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13y 1\Ir. I~ESHER : Petition of citizens of Orangeville, Pa.. Also., petition of Rev. J. J'. Christner, Wauneta, Nebr., favor· favoring prohibition as a war measure; to the Committee. on the · ing prohibition of the manufacture of alcoholic liquors • as a J uilieiary. · measure of ·food conservation; to the Committee on the Judl· · Also, petition of citizens of Snydertown, Pn., favor.1ng prohi­ ~~ ~ bition as u war measm·e; to the Committee on tb~ JuUnited States Shipping Chinese into the United States; to the Committee on Immigra­ Board. transmitting, in response to a re olution of the 5tb tion. ultimo. the information that the total merchant construction in By Mr. O'SHAUNESSY: Petition of Swedish-American Good American shipyards, including completed and undelivereu ves­ Templars of Rhode I land, favoring prohibition as a war meas­ Rels under contract with all persons, corporations. or . govern· ure; to the Committee on the Judiciary. ments other than the Government of the United States, as of Also, petition of Trinity Baptist Church of Providence, R. I., May 1, 1917, was, of steel, 537 ships, of a total gross tonnaO'e of favoring the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of intoxi­ 2,039,2q1 tons; and of wood, 167 ve els, of 214,753 tons, which cating beverages in the United States; to the Committee on the was referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be Judiciary. printed. By Mr. RAMSEYER : Petitions of sundry citizens of Pulaski PETmONS AND MEMORIALS. and Ewart, Iowa, favoring national prohibition; to the Com­ The VICE PRESIDENT presented resolutions adopted by mittee on the Judiciary. By Mr. REED: :Memorial of D. F. Clayton, president, and the Connecticut ~ociety of the Order of the Founders and 0. D. CH:mla ns, secretary. of the Clarksburg (W. Va.) Branch Patriots of America at the annual meeting held in Hartford, of the Railway Mail Association, relative to increase in pay of Conn., April 19, 1917, pledging to the P1·esident and Government of the United States their patriotic and loyal support· in the railway mail employees; to the Committee on the Post Office active conduct of the war, which were referred to the Committee and Post Roads. on Foreign Relations. ' By Mr. ROSE: Petitions of memoors of various churches of 1\lr. NELSON presented a petition of the Arbo {Minn.) Farm­ the State of Pennsylvania, favoring national prohibition as a ers' Club, praying for national prohibition as a war measure, war measure; to the Committee on the Judiciary. which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. SCHALL: Petition of Rev. Justus Porist and others, He also presented a telegram in the nature of a petition from of Clearwater, 1\Iinn., favoring prohibition as a war measm-e; to Lodge No. 770, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of the Committee on the Judiciary. Little Falls, 1\finn., pledging support to the President, which By Mr. SHALLENBERGER: Petition of Frank McCara, Cur­ was ordered to lie on the table. tis, Nebr., favoring prohibition of the manufacture of alcoholic l\!r. NELSON. I present two te1egrams embodying resolu­ liquors as a measure of food conservation ; to the Committee on tions -of the Senate of the State of 1\linnesota, which I ask may the Judiciary. be printed in the REcoRD. Also, petition of Rev. L. 1\L Thompson, Franklin, Nebr., favoring prohibition of the manufacture of alcoholic liquors as There being no objection, the telegrams were ordered to be printed in the REcoBD, as follows: a measure of food

the Congress of the United States to declare that a state of war exi8ts Methodist Episcopal Chureht of" Newport; of the congregation bet"rleen the Imperial Government of Germany and the United States; . of -the Methodist Episcopal Church of East Newport; of the and be it further "Resol~:ed, 'l'hat the senate of· the State of Minnesota does hereby . congregation of the Porte:r Baptist Church, of Pittsfield; of confidentially express the hope and does hereby request that every : the congregation of the Free Baptist Church of Limerick; Renator and Representative of the Congress of the United States from the State of Minnesota wlll vote to sustain the President in the advice · of the congregation of the First Baptist Church of Stock- and request set forth in said message; and be it further holm; of the congregation of the ~'ederated: Churches of "Resolted, That the senate of the State of Minnesota does hereby Atkinson ; 1 of tlie congregation of the Methodist Episcopal solemnly pledge its support to the President and to Congress in the policy set forth in saia message and in the mea ures necessary to carry Church of North Jay; of the cvngregation of the First Baptist out the declarations therein contained and to take such action during Church of Rumford; . of the congregation of the Methodist this legi lative se ~ion, so that all of the re ourccs of thiS great State Episcopal Church of East Corinth ; of the congregation of the in men and material, so far as may be neces ary for the purpose of carrying out such war, be unreservedly placed at the disposal of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Smyrna Mills ; of the congrega­ Government of the United States ; and be it further tion of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Bethel; of the con- ' "Resolved, That the secretary of the senate is hereby instructed im­ gregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Fairfield; o:f ml'diately .to wire the President and to each of the Senators and Repre­ the congregation of the Washington Street Baptist Church, of • entatives in Congre from this State a copy of thi re~olution . " GEo. W. PEACHEY, Sect·eta.ry. Eastport ; of the congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Guilford; of the congregation of the Baptist Chm·ch of Mapleton; of the congregation of the Free Baptist Church ST. PAUL, MINN., Apr·iL S, 1917~ of Mars Hill; of the congregation of the Congregational Church Senator KNCTE XELSON, Washington, D. 0.: of Steuben; of the congregation of the Universalist Church of :Messrs. Nolan and Pratt offer the following resolution: "Resolved, That the house of representatives of the· State of Minne­ Rumford; of the congregation of the Union Evangelical Church, sota does hereby solemnly approve and indorse the President of the of Greenville; of the congregation of the Congregational Church United States and his message to Congress given on April 2, in which of Union; of the Federated Churches of Charleston; of the con­ he advises the Congress of the United States to declare that a state of war exist between the Imperial Government of Germany and the gregation of the Free Baptist Church of Littleton; of the con­ United States ; and be it gregation of the Baptist Church of Lamoine ; of the Pastors' "Resolved, That the house of representatives of the State of Minne­ Union of Waterville; of the congregation of the First Parish sota does hereby confidently express the hope and does hereby request that every Senator a.nd Representative in the Congress of the United Church of York; of the Congregational Church of Rockland; States from the State of Minnesota will vote to sustain the President of the congregation of the- Bodwell Street Methodist Episcopal in the advice and request set forth in said message; and be it further Church, of Sanford; of the congregation of the First Uni­ uResol,;ed, That the house of representatives of the State of Minne­ Rota does hereby solemnly pledge its support to the President and to versalist Church of Dexter ; of the congregation of the Methodist Congress in the policy set forth in said message and in the measures to Episcopal Church of Kezar Falls; of Alexander Hamilton and 41 carry out the declaration therein contained and to take action during other citizens of Old Orchard; of the congregation of the Meth­ this legislative session that all of the resources of this great State in men and material, so far as may be necessary for the purpose of carry­ odist Episcopal Church of Cornish; of the congregation of the ing out such war be unreservedly placed at the disposal of the Govern­ Highland Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, of Gardiner; ment of the United States; and be it further of the congregation of the Baptist Church of Kennebunkport; u Resolved, That the chief clerk of the house of representatives is hereby instructed immediately to wire to the President and to each of of the congregation of the Universalist Church of Old Town; of the Senators and Repre ·entatives in Congress from this 1State a copy of the congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Kenne­ the resolution." bunh--port; of the congregation o.f the Congregational Church of OSCAR ARNESON, Ohief Olerk. Orono; of the congregation of the First Methodist .Episcopal 1\Ir. S:\IITH of l\Iar:rland pre ented petitions of sundry citi­ Church of Old Town; of the congregation of the Methodist zens of Baltimore, Chesapeake City, and Stockton, all in the Episcopal Church of' Strong ; of the congregation of the Meth- . State of Maryland, praying for the prohibition of the manufac­ odist Episcopal Church of Dover and Fo:Kcroft; of the congre­ ture of foodstuffs into intoxicating liquor, which were referred gation of the School Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of to the Committee on Agriculture and Foresb·y. Gorham; of the congregation of the First Bapti t Church of 1\Ir. WADSWORTH presented petitions of sundry citizens of Sanford; of the congregation of the Woodfords Congregational Buffalo, Wilton, Hector, Newburgh, Jrairport, and Mechanic­ Church of Portland ; of Sidney Cook and 123 other ID€mbers of ville, all in the State of New York, praying for national prohi­ the congregation of the United Baptist Church of Presque bition, which were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Isle; of the congregation of the Berean Baptist Church, of l\Ir. McLEAN presented petitions of sundry citizens of New Brunswick; of the congregation of the .Methodist Episcopal London and Warehouse Point, in the State of Connecticut, pray­ Church of Yarmouth; of W. M. Thompson and 41 other mem­ ing for national prohibition, which were referred to the Com­ bers of the congregation of the Baptist Church of Rockport ; mittee on the Judiciary. of the congregation of the Baptist Church of Freeport; of lie also presented a petition of the Connecticut State Medical the congregation of the First Baptist Church of Lewiston; Society, praying for the abolition by Congress of the patents on of the congregation of the First Baptist Church of Rockland; salvarsan and its closely related products, which was referred of the congregation of the Columbia Street Baptist Church, of to the Committee on Patents. Bangor; of the Danforth class for men of the Colt:ImQia Street He also presented petitions of the Connecticut Branch of the Baptist Chm~ch, of Bangor; of the Baraca class of the Colum­ National League for Woman's Service and of the Housewive~ bia Street Baptist Church, of Bangor; of Rev. J. C. Gregory, Army of Hartford, Conn., and of the Connecticut State House­ of the Congregational Church of Presque Isle; of Local Union wi\es League. praying for Government control of food, which of the Christian Endeavor Society of Portland ; of the com­ were referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. mittee on public safety of Waldo County; of sundry churches He also presented a memorial of the Trades Council of New of Gray; of Rev. H. R. Sisson, of Island Falls; of sundry Haven, Conn., remonstrating against an increase in second-class churches of Skowhegan; of the congregation of the Central postage rates, which was referred to the Committee on Finance. Square Baptist Church, of Portland; of the congregation of the Mr. PAGE presented a petition of the Vermont Branch of the People's Methodist Episcopal Church of South Portland; of the National Woman's Party, praying for the adoption of an amend­ congregation of the Pine Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of ment to the Constitution granting the right of suffrage to Portland; of the congregation of the Preble Chapel of Port­ women, which was referred to the Committee on Woman Suf­ land; of the congregation of the Chestnut Street l\Iethodlst frage. Episcopal Church, of Portillnd; of the congregation of the Mr. IL.~ presented petitions of the faculty and students of Williston Congregational Church, of Portland; of the congre­ Bangor Theological Seminary; of the congregation of the ' Unl­ gation of the Free Baptist Church of South Portland and Cape Yersalist Church of Pittsfield; of Rev. Walter Canham a1!d 27 Elizabeth; of the congregation of the First Free Baptist Church othe1· citizens of Sanford; of a civic mass meeting at New of Portland ; of the congregation of the Washington A venue Sweden; of the congregation of the Congregational Church of Methodist Episcopal Church, of Portland; of the congregation Ashland; of the congregation of the Wesley Methodist Episcopal of the Advent Christian Church of Bangor; of the congregation Church, of Balli; of the congregation of the Bremen Methodist of the Clark Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, of Port­ Episcopal Church, of Bremen..; of sundry churches of Houlton ; land; of the congregation of the Forest A venue Congregational of the public-safety committee and sundry citizens of Bowdoin­ Church, of Bangor; of the congregation of the Congress Square ham ; of the congregation of the Main Street Baptist Church, Universalist Church, of Portland; of the Friendly Arlult Bible of Saco; of the congregation of the Methodist Church of Bridg­ Class of the Virginia l\1.ethodist Episcopal Church, of Rumford ; ton ; of the congregation of the First Congregational Church of George W. Edgerton and 17 other citizens of Thomaston; and of Gray; of the congregation of the First Congregational of Rev. William C. Baker and 52 other citizens of West Scar­ Church of Waterville; of the congregation of the H ebron Bap­ boro, all in the State of Maine, praying for national prdbibi­ tist Church, of Hebron; of the congregation of the Methodist tion as a war measure to conserve food and national e-fficiency, Episcopal Church of Bristol; of the congregation of the P eople's which were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. CONGRESS!ON AL .RECORD- SENATE. JUNE 2,

BILLS ·INTRODUCED. take immediate posses .ion of any ship, chaTter, material, or Bills were introduced, ·read the first time, and, by unanimous plant Of· such per·son, or any part thereof without taking posses­ consent, the second time, and referred as follows: sion of the entire pLant, and may use the same at such timeR By 1\fr. SHAFROTH: and in such mannet· as he may consi<1er n.:!cessary or expedient. A bill ( S. 2383) to place Gustaf Dahlman on the retired list "Whenever the United States shall cancel, modify, suspend, of the Navy with the rank of chief boatswain;·to the Committee or requisition any contract, make use of, assume, occupy, req­ on Naval Affairs. uisition, acquire, or take over any plant or part thereof, or A bill (S. 2384) granting an increase of pension to AUce F. any ship, charter, or material, in accordance with the provisions Brutton; hereof, it shall make just compensation therefor, to be

the equipment of this property as a na.val-operating base, in­ 1\fr. TOWNSEND. I announce the absence of my colleague cluding piers, storehou es, oil-fuel storage, training station, re­ [1\Ir. SMITH of 1\Iichigan] and his pair with the junior Senator creation grounds for the fleet, aviation, and other purposes, from Missouri [Mr. REED]. This announcement may stand for $1,600,000; in all, $3,000,000." the day. And the Senate agree to the same. • Mr. CURTIS. I was requested to announce that the junior That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend­ Senator from West Virginia [1\Ir. SUTHERLAND] is absent on ment of the Senate numbered 86, and agree to the same with an official business. I will let this announcement stand for the day. amendment as follows: In lieu of the matter inserted by said I also desire to announce that the Senator from New Jersey amendment insert the following : [Mr. FRELINGHuYSEN] is absent on the business of the Senate in "SEc. 4. That the service of all persons selected by draft and committee meeting. all enlistments tmder the provisions of the act entitled 'An act 1\Ir. WADS WORTH. I desire to announce that my colleague, to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military the junior Senator from New York [Mr. CALDER] is necessarily Establishment o::: the United States,' approved l\1ay 18, 1917, detained from the Senate to-day. shall be for the period of the war, unless sooner terminated by Mr. 'VEEKS. I wish to announce that my colleague [Mr. discharge or otherwise. Whenever said war shall cease by the LoDGE] is absent on important business for the day. He has a conclusion of peace between the United States and its enemies general pa.ir with the senior Senator from Georgia [Mr. SMITH]. in the present war, the President shall so declare by a public This announcement may stand for the day. proclamation to that effect, and within four months after the Mr. GERRY. I desire to announce the unavoidable absence date of said proclamation or as soon thereafter as it may be of the Senator from Oregon [Mr. CHAMBERLAIN], the Senator practicable to transport the forces then serving without the from Arizona [Mr. AsHURsT], the Senator from Utah [Mr. United States to their home station, the provisions of said act, KING], the Senator from Wyoming [Mr. KENDRICK], and the in so far as they authorize compulsory service by selective draft Senator from Kansas [Mr. THOMPS~N] on official business. or otherwise, shall cease to be of force and effect." I also desire to announce the unavoidable absence of the Sena­ And the Senate agree to the same. tor from Illinois [Mr. LEWIS] on important business and the That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend­ absence of the Senator from South Carolina [Mr. TILLMKN] on ment of the Senate numbered 87, and agree to the same with an account of illness. amendment as follows: In lieu of the matter inserted by said I ask that this announcement may stand for the day. amendment insert the following: Mr. BUSTING. I have been requ~ted to announce that the "SEc. 5. That, in addition to the reports now required by law, Sen.'ltor from Arkansas [:Mr. RoBINSON] is detained on official the Secretaries of the Treasury, 'Var, and Navy shall each on business. the first 1\londay in December, 1917, and a:mually thereafter, ')'he VICE PRESIDENT. Fifty-two' Senators have an wered transmit to the Congress a detailed statement of all expen­ to the roll call. There is a quorum present. diture under tllis act." 1\It. SHAFROTTI. 1\Ir. President, the proposition that is And the Senate agree to the same. before the Senate at the present time is an amendment offered THOMAS s. MARTIN, by the Senator from New Mexico [1\Ir. FALL] which provides 0. ,V. UNDERWOOD, that the 640-acre homestead act which was passed in the F. E. WARREN, Sixty-fourth Congress shall be so modified as to permit entries Managers on the pa1·t the _Senate. I of without reference to the (lesignating provisions which were JOHN J. FITZGERALD, contained in that act. Ib other words, it permits the filing of SwAGAR SHERLEY, homestead entries upon all tl1e remaining grazing and agricul­ Manage-rs on the part of the House. tural lands in the State of New Mexico, the State of Colorado, the State of Utah, and the State of South Dakota. The report "·as agreed to. There has been a dispute as to the wisdom of pas ing this PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL. amendment. The Senator from Wisconsin [1\Ir. BusTING] has­ contended that it should not be passed, and he ha ~ stated cer­ A message from the President of the United States by Mr. tain objections which it seems to me are not well foundeil. Sharkey, one of his secretaries, announced that the President He refers to the fact that there might be large areas of mer­ had, on June 1, 1917, approved and signed the follo"·ing joint chantable timbPrland which might be taken up. TQ.ere is 1w resolution: occasion for alarm upon that score, because the Interior De­ S. J. Res. 66. Joint resolution making immediately available partment and the Department of Agriculture have taken evN·y moneys appropriated for the investigation of the pneumatic acre of land containing a stick of timber that is worth selling mail-tube service in the act approved March 3, 1917. or putting in the market anrl reserved it, and the amendment REPORT OF THE COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS. which is proposed by the Senator from New l\Iexico only applies The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the follow­ to "all public surveyed unreserved lands" within the States ing mes age from the Pre ident of the· United States, which named. Consequently, it seems to me when you conjure up a was read, and, with the accompanying papers and illustrations, theory that there may be taken large areas of lands that are referred to the Joint Committee on Printing: valuable for timber, the contention can not be supported. For To the Senate and House of Representatives: the last 20 years the department has been reserving every acre of land which could be subject to reservation because of it. I transmit herewith, for the information of the Congress, the timber yaJue. The amendment which is offered by the Senator report of the Commission of Fine Arts for the fiscal year from New Mexico does not and can not apply to those lands. ended June 30, 1916, with accompanying illustrations. The Senator from Wisconsin say also that there might be WOODROW WILSON. some lands that would be susceptible of irrigation. There is THE WHITE HousE, June 2, 1917. no danger of any of tl1ese irrigable lands being wasted. In AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. the first {ilac-e, all the available lands for irrigation enterprise~ The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the con­ of a limited nature, which would apply to a man taking up sideration of the bill (H. R. 4188) to provide further for the 640 acre , ha\e been entered and patented. Some large enter­ national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and nrises might be undertaken eovering vast areas. but nearly all facilitating the distribution of agricultural products. the waters of the streams of my State and, I am convinf'ed, of :Mr. KENYON. l\1r. President, I suggest the absence of a New Mexico also, have been appropriated long since, anti only quorum. some resE-rvoir sites are left. 'l'hat would be about the only The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will call the roll. available source that could be used in the iiTigation of Janus, The Secretary called the roll, and the following ' Senators an­ and those would not be subject to be taken up by a homesteader. swered to their names: because they have been largely reserved for power purpose:::. Bankhead Hale Martin Shields and because it takes infinitely more money than the Yalue of n Beckham Hardwick Myers Smith, Ga. homec;;teau to construct such reservoir. So the points of danger Brady Hitchcock Nelson Smoot Brandegee Hollis New Sterling that have been referred to, in my judgment, do not exist, espe­ Culberson Busting Newlands Thomas cially not in the State of New Mexico or in the State of Cummins Jones, N.Mex. Overman Townsend Colorado. Curtis Jones, Wash. Page Trammell Fall Kellogg Pittman Vardaman· This whole evoluti-on in homestead laws has grown out of Fletcher Kenyon Ransdell Wadsworth the physical conditions resulting from the arid and semiarid France Kirby Reed­ Walsh nature of the lands of the .West. One hundrerl and sixty acres Gallinger McCumber Shll.froth Watson Gerry McKellar Shepparj Weeks of land in the humid regions that were available under the Gore McLean Sherman Williams original homestead-entry laws were worth ten times th~ 3214 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JUNE 2, amount of money in productivity as these unappropriated lands to the lands of New 1\fexico without the designation required by in the State of Colorauo. the act; in other words, under the 6-!0-acre homedead act it ''as Of course we have reclaimed large areas of. land by irrigation. provided that the Secretary of the Interior should classify the There is no land in the world that is superior to that, but all land , and not have subject to the act lancls which contain the waters have been appropriated e cept those that might be ;nerchantable timber or lands that are susceptible of irrigation. use(] in newly constructed reservoirs. It is now the contention of the Senator from New Mexico, and Tbe object anu purpose of the homestead law has been to my contention also, that as to ColOI ado and New l\lexico prac­ permit a person to a vail himself of the public lands for the tically_all of the laud that is left is not that ·which contains any purpose of making and building a home. He can not ordinarily \aluable timber or which can be irrigated without enormous do H from the remaining public land with any less acreage expense. . than 640 acre . It is true that under the 320-acre homestead 1\lr. GALLINGER l\lr. President, all that I ball require, so act n-e ha\e hnes of the 320.acre homestead act; there were 11,000 in the ally buying his land. I might say here, in passing, that the State of Colorado; and 7,000 in the State of New Mexico; that Government would have been performing a splendid service had is to say, t11ere are still lands in those States of such value it informed prospective settlers and homesteaders of the actual which are open l:o appropriation under the 320-acre homestead act conditions, of the amount of rainfall there, and so forth-a . erv­ that 14,000 people went out and took lands in our State, 11,000 ice which the Government seemingly took no pains to render. took lands in the State of Colorado, and 7,000 took lands in the Then, in addition to the Government, there were the railroads State of New Mexico. Accordingly, it seems to me a necessary all the while carrying on an advertising campaign and, for the deduction from that that there is no occasion for now increasing sake of business for the railroads, inviting settlement.· And the size of the homestead, which, as a matter of course, divides then, in addition to the railroads, there were the land agents, by two the number who will be able to a\ail themselves of the persistent and energetic, everywhere booming these land . All lH'ovisions of tJ1e proposed Jaw. this induced settlement under conditions and upon lands on 1\lr. GALLINGER. 1\lr. President, I will ay to the Senator which the settlers could not make a living, either on 160 acres or from Montana that it is a matter of regret to me that I did even on 320 acres. The land, although apparently fair to look not hear his observations on yesterday. The Senator is doubt­ upon, being generally level and appearing as if it might be less aware of the fact that the Committee on Finance, of which made easiJy subject to the plow and cultivation, yet, after all, I chance to be a member, has been kept very diligently at work is grazing land,· properly speaking. After the reservations of on the re\enue biU. The result has been that Senators so en­ which I speak were opened up nnd had been settled, there were gaged have of necessity missed the ·e most interesting discus­ four successiYe absolute crop ·failures. That is the situation in sions of public measures. That has been a matter of Yery deep western South Dakota, and it is the situation with reference to regret to me, but I pm~ticularly am sorry that I did not hear the remaining unreseryed and unappropriated lands on other the Senator from Montana discuss thi wry important question. Indian reservations there. It simply demonstrates that gocHl as Mr. WALSH. We are all aware of the fact that whenever many of these lands may be for grazing they are not adapterl to the Senator ·from New Hampshire :is not here it i by reason successful crop raising. of imperative uuty tl1at takes him el ewhere. The Senator from Utah [Mr. SMooT] reminds me that a l\Ir. NELSON. 1\fr. President, will the Senator from Mon­ comparatively small percentage of these entrie~ are. eyer taken tana yield to me for a que. tion? to final patent. I know how it has been in South Dakota. After l\Ir. WALSH. Yes, ir. trying to make a living on 160 acres for a year, or two or three Mr. NELSOX. Does not the Senator fear, as I Paris Gibson, who was long known to the Senator from Minne­ nities whP.re only eattle grazing is a profitable use ot selllland, non­ sota, and at one time a Senator from my State, and as well­ irrigable land. informed a man on the subject of the public lands as there i I think the Commissioner of the General Land Office has ex­ in the Union. He took the view that it would simply be utilized pressell the e:s:.act truth in that paragraph. as a means of securing great tracts of land by those who de­ The unentered lands I have described, and which ba\e not sired to acquire the public lands co:rruptly. I am not o appre­ been tlesiguated, are not lands adaptable equally to grazing hensive about that myself, although it mu t be admitted that and to farming. They are lands that are adaptable to grazing the larger we make the unit the greater is the tem11tation to acquire lands .corruptly. only. Mr. SHAFROTH and 1\Ir. JO~ES of Washington addressed l\Ir. STETILIKG. l\Ir·. President-- the Chair. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from South Dakota. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from Colorado. Mr. STERLING. I should like to say in answer to the in- l\Ir. SHAFROTH. l\Ir. President, there is an amen(lment quiry of the Senat~n· from Minnesota [l\1r. NELSON] that the pending on which I ·ha\e not spoke~1, and I desire to say a few fact that the most vigorous opponents of the 640-acre home­ words in answer to suggestions which have been made. stead law in· the fir ·t instance were the cattlemen ought to show 1\Ir. KENYON. I make the point of order that the Senator that they are not favorable to this legislation. It will not suit has snoken once. their particular purpose. They were the ones who opposed the l\lr.- SHAFROTH. No; not on the pending amencl~ent. I \AO-acre homestead law ~vhen it was being considered by the moved· an amendment to include Arizona, and I have not said a Committee on Public Lands and were about the only ones who word since that time.·

