3034 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE APRIL 4 H. R. 4323. A bill for the relief of Lemuel 672. By Mr. HARRINGTON: Petition of ."The Senate of the State of Texas, Aus­ Phillips; to the· Committee on Military Affairs. the Forty-ninth General Assembly, State of tin, April 1, 1941." The letter bears also By Mr. CREAL: Iowa, memorializing the Congress of the the facsimile of the seal of the State of H. R. 4324. A bill for the relief of the estate United States relative to the early considera­ of James M. Bennett, deceased; to the Com­ tion and passage of Senate file 860; to the Texas and the return address, E. Harold mittee on Claims. Committee on Military Affairs. Beck, District No.1, Texarkana. It is ad­ H. R. 4325. A bill for the relief of Cyrus A. dressed to me and reads: Bennett and Burton M. Bennett; to the Com­ The Honorable WARREN R. AUSTIN, ·mittee on Claims. The United States Senate, By Mr. COURTNEY: SENATE Washington, D. C. H. R. 4326. A bill for the relief of Thomas DEAR SIR: Enclosed herewith you will find J. Jackson; to the Committee on Military FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1941 a certified copy of Senate Concurrent Resolu­ Affairs. tion No. 35, which was unanimously passed By Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee: Rev. Hunter M. Lewis, ,B. D., assistant by the senate and house of representatives, H. R. 4327. A bill for the relief of W. T. rector, Church of the Epiphany, Wash­ congratulating the State of Vermont upon the Martin Luckett; to the Committee on Claims. ington, D. C., offered the following occasion of the celebration of the sesquicen­ By Mr. DIES: prayer: tennial anniversary of its admission to the H. R. 4328. A blll for the relief of Edward Union. Johnson; to the Committee on Mllitary Af­ Almighty God, who hast blessed us with I am, fairs. a land fair and fertile among the na­ Very truly yours, By Mr. HARRIS: tions: Grant us, we beseech Thee, so to E. HAROLD BECK. H. R. 4329. A blll for the relief of Mrs. F. A. N. Yeager; to the Committee on Claims. dwell therein that her beauty may daily The resolution referred to in the letter By Mr. OLIVER: increase, and her bounty become a beni­ reads: H. R. 4330. A birr for the relief of Kenneth son to all the world. Grant that our SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 85 Stewart Hatch; to the Committee on Immi­ ideals and aspirations may be in accord­ (By Beck) gration and Naturalization. ance with Thy holy will, and that our H. R. 4331. A bill for the relief of Alice R. Whereas 150 years ago, on the 4th day of words and deeds may further that same March 1791, Vermont wa.s admitted to the Swett; to the Committee on Claims. will. Give us a broader vision of our Na­ Union of States; and By Mr. SNYDER: 'tion, fair though she may be; a land of Whereas prior to its admission it had for H. R. 4332. A bill granting a pension to . brotherhood in which all serve together 14 years asserted its independence and exer­ Hiram Russell Griffith; to the Committee on cised the prerogatives of a complete and self­ Invalid Pensions. as brethren; a land of justice wherein the weak need no protection save their sustaining :::overeignty; and . H. R. 4333. A bill granting an increase of Whereas Texas for almost 10 years prior to pension to Mary E. Miller; to the Committee weakness; a land of peace wherein order its admission as a State was similarly con­ on Invalid Pensions. shall not rest upon force, but upon a stituted as a republic and was in all respects H. R. 4334. A bill granting an increase of common consecration to Thee, the Source an independent Commonwealth, as was Ver­ pension to Mary E. Wetmiller; to the Com­ of all love, justice, and peace. mont; and mittee on Invalid Pensions. More especially, we beseech Thee to Whereas we are mindful. of the genuine grant to these Thy servants, into whose contribution that Vermont has made to the hand has been committed the destiny of upbuilding and maintenance of the funda­ PETITIONS, ETC. mental principles of government: Now, there­ our Nation, the faith and daring of the fore, be it Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions Kingdom .of God, that they may neither Resolved by the senate (the house of rep­ and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk faint nor falter in Thy holy warfare for resentatives concurring), That we extend and referred as follows: freedom and the rights of men, that the congratulations to the Governor and the 666. By Mr. HANCOCK: Petition of Mrs. whole world may become the Kingdom Legislature of Vermont and to the people of George W. Freeman and other residents of of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. the State upon the occasion of the celebra­ Liverpool, N. Y., urging favorable considera­ Amen. tion of the sesquicentennial anniversary of tion of the recommendations of the Sentinels THE JOURNAL its admission to the Union. of America; to the Committee on the Judi­ COKER. STEVENSON, ciary. On request of Mr. BARKLEY, and by President of the Senate. 667. By Mr. MAAS: Concurrent resolution unanimous consent, the reading of the I hereby certify that Senate Concurrent of the State of Minnesota, memorializing the ·Journal of the proceedings of the calen­ Resolution No. 35 was adopted by the sen­ Congress of the United States to take prompt dar day of Thursday, April 3, 1941, was ate March 26, 1941. action to ratify the agreement between the dispensed with, and the Journal was [SEAL I BoB BARKER, Government of the United States and the approved. Secretary of the Senate. HOMER LEONARD, Dominion of Canada for the development of MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE the St. Lawrence waterway; to the Committee Speaker of the House of Representatives. on Foreign Affairs. A message from the House of Repre­ I hereby certify that Senate Concurrent 668. Also, resolution of the council of the sentatives, by Mr. · Chaffee, one of its Resolution No. 35 was adopted by the house city of St. Paul, Minn., requesting the Con­ reading clerks, anounced that the House of representatives March 26, 1941. gress of the United States of America to had passed the following bills and joint E. R. LINDLEY, enact, and the President to approve, legisla­ resolution, in which it requested the con­ Chief Clerk of the House tion enabling the completion of the Great of Representatives. Lakes-St. Lawrence seaway and power project culjrence of the Senate: . by removing existing barriers; to the Commit­ H. R. 4239. An act to carry to the surplus Mr. President, the resemblance in the . tee on Foreign Affairs. fund of the Treasury certain trust funds de­ gallant fight for liberty c.onducted by the . 669. By Mr. LYNCH: Resolution of the rived from compensating taxes collected pur­ pioneers of both Texas and Vermont is Maritime Association of the port of New York suant to section 15 (e) of title I of the Act of one of the_causes of the cherished rela­ opposing the St. Lawrence seaway and power May 12, 1933 (48 Stat. 40), as amended, upon tionship between these States. project; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. certain articles coming into the United States; On behalf of the State of Vermont, I 670. Also, resolution of the Albany Cham­ H. R. 4276. An act making appropriations express concurrence in the fundamental ber of Commerce, Albany, N.Y., opposing the for the Department of State, the Department · of Commerce, the Department of Justice, and principles expressed in this resolution, proposed St. Lawrence seaway and power which I regard as absolutely necessary to project; to the Committee on Foreign Af­ the Federal Judiciary, for the fiscal year end· fairs. ing June 30, 1942, and for other purposes; and keep government free, and I express sen­ 671. By Mr. KRAMER: Resolution of the H. J. Res. 105. Joint resolution to continue timents of gratitude and of lasting Assembly and the Senate of the State of the temporary increases in postal rates on .friendship on the part of the State of California urging the Congress of the United first-class matter, and for other purposes. Vermont for the State of Texas. States to enact House bill 84, or such other CONGRATULATIONS . OF TEXAS. LEGISLA- ARMY DAY PARADE legislatiqn as it deems suitable to accom- ' TURE TO VERMONT pUsh the purpose of extending the benefits Mr. SHEPPARD. While under the ·of.marine hospital service to maritime fisher­ Mr. AUSTIN. Mr. President, there is a .proclamation of the President next Mon­ men, and the President of the United States kinship of spirit between the Sta~e of day, April 7, will be Army Day, I am ad­ 1s respectfully petitioned to approve su~h Texas and the State of Vermont which is · vised that the parade will be held tomor­ legishition; to the Committee on the Mer­ ·expressed most graciously in the follow­ row, Saturday afternoon. I ask unani­ chant Marine and Fisheries. ing manner: I read from a letter headed mous consent to have printed in the 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD,-SENATE 3035

RECORD the Army Day proclamation is­ year ended December 31, 1939; to the Com­ name: wholly inadequate medical facilities; sued by the President, and also a letter mittee on Finance. Inability to contact the superintendent; received by me from Edwin S. Bettelheim, school children with no other garments than PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS one dress, a coat, stockings, and shoes; old Jr., adjutant general of the Military Petitions, etc., were laid before the women gathering their own wood; and many Order of the World War. Senate by the Vice President, or pre­ entire families huddled in poor, leaky tents, There being no objection, the procla­ sented by a Senator, and referred as with no furniture and inadequate bedding, mation and letter were ordered to lie on indicated: nearly freezing in subzero weather; and that the table and to be printed in the RECORD, many other intolerable conditions we.re found By the VICE PRESIDENT: to be the rule and not the exception; and as follows: A resolution of the Board of Aldermen, of ARMY DAY-1941 many of the most miserable tents and huts Malden, Mass., approved by the mayor, favor­ were within a stone's throw of the beautiful BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF ing elimination of the provision limiting em­ brick office and residential buildings of the AMERICA-A PROCLAMATION ployment under thew. P. A. to a period of 18 agency at Fort Yates and the subagencies at Where'"d.S Senate Concurrent ResOlution 5, months, and so forth; to the Committee on Cannonball and Porcupine; and Seventy-fifth Congress, first session (50 Stat. Appropriations. "Whereas such living conditions are de­ A resolution adopted by the City Council moralizing to both the younger and older 1108), r;;.ovides: of Woodbury, N. J., and approved by the "That April 6 of each year be recogr_ized by Indians, and it appears that this situation is the Senate and House of Representatives of mayor, favoring that provision be made to not known to Congress: Now, therefore, be It the United States of America as Army Day, provide suitable hospital facilities for vet­ "Resolved, That we respectfully request and that the President of the United States erans in the State of New Jersey; to the Com­ Congress to authorize an immediate and mittee on Finance. thorough investigation of the conditions that be requested, as Commander in Chief, to order A letter In the nature of a petition from military units throughout the United States exist on the StandiP..g Rock Indian Reserva­ D. McCartney and other citizens of Mount tion; and that adequate food, clothing, to assist civic bodies in appropriate celebra­ Lebanon, Pittsburgh, Pa., praying for the tion to such extent as he may deem advis­ shelter, fuel, medicine, and other urgent needs adoption of Senate Concurrent Resolution 7, be supplied at the earliest possible moment able; to issue a };roclamation each yea• de­ providing for an advisory war referendum; to claring April 6 as Army Day, and in such to these destitute, hungry, and homele~s In­ the Committee on Foreign Relations. dians and American citizens; and be it ·proclamations to Invite the Governors of the Petitions of sundry citizens, women of various States to issue Army Day proclama­ further Grangeville, Idaho, praying that the United "Resolved, That copies of this resolution be tions: Provided, That in the event April 6 States keep out of foreign war; to the Com­ falls on Sunday, the following Monday shall · sent to the President of the United States, to mittee on Foreign Relations. the President of the Senate, the Speaker of be recognized as Army Day." A resolution of the Common Council of Now, therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the House of Representatives, to Senator the city of Los Angeles, Calif., favoring the ELMER THOMAS and Representative WILL President of the United States of America, enactment of pending legislation to estab­ pursuant to the aforesaid concurrent resolu­ ROGERS, chairmen of the Senate and Hous3 lish General Pulaski's Memorial Day; to the Indian Affairs Committees; to Senators NYE tion, do hereby declare Monday, April 7, 1941, Committee on the Judiciary. ·as Army Day, and Invite the Governors of the and LANGER and Representatives BURDICK and A concurrent resolution of the Legislature ROBERTSON; and to the press." 48 states to Issue Army Day proclamations; of North Dakota; to the Committee on Indian and, acting under the authority vested in me Affairs: A resolution of the Senate of the State of ·as Commander in Chief, I hereby order mil1- New Jersey; to the Committee on Finance: tary units throughout the United States and "House Concurrent Resolution N Its Territories and possessions to assist civic "Resolution requesting Congress to investi­ "Senate resolution Introduced and adopted bodies, as far as may be practicable, in the gate conditions on the Standing Rock In­ by the senate March 17, 1941 ·appropriate observance of Army Day. dian Reservation and relieve needs existing "Whereas for the purpose of preserving the In witness whereof I have hereunto set my there cane-sugar refining industry in the State of ·hand and caused the seal of the United States New Jersey, and to protect the millions of "Be it resolved by the House of Representa­ consumers In the State of New Jersey from of America to be aftlxed. tives of the State of North Dako~a (the senate Done at the city of Washington this 7th an artificial sugar scarcity and from exorbi­ concurring): tantly high prices; and day of March A. D. 1941, and of the inde­ "Whereas upon petition of the Sioux In­ pendence of the United States of America the "Whereas there is suftlcient sugar on hand dians of the Standing Rock Reservation, who or in the nearby tropical islands to meet any one hundred and sixty-fifth. testified at a joint hearing of the senate In­ (SEAL) FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, demand that the consuming American pub­ dian affairs and house Federal relations com­ lic may make; and By the President. mitte ~ s that the general situation on the "Whereas any change in the existing law CORDELL HULL, reservation is bad and that the ration system that would grant to the highly subsidized secretary of State. as used on their reservation has failed, and beet-sugar industry additional millions of recommended that moneys appropriated by dollars to those already paid would further MILITARY ORDER OF THE WORLD WAR, the United States Congress for rations be dis­ increase the burden on the American con­ Washington, D. C., April 2, 1941. bursed through State relief channels, as for sumer: Now, therefore, be it Senator MORRIS SHEPPARD, white people, who take their groce!