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SENATE. · The Board of Trustees of the Public Schools of Darlington, S. C., v. The United States (S. Doc. No. 237); WEDNESDAY, January 3, 191~. Joseph R Lindsey, sun'iving partner of the firm of John Lindsey & Son, v. The United States (S. Doc. No. 213); The Senate met at 12 o'clock m. Houston L. Bell t. The United States (S. Doc. No. 21ri); The Chaplain, Hev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D., offered the l\lrs. A. M . .McFarlane, administratrix of the estate of John G. foll owing prayer: Freeman, deceased, v. The United States (S. Doc. No. 216); Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee that Thou hast set be­ Jeannette J. Guard, administratrix of the estate of Josiah fore us the open door of the new year, which no man can shut. Jennison, deceased, v. The United States (S. Doc. No. 217); With joy and with confidence \le pass through the portals and Charles J . Fuller v. The United States ( S. Doc. No. 2.25) ; enter the mystery of another year. What unfutalled hopes are Charles B. Fry v. The United. States ( S. Doc. No. 226) ; to come to fruition, what cherished plans are to be unrealized, Jeremiah E. Finch v. The United States (S. Doc. No. 233); what joys may surprise us, what sorrows may pain_ us, what l\Iargaret A. C. Finch, widow of Amasa J. Fincb, deceased, 1;. perils may threaten us, these we know not; neither do we ask. The United States (S. Doc. No. 228) ; Hut this we know, our Father, that wherever we may go Thy Da\id H. Dyer v. The United States (S. Doc. No. 231); presence will anticipate us, and in whatever we may do and in James Fields v. The United States (S. Doc. No. 232); all tlrnt we may suffer Thy grace will be sufficient for us. But John G. Evans v. The United States (S. Doc. No. 218); we can not tread alone, our Father, the way that we h::rrn not Olivia F. Elliott, widow of George S. Elliott, deceased, v. The passed before. By Thy spirit lead us, we humbly pray Thee, United States ( S. Doc. No. 219) ; and make clean our hea rts within us that henceforth we may Elizabeth Ely, widow of John L. Ely, deceased, v. The United serrn Thee not in oldness of the letter but in newness of the States (S. Doc. No. 220); spirit, to the honor and glory of Thy holy name. Joseph F. Dwelley v. The Unitecl States ( S. Doc. No. 223}; And unto Thee, who makest all things new, will we ascribe James .M. Dungan v. The United States (S. Doc. No. 227); praiEe now and for evermore. Amen. Lauraett Drummer, widow of Charles H. Drummer, det easec1, JEFF DAVIS, a Senator from the State of Arkansas, appeared v. The United States (S. Doc. No. 221); in his seat to-day. William A. Duckworth v. The United States ( S. Doc. No. The Journal of the proceedings of Thursday, December 21, 230); 1911. was read und approved. Julia A. Ragland, widow (remarried) of William B. Drinkard, YAKIMA INDIAN BESERYATION (H. DOC. NO. 383). deceased, v. The United States (S. Doc. No. 224); Gabrielle Detiege, daughter and sole heir of Emile Detiege, The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica­ deceased, v. The United States ( S. Doc. No. 229); and tion from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant Sallie U. Cohen, administratrix of the estate of Henry Cohen, to law, a report of the ilwestigation relatirn to the necessity for deceased, v. The United States ( S. Doc. No. 222). the consh·uction of wagon roads on the Yakima Indian Reser­ ~'he foregoing findings were, with the accompanying papers, vation, which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to referred to the Committee on Cl:iims and ordered to be printed. the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. POSTAL SAVINGS BANK SYSTEM: (H. DOC. NO. 3S4). The VICE PRESIDENT presented a petition of the Federal The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a comm1mica­ CouncH of the Church of Christ :md a petition of the 1\linis­ tion from the Postmaster General, tmnsmitting, pursuant to terial Union, of Baltimore, 1\ld., praying for the ratification of l::nv, ·a statement from the board of trustees of the postal sav­ the proposed treaties of arbitration between tile United States, ings system relati\e to the operations of that system for the Great Britain, and France, which were ordered to lie on the fiscal rear ended June 30, 1911, which, with the accompanying table. paper, was referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post He also presented a petition of the Chamber of Commerce of Roads and ordered to be printed. Washington, D. 0., praying that an appropriation be made for FRENCH SPOLIATION CLAIMS. a preliminary suryey for the construction of the proposed The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate communica­ 8e1en national highways, which was referred to the Committee tions from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans­ on Agriculture and Forestry. mitting the findings of fact and conclusions of law fi1ed under Ile also presented resolutions adopted by the Chamber of the net of January 20, 1885, in the French spoliation claims set Commerce of Pittsburgh, _Pa., expressing congratulations upon out in the annexed findings by the court in the following causes: the abrogation of the treaty of 1832 between the United States The vessel schooner Paragon, Nathaniel Wattles, master (H. and Russia, which were ordered to lie on the table. He also presented memorials of the congregations of the Doc. No. 367) ; Tlle yessel snow Nancy, William Emmons, master (H. Doc. Roose\elt SeYenth-day Adrnntist Church, of Heaton, N. Dak., No. 375); of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, of Benton Harbor, hlich., The vessel brig FranlcUn, Joshua Walker, master (H. Doc. and of the Columbia Seventh-day Adventist Church, of Colum­ No. 372); bia, S. C., remonstrating against the enactment of legislation The vessel brig William, and Mary, Moses Springer, master compelling the observ:rnce of Sunday as a day of rest in the (H. Doc. No. 373); District of Columbia, which were ordered to lie on the table_ Tbe vessel brig Peyton Randolph, Benjamin Cozzens and Wil­ He also presented memorials of sundry citizens of Geneva, liam· Cozzens, masters ( H. Doc. No. 371) ; Nebr.; Logansport, Ind.; Weston and Norwalk, Ohio; and The vessel ship Six Sisters, Daniel Baker, master (-H. Doc. Castlewood, S. Dak., remonstrating against the extension of the Ko. 374); parcels-post system beyond its present limitations, which were The Yessel schooner Mermaid, Church C. Trouant, master referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. (TI. Doc. No. 368); He also presented a petition of the Frank R. Palmer Auxili­ The yessel schooner Phoenix, John B. Farley, master (H. Doc. ary, United Spanish War Veterans, of Albany, N. Y., pray­ No. 360) ; and ing for the enactment of legislation to extend the so-called The vessel schooner Harmony, Enoch Lee, master (H. Doc. gratuity fund to include retired officers and enlisted men of the No. 370). Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, which was referred !:o tlle' The foregoing findings were, with the accompanying papers, Committee on Pensions. referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. He nlso presented memorials of the Central Labor Union of Lancaster, N. Y.; ·the Central Labor Union of Depew, N. Y.; FINDINGS OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS. the Carpenters and Joiners' Union of Hamilton, Ohio; the Labor The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate communica­ Council of San. Francisco, Cal.; the Building Trades' Council of tions from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmit· Santa Cruz, Cal.; and of the Int~ational Association of Ma­ ting certified copies of the findings of fact and conclusions of law chinists, remonstrating against the abolishment of the hand­ filed by the court in the following causes: roller process of manufacturing paper currency, which were William Loring Sp8ncer and 1\Iary C. Royston, sole heirs of referred to the Committee on Printing. William W. Loring, deceased, v. The United States ( S. Doc. He also presented a petition of the American Federation of No. 214); Labor, praying that the hours of labor on Government dredge The La Grange Synodical College v. The United States (S. work be limited to eight hours, which was referred to the Com­ Doc. No. 234) ; mittee on Education and Labor. The Cou.nty of Greene, State of Missouri, v. The United He also presented petitions of the Association of Cosmopoli­ States (S. Doc. No. 235); tan Clubs, of St::mford University, California, Ul\d of sundry The First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Fla., v. The United citizens of Elmira, N. Y.; Paulding, Ohio; Bayonne, N. J.; States (S. Doc. No. 236); Lagear, Colo.; and Brooklyn, N. Y., praying for the ratification 612 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. J .A.NU.ARY 3,,

of the proposed treaties of arbitration between the United the State of California; of Lu Salle, Denver, Boulder, and States, Great Britain, and France, which were ordered to lie on Pueblo, all in the State of Colorado; of Albany, New York City the table. and Utica, all in the State of • 'ew York; and of St. Louis, Mo.; Mr. GALLINGER. I present petitions of the congregation praying for the ratification of the proposed treaties of arbitra­ of the Squam Bridge Free Baptist Church, of Holderness; of tion between the United States, Great Britain, and France the Woman's Club of West Concord; of the Christian Science which were ordered to lie on the table. ' Society of North Conway; of the congregations of the Baptist He also presented a petition of the Chamber of Commerce of and Congregational Churches of Greenville; of Theodosius S. Olean, N. Y., praying that an appropriation be made for the ~·ng, of Ashland; of the congregations of the First l\Iethodist purchase of suitable homes for American representatives abroad, Episcopal Church of Franklin, the Unitarian, .Methodist, Baptist, which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Free Baptist, and Congregational Churches of Franklin; and of He also presented a resolution adopted by members of the s1mdry citizens of '.filton, Concord, and Westmoreland, all in the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, favoring tbe enactment of State of New Hampshire, praying for the ratification of the legislation granting a pension to Mrs. Lillian A. Grierson, widow proposed treaties of arbih·ation between the United States, of the late Gen. B. H. Grierson, which was referred to the Com­ Great Britain, and France, which I ask may lie on the table. mittee on Pensions. A number of these petitions are from church organizations in He also ·presented petitions of the Retail 1.Ierchants' A so­ my State favoring the arbitration treaties. I also present a ciation of East St. Louis, of the Lumbermen's Credit Associa­ lengthy petition from my own city, transmitted by the pastor tion of Chicago, and of the Peoria .Association of Commerce, all of the Second Congregational Society of Concord, Unitarian, in the State of Illinois, praying for the adoption of a 1-cent ratl' with a brief letter, which I ask permission to read: of postage, which were referred to the Committee on Post Offices I inclose a petition to the Senate on 15 sheets of paper, signed by and Post Roads. 1 5 citizens of Concord, asking for the passage of the proposed arbi­ He also presented a petition of the Retail Grocers' Associa­ tr:.i tion treaties with France and Great Britain, as presented by Presi­ tion of Springfield, 111., and a petition of sundry citizens of dent Taft. Most of the signers are men, and I need not call your attention to any particular signatures. since many of them are well Noble, Ill., praying for the reduction of the duty on raw and known to you. We have not had time to circulate these petitions refined sugars, which were referred to the Committee on widely; all who sicrned came forward voluntarily to do so. Finance. Hoping that the arbitration treaties are to have your support and that of your colleague, Senator IlURXHA.111, and that they will pass the He also presented a petition of Cigar Makers' Local Union Senate successfully, and wishing you a happy New Year, No. 191, of Morris, Ill., praying for the enactment of legislation 1 am, sincerely, yours, to exempt from internal-revenue tax cigars supplied. employee~ SYDNEY B. Sxow. by the manufacturers thereof, which was referred to the Com­ Mr. President, in connection with these petitions I will \en­ mittee on Finance. ture to express the hope that those important treaties will soon ·He also presented a petition of the officers of the First Na­ be placed before the Senate for consideration and final action. tional Bank, the Canton National Bank, and the First State The VICE PRESIDENT. The petitions will lie on the table. Bank & Trust Co., 'all of Canton; in the State of Illinois, p.a:ay­ l\Ir. GALLINGER presented a petition of the Cheshire County ing for the repeal of section 13 of the postal-savings system, re­ .Automobile AEsociation, of Keene, N. H., praying that an ap­ lating to maximum deposits, which was referred o the Com­ propriation be made for the construction of a highway from mittee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Washington, D. C., to Gettysburg, Pa., as a memorial to Abra­ He also presented a petition of the Official Board of the ham Lincoln, which was referred to the Committee on Appro­ l\lethodist Episcopal Church, of Nokomis, Ill., praying for the priations. ratification of any fair and reasonable treaty looking towru·d He also presented a memorial of the Boot and Shoe Workers' the disarmament of nations and the settlement of international • Local Union of .Manchester, N. H., remonstrating against the disputes by means of arbitration, which was referred to the reduction of the duty on finished leather, which was referred to Committee on Foreign Relations. t11e Committee on Finance. He also presented memorials of sundry citizens of Bryant, He also presented a memorial of members of the Grand Army Chicago, Chatsworth, Filson, Nashville, and Mount Pulaski, all of the Republic, Department of Maryland, remonstrating against in the State of Illinois, remonstrating against the extension of the incorporation of the Grand Army of the. Republic, which the parcels-post system beyond its present limitations, which . was referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. were referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. He also presented a petition of the Rockingham County Wo­ He also presented petitions of Local Union No. 2 2, American m~:m's Christian Temperance Union, of New Hampshire, pray­ Federation of :Musicians of Alton; of Local Division No. 315, ing for the adoption of an amendment to the Constitution to Brotherhood of Locomoti"rn Engineers, of Clinton; and of tbe establish national prohibition, which was referred to the Com­ Chicago Woman's Aid, all in the State of Illinois, praying for mittee on the Judiciary. the repeal of the oleomargarine law, which were referred to He also presented the petition of Charles W. Morrill, of the Committee on Agriculture and Foresb·y. Nashua, N. H., praying for a reduction of the duty on sugar, He also presented memorials of the Trade and Labor Council which was referred to the Committee on Finance. of Danville, Ill., and of Local Lodge l\o. 10943, Tin, Steel, Iron, He also presented a memorial of Boot and Shoe Workers' and Granite Ware Workers, of Granite City, Ill., remonstrating Local Union No. 28, of Manchester, N. H., and a memorial of against the abolishment of the hand-roller proce s of manu­ the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, facturing paper currency, which were referred to the Committee l\o. 1673, of Somersworth, N. H., remonstrating against the on Printing. abolishment of the hand-roller process of manufacturing paper He also presented a petition of sundry members of the Tilinois currency, which were referred tp the Committee on Printing. National Guard, of Sullivan, Ill., praying for the enactment of Mr. CULLOM presented petitions of the Chicago Association legislation regulating the pay of the Organized filitia, which of Commerce, of Illinois; of the Plymouth Commercial Club, of was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Massachusetts; of the Chamber of Commerce of Sacramento, He also presented a petition of sundry citizens of Jackson­ Cal. ; and of the Chamber of Commerce of Baltimore, 1'Id., ville, Ill., praying for the enactment of legislation to prohibit praying that an appropriation be made for the construction of the manufacture of white phosphorus matches, which was re­ buildings for .American representatives at Mexico, Rio Janeiro, ferred to the Committee on Finance. and Tokyo, which were referred to the Committee on Foreign He also presented a petition of sundry citizens of Chicago, Til., Relations. pTaying for the enactment of legislation to better the condition He also presented petitions of members of the Grand Army of American seamen, which was referred to the Committee on of the Republic of Ottawa; of T. Lyle Dickey Post, No. 105, Interstate Commerce. Grand .Army of the Republic, of Pontiac; of Post No. 155, Grand Army of the Republic, of Delavan; of William B. He also presented a petition in the form of a resolution Archer Post, No. 119, Grand Army of the Republic, of Marshall; adopted by the congregation of the Church of Christ (Dis­ ciples) of Eurelrn, m., praying for the passage of an interstate of Po~t No. 797, Grand Army of the Republic, of Herrin; and of Post No. 271, Grand Army of the Republic, . of Charleston, liquor law to prevent the nullification of State liquor laws by all in the State of Illinois, praying for the passage of the so­ outside dealers, which was referred to the Committee on the called dollar-a-day pension bill, which were referred to the Judiciary. Committee on Pensions. l\fr. WARREN presented memorials of Local Union No. 23R5, He also presented petitions of sundry citizens of Eureka, United 1\Iine Workers of America, of Hanna; of Local Union Crescent City, Joy, Sumner, Chicago, Farina., and Streator, all No. 2572, of Sublet; and of Local Union Ko. 4GV, United in the State of Illinois; of Lynn and Plymouth, in the State of Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, of Cheyenne, Massachusetts; of West Concord, N. H.; New Haven, Conn.; Wyo., remonstrating against the abolishment of the so-called P~9vidence, R. I.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; and of Los Gatos, Pasadena, . J:iand-roller process of manufacturing paper currency, which Oakland, lledlands, San Bernardino, and East Oakland, all in were referred to the Committee on Printing. 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 613

Mr. BRISTOW presented a petition of sundry citizens of fication of reciprocal trade relations with the Dominion of Conway, Kans., praying for the enactment or an interstate Canada, which was referred to the Committee on Finance. liquor law to prevent the mffiification of State liquor laws by He also presented a petition of the State Grange, Patrons of outside dealers, which was referred to the Committee on the Husbandry, of Rhode Island, praying for the enactment of Judiciary. legislation providing for an inspection of all nursery stock im­ He also presented petitions of sundry citizens of Pomona and ported from foreign countries, which was referred to the Com­ Oswego, in the•State of Kansas, praying for the passage of the mittee on Agriculture and Forestry. so-called dollar-a-day pension bill, which were referred to the He also presented a petition of the Woman's Christian Tem­ Committee on Pensions. perance Union of Providence, R. L, praying for the ratification He also presented a petition of sundry citizens of Conway, of the proposed arbitration treaties between the United States, Kans., and a petition of the congregation of the First Presby­ Great Britain, and France, which was ordered to lie on the terian Church of l\finneapolis, Kans., praying for the ratifica­ table. tion of the proposed treaties of arbitration between the United He also presented a petition of the congregation of the First States, Great Britain, and France, which were ordered to lie Presbyterian Church, of Providence, R. I., and a petition of on the table. the congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Newport, R. r., He also presented a petition of sundry citizens of Ottawa, praying for the enactment of an interstate liquor law to prevent Kans., praying for the establishment of a parcels-post system, the nullification of State liquor laws by outside dealers, which which was refw'red to the Committee on Post Offices and Post were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Roads. He also presented a petition of the Rhode Island Business He also presented a memorial of the Retail Merchants' Asso­ :Men's Association, praying that an appropriation l>e made for ciation of Wellington, Kans., and a memorial of sundry citizens the further improvement of the harbor of refuge at Point of l\1ulvane, Kans., remonstrating against the extension of the Judith, in that State, which was referred to the Committee on parcels-post system beyond its present limitations, which were Commerce. referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post RoadB. Mr. GRONNA presented memorials of sundry citizens of He also presented a petition of the Great Council, Improved Jamestown and Carnlier County; of the Woman's Club of Bot­ Order of Red l\Ien, of Kansas, praying that an appropriation be tineau; and of the Rosenfeld SeYenth-day Adventist Church, of made for the erection of an Indian memorial building and mu­ Heaton, all in the State of North Dakota, remonstrating against seum, which was referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. the enactment of legislation compelling the observance of Sun­ He also presented a petition of sundry citizens of Highland day as a day of rest in the District of Columbia, which were Township, Kans., and a petition of sundry citizens of Lime­ ordered to lie on the table. stone Township, Kans.. praying for the enactment of an inter­ Mr. NELSON. I present a joint resolution adopted by the state liquor Jaw to prevent the nullification of State liquor laws Legislature of Minnesota, which I ask may be printed in the by outside dealers, which were referred to the Committee on REcoRD and refened to the Committee on the Judiciary. Interstate Commerce. There being no objection, the resolution was referred to the hlr. ROOT presented petitions of sundry citizens of New Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed in the • York, praying for the enactment of legislation favoring the di­ RECORD, as follows : vision of the northern judicial district in that State, which were Joint resolution 4. Whei-eas it is the practice of the United States circuit courts to referred to fhe Committee on the Judiciary. enjoin State officers from the enforcement of State statutes and the He also presented petitions of the Chamber of Commerce, toe orders of State officers made· in pursuance of authority vested in them Park Baptist Church, the First Baptist Church, and the Hed­ by State statutes in action brought by citizens of other States and for­ eign corporations, claiming that the laws of the States or the orders of ding Methodist Episcopal Church, of New York City; the State officers confilct with the Federal Constitution; and Duryea Presbyterian Church, of Brooklyn, and of sa:ndry citi­ . ~hereas th~ courts of the several States of the Union have juris­ zens of Rochester, all in the State of New York, praying for diction both rn law and equity to protect every interest ~uaranteed either by the Constitution and laws of the State or of the United States. the ratification of the proposed treaties of arbitration between It is the opinion of the Legislature of the State of Minnesota that the United States, Great Britain, and France, whicll were State laws should be construed and the legality of the acts of State ordered to Jie on the table. officers under State laws should be passed on by State courts before they are declared unconstitutional and their enforcement prevented by He also presented memorials of sundry citizens of Almond, Federal authority. If the decision of the highest court of the State Buffalo, and Vernon, all in the State of New York, remonstrat­ is unsatisfactory, the party feeling aggrieved can remove the case to ing against the establishm~nt of the so-called parcels-post sys­ the United States Supreme Court, which will review any Federal ques­ tion that may be involved and protect the interested parties against tem beyond its present limitations, which were referred to the the infringement of any rights they may have under the Federal Con­ Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. stitution; and He also presented petitions of the editors of the Literarl'· Whereas the views above expressed have the sanction of the National Convention of Attorneys General and the National Convention of Rail· Digest and the firm of Funk & Wagnalls, of New York City, road Commissioners, and each of these associations have requested N. Y., and of sundry citizens of New Rochelle, N. Y., praying Congress to pass laws in accordance therewith: Therefore be it for the establishment of the so-called parcels-post system, which Resoh;ecl by the Tiouse of nmresentatives (the senato concurring), That Minnesota's Senators and Representatives in Congress are re­ were referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. guested to secure such laws as will prevent the Federal courts from en­ He also presented memorials of sundry citizens of Elmira, joining State officers from enforcing State statutes or orders of State Watertown, Lakeport, Avoca, The Bronx, Brooklyn, and Adams officers made pursuant to State laws before the same have been passed on in State courts, leaving the United States Supreme Court to correct Center, all in the State of New York, remonstrating against any decision of the State court that, in its opinion, interferes with the the enactment of legislation compelling the observance of Sun­ Constitution or the laws of the United States. day as a day of rest in the District of Columbia, whic:h were April 19, 1911. ordered to lie on the table. Mr. NELSON presented petitions of the Woman's Christian He also presented petitions of the Chamber of Commerce and Temperance Union of Minneapolis, Minn., of sundry citizens of the Board of Trade of New York City, N. Y., praying for the Thief River Falls, Minn., and of sundry citizens of Nashville, ratification of the so-called Nicaraguan and Honduran treaties, Tenn., praying for the enactment of an interstate liquor law which were referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. to prevent the nullification of State liquor laws by outside He also presented memorials of sundry citizens of :Marlboro, dealers, which were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. North Cohocton, and Jefferson County, all in the State of New He also presented memorials of the W1ight-Clarkson Mer­ York, remonstrating against the interstate transportation of in­ cantile Co., of Duluth, and of sundry citizens of Gary, Calla­ toxicating liquors into prohibition districts, which were re­ way, and Red Lake Falls, all in the State of l\Iinnesota, re~ ferred to the.Committee on the Judiciary. monstrating against the extension of the parcels-post system He also presented a petition of the International Reform beyond its present limitations, which were referred to the Corn~ Bureau (Inc.), of Washington, D. C., praying for the enactment mittee on Post Offices and Post Roads. of legislation to prohibit Unlted States attorneys from engag­ He also presented a petition of the St. Paul Association of ing in private practice, which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, of Minnesota, and· a petition of sundry .citizens of the Judiciary. Minnesota, praying for the ratification of the proposed treaties Mr. WETMORE presented a petition of members of the of arbitration between the United States, Great Britain, and Fortnightly Club, of Providence, R. I., praying for a reduc­ France, which were ordered to lie on the table. tion of the duty on sugar, which was referred to the Committee He also presented a petition of the Minneapolis Retail Gro~ on Finance. · cers' .Association, of Minnesota, praying for a reduction of the He also presented a petition of the State Grange, Patrons of duty on raw and refined sugars, which was referred to the Husbandry, of Rhode Island, praying for the establishment of Committee on Finance. a parcels-post system, which was referred to the Committee on Mr. BRANDEGEE presented a petition of John Hay Lodge, Post Offices mid Post Roads. No. 61, Knights of Pythias, of Hartford, Conn., praying for the He also presented a memorial of the State Grange, Patrons of abrogation of the treaty of 1832 between the United States and Husbandry, of Rhode Island, remonstrating against the rati- Russia, which was ordered to lie on the table. 614 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. J .A.NU.A.RY 3,

