( tl.933 .CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection? The Chair have had no opportunity ·to examine the report because of bears none, and it is so ordered. the multiplicity of my public duties, but I have been advised BEDFORD COUNTY, TENN.-TRANSFER OF JUDICIAL DISTRICT of the nature of it and the findings of those submitting the Mr. BORAH. Mr. President, from the Committee on the majority report. I do not agree with the majority report Judiciary I report favorably House bill 5909, to transfer and desire to file a minority report as soon as time permits. Bedford County from the Nashville division to. the Winches I ask permission to submit a lPinority report as soon as ter division of the middle Tennessee judicial district, and I possible after adjournment and request that it be printed call the bill to the attention of the Senator from Tennessee with or following the majority report. [Mr. McKELLARJ. Mr. WALSH. The members of the joint special committee Mr. McKEI.J.,AR. Mr. President, this bill merely provides join in the request that that be done. for the transfer of one county in Tennessee from one di The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the request vision of the middle district to another. I ask unanimous of the Senator from Utah? The Chair hears none, and it is consent for the immediate consideration of the bill. so ordered. Mr. McNARY. I have no objection. RECESS There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider Mr. ROBINSON of Arkansas. I move that the Senate the bill, which was ordered to a third reading, read the take a recess until 12 o'clock noon tomorrow. third time, and passed, as fallows: The motion was agreed to; and (at 7 o'clock and 47 minutes p.m.) the Senate took a recess until tomorrow, Be it enacted, etc., That Bedford County of the Nashville di vision of the middle district of the State of Tennessee is hereby Thursday, June 15, 1933, at 12 o'clock meridian. detached from the Nashville division and attached to and made a part of the Winchester division of the middle district of such State. NOMINATION . CONFIRMATION OF J. ELLIOTT RIDDELL TO BE COLLECTOR OF Executive nomination received by the Senate June 14, 1933 CUSTOMS, KENTUCKY COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, earlier in the day the J. Elliott Riddell, of Louisville, Ky,, to be collector of cus President sent to the Senate the nomination of Mr. J. Elliott toms for customs collection district no. 42, with headquarters Riddell, of Kentucky, to be collector of customs. I have been at Louisville, Ky., to fill an existing vacancy. authorized by the Committee on Finance to report the nomi nation favorably, and I so report it. I ask unanimous con CONFIRMATION sent, as in executive session, that the nomination be con firmed. Executive nomination confirmed by the Senate June 14, 1933 The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will read the nomina COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS tion. J. Elliott Riddell to be collector of customs, district no. 42, The legislative clerk read the nomination of J. Elliott Rid Louisville, Ky. dell, of Kentucky, to be collector of customs for customs collection district no. 42, at Louisville, Ky. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is, Shall the Sen HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ate advise and consent to the nomination? WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1933 Mr. McNARY. Mr. President, is this the nomination of a collector of customs in Kentucky about which the Senator The House met at 12 o'clock noon, with the Speaker pro tempore [Mr. BANKHEAD l in the chair. spoke to me? Rev. Edward P. McAdams, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Mr. BARKLEY. Yes; this is the nomination. Washington, D.C., offered the fallowing prayer: Mr. McNARY. I have no objection. The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, the nomina God of our fathers, who has elected the people of these tion is confirmed. United States to be the torchbearers of Thy truth and of Mr. BARKLEY. I ask unanimous consent that the Presi Thy knowledge in these days of distress among the nations, dent may be notified. vouchsafe, we beseech Thee, to infuse into the minds and The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection? The Chair hearts of their assembled Representatives the spirit of Thy hears none, and the President will be notified. wisdom, knowledge, counsel, and understanding, and that NOTIFICATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF CONFIRMATION OF HERBERT J. in their deliberations and by their enactments they may DRANE be actuated to the perpetuation of Your ideals, the con Mr. FLETCHER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous con summation of Your plans, the furtherance of Your will, sent that the President may be notified of the confirmation the relief of distress among the nations of the earth, to of the nomination of Herbert J. Drane to be a member of the spiritual advancement and to the physical prosperity the Federal Power Commission. of the people of this country. Amen. The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection? The Chair The J oumal of the proceedings of yesterday was read hears none, and the President will be notified. and