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10 CONGRESSION-AL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 6, for protection of local-option laws in the vari~us States and Ter appointed to wait on the President and to inform him that a ritories-to the Committee on the Judiciary. quorum of the two Houses is present and ready to proceed to By 1\fr. MOON of Tennessee: Papers to accompany House bill business, report that they have discharged that duty, and in to amend an act entitled "An act to enable the Secretary of War response the President stated to the committee that he would to authorize construction of a lock and dlim in aid of navigation immediately communicate to the two Houses a message in writ· in the Tennessee River "-to the Committee on Rivers and Har ing. bors. SENATORS APPOINTED ·FROM MASSACHUSETTS AND PENNSYLVANIA.. Also, papers to accompany bill for relief of Jesse Walling, of .Mr. LODGE. Mr. President, I present the credentials of my Sampson, Bledsoe County, Tenn., for supplies taken and used by colleague, 1\Ir. Crane, and ask that they be read. the United States Army-to the Committee on War Claims. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The credentials will be re By Mr. MORRELL: Petition for the erection of a monumental ceived and read. statue in the city of Washington, D. C., to Rear-Admiral Charles The credentials of Winthrop Murray Crane, appointed by Stewart-to the Committee on the Library. the governor of the State·of Massachusetts a Senator from that By Mr. RIXEY: Papers to accompany bill for the relief of the State to fill until the next meeting of the legislature thereof Methodist Episcopal Church South, of· Jeffersonton, Va.-to the the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1907, occasioned by the Committee on War Cairns. death of Hon. George Frisbie Hoar, were read, and ordered to By Mr. RUPPERT: Resolutions of the New England Tobacco be :filed. Growers' Association, stating that they are unalterably opposed 1\fr. PENROSE. Mr. President, I present the credentials of to any change of the tobacco schedule of the Dingley tariff law Mr. Knox, filling by appointment of the governor of Pennsylva to the Committee on Ways and Means. nia the vacancy in this body caused by the death of my late Also, papers to accompany bill to pension Abram Nussbaum colleague. to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The credentials will be re By Mr. SCUDDER: Petition of residents of the town of East ceived and read. Hampton, Suffolk County, N. Y., for improvement of Threemile The credentials of Philander Chase Knox, appointed by the Harbor-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. governor of the State of Pennsylvania a Senator from that State By Mr. SHER.l\I.Al~ : Papers to accompany bill granting in to fill until the next meeting of the legislature thereof the va crease of pension to Rev. R. Howard Wallace-to the Commit cancy occasioned by the death of Hon. Matthew Stanley Quay tee on Invalid Pensions. in the term ending March 3, 1905, were read, and ordered to be By Mr. SMITH of Kentucky : Papers to a.ccompany bill for filed. pension of Daniel W. Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pen Mr. LODGE. The Senators appointed are present, and I ask sions. that the oath may be administered to them. · By Mr. SNOOK: Papers in support of House bill granting an The PRESIDENT pro tempore. If tbe Senators appointed increase of pension to Harrison Ball-to the Committee on In will present themselves at the desk, the Chair will administer valid Pensions. the oath required by law. Mr. Crane and Mr. Knox were escorted to the Vice-Presi· dent's desk by 1\Ir. LoDGE and Mr. PENROSE, respectively; and the SEN.ATE. oath prescribed by law having been administered to them, they took their seats in the Senate. · TUESDAY, December 6, 1904. PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL MESSAGE. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. EDWARD EVERETT HALE. Mr. B. F. BARNES, one of the secretaries of the President of MosEs E. CLAPP, a Senator from the State of l\finnesota; the United States, appeared and said: JAMES P. CLARKE, a Senator from the State of Arkansas; Mr. President, I am directed by the President of the United JoHN w. DANIEL, a Senator fr.om the State of Virginia; JoHN States to deliver to the Senate a message in writing. ~'. MoRGAN, a Senator from the State of Alabama, and Fmmi The message was received from the secretary and handed to FOLD MeL. SIMMONS, a Senator from the State of North Caro the President pro tempore. lina, appeared in their seats to-day. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the The Journal of yesterday's -proceedings was reap and ap Senate the anmml message of the President of the United proved. States, which the Secretary will read. · MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. '!'he Secretary (CHARLES G. BENNETT) read tile message, as WILLI.lll J. BROWNING, the Chief Clerk of the House of Repre follows: sentatives, appeared and delivered tile following message: 'l'o the Sen.ate ana House of Representatives: Mr. President, I am dil:ected by the House of Representatives The Nation continues to· enjoy noteworthy prosperity. Such to inform the Senate that a quorum of the House of Representa prosperity is of course primarily due to the high individual aver tives has assembled, and that the House is ready to proceed to age of our citizenship, taken together with our great natural business. resources ; but an important factor therein is the working of Also, that a committee of three has been appointed by the our long-continued governmental policies. The people have em Speaker on the part of the House of Representatives to join the phatically expressed their approval of the principles underlying committee appointed on the part of the Senate to wait on the these policie , and their de ire that these principles be kept sub President of the United States and to notify him that a quorum stantially unchanged, although of course applied in a progressive of each of the two Houses bas assembled and that Congress is spirit to meet changing conditions. ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make, C.A.l!TIO~ AGAINST EXTRAVAGANCE. and that Mr. BURTON of Ohio, Mr. TAWNEY of Minnesota, and Mr. WILLIA.MS of Mississippi have been appointed such commit The enlargement of scope of the functions of the National tee on the part of the House. Government required by our development as a nation involves, The message further announced that the House had. passed of course, increase of expense; and the period of prosperity the following bills; in which it requested the concurrence of through which the country is passing justifies expenditures for the Senate: permanent improvements far greater than would be wise in A bill (H. R. 12898) to create a new division in the eastern hard times. Battle ships and forts, public buildings, and im· judicial d.isb.·ict of the State of Missouri; and proved waterways are investments which should be made when A bill (H. R. 13355) to amend the copyright laws. we have the money; but abundant revenues and a large surplus The message also announced that the House bad passed reso always invite extravagance, and constant care should be taken lutions commemorative of the life and public services of Hon. to guard against unnecessary increase of the ordinary expenses Matthew Stanley Quay, late a Senator fJ:om the State of Penn of government The.cost of doing Government business should sylvania. be regulated with the same rigid scrutiny as the cost of doing The message further announced that the House had passed a private business. resolutions commemorative of the life and public services of CAPITAL AND LABOR. Hon. George Frisbie Hoar, late a Senator from the State of In the vast and complicated mechanism ·of ou~ modern civil· Massachusetts. ized life the dominant note is the note of industrialism ; and the NOTIFICATIO~ TO lHE PRESIDENT.· relations of capital and labor, and especially of organized capital Mr. A.LLISON and Mr. CocKRELL, the committee appointed on and organized labor, to each other and· to the public at large ~orne the part of the Senate to wait upon the President.of the.United second in importance only to the intimate questions of family life. States, appeared; and Our peculiar form of government, with its sharp division of au 1\Ir. ALLISON said: .1\Ir. President, the committee on the part thority between the. Nation and the several States, has been on of tbe Senate, with a like committee on the part of the House, the whole far more advantageous to our development than a 1904. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 11 ... more strongly centralized government But it is undoubtedly conspicuous bravery and self-sacrifice in the saving of life in responsible for much of the difficulty of meeting with adequa~e private employments under the jurisdiction of the United States, legislation the new probleJ?S pre~ented b~ the total change ill and particularly in the land commerce of the Nation. illdush·ial conditions on thts continent durmg the last half cen PREVENTIO:'i OF RAILROAD ACCIDEl\'TS. tury. In actual practice it has prove~ ~xceedin%1Y di~cult, and The ever-increasing casualty list upon our railroads is a mat - in many cases impossible. to get unanuruty of wise act10n among ter of grave public concern, and urgently calls for action by the the various States on these subjects. From the very nature of Congress. In the matter of speed and comfort of railway travel the case this is especially h·ue of the laws affecting the employ our railroads give at least as good service as those of any other ment of capital in huge masses.