By l\Ir. SANDERS of New York:· Petition of the retail mer~ . • GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS. chants' council of the Rochester (N. Y.) Chamber of Commerce, The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica for the repeal of the luxury-tux section in the war-revenue law; tion from the Secretary of the Trea·sury, transmitting, pursuant to tlie Committee on Ways and Means. to law, a report showing the number of documents received and Also, petition of 61 farmers living on Lewiston Road, Ba distributed by the Treasury Department during the year ended tnsia, N. Y., uTging the repeal of the so-called daylight-saving December 31, 1918, together with the number remaining on hand. law; to the Committee on the Judiciary. January 1, 1919, which, w.ith the accompanying paper, was r~ Also, petition of Oatka Falls Grange, No. 394, Le Roy, N. Y., ferred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. urging the ·repeal of the so-called daylight-saving law; to j:he GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. . Also, petition of W. F. Rockow and 19 other residents of The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate communica Hamlin, Morton, and Walker, N. Y., urging the repeal of the tions from the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of the Inte so-called. daylight-saving law; to the Committee on Interstate rior, Secretary of the Navy, the .Secretary of Commerce, the and Foreign Commerce. Secretary of Labor, the Food Administrator, the Fuel Admin Also, petition of 260 petitioners of the Livingston County istrator, and the Director of the 'Var Trade Board, transmitting, (N. Y.) Sund.ay School Association, urging that the preamble pursuant to a resolution of December 15, 1918, a list showing the of the ·ational Constitution be amended so as to recognize the number of employees in their respective departments at speci autl)ority anu law of Jesus Christ; to the Committee on the fied dates, and the number discharged during the two weeks pre Judic-iary. vious to that date, which were referred to the Committee on Al~o. petition of the Automobile Club of Rochester, N. Y., Appropriations and ordered to be printed.. urging the passnge of a bill providing for the laying out, plan AUTOMATIC STRA.IGHT AIR BRAKES. nin,., aml estimating of cost of construction of a military road The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica acrol's the State of New York to be named the "Roosevelt tion from the Interstate Commerce Commission, transmitting u National l\lilitary Hoad"; to the Committee on Roads. report of the Chief of the Bureau of Safety relative to tests of AI ~o. petitimi of 30 petitioners of the Tuscarora Presbyterian the brake system of the Automatic Straight Air Brake Co., etc., Chur('h, 'l'uscarora, N. Y., urging that the· preamble of the Na which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Com . tionnl Constitution he amended so as to recognize the authority mittee on Interstate Commerce. an(l I:i,·.- of .Jesus Christ; to the Committee on the Judiciary. · PRODUCTION OF MINERALS. n .•. l\fr. SCHALL: Petition of sundry citizens of Minnesota, The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica for the repeal of the daylight-saving law; to the Committee on tion from the Director of the Bureau of· Mines, transmitting, Interstate and. Foreign Commerce. pursuant to law, a report of all expenditures and disbursements Also, petition of sundry citizens of Minnesota, urging Govern under the act to encourage the production of minerals, which, ment ownership of railroads; to the Committee on Interstate with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee and Foreign Commerce. . on Mines and Mining and ordered to be printed. Also, petition of Minnesota Garden Flower Society, protest ing order No. 37 of the Federal Horticultural Board; to the DISPOSITION OF USELESS PAPERS. Committee on Agriculture. .The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate a By l\Ir. SNYDER: Petition of Utica (N. Y.) section of the communication from the Assistapt Secretary of Labor, trans Council of Jewish Women, :(avoring a league of nations and mitting a list of useless papers on the files of the Department ciTil nnu religious liberty in all countries; to the Committee of Labor having no historic value and requesting action look on I• oreign Affairs. ing to their disposition. The communication and accompanying papers will be referred to the Joint Select .Committee on the Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments, SENATE. and the Chair appoints the Senator from Washington [Mr. JoNEs] and the Senator from Arkansas [Mr. KmnY] the com TUESDAY, May 20, 1919. mittee on the part of the Senate. The Secretary will notify the Bouse of Representatives thereof. · The Chaplain, Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman, D. D., offered the BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA. follmYing prayer : The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the annual Almighty God, day unto day uttereth speech and night unto report of the Boy Scouts of America for the year ended De night showeth knowledge. So with the return of every day we cember 31, 1918, whlch was referred to the Committee on the come and stand before Thee to catch the inspiration of the new Judiciary'. light that falls on all our duties· and. see with clearer vision that MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. eYer-increasing purpose which runs through all Thy creation. Endue us plenteously this day with Thy grace that we may Mr. Hempstead, the enrolling clerk of the House of Repre follow the divine commandments, know the will of God, and sentatives, appeared and delivered the following message: gla<.lly do that which is pleasing in Thy sight. For Christ's sake. "1\1r. President, I am directed by the Bouse of Representa Amen. · tives to inform the Senate that a quorum of the House of Repre The Secretary proceeded to read the Journal of yesterday's sentatives has appeared and that the House"is ready to proceed proceedings, when, on request of l\1r. LoDGE and by unanimous to business. · consent, the further reading was dispensed with and the Jour "Also, that a committee of three members were appointed by, nal was approved. the Speaker on the part of the Bouse to join the committee on the part of the Senate to notify the President of the United REPORT OF SECRETARY OF THE SENATE (S. DOC. NO. 3). States that a quorum of the two Houses has assembled, and The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the i·eport of that Congress is ready to receive any communication he may; the Sect·etary of the Senate, transmitting, in compliance with be pleased to make, and that 1\:Ir. 1\foNDELL, Mr. MANN, and 1\fr. law, an account of all property, including stationery, belonging CLARK of 1.\:t:issouri were appointed as a committee on the part of to the United States in his possession on the 19th day of l\Iay, the House. 1919, which was ordered to lie on the tabl~ and be printed. ".Also, that a quorum of the Bouse of Representatives has assembled; that FREDERICK H. _GILLETT, a Representative from ABROGATION OF TREATIES (S. DOC. NO. 2). the State of Massachusetts, had been elected Speaker; and that; The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communi William Tyler Page, a citizen of the State Maryland, had been: cation from the Acting Secretary of State, transmitting, in re elected Clerk. sponse to resolutions of December 5, 1918, and February 3, 1919, "Also, that the House communicates to the Senate the intelli certain information relative to the abrogation of treaties, which, gence of the death of Hon. JOHN LAWSON BURNETT, late U with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on Representative from the State. of .Alabama, and tl'ansmits reso- Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. lutions of the House thereon. CLAI1.fS AGAINST MEXICO (S. DOC. NO.1), "Also; that the House communicates to the Senate the intelli~ The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica 'gence of the death of Hon. CHARLES AUGUST SULZER, late a Del~ tion from th~ Acting Secretary of State, transmitting, in response gate from the Territory of Alaska, and transmits resolutions of to a resolution of February 7, 1919, certain information relative the House thereon." to the claims of American citizens against the Government of SENATOR FROM MICHIGAN. Mexico, which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair presents the petition of Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Henry Ford contesting the election of Senator TRuMAN H. NEw- LVIII--3 34 OONGRESSION AL· RECORD- SENATE. }fAY 20,.
BERRY, which will be printed in. the RECORD and referred to. t)le and also of cases of 1mclue influence and intimidation of voters Committee on Privileges. and Elections. at the election. The petition is as _follows: I beg to represent to your honorable body : . UNTrED· STATES OF' .AMKIUCA,-' (1) That an election was held by the voters of 1\Iichigan on· I "' THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES · oF THE SIXTY-SIXTH Co:xGREss. the 5th clay of November, 1918, to elect a United States Senator Petition of Mr. Henry Ford, contesting the election of Mr. Trmnan from Michigan for the term beginning 1\Iarch 4, 1919. That' H. Newberry as l:lenator from Michigan, for the terp1 beginning March Truman H. Newberry was the candidate on the Republican 4 1919 for a recount of ballots for the office of Umted States Senator ticket. Henry Ford on the Democratic ticket, Edward 0. Foss cast at'the election :qei
officials who were so inclined to miscount the ballots in fav r of peer, Lenawee, Macomb, Marquette, 1\Iason, l\Iecostn, 1\Hdhind, 1\Ir. Newberry. 1\Ionroe, Montcalm, Montmorency, Muskegon; Newaygo, Oakland, (b) That a large number of ballots were unlawfully ~ounted Oceana, Osceola, Ottawa, Sanilac, St. Clair, St. Jos~pll, Tuscola, for said Newberry, 'Yhich, in fact and in truth, were cast for Van Buren, Washtenaw, Wexford; and that such irregularities Henry Ford, namely, at least ten thousand. and tniscounts occurred in a more modified degree in nearly all - (c) That large numbers of ballots lawfully cast for peti the other counties of the State and that mistakes unfavorable to tioner were not counted for him, but were unlawfully rejected petitioner and in favor of the said Truman H. Newberry oc- by the various precinct election boards when making the counts, cm·red in all of the counties. ' and they were not returned for petitioner as in truth they (r) That upon a fair and lawtul recount of the ballots cast ought to have been, namely, at least ten thousand. at said election your petitioner would be decided to be duly (d) That in many election precincts or districts the count by and lawfully elected Senator from Michigan. the election officers and boards was illegal, in favor of New (s) That upon such a fair and lawful recount, and dqe allow berry, false and fraudulent, and in violation of the· election .laws ances being made for such frauds, intimidations, and prevention governing the count. of votes, petitioner would be decided and declared by your honor (e) l\Iany of the ballots marked and cast for petitioner were able body to have been duly and lawfully elected Senator from counted and returned for the said Truman H. Newberry. 1\Iichigan. (f) In many precincts (particularly in the Upper Peninsula (7) Your petitioner shows that the ballots cast for the said of l\lichigan) the provisions of law enacted to protect the sanc office of United States Senator at said electicn have generally tity and secrecy of the ballots and to promote a true and honest been preserved intact, with the exception of those cast in the ·,ote and count were flagrantly violated and many important cities of Saginaw, Marquette, and possibly one or two smaller and vital irregularities and depnrtures from such provision oc localities, together with the poll books and tally sheets relating CUlTed, thus vitiating under the law the vote of such precincts. thereto, under the provisions cf the several orders of court in As, for instance, the marking of ballots for voters by unauthor that behalf in the two suits in equity brought by your petitioner ized third person, the exposure of ballots by the voters, the over for that purpose in the United States district court for each the seeing of the voting by mine bosses and superintendents and the eastern and western districts of Michigan, comprising the like ; all of which were conducted in the interests of said Tru whole of said State; that as your petitioner is advised the bal man H. Newberry, and the votes of such precincts should be re- lots, poll books, and tally sheets, with the exceptions mentioned, jected and thrown out. . are now generally held in the custody and possession of the (g) That many· ballots Ln. many precincts duly marked and officers designated by the law of the State of Michigan for such • cast for petitioner were rejected by the respective election purposes awaiting action hereon by this Senate. boards and not counted at all. (8) And the petitioner further shows that he is advised that (h) That.many ballots bearing unlawful distinguishing marks under the laws of Michigan there is no bo.dy or tribunal which were illegally and unlawfully counted for the said Truman H. has control of a recount except the United States Senate, and Ne,vherry. ' that his only adequate relief to preserve and recount the ballots (i) l\Iany ballots duly marked and cast for your petitioner lies in suitable action to that end by your honorable body. were wholly rejected and thrown out by many election boards on (9) That petitioner has caused notice of his intention to con the unlawful and fraudulent pretext that they were not duly.and test the alleged election of said Truman H. Newberry to the ·properly marked for the .Petitioner, whereas in fact they were United States Senate to be duly served upon the said Truman so marked and cast. H. Newberry, viz, on the 2d day of January, 1919, and 1\Iay · ( j) l\Iany ballots duly and properly marked and cast for the 17; 1919. petitioner ·were rejected and thrown out by many election (10) The petitioner hereby prays and requests the Senate to boards on the unlawful and fraudulent pretext that they bore entertain his said contest; to provide for a recount of the said distinguishing marks, whereas in fact they did not bear any ballots and the due preservation of said ballots for the purpose of unlawful distinguishing marks and ought to have been counted the recount and of evidence in the contest; and for a prompt in for your petitioner. vestigation of said election and primary and of the matters here (k) l\Iany ballots duly and lawfully marked and cast for peti inbefore set forth, and that said Truman H. Newberry be de tion ~r were erroneously thrown out and not counted for peti clared not elected, and also disqualified and not entitled to a seat tioner by many of the said election boards under erroneous because of the aforesaid violations of law; and that petitioner interpretations of their duties. may be declared elected and entitled to said seat, and that he. · (I ) l\Iany ballots for said Truman H. Newberry were cor may have such further action of the Senate and its duly ap ruptly and unlawfully procured to be cast and counted for him pointed committees and agents and such other relief as shall be by the unlawful use of money on his behalf.- conformable to justice, and as the premises shall warrant; and ( m) Large sums of money were unlawfully expended by and he will ever petition, etc. in behalf of said Truman H. Newberry to influence said election HENRY FoRD. and cause votes to be cast for him that otherwise would not have been so cast. STATE OF 1\liCHIGAN, (n) Large numbers of lawful voters were ·intimidated and Oounty of lVayne, ss: preYented from voting at the said election_by partisans and sup Henry Ford being duly sworn, deposes and says that he has porters of said Newberry who otherwise would have yoted at the read the foregoing petition and notice, and that the same is election and cast their votes for the petitioner, to wit, five thou true to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief. sand of such votes. . HENRY FORD. (o) Large numbers of lawful voters, employees of certain Subscribed -and sworn to before me this 17th clay of 1\Iay, Jarge corporations, were intimidated and unlawfully coerced by A. D. 1919. employers and their representatives into voting for said New HowELL VANAUKEN, berry against their wills and preferences who otherwise would Notary Publ·ic, Wayne Oo --u.nty, Mich. have cast_ their ballots for the petitioner. :My commission expires October 3, 1921. (p ) In a number of the counties the respective boards of county canvassers made and reported their canvasses without having or examining the poll books and tally sheets nor in any STATE OF MICHIGAN, way verifying the number of original votes as cast or the num OO'Ltnty of Wayne, ss: bei" of \Oters voting at the respective precincts. Robert E. Walter, being duly sworn, deposes and says that (q) That careful investigation by petitioner's directions have he is a citizen of 1\Iichigan and a resident of the county of been made by reliable men since the election to ascertain as far as Wayne, 1\fichigan; that he has read the foregoing petition and may be the detailed facts pertaining to the above statements and notice of contest and knows the contents thereof, and that para as to the conduct of counting in said election and from such graphs one, two, three, five, seven, eight, and ten are true; and investigations. and from other information reaching the peti deponent further says that he was a member of the Legislature tioner and his representatives he avers the foregoing statements of 1\fichigan, viz, a senator for three successi're terms, namely, to be true and he particularly specifies the following counties and from 1911 to 1917, and that he was one of a committee of three el~ction districts therein as the counties and districts where such members of the legislature who conducted a recount of the \otes irregularities, miscounting, and frauds were more flagrantly com cast in the 22nd senatorial district, comprising the whole of the mitted, namely: Kent, Bay, Kalamazoo, Wayne, Saginaw, Alle county of Saginaw (which is one of the three or four largest gan, Antrim, Baraga, Barry, Benzie, Berrien, .Calhoun, Cass, counties in Michigan) in the year 1913. He further says that Charlevoix, Chippewa, Clare, Dickinson, Eaton, Emmet, Genesee, since. the election of November 5, 1918, he has devoted consider Gladwin, Gogebic, Gratiot, Hillsdale, Houghton, Huron, Ingham, able time to the investigation of the said election in the various Ionia, Iosco, Iron, Isabella, Jackson, Kalkaska, Keweenaw, La- parts of the State, and that he has traveled personally to \arious 36 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE . MAY 20,,
parts of the State in that work, and has received reports from .rn the- maHer of Michigan primary senatorial election of 1918. a consiuerable number of .other careful and reliable men who DETROIT, MICHIGAN . .have devoted their time to the said work of investigation, and : To the CoMMITTEE ON Pruvrr.EGES AND ELECTIONS, that· every precaution has been taken to make such investiga tion thorough, reliable, and strictly according to the truth . • .And United States Senate, Washington, D. C. he further says that from such experiences above described and HoNoRABLE Sms : The following statement of evidence per from his said investigations and the said reports he states that taining to the Newberry senatorial campaj.gn is sent you in he has good reasons to believe, and does believe, that the allega compliance. with my telegram of November 14th and letter of tions of the fourth, sixth, and ninth paragraphs of said peti November 15t 1918, and it is hoped that it will be of as istance tion and notice of contest are true. And he further says that : to you as a basis for the proposed inve tigation. the repre entatives of 1\Ir. Ford have now a great abundance of The United States statute governing the ma.tte1· is contained evidence to establish Mr. Truman H. Newberry's personal con in First United States Compiled Statutes of 1916, pages 65 nection with his said campaign committee desriibed in the fore to 7~, section 198, page 72; providing: " Every person wilfully; fSOing petition and notice and with the activities of said com violating any of the foregoing provisions shall upon conviction mittee in his behalf, and that said campaign was conducted with be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisonment not more than his full knowledge, consent, and active cooperation. And he one year or both.'' Section 195 defines.who shall be considered fm·ther says that said Ford's representatives· have reliable proofs a candidate, which clearly includes a candidate for the nomi of large numbers of unlawful expenditures of money in said nation or election to the office of United States Senator. Sub Truman H. Newberry's campaign involving large amounts in a division 3 of section ;195, which is pi'inted on page 69, states that great many portions of the State not set out or included in said the candidate shall file with the Secretary of the Senate "a full, · report of Frank W. Blair, treasurer of said committee; and the correct, and itemized statement o:f all moneys and things of said contestant's representatives are ready to produce such value received by him or by anyone for him with llis knowledge. proofs and the witnesses to snst.,'lin the charges in the petition, and consent from· any source in aid or support of his candidacy, but deponent deems it advisable and safest not to give the names together with the names of all those who have furnished the same of said additional witnesses for very obvious reasons. in whole or in part., and such statement shall contain a true He further says that contestant's representatives have reliable and itemized account of all moneys and things of value given, evidence of ·great activities on the part of the supporters of Mr. contributed, expended, used, or promised by sucb candidate or Newberry and his committee to suppress the evidence of said by his agent, representative, or other per on for and in his be-· unlawful expenditm·es and of attempts to prevent disclosures by half with his lmowledge and consent, together with the names those having knowledge of the facts; and these proofs contest of all those to whom money and all such gifts, contributions, pay ant's representatives are prepared to present to any committee · ments, or promises were made for the purpose of procuring his authorized by the S~te to investigate the election. nomination or election.." RoBERT E. WALTER. Subdivision 