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.Also, petition of business men of Washington County, N. Y., in the District of Columbia-to the Committee on the District against a parcels-post law-to the Committee on the Post-Office of Columbia. and Post-Roads. Also, papers to accompany bills for relief of Theo. H. By Mr. FITZGERALD: Petition of New York State Post Doescher, Robert Martin, Obadiah C. Smith, and John G. masters' Association for a readjustment of allowance for clerk Lillig-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. hire to third-class post-offices-to the Committee on the Post By Mr. !tilLLINGTON: Petitions of merchants of Barnville, Office and Post-Roads. Bridgewater, and Waterville, N. Y., against parcels-post law Also, petition of Manufacturers' Association of New York to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. City, favoring amendment of the tariff bill in so far as it pro Also, memorial of postmasters' convention for New York for vides for the ascertainment of the corporation tax-to the a readjustment of the scale of allowance for third-class post Committee on Ways and Means. masters-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. By M-r. FOCHT : Paper to accompany bills for relief of Pott Also, papers to accompany bills for relief of :Milo Loomis, Phillips (H. R. 3764), Henry H. Spigelmyer (H. R. 11170), George E. Olcott, and Henry J. Samson-to the Committee on William C. Hudson (H. R. 4948), and Riley R. Zerbe (H. R. Invalid Pension·s. 3778)-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. MOON of Tennessee: Paper to accompany bill for re By Mr. FOSS: Paper to accompany bills for relief of Henry lief of Seborn J. Mullins, previously referred to Committee on C. Green and Franklin C. Peters-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of John W. Simp By Mr.· FULLER : Paper to accompany bills for relief of son-to the Committee on War Claims. George A. Robinson and John Bounds-to the Committee on Also, papers to accompany bills for l'elief of Moriah Gamble, Invalid Pensions. James •.r. Foster, William H. Bean, William A. Duckett, and By Mr. GOEBEL: Petition of Hecker Post, No. 638, Grand Albert W. Lauter-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Army of the Republic, against placing the statue of Robert E. By Mr. NYE: Petitions of citizens of St. Paul and Minne Lee in St.a.tuary Hall-to the Committee on the Library. apolis, both in the State of Minnesota, against Senate bill 404, Also, petition of Victory Council, No. 18, Junior Order Sabbath observance in District of Columbia-to the Committee United American Mechanics, favoring an Asiatic exclusion law, on the District of Columbia. excepting as regards merchants, students, and travelers-to By Mr. PRAY: Petition of 25 merchants of Bozeman, Mont., the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. against a parcels-post bill-to the Committee on the Post-Office By Mr. GRAHAM: Petition of Pittsburg Dry Goods Com and Post-Roads. pany, ~avoring law to legally define commercial samples as bag By Mr. REEDER: Petition of the American Electrochem gage-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. ical Society of New York, favoring legislation for the conserva .Also, petition of the Epping-Carpenter Company, of Pitts tion of the resources of industrial and commercial power in bmg, Pa., favoring subsidy for American merchant marine-to waterways of the country-to the Committee on Interstate and the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Foreign Commerce. By Mr. HAYES: Papers to accompany bills for relief of Her By Mr. THISTLEWOOD: Petition of citizens of the Twenty bert H. Skinner and Idelia Inman-to the Committee on Invalid fifth Congressional District of Illinois, against parcels-post Pensions. law-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Also, petition of soldiers of San Mateo County, Cal., for in By Mr. TIRRELL: Papers to accompany bills for relief ot crease of civil-war soldier.s' pensions, as per National Tribune Hiram H. Davis and Cassius A. Woodworth-to the Committee bill-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. on Invalid Pensions. Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Henry Hotchkis- By Mr. WANGER: Petition of Mr. S. Wilfred Smith, of to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Buckmanville, and 83 other residents of Bucks County, Pa., for .Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Everill J. Hills amendment of oleomargarine laws to make more effective the to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. penal provisions to prevent it being sold otherwise than for By Mr. HELM: Petition of business men of Nichola_sville, what it is-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com Lawrenceburg, Harrodsburg, Richmond, Lancaster, Stanford, merce. Shelbyville, and Danville, all in the State of Kentucky, against Also, petition of Jacob C. Beidler and 41 other residents of a parcels-post law-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Harleysville, Montgomery County, Pa., for amendment of oleo Post-Roads. margarine laws to make more effective the penal provisions to By Mr. HOLLINGSWORTH: Papers to accompany bills for prevent it being sold otherwise than for what it is-to the Com relief of W. Pitner, John D. Tidrick, John N. Hanna, Joshua .mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Dewees, Samuel Gooding, Francis W. Leeper, James Creighton, .Also, petition of Pineville Grange, No. 507, Patrons of Hus and John Seals, previously referred to Committee on Pensions, bandry, of Bucks County, Pa., for amendment of oleomargarine referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. laws to make more effective the penal provisions to prevent it By Mr. HOUSTON: Paper to accompany bill for relief of being sold otherwise than for what it is-to the Committee on William H. Colsher, previously referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Pensions-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. HUFF: Papers to accompany bills for relief of Susan Campbell, William H. Story, James A. Loar, and Silas M. Mc SEN.ATE. Clure-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. HUMPHREY of Washington: Petition of citizens of TuEsnAY, Decembe1' 'l, 1909. Creosote, Wash., against Senate bill 404, Sabbath observance act-to the Committee on the District of Columbia. MoRGAN G. BULKELEY, a Senator from the State of·Connecti By Mr. KAHN: Papers to accompany bills for relief of Lovell cut; JAMES P. CLARKE, a Senator from the State of Arkansas; Johnson, Margaret Robertson, and Henry Basewitz--to the Com JOHN W. DA.NIEL, a Senator from the State of Virginia; JAMES mittee on Invalid Pensions. B. FRAZIER, a Senator from the State of Tennessee; and GEORGE .Also, petition of Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, Cal., PEABODY WETMORE, a Senator from the State of Rhode Island, favoring additional pay for railway mail clerks-to the Com appeared in their seats to-day. mittee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. IDysses G. B. Pierce, D. D. .Also, petition of governor and other citizens of California, The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and ap for an appropriation of $400,000 for benefit of rivers of the proved. State-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. SEN.A.TOR FROM NORTH DAKOTA.. Also, petition of Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, Mr. ·McCUMBEU. Mr. President, I present the credentials Cal., favoring bill to authorize purchase of lands and buildings of my colleague, Senator FOUNT.A.IN L. THOMPSON, and ask that for the consular buildings in China, Japan, and Korea-to the the same may be read. Committee on Foreign Affairs. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Secretary will read the cre- Also, petition of Puerta del Oro Chapter, Daughters of the dentials. · American Revolution, for con8truction of a military road from The credentials of FOUNTAIN L. THOMPSON. appointed by the Yorktown, Va., to Jamestown, Va.-to the Committee on ;inter governor of the State of North Dakota a Senator from that state and Foreign Commerce. State to fill, until the next meeting of the legislature thereof, .Also, paper to accompany a bill to amend an act entitled the vacancy caused by the death of Senator M. N. JOHNSON "An act to establish a Court of Claims "-to the Committee on in the term ending March 4, 1915, were read and ordered to be the Judiciary. filed: By Mr. MARTIN of South Dakota.: Petition of citizens of Mr. McCUMBER. Senator THOMPSON is present in the Sen- Viborg, S. Dak., against Senate bill 404, Sabbath observance ate Chamber and ready to take the oath of office. · 1909. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 25
The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Senator from North Dakota were duly presented within the prescribed period, but as the will escort his colleague to the desk. commissioners failed to agree within six months after the ex Mr. THOMPSON was escorted to the Vice-President's desk by change of the printed statements, as required by the treaty, it Mr. McCuMBER, and the oath prescribed by law having been ad has now become necessary to resort to the arbitration pro- ministered to him; he took his seat in the Senate. vided for in the article. . MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. The International Fisheries Commission appointed pursuant William J. Browning, Chief Clerk of the House of Representa to and under the authority of the Convention of April 11, 1908, tives, appeared and delivered the following message: between the United States and Great Britain, has completed a Mr. President, I am directed by the House of Representatives system of uniform and common international regulations for to inform the Senate that a quorum of the House of Representa the protection and preservation of the food fishes in interna tives has assembled, and that the House is ready to proceed to tional boundary waters of the United States and Canada. business. The regulations will be duly submitted to Congress with a Also that a committee of three Members has been appointed view to the enactment of such legislation as will be necessary by the Speaker, on the part of the House of Representatives, to under the Convention to put them into operation. join a committee of the Senate to wait upon the President of the The Convention providing for the settlement of international United States, and to inform him that a quorum of the two differences between the United States and Canada, including Houses has assembled, and that Congress is ready to receive the apportionment between the two countries of certain of any communication he may have to make, and that Mr. DALZELL, the boundary waters and the appointment of commissioners to Mr. BENNET of New York, and Mr. CLARK of Missouri have been adjust certain other questions, signed on the.11th day of Janu appointed members of the committee on the part of the House. ary, 1909, and to the ratification of which the Senate gave its The message further communicated to the Senate the intelli advice and consent on March 3, 1909, has not yet been ratified gence of the death of Hon. David Albaugh De Armond, late a on the part of Great Britain. Representative from the State of Missouri, and transmitted reso Commissioners have been appointed on the part of the United lutions of the House thereon. States to act jointly with Commissioners on the part of Canada The message also communicated to the Senate the intelli in· examining into the question of obstructions in the St. John gence of the death of Hon. Francis Rives Lassiter, late a Rep River b_etween Maine and New Brunswick, and to make recom resentative from the State of Virginia, and transmitted resolu mendations for the regulation of the uses thereof, and are now tions of the House thereon. engaged in thi.s work. NOTIFICATION TO THE PRESIDENT. Negotiations for an international conference to consider and reach an arrangement providing for the preservation and pro Mr. HALE and Mr. BACON, the committee appointed to wait tection of the fur seals in the North Pacific are in progress with on the President of the United States, appeared, and the Governments of Great Britain, Japan, and Russia. The Mr. HALE said: Mr. President, the joint committee of the attitude of the Governments interested leads me to hope for a Senate and House of Representatives have waited upon the satisfactory settlement of this question as the ultimate outcome President and informed him that a quorum of each House has of. the negotiations. assembled and that Congress is ready to receive any communi cation from him, to which the President replied that he would The Second Peace Conference recently held at The Hague communicate forthwith by message in writing. adopted a Convention for the establishment of an International Prize Court upon the joint proposal of delegations of the United PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL MESSAGE. St.ates, France, Germany and Great Britain. The law to be M. C. Latta, one of the secretaries to the President of the observed by the Tribunal in the decision of prize cases was, United States, appeared and said: Mr. President, I am directed however, left in an uncertain and therefore unsatisfactory state. by the President of the United States to deliver to the Senate Article 7 of the Convention provided that the Court was to be a message in writing. governed by the provisions of treaties existing between the bel The message was received from the secretary and handed to ligerents, but that " in the absence of such provisions, the court the Vice-President. shall apply the rules of international law. If no generally rec The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate ognized rule exists, the court shall give judgment in accordance the following message from the President of the United States, with the general principles of justice and equity." As, however, which will be read by the Secretary. many questions in international maritime Jaw are lmderstood The Secretary, Charles G. Bennett, read the message, as differently and therefore futerpreted differently in various coun follows: tries, it was deemed advisable not to intrust legislative powers To the Senate and House of Representatives: to the proposed court, but to determine the rules of law properly applicable in a Conference of the representative maritime na The relations of the United States with all foreign govern tions. Pursuant to an invitation of Great Britain a conference ments have continued upon the normal basis of amity and good was held at London from December 2, 1908, to February 26, understanding, and are very generally satisfactory. 1909, in which the following Powers participated: the United EUROPE. States, Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain, Pursuant to the provisions of the general treaty of arbitra Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia and Spain. The confer tion concluded between the United States and Great Britain, ence resulted in the Declaration of London, unanimously agreed April 4, 1908, a special agreement was entered into between to and signed by the participating Powers, concerning among the two countries on January 27, 1909, for the submission of other matters, the highly important subjects of blockade, contra questions relating to the fisheries on the North Atlantic Coast band, the destruction of neutral prizes, and continuous voyages. to a tribunal to be formed from members of the Permanent The Declaration of London is an eminently satisfactory codi Court of Arbitration at The Hague. fication of the international. maritime law, and it is hoped that In accordance with the provisions of the special agreement its reasonableness and fairness ·will secure its general adoption, the printed case of each Government was, on October 4 last, as well as remove one of the difficulties standing in the way of submitted to the other and to the Arbitral Tribunal at The the establishment of an International Prize Court. Hague, and the counter case of the United States is now in Under the authority given in the sundry civil appropriation course of preparation. act, approved March 4, 1909, the United States was represented The American rights under the fisheries article of the Treaty at the International Conference on Maritime Law at Brussels. of 1818 have been a cause of difference between the United The conference met on the 28th of September last and resulted States and Great Britain for nearly seventy years. The inter in the signature ad r ef er endum of a convention for the unifica ests involved are· of great importance to the American fishing tion of certain regulations with regard to maritime assistance industry, and the final settlement of the controversy will re and salvage and a convention for the unification of certain rules move a source of constant irritation and complaint. This is the with regard to collisions at sea. first case involving such great international questions which Two new projects of conventions which have not heretofore bas been submitted to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at been considered in a diplomatic conference, namely, . one con The Hague. cerning the limitations of the responsibility of shipowners, and The treaty between the United States and Great Britain con· the other concerning marine mortgages and privileges, have cerning the Canadian International boundary, concluded April been submitted by the Conference to the different governments. 11, 1908, authorizes the appointment of two commissioners to de The Conference adjourned to meet again on April 11, 1910. fine and mark accurately the international boundary line be The International Conference for the purpose of promoting tween the United States and the Dominion of Canada in the uniform legislation concerning letters of exchange, which was waters of the Passamaquoddy Bay, and provides for the ex called by the Government of the Netherlands to meet at The change of brie"fs within the period of six months. The briefs Hague in September, 1909, has been postponed to meet at that ,..
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capital in .June, 1910. The United .States will be appropriatelY longing to no particular State, and as equally open to the e!ti represented in this Conference under the provisi-0n therefor zens and subjects of all States, sh-0uld not be raised. already made by Congress. The European Powers invited to this Conference by the Gov The cordial invitation of Belgium to be represented by a ernment of Norway were Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, fitting display of American progress in the useful arts .and in Great Britain, Russia, Sweden and the Netherlands. ventions at the World's fair to he held at Brussels in 1910 The Department of State, in view of proofs filed with it in remains to be acted upon by the Congress. Mindful ot the ad 1906, showing the American possession, occupation and work vantages to aecrue to our artisans and producers in competition ing of certain coal-bearing lands in Spitzbergen, accepted the with their Continental rtvals. I renew the recommendation here invitation under the reservation above stated, ·and under the tofore made that provision be made for acceptance of the invi further reservation that all interests in those islands already tation and adequate representation in the Exposition. vested sh{}uld be protected and that there should be equality of The question arising out of the Belgian annexation of the opportunity for the future. 'It was further pointed out that Independent State of the Kongo, which has so long and ear membership in the Conference on the part of the United States nestly preoccupied the :attention of this Government and enlisted was qualified by the consideration that this Government would the sympathy of our best citizens, is still open, but in a more not become a signatory to any conventional arrangement con hopefnl stage. This GoYernment was among the foremost in cluded by the European members of the Conference which the great work of uplifting the uncivilized regions ot Africa would imply contributory participation by the United States 1n and urging the extension of the benefits of clvilization, educa nny obligation or responsibility for the enforcement of any tion, and fruitful open commerce to that vast domain, and is a schem-e of administration which might be devised by the Con party to treaty engagements of all the interested powers de ference for the islands. signed to -carry out that great duty to humanity. The way to THE NEAR EAST. better the original and adventitious conditions, so burdensome to the natives and so destructive to their development, has been His Majesty Mehmed V, Sultan of Turkey, recently sent to pointed out, 'by -0bservation and experience, not alone of Ameri this country a special embassy to announce his accession. The can representatives, but by cumulative evidence from all quick transition of the Government of the Ottoman Empfre quarters and by the mvestigati-0ns -0f Belgian agents. The from one of retrograde tendencies to a constitutional govern announood programmes of reforms, striking at many of the evils ment with a Parliament and with progressive modern policies kn-0wn to exist, are an augm:y of better things. The attitude of reform and public i.niprovement is one of the important of the United States is one of benevolent encolll"agement, phenomena of our times. Constitutional government seems also coupled with a b-0peful trust that the good work, responsibly to have made further advance in Persia. These events have undertaken and zealously perfected to the accomplishment of turned the eyes of the world upon the Near East. In that the results so ardently desired, will <>.;Oon justify the wisdom quarter the prestige of the United States has spread widely that inspires them :and satisfy the demands of humane "Senti through the peacefnl influence of American schools, universities ment throughout the world. and missionaries. There is every reason why we should obtain A convention between the United States and Germany, under a greater share of the commerce of the Near East since the con which the nonworking provisions of the German patent law. are ditions are more favorable now than ever before. made inappUcable to the patents of American citizens, was con LATIN AMERICA. rCluded on February 23, 1909, and iS now in force. Negotiations One of the happiest events in recent Pan-American diplomacy for similar -conventions looking to the placing of American in was the pacific, independent settlement by the Governments of ventor~ .on the same footing as nationals have .recently been Bolivia and Peru of a. boundary difference between them, which initiated with other European gov.ernments whose laws require for .some weeks threatened to cause war and even to entrain the local orlring of foreign patents. embitterments affecting other republics less directly coneerned. Under an :appropriation made at the last session of the Con From various quarters, directly or indirectly concerned, the gress, a eommission was sent on American cruisers to Monrovia intermediation of the United States was sought to assist in ·a to investigate the interests -0f the United States and its citizens solution .of the controversy. Desiring at all times to abstain in Liberia. Upon its arrival at .Monrovia the commission was from any undue mingling in the affairs of sister republics and enthusiastieally receivedl and during its stay in Liberia. was having faith in the ability of the Governments of Peru and everywhere met with the heartiest expressions of good will for Bolivia themselves to settle their di1Ierence in a manner satis the American Government and people and the hope was re factory 'to themselves, which, viewed with magnanimity, would peatedly .expressed on all sides that this Government might see .assuage all embitterment, this Qoyernment steadily abstained its way clear to do something to relieve the critical position of from being drawn into the controversy, and was much grati- the Republic arising in a measnre from external AS well as fied to find its confidence justified by events. - internal and financial embarrassments. On the 9th of July next there will open at Buenos Aires the The Liberian Government a.tl'orded eYery tacility to the Com Fourth Pan-American Conference. This eonference will have a mission for ascertaining the true state ·ot areairs. The Com.mis special meaning t;o the hearts of all Americans, because around sion also had conferences with representative citizens, inter its date are clustered the anniversaries of the independence of .ested foreigners and the representatives of foreign governments so many of the American republics. It is not .necessary for me in Monrovia. Visits were made t.o various parts of the Rep~b to remind the Congress -of the politieal, social, and commercial lic and to the neighboring British colony of Sierra Leone, where importance <>f these gatherings. You are asked t;o make liberal the Commission was received by and confeITed with the GoY appropriation for our participation. If this be granted, it is ernor. my pnrpose to appoint a distinguished and representative dele It wm be remembered that the interest of the Unitro States gation, qualified fittingly to represent this country and to deal in the Republic of Liberia springs frdm the historical fact of with the problems of intercontinental interest which will there the foundati-0n ot tbe Republic by the colonization of American be discussed. citizens of the African l"ace. In an early treaty with Liberia The Argentine Republic will also hold from May to Novem there is a proviswn under which the United States may be ber, 1910, at Buenos Aires, a great International Agricultural called upon for advice or assista.nee. Pursuant to this pr-0- Exhibition, in which the United States has been invited to vision .and ln the spirit of the moral relationship of the United participate. Considering the rapid growth of the trade of the States to Liberia, that Republic Ia.st year asked this Govern United States with the Argentine Republic and the cordial re ment to lend assistanee in the solution of l 1909. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 27 peace and mutual dependency, as they must also naturally This Government was obliged to intervene diplomatically to sometimes make passing points of friction. The resultant situa bring about arbitration or settlement of the claim of the Emery tion inevitably imposes upon this Government vastly increased Company against Nicaragua, which it bad long before been responsibilities. This Administration, through the Department agreed should be arbitrated. A settlement of this troublesome of State and the foreign Rervice, is lending all proper support case was reached by the signature of a protocol on September to legitimate and beneficial American enterprises in foreign 18, 1909. countries, the degree of such support being measured by the Many years ago diplomatic intervention became necessary to national advantages to be expected. A citizen himself can not tbe protection of the interests in the American claim of Alsop by contract or otherwise divest himself of the right, nor can and Company against the Government of Chile. The Govern this Government escape the obligation, of his protection in his ment of Chile had frequently admitted obligation in the case personal and property rights when these are unjustly infringed and had promised this. Government to settle it. There had been in a foreign country. To avoid ceaseless vexations it is proper two abortive attempts to do so through arbitral commissions, that in considering whether American enterprise should· be en which failed through lack of jurisdiction. Now, happily, as the couraged or supported in a particu~ar country, the Government result of the recent diplomatic negotiations, the Governments of should give full weight not only to the national, as opposed to the United States and of Chile, actuated by the sincere desire the individual benefits to accrue, but also to the fact whether to free from any strain those cordial and friendly relations or not the Government of the country in question is in its ad upon which both set such store, have agreed by a protocol to ministration and in its diplomacy faithful to the principles of submit the controversy to definite settlement by His Britanic moderation, equity and justice upon which alone depend inter Majesty, Edward VII. national credit, in diplomacy as well as in finance. Since the Washington Conventions of 1907 were communi The Pan-American policy of this Government has long been cated to the Government of the United States as a consulting fixed in its principles and remains unchanged. With the and advising party, this Government has been almost continu changed circumstances of the United States and of the Repub ously called upon by one or another, and in turn by all of the lics to the south of us, most of which have great natural re five Central American Republics, to exert itself for the mainte sources, stable government and progressive ideals, the appre nance of the Conventions. Nearly every complaint has been hension which gave rise to the Monroe Doctrine may be said against the Zelaya Government of Nicaragua, which bas kept to have nearly disappeared, and neither the doctrine as it exists Central America in constant tension or turmoil. The responses nor any other doctrine of American policy should be permitted made to the representations of Central American Republics, as to operate for the perpetuation of irresponsible government, the due from the United States on account of its relation to the escape of just obligations, or the insidious allegation of domi Washington Conventions, have been at all times conservative nating ambitions on the part of the United States. and have avoided, so far as possible, any semblance · of inter Beside the fundamental doctrines of our Pan-American pol ference, although it is very apparent that the considerations icy there have grown up a realization of political interests, of geographic proximity to the Canal Zone and of the very sub community of institutions and ideals, and a flourishing com stantial American interests in Central America give to the merce. All these bonds will be greatly strengthened as time United States a special position in the zone of these Republics goes on and increased facilities, such as the great bank soon to and the Caribbean Sea. be established in Latin America, supply the means for building I need not rehearse here the patient efforts of this Govern up the colossal intercontinental commerce of the future. ment to promote peace and welfare among these Republics, .My meeting with President Diaz and the greeting exchanged efforts which are fully appreciated by the majority of them who on both American and Mexican soil served, I hope, to signalize are loyal to their true interests. It would be no less unneces the close and cordial relations which so well bind together this sary to rehearse here the sad tale of unspeakable barbarities Republic and the great Republic immediately to the south, be and oppression alleged to have been committed by the Zelaya tween which there is so vast a network of material interests. Government. Recently two Americans were put to death by I am happy to say that all but one of the cases which for so order of President Zelaya himself. They were reported to have long vexed our relations with Venezuela have been settled been regularly commissioned officers in the organized forces within the past few months and that, under the enlightened of a revolution which had continued many weeks and was in r~gime now directing the Government of Venezuela, provision control of about half of the Republic, and as such, according has been made for arbitration of the remaining case before The to the modern enlightened practice of civilized nations, they Hague Tribunal. were entitled to be dealt with as prisoners of war. On July 80, 1909, the Government of Panama agreed, after At the date when this message is printed this Government considerable negotiation, to indemnify the relatives of the has terminated diplomatic relations with· the Zelaya Govern American officers and sailors who were brutally treated, one ot ment, for reasons made public in a communication to the for them having, indeed, been killed by the Panaman police this mer Nicaraguan eharg~ d'affaires, and is intending to take such year. future steps as may be found most consistent with its dignity, The sincere desire ot the Government of Panama to do a way its duty to American· interests, and its moral obligations to with a situation where such an accident could occur is manifest Central America and to civilization. It may later be neces· in the recent request in compliance with which this Government sary for me to bring this subject to the attention of the Con has lent the services of an officer of the army to be employed gress in a special message. · by the Government of Panama as instructor of police. The International Bureau of American Republics bas car The sanitary improvements and public works undertaken in ried on an important and increasing work during the last year. Cuba prior to the present administration of that Government, In the exercise of its peculiar functions as an international in the success of which the United States is interested under agency, maintained by all the American Republics for the de the treaty, are reported to be making good progress and since velopment of Pan-American commerce and friendship, it has the Congress provided for the continuance of the reciprocal accomplished a great practical good which could be done in commercial arrangement between Cuba and the United States the same way by no individual department or bureau of one assurance has been received that no negotiations injuriously government, and is therefore deser.ving of your liberal support. affecting the situation will be undertaken without consultation. Tbe fact that it is about to enter a new building, erected The collection of the customs of the ·Dominican Republic through the munificence of an American philanthropist and through the general receiver of customs appointed by the Presi the contributions of all the American nations, where both its dent of· the United States in accordance with the convention of efficiency of administration and expense of maintenance will February 8, 1907, bas proceeded in an uneventful and satis naturally be much augmented, further entitles it to special factory manner. The customs receipts have decreased owing to consideration. disturbed political and economic conditions and to a very THE FAR EA.ST. natural curtailment of imports in view of the anticipated revi· In the Far East this Government preserves unchanged its sion of the Dominican tariff schedule. · The payments to the policy of supporting the principle of equality of opportunity fiscal agency fund for the service of the. bonded debt of the and scrupulous respect for the integrity of the Chinese Em Republic, as provided by the convention, have been regularly pire, to which policy are pledged the interested Powers of both and promptly made, and satisfactory progress has been made in East and West. carrying out the provisions of the convention looking toward By the Treaty of 1903 China has undertaken the abolition of the completion of the adjustment of the debt and the acquire likin with a moderate and proportionate raising of the customs ment by tbe Dominican Government of certain concessions and tariff along with currency reform. These reforms being of monopolies which have been a burden to the commerce of the manifest advantage to foreign commerce as well as to the in country. In short, the receivership has demonstrated its ability terests of China, this Government is endeavoring to facllitate even under unfavorable economic and political conditions, to d~ 1hese measures and the neOOful acquiescence of the treaty Pow the work for which it was intended. ers. When it appeared that Chinese likin revenues were to be 28 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBEB 7, hypothecated to foreign bankers in connection with a great rail and make perman-ent the reorganization of the Department way project, it was obvious that the Go\errunents whose na upon modern lines in a manner to make it n. thoroug}lly efficient tionals held this loan would ha ye a certain direct interest in the instrument in the furtherance of our foreign trade and' of question of the carrying out by China of the reforms in ques American interests abrond. The plan to have Divisions of tion. Because this railroad loan represented a practical and Latin-American and Far Eastern Affairs and to institute a cer- · real application of the open-door policy through cooperation tain specialization in business with Europe and the Near East with China by interested Powers as well as because of its re will at once commend itself. These politico-geographical divi lations to the reforms referred to above, the Administration sions and: the detail from the diplomatic or consular service to deemed American participation to be of great national interest. the department of a number of men who bring to the study Happily, when it was as a matter of broad policy urgent that of complicated problems in different parts of the world practical this opportunity should not be lost, the indispensable instru knowledge recently gained on the spot clearly is of the greatest mentality presented itself when a group of American bankers, ·advantage to the Secretary of State in foreseeing conditions of international reputation and great resources, agreed at once likely to arise and in conducting the great variety of co1~re to share in the loan upon precisely such terms as this Gov spondence and negotiation. It should be remembered that such ernment should approve. The chief of those terms was that facilities exist in the foreign offices of all the leading commer· American railway material should be upon an exact equality cia1 nations and that to deny them to the Secretary of State with that of the other nationals joining in the loan in the plac would be to place this Government n.t a great disadvantage' in ing of orders for this whole railroad system. After months of the rivalry of commercial competition. negotiation the equal participation of Americans seems at last The consular service has been greatly improved under the assured. It is gratifying that Americans will thus take their law of April 5, 1906, and the Executive Order of J"nne 27, 1906, share in this extension of these great highways of trade, and and I commend to your consideration the question of embody· to believe that such activities will give a real impetus to our ing in a statute the principles of the present Executive Order commerce and will prove a practical cor GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES AND REVENUES. must occupy two -0r more years, has been to show much room Perhaps the most important question presented to this Ad for improvement and opportunity for substantial reductions in ministration is that of eoon-0my in expenditures and sufficiency the cost and increased efficiency of administration. The object -0f revenue. The deficit of the last .fiscal year, and i:he certain of the investigation is to devise means to increase the average deficit of the current year, prompted Congress to throw a efficiency of each employee. There is great room for improve greater responsibility on the Executive and the .Secretary of the ment toward this end, not only by the -reorganization of bu Treasury than had heretofore been declared by statute. This reaus and departments and in the avoidance of duplication, declaration imposes upon the Secretary of the Treasury the but also in the treatment of the individual employee. duty of assembling all the estimates of the Executive Depart Under the preserrt system it eonstantly happens that two meDts, bureaus, and offices, of the expenditures necessary in the employees receive the same salary when the work of -one is fur €Ilsuing :fiscal year, and of making an -estimate of the revenu~ more difficult and important and exacting than that of the of the Government for the same period; and if a probable other. Superior ability is not rewarded or encouraged. As deficit is thus shown, it is made the duty of the President to the classification is now entirely by salary, an -employee often recommend the method by which such deficit can be met. rises to the highest class whil~ doing the easiest work for The report of the Secretary shows that the <>rdinary expendi 'Which alone .he may be fitted. An investigation ordered by tures for the current fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, will ex my predecessor resulted in the recommendation that the civil ceed the estimated receipts by $34.075;620. If to this deficit is service be reclassified according to the kind of work, so that added the sum to be disbursed for the Pana.ma Ca.naJ, amount th-e work requiring most application and knowledge and ability ing to $38,000,000, and $1,000,000 to be paid on the public debt. shall receive most compensation. I believe such a change the deficit of ordinary receipts and expenditures will be in would be fairer to the whole force and would permanently im creased to a total deficit of $73,075,620. This. deficit the Secre prove the personnel of the serviee. tary proposes to meet by the proceeds of bonds issued to pay , More than this, every reform directed toward the Improve the cost of constructing the Panama Canal. I approve this ment in the average efficiency of government employees must proposa.L depend on the ability of the Executive to eliminate from the The policy of paying for the construction ·of the Panama government service those Who are inefficient from any cause, Canal, not out of current .revenue, but by bond issues, was and as the degree of efficiency in all the departments is much adopted in the Spooner Act of 1902, and there seems to be no lessened by the retention of old employees who have outlived good reason for departing from the principle ..by which a part their energy and usefulness, it is indispensable to any proper .at least of the burden of the cost of the canal shall fall upon system of economy that provision be made so that their sep our posterity who are to enjoy it; and there is all the more aration from the service shall be easy and inevitable. It J.s im reason for this view because the actual cost to date of the possible to make such provision unless there is adopted a plan canal, which is now half done and which will be completed of civil pensions. January 1, 1915, shows that the cost of engineering and con Most of the great industrial organizations, and many of the struction will be $297,766,000, instead ot $139,705,200, as origi well-conducted railways ·of this country, are coming to the nally estimated. In addition to engineering and construction, concl?sio~ that a system of pensions .for old employees, and the the other expenses, including sanitation and government, and substitution therefor of younger and more energetic servants, the amount paid for the properties, the franchise and the priv promotes both economy and efficiency of administration. ilege of building the eanal, increase the cost by $75,435;000, to a I am aware that there is a strong feeling in both Houses of total of $375,201,000. The increase in the cost of engineering Congress, and possibly in the cormtry, a-gainst the establish and construction is due to a substantial enlargement of the ment of civil pensions, and that this has naturally grown out of plan of construction by widening the canal 100 feet in the the heavy burden of military pensions, which it has always Culebra cut and by increasing the dimensions of the locks, to been the policy of our Government to assume; but I am the underestimate of the quantity of the work to be done under strongly convinced that no other practical solution of the diffi the original plan, and to an underestimate of the cost <>f labor culties presented by the superannuation of eiYil servants can .and materials, both of which have greatly enhanced in price be found than thn.t of a system of civil pensions. since the original estimate was made. The business and expenditures of the Government have ex In order to avoid a deficit for the ensuing fiscal year, I di panded enormously since the Spanish war, but as the revenues rected the heads of departments in the preparation of their have increased in nearly the same proportion as the expendi estimates to make them as low as possible consistent with im tures until recently, the attention of the public and of those perative governmental necessity. The result has been, as I am responsible for the Government has not been fastened upon advised by the Secretary of the Treasury, that the estimates for the question of reducing the cost of administration. We can the expeD$es of the Government for the next fiscal year ending not, in view of the advancing priees of living, hope to save June 30, 1911, are less than the appropriations for this current money by a reduction in the standard of salaries paid. Indeed, fiscal year by $42,818,000. So far as the Secretary of the Treas if any change is made in that regard, an increase rather than ury is able to form a judgment as to future income, and eom:. a decrease will be necessary ; and the only means of economy pare it with the expenditures for the next fiscal year ending will be in reducing the number of employees and in obtaining June 30, 1911, and including payments on account of the a greater average of efficiency from those retained in the Panama Canal, which will doubtless be taken up by bonds, service. there will be a surplus of $35,931,000. Close investigation and study needed to make definite recom In the present estiniates the needs of the departments and of mendations in this regard will consume at least two years. I the Government have been cut to the quick, so to speak, and note with much satisfaction the organization in the Senate of a any assumption on the part of Congress, so often made in times Committee on Public Expenditures, charged with the duty of past, that the estimates have been prepared with the expecta conducting such an investigation, and I tender to that com tion that they may be reduced, will result in seriously hamper mittee all the assistance which the executive branch of the ing prope1· administration. Government can possibly render. The Secretary of the Treasury points out what should be FRAUDS IN THE COLLECTION ID' CUSTOMS. carefully noted in respect to this reduction in governmental I regret to refer to the fact of the discovery of extensive expenses for the next fiscal year, that the economies are of two frauds in the collection of the customs revenue at New York kinds-fll.'st, there is a saving in the permanent administration City, in which a number of the subordinate employees in the of the departments, bureaus, and offices of the Government; weighing and other departments were directly coneerned, and in and, second, there is a present reduction in expenses by a post which the beneficiaries were the American Sugar Refining ponement of projects and improvements that ultimately will Company and others. The frauds consisted in the payment of have to be carried out, but which are now delayed with the duty on underweights of sugar. The Government has recovered hope that additional revenue in the future will permit their from the American Sugar Refining Company all that it is shown execution without producing a deficit. to have been defrauded of. The sum was received in full of It has been impossible in the preparation of estimates greatly the amount due, which might have been recovered by civil suit to reduce the C-Ost of permanent administration. This can not against the beneficiary of the fraud, but there was an· express be done without a thorough reorganization of bureaus, offices, reservation in the contract of settlement by which the settle and depa1·tments. For the purpose of securing information ment should not interfere with or prevent the criminal prosecu which may enable the executive and the legislative branches to tion of everyone who was found to be subject to the same. unite in a plan for the permanent reduction of the cost of gov Criminal prosecutions a.re now proceeding against a number ernmental administration, the Treasury Department has insti of the government officers. The Treasury Department and tuted an investigation by one of the most skilled expert ac the Department of Justiee are exerting every effort to discover COc!ltants in the United Sta.tes. The resillt of his work in two all the wrongdoers, including the officers and employees of the or three bureaus, which, if extended to the entire Government, companies who may have been privy to the fraud. It would .. 