I ~ Otnngrtssinnal Jrtnrd. PROCEEDIN(iS AND DEBATES OF THE SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION.
SENATE. H. R. 7697. An act to authorize the calling into the service of the United States the militia and other locally created armed MoND.d.Y, January B1, 1918. forces in the Philippine Isl::m LOCAL HOUSING SITUATION. I again say, Mr. President, that there are some honorable exceptions- :Mr. THOMAS. Mr. President, on Friday last I took occasion, For instance, last evening one woman was telling of another woman, when the bill in charge of the Senator from Florida [Mr. friend of hers, who had rented an apartment for $65. She was sub FLETCHER] was under consideration, to say something about the letting it for $250 without furnishing any linens. A cousin of hers local conditions in the city of Washington and to suggest that was renting all her rooms and then letting the fit·st or ba ement floor for $45 to some Army officers, and they were furnishing their own cots. appropriate legislation seemed to me to be ':ery desira?le rega~·d Another instance I know of personally : Four girls who had come here ing those subjects. Since then I have recetved some mterestmg to work for the Government and were receiving salaries ranging from and vigorous correspondence. I send to the desk and ask that $900 to $1,200 had rented a furnished four-room apartment and were getting their own meals in order to cut expenses; they were paying the Secretary may read the following letter. $70 for the apartment. The person they were renting from came to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the Secre them and said her friends had told her she was crazy to rent her apart ment so cheap, and she would have to have $100 for it; they pleaded tary will read as requested. with her to allow them to keep it, and she finally agreed to let them The Secretary read ns follows : remain for $80 per month, but three .lays after told them she would CITY REl'iTAL BUREAU, have to have the apartment, as she was going to rent it for $150. Washington, D. 0., J(muary 19, 1918. '.rhe District people are not doing their patriotic duty in trying to Senator CHARLES SPALDING THOMAS, help the war workers, but it seems they all feel they .are entitled to live United States Senate., Wa..shington, D. 0. off the Government because they live in the District. and if all the family haven't Government jobs they feel entitled to take it away from DEAR Sm: This afternoon's Star quotes you as saying that "great the Government clerks. Only last week two girls told me they bad unscrupulousness, avarice, and extortion seem to be a comm~!l practice had their rent raised $10 per month, and the owner told them that in this city with here and there a few honorable exception.s, etc., etc. Congress was going to raise their salary. They begin taking "their As a citiien of the District of Columbia of 30 years' standing, I regret share" before we even get ours. We were given a 5 per cent increase to say to you that you seem to belong to the plain, ordinary garden this year, and I am now paying $10 per month more for board than variety of damn fools. The charges that you have made in the. Senate I I against the people of Washington are grossly false, grossl~ libelous, paid last vear, which is twice as much as the increase received. and I a.m unable to find in the English language sufficient adJectives to The real estate men-one company I know of-raised the price of all express my opinion of a United States Senator who would deliberately the two-room aparbnents a lady had who is making her living keeping boarders, while the families livin~ in the same apartment they raised and willfully make such charges. one with a four-room apartment $2.50 per month, while the woman I You evidently know no more about what you are talkln~ tp.an your refer to he raised $7.50 on the same size apartment; on the two-room party knows about the handling of the coal situation or shippmg situa apartment he raised ber $5, anrl a man and his wife who had one two tion or any situation which has become confusion worse confounded by room apartment they did not raise at all. He told the woman who was the ~tupid muddling imbecility of the Democratic Party. keeping boarders to " take her slice while everyone else was," and When you say t,hat th~ people of the city .of Washington are un expected her. to raise her boarders accordingly, and, of course, he knew scrupulous you lie. When you say that avance and extortion are a most of her people were working for the Government. common practice in this city, you lie again. It seems to me that i.t a law was passed allowing people to charge I notice by the Congressional Directory tha~ your term of office does no more than 15 per cent to 25 per cent on the amount they had invested not expire until March 3, 1921, and by that time, thank God, you and in a hou e, in addition to the rent they pay would be fair compensa your party will be r elegated to the obscurity of which you and they tion. No one expects to replace their furniture every four years, and belong. t' d · h. d •t t at 25 per cent the cost of the furniture would be paid for in four years. If you know of any cases of extor 1on a~ avance, w y on you 1!-C As it is, some of them are making from 150 to 600 or 700 per cent. like a man and mention the cases, and not mdict the people of an enbre What other business could they do it in? One thing that has made it city as you, in your ignorance, have done. so hard for Government clerks is the fact that so many people of means I have the honor to be, sir, have come here, some from necessity, others "just to be here." and are Very truly, yours, E. W. PIERCE, Manager. willing to pay any kind of price for things they want, and other I?eople . Mr. THOl\1AS. :Mr. President. the letter just read is dispas hearing of the exorbitant prices " their friends " are getting, unme diately begin to boost their prices. I think when a number of the present sionate, impersonal, and nonpartisan, but it is not convincing. Government clerks return home it will 'be with the idea that Wash Mr. GALLINGER. Will the Senator first let us kno~ what ington has made enough out of them to pay their own taxes for some this num manages? time to come. . Please pardon this long letter, but I only wanted to add a few fucts 1\!r. THOMAS. He manages, r think, 'vhut i called the City to tho e you already have and wish for you success in a just cause. Rental Bmeau. I am disposed to conclude from the somewhat (Mis ) ELLA U~DEnwoon. perverted character of this gentleman's English that be is one I shall not take up the time of the Senate any further this of the hit birds that flutters, and if so, my remarks were not morning, Mr. President, in regard to this subject except to say entirely devoid of results. f!:e Yery properly, however, inquires that the insistent needs of the average wage earner here and if I know of any specific instances of extortion why they are tho e of the officers and soldiers of the United States Army-the not furnished. There are so many of them which have come to officers particularly-make it impos ible for them to meet exi t my attention that it is impossibl{' to do so at this time. ing conditions of living in the District. A a con equence, it It may be that I have subjected myself to a part, at least, of behooves the Congress of the United State , in self-defense, as this gentleman's rather vigorous criticism in . that I confined it were, to enact, if possible, some legislation ·which will cover what I had to say very largely to the people of the District of this difficulty without at the same time inflicting undue inju ·tice. Columbia. My personal information is that wherever there is ~ Mr. PHELAN. Mr. Pre ident, I am disposed to move to ex an undue congestion of people caused by this war in any part punge that very offensive letter from the RECORD because it is of the United States the resultant conditions are practically an unwarranted reflection upon the Senator from Colorado [l\Ir. what they are here, and consequently the indictment, if I may THOMAS] and on the Senate itself. At this time, if the Chair so term it, which, in a general way, I made the oilier day was will permit me, while the country is at war and there has been greatly circumscribed ~Y appl~ing it merely to the city of Wash such a magnificent spirit shown by the men of the country in , ington. volunteering their services, it is well to comment not only upon I have on the other hand, 1\fr. President, receh·ed a large those who are engaged in profiteering, but also upon those who number ~f letters commendatory of the information or the re are volunteering their services gratuitou ly. I have in my hand marks in which I indulged the other day, nnd with the permis a letter dated San Francisco and addressed to the Secretary ot sion of the Senate I will read two of the shorter ones. One is the Navy, which I shall read in order that it may be spread from a young officer in the United States Army. He says: upon the RECORD. · It is as follows : DEAR SENATC.R : I wish to tak~ the liberty of expressing an apprccia· SAN FRANCISCO BAn PILOTS, tion of the stand you nre taking in the local housing situation. Young San Francisco, Oal., Xovember 28, 1911. Army officers on the lowest salaried commissions are being compelled to Hon. JosEPHUS DANUlLS, spend $20 to $40 per month !or a room in which to live. The writer Secretm·y of the Navy, Washington, D. 0. has come here at some personal sacrifice, of course, to help. Eft'orts to SIR · The undersigned San Francisco bar pilot. have since the com find a respectable room arc without result at any price, except at the menceinent of the war with the Imperial Get·man Government furnished hotels, where usual rates prevail. . their services to vP.sc;els of the United States Navy free of charge. At I am afraid he has not been to some of the hotels- the beo-inning of the war we verbally volunteered to render such services during its continuance. It is our impression that there is no formal The Govemment is making a great mistake in taking over apartment record in your depal'tment of this volunteering of our services, and we houses for office purposes. They are needed !or housing the very men take this occasion to renew in writin17 the tender previously made. working in thes~ offices. Certainly some rough, temporary buildings, Whatever skill and experience and servtce we can give you are freely like the Ordnance Building, should be constructed at once, with rooms subject to your direction. at not over $12 per month. This is perfectly practical. While it is now w e are attachi.J?~ a copy of tbe letter from the State board of pilot perhaps too late to change the system-like much that bns been done commissioners raurying our action in the above connection. it w~uld be better to build temporary offices and use, so far as possible, the apartments for what they were designed to be used for. Very faithfully submitted, SAN FRANCISCO BAn PILOTS. Very respectfully, yours, V. A. MATTESO~. STATE BOARD OF PILOT COM.l\llSSIONEnS, San Francisco, Cat, December 3, 11J1'1. The other is dated .January 19, and is from one of the Goyern Capt. .TOH~ W. WALLACE, . ment employees living in the city: Port A.yent, Bar Pilots, Batt Frane1sco, Oal. MY DEAR Sm: I am pleased to note from this morning's paper that DEAR SIR : At a regular meeting of the State board of pilot commis it is your intention to secure some legislation regardinp the housing sioners Monday, November 5, 1917, it was resolved that the action o! and Jiving problem in the District. It seems to me there IS mo.re reason the San Francisco bar pilots since the war between the United States for a rise in the price of foods than in living quarters, a.nd the real and central powers in giving free pilotage to vessels of the United States estate people and residents have become the worst of leeches. Navy Department meets with our approval. It· is noted with p~easure 1918. CONGRESS! ON AL ltECORD-SENATE. 1073 that the bar pilots inform th~ board that it 'is their intention to give CHATTA~OOGA, TENN., JattUa'i"1J 19, 1918. free pilotage to the vessels of the United States Navy so long as the war Ho11. K. D. McKELLAR, continues. • United States Sertate, Washington, D. 0.: Very truly, yours, Suggest change fuel orcler to allow six days business seven hour. each HUGH M. BURKE, Secretary. for five days except Sa.turd.ay. W. F. FrsHEn & BRos. Co. In contrast, therefore, to what ha.s been done in the· city industry i:l Illinois coal fields to limit of their capacity would not delay BAI!\BRIDGE, GA., Janum·y 18, 1918. shipment of a single car of coal. If the theory is that everyone is to Hon. Hoi""E SMITH, be macle to sufl'er alike, why exempt everything west of Missi sippi River United States Senate, Washington, D. C.: and tho. e using water power. Our suggestion is that railroad trans Get ruling and wire, our expense. it will have to close mill. l\Ianufac· portation be limited to coal and necessary commodities and that pas . turing fru!t and vegetable packages, also Government quartermaster senger traffic be limited to necessary purposes. Release of a few boxes. Usmg refuse waste, sawdust, shavings, and bark ft•om manufac· million box and flat cars and many locomotives for coal carrying tured product. 'Ve do not buy, use, or burn any coal. Foodstuff' will purpos~>s ought to furnh:h jmmeciiate fuel relief. We reRpectfully urge be lost if we close mill. your support of any mo>emcnt, first, to abrogate Garfield's order unless demonstrated clearly nece.sary; second, to permit use of fuel where ELBERTA CRATE Co. upplkd exclusively by wagon delivery from the mines; third, for post ponement of Garfielir order until business can adjust its£-lf to the pros 1\IARIETTA, GA., January 18, 1918, pect. Uon. llOKF. S~IITH . Washington, D. C.: THOMAS REES, The Illinois tate Rcgistet·. Is there no way by which we can get exempted from Ful'l Adminis J DAYID STER:-<, trator's instruction'! Reason for exemption i' we produce more fuel Spritlgfi,eld Ne-tvs-Record. when running than we consume. Closing down increases coal consump LEWIS R. MINETI, tion 6 or 8 tons per day. Ct>.n get no satisfaction from parties l.lere. Illinois State Jom·nal. Please wire. . BRU~IBY CHAm Co., Per T. M. BnuMBY, Jr. Srm=-GFIELD, ILL., Jmwary 17, 1918. l\11.". Sl\1ITH of Georgia. l\fr. President, I wish to e}..11ress the Hon. LAWRENCE Y. SHERMAX, • Washington, D . C.: hope that e\·en yet enterprise such as are de cribed in the tele .At a meeting heltl this morning of members of the Commercial AS!lo grams I ha-ve had read may not be interfered \Vith by the fuel cintion, representing thr. leading coal mines, manufacturers, and other order where they produce more fuel than they consume or industrjnl interests of tile city, it was unanimously agreed that all pres ent would endeavor to carry out in the fullest possil.lle measure the fuel where they use no coal, and where their by-product in many order issued to-day by the National Fuel Administration, and a r esolu instances furnishes tl1e fuel for the community. We know we tion was passed and will be publi. bed in the daily papers urging all need lumber; we know ''e have been short of lumber; we Jmow citizens of the county to do likewise. The commercial association de sires howe>er, to go on record as protesting mo t emphatically against that in. pro•iding for our troops we ha\e been forced to use the discrimination shown of limiting this fuel conserYation order to duck am1 tents, instead of lumber and houses. 'Vhile I sym that part of the United States east of the Mississippi River. . It seem.s pathize thoroughly with the desire to furnish coal where it is to us only fair that the order should be extended to the enhre conh nental United States. Your support in this position is earnestly re needed, it is the uni-versality of the order, its failure to dis quested. criminate, that causes me to hope that further exceptions will THE SPRINGFIELD COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION. be made. • . J. H. McCREEUY, President. .Attest: 1\lr. FLETCHER. l\Ir. President, I have a number of tele W. H. COXKLIXG, Sccretm·y. grams practically to the same effect as those submitted by the Senator from Georgia [ Ir. SMITH]. I will not ask to have them read into the RECORD, as they present the same or similar CHICAGO, ILL., January 17, 1918. Hon. LA WREKCE Y. SHERMAN, questions. Washington, D. C.: I think perhaps one reason why the order has been made to The subjoined telegram was sent to President Wilson to-day: apply to such plants is not because they consume coal or coke- To i.be PRESIDEXT : and undoubtedly beyond that the order is ruther advisory than The tlirectors of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association in meeting mandatory-but the main question is the question of tran por assembleu respectfully urge that you so modify the order of the Fuel Administrator, effective January 18, 1918, as to permit the operation of tation. all indushies affected to 50 per cent of their normal capacity during The suggestion is further made by a number of people in the five days named in the order. Such a modification will enallle the that portion of the country that this o:t;der uri es by reason of plant owner to maintain his organization and will reduce by one-half the pecuniary loss of the wage earners. We urae also immediate action congestion principally in the Northeast and in north Atlantic to increase production at the mines and the cleartlg of the transportation ports, and that that difficulty might have been a-voided and lines by an embargo on all hipments except food and fuel for a week, might still be relieved very extensively if the deep-water ports if necessary. Suppression of energy, curtailment of all manufacturing industry, and prevention of opportunity arbitrarily will work incalcula of the south Atlantic and Gulf were made use of. The termi ble injury. nals in that portion of the country are not congested ; they are illinois Manufacturers' Association ; D. E . Felt, first vice not overcrowded; they are not used to the extent to which they president; Wm. Nel on Pelouze, second vice president; Paul Schulz ; Geo. R. Meyercord ; S. M. Hastings, di might be used, and if those facilities were made use of it rector; Ilerman H: ""Hettler, director; P. S. Theurer, would undoubtedly have a tendency to relie\e the congestion treasurer; Colin C. H. Fyffe, general counsel; John M. in the Northeast and in the north Atlantic ports. There are Glenn, secretary. ample terminals and facilities at deep-water ports on the l\lr. Sl\liTH of Georgia. I send to the desk certain telegrams 8outh Atlantic and no congestion. If they were availed of and that I desire to have read. traffic routed in that direction, it would undoubtedly tend to a The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the Secre solution of the transportation problem. tary will read as requested. I will say further in regard to the telegrams from the Georgia The Secretary read as follows : and Florida Saw l\1ill Association and other telegrams of like JACKSONVILLE, FLA., Janum·y 17, 1918. nature that there is scarcely a sawmill1 practically, that is not lion. HOKE SMITH, cutting material for shipbuilding purposes. It has been esti United States Senate, Washington, D. 0.: mated, for instance, that the entire output of the mills is more Referring to Fuel Administrator's erder that indu tries will not be allowed to use fuel January 18 to 22 inclusive, and each Monday than contracted for by the Emergency Fleet Corporation up to thereafter until" March 25, Florida Fuef Administrator construes this this time or is about to be contracted for, so that very likely order applies to sawmills and wood-workina plants that use waste that situation will relieve itself . to a considerable extent. materiai for fuel, and unless modified they wiD not be alloweu to con tinue to operate during that period. This ruling will undoubtedly be These mills undoubtedly are engaged in supplying material for - made by Fuel Administrator in Georgia as well and manufacturers in the buildi:ag of ships, and for that reason they will not likely your State, who are members of this association, will be seriously in be interfered with. convenienced. We submit that there will be not only no conservation of fuel by forcing sawmills and woodworking plants that use their l\Ir. SMITH of Georgia. Mr. President, will the Senator let own waste for fuel to shut down, but fuel supply will be reduced by clos me ask him a question? ing these plants if order is to apply to sawmills and woodworking plants. 1\lr. FLETCHER. Certainly. Please have modified. Will appreciate immediate reply at our expense. GEORGIA-FLOHIDA SAWMILL ASSOCIATIOX, 1\fr. Sl\IITH of Georgia. Has the Senator been able to get a By E. C. HARRELL, Secretm·y. list of those establishments that have been notified they are re l\lr. SMITH of Georgia. 1\Ir. President, before the other tele lieved from the order? I am getting telegrams from mills grams are read, I desire to state that I wa compelled to advise which ha•e been sawing lumber for the Government, but have this a ociation th:::t Fuel Administrator Garfield only excepted been able to obtain no notice that they were relieved. A list from his order those sawmill plants, the list of which was given has been made up ·of those sawmills which were to be relie"V"ed, by the Shipping Board, as being mills furnishing lumber for but I ha\e found none who have had notice their mills were on ship mnnnfacturing. the list, some have probably been omitted inadventently. I feel The PHESIDI .,.G OFFICER. The three other telegrams pre almost authorized to telegraph them, "Go ahead, if you are do sented hY the Senator from Georgia. will be read. ing Government work; for, if they have not r elieved you, they The Secretnry read the telegrams, as follows: mean to do so"; and yet I have hesitated, because I feel that whether we like or do not like an order issueu at this til;ne WAYCROSS, GA., January 18, 1918. Hon. HoK~~ S~IITH, from an administrative agency", whether. we approve or do not Unitcil S tatc:s Senate, Washington, D. C.: approve, as loyal soldiers we should obey the command while Docs L1 1 .-\.dministrator's ruling apply to our plant? We use saw the command stands. · dust aml \Ya t.e accumula tecl at our plant for fuel to make power. In fact, we gin away and sell wood to the public. We use no coal at all. l\1r. FLETCHER. I think the Senator's reply indicated in Answer. his statement regarding the first telegram presented by him ENTERPRISE LU::IIBER Co. perhaps fully co\ered the situation; that is to say, where the 1918. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 1075 mills are cutting material for the building of ships they would man high in rank and of splendid. character, and I want to be exempt. I lm Ye not the list. The plan was to have what is read what he says. Of course I can not give his name, but this known as the Yellow Pine Emergency Bureau enter into agree is what he says: ment with the Emergency Fleet Corporation to supply this Overcoats which the Government makes for enlisted men can be pur chased for $12.50. They are in every way satisfactory for most officers, lumber. The members of that bureau include the Southern Pine yet dealers would charge from $55 to $60 for an overcoat no more Lumber Association and the Georgia-Florida Sawmill Associa suitable. Other articles are proportionately higher. tion; and the membe1· of these associations, I take it, are all This bas been a great hardshio on many young officers. Uncler in structions from the War Department, quartermasters ;were forbidden to included in the list of mills that are furnishipg material for sell them these overcoats. shipbuilding purpc.:-:es The detailed list, I take it, can be fur I would not be at all surprised. if the matter was investigated, it riished by the EmerO'ency Fleet Corporation; but I believe that would be found that dealers handling these goods have a lobby in Washington. tho e two associations and others known as independents are At the present time oYercoats are plentiful in the Army. centerell in what is called the Yellow Pine Emergency Bureau, This morning I received another letter from this same offi and t~e contracts are made with the Emergency Fleet Corpora cial! in which he says: tion by that bureau. There are mills not members of any associ I am sending you herewith list of clothing, showing prices fixed by ation which have contracts for shipbuilding material and they the Government and those for which the same articles can be pm· would be exempted on application to the Emergency Fleet Cor chased from retailers. poration. I will say, in justice to the retailers of Wllshington City, that I agree with the Senator that the disposition, I think, will be this does not refer to them. H relates to another place where found there, as it ought to be, in my judgment, throughout the these headquarters are located. country, to obey the orders that are issued. We are all soldiers, Several retailers were visited by a man I Rent out for the purpose. everyone of us, indinuunl1y and collectively, and the first duty The prices at each place were practically the same. showing colin ion of a soldier is to obey orders. That spirit must prevail if we are amongst them. There is undoubtedly an association of retailers of. military goods. Some of these prices have come down in the last two to mn this war; and that is our chief business now. or three weeks. Overcoats were as high as $60. but as nearly all of Mr. TILLMAN. l\Ir. President-- the new officers have been obliged to buy one from them instead of being allowed to purchase from the Government, the demand being less, The VICE PHESIDENT. The Senator from South Carolina. the price also is less. An order was received in this office yesterday l\1t·. TILLMAN. I merely want to suggest to the Senator which authorizes the sale of the articles shown on the list herewith to from Ii'Jorida and the Senator from Georgia that it would be officers under orders for over-seas duties, except woolen uniforms. This wise for Mr. Garfield, m· somebody in authority, instead of pick relieves the situation somewhat, but the harm has already been done to a. great extent. However, there will be a large number of new offi ing this, that, and the other sawmill or plant and allowing it to cers coming in in about two months. They should be supplied it run by special permit to issue a general order covering indi possible. vidual cases, and we would not then have the trouble of trying Mr. President, this officer attaches to his letter a list show to telegraph to our constituents that they might run their plants. ing the prices at which the different articles will be furnished Let him establish a general rule co,ering classes, and then each by the Quartermaster Department and the prices asked by owner of a plant could determine for himself whether to shut these retailers, which I a k may be inserted in the RECORD. down or run. The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, it will be so l\fr. SMITH of Georgia. l\Ir. President, just a word. Really ordered. none of these sawmills ought to be interfered with; there is no The rna tter referred to is as follows : justification for it. They create fuel; they consume no fuel. We know that our country needs their product to conduct the List prices of clothinJ. war properly; we need more lumber, much more than is within reach, and it is a hindrance rather than a help to our prepared Government. Retailen ness to stop sawmills from operating. I wish to say further that surely the fact that so many excep Belts, waist...... to.17 S0. 50 tions have been made and so many more ought to be made to the Gloves, horsehide, yellow ...... 1.25 3.50 Gloves, riding ...... 1. 75 5.00 Garfield order is sufficient proof of the wisdom of the Senate in Gloves, woolen, olive drab ...... _ . 41 1. 50 requesting that this order should be postponed for five days so Cotton olive-drab uniforms: that the exceptions might be carefully studied and many of 1the Breeches ...... 1.19 4.00-5.0) Coats ...... 1. 65 10. 0) plants that have been interfered with eliminated from its opera Cotton and woolen underwear: tion before the order went into effect. Drawers, jcau, swnmer ...... ~.. :. .30 1.50 l\fr. TILLMAN. By a general rule. Drawers, canton flannel, winter ...... •...... •...... 37 2.0;1 Drawers! wool, knit...... -~ ...... 1.03 2.50 Mr. SMITH of Georgia. I do not think we have any reason Undershirts, cotton, summer ...... ·- .35 .50 to feel that our advice was not wi~e advice. Undershirts, woolen, winter ...... 1. {)() 2.5') Undershirts, woolen, light-weight ...... 56 2.00 COST OF OFFICERS' UNIFORMS. .10 .25 Mr. JONES of Wa hington. l\fr. President, I have received .35 .50 !~=~: ::r~:·~~i:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: .25 .50 several letters in the nature of petitions with reference to the 4.ro 7.00-12.50 bill that I introduced a few days ago _relating to officers' uni ~~:;; ~~d~t.. ~~::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::: 3.69 7. 50-12. 5() forms. I see that the chairman of the Military Affairs Com Shirts, flannel, oli>c drab ...... 3.03 5.0::1 Slickers ...... 3.85 7.50 mittee is present, and I want to call to his attention and have Overcoats, long ...... 12.50 45.00 inserted in the RECORD a few statements with reference to this Olive-drab woolen uniforms: . matter. ~::~~~~~::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::} 7.69 35.0) I read just a brief extract from one letter from an officer who says: When I went to Plattsburg I had a modest bank.account, which 1 :Mr. JONES of Washington. Then I ha'e a letter from another now have not. I have already spent about $500, and after about one man who says: month in <'amp and repeated embarrassment, account of short equip ment, I find that an expenditure of about $300 more is necessary. The Am glad some one is lookin"' after the officers' end of the uniform officer who succeeded in keeping the figure at $500 was a very shrewd business, as we are certainly robbed. Why do they give a na1al officer buyer, or bought poor stuff. My salary as a second lieutenant for the an allowance and not any other'?- next three months is spent in advance. I do not know whether that is correct or not. I understand Then I have a letter from the father of two sons who are that in the Navy they are given an allowance for uniforms- officers in the Army, and he says this : Here is the way I stand after three m!>nths out: I have two sons who are officers in the Army, one a captain and the Three months' pay, $425. other a lieutenant, ancl their salaries will not meet their requirements Three months' mess, $97. on this account. Uniforms and equipment, $325. Payments on liberty bonds, $60. .Then he gives some facts which I ask to put in the RECORD One month's insurance, $6.50 per month . without reading. Incidental expenses, $25. The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, it is so ordered. As I figure that up it totals $513.50, or he is out oYet· $100 more The matter referred to is as follows: than he is receiving. Clothing that officers have had to buy here and at Camp Bowie, near Then I have another extract from a letter from n captain in Fort Worth, must have been at two or three times its worth or cost price from the manufacturer. Overcoats, I am told, that are furnished the Army. I ask that I may insert the part that I hnYe indi by the G such bill would be a godsend to the officer.<~ of our -Army of to-day, who 1t eems are made a mark for increased prices everywhere. Mr. GALLINGER. Let the bill be read for the information of Imi1'1t>diat<'ly after the War Dt>partmt>nt ordered the Quartermaster the Senate. Depru·tment to stop selling clotblng al!d equipment · to all officers tbis The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will read as te· act -ot the War Department·became a -signal ior. all private concerns to quested. increase, and in many cases double, their prices on articles needed by such officers. The Secretary read as fonows : With the cessation of all opportunity to purcllase from the Quarter Be it enacted, etc., That from and after the paR ag'l" ol this act the rna ter there was no accompanying lowering of the requirements re sruary of the Unlb>d States district attorney for the district of Rhode gardin"' such nece !ties a an officer must continually have, thus .Dlll.king Island shall be at the rate of $5,000 a year. it a necessity for the officer to buy wherever and whatever price at which he can. The VICE PRESIDENT. · Is there any objection to the pres· There never has been any such injustice done to the ()ffi.cers of our ent consideration of the bill? The Chair bears none. The Army as resulted from depriving them of the privilege of purchasing amendment proposed by the committee will be .reported. from the Quartermaster and using the Quartermaster•s prices a.s com petition against private dealers' prices. Mr. Sl\100T. What is the amendment, Mr. President? Is there any rPa on why the cost of uniforms has hardly increased The VICE PRESIDENT. The amendment will ·be stated. at all in England and Canada after nearly four years of war, while in The SECRETARY. On line 5 it is proposed to strikeout "$5,000" this country the cost has nParly doubled and the quality of the cloth is only half what It was formerly? where it appears and to insert in lieu thereof "$3.500." Again, is there any reason why the Governme~t can not acquire cloth .Mr. OVERMAN. Mr. Pre ident, I want to say that the dis ing and equipment in such quantities as wUI allow officers to have the trict attorney for Rhode Island now gets only $2,500, which, 1 privilege on<'e mol'(' of purcbaRing from the Quartermaster and thus prevent this highway robbery by private dealers? Private dealers seem beli~ve, is less than is paid any of the other district attoTneys to have neither trouble nor delay in acquiring such articles and stocks of the United States. The salaries range from $3,-500 to $5,000. of military goods as they desire, and then sell them for whatever prices I think in this case it would be an aet .of justice. they wish to put on. Can not th~ Government either take over the upply and thus see that officers have a fair show_, or so regulate the Mr. GALLINGER. 1\lr. President, I will ask the Senator if · ·ale as to assure a fair p1·ice being asked'? he has compared this salary with tbe salaries paid to the district • Mr. JOI\TES of Washington. Then I bave here an article by attorneys in any of the other New England States? Russell Fox., of Detroit, 1\fich. I ask to have the marked parts 1\Ir. OVERMAN. Yes. I think there may be one other State inserted in the RECORD. w.here it is $2.500, but as a rule $3,500 is the smallest salary. The VICE PRESIDENT. Without -objection, it is so ordered. They go up to $5,000 and $6,000. This man is getting 'Only $2,500, The matter referred· to is as follows : and we concluded that we would put him on a par with similar The list of stuff' which these men have to buy is appallln~;. TM War positions in oth~r States. Department makes no provlsion far an econ()mf<>al purebase, has noth l\Ir. GALLINGER. Mr. President, until I can ascertain ing to -do with it what oever, furnishes nothing, even to a revolver or a whether $3,500 is the minimum salary paid in New England, binocular. They are forced in the open market to buy their entire out fib!, a great variety :l.Ild duplication. wherever they can find them. They particularly, I will ask that the bill go over. have such a limited time to do U they are obviously a prey of all the Mr. OVERl\IAN. I want to state that we have a b111 before stores within reaching distance. our committee fixing the salaries <>fall. the district attorneys of r know of 10 ca. es where 1t bas cost them from $~00 to $1,200, an aver age of $800, for equipmt>nts interior to tbose in the English Army. dne to tbe United States. which we will endeavor to report In the near the fact that they can not even get the high quality of cloth into their future. I will ask the Senator from :rew Hampshire if he has un1fonns that the service demands. One of my men has used up a uni llDY objection to this bill? form in 10 days on some artillery work at which he was set, as the cloth w:ts a dress serge, and no other was obtainable. .1\tl.r. GALLINGER. If the Senat-or from North Carolina can assure me that ,;3,500 is the minimum salary paid In the -other 1\lr. JONES of Washington. I want to read one section of New England States, I will not object. this article, to get your special attention to it. Mr. OVERMAN. The junior Senator .from Rh<>de Island is It seems that some of these retail dealers, after having got not in his ~n t, ·and therefm·e I ask urumimous eOitsent that the ten the accounts of these officers, in order to enforce collection bill go over. threaten these officers with calling their delinquency, if it may The VICE PRESIDE~'"T. The bill will go to the calendar. be called delinquency, to the attention of the department. Here Mr. Sl\1ITH of Michigan. :Mr. President, I 'Should like to ask is nn extract that Mr. Fox gives from a letter that one of these the ·Senator from N-orth Carolina wbether bts measure proposi'Bg merchants bad written to a young officet" to enforce one of to equalize the salaries of district attorneys applies also to these claims : marshals? There are, as you know, several eout·se whieh we may pur ue llr. oVERM.AN. It applies to deputy marshals tJf the United This relates to the unpaid account- States, and there is also a measurE' pending to fix the salaries of clerks. It has been recommended by the President and one of them, according to Ariny Regulatioos, that we may notify the \Var Department. We are not certain what efr.ect this woul-d have on others ; but as to the district attorneys and Illill'sbals there is a a man's chances for a comm.lssion but have been assured by officers bill pending, too. . long in the service that tt would operate against him. Mr. SMITH of Michigan. 1\Iay I ask the Senator whether We do not wish to notify your superiors of our account with you and shall not do so lf you Show any disposition to make arrangements there is a prospect of the bill being reported to the Senate for Its payment. However, if you do .n.ot make such arrangements at before very long? · · · once~~e shall be forced to the conclrudon that lt would be better for 1\lr. OVERMAN. I thitik so ; at this session, probably. the war Department to know tbat. so far a.s paying his bills is con Mr. SMITH of Michigan. " Probably ,.-the Senator qualifi~s cerned, the reputation of one of their .Prospective cffi.cers 1s not of the best. We would ask you to spare us the necessity for taking such his statement. . steps. Mr. OVERl\IAN. I want to say that we hnve tried time and l\Ir. President, I hope that the l\1llital'Y Affairs Committee time .again to ge.t up this question. 1t is ~ontained tn a judicial will give this matter conSideration at as early a date as possi code that we have before us containing about 3,000 pages, but ble. I know that that committee is very busy; I know that it it has not breD so that we· could get ·u up. It wm all come has had a great many important measures and that it l1as in together. others of great importance before it; but I conceive this to be Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Is this a part of that measure? a very important matter not only to the officers who are to be 1\!r. OVERMAN: · No; this rs a sepnrate bin. commissioned but to the esprit de corps among these officers. Mr. Sl\IITH of Michigan. I kno~ but is the. equalization of As some men have expressed it, "Our experience in the Army salaries part of the cod~? has dampened our patriotism very mnch." Experiences like this 1\lr. OVEHMAN. Y~s; it is pm~t of a new code tnat we are are bound to do it, and I hope that the committee will find it preparing, and that will be reported to the Senate. · po ible to act upon this matter in the very near future. · Mr. SMITH of Michigan. I hope the Senator will get it before the Senate. · LANDS IN MONTANA.. Mr. OVERMAN. I hope we will be able to do so. Mr. 1\IYERS, from the Committee on Public Lands, to whl.ch · 1\lr. SMITH of Michigan. There are a great many inequali was referred the bill ( S. 935) for the relief of settlers on cer ties in the present system. tain railroad lands in Montana, reported it with an amend Mr. OVElll\IAN. There is no question obout t.hat, and the s..'llaries ought . to be equalized all ~er the United States. ment and submitted a report (No. 208) ther~n. Some are getting larger salaries than they ought to have, and u_-ITED STATES DISTRICT ATTOR~EY FOR RHUDE I~"'D. some are below what they ought to get. . The VICE PRESID~lT. The bill will be })laced on the. ~Ir. OVERMAN. From the Committee on the_ Juilleiary I 1·eport back favorably a bill (S. 2116) for whicb, in the ab calend-ar. •'ense of the junior Sen:Lt.Qr from Rhode ISland [Mr. GERnY], ADDRESS BY no~. JULIUS A- <::OLLER (S. DOC. NO. 164). who is very anxious to ha\"c it.passecl. I nsk present considera 1\Ir. SMITH of Arizona. From the Committee on Printing tion. The bill has once pas. ed the Senate und has been unnni- I submit a resolution and ask unanimous consent for its present mouRly reporte11 hy· 1.he committee. · consideration. The Senator from !\'linn . ota [Mr. NELSoN] 1918. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 1077 requested the printing of a speech delivered by State Senator A bill (S. 3609) granting a pension to David Malley (with aC·· Julius A. Coller, of Minnesota, inasmuch as it is his desire to companying papers) ; have it given some circulation in certain parts of the country. A bill ( S. 3610) granting a pension to l\lr . Arthur 1\I. Whitton; I therefore submit the resolution and ask for its present con A bill (S. 3611) for the relief of the estate of Antonia Sousa, si Tlle ll otlee was ordered to-be. printed in the RECORD, as :follows: war they existed in more. ~ggrav~d form for this war than in NOTI€ E OF . AMENUME:?\T TO THE RU LES. ·any other recorded in history. Let us not permit ourselves to be I he·r eby gi~ notiee' that on a following- legislative da-y I shaH •pTo deceived or misled concerning the original· and, pTesent purpose pose ·the following resolution p-roviding for· an amendmentlofiRule XXV of·tbe sta nding_rules of the Senate, to ·wit: of the Imperial German Government. The time for mincing R eso l "I ·aw the Kaiser battlin~ In the world-wide sea of reu. "The entrance of the United State· into the war was the I askeu: mo t important factor in favor of the allies since its beginning. • Does this not fright you? It in ures ultimate ·ucce •, and beyond everything else an Nor the emlless carnage blight you?' And I thought the Kaiser aid: earnest participation by the United States in the terms of peace, • It's not the surge of the sea which will mean. o much for the entire world. Whe.p. peace doe Nor the rise of the tide come America will do more than any other country in framing But th undertow I uread.' " that treaty, and it will not be igned until victory is complet u Ali the ·c crimes hall be a-venged by l:Incl Sam in our figllt and the dethronement of the Hobenzollerns and the- destruction for humanity and libert-y, and you boys will have the honor and of autocracy and militari ·m i an accomplished fact; and what glory of b lping to administer th deNerved punishment. is more important, exact ju tice will be done every nation, no " The Bible say , ' If your enemy smites you on the right cheek, matter how small or how great, and no pain· will be spared to tm·n your left cheek al o,' but it nowliere says what you shall make it an everlasting peace. 'J:he President on January 8 last, T-o' the · enate and House of R-epresentati'Ves: cecess.ityf:orspeaill.ng of these things mandatory. But I think the Seetion 39 of tlie uet of Congress approved 1\furch 2, 1917., en time bas come, right now., to strike a final blow, if that be possible, titled ~An -ict to provide a civil government fm.: Port{) Rico, and against partisan activity in the conduct of the war. It is evi for other purpo es," contains the following provision: dent that the spirit of partisanship is thrusting itself upon the · That the Governor ot'Porto ruco sh:all cause to have made and sab eonducr of {)Ur national part in tbis great and bloody interna mftte \ . gram the hrewdest politicians on the other side of this Cham l\Ir. PENROSE. 1\fr. President, I uo not want to interrupt tile ·ber and shrewd Republican politidans throughout the country Senator b~ an Jnquiry at this juncture.