2076 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 13 Congress in declaring that such and such ..-a thing is a petty HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES offense? How is its pettiness determined? How ought it be t1e­ termined? We think the petty offense must be determined by two TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, .1931 , conditions, (1) the ~ature and character of the offense, and (2) The House met at 12 o'clock noon. by the punishment which the conviction of such offense carries. If the violation of a town ordinance that prohibits a man from The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery; D. D., crossing a street at a certain point carries with tt a capital punish­ offered the following prayer: ment can that be regarded as a petty offense? Can· the name change the character. of the offense any more than the devoted Direct us, 0 Lord God, to do that which befits us and to young wife awaiting day by day the coming of her first child, do it with cheerfulness and cow·age; thus by high endeavor anxious to give him the name of his father, can change the girl we shall realize our best aspirations. Cleanse _the very baby that arrives to a boy baby by calling him John instead of Sallie? No, it is not the name; it is the character, the nature of thoughts of our hearts, so that obedience to the laws _of the offense that determines, partly at least, whether it be petty truth and justice shall not be just conformity to a healthy, or infamous, but if it 1s found under this rule that a trifling, patriotic devotion to the needs of ow· country. With Thee petty offense in description carries with it later punishment in the penitentiary or jail, or any deprivation of liberty, the offense every weakness.can be made strength and evc;!ry hindrance 1s changed at once from a petty offense to a criminal offense with an inspiration. Thy promises to us are so condescending, the emphasis upon its criminality. In other words, the nature tender, and so merciful. They are as wide as humanity and and character of the offense and the punishment must together as deep as sin and as true as the oath of the Almighty. determine the grade of the . offense. Judge Brewer, in Schick v. United States, supra (195 U. S. 68), Verify them U..'>lto us this day in the name of Christ, our well states the doctrine: · Saviour. Amen. "The truth is, the nature of. the offense and the amount of pun­ ishment prescribed rather than its place in the statutes determine The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and whether it is to be classed among serious or petty offenses, whether approved. among crimes or misdemeanors." In this bill the petty offenses are described as those that may be MINORITY VIEWS punished by a fine of $500 or confinement in jail for six months, Mr. TUCKER. ~ifr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to or both. How can such puni&hment in the bill accord with the extend my remarks in the RECORD by printing minority views declaration that these offenses are petty? The boy at the dance, or the girl at the dance, that 1s caught with a thimble of whisky which I submitted from the Committee on. the Judiciary on them may go to jail for six months and be required to pay a involving the doctrine of petty offenses. fine of $500. The farmer who may take a tablespoonful of whisky Mr. RAMSEYER. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to ob­ or brandy to a dying neighbor may be put in jail for six months, serving from April to October, and pay a fine of $500; will he ject, is this the filing of minority views or a request to have rejoice with untold joy as he rests in jail from seedtime to harv~st minority views printed in the RECORD? when told by his counsel not to fret for he was convicted only Mr. TUCKER. This is a request to have this report of a petty offense? To make the punishment under this bill suit­ printed in the RECORD. able to the offenses charged there should be no imprisonment in the punishment; and this 1s mote clearly seen from the fact that Mr. RAMSEYER. Who signs the minority views? these petty offenses, which are recognized by our Government, at Mr. TUCKER. They are signed by me and concurred in common law, were tried without a jury because not regarded as by the gentleman from New York [Mr. LAGUARDIA]. crimes; but where the punishment results in imprisonment in the penitentiary or jail under our · American systetll it can not be Mr. RN\ISEYER. Just the twp? claimed the offense 1s petty. Judge Harlan in Schick v. United Mr. TUCKER. Yes. States (195 U. S. 95), states the doctrine finely: Mr. RAMSEYER. I have no objection. "And, perhaps, all will agree that; the constitutional injunction The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of_ the [the trial of all crimes, except cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, Art. III sec. 2] applies with like force to such misdemeanors 1 gentleman from Virginia? as by statute are punishable with imprisonment, and that a cir­ There was no objection. cuit or district court of the United States is without jurisdiction, Mr. TUCKER. Mr. Speaker, under the leave to extend iny under a plea of not guilty, no jury being impaneled, to try any crime against the United States. involving life or liberty. The 1·emarks in the RECORD, I submit the following minority consent Qf tl1e accused in such a case certainly can not confer upon views from the Committee on the Judiciary involving the the court authority to try the crime in a mode inconsistent with doctrine of petty offenses: the one prescribed by the law." · · - How can any offense be deemed petty that may deprive a man [House Report No. 1699, par·t 2, Seventy-first Congress, second of his liberty for six months by imprisonment in jail, even a com­ session] · mon jail? No time in jail is needed to make the offense infamous, TO A.J."vlEND SECTION 541 OF THE UNITED- STATES CODE for the clank of the jail door as it-clo3es upon him is enough to Mr. TucKER, from the Committee on the Judiciary; submitted make a man of right feeling realize that such an offense means the following minority views (to accompany H. R. 10341): infamy. The nature of the offense and the punishment provided must be properly correlated; there is a natural interdependence {Omit matter within brackets and insert the part printed in italic] between the two that can not be disregarded. To the ordinary man A bill to amend section 541 of the United States Code, being sec- there is nothing small (petty) about- a fine of $500, nor can he tion 335 of the Criminal Code be deprived of his liberty for 6 months and ·be consoled by the "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of assurance that if his offense had not been "petty" he might have the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section had 12 months in the penitentiary. No "petty o!Iense" should be [541 of the United States Code, being section] 335 of the Criminal punished by imprisonment. Code [(M?trch 4, 1909], chapter 321, paragraph 335; thirty-fifth HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER. Statutes, page 1152 [) ], (sec. 541, title 18, U. S. C.) be amended I concur in above conclusions. to read as follows: F. H. LAGUARDIA. " 'All offenses which may be punished by death or imprisonment ORDER OF BUSINES3 for a term exceeding one year shall be deemed felonies. All other offenses shall be deemed misdemeanors: Provided, That-all offenses Mr. GARNER. Mr. Speaker, I -would like an opportunity, [not involving moral turpitude,] the penalty for which -does not if I may, to query the g·entleman from Connecticut [Mr. exceed confinement in a common jail, without hard labor for a period of six months, or a fine of not more than $500, or both, TILsoN] concerning a report in the newspaper this morning, shall be deemed to be petty offenses; and all such petty offenses and in order that I may be accurate I will read_it: may be prosecuted [before the United States commissioner, as After a day of long, heated debate, Republican Leader TILSON may now or hereafter be provided by law,] upon information. or charged, off the floor, that the Democrats were conducting an complaint.' - adroit filibuster, cleverly concealed, against the bill. "Amend the title so as to read: 'A bill to amend section 355 of the Criminal Code'." Now, Mr. Speaker, I want to ask the gentleman if he mada The object of this bill is most commendable, to relieve the that statement. burden upon the district courts of the United States in the trial of petty offenses under the prohibition law upon information or Mr. TILSON. Oh, I may have made some such remark complaint. To relieve the court of these burdens and the intrica­ in the con-idors of the Capitol somewhere. I do not recall cies involved, of indictments, grand juries, etc., is much to be now. desired, and I heartily agree with tile obj~ct of the bill. Mr. GARNER. Well, was. there any basis of fact for The defect in the bill, to my mind, is its definition of a petty offense. Surely to the ordinary man or woman in the country a that statement? fine oi $500 and · imprisonment in jail for 6 months . can not be Mr. TILSON. I thought the -filibuster was rather cleve1·Iy regarded as "petty,'' and this may be the punishment under. this conducted. [Laughter.] bill for one who sells a drink or transports it to a friend. • What constitutes ·a petty offense? Is it 'determined entirely by Mr. GARNER. , Mr. Speaker ~ I do not think it is fair to the nature of the offense? Is it dependent alone upon the act of this side of the House, and I do not think there is a single 1931 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2077 - Member on tha side of the House who believes it is farr, for Mr. BUSBY. They do not justify any statement of the the majority leader to give an interview to the Associated kind sent out yesterday by the majority leader, the gentle­ Press to the effect that there was a concealed filibuster in man from Connecticut. the Honse of Representatives on yesterday by the Demo­ DISBURSEMENTS FOR VETERANS AND THEIR DEPENDENTS FISCAL cratic organization. YEAR 1930 Mr. TILSON. Oh, I gave no interview. Mr. GARNER. Or by any Democrat. I want the gentle­ Mr. CLARKE of New York. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous man from Connecticut to name the Democrats that con­ consent to insert in the RECORD a copy of a letter from Gen­ ducted a filibuster on yesterday. If I recall correctly, Mr. eral Hines, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, addressed to Speaker, and I have been here quite a little while, there were me, containing useful and instructive information. two Democrats who took a prominent part yesterday. One Mr. CRAMTON. Will the gentleman yield? of them was the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. BusBY], Mr. CLARKE of New York. Certainly. who, I think, was conducting a conscientious opposition to Mr. CRAMTON. Does the letter give any explanation of the bill and I could not see a thing in the nature of a fili­ the tremendous and unprecedented delays that are now buster; and the other was my colleague from Texas [1.\tlr. occurring in all branches of the former Bureau of Pensions? LANHAM], who was doing his best to promote the passage of Mr. CLARKE of New York. Unfortunately, not; but it that bill. does give information regarding expenditures for the last Mr. TILSON. I thoroughly agree with the last statement. year in the Veterans~ Bureau and the Pension Bureau in Mr. GARNER. Outside of these two gentlemen I do not detailed form such as I think the Members have never had know anything about any kind of attempt to take up the before. · \.._ time of the House. If it constitutes a filibuster for the gen­ Mr. CRAMTON. Some of us would be very much inter- tleman from Mississippi [Mr. BusBY] to oppose the bill as ested in finding out what the real reason is for delay. he did yesterday, or if it constitutes a filibuster for the gen­ The SPEAKER. Is there objection? tleman from Texas [Mr. LANHAM] to try to promote the There was no objection. legislation, then we certainly had a filibu;ter; otherwise, I Mr. CLARKE of New York. Mr. Speaker, under t..ne say the statement had not any basis in fact, in my opinion. leave to extend my remarks in the REcoRD, I include the Mr. TILSON. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman will refresh fallowing letter received by me from General Hines, Admin­ his memory, or if he will look at the RECORD this morning, istrator of Veterans' Affairs: although I have not examined it, I am sure be will find that JANUARY 12, 1931. the point of no quorum was made over and over again by a Hon. JoHN D. CLARKE, gentleman on his side when, upon a count by the Chair, it House of Representatives, Washington, D. 0. DEAR Sm: In reply to your letter of January 2, 1931, requesting was proved there was no ground whatever for making such . information regarding disbursements made by the United States point. Is not this the fact? Government for soldiers, dependents, care, hospitalization, etc., Mr. GARNER. That was not made against this bill. you are advised that the disbursements made during the fiscal That was made by one individual on this side of the House year 1930 are as follows: because the gentleman refused him consent to address the 1. Disbursements made by the United States Vet­ erans' Bureau: House. Compensation ______$199,229,268.09 Mr. TILSON. It was made while this bill was pending. Insurance-- Mr. BUSBY. I would like to say to the gentleman from Term ______122,768,89~.2a Connecticut [Mr. TILsoN], since I took a prominent part in United States Government life (paid offering reasons why changes should be made in the bill, from premiums received from ex-serv­ iceinen)------24,677,347.60 that the. whip on the Republican side of the House, the gen­ Adjusted-service certificates (matured by tleman from Indiana LMr. VESTAL], the chairman of the death of veterans)------20,131,368.75 committee who had charge of the bill, kept the Republicans Adjusted service and dependent pay------3, 130, 214. 35 Medical and hospital services______32, 185, 206.37 on the floor all the time by telephoning their offices, and I Hospital facilities and services ( construc- made no attempt at all to keep the Democrats on the floor, tion) ____ : ______~-- _ 8,241,384.73 and no Democrat, so far as I know, but myself, who was Administrative (includes printing and bind- ing) ______.:.______41, 739, 29.5. 59 opposing the bill took any part in it. I think it is a rank injustice to me to make this allegation Miscellaneous ------47, o42. 47 and send it out through the Associated Press, and I want to Total------~52, 150, 622:. 17 assure the gentleman there is no foundation of fact or sem­ The above disbursements are for the administration and reliet' blance of foundation of faet for any sueh statement by the of the ex-service men of the World War, with the exception of majority leader. the hospitalization of veterans of other wars as authorized in section 202, paragraph 10, of the World War veterans' act. Mr. TILSON. If the gentleman will yield a moment, I had 2. Disbursements made by the Pension Bureau for no idea of impugning the gentleman's motives in his oppo­ soldiers: sition to the bill; but his own statement now to the effect Administrative------..:.~ $1, 272, 203. 23 that the whip on the Republican side had to busy himself Medical examinations______328, 502. 10 all day to keep the Republican Members on the floor in Field investigations______143,187.66 Pensions for veterans a.nd dependents of Civil order to maintain a quorum proves my contention. The War a.nd Spanish-American War ______209,535,654.67 gentleman himself admits that he made no eiiort whatever All other wars, including Regular Establish­ to keep the minority Members here to do their part in fur­ rnent------9,667,886.1& nishing a quorum. Mr. BUSBY. That is no admission at all. Total------220,947,433.81 Mr. TILSON. It is an important admission. In addition to the disbursements made· by the United States Veterans' Bureau for medical and hospital services and hospital Mr. BUSBY. The trouble about it is, this bill was rammed facilities, the following has been disbursed by the Bureau of Na­ through yesterday by propaganda without rhyme or reason, tional Homes for the care and hospitalization of veterans: and that is the only thing there is to it. Operation and maintenance ______$10, 790, 974. 14 Mr. LAGUARDIA. If the gentleman will permit, there was Construction------1,600,021.56 as much propaganda from the slot-machine people and the AJd to States------524,728.00 mechanical-reproduction people as from any other source. Total------12,915,723.7~ Mr. BUSBY. I have only asked for appropriate time on Very truly yours., that or any other measure to present proper amendments for FRANK T. HINEs, Administrator. the consideration of the House, and there was no action of mine yesterday that suggested a filibuster. ADDRESS BY HON. SAMUEL B. PETTENGILL, OF INDIANA Mr. TILSON. I think the facts in regard to the presence Mr. BYRNS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to of a quorum alone fully justify all that I said. [Applause.] extend my remarks by printing in the RECORD a radio ad- 2078 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 13 dress delivered by Hon. Samuel B. Pettengill, a Member is only because the Republican Party has become the party of elect from the State of Indiana, on the 6th of October last. privilege that there is a real need for a party which is true to the traditions of the founders of both. Lincoln said: "I stand with The SPEAKER. Is there objection? anybody that. stands right. I stand with him while he is right, There was no objection. and I part With him when he goes wrong." It is the one great The address is as follows: benefit of the 2-party system in this country that when one party has ceased to stand for the general welfare the independent mem­ WHERE WOULD LINCOLN STAND TO-DAY? bers of that party are not helpless, but have it in their power to We wage this contest wit hout apology for the average man and pu~ an end to that misrepresentation by turning to the opposition. the average woman living in the average American home. The It IS the independent voter, not the extreme partisan, for whose time has come to again consider the case of the average man, the suffrage all political campaigns are waged. It is he or she who producer of property, rather than property itself. As Lincoln said really controls the destiny of this Nation. And I regard it as a in 1859, "We are for both the man and the dollar; but in case of good omen in the sky that more and more men and women refuse conflict the man before the dollar." Both should be treated to worship a label, but stand for men and principles. I regard fairly, but there must be a just balance struck between them. We that tendency as due in large part to the extension of suffrage submit that during the past decade the Government at Washing- . to women. They are individualists. They refuse to stand hitched. ton has been more concerned with the rights of property than To that extent it is in their power to supply the vital, purifying wit h the rights of man; too much dominated by the North Atlan­ agency behind government. tic seaboard, too little concerned with the dwellers beyond the When the Republican Party was first organized in 1856 'it was Alleghenies. composed in large part of free-soil Democrat&-men who left their There is here no slightest hostility to wealth, honestly acqUired. party because they believed it had become dominated by an It is, in fact, in defense of property that I speak, for property is oligarchy committed to the extension of slavery. saf~ only when sufficient goes · into the wage envelope and the The battle cry of the Republican Party in its first campaign farmer's wallet to buy the products of field and factory. The was " Free land, free men, and Fremont." It took its name "Re­ gteatest good for all is the greatest good for one. publican " from the name by which the Democratic Party was A political campaign, my friends, is in the nature of a joint known when Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe won their great debate. In fact, it would be a great thing for politics if it were victories. One of its distinguished founders said at the time: actually a joint debate, the opposing spokesman appearing on the "There is not a plank in our platform which does not conform same platform at the same time before the same audience. It to the principles of Jefferson, the man who, of all others, has ever would be an enormous gain, if we could somehow deflate politics, been !egarded as the true representative of the Republican Party it we could bring the bubbles of bunk in contact with the sharp of this country. ~ • • We stand, sir, upon his doctrines and point of an honest question that must be answered then and there we fight for his principles. We are coming to take possession of in front of the audience. The greatest individual contest for a. this Government, to administer it for tl1e whole country, and seat in Congress in American history was the Lincoln-Douglas joint shall suff~r monopolists neither of the North or South to control debate of 1858. In the few weeks it lasted it did more to clarify its administration and so shape its action as to subserve the inter­ the mind of America upon the great issue of slavery than the mil­ ests of the aristocratic few." lions of words which had been said previously. If politicians This clear statement of Democratic principles made by a Repub· were more interested in clarifying t11e thought of the public than lican in 1856 was sufficient justification for thous:mds of Demo­ in obscuring it they would welcome the joint debate to-day. crats to leave their party and join the party of Lincoln. It is a The last great liberal movement in America began, my friends, platform upon which sound Democrats and sound Republicans can as a protest against the Payne-Aldrich tariff of 1908 and carried both stand to-day, as they both stood then. It is the platform through Wilson's first term. Then the attention of the Nation upon which I stand. was diverted from domestic problems to the Armageddon overseas. In public utterances Lincoln often extolled the principles of At the end of the war we were weary of fighting either with swords Jefferson. His immortal Gettysburg Address 1s shot through with or with pens. The American impulse was to find a job, liquidate the living fire of democracy. When he breathed the hope that bur debts, salvage the war. All that the Republican national "these dead shall not have died in vain," and that "government administration offered was a return to normalcy. It was a do­ of the people, for the people, and by the people shall not perish nothing decade. from the earth," he was simply restating in different words Jef­ Periodically a few promises were made, and periodically they ferson's preamble of the Declaration of Independence. The prin­ went to political protest. Meantime, while the antitrust laws were ciples for which Lincoln lived and died are essentially the same gathering dust, enormous combinations, mergers, and chains were as those for which Jefferson and his fellow patriots in their day enveloping America. Immense fortunes were made; wealth con­ were glad to pledge " their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred centrated in the hands of the few. The farmers were told to honor." speak with a "small vo'ice," and the wage earners, largely stimu­ Only a year before Lincoln's election, April 6, 1859, he said: lated by the tremendous expansion of the automobile industry, "Soberly, it is now no child's play to save the principles of were swept along in the parade. Billions of credit were placed Jefferson from total overthrow in this Nation. The principles of at the disposal.of speculators and the bulls went to market. Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. And yet Warning voices were raised, but they were scoffed at in the they are denied and evaded, with no small show of success. One highest places. The band played on. The party ·in power, drunk calls them ' glittering generalities.' Another bluntly calls them with self-esteem. promised an unending prosperity. Finally the ' self_-evident lies.' • • * These expressions, differing in form, eras}} came. We awoke from our dream. We awoke and found are Iden~ical in object and effect--the supplanting of the prin­ that nothing had been done by the party responsible for the ciples of free government and restoring those of classification and Government to let the air from the bubble until it had burst in caste. • • • They are the vanguard, the miners and sappers ruin over countless thousands of homes. We found that while _of returning despotism. .We must repulse them or they will the bulls were going to market the cows were going dry. subjugate us." We are once more face to face with reality. We are at the be­ To-day, as in 1859, it is no "child's play to save the principles ginning of a new decade. The forces of liberalism are once more of Jefferson from total overthrow." These principle3 still remain at work. We are asking the Grand Old Party to tell us where is the definitions and axioms of free society, but who among Repub· the full dinner pail. We are asking if Senator WATSON's tariff Ucan leaders is trying to administer government "for the whole speech, which he wrote 20 years ago, is applicable to the new country"? Who, now, among Republican leaders 1s struggling position America now finds herself in as a great creditor and against "monopoly"? Who is battling to save Government from exporting nation. We are asking, finally, what the party in power "subservience to the interests of the aristocratic few"? Only a proposes to do for the average man. few insurgents out here in the West whose republicanism is now National and international readjustments are going to be made challenged, with unconscious irony, by the henchment of privilege. in the next decade, in the next quarter century, to keep pace with The Republican leaders are heretics. They have forsworn the faith our industrial development. There are in ·the making new pro­ of the fathers. grams with which to direct this age of machinery. We must What are some of the principles of Jefferson which Lincoln held restore the American farm; stabilize prosperity; prevent unemploy­ are the axioms of a free s9ciety? ment by developing world trade; rebuild purchasing power on First, a government that shall "restrain men from injuring one farm and factory; and we must do all these things, not in terms another" but "leave them otherwise free to regulate their pursuits of party advantage foJ: party's sake, but in terms of our entire of industry and shall not talce from the mouth of labor the breed destiny as a nation. that it has earned." Until 1776 Jefferson had seen that man had I would like to spend this evening talking things over with my been the victim of government in every country in the world. He Republican friends. I speak to those countless thousands of men thought that one of the best things that government could do and women who never expect to get, or desire to have, the spoils was to get off men's backs. He foresaw the wonderful develop· of office, but whose prime interest is and always will be in parties ment of this country, its railroads, telegraph, telephone, automo­ only as instrumentalities for promoting the common welfare. biles, electrical machinery, labor-saving devices, its researches of With them a political party is_ only a means to an end-not the science, its discoveries in the field of medicine, its art and archi­ end itself. These men and women I think of as Lincoln Republi­ tecture, all that has built our civilization, and knew that they cans. With them principles are more important than labels, and could spring only from the initiative of the individual, not from country more precious than party. the guidance of bureaucrats. I should like to demonstrate to. them, if I can, that their prin­ Second, "I believe," he said, "that the States can best govern ciples are essentially the same as mine. To them I address this over home concerns and the General Government over foreign question: Where would Lincoln stand to-day? It is time--high ones. I wish, therefore, to see maintained that wholesome dis­ time--that Republicans by principle and Democrat s by conviction tribution of power established by the Constitution for the limita· got together and made common cause against the common foe. tion of both, and never see all offices transported to Washington." If the Republican Party had remained true to the teachings of St.ate rights. not on account of jealous regard for the State as its founders, there would be little need of a. Democratic Party. It such, but because the States can "best govern." This sentiment 1931 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2079 -was reechoed only the other day by the Chief Justice of the I propose, my friends, Democrat and Republican, to make this United States Supreme Court. As our civ111za.tion grows in com­ campaign upon the fundamental principles which actuated the plexity it has become and will no doubt continue to become neces­ lives of the founders of both great parties. Whether you turn to sary to add to the powers of the General Government. The Inter­ Jefferson's first inaugural or to Lincoln's words at Gettysburg; state Commerce Commission, to fix the freight and passenger rates whether you call it " old fashioned democracy " or " old fashioned of interstate commerce, and the Federal Radio Board are examples. republicanism " is a matter of no importance to me. As Edmund But, except in matters that pertain to the effective functioi?-ing Burke once said to the British Parliament, "I shall place my feet of the National Government itself, such as the power to tax, 1t is in the tracks of my forefathers where I can neither wander nor my firm judgment that the expansion of Federal power should fall." These truths are old, but so is the Sermon on the Mount. proceed on the general principle that it should supplement the "Equal rights for all, special privileges for none." What is tha.t rights and powers of the States. not supersede or supplant them. but the application in the field of government and politics of the Whenever we depart from this principle we depart from the path words of the Galilean, " Do unto others as ye would that they of good government. As far as is humanly possible government should do unto you." These words seem sometimes threadbare. should be close to those governed. Anyone who has ever had oc­ I hope they will always be so-threadbare because they are in dally casion to take up a tax matter with his township assessor and has use; because neither men nor nations can live without them. also had to cross half the continent to take up an income-tax I submit to your candid consideration, therefore, my Republican question with an unknown clerk at Washington, will appreciate friends, that the crowd which now dictates the policies at Wash­ the real value of maintaining that "wholesome distribution of ington are not the followers of Lincoln. They are the political power" which Jefferson speaks of. heirs of Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton boldly, and I suppose As patriotism (that is, the false claim of patriotism) is the honestly, stood for government by the few and for the few. "last refuge of a scoundrel," so, using Lincoln's great name as a Fearful of the people, he would place the reins in the hands of shibboleth, and in the shadows cast by his gigantic figure, the the moneyed: classes alone. He held that government must be in forces of privilege are at work. From Lincoln to Grundy the dis­ "strong bands," to use his words. He was the Andrew Mellon of tance is as great as that between a "certain rich man" and Laza­ his day. He spoke of the people as "a great beast.'' What kind rus in the bosom of Abraham. Between them " there is a great of a beast he did not say. Possibly the MosES of New Hampshire gulf fixed." But when one goes from the grave at Monticello to knew-he speaks of us out here in the West as "wild jackasses.'' the shrine at Springfield it is as if one were visiting the same Lincoln believed in the common people, and said that "God must God's acre where all his forebears sleep. · be very fond of them, for He made so many of them.'' On the When the high tide of the Confederacy broke against the guns other hand Hamilton believed that every effort of workingmen to of Gettysbmg and Lincoln knew that the Emancipation Proclama­ improve their condition should be prosecuted as criminal con­ tion was soon to be made good, did he think that the struggle for spiracy. Hamilton would make manufacturing the chief end of free government would end with the liberation of the slave? No. domestic policy. He had little sympathy for the man on the farm. In a letter written a short time before his assassination he said: He would not have believed in placing agriculture on an economic " I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me equality with industry. He was opposed to popular suffrage. He and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a would permit only men of wealth to vote on election day. He result of the war corporations have been enthroned and an era did not believe that "governments derive their just powers from of corruption in high places will follow. The money power of the the consent of the governed.'' He would have repudiated Lin­ country wm endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the coln's burning words that no man is wise enough or good enough prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few to govern another man without that man's consent. Hamilton hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more stood for the State. Lincoln stood for the man. Hamilton stood anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in for power. Lincoln stood for liberty. Hamilton believed in kings. the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove He would have placed a crown on the head of Washington. If his groundless." ideas had prevailed, the present incumbent of the White House Has his prophecy come true? "Corporations enthroned." Con­ would be King Herbert the First-possibly the last. sider Grundy. "Corruption in government." It is not necessary Hamilton was the foe of Jefferson; Lincoln was the follower of to do more than mention it. "Wealth concentrated in the hands Jefferson. Hamilton was an aristocrat. Lincoln was a democl!at of the few." Turn to page 166 of the last World's Almanac and in the noblest sense of that great word. The Republican Party count the number of men in America who report incomes in excess of to-day is republican in name only. It is the party of Hamil­ of a mill1on dollars a year. A generation ago a man whose estate ton; it is not the party of Lincoln. had a gross worth of a million dollars was something of a phe­ My friends, we are all of us members of the same crew, on the nomenon. To-day we have at least 600 men whose incomes each same ship, sailing the same short voyage. And we of the Demo­ year are a million or more dollars. And then there are super­ cratic faith hold that every man and every woman and every little millionaires. The other day we read the statement of Mr. Gerard child is entitled to his chance at happiness; to a few brief hours that 64 men control this Nation of 120,000,000 human beings. in the sun. Jefferson and Lincoln believed that every huma.n As another leaf in the wind I call your attention to an article soul is " very dear to God," and in the pursuit of happiness, stands on Presidential Prosperity in Harpers Magazine for August. equal, not only before the law, but before the lawmaker. They The author points out how the Government at Washington blew believed that the log cabin is the equal of the palace. They be­ the bubble of stock-market speculation to the bursting point. lieved that the humblest man has an equal right with every other Over and over again he gives the dates and quotes the words of man to choose his governors, to have an equal voice in determin­ Mr. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, for the infiation of paper ing the conditions of life in which he shall toil for his daily values. Whenever doubt was expressed that the orgy of specula­ bread. tion had gone too far, that it was time to reef sail, Mr. Mellon They had not seen, and at the end of the World War we have would issue a statement that the foundations of business were not yet seen the muse of history point to a single nation that has sound, that interest rates would remain low, that brokers' loans long endured the enormous concentration of wealth and power were not too high. Even the silent man in the White House found in a few hands as the result of the favors of the Government. his tongue and became articulate when it seemed necessary to give They held, and we hold, that the democratic State, which stands a boost to the bulls. I quote a few sentences from the article: on a broad base like the pyramids, not on the apex of a favored "The trouble with Mr. Mellon has been that he was a stock­ class, is the only State where either property or man can hope to market-minded financier and not a statesman. • • • The be safe. We protest, therefore, against the purchase of legislation Chief Executive had voluntarily assumed the job of acting as with campaign contributions. We object to placing government wet nurse to a wild and unjustifiable speculation and had led the upon the auction block. American people to take colossal risks." And then we see this And so to-night I ask you this question: Where would Lincoln, sentence: " In a few months of the great bull market the Mellon the son of the prairies, the child of Kentucky, the lad of Indiana, family was reported by the New York Times to have made and the ta!l, gaunt man of Illinois--where would Lincoln stand $300,000,000 by the rise in price of two of their stocks alone "­ to-day? · Aluminum and Gulf Oils. Let me remind you once more of his noble words, " I stand My friends, I submit to you that it is a prostitution of govern­ with anybody that stands right. I stand with him while he is ment for the Secretary of the Treasury, or the President, to use right, and I part with him when he goes wrong." the prestige of his great office to blow the bubbles of stock specu­ lation and thus lead thousands of innocent people directly to LEAVE OF ABSENCE their destruction, and indirectly, through the losses incurred, throw a wet blanket over the whole area of business and industry. We Mr. MOORE of Virginia. · Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous never saw such concern in Washington when farm values out here consent for leave of absence for my colleague [Mr. BLAND], in the West were vanishing by the billions. No reassuring c;tate­ ments came from the White House at that time. I submit that on account of illness. it is not the business of Washington to be a tipster's bureau for The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the stock gamblers. So much for Lincoln's prophecy of the concentration of wealth gentleman from Virginia? and privilege seizing the reins of government. Where would he There was no objection. stand to-day if alive? Would he be with Grundy telling the Mr. CROSSER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent American Congress that "the special interests I represent con­ tributed so much to the last campaign fund I am here to collect for leave of absence of the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. UNDER­ the consideration," or would he be out on the stump speaking in wooD J, on account of illness in his family. behalf of the farmer, the wage earner, and the business man, who The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the having faith in the promises made in his name, have heretofore voted the Republican ticket? As he abandoned the Whig Pa.rt;y in gentleman from Ohio? 1856, would he not repudiate Republican leadership to-day? There was no objection. 2080 CONGRE-SSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 13 The SPEAKER. The Chair desires to state to gentlemen (d) Dental treatment and prosthetic appliances authorized to that the proper way to ask leave of absence is by filing the persons eligible to hospitalization on out-patient basis. SEc. 205. Service connection shall not be broken after the death written application at the desk. The Chair prefers that of a veteran. method. SEc. 301. (a) Extension authorized for 5-year convertible Gov­ VETERANS' RELIEF ernment term insurance policies. (b) Extension of conversion date of war risk insurance policies Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to from July 2, 1927, to July 2, 1932. extend my remarks in the RECORD on the subject of the SEc. 304. Reinstatement of Government life insurance permitted veterans' relief, and to insert an analysis of the bills for any veteran suffering from service-connected disabilities who is veterans' relief made by the American Legion. not permanently and totally disabled. SEc. 305. Revival of insw·ance permitted beneficiaries who have The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the become permanently and totally disabled subsequent to July 2, gentleman from Mississippi? 1927, on the same basis as those who became permanently and There was no objection. totally disabled prior to that date: · Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Speaker, at the request of the Ameri­ SEc. 312. Substandard insurance policies provided for disabled veterans where not permanently and totally disabled. can Legion, and with the consent of the House, I am insert­ SEc. 500. (a) Where the recovery under an insurance suit is ing below the Legion's analysis of the veterans' bill now $5,000 or less the attorney for the successful party may be awarded pending before the Committee on World War Veterans' Af­ a fee of 15 per cent. (b) In an appeal on an insurance sUit an additional 5 per cent fairs, and known as H. R. 15621, which was introduced by may be allowed for legal services on behalf of the platnt11I. the chairman of the committee at the Legion's request. (c) Insurance judgments shall allow 6 per cent on payments I am particularly interested in subdivisions (c) and (e) of in arrears. section 200, as outlined in this analysis, for the reason that (d) In a successful insurance suit the costs shall be assessed they are among the chief provisions of my own bill, H. R. against the Government. 15431, which I have introduced to try to correct some of the THE COPYRIGHT LAW injustices of the bill hastily passed by the House last year. The SPEAKER. When the House adjourned yesterday That bill placed the World War veterans on a much lower the previous question was ordered on the House bill 12549. scale of pay than that accorded veterans of other wars with Separate votes had been asked on two amendments. The similar disabilities and left the widows and orphans out other amendments were agreed to. The Clerk will report entirely. These injustices should be corrected without delay. the first amendment. The American Legion's analysis of H. R. 15621, which is based upon resolutions adopted at the Boston convention The Clerk read as follows: last October, is as follows: Substitute amendment offered by Mr. BusBY: Page 3, line 23, after the word" purposes," strike out the period and insert a co~on SEc. 5. (a) Prevents the Director of the Veterans' Bureau from and the following words: " Provided, The reproduction or rendition denying home treatment to a d1sabled veteran who leaves a hos­ of a musical composition by or upon a coin-operated machine, or on pital against medical advice. parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the mu­ (b) Requires the director to rotate the members of the bureau's sical work, shall not be deemed a public performance for profit rating boards . . unless a fee is charged for admission to the place where such SEc. 19. (a) Allows court action on insurance claims based upon reproduction or rendition occurs." uncollected compensation at the time of the veteran's death or t(ftal permanent disab111ty. The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the (b) Privilege of court action on insurance granted where direc­ amendment. tor fails or refuses to act upon a claim within six months. (c) Authority granted to confess judgment in insurance suits The question was taken; and on a division (demanded by which the Government does not believe can be successfully Mr. STAFFORD) there were--45 ayes and 115 noes. defended. Mr. BUSBY. Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the SEc. 30. Permits the attorney of a veteran to have access to Government records concerning his client's insw·ance suit. ground that there is no quorum present. SEc. 200. (a) Restoration of conclusive presumption of sound­ The SPEAKER. The gentleman makes the point that no ness and presumption of service connection for insurance pur­ quorum is present. The Chair will count. [After counting.] poses as well as for compensation. (b) Chronic and constitutional diseases presumed of service Two hundred and fifty-five Members present, a quorum. origin where developing prior to January 1, 1925. _ Mr. BUSBY. Mr. Speaker, I ask for the yeas and nays. (c) World War disability pension rates increased to Spanish­ The question of ordering the yeas and nays was taken; American War rates. 15 Members rose, not a sufficient number, and the yeas and (d) Provision made for apportionment of disability allowance where veteran is living apart from his dependents. nays were refused. (e) . Pensions provided World War widows and orphans on same So the amendment was rejected. basis as now are provided for the widows and orphans of Spanish­ The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the next amend­ American War veterans. ment. (f) Permanent total ratings for insurance purposes shall be used for disability allowance purposes without further medical ex­ The Clerk read as follows: amination. Page 4, end of the amendment, after the word following line SEc. 201. (Subdivision 2)-Compensation payments shall be re­ 13, insert the following: " It shall be unlawful for any copyright sumed to a widow whose subsequent marriage has been dissolved · owner to contract, combine, or conspire with any other copyright by either death or divorce, not the result of her own misconduct. owner or owners, either directly or through any agent or agents, to SEc. 201. (Subdivision 6)-Tlme limit extended to July 2, 1941, fix a price or royalty rate for the use of any copyrighted work in which a marriage may occur and make the widow eligible to upon parts of instruments serving to reproduce the same mechani­ compensation if otherwise entitled to it. cally, and any such act shall be a complete defense to any suit, SEc. 202 (subdivision 1). Dependency of parents presumed to action, or proceeding for any infringement of any copyright ot exist at age of 60. such copyright owner." SEc. 202 (subdivision 3). The same dependency allowances pro­ vided for permanently disabled veterans as now paid temporarily The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the disabled veterans. amendment. SEc. 202 (subdivision 4). Payments under the disability rating schedule made effective as of June 7, 1924 {date of enactment), The question was taken, and the amendment was rejected. instead of January 1, 1926. The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, SEc. 202 (subdivision 7). (a) Requiring the director to revert and was read the third time. back to the general counsel's decisions in cases of statutory awards for arrested tuberculosis instead of accepting the Comptroller Mr. BUSBY. Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. General's reversals of these. The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. (b) Temporary total disability rating granted for active tuber­ Mr. BUSBY. I would like to inquire in regard to the culosis. SEc. 202 (subdivision 10). (a) Veterans suffering from dis­ status of the bill. The gentleman from Indiana spoke of an abilities which have not been connected with service, to use the amendment he proposed to change the effective date of the bureau's out-patient facilities. bill from July to June. I would like to know if that amend­ (b) Hospitalization of sick and disabled veterans is made man­ ment has been adopted? datory upon the director, regardless of the service connection of the disability. Mr. CHINDBLOM. Let me suggest that there could be (c) Hospital allowances provided for the dependents of vet­ unanimous consent to instruct the ,engrossing clerk to make erans, regardless of the service connection of the disability. that change. There are many features of legislation in the 1931 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2081 bill with which I am not in accord, but I am willing to get of the House. Under the provisions of this rule after it is the bill in the shape that the gentleman wants it. agreed to if anybody desires to instruct the conferees he has Mr. VESTAL. Through inadvertence in offering the the right to do it. This is the direct, usual, and natural way amendment the word " July " instead of " June " was used. of sending a bill to conference when you can not do it by I ask unanimous consent that the effective date may be unanimous consent. Does the gentleman from New York de­ June instead of July. sire any time? The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Indiana asks unan­ Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. I would like to have 20 imous consent to change the date from July to June. Is minutes. there objection? Mr. SNELL. I yield 20 minutes to the gentleman from :Mr. BUSBY. Under the circumstances I object. New York [Mr. O'CoNNoR]. Mr. STAFFORD. Mr. Speaker, I offer a motion to re- Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield five commit. minutes to the gentleman from Texas [Mr. GARNER]. The SPEAKER. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill? Mr. GARNER. Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen of the Mr. STAFFORD. Most assuredly. House, I asked for these five minutes in order to make a The Clerk read as follows: suggestion to the gentleman from New York [Mr. O'CoNNOR] Mr. STAFFORD moves to recommit the bill to the Committee on and Members on this side of the House as well as on the Patents with instructions to report the same back to the House Republican side. I favor this rule. I would like to see the forthwith with the following amendment: bill sent to conference, but I would like to have the House Strike out all of section 12 down to the proviso on page 13, line 1, and insert in lieu thereof the following: granted the privilege of considering the Senate amendment. " The term for which copyright is secured by this act shall The only object I have is to call attention to the fact that be for the life of the author, and if he dies within 50 years from we can send this bill to conference within the hour or at the date of completion of the creation of the work, then there­ after for a period of time equal to a term of 50 years from said least within two hours, at the latest, if we be permitted to date of completion, except that where the author is not an indi­ consider the Senate amendment and permit the House an vidual the term shall be 50 years from the date of the completion opportunity to express itself thereon. of the creation of the work; and except that in case of a work by Mr. SNELL. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? joint authors the copyright shall terminate at the date of the death of the joint author who dies first, unless he shall die within Mr. GARNER. Yes. 50 years from the date of the completion of the creation of the Mr. SNELL. Is there not a definite opportunity for the work, in which event it is to terminate upon the expiration of House to express its opinion on the Senate amendment by a 60 years from said date of completion of the creation of the motion to instruct the conferees? work." Mr. GARNER. Certainly not. One Member alone has Mr. VESTAL. Mr. Speaker, on that I move the previous the privilege of making a motion to instruct the conferees. question. There are 50 men on the floor of this House-- The previous question was ordered. Mr. SNELL. Oh, the gentleman wants 50 motions made The SPEAKER. The question is on the motion to re­ to instruct, does he? commit. Mr. GARNER. Mr. Speaker, I ask not to be interrupted The question was taken; and on a division (demanded by in that way. Mr. STAFFORD) there were-ayes 26, noes 165. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Texas has been So the motion to recommit was rejected. recognized and has the floor. The SPEAKER. The question is, Shall the bill pass? Mr. GARNER. There are 50 men on the floor of this The question was taken; and on a division (demanded by House who would like to amend the Senate amendment, or Mr. STAFFORD) there were-ayes 185, noes 34. concur in it, and you can not do that by a motion to instruct So the bill was passed. the conferees. . On motion of Mr. VESTAL, the motion to reconsider the If you will vote down the previous question and amend the vote by which the bill was passed was laid on the table. rule, provide that the House have the right and privilege of Mr. VESTAL. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following motion considering the Senate amendment, then you would do the to amend the title, which I send to the desk and ask to have intelligent thing. You would not have a gag rule. It would read. no longer be a gag rule. It would be an orderly procedure The Clerk read as follows: in which you would send the bill to conference with an Amend the title by striking out the words "International Copy­ opportunity on the part of the House to express itself upon right Union" and inserting "Convention of Berne for the Pro­ tection of Literary and Artistic Works." the Senate amendment. The gentleman from New York [Mr. LAGUARDIA] has given notice that he is going to offer The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the mo­ a motion to instruct the conferees. Only one motion can be tion. made to instruct the conferees, whereas, if the bill ~be con­ The motion was agreed to. sidered in the House as the ordinary procedure is, then the DROUGHT RELIEF House would have an opportunity to perfect the Senate Mr. SNELL. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee amendment, or to concur in it. on Rules, I call up House Resolution 334, which I send to I suggest to the Democrats, if I may, the propriety of the desk and ask to have read. voting down the previous question; then, if we are outvoted The Clerk read as follows: in that particular, when the rule comes up for considera­ House Resolution 334 (Rept. No. 2232) tion, to vote for the rule, because that is the only way that we can get this bill to conference. We want it to go to Resolved, That immediately upon the adoption of this resolution the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 447) entitled "Joint resolution conference, but we would like to have the privilege of ex­ making an appropriation to carry out the provisions of the public pressing our opinion on the Senate amendment by offering resolution entitled 'Joint resolution for the relief of farmers in either to concur in it or to concur in it with an amendment. the drought and/or storm stricken areas of the United States,' approved December 20, 1930," with Senate amendments thereto, be·, Mr. CRISP. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? and the same hereby is, taken from the Speaker's table to the end Mr. GARNER. Yes. that all Senate amendments be, and the same are, disagreed to Mr. CRISP. Is it the gentleman's idea, then, if the and a conference is requested wtth the Senate upon the disagree­ previous question is voted down, to offer an amendment ing votes of the two Houses. under the rule providing for the immediate consideration of Mr. SNELL. Mr. Speaker, this resolution which has just the resolution under the rules of the House, thus giving been presented needs no explanation. It has for its purpose the House an opportunity to consider the Senate amend­ the sending of this drought-relief proposition to conference ment, and then send the bill to conference? by the most direct course possible. It does exactly what the Mr. GARNER. I thank the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. chairman of the Committee on Appropriations [Mr. WooD] CRISP J for stating it so succinctly and clearly, as he usually has tried to do by unanimous consent on at least three or does. He is one of the best parliamentarians, if not the four occasions. It takes no rights away from any Member best, in the House of Representatives. [Applause.] LXXIV--132 2082 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 13 All we want is a fair opportunity to consider this amend- , try that this matter of city relief would be considered by the ment, and immediately or within two hours at the latest Rules Committee, and free and open opportunity given to this bill will be in conference, with a fair opportunity for the ' present the matter in this House, was given by the gentle­ House to express itself. But the gentleman from New York man from Indiana [Mr. WooDJ, the chairman of the Com­ [Mr. SNELL] and his organization does not want the House mittee on Appropriations, as reported on January 10, 1931, of Representatives to express itself. If they did, they would page 1940 of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. not have brought in this kind of a rule. They would pro- Now, that ls what the country believed. Again we have , vide in the rule itself that the House would have the privi- the old gag rule here to shut off all debate, to prevent real lege of each Member having an opportunity to consider deliberation on this most important subject which is now this amendment in an orderly way, the way the rule is pending in this House. intended, and the ·way the people who elected you expect Mr. RAMSEYER. Will the gentleman yield? you to consider legislation, rather than to come here and cut Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. Yes, I yield. off every opportunity. Mr. RAMSEYER. The gentleman stated a moment ago I hope the previous question will be voted down and we that an amendment which the gentleman from New York will have an opportunity to amend the rule. [Applause.] [Mr. LAGUARDIA] intended to offer would not be in order Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. Mr. Speaker, this special because not germane, so the only thing that is left in the rule is just another evidence of accomplishing by the power bill that is in controversy at all is the Senate amendment of a majority organization what could not be done in a for $15,000,000 to be loaned to the farmers in the drought parliamentary body if it were left to exercise its free will. and storm stricken areas to buy food. The country has been led to believe during the past week, Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. I sa.id the gentleman's by reason of the debates which have been reported in the amendment would be ruled out of order. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, that the addition of this $15,000,000 Mr. RAMSEYER. Well, if it is going to be ruled out of to the drought relief resolution would be left open for order on the ground that it is not germane, what would the amendment on the floor of this House. Gentlemen on the gentleman gain by having this amendment of the gentleman other side of the House stated that the Rules Comm.ittee from New York [Mr. LAGUARDIA] considered in the Com­ would hold hearings at which Members interested in adding mittee of the Whole or in the House as in Committee of the an amendment to provide for some relief in the cities could Whole? What could he discuss or get before the Committee be heard and submit their case to the Committee on Rules. of the Whole that he can not embody in and discuss in a Mr. SNELL. Will the gentleman yield? motion to instruct conferees? That is what I am getting at, Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. I yield. and I should like to have the gentleman answer my questions Mr. SNELL. Who made such a statement? directly. Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. I do not recall that the Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. I do not believe it is be- gentleman from New York [Mr. SNELL] made the state- yond parliamentary possibility, even at this late date, if you ment. propose to provide relief for the farming communities of Mr. SNELL. No; and I do not think the gentleman re- this country, to work out a plan to provide some relief for calls anybody making any such definite statement on the the cities oi the country. floor of the House. · Mr. RAMSEYER. How could it be worked out in this Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. Oh, yes; I do. If my bill if it is not germane? recollection is correct, the chairman of the Committee on Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. If the pending resolutions Appropriations tried to console the gentleman from New for relief were brought here under a fair rule, it could be York [Mr. LAGuARDIA] by stating that he and otber Mem- opened up for debate and amended to meet the needs of bers could appear before the Rules Committee and be heard the entire country, but when you shut the door in advance, in behalf of the people in the cities. nobody can penetrate it under the existing rules of this Now, what happened? The Rules Committee was sud- House. denly called in executive session, and this rule was brought Mr. RAMSEYER. The door is not shut in advance. The in here. It cuts off any possibility of amendment. If, when gentleman concedes that the LaGuardia amendment would the resolution containing this $15,000,000 for food for farm- not be germane and evades answering my questions. ers returns from conference, an amendment is offered pro- Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. I yield five minutes to the viding for some relief to the people in the cities, for which gentleman from Illinois [Mr. SABArn]. relief some of the Members from the metropolitan areas Mr. SABATH. Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen of ,the have argued for several weeks, that amendment will be held House, the gentleman from Iowa asked what could be done. out of order. Mr. RAMSEYER. I should like to have the gentleman First, the administration is against this $15,000,000 addi- tell the House. . tion for food for the farmers in distress, and, secondly, they Mr. SABATH. I will gladly do so if the gentleman will are more violently opposed to any relief for the suffering in give me a chance to explain what the committee could do. our cities. The Rules Committee, in lieu of this rule, could bring in a ·No one deplores more than I do the growth of any geo- rule making in order a motion to concur in the Senate graphical bloc in this country. We already have a farm amendment with an amendment; that would give the Mem­ bloc that is gnawing at the :floors of the Treasury but if bers a chance to vote on the proposition of amending the this administration continues to be concerned only .;ith the Senate amendment and making a motion in order that welfare of the farmer, you may see what you have not yet would make this fund available to the urban-suffering pea­ got in this Congress-a " city bloc.." The " city mouse '' will ple to the same extent as it is applicable now to the farmers. ·vie with the "country mouse" in boring into the Treasury. Mr. RAMSEYER. Does the gentleman suggest a rule that If you continue to have concern only for a minority of the would make in order something that is not germane and ap- people in this country and keep on takiiig, probably illegally, ply it only to one thing? . probably in contravention of our Constitution, money from Mr. SABATH. Yes, and which .has b~n done frequently, the Treasury for their needs-if you keep on draining the as the gentleman well knows, so as to crrcumvent the tech­ Treasury in behalf of this farming minority, you will build nicalities of the rules of the House. I have answered the up an unfortunate situation in this country, and we shall gentleman. see "bloc" form of government, which confronts other Mr. RAMSEYER. If so, then the gentleman would gag countries. Although I come from the largest city in the the House to that extent? world, I should deplore the formation of any city bloc in Mr. SABATH. No; I would not. I would free the member­ our Government. I entreat you not to make such a situ- ship from the tyrannical rules, which the gentleman has ation necessary, even as a measure of self-protection. often in years - gone by viciously attacked. Under that It has been just called to my attention, Mr. Speaker, that proposition the House would have the right and the privi­ the assurance that was given to the House-and to· the coun- lege of voting on a question which I know a majority of the 1931 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2083 Members of the House, if left alone, are desirous of voting Now, just one word, and in that word I want to address upon, namely, making the appropriation applicable to the myself to my colleaguas from the rural districts and to enlist city people, who are just as hungry and who are suffering their sympathy, as we sympathize with· them. I ask them as much as the farmers. I honestly believe a majority of the to cooperate with us. Members of the House, if given an opportunity, would be No doubt all of you read in the Sunday papers the fact liberal enough to vote favorably on such an amendment. that the President of the United States has made an appeal Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. Will the gentleman yield? for Red Cross contributions. Since the appeal has been Mr. SABATH. Yes; I will yield to the gentleman. made you have heard from the president of the Red Cross Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. The gentleman probably: to the effect that it is intended to spend all of these funds understood, like myself, that an opportunity would be af­ in the rural districts. Let me tell you how this money is forded for :r.n:embers to appear before the Rules Committee going to be raised. The quota for New York State to be and ask that this amendment for city relief be made ger­ raised for the $10,000,000 fund for the Red Cross is $2,640,000, mane. It could have been made germane under a rule from of which $1,766,000 will be collected in my city. The quota the Rules Committee if there was to be any question raised for Massachusetts is $792,000; for lllinois, $1,076',000; for about it, just the same as amendments were made germane Pennsylvania, $1,840,000; for California, $738,000; and for in the McNary-Haugen bill and other farm-relief measures. New Jersey, $520,000. So that six States will contribute On those occasions the Rules Committee brought in special $7,606,000 of the $10,000,000, and the Red Cross does not rules making certain matters germane which would other­ expect to spend any of the money in the six States I have wise have been ruled out on points of order. named. Mr. SABATH. There is no question about that and the Now, gentlemen, I submit that if you are in favor of the gentleman from New York is right. This rule gives us noth­ distribution of food that you give me an opportunity to pre­ ing, and it deprives Members of the rights and privileges sent my motion. It only goes this far-to instruct the con­ to which they should be entitled. To my mind, Mr. Speaker ferees to concur in the Senate amendment providing for and gentlemen, the old days of Cannonism gave the mem­ food distribution with an amendment eliminating all limi­ bership much greater privileges than this rule gives, and tations as to classes, occupations, or residence of persons en­ much greater privileges than· we are enjoying at the pres­ titled to receive the food provided for in said Senate amend.. ent time. ment. That would give an opportunity for the conferees of Mr. ABERNETHY. Will the gentleman yield? this House to get together with the Senate conferees, in.. Mr. SABATH. Yes. My time is limited, but I will yield crease the amount, if necessary, and come in with a provi­ to the gentleman, but only for a brief question. sion permitting the distribution of food without limitation Mr. ABERNETHY. This is even worse than filibusteling, as to classes, occupation, or residence. That would take is it not? care of the needy unemployed in the cities. Mr. SABATH. I agree with the gentleman. I want to submit to every fair-minded man in the House Now, Mr. Speaker and gentlemen, I want to bring home that if you provide food relief for the rural districts you can to you this fact: That for each man who is suffering on not in conscience, in good morals, or in law deny the same the farms there are at least 10 men who are suffering and relief to the unfortunates of the cities. [Applause.] who are in want in the cities. [Applause.] There are thou­ This is what Colonel Woods, the chairman of the National sands of small property owners who are about to be evicted, Unemployment Committee, said in New York last Sunday in who can not meet their obligations, who can not pay their a public address: mortgages, and they are being thrown out of their little It is not the fault of the people who are out of work that they homes and are in need of food. That, in a measure, does are out of work. If a derangement of an economic system which they are not responsible for puts them in a position where they not apply to the farmers. They at least have their homes can not earn an honest living, the system of which they are a and they have roofs over their heads; but that is not true part must assume its share of responsibility in mitigating this of hundreds of thousands of city people and thousands of distress. coal miners out of work throughout the United States. And here is the opportunity, gentlemen. If you provide In all justice I feel this House should have the privilege loans for seed, for fuel, and for feed, and if ·the situation and should have the right of voting upon this question. has so grown since that time that you are compelled to add Under this rule the House is powerless because, as the gen­ this food provision, then I appeal to you, in the spirit of tleman from New York has stated, the gentlema-n from New cooperation, vote with me in the motion which I hope to York [Mr. LAGUARDIA] will make one motion and it must make to-day. be a germane motion. Unless it is such he will be ruled out The SPEAKER. The time of the gentleman from New of order, and for that reason I am against the rule, because York has expired. it does not accomplish anything, knowing that the motion Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. Will the gentleman yield? of the gentleman from New York "will be ruled out of order. Mr. LAGUARDIA. I will, if the gentleman yields me time. Consequently, the rule brought in will only accomplish what Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield the the gentleman from Indiana has tried to do, namely, sending gentleman one minute. How does the gentleman expect to the bill to conference and depriving the membership of the get over the_ hurdle that this bill only applies to certain right to instruct the conferees to agree to the amendment drought-stricken areas in the United States? with an amendment to make the appropriation available to Mr. LAGUARDIA. I have eliminated that by saying- aid the city people as well as farmers. It is to be regretted Eliminating all limitations as to classes, occupations, or resl­ that you who are responsible for these deplorable conditions dence. and undisputed famine in the cities refuse to listen to the appeals of the unfortunate and hungry people of our land. Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. But the bill itself, of The SPEAKER. T'.ae time of the gentleman from Illinois course, applies to drought-stricken areas. has expired. Mr. LAGUARDIA. If the gentleman will look on page Mr. SNELL. Mr. Speaker, I yield five minutes to the 2005, he will see that in my motion I have sougl).t to elimi­ gentleman from New York [Mr. LAGUARDIA]. nate that restriction. Mr. LAGUARDIA. Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. I hope the gentleman has House, I am from the city, and I want to assure the gentle­ eliminated it. men who represent rural districts that those of us who live Mr. SABATH: It is also restricted to farmers. in cities are in sympathy with the plight in which ~their Mr. LAGUARDIA. Yes; but that is classed as an occu­ people find themselves. I am making an effort to-day to pation. cooperate with you in every possible way. [Applause.] Mr. BURTNESS. How about the provision with reference The motion which I intend to make, if recognized for that to loans? · purpose, will be found on page 2005 of yesterday's RECORD, Mr. LAGUARDIA. We will take care of that in confer­ and I believe it is germane. ence. I know that I have to keep my amendment germane, 2084 CONGRESSIONA~ RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 13

