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547·8 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE NoVEMBER 13 ILLINOIS importation of shingles, logs, and lumber into the United States, Elizabeth B. Wetmore, Eola. whieh were ordered to lie on the table. Carl H. Holtz, Hollywood. Mr. JONES. I present petitions estimated to be signed by Mille Flic-kinger, Lanark. over 11,000 persons interested in the matte'r of a tariff on logs, William J. Ohlhaber, Schiller Park. shingles, and lumber. I ask that the body of one of the petitions be printed in the RECoRD, ap.d that all the petitions lie on the IOWA table. Ellsworth Fry, Dunkerton. There being no objection, the petitions were ordered to lie on Abner Reynolds, Ellsworth. the table, and the body of one of the petitions, without the sig­ Wayland R. Christiansen, Northwood. natures, was ordered to be printed in the REcoRD, as follows: KENTUCKY Whereas the Legislature of the State of Washington has heretofore Charles E. Balee, Trenton. petitioned the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United MISSISSIPPI States, earnestly requesting that a duty be placed upon the importation of logs, shingles, and lumber into the United States, sufficient to cover William A. Bell, Morton. dil'l'erences in cost of production in the United States and in foreign NEW JERSEY countries and permit American shingle and lumber manufacturers to William L. Scheuerman, Basking Ridge. pay. fair compensatory wages to their workmen, give them full-time George Martin, Stoneharbor. employment, and perpetuate the American logging, lumber, and shingle PENNSYLVANIA industry and its incident and dependent operations; and · Whereas representatives of the logging, shingle, and lumber industry William S. Levan, Esterly. of the State of Washington have appeared before the honorable Finance WASHINGTON Committee of the United States Senate showing that since the re­ M. Berta Start, Winslow. moval of the tariff on the importation of shingles and lumber into the United States the logging, shingle, and lumber industry in the States of Washington and Oregon have sul'l'ered extreme and heayy losses; and SENATE further showing that other labor, manufacturing, and incidental opera­ tions and business receive a direct benefit from said industries of more WEDNESDAY, Novemher 13, 19~9 than $100,000,000 annually; and (Legislative day of Wednesday, October 30, 1929) Whereas we, the undersigned, representing labor, hOme . owners, and taxpayers, condemn the present tariJf act as unjustly ·discriminating The Senate met at 10 ·o'clock a. m., on the expiration of the against American production of logs, shingles, and lumber in favor of recess. foreign production of such products, and forces approximately 100,000 Mr. FESS. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.' American workmen and their families into direct competition With The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will call the roll. oriental labor; and The legislative clerk called the roll, and the following Senators Whereas it is necessary that a revision be made in tariff schedules to answered to their names: -the end that American labor and this industry may maintain a proper Ashurst Fletcher Kendrick Sheppard standard of living and secure· steady employment; and · Barkley Frazier Keyes Shortridge Whereas the Republican and Democratic Parties have both pledged to Bingham Gillett La Follette Simmons Black . Glass McKellar Smoot maintain a high standard of wages for American labor: Now, therefore, Blaine Glenn McMaster Steiwer ·we, the undersigned, most seriously urge and petition that your com~ Blease Goff McNary Stephens mittee support such a .revision of tarilf schedules as will enable the log­ Borah Goldsborough Metcalf Thomas, Idaho Bratton Gould Moses Thomas, Okla. ging, shingle, and lumber industry to successfully compete with foreign Brock Greene Norbeck Townsend producers and maintain higher wage scales than in foreign lands, and Brookhart Hale Norris Trammell stabilize and strengthen what are known 8.8 American standards of living. Broussard Harris Nye Tydings · Capper Harrison Overman Vandenberg REPORT OF THE LIB.B.AB.Y COMMITTEE Connally Hatfield Patterson Wagner Copeland ·Hawes Phipps · Walcott _Mr. FESS, from the Committee on the Library, to which was Couzens Hayden Pine · Walsh, Mass. · referred the bill ( S. 1784) appropriating money for iniprove­ Cutting Hebert Pittman ··· Walsh, Mont. Dale Heflin · Ransdell -- Waterman ments . upon the Government.:owiied land at Wakefield, West­ Deneen Howell Ree<l Wheeler moreland County, Va., the birthplace of George Washington, Dill Johnson Robinson, Ind. reported it with·out amendment. Edge Jones Sackett Fess Kean Schall REPORT. OF POSTAJ, NOMINATIONS Mr. TOWNSEND. I .desire to announce that my colleague · Mr. PHIPPS, as in open executive session, from the Committee the senior senator from Delaware [Mr. ~STING:Sl is unavoid- on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported sundry post-office nomt­ ably absent. i