30 ' .· CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 7, seem to me that an investigation of the frauds by Congr~s .· These measures can hardly J>e .more. than temporary-to, last at present, pending the probing by the Treasu~ Departm~nt until _our revenues are in better co;iidition an~ un~i~ the wh?le and the Department of Justice, as proposed, might, by giv~ng question of ~e expediency of adoptmg a deftmte mil1ta1:Y policy immunity and otherwise prove an embarrassment in securrng can be subIDitted to Congress, for I am sure that the rnterests conviction of the guilty parties. of the military establishment are seriously in need of careful Milll\1Ulil AND MINIMUM CLAUSE IN TARIFF ACT, consideration by Congress. The laws regulating the orga.nlza tion of our armed forces in the event of war need to be revised Two features of the new tarift' ·act call for special reference. in order that the organization can be modified so as to produce By virtue of the clause known as the " Maximum a~d mini a force which would be more consistently apportioned through mum" clause, it is the duty of the Executive to consider the out its numerous branches. To explain the circumstances upon laws and practices of other countries with reference to the im which this opinion is based would necessitate a lengthy discus portation into those countries of the products and merchandise sion, and I postpone it until the first convenient opportunity of the United States, and if the Executive finds such laws and shall arise to send to Congress a special message upon this practices not to be unduly discriminatory against the United subject. States the' minimum duties provided in the bill are to go into The Secretary of War calls attention to a number of needed force.' Unless the President makes such a finding, then the changes in the Army, in all of which I concur, but the point maximum duties provided in the bill, that is, an increase of upon which I place most emphasis is the need for an elimina- - twenty-five per cent ad. valorem over the minimum duties, are tion bill providing a method by which the merits of officers to be in force. Fear has been expressed that this power con shall have some e1Iect upon their advancement and by which ferred and duty imposed on the Executive is likely to lead to the advancement of all may be accelerated by the effective a tarift' war. I beg to express the hope and belief that no such elimination of a definite proportion of the least efficient. There result need be anticipated. are in every army, and certainly in ours, a number of officers The discretion granted to the Executive by the term " µn• who do not violate their duty in any such way as to give reason duly discriminatory" is wide. In order that the maximum for a court-martial or dismissal, but who do not show such duty shall be charged against the imports from a country, it aptitude and skill and character for high command as to justify is necessary that he shall find on the part of that country not their remaining in the active service to be promoted. Provision only discriminations in its laws or the practice under them should be made by which they may be retired on a certain pro against the trade of the United States, but that the discrimina portion of their ay, increasing with their length of service at tions found shall be undue; that is, without good and fs._ir the time of retirement. There is now a personnel law for the reason. I conceive that this power was reposed in the Presi Navy which itself needs amendment and to which I shall make dent with the hope that the maximum duties might never be further reference. Such a law is needed quite as much for the applied in any case, but that the power to apply them would Army. enable the President and the State Department through The coast defenses of the United States proper are generally friendly negotiation to secure the elimination from the laws all that could be desired, and in some respects they are rather and the practice under them of any foreign country of that more elaborate than under present conditions are needed to which is unduly discriminatory. No one is seeking a tarift' stop an enemy's fieet from entering the harbors defended. war or a condition in which the spirit of retaliation shall be There is, however, one place where additional defense is badly aroused. needed, and that is at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, where it USES OF THE NEW TABIFF BOABD. is proposed to make an artificial island for a fort which shall The new tarift' law enables me to appoint a tarift' board to prevent an enemy's fieet from entering this most _important assist me in connection with the Department of State in the ad strategical base of operations on the whole Atlantic and Gulf ministration of the minimum and maximum clause of the act coasts. I hope that appropriate legislation will be adopted to and also to assist officers of the Government in the administra secure the construction of this defense. tion of the entire law. An examination of the law and an The military and naval joint board have unanimously agreed understanding of the nature of the facts which should be con that it would be unwise to make the large expenditures which sidered in discharging the functions imposed upon the Executive at one time were cpntemplated in the establishment of a naval show that I have the power to direct the tarift' board to make a base and station in the Philippine Islands, and have expressed comprehensive glossary and encyclopedia of the terms used and their judgment, in which I fully concur, in favor of making an articles embraced in the tarift' law, and to secure information extensive naval base at Pearl Harbor, near Honolulu, and not as to the cost of production of such goods in this country and in the Philippines. This does not dispense with the necei:sity the cost of their production in foreign countries. I have there for the comparatively small appropriations required to finiah fore appointed a tarift' board consisting of three members and the proper coast defenses in the Philippines now llnder C')n have directed them to perform all the duties above described. struction on the island of Corregidor and elsewhere or to com This work will perhaps take two or three years, and I ask from plete a suitable repair station and coaling supply station at Congress a continuing annual appropriation equal to that Olongapo, where is the floating dock "Dewey." I hope that already made for its prosecution. I believe that the work of this recommendation of the joint board will end the discussion this board will be of prime utility and importance whenever as to the comparative merits of l\ianila Bay and Olongapo as Congress shall deem it wise again to readjust the customs du naval stations, and will lead to prompt measures for the proper ties. If the facts secured by the tarift' board are of such a char equipment and defense of ·Pearl Harbor. acter as to show generally that the rates of duties imposed THE NAVY. by the present tarift' law are excessive under the principles of The return of the battle-ship fieet from its voyage around the protection as described in the platform of the successful party world, in more efficient condition than when it started, was a at the late election, I shall not hesitate to invite the -attention noteworthy event of interest alike to our citizens and the na>al of Congress to this fact and to the necessity for action predi authorities of the world. Besides the beneficial and far-reach cated thereon. Nothing, however, halts business and interferes ing eft'ect on our personal and diplomatic relations in the with the course of prosperity so much as the threatened revision countries which the fieet visited, the marked success of the of the tarift', and until the facts are at hand, after careful and ships in steaming around the world in all weathers on schedule deliberate investigation, upon which such revision can prop time has increased respect for our Navy and has added to our erly be undertaken, it sems to me unwise. to attempt it. The national prestige. amount of misinformation that creeps into arguments pro and Our enlisted personnel recruited from all sections of the con in respect to tariff rates is such as to require the kind of country is young and energetic and representati"rn of the investigation that I have directed the tariff board to make, an national spirit; It is, moreover, owing to its intelligence, capa investigation undertaken by it wholly without respect to the ble of quick training into the modern man-of-warsmen. Our effect which the facts may have in calling for a readjustment officers are earnest and zealous in their profession, but it is a of the rates of duty. regrettable fact that the higher officers are old for the responsi WA.R DEPARTMENT. bilities of the modern navy, and the admirals do not arrive at In tlie interest of immediate economy and because of the flag rank young enough to obtain adequate training in their prospect of a deficit, I have required a reduc·tion in the esti duties as flag officers. This need for reform in the Navy has mates of the War Department for the coming fiscal year, which been ably and earnestly presented to Congress by my prede~es brings the total estimates down to an amount forty-five mil sor, and I also urgently recommend the subject for considera lions less than the corresponding estimates for last year. This tion. could only be accomplished by cutting oft' new projects and Early in the coming session a comprehensive plan for the re suspendinO' for the period of one year all progress in military organization of the officers of all corps of the Navy will be matters. °For the same reason I have directed that the Army presented 'to Congress, and I hope it will meet with action shall not be recruited up to its present authorized strength. suited to its urgency. 1909. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE.. 31 Owing to the necessity for economy in expenditures, I ha:ve: cedure of"tlie Federal courts of first instance, the law of appeals directed the· curtailment of recommendations for naval. appro from those courts to the courts of appeals anu to the SupTeme priations so that they are thirty-eight millions less th~n the Court, and· the costs imposed in such procedure upon the corresponding estimates of last year, and the request for new private litigants and upon the public treasury and make recom nayal construction is limited to two first-class battle ships and mendation with a view to simplifying and expediting the pro one repair vessel. cedure as far. as possible and making it as inexpensve as may The use of a navy is for military purposes, and there has be to the litigant of little means. been found need in the Department of a military [)ranch dealing IN.TUNCTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE. directly with the military use of the fleet. The Secretary of the Navy has also felt the lack of responsible advisers to aid The platform of the successful party in the last election con him in rea'Ching conclusions and decidihg important matters tained the following: between coordinate branches of the Department. T<> secure ""The Republican party will uphold at all times the authority these results he has inaugtlrated a tentative plan involving and integrity of the courts, State and Federal, and will ever certain changes in the organization of the Navy Department, insist that their powers to enforce their process. and: to protect including the navy-yards, all of which have been found by- the life, liberty, and property shall be preserved inviolate. We be Attorney-General to be in accordal].ce with law. I have ap lieve, however, that the rules of procedure in the Federal proved the execution of the plan proposed because of the courts with respect to the issuance of the writ of injunction greater efficiency and economy it promises. should be more accurately defined by statute, and that no in The generosity of Congress has provided in tl.te present Naval junction or temporary restraining order should be issued with Observatory· the most magnificent and expenslve astronomical out notice, except where irreparable injury would result from establishment in the world. It is being used for certain naval delay, in which case a speedy heating thereafter. should be purposes which might easily and adequately be subserved by granted." a small division connected with the Navy Department at only I recommend that ih compliance with the promise thus made, a fraction of the cost of the present Naval Observatory. The appropriate legislation be adopted. The ends of justice will best ofilcial Board of Visitors est.ablished by: Congress and. appointed be met and' the· chief cause of· complaint against ill-considered in 1901 expressed its conclusion that. the official head of the injunctions without notice will be removed by the enactment observatory should be an eminent astronomer appointed by the of a statute forb1'dding hereafter tfie issuing of any injunction President by and with the advice and consent o:f the· Senate, or restraining ord~r. whether temporary or permanent, by any holding his place by a tenure a.t least as nermanent as that of Federal court without previous notice and a reasonable oppor the Superintendent of the Coast Survey or the head of the tunity to be heard· on behalf· of the parties to be enjoined; un. Geological Survey-,. and not merely by a detail of two or three less it shall appear to the satisfaction o:f the court that the years' duration. I fully concur in this judgment, an_d urge a delay necessary to give such notice an 32 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 7, POST-OFFICE DEPA.RTl\iE~T-SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER. parent that a system of postal savings banks would in any way Tlte deficit ernry year in the Post-Office Department is largely interfere with a change to such a system here. Certainly in caused by the low rate of postage of 1 cent a pound charged on most of the countries in Europe where control is thus exercised second-class mail matter, which includes not only newspapers, by a central authority, postal savings banks exist and are not but magazines and miscellaneous periodicals. The actual loss thought to be inconsistent with a prope;r financial and banking growing out of the transmission of this second-class mail mat sy~~ . ter at 1 cent a pound amounts to about $63,000,000 a year. SHIP SUBSIDY. The average cost of the transportation of this matter is more Following the course of my distinguished predecessor, I ear than 9 cents a pound. nestly recommend to Congress the consideration and passage of It appears that the average distance over which newspapers a ship subsidy bill, looking to the establishment of lines be are delivered to their customers is 291 miles, while the average tween our Atlantic seaboard and the eastern coast of South haul of magazines is 1,049, and of miscellaneous periodicals America, as well as lines from the west coast of the United 1,128 miles. Thus, the average haul of the magazine is three States to South America, China, .Japan, and the Philippines. and one-half times and that of the miscellaneous periodical The profits on foreign mails are perhaps a sufficient measure of nearly four times the haul of the daily newspaper, yet all of the expenditures which might first be tentatively applied to this them pay the same postage rate of 1 cent a pound. The sta method of inducing American capital to undertake the estab tistics of 1907 show that second-class mail matter constituted lishment of American lines of steamships in those directions in 63.91 per cent of the weight of all the mail, and yielded only which we now feel it most important that we should have 5.19 per cent of the revenue. means of transportation controlled in the interest of the expan The figures given are startling, and show the payment by the sion of our trade. A bill of this character has once passed the Government of an enormous subsidy to the newspapers, maga House and more than once passed the Senate, and I hope that zines, and periodicals, and Congress may well consider whether at this session a bill framed on the same lines and with the radical steps should not be taken to reduce the deficit in the same purposes may become a law. Post-Office Department caused by this discrepancy between the actual cost of transportation and the compensation exacted INTERIOR DEPARTMENT--NEW_ MEXICO AND A.RIZONA. therefor. The successful party in the last election in its national plat A great saving might be made, amounting to much more form declared in favor of the admission as separate States of than half of the loss, b:i imposing upon magazines and peri New Mexico and Arizona, and I recommend that legislation odicals a higher rate of postage. They are much heavier than appropriate to this end be ndopted. I urge, however, that care newspapers, and contain a much higher proportion of adver be exercised in the preparation of the legislation affecting each tising to reading matter, and the average distance of their Territory to secure deliberation in the selection of persons as transportation is three and a half times as great. members of the convention to draft a constitution for the in The total deficit for the last fiscal year in the Post-Office coming State, and I eamestly advise that such constitution after Department amounted to $17,500,000. The branches of its adoption by the convention shall be submitted to the people· of business which it did at a loss were the second-class mail serv the Territory for their approval at an election in which the ice, in which the loss, as already said, was $63,000,000, and the sole issue shall be the merits of the proposed constitution, and free rural delivery, in which the loss was $28,000,000. These if the constitution is defeated by popular vote means shall be losses were in part offset by the profits of the letter postage provided in the enabling act for a new convention and the draft and other sources of income. It would seem wise to reduce ing of a new constitution. I think it vital that the issue as to the loss upon second-class mail matter, at least to the extent the merits of the constitution should not be mixed up with the of preventing a deficit in the total operations of the Post-Office. selection of State officers, and that no election of State officers I commend the whole subject to Congress, not unmindful of should be had until after the constitution has been fully ap tl)e spread of intelligence which a low charge for carrying news proved and finally settled upon. papers and periodicals assists. I very much doubt, however, ALASKA. the wisdom of a policy which constitutes so large a subsidy With respect to the Territory of Alaska, I recommend legis and requires additional taxation to meet it. lation which shall provide for the appointment by the President POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS. of a governor and also of an executive council, the members of The second subject worthy of mention in the Post-Office De which shall during their term of office reside in the Teritory, partment is the real necessity and entire practicability of estab and which shall have legislative powers sufficient to enable it lishing postal savings banks. The successful party at the last to give to the Territory local laws adapted to its present growth. election declared in favor of postal savings banks, and although I strongly deprecate legislation looking to the election of a the proposition finds opponents in many parts of the country, I Territorial legislature in that vast district. The lack of per am convinced that the people desire such banks, and am sure manence of residence of a large part of the present population that when the banks are furnished they will be productive of and the small number of the people who either permanently or the utmost good. The postal savings banks are not consti temporarily reside in the district as compared with its vast ex tuted for the purpose of creating competition with other banks. panse and the variety of the interests that have to be subservcd, The rate of interest upon deposits to which they would be make it altogether U.nfitting in my judgment to provide for a limited would be so small as to prevent their drawing deposits popular election of a legislative body. The present system is away from other banks. not adequate and does not furnish the character of local con I believe them to be necessary in order to offer a proper trol that ought to be there. The only compromise it seems to inducement to thrift and saving to a great many people of me which may give needed local legislation and secure a con small means who do not now have banking facilities and to servative government is the one I propose. whom such a system would offer an opportunity for the accumu lation of capital. They will furnish a satisfactory substitute, CONSERVATION OF NATIONAL RESOURCES. based on sound principle and actual successful trial in nearly In several Departments there is presented the necessity for all the countries of the world, for the system of government legislation looking to the further conservation of our national guaranty of deposits now being adopted in several western resources, and the subject is one of such importance as to re States, which with deference to those who advocate it seems quire a more detailed and extended discussion than can be en to me to have in it the seeds of demoralization to conservative tered upon in this communication. For thn t reason I shall take banh.'ing and certain financial disaster. an early opportunity to send a special message to Congress on The question of how the money deposited in postal savings the subject of the improvement of our waterways, upon the banks shall be invested is not free from difficulty, but I believe reclamation and irrigation of arid, semiarid, and swamp lands; that a satisfactory provision for this purpose was inserted as upon the preservation of our forests and the reforesting of an amendment to the bill considered by the Senate at its last suitable areas; upon the reclassification of the public domain session. It has been proposed to delay the consideration of with a view of separlfting from agricultural settlement mineral, legislation establishing a postal savings bank until after the coal, and phosphate lands and sites belonging to the Government report of the Monetary Commission. This report is likely to be bordering on streams suitable for the utilization of water delayed, and properly so, because of the necessity for careful power. deliberation and close investigation. I do not see why the one DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. should be tied up with the other. It is understood that the I commend to your careful consideration the report of the Monetary Commission have looked into the systems of banking Secretary of Agriculture as showing the immense sphere of which now prevail abroad, and have found that by a control usefulness which that Department now fills and the wonderful there exercised in respect to reserves and the rates of exchange addition to the wealth of the nation made by the farmers of by :mme central authority panics are avoided. It is not ap- this country in the crops of the current year. 1909 .. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 33 DEPARTMENT OF COllMERCE AND LABOR-THE LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. The Light-House Board now discharges its duties under the The work of the United States Civil Service Commission has Department of Commerce and Labor. For upwards of forty been performed to the general satisfaction of the executive years this Board has been constituted of military and naval officers with whom the Commission has been brought into offi officers and two or three men of science, with such. an absence cial communication. The volume of that work and its variety of a duly constituted executive head that it. is marvelous w~t and extent have under new laws, such as the Census Act, and work has been accomplished. In the period of construction new Executive orders, greatly increased. The activities of the the energy and enthusiasm of all the members prevented the Commission required by the statutes have reached to every inherent h defects of the system from interfering greatly wit:h portion of the public domain. the beneficial work of the Board, but now that the work rs The accommodations of the Commission are most inadequate chiefly confined to maintenance and ~epa_ir, ~or whi~h purv<>se for its needs. I call your attention to its request for increase the country is divided into sixteen d1str1cts, to which are as in those accommodations as will appear from the annual re .signed an engineer officer of the Army and an inspector of the port for this year. Nayy each with a light-house tender and the needed plant for hls work it has become apparent by the frequent friction POLITICAL CONTB-IBUTIONS. that arises due to the absence of any central independent au I urgently recommend to Congress that a Jaw be passed re thority tb.ltt there must be a complete reorganization of the quiring that candidates in elections of Members of the House of Board.' I concede the advantage of keeping in the syste~ the Representatives, and committees in charge of their candidacy rigidity of discipline that the presence of naval and military and campaign, file in a proper office of the United States Gov officers in charge insures, but unless the presence of such offi ernment a statement of the conti·ibutions received and of the cers in the Board can be made consistent with a responsible expenditures incurred in the campaign for such elections, and executive head that shall have proper authority, I recommend that similar legislation be enacted in respect to_all other elec the transfer of control over the light-houses to a suitable tions which are constitutionally within the control of Congress. civilian bureau. This is in accordance with the judgment of FREEDMAN'S SAYINGS AND TRUST COMPANY. competent persons who are familiar with the workings of the Recommendations have been made by my predecessors that present system. I am confident that a reorgan~~tion can be Congress appropriate a sufficient, sum to pay · the balance--. effected which shall a void the recurrence of friction between about 38 per cent-of the amounts due depositors in the Freed members, instances of which have been officially brought to my man's Savings and Trust Company. I renew this recommenda attention, and that by such reorganization gTeater ef?.ciency and tion, and adytse also that a proper limitation be prescribed a substantial reduction in the expense of operation can be fixing a period within which the claims may be presented, that brought about. assigned claims be not recognized, and that a limit be imposed CONSOLIDATION OF BUREAUS. on the amount of fees collectible for services in presenting such I request Congressional authority to enable the Secretary of claims. Commerce and Labor to unite the Bureaus of Manufactures and SEMICENTENNIAL OF NEGRO FREEDOM. Statistics. This was recomended by a competent committee appointed in the previous administration for the purpose of The year 1913 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the issu suggesting changes in the interest of economy and efficiency, ance of the Emancipation Proclamation granting freedom to and is requested by the Secretary. the negroes. It seems fitting that this event should be properly celebrated. Already a movement has been started by promi THE WHITE SL.A. VE TRADE. nent negroes, encouraged by prominent white people and the I greatly regret to have to say that the investigatio~s m~de press. The South especially is manifesting its interest in this in the Bureau of Immigration and other sources of information movement. · lead to the view that there is urgent necessity for additional It is suggested that a proper form of celebration would be an legislation and greater executive activity to suppress the re exposition to show the progress the negroes have made, not cruiting of the ranks of prostitutes from the streams of immi only during their period of freedom, but also from the time ot gration into this country-an evil which, for want of a better their coming to this country. ' na~e has been called "The White Slave Trade." I believe it I heartily indorse this proposal, and request that the Execu to be' constitutional to forbid, under penalty, the transportation tive be authorized to appoint a preliminary commission of not of persons for purposes of prostitution across national and more than seven persons to consider carefully whether or not state lines; and by appropriating a fund of $50,000 to be used it is wise to hold such an exposition, and if so, to outline a by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor for the employmen~ of plan for the enterprise. . I further recommend that such pre special inspectors it will be possible to bring those responsible liminary commission serve without sala,ry, except as to their for this trade to indictment and conviction under a federal law. actual expenses, and that an appropriation be made to meet BUREAU OB' HEALTH. such expenses. For a very considerable period a movement has bee~ gather CONCLUSION. ina strength, especially among the members of the medical pro fe;sion in fa"tor of a concentration of the instruments of the I haye thus, in a message compressed as much as the subjects Nation~! Government which have to do with the promotion of will permit, referred to many of the legislative need~ of the public health. In the nature of things, the Medical Department country with the exceptions already noted. Speakrng gen of the Army and the Medical Department of the Navy· must be erally, tlre country is in a high state of prosperity. There. is kept separate. But there seems to be no reason why all the every reason to believe that we a~·e on the eve of a sub~tantial other bureaus and offices in the General Government which business expansion, and we have Just garnered a hanest unex have to do with the public health or subjects akin thereto ampled in the market value of our agricultural products. The should not be united in a bureau to be called the "Bureau of high prices which such products bring mean great prosperity Public Health." This would necessitate .the transfer of the for the farming community, but on the other hand .they mean a Marine-Hospital Service to such a ·bureau. I am aware that very considerably increased burden upon those classes in the there is a wide field in respect to the public health committed community whose yearly compensation does not expand with to the States in which the Federal Government can not exercise the improvement in business and the general prosperity. Vari jurisdiction, but we have seen in the Agricultural Depar~~nt ous reasons are given for the high prices. The proportionate the expansion into widest usefulness of a department g1vmg increase in the output of gold, which to-day is the chief medium attention to agriculture when that subject is plainly one over of exchange and is in some respects a rneasme of value, fur which the States properly exercise direct jurisdiction. The nishes a substantial explanation of at least part of the increase opportunities offered for useful resea~·ch .and the spr~d of use in prices. The increase in population and the more expensive f ul information in regard to the cultivation of the soil and the mode of living of the people, which have not been accompanied breeding of stock and the sofotion of. many of the intricate by a proportionate increase in acreage production, may furnish pl'ObJems in progressive agriculture have .de?Jonstrated the a further reason. It is well to note that the increase in the wisdom of establishing that department. Similar reasons, of cost of living is not confined to this country, but prevails the equal force can be given for the establishment of a bureau of world over, and that those who would charge increases in prices health that shall not only exercise the police jurisdiction of to the existing protective tariff must meet the fact that the rise the Federal Government respecting· quarantine, but which shall in prices has taken place almost wholly in those products of the also afford an opportunity for investigation and research by factory and farm in respect to which there has been eithe1· no competent experts into questions of health affecting the whole increase in the tariff or in many instances a very considerable country or iIDJ)Ortant sections thereof, questions which, in the reduction. absence' of Federal governmental work, are not likely to be WILLIAM H. TAFT. promptly solved. THE WHITE HOUSE, Deceniber 7, 1909. XLV--3 j ' ·34 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER ·7, The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. RooT in the chair). The ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PUBLIC PRINTER. message, with the accompanying documents, w1ll lie on the The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the annual table and be printed. report of the Public Printer, showing the operations of the Gov REPORTS OF SECRETARY OF THE SENA.TE. ernment Printing Office for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909, which was referred to the Committee on Printing. The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate a com munication from the Secretary of the Senate, transmitting, pur PAY QF OFFICERS OF THE NAVY, suant to law, a full and complete statement of the receipts and The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate a com· expenditures of the Senate of public moneys in his possession municatlon from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, pur from July 1, 1908, to June 30, 1909, which, with the accompany suant to law, a schedule of all pay and allowances for each ing papers, was ordered to lie on the table and be printed. grade of officers in the Navy, including retired officers, and also He also laid before the Senate a communication from the Sec of all enlisted men, which, with the accoTl.panying papers, was retary of the Senate, transmitting a full and complete account referred to the Committee on Naval Aff'.:Lirs and ordered to be of all property, including stationery, belonging to the United printed. States in his possession on the 6th day of December, 1909, which DISTRIBUTION OF DOCUMENTS. with the accompanying paper, was ordered to lie on the table The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate a com and be printed. munication :fiom the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, REPORTS OF SERGEANT-AT-ARMS. pursuant to law, a stat~ment showing the number of documents received and distributed by that department during the fiscal The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate a com year ended June 30, 1909, which, with the accompanying pa munication from the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, transmit pers, was referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered ting a statement of the receipts from the sale of condemned to be printed. property in his possession since December 7, 1908, which, with the accompanying paper, was ordered to lie on the table and CIVIL-SERVICE EMPLOYEES FROM SOUTH DAKOTA. be printed. The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate a com He also laid before the Senate a communication from the munication from the Civil Service Commission, transmitting, Sergeant-at-Arms' of the Senate, giving a full and complete ac in response to a resolution of August 3, the names of persons count of all property belonging to the United States in his in the competitive classified service charged to the apportion· possession on December 6, 1909; which, with the accompanying ment from South Dakota under section 2 of the civil-service paper, was ordered to lie on the table and be printed. act, which, with the accompanying paper, was ordered to lie on the table and be printed._ EXPENDITURES OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, LIST OF JUDGMENTS. The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate a com The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate a com munication from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting, pur munication from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, suant tp law, a detailed statement of the expenditures of the transmitting, pursuant to law, a. statement of all judgments Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ended June 30, rendered by the court for the year ended December 4, 1909, 1909, which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the which was referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and ordered to be be printed. printed. VESSEL SCHOONER " BETSY HOLLAND." TBAVEL OF AGRICULTURAL DEPABTMENT EMPLOYEES. The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate a com The P~ESIDING OFF.ICER laid before the Senate a com munication fro.in the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, munication from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting, pur transmitting the findings of fact and conclusions of law filed suant to law, a statement showing in detail the travel from under the act of January 20, 1885, in the French spoliation :Washington to points outside of the District of Columbia per claims relating to the vessel schooner Betsy Holland, Samuel formed by officers and employees of the Department of Agricul Cassan, master, which, with the accompanying paper, was re ture during the fiscal year 1909, which, with the accompanying ferred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. papers, was referred to the Committee on Appropriations and FINDINGS OF THE OOUBT OF CLAIMS, ordered to. be printed. The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate a com BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY, AGBICULTURA.L DEPARTMENT. munication from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, The PRESIDING OFFICER lafd before the Senate a com transmitting a certified copy of the findings of fact and of the munication from · the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry, opinions filed by the court in the cause of Shelton Chieves, ad transmitting, pursuant to law, a detailed statement of all sala ministrator of the estate of James Chives, deceased, v. United ries paid by the Bureau of Chemistry for compensation or pay States ( S. Doc. No. 166), which, with the accompanying paper, ment of expenses to officers or other persons employed by state, was referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be county, or municipal governments during the fiscal year ended printed. November 30, 1909, which, with the accompanying paper, was He also laid before the Senate communications from the as referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and sistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting certified ordered to be printed. copies of the findings of fact filed by the court in the following causes: MARKING' OF GBA VES OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS. In the cause of John Whittington v. United States (S. Doc. The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate a com No. 185); munication from the Secretary of War in favor of an extension In the cause of the trustees of the Primitive Baptist Church, to December 31, 1910, of the time, as fixed by the act of Feb of Newport, N. C., v. United States (S. Doc. No. 192); ruary 26, 1908, relative to the marking of the graves of con In the cause of the trustees of the l\Iethodist Episcopal federate soldiers who died in northern prisons, which was re Church South, of Platte City, Mo., v. United States ( S. Doc. ferred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be No. 193); printed. In the cause of Stephen Bird, executor of John Bird, de ANNUAL REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. ceased, v. U~ited States (S. Doc. No. 186). In the cause of the trustees of the Cumberland Presbyterian The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the annual Church, of Mulberry, Crawford County, .Ark., v. United States report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for (S. Doc. No. 191); the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909, which was referred to the In the cause of Nathan F. Ames et al. v. United States (S Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be Doc. No. 190) ; printed. In the cause of W. Samuel Goodwyn, administrator, v. Uil.ited AFFAIRS IN 'THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. States ( S. Doc. No. 187) ; The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate a com In the cause of James :McDonnell, executor of James McDon munication from the Commissioners of the District of Colum nell, deceased, v. United States (S. Doc. No. 188) ; bia, transmitting a draft of a proposed bill to provide for the In the cause of Willard H. Greene v. United States ( S. Doc. payment of the debt of the District of Columbia, and also to No. 167); provide for permanent improvements in the District of Co In the cause of Mrs. Marie Melanie Broussard, Nunez Lyons, lumbia, and for other purposes, together with certain informa l\Iary Azelima Simon, Mary Jane Campbell, and Benjamin tion relative thereto, which, with the a·ccompanying papers, was Broussard, administrator of estate of Sarah Jane Lyons Brous referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and sard, deceased, heirs of Bosman Lyons, deceased, v. United ordered to be printed. States (S. Doc. No. 181); 1909 .. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-.SElVATE .. 35· In the cause of Jules 1\falveau, administrator of Jean Louis THOMAS W. KELLER, ACTING ASSISTANT DOORKEl!..