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Also, a bill (H. R. 3886) granting an increase of pension to lands which lie along the upper :.l\Iississippi River bottom be Frances Rains Chatfield; to the Committee on Pensions. tween Lynxville and De Soto, Wis. ; to the Committee on Agri By Mr. LAZARO: A bill (H. R. 3887) for the relief of the culture. legal representatives of the estate of Alphonse Desmare, de. 239. By l\Ir. KING: Petition of Ralph B. O'Neill and 700 other ceased, and others; to the Committee on War Claims. American citizens of the fifteenth congressional district of Illi By l\!r. LEAVITT: A bill (H. R. 3888) granting a pension to nois, petitioning Congress to take immediate steps to collect Sarah J. Harn ; to the Committee on Pensions. the $10,000.000.000, both principal and interest, now owing to By l\ir. LINEBERGER: A bill (H. R. 3889) fo · the relief the United States; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. of George A. Berry; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. 240. By l\Ir. LEATHERWOOD: Petition of the Auxiliary Also, a bill (H. R. 3890) granting a pension to Sarah E. No. 8, N. A. L. C., Salt Lake City, Utah, relative to a fair Young; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. adjustment of salaries of postal employees ; to the Committee By Mr. LONGWORTH: A bill (H. R. 3891) granting a pen on the Post Office and Post Roads. sion to Charles 1\1. Conaway; to the Committee on Pensions. 241. Also, petition of the Kiwanis Club, of Price, Utah, Also, a bill ( H. R. 3892) for the relief of Frank H. Anderson ; relatiYe to the transportation act of 1920; to the Committee on to the Committee on Claims. Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Also, a bill ( H. R. 3893) granting an increase of pension to 242. Also, petition of the board of county commissioners of Anna l\I. Bonner; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Carbon County, Utah, relative to the transportation act of By Mr. MOORES of Indiana: A bill (H. R. 3894) to renew 1920; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. patent No. 55769; to the Committee on Patents. 243. By l\lr. TEMPLE: Petition of Donora Woman's Club, By l\1r. PARK of Georgia: A bill (H. R. 3895) for the relief of Donora, Pa., indorsing the Towner-Sterling bill; to the of the Georgia, Florida & Alabama Railway Co., a corporation; Committee on Education. to the Committee on Claims. 244. By Mr. YOUNG: Petition of the Bismarck, N. Dak., By Mr. RAMSEYER: A bill (H. R. 3896) granting a pension Association of Commerce, December 5, 1923, protesting against to Nancy Blitz; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. increase of rates on lignite coal proposed by railroads of the B:v 1\fr. ROACH: A bill (H. R. 3897) granting a pension to Northwest at a time when the State of North Dakota is suffer Sarah Jane Silvey; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. ing from economic want; to the Committee on Interstate and By Mr. ROUSE: A bill (H. R. 3898) granting a pension to Foreign Commerce. Oliver P. Krutz; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 245. Al o, petition of the Association of Post Office Clerks and By l\lr. TAYLOR of Tennessee : A bill (H. R. 3899) granting Letter Carriers of Bismarck, N. Dak., urging minimum salary a pension to l\.Ia.ry Reynolds; to the Committee on Invalid of $2,000 for letter carriers and clerks and maximum salary Pensions. of $2,400; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. By l\Jr. SNYDER: A bill (H. R. 3900) to cancel two allot 2-16. Also, petition of the Chamber of Commerce, Jamestown, ments made to Richard Bell, deceased, embracing land within N. Dak., urging repeal of telephone and telegraph tax; to the the Round Valley Indian Reservation in California; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Committee on Indian Affairs. By l\Ir. TAYLOR of West Virginia : A bill (H. R. 3001) granting a pension to Guy B. Pendleton ; to the Committee on Pensions. SEN.A.TE. By l\1r. TIN"CHER: A bill (H. R. 3902) granting an increase of pension to Martha Williams; to the Committee on Invalid MONDAY, December 17, 19~3 . Pensions. The Chaplain, Rev. J. J. l\Iuir, D. D., offered the following By Mr. WARD of New York : A bill (H. R. 3903) for the re prayer: lief of various owners of vessels and cargoe damaged by the U. S. S. Lrrm berton ; to the Committee on Claims. Our gracious and blessed God, we come into Thy presence Also, a bill ( H. R. 3904) granting a pension to Marilla Robert this morning thanking Thee for all the mercies with which son Coleman; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Thou dost crown our days. As we look to the duties await By l\I.r. WEAVER : A bill ( H. R. 3905) granting a pension to ing this Chamber, we humbly beseech Thee .for guidance Samuel B. Pickens; to the Committee on Pensions. and direction in the ways along Thine own thinking that Thy By l\1r. TEMPLE: Resolution (H. Res. 93) providing for the glory may be advanced and good be accomplished. In the payment to Cora E. Gray, widow of Samuel H. Gray, late official name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. reporter of debates of the Hou e of Representatives, a sum The reading clerk proceeded to read the Journai of the equal to one year's salary as official reporter of debates and proceedings of Saturday last, when, on request of Mr. CURTIS $250 as funeral expen es of said Samuel H. Gray; to the Com and by unanimous consent, the further reading was dispensed mittee on Accounts. with and the Journal was approved.
PERRY'S VICTORY ME~fORI.AL COM~Issro::q- , PETITIONS, ETC. The PRESIDE.NT pro tempore- laid before the Senate the Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, petitions and papers were laid following message from the President of the United States, on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: which was read, and, with the accompanying papers, re 232. By the SPEAKER (by request) : Petition of Walter 0 . ferred to the Committee on the Library : Boynton, 13-137 General Motors Building, Detroit, Mich., ap proving Secretary 1\Iellon's tax-reduction plan ; to the Commit To the Congress of the United States: tee on Ways and l\Ieans. I transmit herewith the fourth annual report of Perry's 233. Also (by request), petition of citizens of Springfield, Victory Memorial Commission, dated December 3, 1923, which l\Iass., urging the abolishment of discriminatory tax on small was submitted to the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant tc1 arms ammunition and firearms; to the Committee on Ways and section 5 of the act entitled "An act creating a commi sion Means. for the maintenance, control, care, etc., of the Perry's Victory ~3-1. By Mr. ABERl\'ETHY : Petition of the Cotton Manu l\Iemorial on Put in Bay Island, Lake Erie, Ohio, and for other facturers' Association of North Carolina, relative to the reduc purposes," approved March 3, 1919 (40 Stat 1322-1324). tion of Federal taxes and the manner in which they are col CALVIN COOLIDGE. lectect · to the Committee rn Wars and Means. THE WHITE HOUSE, December 17, 1923. 235. 'By l\1r. BULWINKLE: Petition of the Cotton l\1anu facturers' Association of North Carolina, praying for a reduc REPORT OF GOVERNOR GE -ERAL OF PHILIPPINE ISLA.NOS. tion in Federal taxes, and other matters; to the Committee on The PRESIDEXT pro tempore laid before the Senate the Wavs and Mean . following message from the President of the United States, ~:JG. lly l\1r. FULLER : Petition of the General Motors Cor which was read, and. with the accompanying papers, referred poration, favoring repeal of all e:s:cise taxes on automobiles, to the Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions : truck. , repair parts, tires, and accessories; to the Committee on Ways and 1\leans. To tlie Congress of the United States: 237. By Mr. FULMER: Petition of the Columbia Chamber of As required by section 21 of the act of Congress approved Commerce, Columbia, S. C., urging the repeal of taxes on tele August 29, 1916, entitled "An act to declare the purpose of the graph messages and telephone tolls; to the Committee on Ways people of the United States as to the future political status of an<'! 1\leans. · the people of the Philippine Islands, and to provide a more 238. By Mr. HOWARD of Nebraska: Petition of 57 citizens of autonomous governmenf for those islands,'' I transmit herewith, Nebraska, opposing the drainage of the Winneshiek bottom for the information of the Congress, the report of the Governor 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 317
General of the Philippine Islands, together with the reports of CALL OF THE ROLL. the heads of the departments of the Philippine government, for Mr. FLETOHER. Mr. President, I suggest the absence ~f a the fiscal year ended December 31, 1922. quorum. I concur in the recommendation of the Secretary of War as The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Secretary will call the to the printing of this report as a congressional document. .roll. CALVIN COOLIDGE. The reading clerk called the roll, and the .following Senators THE WHITE HousE, December 11, 1923. an wered to their names : [NoTE.-Report accompanied similar message to the House of !~:~t ~~~,uld ~d~ ~g~~~~~i Tieprescn ta ti ves.] Ball Ferris Lenroot Shields Bayard Fess Lod~e 8hipstead -rui:PORT OF GOVERNOR OF PORTO RICO. Bota}l Fletehe-r McKellar Shortridge Brandegee Frazier McKinley Simmons The PRESIDE1\TT pro tempore laid before the Senate the fol Brookhart George McLean Smith loW"ing message from the President of the United States, which Brou&"Sard Gerry McNary Smoot was read, and. with the .accompanying papers, referred to the Bruce GlaRs l\layfield ~pencer Ilursum Gooding Moses Stanfield Committee on Territories and Insular l">ossessions : Cameron GL·eene Neely Stanley Capper Hale Norbeck Rtepbens To the C011gress of the United States: Caraw-ay Harreld Norris Sterling A.s required by section 12 of the act of Congress approved Copeland Harris Oddie Swanson Couzens Harrison Overman Und<'rwood l\1arch 2, lnl7, entitled "An act to provide a civil gov-ernment Cummins IIetlin Owen Wadsworth for Porto Rico, and for other plli·poses," I transmit herewith, Curtis Howell Pepper Walf'h, Mass. Dale Johnson, Calif. Phipps Walsh, Mont. - for the information of the Con~ress, the twenty-third annual Dial Johnson, l\linn. Pittman Warren report of the Governor of Porto Hico, together with the reports Di1l Jones, N. Mex. Ralston Watson of the heads of the several departments of the Porto Rican Eflge Jone , Wa h. Ransdell Weller Edwards Kendrick Reed, Mo. Wheeler government, also that of the auditor, for the fiscal year ended Elkins Keyes Reed, Pa. Willis June 30, Hl23. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Ninety-two Senators have I concur in tlle recommendation of th~ Secretary of War that this 1·eport be printed as a congressional document. answered to their names. There is a quorum present. . 0ALVIN CooLIDGE. MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. THE WHITE Hor;sE, December 17, J!J-23. A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. [NoTE.-Ileport accompanied similar message to the House of Chaffee, one of its clerks, ~nnounced that the House. ~ad Representatives.] adopted a concurrent .resolution (H. Con. Bes. 7) prov1dmg 1 PORTO RICAN FBA.NCIDSES. that when the two Houses adjourn on Thursday, December 20, 1923, they stand adjourned until 12 o'clock m. Thursday, Janu The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the ary 3, 1924, in which it requested the concurrence of the Senate. following message from the President of the United States. [On motion of 1\lr. LODGE, the concurrent resolution was re which was read, :u1d, with the accompanying papers, refened ferred to the Committee on Appropriations.] to the Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions: E:S-ROLLED JOINT RESOLUTION SIGNED. To tlle Congregs of the United States: Tile message also announced that the Speaker of the House As required by sectio.p 38 of the act approved March 2, 1917 had signed the enrolled joint resolution ( H. J. Res. 70) au (39 Stat 951), entitled "An act to provide a civil government thorizing payment of the sala.ries of th0-'officers and employees for Porto Rico, and for other purpo es," I tTansmit herewith of Congress for -December, 1923, on the 20th day of that month, certified copie.' of each of 24 franchises granted by the public and it was subsequently signed by the President pro tempore. serYice aommiss;ion -0f Porto Ric-0. The copies of the franchises inclosed are described in the accompanying letter from the PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. Secremry of War, transmitting them to me. Tlle PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate reso CALVIN COOLIDGE. lutions adopted by the City Conncil of the. City of Chicago, THE WHITE HOUSE, December 11, 1923. Ill., favoring amendment of the so-called Volstead Act so as to permit the sale of light wines and beers, as well as the __manu SALARlES TN TRE UNITED STATES VETERANS' BURE_\U. facture and transportation thereof, and also protesting against The PUESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a com Federal encroachments on the rights of the States, which were . munication from the Director of the United States Veterans' referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Bureau, transmitting, pursuant to law, a statement showing by Mr. McLEAN presented a resolution of the New Haven location, salary range, and bureau designation employees re (Conn.) Chamber of Commerce, favoring the so-called Mellon ceiving an agg-regate annual salary of $2.000 and over as of tax-reduction plan, which was -referred to the Committee on December 1, 1923, for the central office, and as of November Finance. 1, 1923, for the field service, which was referred to the Com He also presented petitions of the directors of tbe Norwich mittee on Appropriations. Chamber of Commerce, of Norwich, and of James \Vyper, vice FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. president of the Hartford F.ire Insurance Co., of Hartford, both in the State of Connecticut, praying· for the adoption of The PRESIDENT ·pro tempore laid before the Senate a the so-called Mellon tax-reduction plan, which were referred communication from the Director of the Fede-ral Board for to the Committee on Finance. Vocational Education, transmitting, pursuant to law, a special He also presented resolutions of Alden Skinner Camp, No. report relative to a pruposed amendment to the original act 45, Sons of Veterans, of Rockrville; of Admiral Foote Camp. No. constituting tlle Federal Board for Vocational Education, pro 17, Sons of Veterans, of New Haven; of Geo. Van Horn posing to continue the work of promotion of vocational rehabili Camp, No. 39, Sons of Veterans, of l\lilford ; of Griffin A. Sted tation of the civilian disabled, etc., which was referred to the man Camp, No. 6, Sons of Veterans, of Hartford; of Nathan Committee on Education and Labor. Hale Camp, No. :L, Sons of Veterans, of New Haven; of Loren COLLEGES OF AGRICULTURE AND THE :MECHANIC ARTS. D. Penfield Camp, No. 16, Sons of Veterans, of New B1itain; The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a report of Chas. L. Upham Camp, No. 7, Sons of Veterans, of Meriden; of the Secretary of the Interior, submitted pursuant to law, and of the H. A. Grant Camp, No. 24, Sons of Vetei:ans, of relative to disbursements for the fiscal year enc.ling June 30, -Thompsonville, all in the State of Connecticut, favoring the 1024. made in the States and Territories under tbe provisions enactment of legislation providing pensions of $72 per month of law and of an act of Congress approved March 4, 1D07, en for Civil War veterans and of $50 per month for their widows, titled "An act making appropriations for the Department of which were referred to the Committee on Pensions. Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1908,'' providing He also presented a resolution of the League of Women for fill increase in the annual appropriation for the colleges of Voters, of Stamford, Conn., favoring an amendment to the Con agriculture and the mechanic arts made by the act of August stitution prohibiting child labor, which was referred to the 80, 1890. which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture Committee .on the Judiciary. and Forestry. He also presented a petition of the Hartford Real Ef>tate SEN.\TOR FROU TEXAS. Board, praying for the enactment of legislation to tax the income from future issues of the classes of bonds that are now The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the tax free, and also favoring the so-called l\Iellon tax-reduction Senate certain papers relating to the election of the · junior plan, which was referred to the Committee on Finance. Senator from Texas [Mr. MaYFIELDl and refers them to tbe Mr. EDGE presented petitions, numerously signed, of sundry Committee on Privileges and Elections. citizens ·of the State of New Jersey, praying for the participa- 318 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 17, tion of the United States in the Permanent Court of Inter The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the national Justice, which wa referred to the Committee on For present consideration of the resolution? eigt1 Relations. l\ir. JONES of Washington. What is the resolution? .l\Ir. CAPPER presented memorials of the Woman's Christian l\Ir. ROBINSON. Reserving the right to object, let the reso· '.femperance Unions of Humboldt, Lawrence, Pittsburg, Nor-. lution be read. catur, Wichita, Olay City, Ness City, Anson, Norton, Franklin The resolution ( S. Res. 60), submitted by l\Ir. LENROOT on County, and Oakland, all in the State of Kansas, remonstrating the 12th instant, was read, as follows: against the adoption of a proposed amendment to the Constitu R esolved, That the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, or any tion granting equal rights to women, which were referred to subcommittee thereof, be, and hereby is, authorized during the Sixty. the Committee on the Judiciary. eighth Congress to send for persons, books, and pape;s, to administer Mr. LODGE presented petitions of sundry citizens of the State of Virginia, praying for the participation of the United oaths, and to employ a stenographer at a cost not exceeding 25 cents States in the Permanent Court of International Justice, which per 100 words to r eport such hearings as may be bad in connection were referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. with any subject which may be before said committee, the expenses He also pre ented a resolution of the directors of the Massa thereof to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate; and that chusetts State Chamber of Commerce, favoring the passage of the committee, or any subcommittee thereof, may sit during the legislation to make valid and enforceable written provisions or sessions or recesses of the Senate. agreements for arbitration of disputes arising out of contracts, Mr. JONES of Washington. What does the resolution pro maritime transactions, or commerce among the States or Terri vide with reference to the stenographic rate? · tories or with foreign nations, which was referred to the Com The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolution reads " not mittee on Foreign Relations. exceeding 25 cents per 100 words." l\lr. FLETCHER presented petitions of sundry citizens of the l\Ir. JONES of Washington. That is not the usual form of State of Florida, praying for the participation of the United such resolutions. I think the preceding resolution read " $1.25 States in the Permanent Court of International Justice, which per printed page." I know the usual form of such resolutions were referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. has heretofore been $1.25 per printed page, and we ought to 1\1r. ROBINSON presented a petition of sunday rural letter know why there is a change in the form. carriers of Crawford County, Ark., praying for the enactment 'l'he PRESIDENT pro tempore. There are four other resolu of legislation providing an equipment allowance of 6 cents tions in the same terms upon the same general subject. per mile per day for rural letter carriers, which was referred Mr. JONES of Washington. Let me ask how the preceding to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. resolution just agreed to read? He also presented a resolution adopted by the Hot Springs The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolution which has (Ark.) Chamber of Commerce favoring the enactment of legis just been agreed to reads "not exceeding 25 cents per 100 lation repealing the tax on telegraph me sages, which was re words." ferred to the Committee on Finance. . l\Ir. JONES of Washington. I understood that it read " $1.25 He also presented petitions of the Young Women's Christian per printed page." I understand now that we have provided As ociation of the University of Arkansas, of Fayetteville, in the law a change to 25 cents a hundred words. Therefore and of sundry citizens of Hot Springs, all in the State of I have no objection to the resolution. Arkansas. praying for the participation of the United States 1\Ir. KIN9. I · would like to inquire for information, from in the Permanent Court of International Justice, which were the chairman of the committee reporting the resolution or the t•eferred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. senior Senator from Utah [l\Ir. SMOOT], by what means they l\Ir. WILLIS presented petition·s of the board and staff and reached the conclusion that $1.25 per printed page was a rea sundry members of the Young Women's Christian Association, sonable compensation to be paid? I have been advised that of Columbus, Ohio, and also of members of sundry club'!! and that amount is rather excessive, that it allows too much to organizations in the State of Ohio, praying for the participa the stenographer and too much for printing. I have no opin tion of the United States in the Permanent Court of Interna ion in regard to the matter and I shall be glad to obtain in tional Justice, which were referred to the Committee on formation upon the subject. Foreign Relations. Mr. Sl\IOOT. l\1r. President, until about :five years ago the He also presented the memorial of Thomas H. Tracy, cl1air usual price paid for such work ~as $1.50 per printed page. I man, Alexander L. Smith, Frank E. Calkins, Meyer Geleerd, think about five years ago the price fixed was changed to and Erwin Efiller, members of a committee appointed at a $1.25 per printed page. But at the last session of Congress mass meeting of citizens held at Toledo, Ohio, protesting the price was changed to 25 cents per hundred words. I will against the enactment of legislation limiting the powers nf the say to the junior Senator from Utah that I think 25 cents per Supreme Court of the United States to pass upon the con hundred words is somewhat less than the old rate of $1.50 per stitutionality of acts of Congress and of the legislatures of the printed page. several States, which was referred to the Committee on the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the Judiciary. present consideration of the resolution? HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS. The resolution was considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to. . ~Ir. KEYES. From the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate I report back favorably HEA.BINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS. without amendment sundry Senate resolutions. They are the Mr. KEYES, from the Committee to Audit and Control the usual re olutions, in the usual form, and I ask unanimous Contingent Expenses of the Senate, to which was referred Sen consent for their immediate consideration. ate Resolution 7, submitted by l\:Ir. WADSWORTH on the 6th The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Secretary will read for instant, reported it without amendment, and it was considered information the first resolution sent to the desk. by unanimous consent and agreed to, as follows: The reading clerk read the resolution ( S. Res. 53), sub .mitted by l\fr. WARREN on the 11th instant, as foUows: Resolved, That the Committee on Military .Affairs or any subcom mittee thereof be, and hereby is, authorized during the Sixty-eighth Resolved, That the Committee on .Appropriations, or any subcom Congress to send for persons, books, and papers, to administer oaths, mittee thereof, is authorized during the Sixty-eighth Congress to send and to employ a stenographer at a cost not exceeding 25 cents per for persons, books, and papers, to administer oaths, and to employ a 100 words to report such hearings as may be had in connection with stenographer at a cost not exceeding 25 cents per 100 words to re any subject which may be before said committee, the expenses thereof port such bearings as may be had on any subject before said com to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate; and that the com mittee, the expense thereof to be paid out of the contingent fund of mittee, or any subcommittee thereof, may sit during the sessions or the Senate; and that the committee, or any subcommittee thereof, recesses of the Senate. may sit during any session or recess of the Senate. . HEABINGS BE.FORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the immediate consideration of the resolution? . Mr. KEYES, from the Committee to Audit and Control the The resolution was considered by unanimous consent and Contingent Expenses of the Senate, to which was referred agreed to. _ Senate Resolution No. 12, submitted by Mr. BALL on the 16th instant, reported it without amendment, and it was considered HE.A.RINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS AND SUBVEYS. by unanimous consent and agreed to, as _follows: The PRESIDEN'l' pro tempore. The next resolution sen~ to Resolved, That the Committee on the District of Columbia, or any the de k will be read. subcommittee thereof, be, and hereby is, authorized during the Sixty The READING Cr.ERK. Senate Resolution No. 60. · eighth Congress to send for persons, books, and papers, to administer 1923. OONGR.ESSION AL RECORD-SEN ATE. 319