·. All of his references to ha"le set their heart.. So I believe and declare. · me are ll:terally true, and I am astounded at my own moderation, THE PROOF. [Laughter._] What ;r want to ask the S~nator particulai·Iy, how· ever, i , Does he state that any per on other than a ··partisan ~ bfr. President, I have not said these things without delibera dyed-in-the-wool Democrat was appointed inspector of explosive tion. Rather am I speaking, after deliberation, regretfully. It in any one of the 48 States in the Union? Does the Senator is plain that powerful men of the Republican Party are ~or claim that any but notorious Democrats were appointed to those political reasons bent on exploiting what they denounce as ad 48 places?· mlnisb:ative blunders committed in the prosecution of the war. Mr. STONE. l\fr. President, I do not know the exact fact, That is what they chiefly harp upon. Seemingly they are stak but I will take the Senator's word for it. I hope the Senator is ing their political fortunes upon that. And here I feel con not wholly mistaken. [Laughter.] strained to express the fear that we have on this side been 1\fr. PENROSE. And yet the Senator claims th e administra misled into doing unwise things, or permitting them to be done, tion is not partisan. which are being exploited now not only to our party detriment 1\Ir. STONE. Oh, well, I am not going to go into that at thi but, what is a thousandfol_d worse, are being exploited out of moment, but later. partisan zeal by Republicans, even to the serious detriment of Mr. President, this convincing testimony of the Pennsylvania the national cause itself. The mighty ambitious men of the Senator might well be left without comment. It proves whnt I Republican Party-at least, the reputed mighty men of that have said about partisauship. But there are one or two things party-are up in arms to fight this Congress and the Wilson in this bold partisan proclamation to which I feel obliged to refer admini tration aml to discredit both. Do you ask what proof especially. As a justification of this partisan outburst-the Sen· I have for this charge, which it would be alm.ost criminal to ator complains that a Democratic groceryman in Pennsylvanja make without definite proof? In proof I present two or three and a Democratic farmer in Indiana have been appointed by witnesses-llie foremost men of .the Republican ·Party-and the Government as explosive inspectors. I am puzzled to know out of the mouths of these witnesses I accuse. The riumber of how to adjust the scales so as to determine here the heavier witnesses I might offer to prove what I say could be multiplied, weight of the Senator's objection lies as between the politics and but when I submit the testimony of these t wo or three it is the businesses of these two men. Of cow·se, I have long known enough. the Senator's political distaste. of Democrats, but I was not PENROSl!l, previously aware of his prejudice against farmers and gro First, I present the Hon. BoiEs PENROSE, long the head of cerymen. I did not previously know that my distinguished the Republican Party of the great State of. Pennsylvania; friend and his party had thrown these two clas es into the which State is confessedly the keystone in the arch of Re-· discard. ' publican Party strength, and who as the great party leader of The Senator says "politics of the· worst sort has appeared this foremost Republican State in all the Union ¥ery properly in the conduct of the war," and in proof he cites the appoint occupies a front seat in the Republican national Sanhedrin. ment of these explosive inspectors. Mr. President, I affirm 'Vhere would I go to find one bearing a higher commission to that never in our history has a national administration shown authoritatively voice the sentiment, thought, and policy of the a less spirit of partisanship-never has one reached out and Republican Party? There is but one other over him, and a little drawn to its support officially a greater number of men op later I will make him my chief witness. But first I deal with posed to it-than this administration since our entrance into the the Senator from Pennsylvania. war. Personally I am not bragging· about that, but I state it I quote from the New York Times of December 21, 1917, as a fact. as follows: By way of contrast let me impress upon the memory of the Reorganization of the Republican national and congressional com· Senator what he seems to. have forgotten, some facts about the mittees in preparation for the congTes ional election next November action of his own well-beloved governor with respect to appoint is now being seriously discussed by Republican leaders, who see i» the prese"t devel-opments before the congressional committees issues that ca» ments made under authority of law of the war agencies of be effectively used against the Democrats. Pennsylvania to work in conjunction with the war agencies of In the last 10 days groups of Republican national committeemen the National Government. Here I present a table. revealing the have come here (to Washington) to discuss the advisability of beginning without delay the plan of campaign which will be used to capture the impartial, nonpartisan spirit in which war appointments have next House. These leaders did not receive much encouragement for an been made by or directly on the recommendation of the governor early campaign until last week, when the exposes followed one after of Penn ylvania, an official of the Senator's own creation: another. As the result of the delays in the War Department and other alleged deficiencies in the conduct of the war, these Republicans decided that prompt preparation and an educational campaign should be started. • Republicans. Democrats. Accordingly a meeting of the Republican National Committee has been called to assemble in St. Louis the middle of February. 265 . WHAT PENROSE SAYS. Copunittee on public safety ...... _..... _.. _...... _.... _ 5 9 "The is ues are het·e in great numbers," said Senator PENROSE, Re-· ~:J:a~~g~a=~~~rgr:.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~ publican national committeeman from Pennsylvania, after a talk with Federal fuel administrator...... 1 ~ther national committeemen. "The conditions of the War Department. Federal director of employment...... 1 the neglect of the camps and cantonments, and the failure to :;mpply suffi State warbo!lrd...... 5 cient arms ar·e matters which the American public will charge to the 1------I------majority party. TotaJ...... 30J " Politics of the worst sort has appeared in the conduct of the wa.r. Politicians were named by Democratic Senators and committeemen for one of the most important places, that of explosive inspectors. I know Mr. PENROSE. Mr. President-- of three instances where political debts were paid and men appointed who will never be able to enforce the explosive law. The Democratic The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Mis State chairman from Indiana appointed the superintendent of his farm. souri yield to the Senator from Pennsylvania? In my :!!tate a grocerymari was selected. Mr. STONE. I do. " 1 wrote to the Chief of the Bureau of Mines and informed him that l\Ir. PENROSE. I ought to state to ttle Senator, by way of the State of Pennsylvania wanted a first-class man for this job, one e~pe rienced in such matters, and suggested that he confer with the State bu . eXplanation to the Senate, that nearly aH the Democrats in reau of mines. He wrote me,-saying that the Secretary of the Interior was Pennsylvania are holding Federal office. [Laughter.] taking his recommendations from Democratic Senators and committeemen. "And while these political appointees draw their salaries, explosions Mr. STONE. That may be; but these are in a Jarge sense Fed and !lestruction continue." eral offices. 1\fr. PENROSE. 1\Ir. President-- 1\Ir. PENROSE. Not remunerative, however. l\1r. The PRESIDING OFFICER (l\Ir. JAMES in the chair). Does STONE. They all are remunerative; and if it be true the Senator from Missouri yield to the Senator f rom Penn that there are some Democrats in Pennsylvania holding Federal sylvania? appointments, after the long period of absolute deprivation to Mr. STONE (continuing) : which they have been subjected, I can not see why the Senator "The Republicans have not been partisan in this war, but the time from Pennsylvania should seriously object. But I am not talk has come when they must be consulted and men of experience and ing politics; I am talking against politics. [Laughter.] ability pla-ced in places of responsibility. Another evidence of politics Mr. GALLINGEll.. l\Ir. President-- which I complain of is the sending of Col. House to represent this Gov ernment. It was an insult to other Governments. who sent their The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Mi - premiers. If President Wilson did not wish to send his Secretary of souri yield to the Senator from New Hampshire? State I think some other man yersed in big problems and international Mr. STONE. I do. usages should have been sent. "As a party the Republicans have loyally supported the Government, ?lir. GALLINGER. It must be the first time in the Seuatol''s but we are now going to ask for an accounting and propose to carry 0\lr life that he has done an act of that kind. [Laughter.] tlgllt to the people in the next congressional elections." Mr. STONE. No; not by any manner· of men.ns. The Senntor Now I yield to the Senator from Pennsyl"lnnin. i too 11rone to judg other:- by hi. own stanctnr To this table there is nothing to be added. It is beyond com In to-day's issue of the Kansas City Star, which he chose months ago ment. But, Mr. President, I have other data o:f like kind as the instrument through which he would begin .his campaign for the Presidency! he, for the first time, accuses President Wilson of being re :from other States which show in striking contrast the difference sponsible or a c:;ondition in Army and training camps which, if true, in action between Republican and Democratic governors. and I were well calculated to plant fear in the heart of every mother and father who has a son in khaki and to arouse in every cantonment a hall a k leave to print at least some of these at the close of :t;nY spirit of unrest and rebellion. remarks for the information of the Senate and for the espeCial By suggestion he would have the people believe that every camp is delectation of the Senator from Pennsylvania. a pestilential spot, every youth stricken with the seeds of disease, every I ask that leave. soldler unclothed, every soldier unarmed. That Col. Roosevelt chooses for the organ of dlstribution of his The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so propaganda of distrust of the President, of disruption· of national ordered. The Chair hears none. spirit, of disorganization of the Nation's loyalty, a paper whose genera' CHAIRMAN WILCOX. manager teas so lately a subject of the Kaiser that the ink is sca,·cely dry upon his naturalization papen may 01· may not be signifi.ca"t. Mr. STONE. Mr. President, before I introduce my star wit The cold "fact remains. Col. Roosevelt can not forgive President ness I conclu r~vr-- "io 1.084 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-. .SEN AT]t. JANUARY 21, as trel\ onable if made by others~ure widely published without NB!tion a:pd ·throp_ghout the wo-rl~. ·:rhe only poss\ble effect of even official protest. ·t:P:ese widely pub\i.shed utterances of th~s :tnan has been, as they l\lr. PENROSE. Will the Se.oator permit me.? :were designed to be, to discredit fl.nd .bring the pr~sent Govern- ':Uhe PRESI.PING OFFIQER. Do.e must be in order. · R. Willcox1 up to that date chairman of the Republican Na l\lr. STONE. He says he is. He worked with you. I do not tional Committee, was appointed on an important commission know that he works with the Senator from Idaho just now. by Mr. McAdoo, . the Director General of Railroads. This ap He used to, but now I think he works with the Senator from pointment was made notwithstanding the very recent political Pennsylvania. [Laughter.] utterances and activities of Mr. Willcox to which I have re 1\Ir; PENROSE. If it would not be treason for me to say·it, ferred. 1\Ir. Willcox was made chairman of the Republican Mr. President, if the Senator wilt permit me, perhaps Mr. National Committee by Mr. Hughes. - He is the bosom friend Wilson at his first election was under 'great obligation to Mr. and· a political adviser of Mr. Hughes. It might well be said Roosevelt. that in a political sense he represents Mr. Hughes. This ap 1\fr. STONE. If that be treason, we shall all of us have to pointment does not look as if the administration was discrimi make the most of it. · nating against Republicans in general or :Mr. Hughes in par-. A PRENATAL DEFENSE. ticular on account of politics. In the Wa hington Post of Friday last a gentleman who writes CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS, for that publication under tha name of George Rothwell Brown 1\Ir. President, passing now to the consideration of a some one of ·the daily dope dispensers of the Post-in criticizing in what different line of thought, I wish to say a few words on advance the speecli I am making to-day, undertook, in antici the subject of congressional investigations. Investigation has pt>.tion, to make a passionate defense of the Republican political apparently become a· passion with the Congress. I desire to attitude. He criticized the speech before it was born. I quote say a word or two on general lines ~bout t1;rts business. from his article : · • Mr. President, I hope no sane man is so squeamish as to denY. The facts are that Republicans believe that if anything ls to be said to the Congress their constitutional· right of inquiry into any touching on and appertaining to politics In the war they have a prior question of grave public importance, or who would clothe the right in the premises. The Republican attit-ude is that the ablest members of the Republican bead of a bureau with a power above the Congress of the Party are being deprived of an opportunity to serve the country as a United States. Nowhere else has any effort been made to thus result of political prejudice and for political reasons. • • • suppress parliamentary ·power. It bas not been attempted in If Senator STONE forces the issue of politics in the war in the Senate he will be answered by the charge that for political reasons Roosevelt England, France, Italy, or even in Germany. . Let it not be said and Wood, as well as Taft, Hughes, and Root, are not being used by that parliamentary power in the United States is to be regarded the Government. as of less moment than in Europe. I a umo 1\Ir. Brown speaks with some degree of authority But, l\lr. President, there are investigations and investigations after discussing the subject with his friends about the Senate. ad libitm;n, if not ad nauseum. I disclaim any desire to be 1\Ir. Brown, presumably speaking for the Post, complains that hypercritical, but I beg to express the opinion modestly that the President has not brought into intimate relationship with investigations which concern especially our Military and Naval his administrative work certain noted Republicans-na·mely, Establishments, and which concern the development of our ship Roo evelt, Wood, Taft, Hughes, and Root. · ping facilities, and other actual' war activities-activities which Just a word or two about this to make the facts ~lear. Gen. directly concern the conduct of those war affairs in which the Wood, for whom I hnve ·a high personal regard, has from the whole world is interested_:_should be guarded against undue pub- 1086 CONGRE'SSION AL RECORD-SEN~TE. JANUARY 21? licity. I do not mean to say that e"\fen matters of world"Wide· tratioii, let them be flaunted to the world hereafter-hereafter, consequence sh6ttld' not be made· the sutiject of inqUiry hy. the· when the time for harm in flaunting them' has · passed-but not authorized' a aencies of the Senate and House of Repres~ntatives. now. We are now. in the depths of a desperate war, nnd this is I1 have no "'nell thought. But as to matters of the· kind I the' time, above all times, for universal national sympathy, co- , especially refer to--es entially war .matters-! can not buf feel hesion, and solidarity. that it is unwi. e to make them the subject ot public or even 1\fr. President, I merely give voice to the vision of things as semitmlmc exploitation. I can not believe that a world-wide they appear to me. l\fy appeal now is first and especially to my ad erti ement of alleged deficiencies in our war activities, even· colleagues on this side of the Chamber to stand firmly against if ultimately found to be true in whole or part, whatever influences calculated to mislead us, and then, secondly, I appeal the· facts mlly be, is necessary to bring about such administra to my colleagues on the other side of the Chamber to thrust tive r forms, a.s the circumstances demand. Therefore r can back the evident rising tide of ps.rtisanship which threatens to not but doubt the wi dom of the program we have adopted of s'veep them off their feet. I have so spoken of the rising tide wide-open ibvestigations into almost everything that might be of partisanship on the other sitle with reluctance and without made tlie subject of criticism of the administration since our bad feeling, and have spoken of it only because I feel I should entrance into: the war nine months ago. Do not understand me speak of it in the public interest. I wonder if Senators seriously as meuning-for l do not mean that-that administrative e-rrors, reflect upcn what it is they are starting in to do. What indeed whether of' omission or commission, should be concealed from is it they are trying to do? If we are to judge by what we see our people; far from that. I have in mind only the proper occa going on and by what Republican leaders are saying in dis sion and the proper method of doing things of this sort. Of paragement of the President and the majority in Congress there course ~istakes have been made by the Government-doubtless should be little trouble in the public mind to determine what many and grave mistakes. In the circumstances that was in they are up to. Their purpose is to elect a Congre s which would evitable. But is it neces ary for us to stand on tl1e housetops be out ef harmony and unsympathetic with the Pre ident. What or hillt.aps and· proclaim these mistakes with a loud voice to the· would happen to the Wilson administration if the Republican whole world? Considering the stupendous and almost unsolv Party slioulu have control of the next Congres ? If I were able problems suddenly confronting the administration when adept in the use of Billy'Sunda:.r classics I should say the Presi the Congress declared for war in A'Pril last, and in view of all dent would have" a hell of a time." [Laughter.] the difficult circumstance of the environment into which we l\fr. President, partisanship and politics must be kept out ot thrust ourselves when we plunged into this world war, I take the war. There are most vital questions now demanding grave the liberty of declm·ing it as my matured belief that the achieve consideration and discussion, and other questions of far-reach ments of this Congres and of the administration, accomplished' ing moment- to our national life will arise in the immediate amid unprecedented' conditions, signalize a degree of marked future, and I hold, Mr. President, that the bighe t considerations succe s without parallel in the world's history. Of course mis of patriotism demand that au tl'tese questions should be met, takes ha e been made. The Congress have made mistakes·; may considered, and determined wit.h an eye single to the national I not venture to ay that' even the Senate has not heen· infallible; honor and welfare, divorced n:om all thought of partisan ad and almost inevitably the various military, naval ~ and civil ex vantage. Any other course wou}(l be intolerable. Let us wait ecutive departments, ibcluding even the President himself, upon until the war is over and the world sane again before we renew whom, altogether, the chief burden of preparation has· fallen, too fiercely our old-time conflict for party supremacy. During. have made mistakes in the gigantic preparatory work so sud this period of national stre.ss nnd world horror through which' denl:y- thrust upon them. we are passing we must place country above party. THill SPA~ISH WAR. Mr. Pre ident, I asked and think I obtained leave to print in Why, Mr. P1·esident, even dw·ing the -Spanish War, when the the RECORD certain data showing the appointments made by Republican Party was- supreme, mistakes were m~d~ b~ ow· different governors of their war agencies. It I have not obtained high Government officials, no doubt for the most part mev1table leave to print these in the RECORD, r now ask permission to mistakes. We plunged as suddenly into that war n.s into this _print them. one, and wil:h the same general lack of prepara_tion. -!-- Volun The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. KrNo in the chair). With teer Army was raised and gathered together m Ynnou con out objection, the request of the Senator from Missouri is centration camps, ready to be sent to Cuba or the front as granted. the need therefor should arise. In a. way we had then the same The matter referred to is as follows: difficulty in· supplying our soldiers with adequate. equipment as 1. BY REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS. we are now experiencihg on a larger scale; even m a .more pro CALIFORNIA. nounced degree we then encountered the same difficulty we are Republican governor. State council of defense: Republicans; 29 • now encountering about sanitation and sickness in the con Democrats, 4. Exemmended a Republican; licity'? There- are times- for doing things and ways of doing see Cincinnati Enquirer report). things, but. as- I see it, the right way of doing tlJ.ese things of IOWA. Republican governor. State council of defense : Republicans 17 · wliich I speak was to do them so as at least not to u~cluly adver Democrats, 4. Federal food administrator : Republican. Feuerai fuei tise our weaknesses to the enemy. The value of a bold front is administrator : Republican. State fuel adminlstrntion: Republicans, 6; a mighty factor in the equation of' war. And hence I have Democrats, 2. War-savings-stamp committee representatives, Repub thought that- if· there be faults and weaknesses ih the adminis- lican. 1918. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN.ATE. 1087 KANSAS. ~OXTANA. Republican governor. State council of llefense: Republicans, 39 ; Democratic governor. State council of ·defense: At large--Repub· DemoCia.ts, none. Independents, 2. State food administrator : Republi li~ns 8, Democrats 4. Independent 1, Farmers' Equity Society 1; county can. State fuel administrator: Republican. Red Cro s work: Republi representatives-Republicans 75, Democrats 54; chairmen county coun can. Sta-te conscription agent: Republican. cils of defense--Republicans 27, Democrats 16. Federal food adminis· trator : Republic:rn. Food campaign manager ; Progressive Republican. 