nnything about this matter, but, if the unanimous-consenl So l\Ir. FALL's amendment a modified was agreed to. agre-ement .amounts to anything, the Senator from New Mt=>xico l\Ir. THO:i\IAS. Mr. President, I offer the amendment which · did nccept the amendment, and Senntors have been speaking I send to the desk. this morrung in violation of the unanimous--consent agreement. The VIOE PRESIDENT. The amendment will be tated. 1\Ir. SHAFROTH. Very weB. The SECRETARY. It is proposed to add to the bill as a new The VICE P HESIDEN1.'. The question ls on the amendment section the following: known as the Fall ::ummdment, as modified. SEC. -. Whenever hereafter dming tbe pre ent war the President 1\Ir. BUSTING. On that I ask for the yeas and nays. shall find that any uoard of trade. chambe1· of commerce. stock ex· The yeas and nays were ordered, and the Secretary proceeded change, or other body or association tran acting businP s in such a way as to be subject lo the regulative power of Congr£>. engaged in, or per· to call the roll. mitting through facllitie alforded by it, speculation in food products 1\Ir. REED (when his name · was called). I transfer my of any character in the form of what are known as futures, or in any pair with the senior Senator from 1\Iichiaan [Mr. SMITH] t{l othet· form 01· character, it may b£' by order of the l're ident suspended until he by proclamation shall d eclare the £>xisting war· to have ended, the senior &mutor from New Jersey Illi. HuGHES] and vote and all agreements, wagers, and contracts for wagers regarding such uyea." food products now and hereafter made in or upon such exchanges, 1\Ir. Sl\IITH of 1\Iaryland (when"' his name was called). I boards of trade, cbamb£>rs of commerce, o1· other bodies or associations, by the members thereof, are hereby pl"Obibited pending such proclama· have a general pair with the senior Senator from Vermont tion. Any person, board of trade, chamber of commerce, stock ex­ [Mr. DILJ .INGHAM]. In his absence I withhold my vote. c.bange, or other !Jolly or a sociatlon willfully violating the provisions Mr. :STERLING (when his name was called). I am paired <>f this section, or any of them, shall be deemed guilty of a mi ·de· meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be puniRbed by a fine of not with the junior Senator from South Carolina {1\Ir. SMITH 1. to exceed 10,000: Pro-vided, That nothing herein shall prevent the I do not see the Senator in the Chamber, and therefore I actual sale or (.lrn·cbase <>f commodities in good faith fo1· actual future withhold my vote. delivery and where the products are to be delivered instead of settled The roll c..1.ll was concluded. for as is usual in speculative trades. 1\Ir. GERRY (after having voted in the affirmative). I havP l\Ir. THOl\IAS. Mr. President, the amendment just offered is a general pair with the junior Senator from New York [1\Ir. the one which, in final hape, I offered to the espionage bill CALDER]. I ruu advised that the Senator from New York is early in the month (jf 1\lay. Since that time the subject bas absent, and I therefore withdraw my vote. been discussed at ron.slderable length by Senators in connection I also wi h to announce the ab ence of the junior Senatm· with other propo ed legislation. I ba Uguldatlon of existing eon· YEAS-41. tracts, was but the forerunner of more drastic steps to be undertaken to Bankhead Gore McLeav. Smoot curb spe<'ulatioo ·in grains. Borah Hale Martin Stt>rling D~>l.,gates trom the grain excbangps of St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Brady llarding New Thomas 1\Iinneapolls, Dulutb, an.t Toledo are expected to m£>et here late to-day Br:mdegee Hardwick Page Townst>nd with th£' board of directors of the Chic·ago board to discuss the situation Cmnmins James Penrose Vardaman in an attempt to evolve a plan for concertPd action by all· the grain Curtis Jones, N. 1\Iex. Ransdell ·wadsworth markets of the country. It was admitt£>d that. with the high prices of Fall Jones. Wash. Reed Weeks grains, the runaway tendenry of tbe market and the national emergency, Fletcher Kenyon Shafroth Williams some radical ,action is necessary. France Kirby Sherman MAY BAR ALL FUTURES. Frelinghuyseu McCumber Shit>lds - Gallinger McKellar Smith, Ga. A possibility that this mlgbt take the form of orders eliminating all NAY8-13. speculation in futures, either stopping such trading entirely or by fixing maximum prices to be adjustPtl as the market requh,es, also wn'i Culberson Kellog"' Phelan Wal h admitted. Oth£>r extraordinary tJteps which lt was aid unofficiallY Hitchcock La Follette Poindexter the conference will be asked to consider are the advisability of establish­ Hollis 1\IyE'rs Sht>ppard ing maximum prices on July and S£>pt E> mber rorn anll uniformity of Busting Nelson Trammell action in demanding ex.L"essive margins to the enll that the purely specu­ NOT VO'rlNG-41, lative element can be .E>IiminatPd from th£> market. Ashurst Hughes Owen Sutherland What was ~;ald to be an informal meeting of rt>presentatlves of the Beckham Johnson, Cal. Pittman Swanson various grain boards wa!': held this fort>noon. Tho e reported present Broussard Johnson. S.Dak. Pomert>ne Thompson lnrlud~>d Uavid Anderson and Frank I King. Toledo: two representatives Calder lndrick Robinson Tillman each from Kansas City and Duluth, five from St. Louis, three from Min­ Chamberlain King Saulsbury UndPrwood neapolis~ and !'resident Uriflin and directors of the Chicago Board of Colt Knox Simmons Warr£>n Trade. Dillingham I.£>wis Smith, Ariz. Watson There was no bnsines" 1n tbe wbeat pit meanwhile, save tbat mem· Fernald Smith. Md. Wolcott bershtps were being hawked about. These sold at the belght of the Gerry ~~~i'itnds Smith, Mich. artlvity ol tbe market 1ast winter as high as $7,600. One man who Goff Norris Smith, S.C.· had three for sale to-day for friends said that he had offered them at Grouna Overman Stone $4,000 without takers. 1917. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 3217j

COOPERATING WITH GOVERNMENT. mitted to the Senate and by the Senate rejected. It has all the Secretary 1\Ierrill, of the board of trade, asserted that the grain men features of a perfectly independent -proposition. The rule seems have been cooperating with the Federal Government. ·• We have a committee of six In Washington," he said, "wht> have to be quite well established that when a bill is formally brought opened headquarters anti have tendered their offices to the Government. before the Senate and is by the Senate rejected the introduc­ "The committee consists of Julius Barnes, of New York and Duluth, tion of another bill during that session of CongreRs covering iden­ thP. Nation's largest exporter; Robert McDougal, of Chicago; F. B. Wells, of Minneapolis; D. F. Piazzek, of Kansas City; Alfred Brandeis, tically thE> same subject is not in order. I inquire of the Chair of Louisville; and W. F. Hauser, of Portland, Oreg." whether the rule is applicable to amendments'? The curtailment of speculation ordered by the board of trade yester­ Mr. THOMAS. If there ls such a rule, the sooner we repeal day res~:lted in further price recessions in early grain trades to-day. July wheat sold off 11 c£>nts to $2.48 and September 8 cents to $2.20. Jt the better. I never heard of such a proposition before. Corn dropped from 2~ to 3~ cents and oats from 1 to H cents. The Mr. \VALSH. I may say-- meeting here of delegations from leading grain exchanges was scheduled Mr. THOMAS. I do not pretend to any knowledge of parlia­ for 3 p. m. to-day. mentary procedure here, but it is very much like the application Two days afterwards this telegram appeared in the news­ of the doctrine Qf res adjudicata, and it has no place here. , papers: Mr. WALSH. I present the matter, I may say to the Chair, CHICA.oo; May 11. simply because .it is not at all unlikely that many of the proposi­ Wheat continued to fall on the Chicago Board of Trade to-day, early losses being 8 to 10 cents. July opened 9 cents under yester­ tions, having been once considered by the Senate and having day's close, at 2.21, and half an hour later bad lost another cent. been disposed of and rejected, will come·up again in connection September was down 7 cents, at $2, and later went to $1.99. with other measures. If the rule itself is sound I can see no !<'lour prices were on the decline. together with various other food­ stuffs, and families that bad stored away huge quantities of provisions reason why it should not apply to a proposition of this charac­ in fear of a "famine" face the prospect of eating maximum priced ter. It is not in the nature of an amendment addressed to any food for the next several months while their neighbors enjoy cheaper existing feature of the bill, but endeavors to engraft on the bill commodities. Flour, which soared to $17.60 wholesale only two days ago,· bas what is substantially an independent proposition as though it dropped to $16. One or two local millers, it was reported to·day, bad were presented to the Senate as a totally separate measure. even offet·ed best grades as low as $15.50. Mr. THOMAS. Before the Senator takes his seat, will he Dealers in all commodities said to-day that the outlook for lower prices is more optimistic than in months, while Mr. Ultimate Con­ cite U1e rule which he invokes'? sumer began to lose a little of that worried look. 1\fr. \VALSH. I find it difficult-- Various reasons were assigned for the marked decline in wheat prices, wtth the resultant drop in flour. The " trade" said it was The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair would like the Sen­ due to far·mers "loosening up " on their wheat holdings. The man on ator from Montlliln to direct the attention of the Chair to. a the street bad an idea that the curbing of speculation bad something rule \Yhich provides that a bill once cons.idered adversely by the to do with it. Senate can not be again introduced and considered at the same I: is quite probable, Mr. President, that both the causes there session of Congress. Probably that is laid down in Jefferson's assigned had something -:.-J do with the fall; but the significant Manual, but it has not been adopted as a rule of the Senate. fact is that, through the o_pprehension consequent upon public However, it appears to the Chair that this question does not discussion, these boards of trade, anticipating legislation .and present that issue. Here is an amendment introduced that has evidently desirous of avoiding it, assumed voluntarily to take been heretofore introduced to a similar bill, and though there the course which this legislation was designed to compel them was a rule which provided that you could not consider a bill to take, anu that the immediate consequence of this voluntary which had been once determined by the Senate adversely it action was a reduction in the price of the subject matter of would not apply to an amendment which had been likewise de­ these contracts, to the benefit of the public, thus emphasizing termined by the Senate on some other bill, because the Senate· the soundness of the attitude which the advocates of this might refuse to adopt an amendment to· a bill for the reason amendment assume, and which ascribes a part, at least, of the that it did not think it was germane when on another bill it inordinate price of the necessities of life to the speculation so might be considered that it was u pro'1er place for the adoption rife upon these exchanges in connection with futures. of such an amendment. Let me say, 1\Ir. President, that this amendment does not in The Chair will therefore hold that the amendment is in order. any wise interfere with the making of those contracts whlch 1\fr. WALSH. I have no other interest in the matter. Senators say are necessary for the protection of legitimate busi­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the amend­ ness, but the making of which is doubtless due to the existence ment offered by the Senator from Colorado. of this gambling feature of the most of these exchanges; for 1\fr. McKELLAR. 1\Ir. President, just a moment before the without that feature the fluctuations to which I called atten­ vote is finally taken. I wish to call the attention of Senators to tion the other day would be practically impossible. They what, to my mind, is quite a remarkable article published in one would be confined to a smaller range and they would take of the foou journals by the Secretary of Agriculture in April place with much less frequency. just passed, in which the Secretary reviews the food conditions In this connection, Mr. President-my remarks, of course, in the counh·y and tells what he knows about it. This article are not and can not be systematic, in view of the shortness of was placed by me in the CoNGRESSIONAL RECORD on page 2913, my time-I want to read an article from a paper called the and in view of the food legislation that we now have and that Censor, published, I think, in Chicago, and dealing with this which is to come, I recommend that Senators look into the arti­ identical question. 'l'he article is as follows: cle. I have not time in the limited· time I have this morning to Ostensibly the bru,iness of the Chicago Board of Trade is dealing in discuss it at length. I can only say that the Secretary shows grain, provisions, and othe1· commodities. In reality the business is all that we have a greater abundance of meats, of fish. of eggs, of the traditional ·• blue sky" variety-scarcely one whit different from milk, cheese, o fcorn, of barley, of oats, and of every other food the notorious " blue !"ky " trading of one sort and another that has been prohibited by law in many States. Of course, not once jn a blue product, except alone wheat, and he goes on to show that we moon does a single bushel of wheat or other grain or a single pound had a very large quantity of wheat brought over from the pre­ of m~t or other commodity figure in any of the so-called business deals. ceding year, which was the banner year in the history of this In fact, as I have beard it put, ·• not one in a thousand of those who put mon~>y into the bottomless bag of the Forty Thieves would know a grain country in the production of wheat. It is to my mind a most of wheat if they should happen to meet it in the public road." There enlightening article, and I commend it. to the Senators. was a ce1·tain gentleman in l:;t. Louis who got on the wrong side of the I have thls in mind on this amendment. The bill which is mark~>t in a Ileal and found himself several hundred dollars to the bad on his margins. It happened that be had a little capital and he backed under discussion has some very good things. A food survey is - l:Jimself up by refusing to sacrifice what be bad ventured, lmt demanded all right, and we authorize the expenditure of a large sum of that the actual wheat be delivered to him. He insisted 1hat the actual wheat be produced and delivered and that be be given 1ne opportunity money for a food survey. A great many clerks are to be em­ of buying and paying for the actual grain instead of mere wind and ployed and others sent out to finish the survE.>y, but, after all, a chalk marlts. The St. Louis agency bad to get and deliver the wheat, food survey does not amount to much. '.rhe Secretnr~ of Agd­ and it was a matter of more trouble to them than anything against which they had bumped in all their business experience. It was the culture has already given us that. It is about what the Secre­ first time, the agent said, in all his experience that he ever bad to tary of Agriculture already has. actually buy and deliver grain. Think of that! Yet thE! books ~nd the There nre various other provisions which do not amount to hlackboards of this agent show purchases and sales of many, many thou· sands of bushels of wheat, corn, oats, and other grain : many, many much, except some that have been offered as amendments in barrels of pork, pounds of other meats, lard, etc. 'l'hen why does this body. The amendment of the Senator from Montana about this Gover·nment license and toleratl:! such a gambling bell as the Chicago the storage of food is a very important amendment and the Board of Trade? . amendment of the Senator from New Mexico [1\fr. FALL] open­ The PRESIDING OFFICER (1\fr. JAMES in the chair). The ing up public lands for farming purposes is an important time of the Senator from Colorado bas expired. amendment, but these amendments are about all there is in the 1\lr. WALSH. Mr. President, a parliamentary inquiry. blil. The main body of the bill as reported here merely pro­ The PR~IDING OFFICER. The Senator will state it. vides for large expenditures in the Department of Agriculture 1\fr. 'VALSH. As the Senator from Colorado has stated, the and puts on the pay rolls of the Government a large body of proposition embodied in his amendment was heretofore sub- additional employees. 3218 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE . JuNE 2,

As it appears to me, there are two vitally necessary things_ in any event. I wish to direct the attention of the Senate to for this Congre s to do on the food question. One is to stop the effect which I am confident would be felt b~ the farmers food gambling and the other is to see to it that the country has of the country if this amendment were adopted. I ha-ve not the the necessary transportation, so that all farm products can be slightest personal Interest or concern in any exchange, grain carried to the consumers of our · country, and after they have exchange, stock exchange, or any other sort of exchange, but I had enough to give to our allies in Europe. Those are the two have very great interest in the prosperity of the people who vital propositions in the food question as I see it. raise the food of the United States and who must be depended I know when the que tion of stopping food gambling was up upon for some years to come to carry a very heavy burden a short time ago on the espionage bill many excellent gentle­ with respect to the production of food for ourselves and for men, many men who ha-ve claimed that they were the farmers' our allies. friends and tbe friend of the people, said: "Oh, yes; we are As I read this amendment, even with the proviso which is in fa-vor of stopping this gambling in 'food products; we are now added at its end, it will be impo sible or illegal in the in favor of wiping it out; we despise food gamblers," and future for a miller, we will say, who desires to purchase yet some of those very gentlemen wlw made speeches on that wheat for future deli-very to hedge against that contract. The side, I recall one distinctly, voted to lay the amendment of my miller, through his broker upon a gra,in exchange, purcha es di tinguished friend from Colorado on the table and the1·eby per­ for future deli-very, we will say, 50,000 bu hels of wheat. He mit the food gambling to go on just the same as before.- They may place that order in the mont11 of June. Wheat is not then claimed then that the food amendment ought not to be put into ripe, and really is not even in existence. The conti·act may call the bill becau e that was not .the bill for it; that that was not for the delivery of that wheat in October. The price is fixed the time; that it ought not to be in an espionage bill; it ought in the contract. The miller who makes that contract to receive to be in a food bill. In the minds of some it seems that tt is the '"heat at a certain price mu t find some way to in ure .. never tl1e time and ne-ver the bill in which to (lo away with him elf against the lowering of the price of that wheat in the food gambling. But we have the food bill up now. 'Vl1at are interim; for if he purchases the wheat for future delivery, we thee gentlemen going to say abont it at this .time? What will say, on October 1 at $2 a bushel and by the time October 1 excu e are tbe e friends of the farmers, the producers, and the comes around the wheat has gone down to $L50 a ·bushel, his con umers going to get up now? How are they going to avoid milling competitor can purchase wheat so much more cheaply a direct vote? This is ju t the simplest proposition in the that lle can under ell tbe fir t miller in the market with his world. Food. aambling does not t1o the producer of foods any flour and 'put him out of business. good. The great farming interests of tbe country are not bene­ So through an evolution extending over many years, as I fiteu by the estab~hment of food gambling houses, and surely understand it, the miller who purchases wheat for future de­ every consumer in the country, and all of us are consumers, are livery insures himself against any urastic change in the price damaged by it. which 'vould make it impossible for him to do ucce ful busi­ There is ju t one thing it seems to me to do. It does look ness by heaging against that conb·act, the hedging bt ing in the to me that it is such a plain proposition a blind man could nature of a sale of future; so that, no matter which way the see it. Every person in the whnle country except Congress­ market has gone in the interim, when October 1 arrives the men see it. There is bm·dly :m individual in the whole miller has insured himself. If the market price of wheat has country who lloes not want Congress to stop food gambling. gone down, his sale of the future compensateS him for what The pres wants us to stop it. The people want us to he otherwise would have lo t haer. di. cussed fairly often in the Senate, and it is not necessary 1\.ir. KIRBY. Mr. Pr ident-- for me to take time to go into it at length. In fact, the rule The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from yew would prevent me from taking more than lQ minutes of time York yield to the Senator from Arkan as? 1917 .. O~JNGRESSIONAL. RE.C0RD-SENATE~ 3219

1\Ir. WADSWORTH. r yield to the Senator· from Arkansas. '! The eyes of' nU interesteq .In grain. a.re now turned' toward the Mr. KIRBY. Is- it not a• fact that the cotton exchangfficlosed l ~!~'thr~~~t. w~~~~o~~ti~~~~~~::00't~a%di~~d~~~e~:~&~ because it knew nothing about the cotton market, and was.. lis now the need.. throughout the winter-wheat bdt:. T.He improvement nfraid to deal iil. cotton at all? ' in. wlnter-whffi.t. prospectS> has been· so-marked- . l\1r. WADSWORTH. I am not commenting as to why· the· Now, listen. to these figures-:- . cotton exchange closed, but I am reciting one of the results of. 'as to bring out· estimates of a p:rnbable.rice of their flour by $2 a barrel-from . gated here. That difficulcy is accentuated when the proposi­ fourteen to sixteen dollars a barrel. All that increase. inur.ea · tion comes-forward under-the 10-minute rule of debate. to the benefit of the speculators and to tlie benefit of the millers; 1 l\Ir. President, I believe there is connected with the grain the farmers got none of it. • exchanges all over the country certain great evils that ought to l\1r. REED. Mr. President-·- be not only arrested but stopped permanently. 1 believe, on the l\1r. NELSO.r . I have only 10 minutes. or r would. yield to l other hand~ that the grain exchanges- perform great ec:onolll1c: the Senator from l\IissouTi. - ·functions that ought not to he interfered, with, and I think any. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Minnesota. bill that is drawn and• brought f-orward should. before it is declines to yield. passed~ be submitted to· a committee, hearings· had, the trutli.. l\Ir.. NELSON. The. action of the Agricultural Department elicited, and the legislation should be then enacted; in. the light was- foun(fed' on a misapprehension. Let me· read· rurt.lier.:- of the· i~vestigatfon and developments. 3220 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. J UNE 2,

1\fr. President, let me call the attention of the Senator from The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Secretary will call the roll. Minnesota [l\Ir. NELSON] to the fact that his argument this The Secretary called the roll, and the following Senato1·.s an­ morning is that the grain exchanges having been closed the swered to their names: result was a reduction in the price of wheat. That would seem Bankhead Hit<;hco~k Myet·s Sherman to argue, therefore, that when the grain exchanges are closed Borah Hollis Nelson Shields Brady Rusting Overman Smoot the tenrlency is to desb·oy -or lower the price of wheat. Brandegee James Page Sterling 1\Ir. J\TELSON. - Does the Senator desire me to answer? Curtis Jones, N. l\lex. Penrose Swanson l\Ir. REED. In a moment, when I have completed my state­ Fall Jones, Wash. Phelan Thomas ment. If that is true as a general rule, then, of course, the France KeJloo-g Pittman '.rt·ammell Frelinghuysen Kenyon Poindexter Underwood tendency of closing the exchanges would be very adverse to the Gallinger Kirby Ransdell Vardaman farmer, because the determination of the market price of wheat Hale McCumlJet· Reed Walsh' Harding McKellar Sbafroth Williams in Chicago or in any other ot the great centers fixes the price Hardwick Martin Sheppard of wheat to the farmer on .vhatever wheat he then has. So that if the closing of these exchanges has any such effect as The · PRESIDING OFFICER .._Forty-seren Senators ha\e that, certainly we ought to go very carefully about the business answered to their names. There is not a quorum pre~en t. of closing them. I have completed that statement, and, al­ 1\Ir. GALLINGER. Let the names of the absentees he though my time is limited, I will yield to the Senator if he de­ calle

