2 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEMBER 4,

North Carolina-Lee S. Overman and F. 1\I. Simmons. Impress us, we beseech Thee, with the vast responsibilities North Dalwta-Asle J. Gronna and Porter J. Mccumber. resting upon us as a· people, that we may prove ourselves Ohio-Theodore E. Burton and Atlee Pomerene. worthy of_the confidence reposed in us, and distinguish clearly Oklahoma-Thomas P. Gore and Robert L. Owen. between liberty and justice, freedom and license, purity and Oregon-Jonathan Bourne, jr., and George E. Chamberlain. impurity in the things which make for good citizenship, that Pennsylvania-George T. Oliver and Boies Penrose. we may work together with Thee toward the higher and better llhod-e Island-Henry F. Lippitt and George Peabody Wet- forms of life in the spirit of the world's great exemplar. more. Imbue the minds and hearts of these Thy servants, now South Carolina-Ellison D. Smith and Benjamin R. Tillman. convened in Congress, with the highest ideals, that they may· South Dal-votg,-Coe I. Crawford and Robert J. Gamble. wal~ worthy of the vocation whereunto they are called. Im­ Tennessee-Luke Lea and Robert L. Taylor. · part unto those who sit at the bar of justice clearness of Texas-Joseph W. Bailey and Charles A. Culberson. vision that they may judge wisely and impartially the intricate Utah-Reed Smoot and Georg-e Sutherland. problems which confront them. . Vermont-William P. Dillingham and Carroll S. Page. Let Thy favor be upon our President and his advisers. Virginia-Thomas S. Martin and Claude A. Swanson. Quicken every noble impulse which makes for wise statesman­ Washington-Wesley L. Jones and Miles Poindexter. ship that he may safeguard all the interests of our people, West Virginia-William E. Chilton and Clarence W. Watson. that righteousness, _peace, and prosperity may reign through­ Wisconsin-Robert 1\1. La Follette and Isaac Stephenson. out our land and. in all the world. Wyoming-Clarence D. Clark and Francis E. Warren. And glory and honor and praise be '.rhine, the God of our NOTIFICATION TO THE HOUSE. salrntion, in Jesus Christ our Lord. A.men. Mr. CULLOM submitted the following resolution (.S. Res.150), CA.LL .OF THE ROLL. which was considered by unanµnous consent and agreed to : The SPEAKER. The Clerk will call the roll of Members, by Resolved, That the Secretary inform th~ House of Represe!J-tatives States, to ascertain the presence of a quorum. that a quorum of the Senate is assembled, and that the Senate IS ready The Clerk called the roll, when the following Members re­ to procsed to business. spondoo: NOTIFICATION TO THE "PRESIDENT. A.LABA.MA. 1\fr. GALLINGER submitted the following re olutfon ( S. Res. George W. Taylor. Richmond Pearson Hobson. S. H. Dent, jr. John L. Burnett. 151) , which was considered by unanimous consent and agreed to: Henry D. Clayton. William Richardson. Resolved. That a committee consisting of two Senators be appointed J. Thomas Heflin. ·oscar W. Underwood. to join such commi,_ttee as may be appointed by the House of Repre­ ARKANSAS. sentatives to wait u"Pon the President of the United States and inform Robert Bruce l\Iacon. H. ?JL Jacoway. him that a quorum of each House is assembled, and that Congress is William A. Oldfield. W. S. Goodwin. ready to receive any communication h~ may be pleased to make. John C. Floyd. The VICE PRESIDENT appointed as the committee Mr. CA.LIFORNIA. GALLINGER and Mr. MABTIN of Virginia. John E. Raker. James Carson Needham. William Kent. William D. Stephens. HOUR OF DAILY MEETING. . Joseph R. Knowland. Sylvester C. Smith. Julius Kahn. Mr. LODGE. I offer the following resolution, for which I COLORADO. ask present consideration. Edward T. Tayl-0r (at large). John A. l\Iartin. The resolution ( S. Res. 152) was read, as follows : Atterson W. Rucker. Rcso.lved, That the hour of dai!Y meeting of #the Senate be 12 o'cloek CONNECTICUT. meridian until otherwise ordered. John Q. Tilson (at large). Ebenezer J. Hill. The Senate, by unanimous consent, proceeded to consider the DELAWARE. William H. Heald (at large). resolution. l\Ir. BAILEY. I move to -strike out "12 o'clock meridian" FLORIDA. Stephen M. Sparkman. Dannitte H. Mays. and to insert " 2 o'clock p. m." U'rank Clark. The amendment was agreed to. GEORGIA. The ;resolution as amended was agreed to. Dudley M. Hughes. Gordon Lee. William C. Adamson. Samuel J. Tribble. DESIGNATION OF PRESIDING OFFICER. William Schley Howard. Thomas W. Hardw1ck. Charles L. Bartlett. Mr. GALLINGER. Mr. President, owing to a death in the IDAHO. family of the Vice President it becomes necessary for the Senate Burton L. French. to select a Senator to pr"eside for several days. I therefore ILLIZ\OIS. ask unanimous consent that the senior Senator from Kansas Martin B. Madden. Jam es McKinney. [l\Ir. CuRTis] be designated to preside over the Senate until James R. MailR. George W. Pl"ince. James T. McDermott. Claude U. Stone. Tuesday the 12th instant. Adolph J. Saba th. John A. Sterling. The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the request Edmund J. Stack. Joseph G. Cannon. of the Senator from New Hampshire? The Chair hears none, Frank Buchanan. William B. McKinley. Thomas Gallagher. Henry T. Rainey. and the order is entered. Lynden Evans.. James M. Graham. Mr. CULLOM. I move that the Senate adjourn. George Edmund Foss. William A. Rodenberg. The motion was agreed to, and (at 12 o'clock and 17 minutes Ira C. Copley. Martin D. Foster. Charles E. Fuller. H." Robert Fowler. p. m.) the Senate aruourned until to-morrow, Tuesday, Decem­ John C. McKenzie. Napoleon B. Thistlewood. ber 5, 1911, at 2 o'clock p. m. lNDIANA.. William A. Cullop. John A. M. Adair. Lincoln Dixon. Martin A. Morrison. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.: Ralph W. Moss. Edgar D. Crumpacker,. Finly H. Gray. Cyrus Cline. M:oNDAY, December 4, 1911. Charles A. Korbly. Henry A. Barnhart. IOWA. This being the day designated by the Constitution for the Charles A. Kennedy. Ilorace M. Towner. annual meeting of Congress, the .Members of the House of Rep­ I. S. Pepper. William R. Green. Jlfmes W. Good. Frank P. Woods. ,,. resentatives assembled in their Hall for tlie second session of N. E. Kendall. Elbert H. Hubbard. the Sixty-second Congress, and at 12 o'clock m. were called S. F. Prouty. to order by the Speaker. KANSAS. PRAYER. Daniel R. Anthony, jr. Rollin R. Rees. Philip P. Campbell. I. D. Young. Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., Chaplain of the House, offered Fred S. Jackson. Victor Murdock. the following prayer : KENTUCKY. Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place in all ~enerations. Ollie M.. James. Arthur B. Rouse Augustus 0. S~nley. James C. Cantrill " Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou R. Y. Thomas, Jr. Harvey Helm. hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting Ben Johnson. John W. Langley. to everlasting, Thou art God, the same yesterday, to--da.y, and Swagar Sherley. Caleb Powers. forever," shaping, guiJing the destiny of men and of nations LOUISIANA.· from darkness to light, from sa,agery to civilization, from Albert Estopinal. Joseph E. Ransdell. H. Garland Dupre. Robert C. Wic~e. despotism to Jiberty, exemplified in the incomparable genius John T. WatkinS. and sacred institutions of our great and growing Republic. 1\IAINE. " Unto whomsoever much is given of him shall be much re­ Asher C. Hinds. Samuel W. Gould. quired." Daniel J. McGillicuddy. Frank E. Guernsey. 1911. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 3

MARYLAND. SOUTH c.mOLINA. James Ilarry Covington. Thomas Parran. George S. Legare. J. Edwin Ellerbe. Joshua F. C. 1'albott. David J. Lewis. James F. Byrnes. Asbury F. Lever. John Charles Linthicum. Joseph 'l'. Johnson. MASSACHUSETTS. SOUTH DAKOTA. George P. Lawrenl!e. Samuel W. McCall. Charles H. Burke (at large). Eben W. Martin (at large). Frederick H. Gillett. William F. Murray. John A. Thayer. James M. Curley. TENNESSEE. William H. Wilder. Andrew J. Peters. Sam R. Sells. Joseph W. Byrns. Augustus P. Gardner. John W. Weeks. Richard W. Austin. Lemuel P. Padgett. Ernest W. Roberts. Robert 0. Harris. John A. Moon. Thetus W. Sims. Cordell Hull. Finis J. Garrett. MICHIGA..~. William C. Houston. Frank E. Doremus. Samuel W. Smith. William W. Wedemeyer. Henry McMorran. TEX.AS. Edward L. Hamilton. Martin Dies. Robert L. Henry. Francis H. Dodds. James Young. Edwin F. Sweet. H. Olin You~g. Oscar Callaway. Choice B. Randell. John H. Stephens. MINNESOTA. Rufus Hardy. Jam es L. Slayden. Sydney Anderson. Andrew J. Volstead. George F. Burgess. John N. Garner. Frederick C. Stevens. Clarence B. Miller. Albert S. Burleson. William R. Smith. Frank M. Nye. Halvor Steenerson. Jack Beall. Charles A. Lindbergh. UT.AH~ MISSISSIPPI. Joseph Howell (at large). Ezekiel S. Candler, jr. B. P. HarriSon. Hubert D. Stephens. William A. Dickson. VERMONT. Benjamin G. Humphreys. James William Collier. David J. Foster. Frank Plumley. Thomas Upton Sisson. VIRGINIA. 111ISSOURI. El EJ. Holland. Carter Glass. Jam~s T. Lloyd. Champ Clark. John Lamb. James Hay. William W. Rucker. Richard Bartholdt. R. Turnbull. ~ Charles C. Carlin. Joshua W. Alexander. Theron EJ. Catlin. El W. Saunders. C. Bascom Slemp. Charles F. Booher. L. C. Dyer. William P. Borland. Walter L. Hensley. WASHINGTON. Clement Cabell Dickinson. Joseph J. Russell. William E. Humphrey. William La Follette. Courtney Walker Hamlin. James A. Daugherty. Stanton Warburton. Dorsey W. Shackleford. Thomas L. Rubey. WEST VIRGINIA. MONTAXA. John W. Davis. Adam B. Littlepage. Charles N. Pray (at large). William G. Brown. John M. Hamilton. NEBRASKA.. WISCONSIN. John A. Maguire. Charles H. Sloan. Arthur W. Kopp. James H. Davidson. C. O. Lobeck. George W. Norris. William J. Cary. Thomas F. Konop. Victor L. Berger. E. A. Morse. NEVADA.. Michael E. Burke. Irvine L. Lenroot. E. E. Roberts (at large). John J. Esch. John M. Nelson. NEW HAl\IPSHIRE. Henry A. Cooper. Cyrus A. Sulloway. WYOMING. NEW JERSEY. Frank W. Mondell. John J. Gardner. Edward W. Townsend. Thomas J. Scully. Walter I. McCoy. The SPEAKER. Three hundred and twenty-SL~ Members are Ira W. Wood. Eugene F . Kinkead. present, a quorum. The House is ready for business. William E. Tuttle, jr. James A. Hamm. William Ilughes. MESS.A.GE FROM THE SENATE. NEW YORK. Martin W. Littleton. Francis Burton Harrison. A message from the Senate, by 1\Ir. Crockett, one of its clerks, James P. Maher. Henry George, jr. announced that the Senate had passed the following resolu­ Frank Ii). Wilson. Steven B. Ayres. tions: William C. Redfield. John E. Andrus. William M. Calder. Henry S. De Forest. Resolved, That the Secretn.ry inform the House of Representatives John J. Fitzgerald. Theron Akin. that a quorum of the Senate is assembled and that the Senate is ready Daniel J. Riordan. George R. Malby. to Proceed to business. Henry M. Goldfogle, Charles A. Talcott. Also- William Sulzer. John W. Dwight. Charles V. Fornes. Sereno ID. Payne. Reso lved, That a committee, consisting of two Senators, be appointed Mi chael F. Conry. Henry G. Danforth. by the Chair to join such committee as may be appointed by the House Jeffe rson M. Levy. Edwin S. Underhill. of Representatives to wait upon the President of the United States and John Joseph Kindred. Edward B. Vreeland. inform him that a quorum of each House is assembled, and that Con­ Thomas G. Patten. gress is ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make. NORTH CAROLINA. .And that in compliance with the foregoing the Presiding Officer had appointed as said committee Mr. GALLINGER and Mr. MARTIN of Virginia. - John JI. Small. Hannibal L. Godwin. Claude Kitchin. Robert N. Page. NOTIFICATION OF THE PRESIDENT. John M. Faison. Robert L. Doughton. Charles M. Stedman. James M. Gudger. Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I move the adoption of NORTH DAKOTA. the resolution which I send to the Clerk's desk. H. T. Helgesen (at large). The resolution was read, as follows: OHIO. IltYUse resolution 304. Nicholas Longworth. Edward L. Taylor, jr. Resolved, That a committee of three Members be appointed on the Alfred G. Allen. Carl C. Anderson. part of the House to join the committee appointed by the Senate to James M. Cox. William G. Sharp. wait upon the President and inform him that a quorum of the two J. H. Goeke. George White. Houses is assembled and that Congress is ready to receive any commu­ Timothy T. Ansberry. W. B. Francis. nication he may have to make. Matthew Il. Denver. William A. Ashbrook. J . D. Post. .John J. Whitacre. , The question being taken, the resolution was agreed to; and Frank B. Willis. E. R. Bathrick. the Speaker appointed as the committee on the part of the Isaac Il. Sherwood. Paul Howland. Robert M. Switzer. R. J. Bulkley. House l\fr. UNDERWOOD, Mr. CULLOP, and Mr. MANN. Horatio C. Claypool. OKLAHOMA. NOTIFICATION OF THE SENATE. Dick T. Morgan. Scott ·Ferris. Mr. STEPHENS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I present a resolu­ Charles D. Carter. tion for consideration at this time. OREGON. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolution. A. W. Lafferty. The Clerk read as follows: PENNSYLVANIA. House l:esolntion 305. Henry II. Bingham. Jesse L. Hartman. William Stuart Reyburn. Daniel F. Lafean. Resol,,;ea, That the Clerk of the House inform the Sen3.te that a J. Ilampton Moore. Charles E. Patton. quorum of tbe House of Representatives has appeared, and that the George D. McCreary. Curtis H. Gregg. House is ready to proceed to business. Thomas S. Butler. 'i'homas S. Crago. . The question being taken, the resolution was agreed to. William W. Griest. Charles ~atthews. John R. Farr. Arthur L. Bates. HOUR OF DAILY MEETING. Charles C. Bowman. A. Mitcllell Palmer. Robert E. Lee. J. N. Langhal!l. l\Ir. FITZGERALD. Mr. Speaker, I present the following John H. Rothermel. Peter M. Speer. resolution. William B. Wilson. Stephen G. Porter. .John G. McHenry. .John Dalzell. The Clerk read as follows : Benjamin K. Focht. James Francis Burke. House resolution 306. Marlin E. Olmsted. Andrew J. Barchfeld. Resolved, That untH otherwise ordered the hour of daily meeting ot RHODE ISLAND. the House of Representatives shalJ be 12 o'clock meridian. George F. O'Shaunessy, George H. Utter. The resolution was agreed to. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE. DECEMBER 4,