- He also presented petitions of the congregation of the Con­ Great Britain, and France, which were ordered to lie on the gregational Church of Pomfret; of the congregation of the table. Congregational Church of Orange; of New Haven County Mr. PERKINS presented petitions of sundry citizens of Oalr­ Pomona Grange, Patrons of Husbandry; of the Lafalot Club, of land, Mills College, Red Lands, San Bernardino, East Oakland, Hartford; and of sundry citizens of Deep River, all in the State San Francisco, Los Angeles, .Mendocino, Pasadena, San Jose, of Connecticut, praying for the ratification of the proposed Fowler, Auburn, and Palo Alto, all in the State of California, treaties of arbitration between the United States, Great Britain, praying for the ratification of the treaties of. arbitration be­ and France, which were ordered to lie on the table. tween the United States, Great Britain, and France, which He also presented a petition of the l\Iethodist Brotherhood were ordered to lie on the table. of Winstead, Conn., praying for the enactment of an interstate He also presented a memorial of sundry citizens of San liquor law to prevent the nullification of State liquor laws by Francisco, Cal., remonstrating against the extension of the outside liquor dealers, which was referred to the Committee parcels-post system beyond its present limitations, wllich was on the Judiciary. referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post noacls. He also presented a petition of the Pomona Grange, Patrons He also presented a memorial of the State Federation of · of Husbandry, of New Haven, Conn., and a petition of the State Labor of California, remonstrating against the establishment Board of Agriculture of Connecticut, praying for the establish­ of the so:.Called Taylor system of shop management in United ment of a parcels-post system, which were referred to the States navy yards, which was referred to the Committee on Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Naval Affairs. · Mr. SWANSON presented memorials of sundry citizens of He also presented a memorial of the Institute of Art of San Dungannon, Jonesville, and St. Charles, all in the State of Francisco, Cal., remonstrating against the construction of a Virgini::i, remonstrating against the extension of the parcels­ highway from Washin;:ton, D. C., to Gettysburg, Pa., as a post system beyond its present limitations, which were referred memorial to Abraham Lincoln, which was referred to the Com­ to tlle Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. mittee on Appropriations. l\Ir. BOUR~ E submitted sundry papers to accompany the bill He also presented memorials of sundry citizens of Janesvi11e, (S. 3330) granting a pension to Harry Colpus, which were re­ Arroyo Grande, San Francisco, and Skidoo, all in the Stn tc of ferred to the Committee on Pensions. California, remonstrating against the enactment of legislation Mr. HITCHCOCK presented a memorial of sundry citizens of compelling the observance of Sunday as a day of rest in the Omaha, Nebr., and a memorial of the Central Labor Union of District of Columbia, which were ordered to lie on the table. Lincoln, Nebr., remonstrating against the extension of the He also presented memorials of sundry citizens of Los An­ parcels-post system beyond its present limitations, which were geles and San Francisco, in the State of California, remonstrat­ referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. ing against the abolishment of the hand-roller process of manu­ Mr. BROWN presented a petition of Local Union No. 143, facturing paper currency, which were referred to the Committee Cigar :Makers' International Union of America, of Lincoln, Nebr., on Printing. praying for the enactment of legislation authorizing the reor­ He also presented a petition of the Chamber of Commerce ganization of the American Tobacco Co., which was referred to of San Francisco, Cal., praying that an appropriation be made the Committee on the Judiciary. for the improvement of the rivers and harbors in that State, Ile also presented affidavits in support of the bill ( S. 3412) which was referred to the Committee on Commerce. to grant an increase of pension to· Samuel R. Vose, which were He also presented resolutions adopted by the Chamber of referred to the Committee on Pensions. eommerce of San Francisco and the Chamber of Commerce of He also presented.affidavits in support of the bill (S. 3417) Oakland, in the State of California, favoring the adoption of granting an increase of pension to l\Iyron Richards, which the recommendations proposed in the report of the California were referred to the Committee on Pensions. Debris Commission, which were referred to the Committee on He also presented an affidavit in support of the bill (S. 3946) Commerce. granting an increase of pension to Charles A. Sargent, which l\fr. 1\fcLEAN presented petitions of sundry citizens of Deep was referred to the Committee on Pensions. River; of the Congregational Church of Orange; the Congre- He also presented affidavits in support of the bill ( S. 3821) . gational Church of Pomfret; and the Wethersfield A.-enue Con­ granting an increase of pension to George A. Wilcox, which gregational Chureh, of Hartford, all in the State of Connecti­ were referred to the Committee on Pensions. cut; and of the Clothiers' Association of New York City, He also presented affida"Vits in support of the bill ( S. 3822) praying for tlle ratification of the treaties of arbitration be­ granting a pension to Allison Olinger, which were referred to tween tlle United States, Great Britain, and France, which the Committee on Pensions. were ordered to lie on the table. . He also presented affidavits in support of the bill ( S. 3825) He also presented petitions of sundry citizens of Waterbury, granting an increase of pension to Perry L. Sargent, which Winsted, Torrington, Stamford, Wallingford, Hartford, Wil­ vere referred to the Committee on Pensions. limantic, and Windsor Locks, all in the State of Connecticut, l\Ir. CURTIS presented a petition of sundry citizens of Ot­ praying for the construction of a highway from Washington, tawa, Kans., praying for the establishment of a parcels-post D. C., to Gettysburg, Pa., as a memorial to Abraham Lincoln, system, which was referred to the Committee on Post Offices which were referred to tlle Committee on Appropriations. and Post Roads. He also presented a petition of the Board of Trade, of Hart­ He also pre ented a memorial ·of sundry citizens of Pomona, ford, Conn., praying for the establishment of the so-called par­ Kans., remonstrating against the enachnent of legislation com­ cels-post system, which was referred to the Committee on Post pelling the obserrnnce of Sunday as a day of _rest in the Offices and Post Roads. District of Columbia, which was ordered to lie on tlle table. He also presented memorials of Local Union No. 84, Interna­ He also presented petitions of sundry veterans of the Civil tional Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees of the United War, residents of Oswego; of ·l\1cPherson Post, No. 87, Grand States and Canada, and of Local Union No. 453, Brass and Army of the Republic, Department of Kansas, of McPherson; Aluminum _Molders, of Hartford, Conn., remonstrating against and of Harper Post, Ko. 251, Grand Army of the Republic, De­ the abolishment of the hand-roller process of manufacturing partment of Kansas, of Harper, Kans., praying for the passage paper currency, which were referred to the Committee on of the so-called dollar-a-day pension bill, which were referred Printing. to the Committee on Pensions. · He al o presented a petition of sundry citizens of Seymour, He also presented a iJetition of the Synod of the United Pres­ Conn., praying for a reduction of the duty on sugar, which was byterian Church of Kan as, praying for the ratification of the referred to tbe Committee on Finance. proposed treaties of arbitration between the United States, He also presented a petition of the Savings Bank Association Great Britain, and France, which was ordered to lie on the of New Town, Conn., praying for the adoption of the recom­ table. mendations of the Hadley Commission's Report on the Yaluation He also presented memorinls of sundry citizens of Welling­ of railway investments, which wus referred to the Committee ton, Uul\ane, and Whe:iton, all in the State of Kansas, re­ on Interstate Commerce. monstrating against the extension of the parcels-post system Mr. POllERENE presented petitions of sundry citizens of beyond its present limitations, which were referred to the Com­ Concord and Marion, in the State of Ohio, praying for the en­ mittee on Post Offices and Post Roads. actment of legislation to regulate the interstate transportation l\fr. BRADLEY presented petitions of the faculties of George­ of intoxicating liquors, which were referred to the Committee town College, of Central College, of Central University, of on the Judiciary. We leyan College, of the congregation of St. Mark's Protestant He also presented a petition of the Westminster Brothcl'hood, Clmrcb, of Louis;-ille, and of sundry citizens of Louisville and of Hamilton, Ohio, and a petition of the congreO'ation of the Glendale, all in the State of Kentucky, praying for the ratifica­ Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, of Cincinnati, Ohio, pray­ tion of the treaties of arbitration between the United States, ing for the enactment of an interstate liquor law to prevent the 1912. .CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE. 615

feasting on the best turkey Rhode Island had ever grown, and Admiral nullification of State liquor laws by outside liquor dealers, which Evans's fleet of 14,000 men were feasting on a ship load of turkeys at were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. the Isle of Trinidad-sent ahead to meet them-with cranberry sauce, He also presented memorials of sundry citizens of Coshocton, cigars, and a feast in every respect. Not a sign of that day's national bird, turkey, was to be seen on the home tables, but greasy pork in­ Columbus, Cleveland, Steubenville, Hamilton, Youngstown, Day­ stead; miserable coffee served in quart bowls that required both hands ton, Sandusky, East Li.verpool, Akron, Alliance, and Toledo, all to lift to the mouth, and only 15 minutes allowed to gulp down this in the State of Ohio, remonstrating against the abolishment of " Christmas dinner," as another twelve hundred were waiting massed on the outside. I asked the President at that time to send a trusted agent the hund-roller process of manufacturing paper currency, which to report to me in Los Angeles, where, without publicity, I would be were referred to the Committee on Printing. able to summon many men whose word was as good as ever spoken, He also presented petitions of sundry citizens of New Phila­ and I felt that their testimony, sworn to if deemed necessary, would convince him that a change of the entire board of managers would be delphia, Columbus, and Dayton, all in the State of Ohio, pray­ justifiable. Instead of taking my earnest advice, without even acknowl­ ing for the repeal of the oleomargarine law, which were referred edging my letter, he sent it direct to Taft, then Secretary of War, and to tile Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. he sent it on to tbe board of managers at 346 Broadway, 'ew York, when they at once sent it to Col. La Grange, the then governor of the He also presented petitions of sundry citizens of Cleveland, Sawtelle Home, and nothing was accomplished. After that I learned Ohio, praying for the enactment of legislation to better the that the War Department would send out an inspector and I requested condition of American seamen, which were referred to the that be report to a committee of veterans in Los Angeles for the same purpose. He came; we called hlm up on the phone after be had gone Committee on Commerce. from the Alexandria Hotel to the national home, and he then, finding Ile also presented petitions of sundry citizens of Cle,eland, himself cornered, promised to meet us at the offico of Dr. Case, in Coh1mbus, and Mansfield, a.11 in the State of Ohio, praying for Los Angeles, that evening at 7, but while we waited at Comrade Dr. Charles El. Case's office until after D, he finally phoned us that he, "~1aj . the adoption of a 1-cent rate of postage, which were referrefl firewster," assistant inspector, United States Army, baa decided not to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. to take uny testimony o:.itside the .s"Oldiers' home, and . took hls de­ He also presented petitions of sundry citizens of Lore City, parture for another like inspection at the Leavenworth Home, but, Bucyrus, Selma, Clarke County, Paulcling, Ashley, Cincinnati, Comrade Senator, I afterwards was shown bis i·eport to the board of general managers~ then on file at their offices at 346 Broadway, Tew Toledo, Hamilton, Rio Grande, Portsmouth, West Salem, Tiro, York, in which he deliberately stated that he had waited for the Springfield, Wooster, Bellaire, and Nelsonville, all in the State committee at the Alexandria Hotel to produce their evidence for threi> of Ohio, praying for the ratification of the proposed h·eaties hours and no one appeared. A deliberate falsification, for tbe under­ standin~ was clear that we were to meet him at 415~ Spring Street, of arbitration between the United States, Great Britain, and at Dr. Case's office, and we were there waiting with several inmates of France, which were ordered to lie on the table. the home, who had come in at our request, to give their testimony. No inyestigation can be s lccessfully made within the home ~rounds for Ile also presented petitions of sundry citizens of Long Bot­ the simple reasi:m that any man who was induced to testify against tom, New Lexington, .Middleport, Toledo, Somerton, Washington­ the present management would be "'given the gate" as soon as the ville, .Mansfield, Atwater, Bryant, Cadiz, Norwalk, Shreve, Mc­ investigation wa.s ended. So if a congressional investigation is ordered the committee should act entirely independent of the home mana;;ement Conuels-rille, Belmore, and Greenville, all in the State of Ohio, by summoning or inviting inmates to appear before them outside the praying for the establishment of a parcels-post system, which grounds of each of the several national homes, and possibly also accept­ were referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. ing the cooperation of a self-constituted committee of loyal veterans not inmates in the several cities near "hich the several homes are He also presented petitions of sundry citizens of Columbus, located. Athens, Cincinnati, Dayton, Newark, Cleveland, and Springfield, A short time ago Senator PERKINS, of this State, offered to sell all in the State of Ohio; praying for the construction of a high­ his ranch 01· fa.rm property, consisting of 27,000 acres, lying in Santa way from Washington, D. C., to Gettysburg, Pa., as memorial Barbara and San Loms Obispo Counties, at only $16 an acre, which a ould make a most admimble tract for a colony of veterans and their to Abraham Lincoln, which were referred to the Committee on descend:rntR, cut up into 5, 10, or 20 acre tracts as each sized family Appropria. tious. would justify, and if this was secured and the dollar-a-day pension of (Sherwood) bill passed several thousand inmates of the so-called He also presented petitions sundry citizens of Ashland, national homes would be able and glad to avail themselves of such nn Ohio, praying for the enactment of legislation providing for opportunity, and from their savings could pay fol" a home in such a the pay of members of the ?\ational Gua.rd, which were 1eferred colony at its actual cost. I have no idea of advocating any specula­ to the Corumittee on l\Iilitary Affairs. · tion, I assure you, at the expense of my comrades, and, if in my powel·, as I told Senator PERKINS in October while in Frisco, I would buy Ile also presented a petition of the Council of Administration, his ranch and devote the balance of my life to building up a monu­ Department of the Grand Army of the Republic, of Columbus, ment to patriotism with my comrades of the Civil n'"ar, theil· and my Ol;lio, praying for the pas age of the so-called dollar-a-day sons and daughters settled happily together as its foundation, that the whole outside world would admire and only sorry they were not pension bill, which was referred to. the Committee on Pen­ able to participate in. sions. I am still blessed with perfect health and would gladly offer my He also presented a memorial of Youngstown Lodge, No. 136, services in any movement for the good of all, and with best wishes for a Meri:y Christmas in the Nation's fair Capital, I remain, Independent Western Star Order, of Ohio, remonstrating Very truly, yours in F. C. and L., against certain treatment accorded American citizens by the JORN Q. A. W ALK.EJt. Goyernment of Russia, which was ordered to lie on the table. P. S.-Your reply. to my telegram has just come to hand, and I still stand by my position that no more than two homes would be SOLDIERS' HOME AT SAN~A MONICA, CAL. necessary to house the infirm now inmates of all homes, if such an l\Ir. WORKS. I have a letter giving information about the ideal colony was open to them, and the majority receiving the full $30 per month. Again ·wishing you the compliments of the season, I management of the Soldiers' Home at Santa .Monica. I ask to rem~in, • have the letter and the paper attached printed in the RECORD Yours truly, J. Q. A. w. and referred to the Committee on l\Iilitary Affairs. :\Ir. S::\IOOT. ~ should like to ask the Senator from Califor­ NATIONAL SOLDIERS' Ho1rn, nia if he made a request in relation io the printing of illustra­ HAM.PTO::-i, VA., A.tt!]USt 11), 1910. tions. Is it a map or a diagram? DEAR Co~fRADE WALKER: As Comrade Glase kindly consented to answei: your letter, which was welcome and a surprise, as we under­ Th) VICE PRESIDENT. The request is to have the matter stood you had gona to New York, and when the other day I received printed in the RECORD. mail from Portsmouth, Va., with clippings of Wisconsin pape1·s, we l\Ir. WORKS. It is a letter and an extract ·from a letter. were at a loss · to know who sent them. Am always glad to receive news of Wisconsin, as I claim Wisconsin stands at the head of the list Mr. S~IOOT. An extract from a letter? in the great struggle. l\Ir. WORKS. Yes. We ar!' at present getting better grub. Mr. Glase and I alternate Mr. SMOOT. All right. each week in buying fruit and vegetables, to be used nearly each meal dUl"ing the week. We never touch the hash or bread puddmg or other . The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, the order will dishes that are prepared in home kitchen. In that way we get along be entered. fairly well, bot the fact is, no jail, poorhouse, or station house in The matter referred to is as follows: the United States would be guilty oi' setting up before prisoners what is put before us every day. It is an outrage on the name of soldiers' CALIFORNIA Co:-

By i\fr. WARREN: A bill (S. 4165) for the relief of E. N. Blackburn (with ac- A bill ( S. 4133) providing for the improvement of East and companying papers) ; and · South Roads into Yellowstone National Park; to the Committee A bill (S. 4166) for the relief of Lawson Reno, collector sec­ on Appropriations. ond district of Kentucky (with accompanying papers) ; to the A bill ( S. 4134) for the improYement of the roads on the Committee on Claims. Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming; to the Committee on A bill (S. 4167) granting an increase of pension to John C. Indian Affairs. Napier (with accompanying papers) ; A bill (S. 4135) granting a pension to Thomas Mooney (with A bill ( S. 4168) granting an increase of pension to Benjamin accompanying papers); and Richardson (with accompanying papers); A bill (S. 4136) granting an increase of pension to John H. A bill (S. 4169) granting an increase of pension to Alfred Mullison; to the Committee on Pensions. Robinson (with accompanying papers) ; By l\lr. BRANDEGEE: A bill (S. 4170) granting an increase of pension to William A bill ( S. 4137) granting a pension to Sarah C. Jaques ; Hill (with accompanying paper) ; A bill (S. 4138) granting an increase of pension to Joseph E. A bill (S. 4171) granting an increase of pension to James E. Ilawson; Kinnard (with accompanying paper) ; A bill (S. 4130) granting an increaae of pension to Leander A bill ( S. 4172) granting an increase of pension to Thomas Brown; and Dougherty (with accompanying paper); A bill ( S. 4140) granting an increase of pension to William A bill ( S. 4173) granting an increase of pension to Madison Gates; to the Committee on Pensions. Chapel (with accompanying papers) ; By Mr. GRONNA: A bill (S. 4174) granting an increase of pension to Virgie A bill ( S. 4141) to amend section 24 of the judicial code, ap­ Hamilton (with accompanying papers) ; and proved March 3, 1911; to the Committee on the Judiciary. A bill (S. 4175) granting an increase of pension to Laurentine A bill ( S. 4142) to amend section 9 of the act of June 25, V. Tarvin (with accompanying papers); to the Committee on 1910, entitled "An act to establish postal savings depositories Pensions. for depositing savings at interest with the security of tbe Gov­ SPECULATIOHS IN FABM PRODUCTS. ernment for repayment thereof, and for other purposes"; to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Mr. DAVIS. I introduce a bill which I ask may be read A bill ( S. 4143) granting an increase of pension to Ilobert twice by its title and lie on the table. I give notice that on Paisley (with accompanying papers); to the Committee on the 12th instant, immediately after the routine morning busi­ Pensions. ness, I shall ask leave to address the Senate on the bill. The bill ( S. 4104) to prohibit any person or corporation, for By l\Ir. GUGGENHEIM: themselves or for or in the interest of any other person or cor­ A bill ( S. 4144) to increase the limit of cost of the United poration, directly or indirectly, from delivering, receiving, or States post-office building at Greeley, Colo.; to the Committee transmitting, and from being interested in or aiding in any man­ on 'Public Buildings and Grounds. ner the receiving, delivering, or transmitting by mail, telegraph, A bill (S. 4145) granting a pension to Sarah A. Aiken (with accompanying papers) ; and telephone, or other means whatever, in any State, district. A bill (S. 4146) granting a pension to Mary C. Christensen country, Territory, or place over which the sovereigi:tty of the (with accompanying papers) ; to the Committee on Pensions. United States of Ameriec'l now exists, any message, information, By Mr. McLEAN: intelligence, letter, writing, card, device, sign, symbol, cipher, A bill ( S. 4147) granting an increase of pension to William or oth~: thing 1:7hatsoever the subject of the senses or any of them whereby intelligence or information may be conveyed or 'J'bomn.s (with accompanying papers) ; to the Committee on understood relating to· or in any manner or •form concerning Pen~oo& • · any transaction or proposed or i::uggested transaction, scheme, or By Mr. BORAH: plan to speculate or gamble, or gain or lose sums of money called A bill (S. 4148) to provide for the acquiring of title to public margins, which gains or losses, respectively, are made to de­ lands classified as and carrying phosphate deposits; to the pend upon the future increase or decrease of the market price .Committee on Public Lands. of nny product of the soil, provided that at the time of such A bill (S. 4140) to abolish certain ~i.:say charges; to the Cbm­ transaction, proposed transaction, scheme, or plan for so specu­ mittee on Standards, Weights, and Measures. lating or gambling any such product of the soil be tl:ie subject By Mr. NELSON: of interstate commerce or the subject of commerce from or by A bill (S. 4150) to place certain general officers of Volunteers and between the people of the United States of America and in the Civil War on the retired list of the Army ; to the Com­ the people of any foreign country, was read twice by its title. mittee on Military Affairs. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will lie on the table. .A bill ( S. 4151) to authorize the .Minnesota and International Railway Co. to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River RECIPROCITY WITH CAN.ADA. at or near Bemidji, in the State of Minnesota; to the Com­ Mr. HEYBURN. I ask that the bill (S. 3316) to repeal an mittee on Commerce. act entitled "An act to promote reciprocal trade relations with A bill ( S. 4152) to amend the pension laws of the United the Dominion of Canada, and for other purposes," be faken Stntes; to the Committee on Pensions. from the table and referred to the Committee on Finance. (By request.) A bill ( S. 4153) for the relief of the estate of The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, the bill will be Alton n. Dalrymple; to the Committee on Claims. referred to the Committee on Finance. By Mr. S~IOOT: PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL • .A bill ( S. 4154) granting an increase of pension to Robert G. Sleater (with accompanying papers); A message from the President of the United States, by l\Ir. A bill (S. 4155) granting an increase of pension to Alfred Latta, executiye clerk, announced that the President had ap­ Kent (with accompanying papers) ; proved and signed the following act : A bill ( S. 4156) granting an increase of penfilon to William On December 21, 1911: A. Clovis (with accompanying papers) ; S. 3842. An act to amend and reenact paragraph 24 of section A bill ( S. 4157) granting an increase of pension to Alexander 24 of chapter 2 of an act entitled -"An act to codify, revise, and Cowan (with accompanying papers) ; and amend the laws relating to the judiciary," approved March 3, A bill ( S. 4158) granting an increase of pension to Eli Ken­ 1011. dall (with accompanying papers) ; to the Committee on Pen­ sions. REPORT OF UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION ( H. DOC. NO. 148). A bill. ( S. 4:J.59) for the relief of F. l\I. Lyman, jr,. (with ac­ companying paper); to the Committee on Claims. The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the following By l\lr. BRADLEY : message from the President of the United States, which was A bill (S. 41GO) for the relief of Mrs. 1\1. B. Watson, widow of read, and, with the accompanying papers, referred to_the Com­ Thomas Watson (with accompanying papers) ; mittee on Civil Service and Retrenchment and ordered to ~e A bill ( S. 4161) for the relief of William A. Lamb (with ac­ printed: companying papers) ; To the Senate ancl House of Reprcsentati1/cs: A bill ( S. 4162) for the relief of Joshua Wyatt (with accom­ I transmit herewith, for the consideration of the Congress, panying papers) ; the Twenty-eighth Annual Ilep'ort of the United States Ch·il A bill (S. 4163) for the relief of C. H. Young (with accom­ Service Commission for the fiscal ye:ir ended June 30, 1011 . . panying papers) ; A bill ( S. 4164) for the relief of Joseph Lambert (with ac­ WM. H. TAFT. companying papers); THE WHI'l'E HousE, January 3, 1912. 618 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 3,

