atnugr tSsinnal SEVENTY-SECOND CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION SENATE THE JOURNAL Mr. FESS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent for THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1932 the approval of the Journal for the calendar days of Mon­ (Legislative day of Monday, April 11, 1932) day, Tuesday, and Wednesday, April 11, 12, and 13, re­ spectively. The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, on the expiration The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, it is so of the recess. ordered. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senate will receive a mes­ sage from the House of Representatives. CALL OF THE ROLL Mr. BINGHAM obtained the floor. MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE Mr. FESS. Mr. President, will the Senator yield to enable A message from the House of Representatives by Mr. me to make the point of no quorum? Chaffee, one of its clerks, announced that the House had The VICE PRESIDENT. Will the Senator from Connecti- passed without amendment the .following bills of the cut yield for that purpose? Senate: Mr. BINGHAM. I yield. S. 826. An act conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Mr. FESS. I suggest the absence of a quorum. · Claims to hear and determine claims of certain bands or The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will call the roll. tribes of Indians residing in the State of Oregon; The Chief Clerk called the roll, and the following Senators S. 1719. An act amending the act of Congress entitled answered to their names: "An act authorizing the Wichita and affiliated bands of Ashurst Costigan Johnson Reed Indians in Oklahoma to submit claims to the Court of Austin Couzens Jones Robinson, Ark. Claims," approved June 4, 1924; and Bailey Cutting Kean Robinson, Ind. Bankhead Dale Kendrick Sheppard S. 3655. An act to provide for the leasing of the segre­ Barbour Dickinson Keyes Shipstead gated coal and asphalt deposits of the Choctaw and Chicka­ Barkley Dill La Follette Smoot Blngha.m Fess Lewis Stelwer saw Indian Nations, in Oklahoma, and for an extension of Black Fletcher Logan Thomas, Idaho time within which purchasers of such deposits may com­ Blaine Frazier McGill Thomas, Okla. plete payments. Borah George McKellar Townsend Bratton Glass McNary Trammell The message also announced that the House had passed Brookhart Glenn Metcalf Tydings the following bills of the Senate, each with an amendment, Bulkley Goldsborough Morrison Vandenberg Bulow Hale Moses Wagner in which it requested the concwrence of the Sen~te: Byrnes Harrison Neely Walcott S. 2405. An act to confer jurisdiction on the Court of Capper Hastings Norbeck Walsh, Mass. Claims to hear and determine certain claims of the Eastern Caraway Hatfield Norris Walsh, Mont. Carey Hayden Nye Waterman or Emmigrant and the Western or Old Settler Cherokee In­ Connally Hebert Oddle Watson dians against the United States, and for other purposes; and Coolidge Howell Patterson Wheeler S. 3569. An act to amend the act of May 27, 1930, author­ Copeland Hull Pittman White izing an appropriation for the reconstruction and improve­ Mr. SHEPPARD. I wish to announce that the senior ment of a road on the Shoshone Indian Reservation, Wyo. Senator from Louisiana EMr. BRoussARD] is necessarily de­ The message further announced that the House had tained from the Senate. passed the following bills, in which it requested the con­ I also wish to announce that the senior Senator from Mis­ cUI·rence of the Senate: souri EMr. HAWEs] is necessarily detained from the Senate H. R. 208. An act to authorize transfer of the abandoned by illness. Indian-school site and building at Zeba, Mich., to the L'Anse I also desire to announce that the junior Senator from Band of Lake Superior Indians; Utah [Mr. KING] is necessarily detained from the Senate by H. R. 8637. An act to authorize the sale, on competitive illness. bids, of unallotted lands on the Lac du Flambeau Indian Mr. BYRNES. I desire to announce that my colleague the Reservation, in Wisconsin, not needed for allotment, tribal, senior Senator from South Carolina EMr. SMITH] is neces­ or administrative purposes; sarily detained by serious illness in his family. H. R. 8898. An act authorizing the deferring of collection Mr. GEORGE. My colleague the senior Senator from of construction costs against Indian lands within irrigation Georgia [Mr. HARRIS] is still detained from the Senate be­ projects, and for other purposes; cause of illness. I will let this announcement stand for the H. R. 8918. An act to authorize the collection of penalties, day, damages, and costs for stock trespassing on Indian lands; Mr. GLASS. I desire to announce that my colleague tbe H. R.10086. An act to amend the act of February 14, 1920, senior Senator from Virginia E.Mr. SwANSoN] is absent in authorizing and directing the collection of fees for work attendance upon the disarmament conference at Geneva. done for the benefit of Indians; The VICE PRESIDENT. Eighty-four Senators have an­ H. R. 10161. An act amending the act of May 25, 1918, swered to their names. A quorum is present. with reference· to employing farmers in the Indian Service, PAN AMERICAN DAY and for other purposes; Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. President, last year on the recom­ H. R.10419. An act to permit relinquishments and recon­ mendation of the governing board of the Pan American veyances of privately owned and State school lands for the Union, the chief executives of the 21 Republics of the benefit of the Indians of the Acoma Pueblo, N. Mex.; and American Continent by special proclamation designated H. R.10884. An act to authorize the Secretary of the In­ April 14 as Pan American Day. Throughout the continent terior to adjust reimbursable debts of Indians and tribes of appropriate ceremonies are to-day being held. In a very Indians. real sense the celebratiQn of this day is destined to become LXXV--515 8175 I • 8176 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE APRIL 14 the outward symbol of the increasing unity of purpose and stltution of the United States of America, to become valld as part ideals of the nations of America. I deem it eminently fitting, of said Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of the several States as provided in the Constitution in words as follows to wit: Mr. President, that here in the Senate of the United States "SEcTioN 1. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representa­ we take cognizance of this fact and especially that we tiv.es of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two­ visualize its deeper spiritual and moral significance. thlrds of each House concurring therein), That the following amendment to the Constitution be, and hereby is, proposed to the As we review the period that has elapsed since the Ameri­ States, to become valid as a part of said Constitution when rati­ can Republics achieved their independence, we can not help fied by the legislatures of the several States as provided in the but be impressed by one notable and outstanding fact. In spite Constitution: of the temporary setbacks that have occurred from time to "ARTICLE- time, the century has brought a constantly broadening basis " SECTION 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Sena­ of inter-American good will and understanding. tors and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the I desire in the first place to call your attention to the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had notable record that has been made ·in the peaceful settle­ not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin. "SEC. 2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in ever.y ment of inter-American disputes. At this moment there is year, and . such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of sitting at the Pan American Union an arbitral tribunal, January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. presided over by the Chief Justice of the United States, to "SEc. 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of which has been intrusted the settlement of a lang.-standing the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice Presi­ dent elect shall become President. If a President shall not have and irritating boundary dispute between Guatemala and been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, Honduras. The representatives of five countries of the or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Americ~ Continent are serving as intermediaries between Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by la.w provide for the case Paraguay and Bolivia in the settlement of a boundary dis. wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall pute between those two countries. Peru and Chile have have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the settled their long-standing and difficult controve:sy rela­ manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vi<:e President tive to Tacna and Arica; Colombia and Peru have fmally shall have qualified. eliminated a long-standing and irritating boundary dispute. " SEc. 4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of death The citizens of all the republics of America may well be of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have proud of the fact that the 21 Republics of America are devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the rapidly approaching the point at which every pendlng inter­ persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President when­ national question will have been settled by the orderly pro­ ever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.