 00 471, 806, 401. 00 ------471,806,401.00 830, 000, 000. 00 865, 000, 000. 00 ------865, 000, 000. ()() 3 2, 973, 009, 189. 94 202, 091, 393. 01 3, 175, 100,582. 95 p~fto~~y~~~a~t~e!~~JJe;s~- serVioo:I>ayabie-iroilli>08t-a1revenuei:=:======' ~~: ~~~: g6!:~ 613, 645, 195. 25 ------613, 645, 195. 25 Total including Post Office Department and Postal Service ______3, 729,519,846.48 3, 586, 654, 385. 19 202, 091, 393. 01 3, 788,745, 778. 20 For the national defense the estimate's amount to $549,- citizen's military training camps, and other civilian training 000,000, which is $29,000,000 less than the amount available activities. this current fiscal year. These figure do not include non There is also included in the national-defense estimates military items of the War and Navy Departments. This re $7,444,000 for increase of the Na>y. This will provide for duction is made in accordance with my belief ·that we can continuing work on the fleet submarines uuder construction ha>e adequate national defense with a more modest outlay and for beginning work on two of the four remaining fleet of the ta:A.-payers' money. Further study may point the way submarines authorized in the 1916 program. With regard to to additional reduction without weakening our national de the Navy estimates, legislation is now pending which provides fense but rather perfecting it. This Nation is at peace with for additional vessels, including gunboats for use on the the ~oriel. 'Ve no longer haye international competition in Yangtze Ri>er. Further e. timates for increase in the Navy naval construction of major units. 'Ve are concerned pri are dependent upon the enactment of this legislation. It will marily with maintaining adequate preparedness. We should also be necessary to request of Congress legislation increasing have adequate preparedness in 1926 within the limits of the the authorized cost of the two airplane carriers now under amount recommended. construction. If this be granted, it will require funds for Aside from the important factor of training personnel, our the next fiscal year not provided in the estimates contained in national defense is largely an industrial problem. To-day this Budget. the outstanding weakness in the industrial situation, as it For rivers and harbors $56,237,600 is recommended. In this affects national defense, is the inadequacy of facilities to is included $40,000,000 for maintenance and improvement of supply air-service needs. The airplane industry in. this coun existing river and harbor works, $10,500,000 for flood control try at the present time is dependent almost entirely upon on the Mississ:ippi and Sacramento Rivers, and $5,437,600 for Government business. To· strengthen this industry is to the operation and maintenance of canals and the removal of strengthen our national defense. For the Air Service of the wrecks and other obstructions. Of the $40,000,000 for main Army and Navy, and the Air Mail Service; the estimates, in tenance and improvement of rivers and harbors, $21,973,915 cluding contract authorizations, amount to ,"38,945,000. This is for new work and $17,241,575 is for maintenance. This contemplates an expenditure with the industries of $18,287,000 will make possible material progress on the most important for the procurement of airplane·s, engines, and accessories. projects approved by Congre s. The remaining $20,658,000 is for maintenance, operation, ex It is estimated that $6,541,590 will be needed to complete' perimentation, and research. The amount of $38,945,000, how Dam No. 2 at Muscle Shoals. Of this amount $3,501,200 will ever, does not include all that will be available for this service be required this year. This will be co>ered by a supplemental in 1926. Amounts contributing to the Air Service carried in estimate for 1925. The balance, $3,040,390, is provided for other estimates, and usable war supplies, will make a totnl in these estimates. · a>ailability conservatively estimated at $65,000,000. There is included in these estimates $50,000,000 to be set The amount requested for national defense includes $1:i0, aside in the adjusted service certificate fund established under :J.i8,000 for the Army and Navy Reserves, National Guard, the World War adjusted compensation act of May 19, 1924! 36 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE DECEl\IBER 2 This is fo:r the second payment to the fund to be made Janu-] The present crowded condition is deb:imental to efficiency. ary 1, 1926. For the first payment, due January 1, 1925, The fire hazard in the temporary buildings is great. An ex $100,000,000 is included in the deficiency bill now under con- pendlture of $5,000,000 annually for a period of years would sideration by Congress. The applications from veterans so enable the present situation to be gradually relieved. A larn·er far have been below the estimated number which the records yearly expenditure would shorten the period during which f~ll indicate as entitled to the benefits of the ac~. If the two ap- relief could be attained. During the last session of Congress a propriations recommended be made, it is estimated there Will bill w~ introduced authorizing a yearly appropriation of not be a sufficient amount in the fund on January 1, 1926, ~o l!leet e~cee?fig $10,000,0~ for a progressive building program in the the demands of the act. Should the number of apphcations D1str1ct of Columb1a. This bill has my indorsement. I ear increase beyond what present e.."Yperience indicates as probable, nestly recommend its enactment by Congress. there will be ample time to submit a supplemental estimate for I have recently appointed a commission to investigate agri- the additional amount necessary before that date. cultural conditions. The purpose of this was to determine The estimates for salaries of civilian employees in the Dis- what action, through legislation or otherwise should be taken trict of Columbia are in accordance with the pronsions of the to place agriculture on a basis of economic equality with other classification act approved 1\farch 4, 1923. For the field serv- industries. The findings and recommendations of the commis ices the estimates for salaries are based on rates comparable sion are for the use of the Congress. I mention this commis with those for departmental employees in the District of sion here for the reason that I will shortly submit to the Con Columbia. gress an estimate of appropriation to meet the expenses of the For Federal aid to States the estimates provide in excess of commission. $109 000 000. These subsidies are prescribed by law. I am We ·are now in the fourth year of our campaign for reduction convln~ that the broadening of this field of activity is detri- in the cost of government. Our aim is to reduce the burden mental both to Federal and State Governments. Efficiency of of taxes. In this we have been successful. For those thinas Federal operations is impaired as their scope is unduly en- which ~e are now required to do we are fast reducing o~r larged. Efficiency of State governments is impaired as they expenditures to a minimum consistent with efficient service. relinquish and turn over to the Federal Government respon- We have bef01·e us an estimated surplus of $67,000,000 for the sibilities which are rightf-ully theirs. I am opposed to any ex- cunent fiscal year and $373,000,000 for the next fiscal yea1·. parlsion of these subsidies. My condction is they can be cur- Shall we embark upon new projects involving expenditures tailed with benefit to both the Federal and State Governments. which will prevent the accumulation of these expected ·ur- For reclamation purposes I am recommending $9,777,· pluses, or ·hall we continue the campaign for economy? I am 257 for 1926. It is highly desirable that the Congress, as a fo_r economy. If we continue the campaign for economy, we basis for this and other future reclamation expenditures, en- will pave the way for further reduction in taxes. This reduc act the Jeaislation embodying new reclamation policies pro- tion can not be effected immediately. · Before it is undertaken posed in H~ R. 9611, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session. we should ~ow more definitely by actual operation what 'our The gross public debt was reduced $1,098,89-1,375 during the