1\lAIXE. Federal fup] administrator: ])emocrat. 'Executive secretary, fuel ad Republican governor. C•)mmittee on public safety: Republicans, 10; ministration: Republican. County fuel committees: Republicans, 64·; Democrats none. As oclate members: Republicans, 70; Democrats, Democrats, 65. Chairmen cuunty fuel committees: Republicans, 26; none. Federal food administrator: Republican. State committee on Democr~ts, 17. ..food production and consPrva:tion: Republicans, 8; Democra~ none. -NEVADA. Seed-saving committee : Republicans 5; Democrats, ·none.. tlead of nemocratic governor. State council of defense: ..R~publicans, ~; 'food-conservation campaign : Repubii an. Live-stock coDliDlttee : Re Democrats, 7 State 'food administrator: Republican. Assistants to publicans 4; Democrats. 1. Marketing committee: Republicans, 8; ·tood administrator : Republicans, '11. State fuel administrator : Demo Democrats 2. Exemption boards, first district: Republicans. 3; Demo crat. crats 2 · second district. Republicans, 4; Democrats, 1. Maine repre OHIO. sentatlv~, Red Cross : Republican. Liberty-loan commiBsioners: Re publicans, 3; Democrat~, none. Democratic governor. State council of defense: Republicans, 18; Democrats, 10. District exemption boards of appeal: Sixty per cent M IX"l\""ESOTA. Republicans. Every major appointment of war positions in Olllo made Republican governor. Public-safety commission : Republicans, 6; by the Federal Government, Republican. Ninety per cent of commis 'Democrats, 1. Feueral food administrator: Republican. Director of sions issued to civilians in ·noncombatant arms and three-qull.l'ters of milling division : Republican. Nortbweste1·n representative United commissions in fighting arms of milltary service were Issued to Republi States Wheat Corporation · Repub11can. National head, United States cans. Federal food administrator : Democrat. Federal fuel adminis Wheat Corporation: Republican. li'ederal fuel admini-stra-tor: Republi ·trator: Republican. can. War-saYings-certificate committee headed by a Republican. UTAH. l>"EW HAMPSHIRE. Democratic governor. State council of defense : Republicans, 20; Republican governor. State council of defense (committee on public Democrats, 17. Federal food administrator: Democrat. Executive sec safety, executive committee) : Republicans, 9; Democrats, 4. Seventy retary, food administration : Republican. Federal fuel administrator: five per cent of the chairmen of subcommittees appointe(} by State 'Democrat. Executive secretary, .iuel administration : Republican. Dl· committee are Republicans. Officers, State Defense League: President, rector wa•·-savings-stamps sales: Republican. Chairman executive com Republican; honorary president, Republican; secretary, Republican; mittee, liberty-loan campaign : Republican. treasuret·, Republic~. Chairman, Red Cross work : Republican. Fed WA.SHlXGTON. eral food administrator: Republican. Federal fuel administrator : ·Re- Democratic governor. State council of defense: Republicans, lli• publican. Democrats, 3. Federal food administrator: RepubUcan. Feueral fue NEW JERSEY. administrator : Republican. District manager Shipping :Board : Repu~ Republlcan governor. State council of defense, executive committee : Ucan. Representatives War Tra article here in my de k-" has assailed the Senator from Penn· critici m; and the ilJ-advise been during his long career, 1 am surprised at my own modera 1 I liave often · admired the statesmen in England during this tion, and I plead guilty to everything he has said: war, Mr. President. They have ne"Ver hesitated: to speak bluntly I ay candidly that I do not think politi-cal parties ought to be and plainly on the floor of Parliament. If there ha.:-; been mis abolished or ubmerged simply because the country is at war. management in a military mnneuver or an expeditionary. force So far as I can ascertain it is the general consensus of opiniCill in an..v theater of the war, they ba"Ve not hesitated to take the that a bipartisan administration of the war, such as we wit public into their confidence. to remove the general o-r the execu nes in England. bas not been a success. I am entirely w11ling tive who. was at fault, to reorganize, anti. go ahead. to ee the Democratic Party go on with the couduct of the war. The Senator bas referred to my criticism of Col. . trouse. I and I am still more ea.rne tly willing that the Republican Party am glad of this opportunity,. l\fr. Pre i such a cheap manner through personal representatives of Presi rule of the Senate is contrary to that of the House, that where dent Wilson? · Wilson is not the American Government. This the House allows displays we have no such rule in this body. Senate is a part of the American Government. The House of The PRESIDING · OFFICER. I think the occupants of the Representatives is a part of the American Government. 1\lr. galleries have been so advised. Wilson simply represents the executive branch of the American The PENROSE. They have been advised for the last 130 Government, and very frequently by no means the most im years, Mr. President. portant ·branch vf it. Mr. STONE. And without result. Mr. STONE. May I interrupt the Senator? Mr. PENROSE. Without effect, and they will be advised for . The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Penn another 130 years to the same effect. sylvania yield to the Senator from Missouri? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Missouri is 1\fr. PENROSE. Certainly. recognized for an interruption. -· Mr. STONE. The Senator is seemingly very much disturbed Mr. STONE. The Senator from Pennsylvania asked me to by the fact that the President selected Col. House as the head give him a little side light on Col. House. If I thought it nece - of the mi sion appointed. sary, I should indulge him with that performance, but I do not Mr. PENROSE. I complain about the violation of all the think it is necessary to say more than a word or two. amenities of diplomacy in sending a Texas politician as the per Col. House was a very successful business man in Texas, and sonal representative of President Wilson to a conference of high it is to his credit to sny that he wrought out a great career in officials. He should have sent the Secretary of State. I would the great State of Texas. He was a success as a business man. not expect him to send a Republican. He accumulated sufficient of the world's goods to live in leisure Mr. STONE. I understood the Senator's attitude; but if the if he · desired to do so. He is a friend of the President. The President was called upon, as he was, to select a man who President knows him. The President esteems him as a man of would go to this great meeting in Paris to lay before that meet exceptional ability. He has sent him on various missions. ing the view of thi Government as the President understood it, They are intimate friends. The President thinks that here and who should select that man-the President or some one else? there on impqrtant occasions he is the best man he can desig Of course, if the Senator from Pennsylvania had selected him it nate to perform an important public service. would bave been some.one else; but the President selected Col. Mr. PEJ\TROSE. Where did he get his military title? House, and according to the reports in the papers that have been Mr. STONE. I do not know. cabled over here, and from what we have heard since Col. House Mr. PENROSE. I am curious to know. I want to get his . returned, his service was a valuable one and a capable one and full pedigree. . an exceptional one. . Mr. STONE. I do not know. In 1\lissouri and elsewhere I 1\fr. PENROSE. The humblest consular ·officer has to be con meet so many men who are called colonel-- firmed by the Senate. He goes forth to foreign lands represent Mr. PENROSE.- They are numerous in some of the Southern ing the great American Republic. I have never heard in the States. history of America of a President of the United States sending a Mr. STONE. They are very numerous. personal representative. I have heard of czars and kaisers and 1\Ir. LEWIS. If the Senator will allow me, if the Senator is kings doing it, but we are supposed to be in a world-wide contest serious in his inquiry and the information is at all important for demo~racy, and these are not good democratic methods. the Senator may be advised that the title of "colonel" is that Mr. STONE. But the Senator-- which was granted him by the governor of Texas, serving on . Mr. PENROSE. Will the Senator let me finish, and then I the staff of the governor of Texas in the office of colonel. And, will let the Senator take all the time he wants? Mr. President, if the Senator will still allow, I beg to suggest The PRESIDING OFFICER. . The Senator from Pennsyl at this time that that title as applied to many eminent gentle vania declines to yield. men in every State of the Union is never used with disdain nor Mr. PENROSE. I maintain that the Secretary of State contempt when it has been obtained in that honorable manner. should have been sent to that important conference. I main 1\Ir. PENROSE. I thank the Senator from Illinois for his tain that Col. House, so far as I know, is 'under no obligation interesting contribution to the discussion. of office. He holds no office. He is some kind of a mysterious Mr. LEWIS. Let it be added, and also an informing contri traveler, with his expenses paid from a contingent fund, and bution. has no official relation to the American people, and it was a · Mr. PENROSE. Yes, informing. I have no doubt if Col. violation of every propriety to have him thus unofficially sent to House had an opportunity to di play his military genius be would this conference and was calculated to make us lose standfng equal Napoleon or Cresar, but doing a peculiar line of inquiry in and character before the peoples of. civilized Europe. Europe as the personal representative of the- President and Mr. STONE. May I interrupt the Senator now? keeping under cover seems to be more in his 1ine instead of Mr. PE:L\TROSE. I will yield for an inquiry, but not for any going over the top. But I do not criticize the colonel's private long statement. life, hls ancestral pedigree, or his business career. I object to Mr. STO:r..TE. Well, as far as the Senator will indulge me. He the method of the transaction. I would not care who it is. · I complains that Col. House was a personal representative of the think the person sent by this great Republic in the hour of the President. ·I ask the Senator if he is not catching on some agony of those nations to join in that conference should, at least, newspaper story-- have been a man who had taken the oath of office to support Mr. PENROSE. Every paper in the United States discussed the Constitution of the United States, and who had had some his status. public career that inspired confidence on the part of the Amer Mr. STONE. The Se~ator i~ giving newspaper representa ican public-- tions or characterizations of Col. House as the personal repre Mr. STONE. May I again-- sentative of the President. I venture to say his commission . Mr. P.E~NROSE. And not a lobbyist from Texas, as I am did not read in that way. I venture to say it read just like informed the colonel was. that of Mr. Crosby and Gen. Bliss and Admiral Benson. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Penn Mr. PENROSE. They were not at the head of the commis- sylvania yield? sion; they were side lights. · . Mr. LEWIS. That statement of the Senator, 1\fr. Presi Mr. STONE: No; he was named as the head of the commis dent-- sion, I assume, but not as _the personal representative of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Penn President. However, it is common talk around that Col. House sylvania yield to the Senator from Missouri? is the personal representative of the President. Mr. PENROSE. I am always glad to yield to the Senator Mr. PENROSE. Can the Senator inform me who he is and from Missouri. what he does represent? 1\Ir. · STONE. The Senator thinks that there ought to haYe Mr. STONE. Yes; I can ten you. been appointed to the head of this mission some one who had 1\fr. PENROSE. If the Senator knows him very well, I would at least taken an oath of allegiance to the United States? like to have a little sidelight on the colonel. [Laughter on the Mr. PENROSE. Yes. sir. . floor and in the galleries.] Mr. STONE. Mr. Root was appointed at the head of another The PRESIDING OFFICER. The occup;mts of the galleries mission of equal importance, and he did not take any oath, and must preserve order. I did not hear any complaint of that, nor did any member ot · 1\Ir. STONE. Col. House is a prosperous and successful-- the commission accompanying him take any oath. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Missouri Mr. PENROSE. Mr. President, Mr. Root was appointed on a will suspend for a moment. The occupants of the galleries must mission to Russia and went over there to investigate. Here is preserve order or the Sergeant at Arms will be instructed to an official sent to meet 10 or 15 delegations from nations, remove visitors from the galleries. all of whom were represented by their prime minister and Mr. LEWIS. Mr. President, I iise to request that the Presid our great Republic by a Texas colonel who made a liberal con ing· Officer shall inform the occupants of the galleries that the tribution to the Wilson campaign committee. He may be a '. ~~~- -- .... I - 1918. CONGRESSION .AL RECORD-SEN ATE. 1091 very :fine man, but we are under the observation of tl).e civilized I had curiosity to find out who had been appointed, and I dis worl justified that impeachment against an honorable citizen and Now, I say to the Senator from Pennsylvania-and I ask of upon which he as erts that accusation against a public repre him most considerate attention-when he announces to the sentative of this Government? world from this great place and from his splendid elevation Mr. PENROSE. Mr. Presi We Democrats haYe never before the American public, in ment of the communitie which they represented, they 'incereiy any rostrum or any place of power, charged this upon the Re believed that it was not neces ·ary to- put upon the country publicans. We have withheld the fact. We have sought no that expenditure at that time, when the Yery skies were clear partisan favor from it. But if now we are to be held up before of a cloud of threat or alarm. - the world as those who should suffer the penalty of this lack Mr. GALLINGER. Mr. President, will my friend kindly in of preparation, let the Nation know the truth-that it was form me how many Democrats in the House of Representative. brought upon u by the administrations preceding us, which were in fa•or of more than two ships at that time? In other had expended thi vast sum of money without results to the word", were they not a solid, compact body, opposed to the Nation-and without account for the expenditure-and leaving program, and needing only a few Republican votes to defeat it? us weak and naked to the enemy, forcing us in the little while Mr. LEWIS. :Mr. Pre ident, I am unable to reply to the - we had to gather our elves together the be t we might, hoping able Senator from New Hampshire a to the exact numbet· of to veil from the world the indefensible position in which we bad Democrats on the committee of the House at that time who mp been left by the e our honorable predecesNors. ported the Republican measure; but I do know, sir, that when Mr. GAI..LINGER. Mr. President-- the time comes when we shall be before the people in the The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Illinois coming elections, when the Republican minority, or. a certain yield to the Senator from New Hampshire? set of them, will be out indicting thi administration, they will Mr. LEWIS. I gladly yield to the courteous Senator from not be found saying that because Republican· voted for a men - New Hampshire; yes. ure therefore it is exempt from their criticism. They will Mr. GALLL.~GER. If I understood the Senator correctly, he say that the Government was in our band ; it was our Gov said that the Republican Party had expended $3,000,000,000 for ernment; and we were re ponsible for its accomplishments, its the "\Var and Navy E tablishments. Can the Senator tell how achievement , its faults, and its failure . o, too, the eminent long a period that covered? Senator from New Hampshire can not e cape the clear con l\Ir. LEWIS. I said, Mr. President, that during the 16 years clu ion that these failures of a Republican Congre s, with a previou to the coming in of the present administration the e Republican Naval Committee, under a Republican President, billions of dollars were expended, and that when we came into ,can not be charged to a mere minority of Democrats who might power, notwithstanding the e..."q)enditure, we found ourselves con have agreed with the Republican majorit-y. · fessedly, by the admi sion of the Republican leaders, without 1\Ir. CALDER. Mr. President, will the Senator yield? Army and without Navy. _ l\fr. LEWIS. I yield to the Senator from New York. l\fr. GALLINGER. Yes; and did not the President on everal ~1r. CALDER. Does not the Senator know that under tll • occasions tell us that there was no danger of war? leader ~ bip of the Democratic Committee on Military Affairs of Mr. LEWIS. Yes; the President of the United States from the House of Representatives in 1912 the military appropria time to time-if the Senator means the Democratic Pre ident tion bill wa put through the Congre with an actual reductiou sought to avoid war. He did all he could to avoid war, and told of five cavalry regiments, and that the Army would have been the Congress from time to time that in his judgment this Nation reduced to that extent but for the veto of Pre ident Taft? would be able to avoid war; and with that in his mind and Mr. LEWIS. 1\fr. President, ·u may be that in the· Hou e tll• in his heart, of course he would take no steps to burden this Military Affairs Committee may have recommended and that country with heavy military expenditures that were not ap the House may have passed a bill providing for the number _parently nece ·ary. But the fact remains that when we are to which the Senator alludes. I have no knowledge on the sub impeached on the floor by these eminent Senators for unpre ject. I did not come into this body until 1913. But this mucll paredness, the country must know that it should not be borne may be said, sir: If it did, it merely followed the direction given only by the present administration, which believed in peace, by the Republican Secretary of·War, Secretary Root, and wa prayed again t war, and did everything to avoid it, but it should merely carrying out the program of retrenchment, that for the likewise underNtand the condition of preceding administration , purpo e of saving expenditures on the part of the Government which for 16 years, with all the facts in the world before them, there was no nece ity of a big Military E tabli hment, an.d had left us in the same state of unpreparedness. Shall the because the very heart and spirit of our people eemed aver~ c t' Senators forget that which now the country must know, that it-they were merely obedient to public opinion. President Roo ·evelt submitted his message to this body - in Mr. JA..l\iES. l\lr. President-- which he asked as to the Navy only ship for ship, and in his Mr. LEWIS. I yield to the Senator from Kentucky. latest message, in 1906, with the heavy shadows of the difficul Mr. JAMES. I hould like to suggest to the Senator that it ties of the Orient upon us, he was content with this program, would be intere ting to inquire how that bill got through ·a knowing that the feeling of the country was against heavy Republican Senate, so that it had to be vetoed by President Taft. armaments and expenditures? He, too, but yielded to the con The Senator ays that a Democratic Hou e pa ed it. The Re viction of his Nation-<>pposed to war and opposed to prepara publicans ·were in control of the Senate; so that it mu t bav tion for any war. And then, sir, will it be forgotten that passed here before it got to the Pre ident, who was a Republi Secretary of War Root, under the administration of President can. The Senator might study that out. RooseYelt, withdrew the Army from out of the Philippines, re · Mr. CALDER. If the Senator makes the inquiry from me, I duced and di membered and disbanded it, les ening our fight will say that while I was not a Member of thi body then, either, ing force, because of his honest belief that a military armament as I recall the matter, the Republican conferees on that military and military establishment ought not to be kept up in America bill were compelled to yield in order to pa s the military bill. beyond the real needs of the situation, and becau e the country Mr. JAMES. Ye ; I have often noticed how the poor Repub was crying against it. lican conferees in the Senate are intimidated by the Democratic This was the honest conviction on the part of all America. It conferees in the House and forced to yield. That frequently was an error. I had in many places opposed it. Yet, if it occurs. was an honest error under Republican administrations, what Mr. GALLINGER. l\Ir. President-- right have any gentlemen to say that under ours it is dishonest The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the enator from illinois to have indulged tbe same hope of peace and friendship with yield to the Senator from New .Hamp hire? nations which left us unprepared for war's conflict of arms? l\Ir. LEWIS. Certainly. Mr. GALLINGER. · Mr. President-- Mr. GALLINGER. If the Senator will pardon me, they fre Mr. LEWIS. I yield to the Senator from New Hampshire. quently yield upon the threat that unle they do yield no bill Mr. GALLINGER. I will venture to ask the distingui bed will be pa • ed. enator from Illinois if it is not historically a fact that while Mr. JA...