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1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 8723 Mso, petition of J. G. Munson, of San Jose, Cat.,. against Also, petition of the Union Electric Supply Co., of Providence, passage of Oldfield bill to change patent lHws; to the· ...Com­ R. I., protesting against the passage of the Oldfield bill, for mittee on Patents. maintaining resale prices; to the Committee on Patents. Also, petition of Siln.s W. Mack~ of Monterey, Cal., favoring By Mr. WEBB: Petition of citizens and the Daughters of Lib­ passage of Kenyon-Sheppard bill; to the Committee on the erty of Jonas Ridge, N. C., favoring passage of bills restrict­ Judiciary. ing immigration; to the Committee on Immigration and Na tu- · Also, petition of Guy F. Slaughter, of San Francisco, Cal., ralization. favoring House bill 718, relative to providing military aviators; By Mr. WILSON of New York: Memorial of the National to the Committee on .Military .Affairs. Guard Association of the State of New Yor~ at Albany, N. Y., Also, petition of the Daughters of Liberty of San Francisco, favoring passage of the militia pay bill; to the Committee on Cal, favoring passage of House bill 22527, for restrictton of Military Affairs. · immigration; to the Committee ·on Immigration and Naturali­ Also, memorial of the Hebrew Veterans of the War with zation. Spain and the Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund of the B.Y Mr. HIIili: Petition of the Workmen's Sick and Death United States of America, at New York City, again t passage of Benefit Fund of America, protesting against the passage of bills restricting immigrution; to the Committee on Immigration Hou e bill 22527, for restriction of: immigration; to the Com­ and Naturalization. mittee on Immigration and Naturalization. Also, papers to accompany bill relati-ve to Owen Farrell, Company I, Seventh Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry; SEN.A.TE. to the Committee on Military .Affairs. By Mr. HUGHES of New Jersey: Memorial of the Work­ TUESDAY, July 9, 19n. men's Sick and Death Benefit Fund of the United States of (Continuation of legislative day of Satitrday, July 6, 1912.) America, at New York City, against passage of bills restricting At 11 o'clock a. m., on the expiration of the recess, the Senate immigration; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturaliza­ reassembled. tion. I Ur. SMOOT.. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a By Mr. KINKEAD of New Jersey: Petition of James Scott, 1 of Jersey City, N. J., favoring passage of bills restricting im­ quorum. migration; to the Committee· on Immigration and Naturaliza­ The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Utah tion~ suggests the absence of a quorum, and the roll will be called. By lli. LA FOLLETTE : Petition of citizens of the State of The Secretary called the roll, and the following Senators Wa hington, favoring passage of the Goeke bill (H. R. 19133), answered tO' their names : for postal express system; to the Committee on Interstate and Ashurst Crane J ohnston, Ala. Simmons Bacon Crawford J ones Smith, Mich. Foreign Commerce. Bourne Culberson Lea Smith, S. C. By Ur. J\IAHER: P etition of the Hebrew Vetexans of the Briggs Cullom Lodge Smoot War with Spain, New York, protesting against the passage of Bristow Curtis Lorimer Stephenso!l Brown Dillingham McCumber Thornton House bill 22527, for restriction of immigration; to the Com­ Bryan du Pont Martin, Va. Tillman mittee on Immigration and Naturalization. Burnham Fletche1· Myers Townsend · Also, petition of the National Guard Association of the State Burton Gallinger Overman Warren Chamberlain Gardner Page Watson ot New York, of Albany, N. Y., favoring passage of the militia Clapp Gronna Perkins Wetmore pay bill; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Clark, Wyo. Gu,,,agenheim Pomerene Williams By Mr. McCOY: Petition of the Pennsylvania Civil Service Clarke, Ark_ Heyburn Shively Works Reform Association, prote ting against the passage of section 5 Mr. THORNTON. I wish to announce the unavoidable ab­ of House bill 24023, making a five-year tenure of office for Gov­ sence of my colleague [Mr. FosTER]. I ask that this announce­ - ernment employees in the District of Columbia ; to the Com­ ment may stand for the day. mittee on Appropriations. l\Ir. JONES. I desire to state that my colleague [.Mr. Porn­ Also, petition of the Patriotic Order Sons of .America, favor­ DEXTEB] is detained by important business. ing pass:rne of House bill 22527, for resh·iction of immigration; ' The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Fifty-two Senators have to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. answered to their names. A quorum of the Senate is present.. Also, petition of the Trenton Chamber of Commerce, protest­ SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS. ing al!ninst the con truction of a bridge south