4 also contains the requirement for a similar state ment to be filed within fifteen days after the primary. Subdivi· Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17th day of May, 1919. sion 7, printed on pa-ges 70 and 71, provides: "No candidate JaMES W. THOMAS, · for Senator shall give, contribute, expend, use, or promise or Notat1J P·ublic, Wayne County, Mich. cause to be given, contributed, expended, used, or promised, in My commission expires April 9, 1923. procuring his nomination and ele~tion any sum in the aggre· · LUCKING, MURPHY, HELFMAN, LUCKING & HANLON, gate in excess of the amount which he may lawfully give, con Attorneys tor Hen1·y Fora. tribute, expend, or promise under the laws of the State in which he resides: Provided, That no candidate for Senator of the United States shall give, contribute, e.,"'{pend, use, or promise any sum NOVEMBER 15,1918. in the aggregate exceeding ten thousand dollars in any campaign Hon. ATLEE PoMERENE, for his nomination and election.'' etc. Chainnan Senate Committee on Privileges- and Elections, The l\.fichigan State statute is act No. 109 of the laws of 1913 Washington, D. C. on pages 189 et seq. entitled ".An act to regulate and limit nomi HoNORABLE Srn: I am a Republican who was inclined to sup nation expenses." Section 1 provides:" No sums of money shall port Mr. Truman Newberry for Senator in the Michigan pri be paid and no expenses authorized or incurred by or on behalf mary eiection until I personally saw evidence of the extravagant of any candidate to be paid by him, in order to secure or aid in use of large sums of money, in which I felt to be unlawful securing his nomination to any public office in excess of 25 per amounts, to advance his candidacy. · I then decided I could not cent of one year's compensation of the office." Further down in support him in the primaries. Some weeks after the primaries the same section it provides that no sum for election shall · be I joined tlle Konpartisan Ford-for-Senator Club. an organization expended beyond 25 per cent of one year's salary, etc. Sec composed largely of prominent ·Republicans who looked with tion 2 provides that " every political committee should appoint disfavor upon the method used by l\1r. Newberry and his com a treasurer and that no money shall be expended except through mittee to obtain the Republican nomination. I acted as secre him. Section 3 defines what are la·wful expenditure . Section 4 tary of this organization. Our membership was over 20,000 provides that every candidate and eve1~y treasurer shall file full before the election of Nov. 5th. and complete statements within ten days after prima1·y or elec As secretary of this organization I was in constant communi tion. Section ll provides that no person shall pay any expenses cation with prominent Republicans throughout the State of · or make any payments except to a candidate or a political com · Michigan who saw the lavish expenditures of the Newberry com· mittee, and section.12 provides that there shall be no receipts mittee and protested against them. From them and in other · except in the true name of the donor. Section 13 provides tllat ways I have collected a large amount of information and re : no moneys shall be expended from any anonymous source. Sec~ ports, sufficient, I think, to convince your committee that an tion 18 provides for fine and imprisonment for any wilful viola· investigation of the campaign is necessary and ample, I hope, tion of the act. to form the basis for a complete investigation of the campaign. From the various advertisements appearing in the Detroit and It would seem that an investigation is absolutely necessary. Michigan newspapers generally and from other ources it ap· ln the words of Senator KENYON (CoNGRESSIONAL RECORD, 1918, pears that a committee known as the Newberry-for-Senator com.o page 11275) : "If this enormous el..rpenditure of money in sena mittee ostensibly had charge of· the management and conduct of torial campaigns is to go on without any challenge by Congress, Mr. Newberry's campaign. This committee for a period of ev- then the poor man has no chance ever to seeure a seat in this . eral months, commencing in March of 1918 and continuing until body and imply the rich can purchase a seat here." after the prtm.aries in August, maintained elaborate offices at There should be no objection to an investigation at this time. rooms 308-310 Ford Building, Detroit. I feel that Senator Tow~SEND expressed the sentiment admira Mr. .A.. A. Templeton, president of the Detroit Seamless Steel bly when he said (CO~GRESSIONAL RECORD, 1918, page 11274}: Tubes Company, acted as general chairman;. Mr. Newberry is a ''I would be gtad to ha.ve a full and complete investigation, and large stockholder of this company. having originally financed if l\1r. Newberry shall receive a certificate of election in Novem Templeton in its organization; Mr. Paul H. King, an attorneYj ber and charges are preferred against his title, I will not only an
Thomas Phillips, B. C. Wilson, H . W. Rose, A. G. :UacEachron, is backing your campaign, and that hundreds of the experts who have figured in or conducted for money the wet campaigns of the past are E. E. Smith, and F. 0. McLean; attorney, Paul R. Dailey. among the most active of your supporters. The report just mentioned was filed by the committee in the Conservati>e estimates say everywhere from $250,000 to $500,000 office of l\Iilton Oakman, county clerk of Wayne County, where is being used. The good people of the State are apparently powerless to give the voters these matters on short notice. In case you get the l\Ir. Newberry resides, on September 6, 1918, in compliance with most votes you must expect to have the placing of your name on the act 109 of the :Michigan Public Acts of 1913. It is signed and election ballot contested. If by technical reasons you succeed, then you must expect every church and moral organization to work until -verified by 1r. Frank W. Blair, treasurer, and appears set forth election night to keep our fair State from the baneful influence that in full in the Co:KGRESSIONAL RECORD, issue of September 17, success following such methods would leave for years to come. 1918, on pages 11267 and following. Mr. Newberry did not per Should you be successful at the polls, you must expect a legislative investigation that would be demanded by an indignant populace. And sonally make any report under this act. Instead there appears it by technicalities you could overcome this you will probably have to in the miscellaneous files of the county clerk's office, attached to face a Democratic Senate, whlch will unseat you, as it justly unseated the committee report, a letter from Mr. Fred P. Smith, on the Wm. Lorimer, jr., because of flagrant disregard in your behalf of Michigan's primary Jaws. The effect on the Republican Party with stationery of the executors of the Newberry estate, wherein the the people demanding cleaner things can not be estimated. Already writer advises the county clerk that Mr. Truman H. Newberry we bear the Demo{!rats will make the corrupting use of money in your states that he diNEw YoRK CITY, "Ob! You get me the facts, Simpson, and I'll act." Sunday, September 1, 1918. Mr. Groesbeck has had the facts for some time in the admission of My DEAR GovERNOR: Your cordial telegram assuring me of your Paul King, but bas be acted? earnest support is all that was needed t(). insure the defeat of Ford in On July 20 I wrote regarding the matter to Mr. Kinnane and Secre- November. I fully realize that my personality is submerged in the tary Lansing at Washington. - issues that confront our party in our State. Many times in the past Did they act? Not yet. few months I have envied your ability and privilege to talk, and when After the primary and on September 7 I again wrote to the governor your voice rang clear and strong throughout State and Nation on and Secretary of State Vaughan, asking them to withhold Newberry's the menace of Ford I wanted to wire you godspeed in your patriotic noinination certificate. Did they do so? The substance of the law which work. Newberry violated has been repeated so frequently in these columns it Your deeply appreciated telegram of support helps me to visualize is unnecessary to do so again. the statesman, the sportsman (hunter), and gentleman that I have I think that every voter who has any conscience at all will admit always known you to be. that Newberry has violated the law, in spirit if not in fact, although it Cordially, yours, TRUMAN H. NEWBERRY. pleases the interests with which he is connected to provide all manner In reply to this Mr. Osborn wrote him an open letter which of excuses, among which they say it was to save the country from Ford. was published generally throughout Michigan, and which reads The facts will show that they laid their expensive plans to deliberately as follows: violate the law long before Ford announced his candidacy, antl ther-e SEPTEMBER 17, 1918. ia no doubt in my mind but what they intended with premeditation to MY DEAR CoMMANDER ; I have read your letter. Thank you for your violate the law. sentiments. I shall support you. .Already I have straightened out Only a few days ago the State board of canvassers met to determine entanglements that would have been hurtful to your success. I am the ballot, and said, as reported, that I should have gone to Prosecutor not interested in you personally a particle. The entire matter is so far Jasnowski. · beyond personal consideration and transcends individual proportions Always " passing the buck " to others. This seems to be the feature to an extent that only public welfare may be thought of. You can be of joperatic's job when he is called upon to earn his salary..-at least in elected; no doubt you will be. My idea is that the thing for you to do Michigan, is to honestly confess that you broke the law and that you knew all Anyone who knows conditions, and who has gone to see J'asnowski about the campaign, but that you did not realize the enormity of your on matters of this kind, knows what a fat chance I'd stand of having offense. In such a position you would be intrenched in honesty, I fully him do anything against the " combine," even if I could find the believe. And an indulgent people would forgive you, and fight for you, prosecutor. because of the past services they think you have ~iven and what they Here is a letter from Will Hays, which contains nothing that he have been told you are giving now. In addition this action would make could object to having printed; for your name an honorable place in the history of Michigan. Other " MY DEAR Mn. SIMPSON : Returning to-day after an absence, etc. wise the future will curse you. " The unlawful use of money in an election can not be too strongly The plea can not be honestly made that you_ spent money in excess condemned. There is no penalty too severe or excoriation too vigorous because you were fighting Ford, because you had begun your reckless for anyone guilty of such practices. campaign long before Ford was mentioned and had already transgressed "However, J am quite sure that there must be some mistake in the the law. Nor can you plead "you did not know." That would prove information which you have received regarding the unlawful use of you to be both an -ass and a liar, which I choose to think you are not. money by Mr. Newberry. While I have known Mr. Newberry only a I am for you only to save tJle Nation and the .stat~ from the curs~ of short time, I have known him 1by reputation a great many years, and, Fordism. A vote for Ford 1s a vote for the Kaiser right now, as I VIew while, as I understand, he is quite • well to do,' as you say, I am very the case. sure he would not, under any circumstances indulge or condone nor Yours, truly, CH.AS. S. OSBORN. p~rmit the unlawful use of money in connection with his candidacy for Coming now to the facts as to 1\Ir. Newberry's connection the nomination or election to any office. " I am glad, etc. with the work of the committee, I am informed and believe "Sincerely, yours, WrLL H, HAYS.'' that he was personally active in organizing his own campaign, As to Mr. Hays's complacent belief in· the virtue of others, I have and that he conducted the same through the Newberry committee. nothing to say. - This connection is shown by many facts and witnesses, as I am How satisfying out of this mess of recriminations, sem;eless explana tions and excuses stand forth, like living words of fire, that every informed and believe, and among other evidence of witnesses, as youth in Michigan would do well to remember, these words of our follows: . lieutenant governor, the man who knew, felt in his heart his duty, and Chief manager and intimate friend of Mr. Newberry was Mr. dared: "I did what my conscience dictated; I have made enemies; but i! I Fred Cody, who has an office in the clown-town section of New :~v~b~:digu~~e;:fdJ~r the correction of .one of our greatest evils, 1 York, and who ostensibly is an insurance man, but who is prin cipally a lobbyist for the American Telegraph and Telephone Personally, I refuse to believe other than in the old-fashioned good ness and honesty of the common people of Michigan. Company, the American Book Company, Standard Oil Company. If the evils of which Newberry and his friends are charged are al and other large and important Wall Street interests. lowed to continue it means that we, the common people, must submit 1\lr. Cody was active, as I am informed and believe, from be to rule by a class, and that class the rich class. We therefore lose our much-vaunted democracy. fore the beginning of the organizing until after the election, and We read every day of current political difference, where matters of was constantly in communication with and in the office of the the war are brought into argument, which are not appeals to reason committee and in r.nd out the apartment and office of Mr. New· but appeals to prejudice and self-interest. This line of argument gets us nowhere. Prominent business men are berry, conferring and giving directions with respect to the cam· Interviewed regarding Newberry and their replies printed. The major paign. 1919. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 39
•1\lr. Cody at the outse-t of the campaign went to Washington It can be shown without question that l\Ir. Newberry was in and, at the direction of l\Ir. Newberry, tendered the appoint· constant touch with th.e committee almost daily by telephone, m~nt of manager of the campaign to Mr. Jay .G. Hayden, Wash telegraph, and written communications, receiving practi~ally ington correspondent of the Detroit News. Mr. Cody took l\fr. continuous reports of the work of the committee and communi Hayden to New York ·to see 1\lr. Newberry, where the appoint· cating with its various members both in Detroit and at New ment was te-ndered to l\Ir. Hayden by Mr. Newberry personally. York, entertaining them at the Biltmore in New York, and com The whole subject was gone into at great -length between l\fr. municating with them verbally, by writing and by telegraph, and· Newberry, l\Ir. Hayden, and l\Ir. Cody, with prospect of his mak also through Mr. Frederick Cody. This can be shown by exami ing a success of the campaign. Mr. Hayden finally declined the nation of the following witnesses, as I am informed and believe: position. Templeton, King, Blair, and the various assistant secretaries Subsequently, in February of 1918, l\Ir. Cody, as I am informed above mentioned. , and believe, arranged an interview between Mr. Milton Oakman, I have been apprised through the press that a Federal grand Mr. Robert Oakman, and others of Detroit with Mr. Newberry jury investigation on this subject was held in New York City at the Biltmore. The parties all met there and disqissed fully preceding the Michigan primary. In this c.onnection it was the prospects for a successful campaign of Mr. ~ewberry, the stated in the dispatches that the following persons most closely amounts of money that would be required, and the place of and directly associated with Mr. Newberry in the campaign manager was tendered to Milton Oakman, a·s I am informed and refused to testify, and were thereafter ordered to testify by two. believe. different Federal judges; that they persisted in their refusal; l\1r. Milton Oakman acted as manager for a time, as I am in namely: A. A. Templeton, general chairman; Frank W. Blair, treasurer; and Thomas P. Phillips, publicity agent. It was also formed, but subsequently a more elaborat~ organization was organized and conducted under Mr. Templeton and Ur. Paul stated in the newspapers that the following persons, called as King. l\1r. Milton Oakman continued to act for l\1r. Newberry in witnesses before the same grand jury, indicated that they would Wayne County (Detroit) until after the primary election. 1\Ir. likewise refuse to testify. following the course of the three wit Oakman had been sheriff of Wayne County twice, and also then, nesses mentioned. These others, who were not committed, in . and is still, clerk of Wayne County, and the leader of the domi· clude the following: John S. Newberry, a brother of the candi· nant Republican faction in Wayne County. Very scandalous date, who furnished upwards of ninety-nine thousand dollars ($99,000.00) of the· committee moneys; Paul H. King, the Michi stories have been in circulation as to the large amounts of money gan mallllger of the campaign; Milton Oakman, campaign man-. expended by l\Ir. Oakman on behalf of Mr. Newberry. If such ager for Wayne County; and H. A. Hopkins, director of publicity. were expended, they are not set forth in the accounts of the com Besides the upwards of one hundred and seventy-five thousand mittee. dollars ($175,000.00) expended and admitted by the committee Mrs. Louisa Delamater, a stenographer, now employed at 316 to have been expended, I have been informed through a number Moffat.Block, Detroit, 1\Iichigan, states she was employed in the of p·ersons throughout Michigan that other large amounts of Newberry campaign headquarters at the Ford Building from money were expended, which moneys are not shown or accounted about the 5th of l\Iarch until April 20, 1918 ; that during her for by the committee, and I am informed and believe that these employment therein Mr. Newberry at least twice to her personal facts can be substantiated by a large number of witnesses, knowledge was in the Detroit campaign office, and that on th,e among whom are the following : first visit she saw 1\Ir. Emery show l\Ir. Newbe-rry through the William Moore, of Wayne, Michigan. entire suite of about eight offices, pointing out to him things of Mr. Jameson, attorney, Wayne, Michigan. . interest as Mr. ' New~rry was shown through. She also says 1\Ir. Harrison (whose full name can be obtamed), Wayne, that she knows that railroad reservations to New York and l\Iich. botel accommodations were made for persons in the Detroit Frank Schumaker, Ann Arbor, Michigan. office who went to New York forth~ purpose of consulting New Frank Newton {late candidate for Congress from the 2nd berry about campaign methods. dish'ict), Ypsilanti~ Mich. Mrs. I?elamater also states that 1\Iiss Margaret Nevin was the 1\Ir. Owen, ex-postmaster~ Ypsilanti, l\lichigan. ' p:~:i'mte secretary at campaign headquarters for Pa_ul King, and Thomas l\I. Ward, 1202 Houseman Building, Grand Rapids,_ that she must also have seen Newberry in that office. After Mich. Mrs. Delamater ceased working for the campaign committee a George Welsh, Grand Rapids., Michigan. 1\Iiss Cbappell was employed there. When Mrs. Delamater was G. A. (Tennie) Daniels, George Rodgers, James _Quinlan, there 1\Ir. Emery was the office manager. She- believes he had Oscar Kilstron (of the Bolo Club), William J. Mi~els, Robert something to do with one of the Detroit draft boards. Another G. Bell (county clerk), George Reed (clerk of police court), J?an of the stenographers who was there while Mrs. Delamater was Kennedy, William Grove, James Healy, all of Grand Rapids, employed is Ruth Goldstein, of 111 Edmund Street, Detroit, Michigan. Michigan ; also a Florence Shepiro. Neal McMillan, of Rockford, Kent County, Michigan. According to Mrs. Delamater, l\1iss Nevin wrote letters on l\fr. Chas. H. Bender, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Newberry's private stationery, which she sent by parcel post to S. F. Bernard, Battle Creek, Michigan. New York, for l\fr. Newberry's signature. :~Urs. Delamater her· Charles Biggers, Marshall, :M:"ich. self wrote letters to railroads to make reservations to New York John La Rue of Lakeview, Montcalm Coonty, Mich. for Mr. Templeton and Mr. King; also letters to New York mak 1\Ir. KennedY, postmaster at LakeYiew, Mich. ing appointments for Mr. King with Mr. Newberry. F. l\1. Lothrop, probably of Lakeview, but whose exact address I am informed that Thomas G. Smythe, of Detroit, Michigan, can be obtained. before the primaries saw Mr. Newberry in the offices of the E. J. Bowman, Greenville, Mich. committee from a window in the Moffat Block, which is directly J. W. Hoskins, of Howard City, Mich. opposite the office of the committee in the Ford Building and not William T. Hosner, of Romeo,. Mich. over thirty feet therefrom. Judge James G. Tucker, of Mount Clemens., . . _ I am also informed and believe that Mr. Thomas· Phillips, who, . Thomas Barkworth and John Miner, both Qf Jackson, M1c~ was formerly employed on the staff of the Detroit News, was C. J. De Land, Jackson~ Mich. · induced to take a position with the Newberry committe~ at a Emery Mills, Monroe, Mich. salary that is nearly twice the sum that he received from the Lee Wilbur, Ypsilanti, Mich. Detroit News; that he went to New York and consulted witb Mr. Hawthorn, Wayne, 1\Iich. Mr. Newberry with reference to the preparation of advertise Ira Wilson, Plymouth, :Mich. ments to appear in l\fichigan newspapers; that he was in con· Phillip Cottrell, Jackson, Mich. stant communication with l\1r. Newberry while writing these Ivan George English, publisher of Daily Mirror, Esc[n!tba.,. intimate adv-ertisements, and that Mr. Newberry cooperated 1\Iich. with him in their preparation. Albert J. Young, Escanaba, Mich. Mr. Clarence L. Sibbens, 1224 Ford Building, Detroit, Michi· Judd Yelland, Escanaba, l\lich. . gan, was Paul King's personal secretary during the campaign; Sherman Olmstead, Midland, Mich. be travele-d all over the State with King before the primaties, Rogers Andrews, Menominee, Mich. _ and also went with him to New York at different times. He is a Mr. Rice, attorney, -Battle Creek, Mich. stenographer and is now employed in the office of Mr. Fred P. Ike Bloom, Kalamazoo, :Mich. Smith, in charge of the offices of the executors of the Newberry Bill ~ earnb, Cadillac, Mich. . . · estate. Sibbens has probably been taken into tbe regular employ Many other names of men can be obtained if an investigation. of the Newberry family. These offices were used for private finds it necessarya . dictation of King, Emery, and others of the committee, I am I have reason to believe that witnesses may be obtained Itt informed and _believe. nearly every county of the State showing that large sums ~! 40 CONGRESS I ONAl~ .RECORJZ>- .&ENATE. l\IAY 20,
