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1932 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3815 Mr. THOMAS of Oklahoma. Mr. President-- The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Oregon approved. yield to the Senator from Oklahoma? MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE Mr. McNARY. I yield to the Senator. A message from the Senate by Mr. Craven, its principal Mr. THOMAS of Oklahoma. I have no objection to the clerk, announced that the Senate had agreed to the amend time of convening on Monday, but I shall have to object to ments of the House to a bill of the following title: fixing a time for a final vote; and, if I can have the time, I S. 1306. An act to provide for the incorporation of the will state in a moment my objection. District of Columbia Commission, George Washington Bicen When the bill is finally perfected, ready for a vote, if in tennial. my opinion the authorization is not sufficiently broad, I de CHANGE OF REFERENCE sire to offer a new section on the authorization clause; and Mr. WILLIAMS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous at that time I should like to have a few minutes to explain consent that the bill CS. 2396) to amend section 11 of the my reason· for offering the amendment. It will not take act approved February 22, 1889 (25 Stat. 676), relating to more than 5 or 10 or 15 minutes, but I do not want to be the admission into the Union of the States of North Dakota, cut off from that opportunity. South Dakota, Montana, and Washington, referred to the I have no objection to an agreement to have a vote on Committee on tl1e Territories, be referred to the Committee Monday, but I shall object to fixing a definite time. on the Public Lands. Mr. McNARY. The Senator desires an opportunity to The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Texas asks unani explain his proposal, which he says would come when? mous consent that the bill S. 2396, referred to the Committee Mr. THOMAS of Oklahoma. Immediately before the final on the Territories, be rereferred to the Committee on the vote is taken. After the bill is perfected, if the authoriza Public Lands. The Chair understands that the chairmen of tion section is not as broad as I think it should be, I desire the two committees are agreeable to the transfer. to offer an amendment broadening it, and then I desire for Mr. WILLIAMS of Texas. Yes. a few moments to explain my position. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? Mr. COUZENS. Mr. President, will the Senator yield? There was no objection. Mr. McNARY. I yield. FRED J. KERN Mr. COUZENS. I think this matter had better go over Mr. KARCH. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to until Monday, then, and see what we can do, because if address the House for two minutes, and for leave to extend Senators are going to make all of these reservations, the my remarks. agreement will not mean anything finally, anYWay. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? Mr. McNARY. Very well, Mr. President. I think it is There was no objection. generally understood that we all should be here then, and Mr. KARCH. Mr. Speaker, it is my sad mission at this that a vote probably will be taken Monday. moment to announce to the House the recent death of Hon. I now move a recess- Fred J. Kern, who served in this Chamber during the Fifty Mr. LA FOLLETTE. Mr. President, I desire to obtain seventh Congress. recognition before a recess is taken. Mr. Kern represented at the time the eighteenth congres Mr. McNARY. Very well. sional district of Illinois, virtually the present twenty-second Mr. LA FOLLETTE obtained the floor. congressional district of that State, which I now have the RECESS honor to represent in this distinguished body. Mr. Kern was born on a farm in St. Clair County, Ill., on Mr. McNARY. Mr. President, in view of the situation, I the 2d day of September, 1864, and remained a resident ot move that the Senate take a recess until 12 o'clock noon that State and of that county throughout the entire period on Monday. of his life. He died at Belleville, TIL, on the 9th day of last The motion was agreed to; and Cat 1 o'clock and 37 min November, at the age of 67 years, 2 months, and 7 days. He utes p.m.) the Senate took a recess until Monday, February is survived by his wife and two sons. 15, 1932, at 12 o'clock meridian. His circumstan~es compelled him to work for a living at an early age. His first employment after leaving the farm was that of a coal miner. Later he taught country school, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and in the year 1891, having discovered his genius, he FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1932 ventured into the journalistic field. In that year he purchased an interest in the Belleville Daily The House met at 12 o'clock noon. News-Democrat, one of the oldest newspapers in Illinois, The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., later becoming the sole owner of the institution, which, un offered the following prayer: der his efficient guidance and powerful editorship became, Almighty God, may we be thankful to-day for a Nation at as he left it, one of the largest and most influential news peace, for a Nation that seeks in every wise to promote papers in the State of illinois outside of the metropolis of international cooperation and brotherhood. We thank Thee, Chicago. our Father, for the sweep of its ideas and for the challenge Mr. Kern possessed a brilliant mind and a most remark of its ideals, and for a Republic whose glory is not in titles able memory. He leaves a reputation of having owned the nor ranks. To-day we take ccurage and inspiration from largest and best selected private library in the State of illi the great sons of our historic past, and especially for the nois, and of having read every volume of it. He was liberally great commoner who sprang from the loins of the common versed in every branch of knowledge. soil. As long as we remain a people our poor lads will look I know of no one who excelled him in the mastery of the down the lanes of the years and dream the old dreams, feel English language. He was equally adept in the most savage the old thrills, and be stung by his might. 0 more and more contumely and tenderest eulogy. He wielded the keen edge bring together all sections of our country. Be pleased, 0 of invective and sarcasm and ridicule with the deft hand of Lord, to remember our President and our Speaker. Be Thou a Saladin, yet, in his serener moods, his diction rivaled the Emmanuel to all who are toiling and struggling, to all who are erudite and the elegant style of Woodrow Wilson. His in tempted and distressed by trial. 0 be near all who are suf domitable courage of conviction and dynamic eloquence won fering from the pangs of hunger or are harassed by pov for him the tribute of having been one of the great orators erty; but be very, very near all who are sick with famine of of his time. soul. Bring all creeds into a common circle; may they lean He was a Democrat of the Jeffersonian type, which creed charitably and sympathetically upon one another; and, mer he promulgated with untiring and unwavering constancy. ciful Father, breathe into the hearts of all men the spirit In the dark and disheartening days of his party's adversi of humanity. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ties, when countless numbe1·s of its adherents faltered in 3816 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE FEBRUARY 12 their fealty, when its national leaders sulked in their loy service in the interest of good government than he. The alty and many of them even renounced the principles and Nation suffers the loss of one of its very best citizens. doctrines of the immortal leader, Mr. Kern, like a lonely Truly it has been said, Mr. Speaker, "What shadows we soldier, carried on and on, and of him it may well be said are! What shadows we pursue!" that but for Fred J. Kern and the wide influence of his As shadows cast by cloud and sun newspaper there would not have been a semblance of party Flit in the summer's grass, organization in the southern half of illinois in 1928. So in Thy Sight, Almighty One, Earth's generations pass; Mr. Kern was not an ordinary man. He belonged to that And as the years, an endless host, type we call supermen. Physically he was of iron endur Come pressing swiftly on, ance; intellectually, a prodigy; spiritually, benign to a fault. The brightest names that earth can boast, He dissipated not a moment of his life in dalliance-always Just glisten and are gone. at work. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE REGULATIONS Fearless in denouncing vicious systems and malefactors Mr. JONES. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to against society, he was always- ready to meet in physical insert in the REconn the corrected regulations prepared by combat-though one handed, as he unfortunately was the Department of Agriculture governing loans to be made the men, and there were many of them, who resented his to farmers. · righteous vituperation with the challenge to arms. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the He cringed before no human terror.