approved. REPORT OF JOINT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE DIRIGIBLE DISAS MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE TERS (S.DOC. NO. 75) Mr. WALSH. Mr. President, I present a report from the A message from the Senate, by Mr. Horne, its enrolling Joint Committee to Investigate Dirigible Disasters. I ask clerk, announced that the Senate had passed without amend that the report be printed and referred to the Committee on ment a concurrent resolution of the House of the following Naval Affairs. title: Mr. KING. Mr. President, does the Senator expect to H.Con.Res. 23. Concurrent resolution authorizing the en have the report printed in the RECORD? rollment, with amendments, of H.R. 5661, the Banking Act Mr. WALSH. No; I do not ask that it be printed in the of 1933. RECORD. I should have said that this is a majority report, The message also announced that the Senate had passed, not a unanimous report. with amendments, in which the concurrence of the House is Mr. KING. As a member of the joint committee, indeed requested, the bill Mr. Rayburn with Mr. Andrew of Massachusetts. Mr. DELANEY. It will be in the hearings, which will be Mr. Kleberg with Mr. Doutrich. Mr. Ragon with Mr. Buckbee. printed very shortly. All that will be carried out in full. Mr. Shallenberger with Mr. Fish. Mr. SNELL. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? Mr. Lewis of Maryland with Mr. Chase. Mr. DELANEY. Yes. Mr. Montague wit h Mr. Moynihan. Mr. Fernandez with Mr. Reed of New York. Mr. SNELL.· What is the object of having this printed in Mr. Mansfield with Mr. Cochran of Pennsylvania. the RECORD? Is it not very long? Mr. Driver with Mr. Stokes. Mr. Mr. Crump with Mr. Clarke of New York. DELANEY. These are the recommendations to which Mr. Kerr with Mr. James. I refer. The report itself is quite voluminous. Mr. Dickinson with Mr. Collins of California. Mr. SNELL. Then the gentleman intends to ask only that Mr. Patman with Mr. Peavey. Mr. Boehne with Mr. Reece. the recommendations be printed? Mr. Palmisano with Mr. Sinclair. Mr. DELANEY. Yes. Mr. Howard with Mr. Thurston. Mr. SNELL. And those are short? Mr. Burch wit h Mr. Reid of Illinois. Mr. Hart with Mr. Wood of Missouri. Mr. DELANEY. About a page and a half. I do not ask Mr. Reilly with Mr. Meeks. to have the whole report printed. Mr. Kemp with Mr. Walter. Mr. DeRouen with Mr. Terrell. Mr. McCLINTIC. Mr. Speaker, I resei:ve the right to Mr. Wood of Georgia with Mr. Stubbs. object. In view of the fact that all the major nations, Mr. Smith of West Virginia. with Mr. Peterson. with the exception of one, according to the information Mr. Romjue with Mr. Harter. Mr. Jacobsen with Mr. Berlin. which I have, in the interest of safety and to prevent the Mr. Burke of California with Mr. Carpenter of Nebraska. loss of life, have stopped constructing ships of this type and Mrs Jenckes with Mr. Cannon of Wisconsin. Mr. Claiborne with Mr. Lloyd. magnitude, and also in view of the fact that the consensus Mr. Utterback with Mr. Castellow. of opinion on the part of the public is not favorable to them, Mr. Willford with Mr. Dingell. I think the report ought to go to some committee where it Mr. Fuller with Mr. Owen. Mr. Wilson with Mr. O'Malley. can be thoroughly examined. Then, if that committee wants Mr. Taylor of South Carolina with Mr. Dockweller. to take action, it ought to be taken, but I do not think that Mr. May with Mr. Cummings. we ought to give publicity to a report when we know the Mr. Hornor with Mr. Lewis of Colorado. Mr. Ayers of Montana with Mr. Johnson of West Virginia. source from which it emanated. Mr. Kennedy of Maryland with Mr. Brooks. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The report has already been Mr. White with Mr. Pettengill. referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Is there ob Mr. McDUFFIE. Mr. Speaker, I have a pair with the jection to the request of the gentleman from New York? gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr. DouGLASS, who, if pres Mr. McCLINTIC. Mr. Speaker, I object. ent, would have voted" aye." I voted" no'', and I withdraw REPEAL OF THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT my vote of "no" and ask to be recorded "present." Mr. McDUFFIE. Mr. Speaker, I a.5k unanimous consent The result of the vote was announced as above recorded; to extend my own remarks in the RECORD upon the subject AIRSHIP "AKRON " DISASTER of the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, and to include Mr. DELANEY. Mr. Speaker, by the direction of the therein a statement made by myself to an organization in committee appointed by the House and the Senate to in this city several week ago. vestigate the Akron disaster and the need for dirigibles, I The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection? present the following report, which I send to the desk. There Wa.5 no objection. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New Mr. McDUFFIE. Mr. Speaker, under leave recently York presents a report on the Akron destruction, and the granted me for extension of remarks in the RECORD upon the report will be referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs subject of the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, I am and ordered printed. submitting herewith my remarks to the National Organiza Mr. DELANEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent tion of Women for Prohibition Reform, delivered upon the to have these recommendations printed in full in the RECORD. occa.5ion of their annual banquet at the Mayflower Hotel, iii The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New the city of Washington, on April 4, 1933. York asks unanimous consent to have the report of his For 14 years since I became a Member of Congress I have committee printed in full in the RECORD. Is there objection? voted for every measure designed to carry out the pro Mr. McCLINTIC. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the right to ob visions of the eighteenth amendment. The result of the ject. Inasmuch as this report is not a unanimous one, and efforts to enforce this provision of the Constitution, as I that it is to be ref erred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, have learned them throughout the Nation, has convinced until that committee takes some action I think it should me that the problem of liquor control in this country is not be printed in the RECORD, for the reason that the report essentially one that must be solved by'the States. Statutory · might be changed by the Committee on Naval Affairs, which national prohibition has been declared a failure by both the has jurisdiction in the matter. Democratic and Republican Parties, by the American Legion, Mr. DELANEY. May I suggest for the benefit of the gen the American Federation of Labor, the American Medical tleman from Oklahoma that 5 of the Members of the House Association, and the American Bar Association. Every fair have signed the report, 3 Members of the Senate have signed minded citizen must therefore recognize the eighteenth it, 1 Member of the Senate bas agreed to the report as amendment as a Nation-wide remedy must be supplanted by given by this committee, and 1 of the Senators has indi some other method. Already 14 States have voted for re cated that he desires to file minority views. It seems to me, peal since the twenty-first amendment was submitted by the in view of the fact that Members are interested in this re Congress, and no doubt 36 States, the required number to port, that it can do no harm to have it printed in the REC amend the Constitution, will likewise vote for repeal. ORD for their information. I am very glad to have it re The measure of enforcement has grown less as the years ferred to the Committee on Naval Affairs for their future have passed, even though we have had many changes in the consideration. personnel of the executive branches of both Federal and Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the right to object, to State Governments, from county sheriff to President-each ask the gentleman from New York whether the report of sworn to uphold the law-since its adoption. Assuming for those two investigators from the Department of Justice who the sake of argument that as many as 13 States will not investigated the alleged sabotage on the Akron has been made public? vote for repeal, who can predict future success for the eighteenth amendment? If it cannot be enforced, is it not Mr. DELANEY. The report, as far as we could without only unwise but a waste of public funds to retain the going into the secrets of this investigation, is contained in eighteenth amendment as a part of our Constitution? the report which I have filed. Mr. VINSON of Georgia. What the gentleman from New REPEAL OR NULLIFICATION York has in mind will probably be in the testimony and A very positive and decided sentiment for repeal means hearings and would not be in the report. nonenforcement, because no law can be enforced without the 6044 . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 14 support of strong, healthy, public sentiment. The American public trust. The American people are determined to rid the people now recognize that they are presented with the ques country of conditions growing out of those sumptuary laws which have encouraged graft and corruption in high place, given both tion of repeal or nullification. Every good citizen desires financial and political power to a criminal class, enlarged the to see the provisions of the Constitution of the United States boundaries of the underworld, added strength to the strangle hold carried out in full. The people of America infinitely prefer of organized crime, and made of good citizens hypocrites and criminals. These are some of the results of Nation-wide prohibi the repeal of the eighteenth amendment rather than have tion statutes growing out of the effort of those good men and it nullified. If an overwhelming majority of the American women who seemingly believed that we could legislate out of man people are opposed to the eighteenth amendment, it follows his taste, or legislate into him a code of morals. that the interests of good government demand its repeal. EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT LEGISLATIVE INTEMPERANCE No one can claim that the eighteenth amendment has Nation-wide prohibition sentiment reached its peak from 1917 been reasonably successful even in the Southern and so to 1919, and the moral phases of the question gained emphasis under the mental stress of war and the aftermath of war. The called "dry States", but assuming it has been