3S04 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. ~!ARCH 18, - · ·--·------~ ------.------Also, petition of 250 citizens of Cedar City, Utah, against the Also, petition of United Mine Workers of America, f~ a six­ Penrose bill (S. 1518)-to the Committee on the Post-Office and teenth amendment to the Constitution, for woman suffrage­ Po:Jt-Roads. to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. HOUSTON: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Also, petition of E. S. Fleisinger, for the Kittredge-Barchfeld Martha S. 1\furfree-to the Committee on War Claims. copyright bill-to the Committee on Patents. By Mr. KAHN: Petition of San Francisco Labor Council, for By Mr. TIRRELL: Petitions of Louis H. Wezsel, Gaston H. R. 40G4, regarding convict-made goods-to the Committee on Mors, Aaron Warkowstz, and Louis A. Cahn, and others, citi­ Labor. zens of New York and vicinity, for relief for heirs of victims of Also, petitions of Local Union No. 44, International Associa­ GenerM Slocum disaster-to the Committee on Claims. tion of Marble Cutters, and Elevator Constructors' Local Union Also, petitions of Henry J. Andrus and others; Starling No. 8, both of San Francisco, Cal., for battle-ship building in Grange, No. 53, and Fred R. Frask and others, for a national navy-yards-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. highway commission-to the Committee on Agriculture. Also, petition of Irish Nationalists, of San Francisco, Cal., By Mr. THO~f.A.S of North Carolina: Petition of citizens of against arbitration treaty with Great Britain-to the Committee Grantsboro, N. C., against the Penrose bill-to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. : on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. KELIHER: Petitions of Morris M. Comanday, Mu­ By l\fr. WANGER: Petition of Smoky City Lodge, No. 219, asha Krautzman, Wolf Davis, and Theodore Herr Lodge, No. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers, of Alle­ 17, I. 0. U. H., of Boston, Mass., against educational test, in­ gheny, Pa., for the La Follette-Sterling liability bill, the Roden­ crease in head tax, limiting number of immigrants to arrive in berg anti-injunction bilJ, and the Clapp free-pass amendment­ one year, and money-in-pocket feature-to the Committee Im­ to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. migration and Naturalization. Also, petition of Jay E. Remley, legislative representative of Also, petition of Boston Associated Board of Trade, for an Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers, in favor elastic and Government-guaranteed currency-to the Commit­ 11794, favoring Kittredge copyright bill-to the Committee on tee on Banking and Currency. Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Also, petition of Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen of Bos­ Also, petition of John Luther Long, for S. 2900 and H. R. ton, for the La Follette-Sterling employers' liability bill and 11794, favoring Kittridge copyright bill-to the Committee on Rodenberg anti-injunction bill-to the Committee on the Ju­ Patents. diciary. Also, petition of Peace Association of Friends, of Philadel­ Also, petition of Boston Associated Board of Trade, for for­ p1lia, Pa., against building four new battle ships at a cost ex­ est reservations in White Mountains and Southern Appala­ ceeding $60,000,000-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. chian Mountains-to the Committee on Agriculture. . By Mr. KEIFER: Petitions of William Keon, George D. Hoerning, Dewald F. Buchannan, Edward McGuire, and, re­ SENATE. spectively, 25, 23, 28, and 24 others, in all 100 citizens of New York and vicinity, for relief for heirs of victims of Genera~ WEDNESDAY, March 18, 1908. S~ocum disaster-to the Committee on Claims. The Chaplain, Rev. Enw ARD E. HALE, offered the following By Mr. LINDBERGH: Petition of Post No. 40, Grand Army prayer: of the Republic, of Sank Center, Minn., against removal of the Milwaukee pension agency-to the Committee on Appropria­ The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made us tree tions. {1·om the law and of death. By Mr. McKINNEY: Petition of Arthur W. Marsh Post, * * * * * * • Grand Army of the Republic, of Warsaw, Ill., against consoli­ For we know that if the ea1·thl1J house of our tabe1-nacle be dation of pension agencies-to the Committee on Appropria­ dissolved, we have a building from God-a house not made with tions. hands, etental in the heavens. By Mr. McMORRAN: Petition of citizens of Port Huron, * .. * * • * * Mich., for battle-ship building in the navy-yards-to the Com­ We are always of good courage