but this will at least give them an idea of what we want The question was taken; and there wen~-yeas 214, nays· done. [Applause.] 143, answered "present " 1, not voting 73, as follows: Mr. SNELL. Mr. Speaker, I have been presenting these [Roll No. 12} rules on the floor here for several years and the Democrats. YEAS-214 have made exactly the same argument against every rule Ackerman Dunbar Ketcham Seiberling that has ever been presented, but the .argument to-day is Adkins Dyer Kiefner SelVig the lamest of any one they have ever presented. Allen Eaton, Colo. Kinzer Shaffer, Va. Andresen Eaton, N.J. Knutson Shott, W.Va. Now, let us look at this situation and take the argument Andrew Elliott Kopp Shreve that the gentleman from Texas [Mr. GARNER] has presented. Arentz Ellis Korell Simmons Bachmann Erk Lambertson Simms Let us see where you would get under his argument. He ad­ Bacon Estep Langley Sloan vised you to vote down the previous question and stated it Baird Esterly Lankford, Va. Smith, Idaho would -give the House some opportunity to consider this Barbour Evans, Cali!. Lea Snell Beck Fenn Leavitt Snow whole subject. Beedy Finley Leech Sparks If the matter of distribution of food in the cities is not Beers Fish Lehlbach Speaks mackburn Fitzgerald Letts Sproul, TIL germane in a motion to instruct conferees, I would like to Bohn Fort Loofbourow Sproul, Kans. have the gentleman from Texas or any other gentleman on Bolton Foss Luce Stafford that side of the House tell me how if it was not germane to Bowman Garber, Okla. McClintock, Ohio Stalker Brand, Ohio Garber, Va. McCormick, lll. Stone the subject under discussion we could have a vote on it this Brigham Gibson McLaughlin Strong, Kans. afternoon, and I yield to the gentleman for that purpose. Britten Gifi'ord Maa.s Strong,Pa. Brumm Goodwin Manlove Summers, Wash. Mr. GARNER. I did not make any statement about its Burdick Goss Mapes Swanson being germane. · Burtness Graham Martin Swick Mr. SNELL. That was the effect and purpose of the gen­ Campbell, Pa. Hadley Menges Swing Carter, Calif. Hall, TIL Merritt Taber tleman's remarks when he was asking the House to vote Carter, Wyo. Hall, Ind. Michener Temple down the previous question. Chalmers Hall, N.Dak. Miller Thatcher Mr. GARNER. No; it was not. The gentleman has asked Chase Halsey Moore, Ohio Thurston Chindblom Hardy Morgan Tflson me a question .and if he will yield I would like to answer it. Chiperfield Hartley Mouser Timberlake Mr. SNELL. I yield, of course. Christopherson Haugen Murphy Tinkham Clague Hess Nelson, Me. Treadway Mr. GARNER. All I asked and all that any other Mem­ Clancy Hickey Nelson, Wis. Turpin ber of this House ought to ask is a fair opportunity to ex­ Clark, Md. Hoch Newhall Underhill press himself under the rules of the House, Why do you Clarke, N.Y. Hogg, Ind. Nledringhaus Vestal Cochran, Pa. Hogg, W.Va. Nolan Vincent, Mich. not give the Members on your side of the House a free Cole Holaday O'Connor. Okla. Wainwright opportunity to express themselves? There are gentlemen Colton Hooper Palmer Wason Connolly Hope Peavey Watson. over there who would like to express themselves on this Cooke Houston, Del. Pittenger Welch, Calif. question. Cooper. Ohio Hudson Pratt, Harcourt J. Welsh, Pa. Mr. SNELL. There is nothing in this rule to prevent it. Coyle Hull, Wllllam E. Pritchard White Craddock Irwin Purnell Whitley We do not change any general rules in this respect. Crall Jenkins Ramey. Frank M. Wigglesworth Mr. GARNER. Why does not the gentleman give them an Cramton Johnson, Ind. Ramseyer Williamson Crowther Johnson, Nebr. Ransley Wolfenden opportunity to express themselves under the rules of the Dallinger Johnson, Wash. Reece Wolverton, N.J. House? Darrow Johnston, Mo. Reed,N. Y. Wolverton, W. V~ Mr. SNELL. We are giving you the freest opportunity Davenport Jonas, N.C. Rich Wood Denison ·Kading Robinson Woodru1I possible. We have in the past brought in rules with some De Priest Kahn Rogers Wyant limitations attached. I admit that, but there is not a limi­ Dickinson Kelly Sanders, N. Y. Yates Doutrich Kendall, Ky. Schafer, Wis. tation attached to the rule that we have brought here to-day. Dowell Kendall, Pa. Sears It is a Democratic rule adopted years ago, and gives all the NAYB--143 opportunity to the House to express itself that is possible. Abernethy DeRouen Igoe Palmisano Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. Will the gentleman yield? Allgood Dickstein James, N.C. Parks Mr. SNELL. Certainly. Almon Dominick Jeffers Parsons Arnold Doughton Johnson. Okla. Patman Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. The gentleman will admit, Aswen Douglas, Ariz. Johnson, Tex. Patterson will he not, that the Ruies Committee could have made a Ayres Doxey Jones, Tex. Pou Black Drane Kennedy Prall provision germane that would provide for relief for those Blanton Drewry Kerr Ragon suffering distress in our cities? Bloom Edwards Kvale Rainey, Henry.T. Mr. SNELL. Why, certainly, I admit that we could have Box Eslick LaGuardia Ra.mspeck Boylan Evans, Mont. Lanham Rankin done it, but that would not have been the normal and Brand, Ga. Fisher Lankford, Ga. Rayburn natural way to proceed, and your side of the House would Briggs Frear Larsen Reilly Browning Fuller Lindsay Romjue certainly have found fault with any such rule as that. I Brunner Fulmer Linthicum Rutherford am presenting you a rule that is absolutely the normal and Buchanan Gambrill Lozier Sabath natural way and the shm·test way to get this bill to con­ Busby Garner Ludlow Sanders. Tex. Byrns Gasque McClintic, Okla. Sandlln ference, and that is what the people on that side of the aisle Campbell, Iowa Gavagan McCormack, Mass.Schneider have stated they want. I have given you that opportunity, Cannon Glover McDume Sinclair and are you going to take it or delay as you have on two Cartwright Goldsborough McKeown Somers, N.Y. Celler Granfield McMflla.n Spearing other occasions? Chrlstgau Green McReynolds Steaga.Il Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. When the gentleman Clark, N. C. Greenwood McSwain Sullivan, N.Y. Cochran, Mo. Gregory Mead Sumners. Tex. brought in the McNary-Haugen bill and other farm-relief Collier Griffin Milligan Tarver measures, he did the " unusual " and made certain amend­ Collins Hall, Miss. Montague Tayior. Colo. ments germane which would not otherwise have been ger­ Condon Hancock, N.C. Mooney Tucker Connery Hare Moore, Ky. Vinson, Ga. mane. Cooper, Tenn. Hastings Moore, Va.. Warren Mr. SNELL. Yes; and we were sorry for it afterwards. If Cooper, Wis. Hill, Ala. Morehead Whittington Cox Hfil, Wash. Nelson, Mo. Wingo you vote down the previous question you will not get any­ Crisp Howard O'Connor, N.Y. Woodrum where this afternoon, and I assure you that. However. if Cross Huddleston Oldfield Wright you order the previous question you will get some action Crosser Hull, Tenn. Oliver, Ala.. Yon on the matter this afternoon, and the resolution will go to Davis Hull, Wis. Owen conference. ANSWERED " PRESENT "-1 Oliver, N. Y. Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. Is not the gentleman in- II terested at all in the distress of the people in our cities? NOT VOTING-73 Mr. SNELL. Mr. Speaker, I move the previous question. Aldrich Bell Butler Corning Aut der Heide Bland . Cable Culkin Mr. GARNER. Mr. Speaker, I ask for the yeas and nays. Bacharach Browne Canfield Cullen The yeas and nays were ordered. Bankhead Buckbee Carley Dempsey 1931 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2085