successful, lines of divided sentiment were tautly drawn in 1919, and for - the people of those States may continue any prohibition laws years thereafter the chief issue throughout the Nation became that they desire and at the same time vote for repeal of the of "wet or dry." Believing the National Government could en force any law applying uniformly to 120,000,000 people in 48 eighteenth amendment with perfect consistency. The Fed States, with their varied habits and tastes, many good people urged eral Government will continue to aid in preventing the that the final chapter in a successful struggle for temperance in shipment of liquor from wet to dry States, and this is as far America could be written into an amendment to the Constitution. as the Federal authorities should be called upon to go. Then for the first time in our history a mere police regulation became a part of the fundamental law of the land. The adoption rr IS A QUESTION OF LOC.U. SELF-GOVERNMENT of that amendment was the severest blow ever dealt to the rights The people of my State are a thoughtful and tolerant and dignity of the States of this Union. With due deference to those then clothed with authority and who thought they were people. They believe their police regulations should not be serving their country best, the adoption of the eighteenth amend interfered with by any other State. They believe the views ment was not farsighted statesmanship--it was legislative of the people of Illinbis, for example, involving the police intemperance. regulations of that State should not be enforced upon Ala AMENDMENT CANNOT BE ENFORCED AND SHOULD BE REPEALED bama against its will. They must likewise feel that the Despite harsher and more restrictive laws, such as the " 5- and rule of conduct of their own personal life, habits, and tastes 10-year law" and the extension of the 3-mile limit to 12 miles, and so forth, the more such laws we have passed, the more money as involved in the question of prohibition or any other simi we have spent for enforcement, the more difiicult the problem has lar question, should not be enforced upon the people of grown. Since the adoption of the eighteenth amendment we have Illinois. The question, after all, is one involving the rights had four Presidents, while in every State the executive and en and dignity of the governments of our sovereign States. forcement agencies from constable to governor have changed many times, each official charged with enforcing the law and all sworn NATIONAL TEMPERANCE DEMANDS REPEAL to uphold the Constitution. Yet no statutes have ever been so Everyone respects the views of a sincere and practical pro flagrantly violated as those designed to prohibit the sale of alco holic beverages. It is not surprising that today millions of peo hibitionist, the type of men and women who are really con ple, including many total abstainers, who have studied conditions cerned with the promotion of temperance. The American impartially, believe that as a Nation-wide remedy for the evils people, however, are sick and tired of the professional re of the liquor traffic, the eighteenth amendment is a failure and former, who for selfish or political purposes, is advocating can never be enforced. In the name of decency, honesty, and economy in government, . as well as in the name of temperance, the retention of the eighteenth amendment in the Constitu the eighteenth amendment should be repealed. tion. I do not advocate the return of the saloon to my Admitting that in certain States the prohibition laws have been State, nor am I predicting what might happen in that State reasonably enforced, the fact remains that State laws in those sections, evidently supported by healthy public sentiment, would after the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, but I know have been enforced equally as well and much more successfully my people have the intelligence and the capacity to deal with without aid of the Federal statutes. The question is whether the liquor traffic in the most effective way. better results for real temperance can be obtained by the con I believe they do not wish to continue the annual expendi tinuation of the present system of national enforcement or by the return of this problem to each State where it properly belongs tures of millions of dollars of the taxpayers' money in con and should have remained under our theory of a democratic form tinuing a futile effort, but will, without emotion, without of government. This is the question which addressed itself to prejudice, and with a view of regaining the lost ground in the intelligent membership of your organization as well as the other mothers, wives, sisters, and sweethearts throughout the the cause of temperance, vote to strike from our funda Nation who are urging a "new deal", if you please, in our laws mental law a provision which has brought on confusion, designed for the promotion of temperance. added much to lawlessness in the Nation, and made hypo TEMPERANCE CAUSE SET BACK MANY YEARS crites of millions of our best citizens. Such conditions are Before the adoption of the eighteenth amendment advocates unworthy of the American people. AJ5 between repeal and of temperance, after a century's struggle, met with much success nullification, I stand for repeal. Temperance in America