of Trenton. as The Senate re urned the consideration of Senate resolution propo ed by the Pennsylvania Railroad; to the Committee on No. 315, submitted by l\Ir. LEA l\Iay 20, 1912, as follows: Inter tate and Foreign Commerce. Res<!Zved, That corrupt methods and practices were employed in the By Ur. McGILLICUDDY : Petition of Luke A. Spear and election of -WILLIAM LoRIMER to the Senate of the United States from others, favoring passage of bill for creating a postal express; the State of Illinois, and that his election was therefore invalid. to the Committee on the Post Office an.ct. Post Roads. l\fr. FLETCHER. Mr." President, without stopping even to Ily Mr. PAYNE: Petition of the First Baptist Chmch of summarize the points attempted to b.e covered by the discu sion Scipioville, N. Y., favoring passage of the Kenyon-Sheppard in­ up to the time of the recess yesterday, I will take up the terstate liquor bill; to the Committee on the Judiciary. thought then bemg presented and continue as rapidly as pos­ By Mr. STEP~ .... TS of California : . Petition of the California sible to a conclusion. I realize the tax on the Senate a renew State Commission of Horticulture, Sacramento, Oal., favoring of the record in this case imposes, sift the chaff from the grain the pas age of the Simmons bill, establishing a. Federal quar­ as much as we may. It ha been my hope, inasmuch as it was antine against insect and other pests; to the Committee on made my duty to ser:ve on this special committee--and in pur· A c.ricul ture. suance of that duty I was pre ent 93! -days out of the 102 spent in examining the witne es--to sa·rn my colleagues time and By Mr. SCULLY: Memorial of the Hebrew Veterans of the labor by presenting what seemed to me the material and im­ War with Spain and the Wor.kmen's Sick and Death Benefit portant matters in as condensed a form as possible and setti~ Fund of the United States of America, at New York City, forth, as I have done, the pages of the record where the testi­ against passage of bills restricting immigrn..tion; to the Com­ mony referred to can be found. mittee on Immigration and Naturalization. When we recessed I was proceeding to trace somewhat further Alo, memorial of the Daughters of Liberty, of Harmony, the jack pot; then to consider briefly the conditions, political N. J., favoring passage of bills restricting immigration; to the and otherwise, existing at the time of the election, which would Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. include a consideration of the circumstances under which the By Mr. SULZER: :Memorial of the Workmen's Sick and Democrats voted for Mr. LORIMER; then the question of res Death Benefit Association of the United States of America, adjudicata, and to finally how that bipartisan combinations against passage of bills restricting immigration; to the Com­ are· to some extent inevitable in Illinois. I had stated that mittee on Immigration and Naturalization. Holstlaw had said to a. number of members of the legislature Ily :Mr. UTTER~ Petition of the Sarsfield Literary Associa­ that be intended to vote for Mr. Lo&IYER before he had his tion, of Woonsocket, R. I., and citizens of Warnica, R. I., pro­ alleged conversation with Broderick regarding the 2,500. testing against the appointment of a commission for the pur­ Th.e amount paid Holstlaw does not correspond with that pose of celebrating 100 years of peace with England; to the mentioned, as stated, no1" with amounts alleged to have been Committee on Foreign Affairs. pa.id White, Beckemeyer, Lnke, and Link, and there wos no Also, petition of the Rhode Island Chapter of American In­ evidence of activity on the part of Broderick in the senatorial stitute of Architects, protesting against the repeal of the election ; and all the circnmstn.nces, to say nothing of Broder­ Ta.rsney Act, relative to employing Government architects-; to ick's denials, point to these transactions between Broderick and the· Committee on Appropriations. · Holstlaw as separate and distinct flrom the "jack pot" and 8724. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JULY 9, also separate from the senatorial election. The significant fact the underbrush of doubt and uncertainty, hew our own path that Horstlaw posed as a "dry" man and yet carried all the around the natu1·al obstructions unguided to the point fixed only " wet " counties and lost all the " dry " counties in his dis­ by suspicion and inference and preconceived notions? trict, taken in connection ·with Broderick's business and asso­ I have pointed out the beaten route to the true origin of the ciation, would stlikingly indicate that the liquor interests were money distributed. · ta king care of his campaign expenses. This idea is further CONDITIONS, POLITICAL AND OTHERWISE, AT THE TIME AND PLACE OF supported by the fact that Welch, a Republican saloon keeper ELECTION.

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