revenues will be under our present tax law. But the knowl fiscal year ended June 30, 1924, and stood at $21,250,812,989 on edg~ of our revenue under the existing law will avail us noth the latter date. This reduction was accomplished through (1) ing if 'we embark upon any new large expenditure program. the application of the sinking fund and other public debt re- C.ALVIN CooLIDGE. tirements required to be made from ordinary 1·eceipts, aggre- THE WHITE HouSE, gating :457,999,750; (2) a reduction in the general fund bal- December 1, 192.1,. ance of $135,527,639; and (3) the u e of the entire surplus of The PRESIDENT pro tempore. In the absence of a mo- • 50::>,366,986. The annual interest charges on the debt repre- tion, the Chair will refer the message and accompanying sented by this reduction are equivalent to over $45,000,000. papers to the Committee on Appropriations. The total reduction in the debt since the high poinj; of $26 594 000 000 on August 31, 1919, amounted to $5,343,000,000 OREGON-O.ALIFORNI.A RAILROAD GB.ANT LA...''WS at fue 'c1o~e of the last fiscal year. This total reduction has 1\lr. McNARY. l\Ir. President, at the last ses. ·ion of Con effected a saving in interest amounting to approximately $25,- gress I introduced the bill (S. 2751) to authorize the addition 000,000 annually, a saving which equals nearly one-third of to national forests of lands revested in United States by the the total annual pre-war expenditures of the Government. act of June 9, 1916, or reconveyed to the United State under The fixed-debt charges are included in the regular Budget act of February 26, 1919, and the bill ( S. 2752), of similar of the Government under a definite plan worked out soon after title, which were referred to the Committee on Public Lands the close of the war for the gradual refu·ement of the public and Surveys. I ask unanimous consent that that committee debt and must be met before the Budget can balance. The be discharged from the further consideration of those bills. moRt important of these fixed-debt charges is the cumulative Mr. HARRISON. May I ask the Senator what tlle bills sinking fund provided in the Victory Liberty loan act. Retire involve? ments through this fund during the past fiscal year were about Mr. McNARY. They are bills involving the expansion of $2D6,000,000. T11e next items in size among the fixed-debt the national forests to include what are known as the Oregon charges are the retirements of securities received from for California railroad grant L:'lnds in the State of Oregon. eign governments under debt settlements and the purchases Mr. ROBINSON. What is the Senator's request? and retirements of securities f1·om foreign repayments. These Mr. McNARY. '.rhat the committee be discharged from the continuing reductions of the public debt have a very material further consideration of these two bills. effect in maintaining high prices for Liberty bonds. They per Mr. ROBINSON. Does the Senator mean to ask to have mit the issuance of new Gove1·nment securities for temporary some other action taken respecting the bills? and for refunding purposes at low interest rates, with conse 1\lr. McNARY. After further consideration, I entertain some quent further economy in Government expenditures. Interest doubt of the propriety of the bills in their present form, and paid in the fiscal year 192-1 amounted to $940,000,000. It is I merely desire to have the committee discharged from the estimated that this item will be $865,000,000 in 1925 and further consideration of the bills. If that request is granted, $830,000,000 in 1926. This saving of $110,000,000 in two years I shall move that they be indefinitely postponed. is the result of the reduction in the amount of the debt and Mr. ROBINSON. Very well. I ha-\e no objection. decrea. e in the average rate of interest paid. The sinking fund The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Oregon is a part of the contract between the United States and the asks unanimous consent that the Committee on Public Lands holder of the United States obligation, and therefore can not and Sur\eys be discharged from the further consideration of in good faith be changed. The continual steady effect of tbese the bills to which he has referred. Is there objection? The debt-reducing factors is to cut down the largest single item of Chair hears none, and it ls so ordered. Government expenditure and permit further reductions in the Mr. McNARY. I now move that the bills be indefinitely burden of taxation. postponed. In my mes age transmitting the Budget for the fi scal year The motion was agreed to. 1925 I recommended the enactment of legislation which would authorize a reasonable pro.gress"l\e building program to meet EXECUTIYE SESSION the needs of t:l.le executi\e departments and e~tabliRhments of 1\Ir. CURTIS. I ·move that the Senate proceed to the con· the Government in the District of Columbia. The Rituation is sideration of executi\e business. yearly becoming more acute even with full utilization of all The motion was agreed to, and the Senate proceeded to the Government-owneQ. buildings, including the temporary build consideration of executiT"e busine. s. 1\fter 10 minutes stYent ings erected daTing the period of tlle late emergency. We are in exeeuti\e session the doors were reopened, and (at 1 o'dock no-w speniling something more than $670,000 per year for rental p. m.) the Senate :u1jom·11ed until to-morrow, We-dnesday, D& of buildings or parts of buildings in the District of Columbia. cemi.Jer 3. 1924, at 12 o'clock meridian. .. 1924 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-BENATE 37 NO:UINATIONS Wesley Frost, of ·Kentucky. Ea;eooti·ve ·nominations received by the Senate December 2, 1924 John A. Gamon, of Illinois. [Appointments during the last recess of the Senate] Arthur Garrels, of Missouri. Arminius T. Haeberle, of Missouri. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE Matthew E. Hanna, of Connecticut. Boward M. Gore, of West Virginia, to . be Secretary of Ernest L. Harris, of Illinois. Agriculture. Lewis W. Haskell, of South Carolina. ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF STATE Charles 1\I. Hathaway, jr., of Pennsylvania. Wilbur John Carr, of New York. P. Stewart Beintzleman, of Pennsylvania. John Van A. MacMurray, of New Jersey. Philip Holland, of Tennessee. W. Stanley Hollis, of Massachusetts. AssiSTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL Augustus E. Ingram, of California. William J. Donovan, of New York, to be Assistant Attorney Theodore Jaeckel, of New York. .General, \ice Earl J. Davis, resigned. Douglas Jenkins, of South CaTolina• AMBASSADORS EXTBAORDIN ARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY Hallett Johnson, of New Jersey. John E. Kehl, of Ohio. James Rockwell Sheffield, of· New York, to be ambassador Alexander C. Kirk, of Illinois. exti·aordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States of Ezra M. Lawton, of Ohio. America to Mexico. Sampel T. Lee, of Michigan. Edgar A. Bancroft, of Illinois, to be ambassador extraordi Will L. Lowrie, of Illinois. nary and plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Ferdinand L. Mayer, of Indiana. Japan. George S. Messersmith, of Delaware. FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS Raneford S. Miller, of New York. CLASS I Stokeley W. Morgan, of Arkansas. 1\Iaxwell Blake, of 1\Iissom·L Edwin L. Neville, of Ohio. Jefferson Caffery, of Louisiana. Edward J. Norton, of Tennessee. Sheldon L. Crosby, of New York. John Ball Osborne, of Pennsylvania. Charles C. Eberhardt, of Kansas. Ely E. Palmer, of Rhode Island. ' John G. Foster, of Vermont. Willys R. Peck, of California. Alphonse Gaulin, of Rhode Island. Mahlon Fay Perkins, of California. Franklin Mott Gunther, of Virginia. G. Howland Shaw, of Massachusetts. Albert Halstead, of the District of Columbia. Alban G. Snyder, of West Virginia. Carlton Bailey Hurst, of the District of Columbia. Addison E. Southard, of Kentucky. Julius G. Lay, of the District of Columbia. Henry P. Starrett, of Florida. Henry H. Morgan, of Louisiana. Louis A. Sussorff, ~T., of New York. Gabriel Bie Ravndal, of South Dakota. Francis White, of Maryland. Warren D. Robbins, of New York. John Campbell Whit-e, of Maryland. William H. Robertson, of Virginia. Charles S. Winans, of Michigan. Thomas Sammons, of Washington. CLASS IV ll. F. Arthur Schoenfeld, of the District of Columbia. Robert P. Skinner, of Ohio. William W. Andrews, of Ohio. Frederick A. Sterling, of Texas. F. Lamont Belin, of Pennsylvania. Nathaniel B. Stewart, of Ge01·gia. Philander L. Cable, of Illinois. George T. Summerlin, of Louisiana. Hamilton C. Claiborne, of Virginia. Horace Lee Washington, of the District of Columbia. Felix Cole, of the District ()f Columbia. Po.