month tor the winter session. STANLEY will call on the majority to NEWLY ELECTED MEMBERS. demand LITTLIDTON'S resignation from the steel investigatin"' commit­ The SPEAKER laid before the House the following commu­ tee, and an open fight is assured. As STANLEY is close to "'the party nication, which was read by the Clerk: l_eaders, and !1S LITTLETON seems to have little, if any, support, it is regarded as _llkel:r th~ fight will go against him. HOUSE OF REPRESE:STATIVES, CLERK'S OFFICE, Involved rn this will be -. the question of continuing the investigation Washington, D. O., December 4, 1911. broug.ht up last Monday at the resumption of the hearings. On that Hon. CIIAl\IP CL.ARK, • occasion ~e Steel Corporation's counsel, Richard v. Lindabury and Speake1· of the House, Washington, D. O. D. A. Re~d, contended the .inquiry bad been terminated automatically Sin: I have the honor to inform you that official certificates of elec· by the filmg of. the steel dissolution suit. They based their ar(7ument tion for membership in the House of Representatives for the Sirty­ on a phrase in the original resolution authorizing the appointment of second Congress, to fill out the unexpired terms caused by death, have the St~nley . committee and directing the inquiry. This phrase of the been filed by- res?lu~?n directs the committee to inquire rnto violations of the law WILLIAM J. BROWNING, first congressional di'strict of New Jersey. which have not been prosecuted by the executive officers of the Gov­ W. D. B. AINEY, fourteenth congressional district of Pennsylvania. er~meI?tt." "As the dissolution suit was filed," said Lindabury and DAN V. STEPIIE~s, third congressional district of Nebraska. Reid, ther~ was .nothing left for the House committee to do. because JOSEPH TAGGART, second congressional district of Kansas. the d~ssolu~1on su,1t. rnvolves au the questions into which the Stanley KE~~ETH D. le.KELLAR, tenth congressional district of Tennessee. committee is inqmrmg." . Very respectfully, yours, . LITTLETON openly sympathized with the Steel Corporation's lawyers SOUTH TRIMBLE, Clerk. on the argument that followed. The vote that was taken indicate<'! clearly ',Vhere he stood. In Tuesday's session of the committee LITTLE­ The SPEAKER. The Members elect will take their places T9N ag~m was at odds with the Democratic members when there was a at. the bar of the House and be sworn. d1scuss1on of whether a subpama duces tecum should be served on John D. Il.?ckefell~r, req~iring him to brin~ before the committee the pap~r . SWEARING IN OF ME:lfBERS. relatmg to his dealmgs with Alfred and Leonidas llen-itt original own· ers. of the Mesaba iron mine and the Duluth Missabe & Northern Mr. BROWNING, Mr. .AlNEY, Mr. STEPHENS, Mr. TAGGART, and Railroad. ' Mr. .:\IcKELLAR appeared at the bar of the House and the oath When the committee met on Wednesday LrrTLETOX failed to appear. was administered to them by the Speaker. That was taken as an open hint from him that be would have notbin" more to do with the steel investigation until the Ilouse had passed o~ LEAVE OF ABSENCE. the question of the validity of further proceedings alon~ that line. The arrangement made on Monday was that the Merritt brothers should be By unanimous consent leave of absence was granted to Mr. heard and then an adjournment was to be taken. pendina action by the BLACKMON fo.r 10 days, on account of sickness in his family. House on the question of continuing the inquiry. "' As a result the Stanley committee did not meet to-day but tlJe chair· QUESTION OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE. man had a conference with Representatives BlilLL and 'IcGrLLICGDDY. Mr. LITTLETON. Mr. Speaker, I rise to a question of per­ It was after that conference that STiXLEY announced he bad decided to sonal privilege, and I send to tlle Clerk's desk articles which !Dake the que~tion of _LITTLETON'S continuance on the committee a party ~ssne. ~e. said he will call on the Democratic majority. to sustain him I wish read in the order in which they are presented. m opposition to LITTLETO~ and to force the latter man's r esi~nat ion. The Clerk read as follows : ST~NLEY expressed full confidence that the Democrnts will vote with him as a body against the Lon.~ Island man. That will bring about the LITTLETON AS ALLY OF THE STEEL !ICE~ WILL BE PUNISHED--DEMO­ interesting situation comparing so closely wit11 the experience of Cit.A.TIC REPRESHXTATIVE IN CONGRESS FRO!II ROOSEVELT'S DISTRICT W. Bourke Cockran. LITTLl'lTON's vote, if it stands as the only Demo­ REGARDED AS TRAIT01t TO HIS PARTY'S INTERES'rS, AND HIS COLLEAGUES cratic one in the dispute, will m..'1.rk him a.s an outcast from the Demo­ WILL ASK FOR HIS DISllllSSAL FROM SPECIAL INVESTIGATING C0'.1:1 MIT­ crati.c fold. STANLEY'S PU:POSe is to cont.inue the steel investigation TEE-STANLEY HAS LOST CONFIDENCE IN HIJ\1-BELIEF THAT MAJORITY despite the Government smt. How enthusiastic he is about the bear­ IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WlLL DE.GRADE THE BRILLIANT MEM­ ings was well indicated .on Wednesday, when he informed neid, the mm FROM LONG ISLAND-HIS USEFULNESS CONSIDERED AS AT A~ END. steel lawyer, that he considered the Democratic Party is doing a "great WASHINGTON, November 23. service to humanity" in bringing out the testimony relating to the Representative MA.nTrn W. LITTLETON, of New York the man who de­ Rockefeller-Merritt ·transaetions. featetl .Th~odore Roosevelt's o:vn candidate for Congr'ess in Roosevelt's T~e argument which ls to be made in favor of continuing the steel own d1stnet of Long Island m 1910, is to be read out of the Demo­ inqmry already has been outlined by STANLEY and his Democratic col­ le~gues. Their contention is that the mere bringing of a dissolution cratic Party in the Lower House as a result of the attitude he has taken suit by the Government will not assure a remedy for the evils laid to toward th~ investigation of the United States Steel Corporation. That the Steel Trust. As examples of the futility of a suit under the Sher­ became evident to-day, when ReJ?resentative HENRY O. STANLEY of Ken-' man antitrust law they will cite the American Tobacco Co. dissolution tucky, chairman of the House mvestigating committee announced his suit and the resultant reorganization of the tobacco company. In a !ntent!on to appeal to the House to force LITTLETON to' resign from the meeting: of tbe . ful! steel investigating committee LITTLErON would mvestlgatmg committee. have triumphed m his plan to have the committee put an end to its own I~ .the plan is carried out, LrTTLETO!i will find himself in the same pos1 tJon as was W. Bourke Cockran, for many years in Congress activities. Two Republican members, Representatives You:;o, of Iichi­ Though a Democrat, Cockran was not recognized by other Democ1mtic gan, and STERLING, of Illinois, were absent. 'fhey probably would have Representatives as a legitimate member of the party. voted with the other Republicans, it is said, :rnd that would ha>e given 'fhat LITTLETO'.\' has not been acting in concert with other Demo­ LITTLETON five votes out of the full nine. Representative B.rnTLETT, the fifth Democratic member, is ill in his home in Geor 0 fa and pr·obably cr~ti c Representatives ~n their t~ust-pus~ing activities long has been will be unable to appear next month. ev1dent. On many details of the mqmry mto steel a.Jiairs he has sided The illness of BARTLETT puts STAXLE Y on the defensive, so far as con­ against his political colleagues on the probing committee. Things tinuance of the present committee is concerned. If the bearings are re­ reached a crisis last Monday, when LITTLETO~ upheld the contention of sumed next month and LITTLETON is not forced off the committee. BART­ the Steel Corporation's lawyers that the investigation by the Stanley LETT'S absence will mean that LITTLETO~ and the Republicans will have committee should be stopped, because -0f the filing of suit by the Federal control of the committee. That makes STAN"LEY's desire to oust LITTLE­ Government for the dissolution of the Steel Trust. In a vote taken on TON all the more keen. the question of stopping the inquiry, LITTLETON voted with the Repub­ It is recognized by Democrats here that LITTLETON has ended his lican members of the committee-Representative GARD)(ER, of Massachu­ career in the party. Ile is without money, is a man of splendid in­ setts, and Representative DA.NFO!lTH, of New York. STANLEY and the tegrity, has a liking for political life. but now probably will have to two other Democratic members present-MCGILLICUDDY, of Maine and fall back upon his legal attainments for whatever influence and wealth BB.ALL, of Texas-voted to continue the inquiry. In a conference ~hich may come to him hereafter. 'fhe desire of Mrs. Littleton (Peg~y followed it was decided the question should be brought before the House O'Brien) to be a factor in society bere, and the consequent necessity for for settlement. li>ing beyond the democratic simplicity of many of bis colleagues, bas Meantime STA ·LEY is waging war on LITTLETON. The story in Wash­ brought the Long Island Representative unde1· unjust criticism. Many ington is that LITLTETON fias become too friendly with certain of the men already- have for bim the aversion they show to BAILEY, of Texas­ leading financiers of the country, and it is suspected that in the pro­ somethin~ that finally g:ot under the thick hide of that gentleman. LIT­ eeedings against the corporations he will not follow .his .party's decision TLETON, it is conceded, will be powerless in the House. A few reac­ as to how that fight should be carried on. It even is said that LITTLE­ tionaries, such as FITZGERALD, of Brooklyn, may assist him, but progres­ TON is entirdy out of sympathy with the antitrust moves of the Demo­ crats and is working in cooperation with those who are being investi­ sive Republicans will take the places of these men on any vital bill. gated. LITTLETON'S ACTION IS RESEXTED DY D~~MOCRA.TS. As an instance of LITTLETON'S friendliness with the big financial WA.SHINGTO:-<, November 24. interests it was recalled that he voted in the committee with them sev­ The action of Representative MAnTIN W. LITTLE'l'OX in en

Tbe proposition to stop the Stanley committee investigation did not emanate from LITTLETON, but from the lawyers of the 8teel Trust, wishes to hear the entire resolution, I am perfectly willing that but, no sooner had it been suggested by them than be enthusiastically it shall be read, but it deals with other subjects as wen as this, came to their support. and I think the part read sufficiently suggests the question of LEAVllS WASHI~,TO~ FOR A TUIE. privilege that I have made. When a vote was taken on the question, .A.. O. STA~LEY, the chair­ The SPEAKER. Is this the end of the reading? man, Uepresentatives MCGILLICUDDY, of l£aine, and BEALL, of Texas, voted to continue the investigation, holding that discontinuance would Mr. LITTLETON. In so far as it is an attack on me, it is. be directly against the public interest. But Democratic control of the The SPEAKER. The gentleman will proceed. commlttee did not help ST.L>\LEY, for LITTLETO~ voted with the Ilepub­ Mr. LITTLETON. Mr. Speaker, under ordinary circum­ lieans, GARD:\"ER, of Massachusetts, and DANFORTH, of New York, bring­ ing about a deadJock. stances I would not intrude my personal affairs upon the atten­ In an attempt to explain his desertion of his colleagues LITTLETO~ tion of tile House, nor burden its Members with a considel'ation said that it was his opinion as a lawyer that the committee had no of essentially personal griernnces, but I am so recently come further· right to inwstigatc. He did not take this stand until it was proposed to call Mr. Rockefeller. among you, and you know really so little about me, about my Mr. LITTLETO~ ~nt to New York yesterday. He will probably stay notions of personal and official honor, that I fear to lem·e nn­ away until the trouble which bis action started is settled. Meanwhile cha~e_nged these assaults upon my cllaracter, e\en though you there is an effort to put bim into a position of unimportance in the party. He. bas acted in bad faith, it is held, and joined the Repub­ are men accustomed to accurately estimating and wisely dis­ licans at a time when the Democrats were about to do what Mr. posing of such assaults. STANLEY described as " the greatest public service." In addition to this I am conscious of my defenseless position before the country if I do not to my uttermost drive the truth At a meeting of the Washington Antitrust League, held at the Ma­ in pursuit of falsehood, set out the facts against the fabrica­ sonic Temple December 3, 1911, the following resolution wa~ adopte~ : Resolved That we hereby express of utmost confidence m the m­ tions, and demand justice against the secret and subtle influ­ tegrity and ability of all our national officers, and we especially desire ences of slander. After prolonged reflection, mingled with no to express our deep gratitude for the great and beneficial work which am our national secretary, Henry B. 1\Iartin, has accomplished in con­ little irritation, I firmly persuaded that no man in p11blic structive legislation in the interest of all the people. life can afford to submit without protest to the defamation of Whereas tb.e most menacing danger to the Government and people his character. of the United States at this time is the combination of lawles con­ Ile owes it to himself to protect from unjust assault that . spiracies commonly known as the Steel Trust, Coal Trust, Railroad Trust, and Money Trust; and character which in itself embodies the story of years of Whereas this fact was recognized by the House of Representa­ anxious labor and decent conduct He owes it to his family, who. tives by the appointment of a special committee on May 15 of this most of all, feel the keen anguish which springs from the blow year· clothed with the powers for the investigation of these four great criminal conspiracies and their allies : and of the blackmailer, to stand resolutely between them and the Whereas the labors of the majority of the members of this com­ lasting grief which follows a blasted name. He owes it to his mittee has resulted in such startling exposure of the crimes, extortions, constituents to maintain unsullied their Representative in the and oppressions of the people by these trusts that the Department of Justice has been constrained to institute civil proceedings in the United highest and noblest relation yet devised by the wisdom of States courts against the Steel Trust; and statesmen and nation builders. Whereas the .Antitrust League has for over 10 years past stead­ Against the slanderer who must distribute his poison with a ily and persistently gathered evidence and urged on the Department of Justice the necessity for both civil and cc·iminal proceedings against single tongue and meet the questioning eye of the listener, the the Steel Trust; and · hone~t man finds safety in the natural limitations which confin~ Whereas the most powerful and efficient instrumentality of the his criminal purpo e. Against the blackguard who shouts his Government for the uncovering of the crimes and conspiracies com­ mitted by the trusts is such a committee of Congress as the present calumny out in braggart phrase the decent man is ·secure, be­ steel inve tigating committee ; and cause his empty profanation and his hollow rnporings defeat Whereas it is a proven fact that the labors of the Steel Committee the end which his corrupt int:ent most covets. But against th•} ln the brief period of it existence has already resulted in not only furnishing to the Department ot' Jus~e heretofore- undiscover~d evi­ libel, frozen into type; against the cool and calculating ink; dence which has led to the commencement of civil proceedings against against the murderous monotony of precise print, the uvright the trust, and we have good reason to hope at an early day the begin­ man finds but an inadequate remedy in the privilege of reply. ning of criminal proceedings against the officers, directors, and all other individuals involved in the conspiracy; and The injury inflicted, the hurt done, is all but irreparable, be­ Whereas in addition to this the work of the steel investigating cause the answer, however effective, the reply, however con­ committee has, at the expense of Jess than $25,000, already resulted clusfve, is very often swept out to sea on the ebbing tide, whose in a partial restoration of competition and the consequent reduction of tbe price of ste('l products to the consumers of over 25,000,000, a flood marked the highest point of the damage done. return of over $1,000 for each dollar so far expended in this investi­ Mr. Speaker, the assassin may from his ambush wound the gation; and body, but with the skill of surgeons and the recuperative Whereas the Steel Trust and its allies and coconspirators of the Railroad, Coal, and Money Trust, realizing that the continuance of powers of nature the wound will pass away into a harmless the work of the steel investigating committee, unhampered by the tech­ scar. The poisoner may infect the food and drink with the nical rules of evidencP. which oftentimes exclude important facts in the deadliest poison, but with the solicitude of tile physician and courts, would lead to the complete disclosure of the myriad secret offenses of which they arc daily guilty against the people of thL<; entire the agencies of a God-given vitality the wasting sickness will country, agreed on a new conspiracy with certain public officials for disappear in the ruddy outlines of returning health; but if the purpose of putting a stop to the work of the steel investigating com­ the libeler sends his lies into the ears of the world, and they mittee. For se.eral months past a membor of the steel investigating committee itself, ongressman M. W. LrTTLETOX, of New York, has fix: beliefs in the bosoms of the people, no surgeon can cut out cooperated and conspired with the heads of the trust to prevent the the calumny, no physician can treat the degradation, no process production of evidence, to defend the Steel Trust witnesses against the of patient nature can strip this lie from the bosom of your questions of other members of the committee, to prevent the summoning of witnesses, to offer encouragement and support to the schemes and fellows. suggestions of Steel Trust lawyers for the ema culation and rencal of Mr. Speaker, the newspaper articles just read at the Clerk's the Sherman antitrust law, and finally, after months of concerted desk, all of them, in those particulars in which they pretend to preparation with the h·ust heads. he openly joins with the chief counsel • of the Steel Trust and others and voted to stop all further investigation represent my purpose and the motives that control me, are Just by the committee when lt was on the very e>e of uncovering new such lies, and yet how impotent is denial ! How ineffectual is evidence concerning illegal rebates amounting to millions of dollars, denunciation! How feeble the instant power of truth to over­ and other unlawful offenses leading to the criminal conviction of the guilty trust officials ; and take and undo the mischief ! Whereas this covert conspiracy between the steel officials and Con­ In order to avail myself of the high privilege of this House, gressman LITTLETO::'i might have succeeded in its nefarious purpose let me take that article, paragraph by paragraph, and pro­ but for the courageous activity of the national executive committee of the Antitrust League and the alert representatives of the press sta­ nounce it false in fact, false in conceptio , false in purpose, and tioned in Washington, who fearlessly made known to the American criminal in the whole sum of its assembled villainy. [Ap­ people the daily developments of the scheme by unhesitating denuncia­ plause.] tion of it; and Whereas through the able and unfiinching acti>ity and devotion The article sars in the headline that I, as an ally of the to the public interest of Congres man A. 0. STA~LEY, of Kentucky, Steel Trust, am to be punished by the Democrats. The man chairman of the committee ; Congressman JACK BDALL of Texas ; and Congressman DANIEL J. MCGILLICUDDY, of Maine, the scheme of the who wrote that headline was not the reporter, but a man in trust's attorneys and their coconspirators, LITTLETO~ and YOUNG, was the office of a newspaper in New York, because we all under­ completely exposed and defeated ; and stand that the headlines of the articles which are dispatched Whereas the newspapers to-day report that the attempt is now being made wtth all the power ()f the Steel Corporation and all the from tllis city are written in the offices of the newspapers to cunning of Coljgressman LITTLETO~ and Congressman YOUNG to wreak which they are sent. So the man who wrote the headline, I vengeance on the courageous and patriotic repi·esentatives of tbe press have thought in moments of cultivated patience, was simply an and of the Antitrust League by having this too subservient Congress­ man rise to a question of ·personal pr·ivilege on the first day of the ignorant man, who sat behind so~ incorporated paper of third­ session and in gross mi use of that high privilege deliver a false and class proportions and wrote whatever fell to his pen to write. maliciously villifying attack upon a private citizen and an honest But in the article it is said that I am an ally of the Steel press for their faithful guardianship of the public interest. Trust. What there is to support that statement you ham heard Mr. LITTLETON. Mr. Speaker, so far as the1question of in the article read. I the ally of the Steel Trust! In what par­ privilege is concerned in the resolution, I am content with the ticular? Never at any time, directly or indirectly, profession· reading of that much of the record to the House. If the House ally or otherwise, have I ever been connected with it. 6 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· HOUSE. DECEl\IBER 4,