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The PRESlDING OFFICER. The amendment as modi~ such exchange to dJscontinue for a time speci-fied by him an dealings in futures; where there is no actual deHvery of the product sold. In will be stated. ca-sG such request of the President is not promptly compiled with then The Secretary read as follows: be is hereby empowered to order such dealings in futures, as last afore* SF.c. -. Wheneve;.· hereafter during the present war the President said, to be entirely suspended and discontinued for such limited time as shn1i lind that any board of trade, chamber of commerce, stock exchange, be may direc·t, and it such order is not promptly complied with he is or other body or association transacting business in such a way as to be hereby empowered to close such grain exchange for the purpose of en­ sul>jcct to the regulaUve power of Congress is engaged in, or permitting forcing such order. through facilities afforded by it. speculation in food products of any C'haraC"ter in the form of what are known .as futures, or in an'y other 1\Ir. REED. l\1r. President, first I wish to say to the Senator form or charaC"ter, it may be by ordte'r of the President suspended until from Colorado and the Senator from Minnesota that they cer­ he by proclamation shall dedare the existing war to have ended, unless tainly both understand I did not mean any discourtesy. the President shall sooner by order set aside such suspension : and all 1\fr. THOl\IAS. The Senator from Colorado understands it agt· e ement~. wagers, and contracts for wagers regarding sucll food prod­ ucts now anu hereafter made in or upon such exchanges, boards of perfectly well. tradP, c·hambers of t'Ommerce, or other bodies or as~ociations, by the 1\Ir. REED. I now ask the attention of the Senator from Colo­ members thereof, arc hereby prohibited pending such proclamation. Any per~on. board of trade, chamber of commerce, stock exchange, or rado, and the Senator from Minnesota also. I think thi-s amend­ other body or association willfully violating the provisions of this sec­ ment in order to be within the power of .Congress ought to be Uon, or any of them. shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. and upon limited to transactions in interstate commerce or to concerns at conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed $10,00(}; Pr01:ided, That nothing herein shall prevent the actual sale or purchase least engaged in interstate commerce. I think our power to of commodities · for future delivery where actual dell very is contem­ legislate on this matter depenus upon our right to regulate in­ plated instead of settled for. as is us~al in spe<'ulative trades. terstate commerce, and I think the words "in interstate com­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the amend­ merce" should be inserted in line 6, after the word "selling," ment of the Senator from Colorado as modified. so that it would read, ''all persons engaged in buying or selling :Mr. KIRBY. On that I ask for the yeas and nays. in interstate commerce for present or future delivery." 1\Ir. REED. Mr. Pre ideut, a parliamentary inquiry. Are 1\Ir. NELSO~. I do not think that is necessary. If the Sen­ we now about to vote upon the amendment offered by the ator will allow me to interrupt him,- the last part of the bill puts Senator from Minnesota? · it under the war power. It is only during the pendency of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Oh. no; that has been ac­ war that tills can be done. and it comes under the war power. cepted by the Senator from Colorado. He has perfected the Mr. REED. I hope the Senator-- amendment by accepting an amendment offered by the Senator 1\Ir. NELSON. If the Senator will allow me further, I hope from .Missouri, one offered by the Senator from Minnesota, and he will let the amendment go in the bill, and then the conferees an amendment mnde by himself. The question now is on the can elaborate and improve it. amendment as perfected. Mr. REED~ I would be forced to vote against the amend­ l\Ir. REED. l\Ir. Presideut~- ment unless tho e words are in, and for this reason : I hold The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair will have to rule that there is no such thing as war DQwer in the sen~e that that that the S<:!Gator from 1\li souri, having spoken once, under the term is now being employed. , Congress has the pov..-er to declare utlunimou -consent agreement, can not do so aUnited States Senate that the law of the land has ceasecl. that ment of the Senator from Colorado as amended. the Constitution is dead because war has been d In buying or selling, for present or future delivery, desire to take issue here and now; as specifically as language any wheat or otht' r food cert> al, in or about any such grain exchange, shall be !mown a ntl designated as trader:;; in grain. can make it, with the statement just made by the distingnishecl All sales of whr-a t or other food cereals by such traders in such ex­ Senator from l\Iinnesota [Mr. NELS0:.'\1']. Congress has no power changes for futui'C' fl Cii'l'f't'y, and not for present or immediate d-elivery, shall be known and

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the tioctrine that Congress bas no atluitioual power noti no 1· Ur. "dECD.- In order tlwt-·matters may not becom3 mixed, I different kind of 11ower in time of war than it has in time of will state that I h11ve tentlf'red an amendment which ha · not peace. The Milligan case, reported in Fourth Wallace, 'an- been acted upon, that afte;.: the word "selling," in' line 6, there nomlced that doctrine as uistinctly as human languuge can should he insertetl the word "in interstate commerce." express it. The l'ltESIDING OFFICER. r.rhe Chair desires to state to To contend that because, forsooth, we have declared war with the Senator from Missouri that his amendment to the amend­ another nation. the organic law of this Republic bas ceased to ment of the Senator from Minnesota was not in order, becauF;c operate. that it no longer has binding force upon the Congress it was in the third degree, and the same ruling applies, of course, of the United States, is something that I neYer expected to to the amendment offered by the Senatot· from Montana. It hear mnde in this body. The power to make war is one of the would ·not be in order unless the Senator from Minnesota ac- express powers conferred upon Congress. cepted it in the way of perfecting his amendment. 1\fr. McKELLAR. 'Vi1l the Senator yield to me? l\fr. HITCHCOCK. l\1r. President, I make the point of order Mr. HARDWICK. Certainly. that the amendment of the Senator from Minnesota is not an l\.1r. l\fcKELLAH. I can tluf Senator's attention to the '\\oru- amendment to the amendment of the Senator from Colorado, ing of the amendmenL It specifically provides that business is but is a substitute. to be interfered with only when such business is subject to the The PRESIDING OFFICER. It is in the nature of an regulative power of Congress. It is directly constitutional amendment. under the very words of the amendment. Mr. HITCHCOCK. It is absolutely a substitute and can be Mr. HARD,VICK. I11 other words, this law is to be consti- perfected by amendment before it is vdteafter it shall be unlaw­ out of business. ful to utilize or perm~t to oe l!tilizPd such building or room as a grain So far as I am concerned, and I say here and now. if we shall exchange or for any per on being a trader in grain on such exchange to engage in thE:' business thPrE:'tofore cc.nducted on or at such closed prohibit gambling in futures, buying up the price of grain and exchange. Any per 01 violating :my of the provisions of this act shall selling it down to the injury of the producer noel consumer. we be punisht'd by a fine of not less than $500 and by imprisonment not will have done more for the eon enation of food in this country more than ont- year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. and for the protection of our people than can be clone by ;1ny .J offer that amendment to the amendment. other sort of law we can pass. Tile PRESIDIKG OFFICEH.. The Cllair will suggest to the The amendment proposed by the Senator from Colorado is well Senator from l\Iontana that the amendment is not in order considered.. It obviates the objection that is raised as to un­ because it woulcl be in the third degree. The Senator from constihltionality by the Senator from Missouri because it does Minnesota if lle desires may perfect. his amendment. not apply to ·intrastate commerce hut only to grain that i .. l\fr. NELSOK. For the purpose of having the matter in­ bought, sold, and sh~pped in interstate commerce, tlie dealing corporated in the bill and go into conference I accept that in which only can be regulated by Congre s, as we all uudel'­ am~ndment as a part of my amendment. stand. That is provided for here. 1917. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE . 3223

The amendment as proposed by the Senato:~: from 1.\Iontan~ _The amendment which I offer relates t() all transactions which [1.\Ir_ WALSH] _does not correct the amendment altogether as are carried on in such a way as tv be subject to the regulative offeret to; nncl that men to realize how easy it would be to carry on the busine s is what is called the "hedging process." I think it is often at which the amendment is aimed and at the same time comply quite necessary in order to cover present purchases to hedge with the trirt requirement· of the law. I do not want to vote against them in ·the future, where the product is not to be

Mr. l\fcCUMBER.. Just one moment. Now, suppose that in­ to make legal a previously illegal transaction. I do not so in· stead of the words " in such a way as to be subject to the regu• terpret the amendment. It simply provided that- lative power Of Con_gress" we insert the words "any products It at any tlme during the pendency of the existing war between the entering into interstate or foreign commerce," and then on the United States and the Germ·m Emplre the President ot the United States shall fi nd that such clealings in futures, in or nbont any grain sixth line, instead of the language n through facilities afforded exchange, unduly, unreasonably, and in an unwarranted manner raise by it, speculation in food products " we should say- "in such or enhance the IJrice of wheat or other food cereals, to the injury of food products." Those would be products which enter into the people of the United State~ he may at once request the traders in such exchange to discontinue ·ror a time specified by him all dealings interstate commerce. Practically all of this wheat, or nearly in futures, where there is no actual delivery of the product sold. In all of it-90 per cent of it at l~ast-that is sold on the specula­ case such request of the President is not promptly complied with, then tive market is grain which enters into interstate commerce. I he is liereby empowered to order such dealing in futures, as last afore­ said, to be entirely suspended and discontinued for such limited time am certainly fearful that the amendment itself would be held as he may direct, and l.f.. such order is not promptly complied with be to be unconstitutional without that change. is hereby empowered to close such grn.in exchange for the purpose of 1\fr. THOMAS. Mr. President, the phrase which the Senator enforcing such order. • from North Dakota [1\fr. l\IcCm.rBEB] quotes was suggested by There is nothing in that amendment which makes legal a the senior Senator from Idaho [Mr. BoRAH] during the discus­ purely gambling transaction in the event that the President does sion of this amendment in connection with the espionage bill. not take any action, or in the event the President should close It was designed to exclude from the operation of the proposed the grain exchanges for dealing in futures, and then should act such transactions as were strictly within the jurisdiction of remove his embargo, or whatever it may be called. This would the States. I accepted it because I then thought, and still not make valid a gambling transaction which would come within think, that during times of war " the regulative power of Con­ the inhibition of the laws of the States: gress" may be more extensive in all probability than that The amendment empowers the President, if in his opinion conferred by the commerce clause of the Constitution. I am the dealing in futures-not only gambling transactions, but therefore inclined to prefer the language suggested by the dealing in futures as it is handled upon these grain exchanges- · Senator from Idaho to that suggested. although it may be sub- should unduly enhance prices, to take steps to stop such trans­ . ject to the critici m of ambiguity which the Sena-tor from North actions or dealings and to stop speculation on boards of trade; Dakota makes. I prefer it becnuse I think that the President but when the order expires it does not make any transaction ' should have full power, although it might not fall within the legal which would othe1·wise be illegal. purview of the commerce clause. I am inclined to believe, after having given this subject a good Mr. McCUl\IBER. I can not now call to mind any other deal of thought, that the only way to really eliminate injurious power under which we -could obtain· any regulative power other spPculation upon boards of trade, which unduly enhance the than through the constitutional provision governing interstate price of grain and other food p1\>ducts, is to place the power commerce. in the hands of some official of the Government to compel the Mr. THOl\IAS. If that is the case, then the language em­ exchanges to censor their own trades and to eliminate illegal ployed is ample. speculation. The grain exchanges and the other exchanges of The VICEJ PRESIDENT. The time of the Senator from this country to a very large extent know their customers, and North Dakota has expired. can, when backed by authority, aid in stopplng injurious specu­ l\Ir. JONES of New l\1exico. Mr. President, I merely want to lation. It will not do to pass n law prohibiting all dealing in ask the Senator from North Dakota a question. I shall do it what are called futures. "Futures" mean, in ordinary trans­ in my time, and the Senator can answer in ·my time if he actions, the :;;ale or purchase of commodities for future delivery; choose ~ to do so. - and to close the exchanges of this country would to a large ex­ The Senator has referred to the fact that it is necessary to tent clo~e the markets of the country. put into the bill the language " buying or selling of wheat in I believe that the amendment offered by my colle%ot· change is located. How can you get at this thing if you limit tom of the first page of the bill defines " futures " as follows: ' the dealings to transactions in interstate or· foreign commerce? All sales ·of wheat or other food cereals by such traders In such Mr. McCID.IBER. Might I ask the Senator a question in his exchanrres for future delivery and not for present ot· immediate de­ livery 6hall be known and designated as dealings in futures. time? When the President finds' that such dealings have unduly 1\Ir. JO~'ES of New 1\fexico. I shall be pleased to answer the enhanced ·prices, the amendment provides that- Senator's question; if I can. ne may at onc-e request the traders in such exchange to discontinue 1\lr. McCUMBER. Is it not true that that kind of contract for a time specified by him all dealings in futures, where there is no is already prohlbited by State law and is made criminal? I actual delivery of the product sold. refer to the contract of which the Senator speaks, where there 1\fr: NELSON. In the amendment that I have offered I is no intention to deliver. But, if I may call the Senator's at­ have stricken out those words. tention to a fact, he will find that the exchanges in their printed 1\Ir. 'VALSE. Very good. -regulations concerning trade strictly prescribe that there must Mr. NELSON. I have omitted the words "where there is be deliveries in all cases. They also provide for punishment no actual delivery of the product sold" in the amendment as I nnd damages if there is a failure to comply with a contract. have offered it. So upon the face of it they are dealing in real articles. 1\fr. WALSH. I am glad to be informed by the Senntor. 1\fr. JO:r--TES of New Mexico. I understand that supposedly There is, however, one other suggestion I should like to make they are dealing in real articles; but that, like some other as­ to the Senator. I think the words "unduly, unreasonably, and sumptions, I am quite convinced is a violent one in many of in an unwarranted manner" should be in the disjunctive. these transactions. As uming, however, that every one of them The three conditions should not combine; but when the Presi­ is of that character, where they ·expect to get the wheat, they dent " shall find that such dealings * * * unduly or un­ expect the wheat to be delivered at the place of purchase, if at rea onably raise.. or enhance the price," and so forth, his power all; they do not buy the wheat for delivery somewhere else, to act shall attach. I suggest to the Senator that he strike but it is to be delivered at the place of purchase. Therefore out the words " and in an unwarranted manner " and insert there is ab olutely nothing in the transaction to indicate that .the word "or " between the word " unduly " and the word the wheat is going into inter tate commerce or foreign com­ "unreasonably," so that it shall read that whenever he shall merce after its purcha e. So I wanted to inquire whether, find "that such dealings * * * unduly or unreasonably raise even though the amendment were amended in the particular or enhance the price," and so .fJorth. suggested by the Senator :t'rom North Dakota, it would accom­ 1\lr. REED. 1\lr. President-- pli h the purpose which is sought to be accomplished by the The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from :Montana amendment? · yield to the Senator ·from l\1is ouri? 1\lr. KELLOGG. 1\fr. President, I do not know that I exactly 1\.lr. ·wALSH. Yes. understand the objection which the Senator from North Dakota Mr. .REED. I wggest to both Senators that if we simply [Mr. l\IcCm.rBER] made to the substitute offered by the senior use the word " unreasonably " it will completely co\er ·the case, Senator from Minnesota, my colleague [Mr. NELSON] . I under­ and that we r eally weaken the sentence by putting in the stood the Senator to say that he thought the· substitute tended other phrase.

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Mr. KELSON. I accept the amendment suggested by the and we would in that case produce in a year approximately Senator from _fontaua, if I correctly understand it. It is to $18,000,000,000 worth of foodstuffs ; but less than one-third of insert, in line 6, after the word "unduly," the word "or," our tillable land is now cultivated, and if we, while producing and to strike out the word ''and," in line 7, and insert the woru as much per acre as the Germans, should then double the acre­ " or " there also. · age of land under cultivation, we could produce this year l\fr. W~ll.SH. I would strike out, I will suggest to the Sen­ $36,000,000,000 worth of foodstuffs. ator from 1\Iinnesota, the words "and in an unwarranted man­ 'l'he condition in this country is totally different from the con­ ner," so ns to read that when the President " shall find that dition in Emope. There the acreage is absolutely circumscribed. snch r1enling8 ':' * * unduly or unreasonably raise or en­ The only thing which they can do under these circumstances is hance the price." to take up the question of food control; but our acreage is al­ Mr. NELSON. I have no 'objection to that. I will accept most unlimited, and the potential supplies of food in the soils thAt amendment, Mr. -President. ot this country are almost beyond computation, and we should 1\Ir. REED. Now, 1\Ir. President, I renew my suggestion to talk therefor not so much about food control but rather about the Senator. 'Ve know, to a large extent, what "unreason­ how to stimulate food production. ably " means in the. law; it has been defined; but there is un- If this legislation is designed to reduce -the price of wheat, - certainty and ambiguity about the word "unduly" and the ex­ then it discourages the production of wheat; and the surest way }wession "in an unwarranted manner." One could hardly say now to destroy this country is to enact legislation which tends n thing unduly raised the price unless it unreasonably raised to discourage the production of foodstuffs. While such a policy the price. as this may relieve an immediate situation, the dangers that The VTCE PRESIDEN'£. The Chair will inquire if the Sen­ will confront us next spring will be by such measures increased n tor from Missouri has made a speech on this amendment? a thou and folxchange ~. and upon a total misapprehension of the food prob­ anu if we take the ueces ary steps to insure the farmer a reas­ lem in this country. onable supply of labor, the problem of our food supply will be If this proposed legislation has any purpose whatever, the Yery greatly simplified. purpose i to reduce the price of fooustuffs. There is but one way to retluce the price of food in this country, and that is to The problem before us is uot chiefly a problem of the dis­ produce more food. It seems almost ridiculous that anybody tribution of food and other supplies, but rather the proper houll1 lJe compelled to say that; but in a grave national emer­ distribution of the available labor, a distribution which must be gency, where the very existence of this Nation depends upon an made with due consideration for the relative importance of the adequate food supply, we hear constant talk about "food regu­ various lines of activity which mnst be carried on in om· lation," " food control," and "food dictatorships," and but prosecution of this war. rarely one sin~le 'WOrd about. the neces ity of increasing the f>~rsonally I believe that our part in this war shoulu be, for production of foodstuffs. the present at least, the efficient adaptation of our man power I hold no brief for t.he grain exchanges of this country ; but to the production of those absolutel~v necessary supplies, and I I do want to speak for the producers of this counh·y, whose in­ refer particularly to the food supplies, without which, in a fnr terests have been so long neglected in our legislative halls, a greater abundance than they are now available, the allies can neglect which has brouCJ'ht about the very serious condition not continue to hold their lines in Europe. In some way we which some hope will be.cured by this single act of legislation. must put a premium upon the production of those articles which l\1r. President, the average annual value of the crops in the are most necessary. United States is about $9,000,000,000. If our farmers could Sir Alfred Booth, of England, the head of the Cunard Co., in secure the labor we could proquce as much of a crop upon our speaking of some of the serious blunders made by England

Alumed . bY,>cr will certainly cut the arteries. ofi our national life and fer· my pair with. the junio.rr Senator- from Georgia [Mr. BAlm­ leave this giant Nation weak and. prostrate at the feet-of our W:WK] to the junior Senator from California [1\fr. JoHNso~~J awl enemy, an enemy which has· shown sucli wisdom in food. ' legis-- willJet.my vote stand: lation as to be now almost invincible in strength for action. 1\11~ WATSON. I transfer· my pair with the junior Sennto1r The VICE. FRESIDENT. The time of tlie Senator from ·from.Delaware· [Mr. WoLCOTT] to the junior~ Senator from Ne· &ryland has e.x:pired. bra.ska [1\Ir. NORRIS.] and ·vote "yea." lUr. illTCHCOelK. l\11'. EresidEmt, T desire to supp-ort the Mr. STERLING. I have a •pair with the junior Senntor from substitute offered by the Senator from Minnesota. [Mr. NELSON]. South Carolina [Mr. SMITH] and therefore withhold my vote: d If at liberty to vote, I would vote" yea." If there is any evil that nee s to- be cm:ed now it is tl1e specula- Mr. BECKJI'Al\1.. I nave a..paiJ.~ with the junior Senator from tion in foodstuffs, and his amenilinent, in my opinion, will come West Virginia ~ [Mr. SUTHERLAND]. I understand that he has as near doing that as anything that can be devised. • I agree with much that the SenatoY · from Maryland [Mr. not·voted. so I withhold my vote. ff 1\lr. WALSH. I have been~ requested to announce that the FRANCE] bas said, that the very- e: orts which have heretofore- Senator from Rhode Island [1\Ir. GERRY], the s nator from been made and the agitation which bas-heretofore been carried on against the price of fbod has-liad' tlie very tendency..whlch is Arkansas [lli. RoBINSON], and the Senatoi· from California [Mr. PHELAN] are detained on official business. objectionable; that is to say, to discourage the production of Mr. CURTIS. I have been requested to announce the fol- food. The·only way in which-this country can restrain an ad- vance in the· cost of food is to increase .the production of food, lowing pairs: and the high prices which now prevail will offer an inducement The Senator from New York [1\Ir. CALDER] with the Senator from Rhode Island [1\fr. GERRY] ; for a large production of food this year. The Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. COLT] with the Senator Every experiment that' has ever been. tried in the direction of from Delaware [Mr. SAULSBURY] ; aboli bing produce and grain exchanges has been disastrous. The Senator from 1\Iaine [Ml~. FERNALD] with . the Senator Germany tried it 10 or 15 years ago and was compelled to restore from South Dakota [l\1r. JoHNSoN]; trading in food and farm products on the exchanges, because The Senator from .West Virginia [1\Ir. Go.FF] with the Senator without tllose exchanges there was no fann market, no food from South Carolina [l\ir. TILLMAN]; and prodUce market, and there was no price that the farmers in any The Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. KNox] with the Senator part of Germany coulll depend. upon. Even at the time of the from Oregon [1\ir. CHAMBERLAIN]. Civil War, when Cn his name was callea"). r ·have- a pai'P lrelates alone to" my State. L need only, say. that. it_ prevents with,the jlmior, Senatol.'·from· Delawa1~e.:[:l\Ir .. \VOLCO'l'l']. In his !the- cultivation of many acr.es· of· tltese dry-farm lands.:. If: the· abs nee I withhold' my, v,ote. U,daha,law ca:n be· plac6(!L upon; the-same' basis.J aSJ .the · la.w witlr. The roll call was concluded;. refeJ:'ellce.:to -dry; fnrmsJin;other States it: will-result-- in; inereas.• 1917. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 3227