·t Wheeler, of Washington. E. Haldeman Dennison, of Ohio. Sheldon Whitehouse, of New York. Hernando De Soto, of California. Hugh R. Wilson, of Illinois. J.Jeon Dominian, of New York. Evan E. Young, of South Dakota. George K. Donald, of Alabama. James Clement Dunn, of New York. CLASS II Cornelius Van H. Engert, of California. Homer :M. By~~ton, of Connecticut. Cornelius Ferris, of Colorado. William Coffin, of Kentuck-y. Fred D. Fisher, of-Oregon. Edwin S. Cunningham, of Tennessee. Otis A. Glazebrook, of New J"ersey. Cllarles B. Curtis, of New York. Herbert S. Goold. of California. Claude I. Dawson, of South Carolina. George A. Gordon, of New York. William Dawson, of Minnesota. Elbridge Gerry Greene, of Massachusetts. William H. Gale, of Virginia. Oliver B. Harriman, of West Virginia. Clarence ID. Gauss, of Connecticut. Clarence B. Hewes, of Louisiana. Edwin N. Gunsaulus, of Ohio. Callin l\1. Hitch, of Georgia. Nelson T. Johnson, of Oklahoma. Myron A. Hofer, of Ohio. Leo J. Keena, of Michigan. Ross E. Holaday, of Ohio. Tracy Lay, of Alabama. Samuel W. Honaker, of Texas. Marion Letcher, of Georgia. Williamson S. Howell, jr., of Texas. Alexander R. Magruder, of Maryland. J. Klahr Huddle, of Ohio. De ·witt C. Poole, of Illinois. · John F. Jewell, of Illinois. Ralph J. Totten, of Tennessee. Stewart Johnson, of Illinois. Roger Culver Tredwell, of Indiana. Paul Knabenshue, of Ohio. Craig W. Wadsworth, of New York. Arthur Bliss Lane, of New York. Alexander W. Weddell, of Virginia. Irving N. Linnell, of l\1assachusett8. J. Theodore Marriner, of Maine. CLASS m John F. Martin, of l!'lorida. Norman Armour, of New Jersey. Lester Maynard, of California. , Ray Atherton, of Illinois. Jay Pierrepont Moffat, of New York. James G. Bailey, of Kentucky. Maxwell K. Moorhead, of Pennsylvania. Thomas D. Bowman, of 1\Iissoud. Dana G. 1.\Iunro, of New Jersey. John K. Caldwell, of Kentucky. R. Henry Norweb, of Ohio. Clarence Carrigan, of California. Gordon Paddock, of New York. George E. Chamberlin, of New York. Robert :M. Scotten, of Michigan. Carl F. Deichman, of :Missouri. Richard B. ~outhgate, of Massachusetts. Frederic R. Dolbeare, of New York. Benjamin Thaw, jr., of Pennsylvania. '\ Louis G. Dreyfus, jr., of California. Walter C. Thurston, of Arizona. Allen W. Dulles, of New York. John C. Wiley, of Indiana. Frederick T. F. Dumont, of Pennsylvania. North Winship, of Georgia. Robert Frazer, jr., of Pennsylvania. L. Lanier Winslow, of New York. Arthur C. Frost, of Massachusetts. John Q. Wood, of Hawaii • CONGRESSIONAL R.ECORD-SENATE DEOE~IBER 2 CLASS V Thomas L. DanieLe;;, of Minnesota. Copley Amory, jr., of New Hampshire. Chester W. Davis, of New York. Frank D. Arnold, of Pennsylvania. James P. Davis, of Georgia. Henry H. Balch, of Alabama. Monnett B. Davis, of Colorado. Lawrence Dennis, of Massachusetts. .To:eph W. Ballantin~. of Massachusetts. Thomas H. Bevan, of Maryland. Erie R. Dickover, of California. Pierre de L. Boal, of l'ennsylvania. Henry I. Dockweiler, of California. Clement S. Edwards, of Minnesota. George A. Bucklin, of Oklahoma. Joseph Flack, of Pennsylvania. Ralph C. Bm;. er, of Pennsylvania. Barton Hall, of Missouri. Charles H. Cameron, of New York. George M. Hanson, of utah. Harry Campbell, of Kansas. Robert Harnden, of California. Frederick C. Chabot, of Texas. Thornwell Haynes, of Alabama·. Harold D. Clum, of New Yol'k. Frederick P. Hibbard, of Texas. John K. Davis, of Ohio. Henry B. Hitchcock, of New York. J.eslie A. Davis, of New York. John P. Hm·ley, of New York. Ha ~en H. Dick, of South Carolina. Jay C. Huston, of California. Alfred ,V. Donegan, of Alabama. Joseph E. Jacobs, of South Carolina. Jo;ugene H. Dooman, of New York. John D. Johnson, of Vermont. "'· Roderick Dorsey, of Maryland. Curtis C. Jordon, of California. Edward A. Dow, of :Nebraska. Edwin Carl Kemp, of Florida. , Coert Du Bois, of California. Alfred "\V. Kliefoth, of Pennsylvania. John W. Dye, of :Minnesota. Harry :M. Lakin, of Pennsylvania. Carol H. l!"'oster, of :;\laryland. William R. Langdon, of Massachusetts. Claude E. Guyant, of Illinois. Frederic D. K. Le Clercq, of South Carolina. George C. Hanson, of. Connecticut. Dayle C. McDonough, of Missouri. . .T oseph Fl Haven,. of Illinois. Joseph F. McGurk, of New Jersey. Oscar S. Heizer, of Iowa. George A. Makinson, of California. Frank Anderson Henry, of Delaware. Lucien Memminger, of South Carolina. Charles L. Hoover, of Missouri. Cord Meyer, of New York. George N. Ifft, of Idaho. G. Harlan Miller, of Pennsylvania. Ernest L. Ives, of Virginia. James P. Moffitt, of New York. •J e~' Leonard G. Dawson, of Vtrginia~ Willard L. Beaulac, of Rhode Island. Harold M. Deane, of Connecticut.. Donald F. Bigelow, of Minnesota. James Orr Denby, of Indiana. Lee R. Blohm, of Arizona. . Samuel S. Dickson, of New Mexico. Hiram A. Boucher, of Minnesota. Hooker A. Doolittle" of New Y(}rk. Lewis V. Boyle, of California. William F. Doty, of New Jersey. William W. Brunswick, of Kansas. J. Preston Doughten, of Delaware. Howard Bucknell, j1-:,. of Georgia. Maurice P. Dunlap, of Minnesota. Robert S. Burgher, of Texas. Dudley G. Dwyre, of Colorado. Herbert S. Bursley, of the· District of Columbia. Francis J. Dyer, of California. Edward Caffery, of Louisiana. John G. Erhardt, of New York. John S. Calvert, of North Carolina. Hugh S. Fullerton, of Ohio. Reginald S. Castleman, of California. llo C. Funk, of Colorado. J. Rives Childs, of Virginia. Gerhard Gade, o.f Illinois. Thomas W. Chilton, of New York. 'Villiam P. George, of lUabama. George T. Colman, of New York. Raleigh A. Gibson, of Illinois. Edward S. Crocker, 2d, of Massachusetts. John Sterett Gittings; jr.'" of Maryland. Nathaniel P. Davis, of New Jersey. Bernard Gotlieb, of New York. Richard M. de Lambert, of New 1\fex:ico. Louis H. Gourley, of Illinois. Howard Donovan, of Illinois. _ William J. G~ace, of New York. William W. Early, of North Carolina. Edward M. Groth, of Georgia.. Stillman W. Eells, of New York. Don S. Haven, of Pennsylvania. Leon H. Ellis, of Washington. Hauy F. Hawley, of New York. Robert F. Fernald, of Maine. Robert W. Heingartner, of Ohio. Augustine W. Ferrin, of New York. Robertson Honey, of New York. Harold D. Finley, of New York. George D. Hopper, of Kentucky. Carl A. Fisher, of Utah. Charles Bridgham Hosmer, of_ Maine-. Samuel J. Fletcher, of Maine. William H. Hunt, of New York. Walter A. Foote, of Pennsylvania. Robert L. Keiser, of Indiana. Paul H. Foster, of Texas. Clinton E. MacEachran, of Massachusetts. Ray Fox, of California. John H. MacVe,agh, of New York. Lynn· W. Franklin, of Maryland. Kal'l de G. MacVitcy, of. Illinois. . Waldemar J. Gallman, of New Yo:ck. William J. McCafferty, of California. William P. Garrety, of New York~ And1·ew J. McConnico, of Mississippi. Albert H. Gerberich, of Pennsylvania;. Stewart E. McMillin, of Kansas. Herndon \V. Goforth, of North Carolina. Renwick S. McNiece, of Utah. Harvey T. Goodier, of New York. Robert B. Maca tee, of Vh·ginia.. Charles I. Gra-ham, of Illinois. George R. Merrell, jr., of ?tlissom·i John Harrison Gray, of New York. Hugh Millard, of Nebraska. Julian C. Greenup, of California. John R. Minter, of South Carolina. Christian Gross, of Illinois. W. l\1. Parker Mitchell, of Virginia. Stua1·t E. Grummon, of New Jersey. Edmund B. Montgomery, of illinois. Maxwell M. Hamilton, of Iowa. Or sen N. Nielsen, of '\Tsconsin. Stanley Hawks, of New York. Thomas R. Owens, of Alabama. ·william W. Heard, of Maryland. l\la urice C. Pierce, of Wisconsin. Donald R. Heath, of Kansas. Harold Playter, of California. Charles H. Heisler, of Delaware. Walter T. Prendergast, of Ohio. Jack Dewey Hickerson, of Texas. Ernest B. Price, of New York. Le1ghton Hope, of Mississippi. Samuel C. Reat, of Illfuois. William I. Jackson, of Illinois. Horace Remillard, of Massachusetts. S. Betrand Jacobson, M New York. Winthrop R. Scott, of Ohio. Robert Y. Jarvis, of California:. John F. Simons, of New York. Felix S. S. Johnson, of New Jerseyw Gaston Smith, of Louisiana. Robert F. Kelley, of Massachusetts. Carl 0. Spamer, of Maryland. Trojan Kodding-, of Pennsylvania. Clarence J. Spiker, of the District of Columbia. Gerhard H. Krogh. of North Dakota. Richard L. Sprague, of Massachusetts. Clark P. Kuykendall, of Pennsylvania. Paul C. Squire, of Massachusetts. Drew Linard, of Alabama. 