. Let me admonish my Democratic friends who do not know I can show that the largest single chapter in the hearings was the facts tlrnt never ·since I sat on this committee has · there the revelations as to the purchase of the Tenne see Coal & IJeeu a time when I have ever dissented from the program of Iron property, and I think I can show that substantially all the committee, and neyer, when I was present, has there ever that testimony was drawn out on examinations which I con­ been a dissenting Yote, either by a Democrat or a Republican ducted. upon the committee; and yet somebody inspired, somebody put As I sat by the side of the chairman day after day and week it into the mind of the newspaper man to write this arficle for after week I heard no criticism upon the manner of my con­ the New York Press, and he put it in his mind to write it in duct of the examination, either as to its sufficiency or ade­ this fashion : quacy. Indeed, I was, at least momentarily, flattered by the That became evident to-day when Representative STANLEY, of Ken­ assurance that the work had been well done. I call this to your tucky, chairman of the House investigating committee, announced his attention for the purpose of showing that there was no dis­ intention of appealing to the House to force Mr. LI1'TLETO~ to resign from the investign.ting committee. satisfaction or criticism inside or outside of this committee Mr. Speaker, that of itself is an attack which would destroy until that dissatisfaction and criticism was begun by voluntary the usefulness of a Member on this floor if every one were to attaches of the committee, whose conduct toward me and whose credit it and believe that I, because of my alliance with the ultimate purpose and secret motive I shall attempt to reveal. Steel Trust, had become treasonable to my colleagues and a Mr. Speaker, I do not believe these articles were conceived traitor even to the Democratic side of the House. Let me say and written by the reporters of these papers. If I did not feel by way of parenthesis that I do not mean that while I am on sure from all the circumstances that the article, in the New the committee I may not, if my conscience and my judgment York Press particularly, was born of blackmail I would con­ so dictate, vote against my Democratic colleagues, because I clude my remarks here and now. If I were convinced that it came upon the committee under the obligations of an oath, and was the aimless conjecture of a careless reporter, supported by I shall subscribe myself to those obligations against the black­ the cupidity of a commercial journal, I would not do more than mailers and the outside critics who may attack me on this pronounce it false and denounce its authors as defamers. But floor. [Applause.] the facts leading up to its publication, the true history of the This contains another distinct, deliberate, concocted, and events which it so grossly perverts, the motive of those whom curious falsehood. It says that I am working in cooperation it is my purpose to show inspired its publication, and their with those who are being investigated. On November 24-and corrupt interest in the cause it was de igned to serve, leads me I hope the Members of the House will permit me to set these to reveal, so far as it is in my power, the authors and the aim dates in their memory, because I have something to prove-­ of the authors of the article. it was stated in this paper that I was cooperating with those There is maintained in the city of Washington an organization who were under investigation. I need not continue here in the having the well-meaning title of "The American .Antitrust impoyerishment of my English to seek some new word to charac­ League," an organization, which, if it lived up to or intended terize this thing as false. to live up to the purpose expressed in its name, could render I hope I can keep within the strict restraints of decent lasting service to the country and more than justify its claim language and leave it for you to infer that what was said and to public recognition and approval, but it is an. organization, in insinuated and what was meant to be insinuated was false; fact, masquerading under this name for the purpose of beguil­ blackmail, dictated by falsehood and carried out in a spirit of ing earnest workers for reform and at the same time serving criminal libel. [Applause.] Let me tell you that this bears the the sordid and mercenary appetites of its representatives in earmarks of the classical blackmailer. Washington. It is so contrived as to naturally appeal to the In my profession at the bar it was my opportunity from time sympathy of a great number of honest and sincere men who to time to scne in public office. For eight years it was my believe that great evils ha~e grown up with our industrial honor to serve as prosecuting attorney, and I think I know the g1:owth, and its agents and representatives capitalize this hon­ earmarks of the classical blackmailer, and I will point you to est sentiment, use the capital as an instrument of blackmail, one in this article that, furnishing an additional chapter in its and collect the dividends which the cowardly or ignorant sub­ history, will demonstrate by evidence conclusive to the mind of mission of public men will pay. It speaks with the sain~ed any fair person ·that this was concocted in blackmail. Because, voice of the patriot to the people; it speaks with the stern after he had said I was dishonest ; after he had said I had command of a master to the Representative; and it laughs with prostituted myself to an alliance with the Steel Trust; after he the face of a successful gambler behind the hea ry doors of hacl said that here on the threshold.of my congressional term I Wall Street. It has none of .the ordinary attestations of any had i1rofaned this temple, dishonored my name, debauched the such associations as we commonly understand them. Its organi­ public service by cooperating with men whom I had sworn to zation is not attested by any of those evidences which usually investigate, not content with that-for I could have turned from go with associations. It has no by-laws or constitution. It bas it with some complacency-he invades the home. The black­ no office for the transaction of business. It has several printed mailer has a barbarous instinct, he knows where grief will be officers, but it has only one real director or dictator. It does deepe t and most lasting, and so he invades the home. So here not act as the result of conference and consultation. It has no he breathes his falsehoods. With one breath he imputes a lack fixed time for meeting. It has no standard of membership. It of integrity on my part; and then he turns aside the curtain has ri.o record of its members. It openly confesses that it keeps of my home and practically says that because of the extrava­ its membership .secret. It is not engaged in anything which gance of my family it is necessary for me, in order to maintain could honestly produce an income. Its_officers draw no pay or that extravagance, to be in alliance with the Steel Trust. Now, salary from it. Its action is determined by its secretary. It gentlemen, I shall demonstrate to every lawyer in this House claims to receive voluntary subscriptions, but it is not clear that that was the work of the blackmailer and no one else. whether there are any books that record all the funds either This article was published. I answered it back to the news­ as they come in or go out. It has not offered any evidence of its ·paper. The answer was impotent, weak, ineffective-neces­ good faith except the protestations of its dictator, this secretary, sarily. Why? Because the story had gone out upon the wings whose name is Henry B. Martin, who, according to the resolution of the wind; its insinuations were in the bosoms of the people which has been read at the Clerk's desk, appears to be all there who did not know me· its curse laid upon me, upon the lips is of it, either in machinery, money, purpose, policy, or conduct. of the idle and unthiniring, and as fast as idle tongues could And, as partial proof of these statements, let me submit to you repeat it it trm·eled to the ends of the country. This libel, this his statements before the Committee on Inter tate Commerce Rlander-born, in my opinion, of the corrupt coalition between of the Senate, made last month under an inquiry from a dis­ the Antitrust League, as I shall unfold to you, and this crooked tinguished Senator. I submit this record to you for the pur­ alliance in Wall Street-was started for the purpose of driving p6se of demonstrating the proposition that this organization is me by blackmail into a submissive position before this House Henry B. Martin, and Schulteis, his crooked ally, is the otller and the country. member of it. l\Ir. Speaker, I should hesimte under other circumstances to Senator BRANDEGEE, in these hearings, asked Mr. :Martin these draw the attention of this House to any poor service I had questions: rendered on the committee. I should much have preferred to What is the full name of your organi7i_ation? leave that to the record of the bearings, but my motives have The American Antitrust League. been so frequently challenged, my purpose and intent so delib­ Said Martin. erately obscured, my political loyalty so unjustly questioned, Senator BR.A.NDEGEE. Is it an incorporated concern? that I am bound to turn aside for a moment from the natural Mr. .MAilTIN. It is not. restraints which modesty would impose and point you to the Senator BRANDEGEE. What is the nature of the or ~:rnization? Mr. MARTIN. It is an organization formed by citizens of the Unilcd fact that I was intrusted by the chairman of this committee States for the purpose of preventing the growth and putting an end with the e:x:a.mination of many of the most important witnesses to the oppressions and extortions upon the people, prncticed by the upon most important subjects, and more than that I believe great combinations of capital and conspiracies known as trnsts. 1911. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-l{OUSE.

Senator BRA~""DEOEE. That is only the purpose of the organization. mean what is the legal character of its existence? Now, that is not all. I would not condemn any man simply ~Ir. l\1ARTIN. It is a voluntary association of citizens, the same as a because be was not able to state his case any better than that, political party, practically. if other things had not followed. This is the only public rec­ Senator BRA.'WEOEE. Is it a voluntary association organized under the laws of any State? ord, as far as I have been able to ascertain, in 'vnich the nebu­ Mr. MAnTrN. No; it is proctically the same as a political party. It lous character of this organization has been disclosed. For is a free association of citizens for this purpose. It is the same as a years this man Martin bas hovered around this Capitol, med­ political party, except that we do not nominate candidates for office. Senator BRANDEGEE. What determines its mem'Uership? dling with all sorts of legislation, buttonholing Representath·es l\lr. MATITIN. Voluntary. Any man may join it who 'believes in its and Senators, calling them from the floor, and playing the part policy. and be may do it ·with a minimum of trouble, and it is in that of an earnest worker for reform legislation. At times, when respect practically the same as a political party. Members ham not met with his apprornl or baYe denied his enator BRA-'DEGEE. I mean who determines who may join? l\lr. l\IAilTIN. 'l'he local groups of men in each locality are perfectly importunities, he has caused circulars, clothed in the language free to take anybody that applies into their councils and cooperate to· of earnest appeals, but inspired by the spirit of blackmail, to gether. It is composed of a minimum of machinery in order that the be circulated over the country, holding the offending :Member maximum of effect and public opinion may be accomplished. up to public contempt, charging him with being a representative [Laughter.] of the Standard Oil Co., or of some other concern under public Senator BRAXDEGEE. I am trying to get some idea of the extent and organization of the concern. Is there a list of membership of the or­ condemnation. ganization in exi tence anywher·e? Now let me tell you the facts concerning Martin's attack upon i\fr. MARTIN. You mean a complete list in any one place? me. When I was appointed on the Steel Committee I met this Senator BRAXDEGEE. Yes; and in all -places. iUr. MAR'rI:N. I do not think there is. man Martin, I think, for the first time. I found him in the Sena tor BRAXDEGEE. How do you know who are the members of office of the chairman, industriously at work in the preparation your organization for which you speak? of matters for im·estigation by the committee, yolubly discuss­ l\lr. MABTIX. It is not necessary for me to know. In fact, there is very strong reason why tile entire list of membership of the entire ing the affairs of the United States Steel Corporation, and organization should not be within the reach of anybody to be obtained close in the confidence of the staff of the chairman's office. In in any one particular locality. \\'e are engaged in what amounts short, I treated him, as did everyone else, as !Jeing quite as practically to war with these great criminals known as trusts, and they would victimize and butcher our members, especially those who much a part of the inYestigating force as though he were the take an active part, wherever they could get a chance. It is very chief investigator in his official and proper person. I inquired desirable-in fact: as a matter of military precaution it is necessary of the chairman who be was and what the Antitrust League to keep a good deal of the membership out of the knowledge and out of the reach of the yengeance of these men, who are not at all mer­ was, and my recollection is that the chairman told me that he ciful when they get any'Uody in tlleir clutches whom they think are had seen· the checks and youchers of the league and that, in his dangerous to them. opinion, l\fartin was a trustworthy man. • Senator BRL"WEGEE. It has a secret membership, then? Mr. MAI!TIN. Largely: yes, sir. Nothing occurred until shortly after this committee met, Senator BRANDEGEEJ. Does anybody know the members of the or- when a distinguished Member of this House asked me if I knew ganization? anything about Martin, and I told him, naturally, I did not. )Ir. llinTIN. I do not think that any one man knows all the members. Senator BRANDEGEE. Does it adopt a platform like a political party? This Member then ·said, in substance, that he hoped before the 1\Ir. l\1ARTIN. In the different States and localities the members act investigation closed I would put Martin on the stand and find in accordance with the needs of the locality, and nationally we have practically a settled policy of simple forms, such as I stated to you a out whom be represented and what he stood for. In the candor moment ago. of that confidential relation which I was happy to sm:tain to Senator BRANDEGEE. Does the local membership -0r group, or whatever my colleagues on the committee I communicated these facts to you call it, elect officers? )fr. MART£N. Yes, sir. the chairman. I think I withheld the name of the Member who Senator BRANDEGEE Did you say you were the national secretary 7 made the inquiry, although I would not be sure. Very soon Mr. MARTIN. Yes, sir. thereafter I began to hear criticisms which had been made by Sena tor BRANDEGEE. Who appoints you? 1\Ir. MARTIN. The national executive committee. :Martin upon me and my acts or attitude on the committee_ I Senator BRANDEGEE. Is that known to the public? paid no attention to these apparently trifling evidences of his l\fr. MARTIN. Yes, sir. want of faith in me. I did not take any steps to correct them. Senator BRA.NDEGEE. Well, do they have stationery containing a list of the officials of the organization? I could not well do so. I did not then know of the man back Mr. MARTIN. They have stationery containing a list of the •national of Martin. I did not know of his associates. I did not know officers. of his frequent visits to New York; and at times, when reflect­ enator BRANDEGEE. Who is the president of it? Mr. MART"IN. M. L. Lockwood, of Oklahoma. ing upon the matter, I was inclined to credit it to his ignorance Senator BRANDEGEE. Do they have a treasurer? rather than to his mendacity. l\lr. MARTIN. Yes, sir. Later on Mr. George W. Perkins was sworn as a witness in Senator BRANDEGEE. Is his name given on the list of officers? Mr. MARTIN. It is. my absence, and amongst other things was asked if he had Senator BRANDEGEE. How long have you been its national secretary? made a personal contribution to political campaign funds. Ha l\lr. MARTIN . For quite some years. declined to answer these questions, arid the committee ad· Senator BRANDEGEE. When was it organized? Mr. l\IARTIN. In 1890. I have been its national secretary in fact journed until the next day. I arrived the next morning from since it was organized. In fact, I was one of a small group of men Kew York, where I had been ill, and then, when the com­ who originated the idea. We believed that some organized force of mittee met, we went into executive session and unanimously citizens should be gathered together to urge upon the Secretary and Congress and the Executive the necessity for more thoroughgoing agreed-now, mark you, Mr. Speaker-unanimously agreed to enforcement of the law. withdraw the questions. I say we unanimously agreed, and I Senator BRANDEGEE. How are it~ funds collected-by voluntary sub­ hope this will reach the ears of the people who have heard scriptions? Mr. MARTIN. By voluntary contributions, the sam as political parties this blackmail, and that it will sink into their hearts and into receive contributions, each man doing much or little as he sees fit. their bosoms that at last upon this floor, in the presence of aH Senator BRANDEGEE. Does the treasurer or any disbursing officer ruy brothers here, I have strangled to death the villainy of make any return of his expenditures to anybody? Ir. MARTIN. Yes, sir. that lie which was concocted at the outset to do me injury. Senator BR.ANDEEE. Thern is a system of accounting, then-audit­ [Applause.] ing, I suppose? I say we unanimously agreed, Democrats and Republicans, l\lr. MARTIN. Yes, sir; not complicated. It is comparatively simple, because the organization is not wealthy, and the money it does receive that we would withdraw the questions from George W. Per­ it spends just about as fast as it gets it to conduct the struggle, and kins, because of the obvious and valid reason that they were with the powerful men who compose the trusts we have ample use within immediately for every dollar we can get hold of. not the purpose or letter of the resolutions. And when Senator BnA::-IDEGEEJ. The officers get salaries, I assume. the committee resumed its open sessions, in order tha.t there l\fr. MARTIN. No; they all contTibute their ervices free. could be no doubt about where I stood, I dictated upon the Senator BRANDEGEE. Do you yourself represent the policies of the or1:rn_nization before legislative bodies? record my position, so that all the world could know, if they 1\Ir. MARTIN'. At times; yes, sir. On this occasion I do : yes, sir. chose to know, the position I had taken. Senator BRANDEGEE. I mean, you have been in the habit of doing Now, what happened? As soon as it was announced that the it here? 1\Ir. MARTIN. Frequently I have. I appeared before the Senate Com­ questions had been withdrawn, this man l\Iartin, still working mittee on the Judiciary and the House Committee on the Judiciary in in the very bosom of the committee, began his lying gossip opposition to tbe amendment to the antitrust law. * * * about me, and, I believe, inspired the newspapers that were Now, if you were to take that, even at its full measure, you not in a position to know what the executiYe session was to would find yourselves in th@ same position that I found myself repeat the false report that I had broken with my Democratic in with regard to this man who, since 1899, has acted for that colleagues, and that I had rushed from New York to save ~ociety, yet who, when as its representative and chief officer Perkins; and those were the headlines that were published at he was given the opportunity in the Senate committee to make that time. These false reports, which at that time sprang out explanation of who and what are behind it, either neglected the of the malicious falsehoods of the said Martin, have been opportunity or refused to state more than that the membership continuously repeated in the papers, and even last week they was secret and that the money went out so fast that it was un­ were harked back to in the accounts of the newspapers as evi- necessary to keep any complicated system of books. dence of my attitude, and as reflecting upon me in the position 8 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEl\IBER 4~

I took at the meeting of the committee last wee~ . They were not hesitate to tell the chairman . and my colleagues upon the false. Martin knew they were false. Every member of the committee what I thought about what the committee should do. committee knew they were false, and can testify before you to­ I did not hesitate, because I thought it was my duty to give day that they \vere false. And yet I did not take any steps to them the benefit of my judgment about it, and I will tell you correct them. I was irritated, I was hurt, but I thought it was what I told them, and you will then see the proportions and the fortunes of war. I know how much criticism public men the enormity of this crime which I have committed. I said, must take, but, l\Ir. Speaker, as long as I am in public life"-and first, that as the committee had been appointed to investigate I wish I could get the cooperation of every brave man on this violations of law which had not been prosecuted by the Gov­ floor-I shall bend every energy and every power I have to fight ernment, in the language of the resolution, and as the Govern­ the defamation of public men of this country and to save them ment, since the committee had been appointed and begun its frum calumny. [Applause.] investigation, had commenced the prosecution of the Steel Cor­ Let me say to you that this speech to-day is less a. personal poration, it was our duty to return to the House and submit defense than it is a public appeal that all honest men should to the House the question of whether we should .continue or meet face to face their defamers and fight thein blow for blow not, or, failing to do this, the committee should proeeed with its and attack for attack in order that the institutions of this inquiry outside of the questions embraced in the bill filed by country shall not be brought into disrepute. I have served on the Government, and should klke up such questions as the committees since I have been a Member of this House when question of transportation and of labor and remedial legislation Republican officials high in the Government service were, in my authorized by the resolution; second, that each member of the opinion, unjustly attacked, and I call upon my colleagues to committ_ee should, in case the matter came to the House, state witness that as quickly as I could reach them I defended them upon the floor such position as was dictated' to him by his without regard to party association, and I shall do that as judgment and conscience. I did not hesitate to say to the long as I am permitted to be a Member of this . House. [Ap­ committee what is my opinion now and what has been my plause.] opinion from the beginning, and w.hat will be my opinion, I When I reflected on the fact that Martin was circulating the think, until the end, and what I shall give effect to by my vote stories that I had rushed to save Perkins, I was more inclined if the question should come to a vote. to charge it up to his ignorance than to his mendacity; he .My reason for taking that position was that there was some seemed such a poor, sickening liar [laughter] that it did not doubt whether the committee would not, by calling witnes~es, seem worth the while to follow him. . afford the Steel Corporation immunity under the criminal law; Xow, a summer ensued and I went abroad. A fatal mistake, not because I said they ought to be criminally pro ecuted. for and how the .fates pursued me! First, that I should have come there was no demagogy in the position that I took. There was from New York at all. [Laughter.] Second, that I should ha·rn no effort to ring the changes upon the ear of the groundlings had a constituency of business men interested in business in order to please somebody. But I said there was a que tion, affairs. Third, that I should ha-re had conversation with the and I did not say it was a settled question, whether if they directors of great corpomtions. Fourth, that I should have followed this matter at all they might not bungle and blunder hastened away to Europe after what I can freely say was a about it, and then the Department of Justice would be able to more or less disagreeable summer in Washington, and that I say that if the committee had kept its hands off they could have should have gone oYer on the same ship with Charles 1\1. prosecuted these people criminally, and this committee would be Schwab and came back on the same ship with Andrew Carnegie. compelled to bear a:- burden which otherwi e it should not bear. This was all-sufficient. Why not close the case there? [I,augh­ That was the first proposition. The second one-and, mark you, ter.] - Why not have a resolution of expulsion now and spew I stand on that proposition now-was that I did not believe from this honorable body such contaminating influence as that? the committee could, under its constitutional limitations, inYesti­ [Laughter.] gate the matters embraced in the bill filed by the Government, Charles M. Schwab, and I on the same ship with him! Hor­ and I cite gentlemen to an authority which for the purpose ror of horrors, enough to fill all the papers with scandal ! The of saving me from this scandal I have brought here to submit ship, to be sure, was over 800 feet long, a ship of 40,000 tons, to you. It is an old case, which most of the lawyers here and had over '3,000 passengers; but what difference does that know, but it has not been cited on the point to which I draw yom make? [Laughter.] attention. It is the famous old case of Kilbourn against Thomp­ I cnme back on another ship, and with Andrew Carnegie; and son, 103 U. S., 168, and, as will be well remembered by gentle­ the article says that that is proof of the fact that I have been a men here, the actio:n was brought to recover damages because traitor to my party, a traitor to my country, and a violator of the man had been falsely imprisoned under a warrant from the my oath. [Laughter.] House committing him to prison because he refused to ans·wer ... ,.ow, gentlemen, it is really laughable to argue, but just as before a committee certain· que tions and to produce certain sure as there is a public opinion when they can connect some papers that had been asked for. The committee bad been ap­ circumstance like that witll a libel such as is contained in this pointed to im·estigate the Jay Cooke real-estate pool and to article it is a potential circumstance when taken to convict one ascertnin TI""ho was interested in the pool, because the Secre­ of being the tool of these interests. tary of the Navy had deposited money with Jay Cooke -& Co .• I need not tell this body here, I need not tell the gentlemen and that company had failed and the money had been lost, and from Tennessee or the gentlemen from Texas, that I have not the congressional investigation was justified Ul)On the ground long, at least, been a beneficiary of the areat wea1th of the that it was money of the Goyernment. The whole matter was country, for some of them, at least, can te tify to the fact that pending in the bankruptcy court. The resolution of inquiry had there has been a .story written which, when it is done, will be recited that the courts were powerles to redress or to enforce but the short and simple annals of the poor. Why I should the obligation against Jay Cooke & Co.; .and ~hen the que tion be held up to contempt I could not understand until I returned came up on that state of facts the court, in writing this opinion, on the 20th of last November and attended the meeting of the said: committee on the adjoined day. There were present the chair­ How could the House of Repres~ntatives know, until it bad been man, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. BE.ALL], the gentleman fairly tried that the courts were powerte ~ s to redress the creditors of Jay Cooke & Co.? The matter· was still pending in a court, and what from Maine [l\Ir. l\fcGILLICUDDY], tbe gentleman from New right had the Congress of the United States to intel'fet·e with a suit York [l\Ir. DANFORTH], the gentleman from l\Iassachusetts [l\Ir. pending in a court of competent jurisdiction? Again, what ~adequacy GARDNER], and myself. In executive session W"e heard the ob­ of power existed in the court, or, as the preamble n.. sumes, rn all the comts to give redress which could lawfully be supplied by an investi­ jections of the Steel Co.'s lawyer to further investigation "ation' by a committee of one House of Congress or by any act or re o· by the committee. We talked with him back and forth, about iution of Congress on the subject? The case being one of a judicial our Yarious vie"IT"s, and when he had gone we unanimously re­ nature, for which the power of the courts usually affiord the only remedy it may well be supposed that those powec·s were more appro· solved that we would postpone the determination of the ques­ priate and more efficient in aid of such rellef th:.i.n the powers which tion as to what the committee should do until the full committee belong to a body whose function is exclusively legislative. If the et­ was present and that we should hear the witnesses who were tlement to which the preamble refers as the principal reason why the courts are rendered powerless was obtained by fraud, or was without there. authority or fot• any conceivable reason could be set aside or avoided, :Mark you, that is all that occurred. I sat there on t~at day it should' be done by some appropriate proceeding in the court whicb nnd the next day, Tuesday, with the committee. I returned to had the whole matter before it, and which bad all the power in tbat case proper to be intrusted to any b~dy, and not by Congress, or by New York on 'Vednesday noon to keep an engagement which I any powel' to be conferred on a committee of one of the two IIouses. had. made some weeks before. On Thursday morning I saw a little patter in the New York newspapers, apparently coming Third, I did not believe that it would be either just or fair from the same source, in which it was said that I had broken to the Government or to the Steel Corporation for the com­ with the committee; that I wanted to stop the investigation. mittee to prejudge the issues embraced within the action I paid no attention to this. It is true-=and let me say it now for brought by the Government against the 'teel Corporation and the beuefit of all, because this question may come up--I did . deliver the prejudgment to the country. Fourth, I did not pe- 1911. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE. 9