ing the acreage of dry farms in the State of Idaho to a very Mr. GORE. Yes, sir. large extent. Mr. GALLINGER. Now, Mr. President, I desire to offer an I have before me the report of the Secretary of the Interior amendment. I move to strike out, on lines 7 and 8, page 6, the favoring the change, which I will ask to have inserted in the words " the prevention, control, and eradication of the diseases RECORD without reading, unless some one desires to have it read. and pests of- live stock." We have been making very liberal The VICE PRESIDENT. In the absence of objection, the appropriations along that line, and I want to eall attention to report will be printed in the REconn. what we have done in that respect. The matter refened to is as follows: Turning to the last Agricultural appropriation aet, which DEl'ART~UJNT OF THE INTERIOR, provides money for the Department of Agriculture for the fi cal Wasltington, May f., 1JJ16. year ending June 30, 1918, we have appropriated under the Hon. SCOTT FEBRIS, head of u Gen.eral expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry," some­ Clwirmatl Committee on Public Lands, House of Representatives. thing over $3,000,000, and there is designated in that appropria­ 1\ly DEAR Mn. FERRIS : I am in receipt of your letter of April 22, tion act what the money shall be used for. First- 1916, transmitting for report H. R. 14900, which proposes to amend For the detectlon, prevention, treatment, or cure of diseases of domestic­ the provisions of section 6 of the enlarged-homestead act of .Tune 17, animals, to test the same, and to disseminate the results of said teats in 1910 (36 Stat., 531), applicable to the State of Idaho. socb manner as be may deem best ; to purchase and destroy diseased or The present law requires that pe{sons who enter lands under said exposed animals or quarantine the same whenever in his judgment section shall reside within 20 miles of the land entered and •• per­ es entiat to prevent the spread of pleuropneumonia, tuberculosis, or sonally •• prepare the soil, cultivate it. and harvest the crops. No such other diseases of animals from one State to another, as follows: requirement is imposed by section 6 of the act of February 19, 1909 For inspection and quarantine work, including aU necessary upe:nses (35 Stat., 639), a iJ plicable to tho? State of Utah and other ~tates, and for the eradication of scabies in sheep and cattle; the inspection of this department knows of no reason why any dilferent rule should be southern cattle. the supervision of the transportation of live stock and applied to enlarged hom"steads for lands of the character described the inspection of vessels, tbe execution of the 28-hour law, the ill­ in the State of Idaho. The fixing of an arbitrary distance. like 20 spection and quarantine of imported anillUlls, inclndin~ the establish­ miles, and the requirement that the entryman personally prepare the ment and maintenance uf quarantine stations and reprurs, alterations, soil and harvest the crops is not necessary in order to accomplish the improvements, or additions to buildings thereon ; the inspection wot·k purpose and intent of the act. relative to the existence of contagious diseases, and the tuberculin and Tbe department agrees thnt the law should be modified as proposed mallein testing of animals, 628,2 0. in H. R. 14900. I lave therefore to recommend that the same be Fot• all necessary expenses for the eradication of southern cattle ticks, euacted. $631,560. Cordially, yours, • • • • • • • FRANKLIN K. LANE, Secretary. For all necessary expenses for scientific investigations jn diseases of :ur. SHAFROTH. 1\fr. Presiclent, 1 should like to ask the animals, including the maintenance and improvement of the bureau Senator in what act it is prortp.ed that this shall be applicable expel:iment sta~on at Be~esda, Md;, • • : $1 34 ·6~0. • only to the State of Idaho? For investigating the disease of hog cholera and for its control or Mr. BORAH. If the Senator \\ill recall, Idaho was bronght eradication by such means as may be neees. ary, including demonstra­ . d tl 1 f 1 b · 1 t It wa ot ~ the tlons, the formation of organizatio11s, and othet· methods, either inde- m un er 1e Cry- arm aw Y a specta ac · s n m pendently or in cooperation with farmers, associations, State, or county original dry-farm law. authorities, $413,100. l\1r. SIL.t\FilOTH. That is, under the 320-aere act? • • • • • • 1\lr. BORAH. Yes. Under this special act relating to Idaho, For all necessary expenses for the investigation, treatment, and eradl- this clause was inserted, which is found with reference to no catioll of dourine, 99,000. other State. That i~, it does not pertain to the general law. The total which we have already appropriated for the next I.;I.' k, therefore, to insert before the last section the amend- fiscal year for those specific purposes is $2,613,336. ment which 1 send to the desk. 1\Ir. President, we have heard a great deal about the dupli- The VICE PRESIDE1\'T. The Senator from Idaho offers an cation of · appropriations, and we ha·ve been assured from urnenument, which will be stated. time to time that e.arnest efforts would be made tQ prevent The SECRETARY. Just before the last section in the bill, it is such duplication; and yet, after appropriating $2,613,336 to be proposed to insert the following: , expended for eradicating disease of llve stock, we have in this That section 6 of the act of Congress approved .Tune 17, 1910, "An bill a provision. which precisely duplicates the language used act to provide for an enlarged homestead." be, and the same is hereby, in the annual appropriation act, namely : amended to read as follows : For the prevention, contt·•)l, and eradication of the diseases and "SEc. 6. That whenHer the Secretary of tbe Interior shall find any pests of live stock, the enlargement of Jive-stock production, and the tract of Janel in t he State of Idaho, subject to entry under this act, conservation and utilization of meat, poultry, dairy, and other animal 1dO not have Ul) On them SUCh a sufficient SUpply of Water Suitable for $88- 000 domef'tic purposes as would make continuous residence upon the lands products, <:>, • pos ·ible he mny. in his discretion. designate such tracts of land, not It seems to me that we can well afford, if we are going to to exceed in the aggregate 1,000,000 acres, and thereafter they shall make an hone t effort to 11revent the duplication of appropria­ bl' subject to entr.v under this act without the necessity of residence tions-whieh have becom~ a scandal in our lemslution-to upon t lw lanu ntered: P1-o vided That the entryman shall in good e• faith culti\ate not less than onr-e1gbth1 of the entire area of the entry strike out those words in this bill: which is susceptible of culti,ation during the first year of the entry, Tbe prevention, control, and eradication of the diseases and pests of not l<'ss t han on e-fourth uuring the second year, and not less than one- Uve stock. half dming the tbit·u year of tbe entry and until final proof: Pt·ovided further, Tha t after six months from the date of entry and until fi:nal Leaving t ... e appropriation to stand: proof tbe entryman shall be a resident of the State of Idaho." For the enlarg.ement of live-stock production and the eonservation Mr. S~JOOT. ~lr. President, I should like to suggest to the and utilization of meat, poultry, dairy, and other ::nimal products, Renator from Idaho that the law as it was originally drawn $885•000· requirell one-eighth of cultivation during the first two years, · I hope the amendment which I have offered-which I think one-quarter during the third and fourth years, and one-half is a proper one, and which simply prevents an unnecessary during the fifth year, and at the end of the fifth year they duplication of appropriations alld the expenditure of money, as could ecure title. In a ubsequent bill that was pas ed through I think, unwisely-will be agreed to without serious opPQ­ Congres tho e amounts were reduced just one-half. That was sition. the bill authorizing the is uing of patent in three years. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on the amendment [r. BOllAIL I will a k, then, that those figures be reduced, of the Senator from New Ramp hire. changing the amount of cultivation each year to one-half what The amendment was akreed to. i proYided there. Instead of one-eighth, it should be one- Jl!:r. WADS WORTH. Mr. President, I offer the amendment sixteenth, and o on. which I send to the desk. l\1r. GORE. 1\lr. President, I desire to ask the Senator from The VIQE PRESIDENT. The amendment will be stateti. Idaho if this amendment carries an appropriation? The SECRETARY. On page 7, line 13, after the word "labor,n l\Ir. BORAH. No, sir. it is proposed to insert: 1\lr. GORE. I shall interpo e no objection, then. I have no And labor necessary to conserve and preserve perishable products of authority to accept it, howe>er. th~ farm or garden. , Tl1e VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on the amendment Mr. GORE. I have no objection to the amendment. offered by the Senator from Idaho. The amendment was agreed to. The amendment was agreed to. Mr. JONES of New Mexico. 1\Ir. President, I offer the l\Jr. GALLINGER. Mr. President, I wish to call the atten- amendment which I send to the desk, to be inserted just prior tion of the Senator from Oklahoma to line 12, on page 6. The to the last section of the bill. paragraph reads: The VICE PRESIDENT. The amendment will be stated. For procuring, storing, and furnishing seeds, as authorized by section .. The SECRETARY. Just before the last section in the bill it 8 of this act. is proposed to insert : The sections haYe been changed, and it should be section 2. Hereafter no forest reservation shall be created, nor shall any l\fr. GORE. I will say that that correction has been ma.de; additions be made to one heretofore created, within the limits of the 1\lr. GALLINGER. It has been made? States of New Mexico and Arizona, except by act of Congress.

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Mr. JONES of New Mexico. Mr. President, I will state that Mr. JONES of New Mexico. l\1r. President, referring to the I first prepared the amendment so as to apply only to New paragraph in regard to the increase of live-stock production, l\Iex:ico, but at the request o..: the senior Senator from Arizona where the appropriation is $885,000~ I move to amend that by I have included that State in this amendment. changing "$885,000" to "$880,000" for the purpose of getting Mr. JONES of Washington. Mr. President- - it into conference. I have already made soine observations The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from New Mex­ against the language of the appropriation. ico yield to the Senator from Washington? Mr. GORE. l\Ir. President, I have no objection to that amend­ Mr. JONES of New Mexico. I yield to the Senator from ment. Washington. The VICE PRESIDENT. . The amendment will be stated. l\Ir. JONES of Washbgtcn. l\Iay I suggest to the Senator The SECRETARY. On page 6, line 10, it is proposed to strike that, as I understand, we already have a law prohibiting the out " $885,000 " and to insert in lieu thereof " $880,000." creation of any forest re erves or additions thereto in any Mr. JONES of New Mexico. Mr. President, I desire to say Stat~ except by act of Congress. · that my criticisms of the clause were based largely on the fact · l\Ir. JONES of New Mexico. I will state to the Senator that that the language was so general. It may be that the Depart­ that law does not apply either to New Mexico or to Arizona. ment of Agriculture can show a proper use for very much more The law applieN to the States of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, money. If it can, I am qulte willing to have it appropriated; Montana, Colorado, and 'Vyoming. It was first passed in 1907, but I did not think we had sufficient information to justify the an<.l afterwards it was amended so as to include the State of large appropriation which was inserted in the bill originally. California. At that time New Mexico and Arizona were Ter­ By thi~ means it can go into conference, and the necessities may ritories, and for some reason they were not inse1;ted in -the be made to appear. provisions of the bill. I simply introduce this amendment so Mr. GORE. I will say that all that will be in conference is as to put New Mexico and Arizona on the same footing with the territory between $80,000 and $85,000. theNe other States. · l\!1·. SMOOT. That is all. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on the amendment The amendment was agreed to. offered by the Senator from New Mexico. Mr. NEWLANDS. I offer the following amendment. The amendment was agreed to. The VICE PRESIDENT. It will be stated. Mr. JONES of Washington. l\Ir. President, I desire to offer The SECRETARY. Add prior to the last section in the bill the a new section, to be inserted before the last section of the bill, following: with reference to the date of taking effect of the act. SEc. -. Any person who has been, or may be, convicted of any offense against the United States may be released on parole for or during any The VICE PRESIDENT. The amendment will be stated. time in which the Government of the United State is engaged in war The SECRETARY. It is proposed to in ert in the bill, just prior under the provisions of an act entitled "An act to parole United States to the last section of the bill, the following : prisoners,. and for other purpo es," approved June 25, HllO, and the regulations prescribed thereunder: Provided" That he shall have SEC. -. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to served at least !)0 days of the term for wnich be was sentenced: suspend, during the continuance of this act, that provision of the act And provided further, That during the period of such parole be shall known as the reclamation act req~ring residence upon lands in private continuously be en~a.(!ed under the charge of a fir t friend, or adviser, in ownership or within the nei~1'1borhood for securing water for the civil employment I.Jeneficial to the Government while conductin~ the wat, irrigation of the same, and he 1s authorized to permit the use of avail­ or i'l the production of foods or manufacture of supplies. The char­ able water thereon upon such terms and conditions as he may deem acter of such employment shall be determined by tre board of parole, proper. created by tlle provisions of said act, with the approval of the Attor­ l\Ir. JOl\TES of Washington. l\Ir. President, I will just state ney General of the United States. briefly that those who are familiar with the reclamation act l\Ir. GORE. I am not authorized, of course, to acc<:>pt tlle know that under its terms the Secretary of the Interior is au­ amendment, but I shall interpose no objection to it. thorized .to sell water rights for lands in private ownership l\Ir. NEWLA.i~DS. I wish to say in reference tQ this amend­ only to those who live upon the land or within the neighbor­ ment that it shortens the period of time provided for by the hood. Now, the Secretary of the Interior has construed the beneficent parole act and permits prisoners to be paroled pro­ words " witbin the neighborhood " to include anybody residing vided they are employed in agriculture or in some methotl of within 50 miles. The situation in some of these projects, I production. The methods of test are just the same as in the know in my own State, and probably in others, is that there are parole act. It simply shortens the period of time during '"hich many private owners of lands who live quite a good way from the prisoner must be in jail. It will increase the number of the lands. They are unable to cultivate. They have been un­ people who are available for work, and it wm nlso, I have no able for some reason to get a water right, and I know in my doubt, prove most beneficial to the morale of the prisoners State of some who would arrange for the cultivation of these who are now confined. lands if they could get water for them. l\fr .. GALLINGER. Do I understand the Senator that the The only purpose of this amendment is to allow that to be purpose is to com:erve the food products of the country? done. It does not contemplate the acquirement of a permanent l\Ir. NEWLAl~DS. It is to employ these people in agricul­ water right by the suspension of that provision of the recla­ ture or some form of production under the constant supervision mation act; but it does make it possible during this emergency and conh·ol of the parole board. and the continuance of this law for the Secretary to make l\11·. GALLINGER. Is civil employment beneficial to the arrangements so that if there is water available it can be fur­ Go\ernment or the production or manufacture of supplies? The nished for these lands. :-: think it would be quite a source of word "food" is in the amendment, and I presume it is an right. Lncrease of the food supply. Mr. BRANDEGEE. How does it extend the present parole l\Ir. JONES of New Mexico. l\Ir. Presiuent, I have given a law? good deal of thought to tbe question embodied in the amend­ 1\Ir. NEWLA.NDS. It simply shortens the time during which ment offered by the Senator from 'Vashington, and I think the the prisoners shall be kept in jaiL nmendment is quite timely and should be adopted. The amendment was.rejected. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendment offered by the Senator from 'Vashington. amendments were concurred in. The amendment was agreed to. l\Ir. THOMAS. I desire to renew my amendment, which I Mr. 'VALSH. l\Ir. President, section 2 of the bill has been send to the desk ; and I ask that it be read. much discussed. '.rhat is the section which authorizes the Sec­ The VICE PRESIDENT. Th~re seems to be no necessity retary to buy eeds to sell for cash. I llave not yet beard any for reading the amendment. good reason for that section,- and I move tbat it be sh·icken Mr. TH0l\1AS. No; it is the identical amendment I propo ed !L·om the bill. · before. Let it be printed in the REcoRD. Mr. GORE. Mr. President, I should like to say to the Senator Mr. THOMAs's amendment was to insert as an additional sec­ tbat we are very anxious to finish this bill, and be doubtless tion the following : shares that desire. A motion was made the other day to reduce SEC. - . Whenever hereafter during the present war the President the amount from $2,500,000 to $1,000,000, I believe, or to strike shall find that any board of trade, chamber of commerce, stock exchange, or other body or association transactio~ business in such a way as to it out entirely, aud it was defeated by a vote 01 36 to 18. I be suuject to the regulative power of congress is engaged in, or per­ tlwught probably the sense of the Senate expressed in that vote mitting through facilities afforded by it, speculation in food products would satisfy the Senator on this proposition. of any character in the form of what are known as futures, or in any other form or character. it may be by order of the President suspended Mr. WALSH. Well, I make the motion because I said I until he by pr-oclamation shall declare the existing war to have E>nded, would. , unless the President shall soonet· by order set aside such suspension, The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on the amendment and all agreements. wagers. and conn·acts for wagers regarding such food products now and hereaf~e1· made in or upon such exchanges, of the Senator from Montana. boards of trade, chambers of commerce. or other bodies or associations, 'rlle amendment was rejected. by the members thereof, are hereby prohil>ited pending such proclama- I -

1917. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 3229 tlon. Any person, board of trade, chamber of commerce. stock exchang~, NAYS-33. or otber body or al!lsociation willfully viola!ing the provisions of ttns se-ction or any ot tl.lem, shall bl' de-emed gullty of a misdemeanor. and Brandegee Harding Nelson Sterling upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a tine of not to exceed Broussard Hardwick New Swanson Pt·ovided, Curtis Hitchcock New lands Wadsworth $10.000: That nothing herein shall prevent the actual. sale or Fletchet• Jones, N. Mex. Pagp Walsh porcha E> of commodities for future dl'llvery where actuaJ delive-ry is France Jonl's, Wash. Poindexter W~>eks contl'mplated instead of settled for, as is usual in speculative trades. Freli ngbuysen Kellogg Ransdell Williams The VICE PRESIDENT. The qut:'stion is on agreeing to the Gallinger Kenyon Sherman amendment proposed by the Senator from Colorado [l\lr. Gore McLean Smith, M.d. Smoot THmtAs]. llale Martin Mr. McKELI.. AR. I ask for the yeas and nays. NOT VOTING-47. The yeas and nays were ordered. Ashurst Gronna Owen Smith. Mich. Beckham Hughes Penrose Smith, S.C. Mr. HITCHCOCK. Before the roll call begins I desire to say Calder Johnson, Cal. Phelan Stone that the Senate has already adopted the amendment of the Chamberlain Johnson, S.Dak. Pittman Sutherland Senator from Minnesota [Mr. NELso~), and this amendment now Colt Kendrick Pomerene Thompson Culberson King Reed 'l'illman offered by the Senator from Colorado is exactly in the same line Cummins Knox RoiJinson Townsend as the amendment moved by the Senator from Minnesota. Dillingham Lewis Saulsbury Undet·wood Mr. GALLINGER. But the Senator undoubteuly bas a right Fall Lodge Shields ·warJ·en Fernald McCumber Simmons Watson to offer the nmemlment now that the bill is in the Senate. (!erry Norris Smith, Ariz. Wolcott Mr. HITCHCOCK. He has. I suppose he is offering it as a Goff 0\erman Smith. Ga. substitute for the amendment which was adopted as in Com­ mittee of the 'Vhole. So l\Ir. THoMAs's amendment was rejected. The VICE PRESIDENT. No; it is offered as a separate 1\lr. HDSTING. I desire to offer an amendment. amendment and is clearly in order. The VICE PRESIDENT. It will be read. Mr. HITCHCOCK. It is an amendment in addition to the one The SECRETARY. Add a new section prior to the last sec· offered by the Senator from Minnesota? tion, as follows: SEc.-. That the Secretary of Commerce be, anll he is hereby, The VICE PH.ESID&'\T. It is offered without regard to that authorized and directed to conduct such operations In the United amendment anc-1 i clearly in order. State including Alaska, as may be necessary to develop new aquatic 1\lr. BRANDEGEE. ThE' idea being that we shall have two sources of food, to secure the utilization of sources now not utilized different and conflicting provisions on tl1e same 5iubject matter. or inadequately utilized ; to tmprove thl' methods emplo.ved in the catching pre-paration, curing, transportation, and marketing of such The VICE PRESIDE~T. The Secretary will call the roll on aquatic fvods, and to increase the consumption thereof, and the Secre­ agreeing to the amenument of the Senator from Colorado. tary of Conunl'J'Cl' is hereby authorized to take, catch, prepare, cure, The Secretary proceeded to cull the roll. pack and tran~port such fishes and other aquatiC' food animals in the watei-s of the Pacific Ocean and the waters adjacent tlll'reto. in anti Mr. BECKHAl\1 (when his name was called). I am paired adjacent to Alaskan waters, and to market such fishes and other with the ju11ior Senator from We t Virginia [l\lr. SUTHERLAND], aquatic food animals, and to do all things necessary and convenient for and in his absence I withhold my vote. carrying out the purposes of this act. That for the said purpos~s the Secrl'ta.ry of Commerre be. and hl' is Mr. OVERMAN (when his name was called). I have a gen­ hereby. authorizl'd and ditected to .hire, charter, rent. or purrba_se eral pair witb the senior Senator from Wyoming [l\lr. W A.RREN]. buildings and lands, vesse-ls, and fishmg gear, and any and all equip­ As he is not present and I do not know how l1e would vote I ment necessary or convenient for the purpose- of earrying out the p1·o- • visions of this act; to employ all persons necessary to carry out the withhold my vote. purposes of this art, including clerical assistance in the DtRtriet of l\lr. SMITH of Georgia (when his name was called). I have Columbia and elsewhere ; to purchase either in tbl' oppn markl't or in a general pair with the senior Senator from Massachusetts competitivl' bids such supplies as may bl' necessary: and to buy and [l\lr. LonGE] and withhold my vote. sell fish~ and other aquatic food animals, either frl' h or cured: Provided, That the proce!"~s of any ~ales may be used for the purpose 1\lr. SMITH of Maryland (when his name was called). I of carrying out thl' prov1s10ns of this act. make the sume transfer of my pair as on the last vote and That for the purpose of giving efl'ect to the provisions of this act. incluflinu the cost of printing at the Govl'rnment Printing Office or vote "nay." elsewher'e, at the discretion of the Secretar~ of Commerce, there. shall 1\lr. STERLING (when his name was called). I transfer be appropriated a sum not to exceed $2erson engaged in such dispute any Clayton Act. with which probably the Senator is familiar. strike benefits or other monl:'ys or things of value ; or from peaceably assembling in a lawful mannt>r and for lawful purpo. es, or from doing l\lr. BRAl'TDEGEE. Before the amendment is agreed to I any act or thing which might lawfully be done in the absence of such would like to have sections 6 nnd 20 inserted in the llECORD. dispute by any party thereto ; nor shall anr of the acts specified in this Mr. CU1\ll\HNS rose. paragraph be consider ed or held to be vtolations of any law of the l\lr. BRANDEGEE. I shall be glad to hear anything the United ::;tates. _ Senator from Iowa has to say. l\lr. _TEWLANDS. I also ask for the printing of the bill ~1r. CUl\Il\iiNS. In the lust Congres the Senator from Con­ itself in the ilECORD. necticut was a member of the Committee on Interstate Com­ The VICE PRESIDE:N1'. In the absence of objection, it ~s merce. He will remember that this measure was a part of so ordere, nm not, ho\YeYcr. at a11 certain about it, anf rates or charges. Any such findings of the That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend­ commisF:ion shall be subject to review on the merits by a bill in equity, filed ei tber by the Government or by the carrier in a court of com­ ment of the Senate numbered 15, and agree to the same with an petent jurisdiction, with right of appeal as in other equity cases. amendment as follows: In lieu of the matter inserted by said The final order or decree shaH be certified by the court to the Interstate amendment insert the following: Commerce Commission, which shall enter the same as its own order. Any carrier complying with any such order or direction herein author­ "For payment to the legal rept·esentatives of Napoleon B. ized shall be exempt from any and all provisions in existing· law im­ Giddings, deceased, in accordance with private act No. 165, posing civil or criminal pains. penalties, obligations, or liabilities upon Sixty-fourth Congress, approved February 8, 1917, $1,950.'' ca rriers on account of any such action. And the Senate agree to the same. ~lr. NEWLANDS. 1\Ir. President, will the Senator from That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend­ Iowa now offer the amendment which he proposes to section 2? ment of the Senate numbered 19, and agree to the same with an :\lr. CUMMINS. Is it the purpose of the Senator from amendment as follows: In lieu of the matter inserted by said Kevadn. to then ask for the postponement of the further con- amendment insert the following: " and the members of his im­ ."icleration of the bill? . mediate family"; and the Senate agree to the same. · ~Ir. NEWLA.l~DS. Yes. I understand that a number of That the House recede from its disagreernent to the amend­ Senators de ire to discuss the bill, and that may require somo ment of the Senate numbered 20, and agree to the same with an time. amendment as follows: In lieu of the sum proposed insert ~lr. CUU~IINS. 1\lr. President, in order that the amendment may be before the Senate for infQrination, I move, on page 5, "$275,000"; and the Senate agree to the same. line 20, after the word "direction," to insert the words "for That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend­ preference or priot·ity "; and on page 5, lines 22 and 23, to ment of tile Senate numbered 29, and agree to the same with !'trike out the words "on account of any such action" and in­ an amendment as follows: In lieu of the matter insel'tetl by sert the words "by reason of giving preference or priority in said amendment insert the following: com:v!innce Yfith such order or direction." · " MILITARY PUBLICATIONS. Mr. NEWLANDS. ~1r. President, I will ask that the amend­ "In addition to any other appropriation available for this ments which hn Ye b_een proposed be printed for the use of the purpose there is hereby appropriated $150,000, or f:;O much Senate. thereof us may be necessary, to be immediately avullallle, to The VIC'E PRESJDg~T. The nmenclments will lie on the be expended in printing and binding publications anc.l lll

amonnt for i~making plant, $7,000 "'; and the Senate agree "'DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUI.TURE. to thE' same. ~ " For contribution to tl'l-e Forest Service for. eensh-uction of a That the Hous~ recede fTom its disagreement to the runend­ ; bridge across· the ]\arrows over the waters between Ua.ss Lake ment of the Senate numbered 60, andf agree tSed insert said amendment 1Ullended to read as follow : " $1.021,100 " ; nnd the S~:>nate agree to the same. " For tlle erection of shop buildings or factories and their That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend­ appurtenances, $129,500... ment of the Senate numbered 80; and' agree to the same with And. the Senate agree to the same. an arnendm®t as follow : In lieu of the sum named in said That the House recede from its disagreement to the amend­ amen(le from its disagreement to the amend­ North Carolina intend to ask for actien upon the conference re­ ment of the Senate numbered 106, and agree to the same with port this afternoon 7 an amendment as follows: In lieu of the matter inse1·ted by 1\Ir. OVERMAN. Yes; I have asked for th adoption of the said amendment ins_ert the fol1owing: conference report. "Hot Springs Re ·errution, Ark.: for the employment of a 1\Ir. BRANDEGEE. Very well. land cape engineer and such other expenses as may be required Mr. JONES of Wa hington. 1\lr. Pre iiding. for ad­ ing the Hot Springs Reservation, there is authorized to be ditional vessels in the Coast and Geo

l\1t·. JONES of Washington. I am sorry that the amendment I do not know tbat I care to insist upon a delay in the con­ was cut out; but I feel ure that the conferees on tl1e part of sideration or upon the

orne doubt ha s ~Pn expre ~ sed conce1-ning the 'Passage 0! lthe river priation of $10;500,000, ·to '$6,ooo;ooo, and now they ask me ll.lld harbor bill. If this does l DOt pa s, then the • estimate for th'e $6,000,000 · i sissippi River should be in-::reased from •$4,000,000 to •$.1.0,000,000. whether I would rather hnYe or nothing. I submit to the- Senator from North Carolina thnt his inquiry implie~ !I'hut is the only ~tatement the committee hnd in ·:reference bad faith on his part as a conferee on the part of the Senate. to the.matter. The river.and harbor bill.did fail, and o~ course Mr. OVERMAN. How, 1\lr. President? tlle appropriation carried in the river and harbor .bill went l\1r. ROBINSON. 'The Senate voted an appropriation of '$10,· down 'vith it. It is true there is another river and harbor bill 500,000, and now he has hurled·into my face the inquiry whether 11en