Dorsey Hoffman Michaelson Stobbs Hoch Lozier Pittenger Stone Douglass, Mass. Hopkins Montet Sullivan, Pa. Hogg, Ind. Luce Pou Strong, Kg,ns, Doyle Hudspeth Norton Taylor, Tenn. Hogg, W.Va. Ludlow Prall Strong, Pa. Driver Hull, Morton D. O'Connor, La. Thompson Holaday McClintic, Okla. Pratt, Harcourt J. Sullivan, N.Y. Englebrlght James, Mich. - Parker Underwood Hooper McClintock, Ohio Pritchard Summers, Wash. Fitzpatrick Johnson, lll. Perkins Walker Hope McCormack, Mass.Pumell Sumners, Tex. Free Johnson, S. Dak. Pratt, Ruth Watres Hopkins McCormick. lll. Quin Swanson Freeman Keams Qutn Whitehead Houston, Del. McDuffie Ragon Swick French Kemp Reid, Til. Williams Hudson McKeown Rainey, Henry T. Swing Garrett Kunz Rowbottom Wilson Hull, William E. McLaughlin Ramey, Frank M. Taber Golder Kurtz Seger Wurzbach Hull, Tenn. McMillan Ramseyer Tarver Guyer McFadden Short, Mo. Zihlman Hull, Wis. McReynolds Ramspeck Taylor, Colo. Hale McLeod Sirovich Igoe McSwain Rankin Taylor, Tenn. Hancock, N.Y. Magrady Smith, W.Va. Irwin Maas Ransley Temple Hawley Mansfield Stevenson James, N.C. Manlove Rayburn Thatcher Jeffers Mapes Reece Thurston So the previous question was ordered. Jenkins Martin Reed, N. Y. Tilson The following pairs were announced: J-ohnson, Ind. Mead ' Reilly Timber!ake Mr. Buckbee (for) with Mr. Oliver of New York (against). Johnson, Nebr. Menges Rich Tinkham Mr. Aldridge (for) with Mr. Williams (against). Johnson, Okla. Merritt Robinson Treadway Mr. Hawley (for) with Mr. Cullen (against). Johnson, Tex. Michener Rogers Tucker Mr. Free (for) with Mr. Bankhead (against). Johnson. -Wash. Miller Romjue Turpin Mr. Hopkins (for) with Mr. Wilson (against). Jonas, N.C. M!lligan Rutherford Vestal Mr. Bacharach (for) with Mr. Montet (against). Jones, Tex. Montague Sanders, N.Y. Vincent, Mich. Mr. Magrady (for) with Mr. Douglass of Massachusetts (against). Kading Mooney Sanders, Tex. Vinson, Ga. Mr. Coming {for) with Mr. Browne (against). Kahn Moore, Ky. Sandlin Wainwright Mr. Short (for) with Mr. Mansfield (against). K-elly Moore, Ohio Schafer, Wis. Warren Mrs. Ruth Pratt (for) with Mrs. Norton (against). Kendal!, Ky. Moore, Va. Schneider Wason Mr. Englebright (for) with Mr. Underwood (against). Kendall, Pa. Morehead Sears Wa tres Mr. Golder (for) with Mr. Dorsey (against). Kennedy Mouser Seiberl1ng Watson Mr. Hale (for) with Mr. Carley (against). Kerr Murphy Selvig Welch, Cali!. Mr. Johnson of lilinois (for) with Mr. Canfield (against). Ketcham Nelson, Me. Sha.ffer, Va. Welsh, Pa. Mr. McFadden (for) with Mr. Auf der Heide (against). Kiefner Nelson, Mo. Shott, W.Va. White Mt. Johnson of South Dakota (for) with Mr. Kemp (against). Kinzer Nelson, Wis. Shreve Whitley Mr. Reid of Dlinois (for) with Mr. Garrett (against). Knutson Newhall Simmons Whittington Mr. Perkins (for) with Mr. Driver (against). Kopp Niedringhaus Simms Wigglesworth Mr. French (for) with Mr. Quin (against). Lambertson Nolan Sinclair Williamson Mr. Kurtz (for) with Mr. Stevenson (against). Langley O'Connor, N.Y. Sloan Wingo Mr. McLeod (for) With Mr. Sirovich (against). Lanham O'Connor, Okla. Smith, Idaho Wolfenden Mr. Stobbs (for) with Mr. Smith of West V1rg1nla (against). Lankford, Ga. Oldfield Snell Wolverton, N.J. Mr. Kearns (for) with Mr. Bell (against). Lankford, Va. Oliver, Ala. Snow Wolverton, w. Va. Mr. Sullivan of Pennsylvania (for) with Mr. Kunz {against). Larsen Oliver, N.Y. Somers, N.Y. Wood Mr. Guyer (for) with Mr. O'Connor of Louisiana (against). Lea Owen Sparks Woodruff Mr. Culkin (for) with Mr. Fitzpatrick {against). Leavitt Palmer Speaks Woodrum Leech Palmisano Spearing Wright General pail·s: Lehlbach Parks Sproul, lll. Wurzbach Mr. Taylor of Tennessee with Mr. Bland. Letts Parsons Sproul, Kans. Wyant Mr. Wurzbach with Mr. Whitehead. Lindsay Patman Stafford Yates Mr. Freeman with Mr. Hudspeth. Linthicum Patterson Stalker Yon Mr. James of Michigan with Mr. Doyle. Loofbourow Peavey Steagall Zihlman Mr. OLIVER of New York. Mr. Speaker, if I were not NAYS--4 paired, I would have voted" no." Black Connery Huddleston LaGuardia The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. ANSWERED "PRESENT "-3 Mr. SNELL. Mr. Speaker, I ask for a vote on the rule. Howard Kvale Sabath The SPEAKER. The· question is on agreeing to the NOT VOTING--'72 resolution. Aldrich Dempsey Johnson, TIL Perkins Mr. GARNER. And on that, Mr. Speaker, I ask for the Andrew Dickinson Johnso.a, S.Dak. Pratt, Ruth yeas and nays. Auf der Heide Dorsey Johnston, Mo. Reid, ru. Bacharach Douglass, Mass. Keams Rowbottom The yeas and nays were ordered. Bankhead Doyle Kemp Seger The question was taken; and there we.re-:...yeas 352, nays 4, Bell Englebrlght Korell Short. Mo. answered" present, 3, not voting 72, as follows: Bland Fitzpatrick Kunz Strovich l3rowne Free Kurtz Smith, W.Va. [Roll No. 131 Buckbee Garrett McFadden Stevenson YEAS-352 Butler Golder McLeod Stobbs Abernethy - Byrns Crowther Freeman Cable Guyer Magrady Sullivan, Pa. Ackerman Campbell, Iowa Dalllnger French Canfield Hale Mansfield Thompson Adkins Campbell, Pa. Darrow Fuller Carley · Hancock, N. Y. Michaelson Underhlll Allen Cannon Davis Fulmer Celler. Hawley Montet Underwood Allgood Carter, Calif. Denison GambrUI Corning Hoffman Morgan Walker Almon Carter, Wyo. De Priest Garber, Okla.. Culkin Hudspeth Norton Whitehead Andresen Cartwright DeRouen Garber, Va. Cullen Hull, Morton D. - O'Connor, La. Wlll!ams Arentz Chalmers Dickstein Garner Davenport James, Mich. Parker Wilson Arnold Chase Dominick Gasque So the resolution was agreed to. Aswell Chindblom Doughton Gavagan Ayres Chiperfield Douglas, Ariz. Gibson The following additional pairs were announced: Bachmann Christgau Doutrich Gifford General pairs until further notice: Bacon Christopherson Dowell Glover Baird Clague Doxey Goldsborough Mr. Aldrich with Mr. Willlams. Barbour Clancy Drane Goodwin Mr. Hawley 'with Mr. Oullen. · Beck Clark,Md. Drewry Goss Mr. Free with Mr. Bankhead. Beedy Clark,N. C. Driver Graham Mr. Bacharach with Mr. Montet. . Beers Clarke, N.Y. Dunbar Granfield Mr; Magrady with Mr. Douglass of Massachusetts. Blackburn Cochran, Mo. Dyer Green Mr. Browne with Mr. Corning. Blanton Cochran, Pa. Eaton, Colo. Greenwood Mr. Short of Missouri with Mr. Mansfield. Bloom Cole Eaton, N.J. Gregory Mrs. Ruth Pratt with Mrs. Norton. Bohn - comer Edwards Grtm.n Mr. Englebright with Mr. Underwood. Bolton Collins Elliott Hadley Mr. Golder with Mr. Dorsey. Bowman Colton Ellis Hall, Til. Mr. Hale with Mr. Carley. Box Condon Erk Hall, Ind. Mr. Johnson of illinois with Mr. Canfield. Boylan Connolly Eslick Hall, Miss. Mr. McFadden with Mr. Auf der Heide. Brand, Ga. Cooke Estep Hall, N. Dak. Mr. Johnson of South Dakota with Mr. Kemp. Brand, Ohio Cooper, Ohio Esterly Halsey Mr. Reid of Illinois with Mr. Garrett. Briggs Cooper, Te::1n. Evans, Calif. Hancock, N. 0. Mr. Kurtz with Mr. Stevenson. Brigham Cooper, Wis. Evans, Mont. Hardy Mr. McLeod with Mr. Sirovlch. Britten Cox Fenn Hare Mr. Stobbs with Mr. Smith of West Virginia. Browning Coyle Finley Hartley Mr. Kearns with Mr. Bell. Brumm Craddock Fish . Hastings Mr. Sullivan of Pennsylvania with Mr. Kunz. Brunner Crail Fisher Haugen Mr. Guyer with Mr. O'Connor of Louisiana. Buchanan Cramton Fitzgerald Hess Mr. Culkin with Mr. Fitzpatrick. Burdick crisp· Fort mckey Mr. P~kins with Mr. Wilson. · Burtness Cross Foss H1ll_ Ala.. Mr. Bnckbee with Mr. Bland. Busby Crosser Frear Blll.Wash. Mr. Davenport with Mr. Whitehe~ 2086 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY ·13" Mr. James of '"Michigan with Mi": Hudspeth. to areas, not to any one specific area. It is in the plural, Mr. Underhill with Mr. Celler. Mr. Johnston of Missouri with Mr. Doyle. - not J.D. the singular. Then, who are the people to be bene­ fited? Is it one class of people? No. The bill refers to The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. two classes of persons, to those in the drought area and to Mr. LAGUARDIA. Mr. Speaker,· I present the following the people in the storm-stricken area. If this were an ap­ motion to instruct the conferees. propriation for one person in one area, then the argument The Clerk read as follows: presented by my colleague from New York might be tenable, Mr. LAGUARDIA moved that the House conferees be instructed to but the doors have been opened here under the precedents concur in the Senate amendment providing for food distribution with an amendment eliminating all limitations as to classes, occu­ of the House, because it refers to -various areas and to pation, or residence of persons entitled to receive the food pro­ two classes of stricken people, the storm -stricken and the vided for in said Senate amendment. drought-affected people. The decisions on the point are Mr. SNELL. Mr. Speaker, I make a point of order against numerous. I concede that where a bill provides relief for the amendment. I make the· point of order first that the one person an amendment providing relief for another per­ gentleman is trying to do by indirection what he would not son is not germane under the decisions, and where the relief be allowed to do by direction under the rules of the House. applies to one class an amendment making it applicable to Secondly, under section b, Rule XVI, a specific subject a second class is not germane under the decisions; but, at may not be amended by a provision general in nature, even the risk of becoming tiresome, I repeat that the provisions when of the class of the specific subject is refened. here apply to various areas in various States spread all over The gentleman from New York has presented a very care­ the United States, some contiguous and some quite distant fully and cleverly worded amendment. from each other, so that so far as the locality and my Now, let us see what the exact situation is. The proposi­ amendment eliminating locality are concerned I am clearly tion before the House in the Senate amendment is that we in order under the decisions. As to the classes of people, we shall lend money to buy food for farmers in the drought and have the drought-afflicted class and the storm-afflicted class. storm stricken areas of the United States, a specific subject, Here, again, we have two classes, and under the decision I at a specific place, and a specific lot of people. can so amend as to make the benefits applicable to anothe1· If the amendment of the gentleman from New York was class in the cities. adopted, he would remove all restrictions, and instead of I call the attention of the Chair .to a decision on May .8. having a specific proposition before us of lending money for 1902, which is the leading decision on the question of ger­ the purpose of buying food to a specific people, he would re­ maneness, in respect to adding to specific provisions of a move all these limitations, and his amendment provides for bill, where Mr. James T. Lloyd, of Missouri, raised a ques­ the distribution of food to all people in any part of the tion of order to an amendment adding another Territory to United States. In other words, he chB.nges it over from a a bill admitting several Territories into statehood. The specific proposition to a general subject, in a general way, Chair there held: which is directly in opposition to the rules of the House. If this were a bill for the admission of Oklahoma Territory alone There are several decisionS on this well-recognized rule of as a State, there would be no doubt as to the position taken by the gentleman from Missouri being correct, and an amendment to the House that you can not do by indirection that which admit some other Territory as a State would not be in order; but would not be allowed to do by direction. The gentleman this is a general bill covering three different Territories, and -an from New York has sought by eliminating a number of amendment as suggested by the gentleman from Alabama to admit words to accomplish exactly the same thing that he could Alaska as a State would be 1n 6rder under this bill. have accomplished by direction, but by diiection it would be We have exactly the same proposition in this bill now be­ subject to the rule of germaneness, and the gentleman rec­ fore us. It relates to various areas in many States and to ognizes that fact, that his intended amendment would not two distinct classes of people. I call the attention of the be germane as a simple amendment in committee. Speaker to another deciSion, a bill regulating "oleomarga­ If I remember correctly there was practically the same rine and imitation dairy products," where an amendment, proposition before the House last winter, when the gentle:­ including "imitation butter," was offered and held germane man from Michigan, Mr. HooPER, was in the chair. He on February 11, 1902, to be found on page 487 of Volume V made a decision, and it was bolstered up by several decisions of Hinds' Precedents. I also call the Speaker's attention made previously, that where an amendment eliminates cer­ to still another ruling. A ruling made by Mr. Chairman tain words in the text of the bill, changing the whole propo­ Sherley, of Kentucky, where he held that adding articles on sition from a specific proposition to a general one, it is not the free list to the free-list section of a tariff bill was ger­ germane. I believe there is also a decision by the present mane, because there was more than one article on that free Speaker that is exactly along this same line. list. That extended the scope of the provision and meets On these grounds, Mr. Speaker, I contend that the amend­ the objection raised by my colleague from New York [Mr. ment offered by the gentleman from New York is not ger­ SNELL]. I submit that my whole point here and my justifi­ mane and should not be considered at this time. cation for the instructions I seek to give to the conferees is Mr. LAGUARDIA. Mr. Speaker, I desire to be heard on that the ·bill before us applies to more than one area and to the point of order. ~e gentleman from New York frankly­ more than one class of beneficiaries and hence an amend­ states that it is extremely difficult to argue against my ment extending the areas to the cities and adding another motion to instruct. . class, the unemployed, is germane under the rules and prece­ In the first place, what is before the House? A proposi­ dents. My motion to instruct the conferees would permit tion to send an appropriation bill to conference, and the them to work out in this bill a provision which will carry Speaker will admit, I am sure, that a motion to instruct the out the wishes of the House if my motion is agreed; under conferees is entitled to greater latitude than an amendment the rules and precedents I submit that the motion is which would be offered to an appropriation bill before the germane. House for consideration. The SPEAKER. The Chair is prepared to rule. The The gentleman states that I am seeking to do indirectly Chair agrees with the gentleman from New York [Mr. what I could not do directly. I am sure the gentleman is in SNELL] that the motion of the gentleman from New York error as to that, because the only proposition before us is [1\.fr. LAGuARDIA] is very ingeniously drawn and in the opin­ sending the resolution to conference, and all I am doing is ion of the Chair has great merit, but that can not be con­ the only thing I can do directly-to move to instruct under sidered by the Chair in determining the point of order. The the present parliamentary situation. So much for the Chair must disagree with the gentleman from New York [Mr. matter of direct action. LAGUARDIA] in his general proposition that conferees have The gentleman from New York [Mr." SNELL] says that I broader powers than the House itself has; in other words, that can not change one specific provision by adding another. the House may instruct conferees to do a thing which the On that the point of order will be decided. I call the atten­ House could not do itself. The Chair thinks that motions tion of the Chair to the very provisions of the bill. It refers to instruct conferees stand on exactly the same basis and 1931 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2087 must be dealt with in the same way as motions to recommit Linthicum Nelson, Mo. Rainey, Hen.."'Y T. Spearing Lozier O'Connor, N.Y. Ramspeck Steagall to a committee with instructions,· and that if the House can McClintic, Okla. Oldfield · Rankm· · Stone not authorize a committee to do that which the House itself McCormack,Mass.OUver, N.Y. Rayburn Sullivan, N.Y. can not do, it follows that it can not instruct conferees to McDuffie Owen Romjue Sumners, Tex. McKeown Palmisano Rutherford Tarver do that which the House can not do. McMillan ' Parks Sabath _ Taylor, Colo. The motion of the gentleman from New York is that the McReynolds Parsons Sanders, Tex. Vinson, Ga. McSwain Patman Sandlin Warren House conferees be instructed to concur in the Senate Mead Patterson Schafer, Wis. Whittington amendment providing for food distribution, and so forth. Milligan Peavey Schneider Woodrum What is that Senate amendment?- Montague Prall . Sinclair Wright Moore. Ky. Qutn Somers, N.Y. Yon That the Secretary o! Agriculture is hereby authorized for the Moore, Va. Ragon Sparks crop of 1931 to make advances of loans to. farmers in the drought NAYS-215 and storm stricken areas where he shall find that an emergency for such assistance exists, for the purchase o! food under such Ackerman • Doutrich Kelly Seiberling terms as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Adkins Dowell Kendall, Ky. Selvig Allen Dunbar Kendall, Pa.. Shaffer, Va.. The motion of the gentleman from New York is not di­ Andresen Dyer Ketcham Shott, W. Va. Andrew Eaton, Colo. Kinzer Shreve rected against the bill as a whole, but only to that one Arentz Eaton, N.J. Knutson Simmons amendment, which the Chair has just read, which is specifi­ Bachmann Elliott Kopp Sloan Bacon · Erk Korell Smith, Idaho cally limited to farmers in the drought and storm stricken Baird Estep LaGuardia Snell areas. The gentleman from New York desires to broaden Barbour Esterly Lankford, Va. Snow that to the extent that it would prevail in cities where there Beck Evans, Call!, Leavitt Speaks Beedy Penn Leech Sproul, lll. are no drought or storm stricken areas and no farmers. The Beers Fish Lehlbach Stafford last decision on the general subject of whether a motion to Black Fort Letts Stalker Blackburn broaden a specified area is germane was made by t~e pres­ Foss Loofbourow Strong, Kans. Bohn Freeman Luce Strong, Pa. ent occupant of the chair on April 2, 1930. A bill was under Bolton· French Ludlow Summers, Wash. consideration which provided, among other things, that ac­ Bowman Garber, Okla. McClintock, Ohio Swanson Brand, Ohio Garber, Va. McLaughlin Swick tions brought against a carrier should only be in a State Brigham Gibson Maas Swing through or into which the carrier operates a line of railway. Britten Gi.fford Manlove Taber An amendment was offered proposing in addition that such Brumm Goodwin Mapes Taylor, Tenn. Brunner Goss Martin Temple action might be brought in the district or State where the Buchanan Graham Menges, Thatcher railroad maintained an agent, and the Chair held that that Burdick Grtmn Merritt Thurston was not germane, because it broadened largely the area in Burtness Hadley Michener Tilson Campbell, Pa. Hall, Ill. Miller Timberlake which the proposition was supposed to operate. Carter, Cali!. ­ Hall, Ind. Mooney -Tinkham The Chair thinks that the motion of the gentleman from Carter, Wyo. Hall, N.Dak. Moore, Ohio Treadway Chalmers Halsey Morehead · Tucker New York seeks to do exactly the.sort of thing which .the Chase ­ · Hancock, N.Y. Morgan Turpin present occupant of the chair has held to be illegal, and the Chindbloom Hardy. Mouser Underhill Chair is constrained to sustain the point of order made by Chiperfield Hartley Murphy Vestal Christopherson Haugen Nelson, Me. Vincent, Mlch. the gentleman from New York [Mr. SNELLJ. Clague Hess Newhall WainWI•ight Mr. McCLINTIC of Oklahoma. Mr. Speaker, a parlia- Clancy Hickey Niedringhaus Wason mentary inquiry. · Clarke. N.Y. Hoch Nolan Watres Cochran,Pa.. Hogg, Ind. O'Connor, Okla. Watson The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. Cole Hogg, W.Va. Palmer Welch, Call!. Mr. McCLINTIC of Oklahoma. The Chair having held Colton_ Holaday Pittenger Welsh, Pa. Connery Hooper Pou White that the gentleman's motion is out of order, does the rule Connolly Hope Pratt. Harcourt J. Whitley permit the offering of another motion to instruct? · Cooke · Hopkins · Pritchard Wigglesworth The SPEAKER. The rules permit, at this stage, one Cooper. Ohio Houston, Del. Purnell Williamson Coyle Hudson Ramey, Frank M. Wolfenden motion that is in order. r Crall . Hull, William E. Ramseyer Wolverton, N.J. Mr. McCLINTIC of Oklahoma. Mr. Speaker, I move that Cramton Irwin Ransley Wolverton, W.Va. . Dallinger Jenkins Reece Wood the House conferees be instructed to concur in the Senate Darrow - Johnson, Ind. Reed, N.Y. Woodruff amendment. Dempsey John...~n. Nebr. Reilly Wurzbach The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. Denison Johnson, Wash. Rich Wyant De Priest Jonas, N. C. Robinson Yates McCLINTIC] moves that the House conferees be instructed Dickinson Kading Rogers Zihlman to concur in the Senate amendment. The question is on the Dickstein Kahn · Sanders, N.Y. motion of the gentleman from Oklahoma. . ANSWERED "PRESENT "-1 The question was taken, and the Speaker announced that Oliver, Ala. the noes seemed to have it. NOT VOTING-80 . Mr. McCLINTIC of Oklahoma. Mr. Speaker, I demand Aldrich Davenport Johnson, S.Dak. Pratt, Ruth a division. Almon Dorsey Johnston, Mo. Reid, Til. AufderHeide Douglas, Ariz. Kearns Rowbottom Mr. PARKS. Mr. Speaker, I ask for the yeas and nays. Bacharach Douglass, Mass. Kemp Sears The yeas and nays were ordered. Bankhead Doyle K1efner Seger The question was taken; and there were-yeas nays Bell Ellis Kunz Short, Mo. qs, Bland Engle bright Kurtz Simms 215, answered" present" 1, not voting 80, as follows: Bloom Fitzgerald Larsen Strovich [Roll No. 14] Browne Fitzpatrick McCormick, Ill. Smith, W.Va. Buckbee Free McFadden Sproul, Kans. YEAS-135 Butler Garrett McLeod Stevenson Abernethy Colllns Finley Hill, Wash. Cable Golder Ma.grady Stobbs Allgood Condon Fisher Howard Canfield Guyer Mansfield Sullivan, Pa.. Arnold Cooper, Tenn. Frear Huddleston Carley Hale Michaelson Thompson Aswell Cooper, Wis. Fuller Hull, Tenn. Celler Hawley Montet Underwood Ayres Cox Fulmer Hull, Wis. Clark, Md. Hoffman Nelson, Wis. Walker Blanton Craddock Gambrill Igoe Corning Hudspeth Norton Whitehead Box Crisp Garner James, N.C. Crowther Hull, Morton D. O'Connor, La. Williams Boylan Cross Gasque Jeffers Culkin James, Mich. Parker Wilson Brand, Ga. Crosser Gavagan Johnson, Okla. Cullen Johnson, lll. Perkins Wingo Briggs Davis Glover Johnson, Tex. Browning DeRouen Goldsborough Jones, Tex. So the motion was rejected. Busby Dominick Granfield Kennedy The Clerk announced the following additional pairs: Byrns Doughton Green Kerr Additional general pairs: Campbell, Iowa Doxey Greenwood Kvale Cannon Drane Gregory Lambertson Mr. Nelson o! Wisconsin with Mr. Bland. Cartwright Drewry Hall, Miss Langley Mr. James of Michigan with Mr. Almon. Christga.u . Driver Hancock, N.C. Lanham Mr. Morton D. Hull with Mr. Douglas of Arizona. Clark, N.C." Edwards Hare • Lankford, Ga. Mr. Parker· with Mr. Larsen. Cochran, Mo. Eslick Hastings Lea Mr. Cable with Mr. Doyle.' Coll1er Evans, Mont. Hill, Ala.. Lindsay Mr. K1efne!l' with Mr. Hudspeth. 2088 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 13 On the ·vote: the disposition of useless papers in the .executive depart­ Mr. Williams (for) with Mr. Aldrich (against). ments,'' for the disposition of useless papers in the United Mr. Cullen (for) with Mr. Hawley (against). States Civil Service Commission. Mr. Bankhead (for) with Mr. Free (against). Mr. Montet (for) with Mr. Bacharach (against). ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL Mr. Douglass of Massachusetts (for) with Mr. Magrady (against). Mr. Browne (for) with Mr. Corning (against). Mr. BARBOUR. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House Mr. Mansfield (for) with rJf. Short of Missouri {against). Mrs. Norton (for) with Mrs. Ruth Pratt (against). resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the Mr. Underwood (for) with Mr. Engelbright (against). state of the Union for the further consideration of the bill Mr. Dorsey (for) with Mr. Golder {against). generous attitude and friendly dis­ Cross fund the same as it will come on the $40,000,000 we position. His sturdy defense of the poor and lowly and his appropriated to-day-from people who will get nothing from ready eagerness to respond to the care and suffering, no that fund. matter from what quarter it might come, irrespective of Mr. McCLINTIC of Oklahoma. The statement contained race, religion, nationality, or color, made him a world-wide in this telegram only referred to the attitude of a section of figure in philanthropy. the country that is in dire distress because of a very serious Nathan Straus was born in Rhenish Bavaria on January situation, and the gentleman can not blame those people for 31, 1848, the son of Lazarus and Sara Straus. He had two first making the statement they are going to take care of brothers, Isidor and Oscar. Isidor, a great merchant, lost their own hungry before they contribute any money to take his life when the steamship Titanic went down after strik­ care of any other situation, and they have this thought in ing an iceberg on her maiden trip. Oscar S. Straus, once mind. It has been reported there is riow in the treasury of ambassador to Turkey, a Cabinet member, and recipient of honors at the bands .of six Presidents, from Cleveland to the Red Cross some $300,000,000, and if this stateme~t is true, then neither Mr. Payne nor any other person con­ Wilson, died of heart disease on May 3, 1926. nected with the Red Cross has the right to go out and ask Nathan Straus was the eldest of the sons, and when his these communities to contribute money when they are in a father came to this country in 1854, the boy, despite his position where they can not take care of their own hungry tender years, was already assuming the role of big brother. people. The Straus family settled in Talbottom, Ga. At first the father peddled his wares on the Georgia plantations and Mr. LAGUARDIA. It seems to me when you take five later be set up a store in Talbottom. When it began to States and raise $7,606,000 and have 43 other States that are succeed, the father sent for his wife and the young sons. expected to raise $2,400,000, that the 43 States have no The Straus family was the only Jewish group in the small complaint. village. Thus they attended now and then the Baptist Our kick is that we are paying the greater portion of the Church and their home became the headquarters for the old­ Red Cross fund and the greater portion of the taxes when time circuit-riding preachers, who looked with something we have needy people and can not get relief. akin to awe upon the elder Straus as one who could trans­ Mr. McCLINTIC of Oklahoma. The gentleman from New late literally from the original of the Old Testament. York may be correct and his State may have been assessed Mr. WRIGHT. Will the gentleman yield? an amount that is entirely too high. I am in full sympathy Mr. DICKSTEIN. I yield. with him and voted with him to get some aid for those who Mr. WRIGHT. I want to state that the father of Nathan reside in his district or in his city who are in need of help. Straus settled in a county in my district. And he started I regret exceedingly that my motion to instruct the House business as a pack peddler. - conferees to accept the Senate amendments was rejected by Mr. DICKSTEIN. The Civil War ruined the family and a pretty near solid party vote; however, I am appreciative with the savings swept away, they moved to New York City. of the fine support given by the Democratic Members. The father went into business as L. Straus, importer of pot­ Mr. DICKSTEIN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to tery and glassware and Nathan Straus entered Packard's the pro forma amendment and ask unanimous consent that Business College. Shortly after he was graduated he mar­ I may proceed out of order. ried Lina Gutberz, and in April, 1927, the couple, rich in 1931 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2091 memories, celebrated the fifty-second anniversary of their Nathan Straus did not believe in making only the Jews marriage. After his marriage Nathan Straus joined his of Palestine reap the benefit of his unselfish work, but all father-Isidor having already done so-and the firm became creeds and races, inhabitants of the country, shared in the L. Straus & Sons, both young men acting as salesmen. In benefits of Nathan Straus's noble experiment. Where the 1923, the philanthropist bought the business and Nathan country was desolate and there was not a dwelling to be Straus & Sons Unc.), with State Senator Nathan Straus, jr., found, due to the continued pouring out of funds he was able as president, came into being. to establish splendid structures, wonderful hospitals, memo­ On St. Patrick's Day, 1874, Nathan Straus walked into rable wor~s of art, and all that was necessary for the uplift of the highly successful department store founded by Rowland the individual and the health of the races. Nathan Straus saw Hussey Macy, under the firm name of R. H. Macy & Co. to it that his benefactions were given to those who were Mr. Straus had under his arm two fine porcelain plates. mostly in need of them. He saw to it that every cent spent Mr. Macy was interested and the upshot was that the base­ for the noble causes which he had espoused was spent where ment of the store was rented to the Straus firm. Nathan it would do most good. Out of the abundance of his wealth and Isidor Straus bought the store in 1887. After his he was pouring out his treasures lavishly with but one aim brother's tragic death Nathan Straus in 1914 gave up all in view, and that was the betterment of those for whose connection with R. H. Macy & Co. benefits these large sums were spent. In 1888 the brothers established a china department in He did not live to enjoy his wealth by way of spendin:J it the Brooklyn department store then known as Wechsler & on himself, but he felt that the greatest duty a man of Abraham. The brothers were invited to enter the fum in wealth owes . is to the community and his fellow men, and 1893, and after they had acquired Mr. Wechsler's interest by giving unstintingly he will do more for the satisfaction the firm became Abraham & Straus. The firm was incor­ of his own sense of justice than he would by accumulating porated in 1920, but it was not until 1925 that Mr. Straus, great wealth. · who had not been active in the business for some time, re­ Not long before his death he said: tired as chairman of the board. What you give in health is gold; So much for the outer facts of Nathan Straus's life, but, What you give in sickness is silver; above all the success as a man of business and his achieve­ What you give after death is lead. ments elevating himself from comparative poverty to afflu­ This saying epitomizes more than anything else the phi­ ence and riches, Nathan Straus had always before his mind losophy of Nathan Straus's life and the noble theory upon the goal of the purpose of his life, which was the alleviation which his benefactions were founded. of human misery. Through all his business years his He would distribute all his wealth in his lifetime, for he philanthropic spirit had been at work and as far back as felt with his own personal supervision of the distribution 1892 he had the conception of establishing milk stations for of the funds contributed by him he could do much more infants. than by establishing foundations after his death, which Thereafter, for 30 years or more, he maintained at his own necessarily would have to be directed by others who would expense, a laboratory and distribution system to provide the not perhaps give the same sympathy to the projects dearest poor with milk, and thousands of infants' lives were saved to the heart of Nathan Straus. Nathan Straus believed not every year by this noble work of Nathan Straus. Not only only in giving but · also in sharing his gifts, thus follow­ in this country did Nathan Straus establish milk stations. ing the noble precepts of our own great poet James Russell As his idea spread, Mr. Straus organized milk stations in Lowell, who in one of his noblest works says: Germany, Palestine, Cuba, the Philippines, and other places throughout the world. It must be borne in mind that at the Not what you give, but what you share; time of the establishment of the first milk station in New For the gift without the giver is bare. York City pasteurization of milk was in its infancy and none It is not enough to spend your money, but behind every of the large distributing companies practiced pasteurization cent that goes out of the treasury of the great philanthro­ in their plants. It was only after Nathan Straus demon­ pist there is a beating human heart which watches its ex­ strated the value of pasteurization of milk for infants that penditure, so that it may benefit the one for whom it is the large distributing companies adopted the system of intended and bring sunshine into a world of gloom. purifying the milk sold on the market by the process of Nathan Straus was typically the individualist philan­ pasteurization. , thropist--the man who personally felt with those for whose As a matter of fact, America has become the pioneer in the relief his money was so generously spent. work of pasteurization of milk for human consumption And when .at this time. we are pausing in our labors to largely and almost exclusively through the efforts of Nathan record the death of Nathan Straus, may I be permitted to Straus. Nor was that all. add a note of my personal feeling of grief at this catastrophe While the idea was a novel one, Nathan Straus encoun­ which has overtaken the American people. tered opposition from many sources, by fair means or foul, In my office I have a photograph of Nathan Straus, facing seeking to undermine his work and discredit him in the me when I do my day's labors, with the words" Your friend. public eye. It was then that Nathan Straus's wife, Lina, who Nathan Straus," inscribed thereon. It is not me:J,"ely an ex­ died recently-only a few months before her husband-gave pression on the part of the dear deceased, but it represents the encouragement to Nathan Straus to continue his noble what Nathan Straus truly was to me-a friend. A friend work and not to let up in his efforts. It was she who added in the noblest sense of the word; one who was ever ready to her noble cooperation to the untiring efforts of Nathan give me his counsel and his advice on matters of social and Straus, and with her aid the relief given to the children of public policy. I learned a great deal both from the life of the poor became the noblest monument of Nathan Straus's Nathan Straus and from the living example of my associa­ life. tion with him. Whenever it was my good fortune to bring In recent years Nathan Straus became seriously interested me in contact with Nathan Straus I would leave his presence in the work oi rehabilitation of the ancient Jewish home­ enriched with experience in appreciation of human contacts land of Palestine, and he was pouring out his money lav­ and in love for my fellow men. Nathan Straus was one of ishly and unstintingly into the development, both economic those noble characters whose very touch was inspired, whose and social, of that ancient land of the Jews. Nathan Straus every word was a spurring-on to better and fuller activity on became intimately identified with the effort to make Pales­ behalf of one's fellow men, whose nobility of character was tine a healthy countty to live in, and most of the medical so apparent to anyone who would gaze on his features that foundations which have done such noble work in Palestine the very contact with him would make one a better man. are due to the indefatigable work of Nathan Straus. }>ales- tine, in the words of the Psalmist, would be turned again His life was gentle; and the elements So m.ix'd in him that Nature might stand up into a land of milk and honey. And say to all the world, "This was a man." They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. (Psalm 126.) (Julius Cresar, Act v. scene 5.! 2092 CONGRESSIONAL RECO_RD-HOUSE ~ JANUARY 13 : 'Nathan Straus is in a better world now, removed from the I recall frequent instances when it became necessary to turmoil of daily life, and is "sleeping with his fathers" in have estimates as to the probable result of proposed legisla­ the words of our Bible. tion for tax purposes. Mr. McCoy showed an astounding May his soul rest in peace. [Applause.] intuition, almost an uncanny foreknowledge, of the effect ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL of such proposed legislation. He was in the service of the The Clerk read as follows: Government for !llany years--a quiet, retiring man-who upon several occasions refused to accept more remunerative None of the funds appropriated in this act, unless expressly made available for the purpose, shall be used for the purchase or positions tendered to him elEewhere than in the Government exchange of motor-propelled freight-carrying or passenger-carrying service. He left, mourning his death, his family and other vehicles for the Army, except those that are purchased solely for relatives, and I am sure the entire House joins in extending experimental purposes, in excess of the following quantities and to them our deepest sympathy and condolence in the bereave­ costs per vehicle delivered and completely equipped, including the value of a vehicle exchanged: 14 truck chassis at $7,200, 22 truck ment and loss which they have sustained. I think it very chassis at $4,250, 76 truck chassis at $2,800, 27 truck chassis at fitting that the record of this House should show this brief $1,750, 24 passenger-carrying vehicles at $2,000, 7 such vehicles at mention of the services of this capable, patient, hardwork­ $600, and 110 motor cycles at $300: Provided, That during the fiscal year 1932 the cost of transportation from point of origin to ing, and always courteous public servant. [Applause.] the first point of storage or consumption of supplies, equipment, The Clerk read as follows: and material in connection with the manufacturing and purchas­ HORSES, DRAFT AND PACK ANIMALS ing activities of the Quartermaster Corps may be charged to the appropriations from which such supplies, equipment, and material For the purchase of draft and pack animals, $82,500; for the are procured. purchm>e of horses withfn limits as to age, sex, and size to be pre­ scribed by the Secretary of War for remounts for officers entitled Mr. STAFFORD. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the to public mounts, for the United States Military Academy, and for last word. I want to inquire as to the status of automobile such organizations and members of the military service as may be required to be mounted, and for all expenses incident to such trucks now in possession of the Army. At the close of the purchases (including $120,000 for encouragement of the breeding war there was a surplusage occasioned by the purchase of a of riding horses suitable for the Army, in cooperation with the large number of trucks by the Government for war pur­ Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, including the purchase of animals for breeding pw·poses and their main­ poses. . Great numbers were dumped upon the different de­ tenance), $235,620; in all, $318,120. partments-the Agricultural Department and the Post Office Department-and I am curious to ascertain whether there Mr. TREADWAY. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out is any surplus of that old war material still left. the last word and ask unanimous consent to proceed for five Mr. BARBOUR. Yes; there is quite a little left. On minutes out of order. November 1, 1930, the Army possessed 5,938 cargo trucks The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection? and chassis, all but 183 of which were war-purchased equip­ There was no objection. ment. Of the total number on hand, 3,805 were being oper­ Mr. TREADWAY. Mr. Chairman, it may seem somewhat ated, and 543 were classed as serviceable or economically presumptuous for a Member of this House, not representing repairable. The requirement total as recently determined a metropolitan district where large financial institutions are by a board of staff officers is 4,945. centered, to criticize the chairman of the board of the Chase Mr. STAFFORD. I am seeking information as to the National Bank, Mr. A. H. Wiggin, who, in yesterday's press, number of trucks on hand that are performing no service is reported as having made a statement to his board of at all. directors and stockholders, which I judge was widely quoted Mr. BARBOUR. Not serviceable? in the press not only of this country but of Europe, in Mr. STAFFORD. I mean serviceable but not in use. respect to the financial situation at the present time. I per­ Mr. BARBOUR. Unserviceable and uneconomically re­ sonally entirely disagree with the findings of that gentleman pairable, 1,590. Serviceable or economically repairable, 543. as to the possibility of the restoration of business conditions These are all cargo trucks or chassis. and a revival of foreign trade. Stripped of its verbiage, he Mr. STAFFORD. Can the gentleman give any estimate practically says three things: First, he advocates a reduc­ of the number of serviceable trucks of war origin not in use? tion in tariff rates; second, a reduction in the wage scale :Mr. BARBOUR. Five hundred and forty-three trucks or paid in the United States; and third, a reduction of the debt chassis and 3,882 motor vehicles of all kinds, serviceable or owing this country by foreign countries. economically repairable but not operated. They are getting First, as to a reduction of the tariff rates, let me say that rid of the unserviceable as fast as they can. It would cost to the best of my recollection no rate in the act of 1930 was more to put them in running order than they would be touched except at the request and solicitation of American worth. · manufacturers or producers. Where an existing rate was Mr. STAFFORD. Or to transport them to where they not criticized, the Ways and Means Committee did not give might be used? consideration to it. Therefore, when a business man like Mr. BARBOUR. Yes. Mr. Wiggin makes the statement that he objects to exist­ Mr. STAFFORD. Mr. Chairman, I withdraw the pro ing tariff rates, he should be specific in his instances rather forma amendment. than general in his criticism. At the insistence of President Mr. CHINDBLOM. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out Hoover a practical and suitable flexible tariff provision was the last word and ask unanimous consent to proceed out inserted in the bill, and if Mr. Wiggin can specify particular of order. places where mistakes have been made in the act, an oppor­ The CHAffiMAN. The gentleman from Illinois asks tunity is afforded him for the con-ection by application to unanimous consent to proceed out of order for five minutes. the Tariff Board. He should specify wherein the act of 1930 Is there objection? unduly raises the rates. As a matter of fact, there is a There was no objection. general raise of 3 per cent in the whole act. Mr. CHINDBLOM. Mr. Chairman, in the current Con­ Next, Mr. Wiggin says that we should reduce the wages gressional Directory at the bottom of page 287 under the in this country. This country believes in the American heading, Department of the Treasury, will be found the standards of living, and in order to retain them we must following line: pay American rates of wages. He wants the wages of others Government actuary-Joseph S. McCoy, Beltsvllie, Md. reduced, but I do not see in his statement any reference Mr. McCoy passed a way suddenly on Friday of last week. to doing away with the pay or salary of people in posi­ He may not have been known generally to the membership tions such as he holds, which permits residents of Park of the House, but to the present and former members of Avenue to go to Newport in the summer time and to Palm the Committee on Ways and Means of the House and the Beach in the winter, riding in Rolls Royce automobiles. Committee on Finance of the Senate he was a well-known He wants a change in the wage scale of American workmen, figure. He was the most reliable authority, not only in the and if that change is made, it means that our workmen Government service but probably in the United States, upon must live on a parity with their foreign competitors. That statistics relating to the taxation system of our country. is not what America wants to have done. 1931 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2093 - Third, Mr. Wiggin wants a reduction or wiph,g out of have the privilege of discussing the paragraph out of order, the foreign debt owed this country. That argument was and if some Member had then called him to order it would worn threadbare when the settlements were made with ·have been too late to have made the point of order. foreign countries, and Members who remember the argu­ The CHAIRMAN. As the Chair understands it, the point ment of that great man, Mr. Burton, of Ohio, can readily of order is made not against the paragraph, but against the agree with me that we are not anxious, nor will we, as an amendment as offered by the gentleman from Colorado. American Congress, vote to remove the debt owed this Mr. STAFFORD. Oh, no. country by foreign countries. We made liberal settlements Mr. COLLINS. That is right. No debate on the item has with those countries, and we are going to stand by them. been had. In conclusion there is a cablegram in this mon1ing's paper Mr. STAFFORD. The point of order is made to the mat­ that England approves of Mr. Wiggin's attitude, as I have ter included in the parenthesis. The gentleman from Colo­ no doubt She does, and says that he had only altruistic rado [Mr. EATON] offers an amendment only to increase the motives. I maintain that his motives are selfish, in that amount. Certainly_that is not the point of order which the he represents Americans who have invested large sums in gentleman from Mississippi intended to make. foreign ·securities, and his motive is to have the balance of The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Mississippi states trade favorable to foreign countries in order that the he is making a point of order against the amendment. money that he has asked American ·citizens to send abroad Mr. STAFFORD. A point of order against increasing the for the purpose of investment there may bring better re­ amount is not in order. turns to them. That is un-American and I for one object The CHAIRMAN. The Chair overrules the point of order: to the type of interview Mr. Wiggin, the chairman of the Mr. EATON of Colorado. The Army horse-breeding plan Chase National Bank board, has broadcast throughout the was initiated in 1921 with an appropriation of $250,000. land. [Applause.] This was reduced the following year to $150,000 annually, In further answer I ask unanimous consent to be per­ at which figure it remained until the fiScal year 1931, when mitted to insert a brief extract from the statement recently it was further reduced to $132,500. The pending Army ap­ made by the Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Julius propriation bill again reduces the appropriation for breed- Klein. ing to $120,000. _ The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection? By successive reductions in overhead expenditures, lessen­ Mr. KENNEDY. I object. ing yearly the average cost of maintenance of stallions, it Mr. EATON of Colorado. Mr. Chairman, I offer an has been possible systematically to expand Army breeding amendment, which I send to the Clerk's desk. operations until at present some 680 stalliOD$ are available The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Colorado [Mr. to breeders. This number by no means supplies the demand EATON] offers an amendment, which the Clerk will report. for st.allions, as there are now on hand applications for The Clerk read as follows: hundreds of approved breeders. To fill these applications re­ Amendment by Mr. EATON of Colorado: Page 22. line 6, af~er quires an annual increment in the number of stallions at the word "Including" in parentheses, strike out "$120,000" and stud: ~ The normal wastage of stallions is about 10 per cent insert in lieu thereof " $132,500." of the total number on hand. The current appropriation of Mr. COLLINS. Mr. Chairman, I was on my feet to make $132,500 admits of a small annual increment in the number a point of order on that language. of serviceable stallions in addition to the replacement of The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman's point of order comes losses. too late. To reduce this appropriation by $12,500 to $120,000, as Mr. COLLINS. No, indeed. I was on my feet at the time proposed, will, however, wipe out the margin required for the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. TREADWAY] rose, increasing the usefulness of the breeding plan, abruptly and I have been on my feet almost continuously since then. stop its exminsion, and seriously disappoint those breeders Mr. STAFFORD. But there has been debate on the para­ who have_been waiting, in their turn, for ·the assignment to graph. them_of the stallions requisite to carrying on the growing The CHAIRMAN. Has the gentleman from Mississippi production of riding horses. [ Mr. CoLLil!S] an amendment to offer, or is the gentleman In the present status of agriculture this would seem to be making a point of order? an undesirable blow at an important branch of the livestock Mr. COLLINS. I am making a point of order. industry. The CHAIRMAN. On the entire paragraph? As a matter-of information in connection with this, I ask Mr. COLLINS. No: I am making a point of brder to the unanimous consent to have printed in the REcoRD a state~ amendment which the gentleman from Colorado is offer­ ment of the Remount Association showing the names and ing, because there is no authorization in law for the carry­ distribution of the stallions throughout the United States. ing of the item. The CHAffiMAN. The gentleman from Colorado asks Mr. EATON of Colorado. That is not a point of order to unanimous ·consent to extend his remarks in the manner the amendment. indicated. Is there objection? The CHAIRMAN. Will the gentleman from Mississippi There was no objection. please state his point of order? The matter referred to is as follows: Mr. COLLINS. I make a point of order against the [The Remount, ¥ay-June, Part II, Vol.· II, No. 3] gentleman's amendment. DISTRIBUTION OF REMOUNT STALLIONS, BY STATES, FOR THE 1930 The CHAIRMAN. On what ground? BREEDING SEASON UNDER THE PLAN FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OP Mr. THE BREEDING OF LIGHT HORSES, AUTHORIZED BY CONGRESS AND COLLINS. On the ground that there is no authol·iza­ OPERATED BY THE RE1'40UNT SERVICE; QUARTERMASTER CORPS, tion of law for breeding operations at all. UNITED STATES ARMY, 'IN COOPERATION WITH THE AMERICAN RE­ This item has been carried- yearly in the appropriation MOUNT ASSOCIATION bill, but there is no authorization. All stallions are thoroughbreds unless otherwise specified. Each line contains the following information: Name of stallion, Mr. STAFFORD. Mr. Chairman, I make the point of year foaled, sire, dam's sire, height, weight, name of agent, and order that the point of order comes too late. · It is a novel agent 's address. question that is presented to the present occupant of the ARIZONA chair for decision. As I understand the parliamentary Barzin (Arab), ch. 1926, Rehal-Bazrah-Rodan. 14-2; 780. procedure, when this paragraph was read the gentleman Col. J_ E. Thompson, Phoenix. Delmor, br. 1921, Delhi-Morton-Helmet. 15---3; 1150. E. s . .from Massachusetts [Mr. TREADWAY] moved to strike out Wickersham, i\.mado. the last word and then asked unanimous consent to proceed Faris (Arab), ch. 1924, Rizvan-Balkis 2d-El Hassan. 1&-2; 1 out of order. Whether that was debate or not, I do not re­ 825. F . .A- Bai.ley, Grand Canyon. Firedog, b. 1924, Under Fire-Avis-Ballot. 16; 1000. F. C . . call that it has ever been passed upon by any occupant of the Kimble, Apache. chair. However, no point of order was made. The· gentle­ Grana!'y, b. 1926, The Finn-Garner-Radium. 15--3~; 1050. -man might-have proceeded with debate without asking to w. R. Bourdon,- Silver Creek. 2094 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-. HOUSE JANUARY 13