1\Iaurice L. Stafford, of California. Robert D. Longyear, of Massachusetts. Dana C. Sycks,. of Ohio. Thomas l\fcEnelly, of New York. G. Russell Taggart, of New Jersey. Walter H. McKinney, of Michigan. 'Villiam H. Taylor, of Pennsylvania. H. Freeman Matthews, of Maryland. Raymond P. Tenney, of Massachusetts. John J. Melly, of Pennsylvania. Samuel R. Thompson, of California. H. Tobey Mooers, of Maine. R. A. Wallace Treat, of Ohio. J. Lee Murphy, of New York. Marshall M. Vance, of Ohio. James J. Murphy, jr., of Pennsylvania. Henry C. von Struve, of Texas. Robert D. Murphy, of Wisconsin. Egmont C. von Tresckow, of South Carolina.. Gustave Pabst, j~ .• of Wisconsin. George Wadsworth, of New York. Robert R. Patterson, of :Michigan. Harry L. Walsh, of Maryland. Robert L. Rankin, of New Jersey. Henry S. Waterman, of Washington. ·walter S. Reineck, of Ohio. Henry T. Wilcox, of New Jersey. H. Earle Russell, of Michigan. Herbert 0. Williams, of California. Lester L. Schnare, of Georgia. Harold L. Williamson, of Illinois. Rudolf ID. Schoenfeld, of the District of ColumblL Digby A. Willson, of ·New York. Harold Shantz, of New York Gilbert R. Willson, of Texas. George P. Shaw, of California. Damon C. Woods, of Texas. Fred C. Slater, of Kansas. Romeyn Wormuth, of New York. Alexander K. Sloan, of Pennsylvania. William J. Yerby, of Tennessee. E. Talbot Smith, of Connecticut. Bartley F. Yost, of Kansas. Leland L. Smith, of Oregon. CLAss, VIn John Stambaugh, 2d, of Ohio. Christian T. Steger, of Virginia. Harry J. Anslinger, of Pennsylvania. George K. Stiles, of Maryland. Miss Lucile Atcherson, of Ohio. Francis H. Styles, of Virginia. Henry D. Baker, of Illinois. Harold S. Tewell, of North DRkota. Rees H. Barkalow, of New Jersey. ' Edward B. Thomas, of Illinois: .l 40 CONGRESSIO:N~L RECORD-~ SENATE D ECEl\illER 2 Frederick L. Thomas, of New York. J'. Cameron Hawkins, of New York. --.. Howard K. Travers, of New York. Loy ,V, ~enderson, of Colorado. ~ Ernest A. Wakefield, of Maine. Robert O'D. Hinckley, of the Disb:ict of Columbia·. George r. Waller, of Alabama. Frederick W. Rinke, of New York. · Fletcher Warren, of Texas. Ander on Dana Hodgdon, of Marylan . .:!£ Leslie E. Woods, of Massachusetts. Henry W. Diederich, of the Dish·ict of Columbia. Whitney Young, of New York. Henry Abert Johnson, of the District of Columbia. CONSULAR OFFICERS 'l James B. Milner, of Indiana. To be consuls Bradstreet S. Rairden, of Maine. Harry J. Ansling(!r, of Pennsylvania. CL..ASS IX Willard L. Beaulac, of Rhode Island. Frank C. Denison, o_f Vermont. Herbert S. Bursley, of the District of Columbia. Alonzo B. Garrett, of West Virginia. Richard P. Butrick, of New. York. Thomas R. ·wallace, of Iowa. Edward Caffery, of Louisiana. SECRET.AJUES IN THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE Charles L. De Vault, of Indiana. J. Holbrook Chapman, of the District of Columbia. Howard Donovan, of Illinois. John N. Hamlin, of Oregon. Samuel J. Fletcher, of l\Iaine. Robert O'D. Hinckley, of the District of Columbia. Raymond II. Geist, of Ohio. - Paul Mayo, of Colorado. Charle · I. Graham, of illinois. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TAX APPEALS Bernard F. Hale, of Vermont. Charles H. Heisler, of Delaware. (Terms expiring June 1, l!J2G) Leo J. Keena, of Michigan. Adolphus E. Graupner, of California. H. Tobey Mooers, of Maine. Charles D. Hamel, of North Dakota. Christian :!II. Ra vndal, of Iowa. J. S. Y. Ivins, of New York. Francis H. Styles, of Virginia. A. E. James, of New Jersey. Fletcher Warren, of Texas. Jules Gilmer Korner, jr., of North Carolina. W. C. Lansdon, of Kansas. To be vice consuls of care~r Benjamin H. Littleton, of Tennessee. Paul H. Alling, of Pennsylvania. John J. Marquette, of Montana. George Alexander Armstrong, of New York. Charles P. Smith, of Massachusetts. William II. Beach, of Yirginia. John M. Sternhagen, of Illinois. Ellis A. Bonnet, of Texas. Charles 1\I. Trammell, of Florida. Prescott Childs, of :Massachusetts. Sumner L. Trussell, of :Minnesota. Joseph T. Gilman, of Ma-ssachusetts. 1\IEMBERS OF THE BOABD OF CHARITIES FOR THE DISTRICT OF Arthur J. Gravelle, of Iowa. CoLUMBIA Winthrop S. Greene, of ~las achusetts. George J. Haering, of New York. (Terms o! three years, from July 1, . 1924) Harry C. Hawkins, of Michigan. John Joy Edson, of the District of Columbia. (Reappoint Benjamin l\I. HulJey, of Florida. ment.) John R. Ives, of Michigan. George M. Kober, of the District of Columbia. (Reappoint· C. Warwick Perkins, jr., of Maryland. ment.) Joseph P. Ragland, of the District of Columbia, UNITED STATES CmcurT JUDGE Edwin Schoenrich, of Maryland. Learned Hand, of New York, to be United States ci.t·cuit W. Maynard Stapleton, of Pennsylvania. judge, second circuit, vice Julius 1\I. Mayer, resigned. Harry E. Stevens, of California. Howard C. Taylor, of South Dakota. UNITED ST.ATES DISTRICT JUDGE Cyril JJ. F. Thiel, of Illinois. Guy H. Martin, of Idaho, to be United States district judge FOREIG~-SERVICE OFFICERS for the Canal Zone, vice John D. Wallingford, deceased. [N'OTE.-The following-named foreign-service officers have UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS retired in accordance with the provisions of the "Act for the Julien A. Hurley, of Alaska, to be United States attorney, reorganization and improvement of the foreign service of the fourth division, disb:·ict of Alaska, vice Guy B. Erwin, re· United States, and for other purposes," approved ' 1\Iay 24, moved. 1924.] Grady Reynolds, of Alabama, to be United States attorney, CLASS I middle disb:·ict of Alabama, vice Thomas D. Samford, term Alexander M. Thackara, of Pennsylvania. expired. CLASS m David J. Reinhardt, of Delaware, to be United States at· Joseph I. Brittain, of Ohio. torney for the district of Delaware, rice James H. Hughes, jr., Frederic Ogden de Billier, of the District of Columbia. term expired. . Frederic W. Goding, of Illinois. George Stephan, of Colorado, to be United States attorney, George Horton, of Illinois. distl"ict of Colorado, vice Granby Hillyer, resigned. Francis B. Keene, of Wisconsin. John Buckley, of Connecticut, to be United States. attorney, Dominic I. 1\lurphy, of the District of Columbia. district of Connecticut, vice Allan K. Smith, appointed by Frederick M. Ryder, of Connecticut. court. Alfred A. Winslow, of Indiana. Joseph C. Shaffer, of Virginia, to be United States attorney, western district of Virginia, vice Lewis P. Summers, resigned. CLASS IV Henry S. Culver, of Ohio. UNITED STATES CoAST GuARD William P. Kent, of Virginia. Carl H. Hilton to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as such Frank W. Mabin, of Iowa. from August 20, 1924. Chester W. l\1artin, of Michigan. Norman M. Nelson to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as George H. Pickerell, of Ohio. such from Augu t 19, 1924. CLASS .V William W. Chism to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as such from August 14, 1924. Charles M. Freeman, of New Hampshire. William H. Jacobson to be temporarily an ensign, to rank John N. McCunn, of Wisconsin. as such from August 18, 1924. Robert Brent Mosher, of the District of Columbia·. Arthur J. Craig to be temporarily an ensign; to rank as Gebhai'd 'Villrich, of Wisconsin. • such from August 20, 1924. CLASS "VI Victor E. Schminke to be temporarily an ensign, to rank Edward L. Adams, of New York. as such from August 15, 1924. Julius D. Dreher, of South Carolina. William Bowman to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as John H. Grout, of Massachusetts. such from August 20, 1924. :Mason Mitchell, of New York.