as the years passed dealing with that question through the con stituted agencies of the various States. There were, of course,• demands repeal. violations of the laws; but many States, either by referendum I submit below the remarks above referred to: or by legislative enactment, had actually banned the liquor Madam Toastmaster, ladies and gentlemen, coming from the tramc, and in every State there were laws further restricting the heart of the South and from a State which more than 25 years sale of liquor. Upon the adoption of the amendment and its ago banned the sale of liquor, I venture the prediction that a auxiliary statutes much of the ground gained in the battle against majority of Southern States, if not all of them, will join Michigan the liquor evil was lost and the cause of temperance set back In and Wisconsin in a veritable procession of the States of this Union many years. 14 of our sovereign States by an actual vote of in their onward march to the repeal of the eighteenth amend the people enforcement laws have recently been discarded, to ment. The people are ready now to correct the grievous error of say nothing of the deliberate refusal on the part of other States its adoption. to cooperate iii Federal enforcement. With characteristic idealism, impulsiveness, and oftentimes bold FAILURE IN rrs PROMISES TO PROTECT OUR YOUTH ness, the American people have startled the world with their The limitations of this hour will not permit a rehearsal of all attainments. We must confess, however, that we have not always the impractical and uneconomical phases of Federal enforceme;nt, acted with calmness and prudence in our efforts to settle all our together with the evils which have grown out of it. An impartial social, economic, and political problems. Our failure to deal in investigation of actual conditions throughout the Nation today a practical way with the evils of the liquor traffic, a practical will disclose, instead of a sober youth with no taste for liquor, not problem, is the outstanding example of recent years, and probably only young men but, more appalling, young women have turned of all time, of a lack of matured deliberation in an effort to settle to the drink habit, one of the social evils practically unknown one of the serious problems of our day and generation. We have before the adoption of the eighteenth amendment. The cost in failed to deal temperately with temperance. dollars of the experiment would have been justified, had it pro PEOPLE THINKING MORE ABOUT GOVERNMENT Wil.L CORRECT THEIR tected, as promised, the youth of America; but millions of our MISTAKES youth resent the eighteenth amendment and all the hypocrisy The American people are ready to correct the social and economic which has grown ·out of it. evils of the past and guard against those of the future. These MILLIONS OF GOOD WOMEN DISSATISFIED WITH CONDITIONS days of distress are challenging the best thought of the Nation, It is no wonder that you were aroused, and with those leading and men and women everywhere are taking more interest in their spirits, such excellent women as Mrs. Sabin and her coworkers, Government. They are scrutinizing the acts of men in publlc life, threw yourselves into the front lines of the fight for prohibition analyzing as never before the " whys and wherefores " of legisla reform. You saw, despite the vast expenditure of public funds tion and demanding more than ever that public ofilce shall be a for enforcement. conditions under which so many of those high 1933 .CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 6045 a.nd low, sworn to uphold the Constitution, were "winking" at ventlons. The plan of submission is unique and, in many respects, its violations. You saw liquor consumed in the home, in the a far-reaching experiment. Irrespective of our views for or against presence of children who knew the laws of their land were being the national prohibition amendment it appears incumbent on all violated, even around the hearthstone, the very place where our of us to afford this system of ratification by conventions the most youth must be taught the real meaning of temperance. You saw thorough and eminently fair trial. the "speak-easy" with its "stolen sweets" environment not BACK TO FUNDAMENTALS only supplanting, but outnumbering the old barroom. You saw In our effort to repeal the eighteenth amendment, we are but conditions under which one criminal and his gang plied his seeking to return to the first principles of democratic government. illicit liquor trade to the extent of $70,000,000 in 1 year, without We are seeking to have the citizens of my State and your State the slightest hindrance from the hand of the law. He paid accord to the citizens of every other State the right to administer $30,000 ,000 for protection. That criminal finally went to the their own affairs and attend to their own business while we enjoy penitentiary, not because of violation of the liquor law, but the same privilege. The eighteenth amendment was a great mis because he failed to pay his income tax. You saw conditions take. Let us continue our efforts to correct it. " Keep the faith; under which the lives of innocent men, women, and children, fight the good fight ", and your reward w1ll be found in a better ranging from the life of a United States