and are willing t·ather to be mittee on Naval Affairs. absent from the body and to be p1·esent with the Lord. By Mr. MADDEN: Petition of citizens of New York and vi­ Even so, Father, come to us. We are Thy children. In life cinity, for relief for heirs of victims of General Slocum dis­ or in death, in strength or in weakness, we can always come aster.:_to the Committee on Claims. to Thee for a Father's voice; we can always rest on a Father's -By Mr. MOON of Tennessee: Paper to accompany bill for re­ arm. lief of Charles May (previously referred to the Committee '· on Father, we ask Thy blessing upon those of his 'own household, Invalid Pensions)-to the Committee on Pensions. who watched over his illness and who see his face in death. By l\fr. PATTERSON: Paper to accompanying bill for relief For ourselves, his associates here, we thank Thee for a life of Joseph Robinson-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. which he has given to the service of his country, and we ask By Mr. PAYNE: Petition of citizens of Cato, Cayuga County, Thee to bless us and lift us up, that we may all stand in the N.Y., for a national highway commission-to the Committee on presence of our God and of this nation, that each man may con­ Agriculture. secrate life to heaven and to earth together. These two worlds By Mr. REEDER: Petition of Western Retail Implement are one world, and the law of the Spirit of Life makes us free and Vehicle Dealers' Association, against a parcels-post law-to from the fear of death. the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Go with us where we go. Stay with us where we stay. We Also, petition of Nathan L. Fritts, for the Sherwood pension are praying for the Congress, for the nation, Father, for all bill-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. who loYed him and honored him, and for all who prize the By Mr. SHERWOOD: Petition of steam engineers of Toledo, government of law, in Christ Jesus. Ohio, for battle-ship building in navy-yards-to the Committee Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy on Naval Affairs. kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is done in By Mr. LOWDEN: Petition of city council of Galena, Ill., for heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and .forgive us our improvement of the Mississippi River by a channel at least 6 trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead feet in depth from St. Louis to Minneapolis-to the Committee us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil; for Thine is on Rivers and Harbors. the kingdom and the power and the glory, foreYer. Amen. By Mr. SPERRY: Petition of Chamber of Commerce of New Haven, Conn., for forest reservations in White Mountains THE JOURNAL. and Southern Appalachian Mountains-to the Committee on The Secretary proceeded to read the Journal of yesterday's Agriculture. proceedings, when, on request of 1\fr. CULBERSON, and by unani­ By 1\Ir. STEPHENS of Texas: Petition of G. M. Tirely and mous consent, the further reading was dispensed with. other citizens of Henrietta, Tex., against the Penrose bill­ The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Journal stands approved. to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. By :Mr. STURGISS: Paper to accompany bill for relief of DEATH OF SENATOR WILLIAM PINKNEY WHYTE. estate of Richard Timberlake-to the Committee on War Mr. R.A.Yl\TER. Mr. President, it is with feelings of profound Claims. sorrow that I announce to the Senate the death of the Bon. Also, petition of citizens of Simpson, Taylor County, W. Va., WILLIAM PINKNEY WHYTE, the distinguished Senator from against the Penrose bill-to the Committee on the Post-Office Maryland. He died last night at his home in Baltimore at 7 and Post-Roads. o'clock. I had observed within the last few weeks the plainest By Mr. SULZER: Petition of Peace Association of Friends evidence of his failing health, but, knowing his speedy powers of Philadelphia, against increase of the Navy-to the Commit­ of recuperation, I had strong hopes that he would rally from tee on Naval Affairs. the attack from which he was sufferi,ng. It was otherwise de- 1908. CONGRESSIONAL .R.ECORD- HOUSE,· 3505