AssisTANT SunoEoN, Punuc HEALTH SERVICE. First Lieut. Leslie Leonard Connett, Fourth Infantry, Mis- Dr. Edwin.. Howard Settle to be assistant suTgeon in the Pub­ souri National; Guard. · lic Health Service, to take effect from date of oath. Sergt. Owen R. ·Rhoads, CQmpany G, First Infantry. Corpl. Joe L. Ostrander, Twenty-fourth. Company, General APPOI"N"TMENT IN THE ARMY. Service, Infantry. VETERINARY CORPS. · Sergt. Elmet· F. Wallender, Company Lt Eighth Infant;ry. Veterinarian Shermnn R. Ingram, Quartermaster Corps,. to Sergt. Carl E. Driggers, Fifth Recruit Company, General be assistant veteri-narian from June 3, 1916, to fill . an original Service, Infantry. Vfl('allCy. First Sergt. Allan Floyd House, Company C, Twenty-eighth PROVISIONAL APPOINTMENTS AS SECOND LIEUTENANTS IN THE Infantry. Anrr. Sergt. Harry Pearl Merchant, Company C, Tenth Infautry. Corp!. Carl Grady Lewis, Twenty-sixth Company, General INFANTRY ARM. Service, Infantry. Second Lieut. Edward Sandford Pegram, jr., Cavalry section, Pvt. John D. Burris, Coast Artillery Corps. Officers' Reserve Corps. Sergt. (First Class) Harry Vincent Hand, First Aero Squ~ Second Lieut. Roge1· Sturgis, Infantry section, Officers' Re- ron, Signal CoTps. serve Corp . Pvt. Frederick V.. Edgerton~ Company G, Thirteenth Infaa- Second Lieut. Stanley Gloninger Saulnier, Infantry section, try; Officers' Reserve Corps. Sergt. Anthony Oliver Adams, Company M, Eleventh In. First Lieut. Mark Richards Muckle Gwilliam, Infantry see- fantry. tion, Officers' Reserve Corps. Pvt. George Alva Stockton, Troop K, First Cavalry, lllinois Second Lieut. Will Hughes Gordon, Infantry section, Officers' National Guard. Reserve Corps. Battalion Sergt. 1\Iaj. Charles W. Neues, Twelfth Infantry. Second Lieut. Walter Tracey, Infantry section, Officers' Re- Pvt. George Rowland Brown, j.r., Company B, Second Infan· serve Corps. try, North Carolina National Guard. First Lieut. Joseph Jack Johnston, First Battalion, ·Field First Class Pvt. Oscar A. Burton,• First Company, Second Artillery, Ohio National Guard. Aero Squa:dron, Signal Corps. Capt. Wilton Lynn Rutan,. Company I,- Third Infantry, Texas Corpl. Edward Leon Feeney, Company L, Twenty-ninth In· National Guard. fantry. First Lieut. Ward Currey Goessling, First Field Artillery, Musician (Third Class) Harold W. Kelty, Coast Artillery Texas National Guard. Corps, Regular Army Reserve. Second Lieut. Curley Pharr Duson, First Infantry, New Corpl. William Henry Valentine, Company A, Thirty-second Mexico National Guard. Infantry. Second Lieut. Richard DaYid Daugherity, First Infantry, New Corpl. George Norman Munro, Company D, Second Engineers. l\fexico National Guard. Sergt. Herbert Boyer, Quartermaster Corps. Second Lieut. Walter Raymond Graham, First Infantry, 1\Iin- Pvt. Myron Wood Sherman, Company A, Second Engineers. nesota National Guard. Pvt. Woodworlb Bowman Allen, Company L, Third InfantrY-:: Second Lieut. Albert Hovey Peyton, Second Infan~y, West Iowa National Guard. Virginia National Guard. , Corpl. Robert Ferris, Company G, Seventeenth Infantry. Second Lieut. Patrick Houstoun, Second Infantry, Florida Na- C01·pl. John Sylvester Sulima, Company E, First Engineers. tional Guard. Pvt. Charles Edmund DeLeuw, Machine Gun Troop, First Cav- Secon·d Lieut. Mirori James Rockwell, Fourth Infantry, Mis- alry, Illinois National Guard. souri National Guard. Sergt. Dallas R. Alfonte, Company H, Twelfth Infantry. First Lieut. Peter Wirtz, Second Infantry, Wisconsin National Pvt. (First Class) William E. Shaw, general ~ervice, In· Guard. fantry. Second Lieut. Allen Wainfield. Stradling, Second Infantry, Battalion Sergt. Maj. Lee Burton Woolford, First Infantry~ _Indiana National Guard. · Arkansas National Guard. Second Lieut. Robert Valentine Tackabury, Fow·th Infantry, Corpl. Ned Blair, general recruiting service. . South Dakota National Guard. · Firs Class Pvt~ Ernest Alvin Kindervater, Coast Artillery Second Lieut. James Patrick Murphy, Fourth Infantry, Soutb Corps. Dakota National Guard. Sergt. Oscar :Merton McDole, Company M, Second Infantry. Capt. Gustav J\.dolph l\Iellancllton Anderson, First Infantry, Sergt. Jared Invin Wood, Troop A,. Cavalry, Georgia National North Dakota National Guard. Guard. Second Lieut. \Villiam Chapman Peters, Second Infantry, l\Iis~ C01-pl. Henry Harrison Ranson, fifteenth recn1it company, souri National Guard. general service, Infantry. Second I ... ieut. Francis Lenoir Hill, First Infantry, Virginia Sergt. Gordon C. Irwin, Medical Department. National Guard. First Sergt. Elbridge Gerry Chapman, jr., Troop D. Cavalry, Second Lieut. Charles McDonald Pnrkin, Eighteenth Infantry, Colorado National Guard. Pennsylvania National Guard. Pvt. Jacob Herschel Lawrence, Coast Artillery Corps. Second Lieut. Richard Babcock Porter, Battery A, Fi~ld Ar- Regimental Supply Sergt. Everett Marion Yo-n, Second In- tillery, Kansas National Guard. fantry, Florida National Guard. Second Lieut. Jacob Edw'ard Bechtold, Second Infantry, Mas- ' Sergt. Grady H. Pendergrast, Company- C, Fourth Infantry. sachusetts Nationai Guard. Corpl. Robert E. Frye, Company L, Fourth Infantry. Second Lieut. Harry Adamson, Second Infantry, 1\.Iassuchu· Oorpl. Cornelius F. Dineen, Company G, Nineteenth Infantry~ setts National Guard. Corpl. Joseph Edward Villasenor. Company E, First Telegraph Second Lieut. Neal Creighton Johnson, Se\enth Infantry, Battalion, Signal Corps. California National Guard. Mechanic John C. Haynes, Company A, Twenty-seventh In- Second Lieut. John Edward McCarthy, Second Infantry, fantry. Montana National Guard. Sergt. George ·Lawrence Hopkins, Company E, Thirty-third Second Lieut. Steele Wotkyns, First Field Artille1·y, New Infantry, 1\Iichigan National Guard. York National Guard. Sergt. Maj. George Mood MacMullin, First Infantry, Pennsyl- Second Lieut. John Clarence Lane, First Infantry, 1\faryland vania National Guard. · National Guard. Pvt. Harold Krebs Coulter, Company I, Third Infantry, Ohio Second Lieut. Norman Pyle Groff, First Infantry. Pennsyl- National Guard. vania National Guard. Corpl. Hugh Campbell Hodge Jones, Machine Gun Company, Second Lieut. Glenn Adelbert Ross, Second Infantry, Wash- First Infantry, Missouri Natid'nal Guard. ington National Guard. Sergt. Otto Emil Pentz, Company E, First Infantryr First ·Lieut. Donald John Myers, First Squadron, Cavalry, Corpl. Williston Lockwood Warren, Company F, Thirty-second Colorado National Guard. " Infantry. · ' First Lieut. Vic Kingsley Burriss, Tbitd Infantry, Missouri Sergt. Jame~ A. Wade, ninth recruit company. National Guard. First Sergt. Nicholas Szilagyi, Company G, Nineteenth In- Second Lieut. Francis Augustus Woolfley, First Infantry, fantry. Louisiana National Guard. Sergt. Frederick Weston Hyde, Machine Gun Company, First Second Lieut. Carl Bernhardt Schmidt, Second Infantlry, Kan- Infantry, Maryland National Guard. sas National Guard. First Class Pvt. Gilber.t Good, Coast Artilery CoJl)f!. 3236 QONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JUNE _2,.

Curpl. Theoc.lore Rayburn, Coast Artillery Coq>s. Sergt. Ernest John, Infanh·y, unassigned. S€'rgt. Leland ·s. Hatfield, Medical Department, Seventh In- Corpl. Charles Hugh McKnight, First Aero Squadron, Signal fantry, California National Guard. . . Corps. . Pvt. Rosser Lee Hunter, Troop A, Cavalry, District of Colum­ Corpl. Floyd H. Banta, Sixth Aero Squadron, Signal Corps. bia National Guard. Pvt. Ralph Marshal Caulkins, Company A, Third Infantry, Fir t-class Pvt. John Stanley Hopper, Company _C, · Third · Minnesota National Guard. _ Engineers. Stable Sergt. Charles Leslie Moon, Thirty-third Infantry, Corpl. John P. Utinsky, Company A, Third Engineers. Michigan National Guard. · Sergt. James Lester Allbright, Company. I, Thirtieth Infantry. Pvt. Claudius Leo Lloyd, Company A, Fifth Infantry, Mary­ First Cia. s Pvt. Feodor Otto Schmidt, Company G, Fourth In- land National Gu·ard. fantry, Ohio National Guard. First Sergt. Francis G. Bishop, Coast Artillery Corps. PYt. John Garth Goodlett, Battery B, First Field Artillery, Color Sergt. Henry Drue Patterson, Second Infantry, Wash~ Missouri National Guard. ington National Guard. . Corpl. George Seymour l\lcCullough, Company A, Engineers, Sergt. Bartlett 1\f. Egeland, Company G, Fourth Infantry, Illinois National Guard. . South Dakota National Guard. Sergt. Roderick Alexander Stamey, machine gun company, Pvt. Stuart Baldwin Taylor, Battery A, Field Artillery, First Infantry, North Carolina National Guard. Maryland National Guard. · Pvt. Leo Willard Glaze, Troop A, District of Columbia Na- Sergt. Joseph P. Kiley, Company F, Thirty-third Infantry. tional Guard. , . Pvt. Joseph Lester Brooks, Troop A, Cavalry, District of li..,irst Sergt. Walter Ernest Dm·endeck, Company K, Fourth Columbia National Guard. Infantry, Ohio National Guard. Pvt. Madefrey Alethes Odhner, Machine Gun Compan5', Sixth Prt. Abraham Cohen, Company D, Third Engineers. Infantry, Pennsylvania National Guard. Sergt. William Frederick Gent, Quartermaster Corps. Pvt. Jacob Myers Pearce, jr., Machine Gun Company, First First-class Sergt. Clarence Harvey Maranville, First Aero Infantry, Maryland National Guard. Squadron, Signal Corps. First Sergt. Ora C. Coffey, Coast Artillery Corps. Sergt. Roy Sparks, Corftpany E, Fifth Infantry. First Clas .Pvt. George Dawson ,Lehmann, Coast Artillery First Class Pvt. William B. Smith, Company F, Third Engi- Corps. neers. . Pvt. Jesse J. Hudson, Quartermaster Corps. Fii·st Class Pvt. Carl F. Cooper, Company D, Fourth Tele­ First Class Pvt. Robert Hill, Quartermaster Corps. graph Battalion, Signal Corps. First Class Pvt. Robert Claude Gregory, Medical Corp . Sergt. John Frank Gleaves, Company D, Second Teleg_raph Battalion Sergt. Maj. Laird Astor Richards, First Infantry, Baltalion, Signal Corps. _ Kansas National Guard. ' Corp!. Sterling Clifton Robertson, Company F, Eleventh First Class Pvt. John James Finnessy, Company K, Third Infantry. . . , Infantry, New York National Guard. Corpl. Allen Flood K1rk, Company F, Twenty-sixth Infantry. Mess Sergt. Carl Cooper Helm, Quartermaster Corps, First Sergt. Thomas G. Jenkins, Coast Artillery Corps. Infantry, Indiana National Guard. Pvt. Francis Samuel Bavard Cauthorn, Com1;mny A, S(}concl Sergt. Wayne Horton, Company C, First Infantry, Oklahoma Infantry, Washington National Guar

.Pvt. J.o eph Anthony Ci tero, Hattery A, Tentb. Field Artillery, -Capt. Earl Bofien ·wnson, First Infantry, New Mexieo National Connecticut National Guard. · Guard. · Thoma lVlUiam Freeman, of Rhode Island. Sergt. Edmund John Engel, Ambulance Company A, l\1edieal Lawrence Fulton Braine, jr., of New York. Department. Parton Sterrett Campbell, of Virginia. First Sergt. Pa-lil Wodarsky, Supply Troop, Fifth Cavalry. Maxwell Miller, of Virginia. Pvt. John E. Grant, Troop A, Eleventh Cavalry. Roy Leo Schuy'lel"', tOf Texas. Pvt. Jack McCorkle !Reardon, Army Service Schools Detach­ Louis DeLaussure Hutson, of Georgia. · 4 ment. Gustav Ludwig Karow.. of Geor.gia. ·sergt. George Da'V1-d Coleman, Medical Department. Harold David Sites, of Ohio. First Sergt. Lewis 1\Iesherry, Machine Gun 'Company, Tw~ Loren Prescot Stewart, of Maine. se-venth Infantry. Nathaniel L. Simmonds, of Virginia. - Corp]. Lewis Allen Weiss, Supply 'Troop, Fourth Cavall·y. John Charl~s Colwell, jr., of Missouri. J:\lvt. Francis E. Cheney, Troop E, Third Cavalry. Harlan Davies Kimball, of New York. Pvt. Robert I Perry Mortimer, Troop A, First S-quadron, .Cav- James Tillinghast Moore, of South Carolina. alry, Ohio National Guard. - J"ohn Wesl-ey Bell Thompson, -of Virginia. First Class Pvt. Lee Tuehocki Victor, Medical ·Department. ;William Florance O'Donoghue, of Maine. Corpl. Hemy Cook ()aron, Troop C, .Sixth Cavalry. Thomas Joseph Moroney, of Texas. Corpl. William Warren Powell, Supply Troop~ Eighth Cavalry. William Clark Luth, of New York. Sergt. Thomas Pope ·Cheatham, Machine Gun Company, First William Carlton Williams, of Washington. Infantry, South Carolina Nati-onal Guard . . Alan Walter .J:ones, of '\Vnshington. Sergt. Robert F. Merkel.. Quartermaster Co-rps. Francis Leavell Johnson, of West Virginia. Corp!. George · Fridjhof Bloomquist, Company H, Second In· William Webb Sanders, of Massachusetts. fantry, Washington National Guard. . Charles S. Brodberrt, jr., of Texas. First Class P:vt. Carroll Arthur Powell, Troop C, Cavalry, Ohio Arthur Ranken Rockwood, of New York. National Guard. Wayne Bea .Cav.e, of Arizona. First Sergt. Frank C. De· Langton, Troop D. Fourteenth Stanley Allan Thomson, of California. Cavalry. Emery Williamson, of Oklahoma. Regimental Supply &rgt. Oscar B. Abbott, Second Infantry,_ CharJ:eB Reid Russell, fOf North Carolina. Texas National Guard. Ira Norman Downer, of New Jersey. Cor_pl. Carter Roderick McLennan, Troop D~ First Cavalry, William Byron Wilson, of Virginia. New York National Guard. Lloyd Wesley Mason, of Michigan. Sergt. Frederick Gea-ring, Cavalry, unassigned. Carroll Leonard Ellis, of Indiana. · Pvt. Geoffrey Galwey, Troop L, First Cavalry, New York Na­ Stanl-ey Young Kennedy, of Obio. tional Guard. David Preston l\IcCalib, of Oklahoma. Pvt. Louis Garland Gibney, Company E, Second Infantry, Henry Arthn1· Montg-omery, of Oregon. Delaware National Guard. Dudley Southworth Brown, of Arizona. Musician (Third Class) William Durward Adkins,· band, ''l'homas Henry ·shea, jr., of Massachusetts. Thirteenth 'Ca\Calry.. Franklyn Thatcher Lord, of Connecticut. Supply Sergt. John Barber Hartman, Tre.op G, Fourth Ca!V­ -Corpl. \Villiam Winter ·nean, Battery B, Tenth Field Artillery, alry. Connecticut National Guard. Pvt. Harry Columbus Jones, Company F, Second Infantry, John Wolcott Stewart, of Colorado. '.Dexas National Guard~ Augustus George Schroeder, of Missouri. Corpl. James E. Simpson, Troop 1, Second -cavalry. Royden Kenner Fisher, of Texas. Pvt. Aaron ·Taylor Bates, jr., machine-gun troop, Squadron l\larlin Clack Martin, of Arkansas. A Cavalry, New York National Guard. David Lee Hooper, of Virginia. Pvt. Charles James Booth, Company E, Seeon.d Infantry, D'Arcy David Tinsley, of South Carolina. Texas National Guard. First Lieut. William Louis Morrison, Troop D, Colorado Na­ Sergt. William ·Tuttle Hamilton, Company H, Second In­ tional Guard. fantry, Kansas National Guard. Sergt. Oliver Edward Geot~ge Trechter, Company F, First Oorp1. Richard Charles Boyan, Troop G, Sixteent:h Cavalry. Infantry, {)hio National Guard. First Class Pvt Edward Kirby Jones, First Aero Squadron, Elmer Frost Farnham, of Connecticut. Si-gnal Corps. Charles Stone Reily, of Louisiana. Sergt. 1\Iaj. Harry Phillips Shaw, First Infantry, Vermont David Walker Barton, of Maryland. National

Sergt. Maj. Jame Lindsay Frunciscus, First Infantry, Mis- Sergt. David Seth Doggett, Company A, Engineers, Virginia souri National Guard. · National Guard. · First Clas Pvt. Etldie Jnmes Lee, Provisional Ambulance Sergt. Arthur Dani~l Ruppel, Battery F, Second Field Ar-· Company C, Medical Department. tillery, Illinois National Guard. Elmer Parks Gosnell, of the District of Columbia. . Pvt. (First Class) Ralph Maslin Balliette, Coast Artillery Raymond Daniel Adolph, of New York. Corps. · Donald Armpriester Stroh, of Michigan. C01·pl. David Haldane Tre\or, Company EJ, telegraph bat­ Russell Thomas George, of Massachusetts. talion, Signal Corps. . Ensign Thomas 'lyde McCormick, Washington Naval Militia. Corpl. William Edward. Pfeiffer, Wire Company B, Third Er kine Ashby l?ranklin, of 1\Ii ouri. Field Battalion, Signal Corps. . Pvt. Robert Davis Thompson, jr., Battery D, Tenth Field Ar- First Sergt. Walter Compere Lattimore, Battery A, Field tillery, Connecticut National Guard. · Artillery, Texas National . Guard. , . John Edwnre Corps. Regular Army Reserve. First Lieut. Marcus Aurelius Smith 1\Iing, First Infantry, Sergt. Harry Hollander, First Field Artillery, New York Arizonn National Guard. · National Guard. Second Lieut. Lewis Elmer Goodrich, Second Infantry, Florida First-.Lieut. John Briuger Thornhill, Fii·st Infantry, Louisiana National Guard. National Guard. Second Lieut. Victor Roland Woodruff, Fourth Infantry, Second Lieut. Edmond Cecil Fleming, Field Artillery, Illinois South Dakota National Guard. National Guard. Second Lieut. Robert William · Yates, First Field Artillery, Corpl. -virgil Luther Minear, Company H, First Infantry, California National Guard. Utah National Guard. Second Lieut. Dana Caswell Schmahl, First Field Artillery, Charles Emerson Boyle, of California. Minnesota National Guard. Karl John Howe. of Georgia. . First Lieut. Wilbur Granville Dockum, First Field Artillery, Corpl. Edwin Acticut National Guard. Artillery. Francis Clinton LeGette, of South Carolina. , Sergt. Dominic Joseph Sabini, Medical Department, Regular Pvt. Benjamin Simeon Dowd, Battery C, Tenth Field Ar- Army Reserve. tillery, Connecticut National Guard. Sergt. Herman Feislie Calvin, of 1\Iichigan. Artillery. Charles Richard Doran, of Loui ianu. Second Lieut. Harry Burern, Battery D, Sixth Field Artillery. Richard Allen Gordon, of Virginia. 1917. QONGRESSION AL RECORD-SEN ATE. 3239

COAST ilTILLl!.'RY CORPS. Andrew H. Huuspeth t3 be United States marshal, district Second Lieut. Nel on Dingley, 3d, Second Infantry, New York of New l\fexico. CoA sT A ND GEODETIC SuRvEY. National' Gua rd. • • Seconu Class Electriciap Sergt. Carl Russell Adams, Coast The following-named assistants of the Coast and Geodetic Artillery Corps. S ur\"'ey to be hydrographic an(l geodetic engineers : P\"'t. Edward Carl Lohr, Coast Artillery Corps. Robert Lee Faris. Sergt. Byron Tully Ipock, Coast Artillery Corps. William Bowie. Pvt. George Walter Hovey, Coast Artillery Corps. Philip Albert Welker. Sergt. Ernest L. Bigham, Coast Artillery Corps. Herbert Cornelius Graves. Corpl. Raymond H<>rman Schutte, Coast Artillery Corps. Richard Barnett Derickson. First Class l'vt. Carl R. Crosby, Coast Artillery Corps. Fremont Morse. Pvt. Charles Thomas Halbert, Company I, First Infantry, Hugh Cowan Denson. Kansas National Guard. Dallas Bache Wainwright. Corpl. Claude Gilbert Benham, Battery B, Field Artillery, Vir­ I aac Winston. ginia National Guard. John Francis Pratt. Corpl. Henry Bradley Frost, Company G, Third Infantry, Eumund Finlay Dickins. Iowa National Guard. John Edward McGrath. Sergt. Roy Dayton Burdick, Company B, Engineers, Ohio \Villiam Candler Hodgkins. National Guard. 'Villiam Edward Parker. Corpl. Franklin A. Green, Coast Artillery Corps. Nicholas Hunter Heck. Corpl. Harrie J. Rechtsteiner, Coast Artillery Corps. John Thomas Watkins. Capt. Willard Wadsworth Irvine, Quartermaster Corps, Geor- Clifford Gm.:don Quillian. gia National Guard. Paul Clinton Whitney. William Doughty Evans, of Georgia. . Edward Herbert Pagenhart. · .William Carl Byrd, of South Carolina. Ector Brooks Latham. Clnrence Noble Winston, of Michigan. John Jacob Gilbert. All>ert :\filler Jackson, of Nevada. Francis Hathaway Hardy. Lyle Bishop Chapman, of New York. Raymond Stanton Patton. · . .Jo. eph Phtlip Kohn, of New York. Gilbert Thomas Uude. Robert Justin Van Buskirk, of Florida. Carey VanuerYort Hodg on. Frederick Linwood Topping, of Virginia. Homer Peter Ritter. Sergt. Thomas Raphael Phillips, Fourth Company, <;Joast Walter Browne Fairfield. Artillery Corps, ·washington National Guard. Oscar 'Vood Ferguson. First Lieut. Charles S. Erswell, jr., Coast Artillery Corps, Cephas Hempstone Sinclair. l\faine National Guard. Andrew Braid. Pvt. L~is Merriam, jr., Coast· Artillery Corps. Robert l<'rancis Luce. PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY. Thomas James Maher. Johi1 'Varwick Daniel Maupin. Lieut. Commander Arthur St. C. Smith to be a commander in. Francis George Engle. the Navy from the 29th day of August, 1916. Leo Otis Colbert. Lieut. Arthur K. Atkins to be a lieutenant commander in the John Bartlett Boutelle. Navy from the 29th day of August, i916. Feruinand Westdahl. Lieut. Albert Norris to be a lieutenant commander in the James Bowen Baylor. Navy from the 1st day of January, 1917. The following-named assistants of the Coast and Geodetic The following-named lieutenants (junior grade) to be lieu- Survey to be junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers: tenants in the Navy from the 29th day of August, 1916: Harry A. Seran. Henry R. Keller, and Clem Leinster Garner. Henry G. Shonerd. John Henry Peters. . En ign Solon E. Rose to be a lieutenant (junior grade) in Jean Hopkins Hawley. the Navy from the 7th day of l\farch, 1915. Eoline Richmond Hand. The following-named ensigns to be lieutenants (junior grade) Paul McGeorge Trueblood. in the Navy from the 7th day· of Jtme, 1916: Frederick Bernhard Theodore Siem~. James R. 'Vebb, and Alfred Modesto Sobieralski. David R. Lee. Arthur John Ela. Pay Inspector William J. Littell to be a pay director in the Richard Russeli Lukens. Navy from the 29th day of August, 1916. Edgar English Smith. Pay Inspector Martin l\Icl\I. Ramsay to be a pay director in the Roscoe Perrin .Strough. Navy from the 25th day of April, 1917. John Dalrymple Powell. The following-named paymasters to be pay inspectors in the Arthur J oachims. Navy from the 29th day of August, 1916: Isaiah Morris Dailey. . Charles Conrad, and Alfred Lewis Giacomini. Robert H. \Voods. Otis William Swainson. Capt. Lee B. Purcell to be a major in the Marine Corps from George Durno Cowie. the 29th day of August, 1916. Ernest Eugene Reese. The following-named first lieutenants to be captains in the Harold Alonzo Cotton. l\larine Corps from the 29th day of August, 1916: Frank Spaulding Borden. Robert W. Voeth, John Albert Daniels. Marion B. Humphrey, George Carl Mattison . .John A. Gray, Leon -Archie Potter. William C. MacCrone, and Max Steinberg. Norman C. Bates. Harry Leypold t. First Lieut. John B. Sebree to be a captain in the Marine Eustace Samuel 'Valker. Corps the 23d uay of September, 1916: Harry Thomas Kelsh, jr. Second Lieut. Archibald Youml to be first lieutenant in the Harrison Rae Bartlett. Marine Corps from the 29th day of August, 1916. William Valley Hagar. Pay Clerk Henry E. Brown to be a ·chief pay clerk In the Henry Bowers Campbell. Navy from the 21 t day of July, 1916. Kenneth Tress Adams. Ernest Werner Eickelberg. · CONFIRl\1ATIONS. Frederic Lockwood Peacock. Walter Draper Sutcliffe. Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate June 2 (legisl-a­ Ray Longfellow Schoppe. tive day of June 1), 1917. Raymond Vernon Miller. U ITED STATES :MARSHALS. The following-named aids of the Coast and Geodetic Survey J. l\1. Tanner to be United States marshal for the first divi­ to be aids: sion of Alaska. Arthm· Sidney Hallberg. 3240 CONGJ;tESSION AL RECORD-·SENATE. - JuNE 2,