money were ex:pe1,1ded . in them before the . primaries which are and ( 2) .petition of-Mr. Henry Ford, dated May 17, 1919, to tbe not set forth or inclu.ded ~ in _the_coinmittee report _ -Senate of the United States, for a contest of said .election ·of I am for.warding to the committee a copy of the Saginaw Mr. Newberry, for a recount of the ballots· for such election cast Valley Fa.rwer, a prominent faon _newspaper, for August, 1918. in Miclp.gan at. the election of November 5, 1918, and for other In it you will see .a saro"ple of the lavish expenditures of money on ·relief, the originals. of .which said notice· and petition were filed behalf of 1\lr. Newberry. Ycu will find .advertisements and .in the Senate of the United States on, to wit, May 20, 1919, by reading articles on ten pages of this issue, which contains only handing said true copies so served to the aforesaid l\fr; New- twenty-four page::; in all. · berry personally. _ . . ' Newberry's campaign was advertised in practically all of the Deponent further says that upon said occasion l\1r. Newberry newspapers_of the State of Michigan in the most lavish manner. .. acknowledged to .deponent that he, Mr. Newberry, had received I am also infot·mE:od and believe tha.t" several speakers were . the duplicate originals of said notice and petition, being those engaged for the primary campaign whose names do not .appear sent to him by registered mail from Detroit, Michigan, as set in the committee · repoi't und.er their list of expenditures. One. forth in Ule proof of mailing filed in the Senate of the United of these speaker , whom I have been informed was engaged to -States along with the other original of said notice and petition travel in the wes tern part of the State of Michigan, was Mr. filed in said Senate, as first aforesaid. Horatio Earle, of Detroit. I have been unable to find his name HOWELL V.AN AUKEN . • in the committee report. -Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20th day of May, A great deal of evidence in addition to the suggestions above A. D . 1919. made could be obtained ·by a more thorough investigation. (SEAt..] F . GWYNN GABDINER, - Respectfully submitted. Notary P·ublic, Dist1"ict of Columbia. ELBERT H . FOWLER. My commission e xpires 1\Iarch 15, 1923. WOMAN SUFE:RAGE. . The following is· taken from the inaugural address of Lieut. Gov~rnor Dickinson, of 1\fichigan, which was delivered in the 1\:Ir. JONES of New Mexico. l\fr. President, out of order, I ask senate of Michigan on Wednesday, January 1, 1919. The sen _leave to introduce a joint resolution proposing an amendment. ate of l\lichigan is composed entirely of Republicans, and Lieut. to the Constitution of the United States providing for woman Go\ernor Dickinson is himself a. Republican, who announced in suffrage. . . t he public press just. before election that he would vote for 1\lr. . The joint resolution {S. J. Res. .1) proposing an amendment Newberry. The following clipping contains all that Lieut. to the Constitution of the United States conferring upon women Governor Dickinson said in his inaugural upon the subject. the right of suffrage was read twice by its title and referred to Lieut. Gov. Dickinson in his inaugural covers a number of sub· the Committee on Woman Suffrage. jects with a few words each. With reference to the Newberry MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT. campaign he said : l\lr. Sharkey, one of the secretaries of the President of the PRIMARY CIIANGES ASKED. United States, appeared and said : Primary elections wiJI call for action on your part. From what has occurred during the past political campaign it would afford me relief l\fr. President, the President of the United States directs me to if I could pass by this question, but experience teaches that the dis deliver to the Senate a meEsage in writing. agreeable acts of an office are the ones people demand the most strenu The message was received by the Secretary of the Senate and ously. More communications on this line asking for legislative action ·have come to me by fa-r than all others combined, and almost without handed. to the Vice President. exception Republicans not only fro.m all parts of Michigan but from The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair ntys before the Senate othE>r States. - the following message from the President of 'the United States. This you know is the outgrowth of a candidacy that doubtless co!>'i: mo1·e money than ever before was paid for a nomination for office in all The Assistant Secretary (Henry 1\l. Rose) read the message, as the world's history. I follows : CLAIMS G. o. r . NEAR DEFEAT. . I You also know this candidacy from one of the best known families of I GENTLEMEN OF THE CO::'\ GRESS : I deeply regret my inability to , the State, of a man of high standing, unquestioned integrity, and ,! be present at the opening c,f the extraordinary sess.:.cm of the ' acknowledged ability, in the face of an abnormally 1arge party majority, C I came near an ignominious defeat through the resentment from nearly j ongress. t still seems to be my duty to take part in the conn- every voting precinct in the State, of the farmer, the laborer, the busi- , sels of the peace conference al;ld contribute what I can to the ... ness and professional voter, becausG of the enormous amount .of money 1 solution of the innumerable questions to whose settlement it acknOwledged to have been used in his behalf and generally believed to has had to address itself . for· they are questi·ons ,,.hiCll nffcr:> t have been used contrary to laws, several Rections of which were enacted .. u. - for the stipulated purpose of restricting the use of large sums of money the peace of the whole world and from them, therefore, the in campaigns. United States can not stand apart. I deemed it my duty to call The case is now agitating Congress, the Federal and Michigan courts. the Congress together· at tlli·s time because I-t ,,-as Ilot '\'1."'0. to -with a strong suspicion by many that for political purposes it will be " ,, • ~ there suspended as long as possible before the country at large as an postpone longer the provisions which rnttst be made for the sup unsavory ~ct of Republican primary in Michigan, hoping by such course port of the Government. . 1\fany of the appropriations which are ~~ ~~~dN~;,;n~b~~e~fe~~~~ill depnve the party of the majority secured absolutely necessary for the maintenance ·of the Government sHoULD .AME:'i'D rniMaRY ACT. and the fulfi-llment of its varied obligations for the :fi cal year If the courts had given a decision as to who is to blame for this 1919-20 have not yet been niade; the end of the present fiscal undeslrable condition, it would have cleared the way for your action. year is at hap.d; and action upon these appropriations can no If, however, there is any question as to violation of the primary statute, 1 b d tl d 1 d It · · tll f · th t I it should be so amended that the interpretation relative to restrictions in onger e pru en Y e aye · IS necessary, ere ore, a the use of money and who to blame for violation shall be made plain anJ should immediately call yom· attention to· this critical n eeu. It simple. is hardly necessary for me to urge that it may recei\e you-r In legislative action I believe the utmost caution should be used to t tt ti - eliminate the name of any candidate and avoid all appearance of politics promp a en on. in considering this -subjech The ·individual or even party interests · are I shall take the liberty of addressing you on my return on the of but little note when the sanctity of the ballot and safety of democ- subjects which have most engrossed our attentior: and the at- racy are at stake. . REPORTs MANY COJ\IPLarxTs. · . tent~o~ of the world during these _last an.Xio~s mon0s, since the From almost every part of the State have _come to me pleas that t':b.'is', ·armistice ~f lag(; November was s1 g~ed, the mternat10nal settle legislature make it impossible in the future to witness the sale of a pub- ments ' WhiCh IpUSt form the SUbJeCt matter Of the present lie offic~ on the auction. block, but rathel' that the laborer, the farmer, h·eaties of peace and of our national action in the immediate the busmess or ·nrofesswnal voter, however hu~~le, but able and re- future It would be nremature to discuss them or to express a spectable, may have a chance with the man of m1ll10ns. . · - '.fhe war's end has· been termed a victory for safe democracy. No JUdgment about them before they are brought to their complete democracJ: is safe with a polluted primary or el~ction, made so by money formulation by the agreements which are now being sought at or otherWJse. ~nd no great amount of money will be used e~cept f!Jr the the table of the conference I shall h ope to lay them before you purpose of makmg votes, and to make votes by the use of money 1s pol- . . · _ luting, corrupting, and the user should be treated as a baser crimmal lll their many aspects so soon as arrangem ents have been _ than the laborer who steals a sack of flour for his family. reached. • • • • • I hesitate to venture any opinion or press any r ecommenda - tion with regard to domestic legislation whilc:> absent f rom the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, United States and out of daily touch with intimate sources of District ot Columbia. ss : information and counsel. I am conscious that I need, after so Howell VanAuken, being duly sworn, deposes and says that long an absence from Washington, to seek the advice of those he is of full age; that on, to wit, Tuesday, l\Iay 20, 1919, at, to wit, who have remain~d in constant contact with domestic problems office number 411, Senate Office Building, city of Washington, and who have known them close at hand. from clay to day; and said District of Columbia, he served upon Mr. Truman H . New I trust that .it will very soon be possible for me to do so. But berry a true copy of each the following papers : (1) Notice of there are several questions pressing for consideration to which Mr. Henry Ford, dated May 17, 1919, as to the contest of the I feel that I may, and. indeed· must, eYen now direct your atten election of l\1r. Truman H . Newberry as ..Senator from l\lichigan, tion, if only in general terms. In speaking of them I shall, I 1919. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE . . 41
dare suy, he lloin;; little more than speak your own 'thoughts. 1 · I am suTe that it is not necessary for: me to remind· you that hope t11at I shall S[leak your own judgment also. there is one immediate and very p1=actical question ·of laboui· The question. whieh stands at the front of all others in every that we should meet in the most liberal spirit. We must see to country amidst the present great awakening is the question of· it that our returning soldiers are assisted in every pra·cticable labour ; ru1d pe1·haps I can speak· of it with as great advantage way to find the places for which they are fitted· in the daily while cnoTossed in the consideration of interests which affect work of the country. This can be done by developing and main all countrie alike as I could at home and amidst the interests taining upon an adequate scale the admirable organization cre which naturally most affect my thought, because they are the ated by the Department of Labor for placing men seeking work; interests of our own people. and it can also be done, in at least one very great field, by By the question of labour I do not mean the question of. creating new opportunities for iudividtial enterprise. The Sec efficient industrial production, the question of how labour is to retary of the Interior has pointed out the way by which return be obtained and made effective in the great process of sustain ing soldiers may be helped to find and take up land in the hith ing populations and winning success amidst commercial and in erto undeveloped regions of the country which the Federal Gov dustrial rivalries. I mean that much greater and more vital ernment has already prepared or can readily· prepare for culti question, llow are the men and women who do the daily labour vation and also on many of the cutover or neglected areas which of the world to obtain progressive improvement in the condi lie Within the limits of the older states; and I once more take tions of theii· labour, to be made happier, and tQ be s.erved .· the liberty of recommending very urgently that his plans shall better by the communities and the industries which their receive the immediate and substantial support of the Congress. labour sustains and advances? . How are they to be given their Peculiar and very stimulating conditions await our commerce right a<.l'mntage•as citizens and human beings? and industrial enterprise in the immediate future. Unusual op We cannot go any further in our present direction. We have. portunities will presently present themselves to our merchants already gone too far. \Ve cannot live our right life as a and producers in foreign markets, and large fields for profitable nation or achieve our proper success as an industrial com investment will be opened to our free capital. But it is not only munity if capital and labour are to continue to be antagonistic of that that I am thinking; it is not chiefly of that that I am instead of being partners. If they are to continue to distrust thinking. Many great industries prostrated by the war wait to one another and contrive how they can get the better of one be rehabilitated, in many parts_of the world where what will be another. Or, what perhaps amounts to the same thing, calcu lacking is not brains or willing hands or organizing capacity or late by what form and degree of coercion they can manage to experienced skill, but machinery and raw materials and capital. extort on the one hand work enough to make enterprise profit I believe that our business men, our merchants, our manufac able, on the other justice ...and fair treatment enough to make turers, and our capitalists; will have the vision to see that pros life tolerable. That bad road has turned out a blind alley. perity in one part of the world ministers to prosperity every It is no thoroughfare to real prosperity. \Ve must find an- where: that there is in a very true sense a solidarity of interest . other, leading in another direction and to a very different throughout the world of enterprise, and that our dealings with destination. It must lead not merely to accommodation. but the countries that have need of our products and our money will also to a genuine cooperation and partnership based upon a teach them to deem us more than ever friends whose necessities real community of interest and participation in control. . we seek in the right way to serve. , There is now in fact ,a real community of interest between Our· new merchant ships, which have in some quarters been capital and labour, but it has never been made evident in ac feared as destructive rivals, may prove helpful rivals, rather, tion. It can be made operative and manifest only in a new and common servants, very much needed and very welcome. organization of industry. The genius of ·our l;msiness men a11d Our great shipyards, new and old, will be so opened to the use of the sound practical sense of our workers can certainly work the world that they will prove immensely serviceable to every such .a partnership out when once they realize exactly what it maritime people in restoring, much more rapidly than would ·Is that they seeli· and sincerely adopt a common purpose with otherwise have been possible, tlle tonnage wantonly destroyed in regard to it. . the war. I have· only to suggest that there are many points at Labour legislation lies, of course, chiefly with the states; which we can facilitate American enterprise in foreign trade by but the new spirit and method of organization which must be opportune legislation and make it easy for American merchants effected are not to be brought about by legislation so much as to go where they will be welcomed as friends rather than as by the common counsel and voluntary cooperation of capitalist, dreaded antagonists. America has a great and honorable serv manager, and workman. Legislation can go only a very little ice to perform in bringing the -commercial and industrial under way in commanding what shall be done. The organization of takings of the world back to their old cope and swing again, and industry is a matter of corporate and individual in.itiative and putting a solid structu1'e of credit under them. All our legisla of practical business arrangement. Tl!ose who really desire a tion should be friendly to such plans ::mel purposes. new relationship between capital and labour can readily find And credit and enterprise alike will be quickened by timely a way to bring it about; and perhaps Federal legislation can and. helpful legislation with regard to taxation. I hope that the help more than state legislation could. Congress will find it possible to undertake an early reconsidera The object of all reform in this es ·ential matter must be the tion of Federal taxes, in order to make our system of taxation genuine democratizat1on of industry, based upon a full recogni more simple and easy of administration and the taxes themselves tion of the r1ght Qf those who work, in whatever rank, to par-. as little burdensome as they can be made and yet suffice to sup ticipate in some organic way in every decision which directly port the Government and meet all its obligations. The figures affects their welfare or the part they are to play in industry. to which thol:?e obligations have arisen are very gr~at iadeed, but Some positiYe legislation is practicable. The Congress has al they are not so great as to make it difficult for the nation to m~et ready shown the way to one reform which should be worldwide, them, and meet them, perhaps, in a single generation, by taxes by establishing the eight-hour day as the sfandard day in every which will neither crush nor discourage. These are not so great field of labour over whicll it can exercise control. It has sought as they seem, not so great as the immense sums we have had to to find the way to preyent child labour, and will, I hope and be borrow, added to the immense sums we have had to raise by lieve, presently 'find it. It bus s.erved the whole country by lead taA"ation, would seem to indicate; for a very large proportion of ing the way in developing the means of preserving and safe th.ose sums were raised in order that they might be loaned to the guarding life and health in dangerous industries. It can now governi:nents with which we were associated in the war, and help in the difficult task of giving a new form and spil.-it to in those loans will, of course, constitute assets, not liabilities, and dustrial organization by coordinating the se\eral agencies of will not have to be taken care of by our taxpayers. conciliation and adjustment which have been brought into exist The main thing we shall have to care for is that ou~ taxation ence by the difficulties and mistaken policies of the present man shall rest as lightly as possible on the productive resources of agement of industry, and by setting up and developing new Fed the country, that its rates shall be stable, and that it shall be eral agencies of ndvice and information which may serve as a constant in its revenue-yielding power. We have found the · clearing house for tlle best experiments and the best thought main sources from which it must be drawn. I take it for on this great matter, upon \Vhich eYery thinking man must be granted that its mainstays will henceforth be the income tax, aware that the future development of society directly depends. the excess-profits tax, and the estate tax. All these can so be Agencies of international counsel and suggestion are presently adjusted to yield constant and adequate returns and yet not to be created in connection with the league of nations in this constitute a too grievous burden on the taxpayer. A revision of very field; but it is national action and the lightened policy of the income tax has already been provided for by the act of 1918, individuals, corporations, and societies within ·each nation that but I think you will find that further changes can be made to must bring about tlle actual reforms. The members of the com advantage both in the rates· of the tax and in the method of its mittees on labour in the two houses will hardly need suggestions collection. The excess-profits tax need not long be maintained from me as to what means they shall seek to make the Federal at the rates which were necessary while the enormous expenses Government the agent of the whole nation in pointing out and, of the war had to be borne, but it should be made the basis of a 1f need be, guiding the process of reorganization and reform. permanent system which will reach undue profits without dis- 42 CONGRESS! ON AL RECORD-SEN ATE. MAY 20,