\IES. They ought to send orne p ople here that ar the Republican Party was contending for a large increa e of not afraid, then, and put them on the Republican side. the Navy f~om year to year the Democratic Party in the other Mr. LEWIS. Mr. President, of cour e to past history, before House particuls.rly, and to some extent in the Senate of the I was honored with a seat here, I can not refer; but I may be United State", was combatting that idea and voting for a permitted to pause to express my sympathy for a nature so smaller number of ships than tlle _Republican Party wanted? supine, o gentle, so weak, and o withering that it has been Roosevelt asked for four, and how many did he get? compe1led to surrender to the mere suggestion that it was wrong Mr. LEWIS. Mr. President, I answer the Senator that at and that a Democratic minority, or any other minority, could the time Pre ident Roosevelt asked for four and got two the have so dragooned a majority, to surrender national defen e- House was Republican; it was a Republican House; the Com taking the statement of the Senator from New York, with their mittee on Naval Affairs was Republican; it had a Republican country in danger, if they so saw that the land needed defense; chairman. 'l'hese gentlemen who failed to comply with that if they o aw it that they were yet willing to surrender it rather request were Republicans, and they failed to comply, not be than to conte t against a minority-! join with the Senator cau e they were Republicans but becau, e, inheritin"' the "'enti- from Kentucky, and su Republican Party. When it became the duty of the Republican may be that I am giving some gratuitious auvice, but this i the governor to appoint a State fuel administrator, the man to whom way the thing appeals to me. ~ he went was a Democrat, 1\fr. Evans Woollen, one of the geQ,tle Mr. PENROSE. Will the Senator permit a sugge tion at that men on this Council of National Defense. 1\Ir. Woollen declined point? the offer. He then went to another, a very eminent Republican Mr. InRBY. Yes, sir. business man of the State and tendered it to him. This gentle man said that he would accept, but for five weeks the nomina 1\fr. PENROSE. One of the leading lights in hi own party In ti0n of a fuel commissioner in Indiana was held up, notwith this Chamber invited this discussion. "'tanding the active demand for hasty and active· operation of Mr. KIRBY. I am not justifying any man' position here. I the coal mines. The confirmation was held up while the am merely stating what it appears to me ought to be done in the Democratic member of the national committee and the State United States Senate and in Congre s. Democratic chairman combed the State of Indiana to find a 1\fr. PENROSE. So far as this splendid equipment is con Democrat who would serve in that place rather than confirm cerned, it is a notorious fact that the allies in Europe have had that Republican. The Democrat was not found until finally the to furnish a large amount of it. · governor was again appealed to and the gentleman to whom Mr. KIRBY. That is true; we could not manufacture the he had originally offered it, Mr. Woollen, a Democrat and a equipment in time, and could purchase it from our allies, who most capable man and gentleman, was prevailed upon to take could supply it. We purchased it with good American money the place. But five weeks of time were lost there while an that was put at the disposal of the Government, and we ac effort was made to find a Democrat who would fill the place. quired the needed equipment that it was possible to acquire most So it is not becoming of anyone to reflect upon Indiana or its speedily. council of defense for anything that it has or has not done I have heard the testimony of those great men who have during the progre s of this war. been successful in busine ~ affair . I have heard their critici m, JHr. Pre ident, the Republicans of Indiana demand and will especially invited by different members of the Military Commit not be denied their right to participate actively in all the prep tee, as to the condition existing; how it might be improved; and I arations for and the vigorous prosecution of this war. have heard some of these men state that the organization as it Mr. KIRBY. 1\fr. President, I rise with some diffidence at bus now been developed could carry on the war successfully with this point in the di cussion. I think some matters that have the machinery and agencies we already have. \Vhat are the been charged here this afternoon should be answered. · I think conditions that had to be met? We have expanded our Military they ought to have been answered by the chairman of the Establishment from 50,000 to a million and a half men in eight Military Affairs Committee, or by some ranking member. of months, and we have supplied and equipped them. Not only that committee. that, but great men who have been successful in busine s af I do not believe the American people are interested at this fairs have said this about the organization that has been built time in the succes of the Democratic Party or in a Republican up, and they have said it under oath in the Military Affair success but in military success upon the field of battle. That Committee: They stated also that twice as much had been ac is the que tion that ought to move the .Senate here, it seems to complished with the agencies we used as could have been accom me, and I believe that the discussion we have had to-day is not plished without them, and at one-half the cost to the Govern conducive to military success anywhere. On that account I ment that would otherwise have been required. do not approve of most of the things that have been said. I do 1\Ir. PENROSE. I should like to address an inquiry to th not think it makes any difference about existing conditions Senator, who is a member of that committee. How does he ex whether the Republicans have been det;elict heretofore or not. plain it that the chairman of the committee, the Senator from r do riot believe that is an answer if one is needed. I do not Oregon [l\fr. CHAMBERLAIN], has felt compelled to introduce a believe it exists, the conditions charged by the Senator from bill providing for a board of three distinguished citizens, what Pennsylvania, and the testimony before our Military Affairs ever that term may mean, and expressly excluding the Secretary Commit-tee has tended to show that it does not. of War and the Secretary of the Navy? Senators speak of incompetence and inefficiency, charging 1\-lr. KIRBY. Mr. Pre ident, I do not propose to be re pon ible it ha characterized our war preparations. I am no apologist for any views that may be held by the chairman of the l\1ilita1-y for incompetence and inefficiency anywhere in government under Affairs Committee. We have in that committee recommended any conditions, but I say to you I have sat with the Committee the passage of a bill to create a director of munitions. All the on Military Affairs, I have listened to the investigation for four men who are supposed to have made a survey of condition , who or five weeks, and in the examination and in carrying on ·and have been in contact with the actual development of conditions conducting that in.-e tigation I have not seen manifested this in the War and Navy Departments as they are now constituted, partisan spirit that has been said to exist. I have seen there have said the greatest objection that they have found to present pictures of the development of the war activities. It has been conditions and to obtaining speedy action was in a case of this brou~ht out before the committee, and I tell you to-day that I kind: The Navy, say, wants a certain sort of supplies, the Army believe the condition of the Army is as good as it could have must have a certain amount of the same kind of supplies, and been made under the circumstance but for one or two things there must be given to some of the other activities the same that have not been done that ought to have been done, and there kind of supplies. Suppose our manufacturing capacity is short, is no u e to alarm the counb-y unduly about the existing condi for instance, suppose the counb·y has a manufacturing capacity tions unle s the facts justify it, and I do not believe they do, and of duck of 3,000,000 yards a year; that that was the manu the investigation has not shown that they do. facturing capacity. of the country, and we needed 89,000,000 I mention one committee or board that ~as been active, acting yards under existing conditions, which has been supplied. '.rhe as a voluntary board, if you please, and there was no other way sources of supply in the manufacturing have to be developed. that this service· might be done under tl1e law. This board, with It was said, if the Navy goes out and competes in the market the assistance of the Army officers, just to illustrate, they have with these other agencies of the Army, shipping, and aircraft contracted for and expended in the purchase of goods, supplies, boards, you will have five buying agencie , and nobody to ee ordnance, and munitions $800,000,000 in eight months. They which department is in the most urgent need and where the have had 4,500 transactions. They have given out on an aver material should be first supplied. There i a lack of authority in age 200 orders daily, requiring an expenditure of $4,000,000. the la ~ t resort in one center to uetermine which of the brnnche. They have ent 80,000 letters and communications and 10,000 of our war machine shall have certain supplies and equipment telegrams. The result has been that every soldier is now in when there is not enough for all. It was thought by the Secre uniform, every soldier is properly clothed be he upon the field of tary of ·war and by some others of the war council, since each battle in France or in cantonments in the United States. That is member of the council had authority in his particular depart the condition that exists relative to the clothing of the soldiers, ment, that by adjustment, by agreement, and by conference the and all who have need of and who are expected to use rifles council might supply the needed authority. Others aid, "No; have rifles in their hanus to-day. That part of the Army that create a director of munitions, who can say which is the more has gone abroad is fully equipped, as I understand it, .and as the urgent demand and where the supplies shall go." testimony has hown before the inve tigati~n committee down I agree that that might be well, ar).d I recommended, o far here. Certain training equipment for the camps in this country as I was concerned, that that sort of a position be created. I has not yet been fully· supplied, but it i being done rapidly, and do not believe that any other cabinet is needed, nor that condi as fast as the oldiers can be sent on to Europe tbey are fully tions as developed indicate that there ·hould l>e another one. equipped. I do not know what llas been done about recommending a new Under tho e condition why should we have this other dis war cabinet. I under timd the bill has been inb·oduced, but it ussion? It seems to me that what we want to do is to win has not been brought before any meeting of the committe tho war, and we can not do it by discussions that divide us and when I have been pr Rent for any npprovnl by the member.· of hy a criminA tlon :md recrimination poJicy l1ere and there. It the committee. ~918. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE .. 1099 I have referred briefly to the conditions. I think we ought to REGISTERS OF THE LAND OFFICE. devote our attention to the things that are before us right now, · Frank T. Woods, of Billings, Mont., to be register of the land with a view to improving them, and I do not believe that some office at Billings, Mont., ~ice Fred H. Foster, deceased. ~f tbe discussion here will ever tend to improve anything. I do John E. Robbins, of Nevada, to be register of the-land office at not care to say anything else about it, but I did think that some Elko, Nev., bis term hav~g e~ire«:!. (Reappointment.) - · body ought to say this much, and I believe it ought to have come from some member of the Military Affairs Committee who was MEDICAL CORPS. conver ant with conditions as developed by tbe sworn testimony. To be first lieutenants. EXECUTIVE SESSION. .First Lieut. Charles August Stammel, jr., Medical Re erve Corps, from January 2, 1918. Mr. ·BANKHEAD. Mr. President, I move that the Senate pro First Lieut. Albert Gordon Bower, Medical Reserve Corps, ~ eo to the consideration of executive business. from .Tan miry 3, 1918. The motion was agreed to ; and the Senate proceeded to the First Lieut. Arthur Russell Porter, jr., Medical Reserve Corps, consideration of executive business. After seven minutes spent from January 4, 1918. in xecutive sion, the doors were reopened. First Lieut. Virgil Heath Cornell, Medical Reserve Corps, ADJOURNMENT TO THURSDAY. f-rom January 5, 1918. l\lr. MARTIN. I move that when the Senate adjourns to-day First Lieut. Everett Le Compte Cook, Medical Reserve Corps, it be to meet on Thursday next at 12 o'clock noon. from January 6, 1918. '.rho motion was agreed to. First Lieut. Ralph Leslie Cudlipp, Medical Reserve Corps, ADJOURNMENT. from January 7, 1918. First Lieut. .Tames Brent Anderson, Medlcal Reserve Corps, Ir. KING. I move that the Senate adjom·n. from .T anuary 8, 1918. The motion was agreed to; and (at 5 o'clock and 30 minutes First Lieut. George Perry Ros··, Medical Reserve Corps, from p. m.) the Senate adjourned until Thursday, January 24, 1918, J·anuary 9, 1918. at 12 o'clock meridian. First Lieut. Ebner Holmes Inmon, Medical Reserve- Corps, from January 10, 1918. NOMINATIONS. First J4eut. William Alger Shaw, Medical Reserve 9orps, lil.cecu tive nominations received by the Senate Ja-nuary 21, 1918. from January 11, 1918. First Lieut. Theo. Wallace O'Brien, Medical Reserve C~rps. As ISTANT TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES. from January 12, 1918. .Martin Vogel, of New York, N. Y., to be Assistant Treasurer DENTAL CORPS. M the United States at New York, N.Y. (Reappointment.) To be first lietttenants. COLLECTORS. OF CUSTOMS. First Lieut. John Godfrey Urban, Dental Reserve Corps, from Edmund Billings, of Boston, Mass., to be collector of customs December 15, 1917. for customs collection district No. 4. with headquarters at Bos Carl Stevenson Emmert, of Indiana, from December 16, 1917. ton, Ma s. (Reappointment.) First Lieut. William Henry Siefert, Dental Reserve Corps, . William H. Berry, of Philadelphia, Pa., to be collector of cus fram December 17, 1917• toms for customs collection district No. 11, with headquarters at Samuel .T. Lewis, of Michigan, from December 18, 1917. Philadelphia, Pa. (Reappointment.) Fh·st Lieut. .Tames Henry O'Reilly, Dental Reserve Corps, NAVAL OFFICERS OF CUSTO~£S. from December 19, 1917. - H. Otto Wittpenn, of Jersey City, N . .T., to be naval officer of Frederick Werner Miller, of Missouri, from December 20, 1917. cu toms in customs collection district No. 10, with headquarters .Tames Alfred Cm·tis, jr., of Georgia, from December 21, 1917. at New York, N. Y. (Reappointment.) First Lieut. .Tames Jay Weeks, Dental Reserve Corps, from December 22, 1917. William M. Croll, of Philadelphia, Pa., to be naval officer of cu toms in customs collection district No. 11, with headquarters John Nelson White, of Kentucky, from December 23, 191"7. at Philadelphia, Pa. (Reappointment.) First Lieut. Homer Lash Sams, Dental Reserve Corps, from December 24, 1917. SURVEYOR OF CU:STOMS. George l\1agnor Krough, of Minnesota, from December 25, 1917. · .Joseph A. Maynard, of Boston, Mass., to be surveyor of cus F'irst Lieut. Wayne ,V, Woolley, Dental Reserve Corp , from toms in customs collection district No. 4, with headquarters at December 26, 1917. Bo ton, Ma s. (Reappointment.) First Lieut. Edward Wallace Barr, Dental Reserve Corp", · Charles R. Kurtz, of Philadelphia, Pa., to be surveyor of ens from December 27, 1917. toms in customs collection district No. 11, with headquarters at First Lieut. Fernando Emilio Rodriguez, Dental Reserve Philadelphia, Pa. (Reappointment.) Corps, from December 28, 1917. CoNsULs. First Lieut. John Leigh Davis, Dental Reserve Corps, from December 29, 1917. CLASS 8. First Lieut. Joseph Henry Jaffer, Dental Reserve Corps, from Au tin C. Brady, of Santa Fe, N.Mex., to be a consul of class December 30, 1917. of the United States of America. Adolph August Meyer, of California, from December 31, 1917. Parker W. Buhrman, of Gala, Va., to be a consul of class 8 of Fir t Lieut. Howard Clayton Feyler, Denml Reserve Corps, the United States of America. from January 1, 1918. · Lloyd Burlingham, of Olean, N. Y., to be a consul of class 8 of William Ferdinand Scheumann, of Indiana, from January the United States of America. 2, 1918. Leonard G. Dawson, of Staunton, Va., to be a consul of class 8 First Lieut. Alonzo Gooch McCue, jr., Dental Reserve Corps, of the United States of America. from January 3, 1918. Shelby F. Strother, of Louisville, Ky., to be a consul of class 8 Campbell Hopson Glascock, of Missouri, from January 4, of the United States of America. 1918. Harry L. Walsh, of Baltimore, 1\id., to be a consul of class 8 First Lieut. Austin Freeman Roberts, Dental Reserve Corps, of the United States of America. . from January, 5, 1918. · Romeyn Wormuth, of Syracuse, N. Y., to be a consul of class William Frederic Wieck, of Texas, from January 6, 1918. 8 of the United States of America. Thomas Herbert Veale, of Massachusetts, from January 7, PROMOTION IN THE CoAST GUARD. 1918. First Lieut. Lawrence Joseph Dunn, Dental Reserve Corp , . Third Lieut. of Engineers Paul Revere Smith to be second from January 8, 1918. lieutenant of Engineers in the Coast Guard of the United States, Carl Reuben Oman, of Washington, from January 9, 1918. to rank as such from March 27, 1917, in place of Second Lieut. First Lieut. Leslie Albert Gould, Dental Reserve Corps, from of Engineers Albert F. Patterson, promoted. .T an·1ary 10, 1918. RECEIVERs OF PUBLIC MONEYS. Harold Avery Curtis, of New York, from January 11, 1918. .To eph Allen, of California, to be receiver of public moneys at PROVISIONAL APPOINTMENTS IN THE ARMY • Vi alia, Cal., his present term expiring January 26, 1918. (Re FIELD ARTILLERY ARM. appointment.) Second Lieut. Leon C. Swager, Field Artillery, Officers' Reserve . ..\shley G. Dawley, of Nevada, to be receiver of public moneys Corps, to be second lieutenant of Field Artillery, with rank from at Elko, Nev., his term having expired. (Reappointment.) October 26, 1917. LYI--71 = ~ · , I /. I • --t ~ I_· hi' I II f ~ ' 1100 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE . JANUARY 21, CAVALBY AR:r. • To be lieutenant eoloneZ 'With ranl.;; from July 14, 1917. Second Lieut. Ralston Dear:i Livingston, Infantry, National 1\faj. George B. Pillsbury, Corps of Engineers, vice Lieut. Col. Guard, to be a second lieutenant from October 24, 1~17, to fill Harry Bm·gess, appointed colonel in the National Army. an existing vacancy. To be lieutenant colonel with rank !Tom July 18, 1917. coAS'T ARTILLERY coRPS. Maj. Gusta~ · e R. Lnkesh, Corps of Engineer , nee Lieut. Col. Band Sergt. Loon J. ·wah·atb, Headquarters Company, One James B. Cnvnnaugb, appointed colonel in the National Army. hundred and sL~th Field Artillery, JaUonal Guard, to be second To be lieutenant colonel 'l ith. rank trmn A·u!Jllst 5, 1917. lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps, with rank from uate of 1\faj. John R. Slattery, Corps of Engineers, \ice Lieut. Col. appointment. William Kelly, appointed colonel in the National Army. PRonsroNAL.APPOI "TMENT, BY Tr...ANSFER-, IN THE ARMY. 1\faj. Albert E. ·waldron, Corps of Engineers, vice Lieut. Col. Edward H . Schulz, appointed coloool in the National Army. cAYALnY ARM. l\faj. Francis A. Pope, Corps of Engineer::;, vice Lieut. Col. To be second lieuttnants 10ith mnk from October 26, 19L7~ John C. Oakes, appointed olonel in the National Army. Second Lieut. Leonard 0\er, Coast Artillery Corps. 1\faj. Gilbert A. Youngberg Corps of Engineers \ice Lieut. Col. Second. Lieut. Carlton B. Rettig, Field Artillery. Sherwood A. Cheney, appointed colonel in the National Army. Second Lieut. Samuel 0. Taylor, Field Artillery. Maj. Edward N. John ton, Corps of Engineers. vice Lieut Col. Frank C. Boggs, appointed colonel in the National Army. Second Lieut. Jolln S. McCloy, Infantry. 1\Iaj. Clarence 0. Sherrill, Corps of Engineers, vice Lieut. Col. Second Lieut. Robert 'Driscoll, Freid Artlllery. George B. Pillsbury, appointed colonel in the National Army. Second Lieut. George S. Warrell, Infantry. 1\Iaj. Ernest D. Peek, Corps of Engineers, vice Lieut. CoL Lytle FIELD ARTILLERY ARM. Brown, app(}inted colonel in the National Army. To be second lieutenants 1cith 'rank j1·om Octobe1· 26, 1917. Maj. George R. Spalding, Corp o-f Engineer , vice Lieut. Col. Second Lieut. Edward Reese Roberts, Infantry. Harley B. Ferguson, appointed colonel in the National Army. Second Lieut. George Wesley Norrick, Coast Artille1·y Corps. Maj. Elliott J. Dent, Corps of Engineers, vice Lieut. Col. James Second Lieut. Lynn Helm, jr., Infantry. A. Woodruff, appointed colonel in the National Army. Second Lieut. Fred P. Clark, Cavalry. Maj. William P . Stokey, Corps of Engineers, vice Lieut. Col. Second Lieut. Frank Starr Pope. Cavalry. John R. Slattery, appointetl colonel in the National Army. Second Lieut. Alfred G. Foru, Cavalry. Maj. Wildun Willing, Corp of Engineer , vice Lieut. Col. Clarence 0 . Sherrill, appointed colonel iQ. the National Army. COAST ARTILLERY CORPS. Maj. William A. :Mitchell, Corps of Engineers, vice Lieut. Col. To be second lieutenants with ronk ft·om October 26, 1911. George R. Spalding, appointed colonel in the Nntional Army. Second Lieut. Harry Lee Campbell, Field Artillery. l\Iaj. Mark Brooke, Corps of Engineer , vice Lieut. CoL \Vii- Second Lieut. Lawrenc~ W. Fox, jr., Cavalry. liam J. Bard-en. appointeU colonel in the National Army. Maj. Laurence V. Frazier, Cor-ps of Engineers, vice Lieut. Col. INFANTRY ARM. Edward l\1. 1\farkham, appointed colonel in the National Army. To be second lie1.1.-tenants with rank jmtu October 26, 1917. 1\Iaj. James F . Bell, Corps of Engineers, vice Lieut. Col. Second Lieut. Walter A. Stuver, Cavnlry. Francis A. Pope, appointed colonef in the National Army. Second Lieut. J ames R. Lowry, jr., Cavalry. Maj. Harold C. Fiske, Corps of Engineers, vice Lieut. Col. Robert R. Raymond, appointed colonel in the National Army. Pno.MOTION r.q THE AnMY. Maj. Max C. Tyler, Corps of Ene<>ineers, vice Lieut. Col. Earl MEDICAL co.n-Ps. I. Brown, appointed colonel in the National Army. Maj. William H. Tefft, Medical Corps, to be lieutenant col- Maj. Ulysses S. Grant, 3~ Corps of Eno-ineers (General onel from December 21, 1917, subject to examination required Staff Corps), vice Lieut. Col.. James P . Jen:-ey, appointe(! colonel by law, viee Lieut. Col. amuel M. De Loffre, retir ed from active in the National Army. · ser-vice December 20, 1917. 