SENATE 1265 by Mr

1937 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 1265 By Mr. CASEY of Massachusetts: A bill <H. R. 4819) for 376. Br. Mr. MILLARD: Resolution unanimously adopted the relief of Joseph Zani; to the Committee on Claims. by the executive committee of the Republican City Commit By Mr. DALY: A bill CH. R. 4820) for the relief of tee of White Plains, N. Y., opposing the proposal of the Adolphus Howell Bowen; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. President to increase the membership of the Supreme Court; By Mr. ECKERT: A bill (H. R. 4821) granting an increase to the Committee on the Judiciary. of pension to Matilda Tarno; to the Committee on Invalid 377. By Mr. RICH: Petition of citizens of Montoursville, Pensions. Pa., protesting against the President's recommendation to By Mr. FITZGERALD: A bill CH. R. 4822) granting an increase the membership of the Supreme Court; to the Com increase of pension to Lucy A. Beckwith; to the Committee mittee on the Judiciary. on Invalid Pensions. 378. Br. Mr. THOMASON of Texas: Petition of the Cen By Mr. HEALEY: A bill (H. R. 4823) for the relief of tral Labor Union of the city of El Paso, Tex., endorsing Joseph H. Burr; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. and approving the measures which the President of the By Mr. IZAC: A bill (H. R. 4824) for the relief of the United States has requested Congress to adopt amending estate of Facundo Gonzales; to the Committee on War the structure of the courts of the United States; to the Claims. Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. LEAVY: A bill (H. R. 4825) for the relief of Walter 379. By the SPEAKER: Petition of Helen Roy and 100 J. Potter; to the Committee on Military Affairs. others, of Grand Forks, N. Dak., petitioning Congress to By Mr. LUECKE of Michigan: A bill (H. R. 4826) grant pass no law that would disturb or abridge the religious ing a pension to Martha Bertha Rapin; to the Committee on rights and privileges of all our people; to the Committee on Pensions. Foreign Affairs. By Mr. McGROARTY: A bill (H. R. 4827) granting an 380. Also, petition of M. G. Patterson and Lloyd R. Brown, increase of pension to Mary A. Parsons; to the Committee on opposing any alteration to the Supreme Court; to the Com Invalid Pensions. mittee on the Judiciary. By Mr. MOTT: A bill <H. R. 4828) granting a pension to Willie D. Nelson; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. RAMSPECK: A bill <H. R. 4829) for the relief of Robert E. Sadtier; to the Committee on Claims. SENATE Also, a bill <H. R. 4830) for the relief of Mrs. D. 0. Benson; WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1937 to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. RICH: A bill CH. R. 4831) granting an increase of (Legislative day of Monday, Feb. 15, 1937) pension to Katie Wykoff; to the Committee on Invalid The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, on the expiration Pensions. of the recess. By Mr. TOBEY: A bill <H. R. 4832) for the relief of Gen THE JOURNAL nette H. Unwin; to the Committee on Claims. On request of Mr. RoBINSON, and by unanimous consent, the reading of the Journal of the proceedings of the calen PETITIONS, ETC. dar day Monday, February 15, 1937, was dispensed with, Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions and papers were and the Journal was approved. laid on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT 372. _By Mr. ARNOLD: Petition of R. V. Jordan, superin Messages in writing from the President of the United tendent of schools, Centralia, m., expressing opposition to States were communicated to the Senate by Mr. Latta, one the passage of House bill 30, to protect the artistic and earn of his secretaries. ing opportunity in the United States for American actors, vocal musicians, operatic singers, solo dancers, and orches !fESSAGE FROM TH} HOUSE tral conductors, and for other purposes; to the Committee on A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Immigration and Naturalization. Megill, one of its clerks, announced that the House had 373. By Mr. COLDEN: Resolution adopted by the Harbor passed without amendment the following bills and joint District Builders' Supply Association, Long Beach, Calif., resolution of the Senate: urging the enactment of legislation for the continuance of S. 466. An act granting the consent of Congress to the title II of the National Housing Act; to the Committee on county of Barry, State of Missouri, to construct, maintain, Banking and Currency. and operate a free highway bridge across the White River 374. By Mr. FISH: Petition of 39 residents and citizens of at or near Eagle Rock, Mo.; Goshen, N.Y., protesting against the President's plan