com·aging the ente1~prise and activity of our business men. The- tions. I recommend that this phase of the tariff question re - tux on inheritances ought, no doubt, to be reconsidered in its ceive the early attention of the Congress. relation to the fiscal systems of the several States, but it cer Will you not p~rmit me, turning from these matters, to speak tainly ought to remain a permanent part of the fiscal system of once more and very earnestly of the proposed amendment to the the Federal Government also. Co~stitution which would extend the suffrage to women and Many of the minor taxes provided for in the revenue legisla which passed the House of Representati>es at the last ses ion tion of 1917 and 1918, though no doubt made necessary by the of the Congress? It seems to me that every consideration of pressing necessities of the war time, can hardly find sufficient j?-stice and of public advantage calls for the immediate adop justification under the easier circ-umstances of peace and can tion of that amendment and its submission forthwith to the now happily be got rid of. Among these, I hope you will agree - legislatures of the several States. Throughout all the worlantage. munication with all parts of the country as has so long been The work of mere reconstruction will, I am afraid, tax the ca afforded by the postal system of the Government, and at rates pacity and the resources of their people for years to come. So as uniform and intelligible. Expert advice i , of cour e., avail fa11 from there being any danger or need _of accentuated foreign able in this >ery practical matter, and the public intere t is competition, it is likely that the conditions of the next few years manifest. Neither the telegraph nor the telephone service of will greatly facilitate the marketing of American manufactures the country can be said to be in any sense a national sy tt-m. abroad. Least of all should we depart from the policy adopted There are many confusions and inconsi tencies of rates. Tl1 e in the Tariff Act of 1913, of permitting the-fi'ee entry into tile scientific means by which communication by such instrumentali United States of the raw materials needed to supplement and ties could be rendered more thorough and stttisfactory has not enrich our own abundant supplies. been made full use of. An exhaustive study of the whole que - N ev.ertheless, there are parts of om· tariff system which need tion of electrical communication and of the mean by which the prompt attention. The experiences of the war have made it central authority of the nation can be usro. to unify and improve plain that in some cases too great reliance on foreign supply i3 it, if undertaken, by the appropriate committees of the Congre , dangerous, and that in determining certain parts of our tariff would certainly result, indirectly even if not directly, in a great policy domestic considerations must be borne in mind which are public benefit. political as well as economic. Among the industries to which The demobilization of the military force of the counh·J· bas special consideration should be given is that of the manufactu,l'e progressed to such a point that it seems to me entirely safe now_ of dyestuffs and related c-hemic-als. Our complete dependence to remove the ban upon the manufacture and sale of wines· ane successful maintenance of many strong and well-equipped chem amended or repealed in so far as it applies to wines and beer . ical plants. The German chemical industry, with which we will I sincerely trust that I shall very soon be at my post in 'Va h be brtnight into competition, was and may well be again, a ington again to report upon the matters which made my pre ence thoroughly knit monopoly capable of exercising -a competition at the peace table apparently imperative, and to put myself at of a peculiarly insidious and dangerous kind. the service of the Congress in every matter of admini tration or The United States should, moreover, have the mean~ of prop counsel that may seem to demand executive action or ad ice. '' WOODROW WILSON. erly protecting itself whenev~r our trade is discriminated against by foreign nations, in order that we may be assured of that 20 1\I~Y, 1919. equality of treatment which we hope to accord and to promote PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. the world over. Our tariff laws as they now stand provide no The VICE PRESIDENT presented a petition of the Private weapon of retaliation in case other governments should enact Soldiers and Sailors' Legion of the United States of America, legislation unequal in its bearing on our products as compared praying for the enactment of legislation to provide for the elll with th~ products of other countries. Though we are as far ployment on public works of all soldiers, sailors, marine , nnd as possible from desiring to enter upon any course of retaliation war workers who are unable to secure employment in private we must frankly face the faet that hostile ·legislation by othe; busines~, etc., which was referred to the Committee on Military_ nations is not beyond the range of possibility, and that it may Affairs. have to be met· by counter legislation. This subject has, 1\Ir. 1\IYERS presented a memorial of the Legislature of fortunately, been exhaustively investigated by the United States Montana, which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Tariff Commission. A recent report of . that commission has ~elations and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: shown very clearly that we lack and that we ought to have House joint memorial 2. the instruments necessary for the )lssurance of equal and equi~ To his ea:celumcy the Pt·esident of the United Statetr a~td. to tlw honorable table t_reatment. The attention of the Congress has been called the &mate and House of &pre.sentati'fies of t11e United States of to this matter on past occ-asions, and the past measures which America i.n Oongress assembled: Whereas the suc-cessful termination of tbe present World War was are now recommended by the Tariff Commission are substan largely broo.ght about by the timely participation in tbe struggle of _tially the same that have been suggested by previous administra· the land and naval fore~ or the United States; and .. 1919. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- . SENATE. 43
Whereas the United. States, in taking up arms against the Central Department of Agriculture of the United States and to the Senators Powers, sought no selfish dominion or indemnities, but waged war in and Representatives of the State of Montana in Washington, D. C. defense of the smaller nationalities, and to further the abolition of W. W. MCDOWELL, future international wars; and President of the Senate. Whereas the President of the United States, in conducting the negotia 0 . W. BELDEN, tions leading to an armistice and consequent cessation of bloodshed, Speaker of the 'House. laid down certain 14 propositions, some of particular and others of Approved February 27, 1919. general application, which 14 propositions, having been accepted by S. V. STEWART, the Allied Governments and the Central Powers, constituted, and do Governo1·. still constitute, a solemn and binding contract and agreement be Filed February 27, 1919, at 4.40 o'clock p. m. tween the former belligerents and by reason of their general accept - . C. T. STEWART, ance have now risen to the dignity of international law; and Secretary of State. Whereas one of the 14 propositions of general application acquiesced UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in and agreed to as a condition of averting further carnage, and now State of Montana, ss: generally accepted by all enlightened and liberty-loving nations, is I, C. T. Stewart, secretary of state of the State of Montana, do hereby the right of self-determination of subject peoples involving the vin certify that the above is a true and correct copy of senate joint resolu..: dication of the American principle that governments derive their just tion No. 6, enacted by the sixteenth session of the Legislative Assembly powers .from the consent of the governed: Be it therefore of- the State of Montana, and approved by S. V. Stewart, governor of Resoh;ed by the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of the State of Mon said State, on the 27th day of February, 1919. tana (the Senate and Hot,se concu1·ring), That the President of the In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my band and affixed the United States and the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress great seal of the State of Montana at Helena, the capital, this 27th day assembled be, and by these presents are, memorialized and requested of February, A. D. 1919. to instruct America's delegates to the peace conference to advocate at (SEAL,] C. T . STEWART, said conference the application of the principle of self-determination a.nd Secretary of State. self-government to Ireland and the Irish people, according to the liberal rules applied to other nationalities and national asJ?irations. In our 1\fr. lliYERS presented a memorial of the Legislature of l\Ion judgment nothing will be more conducive to the contmuance of cordial tana, which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations relations between ourselves and our international neighbors than a and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows : settlement of the centuries-old Irish question according to the principles now dominant everywhere in the civilized world and in keeping with Ilouse joint memorial 3, introduced by Roberts. the natural rights of man ; be it further A memorial to the Senate and House of Representa.tives praying for the Resolved, That the chief clerk of the house be instructed to forward passage of such legislation as may be necessary for the continuance forthwith a copy of this memorial to the President of the United States of the United States Employment Service. and to Montana's Representatives in the lower House at Wash~gton, To the honot·able Senate and House of Representati1;es in Congress of and that the secretary of the senate be likewise instructed to forward the United States assembled: a copy of the same to Montana's representatives in the United States Whereas the United States Government has established offices of the Senate. United States Employment Service throughout the State of Montana, 0. W. BELDEY, serving the people of the entire State; and Speaker of the House. Whereas the United States Employment Service, which was created W. W. McDowELL, and extended as a solution to the labor employment problems growing President of the Senate. out of war-time conditions, has proven its worth to the people of the Approved' February 11, 1919. State of Montana, and has been and is of material value and assistance S, V. STEWART, both to employers in securing labor when workers are want('d and Governor. to labor when employment is sought; and Filed February 11, 1919, at 3.50 p. m, . Whereas the people of Montana believe that the usefulness of the United C. T. STEWART States Employment Service will not cease with the termination of Secretary of State. the war, but rather that its fields of service will constantly become broader and more beneficial to the public: Now, therefore, be it UNITED ' STATES OF AMERICA, Resolved, By the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of the State of Mon- State of Jfontana, ss: tana that we do hereby petition and earnestly pray the honorable I, C. T. Stewartb secretary of state of the State of Montana, do hereby Congress of the United States for the passage of such legislation as may certify that the a ove is a true and correct copy of house joint memo be necessary for the continuance of the United States Employment rial No. 2 "Relating .to self-government and self-determination for Ire Service; and be it further · land and Irish people," enacted by the sixteenth session of the Legislative Resolved,... That a copy of this memorial be forwarded by the secretary Assembly of the State .of Montana, and approved by S. V . Stewart, gov of state or the State of Montana to the Senate of the United States, ernor of said State, on the 11th day of February, 1919. and that copies of this memorial be forwarded by the secretary of state In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the of the State of Montana to the House of Representatives of the United great seal of the State of Montana at Helena, the capital, this 11th States, and that copies thereof be transmitted by the secretary of state day of February, A. D. 1919. of the State of Montana to the Senators and Representatives in Congress [SEAL.] C. T. STEWART, of the State of Montana with the request that they use every effort Secretary of State. within their power to bring about an accomplishment of the ends and Mr. 1\fYERS presented a memorial of the Legislature of purposes herein indicated. 0. W. BELDEN Montana, which was referred to the Committee on Agricul Speaker of lhe House. ture and Forestry and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as W. w. McDowELL, follows: President of tl!c .:. cnate. Approved February 18, 1919. Senate joint memorial 6. S. V. STnWART. To the honorable Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, Wash Gor c:·n ar. ington, D . 0 .: Filed February 18, 1919, at 4.10 o'clock p. m. C. T. STEWART. Whereas the Department of Agriculture of the Government of the United Secretary of State. States had adopted and promulgated various speciiications for the grading and inspection of grain under- the authority of an act of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Congress known as the Federal grain standards .act ; and State of Montana, ss: Whereas under the specifications of the grain-grading inspection as pro I , C. T. Stewart, secretary of state of the State of Montana, do hereby vided the amount of moisture allowance and deduction is greater than certify that the above is a true and correct copy of house joint memorial is warranted from the facts, and thus r·esults in the deduction of No. 3, being "A memorial to the Senate and House_ of Representatives greater value being taken from the grower of grain than is equitable praying for the passage of such legislation as may be neces!:lary for and just ; and the cQntinuance of the United States Employment Service," enacted by Whereas the variation of moisture allowed in the specification of grain the sixteenth session of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Mon inspection is such that it results in an unjust discrimination against tana, and approved by S. V. Stewart, governor of said State, on the the growers of winter wheat; and 18th day of February, 1919. Whereas the test weight of No. 1 spring wheat, compared with No. 1 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixe(l the hard winter wheat per bushel, is so arranged that it permits of an great seal of the State of Montana at Helena, the capital, this 18th day · unfair and unjust discrimination being made by the purchaser of of February, A. D. 1919. grain against the grain growers; and [SEAL.] c. T. STEWAitT, Whereas the test weight of No. 1 spring wheat is set at 58 pounds and Se01·etary of State. of No.1 hard winter wheat is set at 60 pounds, and that the difference Mr. MYERS presented a memorial of the Legislature of l\fon in test weight is unfair and unreasonable and works an injustice to the growers of No. 1 hard winter wheat, the test weight of No. l tana, which was referred to the Committee on Education and hard winter w)leat should be reduced to the same test weight as No. 1 Labor and ordered to 'be printed in the RECORD, a~ follows: northern spring wheat; and Whereas under the said grain-inspection act the vitreous contents of House joint memorial 7, introduced by Gullidge. No. 1 hard winter wheat is set at a higher percentage than for No. 1 A memorial to the honorable Senate and House of Representatives northern spring wheat, and thereby results in discrimination against praying for the passage of the educational bill known as Senate bill the grower of No. 1 hard winter wheat; and No. 4987. Whereas that by reason of these standards of grading and testing which Wher€as this bill (S. 4987) is designed to remedy in a constructin~ way result in unjust discrimination against the growers of wheat in the existing defects in our public school system, defects which have exi ted State of Montana to their loss and detriment of about 7 cents a for years but of which our participation in the world war bas !!lade bushel,~ which sum aggregates approximately $2,000,000 per year : us keenly conscious ; and Tbererore be it Whereas this bill, by its provisions for 1.be removal of illiteracy, the Resolved by the Senate (the Hot4se concurring) of the Sill!teenth Legis Americanization of immigrants, the equalization of educational oppor lative Assembly of the State of Montana, That we petition the Depart tunities, the establishment of physical and health education, and tbe ment of Agriculture of the Government of the United States that, after preparation of teachers, recognizes .the cooperative responsibility, anu due investigation, it make such changes in the rules and regulations of provides for the cooperative system of communities, States, antion from military service on the ground of being a new sanction, a sanction which it ought to have because of its servh!e citizen or lffibJect of a neutral country. to our Nation ; and Wherea.s, and finally, the bill will translate into social reality and thus To tile honorable Senate and House of Rep,·esentatives of the UniterZ a sure to the future the idealism with which and for which our States in Oongress assembled: country went in war: ·ow, therefore, be it W-herea~ durin~ the re;:ent World W:!! many registrants under the selective service regulations of the Umted States Government claimed Resolved by the Si~teenth Legislative .4.ssetnbly of the State of Mon tana, 9-eterred classification upon the ground that they were citizens or sub That we do hereby petition •· and earnestly pray the honorable Jects of ~ neutral country, and in many instances such registrants be· Senate and House of Representatives of the United States for the came relieved from liability to military service by withdrawin"' their pas age of Senate bill No. 4987; now pending before it; and be it fur- intention to become citizens of the United States; and " ther . Whereas I?racti~ally all of su~ aliens came to this country for the pur Resolt:ed, That a copy of this memorial be forwarded by the secretary pos~ of se!!urmg the protection of the American flag and enjoying the of the State of Montana to the Senate of the United States, and that fru~ts of ll!x>rty and the benefits of a constitutional government, and by copies of this memorial be forwarded by the secretary of state of the their conduct have shown that they are unworthy of becoming citizens - State of Montana to ihe House of Representatives of the United State~. of the United States of America; and n.nd that copies thereof be transmitted by the secretary of state of the Where~ m::tnY of such aliens. are now conspiring or are members of State of Montana to the Senators and Representatives in Congress of the orgamzatwns whose underlymg, if not their ostensible, purpose is to -State of Montana with the request that they use every effort within their oy~rthrow o1:1r present. form of government and to destroy every tra power to brjng about the passage of Senate bill No. 4987. ditwn and nght that 1s sacred to the American ·people, either peace 0. W. BELDEN, ably or by bloodshed if necessary, and to substitute for a government Speaker of the House. of Ia~ an.d order, with _individual rights of citizens guaranteed by the J. E. EDWARDS, ~dstitutiou and by the courtt!, a condition of anarchy and re-volution; Pt·esident pt·o tempore of the Senate. Approved February 21, 1919. Whe~eas a.ll -of such aliens are dangerous and undesirable residents in S. V. STEWART, this country and are totally unfit to associate with law-abidin"' per Governor. sons or to llve in a peace-loving nation : Now, therefore, be it " Fileu February 2i, 1919, at 4.25 o'clock p. m. Resolved bv tl~e. Legislativ l$ Assembly of the State of Montana, That c. T. STEWART, we do hereby petition the Congress of the United States for the passage Secretary of State. of, necf'ssary legislation prohibiting all such dangerous and undesirable aliens from ever becoming citizens of the United States of America and UNITED STATES OF AUERICA, auth~~z:ing their l.!Dmediate deportation to the country of which they State of Montana, ss: are citizens or '!lubJects ; and be it further I, C. T. Stewart, s~retary of state -of the State of Montana, do hereby Resolved, That a copy of this memorial be transmitted by the secretary certify t~at the above is a true and C'Orrect copy of house joint memorial of state of the State of Montana to both Houses of the National Con No. 7, being "A memorial to the honorable Senate and House of Repre &ress and to the S~nators and Representatives in Congress from the sentatives praying for the passage {)f the educational bill, known as State of Mo!Jtana, With the request that they use every effort within thejr Senate bill No. 4987," enaeted by th~ sixteenth session of the Le~slatiYe power to bnng about the enactment of such legislation. Assembly of the State of Montana and approved by S. V. ;::;tewart, RO~ALD HIGGINS, gon~rnor of said State on the 21st day of February, 1919. Speake,· pro tempore of tlle IIouse. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the W. W. MCDOWELL, great seal of the State of Montana at H.elena, the capital, this 21st President of the Senate. day of February, A. D. 1919. .Apifroved March 4, 1919. [SEAL. ] c. T. STEWART, S. V. STEWART, Sect·etarv of State. Governor. 1\'lr. MYERS presented a memorial of the Legislature of Mon Filed March 5, Hl19, at 9.35 a. c . C. T. STEWART tana, which was referred to the Committee on Immigration and Secretary of State. ordered to be printed in the RECoRD, as follows: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA., State of Montana, ss : House joint memorial 14, introduced by Hathaway. I,, c. T. Stewart, secr~tary of state of the State lslatlve petition the Congress of the United States to pass Senate bill No. 5464 o.f the State of that there has heretofo"'re been and House bill 15402 ; be it further . ~ssembly Mont~'\ Resolved, That the secr,etary of state be, and is hereby, instructed to rntro~uced m Cong~ss a measur~ providing, among other things, that a~ discharged solc;hers ~hall rece1v~ a bonus of pay from the date of transmit copies of this memorial. to the chairman of the Committee -on discharge, and which sa1d measure 1s styled the Shafter bill · and Educati'On and Labor in the United States Senat!) and to the chairman Whereas the leg:Lsl~tive af!Sembly is of the belief that some effort should of the Committee on Education in the· House of Representatives, and to be made to provide ass1st:;wce to the returning soldiers, so that they our Senators and Representatives in the United States Congress. may, as qmckly as possible, be able to adju~t themselves to the 0. W. llELDEN, economic and industrial conditions of civil life; and Speaker· of the House. Whereas the legislative assembly is of the belief that the Shafter pill -W . W. 1\I.cDOWE.L, g~eltents legislation toward effecting that object: Now, tllerefore, President of the Senate. Approved March 1, 1919. Resolved, That we; your memorialists of the Sixteenth Legislative S. V. STEWART, Assembly of the State of Montana, do resv.ectfully petition the Congress G-overnor. of the United States that said Shafter b1ll be enacted; that the ecre Filed March 1, 1919, at 9.55 ~·ctoch a. m. tary of state be instructed to transmit notice of this memorial properly C. T. STEWART, aubentieated, to our Senators and Representatives in Congress' from the Secretary of State. State of Montana. W . W. McDoWELL, UNITED ST.lTES OF AMERICA, Preside11t of tiLe Senate. State of Montana, ss: 0. W. BELDE~, . I, C. T. Stewart, ·secretary of state of the $tate of Montana, do hereby Spealce-r of the IIouse. certify that the above is a true and correct copy of house joint memorial Approved February 27, 1919. No. 14, being "memorializing Congress .of the United States to pass the f:?. V. STEWART, Smith-Bankhead .Americanization bill," enacted by the sixteenth session Governor. of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, and approved by Filed February 27, 1919, at 4.40 o'clock p. m. S. V. Stewart, governor of said State, on the lst day of March, 1919. C. T. STEWART In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Secreta,·y of State. great seal of the State of Montana at Helena, the capital, this 1st day U::>.TJTED STATES Oll'" AMERICA, -of March, A. D. 1919. tate of Montana, ·ss : [SEAL.] C. T . STEWART I, C. T. Stewart, secretary of state of the Si;ate of Montana, uo.hereby Secretary of State. certify that the above is a true and correct copy of senate joint memorial No. 12, being " a memorial in behalf of the Shafter bill in Congress," 1\Ir. 1\fYERS presented a memorial of the Legislature of Mon enacted by the sixteenth session of the Legislative Assembly of the State tana, which was referred to the Committee .on. Immigration and of Montana and approved by S. V. Stewart, governor of said State, o~ ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows : the 27th day of February, 1919. 1919. CONGRESSIONAL -RECORD-SENATE. 45