· Joseph S. Rosenthal to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as CLASS. VII such from August 18, 1924. · Percival Gassett, of the District of Columbia. Robert E. Hunter to be temporarily an ~nsign, to rank as Lorin A. Lathrop, of California. such from August 15, 1924. Carl E. Guisness to be temporarily an ~nsig~ w rank as CL.ASS VIII such from :August 20, 1924. Eugene L. Belisle, of Massachusetts~ William L. Foley to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as James S. Benedict, of New York. such from August 14, 1924. . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE DECEMBER 2 Sydney A. Harvey to- be temporarily an ensi-gn. to rank as Ben C. Wilcox to ue temporarily an ensign (engln.eering)r su<:h from August 16, 1924. to rank as such from August 20, 1924. }'rcderick L. Thompson to be temporarily an ensign, to rank Ernest T. Peterson to· be· temporarily an ensign (engineer as such from August 23, 1924. ing), to rank as such from August 27, 1924. Frauk D. Higbee to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as Edward S. 1\Ioale to be temporarily an ensign (engineer suth from August 25, 1924. ing), to rank as such frolll August 15, 1924. Harold C. Palmer to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as Elias .M. Deer, jr., to be temporarily an ensign (e~aineer such from August 16, 1924. . ing), to rank as such from August 21, 1924. Chester McP. Anderson to be temporarily an ensign, to rank Jarvis B. Wellman to be temporarily an ensign (engineer as such from August 22, 1924. ing), to rank as such from August 15, 1924. Nathan Le\y to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as such Eugene S. Endom to be temporarily an ensign (engineer from August 15, 1924. ing) , to rank as such from August 16, 1924. Wellington S. Morse to be temporarily an ensign, to rank James F. Brady to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as as such from August 21, 1924. such from September 5, 1924. William H. Newman to be temporarily an ensign, to rank John H. Burke to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as such as such from August 14, 1924. from September 6, 1924. Edward R. G los ten to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as Vincent J. Charte to lJe temporarily an en ign, to rank as such from August 14, 1924. such from September 5, 1924. Clifford D. Feak to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as Harold L. Connor to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as such from August 15, 1924. such from September 5, 1924. Ray W. Dierlam to be tempo.rarily an ensign, to rank as such Arthur W. Davis to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as from August 18, 1924. such from September 4, 1924. James H. Earle to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as such Charles Etzweiler to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as from August 31, 1924. such from September 4, 1924. Chester B. Kirkpatrick to be temporarily an ensign, to rank Roy F. Gilley to be- temporaTily an ensign, to rank as such as such from August 15, 1924. from September 6, 1924. Clarence C. Paden to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as Angus S. Macintyre to be temporarily an ellilign, to rank as such from August 14, 1924. such from September 6, 1921. Nathaniel S. Fulford, jr., to be temporarily an ensign~ to Julius F. Jacot to be tempoi-arily an ensign, to rank as rank as such from August 20, 1924~ such from September 5, 1924. Kenneth S. Da \is to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as Arthur G. Morrill to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as such from August· 16, 1924. such from September 6, 1924. Alexander A. Tanos to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as Paul 0. Hitter to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as such such from date of oath. from Sevtember 6, 1924. IAroy M. McCluskey to b-e temporarily an ensign, to rank William ,V. Storey to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as as such from August 18, 1924. such from September 6, 1924. William H. Austermann to be temp6rari1y an. ensign, to rank Glenn E. Trester to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as as ~uch from August 20, 1924. · such from October 2, 1924. Nih~s El Lanphere to be tempol'arily a.n ensign, to rank as Donald G. Jacobs to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as such from August 18, 1924. such from September 15, 1924. Niels S. Haugen to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as such John F. Kinnaly to be temporarlly an ensign, to rank as from August 23, 1924L such from September 9, 1924. Jerome J. Buskin to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as John McCann to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as such such 'from August 15, 1924, from September 8, 1924.. Robart H. Furey to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as Stewart P. Mehlman. to be temporarily an ensign, to rank such from August 18, 1924. as sueb. from September 9, W24.. John P. Crowley to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as J ose]ilh T. Ogden: to he temporarily an ensign, to tank as such from August 18, 1924. such from September 8, 1924. Bion B. Libby to· be temporru.·ily an ensfgn, to rank as such Ozro ll. Hunt to be temporarily an ensign (engineering), to from August 16; 1004. rank as such from September 8, 1924. Lester B. Poole to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as such Cadet Engineer Thomas Y. Awalt to be ensign (engineer from August 15, 1924. ing) , to rank as such from September 10, 1924. Harold B. Adams to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as Frank H. Nelson to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as such from August 15, 1924. such from September 19, 1924:. Harry C. Howe to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as such Emmanuel Desses to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as from August 16, 1924. such from October 5, 1924. Philip A. Shod to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as such Lloyd 0. Hammarstrom to be temporarily an ensign, to rank from August 16, 1924. as such from Se-ptember 27, 19-24. Kenneth L. Young to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as Mudge A. Ransom to be temporarily an ensign, to ranlr as such from August 19, 1924. such from October 5, 1924. Horace n Glover to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as such Frank M. Meals to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as from August 13, 1924. such from Septeml>er 16, 1924. Chester C. Childs to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as John H. Martin to be temporarily an ensign (engineering), such from August 21, 1!l24. to rank as such from October 23, 1924. • hknest B. Johnson to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as Lorenz A. Lonsdale to be temporarily a chief boatswain, to such from August 19, 1924. rank as such from October 6, 1924. Frank E. B. Stuart to. be temporarily an ensign, to rank as August Anderson to be temporarily a chief boatswain, to rank such from August 19, 1924. as such from October 3, 1924. Ralph R. Hayes to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as Christian Jansen to be temporarily a chief boatswain, to rank such from August 16, 1924. as such from September 29, 1924. Paul R. Cronk to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as such John B. Jones to be temporarily a chief boatswain, to rank from August 16, 1924. as such from September 29, 1924. Donald F. deOtte tOt be temporarily an ensign, to rank as Sigvard B. Johnson to be temporarily a chief boatswain, to such from August 15. 1924. rank as such from October 3, 1924. Fra:nk E. Pollio to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as Nelson F. King to be temporarily a chief boatswain, to rank such from August 15, 1924. as such from September 29, 1924. Robert deB. Vale to be- temporarily an ensign, to rank as Oscar Vinje to be temporarily a chief boatswain, to rank as such from August 15, 1fl24. such fi·om September 29, 1924. Henr~ T. Jewell to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as Albert Hays to be temporarily a chief boatswain, to rank as such from August 18, 1924. such from September 30, 1924. · John W. Kelliher t•) be temporarily an ensign (engineer· Thomas A. Ross to be temporarily a chief boatswain, to rank ing-), to rank as such from August 20, 1924. as such from October 22, 1924. Emette B. Smith to be temporarily an ensign (engineer Charles Lucas to be temporarily a chief boatswain, to rank ing), to rank as such :f'rom August 20, 1924.. as suGh from October 2, 1924. 