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22·24 CONGRESSIONAL RECOR.D-HOUSE JANUARY 251 HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES the SPEAKER 22·24 CONGRESSIONAL RECOR.D-HOUSE JANUARY 251 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The SPEAKER. The gentleman froin -Connecticut asks unan­ imous con...•tent that bills on the ~rivate Calendar Un.objected to FRIDAY, January 1£5, 191£9 . Imay be in order to-day, to be considered in the House as in Committee of the Whole House. Is there objection? The House met at 12 o'clock noon. There was no olJjection. The Chaplain, Rev. James Sber_a Montgomery, D. D., offered the following prayer : AUTHOR OF POEM ON JOINT REUNION OF NORTH AND SOUTH Almighty God and our Merciful Father, we would turn aside 1\Ir. HOWARD of Nebraska. 1\fr. Speaker, I rise to a ques­ for a moment to reflect upon personal responsibility, and even tion of personal privilege. Among newspaper men and writers upon the vanity of human greatne s. As we stand before our generally no charge is ever considered so hideous as the charge country may the sense of obligation call forth the activity of of plagiarism. This morning I have been kindly greeted by our highest and finest powers of thought and expression. Do several Members of the House and complimented on the author­ Thou richly endow us with a refined and chastened feeling ship of a most beautiful poem, which the House was kind toward all men. Ble s us with a helpful and a profound influ­ enough to permit me to insert in the RECORD yesterday morning. ence that shall be exerted in shaping the minds and in deter­ The lines are beautiful, the sentiment is noble, and I should mining the characters of those with whom we associate. Give like ever so much, Mr. Speaker, if I might claim the author­ us an overflowing passion for the good and for the enrichment ship of those lines. But they were not mine; I did not intend of the Republic. Above eve1·ything else, our Father, may we to deceive ; I did not intend to commit the bideou · crime of never rest content to leave uncared for the things of the life to plagiarism. come. Through Christ om· Saviour. Amen. The name of the author of the lines was plainly printed, but through some accident in the Printing Office the slug bear-. The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and ing the name of the author appears to have been eliminated, a_pproved. and it is quite natural, as it now appears, that I should have MESSAGE E'ROM THE SEN ATE been credited with the line . I desire to make this statement A message from the Senate, by Mr. Craven, its principal in justice to the gentleman who wrote the poem. I bave met clerk, announced that the Senate bad passed without amend­ him only briefly. He lives here in Washington, and his name ment bills of the House of the following titles: is Mr. Carlisle. I do not know his initials. I want my fellows H. R. 5953. An act for the relief of E. L. F. Auffurth; in the House, and particularly my own newspaper fellows, to H. R. 6350. An act for the relief of Bertram Lehman ; know that I could not rest under the implied charge of plagi­ H. R. 6704. An act for the relief of Harry Pincus ; arism, and I ask that the RECORD be so changed that it may H. R. 7411. An act for the relief of Gilbert Fau tina and John bow the name of the author of the beautiful poem with refer­ Alexander; ence to the proposed reunion of the survivors of the armies of H. R. 8988. An act for the relief of Milton Longsdorl; the Blue and the Gray. [Applause.] H. R. 9049. An act to amend S€ction 227 of the Judicial Code; Mr. OLIVER of Alabama. Will the gentleman yield? H. R. 9509. An act for the relief of Ray Ernest Smith ; 1\Ir. HOWARD of Nebraska. Certainly. H. R. 10125. An act for the relief of Leo Scbeuren; Mr. OLIVER of Alabama. The gentleman, the author ot H. R. 10126. An act for the relief of Loretta Pepper ; the poem, is an Alabamian. H. R.10974. An act for the relief of Carl Holm; Mr. HOWARD of Nebraska. I am glad to hear that, because H. R. 12879. An act to repeal section 1445 of the Revised the soul of poetry once lay near Alabama, and Mr. Carlisle bas Statutes of the United States; and brought some of it to Washington. [Applause.] H. R. 13144. An act to cede certain lands in the State of Idaho, including John Smiths Lake, to the State of Idaho for LEGISLATION ON APPROPRIATION BILLS fish-cultural purposes, and for other purposes. :Mr. JOHNSON of Washington. 