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my band and affixed the great seal of the State of Montana at llelena, the capital, this 27th day Mr. :MYERS presented u memorial of the Leg1sluture of Mon of February, A. D. 1919. tana, which was referred to the Committee on Interstate Com (SEAL.} • c. T. STEWART, merce and onlered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: Secr·etary of State. Substitute for Senate joint memorial 5, introduced by Donlan. 1\.Ir. 1\IYEP.S presented a memorial of the Legislature of Mon A memorial petitioning Congress to make restoration of railroads to tana, which was referred to the Committee on Military ~'lifajrs their owners. and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows : To the honcrrabZe Senate and House of Representatives of the United States itl Congress Msembled: Senate joint r esolution 2, introduced by Edwards. Whereas during the period of the recent European war it was deemed To the ho11orable Senate ana Hoitse of Rep1·esentatives ot the United by the Government of the United States nece sary and expedient that States in Congress assembled: the several milroad systems and t elegraph lines of the United States .. Whereas Congressman GaXDY, of South Dakota, has Introduced a bill in be operated under and by the dil·ect control of the Federal Govern Congres~ providing for the transfer of the Battle MoUIItain Ilome, at n;tent, to the end that means of transportation of troops and muni Hot Spnngs, S. Dak., to the War D(>partment for use as a hospital for tions of war, and the conveyance of information by the telegraph the!.soldier of the pre ·ent war; and also providing for the transfer lines, be brought to a state of control necessary to carry and cond-uct of 1:be veterans of the Civil and Spanish-American Wars to other the wat· to a successful conclusion ; and homes, principally to the home at Danville, Ill.; and Whereas the several systems of railroads and telegraph lines of the Whereas the sanitarium :tt Hattie Mountain is for the treatment of all United States were taken over by the United States Government diseases to which the old solcliers are subject, and if they were removed under the authority of luws passed by the Congress of the· United to Danville, 111., or any of the other homes, the old soldiers wouJd be States providing that said railroads and telegraph lines should be deprived of this treatment: Now, therefore, be it returned to the owners of said railroad systems and telegraph lines ,. Resolved (~h e ?wuse of representatives concurr·ing), That we, the witbin a period, of 22 months after the conclusion of the war; and S_u:teenth Legislative .Assembly of the State of Montana, do hereby peti Whereas during the period within which the Government has been in tiOn the Congress of the United States that whatever disposition may control of the railroad systems and telegraph lines freight and pas be made of the Battle Mountain Ilome, that the old soldiers of the Civil senger rates of the milroad systems were increlUled .and the rates and Spanish-American Wars be not deprived of the benefits of the said charged by telegraph lines increa ed ; and sanitarium. Whereas it is a matter of common repute that during the time said rail Resolved furth er, That a copy of this memorial be forwarded to our road systems and telegt·aph lines have been under the control and S~nators and Representatives m Congress by the secretary of state, operation of the Federal Government the ser-vice rendered by said wtth the request that they use every effox·t within their power to protect public utilities has become less efficient, notwithstanding the fact tbat the old soldiers in their right to the benPfits of the said sanitarium. tbe public has been charged increased rates foe the use of said public W. W. MCDOWELL, utilities; and President of the Senate. Whereas dm·ing said period'·of operation the cost of operation has in 0. W. BELDEY, - creased t() such an extent that the Fedeeal Government -is now and • Speaker of the House. has been during the course of operation paying large sums of money Approved February 4, 1919. in excess of revenues received; and S. V. STEWART, Whereas the peop-le of the United States, whether individually or in Go-aernor. communities, who must of necessity use the sPvera.l railroa d systems Filed February 4, 1919, at 1.45 tJ. m. and telegraph lines, have suffered inconveniences by reason of less c. T. STEWAllT, efficient service ; and Ser:retary of State. Wheeeas it is appa.rent that the continued operation of' the railroad U::>iiTED STATES OF A:\-IERICA, systems and telegraph lines in the Unil'ed States by the F ederal Gov State of Montana, ss: ernment will r esult in a continued drain upon the people of the I, C. T. Stewart, secretary of state of the State of Montana, do United States without any corresponding benefit; and hereby certify that the aboYe is a. true ancl correct copy of Senate joint Whereas it is appaeent that longer delay in returning r·aileoad peoperty re olution No. 2, "A memorial to the honorable Senate and llouse of Rep and telegraph pro-perly to its owners will carry with it financial bur resentatives of the United States in Cong1·ess assembled, relating to the dens of so great a character as to be almost beyond conception, and tran fer of Battle Mountain Home at Hot prings. S. Dak.• " enacted that a continuation of the present syste-m of Government control will by the sixte€nth session of the Legislative Assembly of the State of add 'to and increase the burden alr·eady impo-sed:. Now, therefore, be it Montana and approved by S. V. Stewart, governor of said State on the Resol-ced, That we, your memorialists, the Sixteenth Legislative As- 4th day of li'ebruacy, 1!)19. sembly of the State of Montana, do earnestly petition the Congress of In testimony whereof I have here-unto set my hand and affixed the the United States to enact with all possible dispatch and expedition great seal of the State of Montana at llelena, the capital, this 4th suitable laws and legislation making provision for the early restoration day of February, A. D. 191t). of railroad and telegraph lines of the country to their legitimate owners [SEAL.] C. T. STEWART, and that the present Government control of railroad and telegtaph _lmes • Secretary oj State. be terminated at as early a date as possible; and be it fm·tber Resol,;ed, That 've, your memorialists, the Sixteenth Legislative As Mr. l\IYERS presented a memorial of the Le-gislature of sembly of the State of Montana, do petition the Congress of the United Montana, which was referred to the Committee on Int.,..rstate Stutes that suid railroads and r-ailroad prope1·ty and telegraph property • be RECORD, be returned to its rightful and legitimate owners, to be opemted under Commerce and ordered to printed in the as follows : the direct supervision of the Federal Government; and be it further Senate joint memorial 11, inh·oduced by ~Ir. Page. Resolved, That the secretary of state be, and he is her-eby, instructed to transmit copies of this memorial, propet·ly authenticated, to the A memorial asking for reduction of home-seeker rates to Montana from Senators and Rep "rese~atives of the State of Montana in the Congress eastern points. of the United Stutes. To HGn. CAnTER GLA.S!'l. W. W. McDowELL, Secretary of the Treasury and Director General of Rat1roadlt~· Pr~sident of the Senate. Whereas in the past it has been customary for the railroads to give home RONALD HIGGINS, ~ekers round-trip tickets from Chicago and otbe1· eastern pGints for Speaker pra- tempore of the Hous-e. about $40 ; and Filed March 6, 19Ht, at 9.15 a. m. W~~~eas at the. present time the said round trip costs in excess of $SO; c. T. STEW ART, Secr_·etm·y of State. :Whereas it is expected that many home seekers would like to- visit Mon UII.'TTED STA.TES 0!1' AMERICA.,. tana during the coming spring, summer, and fall in quest of homes State of Montana, ss: but that if this rate continues many of them will be discouraged froni making the trip: Now, therefore. be it I, C. T. Stewart. secretary of state of the State of Montana, do hereby certify that the above is a true and cGrrect co-py of snbstitnte . Resolvea, That we, your memorialists, of the Sixteenth Legislative for joint memorial No. 5, "A memorial petitioning Congress to make Assembly of the State of Montana., do earnestly petition your careful restoration of rnilro3ds tG their owners," enacted by the sixteenth ses consideration of this matter, with tbe i.clE:a, if possible, of affording sion of the Legislative Assembly of the State ot' Montana. ~o~~tafu;4~e ~lief and by reducing this home seekers' round-trip rate; In testimony whereof I have hereUIIto set my hand and affixed the great seal of the State of Montana at Helena, the capital, this 6th day Resolved, That the secretary of state be, and is hereby, instructed of March, A. D. 1919. ' to have this memorial prepared authentically and presented to the [SEA.L.] c. T. 8-.rEWAllT, Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Montana. Secretary of State. W. W. McDowELL, President of the Senate. 1\!r. l\!YERS presented a memorial of the Legislature of Mon 0. W. BELDBN, · . tana, wl'lich was refeiTed to the Committee on Interstate Com Speaker of the. House. merce and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: .Approved February 27, 1919. S. V. STEWART, j Senate joint memorial 3, introduced by Craig and Heren. Governor. A memorial to the Congress of the niterl States and to the Director Filed February 27, 1919, at 4.40 o'clock p. m. General of Railroads of tlle nitecl States. C. T. 8-.rEWAnT, To the lwnorable Senate aml. House of R epresentati,;es of the Congress Secretary of State. I of the United States ana to the Director GeneraZ of the Railt·oaas ot UNITED Sl'AT.ES OF AMEnrcA, the United States: State of Montana, ss: Your memorialists, the members of the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly I, C. T. Stewart, secretary of state of the State of Montana do of the State of Montana, the senate anu bouse concurring, respectfully hereby certify that the above is -a true and correct copy of senate ioint I represent: memorial No. 11, being "A memorial a_sking for re-duction o~ home- Whereas the county of Carter, of the State of Montana, at the present seeker rates to Aro?ta n~ . from eastern pomts." enacted by the su:teenth I time bas no railroad facilities by reason of ther e being no railroad session of the Le::nslati: e .Assc ~tbl! of th_e 8,?-te of :Montana, and ap- i · ·constructed in, across, or through said ~unty; and proved by S. V. Stewaxt, governoi of s::ud State, on the 21th day of • Wbereas a large portion of the county of Custer, of the State of Mon February,_ 1919. ! tana, adjoining the county of Carter on the western side thereof, is In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the I similarly situated · and - great seal of the State of Montana at Helena, the capital, this 27th day I Whereas there have 'settled in the county of Carter and the south half cf February, A. D. 1911). • I of the county of Cu.·ter in th~ last several years a large number of [SI!lA.L.] C. T. STEW.ART, j actual bona fide settlers, who are at the present time cultivating the Secretary of State. lands of said district ; an<.I 46 CONGRESSIONAL REOORD-=-SENATE. l\l.AY 20,
Whereas the .aid ·territory embraced in the county of Carter and the the State of Montana in Congress, with the request for their utmost south half of the wnnty of Custer contains approximately 10,000 efforts in obtaining the congressional a'ction herein indicated. · squnre miles in area; and W. W. McDoWELL, . Whereas the settlers of said extensive area are growing, cultivating, and P1·es·Lrtent of the Senate. producing a large amount of grain, which said grain, at the nearest 0. W. BELDEN, point, is more than 50 miles distant from any railroad point, and Speakey of the House. some of the settlers being over 100 miles from the nearest point on Approved February 27, 191ll. any railroad ; and S. V. STEWART, Whereas the settlers within aid m·ea are unable to continue to raise Governor. grain and have a market therefor at a reasonable profit, and that un Filed February 27, 1919, at 4.40 o"clock p. m. less rc!ief is granted to the settlers of this area they will be compelled C. T. STEWART to abamlon the producing and growing of grain; and SeCJ·etary of State. Whereas if adequate facilities were accorded to the peoples living within UNITED STATES OF .AMERICA, this area the amount of land which would come under cultivation State of Monta11a, ss: and become productive and produce a large amount of grain would I, C. 'I'. Stewart, secretary of state of t11e State of Montana, do increase at least one hundredfold : Now, therefore, be it hereby certify that the above is a tTue and correct copy of .senate JOint Jlcsol1:ecl by the senate of the sixteenth legis,ative assembly (the house memorial No. 8, being "A resolution memorializing Congress for PJlSsage concurring), That we. the members of the Sixteenth Legislative .Assem of legislation recognizing govern men tal obligations to producers of bly of the State of Montana, hereby petition and earnestly pray the essential war minerals," enacted by the sixteenth session of the Legis Senate and llousc of Representatives of the Congress of the . United lative Assembly of the State of l\Iontana and approved by S. V. Stewart, States and the Director General of Railroads of the United States that governor of said State, on the 27th day of F ebruary, 1919. they do cause inquiry to be made into the advisability and practicability In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the of the authorization of the construction of a line of railroads across the great seal of the State of Montana at Ilelena, the capital, this 27th day aforesaid area, and that such relief be granted as speedily as possible of February, .A. D. 1919. to the settlers of said area as may be necessary, to the end that they may continue their farming operations with profit to themselves and (SEAL.] c. T. STEWART, benefit to the entire State of 1\lontana. Secretary of State. R esolt;ed furthe~ That a copy of this memorial be forwarded to the Mr. l\IYERS pre ented a memorial of the Legi lature of Mon Secretary of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States and "to the Director General of Railroads of the tanan which was referred to the Committee on Mines and Min Tinited States, and that copies thereof be tran mitted by the secretary ing and ordered to be printed in the REcORD, as follows : of state. of the State of Montana to the Senators and Representatives in the Congress of the United States. Senate joint memorial 4, intToduced by Page. w. w. McDowELL, To the honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the United ' P1·esiclent of the Senate. States in Congress assetnbled: 0. W. BELDEN, Whereas upon the declaration of war . between. the nited States of Speaker of the House. America and Germany and .Austria, an increa ed produ~tion of man .Approved February 10, 1919. ganese and other minerals in the United States became, and was; S. V. STEWART, vitally essential to the prosecution of said war upon the part of the Governor. United States and associated nations; and Whereas prior to the European war, on account of the heavy production Filed February 10, 1919, at 4.20 p. m. of manganese, especially, by Brazil, Russia. and other countries of C. T. STEWART, the world, by means of cheap and underpaid labor, the producers of Secretary of State. manganese in the United State could not produce the same with UNITED STATES OF .AMERICA, profit, and little development and exploration for said metal had been State o.t Mo11tana, ss: undertaken or accomplished ; and I, C. T. Stewart, secretary of state of the State of Montana. do Whereas upon the outbreak of said war, and "Cipon the most urgent hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of senate joint solicitation upon the part of the nited ~tates of America, through memorial No. 3, "A memorial to the Congress of the United States and its properly constituted and organized boards and officers, and a ctu to the Director General of Railroads of the United States," enacted by ated thereunto by patriotic motives. many people in the United 8tates, the ~ixteenth Session. of the Legislative Assembly of the State o'f Mon and particularly in the State of Iontana, invested very large sums tana, and approved by S. V. Stewart, governor of said State, on the of money in the acquisition of properties producing manganese and lOth day of February, 1919. in the exploration and development of said properties ; and In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Whereas immediately upon the signing of the articles of armistice be great seal of the State of Montana at Helena, the capital, this lOth tween the Unitell States, and its associated nation , and said ·Ger day of February, A. D. 1919. many and .Austria, all market for manganese in the United States [SEAL.] c. T. STEWART, was suspended and cut off, and the same has not been since theP, Secreta!·y of State. neither can the same now be, produced with any profit whatever, and onlv at great loss, and for these reasons many investors in manganest> Mr. MYERS pre. ented a memorial of the Legislature of 1\Ion- pro.perties have suffered, and are suffering. great loss on account of said investments, and on account of stock of manganese on han
the r (:lief of manganese producers, ' enacted by the_sixteenth session of Whereas in the past many thousands of dollars have been expended by the Legislative .A.10sembly of the State of Montana, and approved by the prop.erty owners of the distr1ct in endeavoring to secure from S.. V. Stewart, govt'rnor of saicl St ate, on the 4th day of February, 1919. Congress ril?hts to build railroads, etc., to· the said di trict through In t estimony wher eof I ha\e hereunto set my hand and affixed the the. Yellowstone National Park, along the route heretofore described great al of the Stat e of ~ontana at Helena, the capital, this fourth in this memorial, aU of w!llch said effort~ have served only to prove day of F etruary, A. D., 1919. that it is impossible for private individuals to so obtain the relief [SEAL.] c. T. STJJWART, prayed for, >1nd to further convince those owning property in the dis Secretary of State. trict that it would be impossible to finance the building of such a road through the bounda rie::< of the Yellowstone National Park on Mr. J\lYERS presented a memorial of the Legislature of l\Ion any permit which is now within the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to grant, owing to the fact that such permit must of necessity, tana, which wns .referred to the Committee on Public Lands and under the laws of Congress dedicating this· park; be subject" to· revo ordered to be printed in th~ RECORD, as follows : . cation by the said Secretary of the Interior at his will and pleasure, House joint memorial 15, introduced by 'Gib~o~: ...... making it a matter of such extreme jeopardy, to anyone who might invest his money in such an enterprise, as to make it impossible to A memorial to Congress asking Congress to appropriate sum of money obtain sufficient funds for such purpose from the investing public or for the building of a hard-surfaced road througb the northern portion from any business person or corporation; and · · of tbe Yellowstone Park, leading from Gardiner, Mont_, to Cooke Whel'~as it further l;lppears that the building and operation of such City, 1\Iont., or to dedicate a strip of ground through the Yellowstone motor route as hereinbefore described in the memorial would in no Park for such road. - way or sense interfere with or destroy ·any of the scenic beauties-of To the lwnoml>le Senate ana House ot Representatives ·s11l Congress the s.aid Yellowstone National Park, or do any damage to the said park; or to the many species of wild game, which so abundantly live assembled: · and tlourisp. within its boundaries, but would, on the contrary, make WhE:'reas Congress rlid et aside ·and reserve land from the Territories the admirustration of the said park and its enjoyment by the visi of Montana and Wyoming, in tbe year 1872 for the purpose of pre tors touring the same more pleasurable and profitable; and that the serving to tbe people of the United States the wonderful scenic and Government of the United States, in the building and maintaining of unusual natural phenomena therein contained, wbicb said reserva such a road and charging a reasonable toll per ton -tor the transpor tion of land constitutes the Yellowstone National Park; and tation of ore and supplies thereon, would in a few years have such Wherea the act dedicating this land as the said park was so worded as a large income from the road alone as would probably make the Yel to prevent the u e of said park for rommerclal use or purpose of lowstone National ·Park self-sm;taining: Now, therefore,. be it private gain, it being under tbe direction of the Interior Department of our Governme,nt, and maintained in large part by annual appro Resolved, 1Jy the Senate ancl House ot Rep-resentatives of the State of priations for the Yellowstone National Park, made by the Congress Monta1~a, That Congress be requested to appropriate as soon as possible of the nited States, which said appropriations are uever in excess of a sufficient sum not in excess of $1,500,000 with which to build that part the minimum needs ol the administration of said park as at present of this ro;id which lies within the boundaries of the said Yellowstone operated for the enjoyment of tourists visiting the locations of great- National Park, as hereinbefore described; that the road be built witb a· est interest and scenic ~auty ~ and . hard surface, adapted to withstand the destruction of heavy motor Whereas there was discovered in 1871 a mineral area situated a few trucks operating thereon, and that it be built with such surface at miles northeast of the northeast corner of said park, of most prom least 20 feet wide; ising pro&peet, which said mineral area is known as the New World 01"', that Congress dedicate a strip of ground 200 feet wide along the Unorganized Mining District, Park County, Mont •• and ·is approxi route hereinbefore described, within the boundaries of the Yellowstone mately an area 10 miles eas~ and west by 15 miles north and south National Park, which said strip shall be available for the permanent use and situated entirely within the boundary of the said county of Park, of tbe New World Unorganized Mining District, for the purpose of of the State of Montana; and building a motor road thereon, subject to such rules for the use of the Whereas since the year of this discovery there have been great labor and same as shall be equitably suited to its needs ' and established by the money expenditures in said district in prospecting and developing Secretary of the. Interior, but not subject to revocation for such per the same, there having been made as many as 6,000 mineral locations manent use by the Secretary of the Interior ; and it is further in said district, and there having been expended in attempts to de Resolved,. That the secretary of state be, and is hereby, instructed velop the same approximately $3,000,000 ; and _as a result of .said to transmit copies of this memorial, properly authenticated, to the honor attempts to develop said district there has been proved the existence able Secretary of tbe Interior and to our Senators and Representatives of valuable deposits of gold, silver, lead, copper, and many other in Congress from the State of Montana. minerals of slightly greater value than the average of such minerals RONALD HIGGINS as are mineu and exported at a profit from other mining districts Speaker pro tempore of tf~e House. clo er to transportation ; and w. W. McDowELL, Whereas it has been impossible for the owners of said claims to make President ot the Senate. a profit from their mining operations in said district, owing to the Approved l\larch 4, 1919. bad road conditions existing between the said mining district and S. V. STEWART, its nearest sbippin"' point, viz, Gardiner, 1\font., a distance of 56 Governor. miles, of which distance 54> miles lies within the boundaries of the Filed March 5, 1919, ~~:t 9.35 a. m.. Yellowst one _'ational Park, and therefore all traffic over said portion c. T. STEWART, of said route bcing under the rules of the Department-of the Interior, and half of said road being the tourist route,. with many long and Secretary of State. h eavy grades thereon. rendering its use by ore trucks, during the U.