oaths, and to employ a stcnographPr at a cost not exceeding 25 A bill ( S. 1317) to carry into effect the findings of the Colli't rent per 100 words to report such hearings as mar be had in of Claims in the ca e of George Lockley ; to. the Committee on connection with any subject which may be before said committee, the Claims. expenses thereof to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate; A bill ( S. 1318) granting an increase of pension to Daniel and that the LOmmittee, or any subcommittee thereof, may sit during Callahan ; to the Committee on Pensions. the essions or recesses of the Senate. By 1'Ir. FLETCHER: HE.AlU:-lGS BEFORE THE C01DIITTEE ON CLMMS. A bill ( S. 1319) to establish load lines far certain vessels ; to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. KEYES, from the Committee to Audit and Control the A bill ( S. 1320) to establish a national consef'vatory of Contingent Eixpen~es of the Senate, to which was referred music for the education of pupils in music in · all its branches• . Senate Resolutimi No. 28~ submitted' by l\Ir. CAPPER on the 10th >ocal and instrumental, and for other ~Ul'poses; to the Com in tant, reported it w·illiout amendment, and it was considered mittee on Education and Labor. by unanimous- consent and agreed to, as follows : By Mr. SW.ANSON: ResolvEd, That the Committee on Claims, or any subcommittee thereof, A bill ( S. 1321) for_ tlle relief of Willis-Smith-Crall Co.; to be, and hereby is, nuthorized durihg the Sixty-eighth Congress to send the Committee on Claims. for persons, books, and papers, to administer oaths, and to employ a A bill (S. 1322) to amend paragraph 11 of section 1001 of stenogTapher at a ·cost not exceeding 25 cents per 100 words to report an act entitled "An act to reduce and equalize taxation, to such hearings as may be bad in connection with any subject which may provide revenue, and fot' othe1 purposes," av.proved No,ernber be before said committee, the expenses thereof to be paid out of the 23, 1921; to the Committee on Financ.e. contingent fund of the Senate; and that the committee, or any sub- By 1\lr. HEFLIN: . committee thereof, may sit during the sessions or recesses of the Senat~ A bill ( S. 132.3) for the relief o.f Eugene K. Stoudemire; to. INVESTIGATION BY COlD.IITTEE ON FIN.. L~CE. the Committee on Glaims. By Mr. ASHURST: Mr. KEYES, from tbe Committee to Audit and Control th~ A bill ( S. 1324) granting a pension to Thomas McSherry Collting-ent Expenses of the Senate, to which was referred Senate (with accomnanying papers) ; and Resolution No. 48, submitted by 1\fr. SMoo·r on the 11th instant,_ A bill ( S. 132.5) granting an increase of pension to Joseph reported it without amendment, and it was considered by D. Canell; to the· Committee on Pensions. unanimous consent and agreed to, as follows-: By 1\lr. McKELL.A.R: Resolved, That the Committee on Finance, or any subcommittee A bill ( S. 1326) to amend apd supplement the merchant thereof, be, and he1eby is, authorized to sit during the sessions or re marine act, 1920, and for othe~~l}!1Joses . ; to the Gommittee on cesses of the bixty-cighth Congress at such times and places as they Commerce. may deem advisable; to make investigations into internal revenue, A bill ( S. 1327) increasillg the limit ot cost of a rmblic customs, currency, and coinage matters, and other matters within its building and site at Athens, McMinn· County, Tenn.; to the juri diction, and to compile and prepare statistics and documents re Committee on Public Buildings and, Grounds. lating thereto as directed from time to time by the Senate and as may A bill (S. 1328) authoriziiig the Secretary of Wm· to donate be nece'sary; and to report from time to time to the Senafo the result to tha town of Etowah, l\lclllinn County, Tenn., one·· German thereof; to send for persons, books, and papers, to administer oaths, cannon or fieldpiece · and and to employ such expert, stenographic, clerical. and other assistance A bill (S. 1329) authorizing the Secretary of War to donate as mi> y be necessary ; and all of the expenses of such committee ·shall to the town of Athens, l\IcMinn County, Tenn., one German be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate; and tne committee is cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affair~. autborfaed to order such printing and binding as may be necessary for By Mr. COPELAic'D : its use. A bill ( S. 1330) for the relief of the ~state of Ely N. Sonnen MANUFACTURE OF Sv"PPLIES .AT LE_\.VENWORTH PENITENTIARY. strahl, deceased; to the Committee on Claims. By l\fr. DILL: Mr. OVERi.o-AN. From tbe Committee on the Judiciary I A bill (S. 1331) to authorize tlie payment of certain. taxes to report back favorably with an amendment the bill ( S. 794) Ste\"ens and Feny Counties, in the State of Washington, and. to equip the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans., fo1· other purposes; to the Corp.mittee on Ihdian Affairs. for the manufacture of supplies for the use of the Government, By l\lr. NEELY: fOr the compensation of prisoners for their labor, and for other A bill ( S. 1332) granting a pension to Charles A<'lkins ; purpose . I give notice that at an early clay I 'vill call up the A bill (S. 1333) granting a pension to G. F. Robinson; bill for consideration. A bill (S. 1334) granting a pension to UiJlie Snedeker; and 'llhe PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will be placed on A bill ( S. 1335) granting an increase of pension to IDarl W. tlie ca lenclar. Newlon; to the Committee on Pensions. BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIOJ'\S INTRODUCED. By l\lr. KING: A bill ( S. 1336) for the relief of Nicholas P. Petterson ; to Bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the first the Committee on Claims. time, and, by unanimous consent, the second time, and referred By l\lr. STERLING: a.s follows: A bill (S. 1337) to create a department of education, to au By Mr. PITTMAN: thorize approp1iations for the conduct of said department, to A bill ( S. 1308) authOI'izing the Secretary of the Interior authorize tile appropriation of money to encourage the States to purchase a tract of land, with sufficient water right attached, in the promotion and support of education, and for other vur fur tbe use and occupancy of the Temoak Band of homeless poses; to the Committee on Education and Labor. lncliuns, located at Ruby Valley, :Kev.; By Mr. BALL : A bill ( S. 1309) for the relief of settlers and town-site occu A bill ( S. 1338) to provide for an investigation and report pants of certain lands in the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, upon the condition of the Chain Bridge across the Potomac Nev.; and Ili•er and the preparation of plans for a bridge to take the A bill ( S. 1310) to establish a Government Inclian school at place thereof should it be deemed neces ·ary; Elko, Nev.; to the Committee on Indian .Affairs. A bill (S. 1339) 1to authorize the widening of Georgia Avenue A bill ( S. 1311) to establish a fish-hatching and fish-cultural between· Fairmont St:Leet and Gresham Place NW.; station on the Humboldt River in the State of Nevada; to the, A bill ( S. 1340) to make the necessary survey and to prepare • Committee on Commerce. a· plan of a proposed parkway to connect the old Civil' War A bill ( S. 1312) to regulate the interstate use of automobiles forts in the District of Columbia; and all self-propelled vehicles which use the public highways in A bill ( S. 1341) to a uthol'ize the opening of a minor str-eet interstate comme1·ce; to the Committee on Interstate Com from Georgia A 'enue to Ninth Street NW. through squar~s merce. 2875 and 2877, and for other purpos:es; A bill (S. 1313) to provide for the acquisition of a site and A bill ( S. 1342) to amend an act approved February 28, 1899, the erection thereon of a1Federal building at Ely, Nev. ; entitled "An act relative to the payment of claims for material A bill (S. 1314) to increase limit of cost heretofore fixed by and labor furnished for District of Columbia buildings "; and Congress for purchase· of: site and erection ot building for use .A., bill ( S. 1343) to anthorh~e tile widening·ofi Fourth Street of post office at Fallon, Nev. ; and south of Cedar Street NW., in the District of Columbia, and' A bill ( S. 1315) to autllo1·ize the acquisition of a site and for other purposes; to the Committee on tbe Di.strict of Co the erection of a Federal building at Tonopah, Nev.; to the lumbia. Committee on Public Buildings and Gronn<'ls. By Mr. WILLIS : A bill (S. 1316) for the relief of Annie H. Martin; and. A bill ( S. 1344) granting a pension to Jolm King; and 320 CONGRESSION rtL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 17,
A bill (S. 1345) granting an increa ·e of pension to Herbert 0. By l\1r. ELKINS : Kohr (with accompanying paper ) ; to the Committee on Pen A bill ( S. 1373) making eligible for retirement under certain sions. conditions officers of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Ily l\Ir. CAPPER: Corps, other than officers of the regular forces, who incurred. A bill ( S. 1346) for the relief of Frank H. Little; to the Com physical disability in line of duty while in the service of the mittee on Claims. United States duri.J1g war; to the Committee on Military By l\Ir. l\lcLEAN: Affairs. A bill (S. 1347) declaring the Quartermaster's. Volunteers to A bill (S. 1374) to autl10rize the Norfolk & Western Railway be held and considered a part of the United States Army in the Co. to construct a bridge across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy Civil War, and to be classified as Quartermaster's Volunteers, Ri\er at or near a point about a mile and a half west of Wil· United States Volunteers; and Hamson, 1\lingo County, W. Va., and near the mouth of Turkey A bill (S. 1348) declaring David Hayes to have been a mem Creek, Pike County, Ky. ; to the ( ommittee on Commerce. ber of the Quartermaster's Volunteers, United Stat.es Volun By Mr. WAD SW ORTH: teers, and directing the Secretary of War to issue a certificate A bill (S. 1375) to authorize the General of the Armies to of discharge from . ·ame to his heir; to the Committee on Mili remain on the active list; and tary Affairs. A bill ( S. 1376) to provide for the equitable distribution of By Mr. PEPPER: captured war devices and trophies to the States and Terri A bill (S. 1349) for the relief of Paymaster Charles R. tories of the United States and to the District of Columbia; O'Leary, United States Navy; and to the Committee on Military Affairs. A bill ( S. 1350) for the relief of officers of the regular Navy A bi11 ( S. 1377) to remit the duty on a carillon of bells to who were retired since December 31, 1921, by reason of pb;\'Sical be imported for the Park Avenue Baptist Church, of New disability which originated in line of duty during time of war York City, N. Y.; to the Committee on Finance. while holding higher temporary rank; to the Committee on A bill ( S. 1378) for the relief of the Riverside Contracting Na val Affairs. Co.; to the Committee on Claims. · A bill ( S. 1351) for the relief of l\Iorris Dieh·ich ; By Mr. EDGE: A bill ( S. 1352) for the relief of Adam K. Baylor; and A bill ( S. 1379) authorizing the President to appoint Leo A bill ( S. 1353) for the relief of Annie McColgan ; to the P. Quinn to tbe position and rank of major in the United Committee on Claims. States Army and immediately retire him with the rank and A bill ( S. 1354) granting a pension to Ada Souder; pay held by him at the time of his discharge ; A bill (S. 1355) granting liHpension to John H. Smith, alias A bill ( S. 1380) for the advancement of certain retired offi Henry H. Smith; cers of the United States Army; A bill ( S. 1356) granting a pension to Elizabeth N. Potter; A bill ( S. 1.381) for the relief of Edward S. Farrow; and A bill ( S. 1357) granting a pension to Harriet Bache; A bill ( S. 1382) concerning the recognition of the military A bill (S. 1358) granting a pension to Mary Roland; status of pe1·sons who honorably served in the American Na· A bill (S. 1359) granting a pension to George D. Jones; tional Red Cross with the United States Army overseas and A bill ( S. 1.360) granting an increase of pension to Ella W. in the theater of war in the recent European war and faith· l\forrow; and fully performed Red Oros services in aid of the soldiers or A bill (S. 1361) granting a pension to Nellie Roche :Mc.An sailors of the United States; to the Committee on l\1ilitary drew; to the Committee on Pensions. Affairs. A bill ( S. 1362) to carry out the findings of the Court of A bill (S. 1383) granting a pension to An1elia M. Hetbering· Claims in the case of Georgia E. l\Iorrison, administratrix of ton; the estate of George Smith, deceased; to the Committee on A bill ( S. 1.384) granti.J1g a pension to Gertrude Helen Skill CJ aims. man Kerr ; and By l\Ir. WALSH of Massachusetts: A bill ( S. 1385) for the relief of John H. Lang ; to the Com A bill ( S. 1363) to provide free transportation in the mails mittee on Pensions. of bulletins of information to voters; to the Committee on Post A bill (S. 1386) 'for the relief of Nathan l\fatthews; to the Offices and Post Roads. Committee on Claims. By l\fr. SPENCER: A bill ( S. 1387) to provid.e for payment of the amount of a A bill ( S. 1364) for the relief of Dr. 0. H. Tittmann, former war-risk insurance policy to a beneficiary designated by Capt. Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Sur John W. Loveland, jr., deceased; to the Committee on Finance. vey; to the Committee on Commerce. A bill ( S. 1388) to improve the navigability of waters of the By Mr. KEYES : United States by preventing oil pollution thereof; to the Com A bill ( S. 1365) granting a pension to Roscoe C. Drew; and mittee on Commerce. A bill ( S. 1366) granting an increase of pension to Carl H. By Mr. OWEN: Ellis; to the Committee on Pensions. A bill ( S. 1389) conferring jmisdiction upon the Court of By l\fr. NORBECK: Claim · to hear, examine, consider, and. adjudicate claims A bill ( S. 1367) granting the consent of Congress to the which the Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole Indians may have State of South Dakota for the construction of a bridge across against the United States, and for other purposes; to the Com the :Missouri River between Brule County and Lyman County, mittee on I ndian Affairs. S. Dak. ; and A bill ( S. 1390) to amend the act approved December 23, A bilf (S. 1368) granting the consent of Congress to the State 1913, known as the the Federal reserve act, as amended bv tl1e of South Dakota for the construction of a bridge across the acts of A\1gust 4, 1914, August 15, 1914, l\larch 3, 1915, ~ Sep Missouri River between ·walworth County and Corson County, tember 7, 1916, and June 21, 1917; to the Committee on Bank S. Dak.; to the Committee on Commerce. ing and Currency. By Mr. BRANDEGEE: A bill ( S. 1391) ) conferring jurisd.iction _on the Court of A bill ( S. 1369) to amend an act entitle f 1923. CONGRESSION.A.L RECORD-SEN \TE. 321 A bill ( S. 1396) to amend the act of Congress approved June By Mr. ELKINS : 30, 1913; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. A bill ( S. 1430) granting a pension to Sarah Garrell; to the By Mr. FESS: Committee on Pensions. A bill ( S. 1397) gran ting a pension to Carrl-e l\.fcFoster ; By Mr. REED of Missouri : A bill (S. 1398) granting a pension to Ada 1\1. Young; A bill ( S. 1431) for the relief of J. B. Porter; A bill (S. 1399) granting an increase of pension to Cynthia A bill (S. 1432) .to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury L. Nelson; to pay the claim of Mary Clerkin ; A bill ( S. 1400) granting a pension to George Hurtt; A bill (S. 1433) to reimburse Martin Carroll for additional A bill ( S. 1401) granting a pension to John Scott; facework on walls of ofUcers' quarters over the price named in A bill ( S. 1402) granting a pension to Virginia 1\1. Gearhart; the contract for the United States noncommissioned officers' A bill ( S. 1403) granting a pension to Edmond L. Smith; quarters at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. ; A bill ( S. 1404) o-ranting a pension to Mary E. Hart; A bill ( S. 1484) for the relief of the heirs of Patrick Mc A bill ( S. 1405) granting a pension to Mary J. Kearns; Intyre, deceased ; and and A bill (S. 1435) for the relief of Faxon, Horton, & Gal A bill ( S. 1406) granting a pension to Amanda Wishard; lagher; Long Bros. Grocery Co. ; A. Rieger; Rothenberg & to the Committee on Pensions. Schloss; Ryley, Wilson & Co.; and Van Noy News Co.; to the A bill (S. 1407) for the relief of Ferdinand E. Davis; to Committee on Claims. the Committee on Military Affairs. A bill (S. 1436) to cheapen the cost of transportation of farm A. bill ( S. 1408) to amend an act entitled "An act to provide products, coal, ore, and other merchandise by creating a water for the promotion of vocational education, to provide for co route to carry the products of the central portions of the United operation with the States in the promotion of such education States to the Gulf of Mexico and to afford a more direct con in agriculture and the trades and industries, to provide for nection with the Panama Canal and ocean trade, by providing cooperation with the States in the preparation of teachers of for the improvement and completion for navigation purposes of vocational subjects and to appropriate money and regulate its the Ohio, Mississippi, and l\Iissouri Rivers ; to the Committee. expenditure," approved February 23, 1917; on Commerce. A. bill ( S. 1409) to provide for the promotion of physical A bill ( S. 1437) to erect a Federal building in the city o:f education in the United States through cooperation with the West Plains, Mo., on the site now owned by the United States States in the preparation and payment of supervisors and GMHnm~t; . teachers of physical education, including health Aupervisors A bill ( S. 1438) to erect a Federal builuing in the city of and school nurses, to appropriate money and regulate its ex Caruthersville, l\Io., on the site now owned by the United States penditure, and for other purposes; and Government; A bill (S. 1410) to create a national university at the seat A bill ( S. 1439) to purchase a site for the erection of a post of the Federal Government; to the Committee on Education office building in the city of Fredericktown, Mo.; and Labor. A bill ( S. 1440) to erect a. Federal building in the city of Lamar, Mo., on the site now owned by the United States Gov A bill ( S. 1411) to amend the vocational rehabilitation act ernment; to exempt from ta.xation amounts heretofore or hereafter re A bill (S. 1441) to reimburse Latimer & Benning for losses ceived thereunder as training pay and allowances; to the Com su tained in erecting a United States post office and courthouse mittee on Finance. at Las Cruces, N. Mex.; and By Mr. CURTIS : A bill ( S. 1442) to erect a Federal building in the city of A bill (S. 1412) granting a pt"nsion to Elizabeth Eck (with Farmington, 1\10., on the site now owned by the United States accompanying papers) ; Government; to the Committee on Public Buildings and A bill (S. 1413) granting a pension to John H. Kane (with Grounds. accompanying papers) ; A bill (S. 1443) to conect the military record of J. W. A bill ( S. 1414) granting a pension to Jane Crandall (with Metler; accompanying papers) ; A bill (S. 1444) for the relief of Capt. W. B. Finney; A bill (S. 1415) granting an increase of pension to John A bill ( S. 1445) for the relief of Ferdinand A. Roy ; Osborn (with accompanying papers) ; A bill ( S. 1446) for the relief of Northrop Banks; and A bill ( S. 1416) granting a pension to Ida L. Van Nattan A bill ( S. 1447) to authorize the President of the United (with accompanying papers) ; States to promote Charles Augustus Pfeffer to the grade of A bill (S. 1417) granting an increase of pension to George major in the i\Iedical Corps of the Army of the United States, Taylor Lee and Milton Lee (with accompanying papers) ; and for the relief of Paid Charles Augustus Pfeffer; to the A bill (S. 1418) granting an increase of pension to William Committee on Military Affairs. J. Eaton (with accompanying papers) ; A bill ( S. 1448) granting an increase of pension to William A. bill ( S. 1419) granting a pension to Nettie Belle Perkins G. Pellow; (with accompanying papers ) ; A bill (S. 1449) granting an increase of pension to Sallie E. A bill ( S. 1420) granting a pen ion to l\Iargaret E. Dotson Patrick; (with accompanying papers) ; A bill ( S. 1450) granting a pension to William F. l\furray; A bill (S. 1421) granting a pension to May Williams (with A bill (S. 1451) granting an increase of pension to George accompanying papers) ; Morrison; A bill ( S. 1422) granting an increase of pension to Lucy R A bill ( S. 1452) granting an increase of pension to Frank Allen (with accompanying papers) ; Morgan; A bill ( S. 1423) granting an increase of pension to l\Iinerva A bill ( S. 1453) granting a pension to Nannie Martin ; J. Elliott (with accompanying papers) ; A bill ( S. 1454) granting a pension to J. H. Martin; A bill ( S. 1424) granting an increase of pension to Andrew A bill ( S. 1455) granting a pension to John H. Isiley ; L. l\fcCammish (with accompanying papers) ; A bill ( S. 1456) granting an increase of pension to William A bill (S. 1425) granting an increase of pension to Rosann H. Hayes; Cooper (with accompanying papers) ; and A bill (S. 1457) grnnting an increase of pension to James A bill ( S. 1426) granting a pension to Lydia M. Myers (with Hanners; • accompanying papers) ; to the Committee on Pensions. A bill (S. 1458) granting a pension to Raleigh H. Hamilton; By 1\1r. UNDERWOOD: A bill ( S. 1459) granting a pension to James Grogan ; A bill (S. 1427) for the relief of Rosa L. Yarbrough; to the A bill (S. 1460) granting a pension to Z. H. Golden; Committee on l\Iilitary Affairs. A bill ( S. 1461) granting a pension to Lacy L. Garrison; By l\lr. McNARY: . A bill ( S. 1462) granting an increase of pension to Thomas A bill ( S. 1428) to encourage the development of the agricul B. Fogle; tural resources of the United States through Federal and State A bill (S. 1463) granting a pension to Edward F. Rostock; cooperation, giving preference in the matter of employment and A bill ( S. 1464) granting a pension to Catherine L. Nixon the establishment of i·ural homes to those who have served with Rogers; the military and naval forces of the United States; to the Com A bill ( S. 1465) granting a pension to B. F. Shields; mittee on Irrigation and Reclamation. A bill (S. 1466) granting a pension to Joseph F. Shoemaker; By Mr. LENROOT: A bill (S. 1467) granting a pension to Mary E. Stafford; A bill ( S. 1429) to establish Nicolet National Park in the A bill (S. 1468) granting a pension to Mrs. C. A. Thomas; State of Wisconsin ; to the Committee on Public Lands and A bill (S. 1469) granting an increase of pension to Eddie Surveys. Thomas; LXV--21 CONGRESSION .LtlL RECORD-SENATE. -DECEl\IBER 17, A bill (S. 1470) granting a pension to Fannie Wagner; the Senate and at such places as may be deemed advisable. Any sub A bill ( S. 1471) granting an increase of pension to Mary committee duly authorized thereto shall have the same powers as are lleilly; conferred upon said select committee by this resolution. A bill (S. 1472) granting a pension to W. T. Powell; "vi:OLATIONS OF ANTITRUST ACTS. A bill ( S. 1473) granting an increase of pension to Jonathan J. Ragner; Mr. KING. I submit a resolution calling upon the Attorney A bill ( S. 1474) granting an increase of pension to Leonidas General of the United States for certain information and ask Recob; its reference to the Committee on the Judiciary. A bill ( S. 1475) granting n pension to Amelia Perry; The resolution ( S. Res. 73) was read and referred to the A bill (S. 1476) granting a pension to Daniel Donohoe; Committee on the Judiciary, as follows: A bill (S. 1477) granting a pension to John F. Ellis; Whereas the Federal Trade Commission bas conducted investigations A bill ( S. 1478) granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth of alleged violations of the Sherman A.Dtitrust Act and the Clayton Commons ; Act against monopolies and unlawful restraints of trade and has A bill ( S. 1479) granting a pension to Emilie Deetz; transmitted to the Attorney General the record of more than GO such A bill (S. 1480) granting a pension to John T. Clark; investigations, indicating a violation of said acts, for the initiation A bill ( S. 1481) granting a pension to Rhoda Button; of such proceedings for the enforcement of the law as the Attorney A bill (S. 1482) granting a pension to Sarah V. Burke; General may be advised to make ; and A bill (S. 1483) granting an increase of pension to Ella R. Whereas the Attol"'.lley General has taken no action upon said records Brown; transmitted to hlm by the Federal Trade Commission for the purpose A bill ( S. 1484) granting a pension to Lucinda Boos; of securing indictments against the parties named therein and has A bill ( S. 1485) granting a pension to Daniel J. Begley; brought no proceedings tor the prevention of such violations by in A bill (S. 1486) granting a pension to Gallant Hays (with junction or otherwise : Now therefore be 1t accompanying papers) ; Resolved, That the Attorney General i-9 hereby directed to report to A bill ( S. 1487) granting a pension to Andrew J. Williams; the Senate the particulars and speclficatlons of all .cases transmitted A bill ( S. 1488) granting a pension to Daniel Wootan; to him by the Federal Trade Commlsslon, presumably indicating a vio A bill ( S. 1489) granting a pension to Harry Wright; and lation ot the Sherman Antitrust Act or of the Clayton Act, together A bill (S. 1490)· granting an increase of pension to Edward A. with a statement as to why prosecutions by indictment or injunction Ward; to the Committee on Pensions. have not been brought in each of said cases; and further report to the By Mr. KING: S-enate the number of cases pending, both criminal and civil, for the A bill ( S. 1401) to amend an act entitled 11An act to define, enforcement of said acts, or either of them, the time for which said regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other actions have been pending, and the reason, if any there be, why such purposes," approved October 6, 1917, as amended; to the Oom· cases are not being prosecuted; and to report further to the Senate the mittee ,on the Judiciary. intention of the Attorney General wlth respect thereto. By Mr. HEFLIN: INGHAM G. MAOK. A joint resolution ( S. J. Res. 44) to provide for a monument l\Ir. MOSES submitted the following resolution (S. Res. 74), to l\Iaj. Gen. William Crawford Gorgas, late Surgeon General of which was referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the the United States Army; to the Committee on the Library. Contingent E;xpenses of the Senate : · Ily 1\Ir. JONES of Washington: A joint resolution ( S. J. Res. 45) permitting an additional Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate be, and be use of certain funds by the Unitced States Shipping Board; to hereby is, authorized and directed to employ Ingham G. Mack as a the Committee on Commerce. messenger in the marble room of the Senate, to be paid at the rate By Mr. EDGE: of $1,000 per annum from the contingent fund of the Senate, until A joint resolution ( S. J. Res. 46) for the relief of Capt. otherwise provided by law. Ramon B. Harrison; to the Committee on Military Affairs. INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE. A joint resolution ( S. J. Res. 47) establishing a congressional committee to consider ways and means through legislation to Mr. WHEELER submitted the following resolution (S. Res. lighten the responsibilities of the President i to the Committee 75), which was referred to the Committee on Education and on the Judiciary. Labor: Whereas various court proceedings and published investigations have ADMINISTRATION OF ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIA.N'S OFFICE. tended to show that a large number of private detective agencies are Mr. KING. I submit a resolution providing for the appoint obtaining large sums of money trom business concerns and organiza ment of a select committee to investigate the activities of the tions by falsely representing movements among their employees by A.Hen Property Custodian's office, and ask that 1t may be manufacturing scares concerning radical propaganda a.nd alleged plans referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. for the use of violence in industrial conflict ; and The resolution ( S. Res. 72) was read, and referred to the Whereas these agencies and other interests connected with them are Committee on the Judiciary, as follows: detrimental to peaceful relationship between employers and employees, Resolved, That a select committee of five Senators be appointed by setting up a system of espionage in industry, thriving on the unrest the President of the Senate, whkh committee is hereby authorized and and fear they create, and spreading false rumors and scares to maintain directed to investigate the acts of the Allen Property Custodian and their alleged services : Therefore be it the administration of the Alien Property Custodian's office, and par · Resowed, That the Committee on Educs.tlon and Labor be, and ticularly to investigate the following matters and things: (a) The hereby is, empowered to conduct an inquiry into the extent of th.ls seizure and appraisal ot property, the care of the property seized, system of industrial espionage in all its ramifications, and to report to whether or not waste has been permitted in relation thereto, and the the Senate what legislation, in the committee's judgment, is desirable costs and fees allowed pa1d tor such care; (b) the sale and conversion to' correct such practices as they may fl.nd inimical to the public of property by the Alien Property Custodian, whether or not authorized welfare. by law; (c) whether such conversions have been by public sale or HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. th'rough private negotiation; (d) whether or not the moneys received by such conversions were adequate and re\>rese:nt the real value of the Mr. NORRIS submitted the following resolution ( S. Res. 76), property converted; (e) whet'her or not sales have been made to which was referred to the Oommittee to Audit and Control the agents, officials, attorneys, or other persons having fiduciary rela Contingent Expenses of the Senate : tions to such property; (f) the sale of patents, trade-marks, and trade Resolved, That the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, or any names to the so-.called Chemical Fcmndatlon, a corporation of Dela subcommittee there-0f, ls authorized during the Sixty-ejgbth Congress to ware, -0r to any other persons or corporations, a:nd the sale of proper send for persons, books, and papers, to administer oaths, and to employ ties of the Be>sch Magneto Co.; (g) and further to .investigate the rela a. stenographer at a cost not -exceeding 25 cents per 100 words to report tions of the Department of Justice to the business and affairs of the such hearings as may be bad on any subject before said committee, the Alien Property Custodian, whether there has been any infiuence or expense thereof to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate; pressure exerted by any Government official or officials, or other per and that the committee, or any subcommittee thereof, may sit during sons, to preve:nt criminal or civil proceedings in relation to any of such any session or recess of the Senate. transactions; and generally to investigate all matters touching the legality, good !faith, and necessity of all transactions and conversions ELMER E. BURROWS. affecting the property held in trust 'by the Allen Property Custodian. Mr. BRANDEGEE submitted the following reso1ution ( S. Res. The committee Js authorized to send. for persons a:nd papers, to ad 77) 1 which was referred to the Cemmittee to Audit and Control minister oaths, and to sit during the session or during any receSll of the Contingent Expenses of the Senate: 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 323 Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be, and he hereby ls, Mr. WALSH of Montana. I understand. I asked the Sena.. authorized and directed to pay from the contingent fund of the Senate tor for information, knowing that he bad followed the subject. to Elmer E. Burrows, son of Joseph A. Burrows, late a private of the Mr. HARRIS. The President thus far has declined to make Capitol police, Senate roll, a sum equal to six months' compensation any change in the duty. at the rate he was receiving by law at the time of bis death, said sum Mr. WALSH of Montana. White arsenic still bears a duty? to be considered as including funeral expenses and all other allowances. Mr. HARRIS. No ; it. does not, but calcium arsenate does. HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY. Mr. W AL~H of Montana. Of how much? Mr. HARRIS. Twenty-five per cent l\Ir. BRANDEGEE submitted the following resolution ( S. Mr. Sl\IOOT. I should like to have the resolution read. Res. 78), which was referred to the Committee to Audit and Mr. l\lcKELLAR. May the resolution be read for the infor Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate: mation of the Senate? Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary, or any subcommittee The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It may. The Secretary will thereof, be, and hereby is, authorized during the Sixty-eighth Congress read the resolution referred to by the Senat 324 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEMBER 17, arsenate was not put on the free Ust. White arsenic was in M:r. Sil\fl\IONS. 1\fr. President-- fact put on the free list, however, and there is no duty on white The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from Ar· arsenic or ar enious acid. kansas yield to the Senator from North Carolina? l\Ir. WALSH of Montana. So that the producers of calcium Mr. ROBINSON. I yield to the Senator from North Caro arsenate get their raw product free, but are accorded a duty lina. of ~5 per cent upon the chemical compounds? Mr. SIMMONS. I want to ask the Senator from South l\Ir. GEOUGE. Yes, sir. Carolina one question. Is it not true that at the time the 1\Ir. BARRIS. The Treasury Department ruled that they Senate had this matter under consideration all the friends of could place a duty on the chemical. the cotton industry who were anxious that the farmer might I hope tllere will be no objection to the passage of this res get this material for his fight on the boll weevil at a reduced olution. It is a Yery important matter. It is of interest to the price thought that the action of Congress, as a matter of fact. New England manufactureE as well as the South and of interest did put calcium arsenate upon the free list? to our entire country, as all are interested in cotton goods. Mr. SMITH. I do not think there is a doubt about it. l\lr. President, I repeat that the high price of cotton does not l\Ir. Sil\Il\fONS. So that in failing to secure the relief help a cotton producer if the boll weevil gets all of his cotton. which the farmers anticipated from this legislation their hope One-third of the farmers raising cotton in my State lost money and expectations have been defeated by the construction placed this year; thousands of them, because of the boll weevil and upon the act by the department, which I understand the Sen other conditions, have had to mortgage their farms to pay their ator from South Carolina to characterize as an erroneous con 1 s es on cotton crop failures this and recent years. They are struction. in a deplorable condition, and something must be done to help l\Ir. SMITH. I think, if the Senator will allow me, the the farmer . However, the high price of cotton does stimulate whole diffi.~ulty arose in thls way-- other counh·ies to produce cotton. Great Britain has for sev Mr. Sll\11\IONS. It was a pure matter of construction, was eral years been taxing every bale of cotton manufactured in it not, defeating the manifest and undoubted purpose of Con that country and used the money derived from that tax to gress? encourage her colonies to produce more cotton. Egypt, India, Mr. S"l\UTH. Yes. If the Senator from Arkansas will al China, South America, and other countries are using greater low me just a moment more, I will have little further to say efforts than ever to produce cotton and compete with our cotton about this, because the matter was so clear at the time we growers of the South. I have several times called the attention were discu sing it before. The compound known as calcium of the Senate to the great debt of gratitude our counh·y owes a,rsenate was almost a new thing in this connection, for the the outhern cotton farmer. Cotton bas brought more gold to reason that only a few years before it had been found to be a our country than any other product of the farm. The gold valuable in ectlcide, and by experimentation the department received for our cotton is responsible for a large part of our gold found that it was available for this purpose. We had an reserve. The southern cotton producer bas made less profit on abundance of lime. but there was a world scarcity of white his land and products than any other. Cotton is a national and arsenic, and the intent of Congress, as was clearly. manifest not a local question, and I hope Senators from every section in this body, was to provide not only the material but the com· will help us give relief t(} our cotton growers. pound, free of any encumbrance in the way of a duty, so that l\Ir. SMOOT. Mr. PresLdent, I want to call the attention of it might be u. ed as an insecticide. Then, to the astonishment the Senate to the fact that white ar enic is on the free list. of everyone, when the re ponsible officers came to execute the It was put there in the last tariff bill. There are other in law, under the omnibus clause providing for chemicals and gredients in the preparation used for fertilizer which are not their compounds, they put a duty on this article. on the free list, and those ru·e taxable; but white arsenic is on Mr. SIMMONS. Let me ask another question. The Senator the free list, and Senators will so find it in the existing law. from Utah is now the chairman of the Finance Committee, Therefore, Mr. President, no duty on white arsenic, which goes and I want to ask him if it was not his understanding that into the farmer's feJ.·tilizer, was imposed under, the last tariff we did put calcium arsenate upon the fl,·ee list? I am not ask bill. ing the Senator what his view is after examining the law but l\lr. ROBINSON obtained the floor. at the time we enacted it was it not his understanding that we l\lr. \VALSH of Montana. 1\Ir. President-- were putting calcium arsenate, the material which the cotton The PRESID~NT pro tempore. Does the Senator from farmer use in his combat with the boll weevil, upon the freQ Arkansas yield to the Seaator from Montana? list'! l\Ir. ROBINSON. I yield. l\Ir. s:vrooT. l\Iy understanding was that we put the follow l\Ir. WALSH of 1\Iontana. I do not quite understand the atti ing arsenics on the free list : Sulphide of arsenic, found in para tude of the Senator from Utah with respect to this matter. graph 1512; ar enious acid, or white arsenic. in paragraph I do not understand that arsenic enters into fertilizers. The 1513. That ·was the item which the Senator from South question is as to whether calcium arsenate carries a duty of Carolina moved to put upon the free list, the committee having 50 per cent, while white arsenic, the miner's product, is on the reported 2 cents a pound upon it. free list Can the Senator tell us what the fact is? Mr. ~H.fMONS. But if the Senator will pardon me, that Mr. SMITH. l\Ir. President, if the Senator from Arkansas is not what I am trying now to elicit. will permit me, reference has been made to an amendment I Mr. SMOOT. Will the Senator just wait untll I state all offered during the debate on the tar.i,ff bill. l\fy amendment the items in this connection? Calcium acetate is on the free will be found in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD of August 8, 1922, list. Calcium chlo~ide, crude, is on· the free list. Calcium page 11098. My amendment provided that we strike out from lime, or lime nitrogen, is on the free list, and, as I understand. the dutiable list ar enlous acid, or white arsenic, at 2 cents a it, those are the very al.'senic products which go into the making pounO., and that amendment "was agreed to. After the bill was of fertilizer. It was the intention of Congress. to put these eon<'ted into law those in charge of the enforcement of the law items which went into fertilizer on the free list. in the revenue department found a paragraph which provided lli. SIM.1\IONS. It was the intention of the Congress to for a duty on chemical compounds, and as calcium arsenate is allow the cotton farmers to get this poison free of duty. a compound of arsenlous acid, or white arsenic, with lime, they l\1r. SMOOT. If it were im_{)orted as a raw material there held it came under an omnibus clause ln the dutiable list, under is no doubt but that it would be free to-day, but if compounded chemical compounds. with some other products, of cour e, it would not be the one I myself went to the department and produced the evidence particular item named specifically in . the bill but it would be of the intent of the Senate to put this particular ingredient, a compound of chemicals, and more than likely that would c·tlcim:n arsenate, on the f~·ee list, an article which would be carry a rate of duty. an available form for the fight to be made on the boll weevil; Mr.· SIMMONS. It was the purpo e of my interruption to but tho. .'e gentlemen were strict constructionists and claimed ask the chairman of the Finance Committee, in view of the that tboucrh white arsenic would uot bear a arsenic, or any of the other arsenics, but to import the article If the Senator will turn to the first page of the Rules of th~ in compound form. Senate he will find that resolution, which has never been ro· ::'!Ir. ROBINSON. Mr. President, with the permission of pealed. Senators, I will consume just a moment of time. The only l\fr. W A.LSH of Montana.. I ask the Senator under what statement I desire to make is that while the evidence seems resolution do the present officers of the Senate discharge their to be overwhelming that this commodity ought to be on the duties? free list, the resolution offered by the Senator from Georgia l\Ir. LODGE. The resolution I have just read is the re olu in no wise involves that question. tion under which the President pro tempore was · elected in l\Ir. LODGE. Exactly. 1921. . l\Ir. SMOOT. No ; not at all. Mr. WALSH of Montana. I am speaking about the other l\Ir. ROBINSON. The resolution presented by the Senator officers of the Senate. from Georgia calls upon the Geological Survey to furnish in l\lr. LODGE. I understand it; they are simply holding by formation, which I think all Senators agree will be of value the comity usually exercised. They are always elected at tbP if supplied to the Senate and to the country. Let me suggest beginning of a Congress. They are not elected under wl1at is that in :rll probability the Senate will have an opportunity to known as the Evarts resolution. vote upon the proposal to put this product on the free list, l\Ir. WALSH of l\lontana. What ls the reason for not pro along with a number of other articles which ought to ha•e ceeding to elect a President pre tempore and all the officers been placed on the free list long ago, and that we might now of the Senate, if we go at it at all? very well proceed to dispose of the resolution of the Senator · l\Ir. LODGE. Because, as I have tried to show, the Presi from Georgia. dent pro tempore in our opinion is now President pro tempore 1\lr. SMOOT. I have no objection to the resolution of the under the speciar resolution under which he was elected. The Senator from Georgia. other officers of the Senate were not elected under that reso l\lr. LODGE. l\Ir. President, I was about to make the same lution. observations made by the Senator from Arkansas. This is a Mr. W A.LSH of l\1ontana. Does the Senator take the posi perfectly proper inquiry for information. It does not involve tion that the terms of the· other officers expire with the the question of the tariff yet. When it does we can deal with Congress? it. I hope the resolution will go right through. l\fr. LODGE. I think under the law tbey do. rl'he PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is upon agree l\lr. CURTIS. l\fr. President-- ing to the resolution offered by the Senator from Georgia. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator :from Arkan The resolution was agreed to. sas yield to the Senator from Kansas? l\Ir. ROBINSON. I yield. ELECTION OF OFFICERS OF THE SENATE. l\fr. CURTIS. I wish to dissent from the judgment of the 'The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The morning business is leader on this side of the aisle on that question. I think the closed, and the Senator from New Hampshire [l\Ir. l\IosEs] officers mentioned hold until their successors are elected. That will take the chair. was so ruled by Vice President Marshall. In recent years it ~Ir. LODGE. l\Ir. President, I desire, if possible, to dispase bas been the custom to reelect them at the beginning of each of ome pending business in the organization of the Senate to Con~TPSS. which, I think, there is no objection. I have spoken about it ~Ir. WALSH of Montana. I would like to say that I quite to the Senator from Arkansas [Mr. ROBINSON] and the Sena agree with the Senator from Kansas that they, like the Presi tor from Nebraska [Mr. NORRIS], and I think it would be well dent pro tempore, hold their offices at the pleasme of the to from Arkansas [::.\Ir. RoBINSON] asks unanimous consent that Mr. LODGE. On that I call for the yeas and nays. in the election of the officers named by the resolution there be The yeas and nays were ordered, and the reading clerk pro· full opportunity to propose the substitution of names proposed ceeded to call the roll. In any resolution offered by the Senator from Massachusetts. .Mr. KENDRICK (when his name was called). I make the Is there objection? The Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. same announcement as to the absence of my pair which I made The question is on agreeing to the resolution offered by the on a previous roll call, and I withhold my vote. Senator from Massachusetts. The roll call was concluded. Tile resolution wns agree.d to. Mr. CURTIS. I have been requested to announce that tho The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will proceed to the Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. COLT] is paired with the Sen· election of the officers named in the resolution and in the order ator :from Florida [~Ir. TRAMMELL]. and manner name ELECTIO~ OF SECRETARY Oll' THE SENATE. YEAS-41. Adams Fletcher Neely Smith :Mr. LODGE. I offer the resolution which I send to the Ashurst George Overman Stanley desik. Bayard Gerry Owen Stephens The PRESIDING OFFICER. The resolution will be read. Broussard Glass Pittman ~wanson Bruce Harris Ralston Underwood The reading clerk read the resolution ( S. Res. 80) as follows: Caraway Harrison Ransdell Walsh, Mass. R esolved, That George A. Sanderson, of Illinois, be, and he hereby is, Copeland Heflin Reed, Mo. Walsh, l\lont. Dial · Jones, N. l\Iex. Robinson Wheeler elected Secretary of the Senate. Dill King Sheppard Edwards l\IcKellar Shields The PRESIDL.