1\Ir. Speaker, I ask unani­ The message also announceQ. that the Senate has passed, with mous consent to address the House for three minutes. amendments in which the concuiTence of the House is requested, The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Washington asks bills of the House of the following titles : unanimous consent to address the House for three minutes. Is H. R. 12236. An act to provide an appropriation for the pay­ there objection? ments of claims of persons who suffered property damage, death, There was no objection. or personal injury due to the explosion at the naval ammunition Mr. JOHNSON of Washington. Mr. Speaker, I desire to use depot, Lake Denmark, N.J., .July 10, 192-6. three minutes in calling attention to something in the making H. R. 14800. An act granting pensions and increase of pen­ of appropriation bills which I hope will not be too often re­ sions to certain soldiers, sailors, and marines of the Civil War peated. When the Budget plan was put into effect the then and certain widows and dependent children of soldiers, sailors, membership of the House was a little afraid that under the and marines of said war. Budget system, together with a large Appropriation Committee, The message also announced that the Senate had passed bills a great deal of power would be given to some Members, and of the following titles, in which the CQllcurrence of the House others dE-prived of certain rights. The House that passed the is requested : Budget measure was solemnly assured that legislation would S.1338. An act for the relief of James E. Jenkins; not be attached to appropriation bills. S. 2192. An act for the relief of Lemuel Simpson ; For a considerable time that order of things was observed. S. 3770. An act authorizing the Federal Power Commission to Then, as occasion created the necessity, little items of legisla­ issue permits and licenses on Fort Apache and 'Vhite Moun­ tion were put on the appropriation bills and smoothed along to tain Indian Reservations, Ariz.; and final passage. The practice bas been increasing, until now, S. 4125. An act to amend chapter 15 of the Code of Law for when the House membership bas been pretty well lulled to the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. sleep, appropriation bills are being sent through the House in BILLS PRESENTED TO THE PRESIDE...~T race-horse speed. Unless some parliamentary watchdog is par­ Mr. CAMPBELL, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, re­ ticularly on the lookout, and unless the minority Member who ported that that committee did on this day present to the Presi­ reserves all points of order against items in the bill is fear­ dent for his approval bills of the House of the following titles: lessly on the job new legislation such as we see on this particu­ H. R.10472. An act to authorize the appointment of Master lar District bill will be passed through the House, and Mem­ Sergt. August J. Mack as a warrant officer, United States Army; bers who have not been in their seats and watchful of a bill and supposedly carrying only appropriations for the District we will H. R.15472. An act to authorize the Secretary of War to find ourselves confronted with legislation such as in this bill lend War Department equipment for use at the eleventh na­ for the Dishict of Columbia affecting school-teachers, and which tional convention of the American Legion. should have been in a legislative bill coming from some other committee. 'l'here can be but one motion to recommit, and ORDER OF BUSINESS that motion will be made, I understand, with regard to another Mr. TILSON. Mr. Speaker, before beginning business this subject. We of the rank and file are thus estopped. If the morning I wish to make a unanimous-consent request as to the practice grows, then those not on the Appropriations Committee business of to-day. This is the fourth Friday of the month, one are still further set back. I hope it will stop. [Applause.] of the regular clays on which omnibus pension bills are in order. I am informed that there are a number of these bills, but that THE LATE OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD they will not take anything like the entire day. I therefore 1\Ir. GARRETT of Tennessee. 1\Ir. Speaker, I ask unanimous ask unanimous con ent to consider during the remainder of the consent to proceed for five minutes. day bills on the Private Calendar unobjected to, and to consider The SPEAKER. Is there objection? them in the Hou~e as in Committee of tbe Whole. There was no objection. "i929 CONGRESSIONAL RECOR.D--HOUSE 2225 Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker and my colleagues would probably be taken·care of under the· terms of the bill, but of the House, the sad intelligence has just reached me of the I did not make any proposition to the gentleman from Texas, death this morning at his residence in Virginia of ·one of the nor to any gentleman from any other place in this universe, very greatest men of his generation, a former Member of this that any building would be built in his district.
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