1919. CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD-SENATE. 3611 fected, rates reduced, and 'a share . of the surpl!}s at the end SENATE. of each year' would be available for distribution among the· wage-earning force. Human experience disproves this as­ TUESDAY, 4ugust 5, 1919. sumption altogether, and our present disastrous venture in Government operation of the railroads trumpets. forth a warn-. ·The Chaplain, Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman, D. D., offered the ing that all but the deafest ears have heard against any fur- following prayer : ther experiments of that nature. Almighty God, we pause before Thee with re\erence and in "The plan of the brotherhoods commits the railroad into the spirit of worship seek · Tby blessing as we face the ever­ the joint control of politics and labor. The Government-ap­ increasing demands of life upon us. We pray Thee to saYe us pointed members of the board would inevitably and at all times from the- sin of forgetfulness of Thy past favors, from the fatal be most solicitou.S to placate the labor members, and the two blunder of the neglect of Thy providence and of Thy care. elements together would control railway policies. The chiefs May we put ourselves more fully in the hands of God, that the of the brotherhoods may decei\e themselves by the attempt conflict of interest and purpose and opinion may come at last ihto a final adjustment in God's great program of life concern­ at reasoning which they address to .this point. They will not ing us as a Nation. Guide us this day and every day by Thy convince or deceive the public. Upon the great public of tax­ grace. We ask for Christ's sake. Amen. payers would devolve the duty to make good the enormous defi­ cit sure to accrue from the control of the lines in the interests The VICE PRESIDENT resumed the chair. of politics and labor, just as it falls upon them now. Instead The Secretary proceeded to read the Journal of yesterday's proceedings, when, on request of Mr. Cu:&Trs and by unanimous of a billion or so a year, the cost assessed upon the taxpayers consent, the further reading was dispensed with and the Journal would rise to two or it may be to three billions a year, and for was approved. a service far inferior to that under private operation. " The brotherhood chiefs seek the enforcement of their purpose DEMA:NDS OF R.ULW.AY TRAL"'MEN AND RA.CE RIOTS. through duress upon Congress and the country. They use the Mr. THOMAS. Mr. President, I desire to give notice that language of menace, as they did three years ago. They declare after the- conclusion of the remarks of the- Senator from Indiana that 'the employees are in no mood to brook the return of the [Mr. WATSON] to-day I shall submit some observations to the lines to their former control.' 'Ve are sure that on reflection Senate upon the recent pronunciamentos of the Brotherhood they will see that these words are ill advised. It is ·an occasion of Railway Trainmen, with some reference to the race riots in for candid counsel and not for threats, and the Government, W'ashington and Chicago. capital, and the country were never in a mood to be more con­ MESS.AGE FROM THE HOUSE. siderate of the interests and the just demands of labor. Besides, they will not win by truculence. It is untimely. The country A message from the House of Representatives, by D. K. has just held a practical referendum on this very question, and Hempstead, its enrolling clerk, announced that the Speaker of the answer is a thundering demand for the return of the lines to the House had signed the following enrolled bills, and they were private operation. We are told that the brotherhoods control thereupon signed by the Vice President: 2,000,000 votes: Well, if the suffrage ameildm~t goes into effect S. 2594. .An act to extend the time for the construction of the in time there will be 30,000,000 voters in the United States at the Broadway Street Bridge across the Arkansas River between next election. 1\Iake their 2,000,000 votes 6,000,000, and they the cities of Little Rock and Argenta, Ark. ; will still be overwhelmingly beaten on this issue. S. 2595. An act to extend the time for the construction of the lUain Street Bridge across the Arkansas River between the "No party will be cowardly enough or reckless enough to in\ite cities of Little Rock and Argenta, Ark ; and ill aster by yielding to this demand. Have the brotherhoods for­ gotten that they very nearly elected a Republican President in H. R. 3854. An act for the repeal of the daylight-saving law" 1916 by the course they took to force the eight-hour law to ep.act­ PE'IITIOXS .AND MEMORIALS. ment? In August Mr. ·wnson's election was sure. The Repub­ ~Ir. LA FOLLETTE. I present a joint resolution passed by lican Party had been rent asunder by the Piogressive division the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin relating to recogni­ of 1912. That it would be reunited and elect its candidate was tion of the services of soldiers, sailor , and marines. I ask considered impossible. The threat of the brotherhoods to para­ that the joint resolution be printed in the RECORD and referred lyze the industries of the whole country by a strike and the un­ to the Committee on Military Affairs. heard-of audacity of the methods they adopted in their dealings The- joint resolution was referred to the Committee on Mili­ with the President and with Congress changed in a week the tary Affairs and ordered to be printed in the RECOIID, as whole face and outlook of the campaign. In November the great follows: industrial States, Ohio excepted, cast their votes for Mr. Hughes. Joint resolution urging Congre s to pass the bill introduced by Hon. After a period of harassing doubt it was known that 1\Ir. Wilson MARVIN JONES relating to recognition of the services of soldiers, had been elected by the votes of California, where the blame sailors, and marines. for an unlooked-for result was put in part upon H1:RAM JoHNSON Whereas it is fitting and proper that the character and spirit oC the patriotic services of the soldiers, sailors, and marines of the United. and in part upon the blunders of the Repu~lican management. States in the war against Germany and its allies be appropriately A change of less than· 2,000 votes in that State would have de­ recognized and that their financial sacrifices be, in a measure at feated the party that yielded to the brotherhoods and made the least, repaid ; and Whereas the men who made up the armed forces of tne United States Adamson bill a law. came from each State of the Union, therefore their services and sac­ " Party prudence and economic safety call now not for yield­ rifices should be recognized and provided for by the Federal GoYern­ ings, but for the firmest resistance the demand for running the ment to assure an a uniform and adequate compensation; and to Whereas there is noW' pending in the Congress of the United State.~ a railroads in.the interest of a class at the cost of the whole people. bill introduced by the Hon. MARviN JONES which provides that each There must be something more than that. The brotherhoods soldier, sailor, and mn.tine shall receive a. $50 4 per cent Govern­ ment bond for each month's service or major fractional part thereof may sincerely believe in the efficacy of their remedy. It must in snell war ; and be demonstrated to them candidly and patiently that they have Whereas such provision should be a substantial recognition of such been badly advised; that the path they have chosen leads to services and sacrifices and would be greater than this State or any other State contemplates as compensation therefor: i\ow, therefore, disaster for them and for the country. We trust that the Presi­ it dent, profiting by what we ha.ve always considered grave errors be ResoZvea by tT'e atl8en~bly (the senate co,.teurri1l.(J), T hat the Con­ of judgment in the course he followed three years ago, will now gress of. the United States be respectfully urgecl to enact such. .bill into use his powers of persuasion with the railway men to win them la.w at the earliest po.ssible time and that each United States Senator and Representative 1n Congress from this State be earnestly requested from the delusions that possess their minds. The executive and to use his best efforts to secure the early passage of :::uch measure; legislath·e departments are giving earnest consideration to the and be it further problems of living co t. That is the surest way to present re­ Resolved., That a. suitable copy of this resolution., properly attested, be transmitted to the presiding officer of each. House of the Congress lief. And the resolve of every American who works either with and to each United States Senator ancl Representatiye from tbis tate~ brain or hand to eschew the dangerous nostrums of socialism RILEY S. YOUNG. Bp~ of the Assembly. and to go about the task of restoring the economic balance by C. E. SHAFFER, the hard toil of the greatest possible production is the only way Ohief Olerk ot the Assembly_ to permanent welfare and happiness." EDW .ARD F.