liern it fair 01' just or right that the committee should call be· was in alliance with the Steel Trust, I opened the door ancl fore it in ex parte proceedings the defendants or officers of the told them to tell it. Not so. What did they do? What er if it \\ere only manded of these men that they unco>er themselves in the place myself, but somehow I would ha>e a kind of contempt for my­ where they had been so conspicuous in the committee room of I self if at the very beginning of my life here in this place, so this committ~P. . I thought I had given the opportunity. If I hallowed with. memories, so shot through and through w.ttl:l 110 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEMBER 4,

recollections, here where great men have been and strong men they set themselves down in the path of human progress, and ha·rn been, I thought I was too cowardly and too weak to rise when the wheels have passed over them they rush to the front in my place and denounce these men. And I hope I can inspire and set themselves down again. [Laughter.] others to take this position before the country and stop the These leaders of progressive prejudices and reactionary re­ defamation which is going on of the character of public men. form overlook the fact that real progress is the unfolding energy of 1\Ir. GARD~R of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, will the the whole people working out the miracle of civilization through gentleman yield for a moment? the irresistible industry and unfettered genius of a progressi"re l\fr. LITTLETON. I will. race; that progress is the real achie"\ement wrought. by the real Tbe SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York yields to the labor of real men and directed by the upbuilding wisdom of con~ gentleman from l\.fas·sachusetts. structive and creative man, and that the Government should Mr. GARDNEil of .Massachusetts. I wish to state to the not unduly shackle its strength or restrain its robu t vigors. House that every word which has been said by the gentleman They seem to think that progress is the quick an<.1 unquestioning from New York with regard to his· actions in the committee is appropriation of every untried experiment instead of the low absolutely true. [Applau e.] nnd patient building of the years. I may misjrnlge the future, l\Ir. LITTLETON. I thank the gentleman from lllas~chu­ but in my humble opinion the party that seeks to reach the seat setts. of power by gathering together the progressi"\e prejudices of the Now Jet me conclude what I have to say by calling your country and setting itself against the substantial and Een ible attention to another injustice that fl.owed from this thing. After progress of an ambitious people will find itself buried benen.tb I had seen this article published in the papers which I have an overwhelming disaster. We can not smother industrial free­ called your attt!htion to; after I had waited for this scandalous dom under the paralyzing paternalism of government. 'The assemblage last night-and, by the way, it comprised 62 audi­ world must move, the wheels must go round, the spindles mu t tors, none of whom would admit that he was a member of the hum, the markets must be open, the arter~es of trade must swell Antitrust League, except .l\fartin and men on the platform there again with the increasing volume of commerce; the earth must with him-after that had been done, my attention was ca11ed give up its stored treasures; the whole wondrous mechani rn to a celebrated paper published in Nebraska, known as the of complex de"\elopment must run under the pressure of those Commoner [laughter], in which the following appeared: energies and agencies which comprise the multiplied skill and It is very plain that Mr. LITTLETON can not be depended upon to aid foresight of a proud and progressive people, and all of the .. In carrying out the Democratic program in genuine antagonism to trust empty slogans rescued from the wreckage of the past and all the imposition. He is a thoroughgoing reactionary, and he will be retited froni the committee if the House Democrats really de ire that the shallow shibboleths sounding forth from the dreary shadows of Democratic profes ion on the trust question be accepted seriously. the long ago will not pren1.il against it. [Applause.] This progress will require the careful and patient eYolution of pro­ The day· before that the chairman of this investigating com­ gressive principles to sustain and direct it, instead of progres­ mittee receh'ed a letter, pledging to him the support of the sive prejudices and passions to arrest and prevent it. This is Commoner to drive me from the committee because of what he progress ancl in that sern~e I am an intense progressive. supposed my attitude was on this question. Gentlemen, I submit this entire question to the House-the Of course, the source of this article was the lying scandals of question of my honor, the question of _my service upon the com­ this man Martin and his Antitrust League. I have always mittee, the question of the duty which I have discharged, the esteemed Mr. Bryan highly personally, and I believe he has question of how I should· be viewed by the country. I ask you held me in goodly respect. We have visited together at different for your patient, your honest, and your candid judgment, and I times, and while there have been differences of opinion between thank you. [Prolonged applause.] us, between him and one very much younger in years and in no sense a contemporary of bis [laughter], yet they have not ANTITRUST LEAGUE, ETC. been differences of opinion which created the slightest bitter­ l\Ir. MANN. l\lr. Speaker, if no one else has a resolution to ness. offer, I offer the following privileged resolution in relation to But even he, on the circulated falsehoods of this man Martin the matter just brought before the House. and this crooked combination, goes off "half cocked" in the The SPE..AKER. The Clerk will report the resolution. Commoner and as umes. first, that the chairman of this com­ The Clerk read as follows: mittee or any memb~r of it ever dared to demand my dismissal from this committee; and, second, that the question of my House resolution 313. Whereas Hon. !11AnTIN W. LITTLETO~ has, on his responsibility as a retirement from the committee was before the House; and, Member, charged that as a Member of this House, acting on behalf of third and most astonishing, that the question of my retirement the House in the investigation of the United States Steel Corporation, he has been subjected to a blackmalling attack in a New York news­ from this committee could be settled because I dand to have paper, made on behalf of the so-called .Antitrust League: any convictions of my own or to exercise any judgment or Resol.,;ed, That a committee of seven Members be appointed to investi­ appeal to any canon of justice or vote in accordance with any gate the circumstances of the said newspaper attack, the relations of opinion of my own in the discharge of my duties on the com­ the so-called Antitrust League thereto, and the activities of the said league so far as they may be designed to affect the action of this mittee. And let me say right here and now to my Democratic House 01· any committee thereof; and that the committee have au­ brethren, with respect to service upon any committee in this thority to send for persons and papers and take testimony at any time, Hom:e, that if in that service my loyalty to my party requires in Washington or other places. · me, on the one hand. to be obedient and do as I am bidden, i\Ir. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I move to refer the reso­ either by a corrupt alliance such as that represented by Henry lution to the Committee on Rules, and I ask the gentleman from B. l\lartin, Herman J. Shulteis, David Lamar, and the Anti­ Illinois [l\fr. MANN] if he desires to discuss it not to do so trust League, or, on the other band, on the outside and far at this time, but to let it go to the Committee on Rules without away, by the intolerant attitude and influences represented by discussion. the Commoner and its editor, or any other newspaper, or the Mr. MANN. I have no objection to that course being taken. combinecl influences of both, then I tell you I shall refuse to The SPEAKER. It will be referred to the Committee on obey tlle mnndate of my party and forswear my allegiance to Rules. my committee, and shall prefer to subscribe myself to the obli­ Mr. U!-."'DERWOOD. It requires a. motion, Mr. Speaker. I gations of my oath. I have ne·rnr yet come to the prostituted move that it be so referred. position, intellectually-and God forbid that I ever shall­ The question being taken, the motion was agreed to. where I shall so debase myself as to fling away the obligations that I took to sene my country, either under the fear of organ­ THE LATE REPRESENTATIVE MADISON. ized blackmail on the one hand or, on the other hand, been use Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. Speaker, it is with a sense of pro­ of the uninformed and impatient criticism of a man whom I found sorrow that I rise at this time to announce the death have supported for the Presidency twice out of the tliree times of Hon. EDMOND H. MADISON, late a Member of this House, at that be ran for that office. [Laughter on the Republican side.] bis home in Dodge City, Kans., Or\.- the 18th day of September In this article I am condemned because it is said that I am last. On the morning of his death he arose in apparently bis a thoroughgoing "reactionary," whatever a "reactionary" is. usual health, played cheerfully with his grandchildren until I confess to son;ie bewilderment, my friends, over the prefixes breakfast was announced, sat down to bis morning meal with "Reactionary" and ''Progressive." But let me say that, in his family, and then in an instant passed a way. During his my humble judgment, there is a distinct class of politicians in life he enjoyed the confidence and esteem of hiG countrymen. thi country whose prejudices are progressive, but whose prin­ On another occasion I shall ask that a day be set apart to pay ciples are reactionary [applause]-men who seem never to tire suitable tribute to bis memory. of arousing hopes by their appeals to prejudice which they can Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolution and ask tor ne\er make real by the application of their principles. They its adoption. are in truth, in my judgment, genuine reactionaries, because ThE:: SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolution. • 1911. CONGRESSION.A.L RECORD-HOUSE." ll

The Clerk read as follows : 9. A letter from the president of the United States Civil House resolution 309. Service Commission, transmitting a statement showing expenses Re.10lved, That the House has beard with profound sorrow of the for travel of officers and employees of the Civil Service Com­ death of Hon. EDMOND H. MADISON, late a Representative from the State of Kansas. mission to points outside of the District of Columbia during Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be directed to transmit a copy the fiscal year 1911 in discharge of official duties (H. Doc. No: of these resolutions to the Senate. 189) ; to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be The resolution was agreed to. printed. 10. A letter from the chairman of the Interstate Commerce LEA VE OF ABSENCE. Commission, transmitting a statement showing the travel ex­ Mr. llooRE of Texas, by unanimous consent, was given leave penses of all officials and employees of the commission in dis­ of absence for 10 days, on account of sickness in his family. charge of official duties outside of the District of Columbia THE LATE REPRESENTATIVE LATTA, OF N_:EBBASKA. during fiscal year ended June 30, 1911 (H. Doc. No. 190); to Mr. LOBECK. Mr. Speaker, just after the close of the l:i.st the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered session we received the sad news that the Hon. JAMES P. to be printed. LATTA, a Member from Qie State of Nebraska, had passed 11. A letter frorri the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting away to the great beyond. I had known .l\Ir. LATTA for over 30 a statement of expenditures for the fiscal year 1011 from the years, and I know that he had the love and respect of· every appropriation "Indian school buildings, 1911" (H. Doc. No. Member and colleague of this House. I send to the desk the 196) ; to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Depart­ following resolution, and in the future, at the proper time, I ment and ordered to be printed. wish to speak about my honored friend and colleague. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolution. PUBLIC BILLS, RESOLUTIO~S. AND ME~ORIALS. T:Pe Clerk read as follows : Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, bills, resolutions, and memorials House resolution 310. were introduced and sererally referred as follows: Rc.!Jolved, That the House bas heard with profound sorrow of the By l\Ir. BULKLEY_: A bill (H. R. 14042) to authorize the death of the Hon. JAMES P. LATTA, late a Representative from the State coinage of 3-cent pieces; to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, of Nebraska. Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be directed to transmit a copy and :Measures. of these resolutions to the Senate. By Mr. RUCKER of Colorado: A bill (H. R. 14043) to amend The resolution was agreed to. the present homestead law; to the Committee on the Public Lands. ADJOURNMEN'f. Also, a bill (H. R. 14044) to restore the merchant marine in The SPEAKER. The Clerk will Tead the other resolution. the foreign trade, to overcome the disadvantages of American The Clerk read as follows: navigation, to make preference for American ships in export House resolution 312. trade, to put the postal service by sea under general regulations, Resolved, As a further mark of respect to the memory of the late to put an end to foreign monopoly of our ov-er-sea commerce, IIon. ED~IOND H. :MADISON and the Hon. JAMES P. LATTA, the House do and to secure American independence on the ocean by trade now adjourn. ret'ulations; to the Committee on the l\Ierchant Marine and The resolution was agreed to; accordingly (at 2 o'clock and Fisheries. 18 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned until to-morrow, Tues­ Also, a bill (H. R. 14045) to appropriate $175,000 for the day, December 5, 1911, at 12 o'clock meridian. resurvey of public lands in the State of Colorado; to the Com­ mittee on Appropriations. EXECUTIVE cmrnrnNICATIONS, ETC. By Mr. TALCOTT of New York: A bill (H. R. 14046) to pro­ vide for a public building at Herkimer", N. Y.; to the Committee UlHler clanse 2 of Rule X,"'{IY, executh'e communications were on Public Buildings and Grounds. taken from the Speaker's table and referred as follows: By l\Ir. ASHBROOK: A bill (H. R. 14047) providing for the 1. A letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a re­ purchase of a site and the erection thereon of a public building port of public property of the Post Office Department, Washing­ at New Philadelphia; in the State of Ohio; to the Committee on ton, D. C. (H. Doc. No. 195); to the_Committee on ~xpenditures Public Euildings and Grounds. in the Post Office Department and ordered to be prmted. By Mr. HUGHES of New Jersey: A bill (H. R. 14048) to pro­ 2. A letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, vide for the erection uf a public building at Hackensack, N. J.; transmitting a statement of traYel e::qJenses of employees on to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. · official business for the Smithsonian branches during fiscal year By Mr. SABATH: A bill (H. R. 14049) to authorize the city ended June 30, 1911 (H. Doc. No. ·187); to the Committee on of Chicago to construct a bascule bridge across the Calumet .Appropriations n.nd ordered to be printed. RiYer at Ninety-second Street, in the county of Cook, State of 3. A letter from the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, trans­ Illinois; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. mitting a statement of travel performed by officers and em­ By Mr. CANDLER: A bill (H. R. 14050) to increase the limit ployees of the Department of Commerce and Labor during the of cost for the public building at Tupelo, Miss.; to the Com­ fiscal year ended June 30, 1!)11 (H. Doc. No. 188) ; to the Com­ mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds. mittee on Exr1l'ilditures in the Department of Commerce and By 1\Ir. GREGG of Pennsylvania: A bill (H. R. 14051) desig­ Labor and ordered to be printed. nating Columbus Day as a legal holiday; to the Committee on 4. A letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the Judiciary. . . transmitting a detnileu statPment of expenditures for interna­ By l\Ir. LEVER: A bill (H. R. 14052) authorizing the Secre­ tional e.."'\:changes, American ethnology, etc., for fiscal year ended tary of Agriculture to issue certain reports relating to cotton; June 30, 1011 (H. Doc. No. 197) ; to the Committee on Appro­ to the Committee on Agriculture. priations and ordered to be printed. By i\Ir. RICHARDSON: A bill (H. Il. 14053) to increase the o. A letter from the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Repre­ pensions of Indian war survilors in certain cases ; to the Com­ sentath·es, submitting a list of property in his charge December mittee on Pensions. 4, 1911 ( H. Doc. No. 191) ; to the Committee on Accounts and Also, a bill ( H. R. 14054) to increase the pensions of Mexican ordered to be printed. War survivors in certain cases; to the Committee on Pensions. G. A letter from the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Repre­ By l\Ir. GARTER: A bill (H. R. 14055) to provide for the sentatives, submitting a statement of sums of money drawn and sale of the surface of the segregated c<;>al and asphalt buds disbursed from December 1, 1910, to December 1, 1911 (H. Doc. of the Choctaw and Chickasaw K{ltions, and for other pur­ No. 192) ; to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be poses ; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. printed. By :Mr. STEENERSON: A bill (H. R. 14056) to provide for 7. A letter from the president of the Board of Commissioners the allotment and distribution of tribal funds to adult mi.s:ed­ of the District of Columbia, transmitting a detailed statement blood Indians of the White E11rth Resenation in .Minnesota; of expenditures from appropriations for contingent expenses of to the Committee on Indian Affairs. the goyernment of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year By Mr. CLAYTON: A bill (H. R. 14057) to authorize the ended June 30, 1911 (H. Doc. No. 194); to the Committee on issuance of patents to bona fide holders to certain lands for­ Appropriations and ordered to be printed. · merly ceded to Creek Indians in Alabama; to the Committee on 8. A letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the Public Lands. a report showing the proposed use of the appropriation for By l\lr. LA FOLLETTE: A bill (H. R. 14058) to provide for encouraging industry among the Indians during the fiscal year the abolishment of the Commerce Court; to .the Committee on ended June 30, 1911 (H. Doc. No. 193) ; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be By l\Ir. HELGESON: A bill (H. R. 14059) repealing the ac·t printed. approv-ed July 26, 1911, entitled "An act to promote reciprocal •

