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2294 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 23 (h) The Secretary of the Treasury 1s authorized and directed The motion was agreed to; and the Senate <at 5 o'clock to make rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions of this act. and 13 minutes p.m.) took a recess until to-morrow, Tues day, January 24, 1933, at 11 o'clock a. m. Mr. WHEELER. Mr. President, I offer the following sub stitute for the amendment which has just been offered by the Senator from Louisiana,. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The VICE PRESIDENT. Let it be read for the informa tion of the Senate. MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1933 The CHIEF CLERK. The Senator from Montana [Mr. The House met at 12 o'clock noon. WHEELER] offers the following substitute for the amend The Chaplain, Rev. James Sbera Montgomery, D. D., ment offered by the Senator from Louisiana: offered the following prayer: On page 52, between lines 11 and 12, insert the following new Merciful God, Thou art just, perfectly just, and Thou section: "SEc. 25-A. (a) The proportional value of sliver to gold in all hast told us to do unto others as we would have them do coins which are by law current as money within the United States unto us; this is the great universal law of Thy equity. Thy shall be as 16 to 1, according to quantity in weight, of pure silver commandment is with us, our Father. Just now let our or pure gold; that is to say, every 16 pounds weight of pure silver shall be of equal value in all payments with 1 pound weight of cardinal thoughts be on godliness and righteousness, and pure gold, and so in proportion as to any greater or less quantities everything done to-day subordinated to the chiefest good. of the respective metals. Sustain and strengthen us by those glorious truths, influ "(b) There shall be free coinage of both gold and silver, at the ratio fixed in this act, subject to the conditions and limitations ences, and hopes which were so wondrously incarnated in the now provided by law with respect to the coinage of gold; and all earthly life of our divine Teacher. 0 come, Holy Spirit, the laws of the United States relating to such coinage or to and meet our needs and make possible our ideals and estab recoinage, exchange, or conversion of coin, bars, or bullion of gold lish the work of our hands. Oh, blessed privilege it is to be shall apply equally, so far as practicable, to silver. " (c) The dollar consisting of 25.8 grains of gold nine-tenths a citizen of this Republic, having a reverent heart for its fine, or of 412¥2 grains of silver nine-tenths fine, shall be the institutions, living a loyal life in the ability and disposition standard unit of value, and all forms of money issued or coined by to serve. Amen. the United States shall be maintained at a parity of value with this standard, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the The Journal of the proceedings of Saturday was read and Treasury to maintain such parity." approved. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on the substitute MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE proposed by the Senator from Montana. A message from the Senate by Mr. Craven, its principal Mr. WHEELER. Mr. President, I have just been confer clerk, announced that the Senate had passed a bill of the ring with the Senator from Virginia [Mr. GLAss] and the following title, in which the concurrence of the House is Senator from Arkansas [Mr. RoBINsoN]. I do not want to requested: start to discuss my amendment at this late hour. S. 5484. An act to extend the time during which certain Mr. LONG. Mr. President, has the proposed substitute provisions of the act of February 27, 1932, relating to im been printed? proving the facilities of the Federal reserve system to meet The VICE PRESIDENT. It has not been printed. the needs of member banks in exceptional circumstances, Mr. LONG. I would like to have it printed during the shall be effective. night if we are to recess at this time. The message also announced that the Senate had agreed The VICE PRESIDENT. It will be printed. to the amendments of the House to the bill (S. 3675) entitled Mr. WHEELER. I shall want to speak on it in the morn "An act relating to the deferment and adjustment of con ing. I think some kind of an agreement has been entered struction charges for the years 1931 and 1932 on Indian into whereby it will not be necessary for me to begin speak irrigation projects." ing this evening. AMENDMENT OF THE BANKRUPTCY ACT Mr. GLASS. Mr. President, let me have the attention of th~ Senator from Oregon lMr. McNARY] for a moment. Mr. SUMNERS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the I announced on .Saturday btst to what I thought was a Committee on the Judiciary, I ask unanimous consent that fairly full Senate that I should ask night sessions beginning it may have until midnight to-night to file reports to accom to-night. It appears that in some way that notice was not pany the bill CH. R. 14359) to amend an act entitled "An act as fully understood as could be desired. I have no disposi to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the tion to inconvenience Senators, many of whom have an United States," approved July 1, 1898, and acts amendatory nounced to me that they have made engagements for this thereof and supplementary thereto. evening, nor have I any disposition to compel the Senator The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the from Montana to proceed with his speech upon his pro gentleman from Texas? posed substitute. However, I am determined that the Senate There was no objection. shall either pass the bill or refuse to pass it. QUESTION OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE After conferring with leaders on both sides, I am going Mr. McFADDEN and Mr. COLLINS rose. to propose that the Senate take a recess until 11 o'clock The SPEAKER. For what purpose does the gentleman to-morrow morning, with the distinct understanding that from Pennsylvania rise? we shall remain in session until 10 o'clock to-morrow night, Mr. McFADDEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to a question of if necessary, to pass upon the bill. I hope the Senator from personal privilege. Oregon will concur in that suggestion. The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. Mr. McNARY. Mr. President, the very generous attitude Mr. McFADDEN. Mr. Speaker, it is a rule of the House on the part of the Senator from Virginia is most commend of Representatives, which rule rests upon the Constitution able. Few Senators understood, or at least it escaped their of the United States, that a Representative may not be memory if they did understand, that there would be a night assailed when he acts in his representative capacity. session to-night. I shall be very happy to assist the Senator Mr. Speaker, I have been assailed and charges have been from Virginia, and I assure him of full cooperation to keep made against me as a . Representative which are false and the Senate in session to-morrow evening. defamatory. Mr. LONG. Mr. President, I must say that I am very On December 13, 1932, I impeached Herbert Hoover, Presi glad to see the Senate getting down to business at last. dent of the United States, for high crimes and misde [La ughter .J meanors. No action was taken on my charge of impeach RECESS ment. The resolution which accompanied it was tabled. Mr. McNARY. I move that the Senate take a recess until On December 14, 1932, the New York Herald Tribune pub ~1 o'clock to-morrow morning. lished the following article in its editorial columns: 1933 ·coNGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2295 A CONTEMPTIBLE GESTURE paper articles do question the integrity, the honesty, and What Representative McFADDEN, of Pennsylvania, says or does the good faith of the gentleman from Pennsylvania; and the ceased to have any possible importance some time ago. Whether regarded as a common scold or a malevolent busybody, his actions Chair therefore believes the gentleman has stated a question have become so consist ently wrong headed and mean spirited as of personal privilege. to constitute a disgrace to his district and his State. Mr. SNELL. Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. The only interest in his action of yesterday, therefore, lies in the The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state it. list of Representatives who voted against tabling his resolution of impeachment. The Democratic leadership of the House acted Mr. SNELL. The Speaker has made his decision, and I swiftly and correctly. The seven Democrats who voted with Mr. have no reason to dispute it; but as I understand the rule, McFADDEN were thus opposing their own party leaders. Just what in handling a matter of this kind a man in making his ad intellectual vagary led to these votes we do not know. But 1t should be of special interest to New Yorkers to note that two of dress to the House must confine his remarks to the matter them came from this city. The two were ANTHoNY J. GRIFFIN, of contained in items on which he bases his question of per the Bronx, and LORING M. BLACK, jr ., of Brooklyn. sonal privilege. We think New Yorkers will be slow to forget these two votes in The SPEAKER. The gentleman states the rule correctly.