-"l'ER. l\Ialveau, deceased, v. United States (S. Doc. No. 184); Mr. HALE. I submit a privileged resolution and ask for its In the cause of James M. Massengale, administrator of estate adoption. of Marc.us M. Massengale, deceased, v. United States (S. Doc. The resolution (S. Res. 83) was read, considered by unani No. 183); mous consent, and agreed to, as follows : In the cause of Isaac T. Turner, administrator of estate of William Wesley Turner, deceased, v. United States (S. Doc. No. Senate resolution 83. Resolved, That Thomas W. Keller, of West Virginia, be, and he 11!1 182); hereby, chosen as acting assistant doorkeeper of the Senate. In the cause of William Fehr, administrator of Peter Fehr, deceased, v. United States (S. Doc. No. 180); PETITIONS A.ND MEMORIALS. In the cause of Peter Ellwanger, administrator of estate of The VICE-PRESIDENT presented a concurrent resolution D. F. Ellwanger, deceased, v. United States (S. Doc. No. 179); of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Hawaii, which In the cause of Augusta W. Seely, widow of Henry B. Seely, was referred to the Committee on Pacific Islands and Porto deceased, v. United States ( S. Doc. No. 189) ; Rico and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: In the cause of Lucius B. Blydenburgh, brother of Benjamin Concurrent resolution. B. Blydenburgh, deceased, v. United States (S. Doc. No. 168); Be it 1·esolved by the hou.se of representatives of the legislature of the Ten·it0111 of Hawaii (the senate concurring), That, in order to In the cause of Martha J. Briscoe, widow of John A. Briscoe, meet pressing needs and make possible a more rapid development of deceased, v. United States ( S. Doc. No. 173) ; the Territory along American lines, the Congress of the United States In the cause of Elizabeth Jackson, widow of Andrew Jack is hereby requested to amend the organic act of the Territory enti tled "An act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii," son, deceased, v. United States ( S. Doc. No. 170) ; approved April 30, 1900, substantially in the manner and form set In the cause of Joseph G. Myers and William W. Myers, sons forth in the following proposed bill, which the Delegate to Congress of Joseph G. Myers, deceased, v. United States ( S. Doc. No. from the Territory of Hawaii is hereby requested to introduce and urge 171); in Congress: And be it further Resolved, That a certified copy of this resolution be sent to the In the cause of Smith W. Nichols v. United States (S. Doc. President of the United States, the President of the Senate, the Speaker No. 169); of the House of Representatives, and the Delegate to Congress from the In the cause of James H. Perry v. United States ( S. Doc. No. Territory of Hawaii. · 172); A bill to amend an act entitled "An act to provide a government for In the cause of Albert Ross v. United States ( S. Doc. No. the Territory of Hawaii," approved April 30, 1900. Be it enacted,' etc., That section 5 of an act entitled "An act to pro 174); vide a government for the Territory of Hawaii," approved April 30, In the cause of Joseph A. Scarlett v. United States (S. Doc. 1900, is hereby amended to read as follows: No. 176); " SEC. 5. That the Constitution, and, except as otherwise provided, all the laws of the United States, including laws carrying general ap In the cause of Louise V. Hudgins, daughter of Edward E. propriations, which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same Stone, deceased, v. United States (S. Doc. No. 175); force and effect within the said 'l'erritory as elsewhere in the United In the cause of Amanda M. Swain, widow of Oliver Swain, States: Proi;ided, That sections 1841 to 1891, inclusive, 1910, and 1912 of the Revised Statutes, and the amendments thereto, and an deceased, v. United States (S. Doc. No. 177); and act entitled 'An act to prohibit the passage of local or special laws in In the cause of John J. Walsh v. United States (S. Doc. Territories of the United States, to limit territorial indebtedness, and No. 178). for other purposes,' approved July 30, 1886, and the amendments thereto, shall not apply to Hawaii." The foregoing causes were, with the accompanying papers, SEC. 2. That section 26 of said act is hereby amended to read as referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. follows: " SEC. 26. That the members of the legislature shall receive for SPEECH OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. their services, in addition to mileage at the rate of 10 cents a mile Mr. HALE. I present a newspaper report of the speech of each way, the sum of $1,000 for each regular session, payable in three equal installments· on and after the first, · thirtieth, and fiftieth Hon. J. G. CANNON, delivered at Kansas City, Mo., Friday, days of the session, and the sum of $200 for each special session : November 26, 1909. I move that the report be printed as a Provided, That they shall receive no compensation for any extra session document ( S. Doc. 163). held under the provisions of section 54 of this act." SEC. 3. That section 52 of said act is hereby amended ·to read as The motion was agreed to. follows: ADJOURNMENT TO FRIDAY. " SEC. 52. That appropriations, except as herein otherwise provided, shall be made by the legislature." Mr. HALE. I move that when the Senate adjourns to-day it SEC. 4. That section 55 of said act is hereby amended. so that the be to meet on Friday next. part thereof relating to public indebtedness and beginning with the words " nor shall any debt" shall read as follows: " Nor shall any l\Ir. BAILEY. Will the Senator from Maine permit me, debt be authorized to be contracted by or on behalf of the Territory, pending that motion, to ask if it is the intention then to ad or any political or municipal corporation or subdivision thereof, except journ from Friday until Monday? to pay the interest upon the existing indebtedness, to suppress insur rection, or to provide for the common defense, except that in addition Mr. HALE. I do not know what the Senate will do. Per to any indebtedness created for such purposes the legislatu1·e may haps a dozen Senators have said to me to-day that, having just authorize loans by the Territory, or any such subdivision thereof, for come here, they desire a few days to attend to departmental the erection of penal, charitable, and educational institutions, and for public buildings, wharves, roads, harbor, and other public improvements, business, and they asked me to make a motion to adjourn until and for the development of natural resources and public lands, but Friday. Two or three Senators have said to me that the the total of such indebtedness incurred in any one year by the Territory National Waterway& Congress is to meet here to-morrow and or any such subdivision shall not exceed 1 per cent of the assessed value of the property in the Territory or subdivision, respectively, as they wish to attend its sessions. It is to carry out the desire shown by the then last assessments for taxation, whether such assess of Senators that I have made the motion. ments are made by the Territory or the subdivision or subdivisions, and Mr. BAILEY. It was to enable me to answer similar in the total indebtedness of the Territory shall not at any time be ex tended beyond 7 per cent of such assessed value of property in the quiries from other Senators that I asked the question. If it is Territory and the total indebtedness of any such subdivision shall not understood that the Senate will adjourn from FridaY. until at any time be extended beyond 3 per cent of such assessed value of Monday, Senators who have matters requiring their prompt and property in the subdivision, but nothing in this act shall prevent the refunding of any indebtedness at any time ; nor shall any such loan be continuous attention can give it, without finding it necessary to made upon the credit of the public domain or -any part thereof ; nor come here. That is the reason why I asked the question. I shall s.ny bond or other instrument of any such indebtedness be issued assume that that is the purpose. unless made payable in not more than thirty years from the date of the issue thereof ; nor shall any such bond or indebtedness be issued or Mr. HALE. That will take care of itself on Friday. incurred until approved by the President of the United States: Pro Mr. BAILEY. I do not wish to leave it in that way, because vided, That, subject to the approval of the President of the United I should like to be able to say what will be the order. While, States, the legislature of the Territory may provide for loans of public moneys, or guaranties of private loans, on proper security to settlers of course, we know that no statement of any Senator will bind on the public lands for necessary permanent improvements of their the Senate, or even bind that Senator, against a contingency homesteads, and for loans, subsidies, or guaranties to persons or that might arise, still I think the Senator from Maine has corporations for the improvement and increase of transportation facilities." pretty well in his mind the belief that there is going to be SEC. 5. That section 73 of said . act ls hereby amended by adding nothing done this week. thereto the following : Mr. HA.LE. I should have no hesitation in saying that I " No person shall hereafter be entitled to receive any certificate of occupation, right of purchase lease, cash freehold agreement, or special suppose on Friday, with the consent of the Senate, it will ad homestead agreement, who or whose husband or wife shall previously journ over until Monday. have taken or held any land under any such certificate, lease, or agree . ·Mr. BAILEY. I imagine it could not be done without the ment hereafter made or issued, or under any homestead lease 01· patent based thereon; or who or whose husband or wife, or both of them, consent of the Senate, anyhow. _ shall then own other land in the Territory the combined area of which The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the motion and the land in g_uestion exceeds 80 acres; or who is an alien, unless of the Senator from 1\laine, that when the Senate adjourns to he has declared lils intention to become a citizen of the United States as provided by law; nor shall any person who, having so declared -his day it be to meet on Friday next. intention, shall hereafter take or hold under any such certi.lica.te, lease, The motion was agreed to. or agreement, continue so to hold or become entitled to a homestend 36 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DEOEl\IBER 7' lease or patent of the land, unless he shall hn.ve become a citizen SEC. 8. That section 92 of said act is hereby amended to read as within five years after so taldng. follows: " No land for which any such certificate, lease, or agreement shall "SEC. 92. That the following officers shall receive the following hereafter be issued, or any part thereof or interest therein or control annual salaries, to be paid by the United States: The governor, 10,000 ; thereof, shall, without the written consent of the commissioner and the secretary of the Territory, $5,000; the chief justice of the supreme governor, thereafter, whether before or after a homestead lease or court of the Territory, $6,500; the associate justices of the supreme patent has been issued thereon, be or be contracted to be in nny way, court, $6,000 each ; the judges of the circuit courts, $4,000 each ; the directly or indirectly, by process ol law or otherwise, conveyed, mort United States district attorney, $5,000; the United States marshal, gaged, leased, or otherwise transferred to or acquired or held by or for $4 000. And the governor shall receive annually, in addition to his the benefit of any alien or corporation; or, before or after the issuance safary, the sum of $1,000 for stationery, postage, and incidentals; also of a homestead lease or before the issuance of a patent, to or by or Ws traveling expenses while absent from the capital on official business, for the benefit of any other person; or, after the iSsuance of a patent, and the sum of $2,000 annually for his private secretary." to or by or for the benefit of any person who owns.. holds, or controls, SEC. 9. That section 100 of said act is hereby amended by adding directly or indirectly, other land or the use thereoI the combined area thereto the following : of which and the land in question exceeds 8-0 acres : Provided That "All records relating to naturalization, all declarations of intention these prohibitions shall not apply to transfers or acquisitions 'by in to become citizens oi the United States, and all certificates of naturali· heritance or between tenants in common. zatlon filed, recorded, or issued prior to the taking effect of the natu "Any land in respect of which any of the fo.regoing provisions shall ralization act of June 29, 1906, in or from any circuit court of the be violated shall forthwith be forfeited and resume the status of public Territory ot Hawail, shall for all purposes be deemed to be and to land and may be recovered by the Territory or its successors in an have been made, filed, recorded, or Issued by a court with jurisdiction nction of ejectment or other appropriate proceeding. And noncom pliance with the terms of any such certificate, lease, or agreement, or to naturalize aliens, bnt shall not be by this act further validated or of the law applicable thereto, shall entitle the commissioner. with the legalized." approval of the governor, with or without legal process. notice de THE HOUSE 0.ll' REPRESENTATIVES OF THE mand, or previous entry, to retake possession and thereby deterinlne TERRITORY OF HA.WA.II, the estate: Provided, That the times limited for compliance with any Honolulu, Hawaii, November 4, 1909. such terms may ~ extended by the commissioner, with such approval, We hereby certify that the foregoing concurrent resolution was upon its appearmg that an elfort has been made in good faith to adopted in the house of representatives of the Territory oi Hawaii on comply therewith. the 4th day of November, 1909, by aye-and-no vote of 28 to 0. "The persons entitled to take under any such certificate lease -or H. L. HOLSTEIN, agreement shall be determinffi by drawing or lot, after public notice Speaker House of Representatives. as hereinafter provided ; and any lot not taken or taken and for EDWARD WOODWARD, feited, 01· any lot or part thereof surrendered with the consent of the Olerk House of Representatives. commissioner, which is hereby authorized, may be disposed of upon THE SENATE OF THE TEUlllTORY OF HAWAII, application at not less than the advertised price by any such cer Honolulu, Hawaii, November 5, 1909. tificate, lease. or a~eement without further notice. The notice of any sale, drawing, or a11otment of public land shall be by publication for We hereby certify that the foregoing concurrent resolution was a period of not less than sixty days in one o.r more newspapers of adopted in the senate of the· Territory of Hawaii on the 5th day of general circulation published in the Territory. November, 1909. "The commissioner, with the approval of the governor, may give to WILLIAM D. SMITH, nny person who has, or who and whose predecessors in interest have President of the Senate. improved any parcel of public lands and resided thereon not less thru:i JOHN H. WISE, five years immediately preceding the date of application a preference Olerk of the Senate. right to purchase so much of such parcel and such adjoining land as may reasonably be required for a home, at a fair price to be determined The VICE-PRESIDENT presented a joint memorial of the by three disinterested persons appointed by the governor, in the de legislature of the State of Washington, which was referred to termination of which price the value of improvements shall, when the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed in deemed just and reasonable, be disregarded. " The commissioner may also, with such approval, issue, for a nominal the RECORD, as foilows: consideration, to any church or religious organization ·or person or Senate joint memorial 2. persons or co1·poration representing it, a patent for any parcel of public To the Congress of the United States: land occupied continuously for not less than five years heretobre and still occupied by it as a church site under the laws of Hawaii. The eleventh legislature ot the State o.l Washington in special ses· " No sale for other than homestead pm·poses and no exchange by sion convened respectfully memorialize your honorable bodies as fol· which the Territory shall convey land exceeding either 40 acres in area lows: or $5,000 in value and no lease of agricultural land exceeding 40 acres The Lumml Indian Reservation, located in Whatcom CotIDty, Wash., in area shall be made without the approval of two-thirds <>f a board is a large fertile tract of land, but at present a c.omparative waste by appointed as provided in section 80 of this act, and until the legisla reason that but few Indians live on such reservation ; that what few ture otherwise provides said board shall consist oi six members, and its Indians do live on said reservation are self-sustaining, living on and members be appointed for terms of four years. caring for their own farms; that Bellingham Bay is a large and im· "All lands in the possession, use, and control or the Territory shall portant port on Puget Sound, and said reservation is near the city of herenfter be managed by the commissioner, except such as shall be Bellingham, a city of over 30,000 people, and growing rapidly; that set aside for public purposes as hereinafter provided ; all sales and the country around said Bellingham Bay is retarded by reason of these other dispositions of such land shall be made by the commissioner or large undeveloped and unused portions of said reservation ; that the under his direction, for whlch purpose, if necessary, the land may be State and county are unable to build roads over and through this terrl· transferred to his department from any other department by direction tory by reason that the same is under the control of the United States 1 of the governor, and all patents and deeds of sueh land shall issue that the public good would be best ·subserved by the opening of saia from the office of the commissioner, who shall countersign the same reservation to settlement. and keep a record thereoi. Lands conveyed to the Territory in ex Wherefore, we would respectfully urge that the Indians on said res change for other lands that are subject to the land laws of Hawaii, ervation be given allotments and pie remai'l.der of said reservation be ns amended by this act, shall, except as otherwise provided, have the thrown open to settlement. same status and be subject to such laws as if they had previously been I certify that the above is a true and correct copy of senate joint public lands of Hawaii All orders setting aside lands for forest or memorial No. 2 as passed by the special session of the legislature of other public purposes, or withdrawing the same, shall be made by the the State of Washington, convened June 23, 1909. governor, and lands while so set aside for such purposes may be man· WM. T. LA.UBE, aged as may be provided by the laws of the Territory. The commis Secretary of the Senate. sioner ls hereby authorized to perform any and all acts, prescribe The VICE-PRESIDENT presented a .jQint resolution of the forms of oaths, and, with the approval of the governor nnd sald board, make such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for legislature of Alabama, which was referred to the Committee the purpose of earrying the provisions of this section and the land laws on Privileges and Elections and ordered to be printed in the of Hawali into full force and effect." RECORD, as follows : SEC. 6. That section 84 of said act is hereby amended to rend as follows: House joint resolution 36, by Mr. Bulger. "SEC. 84. That no person shall sit as a judge or juror in any case Whereas article 5 of the Constitution of the Unlted States provides in which his relatlve by affinity or by consanguinity within the third that whenever two-thirds of both Houses of Congress shall deem it degree is interested, either as a plaintlll' or defendant, or in the issue necessary, shall propose amendments to the Constitution, or, on appll of whleh the said judge or juror bas, either directly or through such ~ation of the legislatures of two-thlrds of the several States, shall call relative, any pecunlary interest; nor shall any person sit as a judge a convention proposing amendments, which in either case shall be valid in any case in which he has been of eounsel or on an appeal from to all intents and purposes; and any decision or judgment rendered by him, and the legislature of the Whereas the legislatures of 27 States have applied to the Congress Territory may add other causes of disqualification to those herein of the United States for the submission to the States of an amend· enumerated." · ment to the Constitution providing for . the election oi United States SEC. 7. That section 91 of said act is hereby amended to read as Senators by direct vote oi the people : Therefore be it follows: Resolved by the ho11.8e of repreaentatives of the Zeglslat·ure of " SEC. 91. That, except as otherwise provided, the public property ceded Alabama (tne senate concurri1ig), That the Sixty-first Congress of and transferred to the United States by the Republic of Hawaii under the United States is requested, and by this resolution application is the joint resolution of annexation, approved July 7, 1898, shall be and made by the legislature of the State of Alabama to the Congress of remain in the possession, use, and control of the government of the the United States in Its sixty-first session, to submit to the several Territory of Hawaii, and shall be maintainffi, managed. and cared for States an amendment to the Constitution providing for the election by it, at its own expense, until otherwise provided for by Congress, or of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. taken for the uses and purposes of the United States by direction of Resolved further, That a copy of this resolution be certified by the the President or of the governor of Hawaii. And any such public clerk of the house and secretary of the senate to the Speaker of the property so taken for the uses and purposes of the United States may House and the President of the Senate of the United States. be restored to its previous status by direction of the President; and We, Cyrus B. Brown, clerk of the house of representatives of the the title to any such public property in the possession and use of the legislature of Alabama, special session, 1909, and .James A. Kyle, Territory for the purposes of water, sewer, electric, and other public secretary ot the senate of Alabama, special session, 1909, do hereby works, penal, charitable, scientific, and educational institutions. ceme _certify that the page hereto attached contains a true, accurate, and teries, hospitals, parks, highways, wharves, landings, harbor improve literal copy of house joint resolution No. 36, introduced in the legis· ments, public buildings, or other public purP.oses, or required for any lature of Alabama by Hon. Thomas L. Bulger, representative from such purposes, may be transferred to the Territory by direction of the Tallapoosa County, Ala., as the same apl?ears of record in our respec President, and the title to any property so transferred to the Territory tive offices. We do further certify that the said house joint resolu may therealter be tran.sferred to any city, county, or other political tion No. 36 has been adopted by the house of representatives and subdivision thereof, by direction of the governor when thereunto au senate of Alabama at the special session of the legislature of Alabama thorized by the legislature." for 1909. l 1909. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 37 Witness our hands this the 10th day of August, A. D. 190l'>, and of the He also presented an affidavit to accompany the bill {S. 250)' Ind.:pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth year. granting an increase of pension to Ella R. Cooper, which was CYnus B. Bnow~. referred to the Committee on Pensions. Olet·k of House of Revresentatives of Alabama. He also presented an affidavit to accompany the bill (S. 253)" J. A. KYLE, granting an increase of pension to Thomas A. Crouch, which Secretary of Senate of Alabama. was 1·eferred to the Committee on Pensions. The VICE-PRESIDENT presented a petition of the New He also presented sundry affidavits to accompany the bill York Board of Trude and Transportation of New York City, (S. 247) granting an increase of pension to Silas M. Clark, N. Y., praying for the enactment of legislation to create a na which were referred to the Committee on Pensions. tional department of public works, which was referred to the He also presented sundry affidavits to accompany the bill Committee on Public Expenditures. (S. 281) granting an increase of pension to William Sherman, He also presented resolutions adopted at the twenty-ninth which were referred to the Committee on Pensions. annual convention of the American Federation of Labor, held Afr. GALLINGER presented a petition of Liberty Council No. at Toronto, Canada, favoring an appropriation for the con 37, Junior Order of United American l\Iechanics, of Laconia, struction of deep waterways throughout the country, which N. H., praying for the enactment of legislation to prohibit the were referred to the Committee on Commerce. immigration of all Asiatics into the United States and the Ter He also presented resolutions adopted at the twenty-ninth an ritory of Hawaii ex.cept merchants, students, and travelers, nual convention of the American l!"'ederation of Labor, held at which was referred to the Committee on Im.migration. Toronto, Canada, favoring economy in national expenditures, He also presented a memorial of the Lincoln Park Citizens' international arbitration, etc., which were referred to the Com .Association of Washington, D. C., remonstrating against any mittee on Public Expenditures. change being made in the present form of government in the He also presented the petition of Gus Boltz, of Nome, Alaska, District of Columbia, which was referred to the Committee on praying that he be granted relief from the decision rendered the District of Columbia. by Judge A. S. l\foore, district judge in that Territory, which He also presented a petition of the Rhode Island Avenue was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Suburban Citizens' Association of Washington, D. C., praying He also presented petitions of sundry citizens ot Washington for the enactment of legislation to establish a police substation and North Carolina, praying for the adoption of an amendment in that vicinity, and also for an increase in the police force of to the Constitution granting the right of sutI:rage to women, the District of Columbia, which was referred to the Committee which were referred to the Committee on Woman Suffrage. on the District of Columbia. He also presented petitions of sundry citizens of Alabama He also presented a petition of the American Board of Com and Florida, praying for the enactment of legislation granting missioners for Foreign Missions of Boston, Mass., praying tl1at pensions to freedmen, which were referred to the Committee on an appropriation be made to reimburse those who contributed Pensions. to the ransom fund of l\iiss Ellen M. Stone in 1901, which was He· also presented a memorial of sundry . citizens of Mount referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Vernon, Ohio, remonstrating against the enactment of legisla Mr. HALE presented a petition of the Board of Trade of tion providing for the proper observance of Sunday as a day Portland, l\fe., praying for the passage of the so-called " ship of rest in the District of Columbia, which was referred to the subsidy bill," which was referred to the Committee on Com Committee on the District of Columbia. merce. He -also presented a petition of the Hawaiian Bar Association, He also presented a petition of the New York Board of Trade of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, praying for the reappoint and Transportation, of New York City, N. Y., praying for the ment of Judge Sanford B. Dole to the ofilce of United States creation of a national department of public works, which was district judge in that Territory, which was referred to the Com referred to the Committee on Public Expenditures. • mittee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico. Mr. SCOTT presented a petition of sundry citizens of Rock He also presented a petition of the Pacific Coast Shippers' Springs and Rawlins, Wyo., praying that a monument to the Association, of Seattle, Wash., and a petition of the Pacific memory of James Rumsey be erected in Washington, D. c., Coast Lumber Manufacturers' Association, of Seattle, Wash., which was referred to the Committee on the Library. prayipg ~o-r the reappointment of Franklin K. Lane as a mem Mr. BROWN presented sundry affidavits to accompany the ber of the Interstate Commerce Commission from the Pacific bill ( S. 560) granting an increase of pension to Samuel s. coast, which were referred to the Committee on Interstate Peters, which were referred to the Committee on Pensions. Commerce. Mr. STEPH1DNSON presented a petition of H. M. Walker He also presented a petition of the National Encampment Post, No. 18, Department of Wisconsin, Grand Army of the of the Union Veteran Legion of the District of Columbia, pray Republic, of Manitowoc, Wis., and a petition of s. H. Sizer ing for the erection of a monument at the National Capital to Post, No. 207, Department of Wisconsin, Grand Army of the the memory of the sailors of the battle ship Maine, who per Republic, of Marinette, Wis., praying for the adoption of certain ished in the waters of the harbor at Habana, Cuba, and also amendments to the present pension laws, which were referred for the raising of the wreck of that battle ship, which was to the Committee on Pensions. referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Mr. OLIVER presented petitions of 2,700 citizens of the State He also presented a petition of the Trans-Mi.ssissippi Com of Pennsylvania, praying for the adoption of a cert:li:i nmend mercial Congress, of Denver, Colo., praying for the enactment ment to the present oleomargarine law to prohibit the fraud of legislation to authorize the President to appoint a commis ulent sale of imitation butters, which were referred to the Com sion to determine the boundaries of the public domain to be mittee on Agriculture and Forestry. retained permanently as forests, which was referred to the He also presented a petition of the Allegheny County Grand Committee on Public Lands. Army Association, of Pittsburg, Pa., and a petition of New Mr. JONES presented a petition of the Chamber of Com Kensington Post, Department of Pennsylvania, Grand .Army merce of Spokane, Wash., praying that an appropriation be of the Republic, of New Kensington, Pa., praying for ths made to enable the Department of Agriculture to investigate passage of the so-called "National Tribune pension bill,'' which grain and clover insects and wire worms in the States of were referred to the Committee on Pensions. Washington and Idaho, which was referred to the Committee Mr. NELSON presented an affidavit to accompany the bill on Agriculture and Forestry. (S. 634) granting an increase of pension to Daniel W. Inger He also presented a petition of the Chamber of Commerce of soll, which was referred to the Committee on Pensiomr. Cordova, Territory of Alaska, praying that further appropria He also presented sundry papers to accompany the bill ( S. tions be made for the construction of roads in that Territory, 2292) granting a pension to Elizabeth Ellingson, which were which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. referred to the Committee on Pensions. He also presented a petition of the Chamber of Commerce of Coruova, Territory of Alaska, praying for the enactment of BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED. legislation to encourage the development and patenting of coal Bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the first lands in that Territory, which was referred to the Committee time, and by unanimous consent the second time, and referred on Territories. · as follows: Mr. BURKETT presented a petition of sundry ex-Union By Mr. JONES : soldiers of Craig, Nebr., praying for the passage of the so-called A bill ( S. 3196) granting to the board of trustees of Whit " National tribune bill" providing for the rating of pensions man College the lands embraced in the Fort Walla Walla Mili of soldiers of the civil war, which was referred to the Com tary Reservation for the purpose of aiding in the establishment mittee on Pensions. and maintenance of an institution of higher learning in the 38 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEl\fBER 7 :\ Pacific Northwest (with an accompanying paper); to the Com A bill ( S. 3233) granting an increase of pension to Thomas S. mittee on l\Iilitary Affairs. Crafton; A bill (S. 3197) granting an increase of pension to Neil Mc A bill (S. 3234) granting an increase of pension to Elijah P. Dougall; to the Committee on Pensions. Creech; By Mr. BAILEY: A bill (S. 3235) granting an increase of pension to John Dan- A bill ( S. 3198) providing for the erection of a public build nerberger ; - ing at Amarillo, Tex.; to the Committee on Public Buildings A bill (S. 3236) granting an increase of pension to James and Grounds. Fox· A bill (by request) (S. 3199) for the relief of the h eirs of A 'bill (S. 3237) granting an increase of pension to Leonard George S. Thebo; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Faulkner; By Mr. LODGE: A bill (S. 3238) granting an increase of pension to Robert J. A bill ( S. 3200) authorizing the President to transfer First Hunt; Lieut. J. T. H. Slayter, Medical Reserve Corps, U. S. Army, to A bill (S. 3239) granting an increase of pension to Lizzie W. the Medical Corps, U. S. Army, and place him on the retired Knights; list; and A bill (S. 3240) granting an increase of pension to Samuel A bill (S. 3201) granting thirty working days' leave of ab Miller; sence in each year, without forfeiture of pay during such leave, · A bill (S. 3241) granting an increase of pension to George W. to certain employees at United States arsenals, proving grounds, Rollman; and supply stations; to the Committee on Military Affairs. A bill ( S. 3242) granting an increase of pension to James E. A bill (S. 3202) to authorize the President to place Ensign Simpson; · John Tracey Edson on the retired list of the navy with the rank A bill ( S. 3243) granting an increase of pension to Henderson of lieutenant; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. J. Thompson; and A bill ( S. 3203) incorporating the National Academy of Arts A bill ( S. 3244) granting an increase of pension to Charles D. and Letters ; and Wilson; to the Committee on Pensions. A bill (S. 3204) incorporating the National Institute of Arts A bill ( S. 3245) to remove the charge of desertion from the and Letters; to the Committee on the Judiciary. military record of Thomas H. Thorp (with an accompanying A bill (S. 3205) authorizing a credit in certain accounts of paper); to the Committee on Military Affairs. the Treasurer of the United States; to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. SMOOT: A bill (S. 3206) granting a pension to Mary M .. Muse (with A bill (S. 3246) to establish a fish-culture station in the the accompanying papers); State of Utah; to the Committee on Fisheries. A bill ( S. 3207) granting a pension to Georgianna Reagan A bill (S. 3247) for the relief of Lemuel H. Redd; and (with an accompanying paper); A bill (S. 3248) to correct the military record of Thomas A bill (S. 3208) granting a pension to Evelina Sprague (with Smith; to the Committee on Military Affairs. an accompanying paper) ; A bill (S. 3249) to extend the provisions· of the act of June A bill (S. 3209) granting a pension to Lizzie E. Small (with 27, 1902, entitled ~'An act to extend the provisions, limitations, an accompanying paper); and benefits of an act entitled 'An act granting pensions to the A bill (S. 3210) granting a pension to Sarah Cryan (with survivors of the Indian wars of 1832 to 1842, inclusive, known an accompanying paper); as the Black Hawk war, Cherokee disturbances, and the Semi· A bill (S. 3211) granting an increase of pension to Milton nole war,' approved July 27, 1892;" to the Committee on Pen· Nourse (with an accompanying paper); sions. A bill ( S. 3212) granting an increase of pension to Daniel M. A bill ( S. 3250) for the relief of A. A. Noon; to the Com Keigwin (with an accompanying paper) ; and mittee on Claims. A bill (S. 3213) granting an increase of pension to Edwin W. A bill ( S. 3251) to provide for the utilization of the phos Rand; to the Committee on Pensions. phate deposits now belonging to the United States; to the Com· By Mr. FLINT: mittee on Public Lands. A bill (S. 3214) to amend section 6 of an act entitled "An act By Mr. GALLINGER: to regulate commerce," approved February 4, 1887, and acts A bill ( S. 3252) to provide a public park on Geor~etom amendatory thereof; to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. Heights, in the District of Columbia ; to the Committee on Pub A bill (S. 3215) to remove the charge of desertion from the lie Buildings and Grounds. military record of Frederick Heer (with the accompanying A bill ( S. 3253) providing for guides in the District of Co· papers) ; to the Committee on Military Affairs. lumbia, and defining theh· duties (with the accompanying A bill ( S. 3216) granting an increase of pension to John papers); Lffre (with the accompanying papers); A bill (S. 3254) to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate A bill (S. 3217) granting a pension to James M. Lankston the practice of pharmacy and the sale of poisons in the District .(with the accompanying papers) ; of Columbia, and for other purposes," approved May 7, 19061 A bill (S. 3218) granting a pension to Thomas Connell (with by prohibiting the sale of poisonous hair dressing (with the. an accompanying paper); accompanying papers); A bill ( S. 3219) granting a pension to Lois A. Phillips ; A bill (S. 3255) providing for the regulation and suspension. A bill ( S. 3220) granting a pension to Louis H. Duryee; · of traffic and processions on highways in the District of Co. A bill (S. 3221) granting an increase of pension to Jerome lumbia (with the accompanying papers); Mcwethy; A bill ( S. 3256) to amend section 4 of an act entitled "An act A bill (S. 3222) granting a pension to Frank W. Seager; for the preservation of the public peace and the protection of A bill (S. 3223) granting an increase of· pension to J. S. property within the District of Columbia," approved July 29, Herwick; 1892, as to kite flying (with the accompanying papers); A bill (S. 3224) granting an increase of pension to Thomas J. A bill ( S. 3257) to amend an act entitled "An act to estab Wingrove; lish a code of la for the District of Columbia" (with the ac A .bill (S. 3225) · granting an increase of pension to J. F. companying papers) ; Blanchard ; A bill ( S. 3258) granting a right of way through land of the A bill (S. 3226) granting an increase of pension to Hugh Government Hospital for the Insane to connect Fourth street, Haggerty; Congress Heights, D. C., witli Fourth street, Washington High A bill ( S. 3227) granting a pension to Eli Dickinson (with an lands, D. C. (with the accompanying papers); accompanying paper); A bill ( S. 3259) to amend an act entitled "An act making A bill (S. 3228) granting an increase of pension to 0. W. appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government Barnard (with the accompanying papers); of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, A bill ( S. 3229) granting a pension to Richard Evans (with 1903, and for other purposes" (with the accompanying papers) ; the accompanying papers); and and A bill ( S. 3230) granting an increase of pension to Albert A bill (S. 3260) to provide for the payment of the debt of the Sarum (with an accompanying paper); to the Committee on District of Columbia, and to provide for permanent improve Pem;ions. ments, and for other purposes (with the accompanying papers); By Mr. CULLOM: to the Committee on the District of Columbia. A bill ( S. 3231) granting an increase of pension to William A bill ( S. 3261) granting an increase of pension to Charles H. Ashwill; W. Pierce (with the accompanying papers) ; A bill ( S. 3232) granting an increase of pension to William A bill ( S. 3262) granting an increase of pension to Henry M. Basnett; Whiteman (with the accompanying papers); and l 1909. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 39 A bill ( S. 3263) granting a pension to Nellie A. Farrell (with By Mr. BOURNE: n.n accompanying paper); to the Committee on Pensions. A bill (S. 3301) to provide for the purchase of a site and Ily Mr. FRYE: for the erection of public building thereon at Roseburg, Oreg.; A bill (S. 3264) for the relief of Watson, Frye & Co. (with to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. un uccompunying paper); to the Committee on Claims. A bill ( S. 3302) granting an increase of pension to Charles H. A l>ill ( S. 3265) granting an increase of pension to John 0. Ellis (with the accompanying papers) ; Steele (with the accompanying papers); A bill (S. 3303) granting an increase of pension to James A bill (S. 3266) granting a pension to Elizabeth Ann Howard Plunkett (with the accompanying papers); (with the accompanying papers); · A bill ( S. 3304) granting an increase of pension to Lewis T. A bill ( S. 3267) granting a pension to Mary E. Sloan (with Pierce (with the accompanying papers); the accompanying papers); A bill ( S. 3305) granting a pension to Ellen Scoggin (with A. bill (S. 3268) granting a pension to Mary E. McKeen (with the accompanying papers) ; the accompanying papers) ; A bill (S. 3306) granting an increase of pension to Joanna A bill ( S. 3269) granting an increase of pension to Henry Williams (With the accompanying papers); l\roore (with the accompanying papers); A bill ( S. 3307) granting an increase of pension to Charles A bill (S. 3270) granting an increase of pension to Joseph Hanthorn (with an accompanying paper); and Dudley (with the accompanying papers); A bill (S. 3308) granting an increase of pension to Samuel T. A bill ( S. 3271) granting an increase of pension to William Thomas; to the Committee on Pensions. II. Dennison (with the accompanying papers); By Mr. STEPHENSON: A IJill (S. 3272) granting an increase of pension to John E. A bill (S. 3309) granting an increase of pension to John W. 'l'rue (with the accompanying papers); Rowe (with the accompanying papers) ; A bill (S. 3273) granting an increase of pension to Columbus A bill (S. 3310)" granting an increase of pension to John Richardson (with the accompanying papers); Mahoney (with an accompanying paper); A bill (S. ·3274) granting an increase of pension to Cyrus T. A bill ( S. 3311) granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth Wardwell (with an accompanying paper); 0. Way (with the accompanying papers); A bill (S. 3275) granting an increase of pension to Albert P. A bill ( S. 3312) granting an increase of pension to Lewis R. Gh'·en; Baker (with the accompanying papers); A bill ( S. ~276) granting a pension to Maria E. Tilton; A bill (S. 3313) granting a pension to Eliza J. Brawley; A bill ( S. 3277) granting a pension to Mary L. Stevens; and A bill (S. 3278) granting an increase of pension to John A bill (S. 3314) granting an increase of pension to James A. Lang; Hines (with an accompanying paper) ; to the Committee on A bill (S. 3279) granting an increase of pension to Alice Pensions. Preble Anderson; By Mr. HEYBURN: A bill ( S. 3280) granting an increase of pension to Anna P. A bill (S. 3315) amending an act entitled "An act to amend Daggett; . an act to provide the times and places for holding terms of the A bill ( S. 3281) granting a pension to Samuel Willis; United States court in the States of Idaho and Wyoming," A bill (S. 3282) granting an increase of pension to Harlow approved June 1, 1898; to the Committee on the Judiciary. M. Hall; and A bill (S. 3316) providing for the completion of the classifica A bill ( S. 3283) granting an increase of pension to William tion and appraisement of lands within the Coeur d'Alene H. Hanscom; to the Committee on Pensions. Indian Reservation; to the Committee on Indian A.1'1'.airs. By Mr. GAMBLE: A bill ( S. 3317) au thorizmg the collection of statistics and A bill ( S. 3284) to authorize the sale and disposition of the information relative to irrigation of arid lands (with an accom surplus and unallotted lands in the Standing Rock Indian Res panying paper); to the Committee on the Census. ervation, in the State of South Dakota, and making appropria A bill ( S. &"18) to legalize a bridge across the Snake Rivec tion and provision to carry the same into effect ; between the States of Idaho and Oregon; to the Committee on A bill ( S. 3285) to authorize the sale and disposition of the Commerce. surplus a .d unallotted lands in the Cheyenne River Indian Res ervation, in the State of South Dakota, and making appropria A bill (S. 3319) granting an increase of pension to John tion and provision to carry the same into effect; and Drown (with an accompanying paper) ; A bill ( S. 3286) to amend sections 7 and 8 of the act of A bill ( S. 3320) granting an increase of pension to Joshua l\Iay 29, 1903 (35 Stat. L., 460), entitled "An act to authorize M:inthorn (with the accompanying papers); the sale and disposition of a portion of the surplus and unal A bill ( S. 3321) granting an increase of pension to Carmel C. lotted lands in the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian Carpenter (with an accompanying paper); and reservations, in the States of South Dakota and North Dakota, A bill (S. 3322) granting an increase of pension to William and making appropriation and provision to carry the same into Dickson; to the Committee on Pensions. effect;" to the Committee on Indian Affairs. By Mr. BURKETT: A bill (S. 3287) granting an increase of pension to Nyrum A bill (S. 3323) to establish postal savings depositories for Phillips; depositing savings at interest with the security of the Govern A bill ( S. 3288) granting an increase of pension to Hugh A. ment for repayment thereof, and for other purposes; to the McDonald (with an accompanying paper) ; Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. A bill ( S. 3289) granting an increase of pension to Benjamin A bill (S. 3324) granting an increase of pension to John F. Kirk (with the accompanying papers) ; and Clark; A bill ( S. 3290) granting an increase of pension to Thomas J. A bill (S. 3325) granting an increase of pension to John D. Howe (with the accompanying papers); to the Committee on Montgomery; Pensions. A bill ( S. 3326) granting an increase of pension to William Ily Mr. BROWN (for Mr. BEVERIDGE): T. Cole; A bill ( S. 3291) concerning injunctions in labor disputes; to A bill ( S. 3327) granting an increase of pension to Fritz the Committee on the Judiciary. Heinrich; By 1\fr. BROWN: A bill ( S. 3328) granting an increase of pension to Ira G. A bill ( S. 3292) to establish a fish-hatching and fish station Foster; at Kearney, in the State of Nebraska; to the Committee on A bill (S. 3329) granting an increase of pension to Robert M. Fis~rl~ . Mann; A bill ( S. 3293) granting a pension to Cecilia E. Griffith; A bill (S. 3330) granting a pension to Alexander Solomon; A bill (S. 3294) granting a pension to Agnes H. V. Swetland; A bill (S. 3331) granting an increase of pension to Thomas A bill ( S. 3295) granting a pension to Christa A. Hoge; n. Siddons; A bill (S. 3296) granting an increase of pension to Allen A bill ( S. 3332) granting an increase of pension to Nathaniel Price; Roberson ; . A bill ( S. 3297) granting an increase of pension to George A bill (S. 3333) granting an increase of pension to Jacob Beaumont; Riblett; A bill ( S. 3298) granting an increase of pension to Sarah A. A bill (S. 3334) granting an increase of pension to John S. Robinson; Jorstead; A bill ( S. 3299) granting an increase of pension to Philip A bill ( S. 3335) granting an increase of pension to Leander Bes~or (with an accompanying paper); and 0. Sheppard ; A bill ( S. 3300) granting a pension to -Susan Perry (with the A bill (S. 3336) granting an increase of pension to Amos E. ac-companying papers) ; to the Committee on Pensions. Evans; CONGRESSIONAL ·RECORD-SENATE. DECEJ\IBER 7' A bill (S. 3337) gran_ting ~n increase of pension to Charles A bill (S. 3374) granting a pension to Julia Cranney; H. Sargent; A bill (S. 3375) granting an increase of pension to Pope A bill ( S. 3338) granting an increase of pension to Harry A. Catlin (with the accompanying papers); and Shuman; A bill ( S. 3376) granting an increase of pension to William A bill ( S. 3339) granting an increase of pension to Daniel C. H. H. Dickinson (with the accompanying papers); to the Com Westfall; mittee on Pensions. A bill (S. 3340) granting an increase of pension to John H. By l\Ir. BORAH: DaYidson (with the accompanying papers); and A bill (S. 3377) to provide for the erection of a public build A bill (S. 3341) granting an increase of pension to James ing at Twin Falls, Idaho; to the Committee on Public Buildings O'Loughlin (with the accompanying papers); to the Committee and Grounds. on Pensions. A bill ( S. 3378) to aid in the reclamation of arid and semi By Mr. OLIVER : arid lands of the United States; to the Committee on Irriga- A bill (S. 3342) ·granting an increase of pension to William tion and Reclamation of Arid Lands. · Tospon; A bill ( S. 3379) to amend section 2291 and section 2297 of A bill ( S. 3343) granting a pension to Susan H. Hollinhead; the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to home A bill (S. 3344) granting a pension to David Thompson; steads; to the Committee on Public Lands. A bill ( S. 3345) granting an increase of pension to Thomas A bill ( S. 3380) to establish postal savings depositories for Mills; and depositing savings at interest with the security of the Govern A bill ( S. 3346) granting an increase of pension to Edward L. ment for repayment thereof, and for other purposes; to the Allen ; to the Committee on Pensions. Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. By l\fr. BURTON: · A bill (S. 3381) prohibiting Senators, Representatives, or A bill (S. 3347) to prevent the improper disclosure or solicit Delegates from receiving compensation or acting as counsel in ing of information concerning interstate shipments; to the Com certain matters where the United States is interested., or for mittee on Interstate Commerce. parties or corporations engaged in interstate commerce; to t.he A bill ( S. 3348) to remove the charge of desertion from the Committee on the Judiciary. military record of Thomas Ra veal; and By Mr. BRA.NDEGEE: A bill ( S. 3349) to remove ·the charge of desertion from the A bill (S. 338.2) granting a pension to Julius Ortman; military record of Martin Holihan; to the Committee on Mili- A. bill (S. 3383) granting an increase of pension to Lawrence tary Affairs. · Usher; A bill (S. 3350) granting an increase of pension to Andrew J. A bill ( S. 3384) granting an increase of pension to Lurinda Freeman; to the Committee on Pensions. E. Spencer; By Mr. ORAWFORD: A bill (S. 3385) granting an increase of pension to James A biH ( S. 3351) granting an increase of pension to Winfield Martin; S. Van Horn (with the accompanying papers); A bill (S. 3386) granting an increase of pension to Rowena A bill (S. 3352) granting an· increase of pension to Newcomb M. Calkins ; and S. Smith (with an accompanying paper); A bill (S. 3387) granting an increase of pension to Helen G. A bill (S. 3353) granting an increase of pension to John Berkele; to the Committee on Pensions. Olson (with an accompanying paper) ; _ By Mr. NELSON: A bill (S. 3354) granting an increase of pension to Cyrus E. A bill (S. 3388) granting a.n increase of pension to Frank Hunter (with an accompanying paper); Taylor; A bill ( S. 3355) granting an increase of pension to Henry A. A bill (S. 3389) granting an increase of pension to Buel Van Dalsem (with an accompanying paper); . Chidester; A bill (S. 3356) granting an increase of pension to Judson N. A bill (S. 3390) granting an increa8e of· pension to Alonzo J. Willis (with an accompanying paper); · Rutter; A bill ( S. 3357) granting an increase of pension to William A bill (S. 3391) granting an increase of pension to David E. C. l\larkward (with the accompanying papers) ; Cross; A bill ( S. 3358) granting an increase of pension to Fred A bill (S. 3392) granting an increase of pension to Hiram H. erick Basford (with an accompanying paper); and Heath; A bill ( S. 3359) granting an increase of pension to Cor A bill ( S. 3393) granting an increase of pension to Mary E. nelius B. Van Syckel (with the accompanying papers); to Howe; the Committee on Pensions. A bill (S. 3394) granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth By Mr. DEPEW: Herder; and A bill ( S. 3360) to amend an act entitled "An act to provide A bill (S. 3395) granting an increase of pension to Milton P. a government for the Territory of Hawaii," approved April 30, Noel; to the Committee on Pensions. 1900; to the Committee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico. · By Mr. WE'l'MORE: By Mr. BURNHAM: A bill ( S. 3396) granting a pension to Emeline C. Wachter A bill (S. 3361) granting an increase of pension to Stillman (with the accompanying papers) ; P. Cannon; A. bill (S. 3397) granting an increase of pension to· Edwin A bill (S. 3362) granting an increase of pension to John H. Northrop (with an accompanying paper); and Cole; A bill (S. 3398) granting an increase of pension to Thomas A bill ( S. 3363) granting an increase of pension to Na S. Woodmansee (with an accompanying paper); to the Commit tlmniel W. Davis; tee on Pensions. A bill (S. 3364) granting an increase of pension to Patrick By Mr. DICK: Dowd; A bill ( S. 3399) granting an increase of pension to Adelbert A bill ( S. 3365) granting an increase of pension to Emery C. A. Secord; Wilson; A bill (S. 3400) granting an increase of pension to Chancey A bill ( S. 3366) granting an increase of pension to Matthew Williams; B. White; A bill (S. 3401) granting an increase of pension to William A bill (S. 3367) granting an increase of pension to Edson H. C. Forsythe; Web ter; A bill (S. 3402) granting an increase of pension to John A bill (S. 3368) granting an increase of pension to Edwin Cotner; L. Thrasher; A bill (S. 3403) granting an increase of pension to Peter A bill ( S. 3369) granting an increase of pension to William Spears; Reardon; A bill (S. 3404) granting an increase of pension to James S. A bill (S. 3370) granting an increase of pension to David A. Yoast; Paige: A bill ( S. 3405) granting an increase of pension to George A bill (S. 3371) granting an increase of pension to Robert W. Boggs; P. Murray; and A bill ( S. 3406) granting a pension to Charlotte A. Taylor; A bill (S. 3372) granting an increase of pension to Hiram A bill {S. 3407) granting an increase of pension to William B. Gould; to the Committee on Pensions. · E. Shepherd ; By l\Ir. DIXOX: A bill (S. 3408) granting an increase of pension to Edward A bill ( S. 3373) for the sur1ey and allotment of lands now Stetson; ' embraced "°ithiu the limits of the Crow Indian Reservation, in A bill ( S. 340!