1\Iaurice Ell Levy. Capt. Francis B. WDby. Robert James Auld. Capt. Clarence S. Ridl~y. William Harold Clark. Capt. Alvin B. Barber. J'ack Senior. Capt. .Jarvis .J. Bain. Sylvanus Davis Winship. Capt. Thomas H. Emerson. Raymond Pugh Eyman. Capt. Robert S. Thomas. Leo Cuthbert Dyke. Capt. Roger G. Powell Chester Howard Ober. Capt. John N. llodges. Douglas Karr. Capt. Arthur R. Ehrnbeck. Conrad Turner Bussell. Capt. Harold S. Hetrick. William Henry Kearns. Capt. William A. J'ohnson. Leonard Harold Zeman. Capt. James ;J. Loving. George Clay .Jones. Capt. Frederick B. Downing. Charles Shaw. Capt. Edmund L. Daley. Reuben Ai·ey. I ' Capt. Henry A. Finch. Carl Alexander Egner. Capt. Edw~rd D. Ardery. Oliver Scott Reading. Capt. James G. S teese. Gardiner Luce. Capt. Roger G. AlexanderJ Bert Clinton Freeman. Capt. James A. O'Connor. Lyman Davis Graham .. Capt. Lewis H. 1Vatkins. Stanley Truman Barker. Capt. Gilbert E. Humphrey. Raymond Alonzo Wheeler. Capt. Richard Park. Leo Clark Wilder. Capt. Daniel I. Sultan. Andrew Carothers Witherspoon. Capt. Glen E. Edgerton. Herbert Richard Grummann. Capt. Charles L. HalL Rowland King Bennett. To be captains. Max Orville Witherbee. Payson Austin Perrin. First Lieut. Richard U. Nicholas. First Lieut. Myron Berttnan. PnonsroNAL APPOINTMENTS BY TRANsFER. First Lieut. Leo J. Dillow. Second Lieut. George R. Barker, Fourteenth Cavalry, to be Fir t Lieut.. James A. Dorst. second lieutenant of Infantry. Fir t Lieut. Rufus W. Putnam. Second Lieut. George Sawtelle, Twentieth Infantry, to be First Lieut. Lunsford E. Oliver. second lieutenant of Cavalry. Fir t Lieut. William H. Holcombe. First Lieut. ;James B. Cress. PROMOTIONS IN THE ARMY. First Lieut. Charles P. Gross. JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT. First Lieut. Bernard A. Miller. First Lieut. Peter C. Bullard. To be ju.dge advocat~. First Lieut. Brehon B. Somervell. . Lieut. Col. Frank L. Dodds. First Lieut. Xenophon H. Price. Lieut. Col. Lewis E. Goodier. First Lieut. Robert W. Crawford. To be judge ad1:ocates with the rank of lie-utenant colonel. First Lieut. Frederick S. kinner~ Maj. Blanton Winship. First Lieut. Dabney 0. Elliott. :Maj. Beverly A. Read. First Lieut. Allen P. Cowgill. Maj. Edw.rrd A. Kre"'er. First Lieut. George F. Lewis. Maj. Samuel T. Ansell. Fir t Lieut. Harrison Brand, jr. Maj. Herbert A. White. First Lieut. Frederick W. Herman. First Lieut. John H. Carruth. QUARTERMASTER CORPS. First Lieut. Oscar 0. Kuentz. To be colonels. First Lieut. William E. R. Covell. Lieut. Col. Chauncey B. Baker. First Lieut. Edwin R. Kimble. Lieut. Cot George l\1cK. Williamson. First Lieut. Joseph D. Arthur, jr. Lieut. Col. Thomas H. Slavens. First Lieut. Ernest F. Miller. Lieut. Col. David S. Stanley. First Lieut. John S. · Bra~rl on . Lieut. Col. Thomas C. Goodman. First Lieut. George .J. lli ·:... urd . Lieut. Col. James B. Houston. First Lieut. Alexander P. Cronkhite. Lieut. Col. \Villirun H. Hart. Fir t Li.eut. John S. Smylie. 1\faj. Frank H. Lawton. First Lieut. Lehman \V. 1\filler. First Li.eut. Douglas L. Weart. CORPS OF ENGI ~ERS. First Lieut. Earl E. Gesler. To be colonels. First Lieut. Edwin A. Bethel. Lieut. Col. Henry Jervey. First Lieut. John F. Conklin. Lieut. Col. Charles H. McKinstry. First Lieut. Alfred L. Ganahl. Lieut. Col. \Villiam V. Judson. First Lieut. John E. Harris. Lieut. Col. E. Eveleth Winslow. First Lieut. William lP. Tompkins. Lieut. Col. Clement A. F. Flagler. First Lieut. Douglas H. Gillette. Lieut. Col. Chester Harding. First Lieut. Paul A. Hodgson. To be lieutenant colonels. First Lieut. Donald A. Davison. 1\Iaj. William D. Connor. First Lieut. Thomas B. Larkin. l\laj. John C. Oakes. First Lieut. Edwin . Kelton. 1\Iaj. Sherwood A. Cheney. First Lieut. 1\lason .J. Young. Maj. Frederick W. A.ltstaetter. First Lieut. Layson E. Atkins. 1\Iaj. Harley B. Ferguson. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT« 1\fnj. Frank C. Bogg . To be colonels. 1\laj. Clarke S. Smith. 1\laj. William P. Wooten. Lieut. Col Co!den L'H. Ruggles. l\faj. Lytle Brown. Lieut. Col. George Montgomery. Lieut. Col. John W. Joyes. 1\laj. Earl I. Brown. 1\Iaj. Amos A. Fries. To be lieutena11t oolonel8. Maj. · James A. Woodruff. Maj. Thales L. Ames. To be nz.ajo1·s. Maj. Edward P. o~Hern. Capt. Roger D. Black. , Maj. Edwin D. Blicker. C11pt. Theodore It Dillon. . ., . SIG.... AL COBPS. Capt. De Witt C. Jones. To be cownel.. Capt. Ernest Graves. Lieut. Col. Chal'les McK. Saltzman. I. 1917. 80NGRESSIOr AL RECORD-SENATE~ 3241'

To be lieutenant colonels. l\laj. Mahlon Gerhard Frost. Beujamin Harrison Hensley. Maj. Leonard D. 'Villlman. Hawthorne C. Gray. l\laj. Walter L. Clarke. Donald James Neumliller. Maj. Basil 0 . Lenoir. Orl:lnd Sylvester O'Neal. 1\faj. William l\litchell. Otto Kramer. ~laj. Charles S. 'Vallace. George D. Ramsey. Maj. George S. Gibbs. Jerome Pickett. l\laj. Charles de F .•Chandler. IJebbeus l\forri 'On Cornish. 'To be major·. Leon F. Stevens. William Samuel Rurnbougp. Capt. Artlmr S. Cowan. George Alexn.nder Murray. INFANTRY A.R:U. Joseph E. Young. To be majors. Henry Theophil John Weishaar. Capt. G. l\laury Ct·alle. Charles S. Lawrence. Cyrus Alaric Hay. Capt. Joseph F. Gohn. Benjamin Joseph Holt, jr. To be captain. Ne\vton Dousman Hathaway. First Lieut. Carl C. Oakes. Byron W. Fuller. John Erwin Stullken. PRODSIO:NAL A.PPOINTMEKTS BY PROMOTION. Herman Henry Meyer. COAST ARTILLERY CORPS. Carleton More. Second Lieut. Kenneth S. Purdie. Edward P . Sheppard. Clyde McClain Strosnider. CORPS OF ENGINEERS. Henry Jeffrey Matchett. To be fit·st lietttenants. John Henry Strickland. Secontl Lieut. Harol

Julian Rockwood Orton. John August 1\Ioschner. Reginald Nichols Hamilton. George Edward Harrison. John Walter Nicholson. \Vesley J. White. Thoma Allan Young. Alton Wright Howard. Charles Haines Lee: Nolan Ferguson. Ray Bradford Conner. Richard Whitney Carter. Jame Stanley 1\loore, jr. Kenneth Rowntree. Franklyn Hayes Woody. George Archibald King. Herbert Louis Landolt. Ion Carl Holm. Samuel Walter Sowerbutts. Carl Clifton Krueger. Will Van Sycle Parks. .Arthur E. Pickard. Charles Bernard Kelly. Robert McClean Cars\\ell. Malcolm McGregor Maner. Arthur Vollmer. John Lloyd McKee. Otto Blaine Trigg. Glenn Luman Allen. George William Lyman Prettyman. Charles Rouse Jones. James Booth Lockwood. 'Villard Stewart Paul. Lionel Leopold 1\leyer. l\foritz Augustus Rust Loth. Frederick Harold Leroy Ryder. Robert Henry Chance. Myron Winston Hackney. Claude Wallace Shelton. Wallace William Crawford. Han·y Grant Hodgkins, jr. Theodore Besson Apgar. Samuel Rufus Ward. .Jeffers·on Bartow 0 born. Vincent Paul Rousseau. , Mortimer Beth Christian. March Hugo Houser. l\Iarcu'S Roger 1\Ionsarratt. Lamont Davis. Fabius Busbee Shipp. James Brown Golden. James Jay Cecil. Edwin Blair Bani ter. James Madison Shelton. Willfred Rowell Higgins. Albert Russell Kuschke. Eldon Paul King. George Albert Moore. Frederick Stone Matthews. George William Gay . .Arthur Pleasant Sibold. Forsyth Bacon. Francis 1.\faynard Las eigne. Ralph Leslie Joyner. Walter Hellmers. Roscoe Stewart Parker. Jesse Plez Green. Heywood Shall us Dodd. Howard Winthrop Turner. Kent Craig Lambert. William .Audley Taber. George Edward Huthsteiner. Philip Barbour Peyton, jr. Richard Bennett Lloyd. Henry Garner Sebastian. Maurice Morgan. Aaron Joseph Becker. Gilbert Edwin Bixby. Lindsay P. Johns. Eugene Burnet. Charles Arthur Shamotulski~ Charles Frederick Houghton. Frederick R. Baker. William Powell Scobey. FIELD ARTILLEr.Y ARM. Robert Donald Horton. Frank Langham. Carl Joshua Lambeth. William F. l\Iaher. William F. Donnelly. Walter Franklin Wright. George Lignori Pepin. Sidney Feagin Dunn. Lloyd Neff Keesling. Louis Whorley Hasslock. Lawrence Burdette Glasgow~ Breckinridge Atwater Day~ We ley Crowell Brigham. Paul Church Harner. William l\1ajor Goldston. .Joseph Kennedy. yrus Higginson Searcy. George D. Shea. Theodore Kelly. John Van Derlip Burne. Leon Edward Norris. Woodrow Wilson Woodbridge. David McAllister Hunter. Gervas Storrs Taylor. J. Harlod li"'leischhauer. John Griffen Pennypacker. Tasso 'Vadsworth Swartz. Richard Henry Schubert. Ed\Yard William McCaskey, jr. Edward John Fox Marx. John Waring Weeks. CAVALRY ARM. Wilbur Clynton Carlan. Guy Hudson Dosher. George Ross Hede. Cecil Rutherford Neal. · Gilbert Paul Kearns. Myer Samuel Sil ven. Van Rensselaer Vestal. w;mam Harris Symington. John Homer Carriker. Philip B. Fryer. Peter P. Michalek. Donald Coe Hawley. William Griswold Gough. Vernon Lhrean Padgett. Joseph Aloysius 1\fulherrin. Jay Ward MacKelvie. Azel Wingert 1.\fcNeal. Francis Truman Bon teel. William Benjamin Wright, jr, William Edwin Barott. Victor, Horace Bridgman, jr. . \ Wallace Francis Hamilton. Wen dell Lowell Bevan. Frank Nelson. William Brooke Dunwoody.. William E. 1\fcl\Iinn. Henry Joseph Macpeake. Edmund Michaux Crump. Frank Warren Lykes. Herman Frederick Rathjen. Richard Terrell Guthrie. Daniel Joseph Keane. lttai Albert Luke. Milo Joseph Warner. Roger Griswold. Le Roy Davis. Henry Loc1.."Wood, jr. Anthony John Tittinger~ Alan Lockhart Campbell. Max Donald Holmes. Oscar Blount Ralls, jr. Charles Allen Ellis. John Harman Larkin. Demas Lindley Sears. Douglas Rubison Coleman:. Bankston E. Mattox, jr. George Peterson Winton. Frank Henry Barnhart._ Robert Nelson Getty, jr. 1917. OONUSE. 3243

George .Jackson Downing. ROUSE 'OF REPHESENT.A.TIVES. Christiancy Pickett. Rush Hawkins Uogers. SATURDAY, June 2, 1917. John Cooper Adams. !The House met at 11.30 o'clo(}k a. m. Arthm· ·Car.ron :waters. .The Chaplain, Re\. Henry N. Gouden, D. D., offer~d the fol­ Ernest Terrill :Ba:1·co. lowing prayer : Lester Amiel Daugherty. 0 that men would lo\e the Lord, om God and our Father, Walter Gordon Witt. for Hi goodne s and for His wonderful works to the chilUren Joseph Earle Takken. of ·men; that they may praise and worship ·Thee from the Rnymond Jerome :Watrous. heart; that Thy will may be done and their work be worthy Jewme Jackson ·waters, jr. ·of ·rrhy praise; that Thy kingdom may come in an everla ting 'l'homn Grafton Hanson, jr. peace through Him who taught us to do unto others as we Bertram Jeumann Rock. woulu be {lone by ; to the honor and glory of Thy 1holy name. Alexander Shepherd Quintard. Amen. COA.ST AIITILLERY CORPS. The Jomnal of the proceedings of yesterday "'as read and ap· proYed. · Henry Fred Grimm, jr. Henry Linsert. ERECTION OF TE~IPORABY BUILDINGS ON SMITHSONIAN GROU IDS. '"Herman Augustine Brandt. Mr. CLARK of Florida rose. Donalcl Langley Button. _The SPEAKER. .For '\\hat purpo e does the gentleman rise? Leland Adrian ll\Ii11er. l\lr. CLARK of Fl01:ida. To nsk unanimous consent for the Arthur Nolan Harrigan. present consideration of 'House joint re:olution 94, autl1orizing Percy Clayton Hamilton. the Board of ·Regent::; of the Smith onian Institution to permit Robert Alexander Laird. the Secretary of W ru· to erect temporary buildings in the Porter Pr-e cott •Lowry. Smithsonian grounds. Stuart ,V. Griffin. "The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Florida asks tmani­ J o. eph ·william Hazell. mous consent for the present consideration of House joint reso­ "John Briggs Day. httion 94, whiCh 'the Clerk ,,m report. James Louis Keane. The Clerk read us follows: D"ohn Albert l\le .erschmidt. RPsolved, etc., 'l'bat authority be. and is hereby, given to the "lloard Otis Alexander ''Vallace. of Regents of the Smith onian Institution to grant permission. unuer such conditions and restrictions as they -nmy deem necessary, t.o the Benjamin Bo-wering. s~cretary of War to erect for the use of the War Department a tempo­ rary structure or structiU'~s in the Smithsonian ~ounds in the city PORTO RICO Jl-EGL\IENT OF INFANTRY. of Washington: P1·ovidee, That the Secretary of War shall have such building or buildtngs removed from the said grounds lllld the site or Lui Felipe 'Cianchini sites thereof placed in as good condition . as at present within three Victor Emanuel 'Domenech. years from the date of tbe approval of this resolution. Antonio Andres Vasquez. The SPEAKER. 'Is there objection? Juan Eugenio Guzman. l\fr. l\IA IN. Re erving the right to object, will i:he gentle­ man from Florida make a statemPnt in regard to the bill? Pno:MOTTO--S AND APPOINT:ME~TS IN THE ~A.VY. 1\fr. CLAnK of li'lorida. 1\Ir. Speaker, I will -state that the The following-named lieutenant commanders to be com- War Department has been extremely . anxious for some time .manders: to construct some buildin~s for the use of the Aviation Se1 ·ce. Amon ·Bronson, jr., and The Secretary of \Var advises the committee that the plans Louis C. Richard ·on. have been drawn, arrangements ha>e already been made, nnd Lient. John H. ewton to ·be a lieutenant commander. that the e buildings must be constructed somewhere. There is Lient. .<\ndrew F. ·Carter to be a lieutenant commander. really no other place to put them, and, for the benefit of the l\lhl hipman Benjamin F. Staud to be an en ign. Hou e, I will read the letter from the Secretary of War under James E. Slack, a citizen of Minnesota, to 'be, a second lieu­ date of l\lay 29: tenant in the Marine· Corps. WAll DEPATITMID."T, Washington, May 29, 1917. The following-named first lieutenants to be captains in the non. FRA~K CL.rnK, l\Iarine Corps: Hause of Representatives, Washington, D. C. Thomas E. Tbra her, jr., MY DEAR '1\.tn. CLARK: In resJTonse to your r~nt request in ~~~aFd to the nec-es i_ty fo-r the pas a;;e of H. J. Res. 94 at the pre. ent ~ess!on Erne t C. Williams, and of Con!ITess, to authol'ize the erection of temporary buildings tn the John L. Doxey. Smith onian Grounds for the use of the War Department, I beg to The following-named second lieutenants to be first lleuteru:tnts advise you that the act of August 24., 1912 ( 37 Stuts., pt. 1, p. 444), in the Marine Corps : · provides that no building or strnctur.-:! shall be erected upon pul!li-c grounds in the District of Cclumbla Except by express authorization Robert 0. B. Burwell, of Congi-es . Uupert l\1. Bur tan, ·and The Chief Signal Officer of the Arm¥, in eonjunction with the offici:als Owen E. O'Neill. of tb Smithsonian, has arranged with the Board of ne:rents of the latter institution t.o erect a temporary building for the Aviation SPrv­ Fir t Lieut. Paul C. Marmion to be a first lieutenant in the iee. This building :is m-gently needed, the plans have been eompleted Marine Corps. ~ a:nd approved, the contract for its erection has been arranged, and the Arthur H. Turner to be a second lieutenant in the Marine materiru is re!ldy for use as soon as the proper authorization by Con­ gre s shall be given. The \Yar Department is not able to secure any Corps. other building adequate for this purpose, and must build somewhere. The following-named citizens to be dental surgeons: It will greatly pro!llote the .elliciency of the service to have this addi­ Lloyd C. McDonald, tional space in the same localiq wltJ1 the Smithsonian Institution, which w111 cooperate in the study of the problems involved. Albert Knox, May I ask you to bring the resolution to the. early attention of the Irvin G. Kohlmeier, Rouse, in order that tbe erection of this building may be proceeded with as promptly as possible:'? Weeden E. Osborne, Sincerely, yours, Everett, K. Patton, N&wro~ D. EAKEn, Cedric T. Lynes, and Secretary of TVar. Richard C. Green. Now, 1\Ir. 'Speaker, that explain.<:; there ·olution as fully as it Th'e following-named citizens· to be assistant dental surgeons can rbe explained. There is no doubt as to the urgency of the in the Dental 'Reserve Corps. matter. It ought to have been built some time ago, but they William J. Rogers, are all in readine s now, contracts have been arranged, mate­ Edward D. Ralph, and rials ,Jlave ' been purcha eel, plans ha\e been provided, aml the Charles 0. Sandstrom. money is in readiness to erect these buildings, antl I trust thnt The following-named second •lieutenants to bei.first lieutenants there will be no objection to •its present consideration. in the Marine Corps : · l\Ir. 1\IANN. ·wm the gentleman yield for a question? Vincent ;E. Stack, Mr. CLARK of Flor.ida. Yes. 1Ienry P .. Torrey, Mr. MANN. My understanding is, from statements whicl1 Bryan C. Murchison, and have be(ll made, ·that it \is the desire to construct a· tempornry Allen p. Turnage. buHding·south of the main Smithsonian builclings, south of th.e Leonard 'G. 'Hoffman to be an assistant paymaster. taxitlermist building, right on B Street, and that Jt is not con- 3244 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD~HOUSE . J UNE 2,