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trade relations with the Dominion of Canada, and for other now on the acfrrn list of the Army who served in the Civil purposes,'' being chapter 3 of the United States Statute~ of War; to the.. Committee on 1\filitary Affairs. 1911, first session Sixty-secend Congress; to the Committee By Mr. BURKE of Pennsylvania: A bill JH. R. 14085) ap­ on Ways and Means. propriating $2,700,000 for purposes of an act to enable any State By Mr. RICHARDSON: A bill (H. R. 14060) to amend sec­ .to cooperate, etc., approved March 1, 1911; to the Committee on tions 6, 7, and 8 of the food and, drugs act approved June 30, Rivers and Harbors. 1906; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. SD!S: A bill (H. R. 14080) relating to star-route mail By 1\fr. GRAHAM: A bill (H. R. 14061) amending section 2 contractors, etc. ; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post of an act entitled "An act to increase the pension of widows, Roads. minor children, etc., of deceased soldiers and sailors of the -late Also, a bill (H. R. 14087) relating to star-route mail con­ CiYil War, the War with J.11exico, the various Indian wars, etc., tractors, etc.; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post and to grant a pension to certain widows of deceased soldiers Roads. and sailors of the late Civil War"; to the Committee on In­ Also, a bill (H. R. 14088) to make it unlawful for certain valid Pensions. public officials to own capital stock or bonds in any and all By 1\Ir. FOSTER of Tilinois: A bill (H. R. 14062) to amend public-service corporations doing business in the District of . "An act to regulate commerce," approved .February 4, 1887, and Columbia; to the Committee on the Judiciary. as amended June 18, 1910; to the Committee on Interstate and Also, a bill (H. R. 14089) to amend an act entitled "An act l!,oreign Commerce. · regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors in the District of By :Mr. HENRY of Texas: A bill (H. R. 14003) amending the Columbia," approved .March 3, 1893; to the Committee on the antitrust law of July 2, 1890; to the Committee on the Judiciary. District of Columbia. By ~Ir. HELM : A bill (H. R. 14064) to establish a military Also, a bill ( H. R. 14090) 'declaring the selling, exchanging, park at Perryville, Ky.; to the Committee on Military Affairs. or giving away any pistol, bowie knife, dirk or dirk knife, Also, a bill (H. R. 14065) for the erection of a public build­ blackjack, dagger, sword cane, slungshot, brass or other metal ing at Shelbyville, Ky.; to the Committee on Public Buildings knuckle in the District of Columbia a misdemeanor ; to the and Grounds. , Committe~ on the District of Columbia. Also, a bill (II. R. 14066) authorizing additional expenditure Also, a bill (H. R. 140!H) to erect a post-office building in for the erection and completion of 'the public building at Law­ the city of Hnntingoon, State of Tenne see ; to the Committee renceburg, Ky. ; to the Committee on Public Buildings and on Public Buildings and Grounds. Grounds. Also, a bill (II. R. 14002) to amend an act entitled "An act A.lso, a bill (H. R. 14-067) for purchase of site and erection regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors in the District of of public bnilding at Harrodsburg, Ky.; to the Committee on Columbia,'' approved March 3, 1893; to the Committee on the Public Buildings and Grounds. District of Columbia. By Mr. STEENERSON: A bill (H. R. 14068) to repeal an act Also, a bill ( H. R. 14093) to repeal :m act to establish a uni­ entitled "An act to promote reciprocal trade relations with the form system of bankruptcy throughout the United States, ap­ Dominion of Canada, and for other purposes,'' approved July proved July 1, 1898; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 26 1911; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Also, a bill (H. R. 14094) declaring the carrying openly or ~ Ry Mr. GR.A.HAM: A bill (H. R. 14069) fo,r the erection of concealed about the person any pistol, bowie knife, dirk or a public building at Hillsboro, Ill., and appropriating money dirk knife, blackjack, dagger, sword cane, slungshot, brass or therefor · to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. other metal knuckle in the District of Columbia a felony ; to By :m:. SHERWOOD: A bill (H. R. 14070) for tlle relief of the Committee on the District of Columbia. persons pensioned for total or nearly total deafness; to the Also, a bill (H. R. 14095) to proYide for a road to the Shiloll Committee on Invalid Pensions. National 1\filitary Park; to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. 1\IARTIN of Colorado : A bill (H. R. 14071) concerning By Mr. DWIGHT: A bill (II. R. 14096) providing for the enlarged homesteads ; to the Committee on the Public Lands. purchase of a site and the erection thereon of a public building Also, a bill (H. R. 14072) to appropriate money for drainage at Waverly, in the State of New York; to the Committee on investigations; to the Committee on Appropriations. Public Buildings and Grounds. · Also, a bill (H. R. 14-073) to amend H. R. 1, the S?erwood Also, a bill (II. R. 14097) providing for the purchase of a bill; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. site and the erection thereon of a public building at O"·ego, Also, a bill (H. R. 14074) to amend H. R. 767, the Anderson in the State of New York; to the Committee on Public Build­ bill ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ings and Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 14075) concerning wages of Government employees in the Dist1ict of Columbia; to the Committee on By l\Ir. HA.t'rn'A : A bill ( H. R. 14008) to repeal "An act to Appropriations. promote reciprocal trade relations with the Dominion of Canada, By Mr. S::\IITH of Texas : A bill ( H. R. 14076) to provide for and for other purpos~s,'' approved July 26, 1911; to the Com­ a public building at Big Springs, Tex.; to the Committee on. mittee on Ways and Means. Public Buildings and Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 14000) providing additional funds for the erection of a public building at Mandan, N. Duk.; to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 14077) to authorize the construction of an mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds. addition to the Federal Building at Abilene, Tex., and making Also, u bill (H. R. 14100) providing additional funds for the appropriation therefor; to the Committee on Public Buildings erection of a public building at Williston, N. Dak.; to the Com­ and Grounds. mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Also, a bi11 (H. R. 14078)° to extend the cost limit of the site By 1\fr. LI1'"DBERGH: A bill (H. R. 14101) for the erection for a post-office building in the city of El Paso, ·Tex., and making of a public building in the city of Little Falls, l\.Iinn., for the appropriation therefor; to the Committee on Public Buildings accommodation of the United States post office and other GoY­ and Grounds. ernment offices; to the-. Committee on Public Buildings and By Mr. BERGER : A bill (II. R. 14079) to repeal the anti­ Grounds. trust act and to provide for the social ownership and operation By Mr. SULZER: A bill (H. R. 14102) to encourage the of certain industries; to the Committee on the Judiciary. American merchant marine and American commerce, and for By Mr. LAFFERTY: A bill (H. R. 14080) extending the otl.ler purposes; to the Committee on Ways and l\Iea.ns. jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission over rail­ roads in .Alaska, and for other purposes; to the Committee on By Mr. ROUSE : A bill (H. R. 14103) regulating orders of the Public Lands. executive departments of the United States; to the Committee By l\fr. WEEKS: A bill (H. R. 14081) to increase the appro­ on Reform in the Civil Service. priation for the purchase of a site and the ·erection of a public By Mr. HU::\1PHREY of Washington: A bil.I (H. R. 1~104) building nt l\Iilford, Muss.; to the C9mmittee on Public Build­ to abolish certain assay charges; to the Committee on Comage, ings and Grounds. Weights, and Measures. By Ur. GARNER: A bill (H. R. 14082) to provide for the By .Mr. BATES: A bill (H. R. 14105) authorizing the com­ purchase of a site for a public building at Seguin, Guadalupe mission of ensign be given midshipmen on graduation from the County, Tex.; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Na-val Academy; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. . Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 14106) to provide for the appomtment of Also, a bill (H. R. 14083) to create a new division of the two vice admirals in the United States Navy; to the Committee southern judicial district of Texas, and to provide for terms of on Naval Affairs. court at Corpus Christi, Tex., and for a clerk for said court, By Mr. SULZER: A bill (H. R. 14107) to place sugar on the and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary. . free list; to the Committee on Ways and .l\feans. By Mr. ASHBROOK : A bill (H. R. 14084) authorizing the By Mr. NYE: A bill (H. R. 14108) to authorize the city of retirement from active service, with increased rank, of officers Minneapolist in the State of Minnesota, to construct a bridge 1911. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 13

across the Mississippi River in said city; to the Committee on ment of the General Land Office and its branches; to the Com­ Interstate and Foreign Commerce. mittee on the Public Lands. Also, a bill (H. R. 14109) to authorize the city of Minne­ By l\Ir. GRIEST: A bill (H. R. 14128) to provide for the a]Jolis, in the State of Minnesota, to construct a bridge across national aid in the improvement of the public roads; to the the .Mississippi RiYeli' in said city; to the Committee on Inter­ Committee on Agriculture. state and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. SIMS: A bill (H. R. 14129) to abolish the Commerce Also, a bill (H. R. 14110) to authorize the city of Minneapolis, Court, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Interstate in tbe State of Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the and Foreign Commerce. Mississippi River in said city; to the Committee on Interstate By l\fr. HOBSON: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 162) propos­ and Foreign Commerce. ing an amendment to the Constitution providing that the Presi­ Also, a bill (H. R. 14111) to authorize the city of :Minneapolis, dent and Vice President shall be nominated and elected by . in tbe State of Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the direct vote of the people of the several States; to the Committee Mississippi River in said city; to the Committee on Interstate on Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives in and Foreign Commerce. Congress. By Mr. BURLESON: A bill (H. n. 14112) to change the Also, joint resolution (H. J. Res. 163) proposing an amend­ name of oleomargarine to margarin, to change the rate of tax ment to the Constitution prohibiting the sale, manufacture for on margarin, to protect the consumers, dealers, and manufac­ sale, and importation for sale of beverages containing alcohol; turers of margarin against fraud, and to afford the Bureau of to the Committee on the Judiciary. Internal Revenue more efficient means for the detection of By Mr. BURGESS: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 164) request­ fraud and the collection of the revenue; to the Committee on ing the President to consider the expediency of effecting a Agriculture. treaty with European powers providing for the neutralization By 1\Ir. HILL: A bill (H. R. 14113) to permit any corpora­ of the Philippine Islands and to protect an independent gov­ tion, joint-stock company, or association or insurance company ernment there when established; to the Commitiee on Insular to change the date of filing its annual return of net income Affairs. required under ~ection 38 of the tariff act of August 5, 1909, By Mr. CANDLER: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 165) propos­ from the close of the calendar •ear to the close of its own fiscal ing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States so year, and for other purposes; ~to the Committee on Ways and as to elect United States Senators by direct vote of the people, Means. and to modify the fourteenth amendment and repeal the fif­ By l\Ir. ESCH: A bill (H. R. lill4) for the settlement of teenth amendment; to the Committee on Election of President, conflicting claims of the State of Wisconsin and its gr:rntees Vice President, and Representatives in Congress. and the Menominee, l\!unsee, and Stockbridge Tribes of Indians By .Mr. SULZER: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 166) providing and the Lac du Flambeau, La Pointe, and Lac Courte Oreille for the termination of the treaty of 1832 between the United Bands of Chippewa Indians to certain school and swamp lands States and Russia; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. in the reservation of said Indians in Wisconsin; to the Com- By Mr. Cil'DLER: Resolution (H. Res. 307) authorizing the .,. mittee on Indian Affairs. appointment of a clerk to the Committe3 on Alcoholic Liquor By Mr. CA.i..\fPBELL: A bill (H. R. 14115) to protect legiti­ Traffic; to the Committee on Accounts. mate competition; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Also, resolution (H. Res. 308) authorizing the appointment ~ (Commerce. of a clerk to the Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic ; to the By Mr. ROBERTS of Massachusetts: A bill (H. R 14116) to Committee on Accounts. · lQ reestablish the grades of admiral and vice admiral in the Navy By ~Ir. CLAYTON: Resolution (H. Res. 311) authorizing the of the United States; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. appointment of a committee to investigate and report on the ~ By Mr. FOSTER of Illinois: A bill (H. R. 14117) to provide legal status of the claims of all parties interested in lands in ~ for the erection of a public building at Olney, Ill. ; to the Com­ Alabama-for which patents have not been issued; to the Com­ ._,., mfttee on Public Buildings and Grounds. mittee on Rules. ..d\ Also, a bill (H. R. 14118) to prov'ide for the erection of a By l\Ir. MA~1N: Resolution (H. Res. 313) authorizing the 'o'JCI public building at Mount Carmel, Ill. ; to the Committee on appointment of a committee to inyestignte the circumstances · _ Public Buildings and Grounds. of a certain newspaper attack on Hon. MARTIN W. LITTLETON in · Also, a bill (H. R. 14119) to prohibit interference with com­ connection with the investigation of the United States Steel merce among the States and Territories and with foreign Corporation; to the Committee on Rules. nations, and to remove obstructions thereto, and to prohibit the By l\Ir. LINDBERGH: Resolution (H. Res. 314) authorizing transmission of certain messages by telegraph, telephone, cable, the appointment of a committee to investigate as to whethet· or other means of communication between States and Terri­ there are not combinations of financial and other concerns tories and foreign nations; to the Committee on Agriculture. who control money and credits and operate in ·restraint of By Mr. l\IOORE of Pennsylvania: A bill (H. R. 14120) for trade through thRt conti·ol; to the Committee on Rules. the investigation and control of the chestnut-tree blight; to the By Mr. MARTIN of Colorado: Resolution (H. Res. 315) Committee on Agriculture. investigating delay in reestablishing mail service for Durango, By l\lr. DALZELL: A bill (H. R. 14121) to amend the national Colo. ; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. banking laws, and for other purposes; to the Committee on By Mr. GARNER: Resolution (H. Iles. 316) that it is the Banking and Currency. sense of the House of Representatives that the treaty "of 1832 Also, a bill (H. R. 14122) to amend an act entitled "An act with Russia be abrogated; to the Committee on Foreign .Af­ to establish a l:lniform system of bankruptcy throughout the fairs. United States, approved July 1, 1898, and the several acts By l\Ir. NORRIS: Resolution (H. Res. 317) amending Rule amenda.tory thereof; " to the Committee on the Judiciary. XXXII of the House of Representatives; to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 14123) for the erection of a monument to Rules. commemorate the battle historically known as the Battle of By Mr." PALMER: Resolution (H. Res. 318) authorizing the l\Ionongahela, commonly known as Braddock's defeat; to proceedings in contest of Jesse H. Wise v. THo~us S. CRAGO; the Committee on the Library. to the Committee on Elections No. 1. By l\Ir. MOORE of Pem~sylvania: A bill (H. R. 14124) for the By l\Ir. WILSON of New York: Memorial from the State· erection of a memorial to Col. Edward Dickinson Baker at Balls Legislature of New York favoring establishment of uniform Bluff, Va.; to the Committee on the Library. laws on subject of divorce of married persons throughout the By l\1r.1\IACON: A bill (H. R. 14125) to authorize the recon­ United States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. struction, maintenance, and operation of a b1idge across the By Mr. FITZGERALD : Memorial from the Assembly of New Little River at or near Lepanto, Ark.; to the Committee on York, urging constitutional amendment favoring uniform divorce Interstate and Foreign Commerce. laws throughout the United States; to the Committee on the By Mr. ROBERTS of Nevada: A bill (H. R. 14126) regu­ Judiciary. lating the admission into the United States of Japanese, Hindus, .Also, memorial from the Assembly of New York, urging con­ Turks, Koreans, :Malays, East Indians, Abyssinians, and Afghans stitutional amendment favoring uniform divorce laws through­ and persons of Japanese, Hindu, Turkish, Korean, Malayan, out the United States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. East Indian, Abyssinian, and Afghan descent, and providing Also, memorial from the Legislature of New York, urging the for the proper enforcement of the laws governing their admis­ United States Government to est::t'blish an Army po~t in the sion; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. city of Albany; to the Committee. on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. _R. 14127) to proYide for the use of photog­ By l\Ir. WILSON of New York ; Memorial from the Assembly raphy and the blue print, black print, negative print, and for of New Yo1'k, favoring the establishment of an Army post at the sale of copies of field notes, maps, and prints in the depart- Albany, N. Y.; to the Committee on Military Affairs. 14 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. ' DECEl\IBER 4,

PRIVATE BILLS .AND RESOLUTIONS. Also, a bill (H. R. 14169) granting a pension to Jesse W. Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, private bills and resolutions McMichael ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. were introduced and severally referred, as follows: By l\1r. BR.ADLEY: A bill (H. R. 14170) granting an increase By Mr. .ADAIR: A bill (H. R. 14130) granting an increase of of pension to Lydia A. Wright; to the Committee on Invalid pension to John Richie; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14131) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14171) granting an in'crease of pension to Jacob Fritz; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Isaac Ayres; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14132) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14172) granting an increase of pension to Knealy Waymire; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mary M. Ackerman ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . Also, a bill (H. R. 14133) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14173) granting an increase of pension to Joseph Helms; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Alfred Gordon; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14134) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14174) granting an increase of pension to Nancy A. Goontz; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Daniel R. Smith; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14135) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill ( H. R. 14175) granting an increase of pension to James N. House; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. James N. Hazen; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14136) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14176) granting an increase of pension to Marcus Coats; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Margaret Babcock; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14137) granting an increase of pension -to Also, a bill (H. Il.. 14177) granting an increase of pension to George Lipps; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. James H. Utter; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14138) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14178) granting an increase of pension to Robert F. Lewis; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. William Powell; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. , Also, a bill (H. R. 14139) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bil1 (H. R. 14179) granting an increase of pension to Benjamin B. Winans; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. George 0. Booth ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensiqns. Also, a bill (H. R. 14140) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14180) granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth Hoke; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Jane Scott; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14141) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14181) granting an increase of pension to Lewis B. Clark; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Samuel Swinden; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14142) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14182) granting an increase of pension to William I. Jones; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Anna F. Thayer; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14143) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14183) granting an increase of pension to Samuel Gibson; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Sarah A. Jefferson; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14144) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. BROWNING: A bill (H. R. 14184) granting a pension Andrew .McDowell; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to Kate A. Mcl\fichael; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. ANDRUS: A bill (H. R. 14145) granting an increase Also, a bill (H. R. 14185) granting an increase of pension to of pension to Elizabeth Welker; to the Committee on Invalid Joseph Springer; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14186) to place the name of Brig. Gen. Timothy C. Moore upon the officers' retired list; to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 14146) granting an increase of pension to mittee on Ui1itary Affairs. Joseph Francis; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14147) granting an increase of pension to Ily Mr. BULh.."'LEY: A bill (H. R. 14187) granting an increase of pension to Benjamin J. Oswald; to the Committee on Invalid George Eimer; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 14+ 48) granting an increase of pension to Lewis B. Hunt; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14188) granting an increase of pension to Henry Mil1s; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14149) granting an increase of pension to John Parker; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. BURKE of South Dakota: A bill (H. R. 14189) grant­ ing an increase of pension to William Mitchell; to llie Com­ Also, a bill (II. R. 14150) granting an increase of pension to mittee on Invalid Pensions. Jane A. Walsh; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14190) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14151) granting an increase of pension to Oney Aldrich; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Henry B. Perce; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14191) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14152) granting an increase of pension to Theodore Kickland; to the Committee on Invalid PensionR. Thomas Hampson; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. BURKE of Wisconsin: A bill (H. R. 14192) granting Also, a bi11 ( H. R. 14153) granting an increase of pension to an increase of pension to Flora Turcott; to the Committee on Mary E. Brewer; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 11154) to correet the military record of Also, a bill (H. R. 14193) granting an increase of pension to James K. Fuller; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Marinus Nieuwenhuyse; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14155) to correct the military record of Also, a bill (H. R. 14194) granting an increase of pension to Charles Hilbert: to the Committee on Military Affairs. Andrew Dye; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14156) to amend the military record of Also, a bill (H. R. 14195) granting an increase of pension to William Bogart: to the Committee on l\Iilitary Affairs. Edward Phelan; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 14157) to amend the military recoTd of Also, a bili (H. R. 14196) granting an increase of pension to Thomas McClure; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Joseph Scharbonaugh; to the Committee on In alid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14158) for the relief of the widow and Also, a bill (H. R. 14191) granting an increase of pension to children of Edward JJ,. Wyman, deceased; to the Committee on Franklin Austin; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Claims. By Mr. BUTLER: A bill (H. R. 14198) granting an increase .Also, a bill (H. R. 14159) for the relief of Rear Admiral H. L. of pension to Benjamin H. Sweeney; to the Committee on In­ Howison, United States Navy, retired; to the Committee on valid Pensions. Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 14199) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. ASHBROOK: A bill (H. R. 14160) granting a pen­ Franklin W. Mercer; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. sion to Mary A. Elliott; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. CARY: A bill (H. R. 14200) granting a pension to Also, a bill (II. R. 14161) granting an increase of pension to Louis K. Rohde; to the Committee on Pensions. Katherine Rogers ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14201) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14162) granting an increase of pension to Minna Levit; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Jennie B. Richards; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14202) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. ANSBERRY: A bill (H. R. 14163) granting a pen­ Upton Housman; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. sion to Eldora G. Sangston; to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. R. 14203) for the relief of John T. Smith, Pensions. , alias John Wagner; to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 14164) granting a pension to Margaret E. By Mr. CLINE: A bill (~. R. 14204) granting a pension to Fickle· to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. William Watson; to the Committee on Im~.alid Pensions. Also: a bill (H. R. 14165) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14205) granting a pension to John H. Joseph C. Dickson; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Weaver; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14166) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14206) gmnting a pension to Peter P. Jacob W. Click; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Young; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By l\Ir. BATES: A bill (H. R. 14i.67) granting a pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14207) granting a pension to Isaac Treesb; David T. Brownell; to the Committee on Invalid Peusions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. / Also, a bill (H. R. 14168) granting a pension to Elias Drayer; Also, a bill (H. R. 14208) granting a pension to John to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Scheurick; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 1911. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 15