-'y orders "Resolved, That Congress be, and it is Chairman, Military Affairs Committee, to the merchant, selecting from staple foods hereby, respectfully memorialized, urged to United States Senate, Washington, D. C. authorized, the legislature, by resolution oppose any change in the existing law that MY DEAR SENATOR: In compliance With the House Concurrent Resolution G, authorized would add additional burdens on the already Army Day resolution adopted by the Seventy­ an investigation of the conditions existing in overburdened consumer, cause further un­ fifth Congress, President Roosevelt on March that area of the reservation lying .within the employment in the State of New Jersey, or 7, 1941, issued a proclamation calling on the State of North Dakota; and disrupt in any way our good-neighbor policy citizens of America to pay tribute to the "Whereas a special joint committee visited with South and Central America; and be it United States Army. Fort Yates, Cannonball, and Porcupine Sub­ further On Saturday afternoon at 1:45 p. m. the agency, examined witnesses, and personally "Resolved, That a copy of this resolution annual Army Day parade will cross the Capi­ saw the deplorable, wretched conditions be sent to the President of the United States, tol Plaza, starting its march up Constitution under which these Indians are existing, and the Vice President, the Secretary of State, the Avenue, to culminate in passing in review as shown by report and testimony on pages Secretary of Agriculture, the Speaker of the before the Secretary of War at Sixteenth 235-2•-8 of the Senate Journal for February· House of Representatives, and to each Mem­ Street and Constitution Avenue. ·a, 1941, which report is incorporated here­ ber of the present Congress from the State Cordially yours, with by reference thereto and hereto attached, of New Jersey, and that they be urged to EDWIIT S. BETTELHEIM, Jr., and also by photographs of a few of the cases use their best efforts to accomplish the pur­ Adjutant GeneraZ. referred to in the committee report attached pose of this resolution." hereto and made a part of this resolution; EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION A concurrent resolution of the Legislature ·and of Minnesota; to the Committee on Foreign The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the "Whereas the report of this committee in­ Relations: dicates that many of these unfortunate Senate the following letter, which was people live on food allowances of the value "Concurrent resolution memorializing the referred as indicated: of $3.45 per month and families of four on a Congress of the United States to take A joint letter from the Secretary of Com- double ration, amounting to $6.90 per month, prompt action to ratify the agreement be­ . merce, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the with perhaps occasional surplus commodities, tween the Government of the United States Secretary of War, the Foreign-Trade Zones Inequitably distributed; green coffee, and and the Dominion of Canada for the de­ Board, submitting, pursuant to law, the an­ no fruit, dairy products, nor milk for children: velopment of the St. Lawrence waterway nual report of that Board for the fiscal year With only a very limited amount of dead "Whereas the duly accredited representa- ended June 30, 1940, with an accompanying cottonwood and willow timber and driftwood tives of the Governments of the United report on Foreign Trade Zone No. 1, for the for fuel, burned ln stoves not worthy of the States and the Dominion of Canada have now LXXXVII-192 3036 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE APRIL 4 consummated and signed an agreement for "Whereas Aerovias Nacionales Puerto Rico, fore said enterprise is not at th~ mercy of the development of the St. Lawrence River Inc., was not duly notified by the Aeronautics revocable permits but to contribute indi­ and the improvement of the water route of Civil Board, as all other air-line or air-service rectly to the national defense, avoiding the the Great Lakes so as to permit the free pas· enterprises with fixed itinerary were notified, transportation of passengers from military sage of oceangoing ships from the Atlantic sending them even last-minute telegrams .re­ fields, and not making compulsory the con­ Ocean to the head of the Great Lakes and questing their acceptance under the clauses struction of costly airports whose acceptance the heart of the Northwest and of the Amer· of Grandfather Certificate Act, thus making air-line regulations make so difficult, but lean Continent; and it unnecessary for them to make application affording facilities that may be used for serv­ "Wher~as the Presidents of the United for a certificate for convenience and neces­ ice in case of a national emergency; and States for more than 20 years have committed sity; and "Whereas the service rendered by said en­ themselves to the promotion of this great "Whereas from April 21, 1938, to January terprise, besides solving the problem of rapid development, and President Franklin D. 12, 1939, said corporation transported 12,037 and safe transportation in commercial, social, Roosevelt has characterired the St. Lawrence passengers for pay with a. record of no acci· and other activities, it is of incalculable ad­ project as of economic value comparable to dent, one apparatus having fiown 170,000 vantage in case of war, epidemics, cyclone, the Panama Canal and as a vital necessity as miles without having to make landings out­ earthquake, or any other national emergency, a defense measure, and will now ask the Con· side its bases; made approximately 3,500 de­ it being able to make use of numerous bays, gress of the United States to ratify the agree· scents and take-offs on water on the routes lakes, and rivers, besides being able to de­ ment as made and provide funds for the com· of the Grandfather Certificate Act; and at scend on land or water in any island of the pletion of the work; and present covers said route with a Grumman Caribbean; and in this manner it can render "Whereas the State of Minnesota, through amphibian of the latest model; and numberless services of aerial transportation Its legislature, for more than 20 years has "Whereas said corporation has carried cor­ to the advantage of the community in gen­ afDrmed its continued support of this project, respondence without an air-mail contract, but eral; and and through the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence With a special permit from the Post Office De­ "Whereas Aerovias Nacionales Puerto Rico, Tidewater Commission of Minnesota has con­ partment of the United States of America Inc., has operated and made flights with sistently endeavored to bring about the re­ since April 23, 1938, having thus rendered a cargo, passengers, and mail with the special alization of the hopes of the people of this valuable service to the community showing · permission of the Post Office Department State for this development; and the convenience and necessity for an air­ from May 14, 1938, to August 15, 1938, having "Whereas we believe that the St. Lawrence mail route, which permit had been requested begun on April 21, 1938, the fixed itineraries project is a vital necessity for the develop­ from the Post Office Department in Wash· from San Juan, Ponce, and Mayaguez; San ment and stimulation of the resources of this ington, D. C., since November 1937; and Juan to Vieques, and San Juan to St. Thomas State and of the entire Northwest, and has "Whereas Aerovias Nacionales Puerto Rico, and to St. Croix, with a stop in Vieques on already been too long delayed, and that great Inc., has been the initiator and pioneer of the way over, except such stops as provided economic advantages will result not only to commercial aviation in Puerto Rico, having in said law of interruptions, over which the Minnesota but to the Nation from the 1m· the brothers, Narciso and Horacia Basso, di­ applicant had no control, and rendered safe provement of this natural avenue of com­ rectors of said enterprise, initiated the trans­ and efficient service with a seaplane of the merce: Now, therefore, be it portation of passengers by air between San latest type and with general safety without "Resolved, That the house of representa· Juan and other. points of the island in 1932, accident of any kind; that said Aerovias Na­ tives (the senate concurring) commend and made other efforts which ended in the cionales Puerto Rico, Inc., did not apply in and support the President of the United incorporation Olf said enterprise in 1936; and due time for its certificate because it was States in his steadfast, consistent, and ener­ "Whereas the principal objective of said never notified to that effect: Now, therefore, getic support of this project, and urge the enterprise has been, since its foundation, the belt Congress of the United States, Without delay, development of commercial aviation in Pu­ "Resolved by the House of Representatives to approve and ratify the agreement already erto Rico and the Virgin Islands, within the of Puerto Rico, To request from the Senate concluded with the Dominion of Canada, to best standards of efficiency, safety, and ra­ and the House of Representatives of the provide the necessary funds for the work, and pidity; and Congress of the United States: thus promote the speedy completion of this "Whereas said corporation from its begin­ "1. The adoption of an act or joint resolu­ great project as a vital economic and defense ning has kept the best and most modern air tion including Aerovias Nacionales Puerto necessity. equipment, in spite of the high cost of EEngland warehouses. Appendix.] sisting of the attorney general, the State Mr. BANKHEAD. Mr. President, the ADDRESS BY WILLIAM F. CULBERTSON health officer, and a licensed physician, amendment originally offered in the AT