Langley (Morgan), ch. 1918, Hug~Eudora-General Gates. St. Allan, b. 1917, Bridge of Allan-St. Aelwena-Chaucer. 1 14-2%; 1000. B. J. Colter, Springerville. 16-Broomstick-Sky Blue-All Gold. 16-1; Planada, b. 1927, Planet--Perada-Adalid. 15-1; 880. John T. 1300. William Davey, San Miguel. Moir, Jr., Koloa, Kauai. Claude M, ch. 1921, Enfield-Sassy-Joe Terry. 15-2~; 1125. Planet, blk. 1918, Zeus-Black Silk-Ornament. 15-2; 1025. F. H . Huffman, Alturas. Harold Rice, Paia, MauL Conversation. b. 1926. Leonardo II-Edna Stack-Olambala. Quince Bud, b. 1922, Peter Quince--Maeva-Electioneer. 15-2% ; 15-3%; 1100. S. D. Sinton, Shandon. 1200. C. A. Baggott, Lihue, Kauai. Curland, ch. 1920, Golden Maxim-Eva K-The Friar. 15-2; Rodgers, b. 1916, Sweep-Lardella-Lackfard. 15-2; 1075. A. W. 980. H. G. Vincent, Glennville. Carter, Kamuela. Dark Eagle, b. 1925, Star Hawk-Breathing Spell-Dark Ronald. Roi Donovan; br. 1911, Roi Herode--Miss Donovan-Donovan. 15-3% ; 1075. Veranus Ellinwood, Sonora. 16; 1075. A. W. Carter, Kamuela. Gun Rock, ch. 1914, Rock Sand-Gun Fire--Hastings. 16; 1200. Stockwell, ch. 1916, Ballot--Janice-Midlothian. 15-2; 1100. C. E. Howell, Davis. C. Brewer & Company, Kapapala Ranch. Hi Chick, br. 1927, High Time-Rock Pocket-Ogden. 15-3; Tamiami Trail, ch. 1924, Argosy-Eagercide-Meleager. 16- ~ ; 1000. R. E. Jack Company, Cholame. - 1125. R. K. von Holt, Kohala. . Marse Mouse, ch. 1915, Marse Abe--Miss White Mouse--Bright IDAHO Phoebus. 15-3; 1150. Harry Balfe, Clovis. Adamad, b. 1920, Adalid-La Madre-Cruzados. 16; 1100. E. J . Nicolett, ch. 1926, Colonel Vennie--Conowing~The Commoner. Therkildsen, Pocatello. , 15-3; 1000. J. H. McClelland, Standish. Baggage King, ch. 1923, Blind Baggage--King Belle-King Olym­ Oman (Arab), br. 1926, El Sabok-Ana-Armida. 14-1~; 765. pian. 15-2~; 1050. Alexander Watson, Gooding. R. C. Force, Livingston. Billy Reed, br. 1912, Akbar-Mabel Reed-Victory. 15-3; 1250. Pizarro, b. 1916, Bona Rosa-Beck-John O'Gaunt. 15-3; 1100. Ben Wood, Boise. G. c. Long, Paynescreek. · Clansman, b. 1919, Uncle-Katrine-Disguise. 15-3; 1100. M. M. Stambul (Arab), gray, 1926, El Sabok-Mordfa . 14-1~; Jacobs, Boise. 745. R. C. Force, Livingston. Duto, ch. 1927, Dunlin-Grott~Trap Rock. 15-2%; 950._ Rob­ COLOR.WO ert J. Gill, Boles. Allen's Choice, ch. 1922, Malamont-Great Dolly-Great Heavens. Galantman, b. 1919, Superman, Galanta-Wm. the Third. 15-2; 15-2; 1000. G. E. Anderson, Gunnison. 960. Chuck Davis, Horseshoe Bend. Bet Mosie, b. 1919, North Star 3d-Santa Anna 2d-Martagon. Hidden Rock, ch. . 1924, Trap Rock-Divination-Horoscqpe. 15-3~; 1075. J. J. Gauld, Colorado Springs. 15-1 %; 850. Arthur Butler, Bliss. Blue Coat, gr. 1920, Clydebridge-School-Nabot. 15-~; 1000. Lord Vargrave, ch. 1922, Polymelian-Berrill's Image--Berrill. R. W. Lewis, Colorado Springs. 15-3; 1050. Ed. Ostner, Boise. Combustor, b. 1921, Hand Grenade-Rural Dellvery-Mortlake. Plodder, br. 1916, Borgla-La Calma-Tiger. 15-2; 1150. Leo 15-2; 1050. J. Whittingham, Cimarron. · Fifield, Idaho Falls. Cruzad, b. 1923, Cruzados-Famosa-Palo Alto. 15-2%; 1150. Roscommon, b. 1918, Belloc-Rosslare-Sempronius. 16-2; J. N. Wyman, Meeker. 1085. Joseph R. Black, Bruneau. Danby, b. 1922, Star Master-Lady Algy-Ormondale. 15-3¥2; Social Star, br. 1918, Brummel-Glad Smile--Dr. MacBride. 1000. W. H. Gray, Norwood. 15-3; 1150. Lou J. Farber, Weiser. Dark Friar, b. 1918, Sweep-Minnie Adams-Cesarian. 15-2~; Stepson, ch. 1916, Uncle--Katrine--Disguise. 16-1; 1150. D. V. 1100. Curtis Brothers, Sedalia. Hagenbarth, Spencer. Desperate, br. 1911, St. Frusquin-Donnetta-Donovan. 16-2; The Condor, ch. 1919, Hesperus-Narcotic-Mortlake. 15-3; 1250. R. W. McDonald, Glenwood Springs. 1200. Rollin Showell, Stone. Eton Rambler, ch. 1916, Steadfast-Cyclamen-Cyllene. 16-3; Thorndown, b. 1919, Rivoli-Erzsike-Bona Vista. 13-3% ; 1050. 1200. A. E. Buchanan, Sterling. S. A. Trude, Ashton. Father Rock, ch. 1924, Friar Dixon-Grecian Maid-Borgia. ILLINOIS is-~; 960. Allyn Cole, Lamar. Flowerful, br. 1920, Ypsilanti 2d-Boquet--Klnley Mack. 16; El Dinero 2d, ch. 1913, Uncle--Herodla-Adam. 16-1; 1425. 1050. H. R. Lemon, Breen. Thos. E. Wilson, Chicago. Fredericktown, b. 1921, Pennant-Gentlewoman...__,satn. 15-2; INDIANA 1100. J. F. White, Coalmonts. Banco, ch. 1926, Black Servant--Betty Beal-North Star III. Hall Mark, ch. 1920, Sand Marsh-Clarice--Knight of the Thistle. 15-3; 975. Carl T. Zody, Franklin. 16-2; 1200. Edgar Maxey, Lamar. Hampson, ch. 1925, Peter Quince-Margaret Hampson-Nastur­ IOWA t ium. 15-3; 1050. R. D. Salisbury, Craig. Betelgeuse, ch. 1922, North Star ill-Tranid-Voter. 15-2; 1050. Husband, ch. 1923, Wormleighton-Daisy Platt--Marta Santa. Walter A. Lynn, Grundy Center. • 15-2%; 1000. J. H. Blandford, Steamboat Springs. Plumb Square, b. 1920, Simon Square--Auburn Hill-John Janissary (Arab) , ch. 1915, Jahil-Nessa-Hauran. 15; 1000. O'Gaunt. 16; 1100. Jas. Devin, Des Moines. G. W. Howard, Yampa. Romanesque (M), ch. · 1921, Red Oak-Mariah K.-Headlight Jouette, b. 1917, McGee-Mufi-Ingoldsby. 15-2~; 1000. Ralph Morgan. 15-2%; 1200. G. F. Bailey, Maquoketa. Brooks, Castle Rock. King Plaudit, br. 1916, Plaudit--Wild Thistle--Knight of the KANSAS Thistle. 16; 1150. Arthur Wilbur, Meeker. Admiral Bayly, br. 1919, Disguise-Sea Air-Pirate of Penzance. Michael Kenna, ch. 1924, Pataud-Belle Ring-Flammarion. 15-3; 1100. Will J. Miller, Topeka. 16-1~; 1150. Marx & Wheeler, Lamar. Blithewood, b. 1924, War Call-Turn Turtle-Garry Herrman. Menes, b. 1923, Landgraf-Moire-St. Saulge. 15-2 ~; 1050. 16; 1200. Elmer Brown, Halstead. J. C. Mann, La Rand. Borderland, blk. 1922, St. Rock--Continent-Ogden. 15-3; 1050. Monte Carlo, b . 1925, Polymellan-Irish Sweep-Sweep. 15-2~; 0. S Lee, Altamont. 1050. Wilbur Thomas, Cornish. Candy Stick, ch. 1922, High Noon-Schoolgirl-Whisk Broom 2d. My Boy Friend, ch. 1925, Out and Gone-Fan Tan-Fitz Herbert. 15-2; 1050. E. C. Robbins, Belvidere. 16-- Y:z ; 1050. C. J. Moynihan, Montrose. Douglas S., b. 1914, Sir Huon-Victoria B-Bob Miles. 15-2; Nawfal (Arab), b. 1922, Nafia-Numara-Sotamm. 14-3; 870. 1000. J. A. Vickers, Wichita. R. P. Lamont, jr., Larkspur. Dry Moon, b. 1918, Olambala-Honeymoon-Matchmaker. Nefiaj (Arab), sor. 1919, Mahmet--Mariem-Abu Zeyd. 14; 860. 15-2Yz ; 950. W. D. Rorick, Johnson. H. W. Steadma n, Meeker. Dude Hudson (Morgan), br. 1908, Fred Hudson-Velma-Dude. Old Smuggler, b. 1922, Golden Maxim-Yankee Tree-Yankee. 15; 1100. Fred O'Daniel, Westmoreland. 15-3 Y2 ; 1100. Ray Slane, Gunnison. · Escovar, br. 1916, Sweep-Valeureuse-Orsini. 16-1; 1250. Mark Sands of Time, ch. 1916, Beach Sand-Alma K.--Conrad. 16; E. Mollett, Arkansas City. 1100. R. W·. Johnson, Elbert. Flag of Truce, br. 1920, Jim Gafiney-Maltha.-Ogden. 15-3; Saranan, ch. 1924, Kalitan-Gold Maid-NaSturtium. 15; 1035. 1050. George Taylor, Minneola. A. McLennan, Simla. General Haig, b. 1916, Dick Welles-My Fair Kentucky-In­ Waif (Arab) , b. 1926, Nejdran, jr.-Saaida. 14-3 ~ ; 800. H. W. goldsby. 16-1; 1150. S. E. Good, Hardtner. Gossard, Craig. . Glen de Jarnett e (Morgan), ch. 1916, De Jarnette-Frances-­ Wave of Eire, b. 1919, Greenback-Cliodna-Best man. 15- ~ ; Black Dan. 15-% ; 1050. A ~ N. Wellington, Hallowell. 1000. H. K. Linger, Hooper. Gordon Russell, br. 1910, Marchmont--Tokalon-Tammany. Wyoming, ch. 1915, Bryn Mawr-Star of the West--Montana. 15-3 ~ ; 1100. R. c. Adams, Mound City. 15- 2 %; 1050. Blayney Ranch, Granby. Home Sweet Home, ch. 1914, Ballot--Homespun-Hanover. 16; 1175. Henry Woodworth, Dodge City. CONNECTICUT Humboldt, b. 1920, Atheling ll--Celesta-Sempronius. 15-3; Free Hand, ch. 1921, High Time-Amanuensis-The Scribe. 1150. Dick Moody, Kinsley. 15-3; 1000. Samuel Russell, jr., Middletown · Ironwood, b. 1924, Assagai-Mint Hill-Mint. 15-3; 1125. Henry FLORIDA Brunner, Onaga. Nor'easter, ch. 1924, North Star lll-:Buncey-Llangwn. 16; John S. Mosby, ch. 1922, Sea King-Pufi-Ballot. 15-3; 1020. 1050. M. A. Milam, .Miaini. Bert Hamilton, Fort 'Scott. 1931 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2095

Karachi, b. 1922, Light Brigade-Madras-Ben Brush. 1~2; Canyon, ch. 1919, Harrn.onlcpn-Welsh Mald-Llangwm. - 15-3 ~~; 1100. George Sharp, Liberal. 1000. J. P. Hedges, Ekalaka. . Liberal LaA, b. 1925, Falkirn-Zora H-Frisco System. 15-%; Do or Die, br. 1922, Light Brigade-Lady Vulcain-Vulcain. 950. Jim Parker, Council Grove. 15-Yz; 1000. T. Cantwell ~ Ashland. Linsley (Morgan), ch. 1918, General Gates-Sunflower Maid­ Durham, b. 1923, Durbar-La Cagoule--Cheri. 15-3% ; 1000. Headlight Morgan. 15-1; 1180. Elmer Brown, Halstead. F. Parkins, Lee. Natchez, ch. 1911, Ormicant-Chartreuse--Charaxus. 15-3; Figuration, br. 1918, Rogon-Figent-Hastings. 15-1%; 1000. 1050. F. A. Dickson, Kansas City. W. Brewster, Birney. Peace Penn, b. 1924, Peace · Pennant-Mirka-Peter Quince. Glentilt, b. 1920, Ecouen---Glorita-Ajax. 15-3; 1100. Fred · 16-2 Yz ; 1100. T. S. Moffett, Kansas City. King, Otter. Rabbaz (Arab), b. 1921, Sinbad-Remin-Berk. 15; 1000. Dr. Gus Kruse, ch. 1917, Rogon-Nellie Fritz-Andrew Mack. 15-2; W. 0. Tucker, Wamego. 1000. W. Lewis, Broadus. . Raphia, b. 1924, Rabelais-La Grelee-Hellcon. 16; 1050. Dan Jasper, b. 1925, Craigangower-Sard-Ben Brush. 15-2¥z ; 1000. D. Casement, Manhattan. , L. G . Irion, Coalwood. Roband (Morgan), b. 1921, Red Oak-Birdie K-Headlight Mor· K of K, ch. 1915, Glasgerion-Mrs. K-Americus. 15-3; 122~. gan. 15; 1050. Thos. T. Counter, Oberlin. U. S. L. S. Experiment Station, Fort Keogh. Simon Gallop, b. 1915, Galloping Simon---Gavosa-Orme. 16-1; Rey de Los Angeles, b. 1924, Adalid-Feranda-Rey el Santa 1200. Wes Staatz, Junction City. Anita. 14-3%; 900. A. J. Irion, Olive. Suburban, b. 1921, Vlndex-Rural-Moharib. 16-1 Yz; 1250. Rigolo, b. 1924, Rire Aux Larmes-Sibola-Rapid Water. 15-3; John Bloom, Medicine Lodge. 1000. A. E. Brown, Birney. Sully, ch. 1922, Jim Gaffney-Bramble Bush-Celt. 15-3; 1050. Rodan (Arab), ch. 1906, Harb-Rose of Sharon-Hadban. Elba J. Steele, Grigston. 15-1%; 900. W. Scott, Ridge. Swanton (Morgan), b. 1925, Bennington-Carolyn-Ethan Wood· Roly, b. 1912, Golden Maxim-Lotawanna-Trenton. 15-3; 1125. bury. 15; 1000. Clyde Gardner, Alma. J. A. Ramer, Coalwood. Swing·Loose, ch. 1916, Broomstick-Courage-Hamburg. 15-3'(z; San Marcus, ch: 1917, Sweeper 2d-Lady Nell-Mordant. 16-1; 125"0. W. D. Rorick, Johnson. 1100. A. J. Irion, Olive. KENTUCKY Saratoga, b. 1912; Ogden-Unsightly-Pursebearer. 15-3; 1185. Barabbas, ch. 1924, North Star lli-Bandello-Kingston. 16; L. Dunning, Ashland. 1125. Hugh Gregory, Springfield. Secret Greetings, b . 1918, Luke McLuke-Zahra--Mazagan. Brown Sugar, b. 1922, Brown Prince II-Sweet Alice-Flying 16-2; 1250. L. Dunning, Ashland. Dutchman. 10-%; 1150. A. H. Platt, Varsailles. Sir Charles, br. 1922, Peter Pan-Chul1ta-Kingston. 16-1; 1100. . Zeus, b. 1908, Adam-Shaft-The Pepper. 16-2; 1300. W. M. E. F. Marsh, Nibbe . Williams, Hopkinsville. Sir Stuart, b. 1923, War Cloud-Sweetheart IT-Oversight. 16-1; Zeus the Second, b. 1923, Zeus-Sweet Pea--Ivan the Terrible. 1100. W. B. Spear, Kirby. 15-3; 1100. J. B. Ritter, Temple Hill. War Plume, blk. 1916, Star Shoot-Courtplaster-8andringham. · Son, br. 1925, Son·in·Law-Isauria-Cicero. 16-Yz; 1150. P. & 15-2 Yz ; 1100. Tom Reavis, Decker. · B. Hdqrs., Lexington. MONTANA (WESTERN ZONE) . Selim, br. 1920, Sain-Rezia--Meddler. 16; 1150. Brice Leech, Czardom, b. 1916, Royal Realm-Zoara-Matchmaker. 15-2; 950. Glasgow. Charles L. Anderson, Missoula. LOUISIANA Delarious, ch. 1925, Hilarious._Marie T-Ogden. 16; 1200. J. Doc Horn, ch. 1921, Flying Squirrel-Debutante-McGee. · 16; Bland Catlett, Sula. 1075. F. E: Girard, Lafayette. Duke of Lancaster,·ch. 1915, John O'Gaunt--Tamanamass-Grey Madrenor, b. 1922, Norito-La Madre--Cruzados. 15-3; 1000. Legg. 15-3; 1100. Fred Lewis, Browning. Forest J. Bordelon, Plaucheville. El Pennant, br. 1927, War Pennant-El Amiga-Rey el Santa MARYLAND Anita. 15; 995. G. W. Noffsinger, Kalispell. Guilsborough, b. 1922, Diadumenos-Clare House-Weathercock, Batonnier, b. 1921, Cudgel-Sou-Hastings. 1~2; 1100. J. Eric Powell, Bethesda. 16; 1000. Forrest R. Stone, Browning. Caro, ch. 1924, .Comrade--Carolle-Nimbus. 16; 1050. Andrew Merchant Marine, br. 1918, Friar Rock-Dorothy Gray-Ham­ B. Berger, jr., Clinton. burg. 16; 1075. Forrest R. Stone, Browning. Oley, b. 1924, Polymelian-Oleaster-Hastings. 15-2; 1000. MASSACHUSETTS Forrest R. Stone, Browning. . Swordsman, br. 1924, Chicle-Wendy-Peter Pan. 16-1'(z; 1200. Parmelee, ~h. 1924, Polymelian-Fluzey-Fair Play. 15-3; 1000. John B. Brainerd, Amherst. Forrest R. Stone, Browning. MICHIGAN Plenipotentiary, br. 1927, Planet-Appolita-8ir Appleby. 15-3; 1035. G. W. Noffsinger, Kalispell. Bulse, ch. 191~. Disgutse-Nethersol~Tournament. 16; 1250. Robert Mandel, ch. 1924, Belloc---Gilt Edge--Cunard. 15-3%; J. W. Wright, Birmingham. 1000. Forrest R. Stone, Browning. Derring Step, ch. 1921, Derring Doe-True Step-Handsome. Recall, ch. 1922, Argonne-Expectancy-Borgia. 15; 860. J. A. 15-1; 1000. W. S. Wing, Three Rivers. McAllister, McAllister. · MINNESOTA Rockledge, ch. 1922, Half Rock-Mazda--Toddington. 15-2%; Air Chief, ch . . 1926, Pluvious-Risponde-Marta Sanda. 1~2; 1000. J. E. Shaw, Wisdorn. 1120. Robt. A. Rice, Minneapolis. Rosin (Morgan), blk. 1920, Red Oak-Sunset Morgan-Chief Kitcat 2d, b. 1922, Sky Rocket-Cat Cleugh-Wolf's Crag. 16; Morgan. 15-1; 1056. A. M. Moore, Marion. 1150. F. E. Murphy, Minneapolis. Sungleam, b. 1919, Hesperus-Lady Aritta-Emp. of Norfolk. Trevisco, ch. 1914, Tredennis-The Test-John O'Gaunt. 16; 16-Yz ; 1200. Albert Theton, Ennis. 1250. Worrell Clarkson, St. Paul. Tantris (E. Pruss.), ch. 1924, Trinidad-Thalia-Irrivosch :Jl. MISSOURI 16; 1350. E. C. Miller, Norris. Winning His Way, b, 1925, Rameau-Balvatoron-Nealon. Brilliant Cast, ch. 1921, North Star 3d-Macaroon-Marco. 16-%; 15-2 Yz ; 1100. Forrest R. Stone, Browning. 1175. Wm. B. Weakley, Clarksville. Dark Jest, b. 1923, Black Jester-Ninette-Bayardo. 16-1; 1100. NEBRASKA Byron Spencer, Kansas City. Despot, ch. 1922, Fl1ttergold-Detine-Trap Rock. 15-3; 1125. Battersea, ch. 1920, Mont d'Or-Sunflower-Rock Sand. 16; Fleet Mount Farms, Allentown. 1200. Albert Lewis, Harrison. Highland Lad (Morgan), ch. 1912, Scotland-Marguerite-White Cockney, ch. 1921, Great Britain-L'Avenir-Rabelais. 16; River. 15-3; 1150. J. C. Thornburg, Galt. 1150. Floyd Lotspeich, Bingham. Pictin, rn. 1922, Wigstone-Altha-Bridge of Allan. 15-2; 1025. Fitzgibbon, br. 1919, Huon-Rosslare-Sempronius. 16-Yz; 1210. C. A. Malsbury, Joplin. Remount Depot, Fort Robinson. Rep, br. 1918, Pictou-Enchantress 2d-Collar. 15-2; 1050. Wll· Friar's Cowl, b. 1924, Friar Dixon-Initiate-Borgia. 15; 1000. bur Freet, Fairfax. T. F. Arnold, Merriman. Richmond's Choice (Saddlebred). br. 1910, Rex Peavine-Diana Frizzle, ch. 1911, Biniou-Frizette-Hamburg. 15-3; 1150. C. J. Mason-King Richard. 15; 1060. Homer F. Teter, Jacksonville. Abbott, Hyannis. ~ococo, b. 1918, Marathon-Miss Lida-Ogden. 15-3; 1100. Phil Hootch, ch. 1922, Polymelian-Home Bird-Thrush. 15-2; 1050. Sale, Gentry. W. M. Anderson, Cody. Scamp, br. 1919, Son·in-Law-Campanula-Chaucer. 15-3; 1150. John White, br. 1922, The· Finn-Adelaide Royer-Sain. 15-3; H. M. C. Low, Kansas City. 1175. G. L. Payton, Taylor. Scat, b. 1924, Chicle-Sketcl!y-Peter Pan. 16-1%; 1140. W. M. Jupiter, ch. 1920, Ormondale-One Star-Star Shoot. 15-2; Drennon, Kansas City. 1050. D. L. Rogers, Harrison. Tiger Gloss, ch. 1923, Runnymead-Pourquol-Star Shoot. 16-1; Laska, br. 1924, Meridian-Dancing Maid-Assagal. 15-2; 1020. 1050. G. S. Tiffany, St. Louts. Wm. M. Greathouse, Whitman. Tom McTaggart, b. 1914, Chuctanunda--Toplash-Top Gallant. Mad River, b. 1909, Ethelbert-Goldie Cad-Longfellow. 16; 15-3; 1150. Dr. Van H. Bond, Hornersvme. 1150. Remount Depot, Fort Robinson. Marmaduke, ch. 1921, Boots and Saddles-Mae c-Golden Maxim. MONTANA (WEST·CENTRAL ZONE) 15-1; 1000. Wm. Crouse, Hyannis. American Eagle, ch. 1915, The Manager-Star Cat-Star Shoot. Marse Hughes, ch. -1911, Marse Abe-Miss Whitemouse-Bright 15-2% ; 1000. Joe Brown, Birney.· Phoebus. 16; '1175. C. J. Abbott, Hyannis.· , - Ashby, b. 1921, Mediator-Golden Meteor-st. Savin. 15-%;· 900: Mentada, ch. 1927, Mentor-Hermada-Adalid. 15-3; 1085. Re· F. Dunning, Ashland. mount Depot, Fort Robinson.

