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Also, petition of the National Association of Cotton l\Ianufac By Ur. STEPHEJ.~S of California: Petition of Paul Rieger & turers, again t the reduction of duties on cotton goods; to the Co., San Francisco, Cal., protesting against the prnposed in Corn mi ttee on Ways and Means. crease of duty on materials for the manufacture of perfume; Also, petition of undry chocolate workers of Fulton, N. Y., to the Committee on Ways and Means. against the reduction of the duty on chocolate; to the Committee Also, petition of the Globe Grain & Milling Co., Los Angeles, on Ways and l\feans. Cal., protesting against an increase of the duty on jute burlap; By Mr. O'BRIE~: Petition of Charles Debold, Bernhard J. to the Committee on Ways and Means. Osmer, Frank Emmett, Conrad Haaren, L. Eyring, A. H. Fersch, Also, petition of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. J . Wadsworth, and Conrad W. Brech, against the reduction of San Francisco, Cal., protesting against an import duty on the duty on cocoa and chocolate; to the Committee on Ways wheat, oats, and barley; to the Committee on Ways and Means. and l\Ieans. Also, petition of the Paci.fie Oil & Lead Works. San Fran Also, petition of Walter S. Rapelji, Irving S. Roney, C. S. cisco, Cal., protesting against the placing of coconut oil on Findlay, Adolph Celtz, John Lamerdin, Frederick J. Brittner, the free list; to the Committee on Ways and Means. sr., Miss l\l. Estelle Lifhtbouren, J. A. Armstrong, Daniel A. Also, petition of the Standard Underground Cable Co., Los Dolan, Julia E. Carpenter, F. J. Bittner, Joseph Hartel, John W. Angeles, Cal., favoring a differential duty on pig lead and lead Farmer, Charles Herman, Joseph Sommers, C. A. l\fcCounell, covered wires and cables; to the Committee on Ways and H. H. Wallace, J. C. Gounig, Lowell l\l. Palmer, Warren El Means. Burrows, and Willis F. Taplin, all of New York and Brooklyn, Also, petition of the Warren & Bailey 'iifanufacturing Co., and N. Y., protesting against including mutual life insurance com 7 other companies of Los Angeles, Cal. ; Carlson Currier Co., panies in the income-tax bill; to the Committee on Ways and and 4 other companies of San Francisco, Cal. ; and the Holt Means. Manufacturing Co., Stockton, Cal., protesting against the pro Also, petition of Richard McCormick, Brooklyn, N. Y., protest posed reduction of the tariff on sugar; to the Committee on ing against any reduction of the tariff on bound books; to the Ways and Means. Committee on Ways and l\Ieans. By Mr. UNDERHILL: Petition of sundry citizens of the Also, petition of Miss A. Dunn and Miss Lillie Oberglock, thirty-seventh congres ional district of New York, against tax Brooklyn, N. Y., protesting against any reduction of the tariff ing mutual life insurance companies in the income-tax bill; to on all lithograph work; to the Committee on Ways and Means. the Committee on Ways and Means. Also petition of William E. Lynn, Henry F. Reining, Joseph By Mr. WALLIN: Petition of the glove manufacturers of B. Lomax, Frank R. Treasure, Mrs. 1\1. Buckley, and James D. Gloversville, N. Y., protesting against the passage of the pro Ackerman, all of New York, N. Y .. protesting against placing vision in House bill 3321 to charge a filing fee on protests Bibles on the fTee list; to the Committee on Ways and Means. against the imposition of duties or appeal for reappraisement; Also, petition of the l\loehle Lithograph Co., Mrs. T. A. Reilly, to the Committee on Ways and Means. and Louis Reilly, of Brooklyn, N. Y., protesting against any re Also, petition of sundry citizens of the thirteenth district of duction in the tariff on lithographic work; to the Committee on New York, protesting against including mutual life insurance lVays and Means. companies in the income-tax bill; to the Committee on Ways By l\Ir. O'SHAUNESSY: Petition of Cllarles Ainsworth, H. T. and Means. Daniels, Richard P. Boucher, Edward E'rerett Rice, Nathan El By Mr. WILLIS: Petition of the Rural Letter Carriers' As :Moore, and George F. Troy, all of Providence, R. L, protesting sociation, Hardin County, Ohio, favoring the passage ot legisla against including mutual life insurance companies in the income tion for Federal aid for the improvement of public roads, and tax bill; to the Committee on Ways and l\Ieans. against a 1 cent letter-postage rate; to the Committee on the Also, petition of Miss Alice Hall Walter, Providence, R. I., Post Office and Post Roads. fayoring the passage of legislation preyenting the importation of feathers and plumes of wild birds for commercial purposes; to the Committee on Ways and l\Ieans. SENATE. Also, petition of the Low-Taussig-Karpeles Co., Provrnence, THURSDAY, May 1, 1913. R. I., protestipg against the passage of legislation to collect a filing fee on each protest against the assessment of illegal duties Prayer by the Chaplain, Re . Forrest J. Prettyman, D. D. or for reappraisement; to the Committee on Ways and Means. The Journal of the proceedings of Monday Jast was read and By l\fr. PETERS: Petition of Roger Pierce, Myrom Richard approved. son, and other business men of Boston, and the Samuel B. MESSAGE FROU THE HOUSE. Capen's Men's Class, Central Congregational Church, Jamaica A message from the House of R~presentatives, by J. C. South, Plain, favoring the repeal of the clause exempting American its Chief Clerk, announced that the Speaker of the House had vessels from the payment of tolls in the Panama Canal ; to the signed the enrolled bill (H. R. 2973) making appropriations Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. · for certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty By l\Ir. RAKER: Petition of sundry citizens of California, fa third Congress, and for other purposes, and it was thereupon voring the passage of legislation compelling concerns selling signed by !the Vice President. goods direct to the consumer by mail to contribute their portion CALLING OF THE BOLL. of the funds fpr the development of the local community, town, Mr. KERN. Mr. P1·esident, I suggest the absence of a; and State; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com quorum. merce. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will call the roll. By l\Ir. REILLY of Connecticut: Petition of sundry citizens The Secretary called the roll and then proceeded to call the of the State of Connecticut, against the income tax for mutual names of the absentees. life insurance companies; to the Committee on Ways and l\Ieans. '£he YICE PRESIDENT. The Chair rules that the amend By Mr. ROGERS: Petition of Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson ment to Rule XII simply applies to a yea-and-nay vote. and other citizens of Concord; President Clara H. Nash and Mr. CLARK of Wyoming. I should like to have the rule that members of the West Acton Woman's Christian Temperance was adopted read, if the Chair please. Union, all of l\Iassachusetts, favoring the repeal of the clause The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will read Rule XIL in the Panama Canal act exempting American coastwise ship The Secretary read as f ol1ows: ping from the payment of tolls or the arbitration <.•f the question RULE XII. at issue with the British Government; to the Committee on VOTING, ETC. Interstate and Foreign Commerce. 1. When the yeas and nays are ordered the names of Senators shall By Mr. SCULLY: Petition of sundry citizens of New Jersey, be called alphabetically, and each Senator shall, without debate, declare bis assent or dissent to the question, unless excused by the Senate; against the income tax for mutual life insurance companies; and no Senator shall be permitted to vote after the decision shall have to the Committee on Ways and l\Ieans. been annotmced by the presiding officer, but may for sufficient reasons, Also, petition of the Eastern l\Iillinery Association of New with unanimous consent, change or withdraw his vote. No motion to suspend ·this rule shall be in order, nor shall the presiding officer enter York, N. Y., against the clause prohibiting the importation of tain any request to suspend it by unanimous consent. (Jetferson's aigrettes, etc. ; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Manual, Sec. XLI.) · Al o, petition of sundry citizens of different towns in N'ew 2. When a Senator declines to vote on call of his nrune he shall be required to assign his reasons therefor, and having assigned them the J"ersey, prote ting against including mutual life insurance com presiding officer shall submit the question to the Senate, " Shall the panies in the income-tax bill; to the Committee on Ways and Senator. for the reasons assigned by him, be excused from voting?" l\Ieans. · which shall be decided without debate; and these proceedings shall be had after the roll call and before the result Is announced ; and any By l\fr. STAFFORD: Petition of 46 citizens of l\Iilwaukee, further ~roceedings in reference thereto shall be after such announce 'Vis., prote ting against including mt.tual life insurance com ment. (Jefferson's Manual, Secs. XVII, XLI.) 3. Immediately after and before the result of each roll call is ascer~ panies in the income-tax bill; to the Committee on Ways and talned and announced the Secretary shall call the names of the ab· Means. sentces ,(Amendment of April 28, 1913.) HH3. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-. SENATE. 86!}
mining on Seward Peninsula and the rapidly increasing volume of The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair's ruling is that the business at Port Nome renders it absolutely necessary for a safe amendment to the rule applies only to a yea-and-nay vote. harbor. That this increasing business has made it necessary to op Mr. O'GOR1\1AN. Regular order, Mr. President. erate a large fleet of small vessels to :md from said port of Kome plying to various places along the coast of the Bering Sea, and the ~ On the roll call the following Senators answered to their largely increasing trade of our merchants with Siberia, and the num names: ber of ~uch vessels is increasing ; and Ashurst Fletcher Oliver Smith. S. C. Whereas there is no safe anchorage for such \essels at said port, and Bacon Gallinger Overman Smoot because of the want of such anchorage there has been a loss to our Borah Grnnna Owen Stephenson marine service and to the people of ·ome during the period aforesaid Bradley Hitchcock Page Sterling of upward of $950,0-00 caused from marine disasters, due to u want Brady Hollis Penrose Stone of a safe anchorage from storms ; and Bristow James Perkins Sutherland Whereas a safe anchorage and breakwater can be constructed in the Bryan Kern Pomerene Swanson mouth of the Snake River at said city and the losses for the futme Burton Lippitt Ransdell Thomas due to the causes aforesaid be largely obviated: Chilton Lodge Robinson Thornton The Congress of the United States is hereby urgently requested to Clark, Wyo. IcCumber Root Tillman Townsend appropriate $25,000 for a survey of the mouth of Snake River and a Crawford Martin, Va. Saulsbury site for a bre:lkwater in front thereof. and if found feasible by said Cummins Myers Sheppard Warren survey that Congress then provide for the construction of a breakwater Dillingham Nelson Sherman Weeks and such other works as may be needed to secure a safe anchorage at du Pont Norris Simmons Williams said point. Fall O'Gorman Smith, Ga. Works Passed the house March 20, 1913. The VICE PRESIDENT. Sixty Senators have answered to EAR_OF.ST B . CoLm~s. Speaker of the Hori.se. the· roll call, and there is a quorum present. Attest : PETITIO:l';"S AND MEMORIALS. IlARRY KEOWN, Chief Olerk of the Hat1se. The VICE PRESIDENT presented a joint memorial of the Passed the senate April 3, 1913. Territorial Legislature of Alaska, which was referred to the Com L. V.RAY, . mittee on Territories and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, P resident of the Senate. as follows: UNITED STATES OF A:\IE:RICA, T erritory of Alaska, SS: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 1, William L. Distin, secretary of the Territory of Alaska, do hereby FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA., certify that the above and foregoing is a full, true, and coi-rect copy of JUNEAU, ALASKA. house joint resolution No. 4 of the Alaska Territorial Legislature. U~ITED STATES OF AMERICA, Territory of Alaska, s~: In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great seal of Alaska at-Juneau this 16th day of April, A. D. 1913. I, William L. Distin, secretary of the Territory of Alaska, do hereby [SEAL.] W.u. L. DISTIN, · certify tbat the annexed copy is a full, true, and complete transcript of Secretat·v of Alaska. House joint memoti.al No. 2 of the Alaska 'l'erritorial Legislature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the The VICE PRESIDENT presented a joint memorial of the great seal of Alaska, at Juneau, this 1Gth day of April, A. D. 1913. [SEAL.] WM. L. DISTIN, Territorial Legislature of Alaska, which was referred to the Secretary of Alaska. Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed in the House joint memorial 2. RECORD, as follows : Whereas mo1·e than three-fourths of the civil litigation in Alaska, cal culated on a basis of the number of cases brought, is disposed of by Senate joint memorial 10. the United States commissioners acting as ex officio justices of the To the President of the United States and t11e honorable Senate and peace and probate judges, and practically all the criminal litigation House of Rep,·esentati'!-'es in Congress a.9semblea: is either disposed of or initiated befote these officials, by virtue of which facts and the additional facts that they also discharge the We, your memorialists, the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska, do functions of recorders and coroners and various other public duties, most respectfully and earnestly represent that- • they are, under the present governmental system in Alaska, by far Whereas the city of Juneau, situated on the southeast coast of Alaska. the most important functionaries in the Territory, coming in their is one of the oldest and most permanent towns in the Territory of official capacity in closer, more frequent, and more varied contact Alas.ka ; and · with the mass of our citizens than any other officials, and being thus Whereas the said city of Juneau, owing to the opening up and developing of more importance to the good order, peace, and general well-being of quartz mines in its immediate vicinity nnrl surrounding said city, and of the community than any other officials; and the mining and milling of extensive ore bodies,· has increased in popu Whereas these commissioners, under the present system, are dependent lation within the past two years from 1,500 to over 3,000 people, and is exclusively on fees for their remuneration, which fees are in the destined to continue increasing in population s1eadily l'or several years larger number of cases inadequate as recompense for the services to come by reason of the permanency and stability of the well-known rendered, and in many precincts are altogether insufficient to en~le quartz mines now being operated and worked and the milling of the the commissioner to devote himself exclusively to his official duties ores therefrom ; and for a livelihood, and such fee system affords constant temptation to Whereas at this time immense milling plants for the purpose of treating the commissioners to encourage litigation and to that extent is a and milling the ores from mines in the immediate vicinity of Juneau menace to the conscientious discharge of the duties of the office, and arc in the course of construction ; and although there may be no case in which a commissioner has been in Whereas the mine and mills aforesaid, together with the other industries duced by the hope of more- fees to act otherwise than as his sense of and business enterprises which are now growing up and will continu~ right and justice dictated, such officials are by virtue of said fee sys to increase for years to come, insure a clty of vastly increased popu tem, especially in criminal cases, placed under suspicion by the public lation than at the present time; and that their acts are influenced by a desire to augment their remunera Whereas at the present time the public-school building in Juneau is tion, a suspicion which in itself tends greatly to hamper these com entil"ely inadequate to accommodate the children of school age attend missioners in the discharge of their varied duties; and ing and desiring to attend said public school which said public school Whereas it is deemed urgently neces ary, as a most essential step in can only accommodate, conveniently, 160 scholars; and the improvement of governmental system for Alaska, that these com Whereas the number of scholars at the present time attending said pub missioners be placed upon a salary affording them a reasonable and lic school is 230, an increase of more than 65 since September, 1912; suitable income sufficient to support a family and sufficient to induce and men of intelligence and ability to accept appointment to such offices : Whereas owing to the said schoolhouse being inad~quate to accommodate It is the number of school children attending the public school in .Juneau, ResoZi:ed by the House of Representatives of the Territory 0£ A laska it has becume necessary to rent a store building for the purpose of (the Senate concurring), That the Congress of the United S ates be, teaching the said children, and that more than 60 school children are and hereby is, urgently requested to enact a law placing the said com compelled to go to said store building for instruction. and 2 addi mi sioners upon a salary of at least $2,000 per annum, and that all tional teachers are engaged to instruct said school children in said fees collected in civil and criminal cases be turned into fund " C " of store building; and the district court of the respective divisions in which the precinct is Whereas the present school building in Juneau is not only inadequate to situated, to be expended for the benefit of the court in the same manner accommodate the school children residing in Juneau, but is an old as other moneys belonging to such fund. frame building and unfit for present and future use; and Passed the house March 21, 1913. Whereas it is estimated that it will require the sum of approximately EAn_ -EsT B. COLLI~s. $50,000 to erect, construct, and equip a schoolhouse sufficiently ade Spealcer of the House. quate to meet the present and future requirements of the city of Attest: Juneau: BARRY KEow~. Therefore we, your memorialists. do hereby most respectfully urge and Chief Cfo·k of the House. solicit that the Congress of the United States pass an act permitting P assed the senate April 3, Hl13. the city of Juneau, Alaska, to issue bonds for a sum not to exceed L. V. RAY, $50,000 for the purpose of erection, construction, and full equipment of P1·esident of the Senate. n schoolhouse sufficiently adequate to meet 'the present necessity, as well us the future requirements, by reason of th~ steady increase in popula The VICE PRESIDE~"T presented a joint resolution adopted tion of said city of Juneau ; and by the Territorial Legislature of Alaska, which was referred to That on account of an emergency existing we particularly solicit and the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed in the urge that the Congress of the nlted States pass the act referred to above with all expediency possible, compatible with public business ; and RECORD, as follows : We, your memoriali ts, as in duty bound will ever pray. House joiot resolution 4. In order to further carry out the object and purpose of this memorial Be it t•esoZved by the House of Representatit;es of the Territory of we respectfully transmit herewith for consideration of the Congress of A.lasl.:a (the Senate concurring), that- the United States a draft of a proposed bill. the terms of which are thought sufficientiy comprehensive to cover the emergency existing as Whereas since the discovery of gold at Cape Nome, in 1899, there has described in this memorial. been produced and shipped to the United States from Nome upward Adopted by -the senate April 4, 1913. of $72,000,000 of gold, inclusive of the sums sent out by mail ; no L. v. RAY, r ecord, of course, has been kept of the gold privately and personally President of the Senate. taken out, but the amount is undoubtedly large. That during the Concurred in by tlrn house April 11, 1913. sam~ period there has been shipped to the city of Nome upward of EAilXEST B. CoLLCTS, $10,000,000 worth of commodities; that the development of dredge Speaker of the House.
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UXIT"ED STATES OF AMERICA, Tenito1·y of Alaska, 88: the State of Mississippi, praying for a reduction of the duty on I, William . Distin, secret&ry of the Territory of Alaska, do hereby sugar, which were referred to the Committee on Finance. certify that the above i a full, true, and correct copy of senate joint memorial No. 10 of the Ala ka 1'erritorial Legislature. .Mr. TILLMA.1~. I present a number of telegrams from the In te timony whereof I have hereunto et my hand and affixed the Darlington l\Ianufacturing Co.; the W. S. Gray Cotton l\Iills, great se:il of Alaska at Juneau this 16th day of April, A. D. 1913. of Woodruff; J. M. Gear, of Easley; Ellison A. Smyth, presi fsEAL.J w~ed:et~1~iT~fwAlaska. dent of the Belton l\Iills, of Greenville; Alexander Long, pres ident of the Aragon Cotton 1\Iill and Arcade Cotton l\Iill, of An act relating to affairs in the Territories, and authorizing the town of Juneau, Alaska, to is ue bonds for public-school purposes, and pre J1,ock Hill; Ellison A. Smyth, pre ident of the Pel er l\Ianufac scribing the method of i uing bonds for such purpo e. turing Co., of Greenville; J. A. Smyth, jr., pre ident of the Be it enacted, eto., That the incorporated tcwn of Juneau, Alasl•a, is Watts 1\Iills, of GreenYille; the Woodside Cotton Mills, of Green hereby authorized and empowered to issue its ~onds in any .snl? not e:x; ville; J. A. Smyth, jr., president of the Dunean 1\Iills, of Green ceeding $50,000 for the purpose of constructing and eqruppmg addi tional public schools in the said town of Juneau. ville; Aug. W. Smith, of Spartanburg; the Excelsior Knit SEC. 2. 1'hat before said bonds shall be is ued a special election shall ting Mills, of Union; the 1\Ionarch Cotton Mills, of Union; and be ordered by the common council of the town of Juneau, at which elec a letter from J. I. Wester-velt, president of the Carolina l\lills, tion the question whether such bonds shall be issued shall be submit ted to the qualified electors of said town of Juneau whose names appear of Greenville, and J. I. Westervelt, president of the Brandon on the last assessment roll of said town for municipal taxation. Thirty Mills, of Greenville, all in the State of South Carolina, remon days' notice of any such election shall be given by publication thereof strating against any reduction in the duty on cotton. I moye in a newspaper printed and published and of general circulation in said that the telegrams and letters be referred to the Committee on town before the date fixed for such election. SEC. 3. That the registration for such election, the manner of con Finance. ducting the same, and the canvass of the returns of said election shall The motion was agreed to. be, as nearly as practicable, in accordance with the requirements of law 1\Ir. BRISTOW presented a petition of sundry citizens of in general or special elections in said town, and said bonds shall be is ued only upon the condition that a m,ajority of the votes cast at Strawn, Kans., and a petition of sundry citizens of Piqua, Kans., such election in said town shall be in favor of issuing said bonds. praying for an adjustment of railway mail pay consequent to SEC. 4. That the bonds above specified, when authorized to be issued the enactment of the parcel-post law, which were referred. to the as hereinbefore provided, hall bear interest at a rate not to exceed 6 per cent per annum, payable semiannually, and shall not be sold for Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. less than their par value with accrued interest, and shall be in denomi Mr. McCUMBER presented a resolution adopted by the Com nations not exceeding 1,000 each, the principal to be due in .10 yea~s mercial Club of Lisbon, N. Dak., praying for the retention of a from date thereof: P1·01;idcd, hou;e,,;e1·, That the common council of said town of Juneau may reserve the right to pay off such bonds in their duty on wheat, flour, and barley, which was referred to the numerical order at the rate of $5,000 per annum from and after the Committee on Finance. expiration of 5 years from tbeir date. Principal and interest shall be He also pre ented a resolution adopted by the Commercial payable in lawful money of the United Stutes of America at the office of the town treasurer of the town of Juneau, Alaska, or at such bank Club, of Lisbon, N. Dak., favoring the reduction of the rate of in the city of New York, in the State of New York, or such place as may postage on first-class mail matter fo 1 cent, which was referred be designated by the common council of the town of Juneau, the place to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. of payment to be mentioned in said bonds: And provided further, That each and every such bond shall have the written signature of the mayor 1\Ir. BURTON. I present a telegram, in the nature of resolu and clerk of the said town of Juneau and also bear the seal of said tions adopted by the board of directors of the Chamber of Com town. merce of Cincinnati, Ohio, which I ask may be printed in tlle SEC. 5. That no part of the funds arising from the sale of said bonds shall be used for any purpose other than specified in this act. RECORD and referred to the Committee on Finance. SEC. 6. That said bonds shall be sold only in such amounts as the There being no objection, the telegram was referred to the common council shall direct, and the proceeds thereof shall be disbursed Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, under the limitations hereinbefore imposed and under the order and direction of aid common council from time to time as the same may be as follows: required for the purposes aforesaid. CL,CI~ATI, OHIO, April 30, 191~. Hon. T. EJ. B GRTO~, The VICE PRESIDENT presented a memorial of members United States Senate, Washington, D. 0. of the Merchants' Association of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, By unanimous vote the board of directors of the Cincinnati Chamber remon trating against a reduction of the duty on sugar, which of Commerce at a meeting held April 29 adopted the following resolu was referTed to the Committee on Finance. tion, which is respectfully submitted for your attention : Whereas the Underwood tariff bill imposes a duty of 10 cents per He also presented a re olution adopted by the National Drain bushel upon foreign wheat and admits duty free the foreign-milled age Congress, f:rvoring an appropriation for the prevention of products of such foreign wheat; and floods and the abating of malarial diseases, which was referred Whereas this discrimination in favor of the foreign manufacturer is in contradiction alike of all accepted economic doctrine of the estab to the Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine. lished tal'iff policy of all political parties and of all nations, aml Ile also presented a telegram from N. C. Newerf, president in ed'ect pays a bounty to the foreign miller on all products of wheat of the Pacific Protective Society, relative to the validity of the sold by him in the markets of the United States; and Whereas if Amel'ican flour millers have to pay a tax upon foreign Clayton-Bulwer and Hay-Pauncefote treaties, which was re grown wheat, then a simple justice requires that the foreign-milled ferred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. products of such wheat shall pay an equivalent tax; and if foreign He also presented a memo1ial of members of the Utah Chap milled wheat products are admitted duty free, foreign wheat should ter of the American Mining Congre s, relatirn to the produc be admitted duty free: The1·efore be it Resolved, That, believin~ the proposed legislation would inevitably tion of gold and silver in connection with western lead ores destroy one of the most important manufacturing industries in the as affected by the duty on lead, which was referred to the Com United States, and that it would further result in most serious injury to the American farmer, the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, through mittee on Finance. its board of directors, records itself as unalterably opposed, and ear He also pre. ented resolutions adopted by the conseryation com nestly urges upon the President and Congress of the United States tbe mittee of the Daughters of the American Revolution, relative to necessity of placing both wheat and its products upon terms of ahso lute equality. the tran fer of any part of the public domain to the individual Resolved, That copies of this preamble and resolution be forwarded States, which were referred to the Committee on Public Lands. immediately to the President of the United States, Senators and Con Mr. GALLINGER presented petitions of sundry citizens of gressmen from Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, the members of the Senate Finance Committee, and the Ways and Means. Committee of the House Concord and Oxford, in the State of New Hampshire, praying of Representutives. for the adoption of an amendment to the pending tariff bill CINCINXATI CHAMBER OF COl\Il\IERCE. exempting from taxation the proceeds of all life insurance poli W. C. CULKINS, Ea:ecutive Secretary. cies and life insurance funds, etc., which were referred to the l\Ir. SAULSBURY presented a petition of the Woman's Chris Committee on Finance. ' tian Temperance Union of Delaware, praying for the· enactment l\Ir. GRONNA presented resolutions adopted by the Farmers' of legislation providing for the closing of the gates of the Pan Local Society of Equity, of Ramsey County, N. Dak., favoring ama Exposition on Sundays, which was referred to the Commit the creation of better rna1·kets for farm produce, which were tee on Industrial Expositions. referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Mr. WARREN. I present. a memorial of the National Con He also presented a resolution adopted by the Commercial sumers' Home Industry League, by its president, William S. Club of Li bon, N. Dak., favoring the reduction of the rate Brewer, favoring the creation of a permanent tariff commission. of postage on first-class mail matter to 1 cent per ounce, which I ask that the memorial be printed in the RECORD and referred was referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. to the Committee on Finance. He also presented a resolution adopted by the Commercial There being no objection, the memorial was referred to the Club of Lisbon, N. Dak., favoring the retention of the duty on Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed in the RE CORD, wheat, flour, and barley, which was referred to the Committee as follows: on Finance. ME:UORIA.L OF THE NATIONAL COXSUMERS' HOME 11\DUSTRY LEAGUE. He also presented a resolution adopted by the Local Society (By its president, William S. Ilrewer.) of Equity of Ramsey County, N. Dak., relative to the materials \\' A:SHrnGTOx, D. C. used in the construction of good roads, which was referred to To the Congress of the UnitecZ States: the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Respectfully represents your petitioner, president of the· National Consumers' Home Industry League, of Washington, D. C. • l\Ir. WILLIAMS presented petitions of sundry citizens of Believing that the policy of tnxation and representation nnd the fos Merigold, Michigan, Blackwater, Indianola, and Laurel, all in tering of home industries and the promoting of the same by our tariff 1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE . 87
system bas become tbe fixed policy of our Nation, and lls such 'has tions and otherwise to the President or the Congr ess or my Congress invitC'd capital and labor to enter into comp~tition in om· home markets man urging tariff legislation upon this basis. anrl the markets of the world upon a l>asis of investment and a stand Name, ------; occupation, ---; street, - -- ; date, ard of living never heretofore reached by any other nation of the world ; --- ; city. ---: State, ---. belie\lng that the vested rights of the wage eu.rner and th.e. employer Sign the above enrollment and petition and give to our representative, are inherent rights and that as . such they should not be changed ex or mail at once to the National Consumers' Home Industry League, cepting after a scientific investigation which shall show such changes to Washington, D. C. be of benefit to all, and therefore necessary, we do respectfully petHion T . E. MO:'l"TG01n:;nY, Secretary. that during the present sc sion of Congress you will consider a joint re olution ubstantially as follows : l\Ir. WA.RilE .,. pre~enteu a memorial of the Wyoming S t o~k 1. That a joint committee be appointed consisting of the chairman Growers' Association, remonstrating against placing live stock and the rankiJ!!_; member of the minority of the Ways and Means Com mittee of the House and the chairman and the ranking member of the and meat products on the free list, which was i·eferred to the minority of the Committee on Finance of the Senate, who shn.11 select Committee on Finance. and appoint a perm.anent commission of experts, not now in the Gov Ile also pre ented a resolution adopted by the Wyoming .ernrpent service, who shall inquire into, collect, procure, tabulate, a11.d collate information relative to the importation, exportation, manufac Stock Growers' Association, favoring the transfer of the con ture, and sale of all goods, wares, and articles of merchandise which trol of the semiatid unappropriated grazing ranges to the may be er become matters of trade between the United States and any Government, W"hich was referred to the Committee on Agricul foreign country. ith all tariffs thereon affectin~ the same, for the purpose of supplying information to the Ways and Means Committee of ture u.nd Fore try. the llouse and the Committee on Finance of tbe Senate, on which to l\Ir. OLIVER I pre ent a short telegram, in the nature of a base recommendations fo1· tariff legislation which shall provide revenue memorial from 33 workers in decorated glass, employees of for the support of the Government and safeguard our home industries against such foreign competition as will tend to reduce the American J . :M. Rase & Co., Reading, Pa., which I ask to ha>e read :rnd standard of liviri~ and wage. inserted in the RECORD, omitting the signatures, and referred to 2. 'l'hat for this purpose said commission be authorized, by subcom the Committee on Finance. mittee or otherwise, to sit at such times and places as they may deem advisable ; to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths. to There being no objecti-0~ the telegram was rea.d and re swnmons and compel the attendance of witnesses, and to employ such ferred to the Committee on Finance, as follows : clerical, expert, and other assistance as shall be necessary. 3. That all executive departments and their varions bureaus shall at READD It may be admitted, however, that there is a disparlty between the duty on lead in ore and the duty on lead in pigs, bars, and bullion, Mr. BRADY, f rom the Committee on Military Affairs, to and that the latter might be reduced to the same basis as the lead in which was referred the bill ( S. 653) for the relief of William 0. ore without acy serious detriment to the lead producers. But the pro Mallahan, reported it without amendment and submitted a re tection afforded by the duty on lead in ore is absolutely essential to the maintenance of the lead indush·y in this country. The fact that, port (No. 29) thereon. even with the present duty of H cents per pound on lead in ore, the THE CIVIL SERVICE. margin between cost and selling price is less than one-balf a cent per pound leaves no room for argument as to its necessity. Mr. OVERMAN. From the Committee on Rules I report Under the rate of duty proposed last year revenue would be de Senate resolution No. 4 with amendments. creased if the quantities imported remhined the same, or, in order to produce the same revenue as at present, the quantities imported would l\lr. President, while I run on my feet I should like to inquire have to be increased 80 per cent. Such an increased importation could of the chaiiman of the Committee on Civil Service and Re only be absorbed in our muket by displacing the equivalent quantity trenchment how soon we may expect a report upon the resolu of domestic lead. In such a case the Government would be no better off in the matter of revenue than it is now, but a part of our own lead tion I introduced some weeks ago in regard to the civil service? industry would be cut off, and the money that should go to the develop I am receiving many letters about the matter from all over the ment of our own resources would go to develop those of Spain and country, and I should like, as soon as possible, that we have Mexico, our chief competitors in the production of lead. The mining communitie of the Mountain States afford the principal some report from the committee upon that resolution. market for much of the agricultural product of the West. Anythmg l\Ir. PO:\IERE~TE . l\Ir. President, becau e of other engao-e that destroys or curtails mining must react to the injury of the ments I have not been able to call the committee together, but farmers. The development and growth of the Western States have been coin I hope to do so very early in the coming week. cident w ith the development of mining. Whatever retards the latter I may say while I am on my feet that I have had in prepara must inevitably check the development of all other industries in the tion another resoiution, the object of which perhaps is the mining States. For the foregoing reasons the lead producers of the Rocky Mountain ·same as that of the Senator from North Carolina [l\Ir. OVER States, throu"'h their r epresentatives in conference at Salt Lake City, MAN], but calling "for more specific data. I intended to pre ent do re pectfully request that no change be made in the duty on lead in that resolution to-day, but it has not as yet been completed ores, and that it be allowed to remain as at present-a specific duty of H cents per pound on the lead contained-and that the duty on in the torm in which I desire to present it. I want to say that lead in pigs, bars, and bullion be reduced from the present rate of 2~ I shall do that out of no spirit of hostility to the civil-service cents per pound to H cents per pound, placing it on the same basis as law, but I shaJl do it becau e of a desire to have a real civil lead in ores. We believe that so far as lead is concerned this would be a substantial compliance with the promises of the Democratic Party service law administered according to both the spirit and· the to revise the taI'itI downward. It would be a reduction of 29.4 per letter of that law. It is my belief that in some of the depart cent in the duty on lead in pigs, bars, and bullion, the form in which ments of this Government there has been an honest effort to so most of oru· imports are made, while leaving to the domestic producers of the raw lead ores the present measure of protection, which they need administer the law. . I am satisfied, on the other hand, that in to in ure the continuance of their industry. other departments there has been a deliberate purpose to disre It is respectfully urged, al o, that the form of the duty be not gard it. It may be that my information is not exactly reliable changed from specific to ad valorem. An· ad valorem duty affords the least protection at the time it is most needed; and in the case of lead in all particulars, but when information comes to me to the, it would be exceedingly difficult to determine the proper amount of the effect that about 95 per cent of the employees in given depart duty, and certain g-rades of ore could be imported and escape the pay· ments are of one political faith I am at a loss to understand ment of duty, for the reason that the lead in such ores would have no value at the port of entry. just how that can be in view of a belief I have that when it Adopted by the Silver-Lead Producers of the States of Idaho, Mon comes to mental capacity and proper equipment to perform the tana, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona. and New Mexico, assembled duties of office there is not a very great difference between the in formal conference at Salt Lake City, Utah, April 3 to 4, 1913. · JAs. F. :McCARTHY, · members of the several political parties in this day. President of Uie Conference. Mr. GALLINGER. 1\fr. President-- GEO. W. RITER, Secretary. The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Sena.tor from Ohio yield TARIFF DUTY ON SUGAR. to the Senator from New Hampshire? Mr. PO.~IERENE. I do. l\Ir. WOilKS. l\Ir. President, a few days ago I had printed Mr. GA.LLINGER. Has the Senator from Ohio made any in the RECORD a letter from Right Rev. Henry B. Restarick, personal investigation in reference to the proportion of Demo bishop of the Espiscopal Church in Honolulu. I ha\e now an crats and Republicans in the departments? other letter :from Bishop Restarick, which is a sort of supple Mr. POl\fERENE. WelJ, when the Senator says "personal ment to the one which I presented. As it is \ery brief I ask investigation" I may reply that I have not gone personally to that it be read. these departments, but that I have, for instance, information There being no objection, the letter was read and referred to to the effect that in one division of the Railway 1\fail Service the Committee on Finance, as follows : the superintendent, the assistant superintendent, and 18 chief HONOL LU, HAWAII, ApriZ 11, 1913. clerks are all Republicans, that 39 out of 40 other clerks nre The Hon. JoH~ D. WORKS. G80 720 Senator fron~ California, Washington, D. 0. