7776 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD·-SE:NATE. JuNE 14,
PUBLIC BILLS, ~ESOLUTIONS, AND l\IEMORL.t\LS. can Dramatists and Composers, protesting against the second- Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, bills, resolutions, and memorials class postal 1:ates .of the war-revenue act and asking its repeal; ''"ere introduced :m l\lr. SMOOT.. Mr. President, I suggest the absen.ce of a .ma aiel that it was the object of the Committee on Printing to have NOT VOTING-48. the Senate take affirmative action before a petition could be Brandegee Gore La Follette Smith, Mich. Calder Harding Owen Swanson printed in full in the RECORD. In other words, a resolution- Colt Hardwick -;: Penrose Tillman Mr. SMITH of Arizona. If the Senator will permit ·me. the Cummins Henderson Phelan Townsend affirmative action of the Senate does not mean unanimous con Curtis Hitchcock . ·- Pittman Wadsworth Fall Hollis Poindexter Walsh sent suggested on one side; it means the action of the Senate. Fernald .Tames Pomerene Warren Mr. SMOOT. But I think that-- Fletcher .Johnson, Cal. Robinson Wat on The VICE PRESIDENT. I do not see bow there could be any Frelinghuysen Jones, N.Mex. Saulsbury Weeks Gallinger .Tones, Wash. Shafroth Wiltley thing more affirmative than the unanimous consent of the Senate. Gerry. Kellogg Simmons Williams l\Ir. Sl'I.100T. I rather think that the Chair is right in his Golf Knox Smith, Md. Wolcott construction of the resolution in connection with-- The VICE PRESIDENT. On the motion of the Senator from The VICE PRESIDENT. With Rule XXIX. Tennessee [Mr. 1\IcKELL.AB] the yeas are 14, and the nays are 1\fr. SMOOT. In connection with Rule XXIX. I think the 34. The motion is rejected, and therefore only a brief statement decision of the Chair is right, but yet I want to say that was of the contents of the resolutions will be printed in the RECORD. not the intention of the committee in asking the Senate to adopt The resolutions referred to were adopted at a public meeting Senate resolution 77, which was agreed to October 5, 1917. tmuer the auspices of the National Woman's Party in the city l\1r. McKELLAR. Do I understand that memorials and reso of Bristol, Tenn. and Va., on J'une 7, 1918. lutions in the nature of memorials are now in order? The resolutions recited the work of the women in the war; The VICE PRESIDENT. They are. . the fact that they had no voice in the Government; a reque t 1\fr. McKELLAR. 1\fr. President) I send to the Secretary's to the President to press the national suffrage amendment for desk three re olutions adopted at a ma.ss meeting at Bristol, passage and that the resolutions be sent to the President, ancl Va. and Tenn. They are very short, and in accordance with to Senators 1\L'\RTIN, GALLINGER, J'o~s of New Mexico, 'SWANso_~, the ruling of the Chair I ask unanimous consent that they SHIELDS, and 1\IcKELLAR, with the request that said resolutions , may be extended at length in the RECORD. I have been re be read into the CoNGRESSIONAL RECORD. quested by the people of that city when these resolutions were Mr. SMITH of Arizona. 1\fr. President, I bnve a resolution pas ed to have them printed in the RECORD. The subje.ct matter pas eu by the Legislature of the State of Arizona, which I have of the resolutions is the question of equal suffrage. The meeting been requested to present to the Senate. It has, however, been was held under the auspices of the Natiosal Woman's Party on mislaid, as tl).ere have been only recesses of the Senate for the J'une 7, 1918, and it expre sed it elf strongly in favor of the past two days and consequently no morning hour. I am afraid ' national suffrage amendment now pending before the Senate I may be con idered derelict in not having sooner presented the and a ked for an early vote on the amendment. I think those resolution to the Senate. I had it on my desk, and I do not who adopted the re~olutions are entitled to have them printed want it to go forth that u resolution of the Legislature of Ari in the RECORD. I therefore ask unanimous consent at this time zna, which the rule to which reference has been made provide that they be printed in the RECORD in full, and e pecially as shall be printed in the RECORD, has not been presented and .so they are very short. printed. I ask unanimous consent that when .I find the resolu Mr. Sl\IITH of Arizona. 1\fr. President, are the resolutions tion, which is in favor of the adoption of the woman-suffrage from the Legislature of the State of Tennes ee? con ·titutional amendment, which the legislature desires to .have Mr. McKELLAR. They are not. presented to tbe Senate of the United States, I may file it at 1\:lr. SMITH of Arizona. Then I object. the Secretary's desk for printing in the RECORD, without waiting l\Ir. McKELLAR. Then I move, under the ruling of the Chair, for anot11er morning hour. that there olutions be printed in full in the RECORD. The VICE PRESIDENT. .Without objection, it is so ordereu. Mr. SMITH of Arizona. On that I demand the yeas anu Mr. SMITH of Arizona subsequently presented the resolution nays. referred to, which is as follows: The yeas and nays were ordered and taken. Senate joint memorial 1, by Senator Fred T. Colter; adopted May 25, 1\fr. CURTIS (after having voted in the negative). I have 1918. a pair with the junior Senator from Georgia [1\fr. IIARDWICR]. To the Senate of the United States: In his absence I withdraw my vote. Your memorialists, the Third Legislature of the State of Arizona, in special session convened, respectfully represents- 1\Ir. J'OHNSO:N of South Dakota (after having voted in the That this Legislature for the State of Arizona is now ready and negative). I have a pair with the Senator from Maine [Mr. aiUious to adopt the woman's suffrage amendment to the Constitution FERNALD]. I transfer that pair to the Senator from Missouri of the United States; . '.rhat Arizona believes its position on this question wise becau e it [1\Ir. WILFiEY] and will allow my vote to stand. has found woman suffrage an unqualified success, and believes it finds Mr. CURTIS. I have been requested to announce the follow evidence to this effect in tho almost unequaled record it has made in ing pairs: all branches of our war activities ; That the cause of democracy will be immeasurably advanced when The Senator from Connecticut [1\Ir. BRANDEGEE] with the democracy's greatest Hponent again declares its faith and grants to its Senator from Colorado [Mr. SHAFROTH] ; enlightened and ennobled womanhood full opportunity of its citizen hip: Therefore, we beseech you, submit the woman- u1Irage amendment The Senator from New York [1\f.r. CALDER] with the Senator and let America speak again. from Rhode Island [l\lr. GERRY] ; '!'hat certified copies of this joint resolution. be forwarded to the gov The Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. CoLT] with the Sena.tor ernor of this State, to the Secretary of State at Washington, to the from Delaware [1\fr. SAULSBURY] ; Pre iding Officer of the United States Sena.te, and to the Speaker of The Senator from West Virginia [1\lr. GoFF] with the Senator the House of Representatives of the United States. from South Carolina [Mr. TILLMAN] ; Mr. BECKIIA.l\1. 1\fr. President, I present two resolutions, The Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. PENROSE] with the one adopted at a mass meeting of citizens at Louisville, Ky., Senator from Mississippi [1\fr. WILLlilis] ; and the other adopt~d at a mass meeting of citizens at Frank The Senator from New York. [Mr. WADSWORTH] with the fort, Ky., in favor of the pending constitutional amendment Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. HoLLIS]; granting equal suffrage to women. I have been. requested in The Senator from l\lassachusetts [Mr. WEERs] with the Sena each instance to have the resolution printed in the RECORD, but to from Kentucky [Mr. JAMES]; and in the light of the recent vote I feel that it can not be done. The Senator from Washington [Mr. JoxEs] with the Senator However, under the rule, I understand that a brief statement from Virginia [1\fr. SwANsoN]. of each resolution may be placed in the RECORD. If such is the There ult was announced-yeas 14, nays 34, not voting 48, as case, I make that request. follows: The VICE PRESIDENT. It will be so ordered. YEAS-14. Resolutions adopted at a mass meeting of citizens of Louis ville, Ky., and resolutions adopted at a mass meeting of citizens Chamberlain Kirby Ransdell Thompson France Lewis Sheppard Vardaman at Frankfort, Ky., favoring the submission of a Federal suffrage Gronna McKellar Sherman amendment to the legislatures of the several States, which were Guion Myers Shields ordered to lie on the table. ' .AYS--34. 1\..Ir. MARTIN. l\Ir. President, I pre ent a number of resolu- Ashurst Kenllrick Nelson Smith, S.C. . tions in favor of the woman-suffrage amendment to the Consti Balrd Kenyon New Smoot tution. They include a resolution adopted at a joint meeting Bankhead King Norris Sterling Beckham Lenroot Nugent Sutherland of the Lynchburg Equal Suffraae League and the Randolph- - Borah Lodge Overman Thomas :!\lacon ' Voman's College League of Virginia, a resolution adopted CulberRon McCumber Page Trammell at u meeting of the J ourneymen Tailors' Union at Norfolk, Va., Dillingham McLean Reed Underwood Hale Mc~ary Smith, Ariz. a resolution adopted by the Twentieth Century Club at Norfolk, .Johnson. S.Dak. Martin Smith, Ga. Va., and a resolution adopted at the meeting of the Virginia 1918. CONGRESSIONAL RECOR.D-SENATE. Branch of the Nati~nal Woman's Party held at Richmond, Va. f Mr.· N~RRIS. I remember very distinctly that this morning I send these resolutiOns to the d~ and ask that they may be the clerk of the committee stated that he had notified every properly referred. Senator who was a member of the committee, and he gave the The VICE PRESIDENT. The resolutions will lie on the names of one or two who were absent from the city. table. Mr. SMITH of South Carolina. I should like to say to the l\1r. GRO~'NA presented a petition of sundry citizens of North Senator that the clerk stated that he had notified their offices· Dakota, praying for the imme~liate submission of a Federal but later I understood that some of the Senators .thought th~ suffrage amendment to the legislatures of the several States, meeting was to be held at 10.30 and others thought it was to " ·hich were ordered to lie on the table. be held at 11 o'clock. He also presented a petition of sundry citizens of Deering, -Mr. NORRIS. The committee was in session until after that N. Dak., praying for the repeal ?f the presen! zone system of time.· I presume the object of the meeting this afternoon, then, postage rates on second-class ma1l matter, whtch was referred is to reconsider the action taken? to the Committee on Post Offic~~ and Post Roads. Mr. SMITH of South Carolina. No; the object of the meet- Mr.. LODGE presented a _petitiOn of ~e Eq~al Su:ffr~ge. Club, ing is simply to give a majority of the committee an oppor of Wmcheste1·, Mass., prayrng for the tmll)edtate subnnss10n of tunity to express their views. a Federal suffrage amendment to the legislatures of the several Mr. NORRIS. I am very glad to have the assurance of the States, which was ordered to lie on the table. acting chairman that there will be no attempt to reconsider the 1\lr. CURTIS presented a petition of sundry druggists of action of the committee. Ottawa County, Kans., praying for' the enactment of legislation 1\Ir. Sl\IITH of South Carolina. I wish to assure the Sen:1tor to provide. for the organization of a pha_rmaceutic~l. corps in ~he from Nebraska that no attempt will be made to reconsider any - Army, w~ch,. was referred ~o. the Committee ?~ Military Affairs. thing, but to consider Ute bill, and whatever action a majority 1\Jr. KNOX l.J_r~sented. petltiOns.of_ sundry CI~lZ~I_IS of the State of the committee sees fit to take will be reported by the acting of Penn ·ylvama, praymg for national proh1b1tion as a . war chairman when so instructed by the committee. measure, which '"ere ordered to lie on the table. Mr. NORRIS. I have no doubt of that and I am not findinO' H_e also ~resented p~tition~ of sun MESSAGE lrnUll. THE HOUSR. By 1\Ir.. STERLING : A joint resolution (S. J. Res. 160) relating to the survey and A message from the Ht>use of Representative~ by G. F". study, of public and other lands suitahl.e for entry and occupancy Turner, one of its clerks, announced that the House agrees to for agricultural pmposes by soldiers returning from the war ; the report at the committee of conference on the diSagreeing to the Committee on Public Lands. \'"ote of the mo Houses on the amendments of · the Senate to the bill (H.. R. 7237) making appropriations for the service AMlL D:MEN'1;8 TO APPROPlilATION BTI..LS. of the Post Office Department for the fiscal sear ending June lli. F .ALL submitted an amendment authorizing the Secretary 30, 1919, and for other purposes. . of War to rai e by draft, during the fiscal year 1919, not less The message also anno1mced that the House further inSists thrul 3,000,000 men, etc., intended to be propo.sed·by him to the upon it disagreem-ent to the amendment of the Senate mnn-- Army apiJro-priation bill, which was referred to th-e Committee bered 23 to the bill (H; R. 7237) making appropriations for the on 1\lilitary Affairs and ordered to be printed. ervjce of the Post Office Department for the fis.c:nl year end- He also submitted an amendment :proposing to call into the ing June 30, 1919, and for other purposes-.. asks a further con- sei."Vice of the United States by enlistment for the term of the ference with the Senate on the disl4,o-reeing votes ot the twa pre::;ent wa:r-, three or more regiments of mounted volunteers, Hou es the1:eon, and had appointed Ir. MooN,_. Mr. BELLr Mr. etc., intended to- be proposed by him to the Army appropriation Ro:u E, lllr. S-TEEXERBON, and Mr. MADIIEN managers at the fur- bill, which was rei'ened to- the Committee on 1\1ilitary Affairs ther conference on the part of the House. and ord~ to be printed. REPORTS OF CO~ITTEE o~ P"'L"'RLIC LANDS. 1\.fr. PO:l\.IERliDf.E SUbmitted an amendment authorizing the Secretru."y of the Treasury to ue-termine whether any contracts 1\11. MYERS, from the Committee on Public Lands, to which ente-red into prior to June 30, 1917, far the erection of public . were referred the followiJ?-g bills, reported them severally with- , buildings under the supervision of the Teasury Department out ~endm~t and subnutte.d r.eports thereon: . T • have- become inequitable and unjust on account of increased A. bill (S. 2.864) to f-dd certam lands to the l\lmam National costs of labor and materials, etc.~ intended to be proposed by, Fores~, Oreg. ~Rept. No. ~-1) ; • • T him to the sundry civil appropriation bill, which was referre<.l A bill ( S. 4<>-~4.) to validate the homestead entry of LlZZle G. to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Garin (Rept. No. 505); and A bill (S. 4569) to establish the Mount Desert National Park CO~SIDEltiTION OF TREATIES-~:u:ENT OF THE llULE • in the State of 1\Iaine (Rept. No. 503). Mr. BORAH. I present a notice to change. the rules of the 1\lr. PHELAN, from the Committee on Public Lands. to which Senate~ which I ask to have printed in the REcoRD. '\i-us referred the. bill ( S. 2323). authorizing Anton Hiersche to Mr. J;.ODGE. Let it be read. select other land in lieu of land riow owned by him, required for Mr: BORAH. I ask to have it read. reclama.tion purposes, re11orted it without amendment and sub- The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will r ad a re mitted a l'eport (No. 506) thereon. quested. nn...r.s AND JoiNT RESOL-UTIO::s:· ~l'BOIYUCED. The Secretary read as follows : . I herewith and hereby give formal notice in aec-ordance witb the spirit Bills and a joint resolution \V~re introduced, read the first and letter of RUle XL ot the standizig rules o.f the Senate, which pre time, and, by unanimous consent, the second time, and referred scribe the method by which the rules may be suspended, modified, or ns folloTT'"s : · amended. that I.will on to--morrow, if tlle Senate shall be in ses ion on " that day, and if not, upon the next day upon which the Senate is in ses- By lli. 1\fCJ.'fARY: . . sion, or as soon as the motion or resolution can be heard, snhmit n r e o- A b-ill (S. 46!