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1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 709 CONFIRMATIONS including in the REcoRD an editorial The SPEAKER. Is there objection? Executive nomination confirmed by the from the Enid Daily Eagle of February There was no objection. Senate February 6, 1941, as follows: 3, 1941. Mr. TINKHAM. Mr. Speaker, I ask The SPEAKER. Is there objection to unanimous consent to extend my remarks FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY the request of the gentleman from Okla and include a letter published in the Claude Van Parsons to be First Assistant homa? New York Times of this morning. Administrator of the United States Housing There was no objection. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? Authority, Federal Works Agency. Mr. WEISS. Mr. Speaker, I ask There was no objection. unanimous consent to extend my re Mr. MAAS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani marks in the RECORD and to include an mous consent to extend my remarks and article from the Pittsburgh Daily Sun include certain historical quotations. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Telegraph, of Pittsburgh, Pa., of Tues The SPEAKER. Is there objection? day, January 21, 1941. There was no objection. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1941 The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Mr. VOORHIS of California. Mr. The House met at 11 o'clock a. m., and the request of the gentleman from Penn Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to was called to order by the Speaker. sylvania? extend my remarks and to include the The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera There was no objection. proceedings of the Committee on World Montgomery, D. D., offered the following Mr. EDELSTEIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask War Veterans' Legislation in which honor prayer: unanimous consent to extend my re was paid to the chairman of our com marks in the .RECORD and to include a mittee, the gentleman from Mississippi Eternal God, before whom millions resolution adopted by the State Execu [Mr. RANKIN]. bow in praise and adoration, we wait for tive Committee of the American Labor The SPEAKER. Is there objection? that Presence which shall help us to dis Party favoring H. R. 1776. There was no objection. cern clearly and perform faithfully the The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Mr. PATMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask duties which await us. 0 Divine One, the request of the gentleman from New unanimous consent to extend my re walk with us and guard our feet that York? marks and include an address delivered they may not cross the gray wastes of There was no objection. by Mr. L. S. Hulbert, assistant general indecision. Give understanding to our Mr. BLOOM. Mr. Speaker, I make the counsel of the Farm Credit Administra labors and gird us with fortitude for the point of order there is not a quorum tion, delivered at a meeting of the co day, that we may be champions of jus present. operative cannery officials in Chicago tice and challengers of social and polit The SPEAKER. Evidently, there is January 18, 1941. ical iniquity. 0 Master, who art the old not a quorum present. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? way, the new way, anc' the everlasting Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I There was no objection. way, be very real to us. Lay Thy hand move a call of the House. Mr. PLUMLEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask on the breaking heart of this world with A call of the House was ordered. unanimous consent to extend my re its wreck of human l~fe, its .blighted The Clerk called the roll, and the fol marks and to include an address by hopes, and mortal anguish, all unheeding lowing Members failed to answer· to Ralph E. Flanders to the New England of the love and ·the might of an infinite their names: Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association. God. Compass our Republic and this (Roll No.7] The SPEAKER. Is there objection? Congress, appointed of the people, with Bolles Johns Reed, Til. There was no objection. the bands of unity and cooperation, thus Burgin Mason Scanlon Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. Mr. allowing democracy to march victoriously Byron Myers, Pa. Schaefer, Ill. Speaker, I intend to discuss the bill to Celler Norton Sheridan to the new lands of promise. In the holy Clason O'Day Smith, Pa. day under the 5-minute rule. I ask name of our Redeemer. Amen. Crowther Patrick Stearns, N.H. unanimous consent to include as a part Dies Pheiffer, of my remarks certain editorials and The Journal of the proceedings of yes Hartley W111iam T. terday was read and approved. Hess Randolph · statistics. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE The SPEAKER. On this call 407 • There was no objection. Mr. GIFFORD. Mr. Speaker, I ask Members have answered to their names Mr. GEYER of California. Mr. unanimous consent to proceed for 1 min a quorum. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex Mr. BLOOM. Mr. Speaker, I move to tend my own remarks in the RECORD. ute. dispense with The SPEAKER. Is there objection to further proceedings under The SPEAKER. Is there objection? the call. · There was no objection. the request of the gentleman from Mas The motion was agreed to. sachusetts? M~. COFFEE of Washington. Mr. There was no objection. EXTENSION OF REMARKS Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex [Mr. GIFFORD addressed the House. tend my remarks on two different topics, Mr. KLEBERG. Mr. Speaker, in view and in each to include excerpts from His remarks appear in the Appendix of of the fact that I had no opportunity to the RECORD.J magazine articles. speak during the general debate, and that The SPEAKER. Is there objection? EXTENSION OF REMARKS I have hope of speaking under the 5-min ute rule, I ask unanimous consent that There was no objection. Mr. GIFFORD. Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. HOFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to extend my re the consent heretofore granted me may be continued to include a compilation of unanimous consent to extend my remarks marks in the RECORD by including a short and to include three letters. article from an editor friend of mine on certain data which I have prepared and expect to use in my remarks today. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? the bill H. R. 1776. There was no objection. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to The SPEAKER. Is there objection? There was no objection. Mr. DOWNS. Mr. Speaker, I ask the request of the gentleman from Mas unanimous consent to extend my remarks sachusetts? Mr. SWEENEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask ·There was no objection. unanimous consent to extend my remarks and include an editorial. Mr. SHANLEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask and include a statement by Han. John The SPEAKER. Is there objection? unanimous consent to extend my re O'Connor, former chairman of the Com There was no objection. marks in the RECORD by including a mittee on Rules of the House of Repre Mr. SCHWERT. Mr. Speaker, I ask statement on the British Fleet and the sentatives, on the subject Aid to Eng unanimous consent to extend my remarks Aid Memoire. land, Short of-Dictatorship? and include a resolution adopted by the The SPEAKER. Is there objection to The SPEAKER. Is there objection? board of supervisors of Erie County, the request of the gentleman from Con · There was no objection. N. Y.; also to extend my remarks and to necticut? Mr. O'HARA. Mr. Speaker, I ask include a resolution passed by the Com There was no objection. unanimous consent to extend my re mon Council of the City of Ruffalo, N.Y. Mr. RIZLEY. Mr. Speaker, I wish to marks and include an editorial from the The SPEAKER. Is there objection? supplement my remarks of yesterday by Washington News of February 5, 1941. There was no objection. 710 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE FEBRUARY 6 PROMOTION OF DEFENSE OF THE UNITED bill. The origin of this bill is most un take place in the Senate; that this bill STATES certain and mysterious. Practically would go through the usual journey taken Mr. BLOOM. Mr. Speaker, I move that every member of the Cabinet, as wit by any other bill. I believe that had the House resolve itself into the Commit nesses, denied that they had anything to there been any views that no amendment tee of the Whole House o:.:. the state of do with it, except the Secretary of the of any kind would be put on the bill, or the Union for the further consideration Treasury, Mr. Morgent~1au, and, boiled had there been any desire to stop any _ of the bill (H. R. 1776) further to promote down, apparently Mr. Morgenthau and amendment whatsoever, I would know the defense of the United States, and for his aides wrote the bill. about it. I can assure the gentleman other purposes. Then word went out in the press that that at no time was there any such in The motion was agreed to. the bill was to be reported to the Con tention or any such state of mind on the Accordingly the House resolved itself gress in 3 days. It was even intimated part of anyone. Certainly, when I was into the Committee of the Whole House that it might go through the House asked at the outset, I particularly said on the state of the Union for the further before the inauguration. What I want this bill has got to take the same journey consideration of the bill H. R. 1776, with to say to the House is simply this: We and go through the regular legislative Mr. COOPER in the chair. are a part of the Congress of the United processes that any bill must take and go The Clerk read the title of the bill.