LAWS OF PORTO Ripo (s. DOO. NO. 239). NEW JERSEY. The VICE PRESIDEl~T laid before the Senate the following Alexander A. Yard to be postmaster at Farmingdale, N. J., in message from the President of the United States, which was place of William B. Goodenough, resigned. read, and, with the accompanying papers, referred to the Com­ NEW YORK. mittee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico and ordered to be printed: Charles Fewster to be postmaster at Ontario, N. Y., in place of Harvey 1\1. Selleck, resigned. To the Senate ana House of Representatives: OREGON. As required by section 32 of the act of Congress approved April 12, 1900, entitled "An act temporarily to provide revenues Charles Hines to be postmaster at Forest Grove, Oreg., in and a civil government for Porto Rico, nnd for other purposes," place of W. B. Haines, resigned. I transmit herewith certified copies of franchises granted by SOUTH CA.BOLIN A. the Executive Council of Porto Rico. which are described in Cecil S. Rice to be postmaster at DenmaJ:·k, S. C., in place of the accompanying letter from the Secretary of War transmit­ William F. Rice, deceased. ting them to me. Such of these as relate to railroad. street railway~ telegraph, and telephone franchises. privileges, or con­ cessions haYe been approved by me, as required by the joint CONFIRMATIONS. resolution of l\Iay 1. 1900 (31 Stat. L., 715). Exec1etive nominations confirmed by the Senate January S.19n. . \ WM. H. TAFT. PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY• THE WHITE HOUSE, January 3, 1912. Lieut. Commander William D. Brotherton to be a com- A.RBITRATION TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN. mander. l\lr. HITCHCOCK. Ur. President, I desire to give notice Lieut. Carleton n.. Kear to be a lieutenant commander. that to-morrow, or on the next legislative day, immediately Lieut. (Junior Grade) Harrny Delano to be a lieutenant. following the morning business, I shall address the Senate. if Second Lieut. Thomas E. Thrasher, jr., to be a first lieu- it will hear me, on the pending arbitration treaty with Great tenant in the Marine Corps. Britain. POSTMASTER. EXECUTIVE SESSION. TEXAS. :Mr. CULLOl\1. I think we ought haYe a brief executive ses­ Harry R. Gray, Bonham. sion. I therefore move that the Senate proceed to the considera­ tion of executiYe business. The motion "°as agreed to, and the Senate proceeded to the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. consideration of executive business. After 10 minutes spent in WEDNESDAY, January 3, 191B. executive session the- doors were reopened, and (at 12 o'clock and 83 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, The ·House met at 12 o"clock noon. • Thursday> January 4 1912, at 2 o'clock p. m. The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the fol­ 1 lowing prayer : Once more, Almighty God, in the onwaJ:'d sweep of time we NOMINATIONS. are brought to the beginning of a new year. Grant, 0 most Executive noniinations n:ceivecl by the Senate January• 3, 1912. merciful Father, that it may hold in its grasp something better, something purer, something nobler for all Thy children than SUPERVISL~G INSPECTOR, STEAMBOAT-INSPECTION SERVICE. any of its predecessors; that the oppressed everywhere may go Nils Bernard Nel on, of Ohio, to be supervising inspector, free; that the disparagements of life may give way to larger ninth district, Steamboat-Inspection Service. Department of faith, brighter hopes in the eternal verities. That the hearts Commerce and Labor, vice James Stone, deceased. o:f selfish and designing men may be melted into brotherly love. APPOINTMENTS A1fl) PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY. That the sanctity of human life may increase and murder cease to be. That the purity and sweetness of the home may grow Frederick C. Bowerfind, a citizen of .Michigan, to be an as­ apace and divorce become a thing of the past That secta­ sistant paymaster in the Navy from the 8th day of December, rianism may be lost in the universal brotherhood of man. That 1911, to fill a vacancy. creeds may be swallowed up in pure and undefiled religion. Lieut. Commander John F. Hines to be a commander in the That Thy kingdom which the devout of every age haYe prayed Nayy from the 14th dny of December, 1911, to fill a vacancy. for, longed fo1:, worked for, may indeed come and Thy will be First Lieut. Charle J. E. Guggenheim to be a captain in the done in every heart. In the Christ spirit to the honor and Marine Corps from the 19th day of December, 1911, to fill a glory of Thy holy name. Amen. vacancy. The Journal of the proceedings of Thursday, December 21, Second Lieut. Ernest A. Perkins to be a first lieutenant in the 1911, was read and approved. .Marine Corps from the 19th day of December, 1911, to fill a THE AUSTIN (PA.) DAM DISASTER. vacancy. The SPEAKER. The Chai!· wishes to announce that this is l\facbinist John B. l\Iartin to be a chief machinist in the Navy Calendar Wednesday. from the 27th dav of December-, 1911, upon the completion of 1\fr. OL1\1STED. l\1r. Speaker, I would like unanimous con­ six years' service 'as a machinist. sent to address the House for five or six minutes on a matter The following-named machi.n.ists to be chief machinists in the which in a certain way touches the honor of tlle State of Navy from the 1st day of January, 1912, upon the colbpletion Pennsylvania. of six. years• service as machinist.s: The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Pennsylrnnia asks Franz J. U. Parduhn, and unanimous consent to address the House for five or six minutes. Henry I. Edwards. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The Chair hears none. APPOINTMENTS IN THE ARMY. .Mr. OLMSTED. Mr. Speaker, my attention has been called INFANTRY ..urn:. to a Washington dispatch in tlle Pittsburgh Post, from which I Herbert Alonzo Wadsworth, of Idaho, to be second lieutenant read as follows : Representative WILLIA~I B. WILSON, of the fifteenth district,. which of Infantry, with rank from October 7, 1911. includes Potter County, where the Austin Dam disaster occurred, to-day Jonathan Waverly Anderson, midshipman, United States introduced a bill appropriating 750,000· out of the Federal Treasury NaYy, to be second lieutenant of Infantry, with rank from for the relief of the sufferers in Austin and the neh~bboring town of Costello . . Mr. WILSON said he bud been told, but had not had time to December 2, 1911. satisfy himself folly of the truth of the statement, tbat the State had POSTMASTERS. absorbed all but 30,000 of the fund collected by popular subscrip­ tion for the relief of the flood sufferers in cleaning away the debris COLORADO. and work of that kind. John E. Murphy to be postmaster at Holly, Colo., in place of My colleague [Mr. WILSON] has been imposed upon. What !Jardin C. McCreery, resigned. was told to him ha also been told to others. Such a statement ILLINOIS. does great injustice to the State of PennsylYan.ia and to her officials. It is utterly without foundation. There is no truth Ross 1\1. Taylor to be postmaster at Libertyville, Ill., in place in it. The simple fact is that certain charitable persons, not of Charles W. Taylor, deceased. knowing just where to send their contributions, sent them KENTUCKY. either to Gov. John K. Tener or to Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, health Vincent hl. Williamson to be postmaster at Hopkinsville, Ky., commissioner of Pennsylvania. EYery dollar thus contributed in place of John W. Breathitt, resigned. was turned over by those officials to Mr. N. N. Metcalf, chai,r- 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 619 man of the Austin relief committee. Not one dollar was "ab­ these lists, the baseless rumor of appropriation of private funds sorbed" by the State for any purpose whatever. The contribu­ for the uses of the State ought to go out of circulation. tions receiYed by Gov. Tener amounted to $562.66, and were as I am not opposing the bill introduced by my colleague for follows: the relief of the Austin sufferers. On the contrary, I shall be JamesFranklin B. ______Borland, manager Evening News Publishing Co., _ glad to cooperate with him in every way possible, for I ha·rn no $121. 50 doubt that the1·e is still suffering and distress in a communitY Filbert Paving & Construction Co .. Philadelphia ______100.00 Evening News Printing Co., Franklin ______100.00 where so many were suddenly rendered homeless. l\Iy purpose ' J. Fred Oste1·sock, Able Opera House, Easton ______81. 91 in making this statement is simply to place my Commonwealth J. B. Borland, manager, Franklin ______74.50 in the right light and to defend the State and the State admin­ C. D. Phipps, Rock Grove schools, Venango County, Franklin_ 25.50 William A. Leahy, secretary mayor of Boston, Boston, Mass __ 25. 00 istration from charges or insinuations which are utterly ground­ J. B. Borland, manager Evening Publishing Co., li'ranklin ___ _ 10.00 less. [Applause.] William A. Leahy, secretary mayor of Boston, Boston, Mass __ 10. 00 H. J. Auth, secretary and treasurer the Newark Star, Newark, MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. N. 7.25 John G.J------Quinn, Hutchinson, Kans------:------5.00 A message from the Senate, by Mr. Crockett, one of its cierks, E. D. Shelton, Hitchcock, Okla ______1. 00 announced that the Senate had passed bill of the following title, Russell W. Park, secretary, Easton ______1. 00 ---- in which the concurrence of the House of Representatives was Total------562.66 requested: This tota1 of $562.66 was transmitted to the relief committee, S. 3373. An act authorizing the construction of a bridge as I have stated, and I hold in my hand copies of the letter~ across the Connecticut River, in the State of Connecticut, be: of transmittal. tween the towns of East Haddam and Haddam. Contributions sent to Dr. Samuel G. Dixon were as follows: SENATE BILLS REFERRED. Wellsboro relief committee, Leonard Harrison, chairman____ $G25. 00 Citizens' permanent relief committee, Philadelphia______5, 000. 00 Under clause 2, Rule XXIV, Senate bills of the following Pittsb01·gh Austin relief fund, J>ittsburgh, Pa______2, 526. 99 titles were taken froi:n the Speaker's table and referred to their Milton relief fund, J. C. Linder, treasurer______700. 00 Rudolph Peterson, representing schools of Weissport, Clin- appropriate committees as indicated below: ton County, Pa ______10.50 S.125. An act to permit the American Academy in Rome to Cambria Steel Co., Johnstown, Pa ______1,000.00 enlarge its purposes, and for other purposes; to the Committee A. J. Selin, Cross Forks, l'a ______10.00 Citizens of Wilcox, Elk County, Pa ______1. 00 on the Library. Charles Wolf, mayor of Williamsport, Pa ______1,000.00 S. 305. An act for the erection of a statue of :Maj. Gen. John r.adies' relief commi~ee, St. Marys, Pa ______116. 75 Stark in the city of Manchester, N. H.; to the Committee on l\f. A. Grissinget', Hetrnat, Pa ______5. 00 H. G. Seelmg, Railroad, Pa ______25.00 the Library. · Borough schools, Sayre, ra ______90.00 S. 1655. An act appropriating $10,000 to aid in the erection of F. G. Hoagland, Henovo, Pa------13. 00 J. W. Cook, Pittsburgh, Pa ______25.00 a monument in memory of the Jate Presi.dent James A. Garfield Anonymous contribution ______101. 50 at Long Branch, N. J.; to the Committee on the Library. Annie Brindlinger, Iloyertown, l'a ______5.00 S. 275-0. An act to amend sections 90, 99, 105, and 186 in au Mrs. H. E. Obet·doril:, Hershey, Pa ______1. 00 Jas. D. Winsoi-, Haverford, Pa ______80. 00 act entitled "An act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relat­ Samuel Hartzel, McGee hlills, Pa ______10.00 ing to the judiciary," appro\ed .March 3, 1911; to the Committee II. D. Hoover and citizens of Portage, l'a ______38. 75 on the Judiciary. Receipts of Staff Dining Room, contributed by visitors get- S. 3211. An act authorizing the commission of ensign be given 1 72.38 10.00 midshipmen upon graduation from the Naml Academy; to the Aln~gpFirst National ~i>~ snerrick======Bank, of Mansfield, Pa ______12.00 Committee on Naval Affairs. Civic Club, Northumberland. Pa ______122.45 S. 3484. An act to authorize the construction of a bridge Elizabeth J. Quinton, Ed~e Hill, Pa ______5.00 Employees West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co., Williamsport, Pa_ 102.50 across the Snake River, between Walla Walla and Franklin Esher K. Smith. Harrisburg, Pa ______1. 00 Counties, in the State of Washington, by the Oregon-Washing­ Miss P. W. McK. Downs, Three Runs, Pa ______4.0.0 A. L. Garver, general manager, Roaring Springs, Pa ______15.00 ton Railroad & Navigation Co.; to the Committee on Interstate William Hazen, Evening Post (cashier), New York City, N. y_ 15.00 and Foreign Commerce. Mrs. P. E. Decker and citizens of Athens, Pa ______108.61 S. 3850. An act to promote efficiency and economy in the ad­ Victor Talbot and citizens of Port Angeles, Wash ______9.00 News Publishing Co., Shamokin, Pa ______37.00 ministration of the Navy Department; to the Committee on Joseph H. Young, 614 Perry Building, Philadelphia, Pa ____ _ 1. 00 Na\al Affairs. Anna S. Priestly, Northumberland. Pa ______. . 87 S. 3373. An act authorizing the construction of a bridge across Lena R. Harrison, secretary Ladies' Aid Society, Asbury the Connecticut River, in the State of Connecticut, bel\veen the Methodist Episcopal Chm~h, Doveri...,. DeL ______5.00 Maria Heywood Lewis, Philadelphia, l'a ______10. 00 towns of East Haddam and Haddam; to the Committee on P astime Amusement Co., J. Frank Clugstone, manager, Win- Interstate and Foreign Commerce. burne, ra ______24.53 ~uperintendent of General Electric Co. (to pay bill of SWEARING IN OF A MEMBER. Stephens Hardware Co., Emporium, Pa., for one barrel of gasoline) __ :. ______10.54 .Mr. SYLVESTER C. SMITH, of California, appeared at the bar J. C. Henry, treasurer, Aspinwall Lodge, No. 1133, I. 0. of the House and took the oath of office. 0. F., Aspinwall, Pa ______.:. ______5.00 Benj. N. Davidson, chairman of committee, Gulf Mills Chris- LEAVES OF ABSENCE. ti:m Church, Gulf Mills, Pa ______27.15 By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted as fol­ Total------~------11,982.54 lows: The entire sum of $11,982.54 was transmitted by Dr. Dixon To .Mr. BOEHNE, for five days, on account of sickness in fami1y. to Ur. l'\Ietcalf, chairman of the Austin relief committee, and To Mr. BucHANAN, for three days, on account of illness. I have received from the doctor a copy of his letter of trans­ WIT HD RA; WAL OF PAPERS. mittal. I know of my own knowledge that when the Austin disaster By unanimous consent, leave was granted to Mr. Fur.LE& occurred Gov. Tener acted with the utmost promptness and to withdraw from the files of the House, without leaving decision. I do not be1ie>e that any similarly appalling situa­ copies, papers in the case of Peter E. Luttrell, Sixty-first Con­ tion was ever handled better than that at Austin by Gov. Tener, gress, no adverse report having been made thereon. the health department, the adjutant general's department, and LAKES-TO-THE-GULF DEEP WATERWAY. the State police. Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to Under date of October 2 the .American Red Cross sent from have printed in the REcoRD as a part of my remarks a speech Washington to Gov. Tener the following telegram: delivered by l\fr. W. l\f. Wilson, .of Tennessee, on the "Lakes­ Our national director, who has returned to-day from Austin, rerort.s to-the-Gulf deep waterway." situation admirnbly in band under direction of Dr. Royer, the sanitary engineers, and constabulary. We congratulate Pennsylvania on th~ 'l'he SPEAKER. Is there objection? prompt and efficient manner in which it bas met this emergency. It is There was no objection. obvious that the assh:tance of the Red Cross is not at this time re- The speech of Mr. Wilson is as follows: S~~~?a ~~ferw~e;~y~~~~~~s oy~·~y~~i~ ithere;~~d ed~ t~ofe~~~fa&r~~P~i:Ti "LAKES-TO-THE-GULF DEEP WATETIWAY. upon us. "A· deep waterway from the Lakes to the Gulf is an economic All the assistance rendered by the State was paid for out of proposition, and when constructed will double the value of State funds. Not one dollar of this expense was kept out of Uncle Sam's big farm. It will open up the extensive deposits :my fund supplietributaries may empty their com­ charge that it has not received the contributions set forth in merce into the mother stream. 620 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 3,

"Appropriate another hundred millions or· more, if necessary, made and· is still making leaps and bounds for the commercial I• on the Erie Canal in order to accommodate the commerce still control of the Great Lakes; but . the ability of Uncle Sam and seeking an easteru outlet. This will satisfy New York and the wisdom of our representatives in the National Congress New England. forbid such an idea. " This proposed improvement along the Mississippi will en­ "The time for action is at hand, and the demand is.for no cotlrage the 60,000,000 occupants of the ceijtral portion of less than a 14-foot channel from the Lakes to the Gulf and Uncle Sam's domain to levee the rivers and drain the swamps in from the Lakes to the Atlantic via Erie Canal. It is true that their respective sections, which when completed will add nearly , it will cost many millions to accomplish this great task, but it one-third to the Nation's wealth, a.s for illustration, levee and will be- the best money,. considering the benefit to be derived, drainage districts. on the Kaskaskia and Illinois RiYers in Illi­ that the Nation could appropriate. nois and on the St. Francis River in Arkansas and. l\Iissouri '~ It will double in 10 years the factories between the eastern and on numerous other rivers in other States have been estab­ and western mountains. It will double the number of all other lished with perfect success, and many thousands of acres irr industries. each system assessed for taxes at the rate of from 50 cents to "A.long the Mississippi there will be competitive lines of $2 per acre is since reclamation assessed at from $10 to $50 steamers, both light and heavy drafts, from 100 to 150 feet in per acre. Again, a similar district to these mentioned has been length, carrying passengers, maiI, and freight from the Lakes organized in Obion County, Tenn., with the cost of reclamation ·by way of New Orleans and Panama to San Francisco and even estimated at $10 per acre, but when reclaimed this land will to Alaska, and return with fruits and other products of the be worth from $75 to $100 per acre. There are millions of coast. On her beautiful white steamers, as convenient and at­ acres of swamp lands in the Mississippi Valley a:s fertile as tractive as any that float the seas, the traveler will find more can be found anywhere upon the- earth, and with the coming of pleasures aud see more sights than in the whole of Europe. a deep waterway along the Mississippi these lands will rapidly " Gentlemen, I am not a prophet. I am not the seventh son give up their coat of filth and slime and become the finest farm of a seventh son, but I tell you that this waterway from the lands in America. Lakes to the Gulf is a certainty. It is but a stepping- tone in "The Lake -to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway Association is asking the destiny of this great Re!}ublic. the N'ational Congress to appropriate for a 14-foot channel from " Washingt0n and independence, Lincoln and the abolition of the Lakes to the Gulf the sum of $150,000,000, which sum if slavery, Roose~elt and the Pana.ma Canal, these names and appropriated will cost the people of the United States $1.50 per events, inseparable as they are, will go down in history and capita, estimating the population to be 100,000,000. When this will be read by the children of men as long as the ocean heaves channel is obtained, which it will be, it will involte the expendi­ her billows to the storm. The name of the next President of ture of perhaps $100,000,000 more to open a channel from Lake this Republic will go down in history with that of Washington, Superior through the main artery to the mouth of Illinois Lincoln, and Roosevelt, and with his memory forever will be River, whic'h sum will have to be met by five of' our States,. associated 'The Lakes to the Gulf deep· waterway.' one of whieh has already contributed $53,000,000 to the general " In this Ilepublic the Uississippi River holds the key to fund and shaking $20,000,000 more if you dare. which the finger of de tiny has pointed for a century. It was "All depends upon the action of the National Congress. We once our western boundary, but the waters of her western arms, cant straighten a bend on any of Uncle Sam's ri"rnrs without the great .Missouri and the Arkansas, washed down upon us the consent of Congress. Uncle Sam is even leasing one of his the soil of a great empire. We annexed it. The Red River children to widen the channel of Chicago River, notwithstand­ ca.me down upon us from :.Uexico, and we reached out and took ing the city of Chicago by the expenditure of thirty-odd mil­ in enough to make the State of Texas, leaving the rest far the lions has deepened the chaunel and saved from death and time being, but fate has dotted it with a star and sc1·olled it disease mrrny thousands of her citizens. . with a stripe. The La.kes to the- Gulf deep waterway will con­ "If Congress will cooperate with us in the development ot nect us with Ca.na.da, which nation, gentlemen, will some day the property of two-thirds of Uncle Sam's neglected children. be' a part of the domain of Uncle Sam. You can not avoid the the effect would be the production of food sufiicient to supply conclusion, for destiny has decreed that all nations and princi­ the world and take it to their doors by the water route at a palities touched by this mighty stream and its tributaries shall rate that would enable the non:producer to live at half the fl.oat one flag, and th.at the sovereignty of this Government shall present expense and furnish the hungry with three Equare extend from the .Arctic Ocean to the southern seas.'' meals 365 days a year as long as he remains between the At­ LOSS OF LIFE ALONG ATLANTIC COAST. lautic and the Pacific. The competitirn rates produced will enable the railroads to l\Ir. MOORE of Pennsylnrnia. .l\fr. Speaker, I ask unn.nimous carry the lar.gely increased volume of commerce and tra-vel at consent to print in the RECORD as a pa.rt of my remarks some gren tly reduced rates and make more money than ever before,. statistics with regard to 1-0Ss of life and property along the besides the money saved to the veople in rn,tes would more than Atlantic coast and to incorporate also an address mnde by me, pay annually the cost of construction. in the nature· ef an. argument, upon the same subject before "The small pittance of $150,000,000 Congress is asked to the Rivers and Harbors Congress. contribute to this cooperative fund for an enterprise of such The SPEAKER. Is there objectionr vit:il importance to the Nation is a small matter compared with There was no objection. the total amount of money that will be expended in deepening· . llfr. l\IOORE or Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, there is reason the 14-foot channel from the Lakes to the Gulf. Twenty-four to believe that within a few.days the War Department will sub­ feet is the ambition of the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterway mit to Congress a report upon the Atla.utic coastal project, whlch Association, and if this Rivers and. Harbors Congress will sec- many of us have been advocating as a means of promoting com­ ond the motion we will double, yes, treble, the $150,000,000' merce and of ~aving life and property along the Atlantic sea­ cooperatfrc fund. Cooperation is the main desideratum, and as board. After that report is presented we shall, of course, be the rive.rs and hrtrbors are own.ea and controlled bJ!' the Gov- obliged to- take up the question of. appropriations in order to ernrnent, the people can do nothing toward development with- make effective such recommendations of the Board of Engineers out the con.sent and cooperation at Uncle Sam. as may be considered with favor. The element of cost will un- " It will solve the great problemr 'the high eost of living.' donbtediy be raised by those who very properly consider the It will line the shores of every navigable rtrer with carriers ways and means of the Government,.but there is reason to be­ of commerce. It will convert the tens of millions of acres of Iieve that the opportunities and necessities of commerce, to­ swamp lands into fertile fields. rt will moYe by inexpensive gether with the life and salvage features of the enterprise, will carriers the phosphates from a.long the l\Iissouri, Tennessee, pro-re the project to be so meritorious as to justify the prompt and' Cumberland Rivers to the unproductive lands of New and cordial approval of Congress, at least in ma.king a. reason­ England and the Atlantic States, besides numerous other fer- able beginning_ tilizers of whi~ the Mississippi Valley abounds, and thus in- The past year has been one of unusual distress to- shipping crease the productive power of the Nation. to an enormous along. the .Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf, and as indicating the extent. danger and loss con.sequent upon actual busine s transacted: in " It will reduce· the expense ot operating railroads, factories, the open sea, in the absence of the inland wu terways we so etc., by furnishing fuel and raw material. earnestly espouse, I shall append to these remarl~s a. carefully "It will open the door of oppertunity to millions of am- prepared statement by the ·Philadelphia Inquirer; an influential l>itious young men to develop the vast and inexhaustible re- newspaper which has given much attention to waterways and sources of this great valley. It will furnish homes for the harbor improvements. The list of wrecks and disasters grouped poor, employment for the idle, and food for the hungry. in the Inquirer's article omits a number of recent ocean "It behooves our National Congress to look to the interest of tragedies, the result of the storms which have prevn.iled in the every part of Uncle Sam's big farm. Our neighbor, Canada, recent holiday season. I have in mind the incident of the with her 4,000 miles of southern boundary en our farm, has torpedo boat Warrington-valuable property of the Government 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 621 of the United States-the rescue of which by the revenue cutter The address before the Rivers and Harbors Congress was as Onondaga off Cape Hatteras was reported only a few days ago. follows: In times of peace it is sometimes a matter of wonder why " LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : First of all let me pay my tribute torpedo boats and other small naval craftt even though they to that indefatigable worker in the cause of waterways, the move from navy yard to navy yard along the coast, should take splendid Representative of the State of Louisiana, who sits in the risk of the open seat but the best answer perhaps is that Congress and serves faithfully upon the Rivers and Harbors whic:h a recent Secretary of the Navy made to an inquiry on Committee, whose honesty, industry, and lovable characteristics the subject. He said the department would gladly have sent have endeared him to us all, the probable next United States the four torpedo boats which were to be moved from the Phila­ SenatoF from Louisiana-the president of the National Rivers delphia Navy Yard to the navy yard at Charleston, through the and Harbors Congress. [Applause.] And notwithstanding his inland waterways, except for the fact that there was not suffi­ fine attributes of character, the remembrance of which we ought cient water in those waterways to accommodate them. Those to carry back into our respective States to hold as models for particular boats drew bnt 13 feet of water. Incidentally, it may those whom we would encourage in unselfish and patriotic be recalled that they had an experience outside of Cape Hat­ work, may I also say that in some respects Brother RANSDELL teras similar to that of the Warrington. The frequency with is the most arbitrary and the most exacting president of any which these small boats of the Government are found in dis­ convention I have had the honor to attend. [Laughter.] In tress at sea, with all consequent risk of life and property, point­ 20 minutes he proposes that one who has set his heart upon this edly raises the question whether the Government would not subject shall talk of a great policy, and add thereto a project, actually save money by opening the rivers and bays inland and both of which are nation wide in importance. Yet this is the keeping the small craft, when not engaged in warfare, safely dictum of the Chair, amiable as he is. within the danger line. "PROJECTS INSPir.E POLICIES. As to this I addressed a letter of inquiry to the Secretary of "We of the Atlantic seaboard agree with him and with the the Navy, ~rom whom the following reply has just been received: Rivers and Harbors Congress, over which he presides, in the DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY, Washingto.n, January !l, 191!. policy for which he and you have nobly fought during these MY DHAR CONGR.ESSM:AN: past years. We stand, as he and you do, for an annual appro­ I am in receipt or your letter of December 29, 1911, relative to the priation bill, and we do not want to see the limit set below rescue by the revenue cutter Onondaga of the crew of the torpedo-boat $50,000,000. [Applause.] destroyer Warrington. In reply, I beg to state that the account as "We want internal improvements and more of them, because published in the Washington Herald is substantially correct; the War­ t"fngton, which bad been at anchor for several hours, bad a portion of we believe that such improvements, whether they be in the her crew transferred to the Onondaga and was towed in.to Hampton form of railroads or whether they be the auxiliary and com­ Roads by the latter vessel. petitive means of transportation-the waterways of the collfr. The Warrillgt<:m was at sea with the ninth torpedo division, making try-mean that we shall make two dollars where we made one passag~ to New York, from whence she was to accompany the battle­ ships to Guantanamo Bay, taking part in maneuvers en route. The before; that we shall have two blades of grass where but one contract cost of the Warringto1i, which was completed October 1, 1910, grew before; and that we shall provide for the business man and was $664,000. the workingman of the country two opportunities for employ­ Faithfully, yours, G. v. L. MEYER. Hon. J. H.v.IPTO~ MOORE, M. C. ment where they had but one before. The results are inevitable House of Representatives, Washington. if we provide the me:rns. [Applause.] Another incident which induces me to call this matter to " In short, ours is a policy that stands for American prog­ the attention of the House is that of the grounding of the ress, and we of the Atlantie sea.board and you of the West haYe Atlantic City Transportation Co.'s steamer Alvlta outside of seldom been lacking in progress. But it is to be remembered the harbor of Atlantic City. Largely beeause of opportunities that the inspiration of every policy is a project; men are ani­ offered by inland waterways along the New Jersey coa~t the mated to stand together for the enforcement of a policy because Atlantic City Transportation Co. has put on steamships to do of the projects that are near and -dear to them, no matter business from New York to Atlantic City, and from Philadel­ whether they are purely commercial or whether they are pa.- # phia to Atlantic City via the Delaware Ri>er. '.rhe entrance triotic. [Applause.] to Atlantic City is effected by these steamers· by way of the " In the work of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress inlet at that place. The business had not been fairly estab· the policy that we are recommending, the policy for which we lished before one of the large vessels of the company went all stand, is a policy of progress in domestic commerce, and ashore a year ngo and became a total wreck. Since that time that spells American push and patriotism. [Applause.] the increasing business at the port of Atlantic City has clam­ " THE OLD COLONIAL AREA. ored for Government improv-ement to the channel leading to the "Through the courtesy of the Chair I am privileged to-day to city. Many of us who represent adjacent territory, and par­ talk of the project as well as the policy of the Atlantic seaboard. ticularly Congressman GARDNER, who represents the secono You hn.Ye heard something of the projects of the West and o! district of New Jersey, haye been appealed to in tMs mat­ the South and of the Great Lakes. You will hear more of these ter. I understand my distinguished colleague, who has l:ibored projects, and we wish them all well; but in the distribution of many years for Government aid on this part of the coast, had the resources of the country, in the disb.ibution of those funds but recently arranged for a hearing before the Rh·ers and which our wealth helps to create, we ask for the Atlantic sea­ Harbors Committee. While this matter was pending, on the board that consideration for its meritorious project which we e'. .;ning of the very last day of the year 1911-December would accord to every other worthy project, whether it mises 31-when rain and fog prevailed and the sea was nmning in the .Mississippi Valley, the Lakes to the Gulf, or the Pacific high over the bars of the inlet at Atlantic City, occurred an­ slope. [Applause.] We ask consideration and fair play. other b.'llgedy of the sea which, as an object lesson, would seem "Let me draw your attention to the old colonial area-that to make all other arguments for channel improvements pale of the 13 original States. There is much to be said for this into insignific:rnce. The steamship Alpha, also belonging to section of the country. The great West has been growing with the Atlantic City Transportation Co., went aground, and up rapid strides, and we have gloried in its development; but until this hour, though gallant efforts have been made to draw sometimes the thought arises that the activities of the West her off or save her cargo, she is still st1·anded, with prospects have led it to forget the East. We '"concede that the >oting of being a total "Teck. I shall append to the Inquirer's sum­ power of our population is now largely centered in the West, nmry of sea disasters a dispatch to the Philadelphia Record but be that as it may it should not be forgotten that we east describing the incident of the Alpha. I do not know how better of the Appalachian Chain have for upward of a century been to appeal to the consideration of the House than by presenting giving up to the Middle and extreme West the best red blood of these gruesome facts to its attention. . our American youth. [Applause.] Since the anticipated report of tile Government engineers " How many of you in your everyday struggles for business will doubtless occupy much of the attention of the Members vantage haye given a thought to the fact that while you have when fairly before the House, and by way of presenting some been cutting down your forests, tunneling your mountains, and of the arguments on behalf of inland waterways along the At­ building your railroads in order to secure our markets a.nd lantic coast which we believe to be timely and reasonable, I reach the Orient through the ports of the Pacific you have been shall, with your permission, append hereto an address by me making an immense draft upon us, both in men and in money? to the Rivers and Harbors Congress in December last where, · In spite of this and a constant proportionate loss of population as the pr'esident of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association, up until 1900, we have been pressing forward east of the Ap­ I was privileged to make a hurried statement of our case. ·palachin.n Chain; and during the last decade, closing with the I commend the facts presented in this address and tllose sub­ census of 1910, we have, despite neglected transportation op­ mitted in the newspaper clippings as a part of the data which portunities which have been seized largely in the West, actu­ may be useful when the time comes to. act upon the Atlantic ally been gaining upon the rest of the country in the matter of coastal project. population. Jt is because of this favorable change, as well as 622 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 3, the crudities and insufficiency of existing means of transporta­ of the total for the United States, we give employment to ap­ tion, that we ask recognition for our actual business necessities. proximately 60-I think it is actually 59-per cent of all wage " STAYING QUALITIES OF THE EAST. earners in the United States, and these wage earners, being " In the brief time allotted to me I propose to tell you some­ consumers, can not be disassociated from the food market or thing of the accomplishments of the firm and loyal men of the 'the bread basket' of the United States. Hence their relation East who have stood by their guns, doing the best they knew to other sections of the country with which their trade is how with the means at their command, while you have been effected. moving forward so rapidly in other sections of the country. I "GREAT BUSINESS-IlESTRICTED SEilVICE. doubt if any of you have even considered the problem of our "For our population of 37,000,000 the value of our manu­ area and population in the old colonial region east of the Ap­ factured products is $11,000,000,000, and to this we should add palachian Chain. How many people do you think now thrive a value of $4,700,000,000, created by-manufactures of products. in this section? 1.rhe last census, that of 1910, shows that we Our exports aggregate $1,000,000,000 and our imports $1,200,- have a ~population of 37,000,000 souls. That is more than one­ 000,000. I do not claim the exports and imports so enormously third of the entire population of the country; and how does it developed as exclusively belonging to the Atlantic seaboard, compare as to area? but I think it will not be controverted that while they may "In the whole United States proper-that is, without regard arise in all parts of the country, or in all parts of the world, to our new possessions-there are 02,000,000 people in an area tltey concentrate along the Atlantic seaboard and present to us of approximately 3,000,000 square miles. The census shows the tremendous problem of transportation and shipment, which that for the whole country there is a population of 31 persons must necessarily be acute at approaches to ports of entry. to every square mile. You have plenty of room west of the "And in this particular I lay special emphasis upon the fnct Appalachian Chain, but east of it we have only 375,000 square that while along our coast we have only 36 per cent of the miles of territory, and to each square mile we have a popula­ water-borne domestic freight of the country, we do all our tion of 99 persons. You will observe from these figures that we great business in the old Colonial area, with all sections of the are somewhat crowded along the Atlantic seaboard and are fo country and all parts of the world, upon only 23 per cent (or need of some of the facilities for transporting our commerce less than one-quarter) of the total· railroad mileage of the which you enjoy to a greater extent in other sections of the United States. In other words, in dealing with the transporta­ United States. tion question, you of the West and South who have more than " RAILROAD GROWTH OF THE WEST. three-fourths of the railroad mileage o·f the United States, "And I would like you to remember that while you have been should bear in mind when we ask for waterway improvements drawing upon our men and our resources, while you have been to relieve railroad congestion and to develop our TI"aste land building your towns and cities, while you have been absorbing that we are greatly handicapped, and ought to ham your your great western opportunities, while you have been gradu­ sympathy and support, since in area, at least, you ha-re seven­ ally, but surely, wresting the voting power from the East, the eighths of the country, as against our one-eighth, and 77 per old colonial area, which, when the first census was taken in cent of the railroads, as against our 23 per cent. [Applause.] 1790, embraced substantially all of the country's population of 4,000,000, is deserving the best consideration at your hands, " WEST GETS APPilOPRIA.TIONS. despite the fact that now but one-third of the total population " Earlier in to-day's discussion some one referred to appro­ of 92,000,000, great as the proportion is, continues to reside and priations for rivers and harbors, indicating that the United labor in the East. States had been fairly liberal in this regard. I ha·re some cal­ "And when I speak of our business necessities, compared to culations as to appropriations thus far made for all the rh-ers yours, I have reference to the growth of population in a city and harbors of the country, aud am advised that up until 1907, like St. Louis, which now claims to have exceeded Boston in the period of the car shortage, the Government had expended, population as well as in the manufacture of shoes, St. Louis all told, upon all its rivers and harbors $550,000,000. We were forging ahead with the assistance of 18 or 20 trunk-line rail­ told this morning that in comparison with appropriations made roads, keeping it in touch with the fuel supply and with e-very by some of the foreign countries our expenditures were fair. market of the country, and Boston, with its accredited clever­ Parenthetically I would say that if we spent so much as $550.- ness, bottled up on the New England coast., far awny from the 000,000 upon the waterways of the United States up until 1907, fael which is so essential to its industries, doing business by thu.t was $200,000,000 less than the single State of France the courtesy of two railroads, recently consolidated into one. spent upon its waterways since 1814, and you could put France And I may also have reference to the promising city of Seattle, inside the boundary lines of Texas. [Applause.] way out yonder on Puget Sound, the terminus of 7 or 8 great "But for ou1• purposes it is important you should know how railroad systems, with trans-Pacific liners thrown in, and my the $550,000,000 spent by this Government on internal impw\""e­ own city of Philadelphia, fa·e times greater in population, still ments was distributed. The table worked out about this way: holding its own with three railroad systems and a port-once Lakes-to-the-Gulf and :Mississippi area, in excess of $200,000,- the greatest in the country-full GO miles from the sea. If 000; the Atlantic seaboard, or old Colonial area, with which time permitted, contrasts innumerable might be cited to justify we are dealing, about $140,000,000; and the remainder to the Pacific coast and other sections of the country. That carried the call of the East for a more careful consideration of its us along until 1907. What has been done since that time? I transportation facilities. have before me now a report prepared for this Congress by "FA.BM LAl\'D ALONG Tim CO.A.ST •• our efficient secretary, showing what has been secured in the "These are times in which we hear much of farm-land way of appropriations since 1907. The tabulation is most in­ clevelopment. There is a commendable propaganda, ' Back to teresting, and as I figure it out shows that if the Lakes-to-the­ the farm.' We hear of the attractiveness ancl fertility of your Gulf area obtained the bulk of appropriations prior to 1907, it soil in the West. Congested as we are in our great cities of has in nowise lost its interest since. 1\Iy calculation, based upon the East, how much of vacant land clo you think we still retain the secretary's figures, shows that during the five years from in the area of the 13 original States? The census figures 1907 to 1911, inclusive, due, no doubt, largely to the activity of provide the answer. The total extent -of our farm lands is waterway associations, we have been getting a little more approximately 160,000,000 acres. We still have open for im­ money for waterways improvement than formerly, and that provement east of the Appalachian chain substantially one-half altogether during the five years there have been appropriated our total fa.rm area, or 83,000,000 acres. Our population has approximately $179,000,000. been drifting into the cities. Three-fifths of all our people are "The apportionment of this sum is what I desire to im· employed in the cities, und so long as they remain there and press upon you. The Pacific coast, with its fine opportunities our farm land is waste we must continue to be the best pos­ for oriental and South American trade, has taken about $19,· sible customers of the food producers of the West. But we o00,000 of the total of $179,000,000. · The Atlantic seaboard, ought to have- sufficient means to get in to them and to get out. with its muny ports, contributing through the four custom­ [Applause.] houses of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, "You ask how we do business; let us see! We have about 80 per cent of all the tariff revenue collected for the turned gradually from agriculture, which once sustained us, to country, obtained $50,000,000-or $10,000,000 per annum for manufactures, which now largely provide our means of em­ every port and ever river from 1\-Iaine to the Gulf-while the ployment and our purchasing power. We produce more than 53 great balance of $110,000,000 was assigned to the Mississippi per cent of the entire manufactured wealth of the country. Valley and the region of the Lakes and the Gulf. That is to say, that in our 375,000 square miles of territory, "These figures are significant, and I present them to you as as against a total of 3,000,000 square miles, the gross value of my warrant for calling the attention Qf my brethren of the East our products is much more than half the value of all the manu­ ·to the expediency of their being up and doing. They should factured products of the country. Our coal production is 00 engage a little more earnestly in the same kind of agitation and per cent of the entire coal production of the United States, the same kind of hustle that has thus far characterized the and while the value of our farm products is only 16 per cent bounding and the booming Middle West. [Applause.] 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 623