1\Iaj. Julian L. Schley. Corps of Engineers, vice Lieut. Col. Ulys es S. Grant, 3d, retained in the General Staff Corp . T.E.MPORd..RY PRoMOO:IONS IN THE An.:MY. Maj. William H . Rose, Corps of Eo.gineers, vice Lieut. Col. COBPS oF· ENGINEERS. Charles Keller, promoted. . 1\{aj. Richard C. Moore, Corps of Engineers, vice Lieut. Col. ·' To. be coZonels with rank from A'ltgttst 5, 1911. Meriwether L. Walker, appointed colonel in the National Army. Lieut. Col. Charles Keller, Corps of Engineers, vice Col. Ed· 1\faj. Lewis 1\.1. Adams, Corps of Encineers, vice Lieut. Col. war Maj. John N. ·Hodge , Corps of Engineers, vice Lieut. Col. Capt. William C. Sherman, Corps of Engineer", vice 1\Iaj . •\Jbert B. Waldron, appointed colonel in the National Army. William D'A. Anderson, promoted. :Maj. James J. Loying, Corps of Engineers, vice Lieut. Col. Capt. Rudolph C. Kuldell, Corps of Engin eer ~ , vice 1\laj. Ralph Thomas H. Jackson, promoted. · T. Ward, promoted. - · Maj. Edward D . .Ardery, Corps of Engineer , nee Lieut. Col. Capt. Ro coe C. Crawford, Corps of Engineers, nee 1\laj. Henry Gustave R. Lukesh, promoted. C. Jewett, appointed colonel in the National .A~·my. · To be major with 1·anl.; front J·ulv 9, 191'1. Capt. Earl G. Paules, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Robert P. Howell, promoted. Capt. Clarence J.1. Sturdevant, Corp of Engineer. , vice :Maj. .Capt. Bradford G. Chynoweth, Corps of Engineers, vice 1\Iaj. Lewis H. Rand, promoted. · Arthur R. Ehrnbeck, appointed lieutenant colonel in the National To be ma.jo-rs ·u;ith 1·ank f1'01n July 18, 191"1. Army. Capt. 1\lilo P. Fox, Corps of Engineer , \ice Maj. Joseph H. Capt. Earl J. Atkisson, Corps of ~gineer s , vice Maj. Edward Earle, promoted. l\I. Markham, promoted. Capt. John C. Gotwals, Corps of Engineers, \ice Maj. Thoma. Capt. Richard T. Coiner, Corps of Engineers, Yice Maj. M. Robins, promoted. Thoma. H. Jackson, promoted. Capt. Francis K. Newcomer, ·corps of Engineers, vice ::Uaj. To be major 'I.Gith 1·anlv from Jul-y 14, 1917. Roger D. Black, promoted. Capt. Robert S. A. Dougherty, Corp of Engineers, Yice Maj. Capt. Charles F. Williams, Corps of Engineers, Yice 1\faj. Theo George B. Pillsbury, promoted. dore H. Dillon, promoted. Capt. Gordon R. Young, CorpN of Engineer;-, vice Maj. De Witt To be major 1vith 1·anhi trorn J1ay 18, 1917. C. Jones, promoted. . Capt. Stuart C. Godfrey, Corps of Engineers, vice 1\laj. Gus Capt. Richard U. Nicholas, Corps of Engineers, vice l\Iaj. t:rve R. Lukesh, promoted. Erne t Graves, promoted. Capt. James A. Dor t, Corps of Engineer , vice 1\laj. Francis To be majors uith 'rank j1'0in A·ugust 5, 191"1. B. Wilby, promoted. Capt. Francis C. Harrington, Corps of Engineers, Yice Maj. Capt. Rufus W. Putnam, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. .John R. Slattery, promoted. Clarence S. Ridley, promoted. Capt. Cleveland C. Gee, Coq1s of Engineers, Ylce Maj. Elbert Capt. Lunsford E. Oliver, Corps of Engineers, vice 1\Iaj. A.lyi n F1 \Valdron, promoted. B. Barber, promoted. Capt. John 1\I. Wright, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Francis Capt. William H. Holcombe, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. A. Pope, promoted. Jarvis J. Bain, promoted. _ Capt. John R. D. Matheson, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Capt. James B. Cress, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Thomas II. Gilbert A. Youngberg, promoted. Emerson, promoted. Capt. William H. Sage, jr., Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Capt. Chru·les P. Gro s, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Roger G. - Edward N. Johnston, promoted. Powell, promoted. · Capt. Charles J. Taylor, Qorp of Engineers, vice Maj. Clar· Capt. Bernard A. Miller, Corps of Engineers,_vice Maj. Robert ence 0. Sherrill, promoted. S. Thomas, appointed lieutenant colonel in the National Army. Capt. Edwin H. Marks, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Miclmel Capt. Peter C. Bullard, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Harold J. McDonough, appointed colonel in the National Army. S. Hetrick, appointed lieutenant colonel in the National Army. Capt. Earl North, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Curtis W. Capt. Brehon B. Somervell, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. twell, appointed colonel in the National Army. William A. Johnson, appointed lieutenant colonel in the Nationnl Capt. Albert H. Acher, Corps of Engineers, vice 1\laj. Ernest Army. D. Peek, promoted. Capt. Xenophon H. Price; Corps of Engineer , vice Maj. Fred· Capt. Gilbert Van B. Wilkes, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. erick B. Downing, appointed lieutenant colonel in the National George R. Spalding, promoted. Army. Capt. John C. H. Lee, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Paul S. Capt. Robert W. Crawford, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Ed Bond, appointed colonel in the National Army. mund L. Daley, appointed lieutenant colonel in the National Capt. FrankS. Besson, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Elliott J. Army. Dent, promoted. Capt Frederick S. Skinn~r, Corps of Engineers, vice l\faj. Capt. Lindsay C. IIerkness, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Henry A. Finch, appointed lieutenant colonel in the National William L. Guthrie, appointed colonel in the Nationai Army. Army. Capt. Albert K. B. Lyman, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj: Wil Capt. Dabney 0. Elliott, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. John liam P. Stokey, promoted. N. Hodges, promoted. Capt. Frederick S. Strong, jr., Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Capt. Allen P. Cowgill, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Jame · Wildurr Willing, promoted. J. Loving, promoted. - Capt. Daniel D. Pullen, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Wil Capt. George F . Lewis, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Edward liam A. Mitchell, promoted. D. Ardery, promoted. Capt. Carey H. Brown, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Mark To be captains from, Au,g-ust 80, 191"1. Brooke, promoted. First Lieut. Edmond H . Levy, Corps of Engineers, vice Capt. Capt. Oscar N. Solbert, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Laurence George R. Goethals, P,romoted. V. Frazier, promoted. First Lieut. Thomas D. Stamps, Corps of Engineers, vice Capt. Beverly C. Dunn, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. James Capt. John W. N. Schulz, promoted. F. Bell, promoted. First Lieut. Bartley M. Harloe, Corps of Engineers, vice Capt. Capt. Donald H. Connolly, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Clarence L. Sturdevant, promoted. ·warren T. Hannum, appointed colonel in the National Army. First Lieut. Starr C. Wardrop, Corps of Engineers, vice Capt. Capt. Raymond F. Fowler, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Earl J . Atkisson, promoted. . H.obert R. Ralston, appointed colonel in the-National Army. . First Lieut. Girard B. Troland, Corps of Engineers, vice Capt. Capt. David McCoach, jr., Corps of Engineers (General Staff RichardT. Coiner, promoted. · Corps), vice Maj. Harold C. Fiske, promoted. . First Lieut. Llewellyn M. Griffith, Corps of Engineers, vice · Capt. James G. B. Lampert, Corps of Engineei·s, vice Maj. Capt. RobertS. A. Dougherty, promoted. David McCoach, jr., retained in the General Staff Corps. Capt. Philip B. Fleming, Corps of Engineers, vice Maj. Max c. CO.A.ST ARTILLERY CORPS. •.ryler, promoted. To be colonels with 'J'attlv from, A-ugust 5, 191"1. Capt. John W. Stewart, Corps of Engineers, vice 1\Iaj. Julian Lieut. Col. Louis R. Burgess, Coast Artillery Qorps, vice Col. L. Schley, promoted. Charles L. Phillips, appointed brigadier general, Nat~onal Army. Capt. Jo eph 0. 1\Ieha:ffey, Corps of Engineer , -,ice Maj. 'Vil- Lieut. Col. _James A. Shipton, Coast Artillery Oorps, vice Col. l iam H. Rose, promoted. . · Clint C. Hearn, appointed brigadier general, National _Army. Capt. Paul S. R~inecke. Corps of Engineers, \ice 1\Iaj. Richard Lieut. Col. William Chamberlaine, Coast Artillery Corps, vice C. Moore, promoted. Col. Ira A. Haynes, appointed brigadier general, National Army. Capt. Raymond A. Wheeler, Corp. of Engineers, vice 1\laj. Lieut. Col. George H . McManus, Coast Artillery Corps, 'Vice Lewis 1\1. Adams, promoted. Col. William G. Haan, appointed brigadier general, National Capt. W. Morris Chubb, Corps of Engineers, \ice l\laj. Charles Army. H. Pettis, promoted. Lieut. Col. Edward J. Timberlake, Coast .Artillery ~A>rps Capt. Howard S. Bennion, Corps of Engineers, \ice l\lHj. W. (Quartermaster Corps), vice C-ol. Henry D. Todd, jr., appointed Goff Caple. , appointed colonel in the Nationnl .Army. bridagier general, National Army. 1102 .· CONGRESS! ON AL RECORDr-SEN ATE~ f JANUARY 21, Lieut. Col. James J\I. Williams, Coa t Artillery Corps, vice Lieut. COl. J ohn B. Christin.n, oast Artillery Corps (Signal Col. Edward J. 'l'imberlake, retained · in the Quartermaster Corp J, vice Col. John R. Proctm.·, retained in the Adjutant Corp. . General's Depar-tment. Lieut. Col. Al ton Hamilton, Coast Artillery Corps, vice_ Cot Lieut. Col. Fredelick W. l)hi terer, Coast Artillery Corps, vice Frank a: Man1din, appointed brigadier general, National Army. Col. John B. Christian, retained in the Sign..'ll Corps. Lieut. Col. John C. Gilmore, jr., Coast Artillery Corps, vice COAST .ARTILLERY .ARM. Col. Andrew Hero, jr., appointed brigadier general, National Army. . To be lieutenant colonels with rank jmm August 5, 1911. Lieut. .Col. Jo eph L. Knowlton, Coast Artillery Corp-s (Quar ~1aj . l\Ialcolm Young; Coast Artillery Corps. vice Lieut. Col. termaster Corp ) , vice Col. Stephen M. Foote., appointed briga- Lawrence S. l\1iller, appointed colonel in the Tational Army. dier general, National Army. . 1\Iaj. Laurence C. Bro~ Coast Artillery Corp (Signal Lieut. Col. Jo eph Wheeler, jr., Coast Artillery Corps, vice Corps). vice Lieut. CoL Earle D'A. Pearce, appointed colonel in Col. Joseph L. Knowlton, retained in the Quartermaster Corp . the National Army. Lieut. Col. Robert E. Callan, Coast Artillery Corps (General l\1aj. Harry L. Steele, Coast Artillery Corps (Quart masteJ. Staff), vice Col. Richard P. Davis, appointed brigadier gen Corps), vice Lieut. CoL Laurence C. Brown, retained in the eral National Army. Signal Corps. · Lieut. Col. Edwin Landon, Coast Artillery Corps (Adjutant l\1aj. Thomas F. Dwyer, Coa t Art iller-y Corps (Quarter General's Department), vice Col Robert E. Callan, retained in rna ter Corp ) , vice Lieut.. CoL Harry L. teele, retained in tll.e the General Staff. Quartermaster Corp . Lie·ut. Col. Clarence H. l\lcNei1, Coa t Artillery Corps (Quar 1\Iaj. James B. 1\:litchell, Coast Artillery Corps (Inspector terma ter Corp ) , vice Col. Edwin Landon, retained in the Ad General's Department), vice Lieut. Col. ThOiras F . Dwyer, re jutant General' Department. tained in the Quartermaster Corps. Lieut. Col. Jo eph P. Tracy, Coast Artillery Corps (Adjutant Maj. Alfred S. 1\Iorgan, Coast Artiile1·y Corps (Adjutant Gen General's Department), vice Col. Claren-ce H. McNei1, retained eral's Department), vice Lieut. Col. Jam B. :Mitchell, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. in the Inspector General's Department. Lieut. Col. Percy 1\:1. Kessler, Coast Artillery Corps (Ammu Maj. Ch-arles H . Hilton, Coast Artillery Corps (General Staff nition Train), vice Col. Jo eph P. Tracy, retained in the Ad Corps), vice Lieut. Col. Alfred S. Morgan, retained in The jutant General's Department. Adjutant General's Department. Lieut. Col. Johnson Hagood, Coast Artillery Corps, vice CoL Maj. Edward L. Glasgow, Coast Artillery Corps {Qruuter John L. Hayden, appointed brigadier general, National Army. master Corps), vke Lieut. CoL Charles H. Hilton, r taine Maj. James l\L Wheeler, Coast Artillery Corp 1 vice Lieut. Maj. Frederick B. Hennessy, Field Artillery, vice Lieut. Col. Ccl. George 0. Hubbard, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. William McK. Lambdin, appointed colonel in the National Army. Maj. Harri on S. Kerrick, Coast Artillery Corps, vice Lieut. 1\Iaj. Laurin L. Law on, Field Artillery, vice Lieut. Col. Frank Col. Stanley D. Embick, ap:uointed colonel in the Signal Corps. E. Hopkins, appointed colonel in the National Army. l\Iaj. Frank J. Miller, Coast Artillery: Cor~s. vice Lieut. Col. Maj. Morris E. Locke, Field Artillery (General Sta.ff Corps), Marcellus G. Spink , detailed in the Inspector Gener al's De vice Lieut. Col. Fred T. Austin, appointed colonel in the Na partment. tional Army. l\Iaj. Philip S. Golderman, Coast Artillery Corps, vice Lieut. Maj. John W. KilbTeth, Field Artillery, vice Lieut. Col. Morris Col. Percy '" illi , promoted. E. Locke, retained in the General Staff Corps. Maj. Cku-les L. Lanham, Coast Artillery Cot1X'. vice Lieut. Maj. James H. Bryson, Field Artillery, vice Lieut. CoL John Col. Percy P. Bishop, detailed in. the General Staff Corps. E. Stephens, promoted. Maj. George F. Connolly, Coast Artillery Corps, vice Lieut. Maj. Roger 0. 1\fason, Field Artillery, vice-Lieut. Col Tllomas Col. William E . Cole, appointed colonel in the National Army. EJ. Merrill, promoted. l\laj. William S. Browning, Field Artillery ( ~neral Staff To be lieutenant colonels 'toith mnk from December 26, 1917. Corps), vice Li~ut. Cor. Henry W. Butner, promoted. Maj. JohnS. Johnston, Coast A.rtillery Corps (Adjutant Gen l\laj. Jo eph F. Burne , Field Artillery, vice Lieut. Col: eral's Department), vice Lieut. Col. Wi.lliam F. Stewart, jr., Charles C. Pulis, appointed colonel in the National Army. appointed colonel in the Nationar Army. Maj. William P. Ennis, Field Artillery, vice Lieut. CoL George l\Iaj.. Joseph S. Hardin, Coast Artillery Corps (Quartermaster V. H. Moseley, ap_pointed colonel in the National .Army. Corps), vice Lieut. Col. John S. Johnston, retained in The Ad Maj. Dennis H. Currie, Field Artillery (General Sta.fi' Corps), jutant General's Department. vice Lieut. Col. Louis T. Boiseau, appointed colonel in the Na- l\Iaj. Louis E. Bennett, Coast Artil ery Corps, vice Lieut. Col. tional Army. · Joseph S. Hardin, retained in the Quarte1·master Corps. Maj. Beverly F. Browne, Field .Artillery, vice Lieut. Col. Henry L. Newbold, promQted. To be Ue1~tena1~t colonels with mnk f1·o1n Deceraber 29, 1917. l\Iaj. Raymond S. Pratt, Field Artillery, vice Lieut. Col. Maj. George L. Hicks, jr., Coast Artillery Corps (Adjutant El·nest D. Scott, promoted. General's Department), vice Lieut. Col. Frederick W. Phisterer, Maj. Alden F. Brewster, Field Artillery, vice Lieut. Col. promoted. Lucius R. Holbrook, promoted. l\Iaj. Lynn S. Edwards, Coast Al.·tillery Corps, vice Lieut. Cot Maj. No!'ton E. Wood, Field Artillery, vice Lieut Col. Harri George L. Hicks, jr., retained in The Adjutant General's De son Hall, promoted. partment. l\Iaj. Albert S. Fuger, Field Artillery, vice Bieut. Col. Wright FIELD ARTILLERY ARM. Smith, promoted. To be colonels u:ith ·rank from August 5, 191"/. l\Iaj. William N. l\Iichel, Field Artillery, vice Lieut. Cof. Charles R. Lloyd, promoted. Lieut. Col. John E. Stephens, Field Artillery (General Staff Maj. Ernest S. Wheeler, Field AI:tillery, vice Lieut. Col. Olh·er Corps), vice Col. William J. Snow, appointed brigadier general L. Spaulding, jr., promoted: in the National Army. l\laj. Lesley .J. MCi~air, Field Artil1ery (General Staff Corps), Lieut. Col. Thomas E . :Merrill, Field Artillery, vice CoL .John vice Lieut. Col. Conrad H'. Lanz.a,. promoted. E. Stephens, retained in the General Staff Corps. Maj. Walter D. Smith, Field Artillery, vice Lieut CoL Lesley Lieut. Col. Fox Conner, Field Artillery (Inspectm: General's J. McNair, retained in the General Staff Corps. Department), vice Col. LeRoy S. Lyon, appointed brigadiPr Maj. Creed F. Cox, Field. Artillery, vice Lieut. Col. Lewis -S. general in the National Army. .Ryan, promoted. Lieut. Col. Henry W. Butner, Field .A:rtillery·, vice Cot FI'Jx Maj. Leo P. Quinn. Field Artillery, vice Lieut. Col. Huwnrd L. Conner, retained in the In~pector General's Department. Landers, promotefl. .1104 CONGRESSIONAL RECORP-SENATE. .JANUARY 21; Maj. Walter H. mith, Field Artillery (Quartermaster Corps), , Capt. Otto L. Brunzell, Field Artlllery, vice Maj. Dennis H. vice Lieut. Col. \Villiam S. Browning, detailed in the General Currie, promoted. Staff Corps. Capt. Clifford L. Corbin, Field Artillery, vice 1\Iaj. Beverly F. Maj. Albert T. Bishop, Field Artillery, vice Lieut. Col. Walter Browne, promoted. H. Smith retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Capt. Pierre V. Kieffer, Field Artillery, vice 1\Iaj. Marlborough Maj. H'arold W. Huntley, Field Artillery, vic~ Lieut. Col. Den Churchill, appointed lieutenant colonel, National Army. nis H. Currie, detailed in the General Staff Corps. Capt. Charles T. Harris, jr., Field Artillery (Ordnance De partment), vice Maj. Albert U. Faulkner, appointed colonel, Na To be lieutenant colonel with rank from, Jantt~ry 2, 1918. tional Army. Maj. Edwin De L. Smith, Field Artillery, >ice Lieut. Col. Wil Capt. Maiwell Murray, Field Artillery, vice Maj. Charles T. liam H. Burt, promoted. Harris, jr., retained in the Odnance Depatment. To be rnajot·s 'With 1·ank front Aug'ust 5, 1917. Capt. Alfed J.J. P. Sands, Field Artillery, vice Maj. Raymond S. Pratt, promoted. Capt. Charles J. F~·ris, Field .ru:.tmer~, v~ce 1\Iaj. Marion W. Capt. Henry H. Pfeil, Field Artillery, vice Maj. Robert Davis, Howze, appointed lieutenant colonel, ~atwnal. Army.. . appointed lieutenant "colonel, National Army. · Capt. Walter D. Smith, Field Artillery, >ICe MaJ. LewiS S. Capt. Charles P. George, Field Artillery, vice Maj. Pelham D. Rvan, promoted. Glassford, appointed lieutenant colonel, National Army. ·capt. Creed F. Cox, Field Artillery, vice 1\Iaj. Clarence Deems, Capt. Charles W. Harlow, Field Artillery, vice Maj. Alden F. jr. appointed colonel, National Army. . Brewster, promoted. Capt. Leo P. Quinn, Field Artillery, >ice Maj. Francis W. Capt. William H. Rucker, Field Artillery, vice Maj. Norton E. Griffin appointed colonel, National Army. Wood, promoted. · Capt. \Valter H. Smith, Field Artillery, >ice Maj. Robert S. Capt. William H. Shepherd, Field Artillery, vice 1\faj. Albert :Welsh, appointed colonel, National ~rmy. . . . S. Fuger, promoted. . Capt. JohnS. Hammond, Field Artillery, nee .1\laJ. Howard L. Capt. Marshall G. Randol, Field Artillery, vice Maj. William Landers, promoted. . . . F. Morrison, appointed lieutenant colonel, National Army. Capt. Albert T. Bishop, Field Artillery, vice .1\laJ. Wilham H. Capt. John N. Greely, Field Artillery, vice Maj. John R. Kelly, Burt, promoted. . appointed lieutenant colonel, National Army. Capt. Harold W. Huntley, Field Artillery, vice 1\laJ. Clarence Capt. Webster A. Capron, Field Artillery, vice 1\Iaj. William N. Jones, promoted. . N. Michel, promoted. Capt. Edwin De J.~. Smith, Field Artillery, vice .1\laj. Frederick Capt. John E. Mort, Field Artillery, vice Maj. Ernest S. B. Hennessy, promoted. Wheeler, promoted. Capt. Ralph MeT. Pennell, Field Artillery, vice Maj. George Capt. James H. Burns, Field Artillery (Ordnance Depart .1\l. Brooke appointed colonel, National Army. ment), vice Maj. Walter D. Smith, promoted. Capt. w'alter S. Sturgill, Field Artillery, vice .1\laj. Harry C. Capt. Everett S. Hughes, Field Artillery (Ordnance Depart \Villiams, appointed colonel, National Army. ment), vice Maj. James H. Burns, retained in the Ordnance De- Capt. Sherman Miles, Field Artillery (General Staff), vice partment. · 1\Iaj. Edgar H. Yule, appointed colonel, National Army. Capt. Thomas J. Smith, Field Artillery (Ordnance Depart Capt. Cortlandt Parker, Field Artillery, vice Maj. Sherman ment), vice Maj. Everett S. Hughe , retained in the Ordnance Mile retained in the General Staff Corp . Department. Capt. Richard C. Burleson, Field Artillerr, vice M:aj. George Capt. Roger S. Parrott, Field Artillery (General Staff), Yice R. Greene, appointed colonel, National Armr. - . Maj. Thomas J. Smith, retained in the Ordnance Department. Capt. Joseph R. Davis, Field Artillery, VICe MaJ. Charles 1\1. Capt. Thurman H. Bane, Field Artillery (Signal Corps), vice Bunker, appointed colonel, National Army. 1\faj. Creed F. Cox, promoted. . Capt. John R. Starkey, Field Artillery, vice l\Iaj. Laurin L. Capt. Thomas D. Sloan, Field Artillery, vice Maj. Thurman Lawson, promoted. H. Bane, retained in the Signal Corps. Capt. Rene E. De R. Hoyle, Field Artillei:Y. vice 1\laj. WilHam Capt. Harold Geiger, Field Artillery (Signal Corps), nee F. Jones, appointed lieutenant colonel, National Army. Maj. Augustine Mcintyre, appointed colonel, National Army. Capt. Dawson Olmstead, Field Artillery, vice Maj. Charles G. Capt. Claude B. Thummell, Field Artillery (Ordnance Depart Mortimer appointed lieutenant colonel, National Army. ment), vice 1\.Iaj. George R. Allin, appointed lieutenant colonel, Capt. john C. Maul, Field Artillery, vice l\Iaj. William I. National Army. Westervelt, appointed colonel, National Ar.my. . Capt. Edwin 1\1. Watson, Field Artillery, vice Maj. Claude B. Capt. Albert L. Hall, Field Artillery, nee MaJ. John B. W. Thummell, retained in the Ordnance Department. Corey, appointed lieutenant colonel, ~ationa~ Army: Capt. Harold E. Miner, Field Artillery, vice Maj. Thomas W. Capt. George H. Paine, Field Artillery, v1ce MaJ. Joseph E. Hollyday, appointed lieutenant colonel, National Army. . Myers, appointed lieutenant colonel,. Nationa}- Arm~. . . Capt. Joseph A. Rogers, Field Artillery, vice Maj. Leo P. Capt. Leroy P. Collins, Field Artillery, vice 1\IaJ. W1lliam S. Quinn, promoted. Wood appointed lieutenant colonel, National Army. Capt. Charles T. Griffith, Field Artillery, vice Major John S. · Capt. Ballard Lyerly, Field Artillery, \ice Maj. Samuel Frank Hammond, appointed lieutenant colonel, National Army. enberger appointed lieutenant colonel, National Army. Capt. Ronald D. Johnson, Field Artillery, vice Maj. Harof 1918. .CoN-GREBsro T .At REcoRl)- ~: ~SEN ATE. - 1105 CAVALRY ARM. "Lieut. Col. Frank -s. Armstrong, . -cavalry, vice ·col. "Guy To ·be colonels tcith rank tron~ August 5, 1911. 