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1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 391] J. B. Phillips to be postmaster at Howe, Tex., in place of KANSAS. Laban B. Ruth. Incumbent's commission expired April 13, Jefferson Dunham, Little River. 1912. • "W1.lliam A. Matteson, Abilene. R. S. Rike to be postmaster at Farmersville, Tex., in place of Edward W. Morton, deceased. KENTUCKY. Sam D. Seale to be postmaster at Floresville, Tex., in place of Mary .Alice Sweet~, Bardstown. William Reese. Incumbent's commission &pired February 11, NEW JERSEY• . 1913. W. H. Cottrell, Princeton. J. W. White to be postmaster at Uvalde, Tex., in place of Guido R. Goldbeck, resigned. OKLAHOMA. VIRGINIA. 0. H. P. Brewer, Muskogee. William C. Johnston to be postmaster at Williamsburg, Va., OREGON. in place of 'rI:Hnnas C. Peachy. Incumbent's commission. ex Frank S. Myers, Portland. pired. February 9, 1913. Johti E. Rogers to be postmaster at Strasburg, Va., in place of Asbmy Redfern. Incumbent's commission expired January • HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 11, 1913. .Arthur W. Sinclair to be postmaster at Manassas, Va., in TmmsDAY, Ap1il S84, 1913• place of Howard P. Dodge. Incumbent's commission expired The House met at 11 o'clock a. m. January 14, 1913. The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the fol- WASHINGTON. lowing prayer : · F. A. Kennett to be postmaRter at Prosser, Wash., in place Father in heaven, so move upon our hearts that the Godlike of Thomas N. Henry. Incumbent's commission expired January may be Jn the ascendency as we pass along life's rugged way; 16, 1911. that we may leave in our wake a record of which we may justly W. H. Padley to be postmaster at Reardan, Wash., in pl.ace be proud, which those who sh-a.II come after U!l may follow with ~f Wil!.iam H. McCoy. Incumbent's commission expired Jan impunity; that at the end ~f our earthy sojourn we may be uary 28, 1913. fully prepared to enter upon the work which waits on us in the WEST ITRGINIA. great beyond. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the Ta bott H. Buchanan to be postmaster at Wellsburg, W. Va., glory forever. Amen. in place of William R. Miller. Incumbent's commission expired The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and February 4, 1912. approved. Jerry W. Dingess to be postmaster at Huntington, W. Va., in THE NATURAL CONDITION OF LAKE TAHOE. place of Jamf's W. Hughes. Incu:mbent's commission expired Mr. RAKER. Mr. Speaker-- February 3, 1913. The SPEAKER. For wnat purpose does the gentleman from California rise? CONFIRMATIONS. Mi·. RAKER. Mr. Speaker, I desire to ask unanimous con sent that senate joint resolution 25, relating to citrus fruits in Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate April 24, 1913. California. and house joint resolution 18, both of the Legisla COMMISSIONER OF INTERN AL REVENUE. ture of California, be printed in the REcoRD. · Willfam H. Osborn to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The SPEAKER. The gentl~man from California a.sks unani- nous consent to print the resolution mentioned- SURVEYOR GENERAL, OREGON. Mr. RAKER. Two of them. Edward G. Worth to be surveyor general of Oregon. The SPEAKER. In he RECORD. Is there objecti-on? RECEIVERS OF Po'BLIC MONEYS. Mr. MANN. Ur. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I Samuel Butler to be receiver of public moneys at Sacramento, would like to get the attitude of the other side of the House Cal. on the question of printing memorials of legislatures in the Lee .A.. Ruark to be receiver of public moneys at Del Norte, RECORD. It is the practice to print these in the Senate. I notice Colo. nearly every day in the RECORD gentlemen drop in the basket William A. Maxwell to be receiver of public moneys at Den a number of memorials or resolutions of legislatures. If it is Ter, Colo. the intention to allow one gentleman the privilege of having Sam Mothershead to be receh·er of public moneys at Burns, printed in the RECORD upon presentation in the House resolutions Oreg. adopted by a legislature, I submit the same privilege should be Nolan Skiff to be receiver of public moneys at La Grande, extended to every other gentleman of the Hom:e. Oreg. l\Ir. UNDERWOOD. l\Ir. Speaker, I will suy to the gentle L. A. Booth to be receiver of imblic moneys at The I)alles, man from fllinois that I think about the most harmless thing Oreg. tllat a man can do is to print something in the RECORD. If it is REGISTERS OF LAND OFFICES. couched in respectful terms and is orderly, I see no -Objection to a Member of the House printing something in the RECORD if he Onias