" NEW ·ENGLAND TA.KING N~CE.. eomprehensive and painstaking search for statistics. And what "In one respect we have reason to congratuln.te ou-r.selves. I do they show? I would like e-rery section of the country to ha·rn often called attention to the apparent indifference of New consider them and, if they please, to make comparisons. A England to waterways improyement.• To-day, for the .first time steamboat may blow up upon the Mississippi, o.r a stern-wheeler in this congress, we ha \e a larr.ge and enthusiastic representa­ may get -stuck on the bars of the Missouri, and here and there tion from the old Bay Stat.e of Massachusetts; and :yet fo1· 200 a vessel may be wrecked or be burned somewhei·e on our in­ years that thriving, thickly settled community of striving, p.-ros­ terior waters, but with us, ladies and gentlemen, it .is the rail­ perous peop-le has stood placidly by while thousands of wrecks road or the open sea. As a matter of fa.ct, we have been have gone down on Cape Cod where a comparati\'°ely small mat­ crowded into the sea, .and at least 60 per cent of our great coal ter of canalization would ha\e saved millions of p1·operty and . output is carried in barges which go out to battle with the hundreds of li\es [applause] ; and during this Eame period, wa-ves -of the ocean, where they are largely a menace to na vi­ where the population has been growing denser and denser as gation. The expenses of carrying heavy freight by rail ar-e between New York, the great metropolis of the country, and large and in some instances oppressive. Moreover, the facilities Philadelphia, our second manufacturing city, we have been for thls class of freight are limited and :great delays in delivery doing business upon a canal the construction of which was com­ occur. If we use the water, we must pay the tolls of the pleted in 1834 and which remains substantially as it was when inefficient caruUs or pay the insmance .and take the risk of its builders left it. Although it was of great service for trans­ loss m the oeean. portation purposes in the earlier days and is still capable, sub­ " AWFUL TOLL OF THE SEA. ject to tolls, of doing business, yon could nat pass through it "What is the toU of the past 10 years because of the inade­ to-day the stern wheel of a 'Mississippi River flatboat, if you at­ qm.1.cy of our inland waterwa-ys along the Atlantic coast? I tempted it, broadside [applause]; and between the same great will quote from the statistics as we have finally grouped them. city of Philadelphia and the populous and prospewus city of Between 1900 .a.nd 1910 there .have been '5,700 clisaste.rs to Baltimore, whei·e a 13-.mile cut through a neck of land at the \essels PJying their trade along the Atlantic coast. Do you head of the penins.ula -saves an outside sailing distance of 325 Tecall any rirer or set of rivers ·or all the inland rivers of miles, linking up the North and tile South in bonds .of com· any country that p-resent such startling figures? And what mercia1 unity, we are E.till doing a restlicted business and pay­ have been the losses resultant from those 5~700 disasters? In ing excessive tolls upon a canal that was finished by our fore­ property va.lue the loss was in -excess of $40,000,000. You can fathers back in 1829 that has not a Jock of sufficient dimensions add that to the cost of living in the United States during the to pass a Trinity Riv-er snag boat. In the light of expenditmes for improvements in other sections of the country and in our last decude. It was not my money, it was not President colonial possessions, including -Panama, we ha-re a right to com­ RANSDELL's, it was not your.s of the West, nor yours of the East, pluin of these eastern antiquities. [..Applause.] nor yours of the South, nor yours of the North, exclusively. .It belonged to all of us. It was cargo that you sent out of the " PAN.A.MA CAXAL A.'.XD COST OF L1VING. West filld that we were sending out of the East, or its ·destina­ " My Brother 'l,eal, wno has just spoken, comes from Oregon, tion may have been South or North. That wreckage wa.s com­ ln where they believe doing big things. With him I look for­ mon loss; but there was iR more serious loss. In addition to ward to the construction ,of ocean leviathans th.at shall come the -$40,000,000 more ·th.fill 2,200 lives were lost m those dis­ from his country around through the Panama Canal to the east asters. We think most of these li\es would ha1"e been saved if coast. There is every reason why the business of the two those \ess.els .and that commerce had been eneouraged to take coasts sbould .be brought together through tile canai; but it is the inside J)assa.ge rather than assume the risk ·of fog and ·storm a question whether in the busiest part of the Atlantic seaboard in the open . sea. we are illOW prepared, because of our inadequate waterways. to do full jnstic.e to the new bu'Siness w'hich is contemp1ated. "SHOULD ~'UT LIMIT CREATITE ABILl.TY. Surely we are not prepared to :ba.nd1e il upon the Delawm.·.e and " Gentlemen, it is evident that we .can not limit the business llaritan Canal or the Chesapeake and Delaware. And yet, in energy and productive capacity of the youth of this country to the region of the Chesa.peake lllld Delaware, we d:iim to·da.Y a the ability of one railroad or of two .railroads to carry the tonnage which has been computed by ex:perts to he ten times product of human toil. We have gone far beyond that. {Ap­ greater annuallv than the estimated tonnnge of the Panama plause.] Hi.gh rai1r0ad authority has approved the develop­ ·canal for the fust -year of its operation. IA·pplause.] ment of waterways for the relief of railroads. No less n per­ "We are proud of the Panama Canal. We haye spent, .or son than .James J. Hill stood upon this TeJ.'Y platform in 1907 ·will before it is completed, ·$400,000,.()00 of the people's money and declared for the deepening of waterways for the -very in this stupendous enterprise, and while we ·haye been nig­ reason that the summit had been reached in rai1roaa capacity .gardly on our local enterprises it should be borne iin mind :that and in the a.bllicy to acqmre funfu:l fo.r new railroads. Why, the Panama .Qa.na1 money lias been spent in a foreign jnrls· tllen; should we not press forward 11pon the members of om diction and largely, as the situation .nuw e:tn:nas, ior fhe many distinguished "LACK OF coAsTWISE STATISTICS. and lnterested representatiTes from .l\Iassachusetts, and par- " G.entlemen, I want to tell you of the Atlantic coast. -You ticularly "Boston, that 1 c1ose this 21-minute speech [laughter] have not hear.d this story. Even the ·Goyernment ·of the United with a ·brief ill:nstration. I assume New England will acce:pt States did not kno\Y it officially, because the A.rmy Engineers ' a statement fmm the Boston Chamber of Commerce. It is asked us to he1p them get i!=- Unfortun~t~y~ we hay-e not nad regarded as ,one of the most businesslike and ermUte of trade .accurate methods of _groupmg the statistics of the coastwise . -organizations. In its :report for 1908 this careful, calculating L-a.de along the Atlantic seaboard. In consequence of the desir.e : chamber .of co:mme.rce frankly ancl complacently figured ant of the United States Enginee1·s for information, the Atlantic that the freight bjll of New England on coal alone was Deeper Waterways As ocintion attempf.e.d to gather it. We $70,000,000 TJer a.munn. The actun.1 rnlne 'Of the cua1 at the were interested in promotir'lg trail€ as well as in s:rving life :and mines w.as $30,-000,000. Hence, it cost New England, according property and opening up our 80,000,000 acres of waste lru:ld, :and to the Boston Chamber l()f Commerce, more than $2 in freight th:r-011gh an efficient expert but Yolunteer committee we made a for every dollar's worth of coal so essential to the great in- 624 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 3,

dustries of that section. How long, pray, can New England were leveled to the ground. The death toll amounted to 15 lives, and the damage to property on sea and land amounted to more than stand this sort of tariff and still keep up its competition with $7,000,000. The storm was central between SavanRah and Charleston an aggressive interior and a booming West so much more and did not cover a wide area, but was terrible in its velocity. Coming favorably situated with regard to the fuel supply and the in from the sea it wrecked 01· drove ashore everything in its path, and after 36 hours lost itself in •the interior of the two Southern States. market. [Applause.] I am citing these facts to make you The Merchants and Miners Line steamship Lexington, from S:innnah think. So many of you are busy with your own affairs in your for Philadelphia., with 12 passengers, 10 of whom were bound for Phila­ local environment that you gi'rn small heed to the progress delphia, was blown ashore on Hunting Island, at the mouth of the Edisto River, near Charleston, S. C., and but for the heroism of her that is being made round about you. If this sort of agitation young wireless operator, John Scheetz, of Wyncote, l'a., would probably will induce you to study the facts and the conditions and to have been lost with all on board. In the face of that hurricane he prepare yourselves to discuss them intelligently with your Rep­ managed to repair the disabled wireless apparatus an

'Iw~nty lives were lost, almost all of them. wome:n. on April 10, wh.en young soldiers and of this and the next generation. The peti­ the little wooden passenger steame1· Iroquo1s, a sister ship of the 111- fnted wooden steamer Scltelt, which capsized March 24, drowning all tion argues with an array of facts and figures which should on board, foundered 15 minutes after leaving Sidney, Vancouver Islarnl, deeply impress every mind, even those good people who were on the coast of Ilritish Columbia. Her cargo shifted during a furious i·esponsible for the abolition of the canteen, that such abolition gale, and the li~tle vessC'l went down with all on board less than a month after the Schelt was lost at the same place and in the same was a grave mistake and that every consideration of health, manner. good morals, and tr·ue temperance requires its restoration at the DOZEN SAILORS DROW~ED. earliest possible moment. Brushing aside all considerations of A dozen sailors of the steamer Santa Rosa, of the Pacific Coast Anglo-Saxon prudishness, owing to the great importance of this Steamship Line, were drowned on the afternoon of July 7 while trying to escape from that vessel, whlch stranded before dawn on · Point subject, I beg to insert the petition in full as part of my re­ Arguello, off the coast of California. marks. Here it is; Seven persons were drowned on the after~oon of August 1 in the .st. Lawrence River when the ferry steamer Sirus struck a shoal 8 miles PETITIO::-l' OF 279 PIIYSICIANS, PI!AYJNG Fon THE nESTORATION OF TIIE below Massena. N. Y., capsized and burled its 75 passengers into thP. A.n:llY CA.NTEE~. river. Four of the bodies were recovered. To the honorable the Members of the United States Senate and House The French steamer Emir, while bound from Gibraltar for a Moroccan of Representatives: po1·t, was sunk in collision with the British steamer Sili:erton, from The undersigned, all medical men from many different parts of the Newport, England, for Taranto, Italy, on August ~ in the Strait of United States, beg leave respectfully but urgently to petition your hon­ Gibraltar. 'l'went.y-four members of the crew and sixty-two passengers orable bodies to pass the bill (H. R. SO) introduced in the Sixty-second of the Enl'ir were drowned. Congress by Mr. :BA.nTHOLDT, and thus to reestablish the so-called canteen Seven men were drowned in 1.be Maumee River, Ohio, at 1.30 o'clock in the United States Army. · on the murning of September 2 when the gasoline launch Nemo, owned Many well-informed persons think the canteen was like a hotel bar, · by Michael l\layer, of l 056 Norwood Street, Toledo, was strnck by the where all sorts of liquors could be had at all times, no matter whethe1· big 500-foot frei~bter Philip Minch. The party in the launch was bound the soldier was drunk or sober. for Kellys Jslana, where they expected to spend the day fishing. Let us see, then, whn.t ihe canteen really was. The Chilean steamer Tttcapel, engaged in freight and passenger trade It was regulated by General Orders, No. 10, of Gen. Schofield, dated on the west coast of South .America, was wrecked in a storm off th~ February 1, 1889, and No. 51 dated :May 13, 1890. Rooms were set coast of Peru on September G, when 81 persons were drowned. apart for recreation, such as •1 gymnastic exercises billiards, and other During the storm which raged over the North Sea on October 2 and 3 proper games." A piano was often obtained. •1 The sale or use of 240 lives were lost and over 100 Qf the bodies were washed ashore. ardent spirits or wines in canteens is strictly prohibited; but the co!Il­ Forty-five fishing craft were wrecked in the waterway between Meuse manding officer is authorized to permit light beer to be sold therein by and the North Sea and nearly all of their crews were drowned.· the drink, on week days, and in a room used for no other purpose, and, when practicable, in a building apart from that in which the canteen (Appenne

Infected .by such a syphilitic· infant. 'Public drinking cups, the tubes professor of clinical surgery, Col1ege of Physicians and used in glass }:!lowing, and occasionally kissing have propagated the Surgeons, Columbia ·university, New York; J. F . Bald· Cli ease. N~a+ly every one of· as knows medical friends who have been win, M. I)., Columbus, Ohio, surgeon to Gr·ant Hospital; infected by Dia.king professional examinations while suffering from un-. Albert H. Buck, M. D., IIewlett, Long Island, N. Y., o.bset-ved hangnails or abrrudons and have suffered untold misery for late professor of clinical otology, College of Physicians years or for life. und Surgeons, Columbia University, New York;· James 'l'urning from civil life to the Atmy, what Rl'e the facts there? Hall 'Bell, l..'I. D., San Antonio, Tex.; Warren S. Bick­ · " The venereal peril," says Surg. Gen. Torney in his fast report, ham, M. D., · 440 Riverside Drive, New York, late visit· July 1, 1910, page G9, "has com~ to outweigh in importance any other ing surgeon Manhattan State Hospit!Jl, New York, and sn.nitary question which now confro:nts the Army, and neither our na­ late junior surgeon, •.rouro Hospital, New Orleans; Al­ tional optimism not· the Ang1o-Sa.xon disposition to ignore a subject bert M. Barrett, M. D., Ann Arbor, Mich., professor of which is offensive to public 'J)rndery can no longer excuse a frank and diseases of nervous system, University of Michigan, Ann honest confrontation of the problem,'' Are these strong words justi­ Arbor ; Lewellys 1<'. Barket·, M. D., 1035 North Cah·eJ:t fied? Let us see. Street, Baltimore, professor of medicine, Johns Hopldns · " Ileports since the Sp::mish-.American War show a steady and pro­ Uni>ersi1.y, Baltimore; John Bapst Blake, M. D., 161 gressive increase in this class of diseases, so that the admission rate, I»e:icon Str-eet, Boston, assistant professor surver-y, which. wus 8.46 per cent in 1897, bas now reached the enormous figure Ha1·vard University; John T. Bottomley, 1\1 . D., 1G3 of 19.7 per cent.'' (Sur~eon Generars Report, July 1, 1910, p. GO.) Beacon Street, Boston. surgeon in chief. Carney Ilos­ Jn other words, fo1· the last six: years very neady one-fifth of the pital, Boston; H. J. Boldt, IIL D., 30 East Sixty-first entire Army bas sufl'erecl from venei·eal diseases every year, and to that Street, New York, profes or of gynecology, New York extent, while ill, have diminisheu its effective force. "'l'hese figures,' Post-Graduate !ledi<.:al Schrol, New York; Herman 1U again snys the Surgeon General, "are out of a.11 proportion to those Biggs, 1\1. D., 5 West Fifty-eighth Street, rew York, which olltain in the European 'armies, the rates for the latter being, ac­ general medical officer, department of health, New York; ~orru.ssian ------1. 9 nu~arlan ______1.fi .Pr_ofosso_r of p~thology and bacteriology, niver·sity of .Mtssonr1; David H. Bergey, M. D., 206 South Fifty­ (We have taken the liberty of changing the proportion from per third Street, Philadelphia, assistant profe£sor of bac­ 1000 .to per cent.) . teriology, nive1·slty of Pennsytvania; Charles W. Burr \\ere this all it would be bad enough. But, as we have already M. D.. 1327 Spruce Street, Phlladelphia, professor of shown, the soldier himself is not the only one to bear the penalty. Our mental diseases, niversity of Penn,sylvania; W. Sohier Army i.s very largely composed of young unmarr!ed m~m. When they Bryant, M. D., 41 East Thirty-third Stt·oot, New Yorlr, mm:17 they should become fathers of healthy children, and so add to senior assistant surge1J.n, New York Eye and Eat· In­ our population, vitality, and success as a nation. Ilnt the fact is that firmary: .Toho G. Clark, M. D., 218 South Fifteenth among those who have contracted venereal d'lseases in the· Army a con­ Street, Philade~phia. professor of gynecology, University siderable proportion of their marriages will be sterile. others will be of Pennsylvania: Thomas S. Cullen, l\I. D. 3 West chamcterized by many abortions, and their living childrtm will be de­ Preston Street. Baltimore, associate professo1: or gyne­ fecti'l'e, olind, and diseased. What the sorrows of their infected wives cology, Johns Hopkins University; William H. Carmalt may be we know in part ; the rest can only be surmised. M. D., 87 Elm StL·eet, New Haven, Conn .. emcritu pro~ What now are tbe re~nedies proposed 'by the Surgi:on General him­ i'essor of surgery, I'ale Unive1· ity; William B. Coley, self? ln his report of July 1, 1910, he urges propm:- surgical tTe.atment, AL D .. 40 Ea. t Forty-first Street, New York, .attendin<" but especially prevention and education: • surgeon. General Memorial Ho~pltal ; H:uvey Cush!n.? M. D .. 107 East Cha e treet, Baltimore, ld., as:ociat~ "The organization of soldiers' clubs, canteens, etc.. where enlisted professor surgery. .Johns Hopkins Univcrnity · H. A. men can find amu ement and recreation sufficiently attractive t-0 keep Christian. 1\1. D. 252 Marlboro Street, Boston dean them at home and a\\ay from rue resorts. · "Tl'le formation of temperance associations among the enlisted men, -0f medical school, Ilarvard University, Doston ; Sam­ 'Uel C. Chew. M. n., 215 West Lam·ale ~treet, Baltimore the a sociation of intemperance and venereal indulgence being well ]>rofessor o~ medicine. Uni>ersity of l\laryland, Bnlti~ understood. . more; A. 'L Cabot, :M. D., 1 Marlboro Street, no ton, " Jnstruction of the men, by lectures and by informal advice when­ surgeon MaSS!lchusetts General Hospital : W: B. Can­ ever the oppot·tunity offers, as to the nature of venereal diseases, the -non. M. D.. Boston, professor of pbysiolog-y, Har'\'"arcl e~'tcnt of · their prevalence among prostitutes, and the grave peril not Medical School; S. S. Cohen, M. D., 1525 Walnut only to those who contract them but to their families and posterity. Street, Philadelphia, professor of clinical medicine Jef­ ~-bey should also be taught that sexual intercourse is not necessary to ferscn ledical Cc:llege ; J. F . Corbett, M. D., 2446 'Parle good health nnd the highest degree of mental and pby ical vigor." Avenue. Minneapolis, ass.ociate professor of sur~er:r These are in line with the proposals of Lord Roberts for the British Uni>ersity of Minnesota ; C. E. Caldwell, l\I. D. 3.{ Army in India (Forty-one Years in India, ii, 418-421). He did not Garfield Place, Cincinnati, Ohio, p1·ofessor of cli~ical abolish the liquor bar in the canteen, but restricted its si-ze and its sales surgery, Pniverslty of Cincinnati; Jobn F. Culp, M. D., chieily to 'bee:r, and encouraged the furnishing of recreation rooms, the 211 Locust Street. Harrisburg, Pa., surgeon to Harris­ promotion of temperance societies, etc., " an arrangement," he says, bUJ'g ·Hospital : Edwin B. Cra:;:'in, M. D., 10 West Fif­ "whieh has been followrd by the happiest results." Exactly the ·same tieth Street, New York. professor of obstetrics and condition existed in our former Army canteen, and we believe would gynecolO!?Y. College of Phy icians and Surgeons, Co­ pr€vail again. lumbia University, New York; Eugene A. Crockett, The demands of military discipline require the soldier to surrender M. D .. W :Marlboro Street. Boston, surgeon, hospital for the good of the State much of his ind1vidual liberty and many of ship Bay St.ate, 1898, and instructor in otology, Har­ the privileges enjoyed by other citizens. ls it wise further to restrict vard University; W. T. Councilman, M. D., 78 Bay th&.<' by legi61ation in a way which not only does not contribute to State Road, Boston, professor of pathology, Harvard military discipline but, as we learn from the almost unanimous testi­ University; W. M. L. Coplin, M. D., Jefferson Hospital, mony of Army officers, impairs it? Philadclphi!l, prof~sor of pathology, Jefferson Medical Soldiers are required by the special conditions of military life to give College. Pb1ladelpbfa ; W. r . Carr, M. D., 1418 L Street up their borne life and the moral protection of marria.ge and to live a NW.. Washin:;ton. D. C.. surgeon to the Emergency Jjfe of enforced celiba<.'Y. Is it wise to diminish the attractions of their Hospital and Government Hospital for the Insane, club and to increa e the mcra.1 and physical risks of their environment Washington; A. Coolidge, M. D., 613 Beacon Street, by act of Congress? Boston, professor of laryngology, IIarvard University; In \-iew of what we b:n·e set forth above, we respectfully pray your F. P. C:ipron, M. D.h 118 Angell treet. Providence, honor:ible bodies, in the inte1·est of temperance, of military order and R. I., consulting op thalmii.: surgeon, Rhode Island efficiency, and of the health and bappin~ss of our soldier:; and of ~eir Hospital ; E. A. Codman, M. D., 227 Beacon Street, future wives and children, to reestablish the canteen m the Urntecl Boston, assistant visiting surgeon, !fos.;acbusetts Gen­ States Army by passing the Bartholdt l)ill (H. R. 50). eral Hospital, Boston; Robert Caldwell. M. D., Nash­ Very respectfully, yours, ville, Tenn., profE- sor of applied anatomy, Vanderbilt (Si90ecl by the following 1Iledical men, 279 in number:) University; John B. Deaver. 1\1. D., 1634 Walnut Street, 'Robert Abbe. M. D .. 30 We t b'iftietb Street, .New Tork, sur­ Philadelphia, surgeon in chief, German Ilospital ; George geon, St. Luke"-s Hospital ; Isaac Adler, M. D., 22 Ea.st E. de Scbweinitz, M. D., 1703 Walnut Street, Pbila· t:li::s-ty-tsccond Street, New York; Thomas G. Ashton, delphia. pi·ofessor of opthalmolog;y, Univeltsity of 1>enn­ 1\f. D., 1814 South Rittenhouse Square Philadelphia., ad­ sylrnnia; George Dock, M. D .• 1806 Locust Street, SL junct professor of medicine., University1 of Pennsylva­ Louis, dean of. medical school, Was'.lington Univernity; nia : IJoward S. Anders, M. D., 2035 Walnut -Street, D. Il. Delavan, 1\1. D .. 1 East 'rhirty-third Street, ·ew Philadelphia, professor of physical diagnos1s, Med!co­ York, professor of laryngology, New York Polyclinic; Cbirurgical College, Philaficlphia; James M. Anders, Frank L. Day, hl. D., 72 Waterman Street, Providence, M. D .. 1605 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. professor of R. I., physician, Rhode I land Hospital, Providence ; medicine, Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia; Al­ Jud on Daland, M. D., 317 South Eighteenth Street, exander C. Abbott, M. D., University of Pennsylvania, 'Philadelphia, professor of clinical medicjne, l\ledico­ professor of hygiene and bacteriology, University of Chirurgical College. Philadelphia~ J. C. Da Costa, jr., Pennsylvania; William Easterly Ashton, M.. TI., 2011 M. ·n., 2G4 South ll'Hteenth Street. Pbilndelphiat. ,assist­ Walnut Street, Philadelphia, profe or of gynecology, ant professor of clinical medicine, .Tefl:'erson Medical Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia; Joseph D. College, Phllaaelpbia; David H. Dolley, 1\1. D., Colum­ Bryant, M. D., 32 TI"est Forty-eighth StL·eet, New York, bia, Mo., professor of pathology and uacteriology, Uni­ professor of anatomy and operative and clinical sur­ versity of Miss0ui:i; J. D. S. Davi , M. D., Birmingham, gery, University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College; A.la., professor of surgery,_ Birmingham Medical Col­ A. T. Bristow, U . D., 234 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, lege; Edward B. Dench, l'L D., 15 Ea.Rt I1'ifty-third N. Y.. clinical professor of surge1-y, Long Island Col­ Street. New York, professor of otolo"'y, University and lege Hospital; George Blumer, U. D., 204 York Street, Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York; l<'rnncis New Haven. Conn.., professor of medicine, Yale Uni­ X. Dercum. U. D .. 171!) Walnut Street, Philadelphia, versity ; Philip King Brown, M. D., 350 Post Street, professor of nervous and mental di ease . Jefferson San I:i'ranc.isco, Ca.L, as. ociate in medicine, Univer ity Medical College; Gwulym G. Davis, M. D., 1814 Spruce of California; rorman .Bridge, M. D., 217 South 'Broad­ Street, Philadelphia, ti rofe~sor of orthopedic surgery, way, Los Angeles, Cal, formerly profes or of medicine, TJnivrrsity of Pennsylvania; Edward P. Davis, M. D., Rush Medical College, University of Chicago; Edw. 1 • ..250 South '.rwenty-tirst Street, Philadelphia, professor Brush. M. D., Sheppard and Enoch Prutt Hospital, of ob tetrics, .Teircr on Medical College; Chal'les L. Towson, ..Md., professor of psychiatry, College of Pbysl­ Dana, M. D., 53 West Fifty-third Street, New York, cians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md. ; ~orge °Emerson · -professor of nervous diseases, Cornell University Med­ Brewer, M. D., 61 West Forty-eighth Street, New York, ical College, New York ; Theodore Diller, M. D., 200 1912. CO~G~ESSJONAL RECOE,D-_HQUSE. 627

Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, Pa., clinical professor of of medical chemistry and toxicology, .Jefferson Medical neurology, University Of Pittsburgh ; H. C. Ernst, :P.L D., College ; H. A. Hare, M. D_, 1801 Spruce Street, Phila­ Jamaica Plain, Mass., professor of bacteriology, Har­ delphia, professor of therapeutics, Jefferson Medical vard University, Boston; David L. Edsall, M. D., St. College; Guy Hinsdale, 1\1. D., Hot Springs, Va., secre­ Louis. Mo., professor of preventive medicine, Washing­ tary American Climatological Association; James P. ton University Medical School, St. Louis; Daniel N. Hutchinson, M. D., 133 South Twenty-second Street, , Eisendrath, M. D., 31 North State Street, Chlcago, pro­ Philadelphia, surgeon to Presbyterian Hospital; Ed­ fessor of surgery, University of Illinois, Chicago ; Dun­ ward J. Ill, jr., M. D., 1002 Broad Street, Newark, can Eve, M. D., Nashville, Tenn. ; professor of surgery, N. J_, surgeoll to the Woman's Hospital; E. Fletcher Vanderbilt University; Ellsworth Eliot, M. D., 34 Ea11t Ingals, M. D., 5540 Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, 111., Sixty-seventh Street, New York, surgeon to Presbyterian professor of diseases of the chest and laryngology, Hospital, New York; Aller G. Ellis, M. D., 5564 Spruce Rush Medical College, University of Chicago; George Street, Philadelphia, associate professor of pathology, Ben Johnston, M. D., 405 East Grace Street, Richmond, .T efferson Medical College ; Carroll El Edson, M. D., Va_, professot· of surgery. Medical College of Vir.~inia ; 305 AicPhee Building, Denver, Colo. ; Thomas H. Fen­ Robert W. Johnson, M. D., 101 West Franklin Street, ton, M. D., 1319 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, ophthal­ Baltimore, Md., professor of surgery, Baltimore Med­ mologist to St. Vincent's Home; W. EJ. Fischel, M. D., ical College; A. F. Jonas, M. D., 454 Brandeis Iluildingi 386i Washington Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., professor of Omaha, Nebr., professor of surgery, Omaha Aiedica clinical medicine, Washington University; R. H. Fitz, College; E- p_ Joslin, M_ D., 81 Bay State Road, Bos­ M. D., 18 Arlington Street, Boston, emeritus professor ton, visiting physician. Boston City Hospital : K G. ef physics, Harvard University; F. Forchheimer, M. D., Jones, M. D_, 84 East North Avenue. Atlanta, Ga_, pro­ Fourth and Sycamore Streets, Cincinnati, professor of fessor of surgery, Atlanta Scbool of Medicine; Cheva­ medicine, University of Cincinnati; Leonard Freeman, lier Jackson, M. n, Westinghouse Building, Pittsbmgh, M_ D-, 330 Majestic Building, Denver, professor of sur­ Pa., professor of laryngology, University of Pittsburgh; gery, Gr.oss Medical College ; Charles H. Fraziei-, M. D_, Smith E. Jellilfe, M. D., 64 West Fifty-sixth Stre2t, 1724 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, professor of clinical New York, professor of psychiatry, Fordham University, surgery, University of Pennsylvania; --- Fle~ner, New York; George M. Kober, M- D., 181!J Q Street NW., M. D., Sixty-sirtb Street and Avenue A, New York, di­ Wasbfn~ton, dean, medical department, Georgetown rector of the Ilockefeller Institute for Medical Reiiearch, University; W. A. Kickland, M. D .. Fort Collins. Colo., New York; Louis Frank, M. D., 400 Atherton Building, surgeon Colorado & Southern Railroad; W. W_ Keen, Louisville, Ky., professor of abdominal and pelvic sur­ M. D., 1729 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, emel"itus .• gery, University of Louisville; Frank T. Fulton, M. D., professor of surgery;... Jefferson Medical College; W. II . Providence, R. I., visiting ph:ysician, Rhode Island Hos· Katzenbach, M. D_, The Wyoming, Seventh Avenue and pital, Providence; Thomas R. French, M. D., 150 Jorale­ Fifty-fifth Street, New York, professor of medicine, mon Street, Brooklyn, professor of laryngology, Long New York Polyclinic; Herbert Maxon King, M. D., Island College Ilospital; John M.. Fisher, M. D., 222 South L?omis, N. Y., physician in chief, Loomis Sanatorium, Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia, associate professor of Liberty, N_ Y.; Charles W. Kollock, M_ D_, Cbat·leston, gynecology, Jefferson Medical College; Walter J. Free­ S. C, ophthalmic and aural surgeon, Roper Hospital ; man, M. D .. 1832 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, emeritus Howard N. Kingsford, M_ D., Hanover, N. H-, professor professor of laryngology, Philadelphia Polyclinic; John of pathology and bacteriology, Dartmouth Medical A- Fordyce, 1\1. 'b., 8 West Seventy-seventh Street, New School ; Alfred King, M. D., Portland, Me_, lecturer on York. professor of dermatology and syphilology, Uni­ surgery, Medical School of Maine; Frederic Kammerer, versity and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New M. D., 51 East Sixty-sixth Street, New York, professor York; Thomas H. Fenton, M. D., 1319 Spruce Street, of clinical surgery, Columbia University; J. J. Kin­ Philadelphia, ex-president American Society of Tropical youn, M. D., 1423 Clifton Street, Washington, D. C., Medicine; Henry D. Fry, M_ D., 1929 Nineteenth Street, bacteriologist to the health department, Washin"'ton Washington, D. C., professor of obstetrics, medical D. C.; W. T. Learned, J\l. D., Fall River, Mass. ; R. w: department, Georgetown University; H. W. Grant, Lov-ett, M. D., 234 Marlboro Street, Boston, assistant M. D., Mack Block, Denver, late trustee American Med­ professor of orthopedic surgery, Harvard University;· ical Association for 17 years; J_ Riddle Gofre, M. D., Robert G. Le Conte M. D., 1530 Locust Street, Phila­ 29 West Forty-sixth Street, New York, professor of dis­ delphia, surgeon, Pennsylvania Hospital; Egbert Le ea5es of wom<:>n, New York Polyclinic Medical .School; Fevre, M. D., 52 West Fifty-sixth Street, New York John H. Gibbon, M_ D., 1608 Spruce Street, Philadel­ dean of University-Bellevue Hospital Uedical College! phia, professor of surgery, Je1ferson Medical College; Warfield T. Longcope, M D"J 680 Madison Avenue, New George W. Guthrie, M. D., 109 South Franklin Street, York, assistant professor OL practice of medicine Co­ Wilkes-Barre, Pa., surgeon, Wilkes-Bane City Hospital ; lumbia University; Bransford Lewis, M. D., 1050 'Cen­ A. G. Gerster, M. D., 34 East Seventy-fifth Street. New tury Building, St. Louis, Mo., professor of genito-uri_· York, president American Surgical Association and pro­ nary surgery, St. Louis University; E. R. Le Count fessor surgery, New York Polyclinic; Charles 1\1. Green, M. D., 6026 Monroe Avenue, Chicngo, professor of path: M- D., 78 Marlborough Strf;et, :Boston, professor of ob· ology, Rush Medical CollegeJ.. University of Chicago; stetrics and gynecology, Harvard Univen:;ity; G. S. John B Lowman, M_ D., ' 14~ Park Place, Johnstown, Graham. M. D .. Hanover, N. H., secretary of Dartmouth Pa., chief of staff, Cambria Hospital, Johnstown, Pa.; Universitr, Medical School ; H. Ilorace Grant, M. D., Howard Lilienthal, M. D.. 48 East Seventy-fourth 321 Equitable Building, Louisville, Ky_, professor of Street. New York, surgeon, Mount Sinai and B-ellevue snrgery, University of Louisville; S. H- Gilliland, M. D., Hospitals, New York; Samuel Lloyd, M. D., 12 West 2000 Arch Street, Philadelphia, director of laboratories, Fiftieth Street, New York City, professor of surgery, Pennsylvania department of health; Harvey R Gay­ New York Post-Graduate School; L_ L. McArthur, AI. D., lord, l\l. D., 478 Delaware Avenue, Buff:'l.lo, director 150 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, professor of clinical sur­ State Institute for Study of Malignant Disease; Charles gery. Post-Graduate Medical School; J_ N. McCormack, P. Grayson, 1\1. D., 1435 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, M- D.. Bowling Green, Ky. ; Stuart McGuire, l\I. D., professor of laryngology, University of Pennsylvania; 518 East Grace Street, Riehmond, Va., professor of H. 8- Gradle, l\l. D .. 32 North State Street. Chicago, surgery, University Colle~e of Medicine; Floyd W. Mc­ IIL, professor of ophthalmology, Chicago Eye, Ear, Rae, M. D., Peters Buildmg, Atlanta, Ga., professor of Nose, and Thl"Oat College : Charles L. Gibson, M. D., 72 gastro-intestinal, rectal, and clinical surgery, Atlanta East Fifty-fourth Street, New York, adjunct professor of College of Physicians and Surgeons ; Carlos F. Mac­ &urgery, Cornell University Medical College ; Frank A. Donald, M. D., 15 East Forty-eighth Street, New York, Glasgow, M. D_, 3894 Washington Boulevard, St. Louis, emeritus professor of mental diseases, University and 1\Io., senior gynecologist to the St. Louis Mullanplly Bellevue Hospital Medical College; Wm. de B. Mac­ Ilospital ; Thomas E. Holland, 1\1. D., Hot Springs, Nider, M. D., Chapel Hill, N. C-, professor of p!)arma­ Arie ; Barton C. Hirst. M. D., 1821 Spruce Street, cology, University of North Carolina ; Theodore A. Mc­ Philadelphia, pr0fessor of obstetrics. University of Graw, M. D .. 73 Cass Street, Detroit, Mich., professor Pennsylvania; John Shelton Horsley, M_ D., 303 West of surgery, Detroit College of Medicine; W_ G. Aiac­ Grace Street, Richmond, Va., professor of surgery, Callum, M. D. 437 West Fifty-ninth Street, New York, Medical College of Virginia ; Francis n. Harrington, professor of ~athology, Columbia University; Rudolph M. n_, 201 Beacon Street, Boston, lecturer on surgery, Matas, M. D., 2255 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Harvard University ; Richard H. Harte, M. D., 1503 professor of surgery, Tulane University ; Charles H. Spruce Street, Philadelphia, associate professor of sur­ Mayo, M. D., Rochester, Minn., surgeon to St. Mary's gery, University of Pennsylvania; 'rhomas W. Hunting­ Hospital; S. Weir Mitchell. M. D., 1524 Wnlnut Street, ton. M. D., 350 Post Street, San Francisco, professor of Philadelphia; John K. Mitchell, M. D., 17:W Spruce clinical and operative surgery, University of California; Street, Philadelphia, assista'1t physician Orthopedic H. M. Hurd, M. D .. secretary board of trustees, Johns Hospital; Robert T. Morris, M. D., 616 Madison Avenue, Hopkins Hospital . .Baltimorer Md.; L. E. Holt, M_ D .. New York. professor of surgery, New York Post-Graduate 14 West Fifty-fifth Street, New York, professor of Medical School; Harold N. Moyer, M_ D., 103 State diseases of children. Columbia University, New York: Street, Chicago. IIL, neurologist, St_ Luke's Hospital ; Louis W. Haskell, M. D., 438 Randolph Building, Mem­ Harny G. l\ludd, 1\1. n_, Humboldt Building, St. Louis, phis, Tenn_; John C. Hemmeter, M. D_, 1734 Linden profl'&sor of fractures and dislocations and of clinical Avenue, Baltimore, Md.. professor of physiology and surgery, Washington University; James R Murfree, clinical professor of medicine, University of Maryland ; M. D., Murfreesboro, 'l'enn., formerly professor of sur­ Orville Horwitz, M. D., 1721 Walnut Street, Philadel­ gery; University of the South (Sewanee) ; .John H. phia, clinical professor of genito-urinary diseases, Jef­ Musser, M. D., 1927 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, pro· ferson Medical College; H. S. Hedges, M. D., Charlottes­ fessor of clinical medicine, University of Pennsylvania; ville, Va., professor of ophtbalmolof"Y. University of John B. Murphy, M. D., 100 State Street, Chicago, pro­ Virginia; W. Joseph Hearn, M. D., 2 19 Spruce Street, fessor of surgery, Northwestern University; William J. Philadelphia, senior surgeon to Philadelphia General Mayo, M. D., Rochester, Minn., surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital : Rufus B. Hall, M. D., 628 Elm Street, Cin­ - Hospital, Rochester; V. A. Moore, M. D., Ithaca, N. Y.. cinnati, Ohio, professor of gynecology, Ohio l\liami Uni­ professor of pathology and bacteriolog~· and dil"ector versity; Graeme !IL Hammond, M. D., 60 West Fifty­ New York State Veterinary College; TI . McN. Miller, fifth Street. New York, professor of nervous and mental M. D., Columbia, Mo., recently professor of pathology diseases, New York Post-Graduate Medical School; and bacteriology, University of :Missouri ; Solon Marks, H. W_ Hill, M. D., Minneapolis, Minn .. assistant pro­ M. D., 136 Wisconsin Street, Milwauke

ology and pharmacologyA Rockefeller Institute; G. Hud­ gist, Bellevue Hosnital; A. A. Smith, M. D., 18 West son Makuen, M. D., 16:::7 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Fifty-first Street, New York, professor of medicine, Uni­ professor of defects of speech, Philadelphia Polyclinic, . v-erslty and Bellevue Hospital Medical College; Alfred and otologist, Chester Hospital ; Francis W. Murray, Stengel, M. D., 1811 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, profes­ M. D., 32 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York, surgeon sor of clinical medicine, University of Pennsylvania; to New York Ho pital; James G. Mumford, M. D., 29 Edmund Souchon, M. D., 2403 St. Charles Avenue, New Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, visiting surgeon, Massa­ Orleans, La., professor of anatomy, Tulane University; chusetts General Hospital ; Willy Meyer, M. D., 700 Georg-e W. Spencer, M. D., 1838 Christian Street, Phil­ Madison Avenue, New York. professor <)f surgery, Post- , adelphia, associate in surgery, Jefferson Medical Col­ Graduate Medical School, New York; Charles K. Mills, lege ; Charles G. Stoclrton, M. D., 436 IJ'ranklin 'treet M. D., 1909 Chestnnt Streeti..... Philadelphia, professor of Buffalo, N. Y., professor of medicine University of neUTology, University of .J:'ennsylvania; George H. Buffalo'; Eugene A. Smith, M. D., 10181 Main Street, Monks, M. D., '67 l\Iarlborough Street, Boston. surgeon Buffalo, N. Y.. adjunct professor of clinical sur~e ry, in chief, Boston City Hospital; C. B. G. de Nancrede, , Univ€rsity of Buffalo; Stanley Stillman, M. D., 2606 M. D., 5-04 South State Street, Ann Arbor, Mich., pro- ' Webster Street, San Francisco Cal. professor of sur­ fe£sor of surgery, University of inchigan; Joseph S. 1 gery, Leland Stanford Univel'Slty;1 Charles L. Scudder, Neff, M. D., 5 4 City Hall, Philadelphia, director de­ M. D., 200 Beacon Street, Boston, lecturer on surgery, partment of public health and ·charities; Richard C. Harvard M.edicai School ; Walter R. Steiner. M. D., 4 Norris, M. D., 500 NoTth Twentieth Street, Philadel­ Trinity S-treet, Hartford Conn., secretary Connecticut phia, assistant professor of obstetrics, University of State Medical Society; .11llen1 J. Smith, M. D., Thirty­ Pennsylvania; Edwa rd H. Niehols, M. D., 2!)4 Marl­ nintb and Locust Streets, Philadelphia, dean and pro­ borough Strt>et Boston, assistant prmessor of surgery fessor of pat hology, school of medicine, Univer ity of and sul'gical pathology, Harvard Medical School ; W. Pennsylvania; William G. Spiller, M. D., 440~ Pine Ophuls, AL D., 114 Walnut Street, San l!'rancisco, Cal., · Street, Philadelphia, professor of neuro-pathology, ni­ professor of pathology, Lelan~ St8:11ford "!lniversity; . versity of Pennsylvania; Ralph W. Seii::s, M. D., 255 A. P. Ohlmacher, M. D., Detrmt, ~heh., formerly pro­ South Seventeenth Street, Philadelphia, consulting fessor of patho~-ogy, Nor~:investern University Medical laryngologist, Pennsylv.ania Deaf and Dumb Asylum ; S. 145 School, Chicago, L. Pilcher, M. D., Gates Ave- 1 Gefr1·ge Strawbridge, M. D., 202 Sonth Fifteenth Street, nue, BTooklyn, N. Y., professor of clmlcal surgery, Post­ PhTiadelphla ; Isaac S. 'Stone, M. D., Stoneleigh Court, Graduate Medical School, New York; F. W. Parham, Washington, D. C., clinical profess01· of gynecology, M. D., 1420 Seventh Av-enue, ·New ·Orleans, professor of Georgetown University; William S. 'I'hayer, hl. D .. 408 surgery, New Orleans Polyclinic; George L. Porter, Cathedral Street, Baltimore. Md., ;professor of clinical M. D .• Bridgeport, Conn., ex-president Connecticut Med­ medicine, .To-hns Hopkins University; James Tyson, ical Society, late major, United States At•my; J. J. : M. D., 1506 Spruce Street, Pbiladelpbia, emeritus pro­ Putnam, M. D., .106 Marlborough Street, Boston, pro­ fesso1· of medicine, UniveTs:ity of Pennsylvania; J. fessor of diseases 'Of the nervous 'System, Harvard Madison Taylor, M. D., 1504 Pine Street, Philadelphia, University; Roswell P.ark, M. iD., 510 Delaware Ave­ a:djunct professor 0-f therapeutics, Temple UniverRity, nue, Buffalo, professor of surgery, University of Philadelphia; William J. Taylor, AL D.. 182~ Pine Buf!'al-o; Charles A. Pow-ers, M. D., Fourteenth and StrEret, Philadelphia, surgeon, Orthopedic Ilospital and Stout Streets. Denveri.-..professor of sargery, t!niv,ersity Infirmary for Nervous Diseases; Alfred E. Thayer, of Denver: 'Geo. H. .t'owers, M. D., 111 Ellts Street. M. D., Dallas, Tex., profes or of pathology and bac­ San l<'rancisco, Cal., emeritus professor of ophthalmol- , teriolo~, Baylol.' Univex ity, Texas: Fred J. Taussig, Ol!Y. University of California ; George L. Peabody, M. D., , M. D., ot. Louis, Mo., gynecologist, St. Louis City Hos­ 57 West Thirty-eighth Street;_ New York. emeritus pro­ pital ; Henry M. Thomas, M. D., 1228 Madison A venue, fes or of -clinical medicine, ~allege of Physicians and Baltimore, clinical p.rof.essor of neurolog-y, Johns Hop­ Surgeons, Col-umlJia University ; Morton Prince, M. D., kins University; James Thorington, M. D., 2031 Chest­ 458 Beacon Street, Boston, iProfessor of neurology, Tufts nut Street, Pbiladel11h1a., professo1· of ophthalmology, Medical College, Massachusetts; Wendell C. Phillips, Philade-lphla Polyclinic; J. F-0rd Thompson, M. D., 1401 M. D., 40 West Forty-se-venth Street. New York, pro­ H Street NW., Washington. D . .C., clinical professor of fessor of diseases of the ear, New York Post-Graduate gynecology, Georgetown Untvers1ty; Albert Vander Veer Medical School ; Wllliam Allen Pusey, M. D., 72 Madi­ M. D., 28 El}g1e Street, AlJ)any, df'an of Albany Medical son Street, Chicago, professor of dermatology, College College; James N. Vander Veer, M. D., 28 Eagle Street, of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Illinois; Albany, iLstructor in surgery, • lbuny Medical College ; 1 Hugh '1 • Patrick, M . D., 15 East Washington Street, GeoTge T. Vaughan, M. D., 1718 I Street, Washing­ Chicago, -clinical p1'ofessor of "Dervons and mental rlis­ ton, D. C., professor of surgery, Georgetown Univer ity ; ea es, Northwestern University Medical School, Chi­ Victor C. Vaughan, M. D., Ann Arbor, Mich., dean of .cago; Reuben Paterson, M. D., Ann Arbor, Mich., pro­ department of medicine and surgery, University of fessor of obstetrics '8lld gynecology, University of Michigan; Wel1er Van Hook, M. D.. 31 North State Michigan; Chades ·B. 'Penrose. M. D., 1720 Spruce Street, ·Chicago; Herman F. Vickery, M. D., 263 Beacon :Street, Philadelphia, membel' :advisory board!.-.. State de­ Street, Boston, instructor in clinical medicine, Harvard _par:trrnent of health of Pennsyl-vania; .John Yarmentet', University; John A. Wyeth, M. D., 2-44 Lexington A.ve­ M. D .. ·Geneva, N. Y., t>onsulting surgeon, Buffalo Gen­ nue, New York. :professor of 'Slll'gery. New York Poly­ eral Hospital; Franch; R. Packar·d, M. D., 304- South clinic; J. Collins Warren, M. D., 58 Beacon Street, Nineteenth Sh·eel, Philadelphia.. t>rofessor of operative Boston, emeritus professor of smgery, Harvard Uni­ lm:yngo-logy, P:biladelphi:i Polyctin:ic; Frederick Peter- 1 versity; W. H. Welch, M. D., 80'7 St. Paul Street, Bal­ :son, M. D., 20 W-est Fiftieth Street, New York, profes- 1 timore, Md., professor of pathology, Johns Hopkins Uni­ sor of 'insanity., -Columbia University; William Pepper, ver ity; James C. Wilson, M. D., 1509 Walnut Htreet, M. D., 1811 sP-ruae Street, Philadelphia, assistant pro­ Philadelphia, emeritus professor of medicine, Jefferson fessor Qf clinical patl1ology, University of Pennsylvania; Medical College; H. G. Wetherill, M. D., Metropolitan Richard M. Pear-ce, M. D., .2114 De Lancey Place, Phil­ Building. Denver, pre. ident gynecological section, Amer­ adelphia., pTMessor of Tesearch medicine, University ican Medical Association; Robert F. Weir, M. D., The of Penn&Ylv:rnia ; Hubert A. Royster, M. D., Tucker Plaza, New York, emeritus professor of surgery in the Bntlding, Raleigh. N. C., dean O'.f the medical faculty, Col1ege of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia Uni­ Unh·ersity of North Carolina; M . H. Richardson, :M:. D., ~ersity ; J_ 'Cluence Webster, M. D., ioo State Street, 224 Beacon Street, Boston, ·Mosety professor of sur­ Chica-go., ·professor of obstetrics and gynecology, Rush gery, 'Harvard Unlv-ersit;y~ William L. ·Rodman, M. D., ·Medical Coll~e; William Whitridge Williams, l\f. D., 1904 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, J>Tofessor of sur­ Colo:rad-o Sprmgs, ·Colo., consulta-nt Cragmor Sanato­ gery, Medico--ChirUTgicn:l College; Kirkland Ruffin, rium, Colorado Springs; Francis C. Wood, M. D., 437 M. D., 244 Freemascm Street, Norfolk, Va., surgeon in West Fifty-ninth Street, New York, professor of clinical charge, St. Christopher's Hospital; M. J. Rosenau, pathology, Columbia University; .Aldred Scott Warthin, M. D., 82 Stedman Street, Brookline, Mass., professor l\1. D., Ann Arbor, Mi.Ch., professor of pathology, Uni­ <)f preventive medicine and hygiene, Harvard Univer­ versity o'f Michigan; John R. Wathen, M. D., 52G sity; John ll. W. Rhein, M. D. 1732 Pine Street, Phila­ Fo't}rth .Avenu~ I:ou!sville, Ky., prof~sor o.f surgery, delphia, neurologist, Howard Hospital; Charles M. Rees, ! Umvel'SJty of ..uomsYille; George -0. ~ ard, Jr., M. D., M. D., :98 Wen-ton Street, Charleston, S. C., professor 71 West Fiftieth Street New York, professor of gyne­ of surgery. Medical 'College of South Carolina ; Mazyck cology, New Yor'k Post-Graduate Medical School; Sam­ P. Ravenel, 1\1. D., Madison, Wi-s., professor of bacteri- 1 uel B. -:i-vard, 111. D., 281 State Street, Alba ny, N. Y., ology and director State hygienic laboratory, Uni­ professor of medicine, Albany Medical College ; George versity d Wisconsin; Charles W. Richardson, M. D., L. Walt..cn, M. D., 19!) MarlbO'rough Street, Boston, 1317 .Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D. C., professor member af 'board of consultation. Massachusetts Gen­ of laryngology and otology, George Washington Uni­ era'l Hospita1; ..'T. W.hitridge Williams, :hf. D., 1128 versity, Washington, D. C. ; Stewart Paton, M. D., Cathedral Street. mittimore, Md., professor of obstet- Princeton, N. J., lecturer on biology, Princeton Uni­ 1ics. .fobns Hopkins University; Randolph Winslow, versity.; Hunter Robb, M. D., 702 Rose Building, Cleve- , 1900 Mount Royal Terxace, Baltimore, professor of sur­ land, -Ohio, pTofesso1· of gynecology, Western Reserve gery. University of Maryland ; Hugh H. Young, M. D., Univers"ity; B. Alex. Randall, M. D., 1717 Locust Street, 707 St. P:rnl Street, Baltimo-re, Md., chief genito-uri­ Philade'lphia, professor of ear diseases, University of 1 nary surgeon. Johns ifopkins Hospital; John L. Yate~ , Pennsylvania; J. D. Rnshmore, M. D., 129 Montague :U. D .• 141 Wisconsin Street, Mi1waukee. Wis. ; Philip ·street, Brooklyn, N. Y., professor of -clinical surgery, Zenner, M. D., Glenn Bnilding, Cincinnati, Ohio, emeri­ Long Island College Hospital ; F. C. Shattuck, M. D .. tus professor of neurology, Uni-vel'sity of Cincinnati, 135 Marlborough Street, Boston, Jackson professor of Ohio. clin1cal medicine, Harvard University; W. N. Swift, M. D., New Bedford, Mass., ·surgeon. New Bedford Hos­ Mr. Chairman, I desire tio present another petition, which in 'Pital; George H. Simmons, M. D .. 535 Dearborn A venue, itself is u -remarkable derno.nsu·atio.n showing how profound and Chicago, editor J<1m'Dal of American Medical Associa­ tion ; Harry M. Sherman, M. D., 350 Post Street, San general is the sentiment among those who know most about the Francisco, Cal., p-roi'essor of sru·gery, University of evil effects of au ill-cousid€red 1·eforrn, "in fav-or of a return to California ; IT. Sewall., M. D., 1360 Vine Street, Denver, the well-regulated canteen SFStem, which operated to keep the professor of medictne, Uni-versity of Denver ; Louis Starr, M. D., 1818 -South Rittenhouse Square, Philadel­ soldiers within the reservations :uncler ;prope1· sun-eillance in­ phia, formerly clinical pl'ofesso-r of diseases of children, stead of driving them out int'O the d1'\"e3, where their brains University of Pennsylvania; G. B. Shattuck, M. D., . are fired by i·ot-gut whisky and their llenlth and morals 183 Beacon Street, Boston, president Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary; :B. Sachs, M. D., 21 ruined by contact with lewd women. it is a petition of 2,386 East Sixty-tilth Street, New· York, alienist and neurolo- Army wemen-the mothers, wi-ws, sisters, and daughters of •