-ITED STATES 01!' AMERICA, tourist season in particular, very difficult; and State ot M onta·na, ss: Whereas after a careful investi.,"'lltion and inspection by competent I, C. T. Stewart, secretary of state of tbe ·State of Montana, do hereby mining men and engineers from all over the United Stafe.s of the said certify that the above is a true and correct copy oi house joint memorial mining district and of the means and directions of ingress and egress No. ·15, "A memorial to Congress asking Congress to appropriate a sum or from said district, it is the unanimous opinion tnat said district will money for the building of a harll-surfaced road through the northern become a large and prosperous one if afforded adequate transporta portion of the Yellowstone Park, leading from Gardiner, Mont., to tion facilitie which would enable it to more cheaply develop the Cooke City, Mont., or to dedicate a strip of ground through the Yellow many promising mining prospects situated within the said district, stone Park for such road,'. enacted by the sixteenth session of the and known to contain large deposit9 of most valuable minerals; and Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, and approved by S. V. further, that the most feasible, practical, and only present method of Stewart, governor of said State, on the 4th day of March, 1919. improying aid nansportation facilities is th.e building of... a: haxd In testimony· whereof, I have- hereunto set my hand and affixed the surface motor road on water grade through the Yellowstone National great seal of the State of Montana at Helena, the capital, this 5th Park from Gardiner , Mont., to the commerclal center of the said day of March. A. D. 1919. New WoriU Minin~ District, Cooke, Mont., which said water-grade [SEAL.] c. T. STEWART, road should follow in general the no17th bank of tbe Yellowstone River Sec·retary of State. from Gardinel', Mont.., to a point opposite the Tower Falls Station in the Yellowstone National Par a. distance of about 20 miles; from l\lr. l\IYERS presented a memo-rial of the Legislature of "Mon which point it woulu proceed up tbe Lamar River on its north bank, a distance of 16 miles to the mouth of Soda Butte Creek; f~m which tana, which was referred to the Committee on Public Lands and point it would proceed up the Soda Butte Creek to. the no~thea.st ordered to be printed in ~e REcoRD, as follows : boundaries of the said Yellowstone National Park. a distance, of 14 miles and approximately 3 miles from Cooke, Mont., from which point House joint memorial 6, introduced by Brandjord. it would proceed up tbe Soda Butte Creek to Cooke, a distance of Praying that the House of Representatives of the United States of Amer- approximately 3 miles, which said 3 miles lies wholly within the bound- tea, in Congress. assembled, enact into law Senate bill No. 940, now aries of Park County, Mont. ; and di · th t h b1 bod Whereas it further appears that the portion of this route ly~g : witbfn . - pall ng m a onora e Y· . . .the boundary of the Yellowstone National Park can be cheaply and To 'the honorable Hause. "of Representatives in the Congress of the United quickly built at a moderate cost per mile, an!} laid on a grade not St'ates asse·mbJed: exceeding 3 per cent in any place; and that motor trucks operated ·on Whereas there is now pending before you Senate bill No. 940, introduced such a hard surface road could haul sup.plies and ore to and rrom by the Hon. H. L. MYERS, Senator fro Montana, providing for the the said mining district at such a reasonable cost as would enable the payment for certain lands within the former Flathead Indian Reserva- ' saill mining uistrict to quiekly and economically develop its vast re- tion, in the State of Montana· and , sources, adding the same to the mineral wealth of our great State; and Whereas this bill provides a just and fair solution of the rontroversy Whereas it further appears that this district is so situated as to make over the appraisal of. mor~ tJum 1,100 acres of land on the former the only ·practical route hy which adequate transportation facilities Flathead Indian ReEe.rvation in the State of Montana, now occupied can be afforded at this time, that through the Yellowstone National by approximately 200 actual and oona fide settlers and home builders, Park herein~fore mentioned and described; that all other possible whtch land has been appraised at approximately $65.000 more tban routes, two in number, one being from Columbus, Mont., up the Still- the settlers and home builders had good and flu.fficlent reason to believe water River, a distance of 98 miles. the upper 20 mile being- over would be the appraisal of these lands; and . 8,500 feet above sea level; tbe other being f.rom Belfry, Mont., up Whereas tbe settlement embodied ~ the said Senate bill No. 940 would the Clarks Fork River to Cooke, a distance of 115 miles. through ex- be entirely just and fair not only to the settlers on the lands in ques- tremely mountainous country on its upper 50 miles, have been most tion. but also to the Indians whose funds and rights are airected; carefully investigated, and that construction costs on same are so and enormous as to render the same prohibitive at this time, and pro- Whereas tbe biU is recommended by the Ron. Franklin K. Lane. Secre- hibitive at any time until there sha~ have been developed and proven tary of the Interior, and by the Ron. William H. Ketcham, member of within this district ucb vast reserves of ore as wonld cost many years the Board of Indian Commissioners, which board made a speeial in- of work and millions of tloUars to develop., all of whi~h Wl7uld of vestigation o.! the appraisal sought to be corrected by the sru.d Senate necessity be done at a tremendous loss, unless more adequate trans- bill No. 940, and the approvals of these high officlals have been set portation facilities were afforded the district while the same was forth -in the report of the Senate Committee on Public Lands dated being done; an
WhN<'"n ~. the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, feel sat Senate joint memorial 2, introduced by Slayton. i;;fi d that the settlers on the former Flathead Indian Reservation arE A resolution memorializing Congress to pass legislation for the purp'ose fairly aml justly entltlerl to relief afforded by Senate bill No. 940, no~ of issuing patents to all homesteaders who have served in any before you: Now, ther~fore, be it branch of the Army or Navy in the present world war, providing Rcsol1:ecl by the S11r:teentl~ Legislative Assembly of the State of Mon settlement and certain improvements were made prior to enlistment. ta1la, That we do herery petition and earnestly pray you, the honorable To the honorable Senate and HrYUse of Rep1·esentatives of the United Honse of Representatives of the United States, to enact into law the States in Congress assembled: said Senate bill No. 940, to the end that justice may prevail; and be it further Whereas under the present laws of the United States it is necessary Resol-ved, That copies of this memorial be forwarded by the secretary that anyone taking up a homestead on public lands live thereon a of state of the State c,f Montana to the House of Representatives of the certain minimum prescribed time and conform to certain laws relative United States and to our Senators and Representatives in Congress. e to improvements thereon and pay certain fees in connection therewith before patent to the same can be issued, irrespective of whether or 0. W. BELDEN: not such homesteader has served his eountry in any of the numerous Speaker of the House . branc.li.es of the Army or Navy in the present world war; and W. W. McDowELL. Whereas there have been thousands .of cases throughout the western Preside-nt of the Senate. part of the United States where bona fide homesteaders were forced Approved March 1, 1\JUI. to sell their stock and ranching equipment at a great sacrifice, in S. V. STEWART, some instances practically giving it away, when called upon to enter Governor.- our country's service; and Filed March 1, 1919, at 9.5G o'clock a. m. Whereas in such -cases, by reason of the fact that such homesteaders c. T. STEWART, . were conwelled to sell their property at such a low price they will Secretary of State. be unable on their return from the service to resume their ranching - {)r farming operations by reason of the fact that they are without UXITED STATES OF AMERICA, sufficient funds to do so, and they will be unable to borrow money State of Montana, ss: without difficulty, or have any credit extended to them, by reason I, C. T. Stewart, secretary of state of the State of Montana, do hereby of the fact that they do not have title to the land they were living certify that the above is a true and correct copy of house joint memorial ou prior to their enlistment: Now, therefore, be it No. 6, being "praying that the House of Representatives of the United Resolved by the Senate of the Sia:teentl~ Legislative Assembly of the States of America, in Congress assembled, enact into law Senate bill State of Montana and House of Representatives concttn·in.g therein, That No. !)40, now pending in that honorable body," ena-cted by the sixteenth we do hereby petition Congress of the United States for the passage session of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana and ap of legislation relieving :til bona fide homesteaders who were engaged proved by S. V. Stewart, governor of said State, on the 1st day of March, in some branch of the Army or Navy in the present war, and who had 1919. made some improvements of a substantial nature on their land and In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the established their residence thereon prier to their enlistment from any great seal of the State of Montana at Helena, the capital, this 1st day of further residence or the making of any additional improvements thereon 1\larch, A. D. 1919. · before ·patent can be issued to t hem, and that patent be issued to them [SEAL.] c. T. STEWART, on their request upon proof being made that such residence was estab Secretary of State. lished and improvements made prior to their enlistment, and without the payment of any fees whatsoever; and be it further . l\Ir. l\IYERS presented a memorial of the Legislature of Mpn Resolved, Th:;tt a copy of this memorial be transmitted by the secre tana, which was referred to the Committee on Public Lands tary of the State of Montana to the honorable Members of the United aml ordered to be printed in the RECO:BD, as follows : States Senate and House of Representatives from the State of Montana, requesting the!Jl teace conference will make arrangements for helping State of Montana, ss: Armenia to establish an independent republic ; and be it further - I, C. T. Stewart, secretary of state of the State of Montana, do Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be sent by the secrE>tary hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of house joint of the commonwealth to the President and to the Vice President of tho memorial No. 11, being "Petition to the Congress of the United States United States and to the Senators in Congress from Massachusetts. asking for a $3,000,000 appropriation for the Flathead irrigation In senate, adopted March 4, 1919. project, in the State of Montana, for the years 1919 and 1920, to the ·In house of representatives, adopted, in concurrence, 1\Iarch 7, 1019. end that the said project may be s~edily completed and that a con A true copy. Attest: ALBERT P. LANGTUY, siderable amount of work may be provided for returning soldiers and sailors," enacted by the sixteenth session of the Legislative Assembly Secretar·y of the Oommonwealt11. of the State of Montana, and approved by S. V. Stewart, governor of l\Ir. LODGE presented a resolution adopted by the Legislature said State, on the 1st day of March, 1919. of .the State of Massachusetts, which was referred to the Com~ In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great seal of the State of Montana at Helena, the capital, this 1st day mittee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed in the of March, .A. D. 1919. · RECORD, as follows : [SEAL.] c. T. STEWART, THE COMMONWEALTH OB' MASSACHUSETTS, 1919. Secretary of State. Resolutions in favor of Irish independence. l\Ir. MYERS presented a memorial of the Legislature of l\Ion Whereas the General Court of Massachusetts reaffirms as the funda.· mental doctrine of our institutions that all governments "derive tana, '\hich was referred to the ·committee on Public Lands and their just powers from the consent of the governed," a great truth ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows : which, expressed under the designation of the "self-determination ot 1919. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 49
peoples," the President of the United States and the other great THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, 1919. leaders of progressive ideas among the allied nations are proposing Resolutions urging Congress to pass certain legislation relative to aliens to put into practical execution in the interest of oppressed nationall· who avoided military service in the present war. - ties, like Belgium, Servia, Montenegro, and other States whose in· terests :md aspirations have been set at naught because of the Whereas certain aliens, not being alien enemies, resident in this country, dominance of the opposing principle that might makes ri~ht; and claimed exemption from military service in the Army of the United Whereas no people better deserves the blessings of the right of self States during the present war by reason of alienage, or failed to determination than the people of Ireland, the service of whose sons respond to the call for military or naval service from their respective in the colonization of .America, in the winning of its independencea countries: Therefore be it in the founding of its institutions and the creation of its wealth an Resolved, That the General Court of Massachusetts urges upon the prosperity, has placed America and democratic government every Congress of the United States the passage of such legislation as will where in its everlasting debt : Therefore be it prevent the aliens aforesaid from hereafter becoming citizens, and also Resolved, That the General Court of Massachusetts urges upon the the passage of legislation to prevent the return to this country of any President of the United States and his associates in framing the final such aliens who hereaft~r leave the United States; and be it further terms of peace, as a matter of simple justice and as one of the guaran Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be sent by the secretary of ties of the continuance of peace and contentment in Ireland, the grant· the commonwealth to the President of the United States Senate, to the ing of complete independence to the Irish people; and be it further Speaker of the National House of Representatives, and to the Senators Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be sent by the secretary and Representatives in Congress from this Commonwealth. of the commonwealth to the President of tlie United States, to the In house of representatives, adopted February 26, 1919. representatives of the United States at the peace conference, to the In senate, adopted in concurrence March 3, 1919. Presiding Officer of the United Stat(i!s Senate, and to the Senators in A· true copy. · Attest : Congress from this Commonwealth. ALBERT P. LANGTRY, In senate, adopted February 14, 1919. Secreta1-y of the Commonwealth. In house of representatives, adopted, in concurrence, February 25, 1919. Mr. LODGE presented a resolution adopted by the Legislature A true copy. Attest: of' the State of Massachusetts, which was referred to the Com ALBERT P. LANGTRY, mittee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed in the RECOBD, Secretary of the Common.weaZth. as follows: lUr. LODGE presented resolutions adopted by the Legislature THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, 1919. of the State of Massachusetts, which were referred to the Com Resolutions in favor of an amendment to the Constitution of the United mittee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be -printed in the. States empowering Congress to regulate the hours of labor. RECORD, as follows: Resolved, That the General Com·t of Massachusetts hereby records its belief that the public interest will be better served and the hardships THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, 1919. of human life ameliorated by national regulation of the hours of labor, Resolutions favoring an early consummation of peace and the subsequent and respectfully petitions the Congress of the United States to propose establishment of a league of nations. an amendment to the Constitution giving to Congress power to regulate Whereas on the 11th day of November, 1918, an armistice was signed the hours of labor and to make the same uniform throughout the United by the representatives of the allied powers and of Germany; and States; and Whereas in consequence of the victory of the Allies and of the United Resolved, That certified copies of these resolutions be sent by the ::3tates a peace conference convened and is now holding sessions in secrebl.ry of the commonwealth to the presiding officers of both branches Paris for the purpose of settling the terms of peace; and of Congress and to each of the Senators and Representatives in Congress Whereas a conference committee thereof has proposed a constitution for from Massachusetts. a league of nations: Now, therefore, be it In house of representatives, adopted February 18, 1919. Reso,ved, That in the opinion of the General Court of Massachusetts In senate, adopted in concurrence February 21, 1919. the nations of the world should do everything in their power to bring A true copy. Attest: about a prompt peace and general disarmament; and ALBERT P. LANGTRY, Secretary of the Commonwealth• . Whereas the constitution of the league of nations, as reported in the peace conference, is not wholly ac.-:eptable to the citizens of Massa 1\fr. LODGE presented a resolution adopted by the Legislature chusetts : Therefore be it further of the State of Massachusetts, which was referred to tile Com Resolved, That it is also the opinion of the General Court of Massa mittee on Finance and ordered to be printed in tbe RECORD, as chusetts that the negotiations on the part of the United States should immediately be directed to the business of formulating peace terms follows: with Germany satisfactory to- the nations at war with her, and that TIIE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, 1919. any proposal for u league of nations or any agreement intended to insure llesolutions relative to Federal taxation of the income of manufacturers the permanent peace of the whole world should then be considered by emplQying women or minors for excessive working hours. the peace conference without further delay. . R esolved, That certified copies of these resolutions be sent by the Whereas the diversity of the labor laws of the several States is the secretary of the commonwealth to the President of the United States, cause of unfair and unequal industrial ~ompetition, nnd an obstacle to the Vice President, as presiding officer of the United States Senate, to to the passage by this Commonwealth of further humane legislation the Speaker of the National House of Representatives, and to each of the affecting hours and conditions of labor, especially in respect to ::3enators and Representatives from Massachusetts: women and minors ; and In senate, adopted March 28, 1919. Whereas the only agency that can effectively overcome this diversity In house of representatives, adopted in concurrence April 8, 1919. and insure uniformity in the hours and conditions of labor affecting A true copy. Attest: women and minors is the Congress of the United States under ita ALBERT P. LANGTRY, comprehensive powers Of taxation: Therefore be it Secretary of the Comn>onweazth. Resolved, That the General Court of Massachusetts urges upon Con gress the wisdom and necessity of levying upon all manufacturers who 1\lr. LODGE presented a resolution adopted by the Legislature employ minors under 16 years of age more than 8 hours daily or women of the State of Massachusetts, which was referred to the Com more than 9 hours daily, or either more than 48 hours weekly, an in mittee on 1\filitary Affairs and ordered to be printed in the come tax large enough to prohibit such employment; and be it further ·Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be sent by the secretary RECORD, as follows : of the commonwealth to the President of the United States, the presid THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, 1919. ing officers of both brancheS" of Congress, and to the Senators and Hep Resolutions favoring an early discharge from the United States Army resentatives in Congress frcm this Commonwealth. of all soldiers, except those in the Regular Army, who desire to be In senate, adopted February 21, 1919. discharged. In bouse ·of representatives, adopted in concurrence February 27, 1!H!