INTER-AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIA­ with the attorney general serving as ex House did not comply with the law on the TION CONFERENCE, HABANA, CUBA officio chairman. Ever since, every subject, which authorized and directed attorney general elected in the State has [Mr. DAVIS asked and obtained leave to the Commodity Credit Corporation to have printed in the RECORD an address, enti­ been wholeheartedly for the enforcement make not more than 300,000 bales of cot­ tled "The Reign of Law," delivered by Hon. of the law. Now, after 20 years of active ton available in New England. Instead William F. Culbertson before the first con­ law enforcement, supported and rein­ of following the language of the original ference of the Inter-American Bar Associa­ forced by the work of the State health de­ act, which was "not more than," the tion at Habana, Cuba, on March 26, 1941, partment, the National Bureau of Public amendment said "not less than." So I which appears in the Appendix.] Health, and assisted financially by the will move to concur in the amendment of EDITORIAL BY JUDGE ALBERT W. JOHN­ Rockefeller Foundation, we have there­ the House with an amendment, simply SON ON THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY markable showing made recently when correcting it to conform to the law. I among 2,760 selectees for the Army exam­ will say to the Senate that there is no [Mr. DAVIS asked and obtained leave to 1, 1941, 'l have printed in the RECORD an editorial enti- ined prior to March only objection by the author of the bill and of tled "Our Democracy-The Most Efficient showed a positive blood test. the amendment in the House. Government in the World," written by Judge When it is considered that the average The VICE PRESIDENT. The amend­ Albert W. Johnson, and published in the for the entire United States is 5 percent, ment offered by the Senator from Ala­ Philadelphia Inquirer of March 16, which and that 7 out of 2,760 is only one-fourth bama to the amendment of the House of appears in the AppendiX.] of 1 percent, we see a splendid testi­ Representatives will be stated. OPINIONS OF SUPREME COURT IN UNIT· monial to the work of the law-enforce­ The LEGISLATIVE CLERK. It iS proposed ED STATES v. THE COOPER CORPORA­ ment, public-health, medical, educa­ to amend by striking· out section 'l and, in TION tional, and religious agencies of the State. lieu thereof, to insert the following: Alvin Strutz, the present attorney gen­ [Mr. HILL asked and obtained leave to Nothing in this act shall repeal or set aside have printed In the REcoRD the opinion of eral, and Dr. Maysil Williams, State the provision of existing law directing the the Supreme Court of the United States in health officer, working in cooperation Commodity Credit Corporation to transfer to United. States of America, petitioner, v. The with and under the direction of the Pub­ warehouses in or near cotton-manufacturing Cooper Corporation et al., No. 484, October lic Health Service here in Washington, centers in New England, not to exceed 300,000 term, 1940, · together with the dissenting have not even used all the mon€Y that is bales of cotton. 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 3039 Mr. BANKHEAD. Mr. President, I functions of distributors, shall be equal to Therefore, while I do so with the greatest move that the Senate concur in the the discounts or price allowances that may reluctance, in view of the legislative situ­ be ma.de by code members to distributors, as amendment of the House with the provided in subsection (h) of part II of this ation which confronts those of us who amendment just stated. section." want to see the Guffey Coal Act ex­ The motion was agreed to. tended, but who at the same time wish Mr. LA FOLLETTE. Mr. President, to see the cooperatives placed upon a fair EXTENSION OF BITUMINOUS COAL ACT when the original Guffey Coal Act was OF 1937 basis of competition with other whole­ passed, it provided in subsection (i) of salers in coal, I have come to the con­ Mr. BONE. Mr. President, from the part II of section 4 spt::cial consideration clusion that I should not press the Committee on Interstate Commerce I so far as the farmers' cooperative organi­ amendment at this time. But I shall re­ report back favorably, without amend­ zations were concerned. As is well known efier the amendment as a separate bill; I ment, the bill (H. R. 4146) to extend the to every Senator, it has been the policy shall hope that I may have the coopera­ provisions of the Bituminous Coal Act of Congress and the Federal Government tion of the Committee on Interstate of 1937 for a period of 2 years, and for over a long period of years to offer assur­ Commerce in further consideration of it; other purposes; and I submit a report ances to farmers' cooperative organiza­ and I shall seize any legislative oppor­ (No. 169) thereon. tions that they will not be discriminated tunity which may present itself in the The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob­ . against in legislation which has the effect form of substantive amendments to the jection, the report will be received and