>) granting a pension. to Emma S. Stokes ; the Sta t~ of ~Iontana, and the sale and disposal of all surplus A bill (S. 3410) granting an increase of pension to Jeremiah lands nL er allotment (with the accompanying papers); to the Gatton; Committee on Public Lands. A bill ( S. 3411) granting a pension to Rose Dougherty; 1909. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE~ A bill ( S. 3412) granting an increase of pension to Vincent A bill (S. 3463) for the relief of Robert W. Caldwell; Dye; A bill ( S. 3464) to remove the charge of desertion from the A bill ( S. 3413) granting an increase of pension to Madison military record of Andrew C. Boyd ; J. Ottman; A bill ( S. 3465) to remove the· charge o.f desertion from the A bill (S. 3414) granting a pension to Hattie E. Goodwin; military record of Cornelius Hardin; and A bill (S. 3415) granting a pension to Clara I. Ashbury; A bill (S. 3466) authorizing the appointment of Lieut. Col. A bill ( S. 3416) granting a pension to Dana A. Smalley; John C. Scantling, U. S. Army, retired, to the rank and grade A bill ( S. 3417) granting a pension to Emma Condon; of brigadier-general on the retired list of the army; to the A bill ( S. 3418) granting an increase of pension to William Committee on Military.Affairs. W. Blandin; By Mr. SUTHERLAND: A bill (S. 3419) granting an increase of pension _to L. T. A bill (S. 3467) granting an increase of pension to John Lapham; Rice; A bill (S. 3420) granting a pension to Judson D. Hovey; A bill (S. 3468) granting an increase of pension to Lizzie H. A bill (S. 3421) granting an increase of pension to Charles Coray; and W. Hale; A bill (S. 3469) granting an increa.se of pension to Joseph P. A bill ( S. 3422) granting a pension to Jennie Betts Coruns; Rankin; to the Committee on Pensions. A bill· ( S. 3423) granting an increase of pension to James C. By Mr. HALE: Brown; A bill (S. 3470) granting an increase of pension to Henry C. A bill (S. 3424) granting an increase of pension to Jacob M. Jordan (with the accompanymg papers); Zartman; A bill (S. 3471) granting an increase of pension to Henry R. A bill (S. 3425) granting an increase of pension to Alexander Millett (with the accompanying papers) ; Field; A bill (S. 3472) granting an increase of pension to Nelson A bill ( S. 3426) granting an increase of pension to Mary A. Ste:wart (with the accompanying papers); Hartshorn; A bill (S. 3473) granting an increase of pension to Alonzo J. A bill (S. 3427) granting a pension to TJieresa Kilpatrick; Nevers (with the accompanying papers); . A bill (S. 3428) granting an increase of pension to William A bill (S. 3474) granting an increase of pension to William Potter; 0. Needham (with the accompanying papers); and · . A bill (S. 3429) granting an increase of. pension to John A bill (S. 3475) granting an· increase of pension to Joseph H. Blevins; Holbrook; to the Committee on Pensions. A bill (S. 3430) granting an increase of pension to Charles By Mr. SBIVELY: . Stetson; A bill (S. 3476) granting a pension to Catherip.e Murphy; A bill ( S. 3431) granting an increase of pension to Matthew A bill (S. 3477) granting a pension to Clarissa Rolls; M. Smith; A blll (S. 3478) granting an increase of pension to Dempsey A bill ( S. 3432) granting a pension to Susan Roads; Coats; A bill ( S. 3433) granting an increase of pension to Charles A bill_(S. 3479) granting an increase of pension to Parker I. A. Reeser; . Rhoades; - A bill (S. 3434) granting an increase of pension to Israel S. A bill ( S. 3480) granting an increase of pension to A.llen Catt; Dean; A bill ( S. 3481) granting an increase of pension to John S. A bill ( S. 3435) granting a pension to Samuel 0. McElhaney ; Steele; and A bill (S. 3436) granting an increase of pension to Samuel A bill ( S. 3482) granting a pension to Dicie C. Alexander; to Lemon; the Committee on Pensions. A bill ( S. 3437) granting an increase of pension to Leonard By Mr. SCOTT: Dellinger ; , . . A bill .(S. 3483) granting. a~ increase. of pension to James A.. A bill (S. 3438) granting an increase of pension to Michael Smith (with an accompanying paper); . Grigeois; A bill ( S. 3484) granting an increase of pension to George J. A bill ( S. 3439) granting an increase of pension to John P. Wilson (with the acc9mpanying paper~); Lacey; A bill (S. 3485) granting an increase of pension to William A bill (S. 3440) ·granting an increase of pension to William Beall (with an accompanying paper); McDonald; A bill (S. 3486) granting a pension to Hamilton Curry (with A bill (S. 3441) granting an increase of pension to John A. the accompanying papers); Baughman; A bill (S. 3487) granting an increase of pension to Samuel A bill (S. 3442) granting an increase of pension to Joseph N. Black (with an accompanying paper) ; P. Boals; A bill ( S. 3438) granting an increase of pension to Alexan A bill ( S. 3443) granting an increase of pension to George der_W. Barn~s (with an accompanying paper) ; Claxton; A bill ( S. 3489) granting an increase of pension to Francis M. A bill (S. 3444) granting an increase of pension to W. W. Watkins (with an accompanying paper) ; Townley; , . A bill (S. 3490) granting an increase of pension to Reuben A bill (S. 3445) granting an increase of pension to John W. Staton (with an accompanying paper) ; and Howell; A bill ( S. 3491) granting a pension to W. W. Shock; to the A bill (S. 3446) granting a pension to James Johnson; Committee on Pensions. · A bill (S. 3447) granting an increase of pension to Stephen A bill ( S. 3492) for the relief of the heirs of John H. Smith, Nuby; deceased; and A bill (S. 3448) granting an increase of pension to George B. A bill (S. 3493) for the relief of F. F. Morris; to the Com Black; mittee on Claims. A bill (S. 3449) granting a pension to Peter Lunsford; By Mr. CRANE: A bill ( S. 3450) granting a pension to Louisa Webb Adkins; A bill (S. 3494) for the relief of Edward Forbes Greene; to A bill ( S. 3451) granting a pension to Olive A. Okey; . the Committee on Naval Affairs. A bill ( S. 3452) granting an increase of pension to William A. A bill ( S. 3495) to reimburse Charles K. Darling for moneys ' Brown; necessarily expended by him as clerk of the court of appeals for A bill (S. 3453) granting a pension to John A. Hiser; the first circuit; to the Committee on Claims. A bill ( S. 3454) granting a pension to W. B. Lumbeck; A bill ( S. 3496) granting an increase of pension to Charlotte A bill (S. 3455) granting an increase of pension to E. J. E. Main; and McCormick; A bill (S. 3497) granting an increase of pension to Edmond A bill (S. 3456) granting an increase of pension to Thomas Damour; to the Committee on Pensions. Lewer; By Mr. WARNER: A bill ( S. 3457) brranting an increase of pension to Samuel A bill (S. 3498) to correct the military record of C. L. Smith; Withrow; A bill (S. 3499) to correct the military record of Matthew A bill (S. 3458) granting an increase of penslon to Horatio N. T. Fuller; Warren; · A bill (S. 3500) to correct the military record of Anthony A bill (S. 3459) granting a pension to John Carnes; . Fisher; A bill ( S. 3460) granting a pension to Charles S. Wolfe; A bill (S. 3501) providing for the taking over by the United A bill (S. 3461) granting an increase of pension to George States Government of the confederate cemetery at Springfield, Tyson; and · '. l\fo.; and A bill (S. 3462) granting an increase of pension to John · A bill ( S. 3502) to correct the military record of John Bev Claar ; to the Committee on Pensions. erly; to the Co~mittee on Military Affairs. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 7, A bill (S. 3503) to reimburse Frank Wyman, postmaster at NAVY YEARBOOK. St. Louis, Mo.,J:or embezzlement of money-order funds by clerk Mr. HALE. I ask for a reprint as a document of the book at said post-office; to the Committee on Claims. known as the "Navy Yearbook," and that 3,000 additional A bill (S. 3504) granting a pension to Lynderman Wright copies be printed and bound in cloth, 1,500 copies for the use of (with the accompanying papers); the Senate and 1,500 for the use of the Committee on Naval A bill ( S. 3505) granting a pension to Amelia C. Perry; Affairs. A bill (S. 3506) granting a pension to Toliver Roberts; The VICE-PRESIDENT. The motion of the Senator from A bill ( S. 3507) granting a pension to George H. Webb; Maine will be referred to the Committee on Printing. A bill ( S. 3508) granting a pension to Charles B. Swinney; A bill (S. 3509) granting a pension to Hannah P. Edwards; ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT ON THE TARIFF. A bill ( S. 3510) granting a pension to Augusta Schricker; 1\Ir. OARTER. I ask unanimous consent to have printed in A bill ( S. 3511) granting an increase of pension to Samuel G. the RECORD and also as a Senate document the address of the Lewis; President of the United States in Winona, Minn., September 17, A bill (S. 3512) granting an increase of pension to George W. 1909. Robertson; · The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the request A bill (S. 3513) granting an increase of pension to Thomas of the Senator from .Montana? Harman; Mr. BACON. We on this side could not hear what it is. A bill (S. 3514) granting an increase of pension to Thomas J. Mr. CARTER. The request is for the printing in the RECORD Ayers; and also as a document of the address delivered by the Presi A bill (S. 3515) granting an increase of pension to Levi dent of the United States at Winona, Minn., September 17, with Slinger; reference to the action taken by Congress on the tarifr. A bill (S. 3516) granting an increase of pension to John The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair hears no objection, and Doyle; the order will be entered. A bill (S. 3517) granting an increase of pension to Thomas The address is as follows (S. Doc. 164) : Johnson; ADDRESS OF PRESlDENT TAFT AT WINONA, MlNN., SEPTEMBER 17, 1909. A bill (S. 3518) granting an increase of pension to Benjamin Jly fellow-citizem: W. Wilson; As long ago as August, 1906, in the congressional campaign in A bill (S. 3519) granting an increase of pension to William Maine, I ventured to announce that I was a tariff revisionist and thought that the time had come for a readjustment of the schedules. H. Brown; I pointed out that it had been ten years prior to that time that the .A bill ( S. 3520) granting a pension to James B. Davis; Dingley bill 'bad been passed; that great changes had taken place in A bill (S. 3521) granting an increase of pension to Marcus D. the conditions surrounding the productions of the farm, the factory, and the mine, and that under the theory of protection in that time the Warner; rates imposed in the Dingley bill in many instances might have become A bill (S. 3522) granting an increase of pension to .Joseph excessive; that is, might have been greater than the ditference between Stall; the cost of production abroad and the cost of production at home with a sufficient allowance for a reasonable rate of profit to the American A bill ( S. 3523) granting an increase of pension to Florida producer. I said that the party was divided on the issue, but that Kennerly (with the accompanying papers); in my judgment the opinion of the party was crystallizing and wouJd A bill (S. 3524) granting an increase of pension to Christian probably result in the nea.r future in an etrort to make such revision. I pointed out the difficulty that there always was in a revision of the Rhyness; and tariff, due to the threatened disturbance of industries to be atrected A bill ( S. 3525) granting an increase of pension to Solon D. and the suspension of business, in a way which made it unwise to Davis; to the Committee on Pensions. have too many revisions. In the summer of 1907 my position on the By Mr. BURTON: tariff was challenged, and I the:i entered into a somewhat fuller dis cussion of the matter. It was contended by the s<>-ea.lled " stand A bill ( S. 3526) to remove the charge of desertion from the patters" that rates beyond the necessary measure of protection were military record of Levi Morgan; to the Committee on Military not objectionable, because behind the tarifr wall competition always Affairs. reduced the prices, and thus saved the eonsumer. But I pointed out in that speech what seems to me as true to-day as it then wa.s, that By Mr. FLINT: the danger of excessive rates was in the temptation they created to A joint resolution (S. J. R. 44) requesting the President to form monopolies in the protected articles, and thus to take advantage of the excessive rates by increasing the prices, and therefore and in Invite the Governments of Mexico and the Central and South ot·der to avoid such a danger, it was wise at regular interva.is1 to ex American countries and all other nations to participate in the amine the question of what the etrect of the rates had been upon Panama-California Exposition; to the Committee on Foreign the industries in this country, and whether the conditions with respect to the cost of production here had so changed as to warrant a reduc Relations. tion in the tarur, and to make a lower rate truly protective of the By Mr. LODGE: industry. A joint resolution (S. J. R. 45) authorizing the selection of It will be observed that the object of the revision under such a state ment was not to destroy protected iqdustries in this country, but It a site and the erection of a pedestal for the Alexander Hamilton was to continue to protect them where lower rates offered a sufficient memorial in Washington, District of Columbia; to the Com protection to prevent injury by foreign competition. That was the mittee on the Library. object of the revision as advocated by me, and it was certainly the By Mr. GALLINGER: object of the revision as promised in the Republican platform. I want to make as clear as I can this proposition, because, in order A joint resolution ( S. J. R. 46) changing the title of the to determine whether a bill is a compliance with the terms of that sealer of weights and measures of the District of Columbia to platform, it must be understood what the platform means. A free superintendent of weights, measures, and markets; to the Com trader is opposed to any protective rate because he thinks that our manufacturers, our farmers, and our miners ought to withstand the mittee on the District of Columbia. competition of foreign manufacturers and miners and farmers, or else go out of business and find something else more profitable to do. · Now, PUBLIC-SCHOOL TEACHERS' RETIREMENT FUND. certainly the promises of the platform did not contemplate the down l\.Ir. GALLINGER introduced a bill ( S. 3527) to establish and ward revision of the tari!r rates to such a point that any industry theretofore protected should be injured. Hence, those who contend that disburse a public-school teachers' retirement fund in the Dis the promise of the platform was to reduce prices by letting in foreign trict of Columbia, which was read twice by its title and referred competition are contending for a tree trade, and not for anything that to the Committee on the District of Columbia. they had the right to infer from the Republican platform. . .Mr. GALLINGER. I ask that 500 additional copies of the The Ways and Means Committee of the House, with Mr. PAYNE at its head, spent a full year in an Investigation, assembling evidence in bill just introduced by me be printed for the use of the Senate reference to the rates under the tarltr, and devoted an immense amount document room. of work in the study of the question where the tariff rates could be reduced and where they ought to be raised with a view to maintaining The VICE-PRESIDENT. Without objection, it is so ordered. a reasonably protective rate, under the principles of the platform, for l\fr. GALLINGER. I ask for a reprint, with corrections, of every industry that deserved protection. They found that the deter Senate Document No. 585 of the Sixtieth Congress~ second ses mination of the question, what was the actual cost of production and sion, relating to teachers' pensions, and in addition to the usual whether an industry in this country could live nnder a certain rate and withstand threatened competition from abroad! was most difficult. The reprint I ask that 500 additional copies be printed for the use manufacturers were prone to exaggerate the njury which a reduction of the document room. in the duty would give and to magnify the amount of duty that was The VICE-PRESIDEl~T. Is there objection to the request of needed; while the importers, on the other hand, who were interested in developing the importation from foreign shores, were quite likely the Senator from New Hampshire? The Ohair hears none, and to be equally biased on the other side. the order will be made. Mr. P4YN111 .reported a bill-the Payne tariff bill-which went to the Senate and was amended in the Senate by Increasing the duty on some REPORT ON ALCOHOLISM. things and decreasing it on others. The difference between the House Mr. GALLINGER. I present a copy of the report of the bill and the Senate bill was very much less than the newspapers repre sented. It turns out upon examination that the reductions in the official delegates appointed by the United States Government to Senate were about equal to those in the House, though they differed in the Twelfth International Congress on Alcoholism, held in Lon character. Now, there is nothing quite so dimcult as the discussion don last July. I move that it be referred to the Committee on of a tarifr blll, for the reason that it covers so many different items, and the meaning of the terms and the percentage are very hard to Printing. - - understand. The passage of a. new bi11, especially where a change in The motion was agreed to. th.e method of assessini: the- duties has been followed, presents an op- 1909. CONGRESSION _,_t\._L RECORD-SENATE. 43 portunity for various modes and calculations of the percentages of articles upon which there has been an Increase enter into the con increases and decreases that are most misleading and really throw sumption of the country to the extent of $462,000,000. In cottons no light at all upon the changes made. there bas been a change in the higher-priced cottons and ·an increase. One way of stating what was done is to say what the facts show There has been no increase in the lower-priced cottons, and of the in that unde1· the Dingley law there were 2,024 items. This included creases the high-priced cottons enter into the consumption of the coun dutiable items only. 'l'he Payne law leaves 1,150 of these items un try to the extent of $41,000,000. Schedule J-fiax, hemp, and jute. changed. There are decreases in 654 of the items and increases in 220 The articles upon which there has been a decrease enter into the con of the items. Now, of course, that does not give a full picture, but sumption of the country to the extent o! $22,000,000, while those upon it does shew the proportion of decreases to have been three times those which there has been an increase enter into the consumption to the of the increases. Again, the schedules are divided into letters from extent of $804,000. In Schedule J, as to wool, there has been no A to N. '.rhe first schedule is that of chemicals, oils, etc. There are change. In .Schedule L, as to silk, the duty has been decreased on 232 items in the Dingley law; of these, 81 were decreased, 22 were articles which enter into the consumption of the country to the extent increased, leaving 129 unchanged. Under Schedule B-Earths, earthen of $8,000,000, and has been increased on ~rticles that enter into the and glass ware-there were 170 items in the Dingley law; 46 were de consumption of the country to the extent of $106,000,000. On paper creased, 12 were increased, and 112 left unchanged. C is the schedule and pulp the duty has been decreased on articles, including print of metals and manufactures. There were 321 items in the Dingley paper, that enter into the consumption of the country to the extent law; 185 were decreased, 30 were increased, and 106 were left un of $67,000,000, and increased on articles that enter into the con changed. D is the schedule of wood and manufactures of wood. sumption of the country to the extent of $81,000,000. In sundries, or There were 35 items in the Dingley law ; 18 were decreased, 3 were Schedule N, the duty bas been decreased on articles that enter into the increased, and 14 were left unchanged. There were 38 items in sugar, consumption of the country to the extent of $1,719,000,000 and in and of these, 2 were decreased and 36 left unchanged. Schedule F creased on articles that enter into the consumption of the country to covers tobacco and manufacturers of tobacco, of which there were 8 the extent of $101,000,000. items ; they were all left unchanged. In the schedule covering agri It. will be found that in Schedule A the increases covered only lux cultural products and provisions there were 187 items in the Dingley uries-perfumeries, pomades, and like articles ; Schedule H-wines and law; 14 of them were decreased, 19 were increased, and 154 left un liquors-which are certainly luxuries and are made subject to increase changed. Schedule H-that of spirits and wines-contained 33 items in order to increase the revenues, amounting to $462,000,000; and in in the Dingley law ; 4 were decreased, 23 increased, and 6 were left Schedule L--silks-which are luxuries, certainly, $106.000,000 ; making unchanged. In cotton manufactures there were 261 items ; of these, a total of the consumption of those articles upon which there was an ·28 were decreased, 47 increased, and 186 left unchanged. In Schedule increase and which were luxuries of $579,000,000, leaving a balance J-fiax, hemp, and jute-there were 254 items in the Dingley law; of increase on articles which were not luxuries of value in consump 187 were reduced, 4 were increased, and 63 left unchanged. In wool, tion of only $272,000,000, as against $5,000,000,000, representing the and manufactures thereof, there were 78 items; 3 were decreased, amount of articles entering into the consumption of the country, mostly none were increased, and 75 left unchanged. In silk and silk goods necessities, upon which there has been a reduction of duties, and to there were 78 items ; of these, 21 were decreased, 31 were increased, which the 650 decreases applied. and 26 were left unchanged. In pulp, papers, and books there were Statement: 59 items in the Dingley law, and of these, 11 were decreased, 9 were increased, and 39 left unchanged. In sundries there were 270 items, and of these, 54 were decreased, 20 were increased, and 196 left un Consumption value. changed. So that the total showed 2,024 items in the Dingley law, of which 654 were decreased, 220 were increased, making 874 changes, Sched Article. and 1,150 left unchanged. ule. Duties de Duties in creased. creased. Changes in Dingley law I~ms by Payne law. Un- A Chemicals, oils, and paints ...... ··-·-· $433, 099, 846 Sll.105,820 B Earths, earthenware, and glassware...... 128,423, 732 . ·---·. 1 1 Schedules. Ding------C Metals, and manufacturE!S of...... 1, 221, 956, 620 37, 675~ 804 ~e'~- De- In- Total changed. D Wood, and manufactures of. -...• _.. -...... 566, 870, 950 31, 280, 372 1 creases. creases. changes. E Sugar, molasses, and manufactures of ...... 300, 965, 953 _••••••••••• F Tobacco, and manufactures of (no change ------!·------of rates)··----· ...... ···--· ·-·-·· ·--· ...... A. Chemicals, oils, etc ...... _.. 232 81 22 103 129 G Agricultural products and provisions...... 483, 430, 637 4, 380, 043 B. Earths, earthen and glass ware... 170 46 12 58 112 H Spirits, wines. and other beverages ...... _...... 462, 001, 856 C. Metals and manufactures of...... 321 185 30 215 106 I Cotton manufactures...... 41,622,024 D. Wood and manufactures of...... 35 18 3 21 14 J Flax, hemp, jute, and manufactures of..... 22, 127, 145 804, 445 E. Sugar, molasses, and manufac- K Wool and manufactures of wool. (No pro- tures of...... 38 2 . .. . •••• 2 36 duction statistics available for articles F. Tobacco and manufactures of..... 8 .•... _. _ .. _... _. _...... 8 affected by changes of rates.) G. Agricultural products and provi- L Silks and silk goods ..... -_...... _... _.. _. _.. 7, 947, 568 106, 742, 646 sions ...... -. . . . . 187 14 19 33 154 M Pulp, papers, and books...... 67,628,0.')5 81,486,466 H. Spirits, wines, etc...... 33 4 23 27 6 N Sundnes...... --..• ---... -..... -... _...... _. 1, 719, 428, 069 101, 656, 598 I. Cotton manufactures...... 261 28 47 75 186 J. Flax, hemp, jute, manufactures of. 254 187 4 191 63 Total -...... •..•..•.. _...•...... ___ . 4, 951, 878, 575 878, 756, 074 K. Woolandmanufacturesof...... 78 3 ...... 3 75 L. Silk and silk goods...... 78 21 31 52 26 Of the above increases the following are luxuries, being articles M. Pulp, papers, and books...... 59 11 9 20 39 strictly of voluntary use: N. Sundries···--·····-·-··--········· 270 54 20 74 196 Schedule A. Chemicals, including perfumeries, pomades, Total ...... • .•...•..•••.••... 2,024 and like articles------$11,105,820 ~~1-m1--i:t50 Schedule H. Wines and liquors------462, 001, 856 Schedule L. Silks------106, 742, 646 Attempts have been made to show what the real effect of these changes has been by comparing the imports under the various schedules Total------579,850,322 and assuming that the changes and their importance were in proportion This leaves a balance of increases which are not on articles of luxury to the importations. Nothing could be more unjust in a protective of $298,905,752, as against decreases on about $5,000,000,000 of con tariff which also contains revenue provisions. Some of the tariff is sumption. made for the purpose of increasing the revenue by increasing importa Now,• this statement shows as conclusively as possible the fact that tions which shall pay duty. Other items in the tariff are made for there was a substantial downward revision on articles entering into the purpose of reducing competition-that is, by reducing importations the general consumption of the country which can be termed neces and therefore the question of the importance of a change in rate can sities, !or the proportion is $5,000,000,000, representing the consump not in the slightest degree be determined by the amount of imports tion of articles to which decreases applied, to less than ~300,000,000 of that take place. In order to determine the importance of the changes, articles of necessity to which the increases applied. it is much fairer to take the articles on which the rates of duty have Now, the promise of the Republican platform was not to revise been reduced and those on which the rates of duty have been increased, everything downward, and in the speeches which have been taken as and then determine from statistics how large a part the articles upon interpreting that platform which I made in the campaign I did not which duties have been reduced play In the consumption of the country promise that everything should go downward. What I promised was and how large a part those upon which the duties have been increased that there should be many decreases and that in some few things in play in the consumption of the country. Such a table has been pre creases would be found to be necessary, but that, on the whole, I con pared by l\1r. PAYNE, than whom there is no one who understands better ceived that the change of conditions would make the revision neces what the tariff is and who has given more attention to the details sarily downward; and that, I contend, under the showing which I have of the schedule. made, has been the result of the Payne bill. I did not agree, nor did Now, let us take Schedule A-- This is a government by a majority of the people. It is a repre eration of the United States ta1iJI upon imports and exports. There are sentative government. People select some 400 members to constitute provisions in the general tariff procedure for the ascertainment of the the lower House and some 92 members to constitute the upper House cost of production of articles abroad and the cost of production of arti through their legislatures, and the varying views of a majority of the cles here. I intend to direct the board, in the course of these duties voters in eighty or ninety millions of people are reduced to one re and in carrying tllem out, in order to asa:ist me in the administration sultant force to take affirmative steps in can-ying on a government by a of the law, to make what might be called a "glossary of the tariff," systeru of parties. Without parties popular go>ernmeni: would be abso o.r a small "encyclopedia of the taI'iff," or something to be compared lutely impossible. In a party, those who join it, if i:hey would make it to the United States Pharmacopmia with reference to information as effectiTe, mru.:t surrender their personal predilections on matters c&m to drugs and medicines. I conceive that such a board may very prop paratively of less importance in order to accomplish the good which erly in the course of their duties take up separately all the items of united action on the most important principles at issue secures. the tarifl'., both those on the free list and those which are dutiable, de Now, I am not here to criticise those Republican Members and Sen scribe what they are, where they are manufactu~d, what their uses are, ators whose views on the subject of the tariff were so strong and in the methods of manufacture, the quantity of the manufacture, the cost tense that they believed it then· duty to vote against their party on the of production abroad and here, and e-very other fact with respect to each tariff bill. It is a question for each man to settle for himself. The item which would enable the Executive to understand the operation of question is whether he shall help maintain the party solidarity for ac the tarifl'., the value of"the article, and ·the amount of duty imposed, and coropHshing its chief purposes, oT whether ·the depa1-ture from princi all those details which the student .of every tariff law finds it so difficult ple in the bill as he regards it is so extreme that he must in conscience to discover. I do not intend, unless compelled or diTected by Congress, abandon the party. All I have to say is, in respect to Mr. TAWNEY'S to publish the result of these investigations, but to treat them merely as action, and in respect to my own in si., PRESERVATION OF FUR SEAL IN ALASKA, HOUR OF MEETING. Mr. DIXON. I send to the desk three Senate resolutions Mr. BAILEY submitted the following resolution ( S. Res. 84), relative to the preservation of fur seal in Alaska. I will state which was read: that they were prepared at the request of two or three scientific Senate resolution 84. bodies of men in this country. At their request I have pre Resolved, That unless otherwise ordered, and except on Sundays, pared them, to be sent to the Committee on Conservation of the Senate shall meet in daily session at 2 p. m. National Resources. It occurs to me that possibly the resolu Mr. BAILEY. I ask that the resolution lie on the table. I tions should go to the Committee on Foreign Relations. give notice that I will call it up at some convenient opportunity. Mr. LODGE. Such resolutions have always gone to the The VICE-PRESIDENT. The resolution will lie on the Committee on Foreign Relations. table, as suggested by the Senator from Texas. Mr. DIXON. The Committee on National Resources is a new EXECUTIVE SESSION. committee and I do not know specially what its province may . Mr. CULLOM. I move that the Senate proceed to the con be. For the present I ask that the resolutions may be printed sideration of executive business. and lie on the table. The motion was agreed to, and the Senate proceeded to the The VICE-PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the request consideration of executive business. After five minutes spent of the Senator from Montana that the resolutions be printed in executive session the doors were reopened. and lie on the table? The Chair hears none. Mr. DIXON submitted the following resolution (S. Res. 92), DEATH OF REPRESENTATIVES DE ARMOND-AND LASSITER. which was ordered to lie on the table and be printed : The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate Senate resolution 92. resolutions from the House of Representatives, which will be R esolved, That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor be, and he is read. hereby, directed to furnish for the use of the Senate copies of all The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows : letters addressed to the Secretary of said department which relate to House resolution 140. the condition of the fur-seal herd of Alaska, and the conduct of the Resolved, That the House of Representatives has heard with pro lessees of the Seal Islands since the 1st of January, 1904, together found sorrow of the death of the Hon. DAVID ALBAUGH DE ARMOND, with copies of all official reports made to the said department by its late a Member of the House from the State of Missouri. own agents in charge of the Seal Islands of Alaska since the 1st of Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Sen January, 1904. ate and send a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. Mr. DIXON submitted the following resolution (S. Res. 91), Mr. STONE. Mr. President, the tragic and pathetic death of which was ordered to lie on the table and be printed: Representative DE ARMOND, of Missouri, attracted world-wide Senate resolution 91. attention. His death is deeply lamented in my State and is Resolved, That the Secretary of State be, and he ls hereby, requested everywhere regarded as a national loss. I present resolutions to furnish for the use of the Senate copies of all letters addressed to the Secretary of State by citizens and reports of officials relative to the suitable to the occasion, for which I ask present consideration. condition of the fur-seal herd in Alaska, and the means for preventing The resolutions (S. Res. 88) were read and considered by the ruinous slaughter of the same since the date of the passage and unanimous consent, as follows: approval of act approved April 8, 1904. Senate resolution 88. Mr. DIXON submitted the following resolution ( S. Res. 90), Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep seJtSlblllty the an which was ordered to lie on the table and be printed : nouncement of the death of Hon. DAVID ALBAUGH DE ARMOND, late a Representative from the State of Missouri. Senate resolution 90. Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these resolutions Whereas the concurrent regulations ordered by the tribunal of arbi to the House of Representatives and to the family of the deceased. tration, and published August 16, 1893, for the protection and the Resolv ed, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of the preservation of the fur-seal herd of Alaska, under the authority of the deceased, the Senate do now adjourn. treaty of Wa.shington, February 29, 1892, have been found after six teen years of faithful enforcement and trial wholly insufficient to The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on the adoption of serve the purpose for which they were created ; and the first two resolutions. · Whereas this failure of these concurrent regulations, if not corrected The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. at once, will result in the immediate and complete extermination of the fur-seal species of Alaska, and also the total destruction of the fur-seal Mr. STONE. Mr. President, at a later and appropriate date industry : Therefore be it I will ask the Senate to set aside a day on which suitable Resolved, That it be the sense of the Senate of the United States tributes may be paid to the memory of the deceased. that the Government of Great Britain be requested by the Secretary of State to unite with the Government of the United States, without undue The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate delay, in a revision and amendment of the concurrent regulations now resolutions from the House of Representatives, which will be in force for the protection and preservation of the fur seals of Alaska, duly established and known as the "award of the tribunal of arbitra read. tion at Paris, August 16, 1893." The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: Resolved, That this request of our Goyernment shall be made at once House resolution 141. for the revision of said regulations, in order that the British Govern ment shall have a reasonable length of time in which to consider the Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of the same before the next pelagic season opens in February, 1910; and be it death of Hon. FRANCIS RIVES LASSITER, late a Representative from the further State of V1rginia. Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate of the United States that Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be directed to transmit a copy no renewal of the present lease of the seal islands be made by the of these resolutions to the Senate. Government to any party or parties whomsoever. And that in order Mr. BACON. Mr. President, in the necessary absence of to provide against the complete destruction of the fur-seal industry, there should be an immediate and complete cessation of the killing of both the Virginia Senators, I offer, on behalf of the senior fur seals, save as food for the natives of Pribilof Islands, for a period Senator from Virginia [Mr. DA.NIEL], the resolutions which I of ten years. send to the desk. STATUE OF GEORGE L. SHOUP. The resolutions ( S. Res. 89) were read and considered by Mr. HEYBURN submitted the following resolution (S. Res. unanimous consent, as follows : 87), which was considered by unanimous consent and agreed to: Senate resolution 89. Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the an Senate resolution 87. nouncement of the death of the Hon. FRANCIS R. LASSITER, late a Resolved, That exercises appropriate to the reception and acceptance Representative from the State of Virginia. from the State of Idaho of the statue of George L. Shoup, erected in R esolved, '.rhat the Secretary communicate a copy of these resolu Statuary Hall in the Capitol, be made the special order for Saturday, tions to the House of Representatives. January 15, 1910, after the conclusion of the routine morning business. R esolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of the AFFAIRS IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY IN 1848 AND 1849. deceased, the Sena_te do now adjourn. l\Ir. LODGE submitted the following resolution (S. Res. 85), The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the which was considered by unanimous consent and agreed to: first two resolutions submitted by the Senator from Georgia. Senate resolutio·n SIS. The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. Resolv ed, That the President of the United State9 be · requested to Mr. BACON. Mr. President, in each of the series of resolu transmit to the Senate, if not incompatible with the public interest, tions presented by the Senator from Missouri [Mr. STONE] and the reports of Ambrose Dudley Mann, made during the years 184& and by me, on behalf of the Senator from Virginia [Mr. DANn:C.] 7 1840, in regard to aJfairs in Austria-Hungary. there is embodied a resolution "That as a further mark of re REPRESSION OF TRADE IN WIDTE WOMEN. spect to the memory of the deceased, the Senate do now ad Mr. LODGE submitted the following resolution (S. Res. 86), journ." I make that motion now, so that it may apply to each which was considered by unanimous consent and agreed to: of the series of resolutions. Senate resolution 86. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the ·Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to motion of the Senator from Georgia. inform the Senate, if not incompatible with the public interest, as to The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 2 o'clock what action, if any, has been taken, under the treaty ratified March 1, 1V05, for the repression of the trade in white women, and what pro and 30 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until Friday, De vision has been made for the carryin~ out of said treaty. cember 10, 1909, at 12 o'clock meridian. 1909. CONGRESSIONAL' RECORD-SENATE. NOMINATIONS. COLORADO. Ealeczttive nominations received, by the Sena.te December 7, 1909. Heney J. Baird to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial .SUPERVISORS ·OF .THE 'I1HIRTEENTH DECENNIAL CENSUS. Oensus in th~ second district, Stute of Colorado, from Septem 13~ ALABAMA~ . ber 1909. Charles Hamlin to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen H. of F. Joseph Adams to be su_pervisor the Thirteenth Decennial nial -Census .in the third district, State of Colorado, from Census in the third district, State of Alabama, from Se_ptember .August 13, 1909. · 10, 1909. William P. Cobb to .be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Albert B. McGaffey to be .supervisor of the Thirteenth Deeen nial Census in the fifth district, State Df .Alabama, from Au nial Censn.s in the first district, State 'Of Colorado, from .August gust 13, 1909. 13. :JW9. . James J. Curtis to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial CONNECTICUT. Census in the seventh district, State of Alabama, from August William 13. Bailey to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen 13, 1909. nial Census in the entire 'State of Connecticut .from September Laurence W. Locklin to be supervisor .o:f the Thirteenth De 13, 1909. cennial Census in the first district, State of Alabama, from Au 'DELAWARE. gust 13, 1909. L. Heisler Ball to be supervisor of file Thirteenth Deeennial .John T. McEniry to be .supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Census in the .entire .State of Delaware from August 13, 1909. nial Census in the nintb district, State of Alabama, from Au- gust 13, 1909. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. George W. Parsons to be supervisor .of the Thirteenth Decen- William S. Broughton to be supervisor of the Thirteenth nial Census in the fourth district, State of Alabama, from Decenni.111 Census for the entire District of Columbia :from August 13, 1909. September 10, -1909. .William C. Swanson to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- FLORIDA. nial ·Ceri.sus in the seeond district, State of Alabama, from Sep- Henry w. ·Bishop to be ..SU]>ervisor -of the Thirteenth Decen- tember 10, 1909~ Thomas P. Wood to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nlal Census for the first district of Florida from August 13, Census in the eighth district, State of Alabama, from August l909. 13, 1909. . Le Sueur Galilden to be .supervisor of the ·Thirteenth Decen- Simeon T. Wright to be supervisor -0f the 'Thrrteenth Deeen- nial Census in the second district, State of filorida, from nial Census in the sixth district, .State of Alabama, from August August-13, 1.909. 13, 1909. Thomas 1). White to l)e su_pervisp:r pf the Thirteenth Decen- .:ABTZDN A. nial Census in the third district, State of Florida, from August Franklin F. Towle to be supervtsor of the Thirteenth Decen- 1'3, 1909~ nial Census in the entire Territory of Arizona from August 13, mo:RGIA. 1909. Willis B. Adams to b.e supervisor of .the Thirteenth Decennial ARKANSAS. Census in ·the eighth distric.t, State .of Georgia, from August 13, Elisha Fl-Ammons to .be supervisor. of the Thirteenth Decen- 1909. nlal Census in the third district, .State of .Arkansas, from August James R. Allen to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial 13, 1909. · Census in the ninth district, State of Georgia, from August 13, George I. .Breckenridge to be supervisor of the Thirteenth 1909. Decennial Census in the first district, State of Arkansas, from Harry Burm; to be supervisor of the Thirteenth ~ece~ August 13, 1909. · Cens11$ in the ~i.xth district, State of Georgia, from September Tom D. Brooks to .be .supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial 25, 1909. Census in the fifth district, State of Arkansas, from August Louis 1I. Crawford to be supervisor of the ·Thirteenth Decen- 13C~~~r~s G. Henry to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in .the seventh district, .State of Georgia, from 9 Census in the .second district, State of Arkansas, from .August ATr:!c~:Q ~~~glass to be supervisor· of the Thirteenth Decen'- 9 13J~: w. Howell to be _supervisoJ." of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in the first district of Georgia, from August 13, ~~~~~ the sixth di~trict, .Sta_te of ..Arkansas, from August wg.~·seph M. Lee to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Robert J. White to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the tenth district, State of Georgia, from August 13, 19 Census in the fourth district, State of Arkansas, from August ~~~ingston F. McClelland to be supervisor of the Thirteenth 13 s~~~l R. Young to be supervisor of.. the Thirteenth Decennial Decennial Census in the fifth district, State of Georgia, from th th · tr t t f Ar September 25, 1909. ·c ensus in e seven dis ic , s ta e 0 kansa.s, from August Edward T. Moon to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial 3 1909 i , · CALIFORNIA.. Census in the fourth district, State of Georgia, from August 13, i.909. James M. Burke to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Alexander P. Perham, ·sr., to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Census in the third district, State -of California, from Sep- Decennial Census in the eleventh district, State of Georgia, from tember 10, 1909. August 13, 1909. John J. Deane to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Eugene L. Rainey to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the fourth district, State of CalifoTI:rla:. from August Census in the second district, State of Georgia., from. August 13, 13, 1909. . ' 1909. Lewis L. Dennett to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial ·George E. Ricker to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the sixth district, State of California, from August Census in the third district, State of Georgia, from August 13, 13, 1909. ' 1909. Bert IJ. Farmer to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial J:DARO. Census in the seventh district, State of California, from Decem- ber 2, 1909. .Joseph Perrault, j.r., to be supervisor of the Thirteenth De- Lyman M. King to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial cennial Census in the entire State of Idaho from August 13, Census in the eighth district, State of California, from Septem- 1009. - 1>er 10, 1909. ILLINOIS. Emmett Phillips to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- John .J. Bundy to be supervisor of the ~hirteenth Decennial nial Census in the second district,· State of C3.l.ifornia, from Sep- Census in the fourteenth district, State of lliinois, :from Sep- tember 10, 1909. tember 10, 1909. John W. Rogers to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennia1 Charles S. Burdick to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- Census in the .fifth district, State of C.alifornia, from September nial Census in the seventh district, State of Illinois, from 10, 1909. August 13, 1909. R. Jhlian Wright to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- , William J. BuUer to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the first district; State -Of Callfornifl;, :from August · nia.l Census in the twelfth district, State of ·Illinois, from 13, 1909. · :August 13, 1909~ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 7; Donald A. Callahan to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Louis P. Barth to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in the fourth district, State of Illinois, from August Census in the fourth district, State of Iowa, from September 10, 13, 1009. 