• 2096 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 13 Mentor, ch. 1906, Blackstock-J..{eta-Onondaga. 16-1; 1160. Mustard Seed, b. 1919, Peter Quince--Alsike--Ben Brush. 15-2; Remount Depot , Fort Robinson. 1100. J. H. Minnick, Cimarron. Montserrat II, br. 1919, Coriander-Monossa-Acclaim. 16; Planter, ch. 1922, Sir Martin-Mallard-star Shoot. 15-3; 1000. 1150. A. F. Bates, Halsey. , D. C. Reynolds, Logan. Qakridge (Morgan}, b. 1917, Red Oak-Roxanna-Rocky Moun- Punjab, br. 1923, Brown Prince II-American Beauty-Uncle. tain. 15-1; 1050. C. J. Abbott, Hyannis. · 15-2 ~ ; 1100. F. C. De Baca, jr., Bueyeros. Orient (Morgan), b . 1921, Troubadour-Gertrude. 15-1; 1075. Pyx, br. 1917, Pataud~kitau-Planudes. 15-3; 1050. J. H. J. L. Chamberlain, North Plat te. Minnick, Cimarron. Paavo, blk. ·1923, The Finn-Planutess-Planudes. 15-3; 1120. Reno Alve, ch. 1925, Honolulu Boy-Ogeechee-Gaylad Jr. 15; Remount Depot, Fort Robinson. 950. W. S. Crousen, Colfax. Pines Emblem, br. 1920, Black Pie--May Peep-Peep o'Day. 16; Rob, ch. 1919, Orb-Panlita--Panmure. 16-%; 1100. J. H. 1000. Ed. Huffman, Hyannis. Minnick, Cimarron. Ray Jay, b. 1919, Assagai-Romange--Polymelus. 15-3; 1150. Royal Jester, blk. 1917, Black Jester-Primula II-8t. Denis. F. G. Snyder, Broadwater. 15-1%; 1000. L. A. Kirk, Crown Point. · Snap Dragon II, b. 1915, Fritz Herbert--Mistress Penn-Hampton. Rumpelmayer, br. 1925, Dark Ronald-RolUngmuhle--Ard Pat­ 15-3; 1025. Harry Minor, Hyannis. rick. 15-3%; 1050. J. M. Shelton, Alamogordo. Southern Cross, br. 1919, Luke McLuke-Pamphyle--Robert le Rustam (Arab), ch. 1922, El Bulad.:_Rhua-Haleb. 14-2; 900. Diable. 16; 1140. Remount Depot, Fort Robinson. N. Luciani, Raton. Survivor, ch. 1924, Trompe le Mort--Rosaleen-Mont d'Or. 15-3; Sam Frank, br. 1911}, Honeywood-Lady Trinity-star Shoot. 1000. J. S. Mainard, Mitchell. 15-3; 1100. N. W. Myrick, Ricardo. Tangara, br. 1922, Light Brigade--Tanagra-Ben Brush. 16-1; Shillelagh II, b. 1917, Irish Lad-Artless-Hamburg. 15-2¥2 ; 1200. W. M. Anderson, Cody. 1000. VI. H. Driggers, Santa Rosa. NEVADA Sitar (Arab), ch. 1920, Sinbad-8imawa--Rustem. 14-2% ; 900. V. Culberson, Silver City. Adalito, br. 1920, Adalid-Nellita-Cruzados. 15-1; 1000. G. Tiff, ch. 1923, Hessian--Dispute--Friar Rock. 15-2; 1000. J. R. Scheer, Wells. Jenkins, Carono . .adevo, b. 1920, Adalid-El Cheva--Rey el Santa Anita. 15-2; 1050. Don Maestretti, Austin. NEW YORK Burke's Boy, br. 1923, George Smith-Eleusinia--Isidor. 15-3; Alumeur, b. 1911, Meddler-strike-a-Light IT-Donovan. 16-%; 1000. Ruth Wiseman De Remer, Wells. 1110. Genesee Valley Breeding Association, Avon. Charles B. Hall, br. 1925, Donnaconna--Fritter-Dlck Finnell. Brumado, ch. 1916, Maintenon-Brume-Prestige. 16-2~; 1220. 15-2; 920. R. M. Steele, Wells. Genesee Valley Breeding Association, Avon. Desmond's Day, br. 1913, Desmond-Palmy Days-Trenton. 16; El Sabok (Arab), ch. 1916, El Jafil-Narkeesar--Anaseh. 15-1 ~ ; 1200. Seneca Weeks, Wells. 900. Barron G. Collier, Pocantico Hills. Dewey (Morgan}, b. 1910, General Gates-Mrs. Culvers-Harrison Gold Bug, b. 1921, BrooiilStick-Golden Rod-All Gold. 15-2; Chief. 15-1; 1050. Clark· Ringling, Winnemucca. 1070. N.Y. N. G. Breeding Farm, Huntington, L. I. Fullon, ch. 1920, Friar Rock-Miss Borgia-Mortlake. 15-3 V2; Hamilkar (E. Prus.J, ch. 1920, Haselhorst-Hlrtensage--Fischer­ 1000. R. T. Anderson, Metropolis. knabe. 16-1; 1110. LeWis Hirshon, Goldens Bridge. · Our Watch, b. 1924, On Watch-Zaza-Hessian. 16-1; 1050. Joe Marrone II, ch. 1921, Glencairn-Ringling-Fatherless. 15-3; 0. F. Boies, O'Neil. 1150. Sqn. A. Armory, N. Y. N. G., New York City. Rey El Pleasanton, ch. 1.915, Rey Hindoo--Margie D-Golden Laplander, blk. 1922. The Finn-Black Swan-Herbert, 16; Garter. 16-1; 1300. Henry Garat, Whiterock. 1065. The Jockey Club, Glen Head, L. I. Rifie Shooter, b. 1913, Star Shoot-Babbie--Leonatus. 15-2; Lough Foyle, b. 1911, Lochryan-Cannera-Benanus. 16; 1300. 1125._ Walter Glaser, Halleck. Genesee Valley Breeding Association, Avon. Right on Time, b. 1920, Jack Atkin-8usan Lenox-Hendsel. Northcliff, ch. 1919, Sea King-Doris-Ogden. 16-%; 1075. 1.5-3; 970. Samuel Davis, Hobson. Genesee Valley Breeding Association, Avon. Sandhurst, br. 1922, Johren-8andria-8andringham. 16-1; 950. Red Mulligan, ch. 1920. Little Dutch-Cloistress-Carlton E. R. Marvel, Battle Mountain. Grange. 16; 1150. Donald AriilStrong, Syracuse. Sporting King, b. 1925, Sporting Blood-Grace King-Judge NORTH CAROLINA Wright. 15-3; 1050. C. A. Sewell, Owyhee. Double Cross, ch. 1919, Superman-Olevia--Qrnus. 16-1; 1130. White Shield, ch. 1912, St. Maxim-Louise Wood-King Eric. J. E. Condrey, Scotland Neck. 15-2~; 1200. Lee Hylton, Jiggs. NORTH DAKOTA NEW HAMPSHIRE Battle Cry, b. 1921, War Call-Beetle Bug-sweep. 15-3; 1100. Ribal (Arab}, ch. 1920,-Berk-Rijm.a-Rijm. 14-3V2; 998. W. R. Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Fort Yates. Brown, Berlin. Beachcomber, br. 1911, Rock Sand-Fairy Slipper-st. Serf. NEW JERSEY 16-3; 1350. Standing Rock Indian Reservation, l"ort Yates. Acropolis, ch. 1927, Short Grass-Grecian Bend-Blues. 15-3; Captain Mosie, b. 1926, Bet Mosie--Benny Daugherty-Capt. 1000. Edward C. Rose, Trenton. Daugherty. 15-2; 1050. Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Fort Gems to Let, ch. 1924, Parisian Diamond-Letty Lind-Quan­ Yates. teck, 16-()% ; 1100. A. L. Haskell, Red Bank. Doual (Morgan} , b. 1921, Dot-Daisy K-Headlight Morgan. 15; Tallwood, b. 1923, Campfire-Pixy-Peter Pan. 15-2V2; 1040. 1100. J . W. Neuens, Medora. Thos. J. ~acauley, Farmingdale. Fun Maker, b. 1922, Spur-Jest-Ben Brush. 15-3; 1100. Stand­ ing Rock Indian Reservation, Fort Yates. NEW MEXICO Harbinger, br. 1924, Eternal-Grace Harban-Duke of Ormonde. Bachelor's Bliss, blk. 1914, Tredennis-Lady Black-Le Noir. 15-1; 1000. Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Fort Yates. 15-2; 1050. J. A. Black, Santa Rosa. Ganawood, ch. 1924, Ganadore-Fernwood-Bard of Hope. 15-3; Babka (Arab), ch. 1921, Mahon-Bacliile--Kadi Keny. 14-2~; 1100. Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Fort Yates. 925. J. C. Prude, Hope. Kind Man, b. 1924, Paragon 2d-Mable Strauss-Uncle. 15-2; Balustrade, b . 1916, Hanbridge-Oriental Queen-Greenan. 1100. J. W. Neuens, Medora. 15-2; 1030. J. V. Tully, Glencoe. Lad O'Mine, b. 1922, Torchbearer-sly Wink-Mordant. 15-3; Botanic, b. 1923, Braxted-Auctioneering-Le Blizon. 16-1; 1100. 1100. R. G. Montgomery, Cogswell. Dean Johnson, McGaffey. Semper, b. 1922, Alvescot-Semprite-sempronius. 16; 1100. Chappaqua Junior, ch. 1914, Chappaqua-Yrsula-Anchorite. Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Fort Yates. 15-3 Y:z; 1200. I. K. Westbrook, Crown Point. omo French Canadian, ch. 1920, Pataud-Phantom Light-Disguise. Better Still, ch. 1919, North Star m-sweet Alice-Flying Dutch­ 15-3; 1000. C. M. O'Donel, Bell Ranch. man. 15-2; 1100. John W. Milet, Cincinnati. Gadar (Arab), ch. 1920, Abu Zeyd-Guemura-Begario. 14-1; Magic Orb, ch. 1925, Flying Orb-Magic Bird-Marcoval. 15-2; 900. F. W. Lee, Albuquerque. 1070. Julius Fleischmann, Blue Ash. Half Pint, b. 1922, Spanish Prince II-Norumbega-Btar Shoot. The Bohemian, br. 1918, Jim Gaffney-Kittenish-Roquelaure. 15-3; 1100. Ed Springer, Cimarron. _ 16-1; 1183. E. S. Thacher, Columbus. H. T. Waters, ch. 1921, Polymelian-Lady Winsome--Meddler. 16; 1100. M. P. Renfroe, Fort Sumner. OKLAHOMA Judicial, ch. 1923, McGee--Bonny noon-Prince of Melbourne. Alex Jr., ch. 1923, Ballot-Bronzewing-stalwart. 15-%; 11-20. 16; 1050. F. W. Hartley, Miera. Jos. Lessert, Ponca City. Keen Eye, ch. 1925, Eyebrow-Kena-Bealberg. 1~1¥2; 1000. Bachelor's Honor, ch: 1925, Bachelor's Double-Bayora--Bayardo. G. F. Billings, Roswell. · 15-3%; 1080. M. H. Derdeyn, Pernell. La Orb, ch. 1920, Orb-La Luz--Lieber Karl. 16; 1100. T. P. Barracuda, ch. 1919, Trap Rock-Balancoire-Ethelbert. 15-1%; Talle, Vermejo Park. 1000. B. G. Rogers, Grand. Lucky D, blk. 1927, All Gold-Montrose Belle--Pataud. 16-1; Barrier, b. 1920, Madman-Elasticity-Aeronaut. 15-2%; 1120. 1100. T. J. Sutherland, Roswell. G. H. Jones, Walters. Madder Music, br. 1924, Leonardo IT-Helen Marie--Stalwart. Beau Geste, ch. 1924, Omar Khayyam-sand Dune-Rock Sand. 16-%; 1000. Hiram Dow, Roswell. _15-3Y:z; 1000. W. B. Core, Hominy. Man of Honor, b. 1915, Deering-Miss Cornet--Peter McCue. Belcross, blk. 1921, Rock View--8alnv1lle-Sain. 15-2; 1000. 15-3; 1000. E. E. Joy, Elk. J. C. Jacks, Grand. Meredith (Morgan), ch. 1919, Sealskin-Helen Gates-General Bit Bolder, ch.1919, Cunard-Winning Widow-Mexican. 16-2%; Gates. 14-3; 900. E. W. WilliaiilS, Clovis. 1200. A. A. Drummond, Hominy.

• 1931 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2097

Brave Bob, br . .1922, Grand Parade-Lady Eager-Eager. 16; Havana Boy, b. 1921, Spearmin~acred Ibis-Gallinule. · 1110. Harry Clark, Boise. 15-2¥2; 1000. Joseph Thompson, Hereford. Captain Relay, b. 1925, Relay-Pearl Arnold-Capt. Arnold. Magistrate (Morgan), ch. 1919, Sealskin-Folly-Bennington. 15-2; 900. J. G. Salisbury, Vic!. 15-%; 870. Scott Conley Davis, Watson. Clean Gone, b. 1916, Olambala-Lizzie Gllman-Fonso. 15--3; Meteorite, ch. 1914. Star Shoo~Hamburg Belle-Hamburg. 1120. H. T. Jarvis, Fairfax. . 15-3; 1090. H. H. Trowbridge, John Day. Docod, ch. 1916, Voorhees~Love of Gold-Goldfinch. 15-1; Policeman Day, ch. c. 1924, Johren-Last Nigh~Ultimus. 15-2; 1000. Roy Woodman, Gould. 1040. Scott Conley Davis, Watson. · Eagle Chief, br. 1926, Krippen-Verdun Belle-Dr. Root. 15-2; Saga Fow, blk. c. 1926, Sweep-Miss Jazbo-Waterboy. 15-1¥.!; 1000. John J. Harris, CUshing. 1000. Frank Houston, Millican. El Chedal, ch. 1923, Adalid-El Cheva-Rey e1 Santa Anita. Sam Tangle, br. 1917, Flotsam ill-Tangle II-Merman. 15-2; 15-3; 1000. P. E. Anderson, Anadarko. 1025. Linn Holcomb, Richland. Feuerbach (East Prus.), br. 1924, Rembrand~Fabula-Ver­ Swing Knight, ch. 1924, Swing Loo~Dora Knigh~Beknighted. sucher. 16-1; 1250. T. C. Chapman, Seiling. 15-2; 1075. R. M. Harkness, Sisters. Flitlow, ch. 1921, Flittergold-Loriotta-Lochryan. 16-1%; 1230. Umbrella, ch. 1923. Trap Rock-shade-Bryn Mawr. 15--3; L. C. Giles, Norman. 1050. R. J. Stanbro, Prairie City. Gay Ronald, b. 1921, Gay Crusader-Port Sunligh~undrldge. Uncas, b. 1916, Wyeth-Codex-Wadsworth. 15-3%; 9'i0. c. E. 15-3; 1050. E. D. Dubois, Gracemont. Boor, Ironside. Greencomber, blk. 1922, Beach Comber-Elsie Green-Bowling PENNSYLVANIA Green. 15-3¥2; 1120. H. 0. Dubois, Gracemont. Bah's Boy, ch. 1920, Ecouen-Fille-de-Guerre--Ajax. _16-%; Honolulu Boy, ch. 1915, Salvation-Zorita-certto II. 15-3; 1040. E. B. Chase, Radnor. 1090. J. D. Thomas, Arnett. Destreza, br. 1923, J. F. Crowley-Blooming Posey-st. Savin. John Hager, ch. 1921, Beaverkill-Rose Ring-Hippodrome. 16; 1125. A. Hunter Willis, Erie. 15-3, 1000. R. M. Williams, Grand. . Fitzrue, ch. 1920, Fitzwilliam-Mary Street-Onondaga. 16-2; Lafe M, b. 1920, John A. Sco~Pearl Masher-Uncle Henry. 1205. E. C. Deubler, Newtown (Bucks County). 16-1; 1150. Joe Watson, Wynona. K.ha.llfa, b. 1924, Light Brigade-Madras-Ben Brush. 15-3; Lamp, ch. 1923, Ada.lid-Mary Josephine-Transvaal. 15; 1030. 1000. Gilbert Mather, West Chester. J. 0. Kuyrkendall, Atoka. Melllfont, b. 1911, St. Brendan-Meldhr~Enthusiast. 16-1; Laurentian II, ch. 1916, St. Amant-Caroline Roche-Carbine. 1100. R. L. Montgomery, Villanova. 15--314; 1060. R. E. Baker, Berlin. Mizar, b. 1919, Dick Welles-Milky Way-star Shoot. 16-2; Lida.Io, b. 1922, Adalid-Nellita---Cruzados. 15-2%; 1160. R. L. 1100. Milton G. Potter, Dalton. Donelson, Burbank. Out the Way, br. 1915, Peter Pan--Bweepaway-Wlld Mint. Lion d'Or, ch. 1916, Reno-Aile d'Or---Capt. Hancock. 16; 1250. 16-1; 1290. David B. Sharp, Berwyn. Raymond Smith, Guymon. Plato II, br. 1918, Polymelus-Mesange--Persimmon. 16-2%: Lord Meise, b. 1923, Ormondale-Margaret Meise-Star Shoot. 1100. Wm. J. Clothier, Phoen1xville. 15-2; 1000. Reno Q. M. Depot, Fort Reno. Luchsinger, b. 1915, Dan Gold-Miss Sayre-Sayre. 16-%; 1100. PORTO RICO W. M. Pursley, Rush Springs. , Gha.yr (Arab), gr. 1924. Astra.led-Guemura.. 14-2Y2; 800. Cen- Martello, ch. 1921, Martinet:-Hostillty--Bt. Blaise. 15-1; 1050. tra.I Aguirre Sugar Co., Central Agu.iire. W. A. Carlisle, Cherokee. SOUTH CAROLINA Military System, br. 1916, Poor Boy-Maud Annie-Evicted. 15-2; 1100. Nelson J. Sisson, Cleo Springs. Muldoon, br. 1922, Cataract-Ophelia W.-Bryn Mawr. 15-2%: North Pole, ch. 1922, North Star ill-Mixed Color-Hastings. 1100. H. H. Coleman, Switzerland. 15-3, 1000. Chas. L. Reed, Alva. SOUTH DAKOTA Optimist, br. 1921, Tracy le Val-Optimo-Willonyx. 16-1%; Bone Dry, b. 1917, Beachcomber-Melton Mowbray-Melton. 1200. Reno Q. M. Depot, Fort Reno. 16-2; 1300. 0. Balo, Spearfish. otiro, b. 1922, Norito-Reina de Hampton-sir Hampton. 15-2; Brilliant Jester, br. 1917, Black Jester-Lady Brlllian~un­ 1110. Wm. Francis, Elk City. dridge. 15-3; 1100. Pierre Polo Club, Pierre. Over Lord, ch. 1924, Superman-Gloucester-Glorifier. 16-1; Broad Silk, ch. 1925, Bondage-Biddy McGee-McGee. 15-3; 1215. Reno Q. M. Depot, Fort Reno. 1100. Hans Fogh, Strool. Over There, br. 1916, Spearmin~umm.er Girl--Bundridge. Colonel Rivers, ch. 1922, Alvesco~Himera-Goldcrest. 16-1; 16-Y2 ; 1175. Reno Q. M. Depot, Fort ~eno. 1200. Hans Fogh, Strool. Pastoureau, br. 1916, Flint Rock-Prickley Pear-Persimmon. Dinter (E. Prus.), ch. 1924, Diebitsche--Morena-Mortemer. 16; 15--3; 1025. Fred Graves, Pawhuska. 1180. Clyde Jones, Hermosa. Pogonip, b. 1922. Atheling II-Orange Blossom-Joe Carey. 16; Denny, Cooney, blk. 1925, Sweep-IDndoo-Dress-Delhi. 16; 1200. S. J. Cole, Gate City. 1050. Pierre Polo Club, Pierre. Prince Hermis, ch. 1910, Hermis--Crimea-Algerine. 15-2; 1050. Don, b. 1926, Mustard Seed-Ka.ffi.r Queen-Ka.ffi.r. 15--3; 1070. Reno Q. M. Depot, Fort Reno. Henry Brickley, Hermosa. Rambling Brook, ch. 1921, Clysmic-Annie Olln-Nanki Pooh. Drowsy Waters, br. 1922, Cataract-Bronzewing--Bta.Iwart. 15-3; 15-3,4; 1000. Henry F. Polson, Wilburton. 1150. Pierre Polo Club, Pierre. Recluse, b. 1913, Von Tromp-Isolation-George Kessler. 16-1; Dr. Swartz, b. 1923, Sweep-Toucane~Vulcain. 15-2; 1100. 1100. R. E. Boggess, Ochelata. Pierre Polo Club, Pierre. Recommendation, br. 1920, Atheling II---Compose--Honeywood. Esperalid, b. 1924. Adalld-Esperi~Norito. 15-1; 1000. Pierre 16-1; 1100. Ike Conner, Lawton. Polo Club, Pierre. Reno Aleck, ch. 1925, Trial by Jury---Chantlette---Chant. 15-1; Fahid (Arab), ch. 1923, Sargon-Balkls 2d-El Hassen. 15-1; 1000. Frank Alton, Claremore. 950. A. E. Himman, Rapid City. Reno Bay, b. 1926, Capt. Ray-Flora. McGinn-Gold Heels. 15; Gamll, br. 1917, Myram-Bustler-Eager. 16-1; 1200. Pierre 1050. W. A. Bannister, Sentinel. Polo Club, Pierre. Reno Commander, ch. 1927, Reidalid-Repa~Wax Taper. . 15; Gebhat AI Nour (Arab), br. 1923, Sidi-Hazen. 14-3; 950. 950. A. & M. College, Stillwater. Pierre Polo Club, Pierre. Reno Commodore, b. 1927, Sharnbrook-Marjor1e-Mlgnon­ IDda.lgo, br. 1922, Spanish Prince 2nd-Minuet-Olambala. 15-2; Bard of Hope. 15-2lh; 1000. J. L. Crotzer, Kingfisher. 1000. Pierre Polo Club, Pierre. Rickety, ch. 1914, Broomstick-Queen of Hearts-Hamburg. Mada.lid, br. 1923, Adalld-La Madre-Cruzados. 15-1; 1075. 16-%; 1100. Reno Q. M. Depot, Fort Reno. Art Shoemaker, Hermosa. Sirdar, b. 1925, Sweep-Dark Lantern-Disguise. 15-2; 1000. Mark Master, br. 1922, Luke McLuke-Yermilla-Jack Atkin . • T. C. Chapman, Seiling. 15-3; 1100. Mackey Bros., Buffalo. Skald, ch. 1924, Adlford-Musk-Myram. 15-3 Y2; 1050. E. D. Midnight Watch, blk. 1925, On Watch-Roll On-Fairy King. Mabey, Dunlap. 15-3; 1025. Mackey Bros., Buffalo. Slipa.Iong, ch. 1918, Ballo~Hazzaza---Cunard. 16-2; 1150. C. S. Needle Gun, ch. 1922, Under Fire-Stitch in Time-Dalhousie. Thomas, Lawton. 16; 1125. E. A. Young, Dewey. Starray, ch. 1924, Henrie-Sudha-Fashion Plate. 15--3; 1020. Pharaoh, br. 1908, Meddler-Hatasoo-Albert. 15--3; 1050. Westheimer ·& Daube, Ardmore. }Ienry Brickley, Hermosa. The Roll Call, ch. 1919, Lough Foyl~Beth Stanley-Golden Robbia Della (Morgan), blk. 1921, Red Oak-Bonnie B-The Maxim. 15-3; 1050. F. M. Burks, Weatherford. Admiral. 15-2; 1100. G. I. Towne, Leslie. Tim O'Brien, ch. 1924, Sir John Johnson-Bettie Louis~Uncle. Sidereal, ch. 1919, Star Shoot-Old Squaw-Adam. 15-2; 1000. 15-2; 1000. Chas. W. Flint, Tulsa. Pierre Polo Club, Pierre. Voormel, blk. 1918, Voorhees-Formella-Brutus. 15--3; 1050. Skyraker, ch. 1916, Willonyx-Mountain Jewel---Cyllene. 16-3; Geo. H. Hallock, Regnier. 1300. A. B. Tyler, Pierre. Young Martin, ch. 1922, Sir Martin-His Sister-Uncle. 16-1; The Dictator, b. 1919, Dodge-Lipstick--Bunfiower 2d. 15-3; 1125. C. D. Shupe, Buffalo. 1050. John Aaberg, Hot Springs. OREGON War Note, ch. 1916, Spanish Prince 2nd--Bun Maiden--Bundridge. 15-3; 1075. A. C. Frame, Reliance. Bludgeon, ch. 1925, CUdgel-Lady Lys--Bunstar. 15-3; 1050. Homer Bidwell. North Powder. TENNESSEE Captain Donan, blk. 1922, Moss Fox-Crestwood Girl-Trans­ Beau Galant, b. 1924, Light Brigade-Batlle--Peter Quince. vaal. 15-1 ¥.z; 1000. Herbert Thompson, Pendleton. 16-%; 1150. CoL Luke Lea, Nashville. LXXIV--133 ·2098 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 13

. TEXAS Elm, ch. 1922, Rosturtium-King Belle-King Olympian. 14-3; Anticipate, b. 1917, Plaudit-Antipathy-Ornament. 15-2; 1100. 975. Alley Mayes, Big Lake. Paterson & Rieck, Roosevelt. Elmendorf, b. 1915, Ballot-Dlscipline-Greenan. 15-3; 1100. Avondale, ch. 1923, Belloe-Arogance-Golden Maxim. 15-2Y2; Bierschwale Bros., Comfort. 1100. Howard C. Smith, Mason. Esquire, b. 1918, Meridian-Daruma-8olitaire II. 15-37'2; 1100. Baalbec, b. 1922, Troutbeck-Istar-Von Tromp. 15-3; 1020. Geo. R. Whitehead, Del Rio. D. W. Snyder, Corpus Christi. Esteem, br. 1923, Huon-Admiration-Ogden. 16-2; 1125. Frank Baltus, b. 1926, Polygnotus-Bouton de Nacre-Bachelors But­ Baker, San Antonio. ton. 15-Y2; 950. Ed Rachel, Falfurrias. Fayette C, ch. 1915, Fayette-Rose Queen-Kingston. 14-2; 960. Bat 'Em Out, ch. 1923, James P. SilSunstar-Wayward-Irishman. 15-3Y2; 1120. Billy McLaughlin, br. 1918, Wrack-Lady Elite-Order. 16; John W. Reese, Floresville. 1100. C. M. Wilkinson, Menard. G9lden Laurel, b. 1924, Bay d'Or-Lady Sylvia-Prince Palatine. Bin Maxey (std.), b. 1919, Judge Maxey-Maggie Bingen-Bin­ 15-27'2; 1000. J.P. Anderson, Luther. gen. 15-2; 1100. J. H. Minnick, Foard City. Goldie II, ch. 1920, Goldlc-Dakota Girl-Electioneer. 15-27'2; Birley, M. C., ch. 1924, North Star ill-Busy Signal-Cunard. 1000. J. W. Short, jr., Bandera. 15-2Y2; 1000. Frank Clark, Johnson City. Gonzalo, br. 1917, Bard of Hope-Fenchettar-Alvescot. 15-27'2; Black Bug, br. 1923, NoritBull Dog Tenacity, br. 1921, North Star ill-Biscuit Tortoni­ 1050. J. W. Scott, Vega. · Mauvezin. 16-1; 1270. Mayfield & CaldweU, Sonora. Itinerant, b. 1925, Meridian-The Blsybody-Meddler. 16; 1000. Buzz Saw, br. 1921, Meridian-see Saw II-Fitzherbert. 15-3~; Thos. H. Owen, Baird. 1100. G. C. Asher, Menard. J. Garfield Buell, ch. 1915, Martinet-Mrs. Annie-st. Blaise. Cabalerro, br. 1923, Cruzados-Letty Ree-Jim Gaffney. 15-1; 15-27'2; 1080. G. R. White, Brady. 1075. Dick Sampson, Clairemont. Kempland, b. 1918, Mont d'Or II-Reveries-Rabelais. 15-3; Capt. Bridges, ch. 1924, Setback-Flo Harbrave-Dr. Bailey. 1000. Fleet Coates, Ozona. 15-1; 1000. T. J. Brownson, Whitsett. King O'Neill II, ch. 1921, Huon-Duchess of Savoy-Uncle. Capt. Costigan, ch. 1920, Vandergrtft-Bastante-Oddfellow 15-37'2; 1050. Myrl Jowell, Midland. 15-3; 1170. J. M. Waddell, Odessa. Legal, b. 1916, Hilarious-Responsful-Medd!er. 16; 1125. J. A. Capt. Kinnarney, b. 1921, Dick Finnell-Idle Day-Peep O'Day. Bunton, Rio Frio. 15-3%; 1000. W. A. Cooper, Langtry. Licht Alberich, b. 1921, Fels-Laverna-Pioneer. 15-2; 1000. Capt. Menard, ch. 1923, Conboy-Argent-Singleton. 15-3; Ross Bros. & Barton, Fort Worth. 1150. Cecil Walston, Menard. . Leontes, b. 1920, Alvescot-Jerda-Bempronius. 15-3%; 1050. Capt. Montgomery, b. 1926, Convoy-sadie Montgomery-Walk­ Rollie C. Bless, Hondo. ing John. 15-27'2; 1050 Neal Gearreald, Stephenville. Libyan, Sands, br. 1913, Rock Sand-Linda Stone-Hanover. Capt. Whitehead, b. 1918, Tad H-Deerfoot-Alvescot. 14-3; 850. 16-7'2; 1075. Jim Harkey, Fort Stockton. Jack Brown, Truscott. Lingard, b. 1923, Black Toney-Wayward Lass-Sir Dixon. 16; Carthage, ch. 1922, Archaic-Rockwater-Laureate. 15-2; 1000. 1120. S. L. Kone, Encinal. Tom Nance, Midland. Little Red, ch. 1917, Dr. Root-Princess Cunard-Cunard. 15; Celtney, br. 1919, Jim Gaffney-Irish Queen-Bearcatcher. 16; 900. E. B. Kincaid, Sabinal. 1135. Jim Harkey, Fort Stockton. Long Bug., ch. 1925, Long Tongue-Beetle Bug-sweep. 15-1; Centimeter, b. 1918, Meelick-Regea-Margrave. 15; 875. Sid 1000. J. H. Minnick, Foard City. Moffett, Dilley. Louie, br. 1915, Senseless-Anne Boleyn-Pipistrello. 16; 1150. Charlbury, ch. 1922, Tad H-Marion 5-Albula. 15-1; 1100. B. B. McCutcheon, jr., Fort Davis. H. N. Roach, Shamrock. Major .Cullum, b. 1924, Setback-Kitty Frank-Jack Point, 15-1; Charles Robinson, b. 1925, Thunderstorm-Mabie Clarkson­ 1000. Greer & Geesey, Wellington. Allowmaise. 16-17'2; 1100. Chas. H. Featherston, Wichita Falls. Major Wood, ch. 1921, Marwood-Jerusha-8ir Walter. 14-3; 950. Cheikh Barre, ch. 1922, Prince Chimay-Bairam-Masque. 15- G. J. Henshaw, Sanderson. 37'2; 1050. Frank Henry, Cross. Master Gould, b. 1916, First Chip-Gracie Gould-Register. Chester Park, b. 1925, Top Hat-Babette-Reno. 15-3Y2; 1000. 15-1¥.t; 1180. J. E. Gibbons, Richland Springs. D. C. Reynolds, Dalhart. Mayor House, br. 1916, Hanbridge-Helma S-Cesarion. 15-3; Chevachie, b. 1924, Adalid-El Cheva-Rey el Santa Anita. 15-1; 1000. Rocky Reagan, Beeville. Mickey Free, b. 1923, Polymelian-Athlone-Charles O'Malley. 1100. M. L. Jernigan, Goldthwaite. 15-3; 1000. B. B. Ingham, Ozona. Chipping Norton, b. 1922, Tad H-Clover Night-Cloverton. 15- Midnight Chief, ch. 1923, Swing Loose-Dora Knight-Be­ 1 ~; 1050. Pat Lee, Ozona. · knighted. 15-3; 1000. A. C. Hoover, Ozona. Crossfire, ch. 1923, Hourless-Crossways-Octagon. 15-3Y2; 1000. Mint Cat, b. 1916, Catmint-Arlette-Robert le Dlable. 16; 1125. • Mcintyre Bros., Fort Stockton. W. W. McCutcheon, Fort Davis. Daedalus, ch. 1915, Aeronaut-Princess Chic-Potomac. 15-3; Mock Orange, b. 1917, Lonawand-Orange Lilly-Willith the 1075. H. W. Davis, Clairemont. · Third. 15-3; 1050. L. S. Munger, Buffalo Gap. Dalajo, b. 1925, Daedalus-Lady Johnson-Dr. Root. 15-1; 1000. Moon Magic, br. 1922, Torchbearer-Mirka-Peter Quince. 16-¥.t; R. E. Thompson, Stinnett. 1050. H. B. Duncan, Burnet. Dennydance, ch. 1919, Judge Denny, jr.-Flying Dance-Faran- Mordear, ch. 1925, Morvich-Dear Maria-Ambassador 4th. 15-3; dole. 15-Y2; 1000. Len M. Mertz, San Angelo. • 1000. Louis Danz, Johnson City. Diego, b. 1926, Setback-Novice Girl-Dr. Bailey. 15-27'2; 1050. Morganatic, b.1922, His Majesty-Marie Odile-Star Shoot. 15-3; J. W. Garner, Rankin. 1000. J. F. Hutchins, Pierce. Doctor Howard, ch. 1918, Handsell-Grace Navarre-Henry of Mr. Pepp, br. 1922, Luke McLuke-Dividenrl-Ingoldsby. 16; Navarre. 15-2; 950. Geo. L. Aldwell, San Angelo. 1065. E. M. Hall, San Angelo. Duplicate, b. 1923, C. Brown-Nora Daly-Duke Daly. 15; 1000. Mutiny, b. 1920, Wrack-Desirous-Hamburg. 16-Y2; 1100. D. T. Jones, San Angelo. W. D. Casey, Toyah. Dwarf, br. 1921, Setback-Dolly Hayman-Crighton. 15-1; 950. Namtro, b. 1921, DeGrey-Candy-Yankee. 16-Y2; 1130. Everett Zeno Jones, Catarina. Bell, Crowell. El Bardo, b. 1922, Adalid-Bardolita.-The Bard. 15-1; 1050. Naughty Boy II, ch. 1923, Lemonora-Mademoiselle Mal-op­ T. M. Pyle, Longfellow. pressor. 16; 1050. Robt. J. Kleberg, jr., Kingsville. Eliminator, b. 1915, Sunstar-Marian Hood-Martagan. 16; 1060. Nelombo, ch. 1923, N1mbus-Naturalization-8imonian. 15-3; 0. B. Daniels, Newcastle. 1030. John H. Oliver, San Saba. -.. 1931 CONGRESSIONAL R-ECORD-HOUSE 2099