as_k- that th~s announcem~nt may stand for the nations, which were ordered to be placed on the Executive Calendar. - · · · · - · day. · · . - . _ . - _, ·. Mr. SHEPPARD. I wish to annou~ce that the_Junior Senator REPORT OF MILITARY. NOMINATIONS . from Arkansas '[Mr. CAR.iw.A.Y] is necesSarily detained on busi- _ Mr. REED, as in open executive session, from· the Committee .. ness of the Senate. · · - . on Military Affairs~ reported sundry Anny nominations, which Mr. SCHALL: I ·wish the RECORD to show that my colleague_ were ordered to be placed on the Executive Calendar. [l\Ir. SH:ri>STEAD] is· absent, ill. BILLS INTRODUCED The VICE PRESIDENT. Eighty Senators have answered to their na~es. A quorum i<J present. Bills were introduced, read the first time, and, by unanimous consent, the second time, and referred as follows: · · PF1l'ITIONS By Mr. SHEPPARD: · . Mr. SHORTRIDGE presented petitions· numerously signed· · - A· b-ill (S. 2091) authorizing appropriations for. payment" by • by sundry citizens of the State of California, praying for the Federal Government of its part of cost of improvements adjoin­ passage of legis1ation granting increased pensions to Civil War ing Federal building sites ; to the Committee on Public Buildings veterans and their widows, which were referred to the Com­ and Grounds. · mittee on Pensions. By 1\fr. MOSES : Mr. GOLDSBOROUGH presented a petition of sundry citi­ A bill (S. 2(}!)2) granting a pension to Betsey Arnold Jaquith zens of the State of Maryland, praying for the passage of the (with accompanying papers) ; to the Committee on Pensions. so-called Smoot bill, being the bill ( S. 1468) to amend the food AMENDMENT TO THE TARIFF BILL and drugs act of June 30, 1906, by extending its provisions to Mr. FESS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed tobacco and tobacco products, which · was referred to the Com­ by him to House bill 2667, the tariff revision bill, which was mittee on Agriculture and Forestry. ordered to lie on the table and to be printed. Mr. JOHNSON presented petitions signed by approximately 350 citizens, loggers and lumbermen, in the State of California, THE VICE PRESIDENT'S ARMISTICE DAY ADDRESS praying for the imposition of adequate tariff duties upon the Mr. GOFF. Mr. President, I take great pleasure in asking importation of S-hingles, logs, and lumber into the United unanimous consent to have printed in the RECORD the very in­ States, which were ordered to lie on the table. spiring, outstanding, and eloquent speech of the Bon. Charles Mr. McNARY pre ented petitions signed by approximately Curtis, our honored Vice PreRi dent, delivered in Ohicago on 2,500 citizens, loggers, and lumbermen, in the State of Oregon, Armistice Day under the auspices- of the brotherhood of the praying for the imposition of adequate tartif duties upon the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 1929 CONGRESSIONAL . RECORD~ENATE '5479 · In the course of his remarks, Vice President Curtis brought Money Is needed to redeem the bonds issued during the war, to meet vividly to the attention of the Nation the necessity for prepared~ the expenses of the Veterans' Bureau now being incurred in taking care · ness as well as the cost of unpreparedness. He showro most of the disabled and their dependents, and to aid those who were depend­ vividly and impressively that preparedness and national defense ent upon the brave men, and women, too, who gave their lives in the are essentially requisite if we are to protect the great resources great struggle. This money can, should, and will be raised .and applied of our country and continue its wonderful prosperity. to these needs that we may, in part at least, repay our obligations. The In a word, Mr. President, Vice President Curtis sounded the debt to those who lost their lives in our own country and on foreign message always resident in the heart of the Nation, that we not soil ; to those· who are now suffering from wounds and disease as a only need an Army and Navy adequate for national defense but result of the war, and to their dependents, can not be paid 1li dollars. sufficient to guarantee and make effective our patriotic determi­ Our people .will always remember their ·orave deeds, their great suffer­ nation never again to engage in a war of aggression. Ever to ings and sacrifices. be prepared only as a last and inevitable resort to defend our While the place of highest honor goes to those men and women who homes and country and perpetuate its divinely inspired institu­ wore the uniform of our country, there was and is a great apprecia­ tions is the maxim of this wonderful address. tion for those of our citizens who furnished money, produced food, There being no objection, the address was ordered to be printed clothing, materials, and supplies necessary in the stnlggle. They did in the RECORD, as follows : . their part in the great conflict which meant so much to civilization and · Vice President Curtis spoke as follows : Christianity.

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