templated putting any building between the Smithsonian Build­ T he SPEAKER. Is there objection? ing aud the New National 1\luseum. Mr. MANN. Reserving the right to object, there are always 1\Ir. CLARK of Florida. No; not at an. exercises connected with the ceremonies accepting these statues. Ur. ·l\IANN. One of the purposes of this is to permit the .Avi­ When are the exercises to take place? ation Service of the War Department to have the benefit of Mr. HASTINGS. I will say that the exercises will take place clo e contact with the Smithsonian, which has given consider­ in Statuary Hall at 10.30 o'clock 'Vednesday morning, J une 6. able study to aviation. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present considera­ l\lr. CLA.RK of Florida. So the Secretary of War states in tion of the resolution? his letter. There was no objection. 1\lr. :MANN. The gentleman will recall that it was the secre­ The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the concur­ tary of the Smithsonian Institution who brought out the plans rent resolution. for flying machines, ami that the Smithsonian Institution has The concurrent resolution was agreed to. always been intereRted in the problem of aviation. On motion of l\!r. HASTINGS, a motion to reconsider the vote l\lr. CLARK of Florida. Yes; and it strikes me that it is very by which the concurrent resolution was passed was laid on the proper that the builuing should be put in close proximity to table. that inRtif:ution for the reason which the gentleman states. RECEPTION OF IT.ll.IA " MISSION. 1\Ir. 1\IA.NN. I have no objection. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? The SPEAKER. The Chair appoints as the committee to There was no objection. escort the Italian mission to the floor of, the House l\Ir. FLOOD, 1\fr. LINTHICUM, lHr. GooDWIN of Arkansas, l\!r. CooPER of Wis­ The Hon~e joint re~olntion wns ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read the third time and passed. consin, Mr. PoRTER, and l\lr. LAGUARDIA, and, in ac<;ordance with the order heretofore made, the House will stand in recess for 30 On motion of :\lr. ULAI~K of Florida, a motion to reconsider the vote whereby the joint resolution was passed was laid on the minutes. table. Accordingly (at 11 o'clock and 45 minutes a. m.) the House ACCEPTANCE OF STAT"GE OF SEQUOYAH. stood in rece s. .At 11 .o'clock and 55 minutes a. m. tfie commissioners of the 1\lr. HASTINGS. l\lr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for Italian Government to the Government of the United States, his the present consiuerntion of Hou e concurrent resolution 11. Royal Highness Ferdinando di' Sa,oia, Prince of Uuine; Tenene The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Oklahoma asks unani­ de Zara, aid to the prince; His Excellency the Hon. Enrico Ar­ mous con ent for the consideration of House concurrent resolu­ lotta, minister of tran portation; His Excellency l\Iarqui Luigi tion 11, which the Clerk will report. Borsarelli di Rifreddo, undersecretary of state for foreign af­ The Clerk read the re olution, as follows: fairs ; Hon. Guglielmo Marconi, senator of the Kingdom ; Bon. House concurrent n~ solution 11. Francesco Saverio Nitti, member of the Chamber of Deputie. ; Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concwTing), That the statue of Sequoyah, prPsentt•d by the State of Oklahoma. to be Ron. Augusto Ciuffelli, member of the Chamber of Deputie ; placed in Statuary Hall, is accepted in the name of the United States, Cavaliere de Parente, secretary of legation and secr·etary of the and that the thanks of Congress be tendered to the State for the con­ mission; Duke of Sangro, aid to Senator Marconi; CaYaliere tribution ·of the statue of one of its most eminent citizens, illustrious for his distinguished civic services. . Pietra, of the commercial mission; Gen. Guglielnotti, military at­ Second. That a copy of tbt'se resolutions, suitably engrossed and duly tache; and Commander Vannutelli, naval attache, accompanied authenticated, be transmitted to the governor of Oklahoma. by Count V. Macchi di Cellere, ambassador extraordinary and The report (by l\lr. SLAYDEN) i a follows: plenipotentiary, accredited to the United State ; l\lr. Brecken­ The Committee on the Library, having had under consideration the ridge Long, As istant Secretary of State; and Lieut. Col. J. C. resolution (H. Cou. Res. 11) accepting the statue of Sequoyah from Gilmore, United States Army. the State of Oklahoma, re.pol·t it back with the recommendation that it ~o pass. The distinguished visitors were escorted to the Speaker's SEQUOYAII. ro truro amid prolonged applause and cheers, and the Prince of Sequoyab, whose statue it is propo. ea to accept from the State of Udine was seated cn·the right of the Speaker. Oklahoma, wa born in the State of Ueorgia about 1770. He was the The SPEAKER. Gentlemen of the House of Representative. , son of a full-blooded Cherokee woman and a German trader by the name of George Gi t, who dealt in contraband articles, and who I present to you his royal highness, the Prince of Udine. [Ap-" abandoned his wife before Sequo.rah was born. plause.] ~equoyah grew up to young manhood among the Cherokees .in Georgia ADDRESS OF THE PRINCE OF UDINE. and became a leader in the affairs of his tribe. He not only took an active part in bunting and fishing, as well as sports, but became a The PRINCE OF UDINE. Mr. Speaker ·and l\Iember. of the trade!', silvtrs'llitb, blacksmith, and philosopher, and later the inventor - of the Cherokee alphabet, upon which his chief claim to fame rests. House, no one could appreciate the honor of your invitation more This invention is most r·emarkable when it is known that be never than myself and my colleagues. attended school and could neither read nor write the English language. To address the Representatives of the greatest among new Following the invPntion of the Cherokee alphabet, consisting of "85 characters, in 1821, it wa. accepted by the tribe and he was voted a democracies at a time when the destinies of humanity are await­ silvel' medal in 1824 as a mark of di tinction. In 1828 an iron printing ing decision, at a time when our destiny and yours depend on the pre s was purchased b:v the Cherokee with Cherokee and English type, i~sue of the war, to bring you the greeting of distant brothers ft•om which the Cherokee Pbrenix was published at New Ecbota, Ga. It wa the first newspaper printed in the Indian language. The pa'per who· are fighting for the same ideals at the foot of the nowy was discontinued about 1835 and another, the Cherokee Advocate, was Alps or in the deadly trenche , to express to you our feelings established in the Indian Territory wPst, now a part of Oklahoma, in and our _sympathy for your feelings-all tho e are for me so 1845. It ceased publi< ation during the Civil War and was reestao­ lished in 1 70 a'ld published until Hl05b both in English and Cherokee. _many reasons for legitimate pride. [Applause.] The effect of this alphabet upon t e future advancement of the Dm·ing our brief stay among you we have found everywhere Cherokee Indian and all other India n trilJes is difficult to fully appre­ the most joyous welcome and the most friendly cordiality. ciate. Immediately after its invention not only were newspapers pub­ lished in the Indian language which could be read by all, but the New Everywhere it was not only friendly words that greeted us Testament, hymns, tracts, and books of various kinds were published, but also friendly souls who welcomed us. resulting, no doubt, in the adoption of the first written Indian consti­ We have felt deeply mo\ed by this. tution in 1 27, modeled after that of the United States and the several States, and the formation of a g-overnhlent with three distinct branches­ 'Ve know, gentlemen, tllat such cordial sentiments, such hearty legislative, executive, and judicial-similar to the government of the friendship, are meant not so much for our persons as for our SUJToundlng States. beautiful and distant country; our country, of which e\ery foot Sequoyah came to Washington as one M the representatives of the western tribes of Indians in 1828, when his invention was recognized is sacred to us becau e of its century-old greatne s and uffer­ by Congress and an appropriation of 500 was made for his benefit. ings and because of the noble share ~vhich it has always had in Additional appropriations were made by Congress for tbe education of human thought and history. [Applau e.] , the children of the tribe. In 1823 be moved from Georgia with other members of the Cherokee But your great Republic, when it grants us such courteous Tribe west, first into the Territory of Arkansas and later to the Indian hospitality, honors still more that which at the pre ent moment Tet·ritory, now a part of Oklahoma. is deare t to us-the efforb of Italy's soldiers, the noble acri­ While in Washington he conceived the idea of inventing .another alphabet by means of wbich all Indians upon the American Continent fice of so many young li•es freely O'iven for their country and speab.-tng different languages coultl communicate with each other. In for civilization and in defen e of ideals which you have made the early forties be sttuted out on a we tern tour to visit the western your own and which we all rove. Indian tribes and further· this plan. but be never lived to accomplish the end sought. He died in the far West about 1845, near San Ber­ In the name of the soldiers of Italy, one of whom I am prou

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oitly remain in the minds· of our descendants B;S a historic event, The families of 3,000,000 Italians who dwell in the United but which has already aroused, because of its moral force, in­ States under the protection of your hospitable and just laws tense admiration among an civilized peoples. We shaD be satis­ felt a deep sense of joy. fied whatever sacrifices we· may be called lJl)on to ma-ke, wheB 1\.fr. Speaker and' Members of the House, the words which His the' rights of humanity are assured, when the guarant:ies of Majesty the King of Italy, first among our soldiers, wrote to peace are effectual, and when free nations are able to work for your President expressed his feelings and those of all his thek own prosperity and elevation. . , people. President Wilson has proclaimed tllat to the Ameri-cans right To-morrow when tbe news reaches Italy that this Congress, is more precious than peace and tha-t the people of the United 1 whiCh represents the will of tbe American Nation, has desired State are ready to shed-their blood in defense of those principles to give to onr mission the supreme honor of welcoming it in its in the name of which they became a n-ation. midst yonr friendly words will reach the farthermost points For the· sake of the same principles we are ready to face where- men are fighting and suffering. And in the trenches, at every sacrifice and every sorrow. the foot of the ma1esti-c Alps, the-re where the struggle is bitter­ We are fighting a teiTible war. Our enemies were long since est and where death is ever present, a thrill of jay and of hope prepared for it, while we were content to live, trusting in peace, will be felt-the joy of a sincere union, the hope of certain ano onlv sought to contribute to the development of our people vietory. [Prolonged applause and cheers.] and to the progress of our country, almost unconsciouS' of th~ The SPEAKER. I am certain that every Member of tne cloud whtch so suddenly grew dark over our heads. House of Representatives will be delighted to see and hear the We came into the war when we- realized that there wa-s no man who invent-ed wireless telegrnphy, Signor l\1arconi. [Pnr room for neutrals n.nd that neutrality: was neither possible nor longed applause.] I de irable, when the freetlom of aU democratic nations was ADDRESS OF SIGNOR MABCONL threntened and the very existence of free peoples was at stake. SIGNOR MARcoNI. Mr. Speaker and Members of the Hou e, I Ever since- that day we have not hesitated before any danger appreciate very highly the honor and the priYilege of being or any suffering. Our wide fighting front presents conditions allowed to say a word to you in this assembly. Up to two of exceptional difficulty. The enemy is, or has been until now, minutes ago 'I

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Tl!e Clerk read as follows : Mr. NORTON. Mr. Chairman, I would like to be heard for Amendment by Mr. 1\IooRE of Pennsylvania : Amend by striking out just a moment. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the commit­ all of sect ion 3. tee, I think this character of legislation is right along the line l\Ir. MOORE of Pennsylvania. l\fr. Chairman, it may be that we have been pursuing for some time ana making the great that the committee has some good reason for introducing sec­ mistakes of . this war. It seems to me that in legislating in tion 3, which is a new piece of legislation, but it ought not to this way we are taking in too much territory; we are taking be passed, in my judgment, without some further discussion or altogether too much upon ourselves. It reminds me of a story explanation. A careful reading of section 3 shows that it I heard when I was a young boy out in North Dakota. There proposes to put the United States Government, through its was a French Canadian in the town of Pembina who imbibed Bureau of ' ·ar-Risk Insurance, in the business of guaranteeing somewhat freely one evening, ana as a result became noisy and -foreign ships and foreign cargoes. Now, I question whether pugnaciously inclined. Looking around the crowd in the bar­ we want to go that far, if the business is to become permanent: room, he announced in quiet tones, " I can whip anybody in It provides a reinsurance plan in cooperation with foreign na­ Pembina." Nobody paid any attention to him, and then after tions with whom we happen to be on friendly terms during the taking another glass, he declared in louder tones, " I can whip \vnr, but there is no limitation upon the responsibility that anybody in Cavalier County." Nobody paid any attention to we are to assume, and we may enter into reinsurance agree­ this declaration. Then he took another glass, and said in a ments to prot~t vessels of foreign friendly flags or their loud, voice, "I can whip anybody in North Dakota." Nobody cargoes. 'Vhether that means we shall go so far as to protect paid any attention even to this statement. Then finally he took their crews and provide remuneration for loss of their clothing another glass, and throwing out his chest he shouted at the is n~t clear,, although tllat is provided for in a previous sec- crowd in the room; " I can whip anybody in the United States." tion of the oill. - At this a little New York salesman who ha(] been quietly l\fr. ALEXANDER. Will the gentleman yield? listening to the French Canadian's boasting, walked up to him 1\lr. l\IOORE of Penm::;ylvania. Yes. and planted a blow square on his chin which knocked him out 1\fr. ALEXA.l'TDER. It says : completely for two or three minutes. When be came to he That the Bureau of War-Risk Insurance, with the approval of the staggered to his feet, rubbed his head, looked sheepishly at the Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby authorized to make provision laughing crowd, and said," Last time a'tank a'took in too moch for reinsurance by the United States of vessels of foreign friendly flags or their cargoes. ter-tori." That does not include insurance of the officers or crews or That is exactly what we are doing by this character of legis­ their clothing-· - ·- · lation-taking on too much responsibility. We are unnece.. arlly 1\lr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. Well, I take the statement of taking in too much territory in this war. It will not be very the g<:>ntleman for that, but the preceding paragraph does pro­ long until our allies, so called, will be saying that they will con..: vide for loss of life or limb gr personal effects. descend to help us to carry on this war. . Unless we are more 1\lr . .ALEXANDER. This does not include anything but the mindful of our own purposes and interests in this ·.var the chief ve sels and cargoes. burden of all the war against the central European powers will · 1\lr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. That removes that question. be shifted upon the people of this Nation. I do not .find from However, the question of our entering into this foreign busi· anything that the chairman of this committee has said that Eng­ land in the last two or three years has passed any legislation ness with the money of the United States still stands. 'Ve may providing for the reinsUl'ance of American ships or that France insure in cooperation with other nations vessels of foreign has done so. The gentleman says there is going to be a recip­ friendly flags or we may reinsure· with the Governments of rocal agreement. That is the position in which we find our­ other countries vessels of the United States. It is a cooperative· scheme, a reinsurance plan which means that this Government selves. · may be putting u in a permanent business of competing with 1\lr. .A.DA1\1SON. If the gentleman will permit, I would like private or independent insurance companies for this foreign to remind him that it was only lately that we were in thi. war, tr:l.UE', and the complications resulting from it may bring con­ ana it was not necessary for us to indulge in war legi lation fu ion ultimately to the Government of the United States. until the war came on. This paragraph ought to be more thoroughly explained than it 1\lr. NORTON. I will say, in reply to the reminder of the has been, or there should at least be a time. limitation placed gentleman, that England, France, Russia, and Japan have been upon it for such reinsuTance agreements as are provided. I in this war now for nearly three years, and they have not seen have nothing further to say, l\fr. Chairman. fit since this Nation has declared war against Germany to pass 1\Ir. ADAl\ISON. Mr. Chairman, the origin of this bill, like any legislation to assist the United States through reinsuring other bills which have been brought in here in the last two our ships and shipping. The reciprocal part of this affair seems months, is in the fact that -we are in a state of war. In order to me to consist of this Nation giving and the other uations to win that war 'we must have supplies for our own men and taking what "we give. our allie . 'Ve have to insure the crews of ships engaged in Mr. ADAl\ISON. It was not necessary for them to pass any our merchant marine in order to induce those crews to go legislation in regard to Us until the alliance came into existence. abroad with our commerce. This proposition is to help insure Mr. BORLAND. Does the gentleman from North Dakota the ships of our allies who are on the first battle line, and be­ realize that the acute situation now is the danger from the u tween us at present and the enemy, and they may whip the boats? enemy before the enemy reaches us with the greatest seveljty 1\lr. NORTON. That is nothing new. I realize all of that. of the war. We propose in line with other insurance prac­ Everybody that knows anything about the war situation realizes tices to reinsure the ships or the cargoes, or both, of our allies. th~ . In fact, they are waging war against the same enemy and Mr. BORLAND. Does he not realize it will encoura~e the they have insured the ships and the cargoes partly and the sending of merchant ships to sea if ample provision is ma(le for proposition is reciprocal, as I understand it. 'Ve propose to insurance? in ure their ships which are engaged in carrying supplies from l\lr. NORTON. Yes; and I realize that EnglanP, would be us to them just as \\ell as our own ships which are engaged perfectly willing that this Nation should take the entire huraen in doing so. of this tremendous war off her hands. That is what we are ~lr. NORTON. Will the gentleman yield? drifting to in legislation of this kind. It is about time that we 1\lr. ADAMSON. We expect them to reinsure our· ships, if stopped and considered the interest of our own people in this necessary, on the same basis. Certainly ; I yield. war and our proper position in the war and proceeded on a pro­ 1\lr. NORTON. That is just the question I was going to ask, gram to fight our own part in this war, :without taking upon whether the English Government or the French Government or ourselves aU the burdens of our so-called allies. . the Italian Government and other governments in war against 1\Ir. MOORE of Pennsylvania. 'Vill the gentleman yield be­ the central European powers have legislated to pro\ide reh­ fore he takes his seat? surance for American ships and cargoes? 1\Ir. NORTON. Gertainly. 1\Ir. ADAMSON. The unuerstamling is that there will be a 1\Ir. MOORE of Pennsylvania. The gentleman from Georgia· reciprocal arrangement, that the English and French Govern­ [1\lr. ADA-MSON] stutetl that a reciprocal arrangement wn con­ ments will reinsure American ships engaged in the same line templated. I call the gentleman's attention to the fact that of business just as we reinsure their ships engaged in commerce nowhere in the testimony and nowhere in the report is there any between us and them. '.rhose ships are engaged in supplying reference to a reciprocal arrangement. The report indicates the sinews of war. Whether they be English or French ships that only two men .ask for this legislation, 1\Ir. W. M. Davey or American ships they are all engaged in the arne business of· and l\fr. Herndon Chubb, of the advisory board. We have no carrying supplies from n to them. It is only permissive; it is information from the Secretary of the Treasury on this question not compulsory. The authorities of the Gove1;nment are au· of · reciprocal arrangement at all. All the Secretary of the thorized to make this arrangement_which we ask. Treasury has indicated was that \Te ought :o provide insurance 1917. OONGRESSIONAL R-ECORD-HOUSE. 3247 for the men whether native or alien, needed to man the mer­ 1\Ir. SNOOK. The theory of the War-Risk Insurance Depart­ chant marin~: There is nothing in the report here coming from ment is-- any official sow·ce whatever, except from those ~wo members of ' 1\Ir. 1\IANN. Qh, I know what the theory is-- the advisory board. · . 1\Ir. SNQOK: The theory is that the increased amount is due The CHAIRl\IAN. The time of the gentleman from North to the increased amount of business. Dakota has expired. 1\Ir. 1\IANN. · I will explain it again. Mr. HEFLIN. Mr. Chairman, it is very necessary that some Mr. SNOOK. I understand what the gentleman says. He money should be appropriated for this purpose. I note that does not need to explain it to me. there nre some gentlemen here who are not willing for . the 1\Ir. MANN. Evidently the gentleman does not understand it. Gov<>rnment, even in wnr times, to go into any kind of business I do not think he understands it. when it touches institutions near their home, and they can not The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Illinois defend the interests in tbeir particular territory witlwut re­ has expired. fei-ring in a sneering way to the part that we are taking in 1\Ir. MANN. 1\Ir. Chairman, I ask for five minutes more. this war. , The CHAIRMA..~ . . Is there objection to tne request of tbe Gentlemen men are dying in Enrope for liberty and human gentleman from Illinois? rigllt , withdut which no decent government can l.ast, an? .this There was no objection. Government has been drawn into the war, and 1t has JOined 1\lr. 1\lANN. If we insured only American vessels we woule a sufficient number o~ vessels to insure to make a. victory to our cause. 'Vhen I hear gentlemen· on the other side. reasonable spread of insurance, so that we would not be sub­ or on this siue, it makes no di1Ierence with me which, making jected to any great risk. such allusions as we have heard from one gentleman here this l\fr. SNOOK. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield? morning, I am going to enter my protest. The gentleman who l\fr. 1\IANN. Yes. has just taken his sent [l\1r. · NoRTO!'i] referred to our allies in 1\Ir. SNOOK. I want to call the gentleman's attention to this war as our "so-called" allies! Gentlemen, that is wrong! the fact, especially in view of the statement that the gEmtlemnn I do not care on which side you sit or to what political party ·from Pennsylvania rMr. MooRI•:] mad.e, that there was one hear­ you belong, you are not 8peaking the American spirit of loyalty ing that was not reported, and that was when we were uiscuss­ to our flag since we have joined forces with the allies in a ing this subject. 'l'he bureau claims thnt this is absolutely nec­ common cause when you refer to them as ow· "so-called" essary to spread the risk and help ow· Government. allies. [Loud applause.] 1\Ir. MANN. I said that is what the bureau claimed. If the l\1r. 1\LiliN. l\lr. Chairman, of course everyone recognizes gentleman would pay me the respect of listening to my re­ ~he fact that an insurance company has to spread its risks and marks-which he has not done-and then try to appreciate them. thnt no insurance bm;inf'ss woulu be safe where the risk is not be would understand. ·I ha>e stated that that is the claim of spread out over a considerable number. It is true even with a the bureau, but that is not the fact. Notwithstanding the little farmers' cooperative insurance society. But when you claim of the bureau, we now have a sufficient spread of in­ Gpread the ri. k over a certain amount yuu gain nothing by in­ surance in effect on American vessels, and the truth-and it is creasing the amount of this spread, as a rule. The theory of an absolute truth-that this is not for the purpose of lessening this bill is that the United States insurance branch will be the liability of the· Government is apparent in the fact that they conducted more safely and at less risk if it is permitted to par­ have increased the appropriaion by more than 300 per cent. tnke in tlw insw·anc~ of all the foreign shipping owned by the If we now have a liability in insuring American vessels and the countries or.. the citizens of the countries at war with Germany. real purpose of this bill is the one which was claimed by th~ I am not deluded myself by this theory. The Government of Bureau of War-Risk Insw·ance, that they wanted to uecrea ·e the United States carries no insurance it elf on its builuings. the liability of the Go>ernment, they ought to uecrease the Whv not? Because it has so many buildings and has a !'luffi.cient appropriation instead of increase it. spread to self-insure them. A great railroad company carries Now what are the facts? The facts are that if we insured by no in urance. 'Vhy not? Because its spread of ownership is this bureau a thousand American vessels and the English Gov­ so gr~at that it itself meets the law of probabilities and is able ernment insured a thousand English ve sels of the same value to carry its own insurance at n less rate thnn it could insure, with the same rate of insurance, we would- not lose, I think, probably. Now, we have a sufficient amount of insurance, prob­ probably by reinsuring their insurance and having them reinsure ably, on American ships to carry a sufficient spreau to protect our insurance. There would probably be no change. But what this Government. I do not know. no one can predict, just what are the real facts? Where we would have a thousand >essels will take place in the future ; but, of course, that has been the to insure, they will have 10,000 to insure. They want us to case up to date. This bUl, while it professes to safeguard thP carry their insurance. That is the truth about it. You might interests of the Go'"E"rnment and makes our risk less by letting as well be truthful about these things. the foreign go-vernments reinsure our risks, still increases the Mr. SNOOK. l\fr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield? liability of the Go>ernment in the way of an appropriation from Mr. 1\IANN. If the gentleman has any information about it. $15,000,000 to $50,000,000. If, in fact, it was to lessen the I will be glau to have it. I do not care for his interpretation. liability of the Government, lessen the risk of the Government, l\1r. SNOOK. According to the infonnation we had before tho there is no occasion for incr.easing the appropriation. committee the bw·eau does not wish that aduitional sum for the 1\Ir. ESCH. 'Vill the gentleman yield? · purpose of going into the business of insurance. l\1r. MANN. Yes. Mr. MANN. That is what they said, but it is not true. 1\fr·. ESCH. The gentleman uoes not take into consideration Mr. SNOOK. If we have a risk of $2,000,000 on one ship, that this bill will insure the lives of the crews. they want to reinsure one-half of that ship, so that if .the ship Mr. MANN. Oh, yes. I know it very well. But the insur­ is sunk we will not have that whole risk to pay. It is the same ance on the lives of the crews does not make up the difference as in the case of fire insurance. between $15,000,000 and $50,000,000, and neither the gentleman Mr. MANN. Surely, you have got to have a spread of iu­ nor anyone else will claim it for a moment. surance. Here is the fact: ' Ve now insure the American ,·e.·­ Mr. SNOOK. Does the gentleman take into account the fact sels, a small number in proportion to the :oumber to be instU'Ptl. that one month ·after the war was declared the· number of risks The English insurers insure the English ves. els, a >ery large sprang from 300 to almost 1,100? number in proportion to ours. Now, what do they want u~ to .Mr. l\1ANN. Well, that shows that we do not need this rein­ do? They want us to carry half of the insurance of their Yes­ surance business. sels, and in return they will carry half of the insurance of ou1· · Mr. SNOOK. The gentleman is talking about the amount of vessels; and no man who can reason can fail to see that we the appropriation we are carrying. are increasing our liability, and not uecreasing it. With an Mr. 1\IANN. Oh, we did in('rease the amount heretofore from equal number of vessels, there would be no practical change in $5,000,000, where it was originally, to $15,000,000, and now the the liability; but we propose to reinsure the English xessels. claim of the ('Ommittee-I will not say that, but the claim of the French vessels, and the Italian vessels; and if Sw·itzerlnnu the gentlemen presenting this bill, and I presume the committee gets into the war, according to one of the naval experts her e agrees with ·them-is that this reinsurance lessens the liability on the floor some time ago, we might insure the Swiss vessels. of the Government; that that is the purpose of it; and yet it [Laugl;lter.] Now, the only justification for this bill-- increases the appropriation from $15,000,000 to $50,000,000. Mr. HAGSDALE. Is that the s'ame navy that they WE're going Why? For a very good reason, because it increases the liability to invite to send ships to the San Francisco exposition? of tbP. Government; th€ bill itself does. [Laughter.] LV--206

