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10834 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. AUGUST 1, WI CONSIN • SENATE. Frank G. John ·on to be postmaster at Dallas, Wis. Office became presidential July 1, 1920. TUESDAY, August 1, 19~~ Emil Klentz to be postruaster at Reeseville, Wis. Office be <Leuisiative d<lll/ of Thursday, April 20, 1922.) came presidential April 1, 1920. The Senate met at 11 o'clock a. m., on the expiration of the recess. COI\TFIRMATIONS. Mr. CURTIS. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a l!l.zecutit,e nominations 001•fi:r1ned by the Senate July 81 (legis quorum. lative day of April 20), 1922. The PRESIDENT pro tempore.. The Secretary. will call the COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS. roll. The reading clerk called the roll, and the following Senators Samuel H. Thompson to be collector of customs, district No. answered to their names : 12, Pittsburgh, Pa. .Ashurst Frelinghuysen Mccumber Robinson PoaTMABTERs. Ball Gooding McLean Sheppard C LIFORNIA. Borah Hale McNary Simmons Brandegee Harreld Moses Smoot Oliv r N. Thornton, Brea. Bursum Harris Nelson Spencer Ro coe E. Watts, Rialto. Calder Harrison New Stanfield Cameron Heflin Newberry Sterling James E. Pharr, Scotai. Capper Hitchcock Nicholson Trammell ('OLORADO. Caraway Jones, N. Mex. Norbeck Walsh, Mass. Culberson Jones, Wash. Oddie Walsh, Mont. .Arthur I. Weaver, Creede. Cummins Kellogg Overman Warren Curtis Kendrick Pepper Watson, Ind. ILL,INOI Dial ~ Keyes Phipps Willis Frank C. Krans, Altona. du Pont Ladd Pittman Edward A. Catour, tkinson. Ernst Lenroot Pomerene Lulu L. Meyer, Deerfield. Fernald Lodge Ransdell Sherman G. Jackson, Forest City. Mr. CURTIS. I was requested to announce that the junior Leo H. Borgelt, Havana. Senator from Illinois [Mr. McKINLEY] is detained at a com Hugo L. Schneider, Highland Park. mittee hearing. Charles W. Rm;sell, Hurst. Mr. DIAL. I desire to announce that my colleague [Mr. Bert R. Johnson, Kewanee. SMITH] is detained on official business. · I ask that this notice Samuel J. Davis, l\fooi:;eheart. may continue through the day. Allie l\f. Reineke, Perry. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Sixty-one Senators have an Ella L. Widicus, St. Jacob. swered to their names. There is a quorum present. Rarmond W. Peters, St. Joseph, PROMOTION OF WORLD PE.ACE. Ida C. Revell, Stillman Yalley. 1\Ir. HITCHCOCK. Mr. President, I present for reference to Uly~. es G. Dennison, Winnebago. the Committee on Foreign Relations and printing in the REC MICHIGAN, ORD, with the names attached, resolutions adopted by the Anurew W. Reinhard. Brimley. League of Women Voters at Hastings, Nebr., signed by Mrs. l\fargretta S. Dietrich, wife of the former Senator, and some MONTANA. hundred others, praying the United States to keep its leader T. Lester Mortis, Corvallis. ship asserted recently in the matter of limitation of naval Frank D. Worcef':ter. Geyser. armament and to 'continue its efforts and stand against war. NEW JERSEY. There being no objection, the resolutions, with the names Israel C. Hanis, Alloway. attached, were referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations Clair McFarland, Monroeville. and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows : Harry J. Corwin, Paterson. HASTCNGS, NBBB., July 12, 19gg. Whereas it bas been called to our attention that 10 countries of the NORTH CAROLIN A. civilized world have set July 29 and '30 for demonstrations demanding Claud S. Rowland, Pinetown. no more wars tor the settlement of international differences, we. the undersigned, gathered at a luncheon of the League of Women Voters Walter F. Long, jr., Rockingham. in Hastings, Nebr., rejoicing that our country took the lead in the CalYin Y. Holden, Wake-Forest. limitation of navies, respectfully urge the President and Congress of the United States to continue the leadership in an effort to outlaw OKLAHOMA. war, and we affirm our approval of the resolution adopted by the Richard H. Ewrett, Broken Bow. National League of Women Voters in convention assembled at Balti more, .April, 1922, a copy of which is attached.. OREGOl'. Mrs. R. S. Mcintire, Mrs. B. J, Hilsabeck, Mrs. H. M. Russell, Mrs. R. E. Bryant, Mrs. E. Uden Mrs. Jack George C. Pet~rson, Bay Cit~·. Kelly, Miss Matilda McClelland, · Mrs. S. B. Sorensen, Amanda E. Bones, Carlton. Karl D. Beghtol, Mrs. J. M. Ferguson, Mrs. Cora M. Bartlett....... Mrs. John Slaker, Mrs. Nellie I. Zinn, Mrs. James Henderson, Oa.scade Locks. W. A. uilworth Mrs. Hettie J. Martin Mrs. Wm. Lucius L. Hurd, Glendale. Keal, Mrs. W. S. Holmes, Mrs. H. B. Wbitney, Mrs. James D. Fay, Gold Beach. J. H. Lohmannt Mrs. W. S. Watson, G. B. Durkee, Mrs. George Scnafer, Mrs. G. W. Buckner, jr., Mrs. Flora B. Thompson, Jacksonville. Wm. Madgett, Mrs. Jennie Woodworth, Mrs. C. W. Bernhard L. Hagemann, Milwaukie. Wili::on, M1·s. E. R. Erway, Mrs. L. L. Brandt, Mrs. Etta ~f. Da"\'idson, Oswego. J. H. Lantz, Mrs. A. G. Matter, Mrs. A. H. Brooke, S. B. Sor<-nsen, Mrs. B. J. Thomas, El. A. St. John, Henrietta Sandry, Rogue River. John W. Shaw, Mabel Cramer, Mrs. P. B. Woodworth, Glenn D. Withrow, Talent. Caroline M. Smith, Mrs. S. V. Byrne, Mrs. W. A. Oharles H. Watzek, Wnuna. Graham, Margretta S. Dietrich, Mary J. Nowers, Mrs. N. W. Coleman, Mrs. Geo. W. Kimball~ sr., Mrs. TENNEn EE. Martha H. Schultz, Mary Hill Landsrath, .t"atracia .A. Carrie L. Waters. Goodlett~vn1e. Johnson, Mrs. Ella Wiltrout l\1rs. Hilda Brunlnger, Rena Gartner, Dorothy N. ~tewart, Helen S. Fuller, TEXAS, P . B. Woodworth, Mrs. Lee Gauvreau, Abigail M. Kernan, Alice L. Paris, Neal J. Wyne, Raymond L. Geo1·ge Riee . .Jayton. Crosson, Mrs. J. K. Sherman, Mrs. E. E. Danly, H; R. W.ASHL~GTON. Alexander Mrs. Nettie Sims, Mrs. John W. Brown, Belen K. button, Marie Herrin, Mrs. W. G. Hay, Mrs. Thurston B ..... tidham, Dot.y. W. M. Whelan, Mrs. 'l'. H. Goodwin, Susie Farmer, WEST VIRGINIA. Mrs. Fannie Pyle, D. B. Marti, Bess Rippeteau, Mr . M. S. Davis, Anne Stull, L. N. Button, Mrs. G. E. Hallie .A. Qyerholt, Tlmrmond. Isaman. Mrs. '\'\'. M. Dutton. HASTINGS, NEBR. I hereby c~rtify that the above is a correct and true copy of the 'WITHDRAWAL. original resolution and signatures. (SEAL.] A. M. LINNEMANN, E.r.ecutii·e nomination withdrawn froni the Sena.te J~tly 81 {1,egi.s- Notary Publio, Adams County, Nebr. 1.ative day of 'April 20), 1922. Whereas in establishing justir.e and amity between human beings men have defined and repudiated crimes of individuals against the public POSTMASTER. welfare ; and ·Whereas the greatest crime against the public welfare is war; and Gertrude H. A hley to be postma$ter at Bay City in tbe State ·Whereas we applaud the progress toward .peace in th~ recent reduc of Orego1.t. tion of naval armaments and the curb on naval competition; and 1922. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD~SENATE. 10835 Whereas we recognize that conferences alone, as shown by those at and travelers upon railroads by co.mpelllng common carriers engaged The Hague, have not prevented or ameliorated wars in the past, and in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suit that resolutions outlawing certain methods of killing, such as poison able boilers and appurtenances thereto," approved February 17in1911, ras and submarines, · are not only futile but imply. that certain other and the amendment to said act approved M~rch 4, 1915, requir g the methods are justifiable : Therefore be It regul~r inspection of the boilers of locomotives; is being violated.z and Resolved, That the National League of Women Voters in convention tr so to report the extent of such violation, and to reI?ort specincally assembled at Baltimore, Md., April, 1922, as:::ert its conviction that the whether inspection of locomotive boilers is presently bemg made in all aim of all international peace eft'orts should be to outlaw war itself Federal locomotive boiler inspection districts and upon the roads of all and to abolish it as a legalized institution, instead of to regulate it, common carriers engaged in interstate commerce as required by said act. and that to this end a code of international law based on equity and justice between individuals be erected, by which the waging of war be ·The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the made a crime, defined and punishable under the terms of the code. introduction of the regolution? The Chair hears none. PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. Mr. HARRISON. I merely want it to go to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. Mr. ROBINSON presented resolutions of the Fort Smith The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It will be so referred. (Ark.) Chamber of Commerce, condemning the action of rail Mr. HARUISON. May I say in this connection that I haYe way shopmen for striking in opposition to a ruling of the offered the resolution at the instance of the Senator from Utah United States Railway Labor Board and protesting against [Mr. KrNG]. who is at home on important official business, and efforts to compel the railroads to relinquish their right to I should like to have read a telegram received this morning withdraw seniority privileges and other benefits from striking which shows that I am offering it at his request. employees accruing from previous employment, etc., which were The PRESIDENT pro tern.Pore. Without objection, the tele referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. gram will be read. Mr. McLEAN presented a memorial of sundry citizens of The Assistant Secretary read as follows: New London County, Conn., remonstrating against inclusion SA.LT LAKE CITY, UTAH, July 81, 19-2!. of a $50 duty on potash in the pending tariff bill, which was SAMCEL RUSSELL, referred to the Committee on Finance. Oare Senato-r King, United States Se-nate, Wa.shi1igton, D.