creed, and, after a long life of remarkable achievements and JANITOR TO THE COUUITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS. singular usefulness to his State and to his country, he has 1\Ir. CURRIER. 1\fr. Speaker, I offer the following privileged passed away. r eport from the Committee on Accounts. ~~his · is nqt the oc.casion to pay the proper tribute to his The Clerk read as follows : ·j memory, but it behooves me to say that tpe State whose noblest aims and best traditions he has so truly represented will mourn Resolution in lieu of resolution 279. R esolv ed, That there shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the him as it would mourn no other of its illustrious sons. From House for the services of a janitor to the room assigned to the Com­ one end of :Marylan~ to the other he will be missed from mittee on Ways and Means, in the House wing of the Capitol, com­ amongst us as perhaps no other man has ever been missed be­ pensation at the rate of $60 per month, to commence from the time such janitor enters upon the discharge of his duties, which shall be fore. He was the idol of our people. ascertained and evidenced by the chairman of said committee. He was beloved by all classes of the community, and as I left my home this morning the city that he loved and with The question was taken, and the resolution was agreed to. whose progress his own life was interwoven seemed to be cast TELEPHONE MESSENGER. down and pervaded with a full consciousness of the great loss 1\Ir. CURRIER. I also offer the following: that it' has sustained. In his palmy days in certain depart­ ments of his· profession he stood without a peer. In times The Clerk read as follows : gone by of great political turbulence and conflict he had no Mr. CURRIER submitted the following- equal as an orator upon the hustings, and his popularity with " House resolution 280. every element of the people was unsurpassed in my day. uResolved, That there shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the House for the services of an additional messenger in charge of Back of it all there was that which is greater than learning telephones on the floor of the House (east side) compensation at the and success and eloquence and popularity, and that was his rate of $1,200 per annum, payable monthly, until otherwise provided stainless and unblemished character in public and in private for by law." life. It was an honor and a Yictory to die as he did. Conscious The question was taken, and the resolution was agreed tc. until within a moment of his death, it must have been a glori­ On motion of 1\Ir. CURRIER, a motion to reconsider the yote by ous realization, inexpressible in words, for him to feel that as which the several resolutions were agreed to was laid on the he passed into the presence of his Maker he could look back table. upon a life dedicated to the performance of public and private DAM ACROSS J A.MES RIVER, MISSOURI. duties in strict accord with the prompting of his heart and the dictates of his conscience. 1\Ir. RUSSELL of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous Mr. President, genius and ability may perish without hardly consent ·for the present consideration of the bill H . R. 17707. a record of their work or a remembrance of their deeds, but a The bill was read, as follows : · A bill (H. R. 17707) to authorize William H. Standish to construct a character like his never dies; it stands forth as a beacon light, dam across James River, in Stone County, Mo., and divert a portion shedding its rays upon the generations that are to come and of its waters through a tunnel into the said river again to create casting its halo upon the shores of eternity. electric power. B e it enacted, etc., That William H. Standish, o! Reeds Springs, Stone Mr. President, I now send to the desk and ask for the imme­ County, Mo., his heirs and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized diate consideration and adoption of the following resolutions. to construct, maintain, and operate a dam in the big bend of The VICE-PRESIDE~'T. The resolutions will be read by the the James River in township 23 north, range 24 west, in the county of Stone and State o! Missouri, across the said James River at said point. Secretary. And t hat at the narrows in said bend he and they are hereby author­ The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows : ized to impound and by canal and tunnel to divert and conduct across R esolv ed, That the Senate has heard with profound soTrow of the said narrows such portion of the water in said . river, through said death of the Bon. WrLLIAI'li PINKNEY WHYTE, late a Senator from the tunnel, into said -river aga in as may be necessary for electric·power s~~ ~ Mu~an~ A purposes, all subject to and in accordance with the provisions of the R esolved, That the Secretary communicate these proceedings to the act of Congress entitled "An act to regulate the construction of dams }louse of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the family of across navigable waters," approved June 21, 1906. the deceased Senator, and that as a further mark of respect to his mem­ SEc. 2. That the construction of said dam and tunnel shall be com­ ory the Senate do now adjourn. menced within two years of the passage of said act, and be completed within five years from the date of the passage of this act. The VICE-PRESIDENT. The' question is on agreeing to the SEc . 3. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby resolutions. expressly reseryed. The resolutions were unanimously agreed to; and (at 12 The amendments recom,mended by the committee were read, o'clock and 8 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until to­ as follows: morrow, Thursday, March 19, 1908, at 12 o'clock meridian. In line 3, page 1, after the word "That," insert "the consent of Congress is hereby given to." ize~~ . ,lines 4 and 5, page 1, strike out " be, and they ~re hereby, authcr- In lines 9 and 10, page 1, stt·ike out "that at the narrows in said HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. bend he and they are hereby a uthorized," and in line 10, page 1 af-ter the word "impound," insert "at the narrows in said bend." ' WEDJ\TESDAY, lJI arch 18, 1908. At the end of section 1 add the following: ' •; P r ovided, 'l'hat the Secretary of War shall have at all times controf The House met at 12 o'clock m. of the use of the water, even t o the extent of causing t he persons firms, or co1:porations taking advantage of the privileges granted herein: The following prayer was offered by the Chaplain, Rev. to cease usmg the water whenever the same may be necessary f or HENRY N . CoUDEN, D. D . navigation: And provided further, That should the United States in Eternal God, our Heavenly Father, in. whose all-encircling the work of improving the aforesaid river find it necessary to flood the aforesaid tunnels or in any way affect the flow of water through them love we dwell and through whose never-failing ministrations the owners or operators of aforesaid tunnels shall have no claim against our existence is continued moment by moment, hour by hour. the United States for damage on a ccount of said flooding of the tunnels Guide us, we beseech Thee, by Thy Holy Spirit of truth to do or sa id effect on the flow of water through them." Thy will, that we may build for ourselves characters which Strike out all of section 2 and renumber section 3 to section 2. shall be an everlasting memorial to our Maker. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? Again we are called upon to chronicle the passing a way of 1\fr. FLOYD. Reserving the right to object, I want to ask one more of the Congressional family, whose long life and public some questions about the bill. career have gained for him an everlasting place in the history '.l'he SPEAKER. Does the gentleman yield 1 of his State and nation. Comfort his friends, colleagues, and 1\Ir. RUSSELL of Missouri. I yield. family with the blessed promises of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, 1\Ir. FLOYD. I will ask the gentleman to state if this bill af­ our Lord. Amen. fects the White River in 1\fissouri or the James RiYer? The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and ap­ Mr. RUSSELL of l\Iissouri. It applies to the James River proved. wholly within the State of Missouri. Mr. FLOYD. I will ask you if this is in keeping with your INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL. original proposition, that the James River should be declared 1\Ir. SHERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to unnaviga-ble? take from the Speaker's table the Indian appropriation bill, to l\Ir. RUSSELL of Missouri. It is not. That bill was re­ further insist on the disagreement to the Senate amendments, jected by the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce; and agree to the conference requested. and this bill was at their instance prepared and unanimously' The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York asks unani­ reported favorably by that committee. mous consent that the House further insist on its disagreements ~Ir. FLOYD. I will ask you if it in any way protects the to the Senate amendments and agree to the conference re­ navigation of the river? questecL Is there objection 1 [After a pause.] The Chair l\Ir. RUSSELL of :Missouri. It does; it gives the Govern­ hears none. The Chair announces the following conferees: Mr. ment, through the War Department, a bsolute control over the SHERMAN, Mr. MARSHALL, and 1\Ir. STEPHENS of Texas. flow of the water and the river, reserving the right at any

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