Al o, a bill (IT. R. 14209) grunting a pension to David Conk­ Also, a bill (H. R. 14246) granting an increase of pension to lin; to the Committee on, Invalid Pensions. Abraham Lance; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. lHenry Clay ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. point .:\faj. A. S. M. .Morgan to the grade of colonel on the retired .Also, a bill (H. R. 14251) granting an increa e of pension to list : to the Committee on Military Affairs. Felix l\f. Wheat; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14214) for the relief of Julius C. Zanone; Also, a bill (H. R. 14252) granting an increase of pension to to the Committee on. Claims. Christian Schonert; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bil1 (H. R. 14215) for the relief of Dilworth Coal Co.; Also, a bill (H. R. 14253) granting a pension to Clifford to the Committee on Claims. Sweeten; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bi11 (H. R. 14216) for• the relief of the legal repre­ Also, a bill (H. R. 14254) granting an increase of pension to sentative of James Taylor, deceased; to the Committee on War ~is Schmidt; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 14255) granting an increase of pension to Al so, a bill (H. R. 14217) for the relief of the Union Bridge Samuel Worley; to the Committee on Invalid, Pensions. Co .• n corporation of Pennsylvania ~ having its chief office in Also, a bill (li R. 14256) to remove the charge of desertion Pittsburgh, Pa.; to the Committee on Claims. from the record of Henry Benjamin~ to the Committee on War Also, a bill (H. R. 14218) for the relief of Luster P. Chester Claims. and Freeland Chester, and Luster P. Chester and Freeland Also, a bill (H. R. 14257) granting a pension to Gerfrude l\1. Chester, executors of Thomas R. Chester; to the Committee on Snedeker; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. War Claims. By Mr. FULLER: A bill (H. R. 142'38) granting an increase Also, a bill (H. R. 14219) for the relief of Edward J. l\Ic­ of pension to John Bye1·s; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Ilrnin~ surviving partner of Sloan, Mcllvaine & Ott Bros. and Also, a bill (H. R. 14259) granting an increase of pension w of Sloan, l\Icilvaine & Graha.m; to the Committee on Claims. William l\fcClay; to the Committee on· Invalid Pensions. By l\Ir. DE FOREST: A bill (H. Il 14220) granting a pen­ By Mr. GALLAGHER: A bill (H. R. 14260) granting a pen­ sion to Ira N. Haney; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .sion to Charles Pickett; to the COmmittee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. DICKINSON: A bill (H. R. 14221) granting an in­ By Mr. GARNER: A bill (H. R. 14261) grunting a pension to crea e of. pension to John L. Rood; to the Committee on Inva­ Ida l\f. Crossley; to the Committee 0 T: Pensions. lid Pensions. By lfr. GOOD: A bill (H. R. 142u2) granting an increase of Also, a bill (H. R. 14222) granting an increase of pension to pension to Joseph C. Stoddard; to the Committee on Invalid Aristarchus Wilson; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14223) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14263) granting an increase of pension to Decatur Smith; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Josiah Miller; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14224.) granting a pension to William H: Also, a bill (H. R. 14264) granting a pension to .Tames E. Nelson; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Whipple; to the Committee· on Pensions. By l\fr. DYER: A bill (H. R. 14225) granting an increase of Also, a bill (H. R. 14265) granting an increase of pension to pension to Frederick Bonnot; to the Committee on Invalid Joseph F. Latta; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14266) granting an increa1'e of pension to By Mr. FAIRCHILD: A bill (H. R. 14226) granting an in­ Charles Everts; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. crease of pension to David W. Clements-; to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 14267) granting an increase of pension to Invalid Pensions. Hiram Neville; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14227) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14268) granting a pension to Laura Boy­ Chauncey Bell; to the Committee on Invalid Pens.ions. sen; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14228) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill ( H. R. 14269) granting an increa.Be of pension to Charles Rollins; to the Committee on Invalid Penslims. Orin P. Mccreedy; to the Committee on InvaUd Pensions. AI o, a bill (H. R. 14229) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14270) granting a pension to Deborah R. William Sofford; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Isherwood; to the Committee on Inrnlid Pensions. By l\Ir. FOSTER of Illinois : A bilI (H. R. 14230) granting a Al o, a bill (H. R. 14271) granting an increase of pension to pension to William Hanks·; to the Committee on Invalid Pen-· James Coleman; to the Committee on In-valid Pensions. sions. · By llr. GRIEST: A bill (H. R. 14272) granting n pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14231) granting a pension to A. H. Petti­ Anna Mary Troup; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. bone; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. Il. 14273) granting an increa, e of pension to Also, a bill ( H. R. 14232) granting a pension to Lee Monroe; Martin Sweigart; to the Committee on Inrnlid Pensions. to the Committee on Invn lid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14274) granting an increa e of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. i4233) granting a pension to Elie Gaston; Hiram G. Dissinger; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Im-alid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 14275) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14234) granting a pension to Nancy A. Henry Grady; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Bonner; to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14276) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14235) granting an increase of pension to Ralph A. Anderson; to the Committee on In-rnlid Pensions. Henry F. Smith; to the Committee on Inrnlid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14277) granting an incrense of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14236) granting an increase of. pension. to George Sheets; to the Committee on In"fa1id Pensions. John H. Gernert; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14278) granting an increase of pen!:tion to Also, a bill ( H. R. 14237) granting an increase of pension to John 1\1. Campbell; to the Committee on Invalid Pe~sions . Cha rles Becker: to the Committee on Invalid Pensjons. By :Mr. HAUILTON of West Virginia: 4 bill (H. R. 14'.;?19) Also, a bill (H. R. 14238) granting an increase of pension to for the relief of the heirs of John B. Leavitt; to the Committee James H. Johnson; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. on War 'Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 14239) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill ( H. R. 14280) granting an increase of pens] on to H. D. YelYington; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Peter A. Burdett; to the Committee on Inn1lid Pcn~io ns . Also, a bill (H. R. 14240) granting an increase of pension. to Also, a bill (H. R. 14281) granting an increase of pension to George Hutton; to the Committee on Invalifl Pensions. Martin Maloy; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14241) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. -14282) granting an increase of pension to Elisha Hart; to the Committee on Invalid Peusions. Sarah Ann Williamson; to•the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14242) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14283) granting an iI:crea e of pension to Snphrona J. Spencer; to the Committee o:q Pensions. Jacob Conkle; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14243) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14284) granting an increase of pension to Cynthia A. Reynolds; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. John P. Overton; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14244) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14285) granting an increase of pension to Joseph R. Buchanon; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. James R. Barrett; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14245) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. HANNA: A bill (H. R. 14286) granting a pension to W. H. Judd; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Chloe A. Truax; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 16 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEl\IBER 4,

Also, a bill (!I. R. 14287) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14327) to carry into effect the findings of Edward Ranbyauer; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Court of Claims in the matter of the claim of the estate Also, a bill (H. R. 14288) granting an increase of pension to of William Cochrane, deceased; to the Committee on War George I. Foster; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 14289) granting an increase of pension to By l\Ir. HUMPHREY of Washington: A bill (H. R. 14328) Stoddard Caswell; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. granting an increase of pension to Uichael Denigan; to the Also, a bill (H. R. 14200) granting an increase of pension to Committee on Invalid Pensions. Seth H. Stone; to the Com,mittee on Invalid Pensions. By l\fr. KONOP: A bill (H. R. 14329) to correct the war Also, a bill (H. R. 14291) granting an increase of pension to.. record of Edward Bethke; to the Committee on l\Iilitary Henry M. Zellers; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 14292) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14330) granting a pension to Thomas Jasper N. Baker; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Joyce; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 14293) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14331) to remove the charcre of desertion Wesley S. Brayles; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. against Peter Thomas; to the Committee on 1\fili tary Affairs. By l\fr. HARTMAN: A bill (H. R. 14294) granting an increase Also, a bill ( H. R. 14332) to remove the charge of de ertion of pension to Amos Graham; to the Committee on Invalid Pen­ standing against Jacob Doxtater; to the Committee on l\filitary sions. Affairs. By l\lr. HAY: A bill (H. R. 14295.) to place Lieut. Col. Junius. Also, a bill (H. R. 14333) for the relief of John Johnson; to L. Powell on the retired list of the Army with the rank of the Committee on Claims. ' brigadier geu€ral; to the Colllll1ittee on l\filitary Affairs. By Mr. LA.l\1B: A bill (H. R. 14334) for the relief of J. N. By 1\Ir. HELM: A bill (H. R. 14296) for the relief of Madison Whittaker; to the Committee on Claims. County, Ky.; to the Committee on Rivers and ~arbors. By l\lr. LANGHAM: A bill (H. R. 14335) granting a pension Also, a bill (H. R. 14297) to correct the military record of to James W. McHenry; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. James A. Holman; to the Committee on l\filitary Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 14336) granting a pension to Annie S. By Ur. HILL: A bill (H. R. 14298) granting a pension to Elgin; to the Committee on Invalid Pension . David C. 1\farshall; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14337) granting a pension to Rachel Ann By l\fr. HOBSON: A bill (H. R. 14299) for the relief of W. P. Keifiein; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Roebuck; to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 14338) granting an increase of pension to A.lso, a bill (H. R. 14300) for the relief of Ransom Day; to James l\f. :Marshall; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on War Claims. . Also, a bill (H. R. 14339) granting an increase of pension to Also, a -bill (H. R. 14301) for the relief of Jefferson Phillips; John C. Doran; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 14340) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14302) for the relief of Ann E. Sanders; William Cathcart; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 14341) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14303) for the relief of J. C. :Markham; to Samuel E. Bish; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the Committee on War Claims. - Also, a bill (H. R. 14342) granting an increa e of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14304) for the relief of John Thompson; William G. Hovis; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 14343) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14305) for the relief of the estate of Sylvia Joshua Lewis; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Cannon, deceased; to the Committee on War Claims. Al~o, a bill (H. R. 14344) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14306) for the relief of heirs or estate of Samuel Barnett ; to the Committee on Im·aJid Pensions. Jessie R. Northington, deceased; to the Committee on War Also, a bill (H. R. 14345) granting an increa e of pension to Claims. Edwin F. 1\filler; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14307) for relief of heirs or estate of Also, a bill (H. R. 14346) granting an increa e of pension to Jacob Holbrook, sr., deceased; to the Committee on War Claims. Joseph McGaughey; to_the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 14308) for relief of heirs or estate of Also, a bill ( H. R. 14347) granting an increase of pension to Dr. R. 0. Perrin, aeceased; to the Committee on War Claims. Isaac Beck; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 14309) for relief of heirs or estate of Also, a bill (H. R. 14348) granting an increase of pension to John C. Anderson, deceased; to the Committee on War Claims. Robert M. Reed; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14310) for the relief of heirs or estate of Also, a bill (H. R. 14349) granting an increase of pension to William Ervin, deceased; to the Committee on War Claims. Jane R. Bonnin; to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. . R. 14311) for relief of heirs or estate of By l\Ir. LANGLEY: A bill (H. R. 14350) grantinO' an in­ W. C. Burleson, deceased; to the Committee on War Claims. crease of pension to William H. Williams; to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 14312) for the relief of heirs or estate of on Invalid Pensions. Jessie L. Taylor, deceased; to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 14351) granting an increase of pension to Al~o, a bill (H. R. 14313) granting a pension to Arminta Joel Dunaway; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. John:wn; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14352) granting an inc r ea~e of pension to Also, a bill (II. R. 14314) granting a pension to W.W. Harris; John W. Creed; to the Committee on In-valid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14353) granting an increa e of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14315) granting a pension to Elza L. Thomas Pinson; to the Committee on Invalid Pen!;ious. Ross; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. LEE of Georgia: A bill (Il. R. 143:34 ) for the erection Also, a bill (II. R. 14316 )-granting a pension to Jennie Hollo­ of a public building at Carters,ille, Ga.; to the Committet> on way Gibbons; to the Committee on Pensions. Public Buildings and Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 14317) granting a pension to Olaus Ander­ Also, a bill (H. R. 14355) for the erection of a public building son: to the Committee on rensions. at Cedartown, Ga.; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Also, a bill (H. R. 14318 ) granting a pension to Charles N. B. Grounds. Nicholson; to the Committee on Pensions. By l\fr. LENROOT: A bill (H. R. 14356) granting a pen ion Also, a bill (H. R. 14319) granting a pension to Steven to Ethel Kingsbury; to the Committee on In1fl lid Pensious. Konicka; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14357) granting a pension to Henry Rice Also, a bill (H. R. 14320) granting a pension to John A. Cruttenden; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Wyers; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14358) granting a pension to Harriet E. Also, a bill (H. R. 14321) granting a pension to D. G. Har­ Munroe; to the Committee on Invalid Pension . rison; to the Committee on Jnyalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14359) granting an in c re :1~ e of pension to Al so, a bill (H. R. 14322) granting an increase of pension to Thomas J. Little; to the Committee on Inrn lid Pensions. Mary Johnson Happel; to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. LINDSAY: A bill (H. R. 14360) granting an increase Also, a bill ( H. R. 14323) granting an increase of pension to of pension to James Mc.Murray. alias James Dunne, jr.; to the Arthur Gable; to tile Committee on i?ensions. ,. Committee on InYalid Pensions. Also, a bill ( H. R. 14324) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14301) granting an in c ren~e of pension to Charles 1\1. Stebbins; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Edward Slearin; to the Committee on Inrnlid Pensions. Also, a bill (II. R. 14325) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14362) granting an incren. e of pension to William Robert Harper; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Ellen T. White; to the Committee on InYalid P en~ i ons. Also, a bill (H. R. 143!16) to carry into effect the findings of Also, a bill (H. R. 14363) granting an increa~ e of pension to the Court of Claims in the matter of the claim of the estate George Karle; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of Augustus N. Perkins, deceased; to the Committee on War Also, a bill (H. R. 14364) granting an increns;e of pension to Claims. Walter Woodward; to the Committee on Inrnlid Pensions. 1911. GONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE.

Also, a bill (H. R. 14365) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14405) granting a pension to Mattie J. John H. Mange; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Sarver and her three minor children; to the Committee on By l\lr. LITTLEPAGE: A bill (H. R. 14366) granting a pen­ Pensions. · . sion to William Reedy.; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill {H. R. 14406) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. LLOYD: A bill (H. R. 14367) granting a pension to Oliver Kimmel; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. William H. Alexander; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14407) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. l\lcGILLICUDDY: A bill (H. R. 14368) granting a Caleb E. Frazier; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. pension to Neda S. Thornton; to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14408) granting an increase of pension to A.lso, a bill (H. R. 14369) granting a pension to Amanda M. Joseph C. Morris; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Sheeran; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14409) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14370) granting a pension to David F. Edward M. Drohan; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mansfield; to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14410) granting an increase of pension to A.lso, a bill (H. R. 14371) granting a pension to Thomas F. William F. Hill; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Moore; to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14411) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. n.. 14372) granting a pension to Almon L. William H. Ward; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Penley; to the Committee on Inv:Jlid Pensions. . Also, a bill (H. R. 14412) granting an increase of pension to A.lso, a bill (H . R. 14373) granting a pension to Cornelius Henry Barclay; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Conly, alias Cornelius Conley or Connelly; to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 14.413) granting an increase of pension to Invalid Pensions. Le Roy A. Crane; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14374) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14414) granting an increase of pension to Mary E. Brown ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. WillW.m Shambaugh; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14375) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill {H. R. 14415) granting a homestead patent to John l!'rench; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Stella V. Haney; to the Committee on the Public Lands. Also, a bill (H. R. 14376) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14416) for the relief of Stephen Tregamba, 1\frs. Sophia A. Smith ;.. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Public Lands. Also, a bill (H. R. 14377) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14417) to remove the charge of desertion Orin R. Burrows; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · from the name of Byarcl Hickman; to the Committee on Mili­ Also, a bill (H. R. 14378) granting an increase of pension to tary Affairs. Timothy Donovan; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14418) granting a pension to Thomas In­ Also, a bill {H. R. 14379) granting an increase of pension to man; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. James Dray; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. MOON of Tennessee: A bill (H. R. 14419) granting a Also, a bill (H. R. 14380) granting an increase of pension to pension to Dautry C. BainE~; to the Committee on Invalid Ivory W. Emerson; to the Committee on ~nvalid Pensions. Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14381) granting an increase of pension to B:- Mr. OLDFIELD: A bill .(H. R. 14420) for the relief of Edward Higgins; to the Committee on In-rnlid Pensions. the heirs of l\Ianning Harris; to the Committee on War Claims. Also, a bill {H. R. 14382) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. PA.URAN: A bill (H. R. 14421) for the relief of James David S. Knapp; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Lyons; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 14383) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. H.. 14422) for the relief of Joseph B. Girault, Elias A. Lothrop; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. late paymaster's clerk, United States Navy; to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 14384) granting an increase of pension to on Naval Affairs. Henry G. Mitchell; to the Committee on Imalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14423) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14385) for the relief of John W. Whalen; Dominick Roach; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 14424) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. McHENRY: A bill (H. R. 14386) granting a pension George L. Richter; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to Did L. Wilson; to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14425) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R 14387) granting a pension to Sophia D. Alexander Shaney; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Scholl; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14426) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14388) granting a pension to Edward Alfred K. Young; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Aldrich; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14427) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14389) granting an increase of pension to Junius Thomas Turner; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Lyman H. Fowler; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14428) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14390) granting an increase of pension to Margaret W. Dexter; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Joseph Laughenberger; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By l\Ir. ROUSE: A bill (H. R. 14429) granting a pension to · Also, a bill (H. R. 14391) granting an increase of pension to Irene J. need; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. John B. Kauffman; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14430) granting a pension to :Mary E. Also, a bill (H. R. 14392) granting an increase of pension to Moore; to tbe Committee on In>alid Pensions. Philip R. Lenig; to the Committee 9n Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14431) granting a p~ to D. B. Finnell; Also, a bill (H. R. 14393) granting an increase of pension to to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mahlon B. Hicks; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14432) granting a pension to Katheren Fox; By Mr. l\fcKINNEY: A bill (H. R. 14394) granting an in­ to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. crease of pension to James N. Dennis; to the Committee on By Mr. RUCKEB. of Colorado: A bill (H. R. 14433) granting Invalid Pensions. an increase of pension to Tobias Mattox; to the Committee on By Mr. McMORRAN: A bill (H. R. 14395) granting a pension InT"alid Pensions. to Moses E. Sturtevant; to the Committee on Im·alid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14434) granting an increase of pension to By .Mr. MA.CON~ A bill (H. R. 14396) granting an increase Andrew D. Johnston; to the Committee on In>alid 2 ensions. of pension to Wyatt Baldwin; to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. R. 14435) granting an increase of pension to Pensions. George Livingston; to the Committee on InT"alid Pensions. · By l\lr. MADDEN: A bill (H. R. 14307) granting a pension By Mr. RUCKER of Missouri: A bill (H. R. 14436) granting to Frank Smith; to the Committee on Pensions. a pension to James W. Fisher; to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. R. 14398) granting a pension to Annie Robb; Pensions. to the Committee on Innlid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14437) granting an increase of pension to Also, o. bill (H. R. 14399) granting an increase of pension to Hugh A.. Thorp; to the Committee on Inrnlid Pensions. Henry A. Kline; to the Committee on Inrnlid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 14438) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 14400) granting an increase of pension to George B. Miller; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Jonathan Merriam; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By l\fr. SHERWOOD: A bill (H. R. 14439) granting an in­ Also, a bill (H. R. 144-01) for the relief of Jacob Newman; crease of pension to William Hovey; fo the Committee on In­ to the Committee on Claims. valid Pensions. .A1Eo, a bill {H. R. 14402) to remove the charge of desertion A1so, a bill (H. R. 14440) -granting a pension to Sarah E • from the record of Alphonso Rankin; to the Committee on Gillespie ; to th~ Committee on Invalid Pensions. Military .Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 14441) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. MANN: A bill (H. R. 14403) for the relief of Thomas Patrick H. Dowling; to the Committee on Inrnlid Pensious. H. Thorp; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 14442) granting a pension to Delia R. By Mr. 1\1.A.RTIN of Colorado: .A bill (H. R. 14404) grant­ Parker; to the Committee on InT"alid Pensions. ing a pension to Ignatius Tillett; to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. R. 14443) granting an increase of pension to Pensions. Thomas Dennis; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

