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PROCEEDI.NGS AND DEBATES OF THE SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION.
Stanfield Trammell Warren Willis SENATE. Sterling Wadsworth Watson, Ind. Wolcott Swanson Walsh, Mass. Weller :Mo:t\l}AY, April11, 1921. Townsend Walsh, Mont. Williams The first session of the Sixty-s~\enth Congress commenced this Mr. MOSES. I wish to announce the absence of my col day at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, in pursuance of league [Mr. KEYEs], who is detained on business of the Senate. the proclamation of the President of the United States of the Mr. CURTIS. I was requested to announce the absence of 22d day of l\Iarch, 1921. the Senator from Nevada [Mr. 0DDIE] on account of illness. I CALnN CooLIDGE, of 1\lassachusetts, Vice President of the will let this announcement stand for the day. United States, called the Senate to order at 12 o'clock meridian. Mr. HEFLIN. My colleague [Mr. UNDERWOOD] is absent on The Chaplain, Rev. J. J. l\luir, D. D., of the city of Washing account of the serious illness of his mother. ton, offered the following prayer: The VICE PRESIDENT. Eighty-two Senato1·s having an swered to their names, a quorum is present. Our Father and our God, we bless Thee for the privileges SENATORS FROM NEW MEXICO AND SOUTH DAKOTA. granted to us of continued life and the opportunities afforded in the performance of high and solemn tasks. 'Ve pray for Thy Mr. JONES of New Mexico. Mr. Preslclent, I present the guidance this day and through all the sessions of this important certificate of Mr. HoLM 0. BunsuM, appointed a Senator from gathering. We beseech of Thee to give wisdom, the wisdom the State of New Mexico. I ask that his credentials may be read that cometh from Thyself, so that every deliberation may be and that the oath of o1fice may be adminjstered to hlm. guided rightly, and that under Thine own inspiration results The credentials were read and ordered to be filed, as follows : ExECUTIVE OB'FICE, tnay be achie-ved that shall be -for the good of the Nation and Santa Fe, N. Mex., March n, 19U. shall meet Thine appr:oval. Bless each of Thy servants before To the PRESIDENT OF THE SEXATE Thee, and grant Thy blessing to our country, remembering our OF ll'HE U~ITED STATES OF AMERICA: President and all related to the manifold duties of the hour. This is to certify that I, Merritt C. Mechem, governor of the State We ask in Christ our Lord's name. Amen. of New Mexico, have this day appointed HOLM 0. BunsuM United States Senator from the State of New Mexico to fill the vacancy in the rep PROCLA.MATIO"N. resentation of said State in the Senate caused by the resignation of Albert B. l!'all until the people fill such vacancy by election. The VICE PRESIDE~T. The Secretary of the Senate will (SEAL.) MERRITT C. MECHEM, read the proclamation of the President of the United States Governor ot New Mexico. convening Congre ·s in extraordinary session. Atte&t: MANUEL MARTINEZ, The Secretary (George A. Sanderson) read the proclamation, Secretary ot State. as follows: Mr. STERLING. :Mr. President, the credentials of Hon. BY THE PRESIDE:\T OF THE mHTED STATES OF AMERICA-A PROCLAMATION. PETER NoBBECK, a Senator elect from the State of South Dakota, Whereas public interests require that the Congress of the have been received and filed with the Secretary of the Senate. United States should be convened in extra session at 12 o'clock l\fr. NoBBECK is present and ready to take the oath of office. noon on the 11th day of April, 1921, to receive such communica The VICE PRESIDENT. Both Senators will present them tion as may be made by the Executive: selves ·at the desk and receive the oath of office. Now, therefore, I, Warren