Senator to those in and happier America. humbler life, including two little children at play on the streets of New York, ruthlessly snuffed out, in this scheme of enforce Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ment of the eighteenth amendment. Despite the congestion of extend my remarks in the RECORD, and to include therein our United States courts, the construction of bigger and better jails, crowded to overflowing, a constant fl.ow and consumption of an address made by the Secretary of State, Hon. Cordell alcoholic liquor continues generally throughout the land. Yet Hull, today before the Economic Conference in London. we find many good citizens in our Nation still maintaining that The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will call the the eighteenth amendment and its auxiliary statutes constitute the only solution to the liquor problem. attention of the gentleman to the fact that unanimous con DISTRESSED FEDERAL TREASURY DENIED REVENUES, YET EXPENDING sent was given to the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. MILLIONS FOR ENFORCEMENT LAMBETH] to incorporate that same address. The revenues from taxes on alcoholic beverages have been denied Mr. RANKIN. If so, I will withdraw my request, Mr. the Public Treasury, and ha"{e gone into the pockets of the beer Speaker. baron, the bootlegger, and the racketeer by the hundreds of millions of dollars annually, while we spend from the Treasury EXPLANATION OF VOTE millions annually to carry on a futile experiment. This money Mr. PARKER of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, on the roll call is needed today for balancing the National Budget, for the em I I ployment of good men, able and willing to work, but forced to that was just concluded desire to state was detained beg bread for their little children. Visualizing these untoward from the Chamber on official business pertaining to my dis conditions, the members of this organization, following the in trict. Had I been present, I would have voted "no." junction of the great Apostle, "Be ye temperate in all things", banded themselves together as. missionaries to preach and teach FLAG DAY true temperance, and as militant patriots to strike down the Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent withering hand of hypocrisy that is sapping American morals and 1 undermining the forces of law and order. to address the House for % minutes. Mr. I TASK INCOMPLETE AND NEVER-ENDING LAMNECK. Reserving the right to object, should is While felicitations and congratulations are in order, my dear like to know what the gentleman going to talk about? Is ladies, upon the duties already performed, your task is but one it the International Conference or war debts? third completed. The second step is to carry your fight for reform Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. Speaker, this is June 14, and I to the various States in an effort tp see that the eighteenth amend want to put in the RECORD a few remarks, and a very few, ment is repealed under the orderly processes of the laws provided, rather than continue to face a deliberate refusal to enforce the relative to Flag Day, something that I believe has a deeper amendment, which means its nullification. The enforcement of meaning in America. any law depends upon public sentiment. Do not forget the pendu Mr. LAMNECK. I do not object. lum of public sentiment swings rapidly in America, and should our I people disregard the evils incident to the sale and consumption of Mr. SNELL. Reserving the right to object, should like alcoholic liquors, and fail to prevent them, we may return to con to ask the majority leader what is the program for the bal ditions in the future equally as bad as those of today. You must ance of the afternoon? continue your crusade for temperance in America. Mr. BYRNS. It is the purpose to take a recess, subject to DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLEDGED TO RETURN PROBLEM TO STATES the call of the Chair, as soon as these unanimous-consent I would not violate the proprieties of this occasion by discussing requests are acted upon. politics before a nonpolitical organization. I hope you will pardon me, however, for feeling some pride in the fact that the Demo Mr. SNELL. Are there going to be any more speeches? cratic Party, through its platform and its candidate for the Presi Mr. BYRNS. Not on one subject, at any rate. [Laugh dency, declared itself in favor of the repeal of the eighteenth ter.] amendment. The leadership in both parties, realizing the futility of enforcement, declared for repeal, and many Republicans, like Mr. SNELL. I wish the gentleman would make his mo my friend Senator WADSWORTH, have advocated and voted for a tion immediately. direct repeal, but no other construction can be _placed upon the Mr. BYRNS. I will as soon as these requests are taken attitude of the Democratic Party and its pledges than that of urging the return of the temperance problem to the sovereign care of. States of the Union, where, I repeat, it properly belongs, and The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the re should have remained, fighting in each State a return of the evils quest of the gentleman from West Virginia [Mr. RANDOLPH]? of the old saloon. Mr. HARLAN. Reserving the right to object, pending