1 'Dnr~eton, appointed brigadier 'general in 1:h~ National Army. · _ , Lieut. Col. James G. Harbord, Cavalry, VICe Col. Thomas "B. Lieut. Col. Fr.ank M. Caldwell, Cavalry (Insp~ctor G~ner~l s 'Dugan, appointed brigadier general ·in the National :Army. Department), v1ce. Col. Robert .A. -Brown, n:ppomted bngad1er Lieut. Col. Samuel D. Rockenbach. ·cavatry (Qum'termaster general in the National Army. . Corps), vice 'Col. James G. "Harbord, ·nppointed brigadier ·zen- Lieut. •Col. Jmnes J. Hornbrook, Cavalry, vice Col. Frank M. eral in the Ncttional .A:rmy. Caldwell, retained in the Inspector General's Department. "Lieut. Col. Kirby Walker, Cavah~y, ·vice Col. :Samuel D. Lieut. Col. !William F. Clark, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), Rockenbach 'retained in the Qunrte1~master Corps. vice Col. Grote Hutche. on, appoin'tea ~ brigadier general in the ' National Army. To b ~ lie-utena.nj colonels toith rank from, ;August c.S, 191"1. Lieut. Col. Samuel G. Jones. ·Cavalry, vice 'Col. William F. Maj. Al~anuet· M. Miller, Cavalry, 'Vice Lieut. Col. John ·clark, retained in the Quartermaster ·corps. O'Shea, appointoo in ·the National Army. · Lieut. Col. 'Melvin W. Roweii., Cavalry, ·vice Col. Wilber E. 1\Iaj. Charles B. Drake (Quartermaster 'Corps), vice Lieut. Wilder, appointed brigadier general in the National Army. Col. Frank Tompkins, appointed in the National Army. Lieut. Col. La-wrence J. Fleming, Cavalry, viee Col. Lloyd M. Maj. Harry 0. Williard, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Ohar1e."l B. ~rett, appointed brigadi~r general in the National Army~ Drake, retained in the · Quar~rmaster Cm·ps. Lieut. Col. Oren B. Meyer. Cavalry, vice Col. James ·B. Erwin, Maj. :John P. Wade, ·Cava.lry (Adjutant General's Depal't- ·appointect brig:adjer aeneral in the National Army. ment), vice Lieut. Col. Robert C. Wi.iliams, appointed in the Lieut. Col. Charle!'; .T. Srmmonus. Cavalry, vice Col. Jo~eph A. National Army. Gaston, appointed brigadier general in the National Army. ~:Maj. Ola W. !Bell, Cavalry (Adjutant General's Department), · Lieut. Col. Alexand ~r M. 1\Iiller, ·cavnlry, -vice Col. ITohn M. vice Lieut. Col. James H. Reeves, appointed in the National Jenkins, <1 tailed in ammunition train. Army. Lieut. Col. Charles B. Drake,-Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps·), Maj. Abraham G. Lott, Cavalry (Adjutant General's Depart- ·vice Col. Alexander :L. Dade, appointea brigadier general in ment), vice "Lieut. Col. Claude "B. Sweezey, appointed in the •the Rigna:l ·Corps. National Arm_y. Lieut. Col. Harry 0. Williard, Cavalry, vice Col. ' Charles~. 1\Iaj. Samuel F. Dallam, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), vice Drake, retained in ihe Quartermaster C<>rps. Lieut. Col. Julian R. Lindsey, appoin ~ed in the National Army. Lieut. Col. John P. Wade, Cmralry (A Maj. Grayson V. Heidt, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), vice Maj. Morton C. Mumma, Cavalry (General Staff Corps), vice Lieut. Col. Abraham G. Lott, detailed in The Adjutant General's Lieut. Col. Charles 1\I. Wesson, retained in the Ordnance Depart~ Department. ment. Maj. Albert N. McClure, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Grayson Maj. Frank P. Amos, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Henry 0 . Heidt, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Whitehead, appointed colonel in the Signal Corps. Maj. Holland Rubottom, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Lieut. Maj. J ulian A. Benjamin, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps) Col. l\Iathew C. Smith, appointed colonel in the National Army. vice Lieut. Col. William D. Chitty, appointed colonel in the Sig~ Maj. Aubrey Lippincott, Cavalry (Signal Corps), nee Lieut. nal Corps. · Col. Frank Parker, appointed colonel in the National Army. 1\laj. James Goethe, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Julian A. Benja Maj. Henry W. Parker, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Aubrey Lip min, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. pincott, retained in the Signal Corps. Maj. Varien. D. Dixon, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Clarence R . • Maj. William H. Winters, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), Day, appointed-colonel in the Signal Corps. vice Lieut. Col. James J. Hornbrook, promoted. .Maj. Verne La . S. Rockwell, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Maj. Douglas UcCaskey, Cavalry (General Staff Corps), vice Lieut. Col. Charles ,V. Van Way, appointed colonel in the Signal Lieut. Col. William H . Winters, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Corps. 1\laj. G_eorge_ B. Comly, Cavalry (Adjutant General's Depart Maj. Samuel B. Pearson, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), ment), VIce. Lieut. Col. Verne La S. Rockwell, retained in the vice Lieut. Col. George W. Kirkpatl'ick, appointed colonel in the ·Signal Corps. National Army. Maj. Charles G. Harvey, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Cui. Ervin L. Maj. Freeborn P. Holcomb, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), Phillips, appointed colonel in the National Army. . vice Lieut. Col. Samuel B. Pearson, retained in the Quarter Maj. Richard 1\f. Thomas, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Willard H. master Corps. 1\fcCo:nack, appointed lieutenant colonel in the Signal Corps. Maj. Albert A. King, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Freeborn P. 1\faJ. George B. Rodney, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Pierce A. Holcomb, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Murphy, detailed in Ammunition Train. - .Maj. Daniel Van Voorhis, Cavalry (General Staff Corps), vice .Maj .. Alexander H. Davidson, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), Lieut. Col. Samuel G. Jones. promoted. VICe Lieut. Col. Ola W. Bell, detailed in The Adjutant General's 1\faj. Julien E. Gaujot, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Julius T. Department. Conrad, appointed colonel in the National Army. Maj. Christian A. Bach, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Alexander H. Maj. Delphey T. E. Casteel, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Howard Davidson, retain in Quartermaster Corps. R. Hickok, appointed colonel in the Nat~onal Army. 1\Iaj. David H. Biddle, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Roy B. Harper l\Iaj. Joseph R. McAndrews, Cavalry (General Staff), vice detailed in The Adjutant General's Deparj:ment. · ' Lieut. Col. Lincoln C. Andrews, appointed colonel in the Na 1\Iaj. William F. H. Godson, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Kirby tiona 1 Army. Walker, promoted. · l\Iaj: George E. Lovell, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Melvin W. .Maj. _George W. Winterburn, Cavalry (Quarterma ·ter Corps), Rowell, promoted. vice Lieut. CoL Herman A. Sievert, detailed in Ammunition Maj. Frank L. Case, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), vice Train. Lieut. Col. Laurence J. Fleming, promoted. Maj. Lewis Foerster, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. George W. Win Maj. John H. Lewis, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Frank L. terburn, retained in Quartermaster Corps. Case, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. 1\Iaj. William P. Moffet, vice Lieut. Col. Alexander M. Miller, Maj. Harry N. Cootes, Cavalry (General Staff Corps), vice promoted. . Lieut. Col. Oren B . Meyer, promoted. 1\Iaj. Archibald F. Commiskey, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Henry l\Iaj. Charles W. Van Way, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice C. Smither, appointed colonel in the Singal Corps. Lieut. Col. Harry N. Cootes, retained in the General Staff Maj. William A. Cornell, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Douglas Corps. McCaskey, detailed in the General Staff Corps. · Maj. Wilson G. Heaton, Cavalry, vice Lieut. ·Col. Charles J. Maj. George J. Oden, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Jo eph R. Mc Symmonds, promoted. Andrews, detailed in the General Staff Corp . Maj. Edward Davis, Cavah·y, vice Lieut. Col. Charles W. _Maj . James E. Shelley, Cavalry (General Staff Corps), vice Fenton, promoted. Lieut. Col. Joseph A. Baer, detailed in the Inspector General's 1\:Iaj. James l\1. Burroughs, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), Department. vice Lieut. Col. George P. White, promoted. 1\Iaj. Edward Calvert, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. James E. Maj. Dorsey Cullen, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. James l\1. Bur Shelley, retained in the General Staff Corps. roughs, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. · Maj. Edmund S. Sayer, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Daniel Van Maj. Charles H. Boice, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Robert J. Voorhis, detailed in the General Staff Corp . 'Fleming, promoted. 1\Iaj. Bruce Palmer, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Lieut. Col. Maj. Daniel H. Gienty, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), vice Morton 0 . Mumma, detailed in the General Staff Corp . Lieut. Col. Edwin B. Winans, promoted. l\Iaj. James E. Fechet, Cavalry (Signal Corp ), nee Lieut. Col. Maj. 'Villiam J. Kendrick, Oavulry (Signal Corps), vice Lieut. Bruce Palmer, retained in the Signal Corps. Col. Daniel H. Gienty, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. 1\Iaj. Philip W. Corbu ·ier, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps). 1\laj. George T. BoV\"man, Cavalry (General Staff Corps), vice vice Lieut. Col. James E. Fechet, retained in the Signal Corp . Lieut. Col. William J. Glasgow, promoted. 1\Iaj. Frederick l\1. Jone , Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Lieut. Maj. John S. Fair, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), vice Col. Philip W. Corbusier, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Lieut. Col. George T. Bowman, retained in the General Staff 1\Iaj. John A. Wagner, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Frederick l\L Corps. ' . Jones, retained in the Signal Corps. · 1\Iaj. Robert J . Reaney, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), vice Maj. Archie Miller, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Lieut. Col. Lieut. Col. John S. Fair, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. · Harry 0. Williard, promoted. Maj. Sherrard Coleman, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), vice Maj. William S. Well , CaYalry, vice Lieut. Col. Archie 1\:Iiller, ·Lieut. Col. Robert J. Reaney, retained in the Quartermaster retained in the Signal Corps. · Corps. To be lie'lltenant c;olonels 1.dth t·anlc front Novembc1· 5, 1911. . 1\faj. William F. Herringshaw, Cavalry . (ammunition train), vice Lieut. Col. Sherrad Coleman, retained in the Quartermaster 1\Iaj. William H. Clopton, jr., Cavalry (Quartermaster Corp ) , ·Corps. vice Lieut. Col. Alfred E. Kennington, promoted. Maj. Joseph A. Baer, CaYalry (Inspector General's Depart 1\:laj. Robert l\1, Nolan, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. William H. ment) , vice Lieut. Col. William R. Smedberg, appointed colonel Clopton, jr., retained in the Quartermaster Corps. -in the National Army. To be lie'lttenant colonels 'toit7~ 'ranlG t1·om Novernber 7, 1911. Maj. Charles F. Martin, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Frank S. ·Armstrong, promoted. l\Iaj. ·william 0. Reed, Cavalry (General Staff Corps), vtce l\1aj. Willis V. Morris, CaYalry, vice Lieut. Col. James G. Lieut. Col. Holland Rubottom, detailed in tile Signal Corps. Harbord, promoted. · 1\:Iaj. Henry Gibbins, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. William 0 . l\1aj. Walter S. Grant, Cavalry (General Staff Corps, vice Reed, 1·etained in the General Staff Corps. Lieut. Col. John P. Wade, detailed in The Adjutant General's To be lieutenant colonels with rank from, November 13, 1917. Department. l\1aj. Charles l\1. Wesson, Cavalry (Ordnance Department), 1\laj. Charles 0. Thomas, jr. Cavalry (Quarterma ter Corps), vice Lieut. Col. Walter S. Grant, retained in the General Staff vice Lieut. Col. William J. Kendrick, detniled in the Signal :Corps._ Corps. - 1918. CONGRESS! ON AL RECORD-SENAT]{. 1107 · · Maj. Edmond ·R. ·Tompkins,· Cavalry {Quartermaster Corps), Capt. · Bruce Palmer, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Maj, vice Lieut. Col. Charles 0. Thomas, jr., retained in the Quarter Charles E. Stodter, appointed colonel in the National Army. master Corps. Capt. James E. Fechet, Cavalry (Signal Corps) , vice Maj. 1\laj. Arthur Poillon, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Edmond R. Edgar A. Sirmyer, promoted. Tompkins, retained in the Quartermaster CorJ?S· · Capt. Philip W. Corbusier, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), ·To be lwutenant coli:mezS .with ranlc from November 23, 1911. vice Maj. Frank R. McCoy, promoted. . Capt. Frederick N. Jones, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Maj. Maj. George A. Purington, Cavalry {ammunition train), vice Philip W. Corbusier, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Lieut. Col. Fred~rick T. Arnold, promoted. Capt. John A. Wagner, Cavalry, vice Maj. Clarence R. Day, Maj. George W. Biegler, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Qol._William promoted. Kelly, jr., detailed in The Ad~utant General's Department. Capt. Archie Miller, Cavah·y (Signal Corps), vice. Maj. Guy To be ZieutenO!nt colonel with rank from December 11, 1911. V. Henry, promoted. Maj. Francis W. Glover, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col.' George B. Capt. William S. 'Veils, Cavalry, vice Maj. Roger S. Fitch, Comly, detB:iled in The Adjutant General's Department. appointed lieutenant colonel in the National Army. Capt. William H. Clopton, jr.,·. Cavalry (Quartermaster To be lieutenant colonels with rank from December 22, 1911. Corps), vice Maj. Mortimer 0. Bigelow, appointed colonel in the Maj. Laurence S. Carson, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), National Army. vice Lieut. Col. George A. ·Purington, detailed in ammunition Capt. Robert M. Nolan, Cavalry, vice Maj. William H. Clop train. ton, jr., retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Maj. Alexander B. Coxe, CaYalry (General StatE Corps), vice Capt. William 0. Reed, Cavalry (General Staff Corps), vice Lieut. Col. Laurence s: Carson, retained in the Quartermaster Maj. George B. Pritchard, appointed colonel in the National Corps. · Army. Maj. Timothy 1\I. Coughlan, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. Alexander ·capt. Henry Gibbins, Cavalry, vice Maj. William 0. Reed, B. Coxe, retained in the General Staff C_?rps. retained in the General Staff Corps. Capt. Char1es 0. Thomas, jr., Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), To be lieutendnt colonel with 1·ank from December 29, 1911. vice 1\:laj, Wallace B. Scales, promoted. . Maj. James Huston, Cavalry, vice Lieut. Col. 'Villiam J. Capt. Edmond R. Tompkins, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), Herringshaw, detailed in ammunition train vice Maj. Charles 0. Thomas, jr., retained in the Quartermaster To be majm·s with rank, f'rom August 5, 1911. Corps. · Capt. Arthur Poillon, Cavah·y, vice Maj. Edmond R. Tomp Capt. Charles F. Martin, Ca.valry, vice Maj. William G. Sills, kins, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. detailed in the Inspector General's Department. Capt. George A. Purington, Cavalry, vice Maj. Conrad S. Capt. Willis V. Morris, Cavalry, vice Maj. Alexander M. Mil Babcock, promoted. ler, promoted. Capt. George ,V, Biegler, Cavalry, Yice · Maj. Charles C. Capt. 'Valter S. Grant, CaYalry (Signal Corps), vice Maj. Farmer, jr., promoted. Harry 0. Williard, promoted. Capt. Francis ,V. Glover, Cavalry, vice Maj. Albert N. Mc Capt. Charles M. Wesson, Cavalry {Ordnance Department), Clure, promoted. vice Maj. Walter S. Grant, retained in the Signal Corps. _ Capt. Lawrence S: Carson, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), Capt. Morton C. Mumma, Cavalry {General Staff Corps), vice vice Maj. Holland Rubottom, promoted. Maj. Charles M. Wesson, retained in the Ordnance Department. Capt. Alexander B. Coxe, Cavalry (General Staff Corps), vice Capt. Frank p; Amos, Cavalry, vice 1\faj. Morton C. Mumma, Maj. Lawrence S. Carson, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. retained in the General Staff Corps. . C~pt. Timothy l\1. Coughlan, Cavalry, vice Maj. Alexander B. Capt. Julian A. Benjamin, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), Coxe, retained in the General Staff Corps. vice 1\iaj. John P. Wade, promoted. Capt. James Huston, Cavalry, vice Maj. Le Roy Eltinge, Capt. James Goethe, Cavalry, vice Maj. Julian A. Benjamin, appointed colonel in the National Army. · . retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Capt. Leonard L. Deitrick, CaYnlry (Quartermaster Corps), . Capt. Varien D. Dixon, Cavalry, vice 1\faj. Ola W. Bell, pro vice Maj. Percy W. Arnold, appointed lieutenant colonel in the moted. National Army. _ Capt. Verne La S. Rockw~n. Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Capt. Richard B. Going, Cavah·y, vice Maj. Leonard L. Deit Maj. Abraham G. Lott, promoted. rick, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Capt. George B. Comly, Cavalry, vice Maj. William Kelly, jr., Capt. Hamilton Bowie, Cavalry, vice Maj. Rush S. Wells, ap promoted. . pointed lieutenant colonel ·in the National Army. Capt. Charles G. Harvey, Cavalry, vice Maj. Henry C. White Capt. Frederick J. Herman, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), head, promoted. vice Maj. Robert R. Wallach, appointed lieutenant colonel in the Capt. Richard l\f. Thomas, Cavalry, vice Maj. William D. National Army. Chitty, promoted. Capt. Ben Lear, jr., Cavalry (General Staff Corps), vice Capt. George B. Rodney, CaYalry, vice Maj. Alfred E. Ken Maj. Frederick J. Herman, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. nington, promoted. Capt. George P. Tyner, Cavalry (General Staff Corps), vice Capt. Alexander H. Davidson, Cavalry (Quartermaster Maj. Ben Lear, jr., retained in the General Staff Corps. Corps), vice Maj. Herman H. Sievert, promoted. . Capt. William A. Austin, Cavah·y (Quartermaster Corps), Capt. Christian A. Bach, Cavalry, vice Maj. Alexander H. vice Maj. George P. Tyner, retained in the General Staff Corps. Davidson, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Capt. Consuelo A. Seoane, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Maj. Cnpt. David H. Biddle, Cavalry, vice Maj. Pierce A. Murphy, William A. Austin, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. promoted. · Capt. Emory S. West, vice Consuelo A. Seoane, retaineti in the Capt. William F. H. Godson, Cavalry, vice Maj. Frederick T. Signal Corps. Arnold, promot(}d. Capt. Eben Swift, jr., Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), vice Capt. George W. Winterburn, Cavalry, nee Maj. Henry C. Maj. George Williams, appointed lieutenant colonel in the Na- Smither, promoted. tional Army. , Capt. Lewis Foerster, Cavalry, vice Maj. Roy B. Harper, pro Capt. Albert E. Phillips, Cavalry, Yice Maj. Eben Swift, jr., moted. . retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Capt. William P. Moffet, Cavalry, vice Maj. Thomas A. Rob Capt. John Alden Degen, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), erts, promoted. vice Maj. John J. Boniface, appointed lieutenant colonel in the Capt. Archibald F. Commiskey, Cavalry, vice Maj. AuguSt P. National Army. Nissen, appointed colonel in the National Army. Capt. George F. Bailey, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), vice Capt. William A. Cornell, Cavalry, vice Maj. James S. Parker, Maj. John Alden Degen, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. appointed colonel in the National Army. Capt. Clarence C. Culver, Cavalry (Aviation Section, Signal Capt. George J. Oden, Cavalry, vice Maj. Joseph S. Herron, Corps), vice Maj. George F. Bailey, retained in the Quartermas appointed colonel in the National Army. ter Corps. Capt. James E. Shelley, CaYalry (General Staff Corps), vice Capt. Benjamin 0. Davis, Cavalry, vice l\laj. Clarence C. Cul Maj. Alvord Van P. Anderson, appointed colonel in the National yer, retained in the Aviation Section, Signal Corps. Army. Capt. Edward C. Wells, Cavalry, vice Maj. Fitzhugh Lee, ap- Capt. Edward Calvert, Cavalry, vice l\1aj. J"ames E. Shelley, pointed lieutenant colonel in the National Army. . retained in the General Staff Corps. Capt. Harry B. Jordan, Cavalry (Ordnance Department), vice Capt. Edmund S. Sayer, Cavalry, vice .l\1aj. George W. Moses, Maj. James J. McKinley, appointed lieutenant colonel in the appointed colonel in the National Army. National Army. - 1108 !JONGRESSIONAL RECORU-=-SEN ATE. JANUARY .AJt~ Capt. Frank P. Lahm, Cnv.alry (Aviation Section, Signal Capt. ·Emil P. Laursou, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Maj., Corps), vice Maj. Harry B. .Jordan, retained in the Ordnance William D. F~rsyth, appointed lieutenant colonel in the National Department. Army. Capt. KPrr T. Riggs, Cavalry, nee Maj. Frank P. La.hm, t·e Capt. Frederick E. Shnyder, Cavalry, vice Maj. George E. tained in the Aviation Section, Signal Corps. Lovell, promoted. Capt. John A. Pearson, Cavalry, vice Maj. Evan H. HUlllphrey, Capt. Thomas F. Van Nat~ jr., Cavalry, vice :Uaj. John II. 3ppointed lieutenant ,colonel in the National Army. Lewi , promote Capt. Berkeley T. Merchant, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice To be majot· tcith 1·ank ft·om Not·ember 13, 1917. Maj. William N. Hensley, jr.) retained in the Signal Corps. . Capt. Robert M. Cheney, Cavalry, vice Maj. Arthur Poillon, Capt. Hugh Ii. Broadhurst, Cavalry, vice Maj. Richard 1\I, promoted. Thomas, promoted. Capt. Arthur W. Holderness, Cavalry, vice Maj. George B. To be 1najoTs tdth 'rcmk f1·om Novem.ber 17, 1917. Rodney, promoted. Capt. Lawrence W. l\Iclntosh, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Capt. Louis A. O'Donnell, Cavalry, Tice Maj. Archie Miller, 1\Iaj. Gerald C. Brant, appointed major in the Signal Corps. appointed lieutenant colonel in the Signal C~rps. Capt. Richard E. Cummins, Cavalry, vice Maj. Lawrence w. Capt. ·william W. West, jr., Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), 111clntosh, retained in the Signal Corps. vice Maj. Christian A. Bach, promoted. · To be majors with rank from November 23, 1917. Capt. Reynold F. l\ligdalski, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), Capt. Alexander L. James, jr., Cavalry, vice Maj. George A, vice Maj. William W. West, jr., retained in the Quartermaster Purington, promoted. Corps. Capt. Robert C. Rodgers, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), Capt. Henry R. Smalley, Cavalry, vice Maj. Reynold F. vice Maj. George W. Biegler, promoted. l\1igdalski, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Capt. Philip Gordon, Cavalry, vice Maj. Robert C. Rodgers, Capt. Robert Blaine, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), vice retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Maj. David H. Biddle, promoted. Capt. Frederick T. Dickman, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vlce To be majors with rank f •rom Novem.ber 29, 1917. Maj. Robert Blaine, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Capt. Horace· l\f. Hickam, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Maj. Capt. George \V. De Armond, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Berkeley T. Merchant, appointed major in the Signal Corps. Maj. Frederick T. Dickman, retained in the Signal Corps. Capt. Homer l\f. Groninger, Cavalry, vice Maj. Horace M. · Capt. John G. Quekemeyer, Cavalry, vice Maj. George ,V. De Hickam, retained in the Signal Corps. Armond, retained in the Signal Corps. . To be majors with rank from December 11, 191"1. Capt. Frank M. Andrews, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Maj. Capt. Stewart 0. Elting, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), William F. H. Godson, promoted. vice Maj. Francis W. Glover, promoted. Capt. Joseph C. King, Cavalry, vice 1\Iaj. Frank 1\I. Andrews, Capt. John K. Brown, Cavalry, vice 1\Iaj. Stewart 0. Elting, retained in the Signal Corps. retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Capt. George L. Converse, jr., Cavalry, vice Maj. Lewis To be majo1· with 1·ank fmm Decernber 22, 191"1. Foerster, promoted. Capt. Donald A. Robinson, Cavalry, vice 1\Iaj. Bruce Palmer, Capt. Richard D. Newman, Cavalry, vice Maj. Timothy 1\.L appointed lieutenant colonel in the Signal Corps. Coughlan, promoted. Capt. Bruce L. Burch, Cavalry, vice Maj. William P. Moffet, To be majors 'With rank fron" Decentbcr· 28, 191"1. promoted. Capt. William H. Garrison, jr. (Signal Corps), vice 1\Iaj. Capt. Edgar M. Whiting, Cavalry, vice 1\Iaj. Archibald F. Emil Engel, appointed major in the Signal Corps. Commiskey, promoted. Capt. Sumner M. Williams, Cavalry, vice Maj. William H. Capt. Edward G. Elliott, Cavalry, vice Maj. William A. Garrison, jr., retained in the Signal Corps. Cornell, promoted. Capt. Guy H. 