>8) to enlarge the boundaries of the Oreg-on Na- lution or mo-tion for the amendment of paragraph 3 of Rule XXXVI of the standing roles of the Senate as follows: tional Fore t; to the Committee on Public Lands.· .. Strike out all o1 paragraph 3 of Rule m, relating-to pro~edings By 1\Ir. LENllOOT: relative to treaties, and" inset the following:.. A bill ( S. 4699) for the relief of th.e St. Croix Chippewa In- " 'Th::tt all treaties hall be considered an.d acted upon by the Senate in its open or legislative. session unle t.wo--thirds of the Members of the dians of 'Viseonsin; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Senate, by yea-and-nay vo-te. shall determine to close the doors durin~: By Mr. ASHURST: . the eonsiderntion of the particular treaty uPQn whieh. th.c vote to elo c A bill ( S. 4700) for the relief of· the wido-w and children ot the doors is taken.• " R. F. McBride, Martin n. Kempton, Thomas K. Wootan,. and WILLIAM E. Eon.A.n~ Mark Wildes ; to the Committee: on Finan-ce. PRESIDESTIAL APPnOVAL. By Mr. OWEN: A message :from the President of the United States, .by l\lr. A bill (S. 4701) defining "lurkin-g und trespassing upon and Sh..'lrkey, one of his secretaries, announced that the Presiuent injlll'ing oil properties and refineJ.'ies," fixing the punishment had on this day approved and signed the act ( S. 4151) to pro therefor, and for other p-urpo es; to the Committee on the vide fur a determin:1tion of heirship in cases of deceased membe~s. Judiciary. of the Cherokee, Choctaw. Chickasaw. Creek, and Seminole By 1\Ir. PAGE : Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma. conferdng juris.cliction upon A bill ( S 4'702) granting an increase of pension to James A. district courts to partition lands belonging to full-blood heirs 1\Iorgan (with accompanying papers) ; to the Committee on Pen of allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes, and for other purposes. sions. '· POST OFFICE APPROPBIATIONS--co~-CE REPORT. By l\Ir. CURTIS : A bill (S. 4703) granting a. pension to Leyisa W. Brown (with Mr. B.Al-.TKHEAD. I submit the conference report on Hom: accompanying papers) ; bill 7237, known as the Post Office approptiation bill, which I A bill (S. 4T04) granting a pension to Catharine A. Brownlee ask may be printed and lie on the table. '(with accompanying papers); The conference report is as follows_: · A bill (S. 4705) granting a pension to Ida. B. Willison (with accompanying papers} ; The coilllllittee of conference on the di ngreeing votes of the A bill ( S. 4706) granting an increase of pension to Leander two Hou es on the amendments of the Senate to the. bill (H. R. T. Ga~c (with accompanying papers) ; 7237) making appropriations for the service of the Post Office A bill ( S .. 470'0 grunting a pension to Robert Cook {with ac DeM.rtment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 191~, and for companying paper ) ; other purpose , having met, after full and free conference h-a \e A bill (S. 4708) granting a pension to John C. Brewer (with agreed to recommend and do recommend to theil· r specti\e accompanying papers) ; Houses as follows : A bill (S. 4709) granting an increase of pension to Nathaniel That the Senate recede from it amendments numl>ered· 22', H. Kendrick (with accompanying papers); 26, and 60. A bill (S. 4710) granting an increase of pension to William B. That the House recede from _its disagreement to the am-end· Brook (with accompanying !>apers) ; and rnents of the Senate numbered 2, 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, A bill (S. 4711) · granting a. pension to. Janama Ol 1918. ' word "all," insert "including increases hereinafter provided"; horse-drawn vehicle routes on which triweekly service is per and the Senate agree to the same. formed shall receive $12 per mile per annum for each mile said That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend routes are in excess of 24 miles or major ft·action thereof based ment of the Senate numbered 6, and agree to the same with an on actual mileage: PrO'I;ided /tt'rthe1·, That the pay of carriers amenument as follows : On page 5 of the bill, in line 4, after the who furnish and maintain their own motor vehicles and who word "all," insert "including increases hereinafter provided"; serve routes not less than 50 miles in length may be fixed at and the Senate agree to the same. not exceeding $2,160 per annum." That the House recede from its disagreen1ent" to the amend-' And the Senate agree to the same. ment of the Senate numbered 7, and agree to the same with an That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend amendment as follows: On page 10 of the bill, in line 23, after ment of the Senate numbered 5~, and agree to the same with an the word "all," insert "including increases hereinafter pro- amendment as follows : vided"; and the Senate agree to the same. · . " SEc. 2. That during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, Tllat the House recede from its disagreement to the amend the annual salaries fixed by law for assistant postmasters at mel1t of the Senate numbered 9, and agree to the same with an first and second class post offices, and supervisory officials, whose amendment as follows: On page 11 of the bill, in line 11, after compensation is $2,200 and less per annum, shall be increased tbe word "all," insert •: including increases hereinafter pro $200, and tlwse whose compensation is in excess of $2,200 shall vided " ; and the Senate agree to the same. be increased 5 per centum; that clerks in first and second class That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend post offices and letter carriers in the City Delivery Service shall ment of the Senate numbered 10, and agree to the same with an be divided into six grades, as follows: First grade, salary amendment as follow:;; : On page 11 of the bill, in line 14, after $1,000 ; second grade, salary $1,100 ; third grade, salary $1,200 ; the word "all," insert "including increases hereinafter pro fourth grade, salary $1,300; fifth grade, salary $1,400; sixth vided" and the Senate agree to the same. grade, salary $1,500. Clerks and carriers shall be promoted That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend successively to the sixth grade: P1·ovided, That on July 1, 1918, ment of the Senate numbered 12, and agree to the same with an clerks in first and second class post offices and letter carriers amendment as follows : • In lieu of the sum proposed insert in the City Delivery Service " ·llo are in grades· 2, 3, 4, 5, and " $2,400,000 " ; and the Senate agree to the same. 6, under the act of l\farch 2, 1907, as amended, shall pass auto That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend matically from such grades, and the salaries they receive there ment of the Senate numbered 19, and agree to the same with an under to the new ·grades, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, respectively, with amendment as follows: Of the matter inserted by said amend the salaries provided for ·such grades . in this act : Provided ment strike out "$200,000" and· insert in lieu thereof. ftwther, '},'hat the salaries of railway postal clerks shall be " $300,000 " ; strike out the word " the" after the words " pay graded as follows: Grade 1 at $1,100; grade 2 at $1,200; grade ment of" and insert the word "this " ; and strike out the words 3 at $1,300; grade . 4 at $1,400; grade 5 at $1,500; grade 6 "contemplated by the appropriation title," so the amendment at $1,600; grade 7 at $1,700; grade 8 at $1',800; grade 9 at as amended will read as follows : " $6,700,000: Pt·ovided, That $1,900; grade 10 at-$2,000. not to exceed $300,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall " The Postmaster General shall classify and fix the salaries be available for the payment of this senice during the fiscal of railway postal clerks, under such reglilations as he may year ending June 30, 1918"; and the Senate agree to the same. prescribe, in the grades provided by law; and for the purpose That the HoU:Se recede from its disagreement to the amend of organization and establishing maximum grades to which pro ment of the Senate numbered 21, and agree to the same with motions may be made successively, as hereinafter provided, he an amendment as follows: Of the matter inserted by the Sen shall classify railway post offices, terminal railway post offices, ate, after the words "payment of" ~trike out "the" and in and h·ansfer offices with reference to their character and im sert " this "; strike out the words " contemplated by the ap portance in three classes, with salary grades as follows : propriation title," so the amendment as amended will read as " Class A, $1,100 to $1,400 ; class B, $1,100 to $1,500; and class follows : " $2,700,000 : Provided, That not to exceed $100,000 of 0, $1,100 to $1,700. He may assign to the offices of division the amount herein appropriated shall be available for the pay superintendents and chief clerks such railway postal clerks as ment of t~is service during the fiscal year ending June 30, may be necessary, and fix their salaries within the grades pro 1918 " ; and the Senate agree to the same. vided by law without regard to the. classification of railway post That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend offices: Provided, That on July 1, 1918, railway postal clerks ment of the Senate numbered 24, and agree to the same with an shall pass automatically from the grades they are in and the amendment as follows: In the amendment proposed by the Sen salaries they receive under the act of August 24, 1912, to the ate, after the word "Winnepasaukee" insert the following: corresponding grade, with salaries provided for in this act: Pro "l!..,rom the post office at Laconia,; aud the Senate _agree to vided, That the classifications and increases of salaries provided the same. for in this ·section shall not be continued beyond the fiscal year That the House recede 'from its disagreement to the amend ending June 30, 1919: Provided furthe·r, That the salary of m~nt of the Senate numbered 27, and agree to the same with an clerks, carriers, and railway postal clerks shall be increased amendment as follows: On page J 5 of the bill, in line 27, after during the fiscal year 1919, not more than $200 : Provided fur the word " all , insert " including increases hereinafter pro ther, That the classifications herein provided for shall not be vided "; and the Senate agree to the same. come effective- untll July 1, 1918: Provided fu1·thet·, That the That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend salaries of such other employees fixed by law or paid from lump ment of the Senate numbered 33, and agree to the same with an sum appropr:ations provided for in this act, including laborers amendment as follows: In the matter proposed by the Senate, in the Railway Mail Service, who receive $800 per annum or niter the wm·d "compensation," where it last appears, and be less shall be increased 20 per cent per annum; those who re fore the word "provided," insert" thus"; and the Senate agree ceive in excess of $800 and not more than $1,500 shall be in to the. same. · creased 15 per cent per annum; and those who receive in excess That ·the House recede from its disagreement to the amend of $1,500 and not more than $2,200 shall be increased 10 per ment of the Senate numbered 40, and agree to the same with an cent per annum. Rural carriers assigned to horse-drawn ve amendment as follows: In lieu of " $400,000 " proposed, insert hicle routes now receiving a compensation of $1,200 or less per " $370,000 " ; and the Senate agree to the same. annum, exclusive of mileage allowance for miles on routes That the House recede from its disagreement to the ::.unend over 24 miles in length, shall rec~ive, in addition thereto, 20 ment of the Senate numbered 48, and agree to the same \Yith an per cent of the amount of such compensation. Such increases amendment as follows : In lieu of the matter inserted by said shall not apply to the special assistant to the Attorney General amendment insert the following : " nor shall any of said sum appropriated for in this act and to postmasters at offices of the be expended for star-route service for a patronage a major por first, second, and third classes: Provided fU1·t1ter, That post tion of which has been served by Rm·al Delivery Service, unless masters of the fourth class shall receive the sa)Ile compensation the services of a qualified rural carrier can not be secured " ; as now provided by law, except that they shall receive 100 per and the Senate agree to the same. cent of the cancellations of the first $80 or less per quarter: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend Pt·o~:ided further, That, if the. compensation does not exceed $50 . ment of the Senate numbered 50, and agree to the same with an for one quarter, fourth-class postmasters shall be allowed an amendment as follows: In lieu of the matter inserted by said increase of 20 per cent of the compensation allowed under exist amendment .insert the following: ing law: Provided further, That no office shall be advanced to "PTovided further, That on and after July 1, 1918, rural third class by reason of the temporary increases herein pro carriers assigned to horse-drawn vehicle routes on which daily vided: Pro1iided further, That hereafter substitute, temporary, service is performed shall receive $24 per mile per annum for or auxiliary clerks and letter carriers at first and second class each mile said routes are in excess of 24 miles or major fraction post offices shall be paid at the rate of 40 cents an llour: Pro thereof, based on actual mileage, and rural carriers assigned to vided further, That the provisions of this section shall not .apply . . 7782 JUNE l·l ... ' to emplo:rees who receire n. part of their pay from. ·any outside sions to certain sol-dier and. a.ilors of the Ci"ril War and certain -source-s··under cooperative arrangement with the Post Office De- widows and dependent children of soldiers and ·sailors of said partment, or to employee~ who er>e voluntarily or receive only war," :having met, after full and free conference have agreed a nominal compen ation: And pro-r;·idcd fttrthe-r, That the in- · to recommend and That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend wiuows and dependent children of soldiers and sailors of sai That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend ment of the Senate numbered 37, and agree to the same with an ment of the Senate numbered 38, and agree to the same with amenrlment as follows : In lieu of the sum proposed insert an amendment as follows: In lieu of the sum proposed insert " $30 " ; and the Senate agree to the same. "$32 "; and the Senate agree to the same. En. S. JoH:xsoN, ED. s. JOHNSO!!i, WILLIAM H. TTIOMPSON1 WILLIA.M H. THO::lll'SON, REED SMOOT, REED SMOOT, Managers or1- the part of the Senate. Managers on the part of the Senate. ~. JOE J. RUSSELL, JOE J. RUSSELL, ~ \VILLI.AM A. ASHBROOK, \VILLllM A. ASHBROOK, JoH~ W. LA..J.