5100 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 6 The motion was agreed to; and Cat 6 o'clock and 2 minutes unable to amortize their debt elsewhere, to amend the p.mJ the Senate, as in legislative session, took a recess until Federal Home Loan Bank Act, to increase the market for tomorrow, Wednesday, Jtme 7, 1933, at 12 o'clock meridian. obligations of the United States, and for other purposes, with a Senate amendment, disagree to the Senate amend­ NOMINATIONS ment, and agree to the conference asked by the Senate. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? Executive nominations received by the Senate June 6, 1933 There was no objection. UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS The Speaker appointed the following conferees: Mr. John A. Carver, of Idaho, to be United States attorney, STEAGALL, Mr. GoLDSBOROUGH, Mr. LUCE. district of Idaho, to succeed Hoyt E. Ray, resigned. MEMORIAL DAY William J. Barker, of New Mexico, to be United States Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to attorney, district of New Mexico, to succeed Hugh B. Wood~ extend my remarks in the REcoRn by inserting therein an ward, term expired. address delivered by myself at the Confederate memorial William Mcclanahan, of Tennessee, to be United States services at Arlington Cemetery on Sunday last. attorney, western district of Tennessee, to succeed Dwayne The SPEAKER. Is there objection? D. Maddox, refigned. There was no objection. Carl C. Donaugh, of Oregon, to be United States attorney, Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Speaker, under leave granted me to district of Oregon, to succeed George Neuner, term expired. extend my remarks, I insert an address delivered by myself UNITED STATES MARSHAL at the Confederate Memorial Day exercises in Arlington John M. Comeford, of Wisconsin, to be United States Cemetery, Washington, D.C., on Sunday, June 4, 1933. marshal, western district of Wisconsin, to succeed Charles The address is as follows: H. Rawlinson, term expired. General Wilkinson, Confederate 'Ueterans, Daughters of the Con­ SOLICITOR FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE federacy, Veterans of the Spanish-American War and of the World w~. ladies and gentlemen, if I had known that these exercises South Trimble, Jr., of Kentucky, to be Solicitor for the were to be broadcast I would have reduced my speech to writing Department of Commerce, to succeed E. F. Morgan, resigned. and tried to devote more time and attention to its preparation. As it is, I am sorry to say that I have no address "cut and dried." I feel, however, that by the time I have finished, the verdict will be unanimous to the etiect that it was dry enough. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES It is not my desire to open afresh the healing wounds of war or to stir the dying embers of sectional strife. I would not for TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1933 the world ·utter one word to hurt the feelings of a Federal soldier. or of one who stands in the same relation to him that we of the The House met at 12 o'clock noon. South do to the men who wore the gray in that unfortunate con­ The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D.D., offered fllct. I agree with the southern poet who said that- the following prayer: "None but a coward would revile An honest soldier's dust:• Gratefully, blessed Lord, do we acknowledge Thy love and mercy, which have given us all this day, with its privileges I have often heard it contended that either the soldiers of the South or those of the North were wrong in that contest. My and opportunities for service and joyous, useful hours. answer to that contention is that they were both right. They Animated by Thy wonderful providence, may we approach were both fighting the battles of their country in a conflict pro­ our labors with conscientious zeal and with hearts full of duced by causes over which they had no control. They a.re both equally entitled to the love, admiration, and respect of the people sympathy with the calling needs of our land. Feed us, of our reunited country. Heavenly Father, with the bread of life that shall enrich I want to pause for a moment to pay my tribute to the our minds and hearts, and lead us not to forget those pre­ Daughters of the Confederacy, under whose auspices these exer­ cious treasures that help the common man. Humble us cises are held, and to congratulate them on their splendid achieve­ ments, one of which is the erection of this magnificent monu­ amid our manifold blessings, and may we ever aim to be ment, in the shadow of which these exercises are being held. among the pure in heart, who alone shall be permitted to I once had the