1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 629 officers and enlisted men of the .American Army-all praying for the exile of the canteen before she knew, from her own experience, anything about it. Later this boy of hers enlisted. He was at San for the restoration of the canteen in the interest of health, .Antonio with the troops, and what he told his mother about the con­ good morals, and temperance. The signers include the wife of ditions existing there made her not only willing to sign the Army the Secretary of War, the wives of our generals, colonels, ma­ women's petition, but so eager to work for its. success that she has written pleas. and arguments to be used in the effort to influence others. jors, captains, and of all other officers, as well as of enlisted She is not the only Woman's Christian Temperance Union woman men; and, as it is said that women were mainly responsible who signed the petition. Those who, like her, have come throu"'h their for the legislation which banished the canteen, it might be own experience to see the workings of what was once their pet meaSUl'O are ready to forswear it now. None of the national officet-s of the meet and proper to listen to the voice of women who in the organization, however, has been willing to admit that the Legislation very nature of things are and must be better judges of actual of 1901 may have been a mistake. conditions than mere prohibition advocates can possibly be. One of the Army women made a journey to Portlanrl for the express Remember, gentlemen, it is the American mother who· pleads purpose of trying to secure such an admission from Mrs. Stevens, the 'foman's Christian Temperance Union president. It did not succeed. here for the physical and moral health of her. boy by pray­ 'I.be stereotyped reply to descriptions of existing conditions is that "a ing for the restoration of .a congenial "home" for the sol­ glass of beer is as bad as a glass of whisky," and that settles it. diers inside of the military reservation-a home which was '.l'he. members of t~e .'Yoman's Christian Temperance Union who hold this view want prohib1hon. The Army women would be glad of that broken up hy an unholy alliance between the Woman's Chris­ too if it would prohibit. But prohibition on one side of a street does ti.an Temperance Union and the dive keepers outside of the not count, they say, when there is debauchery on the other side Fro­ reservations. The petition is as follows: hibition for enlisted men inside the Army post bas been tried ·for 10 years, and according to the testimony of Army men and women ha A MESSAGE FROM 2,386 WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY. been a failure. To the Senate and House of Representatives i1i Congress assembled: Maj. Gen. Wood, Chief of Staff, says that the effect of the aboliti0n Having seen and felt the etrects of the act of February 2, 1901, pro­ of the canteen has been almost unqualifiedly bad. When Gen. Young hibiting the sale on military reservations of bee1· and light wines; ~as at the head of the Army. in 1903 he said that t.h.e result hacl been realizing, from an experience extending over 10 years, that the effect mcreased drunkenness and disease. There are many records of su<'h of that act has been injurious to discipline, harmful to morality, and verd!cts bJ' officers to whom the good of' the. service was the first conducive to intemperance; having deeply at heart the truest interests considera tiou. of. the Army, and therefore of the Nation ; believing that, from our Drunkenness, disease, impaired discipline seemed to be the inevitable close relation and intimate association with our soldiers, we are better harvest from what Brig. Gen. Carter called " the usual crop of judges of the effects on them of such legislation than those who look in saloon.s" which took the place of the forbidden canteen. from without or who act upon mere theory or generalization ; we, the While the e.ffo~·t the Army women a_re making to influence legislation mothers, daughters, sisters, and wives of officers and enlisted men, do is C

630 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-- HOUSE. JA.NU A.RY 3, physicians in various parts of the country. Among the names affixed not have embraced the tropical possessions, which, as recognized by to it are those of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia ; Dr. William J. Col. Maus, introduced a new factor of great importance. As the ad­ Mayo, of Rochester, Minn.; and Dr. Rober·t Abbe, Dr. Joseph D. Bryant, mission rates for the United States were available, it is nat clear why Dr. George E. Brewer, Dr. Charles L. Dana. Dr. Ellsworth Eliot, Dr. Col. Maus did not make use of them, especially as they would bave been Simon Flexner, Dr. John A. Fordyce, Dr. W. H. Katzenbach, Dr. Howard more favorable to hi~ deduction. In the other tables the figures for the Lilienthal, Dr. Willy Meyer, Dr. J. D. Rushmore, Dr. John A. Wyeth, fourth period are approximately those for the United States only. and Dr. Robert F. Weir, of New York. In the interests of scientific accuracy it would appear desirable also Among the women who have signed the Army petition are Mrs. to deduct the admission rate and nonefficiency rates for men suffering Leonard Wood, wife of the Chief of Staff; Mrs. Fred D. Grant, wife from wounds and other injuries; but as it is possible that the use of of the general commanding the Divi ion of the Atlantic; Mrs. Arthur alcohol may have been considered by the writer to have had some in­ Murray, wife of the general commanding the Western Division; Mrs. fluence upon the question of injuries, they are not excluded in the Thomas H. Barry, wife of the commandant of the Military Academy; amended table given, in which the other inaccuracies mentioned have and many other women whose husbands are high in Army rank. been corrected. In these figures decimals less than 0.50 have been dis­ regarded. while for those above that figure a unit has been added. I am in receipt of hundreds of letters from all oyer the United Attention should also be called to the fact that in the statistics of States, all of them commending the renewed efforts to restore venereal diseasos published by this office prior to 1904 readmissions of what many call "the soldiers' club." It would take up too a patient during the course of treatment of an infection were disre­ garded, so that the admissions reported may be regarded as neael:v much space to insert them in the RECORD, but I will state that equivalent to cases, whereas in later years all admissions have been not a single one came from those interested in the liquor busi­ counted. In the statistics given in this article, however, showing the ness, and all of the writers seemed animated by a desire to pro­ occurrence of venereal diseases, readmissions have been deducted so as to make tile figures for the last seven years capable of comparison with mote true temperance. It is undoubtedly true that the liquor those of preceding years. His tables, corrected in the points above interests find the present system of a beer1ess canteen more stated, would be as follows, the figures being for the Regular Army only profitable than was the old canteen system. I insert, ho'\\ever, in the United States : an authoritatiYe letter from Gen. George H. Tomey, the present TotaZ admission rates pe,- 1,000---United States. Slll'geon General of the Army, in refutation of certain state­ From 1867-1880 ------1!>. 35 From 1881-1885 (prohibition period)------16. 30 ments of an Army surgeon from which our prohibition friends Froil1 1886-1897 ------1~ 42 had drawn so much comfort. Gen. Torney's letter is as follows: From 1898-1900 (excep.ti?J?al years of war and reorganization) __ 18: 10 WAR DEPARTMENT, From 1901-1910 (proh1b1bon period) ------1~08 O~FICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL, 'l'otaZ nonef/iciency rates per 1,000---Un.ited States. Washington, Januar11 2, 1912. From 1867-1880______49 Dr. W. W. KEEN, From 1881-1885 (prohibition period)______45 17'f9 Chestnut Street, Phfladelphia, Pa. From 1886-1897 ------39 SIR: Your letter invitin~ my attention to the statements and statis­ From 1898-1900 (exceptional years of war and reorganization) tical data published bv Co1. L. M. Maus, Medical Corps, United States data unobtainable. ' Army, chief surgeon, Central Division, in the Continent of December 7 From 1901-1!}10 (prohibition period)------46 and 14, and requesting a statement with regard thereto, was duly received. .Admissiori, t·ates per 1,000 for alcoholism-United States. This office does not desire to say anything concerning the views and From 1867-1880 ------48 statements of Col. llaus, except in so far as they refer to the medical From 1881-1883 (prohibition period)------62 statistics of this office, and the conclusions which he draws from them, From 1886-1897 ------37 although his remarks upon the commercialization of the post exchange in From 1898-1900 (exceptional years of war and reorganization)__ 19 accentuating its functions as a cooperative store, and failing fully to From 1901-HllO (prohibition period)------28 meet the more important ones of a soldiers' club, are concurred in. . He states his purpose as follows: "Partly on account of impending Admission rntes ver 1,000 for venereal diseases-United States. legislation on the subject and partly to furnish reliable information for From 1867-1880 ------124 the above-mentioned class of writers (those that speak adversely of From 1881-188() (prohibition period)------82 the effects of a beerless canteen on the morals and habits of the United F1·om 1886-1897 ------77 States Army), I have gathered, as far as possible, the venereal statistics From 1898-1900 (exceptional years of war and reorganization)__ 125 on the point of contention, namely, whether the sale or prohibition of From 1901-1910, corrected (prohibition period)______149 beer in Army exchanges has any actual influence on the increase or There appears to have been an inclination among casual readers of diminution of alcoholism, vice, and venereal diseases among the troops." this article to draw the inference that the prohibition of the sale of Further on he states: "So far we have found nothing to lead any fair­ alcoholic liquors upon reservations has had a favorable influence upon minded person to conclude that the absence of beer from the canteen the sick rates, but this is nowhere explicitly stated by Col. Maus. has increased the admissi9ns to sick report, the ratio of constant sick, The total admission rate and sick rate of an Army are ver·y complex or the rate of alcoholism." matters, into which a great number of factors of varying importance Although it is thought that the writer has not been entirely success­ ente1-, and the absurdity of attempting t<> extract from tllese tables any­ ful in his efforts to furnish reliable information as to the vital statis­ thing of value with reference to tbe treatment of alcoholism in the tics of the Army, this office entirely concurs in the statement that the Army is shown by the fact that the first prohibition period, 1881-11~85 , statistics do not show that the absence of beer from the canteen has although it shows greatly ·improved admission and noneffective rates increased the admissions to sick report or the ratio of constantly sick. over the preceding nonprohibition period, yet shows much higher figures As regards the rate for alcoholism and venereal diseases, it is tho11ght than the subsequent nonprohibition period, and especially that part of that the statistics do contain evidence showing an increase which is in it from 1890 to 1897, when no spirits but only beer was sold in can­ relation to the abolition of beer in the canteen. He undoubtedly suc­ teens ; in fact, the last four years of this period show the best sick cessfully demolishes the " wild story that disease in the A.rmy during rates which the Army has hacJ, except the year 1910. The fact is that that period (ln02-1910) has doubled and trebled because beer was not the sanitary· condition cf. the Army has steadily improved from 1.he en d sold in post canteens." This seems, however, rather the demolition of of the CivH War up to 1897 due chiefly to the earnest and persistent a self-made man of straw, as no such extravagant statements have been work of the Medical Corps m1 preventing overcrowding, procuring lm­ brought to the attention of the undersigned, and there is certainly provemen ts in the diet and sanitary surroundings, and in urging that nothing of this sort in the moderate and accurate statements which are . proper precautions be given for the prevention of conta~ious diseases. contained in the petition to Congress on this subject, dated Philadelphia, The excessively high sick rates during the years 1898, 1899, and December 4, 1911, and signed by yourself and your distinguished associates. 1900, covering the period of the Spanish War and the Philippine insur­ Col. Maus divides the period from 1867 to l!llO, as regards the posi­ rection, were, even for the troops stationed in the United States, due tion of the War Department with reference to the sale of alcoholic to typhoid fever, yellow fever, malaria, and other exposures which un­ liquors on reservations, into four periods, as follows: dermined the regiments returning from tropical service, and the steady 1. From 1867 to 1880. when liquors were sold freely upon military improvement year by year since that time has been due to the splendid reservations by post h'aders by license from the War Department. h·iumphs ot preventive medicine in eradicating or bringing under con­ 2. From 1881 to 1885, when the sale of alcoholic liquors upon reser­ trol these diseases. vations was prohibited. · , The fall in the rate of n::alaria alone from 113 in 1!)01, step by step, - 3. From . 1886 to 1900, when such sales were again permitted upon to 16 in 1910 shows the importance that a single factor may assume. reservations. This period includes the first period of 4 years when Alcoholism, which was in the early history of the Army, during the ardent liquors wero sold by the post traders and the canteen period of first half of the last century, a very important cause of morbidity and 11 years when only beer and light wines were allowed to be sold. death and the cause of much solicitude to medical officers, has in late · 4. From 1!)01 to 1910, when the sale of alcoholic liquors was again years, with the growth of temperance in the Army, become of minor prohibited under a provision inserted in the appropriation bill approved importance in its effect upon the sick report, except by its relation to February 2, 1901. the much more serious question, from a sanitary standpoint, of venereal Col. Maus submits four tables of figures, tlJ.e first and second of which diseases. The rate of admissions for alcoholism was, for the year 1867, give the rate per thousand of admissions to sick report and the rate per 27, a lower rate than occurred at any time thereafter up to the year of thousand of constant nonefficiency for the above periods, while the third the Spanish War, a fact which conflicts somewhat with Col. Maus's and fourth give the rates per th•Jusand of admissions to sick report for idea of "Civil War veterans whose habits of intemperance had becon::.e alcoholism and ve.nereal diseases, which correspond in general to the fixed." The alcoholic rate rose from this point steadily to 1876, when periods above given, although in the tables of alcoholism and venereal it reached its highest point-72 per 1,000. For the next seven years diseases the first period is omitted it fluctuated between 60 and 70, being at 69 in the yea1·s 1882-81::, in To assist Col. Maus in his laudable desire to furnish reliable informa­ spite of tl1e fact that these were prohibition year . l•' ro m this point tion it seems desirable to correct certain discrepancies and errors in the rates fell steadily through 14 years to the year of the Spanish War, these tables. In the first table of admission rates the year 1885 is in which it was only 16, the lowest rate on reco rd. 'This was followed apparently counted as the first year of authorized sales, although by a rise during the exceptional years 1899 and 1000 to the rate of 26 Circular No. 12, by which the sale of beer and light wine was author­ in 1901, followed by three years when it remained near this figure and ized, was dated December 31, 1885, and was sent out by mail. The last then made a further rise for three years, reaching 3G in rno7. 'Ibe two years,· 1899 and 1900, of this period are omitted as being abnormal. rise in 1899-1901 was synchronous with the e";lormous increase in Such omission would be reasonable and in the interest of hcrnest de­ \enereal rates, and it is difficult to escape the conclusion that there was ductions if the year of the Spanish War, 1898, had been also omitted, some connection between the two. 'l'he prohnble explanation of both .and if those years had been omitted likewise in the third and fourth e;eems to be that· in the spring of 189!) the great majority of the olu tables. It will also be observed in tbe two Jatte1· tables that the last disciplined professional soldiers of the Army were given their discharge period of prohibition· is stated as 1901-1910, which is reasonable, since and were replaced by recruits. IL is well known tbat recrnits are more the act of Congress was passed early in the year and went instantly subject to sickness of all sorts, and especially to venereal diseases and into effect. This period is given in the first two tables as 1902-1910. alcoholic exce s, than trai:raed soldiers. 'Tile venereal rate of the re­ The factors which influ('nce the sick rate of an army are very numer­ cruiting stations, for example, is "So far in exec s of that of a.ny other ous. and it is essential to legitimate deductions that the principle posts in the Army that in the annual report of the Sur<:eo::i General for should be followed of eliminating all factors which are not common to this year they were placed in a table by themselves. The ;;reenness of the various datel'I between which the comparison is instituted. As the the Army in 1899 must thet·efore be credited as an important factor in first three periods refer to the United States only, the fourth period this rise, and it will be further observed . that the fluctuations in tbe should have been limited also to its continental territory and should alcoholic rate which have occurred since have been in periods of three 1912. OONGRESSION AL RECORD- HOUSE. 631 years, which corresponds with the expiration of the three·:Year enlist- Statistics are like stones taken from the quarry and piled by the ment periods. .· . roadside. The contentious may use them as missiles to hurl at an It will be observed that the improvement in the alcoboll~ rate began adversacy, <>r the mischievous to break windows, but the honest laborer before the establishment of the canteen and was continued clurtng most will employ them only tor the purpose for which . they file intended to of the canteen period. It is believed that this fall corresponds to the pave the difficult road whlcb 1eads toward the truth. It is with con­ general progress "Of temperance in ·the United States., and that H wanld fidence that the truth only is the 'Object sought by you and the 274 have been sustained but for the undoubtedly injurious effect of aboli­ distinguished physicians who have joined in youl' petition that this tion of the beer privilege in the canteen, which destroyed to a con­ letter is written. You may make such use of it as you desire. · sidera.ble extent the attractiveness of tbe soldier's club and compeiled Very respectfully, him to go outside the limits of the military post for amuS\lnttmt. In GEO. H. TORNEY, this way be is tempted to drink distilled liquors to excess in plaee of Suru-eon General, United States At·my. mild fermented liquors in moderation, and is at the same time brought into contact with disreputa'ble companions of both sexes, with unfor­ Of the hundreds of editorials which I have collected only tunate consequences to his heaJth and morals, as shown by the high during the last two months, all favoring the restoration of the venereal rates of the last prohibition period. canteen, I will insert one from the Watertown Daily Times, u Venereal diseases.-The records of all the great armies of the w-01.'ld, except our own, show for the last three de<:ades a steady descending temperance paper, which is typical of all. It reads as follows : curve of incidence for these diseases. With the American Army the THE ARMY C.ANTEEX. rate was fairly uniform for a number of years prior to the Spanish War. averaging for the decade preceding 1898, 78 per J ,000, and for When the Woman's Christian Temperance Union succeeded in getting the decade., 1878-1887, 84 per 1,-000. The rate for the United States Con:;ress to abolish the Army canteen it meant well. They thouo-ht it leaped, however, from 81 in 1898 to 138 in 1899 a.nd to 155 1n 1900, would abolish intemperance 1n tbe Army, remove a temptation fro'fu the and it has remained not far from 150 during the succeeding years. young recruit, promote discipline and a better life, and above all take Col. Maus tells us that this phenomenal increase is rather apparent away a. Government sanction· for the use of in.toxica ting liquors.' The than rea}. He says : "There is no question i.n my mind but that the experim~mt has been well tried out now, an{} results show in the opin­ fignres before rno1 would have exceeded 300 per 1.000 if all the cases. ion of .Army officers and medical .authority, that the abolltion of the bad been taken up But now rigid examination of a.ll the men is made canteen has created evils instead o.f diminishing them has been sub­ weekly, or twice monthly, which brings the rate up to t.he present versive of discipline bas acted against good morals, and induced dis­ figm es. Should such inspection be suspended to-morrow, I feel quite ease through tempting the soldiers to go .outside the reservation to vile satisfied that the rut~ would not re.ach 50 per 1,000 during the next dens of intoxication and vice. fiscal year." This ex:plnnatlon seem~d simple and plnusl.l>le., but, un­ The Army. can~n was established to promote a better social life fortunately, it has no real basis of fact. Too truth is that the physical and better disciplme at Army posts. It made a social club for thn examinations followed the great increase in the ven.ereal rates a.nd did sold.lers where only tigbt beer was allowed to be sold, and they had not produce them, both in the Tropics and in the United States. In cards and i;ames, and au of It o:nder charge of an officer and regulated the latter the curve of incidence took its al>rupt and eI:ormous rise 10 by r.ules. The profits of the canteen were diyided among the companies years before the physical examinations began to ~ held at nny eon­ stationed at the post and went to provide httle table luxuries not em­ siderable number of posts in the United States. braced 1n the Army ration. It kept the soldiers on the reservation · kept Col. J. Van R. Hoff, Medical Corps, Cbief Surgeon Eastern Division, them under better diseipline, and in better health. The good women states as follows in regard to this matter: • of this tempe1·ance organization did not !mow the benefits, but thou~t " So far as I know the first physical examinations held in the Unit~d only of the beer, and mistakenly had th~ institution abolished with States resulted from the Surgeon ~neral's ci:rculnr of Junuary 25, results the opposite they looked for, and in securing the abolition of 190'J, promulgated by order of the commanding general, Department of the post canteen have actually injured the enlisted men morally as well the Lakes. to the commanding officers of all posts there, March 9, 1909. .as physically. immediately after I joined that department as chief surgeon. I think Army officexs were doubtful of the experiment from the first, but as this was the first order issued by military authority here on this sub­ time bas gone -0n and they have noted effects t.Qey have become more je<'t. In the Department of tbe East the Surgeon General's circu1ar and more insistent in their protests against the abolition of the eilll­ was not given a military status until January 26. 1910. Physit!al teen. It is practically tbe gen.era! testimony of general officers and examinations were held in Porto Rico shortly after our occupati-0n, post commanders, from Gen . Leonard Wood, formerly an Army stugeon and. I understand, this was also the case in Cuba. In the Philippines and ~en. Fred D. Grant, a total ab tainer. down through. all tbe rankS the first order on this subject wa.s General Order No. 101, s. 1901." ~ha~ mteJ?perance ha~ ~een inc1·eased,_ with a corresponding increase Physica.1 examinations are only one of a series of measures recom­ Ill mfract10ns of discipline and desertions. These are now joined by mended by the .Surgeon General in bis circular letter of January 25, nearly all the medical authorities of the country, who have united in a 190!1. for the reduction of venereal diseases in the- Army, and the cor­ petition . to Congress for the reestablishment of tbe canteen, chiefly l'ected figures show that the general ado-ption of pJ1ysicnl examinations fo1· medical reasons, and in these they are joined by almost all the at Army posts in the United States in 1908, together with the other surgeons of the Army, who have close watch over the health of the prenntive ·measures recommended did not cause an increase, bot an men. These mediea.l men-and the most distinguished names of the encouraging reduction-no small part of which must be credited to profession are on the petition-show the intimate connection between Col. Maus's zeal and energy. the use of strong alcoholic stimulants and the contraction of filthy and Tb re are certainly no figures in this office to support the assertion fatal diseases. With the abolition of the canteen there sprang up that venereal figures bt>fore 1901 "would have exceeded 300 per 1,000 about every military post low dives for the selling of impure 11Qllors if all the cases ~ bad been ta.ken up," and in the opinion of this office and their accompanying places of vice. The soldier, enticed away from this guess is about 300 per cent too high for the de-ca.de prior to the the reservati-0n, where in the canteen days be could get such amount of Spnnisb War. beer as was good for him---0r, at least, n-0t injurious-visits the saloon, B e> low are given the t·ates for alcoholism an~ venereal dis~ses for loses his self-control and manhood, and goes to th~ places of vice and tbe 1Y.1 st 40 yea.rs in order that anyone who desires to study this ques­ contracts diseases fr-0m whieh there is never any perfect recovery and tion in detail will haT"e the material at hand to do so: which are transmitted to pure wives and innoeent children. Army statistics show that during the last six years nearly one-fifth of the Occun·ence of alcohe>lism and venereal diseases in the Regular At·my sta­ entire Army ha.s suffered from this class of diseases eveTy year, ti011 ed iii tltc United States, for f01'r decades. destroying its efficiency to that degree, and is out of ail proportion [Rate per i.ooo.J with those whkh obtain in the European armies. The Surgeon General recommends as a remedy " the organization of soldiers' clubs, can­ Venereal Alco-­ Years. teens, etc., where enlisted men can find amusement and recreation suffi­ diseases. holism. ciently attractive to keep them at home and away from vile resorts;" .al o. " instruction of the men, by lectures and by informal advice, as 1871 __ ------120 43 to the grave peril to the men, their families, and posterity." Lord 1872_. ------111 44 Roberts, with the British Army in India, did not abolish the canteen, 1873 __ ------108 ~8 bat restricted its sales chiefly to beer, and encoura~ed the furnishing of ------· ------00 56 recreation rooms, the promotion of temperance societies, etc., which, ha 187~- 63 187[;_ ------. ------HIS says, was followed by the happiest results. This same condition 111 72 existed in our former Army canteen, and would probably prevail again. 1876 __ . ------57 Observers of conditions at the Army post at Saekets Harbor can ] 877 ____ ------110 1878___ ------_._ __ ------95 60 confirm these statements. When the canteen was established most of 59 the saloons in the village were dried up for lack of the soldier's patron- 1879. . ------~------92 97 61 age. When the canteen was abolished they sprang up, and more of 1880_ ------­ 58 them, together with the associated vices. After a negro Tegiment came lSSL .. ------92 98 69 to the post the town of Hounsfield, in which Madison Barracks is 1882 .. -- --. ------69 situated, was compelled to vote no license through fear of the effect 1883 ... ------80 78 62 of liquor on the negro soldiers. As a matter of fact the ne~ro soldiers 188-L. -- •• ------!i3 behaved themselves better than white soldiers had, but there was a 1885 __ ------. - -- 80 72 47 well-grounded fear, the same that has induced prohibition in southern 1886 ___ ------46 States, that the presence of. cheap liquor and negroes wa.s a bad combi- 1887 .. --- . ------74 80 4-0 nation. It was a sacrifice to Sackets Harbor, which depends .con- 188£ __ ------. ------. ------41 siderably on a summer resort trade, and it nearly closed its only h-0tel. 1889 __ _------. ------85 75 41 The negro regiment being about to depart, the town has voted for license 1890.. ------. ------40 again, t-0 make it more attractive to the summer visitor, and probably 1891_ ------. ------. 72 77 37 with the appearance of another regiment the saloons will come into 1892_. ------. ------34 existence again with a.11 their attendant evils. If Congress paises the 1893 ___ ------73 80 31 bill now before it, which both Army officers and medical authorities 1894 .. ------. ------30 ask for, and the canteen is restored, there will be little business for the 189:>_ -. ------. ------74 78 29 encircling saloons, and discipline, good order, gO'Od health, and the pro- 1896_ ------. 28 motion of real temperanee may be restored. It is much to be hoped 1897 ______------· ---· ------85 81 16 that the bill will pass. The woman's organization that forced the 1898.. -. ------·------abolition of the canteen must have seen ·us mistake, and Congress should 189V ... ------·------. -----. --.. ------138 18 155 22 have less opposition to restoring the canteen and less fear of its 1000 ..•. ------26 p.olitical effect. 1901 .. . ------150 1902 __ ------161 ~ '- In the face of such evidence, Mr. Chairman, will Congress 1903 __ ------. ------11l6 1904... __ ------1 148 25 still hesitate to correct what a majority of the people have come 1905 .... ------1 157 so to regard as a most unfortunate and cruel mistake? 1906_ __ - _ : ___ ------1144 32 1907 ____ ------1149 36 ADJOURNMENT. 190 ------. ------1155 30 1909 __ ------1 151 25 1 Then, on m-0tion of Mr. UNDERWOOD (at 12 o'clock nnd 15 min­ 1910 __ ------. -. ------____ ;_ ------138 24 utes p. m.), the House adjourned until Thursday, January 4, 1 .Readmission of the same case deducted. 1912, at 12 o'clock m. 632 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE. J.A.NU .ARY 3,