to pack S. 715. An act to extend the time for completing the con and control the Supreme Court, and stating that they believe struction of a bridge across the Delaware River near Tren this is a direct assault upon the liberties of the people of the ton, N. J.; and United States, designed to undermine the independence of S. J. Res. 70. Joint resolution relating to the participation the Supreme Court, which is the foremost safeguard of these by the United States in the International Exposition of liberties, and a direct step in the direction of a dictatorship. Paris, 1937. The obvious effect would be to place in the hands of the Ex The message also announced that the House had passed ecutive the opportunity to appoint as members of the Court the following bills and joint resolutions, in which it requested creatures of his own, subservi_ent and obedient to his dicta the concurrence of the Senate: tion, thus destroying the independence and integrity of the H. R. 77. An act for payment of compensation to persons Court, and subverting the purpose it was designed to fulfill; serving as postmaster at third- and fourth-class post offices; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 168. An act to authorize an increase in the annual 375. Also, petition of 57 residents and citizens of the appropriation for books for the adult blind; town of Goshen, Orange County, N. Y., expressing unquali H. R. 194. An act to extend the times for commencing and fied condemnation of the plan of President Roosevelt to completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri increase the membership of the Supreme Court, contending River at or near Brownville, Nebr.; that the obvious effect of the proposal would be a direct H. R. 1521. An act to amend the act of February 28, 1925 assault upon the liberties of the people of the United Sta-tes, (43 Stat. 1053), relative to postal rates on third-class mail designed to undermine the independence and integrity of matter; the Supreme Court and a direct step in the direction of H. R. 1543. An act to amend section 24 of the Immigration dictatorship, and that it would place in the hands of the Act of 1917, relating to the compensation of certain Immi Executive the opportunity to appoint as members of the gration and Naturalization Service employees, and for other Court creatures of his own, subservient and obedient to his purposes; dictation, thus destroying the independence of the Court, H. R. 1550. An act authorizing a preliminary examination and subverting the purpose it was designed to fulfill; to the and survey of the Skagway River in the vicinity of Skagway, Committee on the Judiciary. Alaska; 1266 :CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE FEBRUARY 17 H. R.1609. An act to credit laborers in the Postal Service July 25, 1936, in memory of the late Honorable Charles with any fractional part of a year's substitute service toward Curtis, former Vice President of the United States. promotion; There being no objection, the resolutions were ordered to H. R.1629. An act to provide for a preliminary examination lie on the table and to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: and survey of the Mackinaw River in llllnois with a view to MEMORIAL flood control; Gathered in second annual convention of the American Indian H. R. 1972. An act giving superintendents at classified post Federation, we pause to pay tribute to the memory of a distin guished member of our own race whose death brought sorrow office stations credit for substitutes serving under them; to the people of the United States-the late Honorable Charles H. R. 2021. An act to provide time credits for substitutes in Curtis. the motor-vehicle service; Charles Curtis, a member of the Kaw Tribe of Indians, was H. R. 2306. An act to authorize the Crew Levick Co., and born on the prairies of Kansas in an Indian tepee. Sent to learn the ways of the white man, he suffered all the loneliness, all the such other corporation or individuals as may be associated heartache and homesickness, all the sufferings of a stranger 1n with it, to construct a bridge across the portion of the Dela a strange land. But he persevered. He studied diligently and ware River between the mainland of the county of Camden worked hard to support himself that he might study more. Great and State of New Jersey and Petty Island, in said county and we:re the rewards of that labor. From a very humble beginning, through his own initiative and efforts, through his determined will State; to conquer, Charles Curtis arose to the place of Vice President of H. R. 2503. An act to extend the time for completing the the United States of America.

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