>. Whereas the present state of affairs in Europe permits of a great reduc A true copy. Attest; tion in the size of the Army now maintained by the United States; ALBEBT P. LANGTRY, and Sect·etary of the Commonwealth. Whereas the number of men who are willing and able to serve for the duration of the war or longer is adequate for any probable need, and Mr. LODGE presented a memorial of the Central Labor a much larger number are anxious to return to their homes and to Union of Worcester, Mass., remonstrating against national pro positions where they are urgently needed; and hibition, which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Whereas the retention of such men in the service means in many cases a loss of positions now awaiting them, and serious hardship to them He also presented a petition of the Building Trades Council selves and their families : Therefore be it of Lawrence, Mass., praying for the submission of a Federal Resolved, That the General Court of Massachusetts urges upon Con suffrage amendment to the legislatures of the several States. gress tbe passage of House bill No. 13443, now pending therein, or which was referred to the Committee on Woman Suffrage. some similar legislation, to provide for the prompt and honorable dis charge from the Army, with adequate pay and mileage allowance to He also presented a resolution adopted by the Young Men'!!! convey them home, of all enlisted men in the military service not Catholic Temperance Society, of Salem, Mass., favoring the included in the Regular Army, who shall file with their commandina enactment of legislation granting six months' additional pay to officer a statement in writing that such is their desire ; and be it discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines, which was referred to fm::ther R esolved, That copies of these resolutions be sent by the secretary the Committee on Military Affairs. of the commonwealth to the Members of Congress from Massachusetts He also presented petitions cf sundry_citizens of the State of and to the presiding officers of both branches of Congress. Massachusetts, praying for the ratification of the league of In bouse of representatives, adopted February 14, 1919. In senate, adopted, in concurrence, February 19, 1919. nations treaty, which were referred to the Committee on Fo-reign A true copy. Attest : Relations. ALBERT P. LANGTRY, He also presented a resolution adopted at a meeting of sundry Secretat·y of the Commonwealth. citizens of Brighton, 1\fass., favoring the self-determination of 1\fr. LODGE presented a resoluti?n adopted by the Legislature Ireland, which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Rela of tbe State of Massachusetts, which was referred to the Com tions. mittee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed in the 1\fr. GRONNA presented a resolution adopted by the Legisla RECORD, as follows : ture of the State of North Dakota, which was referred to the LVIII-'-----4 50 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN.._1\.TE . ~fAY 2011
y&'_ted at the capitol in Bismarck, N. Dak, this 18th day of March• Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printeu in 19 the REcoim, as follows ; THOMAS HALL, DEPARTME "T 01!' STATE, Secretary of State. STATil OF NORTH DAKOTA. Concurrent resolution m·ging Congress to pass such legislation as is neces To all to whom these prese-nts sltall come: sary to authorize Government control of all the railroads in the I, Thomas Hall, secretary of state for the State of North Dakota, do United States for a period of five years from and after the 1st o! hereby set forth and certify that the following is the full teA"t and the January, 1919. whole thereof of a certain concurrent resolution adopted by the sixteenth legi1 lative assembly of the State of North Dakota. Whereas the Government of the United States has taken control of all Dated at the capitol in Bismarck, N. Dak., this 3d day of Ma.rch, 1919. the railroads in the United States during the great World War; and [SEAL.] THOMAS HALL, Whereas the Government o! the United States has not had control of the Secretary of State. railroads for a suffident period of time to fairly test the desirability of permanent Government control of railroads; and · Concurrent re olution favoring the establishment of a league of nations Whereas Director General McAdoo has rereas all but one of these employers have refused and now, after nearly two months, still do persistently refuse to abide by the deter based upon the mileage o! each line used. mination and awards of the National War Labor Board: Now, there Mr. GRONNA presented a resolution adopted by the Legisla fore, be it ture of the State of North Dakota, which was referred to the Resolved by the assembly (the senate C01lCtm"ittg), That the Nationali War Labm: Board is barebv uraentlv reauested to take such steps as Committee on Interstate Commerce and ordered to be printed in may be possible, necessary, and effective to bring about a prompt andi the RECoRD, as follows; complete enforcement of the awards and determinations of the National, DEPART &NT OF STATE, War Labor Board duly made in its ca&e, docket No. 195, entitled STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA. Machinists et al. c. Employers of Madison,. Wis. To all to ·whom these presents shall come: R eBolv:ed- further, That it legislation seems necessary to bring about Rucll .a prompt and effective enforcement. of such awnrds, that the• I, Thomas Hall. secret:uy of state for the State of North Da.i'rota do National War Labor Board is urged to present such facts to Congress hereby set forth and· certify that the .following is the full text and' the with a recommendation for such necessary legislatioll. whole thereof of a certain concurrent resolution adopted by the Six . Resolrcd ftwther, That a copy of this resolution, duly attested, be. teenth Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota. sent to the National War Labor Board, and as soon as Congress shall\ 1919. OONGRESSION AL RECORD-SENATE. be in R r ~:;i9n that duly attested copies be sent to the presiding officers In any possible measure comparable with the beneficent possibilites and to all the Members from this State in both Houses of the Congress of affecting humanity and civilization that it embraces. the r:1ited States. Resolved further, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to RILEY S. YOUNG, the President · of the United States and to our Senators and Repre- Speaker of the Assembly. sentatives in Congress. RILEY S. YouNG, c. E. SHAFFER, Speaker of t11e Assembly. Chief Clerk of the Assembly. C. E. SHAFFER, EDWARD F. DITTMAR, Chief Olerk of the Assembly. President of the Senate. EDWARD F. DITTMAR, 0. G. MUNSON, President of the Senate. Chief Clerk of the Senate. 0. G. MUKSON, Mr. LA FOLLETTE presented a resolution adopted by the Chiof Olerk of tlw Senate. Legislature of the State of 'Visconsin, which was referred to the Mr. LA FOLLETTE presented a resolution adopted by the Committee on Education and Labor and ordered to be printed Legislature of the State of Wisconsin, which was referred to in the REcoRD, as follows : the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows : Joint resolution 52, S. Joint resolution 39, A. Joint resolution memorializing Congress in behalf of the farmers to Joint resolution memorializing the Congress of the United States to repeal the law advancing the time one hour. · refund insurance premiums paid by soldiers, sailors, and marines un Whereas the conditions imposed by turning the clocks one hour ahead der the soldiers' and sailors' insurance act during . the war, and to are a source of great inconvenience and annoyance to, and in many permit such soldiers, sailors, and marines to continue such insurance cases work a hardship on the majority of our citizens, including after discharge. practically all of the farmers; and many of the other laboring men, Whereas Congress has provided a plan of insurance for soldiers, sailors, th~ir wives, and familie.s, working special hardships on those women and marines under "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to au who rise early to prepare the worker's morning meal and noon lunch, thorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the who are deprived of the summer morning daylight, and have it added Treasury Department,' " approved October 6, 1917 ; and at the evening to keep their small children awake and deprive these Whereas such insurance was planned to care for the dependents of sol mothers of much of their evening freedom, and widespread dissatis ~~eJs, sailors, and marines by insurance in place of by pensions ; factio::l prevails among them because the law, which they supposed was only a war-time measure, is still in force: Be it Whereas the cost of such insurance except the expense of administra Resolved by the senate (the assembly concurring), That Congress be tion and excess mortality and disability is borne by the enlisted men memorialized to repeal the law by which the time of day was advanced themselves ; and one hour, so that the farmers and others may continue their avocation. Whereas the entire financial burdens of every activity connected with so necessary and vital to the Nation unhampered by sllch unnatural the war, including the obligations resulting from casualities, should interference and secure from their labors the largest possible returns be ~orne by all the people, rather than by the soldiers, sailors, and not only for themselves but also for the country and world at large; mannes alone who have already done their great share of carrying be it further such burdens; and Resolved, That a copy of this resolution signed by the presiding Whereas such insurance was provided to take the place of pensions to officers of each house, be forwarded to the Senators and Congressmen care for the Foldiers, sailors, and marines and their dependents, from this State. policies of insurance issued thereunder should be continued at the EDWARD F. DITTM·AR, option of such soldiers, sailors, and marines : Therefore, be it President of tile Senate. Resolved 1Jy the assembly (the senate concurring), That the Congress 0. G. MUNSON, of the United States be, and is hereby, respectfully memorialized to Chief Clerk, of the Senate. provide for the refunding to soldiers, sailors, and marines all amounts RILEY S. YouNG, pa~d by them as premiums for such war-risk insurance prior to their Spea1ter of the Assembly. "!>emg mustered out and to provide or continue the policy of maintain C. E. SHAFFER, mg such insurance after being mustered out as term insurance with Chief OZerT' of the Assembly. the option of converting the same into any of the usual .forms' to be carried by the soldier, sailor, or marine; be it further Mr. LA FOLLETTE presented a resolution adopted by the Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted by the chief Legislature of the State of Wisconsin, which was referred to the clerk of the assembly to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker Committee on Foreign Relations anu ordered to be printed in of the House of Representatives, and also to the Representatives from this State in the Congress of the United States. the RECORD, as follows: lliLEY S. YOUNG, Joint resolution 76, A. Speaker of the Assembly. C. E. SHAFFER, Joint resolution memorializing Congress for t'he speedy withdrawal of Chief Clerk of the Assembly. the American forces from Russia. EDWARD F. DITTMAR, Whereas in the prosecution of the great war our Government has seen President of the Senate. · fit. to send American forces, including Wisconsin troops, into Russia; 0. G. MUNSON, . and Chief Olerk ot the Senate. Whereas by virtue of the signing of the armistice on November·11, 1918, the same reasons which pertained to the maintenance of American l\.I.r. LA FOLLETTE presented a resolution adopted by tile troops in Russia were obllterated; and Legislature of the State of Wisconsin, which was referred to Whereas Congress has never declared war against Russia ; and the Committee on Fisheries and ordered to be printed in the Whereas in the best interest of our country's welfare it seems unneces sary under existing circumstances to imperil the lives of our troops RECORD, as follows : to the desolation, dangerous and rigorous climatic conditions, and Joint resolution 28, A. perils existing in far-distant Russia; and Joint resolution urging the Congress of the United States to enact legis Whereas the best interests of our troops demand that they be removed lation relating to the conservation of fish and clams in the Mississippi from the intolerable conditions to which they are now subject: Now, River and its branches in the States of Minnesota, Iowa, and therefore, be it Wisconsin. . Resolved by the assembly (tlle senate concurring), That Congress be Whereas the fishing and clamming industry in the Mississippi River and memorialized to pass such laws and take such action therefor as it shill its branches in the States of Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin has deem necessary for the speedy return of all American troops from become of vital importance in the production of food; nnd Russia. Whereas this industry in the States mentioned has been greatly retarded Rcsoh;ed further, That a copy of these resolutions, properly attested in its proper develor.ment because of the lack of uniform laws provid by the presiding officer of each house, be forwarded to the P.resident of ing definite and uniform regulations governing the industry; n.nd the United State~ the representatives of the United States a't the peace Whereas, the Legislatures of Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin heretofore conference, the >:Secretary of War, and to each of the Senators and have been unable to agree upon laws which would provide such uni Representatives from the State of Wisconsin in the ·congress of the form and definite regulations: Therefore, be it United States. That as soon as the Congress of the United States shall Resolved by the assembly (the B(mate concurring), That this legisla be in session duly attested copies of thls joint resolution shall be ture respectfully memorialize and urge the Congress of the United States transmitted to the presiding officers of each House. to enact legislation governing and regulating fishing and clamming in RILEY S. YOUl\G, the Mississippi River and its tributaries in the States of Minnesota, Iowa, Speaker of the Assembly. and Wisconsin; and be it further c. E. SHAFFER, Resolved, 'l'hat a suitable copy of this resolution, properly attested by Gl~ief Clerk of the Assembly. the presiding officers and chief clerks of both houses, be forwarded to EDWARD F. DITTMAR, the President of the United St.ates Senate, the Speaker of the Honse ot President of the Senate. RepresentativPf:, and to each United States Senator and Congressman 0. G. MUNSON, from this State. . RILEY S. YOUNG, Chief Clerk of the Senate. Speaker of the Assembly. C. E. SHAFFER, Mr. FA FOLLETTE :presented a resolution adopted by the Chief Clerk of the Assembly. Legislature of the State of Wisconsin, which was referred to EDWARD F. DITTMAR, President of the Senate. the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed 0. G. MUNSON, in the REcORD, as follows : Chief Clerk of the Senate. Joint resolution 50, A. Mr. LA FOLLETTE presented a resolution adopted by the Joint resolution relating to the league of nations. Legislature of the State of Wisconsin, which was referred to the Resolved, That the Legislature of Wisconsin is profotmdly impressed Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed in the by the momentous character of the constitution of the proposed league of nations recentlr cabled from Paris, by its supremely JUSt and ex RECORD, as follows : alted purpose, by 1ts sound generalities and elastic qualit-y, and desires Joint resolution 42. promptly to go on record as favoring its spirit and des.ign, relatively Joint resolution relating to a deep waterway from Oshkosh to Green as presented, and as urging the Senators in Congress from Wisconsin Bay. to give to it, in treaty form, friendly consideration to the utmost de Whereas the failure of the transportation companies to keep pace with gree consistent with the safeguarding and preservation of our national the commercial requirements of the cotmtry, and especially the great sovereignty, which sovereignty, we believe, can not be threatened by it' Northwest, has become a question of national importance; af!d 52 CONGRESS! ON AL RECORD-SENATE. 1\i.A.Y 20,
Whereas the building of ship canals n.nd the digging of deeper waterways under proper re trictlons would furni b work for the unemployed and .Mr. SMITH of Arizona presented a resolution adopted by the be of lasting benefit to the people of this country; and Legislature of- the State of Arizona, which wns referred to the Whereas on the Fox River# between Oshkosh and Green Bay, smaller Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed in boats now travel and the largest boats could travel 1! the river was the RECORD, as foUo·ws: widened and deepened or if a suitable ship canal was built ; and Whereas the enlarging o1 this river, permitting travel and transporta STATE OF AnlZONA, tion from this part of the State, and thence directly into Lake Michi OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. gan, would be of the greatest possible benefit to the people of the UNITED STATilS 01' A:MmUCA, northeastern part of this State: Now, therefore, be it State of Arizona, ss: Resolved by the senate (the assembly concurring), That our Repre I, Mit Simms, seeretary of state, do hereby certify that the within ls sentatives in Congress are hereby requested to use their best endeavor a true, complete, and correct trn.nscript of house concurrent resolution to secure such an appropriation as will permit either the making of a No. 1. Fourth Legislature of the State o! Arizona, 1919, .. favoring the deep waterway or a hip canal between the points herein suggested ; establishment of a league ol nations of which the United States will be and that copies of this resolution, signed by the presiding affi~rs af a member," all of which is shown by the original on file in this de both houses and attested by the cblef clerks, be transmitted to each partment. such Representative. EnwAnD F . DITTMAR, In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my President of the Senate. official seal. Done at Phoenix, the capital. this 4th day of February. 0. G. MUNSON, A. D. 1919. Ohief Olerk of the Senate. [SEAL.) MIT SIMMS F. N. GR.A.AN, Secretary of State. Speaker pro tempore of the Assembly. House concurrent resolution 1, introduced by Mr. Vyne, of Yavapai. C. E. SHAFFER, Whereas the war, now brought to a victorious close by the associated OMef (Jlerk of the .A.8S'Cmbly. powex of the free nations of the world, was above all else a war to Mr. LA FOLLETTE presented a re olution adopted by the end wa.r and protect human rights: Therefore be it Legislature of the State of Wisconsin, which was referred to the Resohrea by the Legislature of the State of Arizona (1wt1& houses con curring), That we favor the e.ndS on false representations and at prices Resolved, That this r esolution be signed by the presiding officers of below the par value of the same, thereby enabling the scalper to each branch of the legislature and the governor of the State, and that obtain unfair profit, especially at the expense of the holders of the the secretary of state of the State of Arizona. be, and he is het·eby, bonds of small denomination ; and directed to forward copies of these resolutions to the IIon. Franklin K. Whereas such practices are contrary to the welfare of the people and Lane, Secretary of the Interior, to the President of the Senate of the the public policy of this State: Therefore be it l.Jnited States, to the Speaker of the House o! Representatives of the Resolved by tile assembly (the senate con01u·rit~g), That Congress be United States, and to each of Arizona's Repre entativcs in Congre- s. memorialized to pass such Jaws and make appropriations therefor as it (Signed) .A. C. PETERSO , shall deem necessary for the protection of all holders of liberty bonds Speaket· of tlle House. and provide a penalty for the punishment of all bond scalpers or per {Signed) • SUI B. BRAD:!\'ER, sons who obtain bonds beiow the par value thet•eof without the f\111 Chief alerT• of the House. knowledge of the seller of the bond of his rights therein. (Signed) .A. A. JOHNS~ Resolved, That as soon a the Co~qress of the United States shall be Presiaent of Senate• . in session duly attested copies of tms joint resolution shall be trans (Signed) L. F. SWEETING, mitted to the presiding officers of. each House and to each of the Sena Secretat·y of Senate. tors and Representatives ft·om the State ot Wisconsin in the Congress Appro-ved February G, 1919. of the United States. RILEY S. YouNG, {Signed) TIIO,IAS E. CAMPBELL, C. E. 1/:f::~R~f the Assembly. Governor of Arizona. Chief Clerk of the Assembly. Mr. SMITH of Arizona presented a resolution adopted by the EDWARD F. DITTMAR, Arizona Cattle Growers• Association fa-voring the continuance of • President ot the Senate. 0. G. MUNSON, Federal control of railroads, which was referred to the Com Chief Clerk of the Senate. mittee on Interstate Commerce. 1919. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HEN.A.TE. ~-- ~- - ."'