1909. Louis W. Fribourg to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen William C. Chubb to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the tenth district, State of Illinois, from Sep: nial Census in the eighth district, State of Iowa, from Septem tember 10, 1909. ber 10, 1909. John T. Galbraith to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Qecen Cambridge Culbertson to be supervisor of the Thirteenth nial Census in the sixteenth district, State of Illinois, from Decennial Census in the seventh district, State of Iowa, from August 13, 1909. ·August 13, 1909. Frank J. Heinl to be supervisor.of the Thirteenth Decennial Asa A. Hall to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Cen Census in the eleventh district, State of Illinois, from Septem sus in the second district, State of Iowa, from August 13, 1909. . ber 10. 1909. Emil A. Larson to be superviso1· of the Thirteenth Decennial Willard E. Hotchkiss to be supervisor of the Thirteenth De Census in the ninth district, State of Iowa, from September 10, cennial Census in the first district, State of Illinois, from Sep 1909. - . . tember 10, 1909. Thomas Mcculla to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial · S. Bartlett Kerr to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the-eleventh district, State of Iowa, from September Census in the fifteenth district, State of Illinois, from August 10, 1909. 13, 1909. Jeremiah Morrissey to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Frank W. Latimer to be surveyor of the Thirteenth De.: nial Census in the fifth district, State of Iowa, from September cennial Census in the sixth district, State of Illinois, from 10, 1909. August 13, 1909. Guy F. Rankin to . be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Leon D. Nash to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the tenth district, State Of Iowa, from September 13, Census in the second district, State of Illinois, from September 1909. . . 10, 1909. . John W. Rowley to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Edwin C. Perkins to be supervisor o.f the Thirteenth Decen Census in the first district, State of Iowa, from August 13, 1909. nial Census in the eighth district, State of Illinois, from Sep Conrad B. Scherr to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen tember 10,- 1909. · nial Census in the third district, State of Iowa, from September George W. Royster to be supervisor of the Thirteenth-- De 10, 1909. cennial Census in the ninth district, State of Illinois, from KANSAS. August 13; 1909. James N. Brown to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Frederick A. Schlick to be supervisor of the Thirteenth De Census in the seventh district, State of Kansas, from September cennial Census in the third district, State of Illinois, from 10, 1909. August 13, ).909. John C. Mack to be superv:i,$or of the Thirteenth Decennial Henry J. Schmidt to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Census in the eighth district, State of Kansas. from September nial Census in the thirteenth district, State of Illinois, from 10, 1909. . . September 10, 1909. Willard H. Melrose to be supervisor o:f the Thirteenth Decen Robert R. Wallace. to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the fourth district, State of Kansas, from Sep- nial Census in the fifth district, State of Illinois, from Sep~ tember 10, 1909. · tember 25, 1909. John C. Newell to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial INDIANA. Census in the sixth district, · State of Kansas, from September 10, 1Q09. -· - . . Henry L. Bendel to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial George T. Smith to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the eleventh district, State of Indiana, from August Census in the fifth district, State of Kansas, from September 13, 1909. 10, 1909. Joseph R. Broyles to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen William R. Smith to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the eighth district, State of Indiana, from in 13, 1909. nial Census the second district, State of Kansas, from August August 13, 1909. . ·. . . Abel T. Claypool to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Reese Yan Sant to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the ninth district, State of Indiana, from August 13, 1909. '. . Census in the first district, State of Kansas, from ·August 13, William D. Crow to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen 1909. nial Census in the first district, State of Indiana, from August Charles Yoe to be supervisor _of the Thirteenth · Dece:::mial Census in the third district, State of Kansas, from August 13, 13, 1909. Francis H. Doran to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen 1909. KENTUCKY. nial Ce.nsus in the tenth district, State of Indiana, from August . .. . ~ 13, 1909. . . Alexander H. Anderson to be supervisor of the Thirteenth William W. Lingle to ·be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Decennial . Census in the second district, State ·of ·Kentucky, nial Census in the third district, State of Indiana, from August from August 13, 1909. _ _ . 13, 1909. Louis L. Bristow to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen~ William 0. Protsman to be supervisor of the Thirteenth De nial Census in the seventh district, State of Kentucky, from cennial Census in the fourth district, State of Indiana, from August 13, 1909. · . . . August 13, 1909. Henry Clay Clark to be superv~sor of the Thirteenth Decen William Low Rice to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the sixth district, State of Kentucky, from Au- nial Census in the seventh district, State of Indiana, fro.in gust 13, 1909. · ·. . August 13, 1909. William D. Gilliam to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Dccen~ John w: Sale to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in the third district, State of Kentucky, from Census in the twelfth district, State of Indiana, from August October 18, 1909. 13, 1909. John R. Jones to be .supervisor of. the Thirteenth Decennia\ Samuel R. Thomas to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Census in the first district, State of Kentucky, from August nial Census in the thirteenth district, State of Indiana, from 13, 1909. August t3, 1909. . Henry o. Kennedy to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen: William H. Tieman to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the eleventh district, State of Kentucky, from 10, 1909. r • • .• nial Census in the sixth district, State of Indiana, from Au September gust 13, 1909. Nathan D. Miles to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the· eighth district, State of Kentucky, from August Samuel J. Wilton to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen 13, 1909. . - ·' nial Census in the fifth district, State of Indiana, from Au J. Ferrell Pauley to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial 13, 1909. gust Census in the tenth district, State of Kentucky, from August 13~ James A. Zaring to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen 1909. . .. . nial Census in the second district, State of Indiana, from Au Jonathan D. Reed to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen g11st 13, 1909. nial Census in the fifth district, State of Kentucky, from Sep~ IOWA. tember 10,-1909. . . . . · W. H. H. Asbury to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Pilson Smith to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the sixth district, State of Iowa, from September 10, Census in the fourth district,-State of Kentucky, from August 1009. 13,1909. . 1909. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. L19 James T. Wilson to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Sylvester P. Youngs to ·be supervisor of.the Thirteenth De- Census in the ninth district, State of Kentucky, from Septem-. cennial Census in the eleventh district, State of Michigan, from · ber 10, 1909. August 13, 1909. - LOUISIANA. MINNESOTA. · Raymond T. Clark to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Charles S. Cairns to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the third district, State of Louisiana, from Au nial Census in the fifth district, State of Minnesota. from gust 13, 1909. August 13; 1909. · · Orin M. Grisham to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Frank :El Gartside to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the sixth district, State of Louisiana, from Au nial Census in the first district, State of Minnesota, :from gust 13, 1909. August 13, 1909. . Walter Y. Kemper to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Clark W. Gilmore to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the second district, State of Louisiana, from Au nial Census in the second (listrict, State of Minnesota, from gust 13, 1909. August 13, 1909. · · · · - · . . George J. Reiley to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial · Byron L. Hollister to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Census in the fourth district, State of Louisiana, from August nial Census in the eighth district, State of Minnesota, from Au 13, 1909. gust 13, 1909. Charles H. Trousdale to be supervisor of the Thirteenth De Aris B. Kelly to be supervisor of_ the Thirteenth Decennial cennial Census in the fifth district, State of Louisiana, from Census in the third district, State of Minnesota, from August August 13, 1909. 13, 1909...... John A. Wogan to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Ezra E. McCrea to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the first district, State of Louisiana, from August 13, Census in the sixth district, State of Minnesota, from August 1909. 13, 1909. MAINE, Daniel W. Meeker to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen :Morrill N. Drew to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in the ninth district, State of Minnesota, from Au~ Census in the first district, State of Maine, from August 13, gust 13, 1909. · 1909. Charles W. Odell to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Elmer P. Spofford to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the seventh district, State of Minnesota, from nial Census in the second district, State of Maine, from August Augu~ 13, 1909. · 13, 1909. ' William B. Webster to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen MARYLAND. . nial Census in the fourth district, State of Minnesota, froni Auguit 13, 1909. Frederick T. Dorton to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the third district, State of Maryland, from Sep MISSISSIPPI. tember ~. 1909. . Nathan Van Boddie to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Charles F. Macklin to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the sixth district; State of Mississippi, from nial Census in the fourth district, State of Maryland, from August 13, 1909. . . October 18, 1909. Samuel D. Chamberlin to. be supervi.s9r of the Thirteenth J.. aban Sparks to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Decennial Census in the first .district, State of Mississippi, from Census in the second district, State of Maryland, from Septem- August 13, 1909. . . . _ ber 13, 1909. . Lemuel P. Conner to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen John J. Stump to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in the seventh district, State of Mississippi, from Census in the fifth district, State of Maryland, from September August 13, 1909. · · · · ' 13, 1900. Rufus F. Gillespie to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen~ . Isaac H. White to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial -nial Census in the second district, State of Mississippi, from Census in the first district, State of Maryland, from Septem August 13, 1909. , ber 13, 1909. · James E. Landrum to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen MASSACHUSETTS. nial Census in the fourth district, State of · Mississippi, from Charles F. Gettemy to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen August 13, 1909. nial Census in the entire State of Massachusetts, from August William A. Shelby to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen l3, 190D. . nial Census in the third district, State of Mississippi, :from MICHIGAN. August 13, 1909. John Baird to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennia 1 Samuel F. Thigpen to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Census in the eighth district, State of Michigan, from August nial Census in the fifth district, State of Mississippi, from Au 13, 1009. gust 13, 1909. James T. Bennett to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the twelfth district, State of Michigan, from James B. Yellowley to be supervisor of the Thirteenth De August 13, 1909. cennial Census in the eighth district, State of Mississippi, John L: Boer to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial from August 13, 1909. Census in the fifth district, State of· Michigan, from August 13 MISSOURI. 1909. ' Henry A. Baker to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Hoy E. Brownell to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Census in the tenth district, State of Missouri, from September nial Census in the sixth district, State of Michigan, from Sep 13, 1909. tember 25, 1909. Clarence A. Barnes to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Charles F. Davison to be supervisor of the Thirteenth De nial Census in the ninth district, State of Missouri, from Sep cennial Census in the fourth district, State of Michigan, from tember 10, 1909. ~~~~1909. . Hugh H. Hart to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial · Harry Clymer to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the seventh district, State of Michigan, from August Census in the fourteenth district, State of Missouri, from August 13, 1909. - 13, 1909. Charles R. Jackson to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen John E. Frost to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in the tenth district, State of Michigan, from August Census in the third district, State of Missouri, from: August 13, 13, 1909. 1909. . . Orvice R. Leonard to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Howard A. Higgins to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the first district, State of Michigan, from August nial Census in the sixth district, State of Missouri, from Sep- • 13, 1900. tember 10, 1909. George W. Sample to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen William C. Irwin to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the second district, State of Michigan, from Sep nial Census in the eighth district, State of Mi8souri, from Sep tember 10, 1909. tember 10, 1909. John A. Sherman to be supervisor of .the Thirteenth Decen Archibald G. Lackey to be supervisor of the Thirteenth De nial Census in the ninth district, State of Michigan, from cennial Cens~s in the fifth district, State of l\fissouri, from Au~ust 13, 1909. September 10, 1909. Frederic W. Stewart to be supervisor of the Thirteenth De George A. Mccanse to ·be supervisor of the Thirteenth De cennial Census in the third district, State of Michigan, from cennial Census in the thirteenth district, State of Missouri, August 13, 1909. :from August 13, 1909. XLV---4 50 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--SENA'l'E. DECEMBER 71. John S. Newlon to be supervisor ot the Thirteenth Decennial George F. De Venny to be- supervisor of the Thirteenth Census in the first district, State of Missourf, from August 13, Decennial Census in the fifteenth district, State of New York, 1909. from September 10, 1909. · Simon G. Nipper to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- Francis J. Dunn to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in the eleventh district, State of Missouri, from Census, in the ninth dL NOBTH ·DAKOTA. Robert J. Hendricks to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Fred 0. Brewster to be supervisor of th«' Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the first district, State of Oregon, from August nial Census in the second district, State of North Dakota, from 13, 1909. - October 18, 1909. PENNSYLVANIA. Carl N. Frich to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Ellis C. Abrams to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the first district, State of North Dakota, from August Census in the second district, State of Pennsylvania, from 13, 1909. September 10, 1909. OHIO. Benjamin Apple to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial l\fattoon M. Curtis to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Census in the twelfth district, State of Pennsylvania, from nial Census in the nineteenth district, State of Ohio, from Sep October 18, 1909. . tember 13, 1909. George G. Blumer to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Tiffin Gilmore to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in the .ninth district, State of Pennsylvania, from Census in the tenth district, State of Ohio, from A-Ugust 13, 1909. October 18, ·1909. Peter C. Given to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Aaron F. Dickey to be supervisor of the Thlrteenth Decen Census in the sixteenth district, State of Ohio, from August 13, nial Census in the twenty-second district, State of Pennsylva 1909. nia, from September 10, 1909. Sherman M.· Granger to be supervisor of the Thirteenth De John R. Edwards to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen cennial Census in the fourteenth district, State of Ohio, from nial Census in the fifth district, State of Perlnsylvania, from August 13, 1909. October 18, 1909. Frederick C. Hicks to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Lewis C. Elliott to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in the first district, State of Ohio, from September Census in the fifteenth district, State of Pennsylvania, from 25, 1909. September 10, 1909. Core S. Ireland to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial · Milton S. Falck to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the seventh district, State of Ohio, from August 13, Census in the fourth district, State of Pennsylvania, from Sep 1909. tember 10, 1909. John P. -Jones to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Charles 0. Frye to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the seventeenth district, State of Ohio, from August Census in the twenty-first district, State of Pennsylvania, from 13, 1909. September 10, 1909. John W. Kern, jr., to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen John B. Graham to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in the ninth district, State of Ohio, from August Census in the sixth district, State of Pennsylvania, from Sep 13, 1909. tember 10, 1909. Thomas J. Maxwell to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Samuel R. Hamilton to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the twelfth district, State of Ohio, from Sep nial Census in the seventeenth district, State of Pennsylvania, tember 10, 1909. from September 10, 1909. Stacy A. Mitchell to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen George Joseph to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in the fifth d~trict, State of Ohio, from August 13, Census in the thirteenth district, State of Pennsylvania, from 1909. September 13, 1909. Frank P. Richter to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen N. B. Kelly to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in the second district, State of Ohio, from August Census in the first district, .State of Pennsylvania, from Sep 13, 1909. tember 10, 1909. Joshua E. Russell to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Warren G. Light to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in the third district, State of Ohio, from August 13 Census in the fourteenth district, Sci.te of Pennsylvania, from 1909. ' September 10, 1909. John H. Schrider to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Augustus L. Merrill to be supervisor of the Thirteenth De niaJ Census in the fourth district, State of Ohio, from August cennial Census in the eleventh district, State of Pennsylvania, 13, 1909. from October 18, 1909. • Charles D. Simeral to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen William S. Nason to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the fifteenth district, State of Ohio, from August nial Census in the nineteenth district, State of Pennsylvania, 13, 1909. from August 13, 1909. John E. Todd to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Samuel L. Price to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the eleventh district, State of Ohio, from August 13 Census in the eighth district, State of Pennsylvania, from Au 1909. ' gust 13, 1909. . Harry B. Weaver to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Samuel L. Reed to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial niaf Census in the sixth district, State of Ohio, from August 13 Census in the sixteenth district, State of Pennsylvania, from 1909. ' September -10, 1909. Robert J. West to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- Harry G. Seip to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in the eighth district, State of Ohio, from: August 13 Census in the seventh district, State of Pennsylvania, from Sep- 1909. ' tember 25, 1909. · Charles W. Wickline to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen A. Brock Shoemaker to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the eighteenth district, ·state of Ohio, from nial Census in the third district, State of Pennsylvania, from August 13, 1909. November 3, 1909. Perry S. Williams to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen David E. Thompson to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the thirteenth district, State of Ohio, from nial Census in the twentieth district, State of Pennsylvania, August 13, 1909. from September 10, 1909. OKLAHOMA. Jacob E. Wenk to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Benjamin F. Berkey to be super~isor of the Thirteenth De Census in the eighteenth district, State of Pennsylvania, from cennial Census in the first district, State _of Oklahoma, from September 10, 1909. September 13, 1909. J. Andrew Wilt to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Charles C. Chapell to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Census in the tenth district, 3tate of Pennsylvania, from Sep nial Census in the fifth district, State of Oklahoma, from tember 10, 1909. August 13, 1909. PORTO RICO. Samuel A. Hawk to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen nial Census in the fourth district, State of Oklahoma, from David A. Skinner to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen November 3, 1909. nial Census in the entire island, Island of Porto Rico, from J. H. Langston to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial November 26, 1909. Census in the second district, State of Oklahoma, from Sep BHODE ISLAND. tember 13, 1909. William B. l\Ioss to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial George H. Webb to be supervisor· of the Thirteenth Decen Census in the third district, State of Oklahoma, from September nial Census in the entire State of Rhode Island from August 10, 1909. 13, 1909. OREGON. SOUTH CAROLINA. Seneca C. Beach to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- Robert L. Douglas to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- nial Census in the second district, State of Oregon, from Au- nial Census in the fifth district, State of South Carolina, from gust 13., 1909. August 13, 1909. • 52 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEl\fBER 7' Ernest M. Du Pre to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- Eugene T. Long to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in the seventh district,. State of South Carolina.1 Census in the ninth districts State of Texas, from September 10 from September 13, 1909. 1909. ' James L. Michie to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- James "\V. Madden to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- nial Census in the sixth district, State of South Carolina, from nial Census in the seventh district, State of Texas, from Sep· September rn, 1909. tember 10. 1909. George M. Pritchard to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- John B. Stephens to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- nial Census in the fourth district, State of South Carolina, nial Census in the first district; State of Texas, from Septem· from September 10. 1909. ber 10, 1909. William W. Russell to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Deeen- Nathan M. Washer to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen· nlal Census in the third district, State of South Carolina, from nlal Census in the fourteenth district, State ot Texas, from August 13, 1909. . September 10, 1909. William J. Storen to be supervisor ot the Thirteenth Decen- Andrew F. Wood to be· super-visor of the Thirteenth Decennial nlal Census in the first district, State of South Oarollna, from Census 1n the'si:rth district, State of Texas, from October 18, 1909. August 81, 1909. John F. Worley to be supervisor o! the Thirteenth Decennial George Waterhouse to be supervisor Of the Thirteenth Decen- Census in the fifth district, State of Texas, from September 10, nial Census in the second district, State of South Carolina,. from 1909. August 13, 1909. ' Thomas L. Wren to be supervisor ot the Thirteenth Decen- soUTH DAKOTA. nial Census in the tenth district, State of Texas, from Septem· George B. Mansfield to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Deeen- ber 10, l909. nial Census in the second district, State of South Dakota, from UTAH. September 10, 1909. . Hugh A. McMillln to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen· David D. Wipf to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in the entire State of Ut.ah. from August 13,. 1909. Census in the first district, State ot South Dakota,. from Sep- VERM<>NT. tember 10, 1909. HNNES~ Lynn M. Hays to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the entire State of Vermont, from November 3~ 1909. Alfred J. Agee to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the second district, State of Tennessee;. from August VIRGINIA. 13, 1909. Richard P. Bunting to be supervisor of the Thirteenth De- Vincent A. Biggs to be super-visor of the Thirteenth Decen- cennial Census in the second district, State of Virginia, from nlal Census in the ninth district, State of Tennessee, :from Au- August 13, 1909. gust 13, 1909. Edward C. Burks to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- John H. Early to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial niaJ Census in the sixth district, State of Virginia, from August Census in the third district, State of Tennessee, from August 13, 13, 1909. 1909. Albert Fletcher,. j.r .• to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- John W. Farley to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census. in the eighth district, State of Virginia, from Sep- Oensus in the tenth district, State of Tennessee,. from August tember 10, 1909. • 13, 1909. William A. Land to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Reese Q. Lillard to be supervisor of the- Thirteenth Decennial Census in the fourth distric.t, State of Virginia, from August 13, Census in the fourth district, State of Tennessee, from August 1909. 13, 1909. Sidney F. Landreth to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- Harry A. Luck to be supervisor of th& Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in the fifth district, State of Virginia,, from August Census in the sixth district, State of Tennessee, :from August 13, 1909. 13, 1909. James McDowell Adair to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Sidney E. Murray to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- Decennial Census in the tenth district, State of Virginia, from nial Census in the eighth district, State· of Tennessee, from October 18, 1909. August 13, 1909. C. Ridgway Moore to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- l\1arion Richardson to be supervisor of the Thirteenth De- nial Census in the third district,. State of Virginia. from August cennial Census in the seventh district, State of Tennessee, from 13, 1909. August 13, 1909. Everett D. Ott to be superyisor of the Thirteenth Decennial John B. Stong to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the seventh district, State of VlI'ginia. from August Census in the fifth district, State of Tennessee, from August 13, 13, 1909. 190!.t. John C. Smith to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Samuel H. Thompson to be supervisor ot the Thirteenth De- Census in the ninth district, State of Virginia, from Augus 13,. cennial Census in the first district, State of Tennessee. from 1909. August 13, 1909. William. W. Woodward to be supervisor of the Thirteenth . TEXAS. Decennial Census in the first district,. State of Virginia,. from Lawrence Fl Bennett to be supervisor of the Thirteenth De- August 13, 1909. cennlal Census in the fifteenth district, State ot Texas,. from WASHINGTON. Sept ember 10, 1909. Robert W. Hill to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial George H. Boynton to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- Census in the first district, State of Washington, from Septem nial Census in the eleventh district, State of Texas, from Sep- ber 13, 1909. tember 10, 1909. Guy E. Kelly to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Sam Bronson Cooperi jr., to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Census in the second district, State of Washington,. from Decennial Census in the second district,. State of Texas, from A1Jgust 13, 1909. September l<>, 1009. Arthur 1\1. Storch to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen· Samuel Davidson to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- nlal Census in the third district, State of Washington, from nial Census in the twelfth district, State of Texas, from Sep- August 13, 1909. tember 10, 1909. • WEST VIRGINIA. Boone Gross to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial George H. Child. to be superVisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Census in the eighth district, State of Texas, from September Census in the second district, State of West Virginia, from 10, 1909. August 13, 1909. James B. Hanes to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Harvey W. Harmer to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- Census in the third district, State of Texas, from September 10, nial Census in the first district, State of West Virginia, from 1909. August 13,. 1909. Orren F. Johnson to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- Robert :Morris. te> be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial nial Census in the fourth district, State of Texas, from S_ep- Census in the fourth district, State of West Virginia, from tember 10,. 1909. August 13, 1909. Lewis Lindsay to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial' Colonel E. Rudesill to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen:. Census in the thirteenth district, State of Texas, from Septem- nial Census in the third district, State of West Virginia, from ber 10, 1909. August 13, 1909. John B. Littler to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial William W. Whyte to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen- Census. in the sixteenth district, State of Texas,. from Septem- nial Census in the fifth district, State o.f West Vlrginla,. from ber 10, 1909. August 13, 1909. • '1909. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 53 WISCONSIN. the Senate, vice Wallace C. Bond, appointed consul-general at J ohn W. Brown to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial Copenhagen, Denmark. Census in the ninth district, State of Wisconsin, from Septem Henry B. Miller, of Oregon, lately consul-general at Yoko ber 10, 1909. - hama, Japan, to be consul of the United States of America ·at Lester B. Dresser to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Belfast, Ireland, to which office he was appointed during the nial Census in the tenth district, State of Wisconsin, from last recess of the Senate, vice Samuel S. Knabenshue, appointed September 13, 1909. consul-general at Tientsin, China. Otto J. Habhegger to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Southard P. Warner, of Maryland, lately consul at Leipzig, nial Census in the fourth district, State of Wisconsin, from Saxony, to be consul of the United States of America at Bahia, September 13, 1909. Brazil, to which office he was appointed during the last recess Herbert H. Hulbert to be supervisor of the Thirteenth De of the Senate, vice Pierre Patt.I Demers, resigned. cennial Census in the third district, State of Wisconsin, from Jay White, of Michigan, lately consul-general at Bogota, September 13, 1909. Colombia, to be consul of the United States of America at Cllll.rles A. Lyman to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen Santos, Brazil, to which office he was appointed during the last nial Census in the second district, State of Wisconsin, from recess of the Senate, vice John W. O'Hara, resigned. No1ember 3, 1909. David F. Wilber, of New York, lately consul-general at Hali Charles Oellerich to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen fax, Nova Scotia, to be consul of the United States of America nial Census in the seventh district, State of Wisconsin, from at Kobe, Japan, to which office he was appointed during the last September 10, 1909. • recess of the Senate, vice George H. Scidmore, appointed consul D. Elmer Roberts to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen general at Seoul, Korea. nial Census in the first district, State of Wisconsin, from Sep 0oLLECTORS OF CuSTOMS. tember 10, 1909. Hugh G. Ashley, of Alabama, to be collector of customs for William J. Schmidt to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decen the district of Mobile, in the State of Alabama, in place of nial Census in the fifth district, State of Wisconsin, from Sep William F. Tebbetts, whose term of service expired by limita tember 13, 1909. tion February 28, 1909. Mr. Ashley is now serving under a Charles W. Sunstrom to be rnpervisor of the Thirteenth temporary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. Decennial Census in the eighth district, State of Wisconsin, A. Lincoln Dryden, of Maryland, to be collector of customs from September 10, 1909. for the eastern district, in the State of Maryland. Mr. Dryden Frank Winter to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial resigned as collector October 31, 1909, and was reappointed by Census in the sixth district, State of Wisconsin, from September a temporary commission issued on November 13, 1909, the Sen 10, 1009. ate then being in recess. WYOMING. Edwin U. Curtis, of Massachusetts, to be collector of customs Homer Merrell to be supervisor of the Thirteenth Decennial for the district of Boston and Charlestown, in the State of Census in the entire State of Wyoming from August 13, 1909. Massachusetts, in place of George H. Lyman, ·whose term of service will expire January 18, 1910. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND LA.BOB. Charles A. Judson, of Ohio, to be collector of customs for the Benjamin Stickney Cable, of Illinois, who was appointed No district of Sandusky, in the State of Ohio, to fill an existing Yernber 26, 1909, during the recess of the Senate, to be Assistant vacancy. Mr. Judson is now serving under a temporary com Secretary of Commerce and Labor, vice Ormsby McHarg, re mission issued during the recess of the Senate. signed. PROMOTIONS IN THE REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE. 0oNSULS-GENEBAL. Capt. Daniel Patrick Foley to be senior captain in the Reve Wallace C. Bond, of Wyoming, lately consul at Karachi, In nue-Cutter Service of the United States, to rank as such from dia, to be consul-general of the United States of America at August 23, 1909, in place of Senior Capt. William Hickson Copenhagen, Denmark, to which office he was appointed during Cushing, deceased. Mr. Foley is now serving under a tempo the last recess of the Senate, vice Frank R. Mowrer, resigned. rary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. Fred D. Fisher, of Oregon, lately consul at Newchwang, Second Lieut; Leon Claude Covell to be first lieutenant in the China, to be consul-general of the United States of America at Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to rank as such Mukden, China, to which office he was appointed during the last from January 28, 1909, in place of First Lieut. Charles Ernest recess of the Senate, vice Willard D. Straight, resigned. Johnston, promoted. Mr. Covell is now serving under a tem Samuel S. Knabenshue, of Ohio, lately consul at Belfast, Ire porary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. land, to be consul-general of the United States of America at Second Lieut. Thomas Marcus Molloy to be first lieutenant in Tientsin, China, to which office he was appointed during the the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to rank as such last recess of the Senate, vice Edward '11. Williams. from July 9, 1909, in place of First Lieut. Claude Stanley Coch J ames W. Ragsdale, of California, lately consul at St. Peters ran, promoted. l\Ir. Molloy is now serving under a temporary burg, Russia, to be consul-general of the United States of Amer commission issued during the recess of the Senate. ica at Halifax, Nova Scotia, to which office he was appointed Cadet Roy Percival Munro, of Michigan, to be third lieu during the Ia.st recess of the Senate, vice David F. Wilber, ap tenant in the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States, to pointed consul at Kobe, Japan. fill an original vacancy. Mr. Munro is now serving under a Thomas Sammons, of Washington, lately consul-general at temporary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. Seoul, Korea, to be consul-general of the United States of Amer PROMOTIONS IN THE PuBLIC HEALTH AND MARINE-HOSPITAL ica at Yokohama, Japan, to which office he was appointed dur SERVICE. ing the last recess of the Senate, vice Henry B. Miller, appointed consul at Belfast, Ireland. Asst. Surg. Francis A. Ashford to be passed assistant sur George H. Scidmore, of Wisconsin, lately consul at Kobe geon in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the Japan, to be consul-general of the United States of America at United States, to rank as such from August 11, 1909. Mr. Ash Seoul, Korea, to which office he was appointed during the last ford is now serving under a temporary commission issued dur recess of the Senate, vice Thomas Sammons, appointed consul ing the recess of the Senate. general at Yokohama, Japan. Asst. Surg. Hugh de Valin to be passed assistant surgeon in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United CONSULS. States, to rank as such from September 21, 1909. l\!r. de Valin E. Carleton Baker, of California, to be consul of the United is now serving under a temporary commission issued during the States of America at Antung, China, to which office he was ap recess of the Senate. pointed during the last recess of the Senate, vice Frederick D. Asst. Surg. l\1arshall C. Guthrie to be passed assistant sur Cloud. geon in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the Jacob E. Conner, of Iowa, lately consul at Saigon, Cochin United States, to rank as such from September 9, 1909. Mr. China, to be consul of the United States of America at St. Guthrie is now serving under a temporary commission issued Petersburg, Russia, to which office he was appointed during the during the recess of the Senate. last recess of the Senate, vice James W. Ragsdale, appointed ASSISTANT SECRETARY PF THE TREASURY. consul-general at Halifax, Nova Scotia. James F. Curtis, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary Stuart K. Lupton of Tennessee, lately consul at Catania, of the Treasury, in place of James B. Reynolds, resigned. Mr. Italy, to be consul of the United States of America at Karaehl, Curtis is now serving under a temporary commission issued India, to which office he was appointed during the last recess of. during the recess ot the Senate. ·54 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· SENATE. DECEMBER 7, TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES. A. P. Sawyer, of Washington, to be auditor for Porto Rico, to Lee McClung, of Tennessee, to be Treasurer of the Unite.d which office he was appointed during the last recess of the States, in place of Charles H. Treat, resigned. Mr. McClung Senate, vice George Cabot Ward, promoted secretary of Porto is now serving under a temporary commission issued during the Rico. recess of the Senate. CoMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS. AsSISTANT TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES. James L. Davenport, of Keene, N. H., who was appointed George H. Doty, of Massachusetts, to be assistant treasurer November 26, 1909, during the recess of the Senate, to be Com of the United States at Boston, Mass., in place of Ed.win U. missioner of Pensions (promotion from First Deputy Commis Curtis, nominated to be collector of customs at Boston. sioner), vice Vespasian Warner, resigned. 0oMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE. FIRST DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS. Royal E. Cabell, of Virginia, to be Commissioner of Internal Leander Stillwell, of Erie, Kans., who was appointed Novem Revenue, in place of John G. Capers, resigned. Mr. Cabe~1 is ber 26, 1909, during the recess of the Senate, to be First Deputy now serving under a temporary commission issued during the Commissioner of Pensions, vice James L. Davenport, promoted. recess of the Senate. GoVERNOB-GENERAL OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. APPRAISER OF MERCHANDISE. W. Cameron Forbes, of Massachusetts, to be governor-general Herbert J. Grant, of Ohio, to be appraiser of merchandise in of the Philippine Islands, to which office he was appointed dur the district of Cuyahoga, in the State of Ohio, in place of Miner ing the last recess of the Senate, vice James F. Smith, resigned. G. Norton, removed. Mr. Grant is now serving under a tem porary commission issued during the recess of the Senate. REGISTERS OF THE LAND OFFICE. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE. George B. Robberts, of Lawton, Okla., who was appointed Chandler Hale, of Maine, to be Third Assistant Secretary of September 11, 1909, during the recess of the Senate, to be reg State, to which office he was appointed during the last recess of ister of the land office at Lawton, Okla., vice Henry D. Mc the Senate, vice William Phillips, appointed secretary of the Knight, deceased. Charles B. Merrick, of Portland, Oreg., to be register of the embassy at London, England. land office at Portland, Oreg., vice Algernon S. Dresser, term MINISTER. expired.. John R. Carter, of Maryland, lately secretary of the embassy Presley F. Horne, of Hailey, Idaho, to be register of the land at London, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo office at Hailey, Idaho, vice Alvin I. McMahon, resigned. tentiary of the United States of America to Roumania and Arthur P. Toupin, of Red Lake Falls, Minn., to be register of Servia and. diplomatic agent in Bulgaria, to which office he was the land office at Crookston, Minn., vice Robert J. Montague, appointed during the last recess of the Senate, vice Spencer F. resigned. Eddy, resigned. Benjamin F. Jones, of Independence, Oreg., to be register of SECRETARY OF EMBASSY. the land office at Roseburg, Oreg., vice Benjamin L. Eddy, term William Phillips, of Massachusetts, lately Third Assistant expired. ·secretary of State, to be secretary of the embassy of the George W. Riddle, of Riddle, Oreg., to be receiver of public United States of America at L ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. First Lieut. Daniel Van Voorhis, Third Cavalry, to be cap Brig. Gen. William Crozier, Chief of Ordnance, to be C.hief tain from August 7, 1909, vice Capt. Robert J. Duff, Tenth of Ordnance, with the rank of brigadier-general, for the period Cayalry, promoted. of four years beginning November 22, 1909, with rank from First Lieut. Julien E. Gaujot, Eleventh CaYalry, to be cap November 22, 1901, his former reappointment as Chief of Ord tain from August 22, 1909, vice Capt. Godfrey H. Macdonald, nance having expired November 21, 1909 .. First CJlvalry, promoted. · First Lieut. Delphey T. E. Casteel, Seventh Cavalry, to be PROMOTIONS IN THE ARMY. captain from September 28, 1909, vice Capt. Matthew F. Steele, QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT. Sixth Cavalry, promoted. Lieut. Col. William H. Miller, deputy quartermaster-general, Second Lieut. Leon R. Partridge, Fifteenth Cavalry, to be to be assistant quartermaster-general, with the rank of colonel, first lieutenant from August 7, 1909, vice First Lieut. Daniel from October 31, 1909, vice Col. Charles A.H. McCauley, retired Van Voorhis, Third Cavalry, promoted. from acti'Ve service on that date. Second Lieut. William H. Bell, jr., First Cavalry, to be first l\Iaj. Carroll A. Devol, quartermaster, to be deputy quarter lieutenant from August 22, 1909, vice First Lieut. Julien E. master-general, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, from Octo Gaujot, Eleventh Cavalry, promoted. ber 31, 1909, vice Lieut. Col. William H. Miller, promoted. Second Lieut. Myron B. Bowdish, Tenth Cavalry, to be first Capt. Haldimand P. Young, quartermaster, to be quarter lieutenant from September 28, 1909, vice First J.Jieut. Delphey master, with the rank of major, from October 31, 1909, vice T. E. Casteel, Seventh Cavalry, promoted. Maj. Carroll A. Devol, promoted. FIELD ARTILLERY ARM. MEDICAL CORPS. First Lieut. James H. Bryson, Third Field Artillery, to be Capt. Paul C. Hutton, Medical Corps, to be major from June captain from September 10, 1909, vice Capt. Harry E. Mitchell, 16, 1909, vice Maj. Richard W. Johnson, retired from active Fourth Field Artillery, retired from active service on that date. service on that date. First Lieut. Roger 0. Mason, Second Artillery, to be captain Capt. Frederick A. Dale, Medical Corps, to be major from from September 30, 1909, vice Capt. William M. Cruikshank; July 8, 1909, vice Maj. W. Fitzhugh Carter, retired from active Fifth Field Artillery, detailed as commissary on that date. service on that date. Second Lieut. John W. Downer, Third Field Artillery, to be First Lieut. Henry J. Nichols, Medical Corps, to be captain first lieutenant from September 1.0, 1909, vice First Lieut. James from June 30, 1909, after three years' service. H. Bryson, Third Field Artillery, promoted. First Lieut. Louis H. Hanson, Medical Corps, to be captain Second Lieut. Benjamin l\f. Bailey, Fifth Field Artillery, to be from June 30, 1909, after three years' service. first lieutenant from September 29, 1909, vice First Lieut. First Lieut. Lucius L. Hopwood, Medical Corps, to be captain James S. Bradshaw, Fifth Field Artillery, retired from active from June 30, 1909, after three years' service. service on that date. First Lieut. Charles E. Freeman, Medical Corps, to be captain Second Lieut. William F. Sharp, First Field Artillery, to be from June 30, 1909, after three years' service. first lieutenant from September 30, 1909, vice First Lieut. First Lieut. Ferdinand Schmitter, Medical Corps, to be cap Roger 0. Mason, Second Field Artillery, promoted. tain from June 30, 1909, after three years' service. First Lieut. Henry B. Mcintyre, Medical Corps, to be cap COAST ARTILLERY CORPS, tain from June 30, 1909, after three years' service. Capt. Arthur W. Chase, Coast Artillery Corps, to be major from September 9, 1909, vice Maj. William F. Hancock, retired GORPS OF ENGINEERS. from active service on that date. Lieut. Col. Thomas L. Casey, Corps of Engineers, to be Capt. Samuel A. Kephart, Coast Artillery Corps, to be nui colonel from September 21, 1009, vice Col. Daniel W. Lock jo·r from September 10, 1.909, vice Maj. William P. Stone, re wood, retired from active service on that date. tired from active service on that date. Lieut. Col. Curtis McD. Townsend, Corps of Engineers, to First Lieut John A. Berry, Coast Artillery Corps, to be cap be colonel from October 16, 1909, vice Col. Smith S. Leach, who tain from August 28; 1909, vice Capt. William K. Moore, retired died on that date. from active service on that date. Maj. William L. Sibert, Corps of Engineers, to be lieutenant First Lieut. Gordon Robinson, Coast Artillery Corps, to be colonel from September 21, 1909, vice Lieut. Col. Thomas L. captain from September 9, 1909, vice Capt. Arthur W. Chase, Casey, promoted. promoted. 