'Vyman, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), vice To be majors with 1·ank from Decentber 29, 1917. Maj. George J. Oden, promoted. Capt. Henry W. Hall, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Maj. Capt. Verne R. Bell, Cavalry, vice Maj. Guy H. Wyman, re James Huston, promoted. tained in the Quartermaster Corps. Capt. Edwl.n V. Sumner, jr., Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Capt. Henry W. Baird, Cavalry, vice Maj. Edward Calvert, Maj. Henry W. Hall, retained in the Signal Corps. promoted. Capt. Arthur E. 'Vilbourn, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice l\laj. Capt. Alexander H. J oi1es, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), Edwin V. Sumner, jr., retained in the Signal Corps. vice Maj. Edmund S. Sayer, promoted. Capt. Ernest G. Cullum, Cavalry, vice Maj. Arthur E. Wil Capt. Charles L. Stevenson, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), bourn, retained in the Signal Corps. vice Maj. Alexander H. Jones, retained in the Quartermaster Capt. William W. Erwin, Cavalry, vice Maj. John C. Mont Corps. gomery, detailed in ammunition train. Capt. Frank K. Chapin, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Maj. INF.A.N~Y .ARM. Charles L. Stevenson, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. To be colonel with 1·ank from August 5, 1917. Capt. lleriry L. 'Vatson, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice l\laj. Lieut. Col. Robert C. ·williams, Infantry, additional officer, Frank K: Chapin, retained in the Signal Corps. the date on which he would have been promoted to fill a vacancy Capt. Murray B. Rush, Cavalry, vice Maj. Henry L. Watson, had he not been retired from actiYe service. retained in the Signal Corps. Capt. Augustine 1\I. Robins, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice · To be colonels with rank fr·om Aug·ust 5, 1911. Maj. John A. Wagner, promoted. Lieut. Col. Robert Alexander, Infantl:y (detached officers' list), Capt. William D. Geary, Cavalry, vice 1\Iaj. Augustine M. vice Col. George W. Mciver, appointed brigadier general in the Robins, retained in the Signal Corps. National Army. Capt. Clark P. Chandler, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), vice Lieut. Col. William 0. Johnson, Infantry, vice Col. Charles Maj. William H. Cowles, detailed in the Inspector General's De H. Barth, appointed brigadier general in the National Army. partment. Lieut. Col. James R. Lindsay, Infantry, vice Col. James A. Capt. Richard H. Kimball, Cavalry, vice Maj. Clark P. Chand Irons, appointed brigadier general in the National Army. ler, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Lieut. Col. Fred W. Sladen, Infantry, vice Col. Edward 1\1, Capt. Abbott Boone, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Maj. Wil Lewis, appointed brigadier general in the National Army. liam S. Wells, promoted. Lieut. Col. Henry T. Ferguson, Infantry, vice Col. Charles S. Capt. William L. Moose, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice Maj. Farnsworth, appointed brigadier general in the National Army. Abbott Boone, retained in the Signal Corps. Lieut. Col. Henry G. Learnard, Infantry (Adjutant General's Capt. Frederick S. Snyder, Cavalry, vice l\laj. William L. Department), vice Col. John S. 1\Iallory, appointed brigadier Moose, retained in the Signal Corps. general in the National Army. Capt. William C. Ch'risty, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), Lieut. Col. Peter Murray, Infantry, vice Col. Henry G. vice Maj. Emil P. Laurson, appointed major in the Signal Corps. Learned, retained in The Adjutant General's Department on Capt. Sloan Doak, Cavalry, vice Maj. William C. Christy, re promotion. tained in the Quartermaster Corps. Lieut. Col. Paul A. Wolf, Infantry (detached officers' list), vice Col. Charles H. Muir, appointed brigadier general in the To be majo·rs with rank from November I, 191"1. National Army. . · Capt. Leland Wadsworth, jr., Cavalry, vice Maj. Henry Gib Lieut. Col. George D. Moore, Infantry (Inspector General's bins, promoted. Department), vice Col. Evan 1\1. Johnson, appointed brigadiei.· · Capt. Seth W. Scofield, Cavalry (Quartermaster Corps), vice general in the National Army. Maj. Robert M. Nolan, promoted. Lieut. Col. Willis Uline, Infantry, vice Col. George D. l\Ioore, Capt. William C. McChord, Cavalry (Signal Corps), vice retained in the Inspector General's Department. Maj. Seth W. Scofield, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Lieut. Col. Charles C. Clark, Infantry (Quartermaster Corps), Capt. William R. Henry, Cavalry, vice Maj. William C. Me vice Col. Frank L. Winn, appointed brigadier general in the Chord, retained in the Signal Corps. National Army. · Capt. George F. Patten, Cavalry, vice l\laj. Olan C. Aleshire, Lieut. Col. Vernon A. Caldwell, Infantry, vice Col. Charles C. appointed major in the Signal Corps. Clark, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. ll. uAr co Lieut. ol. EUmund L. Butt·, Infantry. {detached officers' Lieut. Col. John F. Madden, Infantry (General Staff). vice 1L't), vice 1. :2dmund 'Vittenmyer, appointed brigadier gen- Col. Ralph H. Van Deman, retained in the General Staff. t'l'fil in the Xational Army. · Lieut. Col. John 1\fcA._Palmer, Infantry (General Staff), vice Lieut. Col. Henry J. Hunt, Infanh·y, vice Col. Herman Hall, Col. John F. Madden, retained in the General Staff. nppoiuted brigndier general in the National -~rmy. Lieut. CoL Paul B. Malone, Infantry, vice CoL John M~ Lieut. CoL Charles l\liller, Infantry, vice Col. Mark L. Hersey, Palmer, retained in the General Staff. appointed brigadier general in the National Army. Lieut. Col. Oliver Edwards, Infanh·y (General Staff), vice Lieut. Col. Truman 0. l\furphy, Infantry (Adjutant General's Col. George B. Duncan, appointed brigadier general in the Department), vice Col. Samuel W. Miller, appointed brigadier National Army. · general in the ~ Tational Army. Lieut. Col. Hugh D. Wise, Infantry (Quartermaster Corp ), Lieut. Col. William H. Bert ch, Infantry (Quartermaster yice Col. Oliver Edwards, retained in the :}eneral Stafi'. rp ) , vic Col. Truman 0. Murphy, retained in The Adjutant Lieut. Col. William F. Creary, Infantry, vice Col. Hugh D. General' Department. Wi e, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Lieut. Col. Ro s L. Bush, Infantry, nee \VillL-'lll1 H. Bertsch, Lieut. Col. Harry F. Rethers, Infantry (Quartermaste1• retained in the Quarterma ter Corps. Corps), vice Col. William P. Bw·nham, appointed brigadier gen· Lieut. Col. John B. Bennet. Infanh·y (detached officers' list), eral in the National Army. Yice ol. Wilds P. Richard on, appoint d brigadier general in Lieut. Col. Herschel Tupe , Infantry, vice Col HmTy F. the National Army. · Rether , retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Lieut. Col. l\felville S. Jarns, Infantry, vice Col. Es-erard E. Lieut. Col. George H. Shelton, Infantry (~neral Staff), vice Hntcl1, appoint cl bri .... adier general in the National Army. Col. Beaumont B. Buck, appointed- brigadier general in the Lieut. Col. John W. Hea•ey, Infantry, vice CoL Frederick National Army. Perkins, appointed brigadier genernl in the National Army. Lieut. Col. Isaac Newell, .. Infantry, vice Col. George H. Shel· Lieut. Col. Hurry J . Hir ell, Infantry (Quartermaster Corps), ton, retained in the General Staff. vice Col. Jo eph P. O'Neil, appointe Maj. Lawrence B. ·Simonds, Infantry, vice "Lieut. Col. Hans- ·. Maj. Daniel G . .Berry, Infantry, vice Li~ut. CoL William 0. ford "L. Threlkeld, appointed eolouel in the National Army. 1 :Johnson, promoted colonel. l\Iaj. Frederick W. Lewis, Infantry, vice Lieut. Col. Mru·cns • '·Maj. Ralph 'E. Ingram, Infan.h'y, detached officers' list, vice B. Stokes., ::ir>pointed·coionel in the ·NatioDRl Almy. · Lieut. Col. Samuel V. Bam, appointed colonel in the National l\faj. Dennis E. Nolan, Infantry (General Stair), 'ice ·Lieut.• Army. Col. '\'illiam D. Da"is, appointed coionel in the National Army. l\Iaj . .Robert C. 'Davis, Infnntry (Adjutant General's Depart- l\Iaj. James N. Pickering, Infantry, vice Lieut. Col. Dennis E. ment), vice Lieut. Col. Lincoln F. Kilbourne, a11pointoo colonel Nolan retained in the General Staff. · in the National Army. l\1ai. William A. Burnside, Infantry, vice 'Lieut. Col. George l\laj. Joseph F. Janda, Infantry (Adjutant 'General's Depart- H. l\1cl\Iaster, appointed colonel in the National Army. :r;nent), vice Li~t. Col. Robert C. Davis, retained in The Ad- l\laj. Reynolds J. Burt, Infantry (Quartermaster Corps), vice JUtant Generals Department. Lieut. 0>1. Rob&t W. l\1earns. appointed colonel ill the National Maj. Alvan C. ·Read, Infantry, vice Lieut. ol. .JoseDh F. Army. Janda, retain~d in The Adjutant General's Department. l\iaj. Russell C. Langdon, Infantry, detached officers' list, vice _Maj .. William A. Phillips~ Infantry (Ordnance Department) , Lieut. Col. •Resnolds ..J. Burt, retained in the Quartermaster vtce Lieut. Col. J"ames R. Lmdsay, promoted colon-eL Corps. Ma_j. Ira ~· We.lborn, Infantry, ice Lieut. Col. William A. l\Iaj. Harry H. Tebbetts, Infantry, vice Lieut. Col. Howard Phillips, retamed m the Or~n~nce Department. L. L::mbach~ appointed colonel in the National Army. MaJ. ~ex~der E. Williams, •Infantry (Quartermaster Maj. Frank C. Bolles, Infantry, detached officers' list, vice Corps), vtce Lieut. Col. Fred W. Sladen, promoted colonel. Lieut. Col. Howru·d n. Perry, .appointeo colonel in the National Maj. Charles W. Exton, Infantry, Yice Lieut. Col. Alexander Army. E. W~llams, ret~ned in the Quartern:astet: Corps:. 1\Iaj. Jmnes w. Clinton, Infantry, vice ·Lieut. Col. Edward C. MaJ. Edgar R1denouT, Infantry, vtce Lteut. Col. Henry T. Carey, appointed colonel in the National Army. Ferguson, promoted "'Colonel. l\l'aj. Alexander T. 0\enshine, Infantry, vice Li.eut. Ool. Maj. DJ.umncey B. Humphrey, Infantry, vice Lieut. Col. F~r.: Fredrik L. Knudsen, appointed colonel in the National Army. dinund W. Kobbe, appointed colonel in the National Army. l\1aj. Henry E. Eames, ·Infantry, detached officers' list, vice Maj. G. Maury Cralle, Infantry (Quartei.·mastei· ·Corps), vice Lieut. Col. Charles W. Castle, appointed colonel in the National Lieut Col. Frank'E. ·Bamford, appointed colonel in·the National . Army. Army. · Maj. Carroll ·F. Armistead, Infantry, detached officers' list, Maj. 'Joseph 'F. Gohn, Infantry, vice Lieut. Col. G. l\laury vice Lieut. Col. S. J. Bayard Schindel, appointed' colonel "in the Cralle, retained in the · Quartermaster Corps. National Army. Maj . ..Tames H. .BradfoTd, jr., Infantry, vice Lieut. Col. Sydney Maj. Paul Giddings, Infantry, vice Lieut. Col. crohn F. Pres- A. Cloman, appointed colonel in the National Army. . ton. nppointed colonel in the National Army. Maj. !)avid L. Stone, Infantry ( Quarter.master Corps), vice 1\Iaj. ·Edward S . Walton, Infantry (Quartermaster Corps), Lieut. Col. Peter Murray, promoted colonel. \ice Lieut. Col. Charles F. Crain, appointed colonel in the Na- l\faj. Patrick A. Connolly, Infantry, detached officers' list, tiona! Army. vice Lieut. Col. David L. Stone, retained in the Quartermaster JUaj. Alfred IT'. Smith, Infantry, detached officers' list, vice Gorps. Lieut. CoL EdYnu·d S. Walton, retained in the Quartermaster l\Iaj. J"ohn B. Schoeffel, Infantry, detached offi"Cers' list. vice Corps. · Lieut. Col. Paul A. Wolf, promoted colonel. · l\laj. Fred L. Munson, Infantry (Quartermaster Corps), ·vice Maj. Walter T. Bates, Infantry (Adjutant General's Depart- Lieut. Col. Harry H. Bandholtz, .appointed ·colonel in the ment), v.ice Lieut. Col. Willis Uline, ·promoted colonel. Kational Army. Maj. Englebert G. Ovenshin~, Infantry, detachetl officers' list, Maj. Thomas iM. Ander on, jr., Infantry, detached officers' Tice Lieut. Col. Walter T. B.a.tes, .retained .in The Adjutant Gen Hst, vice Lieut. Col. Fred L. Munson, ·retained in the Quarter- eral's Department. rna ter Corps. Maj. ·Robert :J. Maxey, :rnfantry, detached officers' li t, vice ~faj . John E. Hunt, Infantry, :vice Lieut. Col. Harrison J. Lieut. Col. Vernon A. Caldwell, promGted colonel. Price., appointed colonel in the National Army. "Maj. George 'N. -Bomford. J:nfantry, vice "Lieut. Oo1. Edmund Mnj. Claude H. l\1iller, Infantry, vice Lieut. Dol. William L. Butts, promoted colonel. Wa1lace, appointed ·Colonel in the National ,army. Maj. Benjamin P. Nicklin, Infantry, ·detached officers' list, Maj. H-arold B. ·Fiske, Infantry (Adjutant General's DepaTt· .-tee Lieut. Col. Henry J. Hunt, promoted colonel. ment), vice Lieut. Col. William NeWilllln, appointed colonel in M.aj. John ,V, French, Infantry, detached officers' list, Tic.e the Kational Army. Lieut. Col. Charles Miller, promoted colonel. Maj. John H. Hughes. Infant!~, vice Lieut. Col. Harold B. 1\1aj. Cromwell Stacey, Infantry, detached officers' list, vice Fiske. retained in The Adjutant General's Department. Lieut. Col. John K. Miller, appointed colonel in the National l\la.i. George W. Helms, Infantry (Signal Corps), vice Lieut. Army. Col. I aac Erwin, appointed colonel in the N:ational .Army. l\Iaj. Campbell King, Infantry (Adjutant General's Depart- l\faj. Rufus E. Longan, Infantcy. vice Lient. Col. George W. ment), viee Lieut. Col. Ross L. Bush, promoted colonel. Helm ~ , retained in. the Signal C01:ps. Maj. Robert 0. Van 'Horn, 'I.Iifantry, vice Lieut. CoL Campbell Maj. Edward A. •Roche, •Infantry, ·vice :Lieut. . Col. ·George E. King, retained in The Adjutant General'.s Department. Houle, appointed coionel in the National Army. 'Maj: 'Hanson B. Bla~k, Infantry (Signal !Corps), -vice Lieut. Maj. Henry l\1. Dichmann, Infantry, detached officers' list, Col. John B. Bennet, promoted coloneL vice Lieut. Col. -Mathew A. 'Saville, appointed colonel in 'the 1\Iaj. 'Joseph L. 'Gilbreth, Infantry (Quartermaster Corps), N.ational Army. vice Lieut. Col. Hanson B. Black, retained in the Signal C-orps. l\faj. Halstead Dorey, Infantry, detached officers' list, vice "'1\faj. Irving J. Carr, Infantry (Signal Corps), vice Lieut. Col. Lieut. Col. Guy G. Palmer, appointed colonel in the Nation:al J"oseph L Gilbreth, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. Army. Maj. 'Theodore A. Baldwin, Infantry (Signal Corps), vice Maj. Edgar T. Conley, Infantry, vice Lieut. Ool. Hunter B. Lieut. Col. Irving :r. ' Cat't, retained in the Signal Corp . Nelson, appointed colonel in the National .Army. Maj. Eleutheros 'H. Cooke, Infantry, detached officers' 'list. l\1aj. Charles H. Bridges, ;Infantry •(Inspector General's De· vice Lieut. Col. Theodore A. Baldwin, retainetl in the Signal partment), vice Lieut. Col. Frank A. Wilcox, appointed colonel Corps. in the Nationnl Army. l\faj. Arthur L. Conger, Infantry (General Staff), vice Lieut. l\Iaj . .John Robertson, I nfantry, vice Lieut. Col. Charles -H. Col. Melville ·S. 'Jarvis, promoted colonel. . Bl'idge , retained in tte ~nspector General's Department. Maj. Hugh A. Drum, Infantry (General Staff), vice Lieut. Maj. James V. Heidt, Infantry, detached officers' list, vice Col. Arthur L. Conger, retained in the General Staff. Lieut. Col. John H. Parker, appointed colonel in the National l\Iaj. James B. Allison, Infantry (Signal Corps), vice "Lieut. Army. Col. Hugh A. Drum, -retained in tl1e Gem;ral Staff. Maj. Pab·ick H. l\lullay, Infantry, vice Lieut Col. Edgar T. Maj. Halsey E. Yates, Infantry, vice Lieut. Co1 . ..James B. Conley, detailed in The Adjutant General's Department. Allison, retained in the Signal Corps. l\laj. ~lom·oe C. Kerth, Infantry (General Staff) vice Lieut. Maj. \Vilson B. Burtt, Infantry, vice Lieut. Col. John W. Col. William C. Rogers, appointed colonel in·the National Army. Heav-ey, promoted colonel. l\1aj. Lumbert W. Jordan, jr., Infantry, vice Lieut. Col. 1\fon- Maj. Oliver S. Eskridge, Infantry, vice Lieut. Col. La Ray roe 0 . Kerth, -retained in the General St_lff. S. Upton, pTomoted colonel. Maj. Harvey \V. Miller, Infantry, Yke Lieut. Col. Robe·rt Maj. James W. Furlow, 'Infuntry (Quartermaster Corps)," Alexander, promoted colonel. vice Lieut. COl. George•C. Saffarrans, promoted -colonel. 1112 co 1 GllESSION \_L R.EOORD-SEN..l1,E. J .A.YF. .lJ~¥ 21 . l\laj. Georg D. Freeman, jr., nee Lieut. Col.. James W. Fur- .-Maj. Constant Cordier, Infantry (General Staff), vice Lieut. low, retained in the Quartermaster Corps. · Col. Frederick G. Lawton, appointed colonel in the National l\laj. Harry A. Hegeman, Infantry (Quartermaster Corps), Army. vice Lieut. Col. harle~ G: French, promoted colonel. Maj. James 1\I, Loud, Infantry, vice Lieut. Col. Constant Maj. William B. Gracie, Infantry (Quartermaster Corps), C-ordier, retained in the General Staff. vice Lieut. Col. Harry 1\.. H egeman, retained in the Quarter Maj. J. DeCamp Hall, Infantry, Yice Lieut. Col. Parker Bitt, master Corps. detailed in the Signal Corps. 1\.faj. John L. Jordan, Infanh·y, >ice Lieut. CoL William B. Maj. Dans C. Anderson, Infantry, \ice Lieut. Col. Wilson B. · Archibald l\f. Fauntleroy, Paymastei: George W. Pigman, jr., to be_a pay inspector in the Robert E. Hoyt, Navy, for temporary service, from the 11th day of December ;Joseph P. T'raynor, 1917. - l John F. l\1urphy, Jes e W. Backus, and CONFIRMATIONS. John L. Neilson. Pay Inspeetor Joseph J. Cheatham to be a pay dil'ector in Executive nominations confirmed- by tl~e Senate January 21, 1918. the Navy, for temporary service. from the 1 t day of July, 19~7. COMMISSIONER FOR THE DISTRICT OF CoLUMBLl. Paymaster George P. Dyer to be a pay inspector in the Navy, Louis Brownlow to be a Commissioner for the District of for temporary service. from the 23d day of May, 1917. Columbia. The following-named paymasters to be pay inspectors in the RECEIVER OF PUBLIC l\10 ..-EYS. Navy, for temporary service, from the 1st day ·of July, 191'7: Fred A. King to be receiver of public nmneys at Cass Lake, William A. Merritt, Minn. Frederick K. Perkins, REGISTERS OF THE LAND OFFICE. Grey- Skipwith, 1\IcGill R. Goldsborough, and Alvah G. Swincllehurst to be register of the land office at Cass Eugene C. Tobey. :E.ake, 1\fi.nn. The following-named officers to be ensigns in the Navy, for John T. Cogan tobe register of the land office at Pierre, S.Dak. temporary service, from 'the 1st day of January, 1918: Jesse E. Walter, Harry Wate-rhQuse, IIOUSE OF REPREBENTATlVES. Oscar E. Harris, MoNDAY, Pe-rcy S. Bogart~ January ~1, 1918. Doile Greenwell, Earl H. Knee, The House met at 12 o'clock noon; The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., ~tf'ered the fol Tbomas F. Culle-n, lowing prayer : 'l"'homas S. Beard', Our Father iu Heaven, we thank Thee for the simple yet Henry A~ Beaman, Arthur L. Karns, sublime truths expressed in the familiar hymn, the basis upun George J. Wolf, which all true religions have their foundation: Frank W. Crilley., How gentle God's commands! Hew kind His precepts are! J es e l\1. Acuff, and Come. cast your burdens on the. Lord, Lincoln B. Walker. And trust his constant care. The following-named enlisted men to be ensigns in the Navy, His- goodness- stands approved, for temporary· service, from the 1st day of January, 1918: Unchanged fl:om day to day ;. George Hurst, Fll arop my- burden at His reet William Smith, And bean a song away. Caleb A. Holbrook, Hasten the day, we· beseech Th~, when all manh.i.na shall John l\1. Morrison. accept and live these- truths in the common daily activities of George M. Donovan, life; that the de-mons which so easily beset us-greed, avarice, James F. Mullin, hate, reve-nge, unholy ambitions, and selfishne s-muy be cast Edward Van Pelt, out, and the world become a better and saner place to dwell in, George T. Rol:fes, after the manner of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Ernest A. Broms, The Journal of the proceedings of-Saturday was read and ap. Edward G. Evans, proved. : John H. Rider, LEAVE OF ABSENCE. Carlisle 'J. Christman, Mr. LAZARO. 1\fr. Speakel', I ru:;It unanimou consent for William 'I'. Uurray, the leave of absence of my e<>lleague, Mr. WILSQN, indefinitely, Christian Bauer, on account of sianess: Charles A. Pilant. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Louisiana asks nnani John-W. Cunn!n