EXECUTIVE COJU?.IDNICATIONS. the Tennessee River, Tenn., Ala., and Ky., from the confluence Under clause 2 of Rule xxrv, executive communications were of the Holston and French Broad Rivers to. the mouth (H. Doc. take!l from the Speaker's table and referred as follows: No. 360); to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered 1. A letter from the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, call­ to be printed. ing attention to estimates for the Lighthouse Service for the 17. A-letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims fiscal year 1913 not authorized by Congress, and requesting transmitting a copy of the conclusions of law and of fact in th~ that the necessary authority be enacted into law (H. Doc. No. French spoliation cases relating to the vessel schooner PhceniaJ, 378); to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce John D. Farley (H. Doc. No. 3G9); to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. and ordered to be printed. 2. A letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting state­ 18. A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims ment showing what officers or employees traveled on official transmitting a copy of the conclusion of law and of fact in th~ business of the Post Office Deparbnent during the fiscal year French spoliation cases relating to the vessel schooner Harmony, ended June 30, _1911 (H. Doc. No. 381); to the Committee on Enoch Lee, master (H. Doc. No. 370); to the Committee on Expendit ures in the Post Office Department and ordered to be Claims and ordered to be printed. printed. 19. A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims 3. A letter from the Secretary of War, submitting statement h·ansmitting a copy of the findings filed by the court in th~ showing what officers or employees of the War Deparbnent case of J. A. Hall, administrator of estate of Starkey Hall, have tra-reled on official business from Washington to points deceased (H. Doc. No. 364); to the Committee on War Claims outside the District of Columbia during the fiscal year ended and ordered to be printed. June 30, 19P (H. Doc. No. 380) ; to the Committee on Ex­ 20. A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims penditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. transmitting a copy of the findings filed by the court in th~ 4. A letter from the chairman board of trustees, postal sav­ case of George Davis v. The United States (H. Doc. No. !jG5) ; ings system, submitting statistics regarding the operations of to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. the system during the fi scal year ended June 30, 1911 (H. Doc .. 21. A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims. No. 384) ; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads transmitting a copy of the findings filed by the court in the and ordered to be printed. case of l\Irs. Adelia B. Greely, sole heir of n. B. Benj;1min. 5.- A letter .from the Acting Secretary of the Navy, transmit­ deceased (H. Doc. No. 363); to the Committee on War Claims ting statement of documents received and distributed by the and ordered to be printed. . department during the fiscal year ended June 30, 19U (H. Doc. 22. A letter from the assistant' clerk ·of the Court of Claims No. 376); to the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy De­ transmitting a copy of the findings filed by the court in lh~ partment aud ordered to be printed. case of J. l\I. Ballew, administrator of estate of Sarah Hays. 6. A letter from the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, sub­ deceased (H. Doc. No. 362); to the Committee on War Claims mitting a letter from t.he Supervising Inspector General of the and ordered to be printey of the conclusions of law and of fact in the report that preliminary designs and estimates ha\e been secured French spoliation cases relating to the vessel schooner !dcr·maid, for the buildings for each of the Departments of State, Justice, Church C. Trouant, master (H. Doc. No. 3GS); to the Com­ and Commerce and Labor (H. Doc. No. 370); to the Committee mittee on Claims ancl ordered to be printed. on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printeu. 14. A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims; transmitting findings of the court in French spoliation claim relating to the vessel schooner Paragon, Nathaniel Wattles, REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC BILLS .A.ND master (II. Doc. No. 367) ; to the Committee on Claims and RESOLUTIONS. ordered to be printed. Under clause 2 of Rule XIII, 15. A letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, Ur. CARTER, f-rom the Committee on Indian Affairs, to transmitting copy of the findings of the court in the case of which was referred the bill (H. n. 1405G) to pro-vide for the sale John H. Bryson, administrator of the estate of John Gibson, of the surface of the segregated coal and asphalt lands of the deceased, v. The United States (H. Doc. No. 366); to the Com­ Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, :rnd for other purposes, re­ mittee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. ported the same with amendment, -0.ccom panied by a report (No. 19. A letter from the .Acting S~cretary of War, transmitting 204), which said bill and report were referred to the Committee n. letter from the Chief of Engineers, with report on survey of of the Whole House on the state of the Union. 1912. ,• "CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- · HOUSE. 633

PUBLIC BILLS, RESOLUTIONS, AND MEMORIALS. By Mr. TOWNER: A bill (H. R. 16662) to amend act of June Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, bills, resolutions, and memorials 29, 1906 (chap. 3592, sec. 3, 34 Stat., p. 596); to the Committee were introduced and severally referred as follows: on Immigration and Naturalization. By Mr. WARBURTON: A bill (H. R. 16642) to erect a pub­ By l\lr. HILL: A bill. (H. R. 1G663) to permit any corpora­ lic building at Aberdeen, Wash.; to the Oommittee on Public tion, joint-stock company or association; or insurance company Buildings and Grounds. . to change the date of filing its annual return of net income re­ Also, a bill (H. R. 16643) to provide a site and erect a public quired under section 38 of the ·tariff act of August 5, 1900, from building thereon at Centralia, Wash.; to the Committee on the close of the calendar year to the close of its own fiscal year, Public Buildings and Grounds. and for other purposes; to the Committee on Ways and Means. By Ur. PRAY: A bill (H. R. 1G644) providing for appropria­ By Mr. l\!AR'l'IN of South Dakota: A bill (H. R. 16664) to tion fo r survey of public lands in the counties of Chouteau, make money already appropriated for "General expenses, Bu­ Valley, Dawson, Fergus, and Custer, in Montana; to· the Com­ reau of Plant Indlliitry, fiscal year 1912," available for the erec­ mittee on Appropriations. tion of necessary farm 'buildings, and for other purposes; to the Ily Mr. RUCKER of Colorado: A bill (H. R. 16645) to in-: Committee on Agriculture. cre:ise the limit of cost of the United States public building at By .Mr. EDWARDS: A bill (H. R. 16665) for a survey of Denver, Colo. ; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Darien Harbor, Ga.; to the Committee on Rivers and H::irbors. Grounds. Also, a .bill (H. R. 16666) proYiding for an appropriation of Also, a bill (H. R. 16646) to provide for an appropriation of $30,000 for the maintenance of Darien Harbor, Ga. ; to the $1,000 for the erection of a monument at Fort .Morgan, Colo.; Committee on Rivers and Harbors. to Ule Committee on Appropriations. By Mr. HUMPHREY of Washington: A. bill (H. R. "16667) Also, a um (H. n. 10647) to amend section 2291 and section to provide a site aud erect a public building at Blaine, Wash. ; 22D1 of the Revised Statutes of the United States· relating to to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. homesteads ; to the Committee on the Public Lands. Also, a bill (H. R. 16668) to provide a site.and erect a public Also, a bill (H. R. 16648) to increase the appropriation for building at. Anacortes, Wash. ; to the Committee on Public the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building at Buildings and Grounds. Greeley, Colo.; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Also, a bill (H. R. 1G869) to provide a site and erect a public Grounds. building at Sumas, Wash.; to the Committee on Public Build- · Also, a bill ( H. R. 16649) to provide for the purchase of a ings and ·Grounds. site and tbe erection of a public building thereon at Littleton, Also, a bill (H. R. 16670) to increase the appropriation for a in the State of Colorado; to the Committee on Public Buildings public building at Everett, Wash.; to the Committee on Public and Grounds. Buildings and Grounds. By Mr. .MARTIN of Colorado: A bill (H. R. 16650) appro­ By l\fr. ELLERBE: A bill (H. R. 16671) to provide for the priating money for the maintenance and impro-rnment of the erection of a public. building in the city of Marion, S. C.; to the l\Iesa Verde National Park, in the State of CQlorado, for the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. . fiscal year ending June 30, 1912; to the Committee on Appro- Also, a bill (H. R. 16672) for the erection of a public build­ . · · priations. ing at Dillou, S. C.; to the Committee on Public Buildings and By Mr. FERRIS: A bill (H. R. 16651) authorizing the Secre­ Grounds. tary of War to grant freedom to certain of the Apache prisoners By Mr. CRUMPACKER: A bill (H. R. 16673) to establish a of war now being held at .Fort Sill, Okla., and giving them customs collection district on the coast of Lake Michigan in equal status with other restricted Indians, and for other pur­ the State of Indiana; to the Committee on Ways and l\leans. poses; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 16674) to establish a subport of entry By l\Ir. PRAY: A bill (H. U. 16652) appropriating money and delivery at Indiana Harbor, in the State of Indiana; to for the. improvement of the Missouri River from Sioux City, the Coilllllittee on Ways and Means. Iowa, to Fort Benton, l\font. ; to the Committee on Rivers and By Ur. MANN: A bill (H. R. 16675) to authorize the city of Harbors. • Chicngo to construct ·a bascule bridge across the Calumet River Also, a biU (H. R. 1GG53) appropriating money for the con­ at Ninety-second Street in said city; to the Committee on in­ struction of a lock in the Yellowstone River, .Mont., and for terstate and Foreign Commerce. other purposes; to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Also, a bill (H. R. 16676) to . authorize the Lake Shore & By l\fr. FOWLER.: A bill (II. R. 16654) to authorize a survey Michigan Southern Railway Co. to construct a bascule bridge of Wabash River and Saline Rh~ er, in Illinois; to· the Commit­ across the Calumet Ri\er at South Chicago, Ill; to the Com­ tee on Ri\ers ::md Harbors. mittee on Interstate and Foreign Collllllerce. By M:r. WICKERSIIA1if: A bill (H. R. 16655) to provide for By l\fr. RUSSELL : A bill (H. 'R. 16677) to authorize Butler the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians in Alaska and to and Stoddard Counties, of Missouri, to construct a bridge across\ extend the protection ·of the Jaws of the United States and the St. Francis River· at Hodges Ferry, Mo.; to the Committee of the '.rerritory of Alaska over tlle Indians, aud for other pur­ on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. poses; to the Committee on Indi~n Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 16678) to increase the compensation of : .Also, a bill (H. R. 16656) to authorize additional aids to rural free delivery letter carriers; to the Committee on the naT'igation in the Lighthouse Establishment, and for other Post Office and Post Roads. . purposes; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com- By l\fr. BRADLEY: A bill (H. R. 16679) for the erection of ~ m~a · a public building at Nyack; N. Y. ; to the Committee on Public'' By Mr. WICKLIFFE: A bill (H. R. 16057) making an ap­ Buildings and Grounds. - propriation for Bayou Grosse Tete, in Louisiana; to the Com­ By .Mr. !!.. LOYD of Arkansas: A bill (H. R. 16680) to au­ . mittee on Ri\ers and Harbors. thorize the board of county commissioners . of Baxter County By l\1r. WARBURTON: A bill (H. R. 16658) to provide a and the board of county commissieners of Marion County, in; site and erect a public building at Chehalis, Wash.; to the the State of Arkansas, acting together for the two counties :u.1· Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. bridge commissioners, to consh·uct a bridge across the White By l\Ir. FERRIS: A bill (H. R. 16659) authorizing the Secre­ River at or near the town of Cotter, Ark. ; to the Committee tary of the Interior to sell the unused, unallotted, remnant on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. lands of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians in Okla­ By Ur. 1\lcDERMOTI': A bill (H. R. 16631) providing for homa; to the Committee on Indian fi_ffairs. the regulation, identification, and regish·ation of automobiles By Mr. STEENERSON: A bill (H. R. 16660) to amend sec­ engaged in interstate commerce, for the licensing of the oper­ tion 17 of an act entitled "An act to provide for determining ators thereof, for cooperation between the States and the Fed­ the heirs of deceased Indians, for tbe disposition and sale of eral Government in such purposes, and for distributing th~ allotments of deceased Indians, for the leasing of allotments, revenues arising hereunder between the States and the Federal and for other purposes"; to the Collllllittee on Indian Affairs. Government; to the Collllllittee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ By Mr. CLAYTON: A bill (H. R. 16661) to relinquish.. re­ merce. lease, remise, and quitclaim all right, title, and interest of the By Ur. STEPHENS of Texas: A bill (Il. R. 16682) canceling United Stutes of America in and to all the lands held under the balance of deferred payments due from settlers in the pur­ claim or color of title"by individuals or priyate ownership or chase of lands in the so-called "Wood Reserv~,'' attached to municipal ownership situated in the State of Alabama which the Fort Sill Military Reservation, Okla. ; to the Committee on were reserved, retained, or set apart to or for the Creek Tribe Indian Affairs. · or Nat ion of Indians under or by Yirtue o~ the trea.ty entered Also, a bill (H. R. 16683') to amend an act entitled "An act to into between the United States of America and the Creek Tribe oro>idc fo1: the disposition and sale of lands known as the or Kntion of Indians on March 24, 1832; to the Committee on Klamath Ri\er Indian Resenation," appro>ed June H, 1892 the Public Lands. · · (27 Stat. L., 52, 53) ; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. 634 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 3,

Also, .a bill (H. R. 16684) authorizing the Secretary of the • Also, a bill {H. R. 16701) granting a pension to Robert B. Interior to sell the merchantable timber on all .unallotted lands Reed; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. within the Bad River Reservation, Wis.; to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 16702) granting a pension to Charles R. Indian Affairs. Beardslee, alias Oharles P. Barclay; to the Committee on Inva­ Also, a bill (H. R. 16685) to prohibit the sale of personal lid Pensions. property of Indians purchased with trust funds; to the Com­ By Mr. BROWNING: A bill (H. R. 16703) granting an in­ mittee on Indian Affairs. crease of pension to Sarah ..A... Milton; to the Committee on By Mr. WARBURTON: A bill (H. R. 16686) to provide u Inrnlid Pensions. site and erect a public building at Hoquiam, Wash.; to the A.l o, a bill (H. R. 16704) for the relief of the widow of Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Michael Ryan; to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. POWERS: A bill (H. R. 16687) to authorize the Also, a bill (H. R. 16705) for the relief of William El Colin; Secretary of War to construct a lock and dam on Cumberland to the Committee on Military Affairs. RiYer, Ky., and for other purposes; to the Committee on Inter­ By Mr. BYRNS of Tennessee: A bill (H. R. 16706) granting state and Foreign Commerce. an increase of pension to I. N. Wakefield; to the Committee on By Mr. PRA.Y: A bill (H. R. 16688) appropriating money for Invalid Pensions. the benefit of the Northern Cheyenne Indians in the State of Also, a bill ( H. R. 16707) granting an increase of pension to Montana ; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. _ L. E. Sinsabaugh; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By l\Ir. NORRIS: A bill (H. R. 16689) legalizing certain con­ By Mr. COOPER: A bill (H. R. 16708) granting a pension to vey:mces heretofore made by the Union Pacific Railroad Co. ; Annie Oleson ; to the Committee on Im·alid Pension . to the Committee on the Public Lands. Also, a. bill (H. R. 1670.9) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. LINTIDCUM: A bill (H. R. 16690) for the relief of William Henry Jaques; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. scientific institutions or. colleges of learning having violated Also, a bill (H. R. 16710) granting an incTease of pension to sections 3297 awl '3297a of the Revised Statute~ and the regu­ James Bullamore; .to the Committee on Inralid Pensions. lations thereunder; to the Committee on Ways and l\Iea.ns. Also, a bill (H. R. 16711) granting an increase of pension to By l\Ir. ALEXANDER: A bill (H. R. 16692) to provide Amer­ Valerian Hanns; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ican regist:ers for seagoing Yessels wherever 1.rnilt :1.lld to be By 1\Ir. CR.AGO: A bill (H. R. 16712) gmnting a pension to · .engaged only in trade with foreign countries and with the Lizzie Saylor; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila, and Also, a bill ( H. R. 16713) granting a pension to Elias Knopp ; for the importation into the United States free of duty of all to the Coi;runittee on InY-a1id Pensions. materials for the construction and repair of vessels built in the Also, a bill {H. R. 16714) granting an increase of pension to United States, and for other purposes; to the Oommittee on Sarah Wood; to the Committee on Inrnlid Pensions. the .Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Also, a bill ( H. R. 16715) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. . BARTHOLDT: A bill (H. R. 16693) to extend the James P. Beeson; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. time for the completion of the municipal bridge nt St. Louis, By l\Ir. DAUGHERTY: A bill (H. R. 16716) granting an in­ M~. ; to the Committee on Interstat:e and Foreign Commerce. crease of pension to Charles G. Radcliff; to the Committee on By l\lr. SULZER: Concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 22) Invalid Pensions. . \ congratulating the people of China on tlieir efforts to establish a Also, a bill {H. R. 16717) granting an increase of pension to republic; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Henry L. Owen; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. GRAY: ConC'llrrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 24) pro­ Also, a bill {H. R. 16718) granting an increase of pension to viding for the printing of United States Bureau of Education Helena T. Wood; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Bulletin No. 44; to the Committee on Printing. Also, a bill (H. R. 16719) granting an increase of pension to Also, concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 25) providing for Sarah J. Bird; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. the printing of certain public health reports ; to the Committee By Mr. FERRIS: A bill (H. R. 16720) authorizing the Secre­ on Printing. tary of the Interior to pay J. H. Schmidt $75 damages for tres· By Mr. MANN: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 195) providing pass of certain Indian school cattle at Rainey Mountain School, for survey and estimate of cost of a canal from Lake Michigan in Oklahoma; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. to Lake Erie; to the Committee on Railways and Canals. Also, a bill (H. R. 16721) authorizing the Secretary of thei By Mr. HUMPHREYS of ·Mississippi: Joint resolution (H. J. Interior to issue to the Right Rev. Theophile Mearscheart; Res. 196) to provide for printing Hygienic Bulletin No. 78; to doctor of divinity, of the Roman Catholic Church, a patent in'' the Committee on Printing. fee to 20 acres of land, and for other purposes; to the Com. By l\fr. LEVER: Joint resolution (H.J. Res. 197) authorizing mittee on Indian Affail·s. the Director of the Census to associate the publication of the By Mr. FLOYD of Arkansas: A bill (H. R. 16722) granting production and distribution statistics for cotton; to the Com­ an increase of pension to William D. Mahurin; to the Com­ mittee on the Census. mittee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. L.A.If.,FERTY: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 198) pro­ Also, a bill (H. R. 16723) granting an increase of pension to posing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States Elijah Loback; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. giving women the right to vote; to the Committee on the Also, a. bill (H. R. 16724) granting an increase of pension to Judiciary. H. C. Beebe; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. HUMPHREYS of Mississippi: Resolution (H. Res. Also, a bill (H. R. 16725) granting an increase of pension to 355) to provide for binding farmers' bulletins; to the Committee Josephus F. Baker; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. on Printing. Also, a bill {H. R. 16726) granting an increase of pension to By Mr. LINDBERGH: Resolution (H. Res. 356) to amend Charles Parker ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. House resolution 314; to the Committee on Rules. Also, a bill (H. R. 16727) granting an increase of pension to John Cavin; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS. Also, a bill (H. R. 16728) granting an increase of pension to Under clause 1 of ll.ule XXII, private bills and resolutions William Lay; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. were introduced and severally refe1Ted as follows: Also, a bill {H. R. 16729) granting a pension to John Estep 3 By 1\fr. REILLY: A bill (H. R. 16691) granting an increase to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of pension to Mary McKiernan; to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bil1 (H. R. 16730) granting a pension to John A. Pensions. Cockrun; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. ASHBROOK: A bill (H. R. 16694) granting a pen­ Also, a bill ( H. Il. 16731) granting a pension to Percy }3. sion to Lemial S. Darr; to the Committee on Pensions. Anderson; to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. BRADLEY:· A bill (H. R. 16695) granting an increase Also, a bill (H. R. 16732) to correct the military record of of pension to John Norton; to the Committ.ee on Invalid Pen­ James Red; to the Committee on Military Affairs. sions. By Mr. FOWLER: A bill ( H. R. 16733) granting an honor­ Also, a bill (H. R. 16696) granting an increase of pension to able discharge to Richard Dove; to the Committee on Military Uzal K. Still; to the Committee on InYalid Pensions. Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 16697) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 16734) granting an honorable discharge ·to Mary A. Pfister; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. George .A. Crisel; to the Committee on Military Affair . Also, a bill (H. R 16698) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 16735) to appropriate $4,000-to pny for a Ira Soules; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. wharf boat belonging to l\frs. Fannie Pemberton; to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 16699) granting an increase of pension to i:nittee on War Claims. Jacob B. Roloson; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By 111.r. FULLER: A bill (H. R. 16736) granting an iucrease By Mr. BROWN: A bill (H. R. 16700) granting a pension to of pension to William C. Pool; to the Committee on Inrnlid George Myers; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. 1912. CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD- HOUSE. 635"

By Mr. GARNER (by request): A bill (H. R. 16737) for the · By l\Ir,RUSSELL: A bill (H. R.16775) granting an increase of relief of heirs of Nicholas Chano; to the Committee on War pension to Nelson Petry; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.· Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 16776) granting an increase of pension to By l\lr. GRAY: A bill (H. R. 16738) grab.ting a pension to James Phipps; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Fred B. Perkins; to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H.. R. 16777) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 16739) granting a pension to Rebecca James Hall; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Roszell; to the Committee on Im·alid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 16778) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 16740) granting a pension to Grace R. John C. Gooch; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Caldwell; to the Committee on Pensions .. · Also, a -bill (H. R. 16779) granting an increase of pension to Also, a- bill (II. R. 16741) granting a pension to Margaret John W .. Webb; to the Committee on Invalid Penf:!ions. McConnell ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. SIMS: A bill (H. R. 16780) for the relief of the legal Also, a bill (H. R. 16742) granting a pension to Emily Wilkie; representatives of Thomas H. Dinwiddie, deceased; to the Com­ to the Committee on Inrnlid Pensions. mittee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 16743) granting a pension to Hulda F. Also, a bill ( H. R. 16781) for the relief of the legal repre­ Stone; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. sentatives of H. C. Butler, deceased; to the Committee on War By \Ir. KENDALL: A bill (H. R. 16744) granting an increase Claims. of pension to Commodore P. Gilbert; to the Committee on In­ By Mr. STEENERSON: A bill (H. R. 16782) granting an in­ Yalid Pensions. crease of pension to Charles Almendinger; to the Committee on By Mr. LITTLEPAGE: A bill (H. R. 16745) granting an in­ Invalid Pensions. . crease of pension to Silas Hunley; to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. R. 16783) granting an increase of pension to Pensions. John P .. Hultquist; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 16746) granting a pension to Thomas Also, a hill (H. R. 16784) granting an increase of pension to Nelson; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. J oseph Cooper; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 16747) granting a pension to Richard L. Also, a bill ( H. R. 16785) granting an increase of pension to Brown; to the Committee on Pensions. Rufus K. Cornish; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 16748) granting an increase of pension to By 1\fr. STEPHENS of Texas: A bill (H. R. 16786) for the Frederick Van Gilder; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. relief of Alfred J. Drake; to the Committee on :;..\lilitary Affairs .. Also, a bill (H. R. 16749) to remove the charge of desertion Also, a bill (H. R. 16787) to authorize the setting aside of a from the military record of Solomn M. Bennett; to the Com­ tract of land for a school site and school farm on the Yuma mittee on Military Affairs. Indian Reservation, in the State or California; to tile Com­ By Mr. McDERMOTT: A bill (H. R. 16750) granting an in­ mittee on Indian Affairs. crease of pension to Gus Bell; to the Committee on Invalid Also, a bill (H. R. 16788) authorizing the Secretary of tho­ Pensions. Interior to cancel the allotment trust patent erroneously made Also, a bill' (H. R. 16751) granting an increase of pension to to "Mrs. Young Bear or Neek-rae-khe-ric-kaw"; to the Com­ George W. Oertel; to the Committee on Inrnlid Pensions. mittee on Indian Affairs. By Mr. MACON: A bill (H. R. 16752) granting an increase of By Mr. TOWNER : A bill (H. R. 1678!)) granting a pension to pension to Joseph H. George; to the Committee on Invalid Elizabeth Reynolds; to the Committee on Invalid Pension:::. Pensions. By l\fr. WARBURTON: A bill (H.. R. 16790) to rellloY2 the By Mr. l\.IANN: A bill (H. R. 16753) granting a pension to charge of desertion against Martin Hart ; to the Committee on Merch E .. Perry; to the Committee on Pensions. Military Affairs. By Ur. .MARTIN of Colorado: A bill (H. R. 16754) grant­ Also, a bill (H. R. 16791) granting a pension to Anni1} E. ing a pension to Edna B. Snider; to the Committee on Invalid Couch; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. .A.J.so, a bill (H.. R. 16792) to carry into effect the finding;:; of Also, a bill (H. R. 16755) granting an increase of pension to the Court of Claims in case of John H. Baker; to the Com­ Elizabeth O'Reiley; to the . Committee on Invalid Pensiom. mittee on War Claims. Also, a bill (H. R. 16756) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 16793) to authorize and empower the Benton Beerbower; to the Committee on Inrnlid Pensions. .Secretary of War to locate a right of way for and to grant .Also, a bill (H. R. 16757) granting an increase of pension to the same and the right to operate and maintain a line of rail­ Levi L. Ferrin; to the Committee on Pensions. road, telephone, telegraph, and electric transmission lines .Also, a bill (H. R. 16758) granting an increase of pension to through Vancouver Barracks and Military Reservation, in the Damon W .. Willey; to the Committee on In1alid Pensions. State of Washington, to Washington-Oregon Corporation, its Also, a bill (H. R. 16759) granting an increase of pension to successors and assigns; to the Committee on l\Iilitary Affairs. John Merling; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. WILSON of Illinois: A bill (H. R. 16794) granting a Also, a bill (H. R. 16760) granting an increase of pension to pension to Carl B. Traver; to the Committee on Pensions. Jonathan Wright; to the Committee on In-ralid Pensions. By Mr. WHITE: A bill (H. R. 16795) for the relief of By Mr. MARTIN of South Dakota: A bill (H. R. 16761) for William H. Davis; to the Committee on Military Affairs. the relief of Gjerluf Hanson; to the Committee on the Public Also, a bill (H. R. 16796) granting an increase of pension to Lands. John C.. Griggs; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr.. MORRISON: A bill (H. R. 16762) granting a pension Also, a bill (H. R. 16797) granting an increase of pension to to Frances A. Ayres; to the Committee on In-ralid Pensions. Thomas W. Dutro; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 16763) granting an increase of pension to Also, a bill (H. R. 16798) granting a pension to Grant Root; Harriet B. Gros; to the Committee on Inrnlid Pensions. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. NORRIS: A bill (H. R. 16764) granting a pension to Also, a bill (H. Il. 16799) granting a pension to Clinton L. Niels Pederson; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Coleman; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By 1\Ir. NYE: A bill (H. R. 16765) granting a pension to By Mr. YOU~G of Kansas: A bill (H. R. 16 00) for the relief Wilmot Ste1ens; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. of William Pointer; to the Committee on l\lilitary Affairs. Ily Ur. POWERS: .A. bill (H. R. 16766) granting a pension Also, a bill (H. R. 16801) granting an increase of pension to to Taylor AEller; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Arthur Wheeler; to the Committee on fuyali

Also, resolution· of the Alton (Ill.) Mnsiciansf .Association, States and Canada, protesting against the Smoot printing bill; protesting against the excessive tax on oleomargarine; to· the to the Committee on Printing. Committee on Agriculture. Also, petition of International Molders' Union, Local No. Also, resolution of the Crescent Club of the Normal Presby- 99, of St. Louis, 9Mo., protesting against the enactment of the terian Church, of Chicago, Ill., favoring the passage of the Esch Smoot printing bill; to the Committee on Printing. bill to prohibit the use of poisonous phosphorus in the match By Mr. BYRNS of Tennessee: Papers accompanying bills for industry; to the Committee on Ways and Means. increase of pensions of L. E. Sinsabaugh and I. N. Wakefield; Also, resolutions of Clm·eland (Ohio) Branch of Journeymen to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Stonecutters' Association of North America, in favor of House By l\.Ir. CONRY: Memorial of East Side Branch, United bill 11372, in behalf of seamen and safety of life. at sea; to the Master Butchers of America, of New York City, urging pn age Committee on the Merchant Mdrine and Fisheries. of House bill 14112; to the Committee on Agriculture. Also, resolutions of Central Labor Union of Lancaster and By Mr. COOPER: Petition of Cigar Makers' Union, Local No. Depew, N. Y., protesting against Senate bill 2564, l'epealing tlie 304, of Racine, Wis., against the enactment of Senate bill 25-64, lav,. of Congress of 1898 which provides that the paper money, to codify, a.mend, and enact printing laws; to the Committee on bonds, and checks of the United States shall he manufactured Printing. by what is known as the hand-roller process; to the Committee Also, memorial of the Woman's .Alliance, of Keno ha, Wis., on Printing. asking for the repeal of the tax on oleomargarine; to the Com- Also, resolutions of Local Union No. 637, Carpenters and mittee on Agriculture. · Joiners of America, of Hamilton, Ohio, protesting against Sen- Also, petition of Putney Bros., Waukesha, Wis., asking for a ate bill 2564, installing power presses in the Bureau of Engrav- reduction in the duty on raw and refined sugars; to the Com- ing and Printing; to the Committee on Printing. mittee on Ways and Means. Also, resolutions of Local Union No. 514, Carpenters and Also, petition of the Kradwell Drug Co., Racine, Wis., and Joiners of America, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., protesting against other retail druggists,. protesting against the enactment of Senate bilJ 2564, installing power presses in the Bureau of En- House bill 8887, proposing a stamp tax on proprietary medicines graving and Printing; to the Committee on Printing. and toilet articles; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Also, petition of homesteaders of Cameron, Quay County, By Mr. ESCH: Petition of Lake Seamen's Union, l\1ilwaukee, N. Mex., and Hanley, Quay County, N. Mex., favoring passage Wis., in favor of House bill 11372, laws governing seamen; to of Borah bill; to the Committee on the Public Lands. the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Also, petitions of citizens of Wellsville, Martinsburg, Mont- Also, petition of Society of the Army of the Cumberland, gomery, Mexico, Bowling Green, Frankford, New London, Cen- Chattanooga, Tenn., favoring appropriation for monument to ter Perry, Laddenia, Vandalia, and Curryville, protesting against Gen. Rosecrans; t() tbe Committee on Appropriations. · plfrcels-post system; to the Committee on the Post Office and Also, petition af the Council of Jewish Women of ~ew York, in Post Ro-ads. favor of Esch safety bill; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Also, petition of citizens of ninth Missouri district, favoring Also, petition of Humane Society and Associated Charities of granting full power to Interstate Commerce Commission to reg11- La Crosse, Wis., favoring establishment of a children's bureau late express rates and classification; to the Committee on Inter- in the Department of Education; to the Committee on Edu- state and Foreign Commerce. cation. By Mr. ASHBROOK: Petition of Armour & Co., branch office, Also, petition of the Woman's Alliance of Keno ha, Wis., Columbus, Ohio, asking for the passage of House bill 12827; to favoring repeal of tax on oleomargarine; to the Committee on the Committee on Military Affairs. Ways and Means. ·' Also, resolution of the Ohio Department of the Grand Army Also, petition of Company A, Third Infantry Wisconsin Na.L of the Republic against the Federal incorporation of the Grand tional Guard, of Neilsville, Wis., favoring Federal pay bill; to Army of the Republic; to the Committee on Military Affairs. the Committee on Military Affairs. · Also, !'e olutions of the Morgan Run Local Union, No. 379, Also petition of National Woman's Christian Temperance Coshocton, Ohio, protesting against the pn.ssage of Senate bill Union, Evanston, Ill., favoring appropriation· reimbursing those 2564; to the Committee on Printing. who contributed to ransom of l\Iiss Ellen M. Stone; to the Com­ AJso, evidence to accompany the special bill (H. R. 15792) for mittee on Appropriations. the special relief of Leah A. Jackson; to the Committee on Ill- Also, petition of Independent Western Star Order, Oshkosh, valid Pensions. Nebr., favoring abrogating Russian treaty; to the Corumittee on By Mr. BARTHOLDI': Petition of St. L>uis Photo En- Foreign Affairs. gravers' Union, No. 10, and of St Louis Boot and Shoe Makers' Also, petition of Natural History Society of Wisconsin, of Union, in favor of House bill 5601, to regulate the interstate Milwaukee, favoring Senate bill 2870 and House bill 12311, regu­ transportation of prison-labor goods; to the Committee on Labor. lating importation and interstate transportation of nursery Also, petition pf Boatmen's Bank of St. Louis, Uo., in favor stock; to the Committee on Agriculture. of permitting corporations to make tax returns in accordance Also, petition of Oongregation B'rith Israel, of Milwaulrne, with fiscal years; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Wis., favoring abrogating Russian treaty; to the Committee on Also, petition of the Ely Walker Dry Goods Co. and the ll"'"oreign Affairs. Brown Shoe Co., of St. Louis, Uo., in favor of a committee to Aiso, petition of Wisconsin Retail Grocers and General Mer­ study parcels post in Europe; to the Committee on the Post chants' Associati.on, of Milwaukee, Wis., against extension of Office and Post Roads. present pru·cels post; to the Committee on the Post Office and Also, petition of 28 members of the Pioneer Club of St. Louis, Post Roads. 1'Io., in favor of a reduction of the tax on sugar; to the Com- By 1\fr. FITZGERALD: Petition of Downtown Taxpayers' mittee on Ways and Means. Association, of Brooklyn, N. Y., relative to the suggested re- Also, petition of the Engineers' Club of St. Louis, Mo., in J moral of the Brooklyn Navy Yard; to the Committee on Navn.l favor of remedial patent legislation; to the Committee on Affairs. Patents. 1 Also, petition of the Seneca Club, of Brooklyn, N. Y., relative Also, petition of St. Louis Lodge, No. 37, of the Switchmen's · to the suggested removal of the Brooklyn Navy Yard; to the Union, in favor of reducing the tax on oleomargarine to 2 Committee on Na-ml Affairs. cents a pound; to the Committee on Agriculture. By Mr. FLOYD of Arkansas: Papers to accompany bills for Also, petition Qf the St. Paul Benevolent Society, of St. Louis, the relief of John Estep, William Day, James .Keef, John Starr, Mo.; the Arbeiterwohl Societ ·; Rev. W. C. Bitting, of St.· Louis, William D. Mahurin, Elijah Lobeck, Josephus F. Baker, Charles Mo.; and Workingmen's Welfare Society, section 1, of St. Louis, Parker, and John Cavin; to the Committee on Invalid Pen ions. Mo., in favor of Hou e bill 2 96, to provide for a tax upon phos- Also, memorial of Seventh-day Adventist Church of Fayette­ phorous matches; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign ville, Ark., opposing the passage of House bill 0433; to the Commerce. Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Also, petition of Webb-Freyschlag Mercantile' Co., of Kansas Also, petitions of H. L. Jackson and other citizens of Benton City, Mo., praying for 1-cent postage; to the Committee- on County, Ark., urging a red~on in the duties on raw and the Post Office and Post Roads. refined sugars; to the Committee on Ways and 1\Ieans. Also, petition of Ware, Jones Brass & Metal Co., of St Louis, By l\Ir. FULLER: Petition of Local Union No. 401, Iron Mold- 1\Io. praying for 1-cent postage; to the Committee on the Post ers' Union of North America, of Peru, Ill., favoring a reduction Offi~e and Post Roads. of the duty on oleomargarine; to the Committee on Ways and Also, petition of Paul Bakewell, of St. Louis, Mo., protesting Means. a..,.ninst House bill 13578, to define and punish contempt of A1so, petitions of druggists, physicians, and citizens of various c~urt; to the Committee on t11e Judiciary. citie in Illinois, against the passage of the Sherley bill (H. R. Also, petition of fhe St. Louis Boot and Shoe Workers' Union 8887) proposing a stamp tax on proprietary medicines and and of St. Louis Branch, No. •5, of the G. B. B. A. of the United toilet articles, etc.; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HDUSE. 637

Also, petition of B. F. :Metcalf, of Rockford, Ill., favoring the .Also, petition of Arnstein, Simon & Co., of San Francisco, ·passage of House resolution 287, concerning scale of wages Cal, favoring l~cent Jetter :postage; .to the :Committee on the paid to skilled labor on Isthmus of Panama, etc. ; to the Com- · Post Office and Post Roads. mittee ·on Labor. ·Also, petition of H. C. Symonds, of San Francisco, Cat, Also, petition of Chicago Wheel 1\lanufacturing Co., of Chi- , favoring abrogation ,of treaty with Russia; to the Committee cago, Ill., in favor ·of the .proposed reduction in first-O:a.ss letter on· Foreign .Affairs. postage; to the Committee ·on the Post Office and Post Roads. Also, memorial of California State Federation of Labor, San Also, petition favoring House bill .2140, for the .relief of Peter : Francisco, ·.Cal., opposing TayJar system; to the ·Committee on E. Luttrell; to the Committee on Pensions. . Labor. Also, petition of Tuthill Spring Co., of Chicago, Ill., favoring , Also) petition of .San Francisco Labor Council, San Francisco, the passage of House bill 11543, concerning proposed amend- OaL, opposing Smoot printing ·bill; to the Committee on ment to corporation-tax law; to the Committee on the Judi- Printing. ciary. : Also, petition of J. W. Nowacki, Canal Zone, Panama, favor- By Mr. GARNER: Petition of R. Roy Ruff and sundry ·other · ing Honse resolution 287; to :the Committee on Interstate and citizens ·of Port Aransas, Tex., favoring construction of a Foreign Commerce. ch:mnel from harbor -0f Aransas Pass to shore line in front of . Also, petition ·of Commercial National Bank of Los Angeles, town of Aransas Pass to be 15 feet deep -nnd asking nppropJ.·ia- · Cal., favoring l·cent letter postage; to the Committee on the tion therefor; .to the Committee on Rivers and Harb.ors. , Post Office and Post iiloads. Also, petition of H. F. Moyse and sundry other citizens of ;, Also, .p.etition of ·Hale B.ros., .San Francisco, Cal., favoring San Angelo, Tex., favoring the exea~ating of a channel from amendment to ·corporation-tax: law; to the Committee on Ways the harbor of Aransas Pass to the town of Aransas Pass 15 feet ; and ·1\Ieans. deep and 150 feet wide at bottom; to the Committee ·on Rivers : .Also, petition of Council o:f Jewish Women of San Francisco, and Harbors. Cal., favoring the abrogation of the treaty between Russia and Also, petition of C. W. Morgan, W.ichita. Kans., and sundry the United States; to the Committee on Foreign .AffaiTs. others, .asking for the ex:cav.atio.n of a 15-foot channel n.t Also, . resolutions of 1\lilitary Telegraph Corps, of Indian­ Aransas Pass Harbor; to the Committee on Rivers and Harbor.s. a.polis, Ind., favoring 'House bill 2920; to the ·committee on Also, petition of sundry citizens -0f Rockford, Nebr., fa-roring · ]ffiita.ry Affairs. the excavation of 15-foot channel from .Ar.ansas Pass Harbor to I .Also, J)etition of D. C. Taylor, 'Oakland, Cal., favoring ci:tizen­ town of same name· to the Committee .on Iliv:ers and Ilm~bors. . ship of Alaskan natives; .to the Committee on Immigration and Also, r1etition of A. J. Woodard and sundry other citizens of Naturalization. . Urnlde County, Tex., fa;voring the .excaTation of 1.5-foot chma- Also, petition of California State Federation of Labor, for ne1 from harbor to town of Aransas Pass; to the Oommittee•on extension of term of Chinese exclusion act; to the Committee Tiivers and Harbors. on !lmmigra~on and Naturalization. By Mr. GRAY: Papers to accompany House bills 8727, Also, petlt1on of Fifth Regiment Band, S.an Francisco, Cal., 11259, and 11344; .to the Committee on Inv.alld Pensions. favoring Rouse bill il1657; to the Committee 011 Military Affairs. Also papers to accompany House bill 8343; to the ·Com- Also, petition of 1r1a.ssachusetts Association, Union Vo1urrteer mittee' on Military Affairs. . Officers of Civil War, Boston, Mass., favoring volunteer officers~ By Mr. HAitTM.A.l~: Petition .of Fisher Post, No. 30, 'Grand ' re.tired list; to the Committee on Pensions. 1 Army of the Republic, in opposition to the proposed incolJ)orn- .Also, petition of Dr_ W. W. Keen, of Philadelpbla, Pa., anct tion of the Grand Al.'IDY of the Republic~ to the Committee on · of the Medical Society of .the State of California, for the re the District of Columbia. establishment of .Army canteen; to the Committee on Mili'ta.rj' By Mr. HAY: Petitions of numerous citizens of Vil'.ginia ~d .Affuirs. North Carolina, in farnr of reduction of duty on i-aw .and ; Also, petition .of Santa Cruz Chamber of -Commerce, :Santa refined sugars; to the Committee on Ways and Means. ·cruz, Cal., '.farnring prohibiting interstate-commerce rail.roads Also, petition in reference to old-age J)ension bill.; to the Com- .fro-m owning o.r controlling ships engaged in trade th1·ough mittce on Pensions. Panama Canal.; to the Committee ·on Interstate and ·Foreign By Ur. HELM : Petitions ·IJO· Methodist .E(p'iscopal Church, of Bellingham, Wash., fa:voring sition to .par.eels post; to the :Committee .on the Post Office and passa ere of effeeti v-e interstate liquor bill ; to the Committee on Post Roads. Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Also, petition -0f Pacific Eruit Product. ·Co., ·san Francisco, Also petition 'Of · citizens of State of Washington., favoring Cal_, iavoring amendment to corporation-tax law; to the Com­ Hou e bill 9433; to the Committee 'On the :P.ost Office and Post mittee on Ways .and 1\leans. Roads. Also, petit1on of C. S. Word, San Francisco, 'Cal., for law for By Mr. KAHN: P.etition ·of International Brotherhood of honest weights and measures; to the Committee on Co'ilUlge, Electrical Workers, San Francisco, Cal., 0J>J>OSed to Smoot Weights, ant1 l\1easures. printing b111; to the Committee on Printing. AJso, petition of Board of Supervisors, San Francisco, Cal., Also, petition of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, in favoring abrogation ,of Russian treaty; :to the Committee on favor of nppropriations to ·carry out the report of the Califor- Foreign Affairs. nia Debris Commission; to the Committee on .ApJ;Jroprfalions. Also, petitiou of Sommer & Kaufman, San Francjsco, Cat, Also, petition of Dalziel-Moller Co., San Francisco, Cal., op- favoring .amendment to corporation-tax law; to the Committee posed to parcels post; to the Committee on the Post Office and on Ways .and l\feans. Post Roads. i .Also, petitions of Raphael Weill & 00., Capitola ·Park Co., · Also, ·petition of E:yde Shaw .00., of San Jose, Cal., favoring California Burrel Co., .all of San Francisco, Cal.., in favor of the amendment ·Of corporation-tax law; to the ·Committee ·on Ways amendment ef fbe ·oor:poration-tax law in regar-0 to the date of and l\leans. making returns; to the Committee on Ways and 1\leans. Also, petition of J. H. Flicldnger Co., of San Jose, Cal., :fav:or- .Alse, petition of Chamber -0f Commerce of Alameda, ·Cal., in ing amendment of corpo1~ati.on-ta:x: law; to the ·Oammittee on farvor of a Navy dry .dock .in San Francisco Buy; .to the Com- Ways and l\Ieans. mittee on Naval .Affairs. Also, memorial of United Laborers No. 1, of ·san '.Fl.·ancisco, .Also, petition of Yosemite Tribe, No. 103, Order of Red !\.!fen, Cal., in opposition to Senate bill 2564; to the ·Committee on San FJ.·ancisco, Cal., favoi-ing American 1Lodian :memorial mu- Pr:i:n.ting. seum;.,t-o the Committee on the Public Lands. Also, petitions of rrarious commercial organizations .of Wa.sh- .Also, :Petition of Halbrook~ l\Ierril & .Stetson, of San Francisco, in~on, D. C., in. fa~or of nntver~ transfer [aw; to the -Com- Cal., favoring ·bill for warrant grade in A.rmy in lieu of post non- mittee on the D1str1ct of Columbm. commissioned staff; to the Committee on 1\lilitary .Affairs. .Al o, petition of Hills Bros., San Francisco, Cal., iavor.ing Afso, .petition of E. J. Dye1; Canal Zone, Panama, farnring 1-cent postage on letters; to the Committee on the P0st Office · House hill :287; to the Committee Gll Interstate and Foreign and Post Roads. Commerce. .A}so, petition of .SherW:in-WilUarns, San F.rancisco, C.al., .Also,. petition .o.f T. N. Walraven, Canal Zone, Panama, favor- .favoring .amendment to co?·poration-ta:x: law; to the ·Committee ing House bill 287; to the Committee on .Interstate and F-0reign on Ways and :Means. · · Commerce. 638 001,GRESSION AL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 3,

Also, petition of Anglo California Wlne Co. and others, favor­ United Brotherhood of Carpe"Q.ters and Joiners, Wnlla Walla, ing amendment of the corporation-tax law in the matter of Wash. ; Local Union No. 1412, United Brotherhood of Carpen­ date of making returns; to the Committee on Ways anfortification of Los Angeles Harbor; to the Committee Post Roads. on Military Affairs. Also, petition of Dr. l\f. Spiegel, of Albany, N. Y., favorin~ Also, petition of Chamber of Commerce, Oakland, Cal., favor­ 1-cent postage for first-class mail matter; to the Committee on ing a dry dock for San Francisco, Cal. ; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Naval Affairs. Also, memorial of the Conservation Commission, in favqr of , Also, petition of Society of California Pioneers, San Fran­ House bill 14120; to the Committee on Agriculture, cisco, Cal., favoring Oregon leading ships through Panama Also, petitions of Rochester Stamping Co., of Rochester, 1 Canal; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. N. Y., and Barker, Rose & Clinton Co., of Elmira, N. Y., , in Also, petition of Hon. J. P. Haas, Sacramento, Cal., favoring favor of 1-cent letter postage; to the Committee on the Post bill appropriating merchants and packers stamping weight, etc., Office and Post Roads. on outside of packages; to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, Also, memorial of Long Island Union of Army and Navy and l\Ieasures. Volunteer Officers of Civil War, favoring retirement-list bill; Also, petition of California State Federation of Labor, San to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Francisco, Cal., favoring building complete battleship at Mare Also, resolutions of Down.town Taxpayers' Association, of Island Navy Yard during Panama Exposition; to the Commit­ Brooklyn, N. Y., favoring the purchase of more land and dock­ tee on Naval Affairs. ing facilities in order to make naval station in every way a Also, petition of Merchants' Association of Vallejo, Cal., first-class navy yard; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. farnring dry docks at l\Iare Island Navy Yard; to the Commit­ By Mr. MAGUIRE of Nebraska: Petition of Camo John M. tee on Naval Affairs. Stotsenburg, No. 1, Army of Philippines, of Lincoln, Nebr., Also, petition of California Legislature, favoring Su1loway urging passage of legislation giving to widows and minor chil­ bill; to the Comi:nittee on Invalid Pensions. dren of soldiers of War with Spain the same relief as given to Also, petition of Baker & Hamilton, San Francisco, Cal., widows and minor children of soldiers of the Civil War; to favoring warrant grade in Army in lieu of post noncommis­ the Committee on Pensions. · sioned staff; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, petition of Lincoln Central Labor Union, of Linco1n, Also, petition of J. W. Smith, Canal ~one, Panama, favoring Nebr., protesting against any plan for reorganizing the To­ House resolution 287; to the Committee on Interstate and For­ bacco Trust; to the Committee on the Judiciary. eign Commerce. Also, petition of Lieut. George Marshall, Omaha, Nebr., Also, petition of residents of Talmage and Nemaha Counties, favoring Volunteer officers' retired list; to the Committee on protesting against passage of any legislation which provi

tion of President, Vice ·preSident; . .and Representatives in Uon- · Also, petition of Dr. M. Spiegel, in fa~or · of 1-cent postage; to ~~ . the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. · Also, petition ·of citizens of Nebraska, favoring a bill for the Also, petition of Francis J. Sweet, of the Panama Canal Zone, proper observance of Sunday in the District of Columbia; to ~ favor of House resolution 287; to the Committee on Inter­ the Committee on the' District of Columbia. state and Foreign Commerce. Also~ petition of citizens of .Nebraska, protesting against the .Also, petition of Baltimore Chamber of Commerce, asking opening of post offices for distribution of man on Sunday~ 'to that the first annual appropriation for embassy buildings a!Jroad the Committee on the_Post Office and Post Roads. be expended at cities of Mexico, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo; to By Mr. NYE: l\1emoria1 of Plumbers and Gas Fitters' Union the Committee on Foreign Affairs. No. 15, of Minneapolis, against enactment of Senate bill 2564; Also, petition of Plymouth Commercial Club, asking that the to the Committee on Printing. first annual appropriation for embassy buildings abroad be Also, memorial of Minneapolis Retail Grocers' Association expended at cities of Mexico, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo; to the and others, favoring reduction in duty on raw and refined Committee on Foreign Affairs. sugars; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Also, _petition of the Arion l\Iaennerchor, of Chicago, Ill., By Mr. PATTON of Pennsylvania: Petitions of J. F . Place in favor of House resolution lGG, providing for rm inrn tigation and other citizens of Pennsylvania, for reduction in the duty on of immigration office at Ellis Island; to the Committee on Inuni­ raw and refined sugars; to the Committee on Ways and Means. gration and Naturalization. By Mr. PRAY : Petition of 35 merchants of Kalispell, .Mont., By 11fr. THAYER: Petitions of the 'Boston Architectural Club against parcels post; to the Committee on the Post Office and and of the Boston Society of Architects, of Boston, l\fos"., in Post Roads. farnr of proposed Lincoln l'lfemorial as approYed by the National Also, petition of R. E. Hammond and others, of Havre (Mont.) Fine Arts Commission; to tile Committee on the Library. Presbyterian Church, favoring the ratification of the pending By l\Jr. WILSON of New York: Resolutions of Seneca Club, peace treaties between the United States, Great Britain, and of Brooklyn, N. Y., protestillg against the proposed rernornl of France; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. the navy yard from Brooklyn, N. Y.; to the Committee on Xtrrnl Also, petition of 20 residents of Creston, Mont., in favor of Affairs. prrrcels post ; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Also, petition of George Schneider, of Brooklyn, N. Y., asking Roads. for the remo-rnl of the duty on raw and refined sugars; to the By Mr. REILLY: Petition of farmers of Connecticut, favor­ Committee on Ways and 1\Ieans. ing general parcels-post legislation; to the Committee on the Also, resolution of the New Yo1·k Conservation Commission, Post Office and Post Roads. favorable to House bill 14120 making appropriation of $ 0,000 By Mr. RUCKER of Colorado: Petition of residents of Weld for study and suppression of the chestnut blight disease; to the County, Colo., in favor of an old-age pension law; to the Com­ Committee on Agricu.lture. mittee on Pensions. Also, memorial of United Master Butchers of America, favor­ By Mr. SMITH of New York: Resolution of the United able to reducing the tax on oleomargarine; to the Committee on Trade and Labor Council of Erie County, N. Y., in support of Agriculture. House bill 11372, for the relief of American seamen; to the Also, resolutions of Local No. 132, Cigarmakers' International Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Union of America, Brooklyn, N. Y., protesting against Senate · Also, memorial of Seventh-day Adventist Church of Buffalo, bill 2564; to the Committee on Printing. Also, petition of various residents of New York, Brooklyn, ~ Y., in opposition to House bill 9433, for the observance of Sunday in post offices; to the Committee on the Post Office and and New Rochelle, N. Y., favorable to the establishment of a 'fost Roads. -parcels post; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post · Also, resolution of the East Side Branch of the United Master Roads. Butchers of America, indorsing House bill 14112, relating to Also, resolutions of Architectural League of New York, farnr­ oleomargarine; to the Committee on Agricnltme. ing the Mall site for the Lincoln Memorial; to the Committee Also, resolution of the Central Labor Union of Lancaster and on the Library. • • Depew, N. Y., protesting against uninspected dairy products; to the Committee on Agriculture. Also, resolution of the conservation commission of the State SENATE. of New York, commending House bill 14120, for study and sup­ THURSDAY., January 4, 1912. pression of the chestnut-blight disease; to the Committee on Agriculture. The Senate met at 2 o'clocl;: p. m. Also, resolutions of the Engineers' Club of St Louis, l\Io,, con­ Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D. cerning the necessity for remedial patent legislation; to the THOMAS H. PAYNTEil, a Senator from the State of Kentucky, Committee on Patents. appeared in his seat to-day. By Mr. STEENERSON: Petition of sundry persons of· Callo­ The Journal of y~sterday's proceedings was read and ap­ way, Minn., opposing parcels post; to the Committee on the Post -prm·ed. Office and Post Roads. READING OF WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL .ADDRESS. Also, petition of sundry persons of Bemidji, Minn., favoring The TICE PRESIDENT. The Chair announces the appoint­ reduction of duty on raw and refined sugars; to the Committee ment of the junior Senator from Indiana [Mr. KERN] to read on Ways and M"eans. • Washington's Farewell Address on February 22, 1912, pursuant By Mr. SULZER: .Memorial of E. J. Parker, with reference to to the order of the Senate of January 24, 1901. the improyement of the city of Washington; to the Committee RELIEF OF INDIANS IN UTAH (H. DOC. NO. 389). on the District of Columbia. Also, memorial of C. A. P. Turner, of Minneapolis, Minn., The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica­ relative to Rock Creek Valley; to the Committee on the District tion from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant of Columbia. to law, a statement of the expenditures from the appropriation Also, petition of Sherman P. Camp,. of New York, N. Y., in for the relief of distress among the Indians of the Skull Valley favor of amending the corporation-tax law; to the Committee and Deep Creek and other detached Indians in Utah, which on Ways and Means. with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Oommitt~ Also, petition of Albany Chamber of Commerce, in favor of on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. 1-cent letter postage; to the Committee on the Post Office and PETITIONS AND Mfil.:WBIALS. Post Roads. The VICE PRESIDENT presented a resolution adopted by Also, petition of Postal Progress League, for parcels post· to the City Council of Boston, Mass., favoring the continuance of the Committee on the Post Office .and Post Road.s. ' the appropriation for the maintenance of the navy yard at .Also, petition of the l\Iassachusetts Peace Society, of Boston. Charlestown, Mass.. , which was referred to the Committee on Mass., to bring about a celebration of the 100 years of peace Naval Affairs. among English-speaking people ; to the Committee on Foreign Mr. KERN presented a memorial of sundry citizens of Win­ Affairs. chester, Ind., remonstrating against the establishment of a Also, petition of the German-American Typographical Union parcels-post system, which was referred to the Committee on No. 7, in favor of the Esch bill; to the Committee on Ways and Post Offices and Post Roads. Means. He also presented a petition of members of the Tuesday Club . Also, memorial of Conservation Commission of Albany, N. Y., of Elkhart, Ind., praying for the repeal of the oleomargarine m favor of House bill 14120; to the Committee on Appropria! law, which was referred to the Committee -0n Agriculture and tions. Forestry.