G. Harding, President of the Mr. BunsuM and Mr. NoRBECK, escorted by Mr. JoKEs of New United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that Mexico and Mr. STERLING, respectively, advanced to the Vice an extraordinary occasion requires the Congress of the United President's desk, and the oath prescribed by law having been States to convene in extra session at the Capitol, in the District administered to them, they took their seats in the Senate. of Columbia, on the 11th day of April, 1921, at 12 o'clock noon, LIST OF SENATORS. of which a~ persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as Members thereof are hereby required to take notice. The list of Senators by States is as follows: Given under my hand and the seal o:f the United States in Alabama.-Oscar W. Underwood and J. Thomas Heflin. the District of Columbia the 22d clay of March, in the year of .Arizona.-Henry F. Ashurst and Ralph H. Cameron. our Lord 1921, and of the independence of the United States the At·kansas.-Joseph T. Robinson and Thaddeus H. Caraway. one hundred and forty-fifth. Oalifornia.-Hiram W. Johnson and Samuel.l\1. Shortridge. (SEAL.] • WARREN G. HARDING. Oolorado.-Lawrence C. Phipps and Samuel D. Nicholson. Oonnecticut.-Frank: B. Brandegee and George P. McLean. By the President: Delaware.-Josiah 0. Wolcott and L. Heisler Ball. · CHARLES E. HUGHES, Florida.-Duncan U. Fletcher and Park Trammell. Secretary of Stale. Georgia.-William J. Harris and Thomas E. Watson. CALL OF THE ROLL. Idaho.-"\Villiam E. Borah and Frank R. Gooding. The \ICE PRESIDE~T. The Secretary will call the roll of IZZinois.-Medill McCormick and William B. McKinley. the Senate for the purpose of ascertaining if a quorum is Indiana. .-James E. Watson and Harry S. New. present. Iowa.-Albert B. Cummins and WilliamS. Kenyon. The reading clerk (John C. Crockett) called the roll, and Kansas.-Charles Curtis and Arthur Capper. the following Sen a tors answered to their names : Kent1lcky.-A. Owsley Stanles- and Richard P. Ernst. Ashurst Ern-st Kendrick Norris Louisiana.-Joseph E. Ransdell and Edwin :;;. Broussard. Ball Fletcher Knox Overman .Maine.-Bert 1\1. IJ'ernald and Frederick Hale. llorah France Ladd . Owen Ht·andegee Frelingbuys~n La Follette Page Maryland.-Joseph I. France and Ovington E. Wellei'. Broussard Gerry Lenroot Penrose Massachusetts.-Heury Cabot Lodge and David I. Walsh. Calder Glass Lodge Phipps . Michigan.-Charles E. Townsend and Truman H. Newberry. Cameron Gooding McCormick Pittman Capper llale McCumber Poindexter Minnesota.-Knute Nelson and Frank B. Kellogg. Caraway Harreld McKellar Pomerene Mississippi.-John Sharp Williams and Pat Harrison. Colt Harris :McKinley Ransdell .Missouri.-James A.. Reed and Selden P. Spencer. Culberson Harrison McLean Reed Cummins Heflin McNary Sheppard Montana.-Henry I,. l\Iyers and Thomas J. Walsh. Curtis Hitchcock Moses Shortridge Nebmslca.-Gilbert M. Hitchcock and George W. Norris. Dial .Johnson Myers Simmons N evada.-Key Pittman and Tasker L. Oddie. Dillingham .Jones, X. 1\fex. Nelson Smith Ji:dge .Jones, "'a b. New Smoot New Hampshire.-George H. Moses and Henry W. Keyes. Elkins Kellogg Nicholson Spencer New Jersey.-Joseph S. Frelinghuysen and Walter E. Edge. 75 , .... ., l 76 OONGRESSION AL RECORD-SEN ATE. APRIL 11,