~GLEY, JOH~ W. LANGLEY, Managers on the part of tlw House. Ma11agc1·s on tlle part of the House. The report w~s agreed to. The report was agreed to. :'\1r. JOHNSON of South Dakota submitted the following STATCE OF JAYES BUCHANAN. rC'port: Mr. SMITH of Maryland. I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of House joint resolution The committee of conference on the disagreeing \otes of the No. 70, authorizing the erection on the public ground;; in tile two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. city of Washington, D. C., of a statue to James Buchanan, a 11CG3} entitled "An act granting pensions and increase of pe~- former President of the United States. ion. to certain soldiers and sailors of the Ci\il War and certam l\Ir. LODGE. I object to unanimous consent, 1\-Ir. President, widows and dependent children of soldiers and sailors of said and I will give my reasons later. war,' hR\ing met, after full and free conference have ag1·eed to Mr. SMITH of Maryland. Then, Mr. President, I move that I'ecommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as the Senate proceed to the consideration of House joint resolu follows; tion No. 70; arid, in connection with that, I wish to say to the That the Senate recede from its amendments numbered 5, 13, Senate that this joint resolution-- 15. 17, 18, 19, 21. 22, 31, 32, 34, 40, and 42. Hr. LODGE. I make the point of order that on the motion Tlmt the Rouse recede from its disagreement to the amend to·ta.ke up the joint resolution no debate is in order. ments of the Senate numbered 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 20, The VICE PRESIDENT. The motion is not cl~hatable befot-e 23, 2:1, 26, 29, 35, 39, and 41, and agree to the same. 2 o'clock. The question is on the motion of the Senator from Tllat the House recede from its disagreement to the amend Maryland. [Putting the question.] By the sound, the a:res ment of the Senate numbered 1, and agree to the &'tme with an · seem to have it. :unendment as follows:· In lleu of the sum proposed insert Mr. LODGE. I nsk for a record vote. "$32 "; and the Senate agree to the arne. Mr. SMITH of ·Maryland. I suggest the absence of a quorum. That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will call the roll. meut of tlle Senate numbered 4, and agree to the same with an The Secretary called the roll, and the following Senators an- amendment as follows : In lieu of the sum proposed insert swered to their names : " $32 " ; and the Senate agree to the same. Ashurst Kenyon Norris Smoot That the Howse recede from its disagreement to the amend Baird King Nugent Sterling Rankbca(l Kirby Overman Sutherland ment of the Senate numbered 16, and agree to the same with an Chamberlain Knox Owen 'l'homas nrnendment as follows: Restore the matter sh·icken out, amended Culberson Lenroot Page Thompson to read as follows : Curtis Lodge Ransdell Til1man France McCumber Sheppard Trammell " The name of Hanson Harmon, late of Company C, One hun Gallinger McKellar Sbields Underwood dred nnd fifty-second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Gronna McNary Simmons Vardaman }laY him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that Guion Martin Smith, Ariz. Warren J'ohnson, Ca1. Myers Smith, Ga. lle is now receiving." J'ohnson, S.Dak. Nelson Smith, Md. And the Senate agree to the same. Kendrick New Smith, S. C. That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend The VICE PRESIDENT. Forty-nine Senators have answered ment of the Senate numbered 23, and agree to the same with an to the roll call. There is a quorum present. The Senat-or from r~mendment as follows: Restore the matter sh·icken out, amended Maryland moves that the Senate proceed to the consideration to read as follows : of House joint resolution 70. Upon that motion the Senator "The name of Henry Stone, late of Company I, Tenth Regi from Massachusetts requests the yeas and nays. ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the Mr. LODGE. I withdraw the request, Mr. President. 1·ate of $40 .per month in lieu of that he is now receiving." The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on tlle ID{)tion of And the Senate agree to the same. the Senator from Maryland. That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend The motion was agreed to ; and the Sep.ate, as in Committee ment of the Senate numbered 27, and agree to the same with an of the Whole, proceeded to consider tlle joint resolution (H. J. amendment as follows: Restore the matter sh·icken out, amended Res. 70) authorizing the erection on the public grounds in the to read as follows : city of Washington, D. 0., of a statue of James Buchanan, a "The name of Presley Jackson, late of Company F, Fifty former President of the United States. third Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a 1\.:l.r. SMITH of Maryland. Mr. President, I should like to sub pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now mit a few observations, and I hope the Senate will hav~ patience receiving." with me while I submit them. And the Senate agree to the same. Mr. President, the late llis. Harriet Lane Johnston, of Balti That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend m{)l·e, by her will created a fund that now amounts to about melit of the Senate numbered 28, and agree to the same with an $100,000, available for the erection in Washington, upon a suit umendment as follows : In lieu of the sum proposed insert able site designated by Congress, of a memorial to her uncle, .,, $32 " ; and the Senate agree to the same. James Buchanan, the fifteenth President of the United Stn tes. That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend This provision in Mrs. Johnston's will, if not accepted by Con ment of the Senate numbered 30, and agree to the same with an gress on or before-July 1, 1918, will lapse, hence the necessity fo r amendment as follows: In lieu <>f the sum proposed insert prompt and favorable action by this body on House joint resolu " $36 " ; and the Senate agree to the same. tion 70, passed by the House of Representatives on FebruarY. That tile House recede from its disagreement to t11e amend 21, 1918, designating a site for the ~uchanan memorial. I will ment of the Senate numbered 33, and agree to the same with say, in this connection, that this joint resolution has pa.sse The Commission o~ :.'inc Arts, after careful consideration of the Otherwise, how could a man so unfit that hi.s \en- memory, e>en matter, suggesteu lli.e southern end of Meridian Hill Park as a suitable site for this memonal. at this late day, is studiously and officially insulteu and hi acts A plan and desi"'n wns prepared for the memorial by two young still reprobated, have been elected Presi Slm·ery was surely then no great shock to Lincoln's moral Nation, that his office is entitled to respect, and that he is sense; and at that very time Buchanan was President. entitled to respect, however mistaken though his \ie"\\s, gauged What radical and rapid changes developed in Lincoln's con by present-day ideals, may have been? victions when in time lw reaclled tlte point of signing the eman Mrs. Johnston, his niece, a philanthropist, who has endowed cip~tion proclamation not long thereafter. a great hospital in Baltimore for the treatment of little, suffer Lil;:e the "white slaYe" question, the control of the use of ing children and also helpful in other charities, honored and re narcotics, the buying of \otes, the prohibition of alcoholic liquors spected Buchanan. Her phllnnthropie"', ho"\\ever, were not in in thi ·generation, opinion on the sla\ery question in Buchanan's Baltimore alone. She di 1\Ir. LODGE. The money can be used up to September. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Forty-fom· Senators have an !\Ir. SMITH of :Maryland. Yes, sir; but the appropriation swered to the roll call. There is not a quorum present. The has to be accepted by the Govermnent and the site selected for Secretary will call the names of the absentees. the- memorial in order that the money may be used. The Secretary called the names of the absent Senators, and l\Ir. LODGE. I understand the legacy does not lapse until 1\Ir. BoRAH, Mr. OVERMAN, Mr. SIMMONS, and Mr. W AnnEN an· the 1st of September. swered to their names when called. 1\Ir. S~UTH of Maryland. It lapses on the 1st of July. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Fo1·ty-eight Senators h::t\e an Mr. LODGE. The House report, which I looked at the other swered to their names. There is still not a quorum present. ·l\rr. LODGE. 1f tlle Senator from New Hampshlre 'Till par political philosophy. They are the answer which free government State ' lines. They ru·e often contrasts between re~ion and region makes to the oppressed. '£hey are the response that liberty makes to rath':r than b~tween State and State. But they are none the less real tyranny. They are the guaranty of the safety of the home, the recog and JD many mstances permanent and ineradicable. nition of the trusteeship of man as the defender of the home and the hunrdian of its sacred precincts. They single out the· individual, arm I might proceed for hours, giving illustrations of laws that him with the greate t political power that can possibly be given to an might be passed that would be entirely satisfactory to ·one com individual, and bold Wm responsible for its exercise in the development munity and work out the ruin and destruction of another. It of home and neighborhood; and thus is demanded at his hands the exerci. e of the highest and most sacred duties that can ever be the must be clear to all that the preservation of the power of the portion of an American citizen. local people to govern themselves nbout tileir local affair is as In the last analysis just laws should be the reflection of the necessary to the maintenance of the integrity of the National combined sentiment of the people who must live under them and Go\ernment as the exercise of the power granted. to the Federal who must adjust their lives to them. 1\Iuch of the law that is Government in dealing with strictly national affairs. found on the statute books to-day originated in the customs of The wisest statesman pf _his day, the author of the Declara tile people and the necessities that confront them in their daily tion of Independence, once said : I believe the States can best go>ern our home concerns the Geneml Jives. l\Ien recognize that the custom of a local community Government our foreign . ones. I wisb, therefore, to see maintained has behind Lt an element of justice in the dealings between man that wholesome distribution of powers established by t he Constitution aml man and in order that justice might prevail they enacted for the limitation of botll, and never to see aU offices transfeiTl'd to custom into law and provided penalties for its violation. Con Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of tbe peop-le, sider how difficult it would be to establish the law of custom in they may more secretly be bought and sold as at a market. a countt:y that extends its territory from the ice-clad hills of the Nowhere in America has tile principle of local self-g-oyern Nort~ to the tropical-seas of the South ; that reaches 3,000 miles ment been more thoroughly ingrained into the hearts and minus across a continent that embraces fertile fields and arid deserts, of the people than in the New England States. The town meet treeless prairies and virgin forests, snow-capped mountain, ing grew out of colonial conditions and the de ire of the fir·st rang-es and the impas able quagmire_ of the ri~er bottoms, settlers to establish local laws to protect the morals, health, agriculture feeding industry and manufacture supplying hus and happiness of each local community. It is' a part of the bandry, unlimited mineral resources and boundless fisheries, very soil of New England. An attempt to tear it out would be areas possessed of unrivaled transportation facilities and re- resisted to the last degree, and yet, under the enthusia Ill of -(Yions where communication is practically impossible. A country a great moral endeavor or under the desire to find and establish possessing almost every \ariety of climate, soil, and crops that a universal right that is more theoretical than actual, many of - the world can produce; a Nation under whose flag every race of our best citizens would establish precedents that open the way man abideth and every civilization is represented. A people to tear down all the principles that protect the people in the whose religious views are as far apart as are the Civilizations exercise. of their local government and the management of their of the Occident and Orient. A new people reborn in a new domestic affairs. world out of the prejudices and passions, the virtues and talents The people of the South should remember that the loyalty of_ the _contending ciVIlizations of the ages that have passed, of the people of the North to the great principle of local self wtth every habit of life, every standard of living,· and every government, as taught them and their fathers in the town moral attitude that man can po sess. Is it within the range of meetings of New England, stood as a bulwark of strength to the possible that such a people could establish law by custom protect the South and lead it away from the hand of the op and usage that would reflect their wishes and maintain their pre sor in its hour of greatest need. Yet when the situation is principles? reversed 'we are asked to prove ourselves recreant to the very Is any one so bold as to assert that the representatives of principle that preserved our racial integrity. these people assembled at Washington can enact laws about Let me again call attention to the prophetic words of Thomas local conditions that _will reflect the high ideals, the common Jefferson directly relating to the question of local self-goyern needs, and the imperative necessities of all these people, that ment arid worthy of the thoughtful consideration of every man must have the breadth and scope of the Nation to rest upon? in this hour of national distress and danger. It was not thought possible of attainment in the beginning In his autobiography he said: when we were a homogeneous people and it certainly is not It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers, but by possible of accomplishment when multiformity is our pervading their distribution, that 'good government is effected. Were not this country already divided into states, that division must be made that characteristic as a people. The cu8toms that were crystallized each might do for itself what concerns itself directly, and what it can, into ·1aw in l\finnesota would work oppression to the people of so much better do than a distant authority. Every State is again Texas. The laws tha,t may be necessary to preserve the in divided into counties, each to take care of what lies within its local bounds; each county again into townships or wards, to manage minuter tegrity of our civilization in Alabama would probably prove details; and every ward into farms, to be governed each by its indi offensive to the people of l\faine. The Federal Government can vidual proprietor. Were we directed from Washington when to sow not enact a law for one State and a •different law for another and when to reap, we should soon want bt·ead It is by this partition State. The legislation passed by the Federal Government must of cares, descending in gradation from general to particular, that the mass of human affairs may be best managed for the good and pros· be uniform and applied with geographical uniformity through perity of all. out the Nation. Let us suppo e that the State governments were abolished I can hear now those who contend for a strong Federal Gov in their entirety and the entire power to legislate was concen ernment; those who would yield the power of local self-g-overn trated in the Government at Washington, and that the .Congress ment but once because t;hey desire to force a condition on other of the United States attempted to pass uniform legislation in people who disagree with them, answer all I have said by the reference to marriage and divorce. Is it at all probable that statement that the pending alllendments do not destroy the the national legislation would prescribe racial distinctions in State governments entirely, do not \est all the power in the legalizing the marriag-e relations? If it did not, what effect Federal Government at Washington, that the new authority would its failure to do so have on a State that has maintained gi\en to the Federal Government is limited iii its scope and fot· half a century laws prohibiting misceg-enation in order to effect and is intended only to carry out a specific purpose, there protect the integrity of the white race? intended to halt and that the arm of oppression will go no In some portions of the United States there is great scarcity further. of timber. . Undoubtedly it would be beneficial to the people To them I say they must not forget the history of the past. Jiving within these States to pass laws encouraging the growth Governments rarely fall in a day. The slow process of dis of timber and penalizing the destruction of forest growth. · On integration has marked the downfall of nations. It is the the other hand, there still remain portions of the United history of the past and we can not with safety close our eyes State where great forests occupy fertile fields that men· are to it. Yield the fundamental principles that have protected anxious to clear in order to build homes .and develop the coun the national life for more than a century under which we have try. It must be apparent to all that ·a uniform law passed by grown great and powerful, under which we have developed the the Federal Government could not be written that would work highest civilization known to the history of man, and you will und9ubtedly bring into our midst errors of government and out the ends of . justic~ and satisfy the people living in com munities which ha-ve as different surroundings as those I have dangers of administration that have not beset our paths in the .just described. ' past and were guarded.against by the founders of the Constitu- Woodrow Wilson once wrote: tion. - - Pre ident Wilson, in his book on Constitutional· Government The United States are not a single, homogeneous community. In spite of a certain superficial sameness which seems to impart to Amer in the United States, says: icans a common type and point of view, they still contain communities It would be fatal to our political vitality to strip the States of their at almost every stage of- development, illustrating in their social and powers and transfer them to the Federal Government. It can not be t>conomlc structure almost every modern variety of interest and preju too often repeated that it has been the privllege of separate develop dice, foUow1ng occupations of every kind in climates of every sort that ment secured to the several regions of the country by the Constitu the Temperate Zone affords. This variety of fact and condition, these tion, and not the privilege of separate development only, but also that substantial economic and social contrasts, do not in all cases follow other more fundamental prinlege that lies back of it, the prl>ilege J - • - J 1918. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-=SENATR.-. r7793 of independent local opinion and individual convictions, which has given It YQU would remain assured as to the vital principles of our speed, facility, vigor, and certainty to the process of our ecO"nomic and political growth. To buy temporary ease and convenience for the per Republic, the preservation of the States in aU the completeness formance of a few great tasks of the hour at thil expense ot that of their independence and power must re.ma.in with us for all would be to pay too great a price and to cheat all generations for the time to come. sake of one. . Mr. CURTIS. Mr. President, I merely wish to take a mo Shall we cheat the generations of the future in their price ment of the Senate's time. I desire to state that the best answer less inheritance of go\ernment in order that ease and con to the argument that has been made by the junior Senator from Tenience may be regarded in the consideration of the grave Alabama [l\lr. UNDERWOOD]. is that the amendment providing for matters propo ed for adop.tion by the constitutional amend- woman suffrage stands upon the same footing with e\ery other ments? - · amendment to the Constitution which has been submitted to the You may contend that the ideals you seek are in the interest States for ratification. The proposed amendment can not go to of good government, but do not forget that good government the States until a joint resolution providing for its submission at its best often is not a substitute for self-government, and that shall haye been passed by a two-thirds Yote of botlJ. Houses. it is far better that each community should be allowed to de Then it does not become operative until it shall haye bee-n Yelop its own experiments and pay the penalty for its own mis adopted by the legislatures of three-fourths of the seTeral take rather thnn lack the power to initiate, for only in this States. It in no way abridges or interferes with the rights of way can it obtain the high ideals of citizenship. the States to enact their laws. All that it does is to give to the You must allow every community absolute freedom of action women of the country~ who are taxpayers, who are property if you intend to endow it with the freedom of growth. We owners, who are as well educated as are the men. who atteml must intrust e\ery local problem to the determination of the the same schools and colleges, and who are entitled to, and citizenship of eacp local community if in the end we desire to should be given, equal rights with the men-it gives them a obtain just, fail', and endliTing laws. I know that there are voice in all the questions which are presented to the States tnat some even in this enlightened day and time who still believe affect their property and their rights and in which they nrc as that after all a bene-volent despotism is the best form of gov deeply interested and concerned as are the men. ernment, but there are not many of these people living. on this 1\!r. UNDER,VOOD. Mr. President, if the Senator from side of the Atlantic Ocean, and most of them fight beneath the Kansas will allow me, I desire to say, although I thank him foL· banners of the autocratic power that seeks to control the des liStening carefully to the address which I ha\e ju t made, that tinies of the world. he entirely misinterprets it. r have not at all contended that Pre ident Wilson, in an address to the New York Press Club, we may not modify the Constitution or amend it; that it is n.ot said: possible for the people to. do so. My argument was directed tv Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always the fact that there was a certain form of go\ernment which hag come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of been established preserYing certain power to the local 1\Ir. SMOOT. ·.I wish to ask the Senator if I understood his sachusetts [Mr. LoDGE] has said about his colleague. Senator statement as to what the report' contains. Do I understand WEEKs in his service in this body has estab1islled a reputation that all the amendments in disagreement between the House that can not be broken down by irresponsible newspaper state and the Senate have been agreed to with the exception pf one? ments or statements of any kind. His personal and his official 1\Ir. BANKHEAD. That is right. integrity are beyond reproach, and I know nothing could be 1\Ir. Sl\IOOT. And this conference report is simply a partial done that I would not do in vindicating him from any attack report? that might be made upon )lis personal or official integri t~·. I Mr. B.AJ.'lKHEAD. That is right. do not belie\e there is a man in this body who is more de 1\fr. Sl\IOOT~ .And the question of the tubes goes back to voted to his official work or po esses a higher integrity, per conference? sonallY and officially, than Senator WEEKs, and I simply desire 1\Ir.-BANKHEAD. That is right. to expr~ss my opinion and bear testimony to that effect now 1\Ir. LODGE. 1\Ir. President-- while the matter has been alluded to in the Senate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Ala 1\Ir. BA.NKHE_<\D. I mo\e the adoption of the conference bama yield to the Senator from Massachusetts? report. 1\Ir. BANKHEAD. Certainly. The re11ort was agreed to. 1\Ir. LODGE. 1\lr. President, the Senator knows tl1at I ha\e Mr. BANKHEAD. I move that the Senate further insist no opposition to his motion at all. I am in favor of it, but I upon its amendment numbered 23, disagreed to by the Hou e of wish to say a single word in connection ·with the pneumatic Repre entatives, and agree to the further conference asked for tr.be ques.tion, which i in disagreement between the two Houses, by the House, the Chair to appoint the conferee on the part of about a matter which has come up and which was mentioned in the Senate. the other House yesterday. The motion was agreed to ; and the Presiding Officer ap The New York Tribune published an article or a dispatch pointed 1\Ir. BANKHEAD, 1\lr. HARDWICK, and Mr. TOWNSEND con from Washington-! do not know "'Thich-which casts reflections ferees at the further conference on the part of the Senate. upon my colleague [1\Ir. 'VEEKsj of the gravest character. I need not say to the Senate, which knows him and knows him well, DISTRICT OF COLUMBB. APPROPRIATIONS. that there is no man of higher honor or more unblemished in The Senate, us in _Committee of the Whole, resumed the con tegrity or finer character than my colleague, ''ho represents sideration of the bill (H. R. 11692) making appropriations to with me the State of 1\Ias achusetts, and the statement of the provide for the expenses of the government of the District of New York Tribune in regard 'to him was a slander of the Columbia for the fiscal rear ending June 30, 1919, and for other basest kind and one that ought never to ha-ve been made, be purposes. · · cause the facts ha\e been brought forward before and entirely Mr. Sl\HTH of 1\faryland. I ask unanimous consent that the explained. formal reading of the bill be dispensed with, and that the bill I tlesire to read a brief letter which Senator WEEKs \'i'TOte to be read for amendment, the amendments of the committee to be 1\Ir. Reid, editor of the New York Tribune: first considered. · UNITED STATES SE:\.l.TE, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? The Chair Washington D. C., June 1;1, 1918. hears none, and it is so ordered. 0. M. REID, Esq., - Edit01· The Neto Yo1·k Tribune The Secretary proceeded to read the bill. 151, Nassau Streer:,1 ]Yew York City. The first amendment of the Committee on Appropriations DEAR Mn. REID: I desire to call your attention to an article which wa , on page 1, line 2, after the word " as em bled," ·to strike appeared on the fourth page of the Tribune this morning relating to the out: American pneumatic-tube situation. I do not take this action ta call attention to the numerous exaggeration& and error.s in the article That the following sums are appropriated out of the revt'nues of the such as the statement that the purchase was to cost ten or eleven mil District of Columbia to the extent that they are sufficient therefor and lion dollars, when the maximum amount recommended by the tube the remainder out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro commission, to which reference is made, was $4,427,000, to be reduced priated, but the amount to be paid from the Treasury of the nited to such an amount as the Interstate Commerce Commission might de :States shall in no event be as much as one-half of said expense , in full termine--or to the connecting of Mr. John E. Mulholland with the for the following expenses of the government of the District of Columbia. New York, Boston, Chicago, and St. Louis tube systems. The informa for the fiscal year ending J'une 30, 1919, except amounts to pay the tion before the commission was to the cl:l'ect that he had no interest interest and stoking fund on the funded debt of said District, of which whatever in the tubes located in those cities. amounts one .half is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury But what I wi h to particularly call your attention to is the refer not otherwi e approp:t;iated and the other half out of the revenue of the ence made to the firm of Hornblower & Weeks, of which I was a mem District of Columbia, namely : ber until I entered the Senate, and to myself. The slightest im·estiga And insert: tion or inquiry on the part of your Washington corresponuent would That one half of the following sums, respectively, is appropriated, have demonstrated the absolute unfairness-in fact, untruthfulncss- States I will say no more and let it go in the RECORD; but I do "Cons!Uering that from this war there has come a new international right, founded upon the right of peoples to self-determination; not believe it is right. "'l'hat nothing can lJe claimed to speak autboritatively in the name Mr. TIIO?.!PSON. Very well. I think it is entirely proper, of the people which excludes women from the life of nations; and very pertinent at this time, and the be. t help we ha\e had "Considel'lng, moreover, that ''·omen during the actual conflict have shown the value of the social work which they are -capable of per for woman suffrage for some time. . forming; The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the letter "Considering that the participation of wives and mothers in the Will be printed in the RECORD. suffrage would be the greatest guarantee of the peace to come, the need that the belligerent countries have of their help in the present confllct, Mr. OWEN subsequently said: Tllis morning there was intro the sulrerings, mot·al as well as physical, which this war has cost them, duced in the REconn a letter from the President answering a have given definite proof that no longer, without iniquity and im memorial of the French Union for Woman Suffrage, transmitted prudence, can one refuse to give them through t;heir vote an influence in the undertakings which decide peace and. war : to him by .Mrs. Catt. In order to make the RECORD clear ·the "The women of the allied countries express the wish that President memorial itself and letter of transmittal ought to be attached. Wilson, in one of his future messages, will proclaim the principle of I ask unanimous consent to have that done. I hope no one will woman suffrage one of the fundamental rights of the future;" We have read v.ith emotion in the Woman Citizen, Mr. President, the object to it because it is to make clear the RECORD; otherwise very profound words which you have spoken in response to the dele the Pre~ident's utterance is not perfectly clear. gation of women from New York. If we recite them here it is because The YICEl PRESIDENT. Is there objection? they are the same words that we would ask you to address to all humanity in one of your declarations which resotmd throughout th.! :Mr. S~IOOT. No; let it go in. world. There being no objection, the letter and memorial were ordered It is a struggle which goes deeper and touches more of the founda to be printed in the REconD, as follows: tion of the organized life of men than any struggle that bas ever taken place before, and no settlement of the questions that lie on the surface THE WHITE HOUSE, ·can satisfy a situation which requires that the questi-ons which lie un Washington., Jww 7, 1918. derneath and at the foundat:V>n should also be settled, and settled right. Mr . C.\RRIE CrrAPMAN GATT, I am free to say that I thmk the question of woman suffrage is one of those questions which lie at the foundation. . President Internat·ional JVoman Suffm,gc Alliance. I beg you to accept, Mr. President, the expression of our great ap 1\fy DEAR l\.lRs. CATT: Muy I not thank you for transmitting to pl'eclation of our Amel'ican sisters and our profound admiration for the me the very interesting memorial of the French Union for high moral tone of the declarations which you have uttered in their name. It is this which encourages us to ask your aid, which will be a 'Voman Suffrage, addressed to me under the date of February 1, powerful infiuence for women suffrage in the entire world. last? ::;ince you have been kind enough to transmit this in l!,or the committee of the Union Francaise pour le Suffrage des Femmes, and in the name of the other national committees, of which teresting and impressive message to me, will you not be good the list is joined hereto. · · enough to convey to the subscribers this answer? DE WITT SCHLUIIInERGER, President. I ha\e read your message with the deepest interest, and I Vice Pl'esidents de !'Alliance Internationale du Suffrage des Femmes. welcome the opj)ortunlty to say that I agree without reservation Jane l\lisme and Marie Louise Le Verrier; secretary, Cecile L. Brunsch vicg: treasurer, Marguerite Desavis; secretary, Marguerite Pichon that the full and sincere democratic reconstruction of the world, Landry; secretary, Suzanne Grinberg. · for wllirh we are striving and which we are determined to bring This memorial was signed by the suffrage associations of Great about nt any cost, will not have been completely or adequately Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, and Portugal. . attained until women are admitted to the suffrage, and that only DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. APPROPRIATION. by thnt action can the nations of the world realize for the bene fit of future generations the full ideal force of opinion or the The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the con full humane forces of action. The services of women during this sideration of the bill (II. R. 11692) making appropriations to supreme crisis of the world's history have been of the most proviue for the ex:penses of the government of the District of signal usefulness and distinction. The war could not ha\e been Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and for other fought without them or its sacrifices endured. It is high time purposes. that some part of om· debt of gratitude to them shoulq be ac 1\Ir. Sl\IOOT. l\lr. President, there are a number of Senators knowledged and paid, and the only acknowledgment they ask is who desire to be present when the District of Columbia bill is their admission to the suffrage. Can we justly refuse it? As considered, and therefore I suggest the absence of a quorum. for America, it is my earnest hope that the Senate of the United The PRESIDING OFFICER. The lack of a quorum is sug States will give an unmistakable answer to this question by pass gested. The Secretary will call the roll. ing the suffrage amendment to om· Federal Constitution before The Secretary called the roll, and the following Senators an the end of this session. · swered to their names: Cordially and sincerely, yours, Chamberlnin King Overman Smith, Mich. Curtis Kirby Pag<' Smith, S.C. WooDRow WusoN. Dillingham Knox Pittman Smoot France Lodge Poindexter Thomas Gallinger McCumber Ransdell WASIII:\"GTON, D. JrtllC 13, 19lS. Thompson c., Gronna McKellar Sheppard Trammell To llis Excellency PnESIDEKT OF THE UNITED STATES, Guion McNary Shields Underwood TILe White House, Washington, D. 0. Johnson, Cal. Martin Smith, Ariz. Vardaman M:r DFJA.n Mn. PnESIDENT: On behalf of the National American Woman Johnson, K Dak. New Smith, Ga. Warren Suffrage Association, as well as on behal! of the suffrage associations Kenyon Norris Smith, Md. of France, Great Britain, Belglum Italy, and Portugal, for whom we transmitted a memorial to you nskmg1 for a message to the world upon 1\Ir. KIRBY. The junior Senator from Kentucky [l'rfr. DECK• the subject of woman sulrrage, I express most grateful appreciation for HAM]. is detained on official business. your letter of June 7. 1\Ir. SMITH of 1\!ichigan. My colleague [1\Ir. TOWNSEND] :Particularly do I want to say that your strong stand for the early assage of the Federal. sulrrage amendment is of both national and is absent on official business. I should like the RECORD to show Enterllational import as n renewed guaranty to the world that America this announcement. · is indeed and .ln truth fighting for democracy. Mr. KIRBY. I announce the una~oidable absence of my CQl But two· parliaments since the beginning of the war have pronounced against woman sulrrage. These two are those of Germany and Hungary, leagne [Mr. RoBINSON] on pubiic business. while the parliame-nts of se-veral of our allies have either given or prom The PRESIDING OFFICER. 'Thirty-nine Senators hn\"e an.. ised the ballot to women. Surely the United States Senate can not swered to their names. There is not a quorum present. The longer stand with our enemy countries in this matter of fundamental democracy. Secretary will call the names of the absentees. Your message will gi~e courage and hope to the women of our allied The Secretary called tile names of the absent Senators, and countries, who aro bearing such tragic burdens in this titanic struggle Mr. BANKHEAD, Mr. CULBERSON, Mr. POMEP..ENE, Mr. SUTHER· for freedom, · and it is n continued gratification to suffragists in this countrv to know that we have a loyal fliend in the White House. LAND, and Mr. TILLMAN answered to their names when called. 'Sincerely, yours, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Forty-four Senators ha\"e an.. CARRIE CIIAPMAN CATT, Pres·i(lt;nt; swered to their names. There is not a quorum present. NATIO~AL AMERICA..'< WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCI~TION, -Mr. SMITH of Maryland. I move that the Sergeant at PRESS DEPARTMENT, NEWS SERVICE, Arms be directed to request the attendance of absent Senators. NEW YORK. The motion was agreed to. Union Fra nl:aise pour le Suffrage des Femmes. Address de 1a pr~sl dente: I'arls, 14 Rue Pierre-Charron; secretariat : Paris, 133 Rue The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sergeant at Arms will exe Scheffer. cute the order of tha Senate. PARIS, Feb1·uary .t, 1918. 1\lr. PHELAN entered the Chamber and answered to his name. To the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Mr. PITTMAN. I announce the absence of my colleague [Mr. The PRESIDENT: In the historic message which announced to the HENDERSON] on account of death in his family. world the entry in to the · struggle of American force and thought, you declared unforgettable formulm upon which your great Republic awaits Mr. GERRY entered the Ohumber and answered to his name. a victory-the right of peoples to sell-determination and a durable Mr. POINDEXTER. Mr .. President, a parliamentary inquiry. · peace for generations to come. _ The French suffragists and those of the allied countries have beard Would it be in order at this- time to ·move . tb.at.all speeches on your_beautiful a nd ..strong wordB and they unite in prayer to you for this bill be limited to an how· and a half each~ [Laughter.] the nccompllshment of the following resolution:· The PRESIDING OFFICER.. It would not. . LYI--494 . ._·..: :7796 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--SENATE. Ju:NTI 14,. · Mr. KEJS"DRICK, Mr. OWEN; and Mr. NELso~ entered the Cham The next amendment was, on page 7, line G, after fue word ber and ans'i ered to their names. "first," to sh·ike·out 11 $~,500" and insert "$2,7GO," ·and in linG The PRESIDING OFFICER. Forty-nine Senators have an 9, after the words " in all," to strike out " $~,4....~" and in. e1·t swered to their names. A quorum is present. The Secretary " $21,610," so as to make the clause read: will resume the reading of the bill. Office of corporation counsel: Corporation coun el, $4,500; a sist · The reading of the bill was resumed. ants-first $2.750, second $2,500, third $2,000, fourth 1,800, fifth 1,500, sixth $1.500; clerk and stenographer, 1,400; steno!!raphc>r ncl The next amendment was, under the head of " General ex typewriter, $1,200; 2 stenographer ' at $900 ach ; clerk, no; ill penses," on page 3, line 2, after the words "purchasing officer," all $21,670. to strike out " $1,600" and insert " $1,800" ; in line 3, after the The amendment was agreed to. word " each," to insert " one $1,000 " ; in line 4, before the words The next amendment was, on page 9, line 1, before tbe words " at $900 each," to strike out " three " and insert " nine" ; in 11 at $1,200 each," to stri)re out ' three" and in:~ert "five ··; in the same line, after the word "each," to strike out " se\en at the same line, after the word" each," to strike out" two at :-p1,00o $720 each " ; and in line 7, after the word "materials," to strike each"; in line ~ before tbe word "laborers," to strike out out " $1,200 " and insert " $1,400 " ; so as to make the clause "three" and insert "four"; and in tl1c same line, aftf'r the read: words " in all," to strike out "$1~,600" and insert "$13,600," Purchasin;:: d1vis1on : Purchasing officer, $3,000; deputy purchasing so as to make the clau e read: officer, $1.800; computer, 1,4.4.0; clerks-2 at 1,500 each, 6 at $1 200 each, 1 $1,000, 9 at $900 each ; inspector of fuel, $1,500; assismnt1 Offi ce of superjntendent of weigbt!'{, measure , antl markets: . ~uper inspector of fuel. $1,100; storekeeper, $1,200; messenger, $600; driver, inten<1ent, $2i500; inspector. -chief 1,500. five at ~1 . ~00 each; clerk. 600; inspectors-! of materials ~1,400, 2 at $900 each ; 2 laborers, at $1,200 ; four aborers at $GOO each ; in all, $13,600. 600 each; 2 property-yard keepers, at $1,000 each ; temporary labor, The amendment was agreed to. 200. The next amendment was, on page 0, line 7, after thl3 word The amendment was agreed to. - " measure," to strike out " $100 " and insert 11 $~00," so ns to , The next amendment was, on page 3, line 16, after the word make the clause read: " 1 chief," to strike out "$1,500 " and insert " $1,800," so as to make For the purchase of small quantities of groceries, meat , pro\"Lions, the clause read: an(} so forth, including personal ervice~. in connection with in\'estiga Building inspection division : Inspector of buildings, $3,000 ; assist tion and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $200. ant ln.spectors of buildings-principal $2,000, 1 $1,600, 1 $1i400, 10 at The amendment was agreed to. . $1,200 each; tire-escape inspector, $1 400; temporary emp oyment of additional assistant inspectors for such time as their sexvices may be 'Ihe next amendment was, on page 9, line 17, afte1.· the word necessary, $1,500 i civil engineers or computers-1 $2,000, 1 $1,500; "rodmen," to strike out "four" and in art "eight"; in the clerks-chlef $1 SuO 1 $1.050, 1 1,000, 1 (who shall be a steno..,.rupher same line, before the words" at $780 each," to trike out" ei"ht" and typewriter)' ,1,000, 1 $900; messenger, $600; a sistant inspector, and insert ."four " ; in the same line, after the word " each," $1,500. 11 The amendment was agreed to. where it occurs the second time, to insert sL'r chainmen, at The next amendment was, on page 4, line 6, after the word $720 each " ; in line 18, before the word " chainman," where it "necessary," to strike out "$2,000" and insert "$3,000," so as occurs the second time, to trike out " twel\"e " and insert " six n ; on page 10, line 6~ after "$900," to strike out "one 840, two to make the clause read: Plumbing inspection division : Inspector o! plumbing, $2,000; assist at $750 each" and insert " three at $840 each"; and in line ant inspectors of plumbing-principal $1,550, 6 at $1,200 each ; clerks- 14t after the '1-Yords "in niL" to strike out "$119,G40" and in· 2 at $1200 each, 1 $900 · temporary employment of additional assistant sert u $180,720," so as to make tbe clause read: in pect~rs of plumbing ~d laborers for such time as th 1r erviees may Engineer Commissioner's offi.ce.: Engineer of highways, $3.000: engi be necessary $3,000; draftsmen, $1,350; sewer tapper, $1,000; . 3 mem neer of bridges, $2,500 ; superintendents-one of streets 2,000, one bers of plumbing board, at $150 each. of suburban roads $2 250 ; sanitary engineer, $3.300; asphalt anJ. The amendment was agreed to. <'ements-ins:pector $2,400, asslstnnt inspector $1,u00 ; trt>e-s a.ntl park ing -superintendent $2,000, assistant superintendent 1,350; af: istant The next amendment wa , on page 4, line 12, after the words engineer -t-wo at $2,200 each, four at $1,800 each. twt> t $1,000 each, "Executive Office," to strike out "$123,060" and insert "S~5.- four at $1,500 each, two at 1,350 each, one $1.200; tra.n itnien- tbre~ 7~0," so as to make the clause read: at $1,200 each, one $1,050: rod.men-ei:Ult at 900 each, four nt 780 ea.-ch; six chainmen, at $720 each; six cnainm!"'l, at $650 each; uraft - In all, Executive Office, $125,720. men~ne 1,500 two at 1,200 each, one 1,050 ; general insprctor of · The amendment was agreed to. sewers, 1,300; Inspector 1Jf sewers, $1,200 ; bridge inspector, $1,200; inspectors-two at $1,500 each, five (including two of stN'Pts) at · ~'he next amendment was, on page 4, line 14, after the words $1,200 each, one $1,000, one $900 ; foremen-twelve at $1.200 ac:b, 11 chief engineer," to strike out "$1,400" and insert "$1,600"; one $1,050, ten at $900 each; forem.an, Rock Creek Park, $1,200: three in line 15 after the wor The next amendment was, on page 31, line 2, after the words The next amendment was, on page 2~. line 14, Ufter the word "assistant librarian," to strike out "$1,500" and insert "schedule," to strike out "$~1,500" and insert "$33,500," so " $2,000 " ; in line 3, after the word " department/' to strike out as to make the clause read: " $1,200 " and insert "$1,500 " ; in line 4, after " $1,000," to Southeast. section schedule, $33,lJOO. strike out "assistant in charge or school work, $1,000" and in The amendment was agreed to. sert " supervisor of school work, $1,200"; in line 6, after the The next amendment was, on page 23, line 2, after "$83,000," word "secretary," to sjrike out "$1,000" and insert "$1,200"; to insert " and for the extension of existing water mains, the in line 8, after the word "librarian," to strike out" $1,000" and 11 11 laying of new mains, and for other work in connection there insert " $1,200" ; in line 9, after $1,200," to insert director with, $30,000; in all, $115,000," so as to make the clause reau: of library training class, $1,500 " ; in line 13, before the word For the necessary and adequate means of approach and access to "each," to strike out "$540" and insert "$600"; in line 14, existing buildings, or to temporary buildings which may hereafter be after the word ''copyist," to strike out "$540" and insert erected in the District of Columbia. for the use of the United States, 11 11 including the grading, paving, improvement, and repair of such streets, " $600 " ; in the ~mrne line, after $GOO," to insert chief, cata avenues, and roads as in the judgment of the commissioners shall be logue department, $1,GOO "; in line 18, after the word "collator," necessary, including all necessary incidental work, $85,000, and for to strike out "$u40" and insert "$600"; in line 19, before the the extension of existing water mains, the laying of new mains, and for other work in connection therewith, $30,000 ; in all, $1lu,OOO, to be word "each," where it occurs the second time, to strike out available immediately: Provided, That the foregoing work shall be " $4 0 " and insert 11 $600 " ; and in line 23, after the words done under the direction of the commissioners, by contract, day labor, "in all," to strike out "$59,540" and insert 11 $64,600," so as or in such other manner as in their judgment may be most advan to make the cL.'luse read: tageous to the Government. Fren Public Library, including Takoma Park branch: Librarian, The amendment was agreed to. $4,000 ; assistant librarian, $2.000 ; chief circulating department, The next amendment was, on page 23, after line 1:3, to insert: $1,500 ; director of children's work, $1,500; children's librarian, $1,000; For repaving with asphalt the roadway of Ele>enth Street _SEJ., from supervi or of school work, $1.200; librarian's secretary, $1,200; Ta Potomac Avenue to l\I Street, 55 feet wide, $6,500. koma Park branch librarian, $1.000; chiefs of divisions-order and ac cessions $1,290, incloF:trial $1.200; reference librarian, $1,200; director The amendment \-vas agreed to. of librarv training class, $l,GOO; assistants-! $li000, 1 in charge of The next amendment was, on p!lge ~3. after line 18, to insert: periodicals $1,000, 1 $900. 7 at $840 each, 7 ( ncluding 1 for the Ta.koma Park brunch) at $720 each, 3 at $600 each, 3 (including 1 For repaving with asphalt the roadway of Eleventh Street SEJ., f.t·om for Takoma Park branch) at $600 each; copyist, $600; chief, catalogue l\I Street to blidge, 53 feet wide, $Ui,500. · department, $1,500: classifier, $900; cataloguers-! $840. 1 $720, 2 The amendment was agreed to. at $600 each; stenogTaphers and typewriters-! $900, 1 $720; attE.'nd nnts-1 $720, 6 at $600 each, 5 at $540 each; collator. $~00; 3 messen The next amendment was, on page 2-±, after line 3, to insert : gers, at 600 each; 10 pages, at $420 each; 3 janitors, at $600 each, DamageF: and payment for ground on account of condemnation pro 1 of whom shall act as night watchman; janitor of Tukoma Park ceedings: 'l'o pay Thomas W. and Allee N. Keller for ground taken and branch, $480; engineer. 1,200; fireman, $720; workman, $600; library damages on account of condemnation proceedings in square No. 2838, guarrl. $720; two cloakroom attendants, at $360 each; G charwomen, in the city of Washington, ~3,820. at $240 each ; in all, $G4,600. The amendment was agreed to. The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was, on page 26, after ·line ~~. to insert: The next amendment was, on page 14, line 3, after the woru Northwest. New Hampshire Avenue, Georgia Avenue to Park Road, "librarian," to strike out 1' $~.000" and insert ~: $3,000," so as pave, $20,000. to make the clause read: . The amendment was agree The next amendment was, on page 30, ttfter llne 12. to insert: The- next amendment was, on page 38, line 10, after the word To insare the timely and err~cti e prosecution of any work of im "playgrounds," to sb'ike out " 67,73Q~ to be pai wholly ut of provement, maintenance, or repair, and the proper and contlntred the revenues of the District of Columbia" anti insert "$70,030." operation of any service or plant, such wo.rk, service,_ or plant being authorized in this act, or otherwise authorized by existing law, so as to make the clause read: $1GO,OOO, to be expended when authorized by the Commissioners a! the In all, for plllygrounci-s, $70,030. District of Columbia upon the recommendation of the engineer eom- missloner: Prov1ded, That the total expen The- next amendment was, on page 45, after line 20, to strike Strike out u $2SGO " and insert " $2,080," so us to make the out: clause read: ' Librarian in class 4--one $800; llbrarians and clerks 14- in class 3 Myrtilla Miner Normal School: Janitor, $1,000; laborers-3 at $GOO at $0u0 each. ~ in class 2. ai: ${)'00 &'l:Ch, 15 in class 1 at $500 each (ln_ each; charwoman, $480 ; in all, $2,980. cluding 1 additional for Centrnl High School) ; in all, ~2.2,200. 'Ihe amendment. was agreed tu; The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was; on page 4B; line 20, after the word The next amendment was, on page 45, after line 24, to strike "laborers," to strike out" one $420, one $400/' a.nd insert "two ont: at- $500 eacll " · a.nd in line 21.. after the words " in all " to strike Ten librarians in high and normal schools, rrt $9:10. each; 28- clerks, out" $1,820 ,; ~d insert .. $2,000," so as to make-the cl~use read: nt $ 00 each ; in all, $31,900, Eastern lligh School: Janitor, $1,000; laborers, two at $500 each; Tile amendment was agreed to. in all, $2,000. ' The next amendment was, on page 41, line 14, after the word The amendment was agreed to. "electrician," to strike out "$1,000 " and insert " $1,200 " ; in The next amendment was, on page 48, line 23, before the wortl line 15, before the word "each," to strike out-" $600" and in H each," to strike out " $420 " and insert " $500 ,,. ; and in tile sert " $720 " ; in line 18, before the word " each," to strik:e out same line, afte;~.· the words "in all," to sh·ike out "$1.,840" and " $400 " and insert " $500 " ; and in the same-line, after the words insert .. $2,000," so as to make the clause read: "in all," to strike out "$17,660" and insei~t '~$19,620," so as to Stevens Sch-ool: Janitor, $.1,000; two laborers, at $GOO each; in all, make tlle clause read: $2',000. Central IDgh School (new) : Engineer, $1,500; 2' assistant engineers, The amendment was agreed to. at $900 each ; electrician. $1,200; 3 firemen, at $720 each; coal passer, I $540; janitor, $1,100; 2 assistant janitors, at $900 each; gardener, The next amendment waB, on page 49, line 1, after the word ; $840: night watchman, $720; 2 charwomen, at $480 each-; 14 laborers, u watchman," to strike out" $600" ancl insert" 720 "; in line~ at $500 each; in all, $19,620. after the word H fireman," to strike out " one $600, one $480 " I Tile runendment was agreed to. and Insert " two at $720 each " ; in line 3, after the word " labOl· 1 ' The next amendment was, on page 47, line 21, before the-word ers," to strike out" one $480, two at $400 each" and insert" three 11 " eaCh," tO Strike OUt $600 " and insert H $'720 ll ; in line 23', at $500 each ·~; and in line 4, after the words " in all;" to strike out " $7,180 " and insert " $7,880," so as to make the clause read: 1 before the word " each," to strike out " $400 " and insert " $500 " ; , and in line 24, after the words " in all," to strike out ' $11,120" McKinley Manual Training School: Janitor, $1,000; engineer an The next amendment was, ori page 51, line 9, after the words The next amendment was, on page 62, line 0, after the word " In all," to strike out " ~186,070 " and insert " $196,930/ so as "expense ," to sh·ike out "$35,000" and insert "$40,000," so to make the clause read: as to make the clause read : · In all, $106,930. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including purchase of new wagons, rewards for fugitives, modern revolvers, maintenance of The amendment was agreed to. card system, stationery, city directories, books of reference, periodicals, The next amendment was, on page 52, line 5, before the words telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, printing, binding, gas, ice, "dental operators," to strike out "Six" and insert ~·Twelve"; washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, purchase of horses, bicycles, motorcyclee, in line 6, before the words "at $900 each," to strike out "three police equlpme.nts and repairs to same, harness, forage, repairs to dental nurses" nnd insert "six dental prophylactic operators"; vehicles, van, patrol wagons, motor pab·ol, and saddles, mounted in line 7, after the word .J• supplies," to strike out "$6,000 " and . equipment~, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary expenses, $40,000, of which amount a sum insert " $11,0GO " ; and, in the same line, after the words " in not exceeding $500 may be expended by the major and superintendent all," ta strike out " $12,900 " and insert " $24,860," so as to of police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, make the clause read: · approved by the commissioners, and every such certificate shall be For the establishment .f)f free dental clinics in the public schools: deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expres ed to have been Twelve dental operators, at $700 each; six dental prophylactic opera expended: Provided., That the War Department may, in its dl cretion, furni~h the commissioners, for use of the police, upon requisition, such tors, at $900 each; equipment and supplies, $11,060; in all, $24,860. worn mounted equipment as may be required. · The amendment was agreed to. The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was, on page 52, line 22, after the word Tbe next amendment was, on page 62, line 19, after the word "same," to strike out." $150,000" and insert" $175,000," so as to "halyards," to strike out " $100 " and insert " $200," so as to make the clause read: make the cla u e read : For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating appa For flags anu halyards, $200. ratus, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not The amendment was agreed to. supplied with same, $175,000. . The next amendment wast on page 62, line 19, after the words The amendment was agreed to. "in all," to strike out "$68,100" and in ert " 76,200," so as to . The next amendment wa , on page 53, line 4, after the word make the clause read: · " therewith," to strike out "$35,000" and in ert "$42,500," so In all, $76,200. as to make the clause read: The amendment was agreed to. Fot· purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in The next amendment was, on page 63, after line 16, to insert : manual training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $42,u00. For purchase of site and building occupied by house of detention, m: so much thereof as may be necessary, $22,500 • . The amendment was a~reed to. The next amendment was, on page 54, after line 17, to insert: 1\Ir. GALLINGER. The words "or so much thereof as may, For the purchase of typewriters and typewriter tables for the Busi be neces ary " should be tran ferred anU. come in after the ne s High School, 16,000 : Provided, That the provisions of section 4 numerals. ' of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal Mr. SMITH of 1\Iaryland. Yes; let that amendment to the year 1919 shall not apply to the purchase of typewriters required for use in the public schools of the District of. Columbia during said fiscal amendment be made. year. The amendment to the amendment was agreed to. The amendment was agreed to. The amendment as amended was agreed to. The next amendment was, on page 55, line 3, after the word The next amendment was, on page 63, line 22, in the items for " pla3·grounds," to -trike out " $900 " and insert " $1,200," so harbor patrol, after the word " incidental ," to strike out as to mnke the clau e read: " $3,000 " and insert " $4,000," so as to make the clause rea-d: For equipment, grading, and improving six additional school play For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, $4,000. grounds. 1_200. The amendment was agreed to. The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was, on page 63, after line 23, to insert: The next amendment was, on page 5:5, line 5, after the word One gasoline lannch, $7,500. "established," to strike out " $3,000 " and insert " . 4,000," so The amendment was agreed to. as to make the clause read : The next amendment wa , on page 63, in line 25, after the For maintenance and repairing 72 playf;rounds now established, words " in all," to strike out " $8,000 " and in ert " $16,500," so $4,000. . as to make the clause read : The amendment was agreed to. In all, $1fl,uOO. The next amendment was, on page 55, line 7t after the word The amendment was agreed to. "gardens," to strike out "$3,000" and insert "$4,000," so as to The next amendment wa , under the bead of " Fire depart· make the clause read : ment," on page 64, line 8, after "$1,400," to trike out "2 For utensil , material. and labor for establishment and maintenance inspectors, at $1,080 each" and insert "4 inspectors, at $1,140 of school gardens, $4,000. . each"; in line 10, after "$1,400," to insert "clerk, who shall be The amendment was agreed to. a stenographer and typewriter, $1,200 "; in line 13, after the The next amendment wast on page 56, line 15, after the words word "machinery," to strike out" $2,000" and insert" $2,250 '.' :· "civic centers," to strike out "$10,000" and in. ert " 15,000," in line 14, after the word "machinery," to strike out "$1,200" so as to make the clause read : and insert "$1,500"; in line 19, before the word "each," to For payment of necessary expenses connected with the organization and conducting of community forums and civic centers in school build strike out "$720" and insert "$840"; and in line 22, after the ings, including equipment, fixtures, and supplies for lighting and equip words "in all," to strike out "$757,220" and insert "$761,610," ping the buildings, payment of janitor service, secretaries, teachers, so as to make the clau e read : organizers, and clerks, and employees of the day schools may also be Chief erogineer, $3,500; 2 deputy chief engineers, at 2,500 each; employees of the community forulllS .and civic centers, $15,000. 8 battalion chief 1ngineers, at 2,000 each; fire marshal, $2,000; deputy The amendment was agreed to. fire mar hal, $1,400; 4 inspectors, at 1,140 each; chief clerk, $2,000 ; 59. clerk, $1,400; clerk, whc shall be a stenographer anu typewriter, The reading of the bill was continued to line 7, on page 1,200; 38 captains, at $1,500 each ; 40 lieutenants, at $1,320 each; Mr. SMOOT. I ask the Senator having the bill in charge 41 sergeants, at 1 200 each; superintendent of machinery, 2,250; to allow the amendments :i.n relation to the Metropolitan police assistant oupcrintendent of machinery, $1,500; 27 engineers, at $1,20() each ; 27 assi tant engineers, at $1,140 each ; 2 pilot , at $1,150 each ; to be pas ed over for the present, until we get through with 2 marine engineers, at "1,200 eacb; 2 assistant marine engineers at tbe re:lding of tbe bill. 1,140 each; 2 mnrine firemen. at 840 each; 342 privates of class ~.at Mr. SMITH 'Of Maryland. Very good. . 1,140 each ; 103 privates of class 1, at $960 each ; hostler, $600 ; Mr. SMOOT. · If the Senator does not wish to grant the laborer, $600 ; in all, $761,610. request, I can take up the question now, but I think it 'vould be The amendment was agreed to. better to defer it. The next amendment wa , on page 6G, aftet· line 4, to insert : 1\Ir. GALLINGER Let the amendments go over. For one concrete and frame drill tower, to be erected adjacent to No. engine house, on North Carolina Avenue, between SU..-th and Seventb, 1\.ll·. Sl\1ITH of Maryland. Yes; let them be passed O\er. Streets SE., on land owned by the District of Columbia, $5,760. The SECBETATIY. Pass over, beginning with line 8, page 59, down to and includin" line 23, page 60. The amendment was agreed to. ' The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment wa , on page 66, line D, after the words The next amendment was, on page 61, in line 22, after the "in all," to strike out "$76,200" and insert "$81,960," so as to word "grounds," to strike out "$7,000" and insert "$10,000," make the clause read : so as to make the clause read : In au, 81,960 . . For repairs and improvements to police stations and grounds, The amendment was agreed to. $10,000. The next amendment \Yas, on page 66, line 11, after the word Th~ amendment was agreed to. "officer," to strike out "$4,000" and insert "$4,500"; in the 1918. CONGRESSION.A.L RECORD-SENATE. 7801 same line, after the word "o-ffi.eer,n where it occurs the second drivers--one (who silall also act as foreman of stables) $900, three at $720 each ; hostler, .$540 ; traveling expenses, including attenaance on time, to strike out "$2,50()" aD.d insert "$3,000"; in line 16, coDTentions, $400 ; in all, $19,980. befo.re the words " at $1,200 each," to strike out " eight " and insert " nine " · in line 19 after the word " chemist " to strike The amendment was agreed to. out "$2,000 n ~nd insert ... $2,250, ; in the same nn~. after the The next amendment wns, under the subhead "Reformatm·ies word " chemist," where it oecurs the second time, to strike out a.nd correctional institutions," on page 78, in line 14, after the " $1,200 " and insert n $1,500 " ; n chief of bureau of preventable word "cle:r:k," to strike out "$840" and insert "$1,000"; in diseases and director of bacteriQlogical laboratory, $3,000 ''; in line 19_, after the word " cook," to strike out "$600" and insert line 22, after the word "each," to insert n laboratory assistant, " $720 " ; in line 24, before the word " each," to strike out $840 " ; in line 23, after the word " laborers," to strike out "$300 " and insert " $400 " ; on page 79, line 1, before the worQ.s " t\\o at $720 each" and in ert " one, $720" ; in line 25, before "per a:nnum,n to strike out "$120" and insert "$200"; in line the word " each " to strike out " $600., and insert " $720 " ; and 2, before the words "per annum," to strike out " $150 " and' on page 67, line 1, after the words "in all," to strike out insert " $225 :• ; in line 3, after the word " service," to strike out ", 81,8GO" and insert "$87,970," so as to mnk~ the clause read: " $3,500 " and insert " $4,450 " ; in line 5, after the word Ilealth officel.', $4,500; assistant health officer, $3,000; chief clerk "laundryman,.. to strike out "$GOO" and insert "$800'; in and deputy health officer, s;2,500 ; chief, bnreuu of vita.l etatistics, line 6., after the words " assistant laundryman," to strike out ;1, 00 ; clf'rks-1 1,600, 5 at $1,200 eaeh, 4 at $1,000 each, 2 at $900 " $365 " and im:ert " $500 " ; and in line 10, after· the worcl-; each, 1 $720; S..'l.rutary inspector-chief $1,800, assistant chief $1,400, 9 at ~ 1,200 each, 2 at $.1,000 each, 3 at $900 each; food inspectors " in all," to strike out " $30,110 " and insert " $32,675," so as chlef 1.800, us ~ista.nt chief 1.400, 2 at $1,400 each. 5 at $1.,200 to make the ·clause read : each, 6 at $1.000 each, 5 nt $900 each; chemist, 2,250; assistant chemist, $1,500 ; chief of bureau of preventable diseases and director of WasbinAi:on Asylum and Jail : Superintendent, $1,800 ; visiting physi bacteriological laboratory, 3,000; serologist, $2,500; 2 assistant bac cian, $1.,200 ; resident physician, 480 ; 2 assistant resident physicians, teriologists. at $1,200 each; laboratory assistant, 840; sk1lled labor nt $120 each; clerk, 1,000; engineer, 5900; 3 assistant engineers, er -1 $720, 1 $6CO ; 2 messengers at $600 each ; 2 chauffeurs at $720 at $600 each; night watchm:m 480; blacksmith and woodworker, each; poundmaster, 1,400; watchman., $600; laborers, at not exceed 500; driYer for dead. wagon, 365 ; hostler and drtver, for supply and ing 30 per month each, $2,400; in all, 87,970. laundry wagon, at :t240 each ; hospital cook, $720; assistant cooks- 2 at $300 ench, 1 $180; trained nurse, .who shall act as superintendent The amendment was agreed to. of nms~~· $1.200; 2 graduate nurses, at $480 each; graduate nurse The next amendment was, on page 67, line .19, after the word for recetvlDg ward, $480; 2 nm-ses for annex wards, nt $540 each ; nurse for operating room, $540 ; 8 orderlies, and 2 orderlies for " services," to str.ike out " not exceeding $17,000 " ; and on page annex 'vards, at $400 each; pupil nmses, not less than 21 in number G , line 1, after the word "hospital," to strike out "$35,000" (nnrses to be paid not to exceed $200 per :urnum during the first insert '"' $45,000," so as to make the clause read: year of service, and not to exceed $225 per annum during second year anu of service), $4,450 ; registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital For enforcement of the provisions' of an aet to prevent the spread clerk, $720 ; gardener. $540 ; seamstress., 300 ; housekeeper, $420 ; of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approvecl Murch 3, laundryman, $800; nssistant laundryman, 500 ; 3 laundresses at 1897, and an act for the prevention of scarlet fever1 diphtheria, measles, $360 each ; 2 chambermaids, 3 walters, and 7 ward maids, nt $180 whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospmal meningitis, and each; temporary labor, not to exceed $1,200; operator of X-ray ma typboitl fever in the District of Columbia approved February 9, 1907, chine; $600; pathologist, 600; anesthetist, $300; in all, $32,675 ; and an act to proviUe for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examina.tlon of sputum in suspected The' amendment was agreed to. cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said D1strict, approved May 13, 1908, under the direction of the health officer of said The next amendment was, on page 79, in line 14, after the Di trict, ma.nufacture of serums, including their use in indigent cnses, -word "items," to strike out '"'$70,000" and insert: "including and for the prevention of infnntile pnrnlysis and other communicable an allowance to the superintendent of not exceeding $360 peT di . ast•s, including -salaries or compensation for personnl services, when oruP.retl in writing by the commis loners and necessa:l'y for the enforce annum for maintenance of \ehicle for use in discharge of his ment anu E'Xeeu:tion of snicl acts, and for the prevention of such other official. duties, $75,000," so as to make the clause read: communicable diseases as hereinbefore provided. purchase and mainte Ilospitnl : For pro;v:lGions, fuel, forage. harness and vehicles and nance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, purc.Wise of reference repair to same, gns, iee, shoes, clothing, dry goods; tailoring, drugs and books and m~clical journals, and maintenance o:f quarantine station and medic'.al supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and otbei· smallpox hospital, 45 000 : Pt·ovided, That any bacteriologist employed necessary items including an allowance to the superintendent of not under this appropriation shall not be paid more than $7 per day and exceeding $1!60 per annum for ma.intenance of vehicle for in dis may be as... The next amendment was, on page 81, after line 18, to insert: conductor, $300; three laundresses, at $240 each; farmer, laborer, night watchman, four orderlies, and assistant laundryman.t at $360 · each; The commissioners are authorized, under such regulations as they three ward maids, at $240 each; four servants, at $:<::40 each; in all may prescribe, to sell the surplus products of the Home for the Aged $20,640. , and Infirm, and all moneys derived from such sales shall be paid into the •.rreasury, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half The amendment was agreed to. to the credit of the District of Columbia. The next amendment was, on page 85, after line 4, to insert: The amendment was agreed to. For the extension of the Tuberculosis Hospital by the construction The next amendment was, on page 82, line 23, after " $150," of separate additional buildings for the treatment of incipient cases o! to .strike out "$20,000 " and insert " $25,000," so as to make the tuberculosis, $200,000. clause read : The amendment was agreed to. For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, cloth The next amendment was, on page 85, line 8, after the words ing, shoes, forage, horeshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack "Tuberculosis Hospital," to strike out "$67,520" and insert hil'e, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, station "$267,640," so as to make the clause read: Cl'Y1 horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fence~Lrepairs, typewriting, stenography, and o.ther necessary items, incluUIDg com In all, Tuberculosis Hospital, $267,640. pensation not exceding $500 for additional labor or services, for identi fying and pursuing escaped inmates and for rewards for their capture, The amendment was agreed to. and for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to secur The next amendment was, on page 85, line 13, after the date ing suitable homes for paroled or discharged girls, not exceeding $150, "nineteen hundred and eighteen," to strike out "$150,000" and '213,000. . insert " $353,590," so as to make the clause read: The amendment was agreed to. Gallinger Municipal Hospital : For continuing the construction of t he The next amendment was, on page 82, line 24, after the Gallingel' Municil:>a Hospital 1n accordance with the provision for that purpose in the District o! Columbia appropriation act for the fiscal year words "National Training School for Girls," to strike out 1918, $353,590. "$32,480" and insert "$37,480," so as to make the clause rend: The amendment was agreed to. In all, National Training School for Girls, $37,480. The next amendment was, under the subhead "Child-caring The reading of the bill was continued to line 14, page 83, the institutions," on page 85, line 19, after the word "Agent" to la t paragraph read being as follows : strike out " $1,800 " and insert " $2,000 " ; in line 21, befor~ the For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with National Homeopathic Hospital Association by the Board of words" at $900 each," to strike out" eight" and insert "nine"; harities, not to exceed $10,000. in line 22, after the word "messenger," to· strike out "$480" l\Ir. GALLINGER. I desire to offer an amendment to the and insert " $600 " ; in llne 22, after the word " laborer " to provision just read. It is a proviso that I offer in behalf of strike out " $480 " and insert " $600 " ; and, in line 23, afte~· the the committee. words "in all," to strike out "$17,260" and insert "$18,600," The VICE PRESIDENT. It will be read. so as to mak'e the clause read: · The SECRETARY. On page 83, line 14, after "$10,000," insert Salaries : Agent, $2,000 ; clerks-one $1,200, one $900; stenographer, $~00 ; placing and investigating officers-two at $1,200 each, cme 1,000, a colon and the following proviso : ~nne at 900 each ; record clerk, $900; messenger, $600 ; laborer, $GOO ; Provi ded, That in case the National Homeopathic Hospital, with its m all, $18,600. present facilities, i lmable to enter into a contract with the Board of Charities for the care of indigent patients said board is authorized to The amendment was agreed to. expend so much of the amount in this paragraph appropriated as may The next amendment was, on page 86, line 7, after the word be necessary to provide for the care of indigent patients in otheF "board," to strike out "$100,000" and insert "$120,000," so as existing hospitals in the District of Columbia. to make the clause read: The amendment was agreed to. For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of The reading of the bill was resumed. said board by the courts of the District and for temporary care of chil The next amendment was, under the subhead "l\ledica1 chari dren pending investigation or· while being transfet·red from place to place, with authority to pay not -more than $1,5'00 to Institutions ties," on page 83, Une 21, after the words" Eastern Dispensary," adjudged to be under sectarian control and not more than $400 for to in ert "and Casualty Hospital"; and in line 22, after the burial ?f children dying while under charge pf the board, $120,000. words "Board of Charities," to strike out " $15,000 " and insert The amendment was agreed· to. '' $25,000," so as to make the clause read: The next amendment was, on page 86, line 9, after the words For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispen ary service to, "Board of Children's Guardians," to strike out "$150,760" and indigent patients under n. contract or agreement to be made with Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital by the Board of Charities, $25,000. insert " $172,100," so as to make the clause read: The amendment was agreed to. In all, Board of Children's Guardians, $172,100. The next amendment was, on page 83, after line 22, to insert: The amendment was agreed to. Toward the payment on obligations heretofore incurred in the rebuild The next amendment was, on page 88, after line 6, . in the ing, remodeling-, and refitting the buildings of the Eastern Dispensary items for Industrial Home School, to insert: and Casualty Hospital, $10,000. For purchase of new site, $40,000. The amendment was agreed to. ·The amendment was agreed to. The 1·eading was continued to line 6, page 84. The next amendment was, on page 88, in line 8, after the 1\lr. GALLINGER. In behalf of the committee I desire to words " Industrial Home School," to strike out " $36,540 " and move an amendment, in line 6, page 84, increasing the amount insert "$76,540," so as to make the clause· read: from $5,000 to $7,500, which is the amount estimated, and which In all, Industrial Home School, $76,540. is really needed for that hospital. The VICE PRESIDENT. The amendment will be stated. The amendment was agreed to. The SECRETARY. On page 84, line 6, strike out "$5,000" and The next amendment was, under the subhead " Temporary insert "$7,500," so as to read: homes," on page 89, after line 11, to i1;1sert : For care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to be · National Library for the Blind: For aid and support of the National made with Georgetown University Hospital by the Board of Charities, Library for t4e Blind, located at 1729 H Street NW., to be expended $7,500. under the direction of the Commisstoners of the District of Columbia, The amendment was agreed to. $5,000. The next paragraph was read by the Secretary. The amendment was agreed to. 1\lr. GALLINGER. In line 9, page 84, I move to strike out The next amendment was, on page 89, after line 16, to insert: "$5,000," and insert" 6,500," which is also the amount estimated Columbia Polytechnic Institute: To aid the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, located at 1808 H Street NW., to be expended and needed for the hospital. under the direction of the Commissioners of the District Columbia, The VICE PRESIDENT. The amendment will be stated. $1,500. The SECRETARY. On page 84, line 9, strike out " $5,000" and The amendment was agreed to. in ert "$6,500," so as to read: The next amendment was, on page 91, after the words " chief For care and b·eatmcnt of indigent patients under a contract to be made with Ge-orge Washington Unh·ersity Hospital by the Board of engineer," to strike out "and electrician"; in · line 3, after Charities, 6,500. - "$1,200," to insert "electrician, $1,200"; and in line 4, after The am~ndment was agreed to. the words " in all," to strike out " $6,960 " and insert " $8,160," The next amendment was, on page 84, in line 16, after the so as to make the clause read: words "assistant engineer," to strike out "$480" and insert Workhouse and reformatory: Superintendent, $3,000; physician $1,630 ; chief engineer, • 1,200; electrician, $1,200; superintendent ol "$600," and, in line 20, after the words " in all," to strike out commissary, $1,080; in all, $8,160. · " $20,520 " and insert " 20,640," so as to make the Glause read: The amendment was agreed to. Tuberculosis Hospital: Superintendent, $1,800; resident physician, $600; assistant re ident physician, $300; roentgenologist $600; phar . The next amendment wa. , on page 91, line 6, after the words macist and clerk, 700; superintendent of nurses, and engmeer,1 at $720 "Assistant superintendent," to strike out "$1,680" and insert each ; pathologist, $300 ; matron; dietician, chief eook, assistant engi " $1,800 " ; and in the same line, after " $1,200," to insert " head neer, laundryman, and eight graduate nurses, at $600 each; assistant cooks-one $360, two at :ji240 each; assistant en,ilneer, $600; elevator matron, $900," so as to make the clause read: 1918. CONGRESSION.r\L RECORD-SENATE. .7803 Workhouse (administration) : Assistant superintendent, $1,800; chief The next amendment was, on page 95, after line 13, to insert : clerk, $1,200 ; head matron, $900 ; stenographer, $720; stenographer and officer, $600. · A.! WOMAN SUFFRAGE. I am going to keep on offering amendments or resolutions of l'.Ir. McKELLAR. I am not going to discuss the amendment tbis character, providing for some kind of a budget system, which is now before the Senate, but I do desire to discuss for a until the time shall come when the Congress will have received moment a resolution which was passed at the meeting which sufficient light from some source to adopt such a system for this was held at Bristol, in my State, on June 7, last. There were Government. three meetings held and three short resolutions \vere passed in In years gone by there have been commi.ssions ·appointed by favor of the equal-suffrage amendment which is now before the the House to investigate this matter, but I think never by the Senate. Senate, and Congress on this subJect seems to be suffering from 1\Ir. President, under the first amendment to the Constitution legislative inertia. I do not believe there is a Member of the the right of the people to assemble and to petition for a redress Senate-at least those with whom I have talked so express of grievances was guaranteed; and while there was no at themselves-who is not willing to concede that there must be tempt to interfere with that, these good people down there on some change in our methods of appropriation and some kind of June 7 undertook not <;>nly to pass resolutions, but they have a budget plan for this Government. I propose to keep pounding specifical1y asked that those resolutions may be published in the away at it; and I believe the day will come when the President ·REcoRD. I hope I am not intruding upon the time or the of the United States will request Congress to adopt a budget patience of the Senate when I read those resolutions, which are system. It will be in line with his writings and in accordance as follo·ws : with his teachings and his lectures in the past ; and I think the Resolution adopted at a meeting held in the ·Virginia Court House in change will never be brought about until the President, with the city of Bristol, Va. and Tenn., under the auspices of the National his wonderful power of visioning things, shall vision this to Woman's Party on June 7, 1918: · Whereas the women of this Nation are making every sacrifice to further Congress. the prosecution of the war and are doing service in every kind of Although we are spending I do not know how many billions work that this country calls upon them to do; and of dollars this year, there is no coordination between commit Whereas each day of war makes this Nation and this Nation's future more dependent upon its women, the majority of whom have no tees, and no committee knows what other committees are doing voice In the laws of this Government under which they work: There in recommending appropriations. There ought to be one great fore be it committee to handle . all appropriations. There ought to be Resolved, 'l'hat this meeting call upon President Wilson to further press for the passage of the nat;ional suffrage amendment, to the end some itemized business program for the fiscal year; there ought that it may be passed by the Senate without longer delay; be it also to be same ratification by Congress of that kind of a program,' Resolved, That this resolution be sent to the President; Senator the cardinal points of which would be executive responsibility, -THOMAS MARTIN, Democratic leader in the Senate; Senator JACOB GAL r,INGER, Republican leader; Senator A. A. Jo:sEs, chairman of the Senate then the spending of the money by the executive departments of Woman Suffrage Gommittee; Senator SWANSON; Senator SHIELDS; and the Government, and then some system of accounting entirely Senator McKELLAR, with the r equest that this resolution be read into disconnected from the executive departments. the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. . President Taft recommended to Congress on January 17, 1912, The other two resolutions I shall not read, but they are of not, perhaps, the particular objects I have suggested, but a gen the exact tenor and effect. They were adopted by two other eral budget system . . In that message he said: meetings, one held in the city of Bristol, Va., and the other held The United States is the only great Nation whose Government is in the city of Bristol. Tenn. operated without a budget. This fact seems to be more striking when it .is considered that budgets and budget procedures are. the outgrowth DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS. of democratic doctrines and have had an important part in the develop ment of modern constitutional rights. The American Commonwealth The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the con has suffered much from irresponsibility on the part of its governing sideration of the bill {H. n. 11692) making appropriations to agencies. The constitutional purpose of a budget is to make govern provide for the expenses of the government of the District of ment responsive to public opinion and responsible for its acts. A bud get should be the means of getting before the legislative branch, before Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and for other the press, and before the people a definite a.nnual program of business purposes. to be financed; it shonld be in the nature of a prospectus, both of reve l\Ir. KENYON. Mr. President, I should like to inquire if the nues and expenditures ; it Ethould comprehend every relation of the Gov bill is now open to general amendment? ernment to the people, whether with reference to the raising of revenues The VICE PRESIDENT. There seems to have been reached or the rendering of service. · no conclusion with regmd to the pending amendment. There is not a business Qn the face of this earth that could Mr. S:i\fOOT. I ask unanimous consent that the pending exist for 60 days if It carried on its affairs as our Government amendment go over. · earries on its affairs and allowed to go unquestioned inde Mr. SMITH of Maryland. I shall make no objection to that. fensible items such as sometimes go into appropriation bills. The VICE PRESIDENT. There being no objection, the President Wilson in his work on "Congressional Govern amendment will go over. That completes the committee amend ment," being his lectures delivered at Columbia University, I mf'nts, and the bill is open to amendment. think, can fairly be said to take a position in favor of a budget Mr. SMITH of Maryland. The committee has no further system. He describes the logrolling methods of Congress. I amendments to offer. .will not say that the criticism is as true now as it was then, Mr. KENYON. T}Jen I offer the amendment, which I send but there is a great deal of legislation because of congressional t o the desk, proposing to incorporate a new section at the end favoritism and congressional friendship. After the President's of the bill. election, on January 30, 1913,· he wrote a letter to Senator TILL The VICE PRESIDENT. The amendment will be stated. MAN on the subject, which was made public, in which he said : Ever since I was a youngster I have been deeply interested in our The SECRETARY. At the end of the bill it is proposed to insert methods of financial legislation. Ever since then I have insisted upon the following : the absolute necessity of a carefully considered and wisely planned That a joint commission to Peport a plan for adoption of a national budget, and one of the objects I shall have most in mind when I get to budget system is hereby established. Its membership shall consist of Washington will be conferences with my legislative colleagues there, the Secretary of the Treasury and two other officials of the executive with a view to bringing some budget system into existence. This busi department of the Government, to be appointed by the President; three ness of building. up the expense of the Nation piece by piece will cer Members of the Senate and three 1\Iembers of the House; to be ap tainly lead us to error and perhaps embarrassment. pointed by the presiding officer of the House and Senate, respectively. 1\fr. President, in 1916 every one of the three political parties sio'!i~at no compensation shall be paid to any member of said commis- advocated a budget system, and 1\fr. Hughes in his speech ac That said commission is hereby empowered and directed to report by cepting the Republican nomination declared in favor of it. the first day of the next session of Congress a plan for the adoption of a national budget system for the Government of the United States, and The Democratic platform was especially strong in its indorse showing therein what changes, amendments, or adjustments the adop ment of the system. tion of said budget system would cause in the rules of the Senate and I wish that we could have such a commission, that could the House in the laws now in operation relative to revenues and ex summon to its help economists who· have studied the subject, penditures, in the organization of the Treasury Department, in the forms and method of preparation of the departmental estimates, in the and who, I know, would be glad to devote their time to the Gov method of presentin.[{ said estimates to the Congress, in the methods of ernment free of any expense. I only make this prophecy that accounting and audit, and such other and further information as said in the expenditure of billions upon billions of dollars, about commission may see fit to lay before the Congress. That said commission is authorized to employ such experts and such which the American people know very little and in regard to clerical assistance as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of which they have a right to insist that every care shall be exer this resolution. . cised, the time is coming before we ~et through with this war That the sum of $20,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise when Congress will be compelled by the force of public opinion • appropriated, to carry out the provisions of this act. to adopt some budget system of finance. That said commission shall expire on the 1st day of January, 1910. Mr. Sl\liTH of Maryland. Mr. President, this amendment is Mr. KENYON. 1\Ir. President, I know that the amendment is general legislation and has no place on this bHl. Tllerefore- I subject to a point of order, and the chairman of the committee must raise the point of order against the amendment. informs me that he will make the point of order, but I' wish Tbe VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator offering the amend to take just a moment in regard to the subject matter of the ment and the chairman of the committee both agreeing that it is amendment I have offered. general legislation, the Chair sustains the point of order. .7806 CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD-SENATE . . 'JUNE 14, 1\ir. KENYON. If the Chair entertains a different view of whom they cou.Jd influence or purchast>. Tlley have put spies and plot ters in every City _in the world. Their armies have de troyed chu.rche ·, the subject, I would nat desire him to stand firmly by my opinion. ho pitals, homes for the aged, orphanages, asylums for the insane, libra The VTCE PRESIDE.....~'r. The Chair is incline(] to agree with ries, schools of learning, a.nd every othe1· humanitarian institution that the Sen a tor from Iow·-:-r. they could lay their h:uids on. T.lley have massacred pri oncrs cut ott the hands of children and babies, and Tiolated the person of every ADDRESS BY SE~.d.TOR :M':KELLA..R. woman that they could lay their hands OJJ. . l\lr. The tTUth is that the Gennan nation, under the leader hlp of the BANKHEAI), Mr. President.- on May 28 the junior Sena Kaiser, is simply a criminal at large, defying the world, an«l it mu t tor from Tennes ee [Mr. l\fcKELLAR] ·delivered the alumni ad be arrested and confined or destroyed. As long af!! it exists in its present dre s at the commencement exercises of. the University of Ala form it is a menace to Christianity; it is a menace to humanity· it ts a melUlce to ci;tiizatiOJ?; it is a menace to morality, to liberty, to' democ· bama, of which institution he i an alumnus. His subject was racy, and to. everything that the human heart holds dear. n The Winning of the War:' · It is an intensely patriotic ad dress, ap_d I ask unanimous consent to have it printed in the WHAT CONGRESS HAS DONE IX FURTHEllA..L" ng.nin. Indeed, such vigorou steps have been taken alreney, we can hyphenated citlzc>ns; here even the black man, as · well ~ a.'3 · tfie · white man, E.afely s!ly, that the Army will be propt>rly clothed from now on, is dong his part. In no part of our common country is there less winter ot• summer. At fir:st thc.>re was- considerable· sickness in• tbe complaint, less dh::sntisfaction .or more patriotism or o. greater desire to camp!). due to lack of clothing and improper housing and tentage, but win this war. Ot>o, uor~a.s. persnnally visited all the camps last November, and imme WlLLIA~I G. M'ADOO. tlinh>ly ln.;tituted cl:langes that have worked wonuers, and now- the clf'ntb rate and the sick rat In our Army Is phenomenally low-lower Mr. President, while ment:Wning liberty bontl.s -and wlllle talking-about now tba that. oL any- otlrer ar.my: •rusc3loosa an-<1 all Alabama. and tbe part that the South is playing in this wa1•;· I• must call the attention Indeed our entire- country, should foo very. pr-oud of Gen. Go1·gas. He of this audience to the present financial policy of the Government" rmdert has done perhaps more for tbe c-omfort. health; and welfare of tbe a distinguished so1:1tlrerner: lieretofore wb~n : a Secretary: of the Treas limcrican soldier than any other man. We batl m:my troubles about ury needed. mon~y with whlch to defray the extraordinary expenses of· :rifleR and machine ~ns and artillery. The rifl trouble bas been a war antl. had to borrow it be took his hat in hia band and went over cro.dicatt>tl entire-ly, and we have now aJl th rifles and more than ::tre to see the financi('rs of New York: anti begged them for the money... m•c s ary and at·~ manufactm:ing them faste~ than WP are calling men. That dav has pas:ed. This Secretary of the •rreasury dld·not do that. to tile colors. Wc were exceedingly behind on machine- guns, but the On the contrary, he got on the train;. pUtl on his smile, p~epared hiS' mannfactur ·. of those guns bas been nceelerate