of regulating ordinary commercial activi­ Guffey Coal Act to press upon the Senate the bill will be placed on the calendar. ties. Furthermore, as I mentioned yes­ the consideration of what I believe to be Mr. BONE. I ask unanimous consent terday in another connection, it has been a very important and a very fair effort to for the present consideration of the bill. the policy of Congress, through the Farm place the cooperative wholesalers on an The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there ob­ Credit Administration, to provide, in the equal competitive footing with the other jection to the request of the Senator Bank of Cooperatives, financing for farm­ wholesalers in the distribution of coal. from washington? ers' cooperative organizations. What is For these reasons, Mr. President, I will There being no objection, the Senate sought to be accomplished by this amend­ not press the amendment at this time. proceeded to consider the bill

NATIONAL CEMETERY NEAR PORTLAND, tenths feet; thence south thirty-one degrees I have no desire t~ delay the consider­ OREG. thirty minutes west a distance of slx hun­ ation of the bill. I had hoped, as I said, dred sixty-two and nine-tenths feet; thence The bill (S. 793) to provide for a na­ south seventy-seven degrees forty-six minutes that the committee would report the bill tional cemetery in the vicinity of Port­ west a distance of one thousand seventy-five containing the full amount of $10,000. I land, Oreg., was considered, ordered to be and seven-tenths feet; thence south thirty­ do not know whether any member of the engross-ed for a third reading, read the six degrees fourteen minutes west a distance Committee on Claims is present in the third time, and passed, as follows: of four hundred ninety and eight-tenths feet; Senate at this moment. If there is, I thence south thirty-eight degrees nine min­ Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of should like to know what the usual prac­ utes east a distance of two hundred ninety­ tice is. War is authorized and directed to establish six and eight-tenths feet; thence south twen­ and maintain, in accordance with the provi­ ty-eight degrees eighteen minutes east a dis­ Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, I am sions of law governing national. cemeteries, a tance of four hundred fifteen and three­ not a member of the Committee on national cemetery in the vicinity of Portland, tenths feet; thence south sixty-six degrees Claims, but I will say that there has Oreg. The Secretary of War is authorized to twenty-four minutes east a distance of two grown up a sort of custom or rule in the acquire by donation, purchase, condemnation, hundred ninety and one-tenth feet; thence House and Senate Committees on Claims, or otherwise such suitable lands as are in his south fifty-four degrees twenty minutes east I think, that in situations such as this judgment necessary for the establishment and a distance of two hundred sixty-four and maintenance of such cemetery. $5,000 is the maximum amount allowed. seven-tenths feet; thence south thirty-three Whether that is just in every case may SEc. 2. There are hereby authorized to be ·degrees seventeen minutes east a distance of appropriated, out of any money in the Treas­ two hundred eleven and one-tenth feet; be open to question, but it has been rather ury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as thence east along south section line of said the custom. may be necessary for the purposes of this act. section 31, township 13 north, range 19 west, Mr. BONE. I may say to the Senator BILL PASSED OVER a distance of seven hundred forty-four and from Kentucky that I have been ad­ The bill BIRMINGHAM, ALA Howell Cone to be collector of customs at us, whose forefathers founded this Nation on sound principles of liberty, equality, Mr. HILL. Mr. President, in the REc­ Savannah, Ga., and I have asked for im­ ORD of March 31 there: was an extension mediate consideration of the nomination. and justice, a rededication to the cause of liberty ~or ·all the human race and a new pf remark-s in the Appendix by Repre­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. The sentative DIES, of Texa&, setting out a list Clerk will state "the nomination. zeal for Thy Holy Word. '"Teach us to fight and not·to heed the wounds, to toil of names of omcers of different organiza­ The legislative clerk read the nomina­ tions of the C. I. 0. whom he charged tion of Howell Cone to be collector of and not to seek for rest, to give and not to count the cost, to labor and not to seek with being either members of the Com· customs for customs-collection district munist Party or, as Mr. DIES puts it, fel­ No. 17. for any reward save that of knowing that we do Thy will. So shall we learn to fol­ low travelers, whose records show that The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without they follo·.: the party line in supporting objection,· the nomination is confirmed·. low the example of His patience as were­ build to Thy glory a world broken, torn, the party's front organizations. The last POSTMASTERS and crucified. Grant this, o Heavenly name in the list was that of Mr. William Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, I ask Father, in the name of Him who died and Mitch, of Birmingham, Ala., president o1 unanimous consent that the nominations rose again for us, Thy Son, Jesus Christ, the Alabama Industrial Union Council. of postmasters reported favorably today our Lord. Amen. Mr. President, I know Mr. Mitch. 