Niwad (Arab), br. 1921, Janissary-Najine-Garaveen. 14-2~; Aldeano, b. 1924, AI Bloch-Edith Inez-Jack Point. 15-2; 1060. 960. Oscar Appelt, San Angelo. , H. C. Perkins, Blanding. No Knox, ch. 1926, Setback-Our Kitty-Bro. Compton. 15-2; Ben Royal, ch. 1915, Flis-Rosebud III-Rosewater. 15-3; 1150. 1100. J. R. Hewitt, San Angelo. C. VI. Bailey, Escalante. North America, ch. 1925, North Star ill-Viva America-McGee. Blue Fire, b. 1924, Underfire-Blue Ball-Hastings. 15-3; 1050, 16--%; 1050. C. F. Cox, jr., Marathon. W. R. Probert, Ibapah. Nuyaka, ch. 1920, Dick Finnell-Annie . Williams-Lazzarone. Canmore, b. 1920, Marathon-Canice-Bridge of Canny. 15-3; 16-%; 1050. C. F. Cox, jr., Marathon. 1150. J. W. Smoot, Deseret. Oakwood (Morgan), b. 1921, Troubadour of Willowmoor-Folly­ Canmore, jr., b. 1925, Canmore-Drucy B-Chaffinch. ??-?; 1185. Bennington. 15-2; 1100. T. B. Caldwell, jr., Mount Pleasant. Bert Snow, St. George. · Oklahoma Tom, br. 1920, Dr. Root-Oklahoma-Chant. 15; 950. Clever Seth, b. 1921, Seth-Pickaniny-Cesarion. 15-3; 1100. Jack Brown, Truscott. Hyrum Walker, Farmington. Pablo, ch. 1921, Glencairn-Caraquet-Bryn Mawr. 16; 1280. Cragsman, b. 1920. Lomond-Bleasdale-Martagon. 15-2¥2; W. H. Taylor, Pontotoc. 1000. D. N. Murdock, Hebert City. Palmist, b. 1923, Golden Sun-Palmella-Lemberg. 16--~; 1080. Dr. Henry, ch. 1922, Marse Henry-My Nurse-David Tenny. Frank B. Seale, Benchley. 15; 1000. R. L. Fenton, Parowan . . Panover, ch. 1925, Panhandler-Fringe-Frizzle. 15-2; 1000. Edgewater, ch. 1925, Rapid Water-Alberta H-Handspring. Forrest C. Whitehead, Del Rio. 15-3¥2; 1000. A. P. Spilsbury, Cedar City. Piegan, b. 1926, Polymelian-Jacoba-Jack Atkin. 15-1%; 1000. Elisha Lee, ch. 1923. Delhi-Lady Britain-the Commoner. Frank Ingram, Midland. 15-3; 1190. George Henderson, Joseph. , Pot O'Gold, br. 1926, Pagan Pan-Rainbow Division-Stalwart. Eminent, ch. 1921, the Manager-Little Daughter-Ogden. 15-2; 15-1; 1000. Franklin Bros., Christine. 1070. Charles Redd, La Sal. Pride of India, b. 1916, Delhi-Dominoe!T-Domino. 16--Y:z; 1175. Fasching, b. 1925, Dark Ronald-Falada-Captivation. 15-2%; Joe Howell, Wimberley. 1000. Hugh Colton, Vernal. Ragman, b. 1924, McGee-Sweepings-Sweep. 15-2Y:z; 1000. Funny Face, ch. 1924, Short Cut-Glen Grier-Glenthorn. 15; J. J. Koonsman, Snyder. 1000. Reed W. Warnick, Pleasant Grove. Rashid (Arab), b. 1822, Sidl-Ramin-Berk. 14-3; 910. Frank Grazer, b. 1924, Grosvenor-Willaisa-Willonyx. 15-1¥2; 925. P. Wood, Victoria. Arthur Lightner, Minersville. Relay, b. 1919, Assagai-Doll-Sir Geo.ffrey. 15-2Y:z; 1035. R. S. Hardwood, br. 1923, Broomstlck-Duckshot-Galllnule. 15-3; Waring, San Angelo. 1050. Elmer Carling, Fillmore. Ridgway, br. 1925, Wrack-Whizz Bang-Sunstar. 15-2Y:z; 1000. Hernlis Kemble, ch. 1919. Prince Hermis-Fanny Kemble-Sem­ Henry W. Schlittler, jr., Graham. pronius. 15-3; 1050. John Rogerson, Panguitch. Rig Veda, b. 1922, Yverdon-Ravigote-Childwlck. 15-3~; 1000 Irish King, ch. 1923, Irish Exile-Alessia-Doctor Leggo. 15-3; B. C. Hendrick, Odessa. 1050. Alex Findlay, Kanab. Robespierre (Morgan), ch. 1920, Red Oak-Bessie C.-The Ad­ J. G. Bickel, b. 1922, Alvescot-Marna-Sempronius. 16; 1050. miral. 15-Y:z; 1000. Jim B. Hamilton, Normangee. Francis N. Mortenson, Ephraim. Rosario II, b. 1922, Faucheur-Rosanne-Saint Ange 3rd. 15-3; Kangaroo, b. 1915. Fling Rock-King's Favorite-Hanover. 1030. Hartley Easley, Crowell. 15-2%; 1050. T. B. Parker, Richfield. Royal Ease, gr. 1926, Royal Canopy-Lazy Lady-Sea King. Leather Breeches, ch. 1925, Damrosch-Peep O'Dawn-Peep 15-2; 1000. J. H. Minnick, Foard City. O'Day. 16--1Y:z; 1150. Wm. Roylance, North Ogden. Run Dor, b. 1924, Runflor-Lady Dorinet-Colinet. 15-2; 1000. Lieutenant Hixon. ch. 1916, Borghesi-Polandia-St. Sympharien. Pfetferling Bros., San Antonio. 15-2; 1100. J. H. Singleton, Gandy. Runflor, ch. 1918, Runnymede-Handsome Florry-Handsome. Mac Lean, b. 1921, Meelick-Dona Hamilton-Donald A. 16; 15-2; 1050. W. L. Fisher, Marfa. 1050. J. Leo Seely, Mount Pleasant. Runningwild, ch. 1921, Olambala-Sunburst-Banastar. 16--l.Y:z; Manulani, br. 1924, Frolic-Waipuna-Harvester. 15-%; 1000. 1100. Mrs. Phil C. Gri.tfin, Goldsboro. R. E. L. Kenner, Manti. Sangan, ch. 1923, Long Tongue-Repentant-Migraine. 15-2; Marse Henry, br. 1913, Ben Brush-Nun's Cloth-Melton. !6; 1025. W. R. Davis, Sterling City. 1200. S. L. Aiken, Castle Dale. S. Bryce Wing, b. 1922, Till Johnson-Kickapoo Lass-Deutsch­ Multnomah, br. 1913, Bearcatcher-Marcia A-St. Carlo. 15-3; land. 15-1; 1000. S. S. Millspaugh, Ozona. 1150. Ernest Warburton, Etna. Shilling, ch. 1917, Seth-Alice Commoner-The Commoner. Nigahdar (Arab), b. 1920, Rodan-Nanda-Garaveene. 15; 1000. 15-2; 1020. Hugh Buie, Beeville. L. A. Stookey, Clover. Sign of Time, ch. 1926, Champlain-Sister Emblem-Ballot. 15; Oxalic Jess, ch. 1915, Collector Jessup-My Nurse-David Tenny. 900. W. B. Johnson, Crowell 15; 1100. Travus Olsen, Rochester. Silhouette, ch. 1922, James P. Silo-Bartie-Valeat. 15-2%; Padraic, ch. 1917, Belloc-Anna Patrlcia-Ormondale. 15-2¥2; 1080. Joe Stocks, Tankersly. 1050. B. Grant, Honeyville. Slice, b. 1922, Spanish Prince II-Watermelon-Watercress. Pas De Calais II, ch. 1919, Bachelor's Double-Hot Water Bag­ 16--1; 1075. Bud Bennett, Dalhart. Mackintosh. 16; 1000. Vern Allred, Roosevelt. Soldier True, ch. 1922, Trap Rock-Federal Girl-Ultimus. 16--1; Pirate Chief, br. 1925, Brigand-Hadfield-Fariman. 15-3¥2; 1100. J. M. Treadwell, Menard. 1025. Dr. L. D. Stewart, Payson. Sunny Jim, b. 1918, Friar Rock-Lucy M-Hamburg. _ 16; 1050. Sailing B., b. 1918, Trap Rock-Pecadillo-Hastings. 15-2%; J. P. Miller, Coleman. 1150. Earl Snow, Orangeville. . Teeke, ch. 1926, Setback-Novice-Dr. Bailey; 15-1; 1000. A. D. Sasper, b. 1921, Master Robert-Miss Cynthia-Joe Carey. 16--3; Dodson, Snyder. 1000. Jess Barton, Greenville. Thaine, ch. 1922, Big Boy-Blanche Ring-Madalo. 15-1~; 1020. Stone Bell, b. 1921, Wigstone-Bella H-Ballot. 15-3; 1000. F. Eugene H. Linthicum, Barnhart. Marion Guymon, Huntington. Theo Dunman, b. 1918, Meelick-Kitty Smith-Jack Point. 15-2; The Tailor, ch. 1924, Atwell-Lady Colonist-Africander. 15-2Y:z. 1050. John P. Lee, Tankersly. Remount stable awaiting assignment. The Pine, b. 1924, Cudgel-Audience-Sir Dixon. 15-3%; 1050. Tilrite, ch. 1925, Meteorite-Time Brille-Rightful. 15-3; 1000. Reid Bros., Fort Davis. . D. H. Livingston, Delta. The Tramp, br. 1921, The Finn-Kate Adams-Martinet. 15-3Y:z; VERMONT 1050. S. D. Harmon, Alpine. Walhalla, b. 1924. Verwood~Walkyria-Charles O'Malley. Till Johnson, br. 1917, Orbicular-Rose of Jeddah-Cesarion. 15-2~; 900. Augustus Van Cortlandt, jr., Brandon. 15-1%; 1175. J. E. Henderson, jr., San Angelo. Tom Green, br. 1921, Atkins-Nairn-Sidney Lucas. 15-1 ~; vmGINIA 1050. Pat Webb, Crosbyton. Angel Jim, ch. 1908, Tarquin-Guil1anar-Ragotsky or Loudun. Top 0' The Morn, b.1925, Roderick II-Child of Dawn-Strephon. 16; 1045. For depot use. Front Royal Q. M. Depot. 15-3; 1000. G. W. White, Tuscola. Ben Gow, b. 1915, Neil Gow-Friction-St. Gris. 16--Y:z; 1200. Tornado Wheel, b. 1924, Balance Wheel-Babe Bemish-Phelan Otto Furr, Middleburg. Dorian. 15; 1000. J. B. Chilton, jr., Encinal. Body Guard, b. 1920, Golden Maxim-Melisande-Disguise. Toyland, ch. 1923, Peter Pan-Lucrative-Mordant. 16; 1020. 16; 1025. G. A. Randolph, North Garden. J. E. Renfroe, Menard. Botanical, ch. 1926, North Star III-Bed of Roses-Cunard. Vioto, b. 1922, Norito-Cheviota-Rey el Santa Anita. 15-Y:z; 16--1; 1080. C. T. Field, Lee Hall. 1100. J. L. Custer, Spotford. Breast Plate, ch. 1923, Olambala-Sunburst-Banastar. 16--1~; Westerman, br. 1918, Ildrim-Supposition-Sir Dixon. 15-2%; 1000. T. W. Utterback, Markham. 1000. Mrs. Gertrude Pursley, Jayton. Brian Boy, gr. 1922, Royal Canopy-Corveno-Laveno. 16; . Yankee Star, br. 1919, Star Shoot-Yankee Lady-Yankee. 15-3; 1145. B. G. Ray, Happy Creek. 1000. J. C. Penn, Mercury. Cannon Shot, br. 1921, War Shot-Purer-Sir Dixon. 16-2; Zonite, br. 1924, Donnacona-Zonia-Blarney. 15--2~; 1000. 1140. S. L. Larrabee, Warrenton. Dickie Bros., Woodson Cant Kost, b. 1916. Cantilever-Koster Girl-Gonsalvo. 16--1; UTAH 1100. M. M. Washington, Nokesville. Achill, b. 1920, Achtol-Belle Isle-Sunder. 15-3; 1050. Archer Captain Hershler, b. 1917, The Manager-Fleeting Fashion­ Huff, Spanish Fork. Hamburg. 16--~; 1170. 0. B. Dowden, Orleans. _ Adalid, ch. 1910, Amigo-Lady Diamond-Emp. of Norfolk. Dan IV, ch. 1918, Ex Voto-Deihadarra-chatillon. 16--2; 1210. 15-3; 1150. R. L. Fenton, Paro'W'an. For depot use. Front Royal Q. M. Depot.

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2100 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 13 I / Dark Demon, b. 1924, Son-in-Waw-Mllva-Gost. 16-2; 1200. Star Hampton, ch. 1916; Star Shoot-Dorothy Hampton-Ro'yat Sam Clatterbuck, Dayton. Hampton. 15-2Y2; 1100. Dr. B. L. Traynham, Sweet Spring~. Devil Dog, b. 1917, Darley Dale-Mountain Fringe-Atlas. 16; WISCONSIN 1000. J. E. Keyser, Flint Hill. . Huffaker, b. 1913, Dick Welles-Outwai-Ornus. 16-3; 1250. Gratteur, drk. br. 1923, Macdonald II-Galatee-Fourire. 16-1• ' Dewar Bros., Hancock. . 1150. C. E. Wisecarver, Berryville .. WYOMING · Gray Falcon, rn. 1926, Caligula-Griseldis-Hannibal. 16; 1080. C. 0. Iselin, jr., Middleburg. Adanor, ch. 1922, Adalid-Norette-Norito. 1~1; 1100. C. D. Half Rock, ch. 1912, Rock Sand-Half Sovereign-Hastings. Huyler, Wilson. · 16--0; 1120. C. W. Byers, Fort Defiance. Bellini, br. 1920, Chouberski-Basse Terre-Omnium II. 15-3; Haphazard, b. 1923, Escoba-Kaskaskia-Yankee. 16-1%,; 1130. 1000. J. C. Scott, Jackson. C. B. Payne, Culpeper. Bud MacDougal, ch. 1918, Trap Rock-Run of Luck-Wagner. High Hand, br. 1920, Fair Play-Haute Roche-Rock Sand. 16; 15-1¥2; 1075. S. Snyder, Painter. 1070. H. C. Wtllis, Rapidan. Bushnell Lad, b. 1915, St. Amant-Allumette-Matchmaker. His Majesty, b. 1910, Ogden-Her Majesty-His Highness. 15-3%,; 1100. F. W. Foss, Diamond. 15-2¥2; 1070. Albert Shaw, jr., Sterling. Checko, b. 1921, Ormondale-Checkers-Ogden. 16-1; 1175. J. J. G. Denny, br. 1921, Jusqu'au Bout-Mary Michaels-Lissak. Berger, Oshoto. 16; 1050. Claiborne Willcox, Providence Forge. Chief Lally, b. 1915, King James-Rosslare-Sempronius. 15- Job, b. 1922, Sans le Sou-Jenny ITI-8imonian. 16-2%; 1140. 3~; 1150. W. M. Spear, Sheridan. . F. M. Humphreys, Phlllamont. Delaware, b. 1916, Ormondale-Livonia--Star Shoot. 16; 1250. Kilter, ch. 1923, Johren-Guess Again-All Gold. 16-1; 1060. C. D. Carey, Cheyenne. John F. Taylor, Staunton. Election, b. 1914, Ballot-Sadie 8--Charaxus. 15-3; 1050. C. A. Allison, Gillette. .. Le Pierre de Tanville, b. 1921, Verwood-Philosophy-Bay Elite, br. 1919, Dandy Rock-Golden Meteor-st. Savin.' 15-2; Ronald. 16-1; 1120. For depot use. Front Royal Q. M. Depot. 1000. M. T. Cox, Cheyenne. Lough Swilly, bl. 1918, Lough Foyle-Bleachers-Kinley Mack. Elkwood, blk. 1916, Elkhorn-Emma-Contestor. 15-3; 1150. 16-1¥2; 1225. Albert Shaw, jr., Sterling. A. L. Spurlock, Alcova. · Louverne, b. 1921, Rabelais-Gloria-Ajax. 16-2; 1105. For de­ Ferados, b. 1923, Cruzados-Fernada-Rey el Santa Anita. 15-1; pot use. Front Royal Q. M. Depot. 1000. Tom Sun, Rawlins. Magic Silence, ch. 1918, Magic II-Mum-Freemason. 16-2¥2; Fort Keogh, ch. 1923, Achievement-Appolita-Sir Appleby. 1300. H. W. Herring, Nokesville. . 15-Y2; 950. Gus Nylen, Orin Junction . .Master Hand, b. 1919, Ballot-Shuck H-Jean Bereaud. 15-3%,; Friar Dixon, b. 1919, Friar Rock-Queen Dixon-Sir Dixon. 15-1; 1000. J. M. Jett, Nineveh. 1000 .. J. T. Gratiot, Dubois. Me Donno, b. 1921, McGee-Donna Mamona-Yankee. 16-1; Historicus, br. 1922, Belloc-Arrogance-Golden Maxim. 15-2 Y2; 1160. M. C. Hazen, Nokesville. 1000. C .. P. Berry, Recluse. Modesta; b. 1922, Ralph-Bonnie Kate-Loyalist. 16; 1075. Irish Dancer, ch. 1917, Celt-B'allet Girl-St. Leonards. 15-3%; Harry C. Stuart, Elk Garden. 1100. Mrs. Hazel O'Reilly, Horse Creek. Mr. Kirkwood, br.1924, Squander-8egurola-Runnymede. 16-1; Jack Stuart, br. 1915, Valens-Sweet Sauce-Sir Geo:ffry. 16-%; 1100. T. S. Holtzclaw, Hampton. 1050. J. B. Kendrick, Sheridan. Navigator, b. · 1923, Broomstick-Alster Cress-Watercress. Kalirice, br. 1925, Kalitan-Louie Grice-Bryn Mawr. 15-2; 15-3%; 1000. H. 0. Lyne, Orange. 1100. E. H. Morrison, Diamond. Repulse, ch. 1922, Spanish Prince II-Soria-Ogden. 16-1; 1000. Last Call, b. 1925, War Call-Oh Fie-Nick. 15-%; 950. J. B. H. E. Furr, Aldie. Qkie, Lost Cabin. Sebastian, b. 1926. Wrack-Brumellini-Sea Sick. 16; 1000. Lucknow, br. 1919, Luke McLuke-Carena-Grey Leg. 16-1; C. C. Fernsell, Decca. 1125. Lem Carmin, Douglas. Silver Rock, ch. 1922, Friar Rock-Lady Bedford-Ogden. 15-1; Luke Dillon, ch. 1917, Luke McLuke-Frances Dillon-The Com­ 1070. Marine Barracks, Quantico. moner. 15-1; 1100. C. D. Carey, Cheyenne. Soggarth Aroon, b. or br. 1920, Bard of Hope-Running Vine­ Lynchburg, br. 1909, The Scribe-Rose Washington-Faustus. Transvaal, 15-3%; 1100. W. E. Keister, Fairfax. 16; 1100. H. Fullmer, Sheridan. Spanish Gold, b. 1924, Spanish Prince III-Bright Gold-Golden Majority, br. 1920, Ballot-centrella-Bryn Mawr. 16-1; 1100. Maxim. 16; 1100. C. J. Miller, jr., Washington. R. Nicholas, Sheridan. Starset, ch. 1924, Star Hawk-Set Square-Simon Square. Olin K, ch. 1924, Glencairn-Vena Fair-Fair Play. 15-2¥2; .16-1 7'2; 1050. David Allen, Berryville. 1025. C. L. Byrne, Piedmont. Tchad, br. 1916, Negofol-Toia-Railleur. 16-2~~; 1250. J. D. Poppycock, br. 1917, Durbar-Teetotum li-The Bard. 16-%; Blair. Richmond. 1050. C. Johnson, Alcova. Tim McGee, ch. 1915, McGee-Cheek-Hawkswick. 16; 1050. Red Tomahawk, b. 1925, Assagai-Forbid-Honeywood. 15-3%; Allen C. Pierson, Appomattox. 1050. K. McDonald, Arminto. Xylon, gr. 1912, Grey Plume-Lady Marie-Petrarch. 16-¥z; Rolling Rock, b. 1921, Sandbar-Edith B-Contract. 15-2; 1000. 1100. For depot use. Front Royal Q. M. Depot. R. D. Carey, Careyhurst. Sargon (Arab), ch. 1915, Segario-Najine-Garaveen. 14-1%; WASHINGTON 970. J. T. Gratiot, Casper. Gayly, .ch. 1921, Transvaal-Airey-Bryn Mawr. 15-2¥2; 1000. Senator Knox (Morgan), ch. 1917, Knox Morgan-Senata­ ,W. M. Farran, Harrah. Senator. 15-%; 1080. C. F. Shurn.alcer, Casper. Glen Oak, b. 1926, Whisk-Hasty Maid-Hastings. 15-3¥2; 1100. Socialist, br. 1923. Kwang Su-La Marsellaise-Fowling Piece. Ross Woodard, Loomis. 16-1; 1150. J. Elliott, Cheyenne. Poultney, br. 1916, Bryn Mawr-Galgris-8t. Gris. 15-3; 1025. Son of Fortune, ch. 1922, Guy Fortune-Category-Cesarian. Dr. W. M. Baker, Sprague. 14-3%; 1000. J. H. Foxton, Glendo. : Sarko, br. 1921, Voorhees-Egeria-clitrord. 15-2; 1100. J. J. Suppliant, b. 1921, Everest-Pliant-The Commoner. 16-1; 1100. Crawford, Yakima. A. M. Brock, Buffalo. · The Greek, b. 1923, Achievement-Grecian Maid-Borgia. 15-%; WEST VIRGINIA 900. Dr. J. R. Hylton, Douglas. Danger Rock, ch. 1912, Rock Sand-Delusion-Meddler. 16-1¥2; Underwriter, br. 1919, Disguise-Agnes Velasquez-Velasquez. 1165. Charles Roy, Bridgeport. 16; 1050. F. Horton, Buffalo. Point Blank, ch. 1922, Ten Polnt-Praline-Bassetlaw. 15-3; Zeus Laddie, b. 1922, Zeus-Edna Collins-The Commoner, 16-%; 1130. Ralph Bentz, Martinsburg. 1100. Dr. J. R. Hylton, Douglas.

~mmar11 ofrt8UlU obtained from the operation of the remount horse breeding plan Bime its inception in 1911 up to and includin1 December 31, 19t9

Value of Value of Value of stallions Amount stallions stallions and brood Foals Estimated Year appropri- Amount and brood and brood mares pro- Stud fees Stallions Mares value of a ted expended mares mares duced at coiiected at stud bred produced foals purchased donated remount depots

192L .• ·------$250,000 $176,271 $93, U2 $112,500 ------$3,210 159 4,100 2,460 $4.18,100 / 1922 .• ------150, uuo 132,728 41,039 28,500 ------15,355 219 6,800 4,080 693,600 1923 .••• ------150,000 106,347 31,137 ag; 750 ------23,100 236 7,500 4,500 765,000 1924--. ·------150,000 140,245 60,639 4:,000 ------22,520 277 8, 700 5,220 887,4:00 1925 .• ------150,000 -145,348 62,876 20,250 $4,500 .0,4.10 308 9,900 5,940 1, 009,800 1926.------150,000 149,385 70,368 18,000 15,750 30,495 382 11,800 8,260 1,404,100 1927------150,000 149,546 74,054 18,000 6,000 24,903 454 12,800 8,960 1, 523,200 "1928. ---______: ______150,000 148,Ul 76,372 13,500 6,000 26,150 527 14, IYlO 10,360 1, 761,200 1929. ------·------150,000 149,407 89,275 12,750 18,000 21,355 580 17,400 12,180 2,070,600 - TotaL ______._-----.--.----·------.---- 1,450,000 1, 'JJJ7, 691 589,502· 299, 250" 50,250 ')JJ7,498 ------3{9- 93,800 61,960 10,533,200 Yearly average_----~--- : ·------161, 111 144,188 65,500 33,250 6,583 23,055 10,422 6,884 1,170,355

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BREEDING ZONES Central (headquarters remount purchasing and breeding head· quarters, New York !Me Building, Kansas City, Mo.): Includes the Eastern (headquarters: Remount purchasing and breeding States of illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Mlnnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, headquarters, Federal Building, Lexington, Ky.): Includes the North DaJ.wta, South Dakota, Wisconsin. States of Alabama, Connecticut, Oelaware, Florida, Georgia, West-central (headquarters remount purchasing and breeding Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, headquarters, Colorado Springs, Colo.): Includes States of Arizona, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Colorado, New Mexico, Montana (except as indicated under western Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ver­ zone) , and Wyoming. mont, Virginia, West Virginia. (Note.-Virginia is under the Western (headquarters remount purchasing and breeding head­ jurisdiction of commandlng officer, quartermaster depot, Front quarters, Fort Douglas, Utah): Includes the States of California; Royal, Va.) Idaho; counties of Lincoln, Flathead, Teton, Sanders, Mineral, Mis­ Southern (headquarters: Remount purchasing and breeding soula, Powell, Lewis and Clark, Ravalli, Granite, Jefferson, Beaver­ headquarters, Fort Reno, Okla.): Includes the States of Arkansas, head, Silver Bow, Madison, Broadwater, and Gallatin in Montana; Louisiana, MiSsissippi, Oklahoma, Texas. Nevada: Oregon: Utah; and Washington. Horae-breeding statement

Stallions and brood mares Stallions and brood mares Stallions and brood mares purchased donated produced

Total ap- Total ex­ Stud fees Fiscal year propriated pended Number Number Number collected Value Value Value Stallions Mares Stallions Mares Stallions Mares

1921.------$250,000 $176,271 110 ------$93,742 75 ------$112,500 ------$3,210 . 1922.------160,000 132,728 53 ------41,039 19 ------28,500 ------·------15,355 192:L _ ------160,000 106,347 42 ------31,137 17 7 30,760 ------23, 1nt) 1924------160,000 140,245 73 4.8 60,639 22 16 45,000 ------u.-500- 22,520 1925.------150,000 145,348 M 29 52,876 13 1 20,250 6 ------4.0,410 1926.------150, 000 1~.385 84 25 70,368 11 2 18,000 9 12 15,750 30,495 1927------1EO,OOO 149,546 85 29 74,054 11 2 18, ()()() 6 2 6,000 24,903 11128.------150, ()()() 148,414 85 20 76,372 8 2 13, 500 5 3 6,000 ~.150 1929------150,000 149,407 97 56 89,275 7 3 12,750 10 14 18,000 21,355 1930.------150,000 149,636 93 56 89,121 7 1 11,250 7 16 17,250 13,703 TotaL______1, 600, 000 1, 447, 327 776 263 678,623 190 34 310,500 43 47 67,500 221,201 Average __ ------160, 000 144, 733 78 ~ 67,862 19 3 31,050 4 5 6, 750 22,120

Number or mares Foals secured Number bred Number Number of stal- of stal- of stal- Fiscal year lions at lions dis- lions on stud Per stal- hand at Total Number Per cent Value, at posed of end of lion $170 each year ------] 921_------159 26 4,100 2,460 60 $418,200 2 183 1922.------219 31 6,800 4,080 60 693,600 18 237 1923.------236 32 7,500 4., 500 60 765,000 11 285 1924.------277 31 8, 700 5, 2'20 60 887,400 30 350 1925_------308 32 9,900 5,940 60 1,009,800 37 386 1926.------382 31 11,800 8,260 70 1,404,200 28 462 1927------454 28 12,800 8.980 70 1,523,200 4.2 522 1928.------527 28 14,800 10,360 70 1, 761,200 52 568 1929.------544 28 15,000 110,600 170 11,785,000 62 620 1930------1620 130 118,600 113,020 170 12,213,400 71 650 Total ___ ------110,000 73,300 12,461,000 359 Average ______------373 29 11,000 7,330 66 1, 246,100 36 4.26

1 Estimated; complete data not yet available. Mr. BARBOUR. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to that was necessary to stabilize this activity and produce the amendment. 20,000 colts per year. He said further that 700 stallions In reply to the statement of the gentleman permit me to was all the Army needed in order to produce these 20,000 say that the amount of the Budget estimate for this activity colts. The committee has recommended $20,000 more than was reduced from $132,500 to $120,000. The committee be­ the Army asked, more than General Cheatham thought lieves that the activity can be carried on the same as it has was necessary. The committee has provided for 800 stal­ been with $120,000, and if that can not be done and it is lions instead of 700 stallions. So I can see no reason for determined later on that they will need $12,500 more, or anxiety on the part of certain Members of the House. There any part of $12,500, they can come in and get it in a exists no good reason for the Congress to provide a larger deficiency appropriation. We believe it can be carried on for appropriation for breeding purposes than the War Depart­ the amount recommended, and therefore we reduced the ment itself thinks is necessary. estimate $12,500. The CHAffiMAN. The question is on agreeing to the Mr. CIDNDBLOM. Will the gentleman yield? amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado [Mr. Mr. BARBOUR. I yield. EATON]. Mr. CHINDBLOM. This item has been carried in other The amendment was rejected. appropriation bills before in exactly the same language? Mr. SLOAN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the last Mr. BARBOUR. Yes. word. Mr. COLLINS. Will the gentleman yield? I ask unanimous consent to proceed for five minutes out Mr. BARBOUR. I yield. of order. Mr. COLLINS. Supplementing what the gentleman from The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the California says, when General Cheatham, the Quartermaster gentleman from Nebraska [Mr. SLOAN]? General, testified before the subcommittee he stated that he There was no objection. was considering recommending $100,000 for this activity in­ Mr. SLOAN. A short time ago to-day the distinguished stead of $120,000 as recommended by the committee. gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. McCLINTIC] presented an Mr. EATON of Colorado. Will the gentleman yield? impressive telegram signed by two of the leading newspapers Mr. COLLINS. Not now. I will yield when I have con­ of that great State, in which, among others, there appeared cluded my statement. General Cheatham said he was con­ a remarkable statement. Speaking for the people of that sidering recommending $100,000 because $100,000 was all great State, which I understand has more millionaires than 2102 ·coNGRESSIONAL: RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 13 any other agricultural State in the Union, and referr!ng to to that, she agreed to pay us for 10 years 3 per cent interest; an attempt to raise funds for the great Red Cross movement thereafter to pay 3% or 3% per cent interest. That was to for all of the Nation, that telegram stated, "We do not pro­ proceed for a period 'of 52 years, at which time she would pose to raise one dime for National Red Cross appeal!' have paid us interest at the rate of 3 and 3 Y2 per cent on I never understood that the Red Cross was bounded in its every dollar that she borrowed from us, as well as the en­ benefits and its charities by State lines, any more than tire amount of the principal. hunger or suffering is confined to municipal limits. So far I will state that we receive annually about $200,000,000 as our part of the great agricultural West and part of the from foreign governments on the amount of the principal Corn Belt instead of the " oil ring .. is concerned, our and interest of their debts, and approximately three-fourths State, without especially criticizing Oklahoma, expects to of that money comes from Great Britain. We do not get a meet every request, every appeal, the great Red Cross move­ cent from France, and I do not believe we are getting any­ ment shall make for the Nation, including ourselves. Ne­ thing from Italy. braska is not asking for any_relief of any character. We are Mr. HASTINGS. For the first 10 years we get nothing, glad this year Providence has been kind to us, rewarding our and the next 5 years it is one-eighth of 1 per cent. industry and thrift. But whether kind or unkind, Nebraska 1\Ir. DUNBAR. That is what I was about to observe­ instead of refusing to raise funds for the National Red Cross that it was one-eighth of 1 per cent. It then gradually in­ will meet any appeal that great organization will make, creases until 40, 50, or 60 years from now the difference on whether for separate States or for the Nation. what the interest paid and what the interest would have I come from a district that is without a niillionaire, and amounted to at 3 and 3% per cent is credited to the prin­ yet its per capita wealth is as high as almost any district in cipal, so that at the end of that time she will not have paid the United States. I come from a State almost devoid of us, had we agreed to cancel the debt at the end of 62 years, millionaires. But whatever our burden may be, in our weak­ more than about 1% per cent interest on her money. ness and limited wealth we expect to move on with Dlinois Take the case of France. We could have canceled our in­ and New York and contribute to the relief of those un­ debtedness with France and said this: You need not pay us favored this year our full share of the Red Cross demands. one dollar of the principal you owe us, which· is $4,025,000,000, tApplause.l or was, but you pay us 2 per cent interest on that amount The pro forma amendment was withdrawn. for 62 years and we will call everything square. That is all Mr. DUNBAR. Mr. Chairman,' I move to strike out the the settlement with France amounts to. last word. The settlements with other countries are planned on the I wish to speak with reference to the statements made by same sort of a scheme. Then, in addition to that, they are the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. TREADWAY] pertain­ permitted to refund their interest. There is one country, ing to the three plans advocated by the president of the I think Rumania, that owed us $44,000,000 when the settle­ Chase National Bank of New York for the restoration of ment was made in 1926, and she agreed to settle at the business. The gentleman stated that the president of the rate of 3 per cent interest and pay all of her principal, cover­ Chase National Bank of New York said that prosperity could ing a period of 62 years, but she can refund her interest or be restored by three methods, one, the reduction of wages, postpone the payment of her interest; and, my friends, it second, a reduction of the tariff, and third, a reduction of is an actual fact that although Rumania claims to have the international debt. made a settlement with the United States, that in 1940 she He made some reference to England's desire that there be · will actually owe us more money than she owed us when a readjustment of our debts with European countries. I the debt was supposed to have been settled. In 1940 Ru­ have nothing to add to what the gentleman said except this: mania will owe the United States $51,000,000 instead of That if any of the European governments have any reason to $44,000,000 as in 1926. object to the settlements we made with European countries The CHAffiMAN. The time of the gentleman from In­ that country is Great Britain. It is the only one of all the diana has expired. European cotintries that has settled its debts in accord with Mr. DUNBAR. Mr. Chairman. I ask unanimous consent the high principles of integrity and righteousness. [Ap­ to proceed for two additional minutes. plause.] The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Indiana asks Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Will the gentleman yield? unanimous consent to proceed for two additional minutes. Mr. DUNBAR. Yes. Is there objection? Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Can the gentleman give us Mr. BARBOUR. Mr. Chairman, I am not going to object the figures as to just how much the foreign governments to the gentleman's request for two additional minutes, but owe the United States at this time, including interest? from now on I am going to object to these speeches out of Mr. DUNBAR. I can give the figures approximately­ order. The committee has been in session about an hour, $11,000,000,000, and of that amount England owes approxi­ and 38 minutes of that time has been used in speeches out mately $4,000,000,000, France $4,000,000,000, and Italy be­ of order. If we are going to get anywhere with the bill, tween $2,000,000,000 and $3,000,000,000. we must read it. I am not going to object to the gentleman's Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. I think the gentleman will request, but I will object hereafter. find that on a 4 per cent interest basis the foreign goveTJ].­ The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection? ments' cancellation covering a period of proposed payment There was no objection. will amount to more than $10,700,000,000. Mr. DUNBAR. Rumania will owe us an increased in­ Mr. DUNBAR. Their debt to-day is approximately $11,- debtedness of $7,000,000, and the settlements with other coun­ 000,000,000. tries, as far as principal is concerned, have been postponed Mr. HASTINGS. Will the gentleman permit me to say for 20, 30, 40, or 50 years, by which time most of them that counted on a 4% per cent basis, that is, if we had will be out of existence and we will never get a dollar of the charged foreign governments the 4% per cent they agreed principal. In the meantime they pay us a small amount of to pay instead of the amount they actually do pay, we re­ money for interest, which amounts to practically nothing. mitted to them in interest $10,705,000,000. But what I wanted to impress upon the Members of this Mr. DUNBAR. I think we remitted to them pretty nearly House was this: That Great Britain is the only country in everything they owed us, possibly with the exception of all the world that has discharged her debt in accord with Great Britain. business theories, financial integrity, and business principles. But let me tell about Great Britain, and then I will dwell I sometimes think that our settlements w1th foreign coun­ a little bit upon what the gentleman from Oklahoma has tries should be revised and that Great Britain should be said. In our settlement with Great Britain she agreed to given more favorable consideration. Why should she pay pay the entire amount of the debt she owed us, which was three-fourths of all the money that is paid to us on account between $4,000,000,000 and $5,000,000,000. She agreed to of our foreign debts? I do not believe that outside of Great pay us the entire amount of the principal and, in addition Britain we will ever collect more than 10 per cent of the .- 1931 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2103 amount of money they owe us; and I would not give them mere than $16,000 of the appropriations contained tn this act shall be available for rent of offices outside the District of Colum­ 5 per cent for all we will collect of the amount of their bia in connection with work incident to the assurance of adequate indebtedness. provision for the mobilization of materiel and industrial organi­ The CHAffiMAN. The time of the gentleman from Indi­ zations essential to war-time needs: Provided further, That this ana has again expired. appropriation . shall be available for the rental of offices, garages, and stables for military attaches: Provided further, That not The Clerk read as follows: exceeding $4,100,000 shall be available immediately for the pro­ For construction and installation at military posts, including curement and transportation of fuel for the service of the fiscal the United States Military Academy, of buildings, utilities, and year 1932: Provi ded further, That no part of the funds herein appurtenances thereto, including interior facilities, necessary serv­ appropriated shall be available for construction of a. permanent ice connections to water, sewer, gas, and electric mains, and simi­ nature of an additional building or an extension or addition to lar improvements, all within the authorized limits of cost of such an existing building, the cost of which in any case exceeds $20,000: buildings, as authorized by the acts approved February 18, 1928 Provided further, That the monthly rental rate to be paid out of (45 Stat. 129), May 26, 1928 (45 Stat. 748) , February 25, 1929 this appropriation for stabling any animal shall not exceed $15. · (45 Stat. 1301), June 18, 1930 (46 Stat. 781), and July 3, 1930 (46 Stat. 1014), including also the engagement, by contract or Mr. STAFFORD. Mr. Chairman, I reserve a point of otherwise, of the services of architects, or firms, or partnerships order on the paragraph largely for the purpose of iru{utring thereof, and other technical and professional personnel as may be of the chairman of the committee as to the ro..caning of the 'deemed necessary without regard to requirements and restrictions phrase on page 25, lines 4 and 5?- of law governing the employment and compensation of employees of the U~ted States, to be available immediately, $20,638,990, of For sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies which $95,000 shall be available for the construction of night- 1 required in the operation of mo