1\faj. Joseph E. Kuhn, Corps of Engineers, to be lieutenant First Lieut. Olaude R Brigham, Coast Artillery Corps, to be colonel from October 16, 1909, -vice Lieut. Col. Curtis McD. captain from September 10, 1909, vice Capt. Samuel A. Kep Townsend, promot ed. · hart, promoted. Capt. Harry Burgess, Corps of Engineers, to be major from Second Lieut. Robert 0. Edwards, Coast Artillery Corps, to September 21, 1909, vice l\Iaj. William L. Sibert, promoted. be first lieutenant from July 3, 1909, vice First Lieut. Carr W. Capt. Edwin R. Stuart, Corps of Engineers, to be major from· Waller, detailed in the Ordnance Department on that date. October 16, 1909, vice l\Iaj. Joseph E. Kuhn, promoted. Second Lieut. Guy A. Mix, Coast Artillery Corps, to be first First Lieut. William L. Guthrie, Corps of Engineers, to be lieutenant from July 18, 1909, vice First Lieut. Alfred A. .May captain from September 21, 1909, vice Capt. Harry Burgess, bach, promoted. promoted. Second Lieut. John H. Pirie, Coast Artillery Corps, to be first First Lieut. William A. Mitchell, Corps of Engineers, to be lieutenant from August 28, 1909, vice First Lieut. John A. captain from October 16, 1909, vice Capt. Edwin R. Stuart, pro Berry, promoted. moted. Second Lieut. George R. Norton, Coast Artillery Corps, to be Second Lieut. Frederick B. Downing, Corps of Engineers, to first lieutenant from September 9, 1909, vice First Lieut. Gordon be first lieutenant from September 21, 1909, vice First Lieut. Robinson, promoted. .William L. Guthrie, promoted. Second Lieut. Eugene Reybold, Coast Artillery Corps, to be Second Lieut. Edmund L. Daley, Corps of Engineers, to be first lieutenant from September 10, 1909, vice First Lieut. first lieutenant from October 16', 190!), vice First Lieut. William Claude E. Brigham, promoted. A. Mitchell, promoted. INFAN'l'RY ARM. CAVALBY ARM, Lieut. Ool. Leonard A. :Lovering, Fourth Infantry, to be Lieut. Col. Thaddeus W. Jones, Third Cavalry, to be colonel colonel fi·om September 4, 1909, vice Col. Owen J. Sweet, from August 7, 1909, vice Col. Levi P. Hunt, Tenth Cavalry, re Twenty-eighth Infantry, retired from active service on that tired from acti"rn service on that date. date. l\Iaj. Benjamin H. Cheever, Second Cavalry, to be lieutenant .Maj. William Lassiter, infantry, unassigned, to be lieutenant colonel from August 7, 1900, vice Lieut. Col. Thaddeus W. Jones, colonel from September 4, 1909, vice Lieut. Col. Leonard A. Third Cavalry, promoted. Lovering, Fourth Infantry, promoted, Capt. Robert J. Duff, Tenth Cavalry (since retired from Capt. Julius A. Penn, Seventh Infantry, to be major from Au active service}, to be major from August 7, 1909, vice Maj. Ben gust 10, 1909, vice Maj. William C. Wren, Twelfth Infantry, who jamin H. CheeYer, Second Cavalry, promoted. died on that date. Capt. Godfrey H. Macdonald, First Cavalry, to be major Capt. Edward M. Lewis, Eighth Infantry, to be major from from August 22, 1909, vice Maj. Samuel D. Freeman, Ninth September 4, 1909, vice Maj. William H. Johnston, Sixteenth Ca>alry, retired from active service on that date. Infantry, detailed as adjutant-general on that date. Capt. Matthew F. Steele, Sixth Cavn.lry, to be major from Capt. Richard C. Croxton, infantry, unassigned, to be major September 28, 1909, vice 1\Iaj. Robert J. Dutr, Second Cavalry, from Oetober 1, 1909, vice Maj. John Cotter, Ninth Infantry, re retired from active service on that date. tired from active service on that date. 56 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DEOEMBER 7i . - -First Lieut. James T. Watson, Twentieth ·Infantry, to be Thomas Ludlow Ferenbaugh, of Ohio• captain from August 10, 1909, vice Capt. Julius A. Penn, Sev William Paul Lamb, of New Jersey~ enth Infantry, promoted. Arthur Osman Davis, of Maine. First Lieut. William W. McCammon, jr., Twenty-third In Solomon Paul Klotz, of Louisiana. fantry, to be captain froµi August 21, 1909, vice Capt. Walter S. Wibb Earl Cooper, of Tennessee. Brown, Sixth Infantry, retired from active service on that Everett Slater l\icOlelland, of Illinois. d~~ • William Cole Davis, of Virginia. First Lieut. Oyrµs A. Dolph, Twenty-sixth Infantry, to be · Ralph Godwin De Voe, of Washington. captain from September 4, 1909, vice Capt. Edward 1\1, Lewis, Thomas Dupuy Woodson, of Texas. Eighth Infantry, promoted. William Lloyd Sheep, of North Carolina. :F'irst Lieut. Willis P. Coleman, Ninth Infantry, to be captain Julian Mason Gillespie, of Virginia. from September 12, 1909, vice Capt. Thomas M. Moody, Fourth Harry Reber Beery, of Ohio. Infantry, retired from active service on that date. Alexander Taylor Cooper, of Nebraska. . First Lieut. Albert B. Sloan, Twenty-ninth Infantry, to be Harry Blaine Etter, of New York. captain from September 25, 1909, vice Capt. Ralph R. Stogsdall, Harry Philip Shugerman, of Alabama. Thirtieth Infantry, retired from active service on that date. Charles Walter Haverkampf, of Kansas. First Lieut. Lucius C. Bennett, Twenty-first Infantry, to be Floyd Kramer, of Ohio. captain from October 2, 1909, vi~~ Capt. Frank C. Bolles, Sixth Felix Robertson Hill, of Louisiana. Infantry, detailed as quartermaster on that date. To be first lieutenants, with rank froni September 11, 1909.. i Second Lieut. Jacob W. S. Wuest, Thirtieth Infantry, to be first lieutenant from August 7, 1909, vice First Lieut. Frank W. Hyman Morris Cohen, of Maryland. Ball, Twenty-fifth Infantry, dismissed on that date. John Charles Griffin, of Pennsylvania. Second Lieut. Max B. Garber, Twenty-second Infantry, to be Robert Hynton Heterick, of Ohio. first lieutenant from August 10, 1909, vice First Lieut. James T. Lewis Adolphus Lavanture, of Ohio. Watson, Twentieth Infantry, promoted. William Culbert Lyon, of Maryland. Second Lieut. Leo I. Samuelson, Seventh Infantry, to be first James Asa Simpson, of New Mexico. lieutenant from August 18, 1909, vice First Lieut. Winfield Har William Benjamin Borden, of North Carolina. per, First Infantry, retired from active service on that date. Courtlandt William Dawe, of Ohio. Second Lieut. Corbit S. Hoffman, First Infantry, to be first Harley James Hallett, of Pennsylvania. lieutenant from August 21, 1909, vice First Lieut. William W. Val Emil Miltenberger, of Missouri. McCammon, jr., Twenty-third Infantry, promoted. Eugene Garland Northington, of Alabama. Second Lieut. Walter V. Gallagher, Thirteenth Infantry, to Herbert Henry Sharpe, of New York. be first lieutenant from September 1, 1909, vice First Lieut. John Wesley Sherwood, of Maryland. F. A. Awl, Ninth Infantry, whose resignation was accepted to To be first lieutenants, with ranlc from September 15, 1909. take effect on that date. Second Lieut. Clifton M. Butler, Seventeenth Infantry, to be John Ruskin Bradley, of New York. first lieutenant from September 4, 1909, vice First Lieut. Cyrus Blase Cole, of New Jersey. A. Dolph, Twenty-sixth Infantry, promoted.. Thomas Joseph Flynn, of New York. Second Lieut. E. Llewellyn Bull, Twenty-second Infantry, to Paul . White Gibson, of Nebraska. be first lieutenant from September 10, 1909, vice First Lieut. Josiah Hutton Holland, of the District of Columbia. John H. Baker, Twenty-first Infantry, retired f:rom active serv- To be first lieutenants, with tank from September_16, 19()9. ice on that date. · . Wayne Hector Orum, of Indiana. Second Lieut. Truman W. Carrithers, Twentieth Infantry, to John Pierpont Fletcher, of Wisconsin. be first lieutenant from September 12, 1909, vice First Lieut. Robert Ward Holmes, of New Hampshire. Francis W. Healy, Twenty-ninth Infantry, retired from active To be first lieutenants, with rank from September 11, 1909. service on that date. , Second Lieut. George F. Rozelle, jr., Twenty-second Infantry, Herman Niels Bundesen, of Illinois. to be first lieutenant from September 12, 1909, vice First Lieut. Joseph Omar Walkup, of Illinois. Willis P. Coleman, Ninth Infantry, promoted. To be first lieu_tenant, 1with rank from September 22, 1909. · . Second Lieut. Arthur .E. Ahrends, Twentieth Infantry, to be Thomas William Penrose, of Pennsylvania. first lieutenant from September 25, 1909, vice First Lieut. Albert To be first lieutenants, with rnnk from September 28, 1909. B. Sloan, Twenty-ninth Infantry, promoted. . Second Lieut. Charles F. Severson, Twenty-fourth Infantry, Edgar Fremont Haines, of Massachusetts. to be first lieutenant from October 2, 1909, vice First Lieut. Frederick Gray Murray, of Iowa. Lucius C. Bennett, Twenty-first Infantry, promoted. To be first lieutenant, with rank from September 25, 1909. Second Lieut. Harry S. Grier, Twenty-fifth Infantry, to be Paul Allen Adams, of California. first lieutenant from October 28, 1909, vice First Lieut. Edward To be first lieutenants, with rank from September SO, 1909. w. Terry, Twenty-second Infantry, dismissed on that date. James Byron Van Horn, of Ohio. APPOINTMENT IN THE ARMY. Edmund· Cone Brush, of Ohio. MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS. Frederick Robin Green, of Illinois. Matthew O. Mc Gannon, of Tennessee. To be first lieutenants, with rank from August 18, 1909. Gilbert E. Seaman, of Wisconsin. Seaton Norman, of Louisiana. Henry Lewis Wagner, of California. Henry Fuller Philips, of Texas. To be first lieutenants, with rank from October 4, 1909. rro be first lieutenants, with rank from September 1, 1909. James Paul Austin, of Pennsylvania. . Albert Sidney Bowen, of Iowa. George Clinton Ballard, of Mississippi, Ernest Robert Gentry, of Kansas. Eliot Bishop, of New York. George Martin Edwards, of Kentucky. Jesse Manning Burlew, of California. Roy Cleveland Heflebower, of the District of Columbia. Henry Winans Burnett, of Rhode Island. Edward Murray Welles, jr., of New York. William Watson Conger, of Ohio. Joseph Casper, of New York. David Hutchison Crawford, of New Jersey. William Henry Thearle, of Maryland. David Dale, of Pennsylvania. Larry Benjamin McAfee, of Indiana. Frank Deacon, of Illinois. Henry Clay Michie, jr., of Virginia. Julius Arthur Dosher, of North Carolina. Carl Edward Holmberg, of Michigan. Ernest Gardner Edwards, of Colorado. Adam Edward Schlanser, of Ohio. Philip Benjamin Fry, of California. Henry Beeuwkes, of New York. James Stewart Gaumer, of Iowa. William Browne Carr, of the District of Columbia. Hermann Bertram Gessner, of Louisiana. John Thomas Aydelotte, of Pennsylvania. Gustave Hartman, of Massachusetts. William Herschel Allen, of Pennsylvania. Frederick Austin Hunt, of New York• . Royal Reynolds, of California. Edwin Will Janes, of Washington. Edward Dunster Kremers, of Michigan. David Aron Kraker, of New Jersey. Mark Dye Weed, of Pennsylvania. Emory Lanphear, of Missouri. Taylor Edwin Darby, of Maryland. Ignatz David Loewy, of Pennsylvania. 1909. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. ~ 57 William Fletcher McNutt, jr., of California. Second Lieut. Henry A. Finch, Corps of Engineers, to bct first Louis Durant Mead, of California. lieutenant from December 3, 1909, vice First Lieut. Warren T. Julii.IS Augustus Muller, of Oklahoma. Hannum, promoted. Jesse Blane Naftzger, of South Dakota. CAV ALBY ARM. Alexander Walter Nettelroth, of Kentucky. Henry Charles Roy Norris, of Illinois. Capt George H. Cameron, Fourth Cavalry, to be major from Carlin Philips, of New York. November 29, 1909, vice Maj. Parker W. West, Fourteenth William Lee Secor, of Illinois. Cavalry, retired from active service on that date. Robert Francis Sheehan, jr., of New York. First. Lieut. Joseph R. McAndrews, First Cavalry, to be cap Surse John Taylor, of Oklahoma. tain from November 6, 1909, vice Capt. Cecil Stewart, Twelfth Edward Arthur Tobin, of Vermont. Cavalry, whose resignation was accepted to take effect on that Norman Eccles Williamson, of Illinois. date. First Lieut. George E. Lovell, Seventh Cavalry, to .be cap To be first lieutenant, with rank from October 6, 1909. tain from November . 26, 1909, vice Capt. Clark D. Dudley, Henry Goodwill Webster, of New York. Fourteenth Cavalry, retired from active service on that To be first lieutenant, with rank from Octobet' 22, 1909. date. . Second Lieut. Walter H. Neill, Thirteenth Cavalry, to be first William Alanson White, of New York. lieutenant from November 6, 1909, vice First Lieut. Joseph R. CHAPLAIN. McAndrews, First. Cavalry, promoted. Rev. Thomas Livingston, of New York, to be chaplain, with Second Lieut. Edmund. A. Buchanan, Ninth Cavalry, to be the rank of first lieutenant from August 12; 1909, vice Chaplain first lieutenant from November 15, 1909, vice Fir.st Lieut. Edgar Edward H. FitzGerald, Twenty-second Infantry, who was re N. Coffey, Second Cavalry, retired from active service on that tired from active service February 26, 1909. date. Second Lieut. David L. Roscoe, First Cavalry, to be first lieu COAST ARTILLERY CORPS • . tenant from November 22, 1909, vice First Lieut. Robert W. 2'o be secona lieutenants, with rank from September 25, .1909. Lesher, Second Cavalry, retired from active service on th~t John Joseph Thomas, of Massachusetts. date. Herbert Hamilton Acheson, of Ohio. COAST ARTILLERY CORPS. Willis Shippam, of Minnesota. Lieut. Col. Erasmus M. Weaver, Coast Artillery Corps, to Frank Andrew Buell, of Ohio. be colonel from December 4, 1909, vice Col. Henry L. Harris, Loren Heinlein Call, of Kansas. . retired from active service on that date. Frank Dexter Applin, of New Hampshir.e. Maj. George T. Bartlett, Coast Artillery Corps, to be lieu Charles Albert Eaton, of Massachusetts. tenant-colonel from December 4, 1909, vice Lieut. Col. Erasmus Rollin Larrabee Tilton, of Illinois. M. Weaver, promoted. John Kell Jemison, of Alabama. Capt. Louis R. Burgess, Coast Artillery Corps, to be major Townsend Foster Dodd, of Illinois. from December 4, 1909, vice Maj. George T. Bartlett, pro Furman Edgar McCammon, of Arkansas. moted. James Renwick Campbell, of Michigan. First Lieut. William Tidball, Coast Artillery Corps, to be Raymond Eliot Lee, ·of Missouri captain. from December 4, 1909, vice Capt. Louis R. Burgess, ·Louis Blaine Bender, of Washington. promoted. Augustus Norton, of New Ym:k. Il'FANTBY ABM. Hughey Stewart Hemingway, of New York, Thomas Jamerson Cecil, of Tennessee. Li~ut. Col. Robert K. Evans, Fifth Infantry, to be colonel from Ralph Chryiltal Harrison, of California. November 29, 1909, vice Col. Edward B. Pratt, Thirtieth In Francis Page Hardaway, of Missouri. . fan.try, who accepted an appointment as brigadier-general on Clement Craig Heth, of Virginia. that date. . John Willis Wallis, of Texas. Maj. Charles G. Morton, unassigned, to be lieutenant-colonel Frederic Alton Price, jr., of New Jersey. from November 29, 1909, vice Lieut. Col. Robert K. Evans, Fifth Edward Prescott Noyes, jr., of Georgia. Infantry, promoted.. Charles Elliott Ide, of New York. Capt. Edward N. Jones, jr., Eighth Infantry, to be major William David Frazer, of New York. from November 16, 1909, vice Maj. Charles G. Dwyer, Seven George Fleming Moore,_ of Texas. teenth Infantry, retired from active service on that date. Roy Robert Lyon, of Michigan. Capt. Dwight E. Holley, Fourth Infantry, to be major from Jason McVay Austin, of Ohio. December 1, 1909, vice Maj. Andrew S. Rowan, Fifteenth In fantry, retired from active service on that date. To be secona lieutenant, 1with rank from October 11, 1909. Capt. Arthur Johnson; Thirteenth Infantry, to be major from Ensign Virginius Evans Clark, United States Navy. December 1, 1909, vice Maj. Andre W. Brewster, Nineteenth Infantry, detailed as inspector-general on that date. To be second lieutenant, with rank from October 18, 1909. MEDICAL BESER\E CORPS. Thomas I. Steere, of California. To be first lieutenants ·in the Medical Reserve Oorps. PORTO RICO REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. C. Hugh McKenna, of Illinois, with rank from November 27, To be second lieutenant, with rank from October 19, 1909. 1909. Leopoldo Mercader, of Porto ·Rico. Moses Hubbard Darnall, of the District of Columbi~, wit:U Urbino Nadal, of Porto Rico. rank from November 30, 1909. Adolfo Jose de Hostos, of Porto Rico. Charles William Decker, of· California, with rank from De Enrique de Orbeta, of Porto Rico. cember 3, 1909. Waldemar Alfred Christensen, of California, with rank from MEDICAL CORPS. December 3, 1909. Capt. William · M. Roberts, Medical Corps, to be major from Harry Bion Williams, of New York, with rank from December November 17, 1909, vice Maj. Charles B. Ewing, retired from 3, 1909: active service on that date. John Joseph Reddy, of Pennsylv~nia, with rank from Decem CORPS OF ENGINEERS, ber 6, 1909. . Gilman Co:rson Dolley, of New Hampshire, with rank from Lieut. Col. George W. Goethals, Corps of Engineers, to be December 6, 1909. colonel from December 3, 1909, vice Col. John G. D. Knight, who accepted an appointment as brigadier-general on that date. RETmED LIST OF THE ARMY. Maj. William E. CraighilJ, Corps of Engineers, to be lieuten WITH THE BANK OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL. ant-colonel from December 3, 1909, vice Lieut. Col George W. Maj. Ferdinand E. DeCourcy, retired. Goethals, promoted. Maj. Henry F. Brewerton, retired. Capt. George M. Hoffman, Corps of Engineers, to be major Maj. Lafayette E. Carppbell, retired. from December 3, 1909, vice Maj. Wllliam E. Craighill, pro Maj. William M. Waterbury, retired. moted. l\faj. John R. Brinkle, retired. First Lieut. Warren T. Hannum, Corps of Engineers, to be Maj. Edward G. Mathey, retired. captain from December 3, 1909, vice Capt. George M. Hoffman, Maj. James N. Morgan, retired. promoted. Maj. Edmund K. Russell, retired. 58 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 7' Maj. Henry l\f. Ke~all, retired. Commander Albert Gleaves to be a captain in the navy from Maj. Thomas Sharp, retired. the 1st day of July, 1909, vice Capt. Stacy Potts, retired. Maj. Washington I. Sanborn, retired. Lieut. Commander Marcus L. Miller to be a commander in Maj. Henry P. Ritzius, retired. • the navy from the 25th day of October, 1909, vice Commander l\1aj. James 1\1. Burns, retired. James H. Glennon, promoted. Maj. William H. Kell, retired. Lieut. William Hussell White, an additional number in grade, WITH THE BANK OF MA.JOB. to be a lieutenant-commander in the navy from the 1st day of July, 1909, with Lieut. Thomas C. Hart, promoted. Capt. John A. Payne, retired. Lieut. Victor S. Houston to be a lieutenant-commander in the Capt. George K. Spencer, retired. navy from the 1st day of July, 1909, vice Lieut. Commander Capt. William W. Tyler, retired. William W. Bush, retired. Capt. Dillard H. Clark, retired. Capt. William 0. Cory, retired. Surg. Francis S. Nash, an additional number in grade, to be Capt. Christopher W. Harrold, retired. a medic8) inspector in the navy from the 20th day of November, Capt. Lewis Merriam,.. retired. 1909, vice Medical Inspector Howard E. Ames, promoted. Capt. William M. Williams, retired. Asst. Surg. John B. Mears to be a passed assistant surgeo:p. in Capt. John H. Gifford, retired. the navy from the 14th day of July, 1908, upon the completion Capt. Edward I. Grumley, retired. of three years' service in his present grade. .Asst. Surg. James l\f. l\Iinter to be a passed assistant surgeon PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY. in. the navy from the 1st day of August, 1909, upon the comple- Commander Robert L. Russell to be Judge-Advocate-General tion of three years' service in his present grade. . of the Navy, with the rank of captain, for a period of four Boatswains John P. O'Neil arid Albion O. Larsen to be chief years, vice Capt. Edward H. Campbell, resigned. boatswains in the navy from the 30th day of July, 1909, upon Commander James H. Glennon to be a captain in the navy the completion of six years' service in their present grade. from the 25th day of October, 1909, vice Oapt. John _Hubbard, Gunner Henry Ernest to be a chief gunner in the navy from promoted. the 30th day of July, 1909, upon the completion of six years' Lieut. Commander John F. Hubbard to be a commander in service ·in his present grade. the navy from the 23d day of October, 1909, vice Commander Ensign Leigh l\f. Stewart to be a lieutenant (junior grade) John G. Quimby, promoted. in the navy from the 2d ·day of February, 1909, upon the com Medical Inspector Samuel H. Dickson to be a medical director pletion of three years' service in his present grade. in the navy from the 31st day of October, 1909, vice Medical Lieut. Mark St. C. Ellis to be a lieutenant-commander in the Director Dwight Dickinson, retired. navy from the 27th day of l\Iay, 1009, vice Lieut. Commander Surg. Henry B. Fitts to be a medical inspector in the navy Harold K. Hines, promoted. from the 31st day of October, 1909, vice Medical Inspector Midshipman Samuel L. Henderson to be an ensign in the Samuel H. Dickson, promoted. navy from the 7th day of June, 1909, upon the completion of Asst. Surg. Matthew H. Ames to be a passed assistant surgeon six years' service in his present grade. in the navy from the 24th day of March, 1909, upon the comple Lieut. William L. Littlefield to be a lieutenant-commander in tion of three years' service in his present grade. the navy from the 16th day of June, 1900, vice Lieut. Com Asst. Surg. Edwin !1. Jones to be a passed assistant surgeon mander George F. Cooper, promoted. 1n the navy from the 6th day of January, 1909, upon the com Lieut. Earl P. Jessop to be a lieutenant-commander in the pletion of three years' service in his present grade. navy from the 18th day· of June, 1909, vice Lieut. Commander Asst. Surg. Abraham H. Allen to be a passed assistant sur Josiah S. l\IcKean, promoted. · geon in the navy from the 2d day of May, 1909, upon.the com Lieut. Commander Charles H. Hayes to be a commander in pletion of three years' service in his present grade. the navy from the 24th day of June, 1909, vice Commander Asst. Paymaster Edwin M. Hac~er to fill .a ".acancy in the William F. Fullam, promoted. grade of passed assistant paymaster in the navy, occurring on March 26, 1909, and to take rank from October 23, 1908. Commander John l\f. Orchard to be a captain in the navy The following-named machinists to be chief machinists in the from the 1st day of July, 1900, vice Capt. Alexander Mccrackin, navy, from the dates set opposite their names, after the com retired. pletion of six years' service in their present grade: Commander James P. Parker to be a captain in the navy Samuel L. Wartman, from the 3d day of March, 1909; from the 1st day of July, 1909, vice Capt. Isaac S. K. Reeves, John A. Oliver, from the 30th day of July, 1909; retired. Edward G. Affleck, from the 30th day of July, 1909; _ Commander Albert W. Grant to be a captain in the navy from Edward G. Higgins, from the 2d day of August, 1909; and the 1st day of July, 1009, vice Capt. William Braun·ersretither, Joseph Fitton, from the 2d day of October, 1900. retired. Asst. Paymasters John H. Knapp, John L .Chatterton, and Commander Valentine S. Nelson to be a captain in tlle navy Haskell Dial, with the rank of ensign, to be assistant pay from the 1st day of July, 1000, vice Capt. William S. Hogg, re masters in the navy, with the rank of lieutenant (junior grade), tired. from the 30th day of July, 1909. Lieut. Commander Newton A. l\fcCully to be a commander Chaplain Arthur W. Stone to be a chaplain in the navy, with in the navy from the 1st day of July, 1909, vice CommandeL· the rank of lieutenant-commander, from the 7th day of Octo Augustus F. Fechteler, promoted. ber, 1909, vice Chaplain Edward J. Brennan, resigned. Lieut. Commander Edward T. Witherspoon to be a com The following-named civil engineers to be civil engineers in mander in the navy from the 1st day of July, 1900, vice Com the navy, with the rank of lieutenant-commander, from the 18th mander Albert Gleaves, promoted. day of October, 1909: Lieut. Commander George W. Logan to be a commander in Charles W. Parks, the navy from the 1st day of July, 1D09, vice Commander James Luther E. Gregory, P. Parker, promoted. Homer R. Stanford, Lieut. Commander Edward H. Durell to be a commander in James w. G. Walker, the navy from the 1st day of July, H>OD, vice Commander Al Andrew C. Cunningham, bert W. Grant, promoted. Harry H. Rousseau, Lieut. Commander Victor Blue, an additional number in Fred Thompson, grade, to be a commander in the navy from the 1st day of July, Leonard l\I. Cox, and Alfred C. Lewerenz. 1909, with Commander Archibald H. Scales, promoted. . Capt. Lewis C. Hellner to be a rear-admiral in the navy from Lieut. Commander Clarence M. Stone to be a commander m the 16th day of November, 1009, vice Rear-Admiral Eugene the navy from the 1st dny of July, 1909, vice Commander Harry H. C. Leutze, retired. M. Dombaugh, retired. Capt. Joseph B. Murdock to be a rear-admiral in the navy Lieut. Commander Guy H. Burrage to be a commander in the from the 20th day of November, 1909, vice Rear-Admiral Ed navy from the 1st day of July, 1909, vice Commander William ward D. Taussig, retired. C. Herbert, retired. Capt. Hugo Osterhaus to be a rear-admiral in the navy from Lieut. David E. Theleen to be a lieutenant-commander in the the 4th day of December, 1909, vice Rear-Admiral Royal R. navy from the 1st day of July, 1909, vice Lieut. Commander Ingersoll, retired. George W. Logan, promoted. Capt. Albert C. Dillingham, an additional number in grade, Lieut. Leonard R. Sargent to be a lieutenant-commander in to be a rear-admiral in the navy from the 4th day of December, the navy from the 1st day of July, 1909, vice Lieut. Commander 1909. with Capt. Hugo Osterhaus, promoted. Guy H. Burrage, promoted. "1909. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN ATE. 59 Lieut. Luther M. Overstreet to be. a lieutenant~commander in Passed Asst. Surg. Herbert 0. Shiffert to be a surgeon in the the navy from the 1st day of July, 1909, vice Lieut. Commander navy from the 1st day of April, 1909, vice Surg. Philip Leach, Glennie Tarbox, retired. promoted. Lieut. David F. Boyd to be a lieutenant-commander in the Asst. Surg. James P. Haynes to be a passed assistant surgeon navy from the 1st day of July, 1909, vice Lieut. Commander in the navy from the 19th day of April, 1909, upon the com Charles T. Jewell, retired. pletion of three years' ser>ice in his present grade. Capt. Thomas S. Phelps to be a rear-admiral in the navy from Asst. Surg. Thomas W. Raison to be a passed assistant sur the 24th day of July, 1909, vice Rear-Admiral Edwin K. Moore, geon in the navy from the lst day of June, 1909, upon the com retired. pletion of three years' service in his present grade. Commander William S. Benson to be a captain in the navy Passed Asst. Paymaster Stewart E. Barber to be a paymas from the 24th day of July, 1909, vice Capt. Thomas S. Phelps, ter in the navy from the 25th day of March, 1909, vice Paymas· promoted. ter Richard Hatton, resigned. Lieut. Gilbert Chase to be a lieutenant-commander in the navy Pay Inspector John S. Carpenter to be a pay director in the from the 24th day of July, 1909, vice Lieut. Commander Frank navy from the 15th day of September, H>09, vice Pay Director Marble, promoted. - James A. Ring, retired. Lieut. Louis C. Richardson to be a lieutenant-commander in Asst. Paymaster Leon N. Wertenbaker to be a passed assist the na•y from the 24th day of July, 1909, vice Lieut. Com ant paymaster in the navy from the 15th day of September, mander Horace G. Macfarland, retired. . 1909, vice Passoo Asst. Paymaster Howard D. Lamar, promoted. Ensigns Max M. Frucht and Charles S. Joyce to be lieutenants The following-named boatswains to be chief boatswf:lins in (junior grade) in the navy from the 30th day of July, 1909, the navy from the 30th day of July, 1909, upon the conivletion after the completion of three years' service in their present of six years' service in their present grade: grade. Karl Rundquist, Lieuts. (Junior Grade) Max M. Frucht and Charles S. Joyce Thomas W. Healey, to be lieutenants in the navy from the 30th day of July, 1909, Joseph Heil, to fill vacancies existing in that grade on that date. Herman P. Rahbusch, Lieut. Commander Ashley H. Robertson to be a commander Ola us K. R. Clausen, in the na-vy from the 2d day of August, 1909, vice Commander John UcCloy, John A. Dougherty, deceased. Herman l\f. Anderson, and Lieut. Walter R. Sexton to be a lieutenant-commander in the Nels Drake. navy from the 2d day of August, 1909, vice Lieut. Commander Boatswain William Spicer to be a chief boatswain in the Ashley H. Robertson, promoted. navy from the 11th day of September, 1909, upon the cowpletion Capt. Daniel D. V. Stuart to be a rear-admiral in the navy of six years' service in his present grade. from the 3d day of September, 1909, vice Rear-Admiral Charles The following-named gunners to be chief gunners in the na·:ry. S. Sperry, retired. from the 30th day of July, 1909, upon the completion of six Commander Frank M. Bostwick to be a captain in the navy years' service in their present grade : from the 3d day of September, 1909, vice Capt. Daniel D. V. Bernard P. Donnelly, Stuart, promoted. Daniel Duncan, Lieut. Commander Carlo B. Brittain to be a commander in Arthur S. Pearson, the navy from the 3d day of September, 1909, vice Commander Edward T. Austin, Frank l\I. Bostwick, promoted. Harold V. Barr, Capt. Kossuth Niles to be a rear-admiral in the navy from David M. Carruthers, the 15th day of September, 1909, vice Rear-Admiral Daniel D. V. Anthony McHugh, Stuart, retired. ' Stanley Danielak, and Commander Thomas S. Rodgers to be a captain in the navy James P. Dempsey. . from the 15th day of September, 1909, vice Capt. Kossuth Niles, Carpenters Frederick M. Kirchmier and George A. Lazar to promoted. be chief carpenters in the navy from the 5th day of May, 1009, Lieut. Commander Casey B. Morgan to be a commander in . upon the completion of six years' service in their present grade. the navy from the 15th day of September, 1909, vice Commander The following-named machinists to be chief machinists in the Thomas S. Rodgers, promoted. navy from the 3d day of March, 1909, after the completion of Lieut. Commander William M. Crose to be a commander in six years' service in their present grade : the navy from the 15th day of October, 1909, vice Commander Robert T. Scott, Frederick C. Bieg, deceased. Lemuel T. Cooper, Capt. Samuel P. Comly to be a rear-admiral in the navy Francis P. Mugan, ancl from the 23d day of October, 1909, vice Rear-Admiral Gottfried Jacobus J. Corino. Blocklinger, retired. POSTMASTERS. Commander John G. Quinby: to be a captain in the navy from ALABAMA. the 23d day of October, 1909, vice Capt. Samuel P. Comly, pro moted. G. R. Horton to be postmaster at Fort Payne, Ala., in place Capt. John Hubbard to be a rear-admiral in the navy from of Ella G. Nix. Incumbent's commission expires December 12, the 25th day of October, 1909, vice Rear-Admiral Thomas C. 1909. McLean, retired. Henry R. Jordan to be postmaster at Collins\ille, in the State Capt. Corwin P. Rees, an additional number in grade, to be of Alabama. Office became presidential January 1, 1909. n rear-admiral in the navy from the 25th day of October, 1909, Lewis J. Lawson to be postmaster at Greensboro, Ala., in with Capt. John Hubbard, promoted. place of Lewis J. Lawson. Incumbent's commission expired Lieut. Commander Lloyd H. Chandler to be a commander in February 23, 1909. the na>y from the 16th day of November, 1909, vice Com ARKANSAS. mander William R. Rush, promoted. E. A. William to be postmaster at A.rkansa"S City, Ark., in Surg. Richard B. Williams to be a surgeon in the navy from place of Henry Thane. Incumbent's commission expired Feb the 11th day of October, 1908, to correct the date from which ruary 3, ;t_909. he takes rank as confirmed on June 5, 1909. Asst. Surg. Thurlow W. Reed to be a passed assistant sur CALIFORNIA. geon in the navy from the 21st day of September, 1908, after Adaline Bailhacbe to be postmaster at Coronado, Cal., in place the completion of three years' service in his present grade. of Adaline Bailhache. Incumbent's commission expires De Asst. Surg. Clarence E. Strite to be a passed assistant sur cember 12, 1909. geon in the navy from the 27th day of September, 1908, after Horace Davis to be postmaster at Exeter, in the State of Cal the expiration of one year's suspension from promotion, in ac ifornia, in place of Herman R. Stephens, deceased; Ethel cordance with the provisions of section 1605 of the Revised Stephens, recess appointee, declined. Statutes. Robert L. Perry to be postmaster at San Miguel, in the State Asst. Surg. Robert C. Ransdell to be a passed assistant sur of California. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. geon in the navy from the 24th day of November, 1908, upon nose l\I. Roberts to be postmaster at Fairfield, in the State of the completion of three years' service in his present grade. California. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. Asst. Surgs. Condie K. Winn and William S. Kuder to be Comillus R. Smith to be postmaster at Napa, in the State of passed assistant surgeons in the navy from the 24th day of California, in place of George M. Francis, resigned. March, 1909, upon the completion of three years' service in their Keith M. Suydam to be postmaster at Glendora, in the State present grade. of California, in place of James H. Wamsley, resigned. 60 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 7, COLORADO. INDIANA. Duane D. Finch to be postmaster at Trinidad, in the State of W. E. Butterworth to be postmaster at Mishawaka, in the Colorado, in place of Daniel W. Stone, resigned. State of Indiana, in place of David A. Shaw, resigned. Katherine B. Frantz to be postmaster at Yuma, in the State John F. Richardson to be postmaster at Boonville, in the of Colorado. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. State of Indiana, in place of William L. Bryan, resigned. Edward M. Mears to be postmaster at Lamar, in the State of IOWA. Colorado, in place of Daniel E. Cooper, resigned. Charles E. Anderson to be postmaster at Moville, in the State John L. Miller to be postmaster at Arvada, in tlle State of of Iowa. Office became presidential October 1, 190!). Colorado. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. Albert S. Burnett to be postmaster at Valley Junction, Iowa, CONNECTICUT, in place of Albert S. Burnett. Incumbent's commission expires Edward D. Gilbert to be postmaster at IDgganum, Conn., in December 13, 1909. place of Edward D. Gilbert. Incumbent's commission expires Andy J. Cleveland to be postmaster at Pleasantville, in the December 11, 1909. State of Iowa. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. · Marie W. Munn to be postmaster at New Hartford, Conn., in Frank C. Downey to be postmaster at Dexter, Iowa, in place place of Jacob Widmer. Incumbent's commission expired No of Frank C. Downey. Incumbent's commission expires Decem vember 17, 1907. ber 16, 1909. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Hal C. Fuller to be postmaster at Lehigh, in the State of Iowa. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. Charles P. Grandfield to be postmaster at Washington, in the Joel E . Johnson to be postmaster at Marathon, in the State of District of Columbia, in place of Benjamin F. Barnes, deceased. Iowa, in place of Lars E. Bladine, resigned. FLORIDA. Warren C. Spurgin to be postmaster at Panora, in the State of Iowa, in place of James T. Ellis, resigned. John O. !Le Count to be postmaster at High Springs, in the B. F. Thomas to be postmaster at Traer, in the State of State of Florida, in place of George Glass, resigned. in E. J. Farley Warren to be postmaster at Apalachicola, in the Iowa, place of Bert Bower, resigned. State of Florida, in place of William A. Murat, removed. KANSAS. James E. Evans to be postmaster at Hartford, in the State of GEORGIA. Kansas, in place of James J. Evans, resigned. Adam J. Branan to be postmaster at Unadilla, in the State of Irwin C. McDowell to be postmaster at Phillipsburg, Kans., in Georgia, in place of John W. Saunders, resigned. place of Irwin C. McDowell. Incumbent's commission expires Nellie B. Brimberry to be postmaster at Albany, in the State December 12, 1909. of Georgia, in place of Halbert F. Brimberry, deceased. Belle Nickles to be postmaster at Hope, in the State of Kan· Forrest L. Dyar to be postmaster at Calhoun, in the State of sas, in place of Henry Nickles, deceased. Georgia, in place of Emma B. Dyar, resigned. Charles A.. Schneider to be postmaster at Garden City, in the Max L. James to be postmaster at Fort Valley, in the State of State of Kansas, in place of Israel L. Diesem, resigned. Georgia, in place of C. W. Withoft, resigned. KENTUCKY. Thomas l\I. Kimball to be postmaster at Tallapoosa, in the State of Georgia, in place of Christopher E. Head, resigned. James M. Carey to be postmaster at Morehead, Ky., in place Albert M. Smith to be postmaster at Brunswick, Ga., in place of James M. Carey. Incumbent's commission expires December of Albert M. Smith. Incumbent's commission expires Decem 11, 1~09. ber 12, 1909. William J . Manby to be postmaster at La Grange, Ky., in place William W. Webb to be postmaster at Hahira, in the State of of Joseph P. Bozarth. Incumbent's commission expired Janu Georgia. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. ary 11, 1908. Jerry B. Mason to be postmaster at Mayfield, in the State of IDAHO, Kentucky, in place of Lew W. Key, resigned. Harry B. Curtiss to be postmaster at Blackfoot, in the State James G. Pruett to be postmaster at Campbellsville, in the of Idaho, in place of George L. Wall, resigned. State of Kentucky, in place of Thomas C. Taylor, removed, ·and John E. Jones to be postmaster at Kellogg, in the State of George 0. Harding, failed of confirmation. Idaho, in place of Daniel W. Price, resigned. William H. Stratton to be postmaster at Taylorsville, in the Leola Wyman to be postmaster at Mullan, in the State of State of Kentuc1."'Y. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. Idaho, in place of Julia Conners, resigned. George Wilhelmi to be postmaster at Newport, Ky., in place ILLINOIS, of John H. Mayer. Incumbent's commission expired January 13, 1906. Elmer E. Adams to be postmaster at Winnetka, Ill., in place of Stacy W. Osgood. Incumbent's commission expired Feb LOUISI.A.N A. ruary 3, 1907. John L. Magee to be po&tmaster at Franklinton, in the State John S. Albin to be postmaster at Heyworth, in the State of of Louisiana. Office became presidential July 1, 1908. Illinois. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. Lillian D. Richardson to be postmaster at Independence, in James V. Aldrich to be postmaster at Richmond, in the State the State of Louisiana. Office became presidential October 1, of Illinois. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. 1909. Harry Bower to be postmaster at Albion, in the State of Illi William P. Willett to be postmaster at Pollock, in the State nois, in place of Henry Brandon, deceased. of Louisiana. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. Edward H. Cook to be postmaster at Huntley, in the State of MAINE. Illinois. Office became presidential October 1, 1009. Grace L. Akers to be postmaster at Alfred, in the State · of William J. Franklin to be postmaster at Madison, in the Maine. Office became president;ial October 1, 1909. State of Illinois, in place of Edward W. Hilker, removed. Edward L. Beazley to be postmaster at Bucksport, in the William L. Frye to be postmaster at Dixon, in the State of State of Maine, in place of Guy W. l\fcAlister, resigned. illinois, in place of Benjamin F. Shaw, deceased. Alfred Cole to be postmaster at Buckfield, in the State of William H. Gilliam to be postmaster at Vienna, Ill., in place Maine. Office became presidential October 1, 190!). of William H . Gilliam. Incumbent's commission €xpires De William L. Lawry to be postmaster at Warren, in the State cember 16, 1909. of Maine. Office became presidential October 1, 1900. Reuben E. Hall to be postmaster at Wyanet, in the State of Illinoi . Office became presidential October 1, 1909. MASSAOHUf>ETTS. Jal!les N. Kelly to be postmaster at Steger, in the State of Charles A. Chase to be postmaster at Ho1yoke, Mass., in place Illinois. Office became presidential July 1, 1909. of Charles A. Chase. Incumbent's commission expires Decem Leonard M. Nash to be postmaster at Oneida, in the State of ber 11, 1909. Illinois. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. James Worcester Cooper to be postmaster at Chester, in the Walter Stickney to be postmaster at Warren, Ill., in place of State of Massachusetts, in the place of James C. Cooper, de Walter Stickney. Incumbent's commission expires December ceased. 16, 1909. Clarence W. Daugherty to be postmaster at Huntington, John Straley- to be postmaster at Atkinson, in the State of Mass., in place of Clarence W. Daugherty. Incumbent's com Illinois. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. mission expires December 19, 1909. Loren E. Wheeler to be postmaster at Springfield, Ill., in William C. Hinman to be postmaster at Great Barrington, place of J,oren E. Wheeler. Incumbent's commission expires Mass., in place of William C. Hinman. Incumbent's commis December 16, 1909. sion expires December 13, 1909. 1909. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 61 Henry A. Hutchinson to be postmaster at Dedham, Mass.• in Charles C. Wr:ight to be postmaster at Plymouth, N. H., in place of Henry A. Hutchinson. Incumbent's commission ex place of Charles C. Wright. Incumbent's commission expires pires December 11, 1909. December 11, 1909. William I. Marble to be postmaster at Webster, Mass., in NEW JERSEY. place of William I. Marble. Incumbent's commission expires December 13, 1909. John A. Ackerman to be postmaster at Orange, N. J., in place Henry A. Pease to be postmaster at Edgartown, Mass., in of John A. Ackerman. Incumbent's commission expires De place of Henry A. Pease. Incumbent's commission expires De cember 19, 1909. cember 19, 1900. Willlam M. Bergen to be postmaster at Belmar, N. J., in place of. Wllliam M. Bergen. Ineumbent's commission expires Leonard R. Smith to be postmaster at East Northfiel~ Mass., in place of Leonard R. Smith. Incumbent's commission expires December 19, 1909. December 19, 1909. Charles Cafferty to be postma.ster at Allentown, in the State Eugene S. Thatcher to be postmaster at Housatonlc, Mass., of. New Jersey. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. in place of Eugene S. Thatcher. Incumbent's commission ex William Jeffers to be postmaster at Hackensack, N. J., in pires December 13, 1909. place of William Jeffers. Incumbent's commission expires De cember 19, 1909. MICHIGAN. :Tulia Martin to be postmaster at Fort Hancock, in the State George A. Barnes to be postmaster at Bellevue, in the State of New Jersey. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. of Michigan, in place of Willard E. Holt, resigned. Owen N. Harrison to be postlnaster at Ravenna, in the State NEW MEXICO. of Michigan. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. S. B. Grimshaw to be postmaster at Santa Fe, in the Ter Oscar D. Hill to be postmaster at Unionville, in the State of ritory of New Mexico, in place of Frank W. Shearon, resigned. Michigan. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. Jose J. Vigil to be postmaster at Taos, in the Territory of George L. Lusk to be postmaster at Bay City, l\lich., in -place New Mexico. Office became presidep.tial October 1. 1909. of George L. Lusk. Incumbent's commission expires December NEW YORK. 11, 1909. Eben Adams to be postmaster at New Rochelle, N. Y.r in place B. L. Rosencrans to be postmaster at East Lansing, in the of Winfield S. Spencer, deceased. State of Michigan, in place of Charles B. Colllngwoo~ resigned. Adam N. Finucan to be postmaster at Pittsford, N. Y., in Wallace J. Smith to be postmaster at Cadillac, Mich., in place place ot Adam N .. Finucan. Incumbent's commission expires of Wallace J. Smith. Incnmbent's commission expires Decem December 15. 1909. ber 13, 1909. Thomas Liddle to be postmaster at AmsteYda.m, N. Y., in Thomas T. Woods to be postmaster at Dearborn, in the State place of Thomas Liddle. Incumbent's commission expires De- of Michigan. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. cember 13, 1909. . MINNESOTA. Williant E. Mills to be postmaster at Rose Hill, N. Y., in place Ivan R. Gillpatrick to be postmaster at Biwabik, Minn., in of William E. Mills. Incumbent's commission expires Decem place of Ivan R. Gillpatrick. Incumbent's commission expires ber 1.2, 1909. December 11, 1909. Charles H. Sackett to be postmaster at Avon,, N. Y., in place Christian E. Hovda to be postmaster at Grand Meadow, in the o! William S. McLaughlin. Incumbent's commission expired State of Minnesota. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. February 3, 1908. John Palmer to be postmaster at Anoka, Minn... in place of Henry W. Shaver to be postmaster at Sodus, in the State of William J. Annon. Incumbent's commis&on expired January New York, in place of Prine Riggs, deceased. 23, 1909. Otto W. P. Westervelt to be postmaster at Piermont, in the MISSISSil'PL State of New York, in place of David Doremus, removed. William Quarles, jr., to be postmaster at Charleston, in the Willis G. C. Wood to be postmaster at Whitehall, N. Y., in State of Mississippi, in place of Annie M. Summers, removed. place ot Willis G. C. Wood. Incumbent's commission expires December 12,. 1909. MISSOURI. NORTH CARO.LINA. Henry L. Brown to be postmaster at Ava, in the State of Missouri. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. Thomas J. Jackson to be postmaster at Dmm, N. C., in place Robert G. Crow to be postmaster at Caruthersville, in the of Adolphus R. Wilson. Incum.ben.t's commission expires De State of Missouri, in place of J. E. Duncan,. resigned. · cember 15, 1909. August C. Gan.sz to be postmaster a.t Louisiana, in the State Walter B. Love to be postmaster at Monroe-, N. C., in place of John S. Hasty. Incumbent's commission expired March 2, 1908. of Misso~ in place ot Thomas J. C. Faggp resigned. Francis M. Harrington to be postmaster at Kirksville, Mo. J. C. Stancil to be postmaster at Smithfield, N. 0., in place of .in place of Francis M. Harrington. Incumbent's commission' James D. Parker. Incumbent's commission expired February expires December 15, 1909. 14, 1909. Z. Tipton Jennings to be postmaster at Granby, Mo.,. in place James F. Teague to be postmaster at Bryson City, in the State of Julian Courteol. Incmnbent's comriiis.sion expires Decem of North Carolina,, in place of Jes~ C. Randall, deceased. ber 12, 1909. omo. Thomas A. Shelton to be postmaster at Puxico, Mo., in place August C. Gobrecht to be postmaster at New Bremen, Ohio, in of Nellie B. Shelton, resigned. place of John A. Koeper. Incumbent's commission expired De Theodore Walther to be postmaster at De Soto, Mo., in place cember 16, 1908. ()f Theodore Walther. Incumbent's commission expires De A. w. Herkenhoff to be postmaster at Minster, Ohio, in place cember 12, 1909. of Joseph F. Myers, deceased. NEBRASKA. Walter J. King to be postmaster at Camden, Ohio, in place Samuel G. Pheasant to be postmaster at Osceola, Nebr., in of Will S. Fornshell, resigned. place of Samuel G. Pheasant. Incmnbent's commission expires James E. M~Dermott to he postmaster at Hillsbor~ Ohio,. in December 16, 1909. place ot Samuel N. Patton, deceased. Henry A. Schneider to be postmaster at Plattsmouth, Nebr., w. R Morey to be postmaster at Wapakoneta, Ohio, in place in place of Chester H. Smith, removed. of Wilbert C. Davis. Incumbent's commission expired June 30, Lenora Snyder to be postmaster at Battle Creek, Nebr. in 1906. place of Frederick W. Richardson, resigned. ' w. A. Moxley to be postmnster at St. Marys, Ohio, in place H. L. Watson to be postmaster at Adams, Nebr., in place of of John A. Anderson. Incumbent's commission expired March Frances B. Hornam, resigned. 8, 1908. Charles E. Zink to be postmaster at Sterling, in the State of John M. Mulford to be postmaster at Lebanon, OhioF in place Nebraska., in place of Valentine Zink, deceased. of William H. Antram, resigned. NEVADA. Charles A. Murphy to be postmaster at East Palestine, Ohio, Edward J. Tieke to be postmaster at Round Mountain, in the in place of Henry S. Winsper, resigned~ State of Nevada. Office became presidential October 1, 1oog. OKLAHOMA. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Edward 0. Butler to be postmaster at Dnrant, in the State William J. Chandler to be postmaster at Claremont, in the of Oklahoma, in place of William H. IDlton, deceased. State of New Hampshire, in place of Herbert Balley, deceased. Andrew J. Eaton to be postmaster at Shattuck, Okla., in Harry M. Eaton to be postmaster at Littleton. N. H., in place place of W. Story Sherman, resigned. of Harry M. Eaton. Incumbent's commission. expires December William J. Forbes to be postmaster at Grove, in the State of ll, 1909. Oklahoma. Office became presidential October l.. 1909. . 62 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DEOEl\f:BER. 7' John B. Jon~s to be postmaster at Lehig~ Okla., in·· place of Janie Hyer to be postmaster at Frost, in the State of Texas. John B. Jones. Incumbent's commission expired December 12, Office became presidential October 1, 1909. 1908. Alexander Jamieson to be postmaster at Gordon, in the State F. A. Parkinson to be postmaster at Lawton, Okla., in place of Texas. Office became presidential October 1, 1009. of Josiah T. White. Incumbent's commission expired December George L. Johnson to be postmaster at Lone Oak, in the 20, 1906. State of Texas. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. E. D. Pritchard to be postmaster at Erick, Okla., in place of William J. l\Ianton to be postmaster at Bellevue, in the State John D. Warford, removed. of Texas. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. Spencer E. Rowley to be postmaster at Kiowa, in the State Ida May to be postmaster at Clyde, in the State of Texas. of Oklahoma. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. Harris B. Webster to be postmaster at Sulphur, Okla., in John M. Phillips.to be postmaster at Grape Vine, in the State place of Charles W. Fears. Incumbent's commission expired of Texas. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. December 12, 1908. Robert B. Rentfro to be postmaster at Brownsville, Tex., in OREGON. place of Joel B. Sharpe. Incumbent's commission expired Jann· W. B. Haines to be postmaster at Forest Grove, Oreg., in ary 27, 1908. place of Wilbur W. McEldowney, resigned. W. E. Shular to be postmaster at Humble, Tex., in place ol J. F. Bain, resigned. PENNSYLVANIA. Robert E. Tackitt to be postmaster .at Estelline, in the Stat• Charles W. Betts to be postmaster at New Hope, Pa., in place of Texas. Office became presidential October 1, 1000. of Charles w. Betts. Incumbent's commission expires Decem- John L. Vaughan to be postmaster at Mart, Tex., in place o1 ber 20, 1909. · Henry T. Vaughan, resigned. · David Dalton to be postmaster at Sharon Hill, Pa., in place Arthur L. Williams to be postmaster at Chico, in the State ol of David Dalton. Incumbent's commission expires December Texas. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. 13, 1909. Daniel E. Willis to be postmaster at Wylie, in the State of John G. Duncan to be postmaster at Leechburg, Pa., in place Texas. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. of Norman D. Coller, removed. Hugh J. Evans to be postmaster at .Mount Carmel, in the UTAH. State of Pennsylvania, in place of George H. Cope, deceased. William A. Miller to be postmaster at Milford, Utah, in place William H. Fretz to be postmaster at Jenkintown, Pa., in of William D. Williams, resigned. place of William H. Fretz. Incumbent's commi.ssion expires VERMONT. December 13, 1909. Charles E. Little to be postmaster at Fair Haven, Vt., in placr Sallie B. Gregory to be postmaster at Meshoppen, Pa., in of Humphrey Owen, deceased. . place of Sallie B. Gregory. Incumbent's !!Ommission expires Herbert G. Savery to be postmaster at Wallingford, in thf December 15, 1909. State of Vermont. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. John W. Jamieson to be postmaster at Tionesta, Pa., in place of Daniel S. Knox, deceased. VIRGINIA. Oliver E. Mayhew to be postmaster at Export, Pa., in place Edgar Allan, jr., to be postmaster at Richmond, in the State of Oliver E. Mayhew. Incumbent's commission expires Decem- of Virginia, in place of Royal E. Cabell, resigned. ·ber 18, 1909. · • WASHINGTON. Valentine G. Prizer to be postmaster at Schwenkville, in the Jacob Bllckenderfer to be postmaster at Farmington, in the State of Pennsylvania. Office became presidential October 1, State of Washington. Office became presidential October l, 1909. 1909. William S. Schlichter to be postmaster at Sellersville, Pa., Jes8e T. Stewart to be postmaster at Mabton, Wash., in place in place of William S. Schlichter. Incumbent's commission of Tilton S. Phillips, resigned. expires December 18, 1909. · Robert M. Swisher to be postmaster at Mount Jewett, Pa., in WEST VIRGINIA. place of Robert l\f. Swisher. Incumbent's commission expires John Driscol to be postmaster at Ronceverte, W. Va., in December 16, 1909. place of Robert S. Lovelace. Incumbent's commission expired PORTO BICO. December 16, 1907. J. H. Gadd to be postmaster at Princeton, W. Va., in place of Fernando Callejo to be postmaster at Manatt, P. R. Ofllce John L. Dangerfield, removed. became presidential October 1, 1909. Charles A. Goddard to be postmaster at Fayetteville, in the Manuel S. Pacheco to be postmaster at Fajardo, P. R. Ofllce State of West Virginia, in place of Edward C. Hinman, de became presidential October 1, 1909. ceased. SOUTH CAROLINA. Greenway Hatfield to be postmaster at Williamson, W. Va., S. Coker King to be postmaster at Darlington, in the State of in place of R. Randolph Bias, resigned. South Carolina, in place of George H. McKee, removed. Loomis H. Holbert to be postmaster at Elizabeth, in the State Louis C. Kuker to be postmaster at Florence, S. C., in place of West Virginia. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. of Joshua E. Wilson. Incumbent's commission expired Janu- .Noah W. Russell to be postmaster at Lewisburg, W. Va., in ary 19, 1908. . the place of Mathew A. Jackson, removed. Anson C. Merrick to be postmaster at Walhalla, S. C., in place of Julia M. Merrick, deceased. CONFIRMATION. TENNESSEE. Ea:ecutive nomination confirmed by the Senate December "/, 1909. Joe E. Dodson to be postmaster at Kenton, in the State of Tennessee, in place of Zada Wade, resigned. POSTMASTER. · Ulysses S. Rose to be postmaster at Crossville, in the State Charles P. Grandfield, at Washington, D. C. of Tennessee, in place of William S. De Golla, deceased. William Henry Shelley to be postmaster at Decherd, in the State of Tennessee. Office became presidential January 1, 1908. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. George M. Steele to be postmaster at Obion, Tenn., in place TuEsnAY, December 7, 1909. of Thomas J. Lovell. Incumbent's commission expired Decem· ber 14, 1908. The House met at 12 o'clock noon. . TEXAS. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D. John W. Baldeschwiler to be postmaster at Skidmore, in tho The J onrnal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and State of Texas. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. approved. J. c. Council to be postmaster at Granger, Tex., in place of BEPOBT OF COMMITTEE TO WAIT ON TH.E PRESIDENT. Andrew J. Reeder. Incumbent's commission expired January l\Ir. DALZELL. l\Ir. Speaker, your committee appointed to a 10, 1909. joint committee of the Senate to wait upon the President of the Lawrence E. Deger to be postmaster at Velasco, in the State United States and advise him that a quorum of both Houses of Texas. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. had appeared and that Congress was ready to receive any Simon J. Enochs to be postmaster at Lometa, in the State communication he might wish to make, begs leave to report that of Texas. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. it has performed the' duty assigned to it, and is authorized by James L. Franks to be postmaster at Dawson, in the State the President to say that he will communicate with the Congress of Texas. Office became presidential October 1, 1909. by message in writing. 1909.· . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· HOUSE. 63 MESSAGE FROJ.I THE SENATE. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? A message from the Sena.te, by Mr. Crockett, one of its clerks, There was no objection. announced that the Senate had passed the following resolutions: The resolution was agreed to. Senate resolution 82. EXERCISES AT THE ACCEPTANCE OF Sl'.ATUE OF GEORGE L, SHOUP. Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of the Mr. HAMER. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolution death of the Hon. MARTIN NELSON JOHNSON, late a Senator from the State of North Dakota. and ask unanimous consent for its present consideration. Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy ot these resolutions The Clerk read as follows: to the House of Representatives. Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of the House resolution 156. deceased the Senate do now adjourn. Resolved,, That exercises appropriate to the reception and acceptance from the State of Idaho of the statue of George L. Shoup, erected in SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION REFEBBED. Statuary Hall in the Capitol, be made the special order f.or Saturday, Under clause 2 of Rule XXIV, Senate joint resolution of the January 15, 1910, aftel' the conclusion of the routine morning business. following title was ta.ken from the Speaker's table and referred The SPEAKER. Is there objection? to its appropriate committee as indicated below: There was no objection. S. J. R 43. Joint resolution authorizing the revisio~ binding, The resolution was agreed to. and reprinting of Treasury Document No. 2499-to the Com MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. mittee on Printing. A message, in writing, from the President of the United COMMITTEE ON THE CENSUS. States was communicated to the House of Representatives by Mr. CRUMPACKER. Mr. Speaker, I ask nnanlmou-s consent Mr. Latta, one of his secretaries. for the present consideration of the following House resolution COMMITTEE ON E:n>ENDITUBES IN AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. which I send to the Clerk's desk. Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for The Clerk read as follows : the present consideration of the following resolution, which . I House resolution 150. send to the Clerk's desk and ask to have read. Resolved, That the Committee on the Census be anthor.Ized to have such prJnting and binding done as may be required 1n the transaction The Clerk read as follows : of its business during this Congress. Resolved, That the Committee on Expenditures in .the Agriculhl!al The SPEAKER. Is there objection? Department is hereby authorized to have such printrng and blndrng There was no objection. done as is necessary during the sessions of the Sixty-first Congress. The resolution was agreed to. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? Mr. MANN. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I COMMITTEE ON CLAIMS. would like to inquire of the gentleman whether all of the Mr. PRINCE. Mr. Speaker, I send the :following resolution committees on expenditures in the various departments dur~g to the Clerk's desk and ask for its immediate consideration. the last Congress had the power to have such printing and bind The Clerk read as follows: ing done as they might deem proper? House resolution 15L Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. Speaker, I am not sure. I notice that Resolved, That the Committee on Claims be authorized to have such other committees have asked for this privilege to-day, and I printing and binding done as may be required tn the transaction ot its business during this Congress. desire the same privilege for the benefit of my committee. I The SPEAKER. Is there objection? know that the Committee on Expenditures in the Agricultmal There was no objection. Department did splendid service in the Sixtieth Congress, and -- The resolution was agreed to. saved a large amount of money to the Government by reason of the inquiry and investigation made, and I desire to continue - COMiaTTEE ON EXPENDITURES IN THE DEPARTMENT Ol!' JUSTICE. that good work, if possible. Mr. GOLDFOGLE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent Mr. MANN. Mr. Speaker, there are certain committees that for the present consideration of the following resolution. in the conduct of their business have to have printing and The Clerk read as follows : binding done. That may be true of the Committee on Expendi Honse resolution 152. tures in the Agricultural Department. When it was true in a Resolved, That the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of particular case, there was never any trouble in obtaining the Justice is hereby authorized, during the Sixty-first Congress, to have such printing and binding done as may be required in the transaction authority, but as a role it is not true, and would only lead ot its business. possibly to binding things that had no reference to committee The SPEAKER. Is there objection? work. For the present, therefore, I object. There was no objection. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Illinois objects. The resolution was agreed to. COBBECTION. ASSIGNMENT OF BOOMS IN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING. Mr. HOWELL of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I notice in the call of Mr. ROBERTS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for the roll of States, printed in the REOORD this morning, the State the present consideration of the following resolution which I of Utah has been omitted. I desire to state that I was present send to the Clerk's desk. yesterday and answered to my name when it was called. I The Clerk read as follows: therefore ask-unanimous consent that the REcoRD and the Jour House resolution 153. nal be corrected accordingly. Resolved, That the committee rooms in the House Office Building The SPEAKER. Without objection, the Journal and the numbered 282 and 282.A, now assigned to and occupied by the Com REcoRD will be corrected in accordance with the statement of mittee on Private Land Claims, be, and the same hereby are, assigned to the Committee on War Claims; and the committee room on the base the gentleman from Utah. ment floor, west front, of the Capitol building, now assigned to and There was no objection. occupied by the Committee on War Claims, ·be, and the same is hereby, assigned to the Committee on Private Land Claims. ANNUAL MESSAGE OF THE PRESlDENT. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? The SPEAKER laid before the House a message from the There was no objection. President of the United States, which was read. The resolution was agreed to. [For message see proceedings of the Senate.] COMMITTEE ON NAVAL .AFFAIRS. Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, I move that the message and l\Ir. FOSS. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolution and the accompanying documents be referred to the Committee of ask unanimous consent for its present consideration. the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered printed. The Clerk read as follows : The SPEAKER. The question is on the motion of the gentle man from New York that the message and the accompanying House resolution 154. documents be referred to the Committee of the Whole House on Resolved by the House of Representatives, That the Committee Naval A1fairs be permitted to sit during the sessions of the House. on the state of the Union and ordered printed ( S. Doc. 164). The SPEAKER. Is there objection? The question was- taken, and the motion was agreed to. There was no objection. WITHDBA.WAL OF PAPERS. The resolution was agreed to. By unanimous consent, Mr. McCREARY was granted leave to COMMITTEE ON THE POST-OFFICE A.ND POST-ROADS.. withdraw from the files of the House, without leaving copies, Mr. WEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolution the papers in the case of Corn Exchange National Bank, Fif and ask unanimous consent for its immediate consideration. tieth Congress, no adverse report having been made thereon. The Clerk read as follows : LEA.VE OF ABSENCE. House resolution 155. By unanimous consent, upon- the request of Mr. OLMSTED, Resolv•d., That the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and l f b t d t M B · d finit l any subcommittee thereof, be allowed to sit during the sessions of the cave o a sence was gran e o r. ARCLAY, lil e e y, on Sixty-first Congress. account of illness. 64 . - CONGRESSIONAL- RECORD-HOUSE." DECEMBER 7, ADJOURNMENT OVER. PUBLIC BILLS, RESOLUTIONS, AND MEMORIALS. Mr. PAYNE. :Mr. Speaker, I move that when the House Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, bills, resolutions, and memo adjourn to-day it adjourn to meet on Friday next. rials of the following titles were introduced and severally re - The motion was agreed to. · ferred as follows : Mr. PAYNE. Ml'. Speaker, I move that the House do now By Mr. CAMERON: A bill (H. R.13401) to enable the city of adjourn. Douglas, Cochise County, Ariz., to issue bonds for the purpose The motion was agreed to ; and accordingly (at 1 o'clock and of acqu4'ing and constructing a waterworks plant in and for 43 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned until Friday, December said city-to the COmmittee on the Territories. 10, 1909. ' Also, a bill (H. R.13402) to enable the people of Pima County, Ariz., to issue bonds in aid of the construction of a railroad EXECUTIVE COMMuNICATIONS, ETC. to the Committee on the Territories. Under clause 2 of Rule XXIV, executive communications By Mr. TALBOTT: A bill ( H. R. 13403) to amend existing were taken .from the Speaker's table and referred as follows : laws and equalize pay for mail service on railroad lines-to the A letter from the Acting Secretary of the Navy, transmitting Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. report as to pay of officers and enlisted men of the navy (H. By Mr. HAYES: A bill (H. R. 13404) to further regulate the Doc. No. 223)-to the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy immigration of aliens into the United States-to the Committee Department and ordered to be printed. · on Immigration and Naturalization. A letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, trans By Mr. THOMAS of Kentucky: A bill (H. R. 13405) to in mitting statement as to travel of certain employees of the de crease the amount fixed as the limit of cost of site and building partment on official business outside the District of Columbia at Bowling Green, Ky.-to the Committee on Public Buildings (H. Doc. No. 221)-to the Committee on Expenditures in the and Grounds. Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. By Mr. SMITH of Texas: A bill (H. R. 13406) to provide for A letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a a public building at Stamford, Tex.-to the Committee on Pub statement of expenditures of the contingent fund of the de lic Buildings and Grounds. partment for the year ended June 30, 1909 (H. Doc. No. 225) . Also, a bill (H. R. 13407) to provide for a public building at to the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department and Ballinger, Tex.-to the Committee on Public Buildings and ordered to be printed. . Grounds. A letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statement By l\fr. MURPHY: A bill (H. R. 13408) to establish a fish· of the cost of guns and other articles manufactured by . the cultural station in the State of Missouri-to the Committee ou Government (H. Doc. No. 224)-to the Committee--0n Expendi the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. tures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. By Mr. ADAIR: A bill (H. R. 13409) in amendment of sec A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a ti9n 2 of an act entitled "An ac.t to increase the pension of statement of the expenditures of the contingent fund of the widows, minor children, etc., of deceased soldiers and sailors department for the year ended June 30, 1909 (H. Doc. No. of the late civil war, the war with Mexico, the various Indian 222 )-to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury De wars, etc., and to grant a pension to certain widows of the de partment and ordered to be pi.·inted. ceased soldiers and sailors of the late civil war "-to the Com A letter from ·the Clerk of the House of Representatives, mittee on Invalid Pensions. transmitting report of the names, compensation, etc., of em By Mr. HULL of Iowa : A bill ( H. R. 13410) to modify the ployees of the House and of the contingent fund and stationery One hundred and twenty-second and One hundred and twenty accounts (H. Doc. No. 235)-to the Committee on Accounts fourth Articles of War-to the Committee on Military Affairs. and ordered to be printed. By Mr. CAMPBELL: A bill (H. R. 13411) to amend the act A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans of June 27, 1890; the act of April 19, 1908; and other acts-to .mitting a statement of the case of Eliza C. Cage against the the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · United States, and other cases dismissed for want of proof of By Mr. ANDERSON: A bill (H. R. 13412) for the erection loyalty (H. Doc. ~o. 233)-to the Committee on War Claims of a public building at the city of Fostoria, in the State of and ordered to be printed. Ohio, and appropriating money therefor-to the Committee on A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans Public Buildings and Grounds. . mitting the dismissal of the cases of John A. Fairfax and Also, a bill (H. R. 13413) for the erection of a public build Nathan Hill (H. Doc. No. 232)-to the Committee on War ing at the city of Upper Sandusky, in the State of Ohio, and Claims and ordered to be printed. · appropriating money therefor-to the Committee on Public A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans Buildings and Grounds. mitting a copy of the findings filed by the court in the case of By Mr. NYE (by request): A bill (H. R. 13414) regulatlng Isaiah Bair, administrator of estate of John N. Curtis. against wages in the District of Columbia-to the Committee on the The United States (H. Doc. No. 231)-to the Committee on War District of Columbia. Claims and ordered to be printed. A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans By Mr. SIMS: A bill (H. R. 13415) to refund the cotton tax, - mitting a copy of the findings filed by the court µi the case of realized to the Government under the various acts of Congress Eli D. and Narcissus Wilson, executors of estate of John Wil to the Committee on War Claims. son, against The United States (H. Doc. No. 230)-to the Com By Mr. BUTLER: A bill (H. R. 13416) directing the Secre mittee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. tary of War to cause a survey to be made of Darby River, A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans Pennsylvania-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. mitting a copy of the findings filed by the court in the case of Also, a bill (H. R. 13417) directing the Secretary of War to James S. Lucas, administrator of estate of Catherine· S. Lucas, cause a survey to be made of Chester River, Pennsylvania-to against The United Stutes (H. Doc. No. 229) to the Committee the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. , on War Claims and ordered to be printed. l\Y Mr. SIMS: A bill (H. R. 13418) to provide for a road A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans to the Shiloh National Military Park-to the Committee on mitting a copy of the findings :filed by the court in the Ct'lf':P. of l\lilitary Affairs. John Coppinger against The United States (H. Doc. No. 223) By Mr. CRAVENS: A bill (H. R. 13419) to grant i·ight of to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. way over the public domain in the State of Arkansas for _oil A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, and gns pipe lines-to the Committee on the Public Lands. transmitting a copy of the findings filed by the court in the case By Mr. DUREY: A bill (H. R. 13420) to provide for a site of Sylvannus Cobble against the United States (H. Doc. No. and public building at Glens Falls, N. Y.-to the Committee on 227)-to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be Public Buildings and Grounds. printed. Also, a bill (H. R. 13421) for the erection of a public build A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, ing at Johnstown, N. Y.-to the Committee on Public Buildings transmitting a copy of the conclusions of fact and law, in the and Grounds. French spoliation cases relating to the Schooner Betsey Holland, By 1\Ir. RIORDAN: A bill (H. R. 13422) to amend an act Samuel Cassan, master (H. Doc. No. 234)-to the Committee entitled "An act to extend the free-delilery system of the on Claims and ordered to be printed. Post-Office Department, and for other purposes," approved A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Clain1s, January 3, 1887-to the Committee on the Post-Office and ·Post transmitting a copy of the fiucliugs filed by the court .in the Roads. case of William E. l\Iurray against the United States (H. Doc. Also, a bill (H. R. 13423) to establish a light and fog signal No. 226)-to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be in New York Bay at the southwesterly end of Go"Vernors Is printed. land-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. 1909. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. By Mr. LAFEAN (by request) : A bill (H. R. 13424) to pro By Mr. TIRRELL: A bill (H. R. 13447) to establish a fish vide for increase of pension in certain cases-to the Committee cultural station in the State of Massachusetts-to the Com on Invalid Pensions. mittee on the Merchant Marine and Fishel'ies. .Also, a bill (H. R. 13425) granting pensions to soldiers con By Mr. HIGGINS: A bill (H. R. 13448) amending the statutes fined in so-called "confederate prisons "-to the Committee on in relation to the immediate transportation of dutiable goods Invalid Pensions. and merchandise-to the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. KA.LANIANAOLE: A bill (H. R. 13426) to amend an By Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio: A bill (H. R. 13449) prohibiting act entitled "An act to provide a government for the Territory the issuing of restraining orders or injunctions without notice of Hawaii "-to the Committee on the Territories. . to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. HUMPHREY of Washington: A bill (H. R. 13427) to By Mr. LANGLEY: A bill (H. R. 13450) to amend section provide a site and erect a public building at Seattle, Wash.-to 1 of an act entitled "An act granting pensions to certain enlisted the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. · men, soldiers, and officers who served in the civil war and the By Mr. ANDREWS: A bill (H. R. 13428) to eradicate the war with Mexico,'' approved February 6, 1907-to the ColilIIlit- grama-grass caterpillar in the several States and Territories tee on Invalid Pensions. · of the Southwest-to the Committee on Agriculture. Also, a bill (H. R. 13451) to amend an act eBtitled "An act Also, a bill (H. R. 13429) to provide for the establishment of in amendment of sections 2 and 3 of an act entitled 'An act an annex to all national homes for disabled volunteer soldiers granting pensions to soldiers and sailors who are incapacitated to the Committee on Military Affairs. for the performance of manual labor, and providing for pen Also, a bill (H. R. 13430) to amend an act entitled "An act to sions to widows, minor children, and dep_endent parents,' ap prohibit the passage of local or special laws in the Territories, proved MaY: 9, 1900 "-to the Committee .on Invalid Pensions. to limit territorial indebtedness, and for other purposes "-to Also, a bill (H. R. 13452) to amend paragraph 3 of section the Committee on the Territories. 4693 of the Revised Statutes of the United States-to the Com By Mr. BROWNLOW: A bill (H. R. 13431) granting a right of mittee on Pensions. - way through land of the Gov.ernment Hospital· for· the Insane, Also, a bill (H. R. 13453) to authorize the acquisition of a to connect Fourth street, Congress Heights, D. C., with Fourth site and the erection of a federal building at Jackson Ky.-to street, Washington Highlands, D. C.-to the Committee on the the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. ' District of Columbia. Also, a bill (H. R. 13454) to enable the surviving officers and By Mr. MoKINLAY of California: A bill (H. R. 13432) to enlisted men who served during the war of the rebellion in the military or naval forces of the United States, and certain pr?vi~e for th~ pur.chase of a site and the erection of a public buildmg at Chico, Cal.-to the Committee on Public Buildings officers and enlisted men of state militia organizations to ob and Grounds. tain, free of cost, 160 acres of public land-to the Committee on the Public Lands. By Mr. CREAGER: A bill (H. R. 13433) to authorize the !=>elaware tribe of Indians residing in Oklahoma to bring suit Also, a bill (H. .R. 13455) to authorize the acquisition of a m the Court of Claims against the United States, and for other site and the erection of a federal building at Pikeville, Ky.-to purposes-to the Committee on Indian Affairs. the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 13434) recognizing the loyal services ren · Also, a bill (H. R. 13456) to increase the pension of widows dered by the Delaware Indians from the American Revolution of soldiers and sailors of the war with Mexico and of the late down to and including the Spanish-American war-to the Com civil war an.d the various Indian wars-to the Committee on mittee on the Public Lands. Invalid Pensions. . By Mr. RUCKER of Missouri: A bill (H. R. 13435) to detach Also, a bill (H. _R. 13457) for the establishment at Paints the county of Linn, in the State of Missouri, from the western ville, Ky., of a home for destitute widows of soldiers and sail and attach it to the eastern judicial district of said State ors of the United States, and of certain state militiamen and to the Committee on the Judiciary. for army nurses-to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. STEVENS of Minnesota: A bill '(H. R. 13436) to Also, a bill (H. R. 13458) providing for the removal of the regulate t_he . construction of dams across navigable waters charge of desertion in certain cases-to the Committee on Mili to the ComIDittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. tary Affairs. By Mr. BOOHER: A bill (H. R. 13437) to declare Platte Also, a bill (H. R. 13459) to provide for the erection of a River, in the State of Missouri, nonnavigable-to the Committee monument over the grave of Willie C. Dills-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. on the Library. Also, a bill (H. R. 13438) to declare One hundred and two Also, a bill (H. R. 13460) for the benefit of federal soldiers River, in Missouri, nonnavigable-to the Committee on Inter and state militiamen who were confined in confederate military state and Foreign Commerce. prisons during the war of the rebellion-to the Committee on· A~o, a bill. (H. R. 13439) to declare Nodaway River in Mis War Claims. souri nonnavigable-to the Committee on Interstate and For Also, a bill (H. R. 13461) to extend the provisions of the pen eign Commerce. sion laws to officers and enlisted men of state military organi · Also, a bill (H. R. 13440) ·to declare Big Tarkio River in zations who rendered military service to the Union during the the co.unties of Holt and Atchison, M~ .• nonnavigable-to 'the war of the rebellion, and to their widows, minor· children, and Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. dependent parents-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. HAYES: A bill (H. R. 13441) to appropriate $100,000 Also, a bill (H. R. 13462) to provide for the systematic and to enlarge the Ellis Island immigrant station:._to the Commit continuous improvement of rivers and harbors-to the Commit tee on Appropriations. tee on Rivers and Harbors. By Mr. SMITH of Texas: A bill (H. R. 13442) to provide Also, a bill (H. R. 13463) to amend section 4716 of the for acquiring a site and for the construction thereon of a fed United States Revised Statutes and the joint resolution ap eral building at El Paso, Tex.-to the Committee on Public proved July 1, 1902-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Buildings and Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 13464) to equalize the pensions of widows of soldiers and sailors of the war of the rebellion-to the Com ~y Mr. LANGLEY: A ·bill (H. R. 13443) to repeal the pro visions of the act of July 7, 1884, limiting the compensation of mittee on Invalid Pensions. storekeepers and storekeepers and gaugers, in certain cases, to Also, a bill (H. R. 13465) to establish a fish-cultural station $2 a day, and for other purposes-to the Committee on Ex in the State of Kentucky-to the Committee on the :Merchant penditures in the Treasury Department. Marine and Fisheries. Also, a bill (H. R. 13444) to provide for the further improve Also, a bill (H. R. 13466) granting leave of absence to store ment of the Kentucky River in the State of Kentucky-to the keepers, storekeeper-gaugers, and gaugers-to the Committee Committee on Rivers and Harbors. on Ways and Means. Also, a bill ( H. R. 13445) to increase the limit of cost pro By Mr. HILL: A bill (H. R. 13467) authorizing certain sur vided in the act of Congress approved May 30, 1908 for the veys in Fairfield Qounty, Conn.-to the Committee on Rivers acquisition of a site and the erection of a federal bullding at and Harbors. Mount Sterling, Ky.-to the Committee on Public Buildings By Mr. SMITH of l\Iichigan: A bill (H. R. 13468) to amend and Grounds. an act entitled "An act to establish a code of law for the Dis Also, a bill (H. R. 13446) to increase the limit of cost pro trict of Columbia "-to the Committee on the District of Co vided in the act approved May 30, 1908, for the acquisition of lumbia. a site and the construction thereon of a federal buildina in the Also, a bill (H. R. 13469) providing for guides in the District city of Winchester, Ky.-to the Committee on Public B'Uildings of Columbia and defining their duties-to the Committee on the and Grounds. District of Columbia. XLV-5 66 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEMBER 7, Also, a bill (H. R. 13470) to amend section 4 of "An act for Also, a bill {H. R. 13487) granting an increase of pension to the preservation of the public peace and the protection of prop Jonathan Stanley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. erty within the District of Columbia," approved July 29, 1892, Also, a bill (H. R. 13488) granting an increase of pension to as to kite flying-to the Committee on the District of Columbia. John R. Fisher-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 13471) providing for the regulation and Also, a bill (H. R. 13489) granting an increase of pension to suspension of traffic and processions on highways in the Dis John S. Marrs-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. trict of Columbia-to the Committee on the District of Co By Mr. ALEXANDER of Missouri: A bill (H. R. 13490) lumbia. granting an increase of pension to William H. McKinley-to Al o, a bill (H. R. 13472) to amend "An act to regulate the the Committee on Invalid Pensions. practice of pharmacy and the sale of poisons in the District Also, a bill (H. R. 13491) granting an increase of pension to of Columbia," approved lay 7, 1906, by prohibiting the sale Leicester P. Riley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of poisonous hair dressing-to the Committee on the District of Also, a bill (H. R. 13492) granting an increase of pension to Columbia. John T. Rupe-to the Committee on Invalid Pen ions. AJso, a bill (H. R. 13473) to amend an act entitled "An act By Mr. ALLEN: A bill (H. R. 13403) for the relief of Hyland makin,... appropriations to provide for the ~xpenses of the gov C. Kirk and others, assignees of Addison C. Fletcher-to the ernment of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending Committee on Claims. June 30, 1903, and for other purposes "-to the Committee on By Mr. AMES: A bill (H. R. 13494) granting an increa e of the District of Columbia. pension to Joseph Taylor-to the Committee on Invalid Pen Also, a bill (H. R. 13474) to provide for the payment of the sions. debt of the District of Columbia and to provide for permanent By Mr. .ANDREWS: A bill (H. R. 13495) granting an in improvements, and for other purposes-to the Committee on crease of pension to Hardy M. Riley-to the Committee on Pen- the District of Columbia. sions. · By Mr. NYE (by request) : A bill (H. R. 13475) to authorize Also, a bill (H. R. 13496) granting an increase of pension to certain extensions of the City and Suburban Railway of Wash Joseph W. May, alias Joseph W. Swan-to the Committee on in"ton, and for other purposes-to the Committee on the Dis Invalid Pensions. trict of Columbia. Also, a bill (H, R. 13497) granting an increase of pension to By 1\Ir. LAWRENCE: A bill (H. R. 13476) for the erection James A. Betts-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of a public building at Greenfield, Mass.-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 13498) granting an increase of pension to Public Buildin~ and Grounds. Mai·y J. Martin-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. PAGE: A bill (H. R. 13477) for the erection of a Also, a bill {H. R. 13499) granting an increase of pension to public building at l\fonroe, N. 0.-to the Committee on Public Pablo Bargas-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Buildings and Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 13500) granting an increase of pensioil to By Mr. PARSONS: A bill .(H. R. 13478) to increase the Sarah J. Megraw-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. salaries of circuit and district judges of the United States, and Also, a bill (H. R. 13501) granting an increase of peJ+sion to for other purposes-to tlie Committee on the Judiciary. Francis M. Ballew-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By 1\Ir. BATES: A bill (H. R. 13479) restricting the lien of Also, a bill (H. R. 13502) granting an increase of pension to judgments and decrees of the district and circuit courts of the Henry w. Turner-to the Committee on _Invalid Pensions. -i United States-to the Committee on the Judiciary. Also, a bill (H. R. 13503) granting an increase of pe_nsion to By 1\Ir. SULLOWAY: Resolution (H. Res. 157) providing for Andrew J. Armstrong-to the Committee, on Invalid Pensions. the payment of an additional stenographer to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 13504) gi:anting an increase of pension to on Invalid Pensions-to the Committee on Accounts.. John Murphy-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . By l\fr. BOOHER: Resolution (H. Res. 158) of inquiry con Also, a bill (H. R. 13505) granting a pension to Catherine G• cerning accounts in the post-office· at Kansas City, Mo.-to the Bell-to the Conmilttee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Also, a bill (H. R. 13506) granting a pension to Magdalena . By 1\Ir. GOULDEN: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 75) making L. de Ortiz-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the 21st day of October in each and every year a national holi · Also, a bill (H. R. 13507) granting a pension to Lottie Szy day and designating it Discovery Day-to the Committee on the manski-to the Committee on Pensions. Judiciary. · Also, a bill (H. R. 13508) granting a pension to Howard By Mr. GILLESPIE: Joint resolution {H. J. Res. 76) pro Bromagem-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. viding for the investigation of customs-house sugar frauds-to Also, a bill ( H. R. 13509) granting a pension to .Mariana L. the Committee on Rules. de Miller-to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. LANGLEY: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 77) con Also, a bill (H. R. 13510) to correct the military record of struing the acts of June 27, 1890, and February 6, 1907-to the Jose Montoya-to the Committee on Military .Affairs. . Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13511) to correct the military record of By Mr. Sl\lITH of Michigan: Joint Resolution "(H. J. Res. Ignacio Herrera-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 78) changing the title of the sealer of weights and measures Also, a bill (H. R. 13512) for the relief of Theophilous L. of the District of Columbia to superintendent of weights, Keen-to the Cominittee on Claims. · measures, and markets-to. the Committee on the District of Also, a bill (H. R. 13513) for the relief of W. J. Hendrix to the Committee on Claims. Columbia.. By Mr. AUSTIN: A bill (H. R. 13514) granting an increase By Mr. HITCHCOCK: Concurrent resolution (H. C. Res. of pension to James A. Goddard-to the Committee on In 25) directing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investi valid Pensions. gate and report to Congress concerning certain eorporations By Mr. BARNHART: A bill (H. R. 13515) granting an in to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. crease of pension to William H. Pence-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13516) granting an increase of pension to PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS. Lewis .M. Smalley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, private bills and resolutions of By Mr. BARTHOLD'!': A bill (H. R. 13517) authorizing a the following titles were introduced and severally referred as credit in certain accounts of the Treasurer of the United follows: States-tC> the Committee on Claims. By Mr. ADAIR: A bill (H. R. 13480) granting an increase of By Mr. BENNETT of Kentucky: A bill (H. Il. 13518) grant pension to David Harris-to the Committee on Invalid Pen ing an increase of pension to Albert Ha ucke-to the Committee sions. on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13481) granting an in-crease of pension to By Mr. BOOHER: A bill {H. R. 13519) for the relief of the John W. Tatman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. heirs of Simpson Park, deceased-to the Committee on War Also, a bill (H. R. 13482) granting an increase of pension to Claims. ' Emery L. Gray-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. BROWNLOW: A bill (II. R. 13520) granting an in Also, a bill (H. R. 13483) granting an increase 0:1! pension to crease of pension to Joshua White~to the Committee on In Oliver F. Diller-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. valid Pensions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 13484) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13521) aranting an increase of pension to Francis M. Harter-to t.pe Coi;nmittee on In-valid Pensions. John Tweed--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. r Also, · a bill (H. R. 13485) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13522) gl.'anting an increase of pension to John Musselman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Doctor S. Nations-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13486) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13523) granting an increase of pension to ! William B. Harraman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Cal>in M. West-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 1909. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-.HOUSE. 67 Also, a bill (H. R. 13524) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13561) granting an increase of pension to John Walker- to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. George Hamm-to the Committee on Jnyalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13525) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13562) granting an increase of pension to James R. Aaderson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Spillard F. Horrall-to the Committee on In>alid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 13526) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. DAWSON: A bill (H. R. 13563) grunting an increase Thomas J. l\Iilholland-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of pension to Samuel S. Lytle-to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill ( H. R. 13527) granting an increase of pension to Pensions. William T. l\Iitchell-to the Committee .on Invalid Pensions. By l\Ir. DODDS: A bill (H. R. 13564) granting an increase Also, a bill '(H. R. 13528) granting an increase of pension to of pension tu Margaret C. De Cow-to the Committee on In- George D. Roberts-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 1alid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13529) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. DUREY: A bill (H. R. 13565) granting an increase Robert Boles-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of pension to Lucius C. Allen-to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. R. 13530) granting an increase of pension to Pensions. ·Samuel Burell-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By l\fr. EDWARDS of Kentucky: A bill (H. R. 13566) grant _Also, a bill (H. ;rt. 13531) granting an increase of pension to Henry A. Coon-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ing an increase of pension to Calvin Warren-to the Committee Also, a bill ( H. R. 13532) granting a pension to Mitchell L. on Invalid Pensions. Baker-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 135'67) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13533) granting a pension to David P. Acea Begley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Davis-to the Committee on InYalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 13568) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13534) granting a pension to Eugene William Herron-to the Committee on Pensions. ·Jobe-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13569) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13535) granting a pension to Isaac A. William E. Kinnett-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Wampler-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13570) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (ii. R. 13536) granting a pension to John R. William A. Begley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Bare-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H: R. 13571) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13537) granting a pension to Charles Edmund Jones-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Forbes-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .A,lso, a bill (H. n. 13572) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13538) granting a pension to W. M. Balch James Osborne-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Jnyalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 13573) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13539) granting a pension to Horace Clive John N. Hammer-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Gray-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13574) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13540) to correct the military record of Luther Sizemore-to the Committee on InYalid Pensions. Isaac G. Osborn-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 13575) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill ( H. R. 13541) to correct the military record of Henry H. Ferrell-to the· Committee on InYalid Pensions. George Bragg-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 13576) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13542) for the relief of Mary A. Ayres-to Wiley Collett-to the Committee on Inv~lid Pensions. the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 13577) granting an honorable discharge By Mr. CARLIN: A bill (H. R. 13543) to authorize and di to Brittain Helton-to the Committee on Military Affairs. rect the President of the United States to pl~ce upon the re Also, a bill ( H. R. 13578) granting pensions to all enlisted tired list of the United States Navy Lieut. Commander James men, soldiers and officers, who served in the civil war and the H. Reid with the rank of commander-to the Committee on war with Mexico-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Military Affairs. By Mr. FLOYD of Arkansas: A bill (H. R. 13579) granting Also, a bill (H. R. 13544) granting an increase of pension to an increase of pension to Absalom C. Phillips-to the Commit J. B. McLaughlin-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. tee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. CARY: A bill (H. R. 13545) granting an increase of By Mr. FOCHT: A bill (H. R. 13580) granting an increase pension to Allen J. White-to the Committee on Invalid Pen- of pension to Asbury J. Stewart-to the Committee on In1alid sions. · Pensions. Also, ~ bill ( H. R. 13546) granting a pension to Albison Also, a bill (H. R. 13581) granting an increase of pension to Shaw-to the Committee on Pensions. William Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13547) for the relief of Thomas J. Mc Also, a bill (H. R. 13582) granting a pension to William Carty-to the Committee on Claims. Francis-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By l\Ir. CHAPMAN: A bill (H. R. 13548) granting an in By Mr. FOSTER of Illinois: A bill (H. R. 13583) granting crease of pension to l\Iark Whiteaker-to the Committee on In an increase of pension to Jacob Heffler-to the Committee on valid Pensions. In1alid Pensions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 13549) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13584) granting an increase of pension to Jacob P. Koyer-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. William S. Snider-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13550) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13585) granting an increase of pension to l\loses Robison-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Walter l\f. Corn-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13551) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13586) granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth Gunter, now Rendleman-to the Committee on In G. W. Suesberry-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. valid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13587) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. COOK: A bill (H. R. 13552) granting an increase of William l\IaTkruan-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. pension to William B. Kinsey-to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. . R. 13588) granting an increase of pension to Pensions. - William H. Binnix-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill° (H. R. 13553) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13589) granting an increase of pension to George W. Parsons-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. '.rhomas Brassie-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 13554) granting an increase of pension to John Fredericks-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 13590) gras.ting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13555) granting a pension to William G. Charles D. Wilson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Seemijller-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13591) granting an increase of pension to By l\Ir. COUDREY: A bill (H. R. 13556) for the relief of Samuel Worley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Frank Wyman, ex-postmaster at St. Louis, Mo.