pleasure of taking an airplane flight over Wash­ see Thee face to face. In the name of our Savior. Amen. ington with Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, and as I looked down upon the many wonderful things to be seen in the Nation's The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and Capital, the most attractive of them all to me was this beautiful approved. cemetery of Arlington-the bivouac of our heroic dead. The most beautiful object in this great cemetery was this splendid MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE monument. dedicated to our Confederate dead, and erected by A message from the Senate, by Mr. Horne, its enrolling the generous, patriotic, loving, and loyal Daughters of the Con­ federacy. clerk, announced that the Senate had passed, with amend­ If I were a Southern woman I would rather be listed among ments in which the concurrence of the House is requested, your members than to be a member of any other civic or patri­ the bill (H.R. 5240) entitled "An act to provide emergency otic organization on earth. You are not only the daughters of relief with respect to home-mortgage indebtedness, to refi­ the greatest soldiers of all time, but you are the daughters of those glorious women of the South who sustained our soldiers in nance home mortgages, to extend relief to the owners of times of war and shared their burdens in times of peace. homen occupied by them and who are unable to amortize You have another monument to your credit which time cannot their debt elsewhere, to amend the Federal Home Loan Bank efface, and that is Memorial Day. On April 25, 1866, about 1 year after the close of the War Between the States, the women of Act, to increase the market for obligations of the United Columbus, Miss., in the district which I have the honor to rep­ States, and for other purposes"; that the Senate insists resent in Congress, went out to decorate the graves of Confed­ upon its amendments to said bill, requests a conference with erate soldiers. They were the wives, the widows, the mothers, the the House thereon, and appoints Mr. BULKLEY, Mr. WAGNER, sisters, and daughters of Confederate veterans--many of them st1ll in the weeds of mourning. There were about 40 Federal and Mr. TOWNSEND to be the conferees on the part of the soldiers buried in that cemetery. With a generosity that has few, Senate. if any parallels, those noble women decorated alike the graves of The message also announced that the Vice President had the Confederate and the Federal dead. A report of that incident got into the press and inspired from appointed Mr. CoNNALLY a member of the committee of the pen of the Honorable Francis Miles Finch, a distinguished conference on the part of the Senate upon the disagreeing northern jurist, a little poem called " The Blue and the Gray " votes of the two Houses to the amendment· of the Senate that will live as long as the Stars a.nd Stripes continue to fl.oat to the bill of the House, H.R. 4220, for the protection over a free people, as long as the sweet strains of old Dixie shall stir the southern heart with its " sweet but melancholy pathos ", of Government records, in place of Mr. PITTMAN, excused. in which he said: RELIEF OF HOME OWNERS " By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fieets of iron have fled. Mr. STEAGALL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent Where the blades of the grave grass quiver, to take from the Speaker's table this bill <H.R. 5240) to Asleep are the ranks of the dead; provide emergency relief with respect to home-mortgage Under the sod. and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; indebtedness, to refinance home mortgages, to extend relief Under the one the blue, to the owners of homes occupied by them and who are Under the other the gray. 1933 GONGRESSIONAL ~ECORD-HOUSE 5101 • These 1n the robings of glory, friendly relations that exist between the two races in the South · Those in the gloom of defeat. are tnterrupted or disturbed. It seems tmpossible for people of 1All with the battle-blood gory, the North to understand the friendly and even affectionate rela­ In the dusk of eternity meet; tionships that existed in the South between the masters and their Under the sod and the dew, slaves, and even today they fail to grasp it. Waiting the judgment day; I read, I believe, in the New York Times, a few years ago an edi­ Under the laurel, the blue; torial on that old southern song, Way Down Upon de Swanee Rib­ Under the willow, the gray. ber. The editor thoroughly convinced himself that no such lan­ guage was ever used by the Negro, and that while the music was 'From the silence of sorrowful hours only fair, the sentiment was entirely overdrawn.