1 have known him well for a number of be confirmed en bloc. THE JOURNAL The'PRESIDING OFFICER. Without years. He has labored all his life for the objection, the nominations are confirmed On request of Mr. HILL, and by unani­ cause of human welfare. Whether or not en bloc. mous consent, the reading of the Journal in his labors he has contacted some or­ of the proceedings of Friday, April 4 ganization which has not proved as NOTIFICATION TO THE PRESIDENT 1941, was dispensed with and the Journai worthy as it appeared to be, as many Mr. B~RKLEY. I ask unanimous con­ was approved. good Americans with all good purposes sent that all nominations which have AUTHORIZATION FOR VICE PRESIDENT have done, I do not know. This I do been approved by the Senate be for­ . TO SIGN BILLS, ETC. know, however, that Mr. Mitch is a loyal warded immediately to the President. patriotic American, and any charge o~ The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Mr. HILL. I ask unanimous consent insinuation that he is not is absurd and objection, it is so ordered. . . that the Vice PresidEmt may have the ridiculous and grossly unfair and unjust. power to sign bills and resolutions· during ADJOURNMENT TO MONDAY The ~irmingham Age-Herald of April 2, the recess or adjournment following to­ 1941, under the caption "A good name Mr. BARKLEY. As in legislative ses­ day's session. smeared," bears testimony to Mr. Mitch sion, I move that the Senate adjourn un;;. The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob­ as a man and F citizen in the following til 12 o'clock noon, .on ·Mopday next. jection, it is so o~d~red. language: . - . The motion was agreed to; and the Senate Mr. GUFFEY. Mr President, one of mingham long enough for . us to learn to adjourned until -Monday, April 7, 1941, kn.ow the man. Even those who have met at 12 o'clock meridian. . the most famous and best-loved cartoon­ him as an l't!ltagonist in the field of labor ists of America recently celebrated his controversy grant his complete personal in~ seventy-second .birthday. For 44 years tegrity and honesty of purpose, however ·they CONFIRMATIONS ­ he has drawn and published cartoons of may have criticized or may now criticize his Executive nominations confirmed by men and women in American life, and handling of some specific issue. But no one who really knows Mr. Mitch could regard Mr. the Senate April .4, 1941: . has yet to offend anyone who has been the subject of his pungent but kindly DIEs listing of him as a Communist-or as COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS drawings. To the contrary, he has gained a fellow traveler of Communists-as other Howell Cone to be collector of customs for esteem, prestige, and friends not only for than hysterical or ignorant. customs collection district No. 17, with head­ himself but for the newspapers for which The Birmingham Post, a Scripps­ quarters at Savannah, Ga. he ha.S worked. As a token of the affec­ Howard paper, bears similar testimony in POSTMASTERS tion and respect in which he is univer­ ~upport of Mr. Mitch, as does John Tem­ ARKANSAS sally held, I ask permission to have in­ ple Graves, of Alabama, brilliant and in­ Arthur Poteete, Perryville. serted in the RECORD a poem inscribed to dependent columnist. I ask unanimous Clifford K. Berryman, by one of his consent to include in my remarks an KANSAS colleagues. editorial from the Birmingham Post of Thelma L. Harris, Americus. There being no objection, the poem April 2, 1941, and an excerpt from Mr. OKLAHOMA was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, Graves' column in the Birmingham Age­ 3, 1941. William H. Balentine, Tahlequah. as follows: Herald of April TO CLIFFORD K. BERRYMAN There being no objection, the editorial SOUTH DAKOTA I always like a merry man, and excerpt were ordered to be printed Harold W. Grace, Scotland. A fellow like Cliff Berryman, in the RECORD, as follows: TEXAS To give my soul its zest; [From the Birmingham (Ala.) Post of April A man who smiles right merrily 2, 1941] Servando Cabellero, Benavides. Whose soothing laughter, verily, George J. Atkins, Bonham. Doth set my soul at rest. OFF THE DEEP END Claude Thompson, Breckenridge. Oscar A. Truelove, Malakoff. If I were but a dairyman, The American public has a right to expect John Granville Hearn, Marble Falls. I'd hire this fellow, Berryman, a greater degree of responsibility on the part Kate Shaw, Rhome. To be my only herd; of its Representatives in Congress than that And sell, in all my blindliness exercised by Representative DIEs when he WEST VIRGINIA His milk of human kindliness­ attempts to label William Mitch as a Com­ Cari E. Sage, Anawalt. ! would, upon my word. munist or fellow traveler on the party line.