11924 CONGRESSIONAL REOOR,D-SEN.ATE l Olaf Egeland to be temporarily a chief boatswain, to rank as Dr. Ernest E . .Huber to be assistant surgeon, to rank as sucli such from October 1, 1924:. from September 2, 1924. . Horace B. Deets to be temporarily a chief machinist, to rank Passed Asst. Surg. Clifford R-. Eskey to be surgeon, to rank as such from September 29, 1924. as such from September 8, 1924. Barnett Rashin to be temporarily a chief machlnist, to rank Passed Asst. Surg. ·walter T. Harrison to be surgeon, to rank as such from October 1, 1924. as such from October 26, 1924. Torleif Hansen to be tempOl'arny· a chief machinist, to rank Passed Asst. Sm·g. Rolla E. Dyer to be surgeon, to rank as as such from October 3. 1924:. such from October 31, 1924. Edward G. Davis to ·be tetnporarily a chief machinist, to Passed Asst. Surg. Charles Armstrong to be surgeon, to 1·ank 11·ank as such from November 7, 1924. as such from October 27, 1924. David :M. Moore to be temporarily a chlef machinist, to t·ank Passed Asst. Surg. Justin K. Fuller to be surgeon, to rank as · as such from October 17, 1924. such from October 27, 1924. James M. Cahill to be temporarily a chief machinist, to rank · Passed Asst. Surg. . Vance B. Murray to be surgeon, to rank I as such fi·om October 4, 1924. as such from July 26, 1924. Knute P. Floe to be temporarily a chief machinist, to rank Asst. Surg. Lester C. Scully to be passed assistant surgeon, to as such from October 3, 1924. rank as such from 0(!tober 4, 1924. Charles Thrun to be temporarily a chief gunner, to rank as Asst. Surg. Floyd C. Turner to be passed assistant surgeon, 1 such from September 29, 1924. , to rank as such from September 30, 1924. John DeCosta to be temporarily a chief gunner, to rank as Asst. Surg. Marion R-. King to be passed assistant surgeon, such from October 2, 1924. to rank as such from October 4, 1924. Howard D. Brownley to be temporarily a chief pay clerk, to Dr. Edwin H. Carnes to be assistant surgeon, to rank as such rank with but after ensign, to rank as such from September from November 3, 1924. 29, 1924. Dr. Lucius F. Badger to be assistant surgeon, to rank as such Robert Grassow to be temporarily a chief warrant carpenter, from date of oath. to rank with but after ensign, to rank as such from October These officers are now serving under temporary commissions 4, 1924. issued during tbe recess of the Senate. · Herbert F. Rowland to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as llEGISTERS OF THE LA-~D OFFICE such fi·om October 25, 1924. William H. H. Heckman, of California, to be register of the Irving E. Baker to be temporarily an ensign, to rank as such land office at Eureka, Calif., in· accordance with· the provl.sions from October 25, 1924. of the Interior Department appropriation act approved June 5, Cadet Alfred C. Richmond to be an ensign, to rank as such 1924. from October 1, 1924. James J. Don~gan, of Oregon, to be register of the land office Cadet Walter R. Richards to be an ensign, to rank as such at Burns, Oreg., in .accordance with the provisions of the Inte from October 1, 1924. rior Department appropriation act approved June 5, 1924. Cadet Roy L. Raney to be an ensign, to rank as such from Charles E. Player, of California, register _of the land office October 17, 1924. at Independence, Calif., vice Oliver C. Harper, term expired. Cadet George n. Gelly to be an ensign, to rank as such from William H. Dickinson, of Wyoming, register of the land October 17, 1924. office at Lander, Wyo., vice Irving Vv. Wright, resigned. Cadet Russell E. Wood to be an ensign, to rank as such from John H. Peare, of Oregon, to be register of the land office October 17, 1924. at La Grande, Oreg., effective upon completion of consolidation Cadet Clarence H. Peterson to be an ensign, to rank as such in accordance with provisions of Interior Department appro from October 17, 1924. priation act approved June 5, 1924. Cadet James A. Hirshfield to be an ensign, to rank as such from October 17, 1924. PROMOTIONS IN THE REGULAR ARMY Cadet Joseph D. Conway to be an ensign, to rank as such TO BE COLONELS from October 17, 1924. Lieut. Col. Leon LaGrange Roach, Infantry, from June 19, Cadet Charles W. J...~awson to be an ensign, to rank as such 1924. from October 17, 1924-. Lieut. Col. Horace Potts Hobbs, Infantry, from July 1, 1924. Cadet Frank T. Kenner to be an ensign, to 1·ank as such Lieut. Col. Louis Joseph Van Schaick, Infantry, from July 1, from October 17, 1924. 1924. Cadet George C. Carlstedt to be an ensign, to rank as such IAeut. Col. Edgar Albert :Myer, Infantry, from July 1, 1924. from October 17, 1924. £ieut. Col. Arthur Morson Shipp, Infantry, from July 19, Cadet John Rounti·ee to l>e an ensign, to rank as such from 1924. October 17, 1924. Lieut. Col. Joseph William Beacham, jr., Infantry, from Cadet 'Villiam W. Kenner to be an ensign, to rank as snell July 21, 1924. f1·om October 17, 1924. Lieut. Col. Guy Ste-rens Norvell, Cavalry, from July 23, 1924. Cadet Stephen P. Swicegood, jr., to be an ensign, to rank as · Lieut. Col. Robert Hayes Wescott, Infantry, from July 24, . ·uch from October 17, 1924. 1924. Cadet Henry C. Pt>rkins to be an ensign, to rank as such Lieut. Col. Allen Parker, Infantry, from August 1, 1924. from October 24, 1024. Lieut. Col. Allen Smith, jr., Infantry, from August 22, 1924. Cadet Paul ,V. Collins to be an ensign, to rank as such from Lieut. Col. Frank Burson Hawkins, Infantry, from Septembe~ October 24, 1924. 20, 1924. Cadet Harold S. Berdine to be an ensign, to rank as such Lieut. Col. Paul Trapier Hayne, Adjutant General's Depart from October 24, 1924. ment, fi·om September 25, 1924. Cadet Charles wr. Thomas to be an ensign, to rank as such Lieut. Col. Fred Erskine Buchan, Cavah·y, from September from October 24, 1924. 27, 1924. Cadet Frank A. Leamy to be an ensign, to rank as such Lieut. Col. Edward Albert Sturges, Finance Department, froni from October 24, 1924. October 23, 1924. Cadet John H. Byrd to be an ensign, to rank as such from Lieut. Col. William Luke Luhn, Ca1alry, from November 2, October 24, 1924. . · 1924. Cadet Beckwith Jordan to be an ensign, to rank as such Lieut. Col. Hu Blakemore Myers, Cavalry, from November from October 24, 1924. 3, 1924. Boatswain (life saving) Oswald A. Littlefield to be a dis Lieut. Col. Henry Russell Richmond, Cavalry, from Novem trict sup~rinten llaj. Charles Albert Clark, Quartermaster Corps, from July Capt. Clifford Randall Jones, Coast Artillery Corps, from 11, 1924. October 26, 1924. . Maj. Rober-t Louis Moseley, lnfantry, from 1uly 1, 1924. Capt. John Beugnot Wogan, Field Artillery, from November Maj. Aristides Moreno, Infantry, from July 1, 1924. 2, 1924. Maj. William Lay Patterson, Infantry, from July ~9, 1924. Capt. Olesen Henry Tenney, Coast Artillery Corps, from Maj. Charles Edward Wheatley, Coast Artillery Corps, from November 3, 1924. July 21, 1921. Capt. Clifford Barrington King, Field Artillery, from Novem Maj. Earl Biscoe, Coast Artillery Corps, from July 23, 1924. ber 4, 1924. Maj. William Scott W 1 November 26, 102~. 22, 1924. TO BE MAJORS First Lieut. Philip Doddridge, Infantry, from June 24, 1924. First Lieut. Chilion Farrar Wheeler, Air Servi-ee, from June Capt. Joseph Taggart 1\lcNarney, .Air Service, from June 16, 25, 1924. 1'924. First Lieut. Henry Thomas Kent, Infantry, from June '26, Capt. Pearson Menoher, Cavalry, from .Tune 19, 1924. 1924. Capt: Albert Henry Warren, Coast Artillery Corps, from June First Lieut. James Arthur Boyers, Infantry, from June '27, ! 22, 1924. 1924. Capt. Omar Nelson Bradley, Infantry, from June 25, 1924. Fh·st Lieut. Evan Kirkpatri~k Meredith, Infantry, from July t Capt. Paul John Mueller, Infantry, from June 26, 1924. 1, 1924. i Capt. Leland Stanford Hobbs; Infantry, from July 1, 1924. Fh·st Lieut. Howard John Liston, Infantry, from July 1, : Capt. John Frederick Kahle, Coast Artillery Corps, from July 1924. , 11, 1924. First Lieut. Charles Marton Thirlkeld, Field Artillery, from I Capt. Edwin Bowman Lyon, Air Service, from July 1, 1924. July 1, 1924. Capt. Reinold Melberg, Coast Artillery Corps, from July 1, First Lieut. William Robert Carlson, Coast Artillery Corps, : m4. . from July 1, 1924. Capt. Clarence Brewster Lindner, Coast Artillery Corps, from First Lieut. Ernest Thomas Jones, Infantry, from July 2, • July 3, 1924. 