C. Skinner to be register of the land office at Mont thinks it is of :my benefit tCT anybody. As a rule, I think the rose, C-Olo. place where you ean bury a thing the deepest is in the record John H. Bowen to be register of the land office at Spring of this House. field, Mo. l\Ir. MANN. A number of g~ntlemen on this side of the lJNITED ST.ATES DISTRICT JUDGE. House, new l\Iembers, have already been to me at different Rhydon M. Call to be United States district judge for the times in the session and asked whether it was the practice and southern district of Florida. custom of the House to ask unanimous consent to print these UNITED STATES .ATTORNEYS. resolutions in the RECORD. I have stated to those gentlemen it J. L. Camp to be United States attorney for the western dis was ·not the custom of the House to do that~ trict of Texas. Mr. GARNER. Will the gentleman yield? II. Snowden Marshall to be United States attorney for the Mr. MANN (continuing). And hence they nave been dropped southern district of New York. in tbe basket. Take, for instance, a resolution pussed by the T,egislature of the State of New York. Every Member would UNITED STATES MARSHALS. have the .same right to a.cq•1ire some prominence in connection William J. l\IcDonald to be United States marshal for the with the matter by asking unanimous consent to have the reso northern dlstrict of Texas. lution printed in the RECORD, and how many times it might be John H. Rogers to b-e United States marshal for the western printed I do not know. If that sid,e of the House is not going district of Texas. to object, I do not know that I will, with the understa1:.ding that Ass:tsTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL. if (\ther gentlemen ask that privilege it will not be objected to. Samuel Houston Thompson, jr., of Colorado, to be Assistant Mr. UNDERWOOD. I wi.sh to say this to the gentleman Attorney. General, vice John Q. Thompson, deceased. fTC'm Illinois. I think that the question of unanimous consent must be determined in e11ch instance, and we ccan not fix a uni POSTMASTERS. form rule about them, and I would be unwilling now to make INDIANA. an agreement fixing a uniform rule, but I think the gentleman Il. E. Springsteen, Indianapolis. knows, so far as I am personally concerned, that I am ·not giH~ _392 CONGRESSIONAL' RECORD-HOUSE. APRIL 24,- much to making objections of that kind either on that side of Apparently he -has learned little or nothing by the disastrous the House or this side of the House. defeat of his party two years ago and again in 1912. He· is l\Ir. MA1''"N. The gentleman from .Alabama, true, does not tied hand and foot to his idols, and I fear will ne\er be able to object, but somebody usually on that side of the House has ob appreciate the lessons of those two memortlble campaigns. jected in the last Congress. It now only remains for the Democratic Party to pass the l\ir. GARNER. Mr. Speaker-- excellent bill before us. The SPEAKER. Does; the gentleman from Illinois yield to While some of us plead for free cattle, free sheep, free eggs, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. GARNER]? free butter, and free wheat to keep pace with the items in this l\lr. MANK Certainly. bill on the free list, such as lumber, wool, cotton, shoes, hides, l\Ir. GARNER. I desire to ask if it would not be a bett¥ swine, meats, milk, and so forth, we yielded in the end to the practice for those Members desiring to print resolutions of this opinions of the majority in the Democratic caucus. character in the RECORD to get unanimous consent to extend On eggs and butter the duty is cut in two as compared with their remarks in the RECORD and then carry these resolutions the Payne law, thus reducing the cost to the consumer. as a matter of extension of their remarks, rather than ask the .A tariff for revenue has been good Democratic doctrine House for unanimous consent to have these resolutions printed. preached. from every platform throughout the land for years, Mr. MANN. That bas always been the practice heretofore. finally wmning in 1910 and 1912. • .l\lr. GARNER. That accomplishes the result that the Mem~ · Truth is mighty and must prevail, and the aphorism of the ber desires, and at the same time it does not put the House in martyred President Lincoln that you could " fool ull the people a the attitude of giving unanimous consent to have these resolu part of the time, a part of the people all the time, but not all tions printed in the RECORD, and therefore each one taking the the people all the time " was again exemplified in a forceful • responsibility for having it done, but it then throws the re manner.