that No citizen, wet or dry, should object to a submission of this question to the people of his State, and wherever a majority of I should like to ask unanimous consent to address the House the citizens of that State decide to remain dry, they are entitled for 7 minutes at the conclusion of the remarks of the gentle to and should have the united support of every other State, as well man from West Virginia. as the National Government--in interstate shipment--in their effort to enforce State laws. Likewise, in those States where public The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will state that sentiment is against the national prohibition law, which means only one unanimous-consent request may be pending at one no enforcement, the majority of the people of such States should time. assume the responsibility and deal with the liquor problem in their own way. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from West Virginia? SUBMISSION TO CONVENTIONS SECURE MORE DIRECT EXPRESSION OF PEOPLE'S WILL Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. Both political parties declared for the submission of the question The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state it. to conventions in each State rather than to legislatures. For the Mr. GOSS. What is the regular order? first time in the Nation's history such a method of amending the The SPEAKER pro tempore. The regular order is, Le:; Constitution is being adopted. Such a method in its last analysis is more of a referendum and is desirable because it wlll more nearly there objection to the request of the gentleman from We.st secure the direct expression of the people better than the old Virginia [Mr. RANDOLPH] to address the House for 1% min method of submission to legislatures chosen in many instances utes? Is there objection? upon issues in nowise related to the question submitted by the Congress involving an amendment to the Federal Constitution. There was no objection. If the submission of the proposed new amendment to conventions Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. Speaker, today being June 14 in the States, in preference to the legislatures of the States, should there is in the National Capital and throughout all sections prove in actual practice as effective as it seems in theory, ther~ of this country, official observance of Flag Day. In con is good reason to believe that hereafter other proposed chan~es in the organic law of our Republic will be considered by State con- nection with the observance of this day I should like to call 6046 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 14 to the serious consideration of the Members of this House Mr. TAYLOR of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous the fact that there is in America at this very hour an or consent to extend my remarks on my own bill and my own ganization known as "The Young Pioneers of America", remarks before the Public Lands Committee and to add to sponsored by the Communist Party of Red Russia, and each them the reports of the Secretary of the Interior and the morning little boys the size of this youngster who sits beside Secretary of Agriculture on that bill. me this afternoon place their hands to their foreheads and The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the pledge allegiance to the red flag, not to the American flag. gentleman from Colorado? I believe it is worthy of the attention of the Members of Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, I am constrained, regretfully this House today to say to all America and to the world and reluctantly, to object. that there are lying tongues abroad in this land; that there RECESS are false prophets walking up and down America, telling us Mr. BYRNS. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House stand in that the interests of the home, the church, and the sch-001, recess subject to the call of the Chair. to which you have fostered and which you believe have The motion was agreed to; accordingly Cat 3 o'clock and made this country great, are not right. As one Member of 32 minutes p.m.) the House stood in recess at the call of the this House speaking to the others, I want to see that Ameri Speaker. can flag continue to wave from every public building in this land, with not a stripe erased nor a star obscilred. I AFTER RECESS thank you. [Applause.] The recess having expired, the House was called to order Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. by the Speaker at 8: 15 o'clock p.m. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state jt. Mr. GOSS. May I inquire what the regular order is right FURTHER MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE now? A further message from the Senate, by Mr. Horne, its The SPEAKER pro tempore. The regular order is a mo enrolling clerk, announced that , the Senate agrees to the tion by the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. BYRNS l. report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing Mr. BYRNS. I am prepared to make it. votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex to the bill REGIONAL SET-UP OF FARM CREDIT ADMI:NISTRATION FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION OF HOUSTON General agent to be chief executive officer of regional office Farm Credit Administration