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2104 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 13 I The CHAmMAN. The gentleman from California offers Mr. BARBOUR. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to an amendment, which the Clerk will report. the amendment because I do not think it is a good thing . The Clerk read as follows: to write into an appropriation bill. The gentleman from Amendment by Mr. BARBoUR: Page 25, line 2, after the word New York and the gentleman from Connecticut have indi­ !"May," strike out "21 " and insert in lieu thereof "31." . cated how far this thing might go and that there may be no 1 The amendment was agreed to. limit to it. There is no need of a Jimitation written iuto Mr. COLLINS. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment. the bill. We expect the department to spend this money The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Mississippi offers in an economical way. We expect them to get as much as an amendment, which the Clerk will report. they can for every dollar. The Clerk read as follows: I believe that the War Department should have the same right to purchase materials and supplies as any private Amendment offered by Mr. CoLLINS: Page 25, line 25, before the period, insert the following: "Provided further, That no part of institution would have or that any private individual would the funds herein appropriated shall be available for the purchase have. I am as much in favor as anyone can be of buying of furniture that is made wholly or partly of wood not grown in our American products in preference to foreign products, the United States." but there are many things that are bought abroad in the Mr. COLLINS. Mr. Chairman, this amendment is one ordinary and regular way. I do not think that we should that would require the War Department in its purchase of hamper the activities of the War Department by an amend­ wooden furniture to purchase furniture made out of native ment of this kind. American woods. If you read the specifications for furni­ Mr. KETCHAM. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield? ture drawn up by the War Department, you -will find that Mr. BARBOUR. Yes. they require the furniture to be made largely out of African Mr. ~TCHAM. Will the gentleman state what the policy or. Honduras mahogany. This amendment would require of the War Department is when, for instance, two articles of them to use native American woods rather than -foreign equal merit are offered to it, one of which is produced in a woods. foreign country and one of which is produced here, so far This War Department furniture item is the largest furni­ as the purchase of those articles is concerned? Do they take ture order that the busfuess of the country has an oppor­ into consideration the ·matter of price and show preference tunity to bid on. Therefore our lumber industry is intensely to the foreign article where the price is better? Is price a interested in having an opportunity to supply the materials determining factor? out of which the furniture is made. Mr. BARBOUR. Yes; I think that has something to do Native American woods, like birch, gum, walnut, oak, and with it. I have a letter here from the Secretary of War maple, make just as good furniture as mahogany, and they opposing an amendment of this kind. Somewhere in the are just as durable.' letter he states, as I recall, that wherever it is possible for Gum, walnut, and maple when given a mahogany stain them to do so they buy the American-made article, but make beautiful furniture, and an expert can not tell the there are many things which he lists that they have to buy difference between it and mahogany. There is no reason, abroad. therefore, to use African or Honduras mahogany except that Mr. KETCHAM. The gentleman is aware that the senti­ it is generally regarded as the "spiffier" kind of furniture. ment of the House will be overwhelmingly in favor of the These furniture woods are not raised in any section of the purchase of American products wherever possible. country to the exclusion of others. Birch is grown in Wis:.. Mr. BARBOUR. That is my understanding of the policy consin, Michigan, Maine, New York, Vermont, New Hamp­ of the War Department to-day. shire, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, North Caro­ Mr. KETCHAM. What can this House do not only to lina, and other States. make gentlemen appreciate that but to make the War De­ Gum is grown in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Ala­ partment appreciat-e it, so that it will not be necessary to bama, Texas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, North limit them as this amendment proposes to do? Carolina, Virginia, and other States. Mr. BARBOUR. In this long letter of the Secretary of Maple is grown in Michigan, Wisconsin, West Virginia, War the statement is made that that is just what they Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Ver­ do now. mont, Arkansas, and other States. Mr. GOSS. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield? Oak is grown in Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, West Vir­ Mr. BARBOUR. Yes. ginia, Mississippi, Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Missouri, Mr. GOSS. I understand that the War Department in Texas, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Indiana, Ohio, Geor­ submitting requests for bids has to allow the contract to go gia, and other States. to the lowest bidder, regardless of whether the material is Walnut is grown in Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Indiana, Mis­ manufactured in this country or abroad, and those two in­ souri, Illinois, Kentucky, and other States. stances to which I referred a moment ago happened to af­ . The adoption of this amendment will benefit our own fect my particular district, as doubtless as the butter and lumber industry and give it a large lumber order that oleomargarine did the district of the gentleman from Cali­ otherwise it would not receive. The greatest depression fornia the other day. I, for one, would like to join in seeing in this country is in the lumber industry, and this amend­ to it that we all get the benefit of this in forcing the War ment ought to be adopted to help it, and I hope the gen­ Department to buy their goods from United States manu­ tleman from California will accept it. facturers. Mr. GOSS. Will the gentleman be willing to include Mr. BARBOUR. Here is what the Secretary of War says metal uniform buttons and other things of that kind in his on that point: amendment instead of confining it simply to furniture? The Army is reqUired by law to purchase its supplies from the Mr. COLLINS. I shall later on introduce another amend­ lowest responsible bidder, and can give preference to articles of domestic origin only when price and quality are equal. Many o! ment covering the articles mentioned by the gentleman the items purchased by the Army are no doubt imported, and a and many others not mentioned by him. number of articles manufactured in the United States contain Mr. LAGUARDIA. Let me say that I have an amendment components of raw materials grown or produced in foreign coun­ that I will offer when you will have an opportunity to vote tries. on that proposition. I want to state to the gentleman that The Secretary of War says that that is the law, that they butter and most of the dairy products used by the Army in can give preference to articles of domestic origin only when Panama comes from Australia. I will offer an amendment price and quality are equal. and give the committee an·opportunity to vote on it. Mr. GOSS. I observed the other day when we passed the Mr. COLLINS, I shall follow this amendment with an­ amendment on this same bill about using butter on the table other one including the articles the gentleman has re­ in the Army, instead of oleomargarine, that that seemed to ferred to. create a precedent for the use of American-made· products•

• 1931 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE ·2105 Hence my request in this amendment. I do not see the dif­ Appropriations, and the committee struck it out. I refer to ference between excluding oleomargarine and including but­ the language now offered by the gentleman from New York ter and excluding the products of the gentleman from Mis­ [Mr. TABERJ. When that language was in the bill the Secre­ sissippi and others of us interested in the products of our tary of War was asked what the effect of it would be on the particular districts. activities of the War Department, and I have a letter in Mr. BARBOUR. Butter and oleomargarine are domesti- reply and think it would be probably as enlightening right cally produced articles. now as anything on the subject. Mr. GOSS. They might not be. Mr. SNELL. I think the gentleman should read it. Mr. BARBOUR. I think as a matter of fact they are. Mr. BARBOUR. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent Mr. COLLINS. Of course, the gentleman knows that the that the Clerk read this letter from the Secretary of Wa~ other amendment that I have in mind will include all arti­ on the language contained in the amendment offered by the cles. gentleman from New York [Mr. TABERJ. Mr. GOSS. I did not realize that. There was no objection. Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, I offer the following substi­ The Clerk read as follows: tute for the amendment offered by the gentleman from Mis­ w"AR DEPARTMENT, sissippi, which I send to the desk. Washington, December 31, 1930. The Clerk read as follows: Hon. H. E. BARBOUR, House of Representatives. Substitute by Mr. TABER: In lieu of the matter contained in the DEAR MR. BAROOUR: The following information is furnished in Coillns substitute insert the following: compliance with your letter of December 20, 1930: "None of the appropriations in this act shall be available for You asked to what extent the War Department buys articles the purchase for use within the continental limits of the United and supplies abroad for use within the continental limits of the States of any raw materials not produced within the continental United States. limits of the United States or any articles or supplies containing There is inclosed herewith a list of the items bought abroad by materials or manufactured of materials not produced within the the supply services of the Army during the past two years. It continental limits of the United States, except (1) articles pro­ will be noted that, with minor exceptions, all of the items pur­ duced or supplies purchased for experimental purposes; (2) crude chased abroad were obtained either for research and development rubber and components of ammunition or of mixed metals not work or because they were not obtainable in the United States. procurable within the United States; and (3} as may be author­ You asked further in what respect the Army would be adversely ized expressly by law." affected if the War Department were prevented by law from pur­ Mr. COLLINS. Mr. Chairman, I accept that amendment. chasing any raw materials or manufactured articles from foreign sources for use within the continental ltmits of the United States. Mr. STAFFORD. I reserve the point of order on the If the War Department were prevented from buying any articles amendment. or materials abroad 1n time of peace, research and development Mr. TABER. I ask the gentleman to make the point of work would be seriously handicapped. It is essential that our Army keep continuously abreast· of the development of military order. equipment in foreign countries in order that our equipment may Mr. STAFFORD. I make the point of order that it be designed to meet foreign equipment 1n battle, if necessary, and changes existing law. to insure that the United States Army is prepared to utilize new_ The CHAIRMAN: The form of the amendment is a nega­ developments in military weapons. There are numerous develop­ ments in military materiel in all parts of the world through the tive limitation, referring only to the appropriations in this use of which the design of our own materiel may be advanced. act. The purchase of developed designs abroad saves much costly re­ Mr. STAFFORD. If the present occupant of the chair search and development in thls country, and permits us to use wants tQ go to the extreme limit of negativing existing law foreign development as a starting point for our own advancement. In time of war it is necessary to purchase abroad certain strategic under the form of a limitation, then I have done my part. items not available 1n sufficient quantities 1n the United States. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman is aware that Congress A list of such materials is furnished herewith. can always negative existing law by refusing to appropriate The foregoing information pertains solely to supplies purchased abroad from foreign dealers. It does not apply to articles and to carry it out, and apparently that is all this limitation supplies purchased in the United States which have been im­ does. ported from abroad and sold by American dealers. The Army is Mr. STAFFORD. There are many decisions holding to required by law to purchase its supplies from the lowest respon­ sible bidder, and can give preference to articles of domestic the contrary, although the trend of decisions of the later origin only when price and quality are equal. Many items pur­ occupants of the chair is as the present occupant of the chased by the Army are no doubt imported and a number of items chair has stated. manufactured in the.- United States contain components or raw The CHAIRMAN. The Chair overrules the point of order. materials grown or pro9,uced in foreign countries. It would be impossible to ascertain the quantities of such items purchased as Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, in connection with that sub­ often the origin of the article is unknown. stitute, I believe that every reasonable objection of the Sec­ Should a law be passed which would prevent the purchase in retary of War is met with the exceptions which are provided the United States of articles grown or produced abroad, the cost of maintaining the Army would be considerably increased. Also in that limitation. many items and raw materials are not produced or grown 1n this Mr. SNELL. Will the gentleman yield for a question? country in sufficient quantities to satisfy domestic consumption. Mr. TABER. I yield. Were the War Department restricted 1n its source of supply in Mr. SNELL. Have you gone into this carefully to be abso­ these items it would be compelled to pay a premium to secure its lutely sure you would not get into trouble by putting such requirements. Due to difficulties which would be encountered 1n tracing the a limitation on an appropriation bill? I am in favor of origin of materials or components or ingredients of articles manu­ doing what you want to do, as far as it can be done con­ factured in the United States, a bill designed to prevent purchase sistently; but when you put a blanket limitation like that by the Army of articles of foreign origin would be very difficult of enforcement. Of course, you realize that any bill which limited it is a serious proposition and you should be absolutely the source of supply of the Army would necessarily have to be set sure you are not going to get into trouble before the year aside in time of war. is over. Sincerely yours, Mr. COLLINS. We have checked up on that carefully, PATRICK J. HURLEY, Secretary of War. and that· amendment will not do any injury whatever to the Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, I think it is apparent from War Department. the reading of that letter that the amendment does not go Mr. TABER. I can not see how it could do any possible to the point of preventing the War Department from doing damage. practically everything they say they want to do under the Mr. BLACK. What about purchasing the necessary drugs letter which they have sent in. He says they want to go for the Army? into experimental work and buy experimental orders of Mr. TABER. When they are not procurable in the United things that are produced abroad by other armies in other States they can be bought abroad. countries. There is absolutely nothing in this amendment Mr. BARBOUR. I have a letter from the Secretary of which prevents that. In fact, it is expressly excepted. Also War directed to the amendment which the gentleman from metals or components of ammunition that are not produced New York [Mr. TABER] has offered. That language was in in the United States, or crude :rubber, are excepted from the bill when it came before the entire Committee on the operations of the amendment. It does not seem to me - ·2106 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 13 that it goes so far as to embarrass the Army in its proper Mr. LAGUARDIA; Mr. Chairman, regardless of what the operations. It does protect the American producer. There attitude of the Appropriations Committee may be, let the has been a great deal of trouble about protecting the Ameri­ RECORD show what the real situation is. This matter bas can producer in the Army's purchases. come up before. I raised this question a few years ago in I believe the substitute should be adopted. regard to the food supplies for the Army stationed in the Mr. BARBOUR. Mr. Chairman, as I understand the read­ Canal Zone. I just want the farmers to know that while we ing of the amendment, it would have the effect that if the in the cities must pay high prices for food products by War Department undertook to buy anything manufactured reason of the tariff and other artificial stimulation of prices in this country it would have to first determine whether the American Army in the Canal Zone obtains all of its that article had some ingredient or some element that had butter, eggs, and meat from New Zealand and Australia. been imported from a foreign country. Think of the posi­ A few years ago I obtained the figures and put them in the tion in which that would place the War Department. The RECORD. I offered an amendment similar to the amendment amendment expressly prohibits the use of any of this money which is now before the committee, and the Governor of for any manufactured article in the manufacture of which Panama was called up and asked how much it would cost. is used some article imported from abroad. He figured the difference in the prices, and because it would I think the letter of the Secretary of War is absolutely cost a little more money the department did not go along. clear that an amendment of this kind would be cumber­ I submit to you dairy farmers, to the truck farmers, to my some and would hamper the activities of the Army. I do friend from Maine who is interested in potatoes, and those .not object to the purpose of this amendment. The purpose who are interested in supplies generally, that the American is to buy everything that possibly can be in this country Army and the War Department should at least set a good and buy things that are manufactured here. The War De­ example and use American products. [Applause.] partment should do that as far as it can within the law, I will say to my colleague from Hawaii that I was raised but this shows the danger of trying to provide for a matter on an Army post in Arizona, but I never saw a pineapple of this kind by a limitation on the appropriation. That is there-canned or otherwise. I suppose they are feeding a question that should be gone into as a matter of legisla­ the soldiers pineapples since they introduced the institution tion, and gone into fully, and it should first be determined of hostesses, about which the gentleman from Mississippi just what the effect of it will be. [Mr. CoLLINs] is such an authority. [Laughter.] But pine­ Mr. HOUSTON of Hawaii. Mr. Chairman, I offer an apples are good, wholesome food, and I am glad to know they· amendment to the substitute by striking out, wherever it are being fed to the soldiers. I am not disparaging Hawaiian occurs, the word "continental." pineapples. I know they are fine. The CHAIRMAN. The Delegate from Hawaii offers an Mr. HOUSTON of Hawaii. Will the gentleman yield? amendment to the amendment, which the Clerk will report. Mr. LAGUARDIA. Yes. The Clerk read as follows: • Mr. HOUSTON of Hawaii. For the Army in Hawaii they Amendment offered by the Delegate from Hawaii [Mr. HousToN]: buy New Zealand butter and New Zealand mutton, as well Strike out in line 2, in line 4, and in line 6 of the substitute the as many other articles which can be produced in America. word "continental." [Applause.] Mr. STAFFORD. Will the gentleman yield? Mr. LAGUARDIA. Now, gentlemen, who is the chairman Mr. HOUSTON of Hawaii. I yield. of this subcommittee? A distinguished gentleman from Mr. STAFFORD. The purport of the gentleman's amend­ California. When we had the tariff bill before us he wanted ment would allow articles from the Philippines, like palm oil, every little hazelnut sold in this country branded "Made in to be used? California"; be wanted every fig branded "Made in Cali­ Mr. HOUSTON of Hawaii. No, sir. fornia "; and he wanted every date branded " Made in Cali­ Mr. STAFFORD. Why not? fornia"; yet here we find the gentleman from California Mr. HOUSTON of Hawaii. That is not a part of the ready to feed the American Army on articles produced in United States in accordance with various and sundry laws Australia and New Zealand. that have been passed. It would only provide for the Mr. BARBOUR. I want to say to the gentleman that I United States proper and the incorporated Territories­ voted for every tariff rate that was proposed in that bill. Alaska and Hawaii. Can the gentleman from New York, who is now so interested Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. Will the gentleman yield? in American products, show such a good record? Mr. HOUSTON of Hawaii. I yield. Mr. LAGUARDIA. I am consistent. Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. Does the gentleman mean Mr. BARBOUR. The gentleman should not be uncertain that the department could not buy Cuban sugar? about my attitude on the tariff or American products, be­ Mr. HOUSTON of Hawaii. I do not know as to that. I cause I went the limit in that bill. do not know whether that would come within the provision Mr. LAGUARDIA. I know the gentleman went the limit of what is available. . to protect American producers, and he should now be ready Mr. STAFFORD. They would be compelled to buy beet to go the limit again for the producers who supply these sugar or Hawaiian sugar. ·Of course, I do not think anyone fine and luscious California products to the American Army. contends that the Hawaiian sugar planters are in distress at Mr. BARBOUR. If the gentleman will permit, I am ad­ the present time, when their pockets are ovet1lowing with vised that more than a year ago Secretary of War -Good ~~ . issued a regulation putting into effect practically what the Mr. O'CONNOR of New York. Sugar and rubber would gentleman is now contending for and that they encountered be some of the important things. " certain difficulties that made it necessary to rescind the Mr. HOUSTON of Hawaii. I do not yield any further at order. this time, Mr. Chairman. Mr. LAGUARDIA. It was the cost. we produce, under the system of this Government, both Mr. BARBOUR. What I am getting at is this: I favor sugar and pineapples, both of which are used in the Army as strongly as anyone the use of American products by the ration. Pineapples, of course, are not grown within the Army, but this is not the way to legislate in regard to a continental areas of the United States at the present time thing of that kind. in quantities and canned. They are grown, of course, in Mr. LAGUARDIA. This amendn}ent is the proper way to Florida. I admit that. We want ourselves to have exactly reach it. the same restrictions in Hawaii with respect to this particu­ Mr. BARBOUR. I am attempting to suggest that we lar suggested amendment as you are placing upon your­ should study this proposition and see what effect it will have, selves in continental United States. It would be a calamity and if we can buy these products in the United States with­ as far as the United States is concerned if 900,000 tons of out interfering or conflicting with the activities of the Army sugar which is shipped to San Francisco for refining could I am just as much in favor of doing so as is the gentleman not be used under the terms of this substitute. from New York.