XLVIII--2 18 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- ROUSE. DECEMBER 4,

!By l\1:r. ·SIMMONS.: A ·bm (H. It. 14444) giranting a pension · ing ·for the _passage of House T.escilutiGn : 8141~ to the Oomm1ttee to Rebecca Kinney ; to t'he Committee on Invalid Pensions. ' on .Milita.cy A.ffair.s. Also a .b.ill (H. R. 14445) granting an increase of perrs'.ion to . 'B_y Mr. ..AYRES: Resolution -0f the New York State Society oi Alonzo' J . .Mcl\faster; to the :Committee on Invalid P.ensions. . Certified Public AccolIIltants, as to -employment of ·charter.ed Also, .a bill ·(H. R. J..4446) granting llil increase -of .1JenSiO'n to · accountants; to the Oomm.ittee on Appropriations. Commodore -0. Per17; to the .Committee on '.Invalid Pensions. ..Also, :resolutions -adopted by the National League for Medical Also, a bill (H. ~. 14441) granting .an increaoe of pension to Freedom in relntion to Executive ond.er as to ·medical -practice John Ba.con; io the Committee ·on Invalid Pensions. . ln Pmrnma Canal Zone; -to the .Committee on Interstate a11d BF 1\f.r. SIMS : A bill (H. R . 14448~ granting a ipenSion to Foreign ·Commerce. James D . .Boshart, alias Buz.zru:d; to the O>mmittee on .In-v-alid ~ .Also, resolution of -the American Institute of Architects, in Pensions. · .relation to Lincoln .Memorial; to the 'Committee on Industrial A1so, a b'ill •(H. R 14449) :granting a '}Jen-sion to .John .R. : .Arts and Expositions. Costen · .to the Committee on Invalid P,ensions. : Also, resolutions .of congregation of Jud.ab Halevi, Jefferson Also '·a ·bm t{ H. R. 14450) granting an .in~rease of pension to Lodge (Bronx), and Herzel Lodge, .No. '251, in relation to Rus- J ohn W. 'Jones; to the Oommittee on Invalid Pensions. Sian passports; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Also a 'bill (H. R. 14451~ granting an increase of pension to By Mr. BARTHOLDT: Resolutions .of St. Louis Israel Lodge, Riley Holmes; to the Committee .on Invalid Pensions. .No. 46,; 'Missouri Lodge, No. 378; and Chas. Werner Lodge, No.. Also, a bill ('H. R. 14452) granting a pension te GiTher.t C. 114, Order B'rith Abraham, praying for the abrogation of the Wallac.e · to the Comm1ttee on Pensions. Russia.n-Americ.an treaty; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Also, .~ ·b1l1 (H. R. 14453) granting a pension to William T. Also, petitions of Geo1:ge B. Wetf.ster, Paul C. Hunt, and Charle Ma.yes· to tthe Committee on Tnvalid P.ensions. • W. Holte.amp, citizens of St. Louis, 1\!lo., -praying for passage of Also: a bill (IL .R. 14454) granting an increase of .Pension to House 'bill 8141, to prGvide for a more e:fiicient National Guard ; William .M. Doss; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on M.illt~y Affairs. .A.Jso, a bill (H. R. 14455) granting an increase of pensign to Also, petitions of 0. F.. 'Blanke Tea & Coffee Co. and the Thomas 1t. Gray ,; ;to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Ames Shovel & Tool Co., of St. ·Louis, .Mo., ,praying for legisla- .AJso, a bill (H. R. 14456) granting a pension to James R. tion to allow .corporations to mnk.e .returns .at the end (}f their Parker; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. .fiscal years; to the Committee on 'WB:YS and Means. Also, a bill (H. R. 14457) .granting an increase -of pension to Also, resolution of District Grand Lodge No. 2, Independent · William C. McClure; to the Committee on '.I.nnllid Pensions. Order of B'.nai B'rlth, praying for the abrogation of the Russian ~.Uso, a bill (H. R. 14458) granting a pension to 'Rebecca ; treaty; ·to the -Committee an Foreign A:ffa.h·s. J"ones; to the 1Commlttee on Invalid Pensions. Alsq, resolution of St. Louis Lodge, No. 37, .of Switchmen's Al o, a bill (H. R. 1.4459) granting an increase of pension to Union, J>raying for p.assage of House :bill :13911, prCYViding for J ames F. Smith; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. . the least number of men to be.assigned.to .eaeh engine engaged in A:Jso, a '.bill «H. R. 14460) granting an increase of pension to , handling ·cars, etc.; .to the Commlttee on Interstate .and Foreign John A. 1Ienry; to the Uommittee on Pensions. Commerce. Also, a bi'll Ca. R. 14461) for the relief of the legal repre- By 1\1.r. .BULKLEY : Tiesolution adopted by the Oleveland sentatives of John Green, deceased; to the Committee on War Branch of the Lake Seamen"s Union, -pmtesting against the Claims. excessive tax on oleomarga:rine an(! asking that it 'be redueed ; Also, a bill (H. R. 14462) for the relief of James W. Glass; to the Committee on Ways and Means. to the Committee on War Claims. Also, resolution of the Ohio Sta:te Board of Commerce. urging .A 1 o, a 'bill (H. R. 14463) for the· relief of Martin Gridley; the amendment of the cor_pora.tion-tax law to ailow corporations to the Committee on War (JI.aims. to make their returns as of the close -of their fiscal year; to the Also a bill 1(H. R. 14464) for the relief of V. B. Walker; to Committee on Ways and Means. the Co~ittee on Wru.· Claims. · Also, resolutions adopted 'by Local Union No. 105, Brother- Also, a bill (H. iR. 14465) for the relief of J . R. Mathews; hood of Carpenters and Joiners; ·C1e-veland ·waiters' Union, to the ComJDittee on War Claims. No. 106; Metal Trades Council; Local Union No. 2, Wood, Wire, (H. 1 By Mr. S1.1ITH .of Texas~ A. bill R. 14466) granting a 1 and Metal Lathers' Union, of CleveLand, Ohio, urging the enact­ pension to William F> Churchill; to the Committee on Pensions. 1 ment of House bill 11372, to abolish involuntary servitude im­ By Mr. UTTER . A bill '(H. R. 14467) gra.ntin? an increase ?f ' posed on seamen in the merchant marine of the United States; to pension to Olementine Richards, to the Coillilllttee on Invalid the Cummittee ·on the Merchant Marine a.nd Fisheries. Pensions. . . . . r Also, resolutions of Lake ~ie Lodge, No. 198; Fo.rest City Also a bill (H. R. 1.4468) granting an mcrease of pension to 1 Lodge, No. 187.; Abraham Lmcoln Lodge, No. 52; .l\fontefione Anna Angell: to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Lodge, No. 13; Order Frith Abralla.m; Ohio Lodge, No. 185, Also, a bill (Il. R. 14469) granting an inerea e of pension to Order -of the w .est; Sons of Isaac Association; Ohava Amuna Margaret J . Brophy; to rthe Committee ·on Invalid 'Pensions. Anshe Russian Oongregation, all of -Cleveland, Ohio, pl'Otesting Also, a bill (H. R 14410) ~'3.Ilting an in?rease ~f pension to against :treaty violations by th.e .Russian 'Go:vernment Jn the Frank F. Pullen ; to the Comnutt.ee. on Inrnhd Pensions. · matter ·of ;Passports in the hands .of .American -citizens and .Also a bill (H. R. 14471~ ·granting ·an incrnase .of pension to a.skin Cl' that steps be taken to correct .the abuse· to the .com- Hattie' Sheldon; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. mitte: on .Foreign Affairs. ' By Mr. WEEKS : A bill (H. 1:1-· 14472) gr~ting -a pension to Al o, .resolvtlon of the executive committee of the Zionist Arthur G. Bosson; to the CoIDilllttee on Pensions. Council, of Cleveland, Ohio, calling upon Congress and the By Mr. WILSON of New York: A bill (H. R. 14473) _granting President to abrogate the present treaty between the United an increase of pension to Daniel Leiner; to the Co.mmitte_e ·on States a.nd Russia; .to the Committee on Forej,gn Affairs. Invalid Pe~sio~&, ,.. . . . By Mi:. BURKE of Wisconsin : -Papers to accompany bills Also, a bill (H. R. 144t4) grun?ng an mcre~se ·Of ~enswn to granting .an mcrease of pension to .John .Augustin, Franklin Mathias Ebe.rhUTdt: to the ·Committee 'ill'l Invalld Pensions. Austin, w. H . Bates, Wallace Cole, Andrew Dye, Fred-erle.k Heise, William Kirst, l\:larinus Nieuwenhuyse, Edward Phalen, PETITIONS, ETC. and Joseph Scharboria.ugh; .to the .Committee on Invalid Pen- Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, petitions and papers were laid sions. on the Clerk's desk and .referred as follows : By Mr. CAMPBELL: Resolutions of National League for By Mr. fi"DERSON of Ohio: Petitions of the Buckeye S.tamp­ .Medical Refor~, protesting against any discrimination in fa-vor ing Co., of Columbus; the Oontinental Trust & Savings Bank of any school of healing in the selection of Federal, State, ox Co., of Toledo ; and the Globe Tailoring Co., of Cincinnati. all in municipal officers charged with .the ad.mini tration of health Ohio, .asking for 1~ent letter _postage ; to the Committee on the regulations; to the Committee on Inter tate and Foreign om­ Post Office and Post Roads. merce. By hlr. ASHBROOK : Papers to accompany H . R. 44.57 and By Mr. CARY: Resolution of Switchmen's Union of North bill for the relief of Mary P. King_; to the Committee on Inm­ America, Local No. 10, Milwaukee, Wis., fnrnring the reduction lid Pensions. of ·the tax .on oleomargarine; to :the ,Committee on Ways nnd Also, re olutlons of the Glass Bottle Blowers' Association, '.Means. Branch 101, Coshocton, 0.hio, urging a reduction in the duty ..on Also, resolution of Wisconsin Banker ' A oei:it.ion, lll'p;ing oleomargarine; to the Committee -on Ways and Means. the passage of .an act which will permit nationa1 banks of the Also, petition -of 0.hio Sash & Door Oo., of .Cleveland, Ohio, country districts to carry 25 per cent of thei-r loan "'ecnred l.ly favoring 1-c.ent postage; to the Committee on the Post Office .first mo.rtga,ges on improved farms; to tbe Ooun:1iHee on F. nk­ and Post Roads. ing and Currency. Also, petition of Dr. M. R. Limb, Grand Army of the Repu~lic · Also, resolution of the Switchmen's Uuion of • "ort11 America, .Veterans, and Spanish War Soldiers, all of Wooster, Ohio, ask- Local No. 10, Milwaukee, Wis., in support of House bill 1: 1~n1. 1911. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 19 governing the number of men to be employed on locomotive en­ Lodge, No. 320, Order B'rith .Abraham, of Chicago, Ill., with gines engaged in interstate commerce; to the Committee on reference .to the passport question between the United States Interstate and Foreign Commerce. and Russia ; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Also, resolution of Supreme Council, Order of Commercial By Mr. GARDNER of Massachusetts: Resolutions of Cape Travelers of America, favoring Senate bill 2051, "To promote Ann Lodge, No. 460, Independent Order of B'rith Abraham, of the efficiency of the Life-Saving Service " ; to the CoJllmittee on Gloucester, l\fass.; Haverhill Zion Lodge, No. 117, and Haver­ Interstate and Foreign Commerce. hill Lodge, No. 305, Independent Order of B~rith Abraham, of Also, resolutions of Milwaukee Musicians' Association and Haverhill, Mass.; Beverly Lodge, No. 458, Independent Order of Local No. 18, 1\filwaukee (Wis.) Theatrical State Employees, B'rith Abraham, of Beverly, l\fass.; and Newburyport Lodge, No. indorsing House bill 5601; to the Committee on Interstate 488, Independent Order of B'rith Abraham, of Newburyport, and Foreign Commerce. Mass., urging the termination of the existing treaties between Also, resolutions of Lumber Handlers' Local No. 18, Long­ the United States and Russia, with a view to negotiating new shoremen's Association, and :Milwaukee Branch, Lake Sea­ treaties which will insure protection to American citizens hold­ men's Union, Milwaukee, Wis., indorsing House bill 11372; to ing American passports while traveling in Russia; to the Com- the Committee on the .Merchant 1\farine and Fisheries. mittee on Foreign Affairs. - Also, memorial of the Pattern Makers' Association, Mil­ By Mr. GOLDFOGLE: Resolutions of Brainsker Friendschaft waukee, Wis., indorsing House bill 5601, to limit the effect Lodge, No. 444; Benjamin Homson Lodge, No. 9; the Rabbi 1\1. of the regulation of interstate commerce between the States Horowitz Lodge, No. 319; Suvalk Lodge, No. 379; Asher Lodge, in goods, wares, and merchandise wholly or in part manu­ No. 27; Tysmcuizse Siegelschippe Lodge, No. 468; Abraham factured by convict labor; to the Committee on Interstate anu Lo~ge, No. 1; Glasgow Lodge, No. 282; New Kurlander Lodge, Foreign Commerce. No. 95; Fortschritt Lodge, No. 207; Aaron Weises Lodge, No. Also, resolutions of Lodges 80 and 283, Order B'rith Abraham; 244; Golden Jubilee Lodge., No. 464; the Royal Lodge, No. 488; Lodge 360, Independent Order B'rith Abraham; and United Joseph Heinrnan Lodge, No. 70; l\Iharshuh Lodge, No. 372; Os­ Israelite Society, of Wisconsin, favoring the abrogation of the trolenker Lodge, No. 206; Eben Israel Lodge, No. 69; Wailing treaty between the United States and Russia; to the Com­ Wale Lodge, No. 373; Iehuda Lodge, No. 15; Weinberg Lodge, mittee on Foreign Affairs. No. 44; Abraham Golder Lodge, No. 420; Ametican Israelite By l\Ir. DYER: Resolutions of National Founders' Associa­ Lodge, No. 187; Jonathan Lodge, No. 77; Progress Lodge, No. tion, of Detroit, l\Iich., urging that only legislation promoting 184, Order B'rith Abraham ; Independent l\Iinsker Lodge, No. 601; the general welfare of the country be considered; to the Com­ Ahawath Scholem Lodge, No. 65; Horsdenker Lodge, ·No. 472; mittee on Ways and Means. the Joseph Held Lodge, No. 527; Epstein Lodge, No. 134; Ro. Also, petition of Slate and Pile Roofers' Local, No. 1, of the Cy. l\I. Y. Sackler Lodge, No. 611; Zurawner Lodge, No. 33; International Association of America, urging the passage of Ohaw Scholem Lodge, No. 29; American Eagle Lodge, No. 85 ; House bill 5601; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Rabbi Jochonon Lodge, No. 144; Dr. Nathan Adler Lodge, 1'\o. Commerce. 132; Lazir T. Brodskie Lodge, No. 258; Erste Dukler Lodge, No. Also, resolutions of Lodge 37, Switchmen's Union of North 32; Dubner Lodge, No. 357; Lebanon Lodge, No. 247; Iehnda America, in approval of House bill 13911 ; to the Committee on Haleny Lodge, No-. 204; James A. Garfield Lodge, No. 16; Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Oestreich Unzarishe Lodge, No. 9; Wlozlawker Caro Lodge, Also, resolutions of Lodges 46 and 378 Order B'rith Abraham; No. 45; Jessie Seligman Lodge, No. 102; Ind. King Solomon Lodges 88 and 93, Independent Order B'rith Abraham; and Lodge, No. 200; Liberty Lodge, No. 27; Eotvos Lodge, No. 4; Lodge 228, Independent Order B'rith Sholom, urging the abro­ Jchuda Horowitz Lodge, No. 3'5; Israel Lodge, No. 51; Barnett gation of the existing treaty between this country and Russia; Jacob Kind Lodge, No. 514; Dr. Adler Lodge, No. 95; M. Luner­ to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. feld Zloczower, No. 586; Cosmopolitan Lodge, No. 387; Jacob By l\Ir. ESCH : Petitions of citizens of Osseo and Strum, Wis., F1eischhaner Lodge, No. 138; Ind. Brisk De Litau Lodge, :Xo. protesting against a parcels po~t ; to the Committee on the Post 565; l\fich. Linas Shal Lodge, No. 108; Brzezaner Lodge, No. Office and Post Roads. 413, Independent Order of B'rith Abraham; E. Kalusher Gal. By Mr. FITZGERALD: Resolution of the New York State Lodge No. 10; Grodner Lodge, No. 125; Public Lodge, No. 60; Association of Hardware Jobbers relative to· mail matter; to New Bessarabian Lodge, No. 96; Adas l\forim Lodge, No. 89; the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. the B. Baer Lodge, No. 89; Zudek Cohers Roidfe Schulem Lodge, Also, resolution of the Supreme Council of the Order of United No. 26; Keiser Franz Joseph Lodge, No. 13; B. Silberman Commercial Travelers of America, urging the passage of Senate Lodge, No. 41; and Aha was Sholom Anskey Pinsk H. B., Lodge bill 2051, to promote the efficiency of the Life-Savlng Service; No. 65, Independent Order Ahawas Israel, favoring the abro­ to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. gation of the Russian treaty of 1832 (H. J. Res. 5 and H . J. By l\Ir. FORNES: Petitions of C. W. Snow & Co., of Syracuse, Res. 40); t!) the Committee on Foreign Affairs. N. Y.; Taylor Instrument Co., of Rochester, N. Y.; Buffalo By l\fr. GRIEST: Resolution of central Pennsylvania Grand Weaving & Belting Co., of Buffalo, N. Y.; Stanford-Crowell Co., Army of the Republic Association, in favor of the Sulloway of Ithaca, N. Y., favoring 1-cent postage; to the Committee on pension bill, or legislation simi1ar thereto; to the Committee the Post Office and Post Roads. on Invalid Pensions. Also, petition of Alfred 1\f. Best Co., of New York City, favor­ By l\Ir. HARTMAN: Resolution of New York State Society ing increase of second-class mail rates; to the Committee on of Certified Public Accountants, protesting against the employ­ the Post Office and Post Roads. ment by the United States Go·rnrnrnent of chartered account­ Also, resolutions of the West Side Hebrew Benernlent So­ ants to the exclusion of certified public accountants; to the ciety, of New York, protesting against the way the passports Committee on Accounts. issued by our Government have been disregarded by Russia; to Also, resolution of State Board of Education of Pennsyl· the Committee on Foreign Affairs. vania, indorsing Senate bill 3; to the Committee on Appropria­ By Mr. FULLER : Papers to accompany bills for the relief of tions. John Byers and William McClay; to the Committee on Invalid Also, petitions of numerous citizens of Johnstown, South Pensions. Fork, Patton, and Barnesboro, Pa., p~·otesting against a parcels Also, petition of Building l\Ianagers' Association, of Chicago, post; to the Committee on the Post Office and i_:>ost Roads. Ill.. indorsing House joint resolution 97, for an investigation By Ur. HELU: Petition of Equal Rights Association of concerning fire waste; to the Committee on Appropriations. Kentucky, relating to proposed amendment to Federal Consti­ Also, petition of National Guard Association of the United tution; to the Committee on Election of President, Vice Presi­ States, of Chicago, Ill., in favor of the militia pay bill; to the dent, and Representatives in Congress. Committee on l\lilitary Affairs. Also, petitions of citizens of Harrodsburg, Ky., against use of Also, petition of B. D. Bertolasi, of Rockford, Ill., in favor of white phosphorus in manufacture of matches; to the Committee a reduction in the duty on raw and refined sugars; to the Com­ on Ways and :Means. mittee on Ways and Means. By l\fr. HILL: Resolutions of the Greenwich Board of Trade, Also, petition of Illinois Branch of the National League for of Greenwich, Conn., favoring the bill regarding the Weeks Medical Freedom, of Chicago, Ill., against the passage of the forestry law; to the Committee on .Agriculture. Owen bill for the creation of a department of public health; to Also, resolutions of the Meriden Retail Butchers' and Grocers' the Committee on Interstate and ll'oreign Commerce. Association, of Meriden, Conn., concerning tax on oleomar­ _ Also, petition of Chicago Flexible Shaft Co., Chicago, Ill., garine; to the Committee on Ways and l\Ieans. favoring the change in rates on first and second class mail mat­ Also, resolutions of Bridgeport Lodge, No. 479, Order B'rith ter; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Abraham, of Bridgeport; ·South Norwalk Lodge, No. 185. Order By l\1r. GALLAGHER : Resolutions of Bassarabian Lodge, B'rith Ab~aham, of South Norwalk; Brass City Lodge, No. 240, No. 247, Independent Order B'rith Sholom, and Star of Illinois Order B'nth Abraham, of Waterbury; Stamford Lodge, No. 543, 20 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DEOEMBER 4,