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Mr. MANN. I believe we invited them to send their vessels this enlarged work will be conducted in tll~ same way. This to San Francisco. The. only justification-and. it may be that is the most important project in the bilL We can with our un­ that is the justification-is that we are Ioaning England large impaired credit, the one great Nation of the world who has put sums of money ; we are sending our ships and supplies abroad her shoulder under the. burden, assuming the risk and re pon­ to help England. It is to our interest to have our supplies sibility of merchant vessels going to sea. Every friendly ve ·el reach the other side. Tt may be that, as a matter of war neces­ in the world is benefited, and so to-day; we increase the scope sity, we can afford to help England in this way. But to hide of American commerce. and increase the possibility of a success· behind a subterfuge and say that it is to reduce our liability fui end of the war. is what makes me a little hot under the collar. l\fr. NORTON. Will the gentleman yield? The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from illinois Mr. BORLAND. I will yield to the gentleman from North bas again expired. D~~L . 1.\Ir. BORLAND. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the l\Ir. NORTON. The gentleman talks very fluently about the last word. subject of war. Does the gentleman hold that causes for war The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from 1\fissoliri moves to of our Nation against the Imperial German Government ru·e strike out the last word. different or the same as thos of the entente allies? Mr. ADAMSON. Mr. Chairman, I wlsh to ask time in which Mr. BORLAND. Our cause for war is pecullar to ourselves­ to allow the gentleman from illinois [1\Ir. MANN] to answer me the fact that they have been attempting to prevent us from a· question. I call the attention of the gentleman to the fact the use of the oceans of the world.· One of the fundamental that I stresseility. It gage<} in the same project that we are, if that will put more woul

. , 1917 . . J CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 3249 reinsure our ships and we theirs, dividing the liability, is not 1\lr. ALE:S:.A.~'DER. We are talking with reference to this that a sound business proposition? Is not that the principle reinsurance feature now. invoked by the life and fire insurance companies? I confess 1\.:lr. AUSTIN. I am asking flbout the life insurance feature. I can not understand the attitude of the gentlemen who oppose l\lr. ALEXANDER. It will not cost the seaman anything. this provision. This is purely a business proposition. We The vessel owner is required to insure the officers ami seamen; have u.ot consulted our allies as regards this proposition; but that is, their clothing, and also to take out insurance on their recognizing conditions as they exist, and in th~ hope that by liVE'S. cooperation we can increase the tonnage, and can serve our­ Mr. AUSTIN. Naval officers are up against this proposition: selves and our allies alike, and dimini h the risk to ourselves, The insurance companies of the United States ha•e announced thi provision has been written into the bill. n rate of $100 per thousand on additional insmance during the 1\Ir. NORTON. Will the gentleman yield? period_of the war, or $500 for carrying $5,000, which is a hard­ Mr. ALEXANDER. Yes; I yield. ship on many of the younger naval officers; and if we can report Mr. NORTON. Does not the gentleman think there ought to legislation which will relieve the co~on sailor on a merchant be some line where there may be an end-- vessel, why is it that we can not do something for the relief of 1\lr. ALEX:Al\TDER. I should like to ha\e the gentleman tho na\al officers? hurry up with his question. l\lr. ALEXANDER. We are trying to do this now as regards Mr. NORTON. Where there may be an end to the call of our the officers and m£m on merchant ships. I can well understand allies for help from the United States? 'Ve are loaning them why the gentleman is in sympathy with the efforts to apply the money, we are sending troops oyer there ; now they desire us ~ame principle to officers and men on naval ships, as far as that to carry their insurance- is concerned, but that proposition is not before us in tllis bill. Mr. ALEXANDER. Our allies have not requested this pro­ 1\fr. ESCH. This fact would also enter with reference to naval vision. I want to disabuse the gentleman's mind on that. officers, that if they are injured or crippled they are retired on Mr. NORTON. We are thrusting this on them, are we?- retirement pay, and that does not apply to the officers and crews Mr. ALEXANDER. No; we are not thrusting this on them. of merchant ships. 'Ve are simply undertaking to give this board the power of 1\Ir. AUS'l'll~. Anu if a naval officer is kille

Mr. :MOORE of Pennsylvania.. Mr. Chail.:man, I offer th<- fol­ 1\fr. 1\!00RE of Penn ylvania. That would be if ·it pertained lowing amendment, which I send to the Clerk's desk. solely to Ameriean ships, but if the los es are going to ·be greater The 'Clerk t•ead as follows: on foreign ships than on .American ships we are going to :pny the Mr. MooaE of Pennsylvania offers the following .amendment: Page 3, bill. line 20. afte ~ the word " cargoes," insert the following : up1·ovided, That no such reinsurance shall be authorized for a period exceeding one 1\Ir. ADAMSON. W.hy would it ,he greater? The1·e is exactJy year." the same risk and danger. Mr. ALEXANDER. 1\Ir. Chairman, will the gentleman yield The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman has expired. ,there! , Mr. MOORE of Penn ylvania. l\Ir. Chairman, I will have to Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. Yes. ask for more time, inasmuch as the gentleman from Georgia l\1r. ALEXANDER. I would like to call the gentleman's consumed some of my time, attention to the fact that they do not reinsure for a year. Mr. ADAMSON. Mr: Chairman, I ask that the gentleman I Insurance i~ just for th voyage, not for a year or a month. , have as much time as took-about two minute·. Mr. ADA.t\1SON. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman permit Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. I think about three minutes. me to ask unanimous consent to close debate? The gentleman was so eloquent I hated to stop him. Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. I have no objection. I merely The ·CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Penn ylvania asks want five minutes upon this amendment. unanimous consent that his time be extended for three minutes. 1\fr. ADAMSON. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent Is there objection! [After a pause.] The Chair hears none. that

• 1\lr. SAUNDERS of Virginia. If that is true, why should the The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman has expired forergn ships be subject to more risk than our own ships? All time has expired. The question is on the . amendment of· 1\lr. :MOORE of Pennsylvania. Our own loss would be fered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania [1\lr. MooRE]. greater. The question was taken, anc the amendment was rejecteda The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman has expired. MESSAGE FROU THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNTI'ED STATES. 1\lr. SAUNDERS of Virginia. Mr. Chairman, I ask unani­ mous consent that the gentleman's time may be extended five The committee informally rose; and 1\Ir. IlELVERING having minutes. taken the chair as Speaker pro tempore, a message in writing from The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Virginia asks unani­ the President of the United States was communicated to the mous consent that the time of the gentleman from Pennsylvania House of Representatives by Mr. Sharkey, one of his secretarieSs [1\Ir. MoonE] be extended for five minutes. Is there objection? who al. o informed the House of Representatives that the Presi· Tl1ere was no objection. dent had approved and signed bills and a joint resolution of the l\1r. 1\IOORE of Pennsylvania. The gentleman fron:t Georgia following titles : says this is a war proposition; that we want to go into thiR On 1\Iay 29, 1917 : reinsurance business-! think I understand reinsurance, and H. R. 14. An act making appropriations for the supp,ort of I understand it is not settled in a day, but that it involves con­ the Militru·y Academy for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, tracts and complications that extend over a series of years. I and for other purpo es; and think I am familiar with the facts as to that. The gentleman H. R. 328. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate from Georgia insists that we should, as a Nation, go into this commerce," as am~nded, in respect to car service, and for other war-risk insurance bu iness with foreign ships on foreign busi­ pmposes. ness because of the war emergency. The gentleman from 1\Iis­ • On Jr.ne 1, 1917: souri [Mr. ALExA:r..TDER]. a little more frank, indicated twice, as S. J. Res. 66. Joint resolution making immediately available I have stated, that this is a busine s proposition pure and moneys appropriated for the im-estigation of the pneumatic simple. mail-tube service ·in the act approved March 3, 1917. Mr. ADA1\1SON. I do not think the gentleman thinks that I BUREAU OF WAR-RISK INSURANCE. suffer in frankness. ·we want this insurance in order to help The committee resumed its session. whip Germany. · Clerk read as follows: Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. And I am in favor of whip­ SEc. 5. That there is hereby added to such act a new section, to be ping Germany as quickly as the gentleman is, and a lot quicker. known as section 3a, to read as follows : 1\fr. ADAMSON. I doubt it. " SEc. 3a. That whenever it shall appear to tbe Secretary of the Treasury that the efl'ecting of such insurance is desirable in the na­ Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania. We disagree as to this section. tional interest in the case of vessels engaged in any trade, the owner I would put a limitation on it so that these foreign contracts of every American merchant vessel engaged in such trade shall in­ will cease sometime. sure the ma ter, officers, and crew of such vessel against loss of life or personal injury from war risks as well as for compensation during Mr. AD.

1\lr. lHANN. I know· I could, but I am not prepared to do it. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the thir 1\fr. SNOOK. The gentleman understands the intention? reading of the Senate bill. 1\fr. 1\.IANN. I understand the purpose of it. The Senate bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read 1\lr. SNOOK. It can be cleared up in conference. the third time, and passed. 1\rr. ESCB. Will it not be better, at the end of line 5, after On motion of 1\lr. ADAMSON, a motion to reconsider the vote the word" hands," to say" one arm and one leg"? whereby the bill was pas ed was !aid on the table. Mr. SNOOK. But then, you see, it would not cover the whole combination: It means the combination of any two of these. THE ITALIAN MISSION. 1\Ir. JAl\lES. Prnctically every workingman's compensation 1\Ir. 1\.lANN. l\lr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the act takes care of one arm and one leg. proceedings diD·ing the rece s to-day may be printed in the l\Ir. SNOOK. That is what I am trying to do. RECORD in the appropriate place. The CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the amend· The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Illinois ment offered by the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. SNOOK]. asks unanimous consent that the proceedings that took place The amendment was agreed to. during the recent recess of the House be printed in the appro· Mr. RAGSDALE. J\fr. Chairman, I offer an amendment. priate place in the RECORD. Is there objection? The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from South Carolina offers There was no objection. an amendment, which the Clerk will report. The Clerk read ns follows: ORDER OF BUSINESS. Amendment offered by Mr. RAGSDALE: Mr. Sl\IALL. 1\lr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. Pa~e 4 line 22 after the word " capture," insert: "That the com· The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state it. mnndmg 'officer of each company of soldiers in the service of the 1\Ir. SMALL. When the House adjourned yesterday evening United States Government while being transported on the sea shall insure hi officers and soldiers on the same terms and in like amount by unanimous consent it was agreed that when it adjourned as the officers and crews of vessels." to-day it should adjourn until next Wednesday at noon, and 1\.lr. ADAMSON. 1\fr. Chairman, I reserve a point of order on that what would have been in order on l\londay should be in ·tbat. It i~ not germane to this bill at all. order on Wednesday. Now, the inquiry I wish to make is this: 1\.lr. 1\.IAl'\fN. 1\fake the point of order. If on Wednesday, after the Unanimous Consent Calend.ar has 1\lr. AD.Al\lSON. I will make it. been exhausted, with all that that calendar includes, would l\lr. ADAMSON. 1\Ir. Chairman, I make a point of order that which would be in order on Calendar Wednesday follow? against the amendment. l\lr. ADAMSON. It was decided ye terday. 1\lr. 1\.lANN. The Speaker yesterday put the request that The CHAIRl\.lAN. 1:he gentleman from Georgia makes a the proceedings of Calendar Wednesday should follow the pro­ point of order against the amendment. The bill among other ceedings in order on 1\Ionday. things authorizes insurance against lo s of life and personal The SPEAKER pro tempore. That is the case. injury on account of war risks and so forth on American mer· 1\fr. Sl\IALL. That answers my inquiry. chant vessels. The amendment offered by the gentleman from 1\fr. 1\.lANN. There is no question about that. If the gentl~ South Carolina [1\fr. R .A GSDALE] proposes to include insurance man wants to dispense with Calendar Wednesday following, I for officers and soldiers of the Army in like amount as the offi.· have no objection. . cers and crews of merchant vessels. The Chair thinks it is 1\.lr. BORLAND. 1\Ir. Speaker, a pru·Uamentary inquiry. clear that the amendment offered by the gentleman from South The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state it. Carolina is not germane to the provision now under consider· Mr. BORLAND. If any other legislation is called up at that ation. While the two propositions may be related to some ex· time proper to be called up, it would come up automatically on tent, they are in different clas~es. This is an individual propo· Thursday morning following the special order made by the sition to insure the lives of certain persons upon merchant ves­ former action of the House? sels. It ha been held a number of times and there are a num· The SPEAKER pro tempore. It would depend largely on the ber of precedents to the effect that it is not in order to amend kind of legislation and the condition exi ting when the House one individual proposition by another individual proposition, adjourned. even though the two may belong to the same cla s. The Chair, therefore; su tains the point of order. ADJOUR MENT. 1\fr. RAGSDALE. 1\lr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent 1\Ir. ADAl\ISON. 1\lr. Speaker, r move that the House do to revi e and extend my remarks in the RECORD. now adjourn. The CHAIRlUAN. The gentleman from South Carolina asks The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 2 o'clock and 2 unanimous consent to re\ise and extend his remarks in the minutes p. m.) the House adjourned, piD·suant to the previous RECORD. Is there objection? order, until Wednesday, June 6, 1917, at 12 o'clock noon. There was no obje<'tion. The CHAIRl\.lAN. The Clerk will read. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. The Clerk re umed aml concluded the reading of the bill. l\lr. ADAl\lSON. 1\Ir. Chairman, I move that the committee Under clause 2 of Rule XXIV, executive communications were do now rise and report the bill favorably to the House with taken from the Speaker's table and referred as follows: the amendments, w·ith the recommendation that the amendments 1. A letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, \Vith a be agreed to and that the bill as amended do pass. letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary exami­ The motion was agreed to. nation of Newton Creek, Camden County, N. J., from the Dela· Accordingly the committee rose; and 1\fr. CRISP, as Speaker ware River to 1\1ount Ephraim Turnpike on the north and south pro tempore, having as umed the chair, l\Ir. BYRNs of Tennessee, branches, respectively, and to Cuthbert Avenue, Collin~ . wood, Chairman of the Committee of the Whole House on the state on the main stream (H. Doc. No. 164); to the Comm1ttee on of the Union reported that that committee, having had under Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. consideration' the bill ( S. 2133) to amend an act entitled ":'--n 2. A letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of 'Var-R1sk letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary exami· Insurance in the Treasury Department," approved September nation of Trinity River near Liberty, Tex. (H. Doc. No. 165) ; 2, 1914, and for other. purposes, had directed him to . report to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be the arne back to the House with sundry amendments, w1th the printed. . recommendation that the amendments be agreed to and that 3. A letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with ?­ the bill as amended do pass. letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examl· 1\Ir. ADAMSON. · Mr. Speaker, I move the previous question nation of 1\fiakk.a River, Fla. (H. Doc. ·No. 166) ; to the Com· on the bill and amendments to final passage. mittee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Georgia moves *he previous question on the bill and amendments to final PUBLIC BILLS, RESOLUTIONS, AND 1\fEl\fORIALS. pas age. . Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, bills, resolutions, and memorials The previous question was ordered. · were introduced and severally referred as follows: The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is a separate vote demanded on By l\Ir. CHANDLER of New York: A bill (H. R. 4843) grant· any of the amendments? If not, the amendments will be put in ing an e.."'l::tension of patent to Walter D. Johnston; to the Com· gross. rriittee on Patents. The question is on agreeing to the amendments reported by By Mr. BORLAND: A bill (H. R. 4844) to regulate the time the committee. for opening and closing for courts of the United States; to the The amendments we1·e agreed to. Committee on the Judiciary.

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13y Mr. SMITH of Idaho: A bill (H. R. 4845) .authorizing the PETITiqNS, ETC. cl~rks of State or ffee on the Judieiary. PRnrATE BILLS Al'fD RESOLUTIONS. . By Mr. GRIFFIN: 1\1emorial of National Woman's Party, _ Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, private bills and resolutions favorinE: passage of suffrr.ge amendment; to the Committee on were introduced and severally referred as follows: ,the Judiciary. By Mr. AYRES: A bill (H. R. 4855) granting an increase of Also, petition of sundry citizens of the eighth congre~sional pension to Albert J. Weaver; ». the Committee on Invalid Pen­ district of New York against national prohibition; to the Com· sions. mittee on the Judiciary. Also, a bill (H. R. 4856) granting an increase of pension to Also, petition of First American Conference for Democracy John T. Gregory; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. and Terms of Peace, asking Congress to amend the conscrip­ Also; a bill (H. R. 4857) granting an increase of pension to tion act: to the Committee on the Judiciary. Andrew l\1. Murray; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, petition of Columbia Smelting & Refining Works, of Also, a .tJill (H. R. 4858) granting a pension to Keziah Zink; New York, relative to investigating the price of lead; to the to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Committee Qn the Judiciary. Also, a l>ill (H. n. 4859) granting a pension to Sanna Ander­ Also, petition of Edwin P. Gleason's Son and John S. Sills & son; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Sons, of New York, opposing any advance in letter postage; to Also, a bill (H. R. 4860) granting a pensiQ,D to Sarah A. the Committee on Ways and Means. Eddy; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, memorial of the Long Island Diocese of the Episcopal Also, a bill (H. n.. 4861) granting a pension to Harriet J. Church, favoring national prohibition; to the Committee on the Brown; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Judiciary. Also, a bill (H. lt. 4862) for the relief of Lewis K. 1\larshall; By Mr. KINKAID: Petition of citizens of Garden County, to the Committee on Military A..tiairs. Nebr., relative to repeal of the conscription law; to the Com­ Also, a bill (H. R. 4863) for the relief of the estate of John mittee on the Judiciary. McQuiddy, deceased; to the Committee on War Claims. By 1\lr. LINTHICUl\1: Petitions of sundry citizens of Balti· Also, a bill {H. It. 4864) for the relief of Stewart Logan; to the more, 1\ld., favoring prohibition as a war measure; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Committee or: the Judiciary. By 1\fr. IGOE: A bill (H. R. 4865) granting a pension to Also, petition of Mary H. Abel, of Baltimore, 1\Id., relative James R. Milbee; to the Committee on Pensions. to funds for increased production, etc., of food products; to th.~ Also, a bill (H. R. 4866) granting a pension to Julia M. Committee on Agriculture. Anderson and minor child, Wilbert T. Anderson; to the Com­ Also, petiti'Jn of Colston Boyce & Co .• of Baltimore, 1\lc;i., mittee on Pensions. against excess profits tax; to the Committee on Ways and Also, a bill (H. R. 4867) -granting a pension to Melissa A. l\1eans. Coulson; to the Committ€'€ on Invalid Pensions. Also, petition of Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co., "Baltimore, Also, a bill (H. R. 4868) granting a pension to Esther C. Md., against Hardwick amendment to. the Federal reserve act; Vemell; to the Commitlee on Invalid Pensions. to the Committee on Banking and Currency. Also, a bill (H. H. 4869) granting a pen:;;ion to Mrs. Theresa Also, petition of_the Henry B. Gilpin Co., of Baltimore, 1\ld., Dietz; to the CommitteP. on Invalid Pensions. against stamp tax on perfumes, etc.; to the Committee on Ways Also, a bill (H. It. 4870) granting an increase of pension to and Means. John n. See; to the Uomrnittee on Invalid Pensions. Also., petitions of sundry citizens of Baltimore, Md., favoring Also, a bill (H. R. 4871) granting an increase of pension to the f Henry Hirschberg; By Mr. LUNDEEN: Petition of members of Simpson Metho­ to the Committee on Claims. dist Episcopal Church, 1\Iinneapolis, 1\Iinn., R€'v. Reese Bowman Also, a bill (H. R. 4873) for the relief of Edward Flanagan; Kester, pastor, favoring national prohibition as a war measure; to the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on the Judiciary. 3254 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN ATE. J UNE 4,

Also, resolutions of county board of the Ancient Order of Also, petition of rt·s. 0 . 0. Laine, Clyne Ingalls, and l\lr s. Hibernians of Hennepin County, 1\Iinn., 1\f. O'Brien; chairman, A. B. Laine, of Canisteo, N. Y., favoring the Gronna-Runtlall J . J. Fitzgerald, secretary, pledging loyalty to the Stars and bill to conserve fooll tuffs used. in making intoxicating liquors; Stripes. nnd urging upon President Wilson and Congress to to the Committee on the Judiciary. insist that England give j ustice to Ireland; to the Committee Also, petition of Rev. L. C. Bockes, C. , V. Ruse, George S. on Foreign Affairs. Hart, and sundry other citizens of Freeville, N. Y., favoring cer­ Also, petition of adult members of Walker Methodist Epis­ tain prohibitory measures; to the Committee on the Judiciary. copal Church, 1\Iinneapolis, 1\linn., Rev. J. C. Craig, pastor, Also, petition of D. A. Sterling, J. A. Beers, Rev. K. F. Rich­ favoring national prohibition as a war measure; to the Com­ ardson, and sundry others of the congregation of the l\Iethodist mittee on the Judiciary. Episcopal Church of Watkins, N. Y., favoring the prohibition of .Also, re. olutions of a mass meeting of citizens of 1\finne­ the manufacture of alcoholic liquors as a measure of food con­ apolis, 1\linn., D. J. Reynolds, secretary, recommending that all servation; to the Committee on the Judiciary. o-called church property now held for accretion, gain, and By l\Ir. REED: Petition of 1\fary E . Costello, commander; speculation be placed on the same taxable footing as other Byrdie Kennedy, record keeper, of tl.e Womans' Benefit Asso­ property; to the Committee on Ways and Means. ciation of the Maccabees, of Clarksburg, ,V, Va., and other Also, petition of the Parent-Teachers' Association of the Pres­ members of that organization, urging the submission of the cott School, Minneapolis, Minn., John F. Ferguson, president, Federal amendment for woman suffrage; to the Committee on Mrs. H. P . .Annis, secretary, favoring national prohibition as a the Judiciary. waT ]).}ensure; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By 1\lr. ROWE: Petition of Westchester County (N. Y .) Also petition of Prof. E. Dana Durand, University of 1\finne­ Commis ~ ion of General Safety, relati\e to prices for additional sota, Director of the Thirteenth Census, favoring the prohibi­ crop raised ; to the Committee on Agriculture. tion of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors during Also, petition of Retail Liquor Dealers' Ass:ociation of the the war; to the Committee on the Judiciary. State of New York, against any kind of prohibftion; to the Al o, re olutions of the Sunday school of the Fir t Presby­ Committee on the Judiciary. terian Church of Minneapolis, 1\linn., Alexander 1\lcCune, super­ Also, petition of the Pineoleum Co., of Tew York, against any inten(1ent, fa'loring national prohibition during the war; to adnwce in Iette1· postage; to the Committee on Ways and the Committee on the Judiciary. l\leans. Also, petition of the Northeast Joint School and Civic Asso­ Also, J)etition of Alumni A sociation of the Polytechnic Insti­ ciation, ~linneapolis, Minn., A. L. Nutting, secretary, favoring tute of Brooklyn, N. Y., plellging loyalty and support to the Gov­ a "bone-dry" Nation dtu·ing the ·war; to the Committee on the ernment; to the Committee on l\Iilitary Affairs. JudiCiary. Also, petitions of sundry citizens of Brooklyn, ·N. Y., fayoring AI. o. telecrram of Prof. H. E. Robert on, University of Minne­ prohibition as a "·ar mea ure; to the Committee on the Judi­ sota, favoring national prohibition as a war measure; to the ciary. Committee on the .Judiciary. By Mr. RUBEY: Petition of the First l\fethodi t Episcopal Also, petition of Folkets Vel Temperance Society, 1\Iinneapo­ Church, Rolla; the ~lissouri Intercollegiate Prohibition Associa­ li., 1\Iinn., L. '1'., Sviggin, secretary, favoring national prohibi­ tion; l\1ethodist Episcopal Church of Seyrnom·; Methodist Epis­ tion as a war-time measure; to the Committee on the Judi­ copal Churcll, Conway; l\lethodist Episcopal Church, Ricllland; ciary. Methodist Episcopal Church, Salem; and the l\Ien's Bible Cia s Al o, re. olutions adopted by the Calvary Pre brterian of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, l\larshfiel