I . 1931 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2107 1\fr. LAGUARDIA. I spoke about this proposition a few The CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the years ago, I believe, in general debate. The Governor of the amendment to the substitute offered by the Delegate from Panama Canal was called up about it, and the Teason the Hawaii. • proposition was defeated-and it is no secret now-was be­ The amendment to the substitute was agreed to. cause of the additional cost it would .entail on the A.nny. The substitute as amended was agreed to. However, I say that when we are spending $334,000,000 for The CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the military activities and when we have constant and repeated amendment as amended by the substitute. complaints that we have a food surplus, we should use up The question was taken; and on a division problem, will not invest there. Under such conditions satisfactory economic progress is impossible. Total------~------4,767 The reasons are manifest. The..Filipino is neither a citi­ Philippine Scouts: zen of the United States nor is he a citizen of a free country. Officers------91 A Malayan by race, an oriental geographically and by tradi­ Eaillsted men------6,500 tion, a foreigner under certain of our statutory provisions, Total------6,591 the Filipino has had 30 years of existence as a pseudo Amer­ The total estimated cost of maintaining that garrison (except ican. Living 7,000 miles from our western coast, on 7,000 as stated below) was $11,169,738. This amount does not include islands in the Far East Pacific, these 13,000,000 people, the cost of the Army Transport Service now inadequate and which thrown by a great war into the protective arms of a western would have to be maintained even were United States control over nation, find themselves, after a generation, to be in law and the Philippine Islands discontinued for transporting men ~nd sup­ plies pertaining to the Hawaiian and Panama Canal Department in fact neither Americans nor foreigners. activities due to increased requirements by the reason of the fact This uncertainty can be removed only if and when Con­ that the tour of service for officers in these departments haS gress shall adopt one of the following courses: recently been reduced from a three-year to a two-year period. Based upon the premise that the American troops (Regular First. Granting immediate independence. Army), consisting of 567 officers and warrant officers and 4,.190 Second. Setting a date in the distant future when inde­ enlisted men, would be retained in the Army for distribution and pendence shall be granted. service in the Hawaiian and Panama Departments and the United States, where their services are much needed to fill existing Third. Creating what might be termed a colonial form of vacancies and to complete the fifth increment of the Air Corps government for the future retention of the Philippines. 5-year program, leaves the question which you have presented Fourth. Incorporating the Philippines as one or more to the consideration of the cost of maintaining the Philippine Scout garrison in the Philippine Islands. States of the American Union. The cost of paying and maintaining a United States soldier is One of these solutions should be adopted by Congress. practically twice as much as it costs to maintain a Phil1ppine The Filipino representatives ask for immediate independ­ Scout soldier. Computation therefore shows that of the $11,- 169,738 used to maintain that garrison in 1930, $7,091,597 is ence, although they realize the difficulties of reconstruction directly attributable to the United States soldiers, this leaves and readjustment.- They would rather suffer the hardships $4,078,141 reflecting an approximate estimate of how much less of an immediate dissolution of ties which bind them to the it would be necessary to appropriate annually for mil1tary pur­ United States than continue in the disastrous uncertainty. poses in the event the Philippine Islands should pass from under the control of the United States. This amount, however, excludes They prefer any hardship to the possibility of their rem~in­ from consideration what the expense might be to the United ing forever a subject people. States in discharging the Philippine Scouts and closing out moral As to the second proposal, the mere setting of a date for obligations that certainly exist to a faithful native force consisting of approximately 91 officers and 6,500 enlisted men whose average future independence of the islands gives the Philippine peo... service to the Government would now doubtless approximate 20 ple no opportunity to express their views. Furthermore, it years each. is manifest· from the hearings that the fixing of a deferred The exact total of the expenses that the Government pays in date for Philippine independence regarded as plan to transporting officers and men of the Army from stations in the -is a United States to the Philippine Islands and return to stations in make impossible the ultimate granting of such independence. the United States is not readily available, but it can be stated The Secretary of State, in proposing a long period of time that no really substantial saving could be made in Army trans­ for Philippine independence, very frankly stated he cher­ portation costs due to reasons .stated in paragraph 4 above. The preparation of this paper has necessarily been hastened in ished the hope that at the end of that period both the Philip­ order that it may serve your purpose and should be regarded pines and the United states would decide to continue their merely as an estimate under p1·em1ses stated, but it is hoped that relationship. 2110 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 13 - If the date of independence were set for some time in the United States received 32 per cent of Philippine exports. remote future the economic ties and commercial considera­ But in 1909, when free-trade relationship was established, tions that meanwhile will have grown up will militate against the United States received more than 42 per cent of Philip­ any possible future re.linquishing of American sovereignty. pine exports. In 1927 more than 74 per cent of Philippine I shall not discuss at length in this report the proposal to exports came into the United States. The growing trade form a colonial government for the Philippines, as I con­ relationship is manifest in these :figures. It is equally mani­ sider this repugnant to the pledges we have through our fest in the fact that 62 per cent of all foreign products con­ Executives and ·in statutory law dealing with the Philippines. sumed in the Philippines are 'received from the United . It is insinuated that the Philippine people do not actually States. The tariff wall surrounding the Philippines protects desire independence and that their leaders do not really American products and manufactures against all compe .. favor it, and yet, in reply to this propaganda, there comes titian. from the entire press of the Philippines, from all classes of The total trade of the islands in 1928 was approximately its population, from its school children and its public offi­ $290,000,000. The imports to the islands were approximately cials, from the representatives of its political parties, ma­ $134,000,000; the exports $155,000,000. jority and minority, a demand for independence. In 1928 the island imports from the United States were Not a single witness can name 10 Filipinos who do not $84,000,000, and exports to the United States $115,000,000. favor independence. The business organizations of the Thus about 69 per cent of the foreign trade of the islands islands, their national conferences, their educators, their was with the United States. government officials, their economists have all declared for It is evident that if this trade relationship is permitted to independence. The Philippine press, the Philippine public, continue, increasing the number and strength of commercial the Philippine pulpit, the Philippine school, and Philippine ties between the two nations, the time will rapidly come industries seem, so far as we can ascertain, to be unanimous when a change in the status of the Philippines, however de­ Ln the demand that the United States redeem its pledges to sirable it may be from a national, military, or humanitarian grant to these people the sovereignty to which they aspire. standpoint, will mean economic ruin to the Philippines Only a few months ago the first Philippine independence themselves and an unquestionable detriment to Americans. congress was held in Manila. More than 3,000 delegates It is my belief that instead of resolving the Philippine from all over the islands, representing the wl).ole people, question on the basis of commerce. the conclusion to be including the Mohammedan Filipinos, met to deliberate on drawn is that the whole problem must be settled as quickly the question of independence. They discussed the different as its importance permits, and this growing relationship be­ phases of the Philippine problem with particular reference tween Americans and Filipinos be given a permanent founda .. to the economic consequences and political responsibilities tion. which independence entails. With full knowledge of such As far as the Philippines are concerned, it is with reason con!::equences and responsibilities the congress approved reso­ they maintain that the disruption of present relationships lutions strongly urging independence at an early date. now will subject them to -hardships which they can more This unanimity of opinion in the Philippines contrasts readily endure at present than at some future date when strikingly with the· differences among colonial Americans. their economic dependency will be greater. We were not without many prominent tories during the I desire to call attention to the fact that there is an organ­ struggles of our patriots for independence. ized medium of opposition to Philippine independence in the In the Philippines, however, from the venerable Aguinaldo United States, namely, the Philippine-American Chamber of down to the child in the primary-school room, we have not Commerce of New York. It is composed of American busi­ been able to find a Filipino, living in·his own country, who ness men having trade relations with the Philippine Islands. is not in favor of Philippine independence. The membership list discloses that of its 80 members all but In the face of this attitude on the part of 13,000,000 Fili­ 22 are residents of New York and only 2 reside in Manila. pinos, it would seem that they are entitled to a statement A fund was raised by this organization to oppose Philippine from the Congress of the United States as to what their independence. They circularized the press of the United future status shall be. . States and business organizations and Members of Congress. I recognize the commercial phases of our contact with They reached almost the entire press of America by letters the Philippines and that consideration which is due those and pamphlets prior to the hearings before your committee, interests in relation to the whole subject. I have arrived when these various bills came under discussion. It is per­ at my conclusions on the basis of a broader view than merely fectly natural that this propaganda on the part of those with trade relationship. It is idle to assume that the interests commercial interests has had its effect upon the recipients of manufacturers and others have no bearing upon this issue. of this literature. It would be equally absurd to argue that the Philippine ques­ The attitude of this organized hostility is unfortunate in tion should be determined solely from the viewpoint of con­ that it may be misunderstood and may tend to encourage sideration for the Philippines. reprisals harinful to American trade. We have in our We must not forget American interests and American colonial history signal incidents that revealed the resent­ welfare. But having obtained all the facts in relation to ment of our own people under similar circumstances. The our trade with the Philippines, I find rather a powerful Filipinos will naturally not be friendly to the " yard of cloth " argument for some immediate disposition of the Philippine argument against their national aspirations. question than a reason to decide the matter of Philippine In America there is one element of our national life which independence from the standpoint of either exporter or is now receiving attention from Congress and which has importer. appealed to Congress to change conditions with respect to I have the data with respect to the importations of raw the Philippines. The American farmer has an interest in · materials and manufactured products from the Philippines the disposition of this important question. into the United States, and I have investigated the exports Representatives of the American Farm Bureau Federa­ of America to the Philippine Islands, but I shall not discuss tion, the National Grange, and other farm organizations individually these items of trade relationship. have expressed their concern in this particular problem, and It is pertinent, however, to state that the growing free though they do not demand any unduly rigorous action on exchange of products between the islands and the United the part of Congress against the Filipino people, whom our States, if permitted to go on at the present rate of increase, Government committed itself to serve, they asked that con­ will tend to develop a commercial relationship strong enough sideration be given to their interests. They say that in the later to submerge every other consideration in the problem 1,000-mile stretch of islands in the Philippines there was an of Philippine independence. area equal to the comb~ned. area of the States of New York, When we took over the Philippines in 1898 the islands sent Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Vermont. most of their exports-more than one-half-to Europe. In_ They claim that in this 114,000 square miles of territory 1900 more than G5 per cent of the total exports of the Philip­ there are vast agricultural areas, capable of great· develop­ pines went to European countries. From 1900 to 1908 the ment and production, and that 80 per cent of the imports of 1931 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-- HOUSE 2111 products from th~ Philippine Islands into the United States The United States will occupy and hold the city, bay, and harbor of Manila pending the conclusion of a treaty of peace which shall to-day consista of farm products, while only 20 per cent of determine the control, disposition, and government of the the exports of the United States to the Philippines is farm Phllippines. products. Since perhaps not more than one-seventh of ~he area of the .Philippines is developed to-day, these figures give The treaty by which Spain ceded to the United States " the some idea of the extent to which the farmer in America has archipelago known as the Philippine Islands," was signed at an interest in the competition from Philippine products. Paris on December 10, 1898. The beginning of civil govern­ ment in the Philippine Islands under American sovereignty, It may be well to mention at this point that while the agricultural imports from the Philippines are increasing, the as distinguished from purely military administration, dated United States is at the same time developing irrigation from the appointment by President McKinley in March, 1900, of what is known as the Taft Philippine Commission. systems with the object of converting to agricultural pur­ We separated the executive, judicial, and legislative poses vast areas of lands in our own western country. All branches. The commission took over the legislative pow~s. of this new acreage in America is being brought into com­ The judicial powers were to be exercised by the courts estab­ petition with the farmers who are here to-day. In his lished through legislative action of the commission, and the present financial condition the American farmer's interest authority to. exercise the executive powers was continued in in Philippine exportations of agricultural products is not to the commander of the military forces of the United States. be forgotten or ignored, especially when he is being urged On June 21, 1901, the President issued an order transferring to reduce his acreage and production. from the military governor to the president of the com:nis­ I cite another element in our domestic life, the American sion the authority to exercise the executive powers. On Federation of Labor, representing the millions of working July 4, 1901, the late Chief Justice Taft was made civil men and women of the United States. These representa­ governor of the Philippine Islands. tives of labor cite the matter of Philippine immigration, Under the act of July 1, 1902, the existing government was pointing out that our exclusion laws against certain oriental continued and the act placed the seal of legislative approval nations do not apply to the Philippines, that workers from upon the governmental organization. The Philippine Com­ these islands come into America directly or by way of the mission was the sole legislative body for the islands. Sec­ Hawaiian Islands and elsewhere, and that already there tion 7 of this act authorized and directed the taking of a have been disturbances in the United States due to the census and provided that two years after this census a gen­ growing number of Philippine laborers whose hire can be eral election should be held for the choice of delegates to a obtained at prices far belo-:v" the standard wages of American popular assembly for the islarlds. The census was taken in workmen and women. 1903 and the Philippine Assembly established in 1907. The average daily wage scale in the islands is from 50 to In 1916 Congress passed what is known as the Jones law, 75 cents a day for field laborers, and for industrial labor an the present organic act of the Philippine Islands. By this average of $1 a day. act Congress has given to the Philippines practically all the While wages and the standard of living in the islands is power that can be granted to them short of complete sov­ from 200 to 300 per cent higher than that obtaining in ereignty. In accordance with this act, the President of the other oriental countries, it is far below the American stand­ United States appoints the Governor General, the vice gov­ ard which, under the present arrangement, must confront ernor, who is also the secretary of public instruction, the Philippine competition. chief justice, and the eight assflciate justices of the supreme The interests of union labor, which for 32 years has been court, the auditor, and the deputy auditor. advocating Philippine independence, can not be overlooked Congress and the G::>Vernor General may review and in disposing of the Philippine question. nullify the acts of the Philippine legislative bodies. Congress has demonstrated that it will not subject the The Philippines have been transformed from an impotent 13,000,000 Filipinos to the rigors of our exclusion act, to our colonial possession, with doubtful efficiency of government, trade barriers, or to other handicaps placed upon the for­ to a people largely handling their own affairs, under the eigner while these people are held within the jurisdiction supervision of a few American officials. and under the protection of American sovereignty. No for­ Are the Filipinos ready for self-government; can they eign nation excludes its colonials from its own domain, nor maintain a stable self -government? can America initiate such a policy with propriety. In the Jones Act previously referred to will be found the Again, therefore, considering those questions of economics following preamble, which is a part of our statutory law, and not related to the Filipinos themselves, but wholly American which has laid down the policy we have pursued in our rela­ questions, it is not necessary to decide the Philippine status tions to the islands since 1916, as follows: in favor of one or the other, but it is desirable to solve the Whereas for the speedy accomplishment of such purpose it is Philippine problem for the future in the interest of all these desirable to place in the hands of the people of the Philippines elements of our American life. as large a control of their domestic affairs as can be given them without, in the meantime, impairing the exercise of the rights While the interests of the American farmer, of the worker, of sovereignty by the people of the United States, in order that and of the manufacturer should be protected, this protec­ by the use and exercise of popular franchise and governmental tion should come from a constructive settlement of the whole powers they may be better prepared to fully assume the responsi­ problem from which the complaints arise and not through bllities and enjoy all the privileges of complete independence. piecemeal legislation. Such legislation can only result in It is pertinent to inquire whether, under the Jones Act, ill feeling and leave the main cause of the trouble untouched. the Philippine people are exercising all of the functions of We can not, however, blind ourselves to the fact that there government with the exception of sovereignty. is a definite, well-organized movement in America to bring In this connection the following must be considered: action along the lines of the respective interests affected The Philippine people elect the Philippine Senate of 22, by the present anomalous conditions. So it would seem to 2 members being appointed to 1 represent the non-Chris­ be our duty to take action now on the broader problem, lest tian. They also elect 86 members of the house, 9 being ap­ at some future date, in emergency or excitement, we might pointed to represent the non-Christian Provinces. This find ourselves applying to these people exclusion laws, tariff bicameral body enacts the domestic laws for the Philippine barriers, or coastwise-shipping restrictions which in common people. justice we should not apply against them while they remain There are oruy three high executive officials in the Philip­ under our flag. pine Islands who are not Filipinos. One of these is the In 1898 when, as a result of the Spanish-American War, Governor General, appointed by the President; another is we took over the Philippine Islands, we found an unstable the vice governor, who is secretary of public instruction; government set up under Spanish domination existing under and the third is the auditor. The deputy auditor is a Fili­ so-called colonial jurisdiction. pino. Of the high judicial officials Saxon concept of individual desire to take them, there is still a possibility that they may rights. Even before the operation of American infiuence on involve us in disputes with a foreign power. the islands there was set up by the people in their own con­ In their present state of preparedness the Philippine Is­ stitution for the Philippine republic a guaranty of individual lands would be useless as a post of defense. The army rights. Thirty years of the application of the American personnel in the islands at present is limited to some 4,000 Bill of Rights can not but have had a salutary influence in Regular Army men and to some 6,400 Philippine Scouts. furthering these concepts. There is also limited equipment. The judiciary is well organized and efficient and there is These islands, once they were captured, it is generally "a wide-awake public opinion and an ever-vigilant bar agreed, could hardly be retaken by us for at least two years. LXXIV--134 2114 ·coNGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 13 and then only at the eost of an immense amount of money their own foreign trade. It muSt be recalled that while their in war expenditur<:s and after the loss of hundreds of thou­ trade with the Uaited States increases, their markets in the eands of lives of American ·sailors and soldiers. These Orient a.re narrowed. ,islands lie within 30 hours' sailing from the Asiatic co~t; ~ The treaties and laws incident to our occupation of the they are practically part of Asia, as much so, m -fact, as Philippines did not provide for the ultimate freedom of the Cuba is a part of the American Continent,- and they are 21 Philippines. But to-day it would seem hardly necessary, days' sailing, by the fastest ships,- removed from the Pacific after all the discussion that has been had on this subject, to coast of the United states. offer proof that we have promised to these people their The 3-party treaty with Japan was a far-reaching de­ ultimate sovereignty. cistnn and leaves the Philippine Islands, so far as the Army The preamble of the Jones Act passed by Congress is a and Navy of the United States are concerned, in an unpro­ specific pledge that we are preparing the Philippines for tected condition which can not be changed while this treaty independence. Following is the language of the preamble to remains in effect. that act: The only possible expansion of military preparedness in Whereas it was never the intention of the people of the United States in the incipiency of the war with Spain to make it a war of the islands would be that effectuated in the mobile military conquest or for territorial aggrandizement; and forces of the islands. But to extend the mobile military Whereas it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the United force to the point of adequate defense would require from States to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands sixty to eighty thousand trained men, or a ·body nearly and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable govern­ as large as the standing Army of the United States. ment can be established therein. One theory advanced is that to grant Philippine inde­ But in addition to this act, Presidents Taft, Roosevelt, and pendence might disturb the peace of the Orient by inspiring Wilson have at various times made statements indicative in other peoples there a desire to free themselves from of a similar policy. President Harding commended " the :European control. It is asserted that the granting of Philippine aspirl}tions to independence and to complete self­ independence to the Philippines will stimulate a desire for sovereignty." President Roosevelt declared in a message to independence on the part of these other dependencies. To Congress in 1908: give weight to such a theory would be to recognize an I trust that within a generation the time will arrive when the unsound philosophy or policy repugnant to the very best Filipinos can decide for themselves Whether it is well for them traditions of our Nation. We are proud that our experiment to become independent. in self -government has been imitated by all the nations in The "generation" suggested by President Roosevelt will South America and by many of the nations of Europe. The have passed when independence, under this bill, will have finest pages of our history are those recording the conflicts been granted. The new 30-year advocates now seek post­ that have followed our own departure from colonial depend­ ponement for another generation. ency. When the late Chief Justice Taft was Secretary of War in We entered the Orient as the protectors of a downtrodden 1904, he said: people and later assumed to guide them to the level of When they (the Philippine people) have learned the principle occidental civilization. That occidental civilization finds of successful popular self-government from a gradually enlarged its highest expression in national independence. experience therein, we can discuss the question whether inde­ At this date of our supremacy over the Philippines, 30 pendence is what they desire, and grant it • • •. years after our occupation of the islands, to assert that our In the instructions of President McKinley to the first granting their freedom would be unwise because of the Philippine commission, he expressed the hope that the stimulus it would give to other nations cherishing like hopes, Philippine people would receive its members as bearers of is to validate a theory which will have but little weight with "the richest blessings of a liberating rather than a con­ real Americans. quering nation." We can hardly justify a course which began with the Again President McKinley said: object of establishing a democracy in the Orient and which The Philippines are ours not to exploit but to develop, to· civilize, is to end in colonial control. to educate, to train in the science of self-government. As will be verified by current events, there are eastern In 1913, President Wilson, in a message to the Philippine colonies now endeavoring to assert their aspiration for na­ people, said: tional identity and moving toward independence, wholly Every step we take will be taken with a view to the ultimate without regard to our attitude in the matter of the Philip­ independence of the islands and as a preparation for that inde­ pine Islands. Our presence in the Orient in these instances pendence. has not deterred desires for natiomtl self-expression. And in a message to Congress in the same year be de- Furthermore, our treatment and disposition of the Philip­ clared: · pine Islands will largely be the measure by which the Orient We must hold steadily in view their ultimate independence and will weigh our international honesty. We are told that our we must move toward the time of independence as steadily as the retention of the Philippine Islands has a beneficial effect on way can be clear and the foundations thoughtfully and perma­ our intercourse and trade with the Orient. But there is no nently laid. evidence to conclude that a continuation of our sovereignty If there be any doubt left that the ultimate purpose of the over the Philippines will be conducive to oriental friendship. United States in its legislation with respect to the islands If the Philippine people, actuated by the statements of our bas been to prepare them for independence, it should be executives and by the promises and pledges made in our removed by the fact that in the 30 years in which we have statutory law, demand, as they do, their independence, and held the Philippines we have not attempted to incorporate we deny them that independence, it is not likely that our them. attitude will present a favorable aspect in the Orient. By the operation of our own laws we have set up what As time goes on and we retain the Philippine Islands_in· must be a temporary government in that we have continued complete sovereignty, it is scarcely probable that the orien­ the administration of certain of the affairs of the Philip­ tal conception will credit us with those altruistic principles pines in the War Department. We have left the general in which we take great national pride. The result may re­ supervision of the Philippine government to the War De­ -verse what the advocates of retention now call our strategic partment. We have pl'ovided that the Governor General position for trade in the Orient. report annually to some official designated by the President The holding of the Philippines for mere trade advantage of the United States, and that official is not the Secretary in the Orient seems one-sided in its application, for the rea­ of the Interior, the Secretary of the Treasury, or the Secre­ son that while the Philippines offer to the United States a tary of State, but the Secretary of War. The plain impli­ development of foreign trade, the status in which the Philip­ cation is that our tenure of the Philippines is tempo1·ary in pines find themselves is not conducive to the development of character. 1931 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2115 There are some who attempt to ignore the formal com­ ceived first by Americans, but was long since carefully exam­ mitment and promise of independence to the Filipino people ined and recognized by the Filipinos themselves. in the Jones Act. They attempt to persuade the Congress It is urged that the Philippines would also find difficulty not only that this declaration is of no binding force, legal in their future financial operations. The Philippine repre­ or moral, but go so far as to assert that no promise of inde­ sentatives are thoroughly conversant with the conditions pendence or commitment to that policy has every been which will probably have to be met in the financing of authoritatively declared. future island developments. But the Filipinos feel that in The mere fact that such declaration of policy was made in all such financing, if the relationship of the islands with the preamble of the act and not in the body of the act itself the United States is friendly, the handicaps of such financ­ does not in any way lessen its validity. Whether a part ing will be largely diminished. And they point to smaller of the law or not, the declaration constitutes a definition of republics in financing through friendly relations with Amer­ national policy formally made ·by the only authority pos­ ica as indicative of the soundness of their views on this sessed of the power to make such declaration. The debate subject. which took place in both Houses of Congress on the Jones As to the future stability of the bonds now outstanding Act reveals the importance which was accorded by the against the Philippine Islands, there are many ways in Congress to this enunciation of national purpose. It was which payment could be guaranteed to the bondholders. It considered by all those who participated in its enactment is hardly necessary to discuss such problems of finance as as the most important part of the act. The wording of the may be met through refunding or outright assumption which title of the act indicates that such declaration was its most may be agreed upon. important aim. The contention that this declaration of Another handicap to Philippine stability is presented in policy is of no binding force because any subsequent Con"' the fear that there may be in the Orient certain overcrowded gress can repeal or alter it is hardly persuasive. While that nations who would populate the sparsely settled rich ter­ declaration remains unaltered and unchanged every reason ritory of the Philippines with an influx of alien population. of national honor compels its fulfillment. The Philippines can have their own immigration laws to We will not in this report discuss the constitutionality of protect them from such invasion. The passage of such laws an act of Congress withdrawing sovereignty over the Philip­ and their enforcement, it would seem, would take care of pine Islands. This point is greatly overemphasized by cer­ the situation. tain interests and the attack on the right of Congress to From the foregoing, the following conclusions may be alienate the Philippines comes exclusively from those op­ drawn: posed to independence. First. That it is the policy of the American Government In the records of the Congress there are able, carefully to free rather than retain the Philippines. prepared, and comprehensive briefs sustaining the constitu­ Second. That the Philippine people are justified in their tionality of such an act of Congress. plea for independence at this time. The Attorney General of the United States in 1924 stated Third. That the Philippine people have made remarkable that Congress had the power to grant complete independ­ strides in the path of self-government. ence to the Philippines, and Justice Malcolm, of the Supreme Fourth. That at the present time, the Philippine people Court of the Philippines, is of the same opinion. are conducting, except in a few ·instances, the affairs of It is urged that while the governmental machinery of the government. . Philippines is practically all in the hands of Filipinos, a great Fifth. That the Philippine people are keenly alive to the influence is exerted by the American Government through untoward eventualities of independence. the power of veto in the Governor General and in Congress, Sixth. That the Philippine people, realizing serious hard­ and through the supervision by American officials who are ships may result from independence and from the loosening holding certain important positions. of the ties that now bind them to American sovereignty, The loss of this guiding influence would undoubtedly be of prefer to risk these hardships at the present time, when consequence to the Philippine people. There is little doubt they are confident of their ability to endure them, than at a that the reins of government could not be shifted to Philip­ remote date when the hazards of separation from the Ameri­ pine officials without some disturbing effects. There would can Government would be so great as either to threaten be, in the event of our withdrawal, certain increases in the disaster or to preclude their independence. cost of government to the Philippine Islands. There would Seventh. That, so far as the interests of Americans are be, for instance, the cost of consular service and maintenance con0€rned in Philippine trade, it will be more simple to of diplomatic machinery. There would be the cost of coast grant independence at an early date than when their inter­ and geodetic survey and perhaps an increase in the cost of ests have a deeper and more far-reaching contact with the maintaining insular police. The application of our trade Philippines. barriers would result in some diminution of income to the Eighth. That at the present time the conditions existing Philippines, but such diminution would largely depend upon in the Philippines and the uncertainty of the future status the methods pursued by the Filipino government in the devel­ of these islands is operating to dwarf their initiative, handi­ opment of markets elsewhere than in the United States. cap their agricultural and industrial development, hamper Those who are in control of Philippine affairs in the their efforts to obtain investments of foreign capital, and islands to-day, however, are keenly alive to all these possi­ militate against their enjoying the full possibilities of their bilities as are Americans. economic development. The Philippine leaders have weighed in dollars and cents Ninth. That there are important elements, both Ameri­ the costs of independence. The significant and logical argu­ can and Philippine, whose interests demand some action on ment with which they reply, however, is that the future will the part of Congress in the settlement of this national not relieve them of this responsibility of reconstruction but uncertainty. will, on the contrary, aggravate the difficulties of · recon­ Tenth. That the action of the American Government in struction. relation to the Philippines will determine America's prestige The next 15, 20, or 30 years will bring about conditions in in the Orient. the Philippines under which the separation of the islands Eleventh. That the Philippine Islands, of doubtful ad­ from the United States would be attended by even more vantage at the present, from a purely trade standpoint, have serious consequences to the Philippine people and to the little or no utility in times of war, and might even become a United State~ than could possibly result from independence burden and a threat to us in the event of our embroilment at this time. with certain powers. This is not an American thought on the subject of separa­ Twelfth. That proposals to postpone the date for the tion. It is the frankly admitted statement of the Filipinos. granting of Philippine independence for any great number The difficulty of reconstruction for the Filipinos was not con- of years will result in the expansion of certain economic ties 2116 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-~OUSE JANUARY 13 which may ultimately make impossible the granting of inde­ experimental work, and procuring and introducing water, electric light, and power, gas, and sewerage, including maintenance, opera­ pendence. tion, and repair of such utilities at such plants; for the procure­ Thirteenth. That no selfish motives of commercial advan­ ment of helium gas; salaries and wages of civilian employees as tage or expansion should interfere with the redemption of may be necessary, and payment of their traveling and other neces­ our pledges to these people. sary expenses as authorized by existing laws; transportation of materials in connection with consolidation of Air Corps activities; Fourteenth. That the Philippine people are unanimous in experimental investigation and purchase and develPpment of new their demand for early and complete independence. types of aircraft, accessories thereto, and aviation engines, 1nclud-· The United States owes a solemn duty to the Philippine 1ng plans, drawings, and specifications thereof, and the purchase of letters patent, application for letters patent, licenses under let­ people-the duty of an honest declaration of our future in­ ters patent, and applications for letters patent; for the purchase, tent. If we have decided to retain these islands under some manufacture, and construction of airships, balloons, and other form of colonial government, we should be frank enough to aerial machines, including instruments, gas plants, and appliances proclaim it. We should not further encourage national aspi­ of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construc­ tion, or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare rations to ultimate independence on the part of the Philip­ parts and equipment connected therewith; for the marking of pine people if we are ourselves opposed to their independ­ military airways where the purchase of land is not involved; for ence. the purchase, manufacture, and issue of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; for all nec­ If the delay of independence for 30 years is for the pur­ essary expenses connected with the sale or disposal of surplus or pose of defeating independence, we should say so frankly. obsolete aeronautical equipment, and the rental of buildings, and Mr. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the other facilities for the handling or storage of such equipment; last word for the purpose of asking a question of the chair­ for the services of not more than four consulting engineers at experimental stations of the Air Corps as the Secretary of War man of the committee. Does the gentleman know whether may deem necessary, at rates of pay to be fixed by him not to or not there have been any appreciable increases in the exceed $50 a day for not exceeding 50 days each and necessary appropriations for seacoast defenseS since the Washington traveling expenses; purchase of special apparatus and appliances, repairs and replacements of same used in connection with special Disarmament Conference of 1922? scientific medical research in the Air Corps; for maintenance and Mr. BARBOUR. No. I would say, if anything, they have operation of such Air Corps printing plants outside of the District been gradually decreasing. They are carried along from of Columbia as may be authorized in accordance with law; for year to year with very little change. Mostly the appropria­ publications, station libraries, special furniture, supplies and equipment for offices, shops, and laboratories; for special services, tions have been for upkeep. They have added some things including the salvaging of wrecked aircraft, $31,679,635: Provided, in the way of searchlights and antiaircraft guns of the more That not to exceed $3,806,211 from this appropriation may be modem type. expended for pay and expenses of civilian employees other than those employed in experimental and research work; not exceeding Mr. BLACK. And long-range guns? $2,510,377 may be expended for experimental and research work Mr. BARBOUR. They are installing some long-range with airplanes or lighter-than-air craft and their equipment, in­ guns. There are two 16-inch guns that are about ready to cluding the pay of necessary civilian employees; not exceeding be inStalled in Hawaii and will be installed there, and there $300,000 may be expended for the production of lighter-than-air equipment; not less than $15,296,231 shall be expended for the are four 16-inch guns that have been installed at Panama. production or purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, Mr. BLACK. How about antiaircraft guns at New York? spare parts, and accessories; and not more than $6,000 may be Mr. BARBOUR. We are purchasing new antiaircraft expended for settlement of claims (not exceeding $250 each) for damages to persons and private property resulting from the opera­ guns, but whether they are allocated to New York the com­ tion of aircraft at home and abroad when each claim is substan­ mittee could not say. That is a matter for the War Depart­ tiated by a survey report of a board of officers appointed by the ment to 'determitle. commanding officer of the nearest aviation post and approved by Mr. BLACK. And searchlights? the Chief of Air Corps and the Secretary of War: Provided further, That the sum of $240,800 of the appropriation for Air Corps, Army, Mr: BARBOUR. We are purchasing searchlights, and fiscal year 1929, shall remain available until June 30, 1932, for the adding to the supply. payment of obligations incurred under contracts executed prior to Mr. BLACK. Are the men in charge of the seacoast de­ July 1, 1929: Provided further, That none of the money appro- . priated in this act shall be used for the purchase of any airplane fenses satisfied with the conditions? ordered after the approval of this act which is equipped or pro­ Mr. BARBOUR. I have not heard any complaint from pelled by a Liberty motor or by any motor or airplane engine pur­ them. chased or constructed prior to July 1, 1920. Mr. BLACK. Every now and then we see criticisms in Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment, which the press in respect to the adequacy of our seacoast I send to the Clerk's desk. defenses. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New York [Mr. Mr. BARBOUR. There is a decided difference of opin­ TABER] offers an ame~dment, which the Clerk will report. ion among military men as to whether our seacoast defenses The Clerk read as follows: and the big guns that we have had in this country for a Amendment offered by Mr. TABER: Page 32, line 12, strike out good many years are now adequate. A great many people "$31,679,635" and insert in lieu thereof "$31,479,635 "; and on contend that the Air Corps is the best seacoast defense that page 32, line 16, strike out •• $2,510,377" and insert in lieu thereof we can possibly have. Others say that we should have both "$2,310,377." the big guns and aircraft. Others will say that mines are Mr. BARBOUR. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent, better than seacoast guns. Therefore, we have been carry­ in view of the fact that this amendment will probably re­ ing along all three of them-mines, seacoast defenses, and quire considerable discussion, that we pass over this para­ aircraft--and we hope if any emergency should arise that graph of the bill for the present -and return to it to-morrow one, if not all, of them will be effective against the enemy. or the next day the bill is taken up, and that for the time· The pro forma amendment was withdrawn. being we proceed to read some of the paragraphs following The Clerk read as follows: the Air Corps paragraph. AIR CORPS, ARMY The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from California asks For creating, maintaining, and operating at established flying unanimous consent that in the consideration of the bill in scools and balloon schools, courses of instruction for officers, the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the students, and enlisted men, including cost of equipment and sup­ Union this paragraph may be passed over for the present. plies necessary for instruction, purchase of tools, equipment, mate­ Is there objection to the request of the gentleman? rials, machines, textbooks, books of reference, scientific and pro­ fessional papers, instruments, and materials for th eoretical and Mr. COLLINS. Reserving the right to object, how far practical instruction; for maintenance, repair, storage, an d opera­ does the gentleman propose to read to-night? tion of airships, war balloons, and ot her aerial machines, including Mr. BARBOUR. I think we might go on until 5 o'clock or instruments, materials, gas plants, hangars, and repair shops, and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the opera­ a few minutes -after, because· the following paragraphs I do tion, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all not think are in any way controversial and we might read necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith, and the several pages. - establishment of landing and take-off runways; for purchase of Mr. supplies for securing, developing, printing, and reproducing photo­ COLLINS. I have no objection to continuing until 5 graphs in connection with aerial photography; improvement, o'clock or 5.15, but I do not want to go as far as these equipment, maintenance, and operation of plants for testing and civilian organization items. 1931 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2117 Mr. BARBOUR. No. I thought we might go on now and Mr. STAFFORD. It was my impression that the provi­ read some of the pages following the Air Corps item. sion for storage of ammunition at Hawaii had not been Mr. COLLINS. With the understanding that we will not completed. go as far as the civilian organizations, I do not object. Mr. BARBOUR. The storage has not been completed, but Mr. LAGUARDIA. Reserving the right to object, the the appropriation has been made for it. pa.ragTaph is passed for all purposes as if it had not been Mr. STAFFORD. An adequate appropriation has been read? made to provide for the entire project for storing ammuni­ Mr. CRAMTON. Oh, no. There can be no points of order tion at Hawaii? to it. Mr. BARBOUR. The entire sum covered by the authori­ Mr. TABER. It will be pending, with the amendment zation up to this time has been appropriated, and that is the offered. reason it is not carried in the bill this year. Mr. B~l=tBOUR. Should we fix the time for debate on The pro forma amendment was withdrawn. this amendment now or to-morrow? The Clerk read down to and including line 19, page 43. Mr. WRIGHT. Why can not some hour be agTeed upon? Mr. BARBOUR. Mr. Chairman, I move that the com- Mr. TABER. It can be fixed as soon as we consider the mittee do now rise. bill again in Committee of the Whole House. The motion was agreed to. Mr. BRIGGS. Is it the intention to rise at about 5 o'clock? Accordingly the committee rose; and the Speaker having Mr. BARBOUR. I thought we might rise about that time. resumed the chair, Mr. TILSON, Chairman of the Committee The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the of the Whole House on the state of the Union, reported that gentleman from California? that committee had had under consideration the bill (H. R. There was no objection. 15593) making appropriations for the military and nonmili­ The Clerk read as follows: tary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ENGINEER OPERATIONS IN THE FIELD ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes, and had come For expenses incident to m111tary engineer operations in the to no resolution thereon. field, including the purchase of material and a reserve of material LEAVE OF ABSENCE for such operations, the rental of storehouses within and outside of the District of Columbia, the operation, maintenance, and re­ By unanimous consent, leave of absence was gTanted to­ pair of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying ve­ hicles; for the execution of topographic and other surveys and Mr. MANsFIELD, for three days, on account of illness. preparation and reproduction of maps for military purposes, and Mr. CULLEN, for an indefinite period, on account of illness. for ·research and development of surveying by means of aerial photography and in field reproduction methods; for services of DROUGHT RELIEF surveyors, survey parties, draftsmen, photographers, master labor­ ers, clerks, and other employees to Engineer omcers on the staffs Mr,. WOOD presented a conference report on the joint reso­ of division, corps area, and department commanders, and such lution (H. J. Res. 447) making appropriations to carry out expenses as are ordinarily provided for under the appropriation the provisions of the public resolution entitled "Joint reso­ for " Engineer depots," $216,752, of which $117,580 shall be avail­ lution for the relief of farmers in the drought and/or storm able immediately and remain available until December 31, 1932: Prov ided, That so much of this appropriation as is necessary to stricken areas of the United States," approved December 20, provide facilities for engineer training of troops may be expended 1930, for printing under the rule. for military construction work of a temporary character at camps and cantonments and at training areas for training purposes only. CONFERENCE REPORT • Mr. STAFFORD. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the last word. I notice in comparison with last year's appro­ The committee of conference on the disagTeeing votes of priation act that act carried a separate item at this point the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the for military surveys and maps, providing for the execution House joint resolution (H. J. Res. 447) making an appropria­ of topographical maps and other similar work. Has that tion to carry out the provisions of the public resolution work been continued in consolidation with some other item, entitled "Joint resolution for the relief of farmers in the or has that character of work been discontinued? drought and/or storm stricken areas of the United States," Mr. BARBOUR. It was merged with this item. That is approved December 20, 1930, having met, after full and free one of the mergers which I discussed in the general discus­ conference have been unable to agree. sion of the bill, bringing together parts of the bill that are WILL R. Woon, more or less related and which have heretofore been in sepa­ LOUIS C. CRAMTON, rate places in the bill. It comes under the work of the EDWARD H. WASON, Corps of Engineers, anyway, so we transferred it to the engi­ JOSEPH W! BYRNS, neers. It is $118,000. J. P. BUCHANAN, The pro forma amendment was withdrawn. Managers on the part of the House. The Clerk read as follows: w. L. JONES, REPAIRS OF ARSENALS REED SMOOT, J. For repairs and improvements of ordnance establishments, and WM. HARRIS, to meet such un.foreseen expenditures as accidents or other con­ Managers on the part of the Senate. tingencies may require, $1,012,281, of which amount there shall be available immediately not to exceed $105,000 for the replacement STATEMENT and improvement of steam-power-plant equipment at Springfield Armory, Springfield, Mass., and not to exceed $65,000 for the im­ The managers on the part of the House at the conference provement of the water-distributing system at Watertown Arsenal, on the disagTeeing votes of the two Houses on the amend­ Watertown, "Mass. ments of the Senate to the House joint resolution (H. J. Res. Mr. STAFFORD. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the 447) making an appropriation to carry out the provisions last word. I assume that the committee has likewise, in the of the public resolution entitled "Joint resolution for the paragTaph carried in last year's act, provided for ammuni­ relief of farmers in the drought and/or storm stricken areas tion-storage facilities and transferred that activity to some of the United States," approved December 20, 1930, have other part of the bill? been unable to come to any agTeement on such Senate Mr. BARBOUR . . That, I understand, is all appropriated amendments. for. There was a program for munition storage, and we WILL R. Woon, have been appropriating for that for one or two years past. LoUIS C. CRAMTON, All of the money necessary at this time has been appro­ EDWARD H. WASON, priated, although I understand they may come in at some ~OSEPH W. BYRNS, future time and ask for a small additional amount which J. P. BUCHANAN, may be necessary to complete the storage. Managers on the part of the House. 2118 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 13 PERSONAL· STATEMENT the American people," and lo and behold, the invitation was Mr. ~cDUFFIE. ~fr. Speaker, at the request of my col­ accepted with the sole condition that it should be supple­ league [Mr. BANKHEAD], who is unavoidably absent to-day, mented later by an official invitation from the American I beg to say that· had he been present to-day when we ·con­ Congress. This signal success paved the way for Mr. sidered the rule sending to conference the drought relief Bartholdt's second great achievement, namely: legisletion, he would have voted against the previous ques­ . Second. The organization of the interparliamentary group tion, for the rule, and for the motion to instruct the con­ in our Congress, which was entirely due to his initiative. ferees. On the plea that preparations must be made for the recep­ tion and entertainment of the foreign delegates, he issued DR. RICHARD BARTHOLDT AND WORLD PEACE-HIS BOOK FROM an invitation to each Member of the Senate and House for STEERAGE TO CONGRESS a meeting" to organize an American group." More than 70 Mr. McSWAIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent Members attended, and, after he had explained the aims to extend my own remarks in the RECORD in reviewing a and objects of the. union, an organization was perfected by recent book by Dr. Richard Bartholdt, who was for 22 years the election of the following officers: President, Richard a Member of this House, entitled ·" From Steerage to Con­ Bartholdt, of Missouri; vice presidents, Theodore E. Burton, gress," and also to include a brief sketch of his_, life and of Ohio, and James L. Slayden, of Texas; secretary, Robert public services. F. Broussard, of Louisiana. The newly elected president The SPEAKER. The gentleman from South Carolina then prepared a bill to extend an official invitation to the asks unanimous consent to extend his own remarks in the union, which he safely piloted through both Houses, together manner indicated. Is there objection? with a provision for an appropriation. A great step for­ There was no objection. ward had been taken. The American Congress had now Mi·. McSWAIN. Mr. Speaker, in his book, Among the joined hands with more than 2,000 lawmakers of the world Peace-Makers, published in 1907, Hayne Davis, a native of bent on bringing about a better understanding between the South Carolina, says: various nations. From this time on Americans were to be On the wide horizon of world politics we can see no man who heard in the semiofficial peace councils of Europe. No has done more during the past years to promote the cause of longer was geographical isolation to signify complete politi­ peace and narrow the area of war than Richard Bartholdt. He cal separation; on the contrary, the people of this hemi­ has determined the conduct of nations; he has profoundly influ­ enced public sentiment, and has brought into practical politics sphere, more happily situated than their brothers across the the idea· that will ultimately do away with war. water, were to lend their moral aid to all efforts to throw off military burdens and to hasteri the day of peace and It is not necessary to ask, Who is Richard Bartholdt? good will among men. . The country knows him well, for he was a distinguished Member of this House for 22 long years, representing a ·Mis­ It may justly be said, too, that from the subsequent visit souri district, until on March 4, 1915, he retired of his own here of the world's lawmakers, 167 in number, the American volition, and much against the wishes of his constituents, in peace movement received its real impetus. On their tour order to devote himself to literary pursuits. But what were from the Atlantic to the Rockies they spoke in a dozen large the achievements which caused the historian to lavish such cities, preaching the gospel of arbitration and peace, and high praise upon him and which, by the way, prompted the thus familiarized thousands of people with their humani­ membership o' this House to indorse him three times in tarian cause. succession for the Nobel peace prize? 3. The third distinct achievement of Richard Bartholdt I feer that in justice to our former colleague the present was his initial move to bring about the Second Hague Con­ generation should be apprised of what he has ~tually ference. It happened in this way: At the time of which I accomplished and what he so earnestly strove for in human­ speak there was no one in this country who was in any way ity's cause-the war against war. In taking the fioor for familiar with the inside workings of the Interparliamentary this purpose I do so in the belief that it is more appropriate Union, hence it devolved upon him to prepare a program to cheer our septuagenarian friend with the gift of a fiower for the impending conference. Impelled by necessity, he now than to place whole bouquets on his grave. As already set to work and wrote a resolution which comprised a com­ said, Mr. Bartholdt is not of my State, nor is he of my plete agenda for the meeting and in the chancellories of party. I am prompted to submit these remarks simply oy the world became known as the Resolution of St. Louis. my interest in the cause of which he was so valiant a It is worth repeating here: · champion. Whereas enlightened public opinion and the spirit of modem The history of the peace movement credits Richard civilization demand that cillferences between n~tions shall be settled in the same manner as controversies between individuals, Bartholdt with three distinct achievements of which our 1. e., through courts of justice and in conformity with well­ country was the immediate beneficiary, but which, at the recognized principles of law: Therefore be it same time, strength~ned the cause and encouraged the Resolved, That the different powers of the entire world send friends of peace everywhere in the world. Let me enumerate delegate representatives to an international conference which shall meet at a time and place to be designated by them, to them: deliberate upon the following questions: First. It was solely due to his initiative that the Twelfth (a) The subjects· postponed by The Hague conference of 1899; Coilference of the Interparliamentary Union was held in the (b) The negotiation of arbitration treaties between the nations which shall be represented in this conference; United States, the first that ever took place on American (c) The establishment of an international congress which shall soil. At that time-1904-nothing was known in this coun­ meet at stated periods to discuss international questions. try of such an organization. By mere chance Mr. Bartholdt And that we request, respectfully and w·gently, the Preside.nt learned of its existence during a visit in Europe five years of the United States to invite all the nations to send representa­ previously, and participated in the Christiania Conference tives to such a conference. of 1899, the same year, by the way, in which the First Hague After several visits to the White House Mr. Bartholdt Conference met. The deliberations in the Norwegian capital obtained President Roosevelt's approval of the resolution, as impressed him so deeply that he made up his mind to bring, well as his promise to call a Second Hague Conference.· if possible, the American Congress into this world organi­ This was kept a profound secret, however, until, after the zation of lawmakers, whose main object was to secure set­ adoption of the resolution by the St. Louis conference, the tlement of all disputes by arbitration rather than by war. delegates met at the White House. Mr. Roosevelt's favor­ To carry out this plan he went to Vienna in 1903 to attend able response surprised the foreign delegates so agreeably the Interparliamentary Conference of that year with a view that they broke out in loud and long applause. As will be to inducing the world's lawmakers to hold their next meet­ remembered, Mr. Roosevelt later left the call to the Czar, be­ ing in the United States in connection with the vVorld's Fair cause that monarch had convened the first conference at the at st. Louis. He was the sole American representative at Holland capital, but this fact, of course, does not in the the Vienna meeting, and, though he had no mandate :From least detract from the credit due our Missouri friend for anybody, made bold to present his invitation "on behalf of having set the ball rolling. 1931 . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2119

The actual achievements, above outlined, do not in any JOINT COMMITTEE ON INSULAR AFFAIRS way complete the record of :;;ervices which our former col­ UO a. m., room 125, House Office Building) league has rendered to the cause of peace. He has attended . To provide a government for American Samoa. (H. R. not less than 16 interparliamentary conferences and was 15989.) also present as a representative of the Union at both the Hague meetings in 1899 and 1906. During the Second Hague Conference he went, at the instance of our American dele­ EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. gates, Choate and Low, to London and then to Berlin to Under clause 2 of Rule XXIV, executive communications bring pressure to bear through the English and German were taken from the Speaker's·table and referred as follows: groups on their delegates in favor of the American proposi­ 770. A letter from the Comptroller General of the United tion of compulsory arbitration, and his mission proved suc­ States, transmitting a report pursuant to the act of March cessful in both cases. 2, 1927, and the act of February 2, 1929, with recommenda­ At the St. Louis conference he was elected president, and tion thereon of certain claims transmitted to the office of he also remained president of the American group from the the Secretary of the NavY covering property damage, death, time of its organization till his voluntary retirement from or personal injury due to the explosions at the naval ammu­ Congress. As an interesting side light, bearing on his char­ nition depot, Lake Denmark, N. J., July 10, 1926 1932, and for other purposes; without amendment Mr. WASON: Joint Committee on DispoS1tion of Use­ To authorize the construction of certain naval vessels. less Executive Papers. A report on the disposition of useless (H. R. 14688.) papers in the Post Office Department