Independent Order of B'rith Abraham, of Stamford; Stamford By l\Ir. O'SHAUNESSY: Resolutions of Independent Order Lodge, No. 149, Independent Order Free Sons of Judea, of Stam­ B'rith Abraham, Nos. 113, 130, 143, 213, 214, 328, 516, and 591; ford; Bridgeport Lodge, No. 473, Independent Order B'rith Abra­ also of Independent Order of B'rith Sholom, Nos. 68 and 88; of ham ; Congregation of Agudah S1J.olem, of Stamford; Jewish the Independent Bessarabia Lodge, No. 119; of the Independent citizens of Danbury, all of the State of Connecticut, with refer­ Order of Free Sons of Judah, No. 64; and of the Grand Lodge ence to the treaty with Russia; to the Committee on Foreign Independent Order United Hebrews, No. 36, urging the termina­ Affairs. tion of treaties between the United States and Russia because By Mr. HOUSTON: Petition of State convention of Woman's of the disregard ·of the latter nation of passports issued by the Christian Temperance Union, of Tennessee, to prevent the ship­ United States Government to American citizens; to the Com­ ment of liquors into dry territory from outside the State; to mittee on Foreign Affairs. the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Also, petition of numerous persons of Providence, R. I., urging By Mr. LINDSAY: Resolutions of Greenpoint Lodge, No. 450; the termination of treaties between the United States and Kingsburg Lodge, No. 36; Moses :Mendelson Lodge, No. 91; Russia because of the dlsregard by the latter nation of passports Israel Bernstein Lodge, No. 453; Brooklyn Lodge, No. 423, issued by the United States Government to American citizens; Order of B'rith Abraham, of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; of the Independ­ to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. ent Order of B'rith Sholom; David Rockower Lodge, No. 214, of By Mr. REDFIELD: Resolution of conference of Fenimore Brooklyn, N. Y.; Kings County Lodge, No. 45, Order of Ahawas _Street Methodist Episcopal Church, favoring House bill 9433, Israel; of the Brainsher Friendschaft Lodge, No. 444, Order of closing all post offices on Sunday; to the Committee on the Post B'rith Abraham, with reference to the passport question between Office and Post Roads. the United States and Russia; to the Committee on Foreign Also, petition of employees of the Quartermaster's Depart­ Affairs. ment, United States Army, at New York, against House bill Also, petitions of the Alfred M. Best Co., of New York; De­ 11023, looking to elimination of a large portion of the present fender Photo Supply Co., of Rochester ; Libley, Lindsay ·& Co., force of civilians now employed in the department and their of Rochester; New York Leather Belting Co.; C. W. Snow & replacement with enlisted men; to the Committee on MJlitary Co., of Syracuse; Stanford-Crowell Co., of Ithaca; and the Affairs. Taylor Instrument Co., of Rochester, N. Y., favoring the reduc­ Also, resolutions of Thomas H. Barry Camp, No. 73, Depart· tion of letter postage from 2 cents to 1 cent; to the Committee ment of New York, United Spanish War Veterans, favoring bill on the Post Office and Post Roads. providing for campaign badges for officers and enlisted men Also, resolution of Supreme Council, Order United Com­ who served honorably in the War with Spain, Philippine insur­ mercial Travelers of America, urging legislation to promote the rection, or China campaign, who were not entitled thereto by efficiency of the Life-Saving Service; to the Committee on In­ reason of being in civil life at the time of the issue of the gen­ ter~ta te and Foreign Commerce. eral order by the War Department providing for the issue of Also, petition of Local Union No. 51 of New York, Brother­ these badges to those who were still in- the service; to the Com- hood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America, mittee on Military Affairs. , favoring the Berger old-age pension; to the Committee on By Mr. ROBER'fS of MasMchusetts: Resolution of National Labor. Founders' Association, New York, urging importance of legis­ Also, petition of Long Island Automobile Club, of Brooklyn, lation to promote progress of the country, etc.; to the Commit­ N. Y., favoring the construction of the Lincoln Memorial High­ tee on Ways and Means. way; to the Committee on Appropriations. Also, resolutions of Lodges Nos. 20D, 265, 337, 427, 501, 532, and Also, petition of A embly of the State of New York, favoring 585, Independent Order B'rith Abraham; also Lodges Nos. 28 and the establishment of an Army post in the city of Albany, N. Y.; 53, Independent Order United Hebrews, urging abrogation of to the Committee on Military Affairs. Russian treaty of 1832; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Also, petition of Senate of State of New York, to amend the By l\Ir. ROUSE: Resolutions of Lodge No. 15, of Switchmen's Constitution establishing uniform laws on the subject of divorce Union of North America, favoring House bill 13911; to the Com­ of married persons throughout the United States; to the Com­ mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. mittee on the Judiciary. By Mr. S.A.BATII: Resolutions of Lodges Nos. 54 and 320, By Mr. LITTLEPAGE: Petition of W. B. Rock, heir of Mary Order B'rith Abraham, and Lodge No. 267, Independent Order A. Ilock, late of Greenbrier County, W. Va., praying reference of B'rith Abraham, favoring the abrogation of the Russian treaty claim to the Court of Claims under the Bowman Act of March 3, of 1832 ; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 1883; to the Committee on War Claims. . By Mr. SL'\fMONS: Resolutions of Local No. 175, Interna­ Ily Mr. LLOYD: Petition of citizens of Adair County, in tional Longshoremen's Association, of North Tonawanda, N. Y., favor of the National Guard pay bill; to the Committee on M:ili­ favoring House bill 11372, to amend laws governing seamen; to tary Affairs. the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Also, petitions of citizens of Alexandria, Ewing, and Lewis­ By Mr. SIMS: Petition of James M. Smith, administrator, ton, Mo., protesting against parcels-post legisltttion; to the Com­ praying reference of claims to Court of Claims under terms of mittee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Bowman Act, with accompanying papers; to the Committee on War Claims. By Mr. McCREARY : Resolution of the Retail Grocers' As­ By l\Ir. SLAYDEN: Petitions of citizens of Kendall, Burnet, sociation of Philadelphia, demanding repeal of tax on ole­ Mills, Coleman, Llano, and Lampasas Counties, in Texas, pro­ margarine; to the Committee on Ways and Means. testing against the establishment of a parcels-post system ; to By Mr. McGILLICUDDY: Resolutions of Pride of l\Iaine the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Lodge, No. 202, Order B'rith Abraham; Pride of Portland By Mr. SULZER: Resolutions of Dr. Herzel Lodge, No. 257, Lodge, No. 497, Independent Order B'rith Abraham; and W. H. and Max Klein Lodge, No. 415, Order of B'rith Abraham, and Taft Lodge, No. 541, Order B'rith Abraham, favoring the abro­ Baron Hirsch Lodge, No. 53, Independent Order B'rith Abra­ gation of the Russian treaty of 1832; to the Committee on ham, of New York City, praying for abrogation of Russian Foreign Affairs. treaty; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. By l\fr. :McMORRAN: Petition of numerous citizens of sev­ By l\fr. TALCOTT of New York. Resolutions of Lodges Nos. enth congressional district of Michigan, protesting against the 228 and 254, Order B'rith Abraham; Lodges Nos. 208, 215, and pas~age of a parcels-post law; to the Committee on the Post 3G4, Independent Order B'rith Abraham, mging the abrogation Office and Post Roads. of the Russian treaty of 1832; to the Committee on Foreign By Mr. MANN: Petition of Illinois Federation of Women's Affairs. Clubs, favoring highway from Atlantic to Pacific as a me­ By l\fr. UNDERHILL: Resolution of New York State So­ morial to Abraham Lincoln; to the Committee on Appropria­ ciety of Certified Public Accountants, protesting against tho tions. employment by the United States Government of chartereil. By Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania : Resolutions of Philadel­ accountants to the exclusion of certified public accountants; to phia Retail Grocers' Association, protesting against tax on the Committee on Appropriations. oleomargarine; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Also, resolution of the New York State Association of Hard­ Also, resolutions of Lodges Nos. 6, 19, and 284, Order of B'rith ware Jobbers, fayoring a rate of 1-cent letter postage for the Abraham; Lodges Nos. 7 and 274, Independent Order of B'rith ordinary business letter ; to the Commh'i:ee on the Post Office .Abraham, all of Pennsylvania, urging the abrogation of the and Post Roads. existing treaty between this country and Russia; to the Com­ Also, resolutions of New York Chapter of the American In­ mittee on Foreign Affairs. stitute of Architects and the Hornell Automobile Club, of Hor· By Mr. NYE: Petition of United Giument Workers of Amer­ nell, N. Y., relating to a national memorial to Abraham ica, Local No. 27, of Minneapolis, Minn., favoring enactment of Lincoln; to the Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions. House bill 5601; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Also, resolution of Chamber of Commerce of San Jose, Cal., Commerce. approving certain legislation relating to the Panama Canal 1911. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SEN ATE'! 21 recommended by the President; to the Committee on Interstate Mr. CULLOP-, and Mr. MANN have been appoinfed members of . and Foreign Commerce. the committee on the part of the House. Also resolution of William H. Hoyt Post 276~ · Department of ENROl;iLED BILL SIGNED. New York, Grand Army of the Republic, of. Corning, N. Y., T'he message further announced that the Spe.aker of the Housa opposing the proposed incorporation of the Grand Army of the had signed the enrolled bill ~H. R. 1671) to provide a suitable Republic; to the Committee on Military Affairs. memorial to the memory of the North American Indian, and Also, petition of Elmira (N. Y.) Trades and ~abor- Assembly, it was thereupon signed by the President pro tempore. fa-voring the removal of the tax on oleomargarme; to the Com­ mittee on Ways and l\Ieans. NOTIFICATION TO THE PRESIDENT. Also petition of Elmira (N. Y.) Trades and Labor Assembly, Mr. GALLINGER and Mr. MARTIN of Virginia, the committee to relating to prison-made goods; to the Commi.ttee on Lab~r. wait on the President of the United States, appeared, and Also petition of Women's Christian Temperance Urnon of Mr. GALLINGER said: l\Ir. President, the committee of the North 'Cohocton and Atlanta, State of New York, relating to Senate, acting with a like committee of the House of Repre­ importation of liquor into "dry" territory; to the Committeec sentatives, appointed to wait upon the President of the United on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. States and inform him that the two Houses of Congress had Also, resolutions of Queen City Camp, No. 9613, M. W. A.; convened and ere ready to receive any message he might be The Congregational Talmud Tora; Elmira City Lodge, No. 272; pleased to make, have attended to that duty, and beg leave to Berger Lodge, No. 388; Alliance Israelite Universelle.; Order report that the President informed the committee he would of B'rith Abraham; and Rabbi 1\1. A. Horwitz, of Elmira, N. Y., communicate with Congress in writing at·once. calling attention to the unjust discrimination practiced by the-­ PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL MESSAGE. Russian GoT"ernment against American citizens of the Jewish l\f. C. Latta, one of the secretaries of the President of the persuasion visiting Russia in refusing to honor American pass­ United States, appeared and said: ports issued to them by our Government; to the Committee on lllr. President, I am directed by the President of the United Foreign Affairs. States to deliver to the Senate a message in writing. Ily Mr. UTTER: Resolutions of Lodges Nos. l.12, 143, and 213. The message was received from the secretary and handed to Order B'rith Abraham; Lodges Nos. 88, 130, 214, 328, 516, and the President pro tempore. 591, Independent Order B'rith Abra.ham; and of Louis Feiner The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the Lodge, No. 36, Independent Order United Hebrews, all of Provi­ Senate the following message from the President of the United dence, R. I., urging the termination of treaties between the States, which will be read by the Secretary. United States and Russia because of the disregard of the latter The Secretary (Charles G. Bennett) read the message, as fol- , Nation of passports issued by the United States Government to lows: A.m~rican citizens; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Also, petition of Cigar Makers' Local Union No. 94, of Paw­ To the Senate and House of Representatives: tucket, R. I., against taxing cigars and cigarettes used by the This message is the first of several which I shall send to makers thereof; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Congress during the interval between the opening of its regular Also, papers to accompany bills granting an increase of pen­ session and its adjournment for the Christmas holidays. The sion to Anna Angell, :Margaret G. Brophy, Frank F. Pullen, amount of information to be communicated as to the operations Clementine Richards, and Hattie Sheldon; to the Committee on of the Government, the number of important subjects calling Invalid Pensions. for comment by the Executive, and the transmission to Con­ By Mr. WILLIS: Petition of N. V. Speece and 70 other citi­ gress of exhaustive reports of special commissions, make it zens of Quincy, Ohio, asking for the passage of House bill impossible to include in one message of a reasonable length a 4640, granting an increase of pension to James F. Ramley; to discussion of the topics that ought to be brought to the atten­ the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · tion of the National Legislature at its first regular session. By Mr. WILSON of New York: Petition of citizens of Broolt­ THE ANTITRUST LA W--THE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS. lyn, N. Y., protesting against a bill "To establish a department In May last the Supreme Court handed down decisions in the of health, and for other purposes"; to the Committee on Inter­ suits in equity brought by the United States to enjoin the fur­ state and Fore1gn Commerce. ther maintenance of the Standard Oil Trust and of the Amer­ Also, resolutions of New York State Society of Certified Pub­ icfrn Tobacco Trust, and to secure their dissolution. The de­ lic Accountants, ·protesting against the employment of chartered cisions are epoeh-mak:ing and serve to advise the business world accountants to the exclusion of certified public accountants; to authoritatiyely of the scope and operation of the antitrust act the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department. of 1890. The decisions do not depart in any substantial way Also, resolutions of Lodges Nos. 274 and 385, Order B'rith from the previous decisions of the court in construing and Abraham; Lodges Nos. 147, 184, and 509, Independent Order applying this important statute, but they clarify those decisions B'rith Abraham; Lodge No. 253, Independent Order B'rith Sho­ by further defining the already admitted exceptions to the lom; and Lodge No. 180, Independent Order Free Sons of Judah, literal construction of the act By the decrees, they furnish a urging termination of existing treaty between this country and useful precedent as to the proper method of dealing with the Russia; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. capital and property of illegal trusts. These decisions suggest .... the need and wisdom of _additional or supplemental legislation to make it easier for the entire business community to square SENATE. with the rule of action and legality thus finally established and TUESDAY, December 5, 1911. to preserve the benefit, freedom, and srrur of reasonable compe­ tition without loss of real efficiency or progress. The Senate met at 2 o'clock p. m. NO CHANGE IN THE RULE OF DECISIO~-MEnELY I~ ITS FORll OF Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D. EXPRESSION. CHARLES CURTIS, a Senator from the State of Kansas, took The statute in its first section declares to be illegal "every the chair as Presiiient pro tempore under the previous order contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or of the Senate. conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among tiie sev­ LE RoY PERCY, a Senator from the State of Mississippi, and eral States or with foreign nations,'' and in the second, declares OLA.UDE A. SWANSON, a Sena.tor from the State of Virginia, ap­ guilty of a misdemeanor " every person who shall monopolize peared in their seats to-day. or attempt to monopolize or combine or conspire with any The Jourillll of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. other person to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce of the several States or with foreign nations." MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. In two early cases, where the statute was invoked to enjoin a J. C. South, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives, transportation rate agreement between interstate railroad com­ appeared and delivered the following message: panies, it was held that it was no defense to show that the agree­ Mr. President, I am directed by the House of Representatives ment as to rates complained of was reasonable at common law, to inform the Senate that a quorum of the House of Representa­ because it was said that the statute was directed agaj.nst all tives has assembled, and that the House is ready to proceed to contracts and combinations in restraint of trade whether rea­ business. · sonable at common law or not. It was plain from the record, Also, that a committee of three members has been appointed however, that the contracts complained of in those cases would. by the Speaker on the part of the House of Representatives to not have been deemed reasonable at common law. In subse­ join a committee of the Senate to wait upon the President of quent cases the· court said that the stutute should be gfren a the United States and to inform him that a quorum of the two reasonable construction and refused to include within its inhi­ Houses p.as assembled and that Congress is ready to receive any bition, certain contractual restraints of trade which it denomi_. communication he muy have to make, and that Mr. UNDER.WOOD,. nated as incidental or as indirect.