New Mexico.-Andrieu A. Jone. nna Holm 0. Btusum. reason to suppose that in two hours the House will be able to New York._:Jam.es W. \Vadsworth,jr,, and William .M.. ·Calder. .effect its ~rganization ; at least, I info:.med myself from what North Carolina.-F. l\1. Simmons and Lee S. Overman. ,I presumed was the best authority to that effect. If we meet No1·th Dakota.-Porter J. McCumber and Edwin F. Ladd. at half past 2 it will be very easy to take another recess, should Ohio.-Atlee Pomerene and Frank B. Willis. it be necessary. 07-lahoma.-Robert L. Owen -and J. \V. Harreld. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on the motion of 01·egon.-Oharles L . .l\1c...~ary and Robert N. Stanfield. the Senator from Mas achusetts that the Senate take a rec Penn81Jl'Vwtia.-lloies Penro e and Philander C. Knox. until 2..30 p. m. Rhode Isla.nd.-LeBaron B. Colt and Peter G. Gerry. The motion was agreed to; and (at 12 o'clock and. 17 minutes Sou,th Carolina.-Ellison D. Smith and Nathaniel 13. DiaL p. m.) tl.Je Senate took a recess until 2 o'clock and 30 minutes South Dakota.-Thomas Sterling and Peter Norbeck. p. m., when it reassembled. Tennessee.-Jobn K. Shields and Kenneth 1\IcKella:r. CALL OF THE ROI.L. Texas.-Charles A. Culberson and Morris Sheppard. Utah.-Reed Smoot and William H. King. l\lr. Sl\lOOT. l\Ir. Presid,ent,, I ~uggest -the absence of a Vermont.-William P. Dillingham and O.arroll S. Page. quorum. • , .. ;~ - .., .,.,, .. Vir·ginia".-Claude A. Swanson and OurteT Gln.ss. 'l'he VICE PRE~IDENT . . T,he Secretary will call the roll. Washington.-WesleY L . .Jones and Mile PoindexteT. The roll was called, and the fo1lowing Senators ans"·ered to West Virginia.-Howard Sutherland and Davis Elkins. their names : 1-Visco-nsin.-Robert 1\L Ln. Follette .and Ir\ine L. Lenroot. -Aslmrst Gooding NcKellar· Sheppard Ball Hale .McKinley Shortridge Wyoming.--F.rancis .E. Warren 81ld .John .B. Kendrick. Bra.ndegee Harreld McLean Simmons NO'I'IFTC.A.TION 'TO THE :H.OIJSE. .Broussard Harris 1\fcNa.t:y Smith 'Bursum 'Harrison Moses moot 1\ir. 'LODGE. Jvir. 'Presiden1;, I send to the desk the 1:ollo\Y'ing Calder Heflin Myer Spencer resolution for which I ask immedlnte•.consideration. Cameron Ritchcoek Nelson Stanli.eld . The VICE PRESIDE..~. ~ Secretm-y mil read the l'{'Solu- ~~f:Uy ~g~~:.0~. l\Iex. ::.r~olson ~~sfn bon. . 1 C{)lt .Jones, Wash. Norbeck .Trammell The A sistant Secretary (Henry l\1. ..Rose') :read .tbe :resolution 1\Ir. LODGE. I ha-ve no ohjedion to the Senator -addressing of Columbia on the 11th day 'Of April, 1921, at 12 o'clock -noon_, the Senate on the snl~. tax, but as we have a unanimous-con- of which all persons who sball at that time be entitled to act sent agreem<'nt in rega.rd t:o the time for the consideration 'Of as Members thereof n!'e hereby required to take oHce. the treaty ''"itll Ooloml)in, I think it is my duty to call it up Given under my hand and the seal of the United States in to-moiTO''"· the District of Columbia the 22d day of March, 1n tbe year of 1\fr. PENTIOSE. 'rhe Senator from l\lassa'Chusetts, the ·chair- our Lord 1921, and of the independence of the United States ., mnn of tllc Committee on F-oreign Relations, has given notlee the one hundred and foxty-:fiftb. that he intend~ o di-senss the treaty with Colombia. There [SEAL.] W AHREN G. HARDING. will not then be the slightest difficulty in the Senator from Utah By the President: addre ·sing himself 1.o the treaty and discussing the sales tax. CHARLES E. HuGirns, l\ir. LODGE. Under the practice of the 3enate that is very Sec-retary of State. true. The CLERK. The Chaplain of the House of the Sixty-sixth l\lr. Sl\100T. The Senator from Utah did not know whether Congress will now offer prayer. we were goiug to haTe -an open executive session or not. II I Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., Chaplain of the House had understood that the treaty was to be discussed in open of the Sixty-sixth C-ongress, offered the following prayer: executiYe session, of course I would not have asked the question. 