and ex-officio member of board of directors. Same board of directors for all four permanent units. Land Bank Intermediate Production Bank for of Credit Bank Credit Corporation Cooperatives Houston of Houston of Houston of Houston President President President President First xnortgage loans on Rediscounting n o t e s of Furnishing c a p 1 t a 1 (preferred Loans on business basis to farms through local farm farmers endorsed by credit stock) for and supervision of local local cooperatives for financ loan associations. Each bor corporations and notes of cooperative credit associations to ing facilities and providing rower takes 5 percent of cooperatives secured by enable farmers to make use of inter working capital. Interest loan in stock (double liabil ample collateral. Safe con mediate credit bank. Each farmer rate from 3 to 6 percent, de- , ity eliminated). In many servative policy necessary to borrower required to buy and keep pending on type of loan and : cases secretary-treasurer of permit sale of debentures to coinID.on stock axnounting to 5 per cost of money. Cooperative t local farm-loan association investors at 1 ow interest cent of his loan. Each local credit borrowers required to take could also act as secretary rates in order to obtain association can rediscount notes of stock to amount of 5 per treasurer of local credit as funds to loan. good farmers up to about 4 to 6 cent of loan. sociation. times its capital and surplus. Un sound loans refused by local credit corporation. One dollar c a p i t a 1 makes possible about $5 of sound production credit. All regional banks where feasible to use same field force for appraisals, supervision, inspection, and collection. Field force under ad ministrative supervision of general agent. Costs of field force allocated over all units on equitable basis. Entire system ultimately ex pected to be on self-supporting cooperative basis. All borrowers required to be stockholders in lending agency, but no double liability on any stock in the system. chairman of the National Democratic Committee. It is well chart of draft outlining the regional set-up of the Farm known that Mr. Raskob has :financial holdings in many Credit Administration. This chart was prepared by one of American business enterprises; that he never pretended the officers of the Administration. Similar organizations are otherwise, and that it would be but natural that the Morgan provided for each of the land-bank cities. company would include him among its favored customers. TAINTING AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION-ACTIVE IDTLER PROPAGANDA But in view of the fact that all his life he has kept his po IN THE HALLS OF CONGRESS DISTORTS FACTS litical and financial affairs as two separate and distinct in Mr. CELLER. Mr. Speaker, under the general leave terests, that he has frequently advocated policies not in granted Members for extension of remarks at the close of alinement with those of the House of Morgan, it is perfectly the session, I desire to place in the RECORD the following. apparent that the inclusion of his name on the preferred The contents of this article has been prepared for me by lists certainly did not infiuence him to alter his views on Mr. Walter Hart Blumenthal, associate editor of the Ameri public questions. can Hebrew and Jewish Tribune, a scholarly gentleman and The same is true as regards W. H. Woodin, the Democrat a fierce champion of the truth, one whose writings I have who is making such a fine record as Secretary of the Treas always enjoyed and whose works I have always admired. ury. His firm had large business dealings with the Morgan When the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. McFADDEN] Company, and at the time these lists were prepared no one a few weeks ago, on the :floor of the House, quoted from the 6054 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE .JUNE 14 Protocols of the Elders of Zion, everyone was too astounded At that time there was considerable agitation against the at his ignorance of the facts to reply. Everyone; that is, Freemasons, and Goedsche fabricated a booklet which held except myself, since I subsequently took occasion to point Masonry and Judaism accountable for the ills of the world, out the "aberrations -0f the gentleman from Pennsylvania." and more particularly set forth the alleged designs and The debate into which Mr. McFADDEN interjected his machinations of the Jews to secure domination over all the bigotries had to do with the currency question and gold re nations of the earth. In order to make his fantastic notions peal. He asserted that the legislation was "foretold by a seem realistic, he introduced the public to a supposed secret writer in the Dearborn Independent several years ago when assembly of the " elect of Israel ", which he said was held that paper published the so-called ' Protocols of Zion.' " once in every century around the tomb of a mythical He quoted at some length from the "Protocols" which " Grand Master Caleb, the Holy Rabbi Simeon ben among other things, according to the Pennsylvanian, pre Jehudah." dicted that-- Goedsche's document describes a sort of protocol, which When the crash comes the Gentiles will have the paper and the is addressed by a chief rabbi
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