~G OFFICER. The question is on agreeing Ferris Mayfield Simmons to the resolution offered by the Senator from Massachusetts. Mr. ROBINSON. I move to strike out the name proposed by NAYS-50. to nan Ernst Ladd Sbipstead the Senator from Massachusetts and insert the name of Borah Fernald Lenroot Shortridge Edwin A. Halsey, of Virginia. Upon that motion I demand the Brandegee Fess Lodge Smoot yeas and nays. Brookhart Frazier McKinley 8pencer The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question ls on agreeing to Burum Gooding McLean Stanfield Cameron Greene McNary Sterling the amendment proposed by the Senator from .Arkansas, on Capper Hale Moses Wadsworth wllich he demands the yeas and nays. Couzens Ilarreld Norbeck Warren Cummins Howell Norris Watson The yeas and nays were ordered, and the rea Ransdell 8hields StPpbens Walsh, Mont. Theresa E. Thoreson to be postmaster at East Grand Forks, Reed, Mo. Simmons Swanson Wheeler Robinson Smith Underwood Minn., in place of T. E. Thoreson. Incumbent's commission Sheppard Stanley Walsh, Mass. expired July 28, 1923. NOT VOTING-8. Cora Thorson to be postmaster . at Echo, l\Iinn., in place of Borah Kendrick McCormick Trammell B. H. J. Martinson, ~esigned. Colt Keyes McLean Weller 1\"'RBRASKA. NOMINATIONS. Dollie W. Hyndshaw to be postmaster at Thedford, Nebr., in place of D. " '· Hyndshaw. Incumbent's commission expired E :rerutit•c nominations received by the Senate December 1"1, August 5, 1923. 1923. Carl H. Olderog to be postmaster at Springfield, Nebr., in A'rro&NEY GENERAL FOR PoRTO Rico. place of C. H. Olderog. Incumbent's commission expired Octo- ber 3, 1922. · Herbel't P. CoRts, of New York, to be attorney general of Otto A. Steinkraus to be postmaster at Dodge, Nebr., in place Porto Rico. of 0. A. Steinkrau . Incumbent's commission expired Novem- CIRCUIT JUDGES. ber 19, 1923. . James J. Banks, of Hawaii, to be third judge, circuit court, BYa R. Gilbert to be postmaster at Broadwater, Nebr., in fir t circuit, Territory of Hawaii. (A reappointment, his term place of E. R. Gilbert. Incumbent's commission expired August haviug expired.) 5, 1923. ·wmiam C. Achi, jr., of Hawaii, to be circuit judge, fifth NEW HAMPSHIRE. circuit, 'rerritory of Hawaii. (A reappointment, his term hav ing expired.) Harvey E. Gates to be po ·tmaster at Troy, N. H., in place of J. N. Grimes. Incumbent's commii;;sion expired August 1, 1923. POSTMA. STERS. NEW YORK. ARKANSAS. Carrick W. White to be postmaster at Walnut Ridge, Ark., William M. H eaney to be postmaster at Cold Spring Harbor, iu place of J. W. Pinnell, removed. N. Y., in place of W. l\f. Heaney. Incuml;lent's commission ex pired August 5, 1923. William .T. Vkk to be po tmaster at Prescott, Ark., in place of .Jnck Gray:-:on, deceat:ed. Marion E. Wroten to be postmaster at Trudeau, N. Y., in place of 1\1. E. Wroten. Incumbent's commission expired No CA.Lil' OB~IA. vember 21, 1922. Cllarles ,V. Cullins tu be postmaster at El Centro, Calif., in Edward Everett to be postmaster at Millerton, N. Y., in place place of O. W. Collin.. Jncumbent's commi sion expired Octo of E. W. Simmons. Incumbent's commission expired August 5, her 24, 1922. 1923. IDAHO. Thomas J. CouTtney to be postmaster at Garden City, N. Y., Charles L. Edward · to be postmaster at ~IcCammon, Idaho, in place of T. J. Courtney. Incurnbent's commission expired in place of A. ~ . Lewis, resigned. November 19, 1923. NORTH DA KOT.A. ILLINOIS. Lewis H. Richarus to be postmaster at Scales l\Iound, Ill., in Nelson l\I. Chamberlain to be postmaster at Page, N. Dak., place of E. S. Bray. Incumbent's commi sion expired Decem in place of P. H. Long. Incumbent's commission expired July ber 6, 1922. 28, 1923. \Valter J. Ehrler to be po tmaster at Galena, Ill., in place of William R. Tucker to be postmaster at Agricultural College, 1\1. . Slattery. Incumbent's commi. sion expired August 29, N. Dak., in place of A. E. Ross, removed. 1923. OHIO. Thoma-· F. Wharrie to be po tmaster at Co::1l City, Ill., in Charles 0. Eastman to be postmaster at Wauseon, Ohio, in place of Thoma -. Berta, re ~· igned. place of Emil Weber. Incumbent's commission expired August INDIA.NA. 5, 1923. Nathan Ililey to be postmaster at 1.rl10rntown, Intl., in })lace Charles R Ames to be postmaster at Bryan, Ohio, in place of L. L. GraveR. Incumbent's commis ion_e xpired Ser1tember 5. of B. C. ,.Vi man. Incumbent's commission expired August 5, 1922. 1923. Claude Cline to be postmaster at Huntington, Ind., in place OREGON. of L. G. Trixler. Incumbent's commission expired July 28. 1923. George W. Trommlltz to be postmaster at Toledo, Oreg., in place of .T ••J. Gaither. Incumbent's commission expired August IOWA. 29, 1923. Sue G. Cros · to be po tmaster at Chelsea, Iowa, in place PE - NSYLVANIA. of Sue G. Cros . Incumbent's commi sion expired August 29, 1923. Flora A. Smith to be postmaster at Smithfield, Pa., in placP. KANSA.S. of F. B. Whoolery. Incumbent's commission expired August 20, 1!)23. Charles S. Nation to be po tmaster at Chanute, Kans., in Blair Rorabaugh to be postmaster at Clymer, Pa., in place of place of .J. \V. Lapham. Incumbent's commission expired .July Blair Rorabaugh. Incumbent's commission expired February 3, 28, 1923. 1923. KENTUCKY. RHODE ISLAND. Edward F. Coffman to be postmaster at Ru sellville, Ky., in place of E. F. Coffman. Incumbent' commi. sion expired Frank A. Rixford to be postma ter at Woonsocket, R. I., in August 20, 1923. place of T. F. Cavanaugh. Incumbent's commission expired John P. Lawton to be postmaster at entral City, Ky., in Augu t 5, 1923. place of M. F. 1\foore. Incumbent's commission expired August George \\". Warren to be postmaster at Bristol, R. I., in 20, 1923. place of D. G. Coggeshall. Incumbent's commission expired Don C. Van Hoose to be Ilostmaster at Paintsville, Ky., in September 13, 1922. place of W. A. Ward, resigned. VIRGINIA.. MARYLAND. George C. Brothers to be postmaster at Whaleyville, Va. William S. Schoolfield to be postmaster at Pocomoke City, Office became presidential October 1, 1923. Md., in place of E. W. Ross. Incumbent's commission expired Bernard W. McGinnis to be postmaster at Shipman,. Va. October 29, 1923. Office became presidential October 1, 1923. John N. Bennett to be postmaster at Chestertown, l\Id., in Bessie H. Moon to be po tmaster at Saxe, Va. Office became place of T. D. Bowers. Incumbent's commission expired Octo presidential July 1, 1923. ber 29, 1923. Hunter T. Ferguson to be postmaster at Prospect, Va. Office Luther Bennett to be postmaster at Goldsboro, :Mel., 1n place became presidential July 1, 1019. of H. C. Saunders, resigned. Edward G. Thornton to be postmaster at Milford, Va. Office became presidential April 1, 1923. MINNESOTA. Elroy Shelor to be postmaster . at Meadows of Dan, Va. Lewis B. Krook to be postmaster at New Ulm, Minn., in Office became presidential July 1, 1923. place of Frederick Pfaender. Incumbent's commission expired Susan Lewis to be postmaster at Hopkins, Va. Office be· J ul;y 28, 1923. came presidential October 1, 1923. 330 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DEOEMBER 17 '· Pauline H. Richardson to be postmaster at Dinwiddie, Va. WASHINGTON. Office became presidential January 1, 1921. Je s1e l\L Martin to be postmaster at Concord Depot, Va. Jacob H. Berge to be postmaster at Davenport, Wash., in Office became presidential October 1, 1923. place of J. H. Berge. Incumbent's commission expired August 29, 1923. Hunter N. Kern to be postmaster at Winchester, Va., in place of .J. W. Sibert. Incumbent's commission expired August lG, WISCONSIN. J923. Durant C. Gile to be postmaster at Edgerton, Wis., in place John B. Grayson to be postmaster at Warrenton, Va., in of C. A. Hoen, resigned. place of A. S. Hamilton. Incumbent's commission expired Au WYOMING. gust 15, 19~. 0. Golden Welch to be postmaster at Cowley, Wyo., in place Jo ·eph B. Jones to be postmaster at Smithfield, Va., in place of C. S. Vaterlaus, resigned. of E. 1\1. Morrison. Incumbent's commission expired July 21, 192L . CONFffiMATIONS. Eugene A. Hyde to be postmaster at Saltville, Va., in place of E. A. Hyde. Incumbent's commission expired August 15, 1923. Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate December 11, .John J. Carper to be postmaster at Pearisbmg, Va., in place 1923. of C. C. King. Incumbent's commission expired August 15, ASSIST.A.NT SECRETARY OF COMMERCE. 1923. J. Walter Drake to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Oswell H. Hopkins to be postmaster at Narrows, Va., in place of G. L. Bane. Incumbent's commission expired August SURVEYOR. OF CUSTOMS. 15, 1923. John H. Cunningham to be surveyor of customs at Baltimore, Julian T. Doles to be postmaster at Ivor, Va., in place of Md. J. L. Pulley. Incumbent's commission expired August 15, 1923. Cm.n.nssro~ER OF IMMIGRATION. William R. Rogers to be postmaster at Hilton Village, Va., in Henry H. Curran to be commissioner of immigration at the place of W.R. Rogers. Incumbent's commission expired August port of New York. 15, H>23. . COLLECTOR. OF CUSTOMS. Charles A. Hammer to be postmaster at Ha.rrjsonburg, Va., Haney P. Russell to be collector of customs, with bead tn place of F. L. Sublett. Incumbent's commission expired Au quarters at Bridgeport, Conn. gust 15, 1923. Thomas T. Wilson to be collector of customs, with head Gilmer T. Slusser to be postmaster at Fincastle, Va., in place quarters at Denver, Colo. of Clara Matheny. Incumbent's commission expired October 13, Charles L. Saunders to be collector of customs, with head 1923. quarters at Omaha, Nebr. Ludema Sayre to be postmaster at Fairfax, Va., in place of John C. Tulloch to be collector of customs, with headquarters 0. F. Cummins. Incumbent's commis ion expired October 13, at Ogdensburg, N. Y. 1923. Russell II. Dunn to be collector of customs, with headquarters Thomas J. Crickenberger to be postmaster at Emporia, Va., at Port Arthur, Tex. in place of F. A. Lewis. Incumbent's commission expired Au COAST Gu.A.Ro, gust 15, 19~3. To be commandant, 'With rank of rear admirai. James :JU. Nunn to be postmaster at East Radford, Va., in William Erlward Reynolds. plnce of D. T. Martin. Incumbent's commission expired August 29, 1023. To be captain. Hugh T. Arwood to be postmaster at Disputanta, Va., in place Frederick G. Dodge. of A. N. Cocks. Incumbent's comruis ion expired Augu. t 15, To ue constructor, 1.t;ith rank of commander. 19'>-3. - John Q. Walton. James A. Riddel to be postmaster at Bridgewater, Va., in To be commanders. place of W. A. Byerly. Incumbent's commi sion expired August Bernard H. Camden. 1!5 1923. Detlef F. A. de Otte. Ho coe C. 'rravis to be po tmaster at Bowling Green, Va., in Henry G. Fli:;her. place of C. "\V. Garrett. Incumbent's commission expired Au gust 15, 1923. To be lieutenant commanders. Noah l\larkey to be postmaster at Beaverdam, Va., in place Cllarles G. Roemer. Leo C. :Mueller. of Nfoa l\loss. Incumbent's commission expired September 13, Wilfred M. Derby. Thomas A. Shanley. 1922. To be district super·intendent, with rank of lieu.tenant John W. J\Iorgan to be po tmaster at Altavista, Va., in place commander. uf \Vnlter Fauntleroy. Incumbent's commission expired Oc· William E. Tunnell. toher 13, 1923. To be constructor, with rnnk of lie-utenant comrnander. Grace 1\1. Shafer to be postmaster at Yorktown, Va, in place Frederick A. Hunnewell. of l\I. P. C. Smith, removed. To be lieutenant couim anders (engineers). William 1\I. Chamberlain to be postmaster at Waverly, Va., in place of P. ~I. Kilmartin, re igned. 'l'heodore G. Lewton. Gilbert L. Stiles to be postmaster at Wachapreague, Va., in Lorenzo C. Farwell. place of J. R. Brittingham, resigned. John B. Turner. John L. Jeffries to be postmaster at Vienna, Va., in place of To be lieutenants (engineers). W. H. Maffett, resigned. Waif.red G. Bloom. Jo eph W. De Boe to be po.;tmaster at Rural Retreat, Va., 1n Roderick S. Patch. place of R L. Dudley, resigned. William J. Rossler. George B. Jones to be postmaster at Ridgeway, Va., in place of T. C. Coleman. resigned. To be ensigns (engi11eers). l\Irs. Mary E. Spratt to be postmaster at Richlands, Va., in Charles W. Harwood. Severt A. Olsen. place of Boyd Boggess, resigned. Frederick R. Baily. Robert C. Sarratt. Uo(l'er G. Dyson to be postma ter at North Emporia, Va., in John P. lllunay~ jr. place of K. T. Maclin, re igned. To be di trict superintendent, 1.Cith rank of Uetttena.nt. harles P. Smith, jr., to be postmaster at Martinsville, Va., James F. Phillips. in place of T. H. Self, resigned. To be lieitfenants. 1:1.,rank D. Paul to be postmaster at Leesburg, Va., in place of Andrew C. Mandeville. Irving W. Buckalew. G. C. Carter, resigned. Harold G. Bradbury. Rae B. Hall. l\lary P. Leftwich to be postmaster at Forest Depot, Va., in Noble G. Ricketts. place of L. E. Claiborne, removed. Clarence E. Canada to be po tmaster at Clover, Va., in place To be district superintendents, with rank of lieutenant (junio1- of E. C. Hurt, deceased. grade). William F. Walters to be postmaster at Christiansburg, Va., Martin W. Rasmussen. Frank B. Lincoln. in place of Sidney Sheltman, deceased. Ralph T. Crowley. John Kelly. Francis C. Fitzhugh to be postmaster at Cape Charles, Va., To be district superintendent, ioith t·ank of ensig11. in place of C. A. McKinney, deceased. James A. Price. 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 331 · To be ensigns. of Thy heart, and with the strength of Thy grace. Bear with Walter S. Fish. Harold G. Belford. us and in the discharge of our duties and amid all the con Donald C. McNeil. Seth E. Barron. flicts of life may we be masters of self-control and thus reach William S. Shannon. the wiser and the larger attainments. In the name of Jesus. Amen. DIREC'l'OR OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. George OtLs Smith to be Director of the Geological Survey. The Journal of the proceedings of Saturday! DeeembPI' lfi, 192H, was read and approved. DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS. Hays Haymaker to be Deputy Commissioner of Pensions. MA.JORI'.rY COMMITTEE .A8SIGN11EN'.rS. SUPERINTENDENT FOR THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES. Mr. LONGWORTH. Mr. Speaker, before offering the reso Shade Wallen to be Superintendent for the Five · Civilized lution for the election of the majority members of the standing Tribes in Oklahoma. committees of the Hou e, I desire to ask unanimous con ·ent that Rule X be amended in the following particulars: SURVEYOR GENERAL OF MONTA.NA.. Gilman Bullard to be surveyor general of l\Iontana. Subparag1·aph 2, to increase the Ways Rnd Means Comrtittee from 25 to 26 members. REGISTERS OF LAND OFFICE. Subpa ragra ph 21, to increase the Public Buildings and Grounds Walter L. Tooze, sr., to be register of the laud office at Committee from 20 to 21 member s. Portland, Oreg. Subpa ragraph 23, CommitteC' on Lal>or, to increase the mcmllf':·sbjp · Ham.mil A. Canaday to be register of the land office at from 14: to 15 members. Roseburg, Oreg. Subpa ragraph 35, Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, to Nelson D. McGinley to be register of the land office at increa e the membership from 15 to 17 member . Guthrie, Okla. George B. Russell to be register of the land office at Elko, These ehanges were agreed to unanimously by the two com Nev. mittees on committees. George C. Crom to be register of the 1and office at Gaine · The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the vil1e, Fla. gentleman from 01::\io? [After a pause.] The Chair bearFi ~fiss Clara M. Crisler to be register of the laml office at none, and the Rmendments are agreed to. Carson City, Nev. :\fr. LONGWORTH. ~fr. Speaker, I offer the following 1 eso Eli F. Taylor to be register of the land offic~ at ~al t J,ake lution for the asi-;ig111ul'nts of majority members to the standing City, Utah. committees of the House. Elam Huhert McDowell to be regiNter of the land office at The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolution. Miles City, Mont. The Clerk read the resolution as follows : Frank E. Vaughan to be regi ter of the land office at Van House Re olution 94. couver, Wash. RECEIVERS OF PUBLIC l\IONEYS. R esult·eu, That the following Members be, arnl they are hHeby, elected ehairmen ·and memb<' rs of the staurling c·ommittees of tbP George l\I. Love to be receiver of puhlic moneys at Vale, Oreg. II o ui:; ~', as follows, t o wit: Frank L. Reece to be receiver of public money" at Helen<.L ,icc.om1t8: C'la rence MacGregor ( chairman), N. Y. ; Charles L. "(Tuder· hill, Mas.·. ; Randolph Perkins, N. J. ; George M.. Wertz, Pa. ; Gra nt M. l\lont. Lannes L. Ferrall to be receiver of public moneys at Phoenix, Hudson , :\Ucb. : T. J. B. Robinson, Iowa; Edward E. Miller, Ill. Agri<'ulture: Gilbert N. Ilaugen (chairman), Iowa; Charles B. Ward, .Ariz. N. Y. ; Fred S. Purnell, Ind. ; Edward Voigt, Wis. 1 Melvin 0. Mc COAST A..."llD GEODETIC SURVEY. Laughlin, Nebr.: J. N. Tincher, Kans.; Thomas S. Williams, Ill.; Francis Lawrence Galleu to be hydrographic and geotletic Jame H. Rinclair. N. Dak.; Charles J . Thompson, Ohio; Frank Clague, eugineer, with relative rank of lieutenant in the Navy. Minn.; John I>. Clarke, N. Y.; John C. K etcham, Mich. Ronald Roberts Moore to be hydrographic and geodetic en .Alcoholio Liquor Traffic: John L. Cable (chairman), Ohio; Thomas D. gineer, with relative rank of lieutenant in the Na\y. Schall, Minn. : A_ddison T. Smith, Idaho ; Hiram K. Evans, Iowa ; Herman Odessey to be bydrogrn.phic and geodetic engineer, Gra nt M. Hurlsou, Mich.; 0. J. Kvale, ::Uinu.: Victor L. Ilerger, Wis. with relative rank of lieutenant in the Navy. Appropric.tions : Martin B. Madden (chairman). Ill. ; Charles R. To lie jimior hydrogravhic and geodetic engineer, ·with r ela.ti/t'e DaYis. :\!inn.; Daniel R. Anthony, jr., Kan::;.; William S. Vare, Pa. ; rank of lieutenant U1mior grade) in the Navy. Sydney Anderi':on. ~Iinn.; William R. Wood, Ind.; Louis C. Crumton, Max Leff. Edwartl Perry Morton. Mich. ; Edward IT. Wason, N. H . ; Walter W. Magee. N. Y.; Geoi·ge H. Albert J. Hoskinson. Donal Ilruksicker Pheley. 1.rinkham, :!\!ass.; Burton L. French, Idaho; Milton W. Shreve. Pa.; Daniel Edward Whelan, jr. George Harper Dell. L. J. Dickinson, Iowa; Frank Murphy, Ohio; John W. ~ummers, Wash.: Elliott Burgess Roberts. Lex B. Clore. Henry E. Barbour, Calif.; Ernest R. Ackerman, N. J.; Guy U. Hardy Wilbur Oscar Manchester. Charles :Mitchell Thomas. Colo.; Frank II. Funk, Ill.; John Taber, N. Y.; Maurice H . Thatcher, Ky. Ba11kilng and Ourrency: Louis T. McFadden (chairman), Pa.; Philip Hastings White to be aid, with relatiYe rank of en- Edwaru J. King, Ill. ; James G. Strong, Kans. ; Robert Luce, ~1a 8 S. ; sign in the Navy. Clarence MacGregor, N. Y. ; E. Hart F enn. Conn. ; Guy E. Campi.Jell, POSTMASTER. · Pa.;. Elmer 0. Leatherwood, Utah; Carroll L. Beedy, Me.; William NORTH CAROLIN.\, Williamson, S. Dak. ; Morton D . Ilull, Ill. ; Arthur B. Williams, Mich. James H. Ramsay, Salisbury. Oensu .~: Charles L. Faust (chairman), Mo. ; Louis W. Fairfield, Ind.; John W. L a ngley ,. Ky.; E. Hart F enn, Conn.; James H. MacLafferty, WITHDRAWAL. Calif.; Clarence J. McLeod, Mich.; Morton D. Hull, Ill. ; Thomas W. Phillips, jr., Pa.; Robert L. Bacon, N. Y.; T. J. B. Robinson, Iowa. Ea·ec1"tive nomi'twtion, ivithdrau;n from the Se·nate Decernbe·r Olai111is: George W . Edmonds (chairman), Pa.; Edward C. Littll', 1"1, 1923. Kans.; O s car E. Keller, Minn.; Charles L. Underhill, :Mass.; Joseph D. POSTMASTER. Beck, Wis.; George M. Wertz, Pa.; John D. Fredcrkks, Calif. ; Bir •l .T. Frank M. Green to be postmaster at Highlarnll", X. J. Vincent, Mich.; Willis G. Sears, Nebr. Coinage, Weights, and M easures: .Albert II. Vestal (chairman j, Ind.; Florian Lampert, Wis. ; R. Clint Cole, Ohio; Ra11dolph Perkins, N. J . ; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Cha rles L. Gifford, Mass.; Thoma W. Phillips, jr., P a .; George P. Brumm, Pa. ; John C. Schafer, Wis.; 0 . J. E:-0.-ale, Minn.; Dan ..l. MoNDAY, December 17, 19ES. Sutherland, Alaska. Dispositfon of Useless E0ecuU·ve Pa-v e·rs: Merrill Moores ( chnir The House met at 12 o'clock noon. ma.:n ) , Ind. The Chaplain, Rev. Jame Shera Montgomery, D. D., offered Dfatri-et of Columbia: Stuart F. R eed (chairman) W. Ya.; Fred the following prayer : erick N. Zihlman, Md.; Florian Lampert, Wis.; Oscar E. Keller, Minn.; Almighty God, we come to Thee in the name of One who Charles L. Underhill, Mass. ; Roy G. Fitzgerald, Ohio; Clarence J. unites all our hopes and seals our love. Oh, establish His McLeod, Mich. ; Ernest W. Gibson, Vt. ; Edward M. Beeri::, Pa. l Henry . throne and sovereignty among the children of men. Judge. us R. Rathbone, Ill.; Gale H. Stalker, N. Y. not in Thy displeasure, but remember our infirmities and im Education: Frederick W. Dallinger (chairman) , Mass.; Edward .T. perfections and let Thine eye look upon us in mercy. We come King, Ill.; Daniel A. Reed, N. Y.; John l\f. Robsion, Ky.; William F . to Thee with om· daily needs, om· daily cares, and our daily Holaday, Ill.; Frederick G. Fleetwood, Yt.; George A. Welsh, Pa. J burdens. Bless us with the greatness of Thy spirit, the pity Robert L. Bacon, N. Y. • 332 CONGRESSIONAL RECOR:p-HOUSE. DEOEMBER 17 '· Election of President, Vice President, and Representatlves fn Ocm wood, Utah; Robert G. Simmons, Nebr.~ Scott Leavitt, Mont.; Charles gr·ess: Ilays B. White (chairman), Kans.; Daniel A. Reed, N. Y.; E. Winter, Wyo. ; M. C, Garber, Okla. Charles ".L. Gifl'ord, Mass.;, Randolph Perkins, N. J.; John L. Cable, Judicia1·y: George S. Graham (chairman), Pa.; Leonidas C. Dyer, Ohfo; Clarence J. McLeod, Mich.; Thomas W. Phillips, Jr., Pa.; Mo. ; William D. Boles, Iowa; Charles A. Christopberson, S. Duk. ; :Morton D. Hull, Ill. Richard Yates, Ill.; Ira G. Hersey, Me.; Israel M. Foster, Ohio; Earl Elections No. 1: R. Clint Cole (chairman), Ohio; Frederick W. C. Michener, Mich. ; Andrew J. Hickey, Ind. ; Nathan D. Perlman, Dallinger, Mass.; Don B. Colton, Utah; Carroll L. Beedy, Me.; Iliram N. Y. ; Oscar J'. Larson, Minn. ; J. Banks Kurtz, Pa. K. Evans, Iowa; George A. Welsh, Pa. Labor: Frederick N. Zihlman (chairman), Md.; Joseph D. Beck, Wis.; Elections No. 2: John M. Nelson (chairman), Wis.; Robert Luce, Mae E. Nolan, Calif.; E. Hart Fenn, Conn. ; William F. Kopp, Iowu; :Mass.; Randolph Perkins, N. J.; Jobn L. Cable, Ohio; Bird J. Vincent, Joe J. Manlove, Mo.; George A. Welsh, Pa.; Victor L. Berger, Wis. Mich. ; Ilenry R. Rathbone, Ill. Library: Robert Luce (chairman), Mass. ; Ilobert L . Bacon, N. Y.; Elections No. 3: Richard N. Elliott (chairman), Ind.; Charles L. Morton D. Hull, Ill. Gifford, Mass.; William I. Swoope, Pa.; Willis G. Sears, Nebr.; Charles Brand, Ohio; John D. Fredericks, Calif. Mc1·cha11t Jllar-ine an cl Fisheries: William S. Greene (chairman), Mass.; George W. Edmonds, Pa.; Frank D. Scott, Mich.; Wallace H. E111·olled Bills: Benjamin L. Rosenbloom (chairman), W. Va.; Guy E. Campbell, Pa.; Frederick N. Zihlman, :Md.; Joe J. l\Ianlove, Mo-. White, jr.. Me. ; Frederick R. Lehlbach, N. J. ; Ilenjamin L. Rosen bloom, W. Ya.; Arthur M. Free, Calif.; Sidney C. Roach, Mo.; Charles Expenditures in the Department of Agric-ulture: Edward J. King (chairman), Ill.; Allen F. Moore, Ill.; Joseph D. Beck, Wi.; Charles Brand, Ohio ; Frank U. Reid, Ill. ; George hl. Wertz, Pa. ; Robe1· t L. Bacon, X Y.; Dan A. Sutherland, Alaska. L. Faust, Mo. Expenditures in the Department of Commerce: Iloy G. Fitzgerald Mileage: Carroll L. Beedy (chairman), Me.; Arthur 1\1'. Free, Calif.; William P. Holaday, Ill. (ch:iinnan), Ohio; Harold Knutson, Minn.~ Henry R. Rathbone-, Ill.; Hird J. Vmcent, i\lich. Milita1·y Affairs: Jnllus Kahn (chairman), Calif.; John C. McKenzie, E:rpenditw·es in the Interior D epartment: William W~lliamson (chair Ill.; John M. Morin, Pa.; Harry E. Hull, Iowa; W. Fra.nk James, man), S. Dak.; Don B. Colton, Utah; Milton C. G:u-ber, Okla.; George Mich.; Ilarry C. Ransley, Pa.; John Philip HiU, 1\Id.; Harry M. Wurz ::\I. W ertz, Pa. bach, Tex.; Louis A. Frothingham, Mass.; B. Carroll Reece, Tenn.~ E.rpen-ditures in the Department of Justice: Sidney C. Roach (chair John C. Speaks, Ohlo; J. J\Iayhew Wainwright, N. Y.; Dan A. Suth ma.n), Mo.~ Thomas W. Schall, Mum.; George A. Welsh, Pa.; Willis G, erlanu, Alaska. Hears, Nebr. Mi1•P . and Mining: J ohn M. Robsio:n (chafJ;ma.n.), Ky.; W1l1iam Wil .hJ.rpenditm·cs in the Depa1·tmet1t of Labor: Guy E, Campbell (chair liamson. S. Dak.; Don B. Colton, Utah; James II. l\IacLafferty, Calif.; man), Pa.; Hays B. White., Kans.; Carroll L. Beedy, Me.; William P. Charles E. Winter, Wyo.; W. H. Slll'oul, Kan.s.; Scott Leavitt, Mont.; Holaday, Ill. George F. Urumm, Pa..; Joe J. Manlove, Mo.; Dan A. SutherL'lnd, Empeuditures in the Navy Depart1nent: William F. Kopp (chairman), Alaska. Iowa ; Florian Lampert, Wis. ; George F. Brumm, Pa. Ka·rni Affairs: Thoma S. Butler (chairman), Pa.; Fred A. Britten, Hxpenditures in the Post Office Depai·tment: Mae El Nolan (chair TIL; Sydney E. Mud , ~d. ; George P. Darrow, Pa.; Ambrose E. B. man), Calif. ; Edward M. Beers, Pa. ; Edward E. Miller, Ill. Stephen$, Ohio ; Clark Ilurdick, Il. I. ; Francis F. Patterson, jr., N. J. ; Hxpenditures in the State Depa1·tment: J .. Will •raylor (cb'\irman), Phil D. Swin~, Calif.; A. Piatt Andrew~ Ma.. . ; John F. Miller, Wa ~ h.; T\>nn. ; !Ucha.rd N. Elliott, Ind. ; E. Ilart Fenn, Conn. ; Arthur M. Free, Il.Qy 0. Woodrutr, Mich.; James M. Magee, Pa. Calif. Pate-nts: Florian Lampert (chairman), WiR.; Albert H. Vestal, Ind.; b'xpenditures in the Treasury D epa1·tment: William N. Vaile (chair Ranclolph Perkins, N. J.; Clarence J. McLend, Mi<:.h, ~ Thomas W. Phil man), Colo.; James H. hlacLafferty, Calif~; Ed.gar R. Kiess Pa.; lips. jr., Pa.; Knud Wefald. ~!inn. Ernest W. Gibson, Vt. Pension·: Harold Knutson (chairman), Minn.; John M. Robsion, Ky.; J:Jo;penditures in the War Devartment: Royal C. Johnson (chairman), R. Clint Cole, Ohio; W. F. Kopp, Iowa; Elmer 0. Leatherwood, Utah> S. Dak.; Cla1·ence MacGregor, N. Y.; Charles L. Gifford, Mass.; John Gale H. Stalker, N. Y.; Frank R. ·Reid, Ill.; Joo J. Manlov<', Mo. C; 8chaff'r, Wis. Post Offi(·c atHJ. Post Roacls: William W. G.Iiest (chairman), Pa.; E Nelson, Wis. ; Theodore E. Burton, Ohio; Harris J. Bixler, Pa. ; provide that when there has been no debate on a matter on Allen F. Moore, IlL which the previous question is moved-- Territories: Charles F. Curry (chairman), Calif.; Albert Johnson, Mr. LONGWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I decline to yield further. Wash. ; Cassius C. Dowell, Iowa ; Louis T. McFadden, Pa. ; . James l\1r. MOORE of Virginia. There can be a debate of 40 G. Strong, Kans. ; Allen F. Moore, Ill. ; Richard N. Elliott, Ind. ; minutes. Edward M. Beers, Pa. ; Ernest W. Gibson, Vt. ; Edward E. Miller, The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks under the rule there can Ill. ; Dan A. Sutherland, Alaska. be no debate, the previous question having been demanded and War Claims: James G. Strong (chairman), Kans.; Stuart F. Reed, debate had. W. Va. ; Daniel A. Reed, N. Y. ; Sidney C. Roach, Mo. ; William I. The question was taken. Swoope, Pa. ; Hiram K. Evans, Iowa ; Charles E. ·Winter, Wyo, ; l\Ir. GARRETT of Tennessee. l\Ir. Speaker, I_ ask for the Arthur B. Williams, Mich. ; Robert G. Simmons, Nebr. yeas and nays. Wn11s and Means: William R. Green (chairman), Iowa; Wilas C. The yeas and nays were ordered. Hawley, Oreg.; Allen T. Treadway, Mass.; Goorge M. Young, N. Dak.; The SPEAKER. The Doorkeeper· will close the doors, the James A. Frear, Wis.; John Q. Tilson, Conn.; Isaac Bacharach, N. J.; Sergeant at Arms will bring in absent Members, and the Clerk Lindley H. Hadley, Wash.; Charles B. Timberlake, Colo.; Henry W. will call the roll. The question is on ordering the previous Watson, Pa.; Ogden L. Mills, N. Y.; James C. McLaughlin, Mich.; question. . Charles C. Kearns, Ohio; Carl R. Chindblom, Ill.; Frank Crowther, The question was taken, and there were-yeas 208, nays 178, N. Y. answered " present " 1, not voting 41, as follows: Woman Suffrage: Wallace H. White, jr. (chairman), Me.; George W. Edmonds, Pa.; John W. Langley, Ky.; Harris J. Bixler, Pa.; Mae E. YEAS-208. Nolan, Calif.; Knud Wefald, Minn.; Victor L. Berger, Wis. !f:itcr:;_an Foster McLaughlin, Mich Sinnott Frear .McLaughlin, Nebr. Smith During the reading of the resolution the following occurred: Anderson l!'redericks McLeod Snell Free MacOrPgor Snyder ~Ir. :l\1ADDEN. l\Ir. Chairman-, I ask unanimous consent that !~ri~:Y Freeman MacLafferty Speaks the- reading of this list be dispensed with. Everybody knows Bacharach French Madden Sproul, Ill. what is in it. ~;;g~ur Frothingham Magee, N. Y. Sproul, Kans. Fuller ~Iage e, Pa. Stalker l\Ir. CHINDBLOl\I. It is all printed. Beck Funk Manlove Stephens l\Ir. MADDEN. Yes; it is all printed. Beers Garber Mapes Strong, Kans. Gibson Merritt Strong, Pa. Gifford Michener Summers, Wash. as~:eu~;~!.~R~on~~~t g~~~l:~:: ~~~~~li~~i~h~M~~~D~J- :~{Ar Graham. Ill. Miller, Ill. Sweet pen,ed with. Is there objection? Brand, Ohio Green, Iowa Miller, Wash. Swing l\Ir. GARRETT of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, there is no prae- Eritten . Greene, l\Iass. Mills Swoope Griest Moore, Ill. Taber ticnl objection I can see to that, but that has been suggested a I:~~~· Wis. Hadley Moores. Ind. Taylor, Tenn. time or two before- · IBurtness Hat·dy Moore, Ohio Temple ~fr .. l\IADDEN. I will withdraw the request if there is any ~~f t~rn Haugen 1\Iorgan Thatcher 1 Hawley l\furphy Thompson obJection. - Cable Hersey Nelson, Me. Tilson ~Ir. GARRETT of Tennessee. That has been suggested a C~pbell Hickey Nelson, Wis. Timberlake time or two before in the appointment of committees, and I g~1:1dtblo~ rrrn. Md. Newton, Minn. Tincher Hoch Newton, Mo. Tinkham recall that our late friend, Mr. l\iann, objected. Cla~~eop erson Holaday Paige Treadway ~fr. MADDEN. I say, I will be glad to withdraw the request. Cla~ke, N. Y. Hudson Parker Gnderhill l\1r. GARRETT of Tennessee. I did not intend to object, to~f' Hull, Iowa Patterson Vaile Iowa Hull, Morton D. Perkins Vare except to make the suggestion that :Mr. l\1ann always insisted cgn~~lly, Pa. Hull, William. E. Perlman Vestal on it. Cooper, Ohio James Phillips Vincent, 1\11.ch. When t~e Committee on the District of Columbia was read, g~~eti~nWis. Johnson, S. Dak. Porter Voigt Johnson, Wash. Purnell Wainwright tlle followmg occurred: Crowther Kahn Ramseyer Ward, N.Y. Mr. LO TGWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I observe _there is a mis- Curry Keller Ransley Wason take .in the ranking of the members on this committee. I ask B:i1i~~_;er Rathbone Watres I:~aau Reece Watson unammous consent that 1\Ir. CLARENCE .J. McLEon's name ap- Davis, Minn. K etcham Reed, N. Y. Welsh pear immediately after No. 6. He is entitled to that by reason Demp. ey Kie Reed, W. Va. Wertz King Reid, Ill. White, Kans. of seniority. ~~~~~on Iowa Knutson Roach White, Me. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The Dowell ' Kopp Robinson, Iowa Williams, Ill. Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. Dyel' Kurtz Robsion. Ky. Williams, Mich. Lampert Rogers. Mass. Williamson 'Vhen the Committee on Election of President, Vice President, ~fo~~ds Langley Rosenbloom Winslow and Representatives in Congress was read, the following oc- Evans, Iowa Lar on, Minn. Sanders, Ind. Winter Leatherwood Sandei·s, N. Y. Wood curred: . . ~!i~~~~d Leavitt Schall Woodrutf Faust Mr. LONGWORTH. l\fr. Speaker, I ask, m the case of the 1 Leblbach Sco.tt Wurzbacb committee just read, that the name of l\1r. CLARENCE J. McLEon Fenn LinebeFger Sear,;, Nebr. Wyant come immediately after No. 5 instead of No. 8. ~~~h Id Little Seger Yates L!Jn.e;worth Simmons Young The SPEAKER Is there objection. [After a pause.] Tb.e F1~f::od McKenzie Sinclair iihlman Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. NAYS-178. ~Ir. LONGWORTH. l\-Ir. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent, in the case of the Committee on Rules, that the relative rank Abernethy Carew Greenwood Linthicum Allen Carter Griffin Lowrey of ::11r. NELSON of Wisconsin and Mr. ScoTT be changed. Mr. Allgood Casey Harrison Lozier ScoTT is entitled to that by seniority. Almon Clancy Hastings Lyon The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the .Arnold Clark. Fla. HawPs McClintie Aswell C10ary Hayden Mc Du.tile gentleman from Ohio? [After a p.ause.] The Chair bears none, Ayers Collier Hill, Ala. Mc Keown and it is so ordered. Bankhead Connally, Tex. Hill, Wash. Mc Nulty Mr. LONGWORTH. l\Ir. Speaker, the Ust just read by the Barkley Connery Hooker McReynolds Bell Cook Howard, Nebr. Mc Swain clerk of tbe majority members of the standing committees is Berger Crisp Howard, Ok.la. lUcSweeney precisely the same as that authorized by the Republican con Black, N. Y. Croll Huddleston Major, Ill. ference, with one exception, that relating to the Committee on Black. Tex. Crosser Hudspeth Major, Mo. Bland Cummings Hull, Tenn. Mansfield Rules, with which you are all familiar. Blanto.n. Davey Humphreys Martin I move the previous question. Bloom Davis, Tenn. Jeffers Milli;.ran l.\lr. GARRETT of Tennessee. Will the gentleman withhold Bowling Dickinson, Mo. J ohnson, Tex. Minahan Box Dominick J ob:nson, W. Va. Montague that for a moment? Boyce Doughton Jo;nes Moore. Ga. 1\lr. LO~GWORTH. I will yield for a question. Boylan Driver Jost Moore, Va. Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee. Is it the purpose of the gen Brand, Ga. Dupre Kent .Morehead Briggs Evans, Mont. Kerr O'Connell, N. Y. tleman, having himself debated the proposition, in now moving Browne, N. J. Favrot Kincheloe O'Connell, R. l. the previous question to cut off all further debate and all Browning Fisher Kindred O'Connor, La. opportunity of amendment? · Buchanan Fulbright Kunz O'Connor, N. Y. Buckley Fulmer Kvale O'Sullivan ~fr. LONGWORTH. That is my purpose; yes. Bulwinkle Garoner, Ind. Lanham Old.field 1\Ir. GARRETT of Tennessee. I hope that will not prevail. Busby Garner, Tex. Lankford Oliver, N. Y. Mr. MOORE of Virginia. May I ask the gentleman a ques- Byrnes, S. C. Garrett, Tenn. Lazaro Parks, Ark. · Byrns, Tenn. Gasque Lea, Call. Peery · tion? Under the rules if anyone wants debate it seerru; to me Canfield Gilbert Lee, Ga. Pou a debate of 40 minutes is permissible. The rules distinctly Ca.nu on Glatfelter Lilly Prall 334 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEMBER 1 7, Quayle Sa.bath Stevenson Watkins Eleotion of President, Vice President, and Representatives in Con Quin Sahnon Swank Weaver gt·ess: Lamar Jeffers, Ala. i .William El Cleary, N. Y.; James R. Buckley, Ra gon Sanders, Tex. Taylor, Colo. Wefald Ha iney Sandlin Taylor, W. Va. Williams, Tex. Ill. ; Ralph F. Lozier, Mo. ; Millard E. Tydings, Md. R a ker Schafer Thomas, K y. Wilson, Ind. Elections No. 1: C. B. Hudspeth, Tex.; J. Earl Major, Ill.; Henry L. R ankin Sears, Fla. Thomas, Okla. Wilson, La. Jost, Mo. R ayuurn Shallenberger Tillman Wilson, Mass. Ret> d, Ark. :;::herwood Tucker Elections No. ~: Frank Clark, Fla.; Gordon Browning, Tenn.; T. Richards Sites Tydings ;~~~o Webber Wilson, Miss. Roger s, N. H. Smithwick Underwood Woodrum Elections No. S: Guinn Williams, Tex.; John H. Kerr, N. C.; Heart ill Homjue S teagall Upshaw Wright House Stedman Vinson, Ga. Ragon, Ark. Rubey Stengle Ward, N. C. Enrolled Bills: Thomas L. Blanton, Tex.; Charles I. Stengle, N. Y.; ANSWERED "PRESENT "-1. 1\Iell G. Underwood, Ohio. Empenditu1·es in the State Department: Charles I. Stengle, N. Y.; Hammer Joseph W. Morris, Ky.; Ralph F. Lozier, Mo. NOT VOTING-41. Empenditures in the Treasur y Department: Henry St. George Tucker, Beedy Drewry Logan Oliver, Ala. Va.; James F. Fulbright, Mo.; Heartsill Ragon, Ark. Bmuick Eagan Luce Peavey Celler Ga rrett, Tex. McFadden Schneider Ea;pe1iditures in t1te War Depa1·tment: Arthur H. Greenwood, Ind.; Cole. Ohio Geran Mead Shreve Everett B. Howard, Okla. ; William P. Connery, jr., Mass. C' o11ins Golusborough Michaelson Sullivan Ea:penditures in the Nav y Department: Charles L. Abernethy, N. C. J Corning Gra b nm, Pa. Mooney Sumners, Tex. Cull!'n .Ta robstein Morin Tague William E. Cleary, N. Y.; W. C. Salmon, Tenn. Dea l K Nl rns Morris Weller Ea:pendittwes in the Post 01flce Depa1·t11ie11t: Guinn Williams, Tex.; Dickstein La Guardia Morrow Meyer Jacobstein, N. Y.; W. Y. Humphreys, Miss. Doyle Larsen , Ga. Nolan Drane Lindsay O'Brien Ea:penditut·es in the Interior Departrnent: Sol Bloom, N. Y.; S. D. McReynolds, Tenn. 1 Henry L. Jost, .Mo. So the previous question was ordered. Ea:pendit'Ures in the Department of Justice: Frank Oliver, N. Y.; Tlle following pairs were announced: Elton Watkins, Oreg.; Jeff Busby, Miss. Mr. Schneider (for) with Mr. Hammer (against). Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture: Robert L. Doughton, )Ir. Peavey (for) with Mr. Collin (against). :\Ir. LnGua rdia (for) with :\Ir. Logan (against). N. C. ; Samuel F. Glatfelter, Pa. ; R. Lee Moore, Ga. ~fr. S~rev e ( for) with 3Ir. Drewry (against). Ea;.penditures in the Department of Commerce: Frank Gardner, Ind. f )lrs. Nolan (for) witb 31r. Larsen of Georgia (against). Miles C. Allgood, A.la. ; J. B. Reed, Ark. Mr. Beedy (for) witb :\Ir. Cullen (aga inst) . E:rpenditu res in the Department of Labor: Thomas L. Blanton, Tex.; l\.Ir. G~abam of Pennsylvania (for) with Mr. Ta1p1e (against). Mr. Michaelson (for) with Mr. Eagan (aga inst1. Frank J. l\1cNulty, N. J. ; Allard H. Gasque, S. C. Mr. Burdick (for) with Jfr. O'Brien (against). E1r.penditures on Public Buildings: John H. Morehead, Nebr.; Samuel Mr. ~IcFadd e n (for) with )Ir. Goldsborough (against). Dickstein, N. Y.; John H. Kerr, N. C. )fr. Kea!ns (for) ~ith Mr. Sullivan (against). ~Ir. Monn (for) with )Ir. Rumners of T exas (against) . Flood Control: Riley J. Wilson, La.; William J. Driver, Ark.; Lamar 31r. Cole of Ohio (for) with 31r. Oliver of Alabama (against). Jeffers, Ala.; Carl Hayden, Ariz.; W. Y. Humphreys, Miss.; James F. :.llr. Luce (for) with ;\lr. Weller (against). Fulbright, Mo. l\lr. GARRETT of Texas. l\lr. Speaker, I wish to vote "no." Foreign Affairs: J. Charles Linthicum, Md.; Charles M. Stedman, The SPEAKER. Was the gentleman in the room listening N. C.; Tom Connally, Tex.; R . Walton Moore, Va.; Ross A. Collins when his name should have been called? Miss.; 1\Iartin L. Davey, Ohio; David J. O'Connell, N. Y.; Robert H'. 1Ur. GARRETT of Texas. I was not. Clancy, :Mich.; William N. Rogers, N. H. The SPEAKER. The gentleman does not qualify. Immigration and Naturalization: Adolph . J. Sabath, Ill.; John E. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. Raker, Calif.; Riley J. Wilson, La.; John C. Box, Tex.; Samuel Dick The resolution was agreed to. stein, N. Y.; S. D. McReynolds, Tenn.; Elton Watkins, Oreg. )lr. GARI\TER of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following Indian Affairs: Carl Hayden, Ariz. ; William J. Sears, Fla.; Zel:>ulon resolution. Weaver, N. C.; John M. Evans, Mont.; William W. Ha.stings, Okla. i The Clerk read as follows : Everett B. Howard, Okla.; Edgar Howard, Nebr.; Sam B. Hill, Wash.: House Resolution 95. John Morrow, N. Mex. Resolved, That the following-named gentlemen be, and they a.re Industrial Arts and Ea:positions: Fritz G. Lanham, Tex.; Cllfton A. hereby, elected members of the standing committees of tbe House and Woodrum, Va.; Thomas J. Lllly, W. Va.; James R. Buckley, Ill.; Sol the joint standing committees, as follows: Bloom, N. Y.; T. Webber Wilson, Miss.; Everett Kent, Pa. Accounts: Frank Park, Ga.; Ralph Gilbert, Ky. 1 Clarence Cannon, Ins1tlar Affairs: Christopher D. Sullivan, N. Y.; Hallett S. Ward, N. C.: Mo.; Emanuel Celler, N. Y. Guinn Willia.ms, Tex.; Jacob L. Milligan, Mo.; Frank Gardner, Ind.; Agriculture: James B. Aswell, La.; David H. Kincheloe, Ky.; Mar- W. C. Salmon, Tenn.; Heartsill Ragon, Ark.; T. Webber Wilson, l\Iiss.; vin Jones, Tex.; F. B. Swank, Okla.; Hampton P. Fulmer, s. C.; Everett Kent, Pa. Thomas L. Rabey, Mo.; George W. Johnson, W. Va.; Thomas A. Doyle, Interstate and Foreign Commerce: Alben W. Barkley, Ky.; Sam Ray. Ill.; John Mcsweeney, Ohio; William P. Jarrett, Hawaii. burn, Tex.; George Huddleston, Ala.; Clarence F . L ea, Calif.; IIarry Alcoholic Liquor Traffic: William D. Upshaw, Ga.; John c. Box, Tex.; B. Hawes, Mo.; Tillman B. Parks, Ark.; Robert Crosser, Ohio; A hton Charles Browne, N. J. C. Shallenberger, Nebr.; Parker Corning, N. Y. Approp1'iatio11s: Joseph W. Byrns, Tenn.; James P. Buchanan, Tex.; Itn;aUd Pensions: Thomas H. Cullen, N. Y.; Charles F. X. O'Brien, James A. Gallivan, Mass.; James F. Byrnes, S. C.; Gordon Lee, Ga.; N. J.; Stanley H. Kunz, Ill.; Samuel E. Cook, Ind; Samuel F. Glat Ben Johnson, Ky.; Charles D. Carter, Okla.; Edward T. Taylor, Colo.; felter, Pa.; Mell G. Underwood, Ohio; James F . Fulbright, Mo. William B. Oliver, Ala.; Anthony J. Griffin, N. Y.; Thomas w. Har- Irrigation of Arid Lands: Carl Hayden, Ariz.; C. B. Hudspeth, Tex.; rlson, Va.; John N. Sandlin, La.; John J. Eagan, N. J.; William A. John E. Raker, Calif.; William C. Lankford, Ga.; Charles L. Richards, Ayres, Kans. Nev.; J. B. Reed, Ark. ; Miles C. Allgood, Ala. Baqzking and Currency: Otis Wingo, 4-rk.; Henry B. Steagall, Ala.; Judiciary: Robert Y. ThomaEJ , jr., .Ky.; Hatton W. Sumners, T ex.; Charles H. Brand, Ga.; William F. Stevenson, S. C.; Eugene Black, Andrew J. Montague, Va.; James W. Wise, Ga.; John N. Tillman, Tex. ; T. Alan Goldsborough, Md. ; Charles A. Mooney, Ohio ; Anning s. Ark. ; Fred H. Dominick, S. C. ; Samuel C. Major, Mo. ; Royal H. Prall, N. Y.; Harry C. Canfteld, Ind. Weller, N. Y. ; Patrick B. O'Sullivan, Conn. The Census: John E. Rankin, Miss.; Arthur H. Greenwood, Ind.; Labor: William D. Upshaw, Ga.; J. Frank McNulty, N. J.; William John H. Morehead, Nebr.; George C. Peery, Va.; Ralph F. Lozier, Mo.; P. Connery, Jr., Mass.; J. Earl Major, Ill.; Meyer Jacobstein, N. Y. l ~ e yer Jacob tein, N. Y. ; Joseph W. Morris, Ky. Luther A. Johnson, Tex. Olaims: John C. Box, Tex.; Alfred L. Bulwinkle, N. C.; Loring M. Librm·y: Frank Park, Ga.; Ralph Gilbert, Ky. B1ack, jr., N. Y.; Charles Browne, N. J.; Elmer Thoma , Okla.; s. D. M erchant Marine and Fisheries: La.dislas Lazaro, La.; Ewin L. McReynolds, Tenn.; Emanuel Celler, N. Y. Davis, Tenn.; Schuyler Otis Bland, Va.; Clay Stone Briggs, Tex.; Ooi nage, Weights, and M easures: B. G. Lowrey, Miss.; Charles L. William W. Larsen, Ga.; Tom D. ~icKeown, Okla.; George W. Lindsay, Abernethy, N. C. ; George K. Favrot, La.; Samuel E. Cook, Ind.; R. Lee N. Y.; WllUam M. Croll, Pa.; J eremiah E. O'Connell, R. I. Moore, Ga.; Edgar Howard, Nebr.; J. Scott Wolff, Mo. Mileage: Stanley H. Kunz, Ill.; Charles I. Stengle, N. Y. District of Oolttmbia: Christopher D. Sullivan, N. Y. ; Thomas L. Military Affairs: Percy E. Quin, Miss.; Hubert F. Fisher, Tenn. I Blanton, Tex.; Ralph Gilbert, Ky.; William C. Hammer, :N. C.; Cha:rles William C. Wright, Ga.; Daniel E .• Garrett, Tex.; John J. McSwa.in, F. X. O'Brien, N. J.; Stanley H. Kunz, Ill.; Henry L. Jost, Mo.; S. C.; Isaac R. Sherwood, Ohio; John J. Boylan, N. Y.; Lister Hill, Allard H. Gasque, S. C.; Everett Kent, Pa. I Ala.; Elmer H. Ge1·an, N. J. Education: B. G. Lowrey, Miss.; Henry St. George Tucker, Va.; Mines and Minitig: George K. Favrot, La.; Arthur H. Greenwood, Robert L. Doughton, N. C.; William W. Hastings, Okla.; R. Lee Moore, Ind.; Herbert W. Cummings Pa.; Thomas J. Lilly, W. Va.; Charles L. Ga.; R. E . L. Allen, W. Va. ; Loring M. Black, jr., N. Y. Richards, Nev. ; Mell G. Underwood, Ohio. 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 335 Xa~ al Affairs: Carl Vinson, Ga.; James V. McClintlc, Okla.; Herbert l\Ir. RAINEY. 1 am not going to say anything unkind about J . Drane, Fla.; James O'Connor, La.; Patrick Henry Drewry, Va.; Rep11bllcans; I never do. We always know where to find the w. Turner Logan, S. C.; Morgan G. Sanders, Tex.; John F. Quayle, gentleman from Ohio. I admire his courage always. He is N. Y.; J. Alfred Taylor, W. Va. ,a stand-pat Republican, and he does not care who knows it. Patent8: Fritz G. Lanham, Tex.; William C. Hammer, N. C.; Samuel He nails his flag always to the mast. Everybody else may_ E . Cook, Ind.; Sol Bloom, N. Y.; R. El. L. Allen, W. Va.; J. B. Reed, desert the deck of the sinking ship, but not he. He will go Ark. down when the ship goes down with his flag flying. That is P ensi011,'J: William D. Upshaw, Ga.; William C. Hammer, N. C.; the kind of Republican I like to see. [Applause on the Repub John E. Rankin, l\fiss.; William E. Cleary, N. Y.; John H. Morehead, lican side.] That is a real Republican. [Applause on the Re- Nebr.; Milla rd E. Tydings, M.d.; Luther A. Johnson, Tex. :publican side.] P o.s t Office and Post Roads: Thomas M. Bell, Ga.; Arthur B. Rouse, I notice much applause on the Republican side but none Ky. ; James M. Mead, N. Y.; John H. Smit hwick, Fla.; William B. from the progressives. I congratulate the gentleman from Bowling, Ala.; J. M. Hooker, Va.; Milton .A. Romjue, Mo.; Frank C. Wisconsin [Mr. NELSON]. He is safely on the Rules Com- Sites, Pa.; William W. Arnold, Ill.; William P. Jarrett, Hawaii. mittee; he is buttressed there, surrounded by a guard of seven P ri n ting: William F. Stevenson, S. C. stalwart Republicans. He can not get anything out of there Public Buildings and G•rounds: F'Tank Clark, Fla.; Frank Park, Ga.; if he tries. [Laughter and applause.] He has consented to Fritz G. Lanham, Tex. ; George K. Favrot, La. ; Edward B. Almon, be imprisoned-has been a party to it-in a double locked cage, Ala.;· J. Scott Wolff, Mo.; Frank Oliver, N. Y.; John H. Kerr, N. C.; I surrounded by the Old Guard, and from his safe position be Jeff Busby, Miss. hind the bars he can ·continue to bark dismally at the passing Public Lands: John E. Raker, Calif.; William J. Driver, Ark.; world. [Laughter.] Lamar Jeffer , Ala.; Charles L. Abernethy, N. C.; John M. Evans, Not long ago he was possessed of a courage most sublime. I Mont.; Sam n. Hill, Wash.; Elmer Thomas, Okla.; Charles L. hold in my hand a proclamation issued by the gentleman from Rich~rds, Nev.; John Morrow, N. Mex.; William P. Ja~re_tt, Hawaii. I Wisconsin [Mr. NELSON] on the 4th day of December-a most Railway8 and Oanals: Thomas H. Cullen, N. Y.; William C. Lank- courageous document. When Charles Carroll signed the Decla for I think it should go back to the committee and stay there for The act of March 1, 1907 (34 Stat. 1012), further provides that ever. " either House may order the printing of a document not already pro The SPEAKER. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The vided for by existing law, but only when the same shall be accom Chair hears none. panied by an estimate from the Public Printer as to the probable cost l\1r. KIESS. Objection was made in the House on December thereof." The same act also provides that resolutions to print extra 10 by the gentleman from Te.xas [Mr. BLANTON] to the report copies of documents when presented in either House " shall be re~ ing of House bill 506 by the Committee on Printing. Under the ferred immediately to the Committee on Printing." leave granted to e·xtend my remarks I wish to print the follow It therefore follows that it the House does not have a Committee ing statement giving authority upon which the committee based on Printing, either under the law or the rules creating the Joint its action : Committee on Printing on the part of the House, this body can not order documents printed or extra copies provided for its own use As stated : in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD (vol. 64, pt, 6, p. until a Committee on Printing has been elected after the organization 5532) the Epeaker on March 3, 1923, appointed Mr. KrEss, Mr. JOHN of each new Congress. In other words, from the beginning of the SON of Washington, and Mr. STEVENSON as members of the " tem present session on December 3 until to-day this House would have porary" Committee on Printing, pursuant to the act approved March 3, been without authority to order printing done as provided by law. 1917 (39 Stat: 1121), which provides for a permanent organization for In my opinion it was to meet just such a situation as this that the the Joint Committee on Printing. At the same time the Speaker announced the appointment of a tem act of March 3, 1917, was passed with the concurrence of this House porary Committee on Accounts and members of the Joint Committee on providing for a Committee on Printing on the part of the two Houses of Congress until such time as either House might make a change in the Reorganization of the Administrative Branch of the Government and the Joint Committee on Employment of Prisoners in United States its membership on the committee, which, according to Hinds' Prece dents possesses either joint or separate authority. Penitentiaries as made " pursuant to law." The act of March 3, 1917, provides that the President of the Senate PERMISSION TO SIT. and the Speaker of the Ilouse shall, on the last day of Congress, ap point l\lembers of their respective Houses who. have been elected to the Mr. JOHNSON of Washington. Mr. Speaker, I desire to ask succeeding Congress to fill any vacancies which may then be about to unanimous consent that tbe Committee on Immigration and occur on the Joint Committee on Printing, and that such appointees Katuraliza~ion may have permission to sit during the recesses and the members of the committee who have been reelected shall con of the session. tinue until their successors are chosen. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? The act also provides that the joint committee shall, when Congress Mr. SABATH. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, ts not in session, exercise all the powers and duties devolving upon said what is the program? committee as provided by law, the same as when Congress is in session. Mr. JOHNSON of Washington. This is the customary reso Inasmuch as all members of the Joint Committee on Printing on lution that will run through this session of Congress. the part of the Ilouse in the Sixty-seventh Congress were reelected to Mr. SABATH. Does the chairman expect-- the Sixty-eighth Conaress, it was not necessary under the law for the Mr. JOHNSON of Washington. It permits the collection of Spenker to make appointments to the joint committee at the close of statistics which we will need and which can be collected dur the Congress, as there were no vacancies then about to occur. How ing the Christmas recess. ever, as a matter of fact, an<'! as the RECORD so indicates, the Speaker The SPEAKER. Is there objection? did appoint a temporary Committee on Printing, as I have already Mr. RA.KER. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, stated. may I ask the gentleman is it his intention to hold hearings Under the Rules of the House (sec. 720 of Rule XI) " all pro and dispose of legislation, so far as considering the bill is con posed legislation or orders touching printing shall be referred to the cerned, during the Christmas holidays? .Toint Committee on Printing on the part of the House." Mr. JOHNSON of Washington. It is a preliminary step Hinds' Precedents (vol. 4, sec. 4348) sfates that "the Com toward the gathering of statistics and other matter needed. mittee on Printing bas exercised an infrequent jurisuiction as to the Mr. RAKER. Good stuff. pay of employees at the Government Printing Office," and that such The SPEAKER. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The bills are refe1·red to the committee. Chair hears none. Pursuant to this rule the wage bill (H. R. 506), which I introduced EXTENSION OF REMARKS. on December 5, was referred to the Committee on Printing on that Mr. FITZGERALD. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent day. to have printed in the CONGRESSIONAL IlECORD a short letter The Committee on Printing, acting under authority of its appoint written to his mother by C. Hooven Griffis, who is confined in ment by the Speake1· and in accordance with the law and rules of the a German prison, written Armistice Day, and containing pa House, assumed that it had the right to consider this bill, which it triotic sentiments. did, and reported it back to the House on the following day, December The SPEAKER. 'l'he gentleman from Ohio asks unanimous 6, with a written report. This report was numbered 1 by the Clerk of consent to extend his remarks in the manner indicated. Is the House, and sent to the Government Printing Office for printing there objection? along with the bill, which was indorsed by the Clerk of the House as having on December 6 been "Committed to the Committee of the Whole Mr. GARNER of Texas. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right House on the state of the Union, ordered to be printed," and assigned to to object, will the gentleman answer a question? It occurs to the Union Calendar as No. 1. The CONGRESSIONAL RECORD of December me that the RECORD ought to reflect what goes on in the House, 6, page 103, so records the reporting of the bill (H. R. 506) by the and that these extended remarks ought to be placed in what is If Committee on Printing under clause 2 of Rule XIII. known as the appendix·, in the back of the RECORD. you pick The committee is furthermore of the opinion that being in actual up the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD and undertake to run the page$ existence at the time, it bad the right to report the bill in accordance to see what occurred in the House, if ome gentleman did with an interpretation of the rules and precedents of the House as not happen to be in attendance at the time, you have to turn laid down in Hinds' Precedents (vol. 4, sec. 4347, p. 846), wherein 20 or 30 pages in order to ascertain what has been done. I Mr. Hinds made this statement: have no objection in this case to its going in the RECORD " While in fact a joint committee, the House branch acts also as a but I do think it ought to be placed in the end of the RECORD standing committee of the House, receiving resolutions and bills which rather than in the ordinary daily proceedings of the House. are referred to it, and reporting them by its own authority without I, with the gentleman from Ohio or some gentleman in author the concurrent action of the Senate branch." ity on the Committee on Printing or some one else, would con If it shall be held that the .Joint Committee on Printing on the part sider ~his suggestion and, if it meets with their approval, of the House was not in existence or had no rights as a legislative carry it out. committee on December 6, then it will be impossible for a new House 1\Ir. FITZGERALD. I believe that we ought to uphold the to order printing done prior to the election of its regular standing dignity of this House. The Senate has been doing it in recent committees. In this connection I invite attention to the provision sessions, and I think the Members of the House should have the carried annually in the legi lative appropriation act, which is to be information. found in the act approved February 20, 1923 (Public, No. 431, Sixty Mr. KIESS. Mr. Speaker, I wish to say to the Members of seventh Congress, p. 16), which reads as follows: the House that tlle question raised by the gentleman from Texas " Printing and binding for· Congress, chargeable to the foregoing ap [l\fr. GAR~ER] was di ~cussed at a recent meeting of the Joint propriation, when n icommendecl to be done by the Oommittee mi Print Committee on Printing, which has control of the publication of ing of eithe1· House, shall be so recommended in a report containing the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. It is our purpose to pass a rule an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a state covering this matter, and we hope tbat the Members of the ment from the Public Printer of the estimated approximate cost of House will observe tbe rnle, and when they want to insert re· work previously oruered by Congress within the fiscal year." marks which are not their own, they will have those remarks LXV--22 338 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEMBER 17, placed in the appendix, so that the RECORD of the day's pro the Saturday Evening Post J have been hard at work with my sclssol's ceedings will carry only the actual proceedings of the day. and have cut out and pasted together the various colors until I have l\lr. GARNER of Texas. l\Ir. Speaker, will the gentleman achieved the desired result. At one end of tlle cell under the window yield there for a qui?stion? ls a gorgeous coat of arms of the United StatC' s. It took me a week Mr. KIESS. I will. to make it, and it is inlaid in paper like a mosaic. The background Ur. GAR~~R of Texas. Has not the committee the power to ls orange, good and bright; and the bald-headed eagle, with the shield direct this to be done at the Printing Office? a-nd an the .rest, are in the correct colors. It looks fine. Then over my Mr. KIE SS. ·We have and will do it by resolution of the table I have bung my American flag, and on the other wall i an committee. American shield. Altogether, I could not desire more; and, really, it Mr. GARNER of Texas. I would like to have it done by helps. force of arms, if necessary. I started off the day by singing the " Star-Span"'led Banner" as I Mr. WINGO. I notice that the body at the other end of the faced my flag at salute, regardless of the prison rule against singing. Capitol seems to be very prolific in flooding tlle RECORD with Then I followed with the " Battle Hymn of the Republic " ; and the magazine articles. How will you prevent that? The gentleman "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah" had a strange setting way over here; but it knows what I am 1·eferring to. The rules will not permit me rang true and stirred my heart quite as much as had I heard a chorus to refer to it directly. of a thousand voices singing it. After that I whistled the " Stars und Mr. KIESS. We can not control the other legislative body. Stripes Forever," but then I thought I had better write this letter. I Mr. WINGO. That is one trouble. If the REcoRD is to be shall go through my entire program, and will sing and pray all day, filled up with magazine articles by the body at the other end even th-0ugb I am quite alone. of the Capitol, what does it profit us to shut out a few little Naturally, my mind reverts back to the events of five years ago things here in the House? to-day, when in the midst of our turmoil and hating and sorrowing Mr. KIESS. The proposed rnle will prevent the insertion in we achieved peace. I can remember my own feeling in Le Mans that the dail_y proceedings of the RECORD of magazine or newspaper day easily, for it is "Dot so far trom Wurzburg as it is from Hanrllton, articles. This will apply to both Senate and Rou e proceedings. Ohio. Such articles will be printed in the appendix. But to shut off Then, later, I can not but think of the days of anniversary thnt fol entirely the printing of extraneous matter is another question. lowed each year at home, and I like to bring back the memories or l\fr. WINGO. I understand that that body at the other end some of our celebrations. of the Capitol takes the position that either body, by unanimous How time does change things. It was just a year ago at this very consent, can override that rule of the Printing Committee. day and hour, that Chaplain Cowley Carroll and myself went ou!: That was decided the other day, if the gentleman will examine to the cemetery, where we held our little service for our dead. Amid the RECORD. the quiet graves of Greenwood that day I had little thought, indeed, Mr. KIESS. I believe our plan will work out all right. that another such day would find me in a German prison. But even Mr. WINGO. I understand ; I am not 0bjecting. I hope the had I known, plea e God, I would not falter from a trust, a heritage, plan will be justified by its results. of brave fellow countrymen. Mr. J"OHNSON of Washington. One line in the rule will ADJOURN' OYER UNTIL THURSDAY. provide that the RECORD will first give the full proceedings of the Senate, and another line covering the full proceedings of foe Mr. LONGWORTH. Me. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent Bouse of Representatives, and after that delayed speeches will that when the House adjourns to-day it adjourn to meet on be printed in the appendix. The plan is to have that under Thursday next. stood in both branches, so that no one will ask that the rule The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Ohio asks unanimous be violated. If that is not done, it is the intention of the consent that when the House adjourns to-day it adjourn to committee to go before both brancbes and ask for a joint reso meet on Thursday. Is there objection? lution. I think that should be understood once for all, that Mr. GARRETT of ·Tennessee. Reserving the right to object, such things go to the appendix, and when that is fully under 1\Ir. Speaker, may I ask the gentleman from Ohio if be is stood the problem will be solved. going to adopt the remainder of the suggestions of the gentle Mr. SNELL. How far does the idea of the Committee on man from Illinois. [l\fr. RAINEY]? [Laughter.] · Printing go as to extraneous matter which is offered to be Mr. LONGWORTH. That portion of it which deals with ad printed in the RECORD? journment, not that which deals with final achievements. Mr. JOHNSON of Washington. The Members themselves [Applause.] will have to assist the committee. It i not pleasant to stand The SPEAKER. Is there objection? up and· object. The members of the committee will invite the There was no objection. good judgment of the Members, so that the articles inserted will not be so long as to induce objection. Matters that are HOLIDAY RECESS. part of speeches delivered will, of course, be carried in the Mr. LONGWORTH. Mr. Speaker. I offer the following reso speeches themselves, with proper indication of quotations. But lution, which I send to the Clerk's desk. the committee can not be put in the position of censor. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolution. The SPEAKER. The question is, Is there objection to the The Clerk read as 'follows: request of the gentleman from Ohio? There was no objection. House Concurrent Resolution 7. Following is the statement referred to: Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concwTing), That when the two Houses adjourn on Thursday, December 20, 192:1, !Printed in CONGRESSIONAL RECORD by unanimous consent of House of they stand adjourned until 12 o'clock meridian Thursday, January 3, Representatives at r equest o~ Congressman FrrzuER.ALD, of Ohio.] 1924. The thoughts of a man in prison, but confident that be is at peace ~ith the world and that he has done bis work as he has seen it, is Mr. LONGWORTH. ?\Ir. Speaker, I regard the passage of shown in a message from Lieut. Corliss Hooven Griffis, of Hamilton, this resolution as in the interest of the public bu iness. I am Ohio, recently sentenced at Mosbach, Germany, for bis part in the informed that a number of the committees will meet immedi attempted kidnaping of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, arch draft evader, ately, now tha.t the House is organized, and consider matters to bis motht'l", Mrs. E. S. Griffis. The message was written to bis of very .great public moment. mother on Armistice Day and ls as follows : The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolu WURZBURG PRISON, GERMAXY, N()1]ember n, 1923. tion. DIDAREST MOTHER : 'l'he church bells are ringing again this morning The resolution was agreed to. and I am wondering if they are .reflecting in their tumult of sound the LEAVE TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE. gladsome way I am feeling. I dare say their message to-day is quite tlifferent from the one that ls dominating me, bot they sound cheerful Mr. LONGWORTH.. Ur. Speaker, I ask further unanimous and glad enough to quite fit in. Moreover, the sun is shining and a consent that on the day of the reconvening of the House, on shaft of golden light has made a mockery of the iron bars and has the 3d of January, the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. penetrated into my cell, where it makes a grea:t difference. Then, not TREADWAY] may be permitted to address the House for an to be outdone on the occasion, the prison has finally decided that it is hour at the conclusion of the routine business. cold enough for heat-and the steam pipes are warm, with a promise The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Ohio asks unanimous of a decided change for the better in the inside temperature. consent that on January 3 the gentleman from l\Iassachusetts So, altogether, it is a great day, a quite fitting time -for thanksgiv [Mr. TnEADWAY], to whom leave was given to address the tng, pride, and rejoicing in every way for mi;--and one in particular. House to-morrow, may address the House for an hour. Is I have alrca6y decorat e MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS. marks, the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. UPSHAW] may have Mr. SINNOTT. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to 45 minutes. announce that the Public Lands Committee will meet this Mr. SABATH. Reserving the right to object, will the gentle afternoon at 3 o'clock. man state on what subject the gentleman desires to speak? Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee. I do not know. MESS.AGES FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. l\Ir. UPSHAW. I want to talk on the majesty of the law and Several messages were received in writing from the Presi national sobriety. dent of the United States, by Mr. Latta, one of his secretaries. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE-FRANCHISES IN PORTO RICO. Mr. SABATH. Well, I am ·in favor of that and I shall not object. The SPEAKER laid before the House a message from the The SPEAKER. Is there objection? President of the United States, which was read, and, with the There was no objection. accompanying documents, referred to the Committee on Insular Mr. DYER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that on Affairs: the same day the Resident Commissioner from the Philippine To the Congress of the United States: Islands [Mr. GUEVARA] may have 20 minutes. As required by section 38 of the act approved March 2, 1917 The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Missouri asks unani (39 Stat. 951), entitled "An act to provide a civil government mous consent that after those two the Resident Commissioner for Porto Rico, and for other purposes,'' I transmit herewith from the Philippine Islands [Mr. GUEVARA] may have 20 min certified copies of each of 24 franchises granted by the Public utes. Is there objection? Service Commission of Porto Rico. The copies of the franchises There was no objection. inclosed are described in the accompanying letter from the COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS, Secretary of War transmitting them to me. Mr. TREADWAY. Mr. Speaker, in behalf of the chair-man CALVIN COOLIDGE. of the Ways and Means Committee, I ask that the Ways and THE WHITE HOUSE, December 1"1, 1923. Means Committee be allowed to sit during the session::! and PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE-REPORT OF THE GOVERNOR OF PORTO RICO. during the recesses of this Congress. The SPEAKER also laid before the House the following mes Mr. BLANTON. Reserving the right to object, may I ask sage from the President of the United States, which was read, the gentleman whether that embraces the minority as well as and, with the accompanying documents, referred to the Com the majority? mittee on Insular Affairs and ordered to be printed: Mr. TREADWAY. Certainly. The Ways and Means Com To the Congress of the United States: mittee. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Massachusetts [l\Ir. As required by section 12 of the act of Congress, approved TREADWAY] asks that the Ways and Means Committee be al March 2, 1917, entitled "An act to provide a civil government· lowed to sit during the sessions and recesses of the Congress., for Porto Rico, and for other purposes," I transmit herewith, Is there objection? for the information of the Congress, the twenty-third annual There was no objection. report of the Governor of Porto Rico, together with the reports of the heads of the several departments of the Porto Rican LEA VE OF ABSENCE. government, also that of the auditor, for the fiscal year ended By unanimous consent leave of absence was granted to l\Ir. June 30, 1923. JAcoBSTEIN for two days on account of death in family. I concur in the recommendation of the Secretary of War that The SPEAKER. Does the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. this report be printed as a congressional document. HUDDLESTON] desire to address the House? CALVIN COOLIDGE. Mr. HUDDLESTON. My request for permission to address THE WHITE HOUSE, Deceniber 17, 1923. the House was agreed to on Saturday. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE-REPORT OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF THE The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Alabama [Mr. Hun· PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. DLESTON] is recognized for 25 minutes. The SPEAKER also laid before the House the following mes COOPERATION BETWEEN FARMERS AND INDUSTRIAL WORKERS. sage from the President of the United States, which was read, Mr. HUDDLESTON. Mr. Speaker, I desire to discuss the and, with the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee possibilities of political and economic cooperation between the on Insular Affairs and ordered to be printed : farmers and the industrial workers of the country. It is a To the Congress of the United States: subject well worthy of the consideration of both groups; it is As required by section 21 of the act of Congress approved one that should be considered by all who are sincere friends of August 29, 1916, entitled "An act to declare the purpose of the either group. It seems to me that such discussion was never so people of the United States as to the future political status of timely as at the present time. the people of the Philippine Islands, and to provide a more The President of the United States in his address to Congress autonomous government for those islands," I transmit herewith, on December 6, 1923, speaking of the farmer, said: for the information of the Congress, the report of the Governor He must have organization. His customer with whom he e:xchnnges General of the Philippine Islands, together with the reports of products of the farm for those of industry is organized, labor it: or the heads of the departments of the Philippine government, for ganized, business is organized, and there is no way for agriculture to the fiscal year ended December 31, 1922. meet this unless it, too, is crganized. I concur in the recommendations of the Secretary of War as The President's meaning is plain-the farmer must organ~ to the printing of this report as a congressional document. ize to protect himself against organized labor-their interests CALVIN COOLIDGE. are in conflict-the farmer should place the blame for the gross THE WHITE HOUSE, December 17, 1923. disparity between the price which he receives for his products PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE-PERRY'S VICTORY :MEMORIAL COMMISSION. and the high cost of what he must buy upon labor-farmers and labor should be set off against each other as hostile groups The SPEAKER also laid before the House the following mes and in perpetual conflict. sage from the President of the United States, which was read, The President did not originate the thought. Paid propa and, with the accompanying report, referred to the Committee gandists are busy with its promulgation. It comes before us on the Library : every day. It is presented in a thousand forms. There are To the Congress of the United States: great selfish interests involved. The schemes of these powerful I transmit herewith the fourth annual report of Perry's groups de11end upon selling the idea to the public and to farm Victory Memorial Commission, dated December 3, 1923, which ers and laborers at large. was submitted to the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to SUBSTANCE OF PROPAGANDA. section 5 of the act entitled "An act creating a commission for the maintenance, control, care, etc., of the Perry's Victory The substance of the propaganda, which has as its purpose to Memorial on Put-in-Bay Island, Lake Erie, Ohio, and for other keep farmers and industrial workers separated, is that as each purposes," approved March 3, 1919 (40 Stat. 1322-1324). C)f the groups consumes the product of the other its selfish in CALVIN COOLIDGE. terest is to reduce the return which the other receives. Labor THE WHITE HOUSE, December 17, 1923 . • is told that the high cost of food and clothing is due to high prices on the farm. The farmer is told that the high cost of LEA VE TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE. the articles which he buys is due to high wages exacted by the l\lr. GARRETT of Tennessee. I ask unanimous consent, l\:fr. factory worker. It ls boldly stated to both that the interests of Speaker, that on the 3d of January, after the gentleman from farmers and labor can not be reconciled; tllat they can not act l\1assachusetts [Mr. TREADWAYl shall have concluded his re- together. The propaganda goes even to tlie extreme of asserting 340 CONGRESSION.AL :RECORD-ROUSE. DECEMBER 17 ' that tbe hardships which each of the groups snffers are due ta and food products :yields no relative increase to those who the other group. · labored in their production, but is absorbed by the exactions of Typical of this propaganda is an editorial included in a col- _profiteers, exploiters, and monopolists. lection of r.a.ilroad propaganda which came to my table to-day. WEIRD TALEs OB' LABOR'S EARNINos. The editorial is from Wallace's Farmer; published by a concern In furtherance of the propaganda, the farmer is told weird of which Secretary of .Agriculture Wallace is president. It- no tales as to the earnings of labor. It is recounted what a great doubt states his views. I quote from it: quantity of the products of the farm a day's wages will buy. Railroad rates can not come down materially unless railroad labor is If the farmer goes to buy a pair of shoes or an agricultural reduced. The cry or the general public tor lower freight rates ls II!l'an- implement, the high price demanded will be charged to extrava ingless unless railroad wages are to be reduced. • • • While the gant wages exacted by labor for its production. laboring man is not living any life of riotous luxury, he is nevertheless On the other hand, t11e city laborer is told that the high cost benefiting to a considerable extent at the expense of the farmer. of food is due to profiteering by the farmer, that tbe high FALSE REPBESE~TATioNs nEsonTED To. price of clothing is caused by the exactions of the producers of Of course tbe propagandists are not content with tbe plain cotton and wool, that shoes are expensive because hides are truth. Facts are distorted and some deliberate lying re- high. Indeed, by the same misrepresentations are producers sorted to. For instance, high freight rates are charged to high of different kinds of farm products set against each other wages for railroad labor. The ti·uth is that for the month ot and prejudice invoked between members of different mechanical September, 1!)23. railroad labor received the smallest percentage crafts. of railroad income since 1917. Out of the dollar paid for Upon no other common subject is there so much misinforma freight railroad labor received 43.33 cents for 1917. In 1920 tion a.float. So industrious are the peddlers of the .propaganda labor's share was 59.59 cents, for 1922 labor's share was 47.50 that the very air is saturated with false impressions as to tbe cents, while for September, 1923, it was only 46.78 cents. La- return which producers and workers of all kinds. receive for bor's share. has fallen 12.81 cents on each dollar since 1920, or, their labor_ The farmer has little idea of the fearful economic stated in anothe1· way, the railroads now have J2.81 cents more strain to which industrial workers everywhere are subjected. out of each dollar to appl:: to dividends and other purposes than The latter frequently aspire to go to the farm. They know they had for 1920. little of the hard and stinted lives of those who till the· soil. The effect of the reducU•rn in labor's share is shown by the The industrial worker does not know that the farmer was great increase in railroad earnings for the period from .January successfully deflated in 1920. The farmer does not Yet :realize 1 to September 1, 1923, as compared with the same months for that labor resisted such deflation with only partial sncce s 19:?2. I cite a few examples as illustrative of such increases: and at a tremendous cost and sacrifice, and that labor's adver- EA.STERN n.oADs. saries are yet deep in their plans for the destruction of its organizations and its complete subjection. 1923 192'.l SELFISH GROUPS RULlil BY SOWING STRIFE, The source of inspiration for the effort to prevent coopera tion between farmei:s and wage earners is obvi011s. Small Baltimore & Ohio ...... ·-···· SM,932,894 S12, 491, 220 Cbesaoea.ke & Ohio ...... 15,261, 793 12,0&1,253 groups are enjoying the chief benefits of our economic and Delaware & Hudson ...... 4, 935, 238 626, 001 political system. They have seized upon political power and Delaware, Lackawanna & Western ...... 9,427,312 5,058,501 are using it for their selfish advantage. They have usurped Erie ...... 12, 653, 555 I 1, 257, 288 Lehigh Valley ...... -...... - .... - ...... 2, 779,ill 740, 832 economic positions which enable them to exploit their less New York CentraL ...... ·-············· 60,496,603 35,057, 988 enterprising or less favored fellow citizens. Through monopo Pennsylvania ...... _. _...... 63, 813, 985 57, 163,333 Philadelphia & Reading ...... 20, 434, 548 6, 741, 276 lies, oppressive trade practices, and by perverting our economic Wabash ...... -...... 6, 755,309 3,241,356 system they have collected the bulk of the wealth of the Na tion into a few hands, have ma.de industry their persona1 SOUTHERN ROADS. servant, and have monopolized our mineral wealth, water power~. and other natural re ources. Only the farm are now Atlantic Coast Line...... Sll, 001, 74-1 $10, 839, 608 left in distributed ownership, and year by year holdings of Louisville&. Nashville...... ·-·· ...•.. --··-·...... 16, 039, 164 12, 903,167 farm lands are increasing in size and the number of farm Seaboard Air Line...... 5,442,3LO 2, 724, 181 Southern Railway...... 20, 034, 710 12,801, 964 workers who own tlleir own land becoming smaller. Even owners of small farms have become, through a mortgage sy:o: WESI'ERN RO.ADS. tem, mere tenants, in substance, of great financial interests. These small but powerful groups are able to rule both in thP Atchisonl !,ope.Im & Santa Fe ...... 29,405 742 $22, 241, 504 political and economic world because of the lack of coopera Chicago, ~waukee & St. Paul...... 12,602,07 7, 981,071 tion among the masses-the failure of the ma ses to work Grrat Northern ...... 13, Z75, 167 10, 084, 242 Missouri Pacific ...... 5, 671,625 5,3-H,679 together. They rule by creating jealousy and prejudice among Nor them Pacific ...... 8, 616,09'2 8,3 5, 742 the various groups of the people and by setting the units of couthern Pacific...... 32,319, 156 25, 766,910 the people to fighting each other. Once the mas es come to an St. Louis & San Francisco ...... 13, 786,594 11 425 Hl Union Pacific ...... 18, 839, 714 11'.Mo;m understanding and learn to work together the dominion of the selfish classes will crumble into dust. I De.licit. There is a present reason for the effort to keep· labor and LABOR COSTS EXAGGERATED. the farmers apart. They are finding each other out. They are coming more and more to know that their interests are not hos The high price of shoes is falsely attributed to high labor tile but in close harmony. They are awakening to a fuller co. t , when, in fact, the difference in labor cost between 1913 realization of their common interests and a recognition of anc1 the present is an average of less than 40 cents per pair of their common enemy. The situation is not satisfactory to the shoes. A pair of fine shoes could be bought in 1913 for $7.50. powerful selfish groups. It seems that their victims are about Tlle labor cost then was about $1 per pair. The same shoes to get together. The selfi h interests would set labor and the are now being sold at from $14 to $16, yet the labor cost is only farmer to tearing each other. They would again divide the about $1.40. producers so that those "who toil not, neither do they spin," You pay $1 for a necktie at a haberdasher's, yet the labor may continue to dominate and to receive the best of every cost of producing tbe necktie is only 10 cents. In $100 worth of thing. structuraJ steel the share of labor is only $20. For every $100 It is indeed a strange situation that those who do the hard, paid for constructing an average building labor receives $36.99-, dirty, and disagreeable work of production should be expected while $42.88 is paid for materials and $20.13 goes for profits, to remain content with the sheerest neces aries of existence, overhead, and so forth. while those who follow occupations of little or no value to The high price of cotton goods is blamed. on 30-cent cotton, society continue to enjoy not only the first fruits of the system yet ordinary dress goods runs from 12 to 16 yards to the pound. but practically all of the favors of government. Such a situa It takes about a pound of cotton to make three shirts, so that tion is possible only when the producers are divided, are fight the cotton cost at 30 cents a pound is only 10 cents per shirt, ing each other. yet compare the cost of shirts with before-the-war prices. And this the dominant few know fuU well. They realize that 'Vheat is cheaper than in 1913, but flour runs from 15 to 25 pel" their success hangs upon disunion and strife among the pro cent higher. Labor should not blame the higfi. price of bread ducers, and so they and their affilia.te~. their parasites, and all on the wbeat grower, for wheat is cheaper than it was 10 years the array which their influence i8 able to muster, are bent -µpon ago, yet the price of brend is from 25 to 50 per cent higher. promoting strife and sowing dissension among the masges of the And so on down the line, the high cost of manufactm·ed articles people which it is the~ purpose to exploit. They h.-now that it 1923. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 341 is only by keeping the masses fighting each other that· tbose who from 5.76 bushels per capita in 1919 to 4.18 in 1920, a drop of tide at ease upou their shoulders may remain secure in their 1.58 bush~ls for each man, woman, and child' in the United seats. States, or a total of abnut 175,000,000 bushels underconsumption NEED FOR POLITICAL .urn ECONOMIC COOPERATIO~. for 1920. EYen 1919, with 5.76 bushels per capita consumption, The two points upon which there is greatest need for coopera· was subnormal, for in 1915 the consumption was G.02 bushels tion between farmers and wage earners are in the economic per capita, or 1.84 per capita, over 200,000,000 bushels above the· and political fields. There is a desperate effort upon the part 1920 figures. Industry was greatly depressed in 1920. Millions of the oppo ition to prevent them from coming together in of wage earners and their families were underfed. Tl1ey could either activity. Both are told that the interests of the other not buy the normal supply of bread, and as a consequence wheat group are in conflict with theirs, and every sort of false propa· prices fell like a plummet. ganda is put forth to promote enmity and strife between them. The chief product of the farm is food. Practically all of its Let us examine in the light of reason and known facts these products are the staple ne~ssaries of life. Farm produce is issues and see whether there is harmony of interest between consumed in practically equal quantities by persons in every farmers and wage earners upon these points. station in life. Rich and poor alike are equal customers for l\1r. THOMAS of Kentucky. I just want to ask the gentle what the farmer has to sell Each consumes a substantially man if he does not think that if we should pass another equal quantity and pays a similar price. It is only in luxuries emergency tariff law it would relieve the farmers? that the per capita consumption of persons of wealth exceeds Mr. HUDDLESTON. No; neither that nor any other meas that of the poor. The necessaries are in equal demand by all. ure designed to promote the interests of particular groups or In time of depression the rich reduce in luxuries, in jewels, of those enjoying special opportunities. limousines, and finer dwellings, but only when his resources are The present desperate condition of farmers generally is due exhausted does any man cut his supply of bread. Therefore, to two things: First, the low prices which he receives for his in a depression, though the masses must skimp on food and products; second, the h!gh prices which he .is forced to pay clothing, the wealthy continue to consume the normal quan for his supplies. The interests of labor are identical with his tity of the necessaries of life. on both points. Low prices received by the farmer are not Prosperity of the wealthier cla ses of the farmers' customers reflected in the worker's cost of living. The industrial worker means little or nothing to him. But prosperity upon the par1;. is also the victim of high prices in manufactured products. of the masses means increased consumption of farm produce His wages are fixed, as are the returns of the farmer, by the and bet tcr prices for the farmer. Prosperity of the masses in harsh law of supply and demand. The wage earner works for evitably produces an increase in consumption and price and the least return that tl1e employer can force him to take, and eventually the prosperity of the farmer. The farmer is bound the farmer receives the least return that thoRe who handle to the industrial worker by the strongest of all economic ties his products can compel him to accept. The industrial worker he IPust look to him as th~ chief consumer of the produce of his is no more respon ible far high-priced farm supplies than is the farm. farmer the beneficiary of the high cost of food and clothing. THE HIGilEST DUTY Oil' STATESMANSHIP. THE l!'ARMER IS HIMSELF A WORKER. The highest duty of the statesmanship of America Is to bring The farmer is a worker. His interests are no more opposed the producers face to face with the consumers in direct den.ling to those of the factory worker than are the latter to those of so as to permit tbe least possible interyeution of middlemen. railroad employees or men in the building trades. The farmer The tendency of recent decades bas been in the opposite direc consumes the product of the mechanic in exactly the same tion. The proportionate number of those engaged in the produc sense as the latter is the customer of the miner or railroad tion of the necessaries of life has steadily decreased. Within brakeman. · 10 years prior to 1920 the farming population shrank from 33 Indeed, the farmer consumes the product of other farmers. to 26 per cent of the whole. An increasingly large percent The cotton grower consumes the grain and hay of the western age of our wage earners are engaged in the production of farme1·. The latter consumes the cotton, potatoes, or beef of luxuries and articles which can not be classed as necessary to other farmers. Any conflict of interest bebveen the farmer and existence. In steadily increasing numbers are men being industrial worker is exactly the same as between producers of brought into callings which either minister to the rich or have different products of the farm, each of which must use the a parasitic nature. Witness the growth of our great cities at product of the other. There is even an apparent conflict of the expense of the rural districts, with the rapidly increasing interest between farmers producing the same crop, since they classes of speculators, traders~ brokers, dealers, agents, and are in competition in the same business and for the same others who do notlling of any social value, not to speak of those market. Upon these piffling and short-sighted selfish reasons altogether idle. Formerly the producer of the necessaries of is it expected to keep apart the producers of agriculture and of life produced only sufficient for himself and, say, su other per industry. sons. It is obvious that now he must carry on his shoulders But upon broader ground and viewed as a whole the in some 15 to 25 persons. terests of all workers are in harmony. The farmer i a worker; The paSt eight years have brought an increase of over 100 per as such it is to bis interest that all workers hould be well cent in the spread between what tbe producer receives and paid. There rs nothing fixed about labor of any calling. To what the consumer pays. For illustration, where the producer the contrary, labor is constantly flowing into bett~r-paid call formerly received a certain price and the consumer paid a 50 ings, with the tendency to restore any disturbed equilibrium. per cent advance thereon, the producer now receives even less For instance, if mechanical workers should be constantly better in purchasing value than his former return, whereas the mid paid, farmers will pass into those callings. This operates to dlemen have more than doubled their profits. Prices to the reduce competition among farmers and by decreasing produc con umer are wholly disproportionate to the return of the pro. tion to enhance the price of their products and the return for ducer. This aggravation of the co. t of living is cau ed by the their labor. The better-paid callings constantly draw off the increase in middlemen, handlers, and speculators, and to com surplus of labor, which produces better conditions in other binations, monopolies, unfair trade practices, and to- a welter callings. of extortion and profiteering wllich we have inherited from the The same principle applies as between farmer and industrial war period. worker as bet\Teen the various crafts of the latter. The grain farmer is benefited by the prosperity of the potato farmer on HOW PRODUCERS AND CO:-JSUMERS AllE GOUGED. account of the tendency to draw farmers into growing potatoes, It is estimated that for the year 1922 the farmers of the relieving the grain farmer of competition and producing an in United States received a total of $7,500,000,000 for their pro creased price for his labor. This principle is merely the appli duce, and that for the same produce the consumers paid $22,- cation of the law of supply and demand, which at last meas 000,000,000. The farmer who produced the commodity received ure the return which farmers and all other workers receive for less than 30 cents from each dollar that the consumer paid for their toil. it, so that there went to handlers, speculators, dealers, car riers, and other middlemen 70 cents from eYery dollar that con INDUSTRIAL LABOR TUE F .\RYER' S BEST CUSTO:UJCR. sumers paid. But in a still more direct way does the farmer benefit from In a recent article B. F. Yoakum, prominent in conservative the prosperity of industrial wage earners. The latter are the railroad circles, stated that the Irish potato crop of 1922, total best customers for the farmer's product. The fai·mer is de ing 451,185,000 bushels, yielded the farmers an average price pendent to a large extent upon borne markets and home con of 56 cents per bushel, totaling $252,000,000; that the consumer sumption. Nearly always low prices for farm produce are paid an average of $2 per bushel for these potatoes, a total of cau ed not by OYerproduction but by underconsumption-the in $!.)0~,000,000, leaving for middlemen and other handlers $650,- ability of our home pe-0ple to buy the normal quantity. This 000,000 as a return for standing between the fai·mer and the fa.ct is illustrated by wheat, wh€n the con.sumotion dropped man who ate his potatoes. 342 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE~ DECEMBER 17, The possibilities of economic cooperation between farmers middlemen, parasites, extortioning :financiers, oppres ive em and wage earners are stupendous. I have no doubt that the ployers, and in general those who make money out of cheap next generation will see a n·emendous advance along that line. labor and unjust profits in trade. We will see in America something of what is seen in the English Unfortunately, many of the groups which go to make up the Rochedale plan, in the Danish cooperative system, and in the general public have not yet been able to see the light and are long-extinct RuNsian cooperative societies. Only in America is often found on the sicle of the common enemy, doing his voting there a better field for cooperation, because ours is a popula and carrying on bi propaganda. However, farmers and indu - tion better balanced in callings. I predict that within a decade trial workers, as well as common men of every group, are rapidly we will find vast bodjes of organized wage earners selling the becoming more enlightened as to their political, economic, an.cl product of cooperative mills and factories direct to cooperatives social interests, and I believe the day is not far distant when selling food and other produce from the farms. they will present a fairly solid front to their common foe. In Conceive of the farmers selling their 1922 production for such an endeavor they may have the ltappy consciousness that double the $7,500,000,000 which they actually received and they are not only serving themselves but at the same time are realizing $15,000,000,000 for their year's work, and on the other serving the best interests of tneir conntry and of mankind. hand the consumers buying for $15,000,000,000 what they were The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Texas [1\Ir. BLANTON] forced to pay $22,000,000,000 for. What a wonderful prosperity is recognized for 10 minutes. would flow into both classes. What a wonderful thing it would be if producers and con FARMERS' PROBLEMS VERSUS I DUSTRIAL CONDITIONS. sumers could be brought face to face and deal directly, each ex Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Speaker, in intellect, in earnestne s, as changing with the other the products of bis toil Conceive for a an orator, thinker, and formidable debater the gentleman from moment the producers of indush·y exchanging their products Alabama [Mr. HUDDLESTON] has no superior in the House of directly with the producers of food and other raw materials. Representatives; but with all of his powers and ability he has The vision is of an unattainable ideal, but it is not without value been unable to .demonstrate the advisability of the farmer as pointing the road that we should travel entering into any kind of combination, political or economic, GOVERNMENTAL FAVORS FOR THE FEW. with induso·ial workers. So far as interest is concerned there Those who do the useful work of production ancl transporta- is a gulf between them that is as wide as the way from Dan to ion represent about 85 per cent of our population; traders, Beersheba. agents, brokers, and speculators about 10 per cent; and capi l\.lr. KV ALE. l\Ir. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? talists, professional classes, and idlers about 5 per cent. What Mr. BLANTON. In a moment. The distinguished gentleman a commentary to find that all governmental favors and prac from New York, our deceased former colleague, l\:Ir. Bourke tically all public concern are devoted to the 15 per cent not en Cockran, in April, 1921, hit the nail on the head when from this gaged in production, and that the great bulk of our laws are floor he said that the 6,000,000 inhabitants of New York-and passed at their instance and for their benefit. there are really about six and a half million people there-are The need for economic cooperation among farmers and wage all consumers. He said he was not going to hide what they earners is indeed great, but it is in the field of political activity want, that they are consumers and they want everything that that the need for cooperation is most urgent The cry is loud is raised on the farms of the country sold just as cheaply as and insistent for political partnership between farmers and they can get it, and that is what our working friends down wage earners to secure consideration by government of the in industrial Birmingha~ want. They want farm products pressing problems of workers of farm, mine, and factory. It is just as cheap as they can get them. The industrial workers the call of humanity that the great majority shall receive first are in an entirely different position from the farmer. When consideration to the end that the busilless of doing useful labor they hire out for a week's work they know just as well as they may be fostered and. those who toil in every activity be pro know that the sun will shine the next morning that when the tected. week ends they will have a pay envelope with so much money UNIO::s' FOR COMMON DEFFlNSE. in it to spend. They know what to depend upon. There is But it is not merely in the effort to secure law~ for the pro no anxiety about the amount, there is no uncertainty. How is tection of all men who toil that farmers and wage earners it with the farmer? He pends the winter in preparing the should unite. The most pressing call for united action is for ground. He has to make his arrangements at a bank, many their common defense. The workers on farms and in factori'es times paying 10 and 12 and 15 per cent for money with which have common cause in self-protection from the aggressions of to finance his crops. He plants his crops, sometimes two and the selfish groups who have seized our Government and are per three and four times before he gets a stand, and then what verting it to their selfish purposes. happens after he has worked for months in cultivating it? He The monopolists, the extortioners, the profiteers, all those who meets all of the uncertainties that prevail in the agricultural have perverted government into an instrumentality for working world. There is sometimes too much rain, with floods, and their own selfish advantage, must be dethroned. It is illogical then again there is a drought, and devastating hail, and the that the few should rule the many and that the multitude should grasshoppers, and the boll weevil, and the boll worm, and be victimized for the advantage of small selfish groups. I can every other kind of menace to his success that human nature not believe that it is in accord with tile Divine will. There can combat. That is the farmer's problem. His nights are is no inherent natural difference in men of various classes. All spent in anxiety as to what the year is to bring forth. He come from the same source and all march to a common destiny. knows not what there will be for his family after what little By sheer luck, the accident of birth, chance opportunity, un crop be makes is sold. He does not know, as the industrial scrupulous greed, or, in a few cases, by preeminent ability, a worker knows, what will be his income. The gentleman said relati"rn 'few attain dominant positions of wealth, power, and that it is a stock argument often used by people who want to authority. But there lies in none of these any sufficient cause or exploit both the farmer and the indush·ial worker to say that sound reason for reward and secured position for any group or each is in favor of tearing down the price of the other's class which may be inconsistent with the welfare of the masses product. But is not the argument founded upon fact? Has the of average men and women-the great public. Therefore it is gentleman ever stopped to think that every single thing that a the part of humanitarians as well as of statesmen to devote farmer buys, every single piece of clothing and utensile be uses themselves to the cause of the common man. on the farm, is made by industrial workers? Every time they As I have said, the political interests of the farmer and add $1 per day to the wages of the industrial worker that $1 in Tox. Here was his plea: He said, "Boys, you must not convict By Mr. CANNON: A bill (H. R. 3909) to extend the provi Bill. He was just courting Viney. Of course, he was a little sions of the pension act of May 1, 1920, to the officers and rougll, but that is the way we do our courting out there in the enlisted men of all State militia and other State organizations Brushy 1\1oum.ains." The jury aid not accept that plea. that rendered service to the Union cause during the Civil War I take it for granted that this gentleman is simply courting for a period of 90 days or more, and providing pensions for the... e progressives, but if they yield to that kind of courtshlp their widows, minor children, and dependent parents, and for and walk into the arms of these men again when they have other purposes; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. a chance to stay out and ride between the ears of the elephant, By Mr. DAVILA: A bill (H. R. 3910) to provide a civil gov as they are in this picture, they might just as well be con ernment for Porto Rico, and for other purposes; to the Com signed to that dungeon which the tyrant had where he sent mittee on Insular Affairs. people about to be executed, over the door of which was writ By Mr. FAIRCHILD: A bill (H. R. 3911) for the restoration ten, "He who enters here leaves hope behind." of the long-continued early successful American policy of dis Now, I have not said who the gentleman is. Possibly the cr~minating import duties and tonnage dues for the protection rules of this House would prevent, but I have told you where he of American ships and their prosperous maintenance in foreign lives, and I am going to give you a verse of Scripture that will trade; to the Committee on Ways and Means. locate him. When the Pharisees and Scribes came back from By l\lr. GRAHAM of Illinois: A bill (H. R. 3912) to amend John the Baptist's camp meeting over at Jordan and came to section 1 of an act entitled "An act for the retirement of em interYiew the 1\Iaster about it, he began to ask them about it ployees in the classified civil service and for other purposes"; and , aid, "What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service. A reed haken by wind." Now, gentlemen, you can decide who By ~fr. HOWARD of Oklahoma: A bill (H. R. 3913) to refe1· he was. [Laughter and applause.] the claims of the Delaware Indians to the Court of Claims, with :\lr. HUDDLESTOX. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanirnou consent the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States; to revise and extend my remarks in the REco_RD. to the Committee on Indian Affairs. 1'he SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Alabama By Mr. KAHN: A bill (H. R. 3914) to amend the trading [Mr. HUDDLE TONl asks unanimous consent to revise ~md extend with the enemy act; to the Committee on Interstate and For l.Jis r e mark~ in the RECORD. Is there objection? [After a eign Commerce. pau;;;e. l The Chair hears none. By Mr. LANGLEY: A bill (H. R. 3915) to authorize an ap l\Ir. STEVENSON. 1\Ir. Speaker, I ask the same privilege. propriation to enable the Director of the United States Yet The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from South erans· Bureau to provide for the con truction of additional hos Carolina [l\Ir. ' TEV:F: X SON] asks the same privilege. Is there pital facilities and to provide medical, surgical, and hospital objection'? [After a pause.] The Cllair hears none. serYices and supplies for persons who served in the World War, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine insurrection. and the ADJOURNME~T. Boxer rebellion, and are patients of the United States Veterans' l\Ir. LONGWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I move the House do now Bureau; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. adjourn. By Ur. LEA of California: A bill (H. R. 3916) to amend the· 'rl1e motion was agreed to ; accordingly (at 2.34 o'clock p. m.) trading with the enemy act; to the Committee on Interstate the House, under its previous order, adjourned to meet on' and Foreign Commerce. ' Thursday, December 20, 1923, at 12 o'clock noon. By Mr. LINEBERGER: A bill (H. R. 3917) amending the Army appropriation act approved July 9, 1918, providing for EXECU'l'IVE COl\IMUNICATIONS, ETC. appointment and retirement of officers of the ~1edical Reserve Corps or contract surgeons; to the Committee on Military Under clau e 2 of Rule XXIV. executive communic!'ltions were taken from the Speaker's table and referred as follows: Affair8. By i'l.fr. McKEOWN: A bill (H. R. 3918) to amend section 190. A letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a 72 of chapter 23, printing act of 1895; to the Committee on draft of proposed legislation "To provide for the creation, Printing. organization, administration, and maintenance of a naval re By l\Ir. HILL of Maryland: A bill (H. R. 3919) making eli serYe and a Marine Corps reserve;" to the Committee on Naval gible for retirement under certain conditions officers of the Affairs. United States Army, other than officers of the Regular Army, 191. A letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting who incurred physical disability in line of duty while in the report of the disbursements for tlle fiscal year ending June 30, . erYice of the United States during the war ; to the Committee 1923, made in the States and Territories under the provisions on Military Affairs. of an act of Congress approved August 30, 1890 ; to the Com By Mr. MORIN: A bill (H. R. 3920) to establish a depart mittee on Agriculture. ment of economics, government, and history at the United 192. A letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a States l\Iilitary Academy, at West Point, N. Y., and to amend letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary e~ami chapter 174 of the act of Congress of April 19, 1910, entitled nation and survey of Hoskins Creek, Va.; to the Committee on "An act making appropriations for the support of the Military Rivers and Harbors. Academy for the fiscal year ending .June 30, 1911, and for other 193. A letter from the Director of the United States Veterans' purposes"; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Bureau, transmitting a statement showing by location, salary, By 1\Ir. NEWTON of Missouri: A bill ( H. R 3921) provid range, and bureau de ignation, employees receiving an aggre ing for the improvement and completion of prescribed sections gate salary of $2,000 and over as of December 1, 1923, for cen of the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers; to the Commit tral office, and of November 1, 1923, for field; to the Committee tee on Rivers and Harbors. on Appropriations. By )fr. OLDFIELD: A bill (H. R. 3922) providing for hos pitalization, medical treatment, nur ing, and all necessary care REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC BILLS AND of disabled ex-sen·ice men; to the Committee on Inter tate ancl RESOLUTIONS. Foreign Commerce. Under clause 2 of Rule XIII, By nlr. REED of New York: A bill (II. R. 3923) to create a Mr. KIESS: Committee on Printing. H. R. 506. A bill to department of education, to authorize appropriations for the authorize the Public Printer to fix: rates of wages for employees conduct of said department, to authorize the appropriation of of the Government Printing Office; without amendment (Rept. money to encourage the States in the promotion and support No. 1). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the of education, and for other purposes; to the Committee on state of the Union. Education. By Mr. SABATH: A bill (H. R. 3924) providing for the with PUBLIC BILLS, RESOLUTIO:NS, AND MEMORIALS. drawal of the United States from the Philippine Islands; to the Committee on Insular Affairs. Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, bills, resolutions, and memorials By l\fr. SWANK: A bill (H. R. 3925) providing for jury wrre introduced and severally referred as follows: trials in cases of indirect contempt ; to the Committee on the Ily Mr. BARKLEY: A bill (R R. 3906) to repeal the tax on Judiciary. ndmi r:;sions and dues; to the Committee on Ways and 1\Ieans. By Mr. TAYLOR of Colorado: A bill (H. R. 3926) to reRerve Also, a bill {H. R. 3907) to repeal the tax on telephone and certain lands and to incorporate the same and make them a telegraph messages; to the Committee on Ways and Means. part of the White River National Forest, Colo.; to the Com Al so, a bill (H. R. 3908) to prohibit the collection of sur mittee on the Public Lands. charges for transportation of persons or baggage in connection Also, a bill (H. R. 3~27) granting public lands to the town of with payment of parlor or sleeping car fares; to the Com Silverton, Colo., for public-park purposes; to the Committee on mittee on Ways and l\Ieans. the Public Lands. 346 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. DECEMBER 17, By Mr. TILL:\IAN: A bill (H. R. 8928) to amend an act en Also, a 'bill (H. R. 3951) for the construction of a public titled "An act making appropriations for the service of the Post building at Roanoke, Va.; to the Committee on Public Build Office Department for the fiscal year encling June 30, 1922, and ings filld Grounds. for other purposes," approved 1\Iarch 1, 19:!1~ to the Committee By Mr. CA...°l'llNON: A bill (H. R. 3952) providing for the pur on the Post Office and Post Roads. chase of a site and t'he erection of a public building at Bowling Also, a bill (R R. 39:!9) providing for hospitalization, medi Green, Mo.; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. cal treatment, nursing, and all necessary care of disabled ex A1so, a bill (H. R. 3953) providing for the purchase of a sen-ice men ; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com site and erection of a public building at Wellsville, l\Io. ; to the merce. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 3D30) to provide adjusted compensation By Ur. STEAGALL: A bill (H. R. 3054) to provide for the for veterans of the World War, and for other purposes; to the erection of a public building at Union Springs, A.la. ; to the Committee on Ways and l\Ieans. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. By Mr. TUCKER: A bill (H. R. 3031) to amend paragraph By Mr. COLTON: A bill (H. R. 3055) to authorize the erec 11 of section 1001 of an act entitled "An act to reduce and tion of a Fec.leral building at Ephraim, Utah; to the Committee equalize taxation, to provide revenue, and for other purposes,'' on Public Buildings and Grounds. approved No1ember 23, 1921; to the Committee on Ways and Also, a bill (H. R. 3956) to provide for the erection of a Means. public building at Price, Utah; to the Committee on Public By l\Ir. WATKINS: A bill (B. R 393~) to provide for the Buildings and Ground"'. su ;pension of immigration of aliens into the United States, and Also, a bill ( H. R. 3957) to pro-vide for the purchase of a site for other purposes; to the Committee on Immigration and Nat and the erection of a public building at Manti, Utah, and uralization. appropriating money therefor; to tbe Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. By Mr. WINSLOW: A bill (H. R. 3933) for the pUI'chase of Also, a bill (H, R. 3958) to increase tile cost of the public the Cape ·Cod Canal property, and for other purposes~ to tlie Committee on Interstate and ll'oreign Commerce. building at Vernal, Utah; to tlle Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. By l\Ir. WOLFF: A bill (H. R. 3934) providing for hospitali zation, me Committee on Election of President, Vice President, and Repre- Also, a bill (H. R. 3986) authorizing the Secretary of War sentatives in Congress. • to donate to the .city of Livingston, State of Texas, one German Ily ::\Ir. SABATH: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 96) amending cannon or fieldp1ece; to the Committee on l\Iilitary Affairs. the immigration act of Mar 19, 1921; to the Committee on Im Also, a bill (H. R. 3987) authorizing the Secretary of War migmtion and !>laturalization. to donate to the town of Conroe, State of Texas, one GeITllan Hy )fr. FREDERICKS: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 97) for cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on Military Affairs. the appointment of one memher of the Board of Managers of .Also, a . bill (H. R. 3988) authorizing the Secretary of Wat· the Nat ional Home for Disahlecl Volunteer Soldiers; to the to donate to the town of Shepherd, State of Texas, one German Committee on ~Iilitarr Affairs. cannon or fieldpiece; to the Committee on l\lilitary Affair. n.v ::\Tr. TAGUE: Joint resoluti Ily Mr. FITZGERALD: A bill (H. R. 4016) granting an By Mr. LEA of California: A bill (H. R. 4053) for the re· increase of pension to Moses Gol 249: By ~Ir. BURTON: Petition protesting against FTench 270. Also, petitton. of Max Baer~ Placerville, Oalif., in re cut· occupation of Rhine zone ; to the Committee on Foreign A.fralrs. price advertising ; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign 250. By Mr. BYRNS of Tennessee : Papers to accompany Commerce. · House bill 4005, granting a pension to Percy H. Allen ; to the 271. Also, petition of Joseph E. Stansfield, first lleutenarit, Committee on Pensions. • Coast Artillery, and Harold R. McKlnnon, first lieutenant, Ona 251. By Mr. CRillTON: Petitions of Mrs. George Milius, hundred and forty-fourth Field Artillery, at United States secretary Woman's Home Missionary S"ociety, Elkton, Mich., Veterans' Hospital No. 24, Palo Alto, Calif., in re retirement of and Mrs. E. A. Johnson, secretary Huron County Sunday disabled @me.rgency Army officers ; to the Committee on 1\lilltary School Association, Port Hope, Mich., nrging an amendment to .A.1l'airs. prohibit child labor; to the Committee on Labor. 272. By Mr. SABATH: Petition of the city council of the city · 252. By Mr. DOYLE: Petition of city council of the city of of Chicago, Ill., urging Federal control of radio communication; Chicago, Ill., petitioning Congress to amend the Volstead Act to to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. permit the sale of light wine and beer ; to the Committee on the 273. By Mr: SNELL: Petition protesting against any legisla Judiciary. tion prohibiting the manufacture and sale of the pistol and 253. Also, petition of the city council of the city of Chicago, revolver and ammunition; to the Committee on the Judi protesting against the passage of any legislation affecting the ciary. sovereign rights of the States of this Union; to the Committee 274. Also, petition of Mr. A. H. Scudder (representing candy on the Judiciary. manufacturers in the United States), to reduce excise tax of 254. By l\Ir. DRIVER: Petition of the Wynne Chamber of 3 per cent on candy manufacturers; to the Committee on Ways Commerce, Wynne. Ark., in regard to transportation act; to the and Means. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce~ 2fi5. By l\Ir. FULLER: Petition of the city council of. the city SENATE. of Chicago, favoring modification of the Volstead Act to permit the manufacture and sale of light wines and beers; to the Com Tm:snAY, December 18, 1923 . . mi.ttee on the Judiciary. 236. Also, petition of the Chicago Association of Credit Men, The Chaplain, Rev. J. J. Muir~ D. D., offered the following favoring the plan of the Secretary of the Treasury for reduc :prayer: tion of Federal taxation; to the Committee on Ways and 0 God, our Father, every day gives to us an increased im l\Ieans. pression of Thine infinite care over us and how Thou dost 257. Also, petition of the Ottawa (Ill.) Chamber of Commerce, want us to fulfill our obligations in the sight of Him who thus opposing any amendment or change of the transportation act keeps us day by day and enables us- to perform high and holy duxing the present session of Congress; to the Committee on duties. We beg of Thee that we may understand much more Interstate and Foreign Commerce. clearly how to interpret Thy ways and walk in paths agree 258. Also, petition of the Military Order of the World War able to Thy good pleasure, so that now and always there may and various other organizations, favoring retirement of emer be enjoyed the consciousness that we please Thee. Through gency Army officers disabled in the service; to the Committee Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. on Military Affairs. 259. Dy Mr. KAHN: Petition of Dolores Parlor, No. 208, The reading clerk proceeded to read the Journal of yester Native Sons of the Golden West, San Francisco, Calif., urging day's proceedings, when, on request of l\Ir. LonGE and by the enactment of laws excluding from entry into the United unanimous consent, the further reading was dispensed with States all persons ineligible for citizenship; to the Committee and the Journal was approved. on Immigration and Natnralization. GEORGE A. SANDERSON, SECRETARY OF THE SENATE. 260. By Mr. l\IAcGREGOR : Petition of Maurice A. Wall Chapter of the Disabled Veterans of the World War, protesting l\Ir. LODGE. Mr. Presid~nt, I ask the permission of the any reduction in tratining maintenance pay; to the Committee Senate to have passed two formal resolutions of notification on Military Affairs. which I omitted to present yesterday. 261. Also, petition of Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, Buffalo, The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolutions will ba N. Y., approving the tax-reduction plan of Secretary Mellon; read for- information: to the Committee on Ways and Means. The resolution ( S. Res. 85) was read, considered by unani· 262. Also. petitiDn. of city council of the city of Chicago, to mous consent, and agreed to, as follows: so amend the- Volstead Act that light wines and beer will be Resolved, That the President of the United States be notified ol the permitted; to the .Committee on the Judiciary. election of George A. Sanderson, of Illinois, as Secretary of the Senate. 263. Also, petition of city council of the city of Chicago, Ill., The resolution ( S. Res. 86) was read, considered by unani· protesting against any legislation affecting the sovereign rights mous consent, and agreed to, as foUows: of the States of the Union; to the Committee on. the Judiciary. 264. Also, petition of Typothetae of Buffalo, an association of Resolved., That the House or Representatives be notified of the elec~ employing printers, approving the tax-reduction plan of Secre-· tion of George A. Sanderson, of Illinois, as Secretary of the Senate. tary l\Iellon; to the Committee on Ways and Means. HOLIDAY RECESS. 265. By· Mr. RAKER: Petition of Louis A. Elmore, Berkeley, Calif., in re legislation relati-ve to salaries of railway postal l\lr. W ARREl~. From the Committee on Appropriations I clerks; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. report back favorably without amendment House Concurrent 2C6. Also, petition of National Council of Traveling Sales Resolution No. 7, and I ask for its present consideration.. men'::; Associations, New York City, in re Pullman surcharge; The concurrent resolution was read, considered by unanimous to the Committee on Ways and Means. consent, and agreed to, as follows : 267. Also, petition of citizens of New York and various na Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring tional organizations, indorsing legislation relative to retirement thcrefri), That when the two Houses adjourn on Thursday, December of emergency Army officers; to the Committee on Military 20, 1923, they stand adjourned until 12 o'clock meridian Thursday, Affairs. January 3, 192-t. 268. Also, petitions of the B. F. Keith circuit of theaters, INTEREST UNDER TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ACT. New York City, in re income tax; National Association of Up holstered Furniture Manufacturers, Chicago, Ill., in re income The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a report tax and soldiers' bonus; California Corrugated Culvert Co., of the Alien Property Custodian in response to Senate Resolu We t Berkeley, Calif., in re income tax ; and Citizens Trust & tion 49 (agreed to December 12, 1923. submitted by Mr. WAT Savings Bank, Los Angeles, Calif., in re income tax and soldlers' SON), giving. information as to certain accrued interest under bonus; Chamber of Commerce of the State of Ne\1 York, in re the trading with the enemy act, which was referred to the Com income tax; to the Committee on Ways and l\Ieans. mittee on Finance and ordered to be. printed. 269. Also, petitiops of C. L. Best Tractor Oo., San Leandro, SAL.ARIES OF FARM LOAN BOARD. Calif., in re income tax and soldiers' bonus; l\loreland l\lotor Truck Co., Los Angeles, Calif., in re income tax and soldiers' The PRESIDENT pro tcmpore laid before the Senate a report bonus; National Association of Real Estate Boards, Chicago, of the Federal Farm Loan Board, made in compliance with III., in re income tax; the Little River Redwood Co., Cannell, Senate Resolution 22 (agreed to December 10, 1923, submitted Calif., in re income tax; and Western Pipe & Steel Co. of Cali by Mr. BoRAH), transmitting information relative to salaries, fornia, San Francisco, Calif., in. re income tax; to the Com positions, and expenses of said board, of the Federal farm-loan mittee on Ways and Means. bank, and Federal Farm Loan Bureau, which was referred to