1\lr. LODGE. I shall make n motion, as I think I stated. to Almighty God, our heavenly Fnther, we still live, because Tby have the treaty taken up in open -executive session. · mercy and goodness never fall us. \Ve are grateful that we are l\Ir. KELLOGG. .Ur. President, in executive session on the still in Thy remembrance. May we never feel the shadow of last day of the special session of the Senate I gaTe notice that Thy frown. on the :first day of this session I would, with the permission of 1\lay this time be the hour of our reconsecration to the needs the Senate, addres it on the Colombian treaty; .but as the and to the call of our country. May the tires of our devotion Senator from 1\Iassa-clmsett.. , the chairman of the ·Committee on be rekindled upon the altars of all our hearts, and thus may Foreign Relations, desires to address the Senate at that time, I we be bound by every -energy and passion of our beings. Thus should like to give notice that at the conclusio.n of his remarks, bless our country with great peace, plenty, and prosperity. or at least on Wednesday DlO'I1ling, I shall ask tbe permission Give wisdom to all our deliberations, and may we give willing of the Senate to mak-e an au:dress on the subject. obedience to every indication of Thy divine will and holy pur- 1\Ir. POMERENE. Mr. President-- pose. The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senat<>I" from .Mnssachu- Upon the President, upon our beloved land, upon this National setts yield to the Senator from Ohio? Congress, upon .every citizen let Thy richest blessing fall and 1\lr. LODGE. I yield to the Senator. I was about to make a abide, impartial and Tetreshing as the sunlight; thr-ough Je-sos motion to adjourn. Christ, our Lord. Amen. 1\Ir. P01\1ERE:NE. In view Of the notice which has been given CALL OF THE BOLL BY STATES. by the Senator fr,)lll :Minnesota, I wish also to give notice that The CLERK. The Olerk will .now call the roll alphabetically at tlle conclusion of his address I -desire to submit some observa- by States of Representatives elect to the Sixty-seventh Con t ion s on the Colombi_an treaty. l!ress whose credentinls have been tiled accordion- to la to 1\lr. LODGE. I .'Vlll stat~ that sever~l Senat?rs have spoken . determine whether a quorum is present. ~;. w, to me about the 1Dtroduction of mOI·mng busmess. That, of The Clerk called the roll, and the following Members eleet an- course, can take place to-morrow morning before the President's swered to their names: message is deliver•oo, but I think until we have notified tlre Presi- ALABAMA. dent \Ve should not ente~.· on any routine business. I now move John l\fcDuffie. Lilius B. Rainey. that tlle Senate a-djourn. John R. Tyson. Edward B. Almon. Mr. KNOX. BefOI'e llie motion is put I should like to give a Henry B. Steagall. George Huddleston. William B. Bowling. William B. Bankhead, notice. I nnder'.. tand the Senator from Massa-chusetts has -given William B. Oliver. notice that he will -speak -on th~ Colombian treaty to-morrow. ARIZONA. :.'\lr. LODGE. That is my intention. Carl llayden. Mr. KNOX. Anti the enator from Minnesota {Mr. KELI..ooo] ARK.WSAS. will follow him -either to-morrow or the day following, and th~ William J. Driver. Otis Wingo. Senator from Ohio [Mr. PoMERENE] has given notice that he William A. Oldfield. Hence M. Jaeoway. will follow the Senator from Minnesota. I should like to give John N. Til1man. Tilman B. Parks. notice that, if agreeable to the Senate, at the conclnsion of the "CALIFOIL'UA. Clarence F. Lea. Henry E. Barbour remarks of the Senator from Ohio I shall address the Senate Charles F. Curry. Arthur M. Free. upon the Colombian treaty. Julius Kahn. Walter F. Lineberger. 1\lr. LODGE. I renew my m-otion that the Senate adj-ourn. John I. Nolan. Henry Z. Osborne. John A. Elston. The motion was ~nree