He also presented a petition of the Arizona Cattle Growers~ warehouse receipts, or- other evidence of ownership and existence .ot such commodities where the actual product is not produced for- de- Association praying for the enactment of legislation requiring Uvery on sale. · •the fencing of rights of way of railroads and the early settle That a copy of this. resolution be sent to the Senators and Represen- ment of claims· for damages for the killing of live stoclr, which tatives in COngress from this State. . was referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. Mr. STERLING. presented a resolution adopted by the Legis He also presented a petition of the Arizona Cattle Growers' lature of the State o.t_ South Dakota, which was referred_to the Association praying for the enactment of legislation restricting Committee on Pnblic Lands and ordered to be printed in the 1the importation of agricultural products into the United States REcoBD, as follows: fm competition with such products of our own people, which was Certificate. 'referred to the Committee on Finance. OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE, Pierre, B. D~. He also presented a resolution adopted by the Arizona Cattle UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Growers' Association favoring the modification of the rules rela State of South Dakota~ Secretary's Otfi,ce. . ftive to the exportation of cattle to the State of Sonor~ Mexico, I, C. A. Burkhart, secretary of state, do her~by certify that the annexed bill, to wit, house concurrent resolution, was duly passed by ftor grazing purposes, which was referred to the Committee on the sixteenth £ession of the Legislature of the State of South Dakota, •Finance. and that the same is now in full for.ce and effect. He also presented a petition of the. Arizona Cattle. Growers' In witness whereof I haye hereunto set my hand and affixed the great seal of the State of South Dakota, at the city of Pierre, January 4, 1919. :Association praying for the enactment of Iecoislation providing (SEAL.] C. A. BURKHART, !for the granting. to the State of Arizona of 5,000,000 acres of the · Secretary of State. ~ unappropriated vacant lands upon the public domain within the Hon. C. A. BtmKHART, Becretat·y of State: ;stateof..Ariwna, which was referred to the Committee on Public The following- concurrent resolution. has been adopted by the huuse 'Lands. of representatives and concu~red in by the senate: He also presented a resolution adopted by the Arizona Cattle Concurrent resolution. Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of South Growers' Associati.on favoring the regulation and control by the Dakota (the Senate concurring): Federal Government of the unappropriated and unreserved lands W1lereas Congress has at various times· app~opriated funds for the pur lying on the public domain, which was referred to the Committee pose of sinking four flowing artesian wells on the border of a certain meandered lake known as Lake Andes, and located in the county of on Public Lands. Charles·Mix and State of South Dakota, for the purpose of furnishing He also presented a resolution adopted by the Arizona. Cattle water and fish for the Indians; and · Growers' Association favoring the plans proposed by the Secre Whereas the· level of said lake has been raised several feet· by the con tinuous flow of water discharged from the above-mentioned wells, 'tary· of the Interior for the reclama.tion. of large areas.. o~ land causing the water to inundate large areas o! valuable surveyed and in the State of Arizona for the settlement by returned soldiers, patented agricultural land adjacent to the said lake, and that the .which w~referred to the Committee on.. Public Lands. lands so submerged- are rendered worthless thereby to the owners He als#presented a petition adopted by the Arizona._ Cattle· thereoL !or either agricultural or grazing. purposes, and that there are at least 1,500 acres o:t'such land so submerged, and that the- danmg.e Growers' Association...praying that the State Department modify to these lands by said inundation or overflow is not less than $100 i:the passport rules and regulations as to permit cattle g;rowers. to per acre, and that the owners or said lands are justly entitled to full take advantage of the grazing opportunities afforded in the State compensation· for such damage from the Government- of the United States, by whose· authority the said wells w-ere sunk which caused [of Sonora, Mexico, )Vhich was referred to the Committee on the submerging or overflow•of saf.d· lands: Therefore be it l Foreign Relati.ons. Ruolved by the Senate of the State. ot South Dakota (the House of He also presented a petition of the .Arizona Cattle Growers' Representat,ve.s concurring), That-we earnestly, though respectfully, re quest the Congress of the United States at its next session to appropriate Association praying for the approptiati.on of $50,000 for the a sufflcient sum to reimburse said overflowed-land owners. •destruction and extermination of predatory wild animals and For the house : 'range-destroy;ing .rodents, which was referred to the Committee LEwiS BENSON, Speaker. on Appropriations. Wn.IG.H'i" TAJmELL, Ohief OJ,erk~ For the senate ~ He also presented a resolution adopted by the Arizona Cattle C. S . .AltsDEN,. 1 Growers' Association favoring the prompt enactment of the President pro tempore. !Kendrick bill, with necessary amendments, for the control ot.the A. B. BLA.:KE., secrettu"g. Dated at Pierre; S. Dak., this 22d day of January, A. D. 1919. I marketin~of live stock, which..was referred to the Committee on ·Agriculture and Forestry. l\Ir. STERLJNG presented petitions of sundry_ citizens of the He also presented a petition of the Arizona Cattle Growers' .State of South Dakota.. praying for the repeal o:f the d.aylight ·Association praying. for the enactment of legislation to provide •Saving law,- which were referred· to the-Committee on .Interstate ' adequate cornpensati.on to retain capable men for the Forest Commerce. ·Service, which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture Mr. W .A.DSWORTH presented petitions· of., sundry- citizens ·and Forestry. of Plattsburgh, N. Y., prayjng for the ratification of· the league He also presented a peti.tion of the.. Arizona Cattle. Growers' of nations treaty, which were referred to the Committee- on Association praying for the enactment of 1egislation authorizing Foreign Relations... the Federal farm-loan banks to make loans upon live-stock He also presented petitions' of sundry citizens of the State ot securities, which was referred to the Committee on Banking and New York, praying for Government ownership of railroads, Currency. which were referred to the Committee on Interstate Com Mr. STERLING presented a resolution adopted by the Legis merce. lature of the State of South Dakota, which was referred to the · He also presented a petition of sundry-citizens of Jamestown, Committee on the Judiciary: and ordered to be printed. in the N. Y., praying for the repeal of. the so-called " luxury " tax. RECORD, as follows: which was referred to the Committee on Finance. Certificate. Mr. McLEAN presented a resolution adopted by the General STATE OW SOUTH DAKOTA Depa1·tment ot State~ ss: Assembly of the State..oi Connecticut, which was referred to the I, C. A. Burkhart, secretary of state of the State of South· Dakota, Committee on Immigration and ordered to be printed. in thei do hereby certify that the attached copy of concurrent resolution. is a RECORD, as follows: 1trne and correct copy of a concurrent resolution adopted at the six STATE OF CoNNECTICUT, ,teenth session, as. appears on page 501 of the journal of the house far-the OFFICE OF THE 8:EcRETAnY, forty-fifth day. General, Assembly~ Jan-uary Session, A. D. 1919. In testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed the great seal .this 22d day of March, A. D. 1919. Senate joint resolution 61 . (SEAL.] · C. A. BURKHART; Resolution in relation to the establishment of a Federal department of Secretary of State. education. ResoZt;ed· by this assen~bly: [Concurrent resolution introduced by the house· committe-e of agriculture. Whereas the future security and prosperity of the United States as a 1Whereas the practice in gambling in grain options has grown to such an democracy depends uvon the trained intelligence and skill of those extent in this country that it unsettles market conditions and is detri p-resent and future citiz.ens, for which purpose a. constructive national mental to the interest of the producers and persons engaged in the system and Federal support of education are necessary : Therefore legitimate grain business ; and · be it tWhereas it has become common practice for persons to sell and buy in the market on margin large quantities of grain. without r.egard to the Resolved, That the Senators and Representatives of Connecticut be . supply or the existence of the commodity so bought or sold : There memorialized and urged to use all honorable means to secure the enact . fore be it ment of the educational bill S. 4981 or H. R. 15400, which provide for the remoyal ot- illiteracy, the Americanization of aliens, the im Resolved. by the Hotl.Se of Represen-tatives of the Legislature of the provement of the facilities for the preparation of teachers, the pro tate of Soutl~ Dakoto. (the Senate concurring), That the Congress of motion of the health of all school children, and the establishment of e United States be, and the same hereby is, respectfully memorialized a , FederaL department of education. forthwith enact suitable legislation forbidding the trading on margins Senate, April 16, 1919 : I'n.ssed. selling or offering for sale of any grain or fann p~oducts_notin. exist House of- representatives, April 22, 1919: Passed. en.ce at the time of the trading, selling, or offering for sale of such com od!ties, to the end that gambling and market manipulation by the sale STATE OF CON:!\TECTICUT, ~ror offer for sale of products not owned or nonexistent in. competition Office ot tlte Seeretat'1f, ss: •with. actual existing products may be prevented, and comp-elling all. per- I, F. L. Peny. secretary· of the State of Connecticut· and keeper or sons selling or o~ring for sale such products to furnish bills. o£ lading, the seal thereof and of the original record of the acts and resolutions CONGRESSIONAli RECORD-SENATE. · }!.AY 20,
~"·-... of 'the general assembly of said State, do hereby certify that I have A bill '(S. 4) to remove the charge of desertion from the mili ·compared the annexed copy of the resolution in relation to the' estab·· :]ishment of a Federal department of education, with the original: tary record of .David D. Sharp ; and .record of the same now remaining in this office, and have found the A bill (S. 5) to remove the charge of desertion from the mili said copy to be a correct and complete transcript thereof. _tary record of David-H. Hartson; to the Committee on Military And I further certify that the said original record is a public record of the said State of Connecticut now remaining in this office. Affairs. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the A bill (S. 6) to authOJ;ize the Secretary of the Interior to seal of said State at Hartford this 29th day of April, 1919. convey title to 'certain lands in the State of Nevada; to the Com [SEAL.] · F. L. PEltRY, Sect"etary. 'mittee on.Indian Affairs. Mr. McLEAN presented petitions of sundry citizens of the . A bill (S. 7) to· regulate the interstate use of automobiles and State of Connecticut, praying for the ratification of the league all self-p-ropelled vehicles which use the public highways in of nations treaty, which were referred to the Committee on For· interstate commerce; to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. t eign Relations. A bill (S. 8) to provide for the application of the reclamation He also presented a petition of th'e Young Men's Christian law to irrigation districts; and :Association of Bridgeport, Conn., praying for the disposal of Gov A bill ( S. 9) to encourage the reclamation of certain arid ~ernment machinery not now in use to trade and technical schools 1 lands in the State of Nevadg., and for other purposes; to the and univer. ities, which was referred to the Committee on Educa Committee on Irrigration and Reclamation of Arid Lands. .' tion and Lator . A bill (S. 10) for the relief of J. I. Earl; and He also presented a petition of the Chamber of Commerce of A bill (S. 11) for the relief of John B. O'Sullivan; to the Com !Bridgeport, Conn., praying for the stabilizing of the United mittee on Claims. States dollar as a standard of value a.s proposed by Prof. Irving A bill (S. 12) prohibiting the interment of the body of any !1 Fisher which "·as referred to the Committee on Banking and person in the cemetery known as the Cemetery of the White's CurreJ{cy. Tabernacle No. 39 of th~ Ancient Order of Sons and Daughters, He also presented a petition of sundry citizens of Farmington, Brethren and Sisters "of Moses, in the District of Columbia; to Conn., praying for the repeal of the daylight-saving law, which the Committee on the District of Columbia. :was referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. A bill ( S. 13) granting an increase of pension to Daniel Calla Mr. HARDING. I present a joint resolution adopted by the han; to the Committee on Pensions. 'general assembly of the State of Ohio, relative to the rights of By Mr. POMERENE : ·the Jewish people. I ask that the joint resolution be printed A bill (S. 14) authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver to 'in the RECORD and referred to the Committee on Foreign Rela- the State of Ohio the cannon, machine guns, and other military 'tions. . equipment captured by the Thirty-seventh Division, American The joint resolution was referred to the Committee on Foreigu Expeditionary Forces; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Relations and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: By Mr. SMI'l'H of Georgia : House joint resolution 45. A bill (S. 15) to create a Department of Education, to appro Joint resolution relative to the rights of the Jewish people. priate money for the conduct of said department, to appropriate Whereas the future prosperity and peace of the world depends upon a money to encourage the States in the promotion and support just and equit~ble settlement of the European war wher~by each and of education, and for other purposes; every nationality, however small, shall be granted the liberty to de termine its own destiny and the opportunity of living its own life; A bill ( S. 16) to establish engineer experiment stations in the States and Territories in connection with institutions of higher W~~~~as the Government of the United States of America is recognized technical education, for the promotion of engineering and indus · as an ardent exponent of the rights of small nations: Therefore be it trial research as a measure of industrial, commercial, military, Resolved by tl~e General .Assembly of the State of Ohio, That in its opinion the national aspirations and historic claims of the Jewish people and naval progress and preparedness in times of peace or w·ar; with regard to Palestine should be recognized at the peace conference A bill (S. 17) to promote the education of native illiterates, in accordance with the British Government's declaration of November of persons unable to understand and use the English language, 2 1917 that there be established such political, administrative, and ~conomic conditions in Palestine as will assure the development of and of other resident persons of foreign birth ; to provide for co Palestine into a Jewish commonwealth, and that the American repre operation with the States in the education of such persons in the sentatives at the peace conference should use their best endeavors to English language, the fundamental principles of government and racilitate the achievement of this object: Be it further Resolved, That it is the opinion of the General Assembly of the State citizenship, the elements of knowledge pertaining to self-support of Ohio that express provisions be made at the peace conference for and home making, and in such other work as will assist in pre the purpose of granting the Jewish people in every land the complete paring such illiterates and foreign-born persons for successful enjoyment of life liberty, and the opportunities for national development to the end that JUStice1 may be done to one of the most suffering people living and intelligent American citizenship; and on earth, the Jewish people; and be it further A bill ( S. 18) to provide for the promotion of vocational Resolvea, That the secretary of state be, and he is hereby, directed rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and to send duly certified copies of this resolution to each of the Representa tives of this State in the Senate and House of Representatives of the their return to civil employment; to the Committee on Educa United States and to each of the representatives of the United States in tion and Labor. attendance as members of the peace conference assembled at Paris. By Mr. MYERS : . • CAm, R. KIMBALL, A bill (S. 19) to amend an act entitled "An act to amend sec Speaker of the House of Representatives. CLAREXCE J. BROWN, tions 2291 and 2297 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, President of the Senate. relating to homesteads"; and .Adopted April 15, 1919. A bill (S. 20) to provide for the payment for certain lands UNITED STATES Oil' .AUEniCA, within the former Flathead Indian Reservation in the State State of Ohio, ss: of 1\fontana; to the Committee on Public Lands. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. A bill ( S. 21) to provide for the purchase of a site and the I, Harvey C. Smith, secretary of state of the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a copy of house joint resolution 45 as erection of a public building thereon at Anaconda, in the State adopted by the General .Assembly of Ohio, the same being a resolution of Montana ; and rplative to the rights of the Jewish people; that the same bas been A bill (S. 22) providing for the enlargement of the Federal carefully compared by me with the original joint resolution filed in this offi ce llay 7, 1919, and now in my official custody as sec1·t!tary of state; building at Missoula, Mont.; to the Committee on Public Build- anl1 that the same is found to be a true and correct copy. ings and Grounds; • Witness my hand and official seal, at Columbus, this 8th day of May, A. D. 1919. A bill ( S. 23) for the relief of George A. Robertson ; [SEAr,.] HAnvEY C. SMrTrr~ A bill (S. 24) for the relief of F. A. Carnal and Ada Lewis; Secretary of ;:,·tate. A bill ( S. 25) for the relief of Benjamine 0. Kerlee; BIT.LS AND JOI T RESOLUTIONS I TRODUCED. A bill (S. 26) for the relief of G. W. Kates; and A bill (S. 27) for the relief of Joseph C. Cosley; to the Com Bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the first time, mittee on Claims. ami, by unanimous consent, the second time, and referred as By 1\fr. KING: follows: A bill (S. 28) to provide for the deportation of certain aliens By 1\lr. PITTMAN: from the United States; and A bill (S. 1) authorizing the cutting of timber for mmmg A bill (S. 29) to establish in the Department of Labor a purposes by corporations organized in one State and conducting bureau of citizenship and Americanization for the Americaniza mining operations in allother ; tion of naturalized citizens; amend section 4 of the act approved A bill ( S. 2) for the relief of settlers and town-site occupants June 29, 1906, entitled "An act to establish a Bureau of Immi of certain lands in the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Nev.; gration and Naturalization and to provide a uniform rule for and the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States, and A bill (S. 3) to authorize exploration for and disposition of for other purposes;" to the Committee on Immigration. coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, or gas on the public A bill (S. 30) to establish within the Department of the domain; to the Committee on Public Lands. Treasury a bureau for the regulation and su,pervision of the ·il919't CONGRESSIONAL RECO~D-SENATE. 55
~ export of savings from the United States; to the Committee on A bill (S. 58) relative to discharges of certain soldiers-and ~Banking and Currency. · · · sailors who served in the war with Germany~ to the Commit 1 A bill (S." 31) to repeal the act approved March 1t 1913, enti tee on Mill tary Affairs. Ltled "An act to amend an act entitled 'A:n..act to regulate com A bill (S. 59) to amend an act entitled· "An act relating to lmerce,' approved February 4, 1887, and all acts amendat~ry na~gation o~ vessels, bills of lading, and to certain obligations, ~thereof, by providing for a valuation of the several classes of duties~ and nghts in connection with the carriage of property,'• rproperty of carriers subject thereto and securing information approved February 13, 1893; to the Committee on Interstate ~Goncerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities·; " to the Commerce. "C9mmittee on Interstate Commerce. A bill ( S. 60) authorizing the Director General of Railroads · A bill (S. 32) for the relief of John Gray; to the Committee to establish a system of mileage books; to the Committee on on Military Affairs. Interstate Commerce. . A. bill (S. 33) to prohibit and punish certain characteristic A bill (S. 61) regulating shipments of freight to foreign ports . acts of Bolshevism in the United States; and and prohibiting discrimination in the receipt and shipment of A bill (S. 34) to amend the act entitled "An act to punish acts such freight; and ofi.nterference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the . A bill ( S. ~2) to prohibit interstate shipments or transporta ·foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and tion o~ certrun food products, to define alid to prohibit trans better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and portatiOn and sale of a~ulterated or misbranded food products, for other purposes," approved June 15, 1917, and for other pur to regulate traffic therem, to define and regulate cold storage l:I>OSes; to the Committee on the Judiciary. to regulate dealing in cold-storage food products and to ~ A bill (S. 35) to provide for the survey of a national highway penalties- for violation, and for other purposes; to the Commit- .connecting certain national monuments in the States of Utah, tee on Tnterstate Commeree. · ~ona, arul New Mexico; . ~ bill (S. 63) for the retirement of employees in the classified A bill ( S. 36) to repeal the act of Congress approved Febru CIVIl serVIce; to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrench ary 1, 1905, and to transfer. national forests from the Depart ment. fment of Agriculture to the Department of the. Interior, and for By~fr.~!BERLAIN: rother purposes; A bill (S. 64) to establish military justice; to the Committee A bill (S. 37) to establish a branch of the Interior Depart on Military Affairs. ~ ment in the Western States and to transfer to such branch cer A b~ll (S. 65) granting a pension to- Lydia A. Tromblee; and itain bureaus and offices of-the Interior Department; and A bill (S. 66) granting a pension to Joseph B. Doan (with ac A bill (S. 38) to establish the Zion National Park in the State companying papers) ; to the-Committee on Pensions. :of.Utah; to the Committee on Public Lands. By 1.\fr. THOMAS : A bill (S. 39) for the relief of H. G. Godfrey; A bill (S. 67) to provide for tb.e creation of Federal railroad A bill ( S. 40) for the relief of Frank Harrigan ; and companies, to establish a more effective supervision of railroads · A bill ( S. 41) for the relief of Franklin A. Swenson ; to the in the United States, and for other purposes; to the Committee Committee on Claims. on ln.t&State Commerce. ·· A bill (S. 42) for the relief of Emma Kiener; (By request:) A bill (S. 68). granting an increase of pension A bill (S. 43) to cede unreserved public lands to the several . to. Albert N. R::ymond (with accompanying paper) ; to the Com tStates; · mittee on Penswns. A bill (S. 44) to prevent the withdrawal of mineral lands of By Mr. SMITH of Arizona._: ~the United States from entry and occupancy under the laws of A bill (S. 69) to punish aliens in the United States for coa ~ the United States; spiracy against the Government, and for other purposes· to the A bill ( S. 45) providing fo1· cooperation between the ·United Committee on the Judiciary. ' fStates and State governments in the rural settlement of sol A bill ( S. 70) providing for the. construction of a dam across llliers, sailors, and marines, and to promote the reclamation of the Gila River, at or near San Garlos, in the State of Arizona· 1lands, and for other purposes ; to. the Committee on Commerce. ' A bill (S. 46) for the protection of the water supply of the A bill ( S. 71) for the erection ?f a publiC" building in the city -town of Sunnyside, Utah; of· Tucson, Ariz.; to the Committee on Public Buildings and A. bill (S. 47) to amend sections 2325 and 2326 of the Revised Grounds. (Statutes prescribing the method of obtaining patent to. mining · A bill (S. 72) foi"" the relief of settlers on Baca Float Grant ~claims; · No. 3, in the State of Arizona; and A bill (S. 48) for the relief of purchasers from. the State of :.Utah of lands in sections 2t 16, 32, and 36 in said State; and A bill (S. 73) granting a right of way over public lands for A bill (S. 49) to authorize the exchange of certain lands certain purposes; to the Committee on Public Lands. • A bill (S.. 74) authorizing the Secretary of War, in: his discre f~ithin !he 'Vasatch National Forest, Ut84; to the Committee on Public Lands. tion, to. deliver to the-city of Nogales, in the State of Arizon3 · - A bill (S. 50) providing for a reclamation project on Green one cannon with carriage captured in the war with Germany' and Grand Rivers, in the State of Utah; together with a. suitable number of shells; ' A bill ( S; 51) providing for a reclamation project on Price A. bill (S. ?5) authorizing the Secretary of- War, in his dis !River, Utah; and cretion,.. to deliver to the city of Douglas, in the State of Arizona A bill (S. 52) providing for a reclamation project on the .one cannon with carriage captured in the war with Germany' together with a. suitable number of shells; and ' ~ Strawberry River, Duchesne County, Utah, to be known as.the A bill (S. 76) authorizing the Secretazy of War, in his discre ~Onstle Peak reclamation project; to the Committee on Irdga ttion and Reclamation of Arid Lands. tion, to delive1~ to the city of Tucson, in the State of Arizona A bill (S. 53) to pension the survivors of certain Indian wars one cannon with carriage, captured in the war with Germany' together with suitable number OI shells; to the Committee ~d disturbances in Utah Territory from 1849 to 1869, inclusive; a o~ and for other purposes; to the Committee on Pensions. Military Affairs. By Mr. FLETCHER: A bill (S. 77) for the relief o.f-:1\irs. W. P. Miller (with accom· A bill (S. 54) to further protect interstate and foreign com panying papers) ; to the C9mmittee- on Claims. · ~erce against bribery and other corrupt trade practices ; to the A bill (S. 78) granting an increase of pension to Carrier .Committe~ on the Judiciary. Thompson; and · . A bill (S. 55) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to A bill ( S. 79) granting an increase of pension to James F • .~djust disputes or claims by entrymen, selectors, grantees, and Duncan ; to the Committee on Pensions . 11atentees of the United States against the United States and By MJ.~. LA FOLLETTE: tbetween each other arising from faulty surveys in townships A bill (S• . 80) to repeal an act entitled "An act to save day S6, 37, and 38 south, ranges 29 and 30 eastt Tallahassee me1·idian light and to provide standard