-to the Com Also, a bill (H. R. 13592) granting an increase of pension to mittee on Claims. Frederick T. Scott-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By l\fr. CROW: A bill (H. R. 13557) granting an increase of Also, a bill (H. R. 13593) granting an increase of pension to pension to William Nicholas-to the Committee on Invp.lid Pen Andreas Wirth-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. sions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13594) granting a pension to John Beard Also, a. bill (H. R. 13558) granting an increase of pension to to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Christian Klages-to the Committee on In-ralid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13595) granting a pension to John Spericer Also, a bill (H. R. 13559) granting a pension to Samuel to the Committee on Im·alid Pensions. Baker-to tlie Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13596) granting a pension to E. M. Shel By Mr. CULLOP: A bill (H. R. 13560) granting an increase ley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of pension to Alexander Gibson-to the Committee on Jn\alid · Also, a bill (H. R. 13597) granting a pension to Elizabeth Pensions. Frueler-to the Committee on Iarnlid Pensions. 68 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECE:MBER 7' By Mr. FULLER: A bill (H. R. 13598) granting an increase Also, a bill (H. R. 13633) granting a pension to Mrs. Francis of pension to William Haines-to the Committee on Invalid R. Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. By Mr. McCALL: A bill (H. R. 13634) granting an increase A.lso, a bill (H. R. 13599) granting an increase of pension to of pension to George F. Butterfield-~o tlle Committee on In- Reuben E. Osgood-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. valid Pensions. By Mr. GARRE'IT: A bill (H. R. 13600) granting an increase Also, a bill (H. R. 13635) to amen!.l the military record of of pension to James N. Julin-to the Committee on Invalid William R. Corlew-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Pensions. By Mr. l\IcHENRY: A bill (H. R. 13636) granting an in- By Mr. GILLETT: A bill (H. R. 13601) grantirtg an increase crease of pension to John G. Woolley-to the Committee on of pension to William H. Bigelow-to the Commitree on Invalid Invalid Pensions. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13G37) granting an increase of pension to By l\ir. GRIEST: .A bill (H. R. 13602) granting an increase John Nungesser-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of pension to David S. Murr-to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. R. 13638) granting an increase of pension to Pensions. George Duke--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. H.Al\IILTON: A bill (H. R. 13603) granting an in- Also, a bill (H. R. 13639) granting an increase of pension to crease of pension to George Enos-to ~he Committee on Invalid Lorenzo D. Kase-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13640) granting fill increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13604) granting an increase of pension to Lewis Leib-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .Tames Downs-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .Also, a bill (H. R. 13641) granting an increase of pension to .Also, a bill (H. R. 13605) granting an increase of pension to Alem B. Fisher-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. John H. Slotman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13642) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. HAWLEY: A bill (H. R. 13606) granting an increase William Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of pension to George Gans-to the Committee on Invalid Pen- Also, a bill (H. R. 13643) granting a pension to Francis B. si-ons. Savage--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13607) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (II. R. 13644) granting an increase of pension to George F. Craw-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Charles P. ,Sloan-to the Committee on Inyo.lid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13608) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13645) granting an increase of pension to John B. Shafer-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Andrew D. Seeley-to the Committee on Invalid Pen ions. .Also, a bill (H. R. 13609) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13546) to i·emove the charge of desertion Elias Spaulding-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. from the military record of Christian Heinze-to the Committee Al o, a bill (H. R. 13610) granting an increase of pension to on l\Iilitary Affairs. Mathew Maroney-to the Committee on Inrnlid Pensions. By Mr. McCREARY: .A bill (H. Il. 13647) granting an in- Also, a bill (H. R. 13611) granting a pension to Thomas L. crease of pension to John D. W. Henderson-to the Committee Robertson-to the Committee on Pensions. on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13612) granting a pension to Caleb A. Chap- Also, a bill (H. R. 13648) grantmg an increase of pension to man-to the Committee on Pensions. .James ..A. Murphy-to the Committee on Invalid P nsions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13613) granting a pension to George W. Also, a bill (H. R. 13649) granting an increase of pension to Davis-to the Committee on Pensions. Julia c. Russell-to the Committee on Pensions. By 1\Ir, HAY: A bill (H. R. 13614) for the relief of Walter Also, a bill (H. R. 13650) granting a pension to .Mariori L. Cox, late a captain in the Medical Department of the Army- Wilson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill ( H. R. 13651) for the relief of William A. Hut- By Mr. HAYES: A bill (H. R. 13615) granting an increase son-to the Committee on Claims. of pension to Charles A. Stine-to the Committee on Invalid Also, .a bill (H. R. 13652) to correct the military record ot Pensions. John Fla.h€rty-to the Committee on l\filitary Affairs. By Mr. IDGGINS: A bill (H. R. 13616) granting an increase Also, .a bill {H. R. 13653) to remove the cha1·ge ()f desertion of pension to Henry T. Clark-to the Committee on InYalid from the record of John Fleming-to the Committee on Military Pensions. Affairs. · Al o, a bill (H. R. 13617) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. MARTIN of Colorado: A bill (H. R. 13654) granting Charles A. l\IcGa.tiey-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. an increase of pension to Henry W. Redman-to the Committee Also, a bill ( H. R. 13618) granting ·an increase of pension to on Im·alid Pensions. James Harvey-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13655) granting an :increase of pension to Al o, a bill (H. R. 13619) granting an increase of pension to William Lockstone--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. James Green-.:.to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also., a bill (H. R. 10056) granting an increa e of pension to By Mr. HINSHAW: A bill (H. R. 13620) granting a pension Samuel w. Bird-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to Melissa R. Vaughn-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Al , a bill (H. R. 13657) granting a.n in<:rease of pension to By fr. HITCHCOCK: A bill (H. R. 13621) granting an in- Charles A. Morse-to the Committee on Invalld Pen ions. crease of pension to Morris W. Clark-to the Committee on In- Also, u. bill (II. n. 1365 ) granting an increase of pension to valid Pensions. William w. George--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By 1\Ir. KUSTERl\fANN: A bill (H. R. 13622) granting an Also, a bill (H. R. 13659) gmnting ·a pensi-0n to Mary E. increase of pen ion to Albert Reinschneider--to the Committee 1\Ierrick-to the Committee on InYalid Pensionq. on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13660) granting a pension to Charles A. By :Mr. LAFEA.l'\T: A bill (H. R. 13623} granting a pension to 'an Atta~to the Committee on Im·alid Pensions. Harry H. Herbst-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill {H. R. 13661) granting a pen ion to Almon w. Also, a. bill (H. R. 13624) granting a pension to Lydia A. Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. l\fontgomer!-to the Com~ittee oi: In-vali~ Pensions. . Also, a bill (H. n. 13002) granting a pen ion to Edward Al o, a bill (H. R. 13620) ~anting an m.crease ?f pension to Dooley-to the Oommittee on Pensions. Ja~ob Klepper-to the Committee .on In~lid Pens10ns. . . . By Mr. MILLINGTON: A bill (II. R. 13GG3) granting an in- Also, a bill (H. R. 1. '3626) gi·an~ng an mcrea~ of ve.i;ision to I crease :of pension to Edward Durand-to the Committee on In- David C. Eberhart-to the Com~ttee on. Invalid Pens10':1s. Yalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13627) gi·~ntmg a·n mcr:ease of. pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13664) granting a pen ion to James W. Joseph w. ~na ye--to the Comm1tt~ on In:valid Pens10ns. . Cramer-to the Committee on Pensions. Al. o, a bill (H. R. 13628) ~antmg an m~rease ension to W. H. H. Stout-to the Committee on lnYalid Pen- By 1\Ir. LOWDEN: A bill (H. R. 13631) ·granting an inerease s1ons. . . . . f s·on to Sidney c Early-to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. R. 1366 ) grantmg an mcrease of pension to ~e!~~n~. · . William 1\l<;Vay-to the Committe~ on In~·alid Pensions.. Al 0 , a bill (II. R. 13632) granting nn increase ·of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13669) granting :in mcrease o~ pe.ns1~n to John Bentley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Thomas R. Thornsberry-to the Committee on InYahd Pensions. 1909. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 69 Also, a bill (H. R. 13670) granting a pension to Catherine Also, a bill (H. R. 13709) granting an increase of pension to Patterson-to the Committee on Pensions. William K. Hileman-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Al o, a bill (H. R. 13G71) granting a pension to Augustus Also, a bill (H. R. 13710) granting an increase of pension to Thompson-to the Committee on Pensions. Christian M. Buck-to the Committee on Im·alid Pensions. By Mr. 1'.~EDHA..M: A bill (H. R. 13672) granting a pen Also, a bill (H. R. 13711) granting a pension to William W. sion to William J. Beard-to the Committee on Pensions. Laughlin-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By l\Ir. NYE: A bill (H. R. 13673) granting an increase of Also, a bill (H. R. 13712) granting a pension to Rosa A. Gib pension to Amos Hales-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. son-to the Committee on Im·alid Pensions. By l\Ir. O'CONNELL: A bill (H. R. 13674) granting an in Also, a bill (H. R. 13713} granting a pension to Caroline crease of i1ension to Roswell C. Ross-to the Committee on In Nash-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. valid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13714) granting a pension to Andrew J. Also, a bill (H. R. 13675) granting.an increase of pension to Ritchie-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. John F. Norcutt-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13715) to correct the military record of Also, a bill (H. R. 13676) granting a pension to Elizabeth J. George Bott-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Powers-to the Commjttee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 13716) to. correct the military record of Also, a bill (H. R. 13677) granting an increase of pension to Martin L. Cuppels-to the Committee on Military Affairs. John O'Donnell-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. RIORDAN: A bill (H. R. 13717) granting an increase Also, a bill (H. R. 13678) granting an increase of pension to of pension to James Horan-to the Committee on Invalid Peµ• William L. Moulton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. sions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13679) granting a pension to Sarah E. Also, a bill (H. R. 13718) granting an increase of pension to Wales-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. George H. Stevens-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 13680) granting a pension to Lydia E. Also, a bill (H. R. 13719) granting an increase of pension to Weston-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Davicl S. Rickhow-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13681) granting a pension to. Matthew E. Also, a bill (H. R. 13720) granting an increase of pension to Welch-to the Committee ·on Pensions. Henry J. Kelly-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13682) for the relief of Patrick Murphy Also, a bill (H. R. 13721) granting an increase of pension to to the Committee on Claims. David M. Kittle-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13683) to remove the charge of desertion Also,.a bill (H. R. 13722) granting an increase of pension to from the record of Robert P. Kirwin-to the Committee on James Lyons-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 13723) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill ( H. R. 13684) to remove the charge of desertion William McMorrow-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. from the record of Thomas Clancy, alias Thomas Casey-to Also, a bill (H. R. 13724) granting an increase of pension to the Committee on Military Affairs. William McMorrow-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. PAGE: A bill (H. R. 13685) for the relief of Martha Also, a bill (H. R. 13725) granting an increase of pension to A. l\foffi.tt-to the Committee on Claims. Mrs. H. V. Holdsworth-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill· ( H. R. 13686) for the relief of the heirs of Joseph Also, a bill (H. R. 13726) granting an increase of pension to Graham Howie-to the Committee on Claims. Marzio Martini-to the Committee on Pensions. .Also, a bill (H. R. 13687) for the relief of the estate of L. G. Also, a bill (H. R. 13727) granting an increase of pension to Smith, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. George H. Hitchcock-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13688) for the relief of the estate of John Also, a bill (H. R. 13728} granting an increase of pension to Quick, deceased-to the Committee on War Claims. . · John .Mulligan-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. PAYNE: A bill (H. R. 13689) granting an increase Also, a bill (H. R. 13729) granting an increase of pension to of pension to John Woodruff-to the Committee on Invalid Francis McCoy-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13730) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13690) granting an increase of pension to William .McBride-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. John Wallace Webb-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 13731) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13691) granting a pension to Catherine E. Charles L. Jahne-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Clark-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13732) granting a pension to Michael H. By 1\fr. RAUCH: A bill (H. R. 13692) granting an increase Dunn-to the Committee on Pensions. of pension to David Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pen Also, a bill (H. R. 13733) granting a pension to Lucien H. sions. 1\fassot-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13693) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13734) granting a pension to Sarah J. John H. Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Kelley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13694) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13735) granting a pension to Nicodemo Israel Eschbach-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. De Salle-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13695) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13736) granting a pension to John John Brockert-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Brown-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 13696) granting a pension to George R. Also, a bill (H. R. 13737) granting a pension to John Can Phyles-to the Committee on Invalid Pesnions. non-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13697) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13738) granting a pension to Ferdenand Leander McGinnis-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Spies-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13698) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13739) granting a pension to George A. John P. Campbell-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Green-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 13699) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13740) granting a pension to Henrietta William J. Conner-to .the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Sherman-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13700) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13741) granting a pension to Edward Griffith Nelson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Coppers-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · Also, a bill (H. R. 13701) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13742) for the relief of James Welch J acob Butterbaugh-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 13702) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13743) for the relief of Thomas Crowley-. William Stilts-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill ( H. R. 13703) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13744) for the relief of Charles Uerk Edward W. Anderson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. vitz-to the Committee on Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 13J04) granting a pension to Jesse H. Also, a bill (H. R. 13745) to remove the charge of desertion Ringgold-to the Committee on Pensions. from the military record of Washington E. Hall, alias John Also, a bill (H. R.13705) granting a pension to Etta Cronin Duffy-to the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13746) to remove the charge of desertion Also, a bill (H. R. 13706) to correct the military record of from the military record of John J. Waterkeyn-to the Commit William Norris-to the Committee on Military AffaiI·s. tee on Military Affairs. By Mr. .REYNOLDS: A bill (H. R. 13707) granting an in Also, a bill (H. R. 13747) to remove the charge of desertion crease of pension to Frederick Hainsey-to the Committee on against Thomas F; A.dams-to the Committee on Military Invalid Pensions. Affairs. Also, a bill ( H. R. 13708) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13748) to correct the military record of J. T. Criswell-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Patrick Foley-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 70 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. . DECEMBER 7' Also, a bill (H. R. 13749) to correct the naval record of Also, a bill (H. R. 13788) granting an increase of pension to William Taylor, alias Henry Hawkshaw-to the Committee on Charles W. Price-to the Committee on Ill"ntlid Pensions. Narnl .Affair · Also, a bill (H. R. 13789) granting an increase of pension to . By l\lr. ROBINSON: A bill (H. R. 13750) granting an in- Abram T. Gamage-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. cr ~ase of pension to William T. Stringfellow-to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 13790) granting an increase of pension to on Pensions. Charles A. Dolliver-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Als<\ n bill (H. R. 13751) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13791) gran.ting an increase of pension to James C. Mosley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Abram Littlefield-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13752) granting a pension to Minnie Also, a bill (H. R. 13792) granting an increase of pension to Bryant-to the Committee on Pensions. Alden Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. AI~o. a bill (H. R. 13753) granting a pension to Rhoda L. By l\Ir. TALBOTT: A bill (H. R. 13703) granting an increase Hendricks-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of pension to Julius Zippling-to the Committee on Invalid Pen- Al o, a bill (H. R. 13754) for the relief of H. C. Chase-to sions. · the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Reads. Also, a bill (H. R. 13794) granting an increase of pension to By l\fr. RODENBERG: A bill (H. R. 13755) granting a pen- Owen C. Morris-to the Committee on Inrnlid Pensions. sion to Michael O'I,eary-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13795) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13756) to relieve Charles F. Held of the Thomas P. Muth-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. charge of dishonorable dismissal-to the Committee on l\filitary Also, a bill (H. R. 13796) granting an increase -of pension to Affairs. Jacob E. Lowe-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. B! Mr. RUCKER .of .Missouri: A bill (H. R. 13757) granting Also, a bill (H. R. 13797) granting an increase of pension to an mcrease of pension to Leander Talbert-to the Committee Florence K. Patterson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13798) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13758) granting an increase of pension to William H. Fishpaw-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. James K. Ross-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bjll (H. R. 13799) granting a pension to Thomas J. By Mr. S~HTH of California: A bill (H. R. 13759) granting Stoddard-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. an increase of pension to John B. Graham-to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 13 00) authorizing the Secretary of War on Innllid Pensions. to issue an honorable discharge to Alexander A. Seymore-to By l\Ir. SMITH of Michigan: A bill (H. R. 13760) for the re- the Committee on Military Affairs. lief of the Detroit Iron and Steel Company-to the Committee By l\Ir. THISTLEWOOD: A bill (H. R. 13 01) granting an on Claims. increase of pension. to James L. B. Anten-to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 13761) granting an increase of pension to Invalid Pensions. Edgar J. Whipple-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. THOMAS of Kentucky: A bill (H. R. 13802) granting Also, a bill (H. R. 13762) granting an increase of pension to a pension to Green B. Stewart-to the Committee on Invalid Nelrnn A. l\Iadden-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13763) granting an increase of pension to By l\fr. TIRRELL: A bill (H. R. 13 03) to place upon the David H. Richardson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. muster-in rolls the name of John 0. Kinney-to the Committee Al o, a bill (H. R. 13764) granting an increase of pension to on l\Iilitary Affairs. John Bradley-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By l\Ir. STEVENS of Minnesota: A bill (H. R. 13804) for the Al o, a bill (H. R. 13765) granting an increase of pension to relief Qf A. l\I. Darling-to the Committee on War Claims: A. L. Gregory-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. WASHBURN: A bill (H. R. 13305) granting an in- Also, a bill (H. R. 13766) granting an increase of pension to crease of pension to John A. Lovell-to the Committee on John l\IcCaslin-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13767) granting a pensi.on to l\Irs. c. D. Also, a bill (H. R. 13806) granting a pension to Catherine E. Banerly-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Beyer-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13768) granting a pension to Charles N. Also, a bill (H. R. 13807) granting a pension to Samuel Bacon-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mailhoit-to the Committee on Pensions. By l\Ir. STERLING: A bill (H. R. 13769) granting a pension Also, a bill (H. R. 13808) granting a pension to Ella R. Pres- to Julia A. Trow-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13770) granting a pension to Louisa G. By l\Ir. WEISSE: A bill (H. R. 13809) granting an increase Martine-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of pension to Hugh Flanagan-to the Committee on Invalid . Also, a bill (H. R. 13771) granting an increase of pension to Pensions. Micha.el l\forris-to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 13810) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13772) granting an increase of pension to Theodore Schwahn-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. George r. l\IcClellan-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13811) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13773) granting an increase of pension to Christopher Wolf-to the Committee on Invalid Pen ions. James 1\1. Latham-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13812) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13774) granting an increase of pension to Joseph Titus-to ti:c: Committee on Invalid P·ensions. George 0. Lloyd-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13813) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13775) granting an increase of pension to William H. Miller-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. James H. Gaff-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. n. 1381~) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13776) granting an increase of pension to John Snyder-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Abner C. Arnold-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13815) granting an increase of pension to AJso, a bill (H. R. 13777) granting an increase of pension to William Bennet-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. l\IaJinda A. Hem treet-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13816) granting au increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. n. 13778) granting an increase of pension to William B. Barrager-to the Committee on Invalid Pension . James Fenton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13817) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. n. 13779) granting an increase of pension to E. D. Town-to the Committee on Inrnlid Pensions. Samuel Shropshire-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill' (H. R. 13818) granting an increa e of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13780) granting an increase of pension to Anthony Brown-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Charles R. Stacey-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13819) granting an increase of pension to By ::\Ir. SWASEY: A bill (H. R. 13781) granting a pension to Henry Straub-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Alonzo H. neath-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13820) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 137 2) granting a pension to Lois L. Nutt- Edward Henry-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13S21) granting an increase of pension to Al o, a bill (H. R. 13783) granting a pension to Sophia l\Ic- John Peter-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .Allister-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13822) granting an increase of pension to Al 0 , a bill (H. R. 13784) granting a pension to Bridget Rnymond Flint-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Fa1ey--to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 13823) granting an increase of pension to John Burk-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. n. 137 5) granting a pension to Lucretia C. Al o, a bill (H. R. 13824) granting an increase of pension to Thompoon-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Joseph Nichols-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 1~786) grantin? a pen~ion to Georgianna Also, a bil1 (H. R. 13825) granting an increa e of pension to Peabody-to the Comnnttee on Invalid Pensions. August H. Strains-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions Also, a bill (H. R. 13787) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 13826) granting an increase of pensi~n to George H. Dean-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. I George F. Deming-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 1909. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 71 By 1\Ir. WOODYARD: A bill (H. R. 13827) granting an in clerk hire to third-class post-offices, and that the maximum as crease of pen ion to John W. McCullough-to the Committee now fixed be abolished-to the Committee on the Post-Office on Invalid Pensions. and Post-Roads. Also, a bill (H. R. 13828) granting an increase of pension to Also, petition of Clarence Miller Camp, No. 5, Department of Thomas Cooper-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Minnesota, favoring an appropriation for raising the Maine Also, a bill (H. R. 13 29) granting a pension to Mary E. to the Committee on Na val Affairs. See-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. GRAHAM of Illinois: Petition of citizens of Medora, Also, a bill (H. R. 13830) to pay the trustees of Baptist Coffeen, Bunker Hill, Staunton, Litchfield, Gillespie, l\lount Church at Sutton, W. Va., for their property destroyed by the Olive, Brighton, Carlinville, and Hillsboro, all in the State of United States Army-to the Committee on War Claims. · Illinois, against a parcels-post bill-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. HA.YES: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Charles PETITIONS, ETC. A. Stine-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, petitions and papers were laid Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Julia A. Ray, on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: previously referred to Committee on Invalid Pensions-to the By 1\Ir. ALEXANDER: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Committee on Pensions. Andrew Creason, previously referred to Committee on Invalid By Mr. HARRISON: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Pensions-to the Committee on Military Affairs. John Beyel, previously referred to Committee on Invalid Pen By Mr. .ANDERSON: Petition of Curtis B. Harris and 1,000 sions-to the Committee on Military .Affairs. other citizens of Wyandotte and other counties of Ohio, in pur By Mr. LAFE.AN: Papers to accompany bills for relief of suance of a resolution of the Wyandotte County Pioneer Associa Joseph W. Snave, Davis C. Eberhart, David G. Foose, James tion, for the establishment of a national park and to erect a Spealman, William Haines, and Ruben E. Osgood-to the Com monument therein in said county, said park to include the scene mittee on Invalid Pensions. of the capture and burning of Col. William Crawford by the By Mr. LOUD: Petition from citizens of Arenac County, Indians in 1782-to the Committee on the Library. Mich., against the passage of bill S. 404 and H. J. Res. 17, on By Mr. ASHBROOK: Petition of Mrs. A. E. Ralls and 31 Sunday and religious legislation-to the Committee on the Dis others, against Senate bill 404, Sunday observance bill-to the trict of Columbia. Committee on the District of Columbia. By Mr. MILLINGTON: Paper to accompany bill for relief of By .Mr. BOOHER: Paper to accompany bill for relief of James W. Cramer-to the Committee on Pensions. heirs of Simpson Park-to the Committee on War Claims. Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Edward Durand By Mr. BOWERS: Paper to accompany bill for relief of to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. A.mile Bonham, previously referred to Committee on Invalid By Mr. MOON of Tennessee: Paper to accompany bill for re Pensions-to the Committee on Pensions. lief of William 1\1. White, prenously referred to Committee on By Mr. CAMPBELL: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Invalid Pensions-to the Committee on Military Affairs. John Carr, previously referred to Committee on Invalid Pen By Mr. MURPHY: Papers to accompany bills for relief of sions-to the Committee on Military Affairs. John W. Reid (H. R. 8064), Marion A. Franklin (RR. 8055), By Mr. CLARK of Florida: Petition of Division No. 458, Or Robert D. Davis (H. R. 8058), Belfield Brown (H. R. 8057), der of Railway Conductors, for amendment of the Hepburn James P. Benson (H. R. 8049), Hezekiah Williams (H. R. rate bill-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com 8056), James Kinsley (H. R. 8173), John A. Pond (H. R. merce. 8177); Henry Roam (H. R. 8168), James K. Shelton (H. R. By Mr. COWLES: Paper to accompany bill for relief of 8179), C. M. Skinner (H. R. 8169), Abel Inman (H. R. 8899), Jacob M. Pruett, previously referred ·to Committee on Invalid Johp. R. l\Icl\Iaster (H. R. 9095), Joseph 1\1. Payton (H. R. Pensions-to the Committee on Military .Affairs. 9096), Alex Murphy (H R. 9928), James C. Clouse (H. R. By Mr. EDWA.RDS of Kentucky: Papers to accompany bills 9929), Wilson M. Jones (H. R. 8902), John M. Jones (H. R. for relief of Henry H. Ferrell, Luther Sizeman, John N. Ham 10606), John M. Squiers (H. R. 10873), Joseph S. Olscamp mer, James Osborne, Edmond Jones, William A. Begley, Wil (H. R. 10548), Elias Johnston (H. R. 9933), William G. Cooper liam E. Kinnett, William Herron, Ocea Begley, Calvin War (H. R. 10076), S. B. Elliot (H. R. 10370), and I. A. Whitworth ren, and Wiley Collett-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. (H. R. 10549)-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Henry H. Far By Mr. NEEDHAM: Petition of Board of Trade and Credit rell-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Association of San Diego, Cal, favoring creation of a permanent By Mr. ESCH: Memorial of American Electrochemical So tariff commission-to the Committee on Ways and Means. ciety of New York, favoring legislation against monopoly of Also, petition of Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, resources of industrial and commercial power-to the Com favoring H. R. 15111, for land and buildings for consular estab~ mittee on Agriculture. lishments in China, Japan, and Korea-to the Committee on By Mr. FOCHT: Petitions of merchants of Lewisburg, Hunt ingdon, Chambersburg, Mercersburg, and Greencastle, Pa., Foreign Affairs. against a parcels-post law-to the Committee on the Post-Office Also, petition of the First National Bank, of Sanger, Cal., and Post-Roads. favoring amendment of acts of June 27, 1890, and April 19, 1909, Also, papers to accompany bills for relief of Riley R. Zerbe increasing soldiers' pensions (the National Tribune act)-to the and William Bair-to the Committee on l\filitary Affairs. Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. FLOYD of Arkansas: Paper to accompany bill for Also, petition of officials of the State of California, in conven.-: relief of Elijah Keeling, previously referred to Committee on tion in Sacramento, November 22, 1909, for appropriation of Invalid Pensions-to the Committee on Military Affairs. $400,000 for improvement of rivers of the State-to the Commit.. Also, papers to accompany bills for relief of Garfield Day tee on Rivers and Harbors. (H. R. 7923), Kelley Murphy (H. R. 7922), Francis J. Lane Also, petition of the Extemporaneous Drill Club, held Novem (H. R. 7924), and James H. Cowan (H. R. 3287)-to the Com ber 17, 1909, against taking the Hetch-Hetchy Valley for a: mittee on Military Affairs. water supply-to the Committee on the Public. Lands. By Mr. FORNES : Petition of Charles J. Schults and others, Also, petition of Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, favoring favoring a readjustment of the present scale of allowance for payment of railway post-office clerks' necessary expenses on clerk hire to third-class post-offices, and that the maximum as duty away from initial terminals-to the Committee on the now fixed be abolished-to the Committee on the Post-Office Post-Office and Post-Roads. and Post-Roads. Also, petition for an appropriation for printing reports of Also, petition of employees of the Watervliet Arsenal, favor tbe Country Life Commission-to the Committee on Appropria ing manufacture of all government ordnance at government tions. factories-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, petition of Pacific Coast Shippers' Association, for ap~ Also, petition of John C. Eames, of New York, favoring work propriation to enable Interstate Commerce Commission to pass of the United States Reclamation Service-to the Committee upon reasonableness of. rates charged by various railways-to on Agriculture. the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. FULLER: Petition of citizens of Peru, against par By Mr. O'CONNELL:· Petition of the American Electro cels-post law-to the Committee on the Post-Office· and Post chemical Society of New York, fa-voring legislation for the con... Roads. servation of the resources of industrial and commercial power By Mr. GARRETT: Paper to accompany bill for relief of in waterways of the country-to the Committee on Agriculture. James N. Julien-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. PAY.l'\TE: Petition of citizens of Moravia, Canandai~ By Mr. GOULDEN: Petition of Charles J. Schults and others, gua, Clifton Springs, Naples, Shortsville, Victory Lyons, Mace favoring a readjustment of the present scale of allowance for don, Newark, Ontario, Palmyra, Sodus, ;\Villiamston, and Penn 72 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 10, Yan, against parcels-post legislation-to the Committee on the pany of Nicaragua (H. Doc. No. 250), which, with the accom Post-Ofiice and Post-Roads. panying paper, was referred to the Committee on Interoceanic By l\Ir. REYNOLDS: Petition of business men of Bedford, Canals and ordered to be printed. Blair, and Cambria counties, Pa., against a parcels-post law-to ENDOWMENT OF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communi Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Hartin L. Cup cation from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pur ples-to the Committee on l\Iilitary Affairs. suant to law, a report of the disbursements for the :fiscal year Also, papers to accompany bills for relief of Susan C. Bott, ending June 30, 1910, made in the States and Territories, pro Andrew J. Ritchie, William W. Laughlin, Frederick Hainsey, viding for an increase in the annual appropriations for the en and William K. Hileman-to the Committee on Invalid Pen dowment and support of agricultural colleges and the mechanic sions. arts (H. Doc. No. 253), which, with the accompanying paper, By Mr. SPERRY: Resolution of the State Business Men's was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry Association of Connecticut, favoring a national policy of river and ordered to be printed. and harbor improvernents--to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE. Also, resolution of the Connecticut State Board of Trade, fa The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communi \oring the Lafean bill, for the purpose of regulating the grad cation from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the ing and packing of apples--to the Committee on Agriculture. annual report of the superintendent of the Government Hos By Mr. WASHBURN: Papers to accompany bills for relief of pital for the Insane for the :fiscal year ended June 30, 1909 John A. Lovell, Mrs. Catherine Beyer, Joseph R. Giroux, and (S. Doc. No. 202), which, with the accompanying paper, was Ella R. Preston:_to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and Also, papers to accompany bills for relief of Harris H. Bea ordered to be printed. man and Sadie l\I. Lowell, previously referred to the Commit FINDINGS OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS. tee on Invalid Pensions-:-to the Committee on Pensions. The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate communica Bv l\Ir. WEISSE: Petitions of merchants of Fond du Lac, tions from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans West Bend, Plymouth, Ripon, Juneau, Horicon, Beaver Dam, mitting certified copies of the :findings of fact filed by the court Randolph and Fox Lake, Reesville, Port Washington and Cedar in the :following causes: burg, Sheboygan, Waupun, Brandon, and Mayville and Hart In the case of William W. W. Dwier v. United States ( S. ford, against parcels-post legislation-to the Committee on the Doc. No. 198); Post-Office and Post-Roads. In the cause of the City of Glasgow, Mo., v. United States ( S. Doc. No. 199) ; In the cause of the St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, SENATE. situated near Point of Rocks, Md., v. United States ( S. Doc. No. 200). FRIDAY, Decernber 10, 1909. The foregoing causes were, with the accompanying papers, Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D. referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. ROBERT L. OWEN, a Senator from the State of Oklahoma, PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. appeared in his seat to-day. The VICE-PRESIDENT presented a petition of the National The Journal of the proceedings of Tuesday last was read Irrigation Congress, praying that an appropriation of $10,- and approved. · 000,000 be made for the period of five years to augment the TRAVEL OF EMPLOYEES OF LIBRARY OF CONGRE~S. reclamation fund, the same to be reimbursed to the Treasury, which was referred to the Committee on Irrigation. The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica He also presented a memorial of the Commandery of Michi tion from the Librarian of Congress, transmitting a statement gan, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, showing in detail what officers or employees of the Library of remonstrating against the acceptance of the statue of Gen. Congress have traveled on official business from Washington to Robert E. Lee to be placed in Statuary Hall in the National points outside of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year Capitol,. which was referred to the Committee on the Library. 1909 (H. Doc. No. 252), which, with the accompanying paper, He also presented a memorial of the Twenty-fourth National was referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered Encampment of the Union Veteran Legion, at Washington, to be printed. D. C., remonstrating against the enactment of legislation pro ANNUAL REPORT OF LIBRA.RIAN OF CONGRESS. viding for the remo·rnl of the charges of desertion standing The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the annual re against the records of Union soldiers in the War Department, port of the Librarian of Congress for the :fiscal year ended June which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. 30, 1909 (H. Doc. No. 126), which was referred to the Commit He also presented a petition of the president of the 1\iissis tee on the Library and ordered to be printed. sippi to Atlantic Inland Waterway Association, praying for the adoption and execution of a comprehensive plan of waterway ANNUAL REPORT OF SECRET.ARY OF THE TREASURY. improvement in the country, which was referred to the Com The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the annual re mittee on Commerce. port of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances :Mr. CULLOM presented a petition of sundry citizens of tor the :fiscal year ended June 30, 1909 (H. Doc. No. 102), Bloomington and Normal, Ill., praying for the enactment of which was referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered legislation to reimburse John l\I. Palmer for services rendered to be printed. the Government in improving the mail service of the country, TRAVEL OF W.AR DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES. which was referred to the Committee on Claims. Mr. FRYE (by request) presented the petition of A. Good The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communi year, of Boston, l\Iass., praying for the enactment of legislation .• cation from the Secretary of War, transmitting, pursuant to providing for a distribution of the land owned by the wealthy law, a statement showing in detail the officers or employees of class among the poor of the country, which was referred to the the War Department who have traveled on official bu iness Committee on the Judiciary. from Washington to points outside of the District of Columbia :Mr. FRYE. I pre~ent a concurrent resolution of the legis during the :fi cal year ended June 30, 1909, etc. (H. Doc. No. lature of the State of Maine, relative to the removal of the 249), which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the hulk of the battle ship Maine. I ask that it be printed in the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. RECORD and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. ANNUAL REPORT OF COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY. There being no objection, the resolution was referred to the The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the forty Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed in the seventh annual report of the Comptroller of the Currency for RECORD, as follows : the fiscal year ended October 31, 1909 (H. Doc. No. 115), STATE OF MAINE. ' Seventy-fourth legislature. House. 702. which was referred to the Committee on Finance and ord~red Resolve urging action of the United States in removing the hulk of to be printed. the battle ship Maine from Habana Harbor and tbe decent burial of \. MA.RITIME CANAL COMPANY OF NICAR.AGUA. the 63 oodies of American seamen therein contained. ; The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communi wiri:h:;:: t~~:n ei~i.~~ ;g~r~ ~~a~~r t~iil~1~se~h~f :~et ~3Qt!1;; !~ig ft ..z~1:s i cation from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pur remained in the mud and slime of Habana Harbor, a dange1· to shipping . suant to law, the annual report of tlie Maritime Canal Com- and a monument of neglect, oblivion, and national shame; and