1924. Capt. John Henry Cochran, Coast Artillery Corps, from July First Lieut. Harry Womersley Ostrander, Coast Artillery 19, 1924. - Corps, from July 3, 1924. Capt. Carl Conrad Bank, Field Artillery, from July 21, 1924. First Lieut. Melville Stratton C1·eusere, Field Artillery, from Capt. Charles Calvert Benedict, Air Service, from July 23, July 3, 1924. 1924. First Li-eut. Clarence Flagg Murray, Field Artillery, from Capt. Vernon Evans, Infantry, from July 24, 1924. July 6, 1924. Capt. Roscoe Barnett Woodruff, Infantry, from August 1, First Lieut. Perry Cole Ragan, Infantry, from July 8, 1924. 1924. First Lieut. James Cave Crockett, Infantry, from July 19, Capt. Joseph J .esse Teter, Coast Artillery Corps, from August 1924. 10, 1924. First Lieut. Philip Dunbar Terry, Coast Artillery Corps, Capt. Lewis Clarke Davidson, Infantry, from August 22, 1924. from July 19, 1924. Capt. Dwight David Eisenhower, Infantry, from August 26, First Lieut. Charles Carroll Knight, jr., Field Artillery, 1924. from July 21, 1924. Capt. Harold William James, Infantry, from August 26, 1924. First Lieut. Joseph Vincent Thebaud, InfuntJ.·y, from July Capt. George Hume Peabody, Air Service, from September 23, 1924. 18, 1924. First Lieut. George Willis Norris, Signal Corps, from July Capt. Martin John o~Brlen, Coast Arb.llery Corps, from 24, 1924. September 20, 1924. First Lieut. Ira Augustus Hunt, Infantry, from July 29, Capt. Joseph Cumming Haw, Coast Artillery Corps, fl·om 1924. September 20, 1924. First Lieut. Paul Parker Logan, Infantry, from August 1, Capt. James Basevi Ord, Infantry, from September 20, 1924. 1924. Capt. Earl Larue Naiden, Air Service, from September 25, First Lieut. Jesse James France, Field Artillery, from 1924. August 10, 1924. Capt. Henry McElderry Pendleton, Cavalry, from Septem First Lieut. Armand Sherman Miller, Field Artillery, from ber 27, 1924. August 21, 1924. • Capt. Iverson Brooks Summers, jr., Adjutant General's De First Lieut. Thomas Henry, Infal:itry, from August 22, partment, from October 1, 19U. 1924. Capt. Edmund de Treville Ellis, Quarterma-ster Corps, from First Lieut. Earl Hamlin PeFord, Air Service, from August October 5, 1924. 26, 1924. Capt. Robert William Strong, Cavalry,- from October 23, First Lieut. Peter Powell Rodes, Field Artillery, from 1924. August 26, 1924. 1924 OONGRESSION AL R,ECORD-SENATE 45 First Lieut. Frank Martin Smith, Infantry, from September Second Lieut. Sterling Eugene Whitesides, jr., Infantry, 3, 1924. from June 22, 1924. First Lieut. John Carl Cook, ·Field Artillery, from September Second Lieut. Lewis Stone Sorley, jr., Infantry, from June 3, 1924. 24, 1924. ~ First I.... ieut. Herbert William Garrison, Infantry, from ·Sep· Second Lieut. Albert Coady Wedemeyer, Infantry, from June tember 3, 1924. 24, 1924. . First Lieut. Burdette Shields Wright, Air Service, from Second Lieut. David Best Latimer, Coast Artillery Corps, September 18, 1924. from June 25, 1924. F irst Lieut. Arthur Kay Chambers, Coast Artillery Corps, Second Lieut. Roswell Boyle Hart, Infantry, from June 25, from September 19, 1924. 1924. First Lieut. Paul Thomas Hogge, Infantry, from Septembe.r Second Lieut. Halvor Hegland Myrah, Coast Artillery Corps, 20, 1924. from June 26, 1924. First Lieut. Dale Cla1·ence Hall, Ordnance Department, from Second Lieut. Herbert Joseph Riess~ Infantry, from June 27, September 20, 1924. 1924. . First Lieut. Charles Summers Miller, Cavalry, from Septem Second Lieut. Henry Ignatius Szymanski, Infantry, from ber 20, 1924. July 1, 1924. First Lieut. Eugene Edwin Hagan, Quartermaster Corps, Second Lieut. Frederick Brenton .Porter, Field Artillery, from September 25, 1924. from July 1, 1924." First Lieut. Joseph Edward · Schillo, Quartermaster Corps, Second Lieut. Bryan Sewall Halter, Infanb.·y, from July 1, from September 27, 1924. 1924. First Lieut. Jolin Moody Tuther, Quartermaster Corps, fro·m Second Lieut. Charles Raymond Gross, Infantry, from July October 1, 1924. 2, 1924. First Lieut. Joseph Henry Burgheim, Infantry, from October Second Lieut. Charles Hardy Hart, jr., Infantry, from July 5, 1924. 3, 1924. First Lieut. John Palmer Harris, Ordnance Department, from Second Lieut. Adolphus 'Rankin McConnell, Air Service, from October 5, 1924. July 3, 1924. First Lieut. Fred Thomson Bass, Corps of Engineers, from Second Lieut. George DeVere Barnes, Quartermaster Corps, October 7, 1924. from July 3, 1924. First Lieut. Andrew Jackson ·Patterson, Infantry, from Octo Second Lieut. Paul Robert Menzies Miller, Field Artillery, ber 18, 1924. from July 6, 1924. First .Lieut. Rufus Alexander Byers, Infantry, from October Second Lieut. Albert Smith .Rice, Infantry, .from July 8, 1924. 23, 1924. Second Lieut. Charles Linton Williams, Air Service, from First Lieut. George Edwin Adamson, Quartermaster Corps, July 19, 1924. . from October 26, 1924. Second Lieut. Charles Ream Jackson, Coast Artillery Corps, First Lieut. Charles A. Morrow, Quartermaster Corps, from from July 19, 1924. November 1, 1924. Second Lieut. Charles Leslie Keerans, jr., Infantry, from First Lieut. Edward Oscar Schairer, Quartermaster Corps, July 21, 1924. from November 2, 1924. Second Lieut. Fred Cleveland Fishback, Air Service, from rFirst Lieut. -Charles Muller, Infantry, from November 3, 1924. July 23, 1924. First Lieut. Alfred Henry Thiessen, Signal Corps, from No Second Lieut. George Oliver Roberson, Air Service, from vember 4, 1924. July 23, 1924. First Lieut. Claude Evan Gray, Finance Department, from Second Lieut. Kenneth Newton Walker, A:ir Service, f.rom November 4, 1924. • July 24, 1924. First Lieut. Horace Nevil Reisen, Air Service, •from Novem Second Lieut. John Lawrence Hanley, Coast Artillery Corps, ber 5, 1924. from July 29, 1924. First Lieut. Aubrey Irl Eagle, Air Service, from November Second Lieut. Stanley Hunsicker Hunsicker, Quartermaster 7, 1924. Corps, from August 1, 1924. 1First Lieut. Jacob J. Van Putten, jr., Finance Department, Second Lieut. Neal Henry McKay, Quartermaster Corps, from November 10, 1924. from August 10, 1924. First Lieut. Harvey Weir Cook, Air Service, from November Second Lieut. Stanleigh Megargee, Quartermaster Corps, 11, 1924. from Augu t 14, 1924. First Lieut. Charles Summer "Reed, Ordnance Department, Second Lieut. Oscar Leslie Rogers, Air Service, from August from November 14, 1924. 21, 1924. First Lieut. Raymond Clair Hildreth, Signal Corps, from Second Lieut. Roger Frederic O'Leary, Quartermaster Corps, November 16, 1924. from August 21, 1924. First Lieut. David ·Emery Washburn, Signal Corps, from Second Lieut. Samuel Perham Mills, Air Service, from November 20, 1924. August 24, 1924. First Lieut. Bernard Edward McKeever, Quartermaster Second Lieut. Edgar Theodore Selzer, Air Service, from Corps, from November 21, 1924. August 26, 1924. First Lieut. Michael James Byrne, Infanb.·y, from November Second Lieut. Albert Joseph Lubbe, Signal Corps, from 23, 1924. August 26, 1924. First Lieut. William George Muller, Infantry, from No Second Lieut. George Raymond Ensminger, Ordnance Depart vember 26, 1924. ment, from August 26, 1924. Second Lieut. John Bicknell Luscombe, Quartermaster Corps, TO BE FIRST LIEUTENANTS from August 30, 1924. ·second Lieut. Harold Robert Emery, Infantry, from June 3, Secon(\. Lieut. Charles Harold Howard, Air Service, from 1924. August 30, 1924. Second Lieut. David Sanderson 'McLean, Infantry, from Second Lieut. Edward Alton Hillery, Air Service, from - June 11. 1924. September 1, 1924. Second Lieut. William Joseph Meroney, Infantry, from Second Lieut. Hugh Sydney Hai·pole, Quartermaster Corps, June 14, 1924. from September 3, 1924. Second Lieut. Russell Lowell Williamson, Air Service, from Second Lieut. Homer 'Villiam Jones, Quartermaster Corps, June 16, 1924. from September 3, 1924. Second Lieut. Howard Dohla Johnston, Infantry, from June Second Lieut. Everett Sanford Davis, Air Service, from 16, 1924. September 3, 1924. Second Lieut. Franklin Leroy Rash, Infantry, from June Second Lieut. Frank Egerton Powell, Quartermast~r Corps, 17, 1924. from September 3, 1924. Second Lieut. Edgar Harvey Snodgrass, Infantry, 'from June Second Lieut. Bradford Nelson Heauley, (luartermaster 17, 1924. Corps, from September 4, 1924. Second Lieut. Glaude Birkett Ferenbaugh, Infantry, from Second Lieut. Frederick Irving Patrick, Air Service, from r June 18, 1924. September 6, 1924. Second Lieut. Adna Chaffee Hamilton, Infantry, from ·June Second Lieut. Donald Reuben Goodrich, Air Service, from 19, 1.924. September 17, 1924. Second Lieut. Harold Stuart Ruth, Infantry, from J11ne Second Lieut. Carl Henry Barrett, ..lli Service, from Septem 22, 1924. ber 18, 1924. 46 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE DECEl\IDER 2 Second Lieut. Francis Hill Kuhn, Quartermaster Corps, self-denying service. Teach us, 0 Lord, that he has not from September 18, 1924. learned the vital lesson of life who fails to conquer fear. In Second Lieut. John Daniel O'Connell, Quartermaster Corps, our labors, in our devotion to duty, in our broad outlook upon from Septemher 19, 1924. the needs of our country, may we find the title to our place Second Lieut. Harold Brand, Air Service, from September 20, and honor. Amen. 1924. ~ The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and . Second Lieut. Edward Watson Kelley, Infantry, from Sep approved. tember 20, 1924. Second Lieut. Claud Thomas Gunn, Coast Artillery Corps, REPORT FROM COMMITTEE 0~ RIVERS .AND HARBORS from September 20, 1924•. l\Ir. DE:\IPSEY. l\lr. Speaker, I wish to file a privileged Second Lieut. Herbert Benjamin 'Vilcox, Infantry, f-rom report (H. Rept. 581) from the Committee on Rivet·s and Har September 27, 1924. bors. The .report was filed previously through inadvertence Second Lieut. Robert Milton Eicbelsdoerfer, Cavalry, from through the basket, and in order to retain the privilege to which October 1, 1924. · the bill is entitled it is necessary to report it from tile :floor. Second Heut. Otto l\1ax Jank, Coast Artillery Corps, from The SPEAKER. Is it a bill authorizing projects? October 3, 1924. l\Ir. DEMPSEY. It is. Second Lieut. Paul Evert, Air Sen-ice, from October 5, 1924. The SPEAKER. The gentleman fi·om New York submits a . Second Lieut. Paul Americus Harris, Coast Artillery Corps, privileged report from the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, from October 5, 1924. which the Clerk will report. Second Lieut. Jefferson Cleveland Campbell, Field Artillery, ~'he Clerk read as follows: 1 from October 7, 1924. Mr. DEMPSEY, from the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, reports Second Lieut. Hugh Franklin Conrey, Field Artillery, from the following bill: ".A. bill (H. R. 8914) authorizing construction of October 8, 1924. certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes." Second Lieut. Edwin Clark l\laling, Infantry, from October ' 9, 1924. 1\fr. GARRETT of Tennessee. 1\Ir. Speaker, I do not know Second Lieut. Richard Head Trippe, Infantry, from October that it is necessary, but as a matter of course I 1·eserye all ! 11, 1924. points of order on the bill. ~ Second Lieut. 0. D. Wells, Infantry, from October 18, 1924. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE uNITED STATES Second Lieut. Frank Celestine 1\leads, Coast Artillery Corps, A message, in writing, from the President of the United I from October 19, 1924. States, by 1\Ir. Latta, one of his secretaries. ; Second Lieut. Paul Wallace Cole, Coast Artillery Corps, ENROLLED BILLS .AND JOINT RESOLUTION SIG:.\ED 1 from October 23, 1924. Mr. ROSENBLOOM, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, 1 Second Lieut. Everett Samuel Prouty, Infantry, from October I 26, 1924. reported that they had examined and found truly enrolled 'I Second Lieut. Charles Speir Lawrence, Infantry, from Octo bills of the following titles, when the Speaker signed the same: ber 26, 1924. H. R. 9561. An act making additional appropriations for the Second Lieut. John Corwin Shaw, Infantry, from October fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, to enable · the beads of the 26, 1924. several departments and independent establishments to adjust Second Lieut. William Cadwalader Price, jr., Field Artil the rates of compensation of civilian employees in certain of lery, from October 29, 1924. the field services ; Second Lieut. Clarence l\lattbew Tomlinson, Infantry, from H. R. 6426. An act granting pensions and increase of pensions November 2, 1924. to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular A.I·my and Navy, Second Lieut. Eugene Reedy Guild, Coast Artillery Corps, and certain soldiers and sailors of wars other than the Civil from November 3, 1924. War, and to widows of such soldiers and sailors; · Second Lieut. Julian Buckner Haddon, Air Service, from S. 2265. An act to provide for a rearrangement of the public November 4, 1924. alley facilities in square 616 in the District of Columbia, and Second Lieut. Claude Delorum Collins, Infantry, from Novem for other purposes; ber 4, 1924. S. 3397. An act to remit the duty on a carillon of bells to be Second Lieut. William Hugh Bul'ns, Coast .Artillery Corps, imported for the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, Provi from November 5, 1924. dence, R. I.; and Second Lieut. William Eldridge Moore, Quartermaster Corps, S. J. Res. 85. Joint resolution authorizing an appropriation from November 7, 1924. for the participation of the United States in the preparation Second Lieut. Clem Oliver Gunn, Coast Artillery Corps, from and completion of plans for the comprehensive observance of November 10, 1924. that greatest of all historic events, the bicentennial of the Second Lieut. Wilber Russell Ellis, Coast Artillery Corps, birthday of George "~ ashington. from November 11, 1924. <>RDER OF BUSINESS Second Lieut. Donald Weldon Brann, Infantry, from Novem l\Ir. LONGWORTH. 1\Ir. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent ber 14, 1924. that Calendar 'Yednesday, to-morrow, be dispensed with. I Second Lieut. George Bernhard Anderson, Coast Artillery will give my reasons for making the request if I may have the Corp·, from November 16, 1924. attention of the minority leader. I am informed that the Second Lieut. Walter John "rolfe, Coast Artillery Cqrps, Committee on Naval Affairs, which has the call to-morrow, is from November 19, 1924. not quite ready with its bill, which is a Yery · important one. Second Lieut. Roswell Emory Round, Infantry, from Novem That is true also of the Committee on the Post Office and Post· ber 20, 1924. Roads, which bas the next · call. If unanimous consent should Second Lieut. Clyde Harrison Lamb, Infantry, from Novem be given.to do away with the day, I am also informed that the ber 21, 1924. Appropriations Committee will be ready to begin consideration Second Lieut. Fred Ross Cowan, Quartermaster Corps, from of the Interior Department appropriation bill on 'Yednesday, ' November 21, 1924. and I think it is in the interest of the dispatch of the business Second Lieut. Lester Frank Watson, Quartermaster Corps, of the House if we can dispense with Calendar 'Vedne day from November 23, 1924. to-morrow. Second Lieut. William Edwin Yecqueray, Quartermaster The SPEAKER. The gentleman fl'om Ohio a ks unanimous Corps, from NoYember 26, 1924. consent that the business of Calendar Wednesday on to-morrow be dispensed with. Is there objection? 1\Ir. GARRETT of 'rennessee. l\Ir. Speaker, reserving the HOUSE OF REPRESEN"TATIYES right to object, I have no disposition at all to object to that arrangement, but I would like to ask the gentleman from TUESDAY, Decen~ber 93, 1924 Ohio about the program for the remainder of the "eek. As I Tile House met at 12 o'clock noon. understand, the President's message will be read to-morrow, The Chaplain, Rev. James Sbera Montgomery, D. D., offel'ed and the Appropriations Committee will have the remainder of the day. Will there be anything during the remainder of the the following prayer : week aside from the consideration of the appropriation bill? - Our Hea,enly Father, grant us this day strength of mind 1\Ir. LONGWORTH. So far as I know, there is nothing ex and heart that we may have fidelity and courage to overcome cept the appropriation· bill. difficulties and bear valiantly our responsibilities. Help us to Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee. That will be the consideration catch the strain of the l\Ian of Galilee in disinterested and of the Interior Department appropriation bill?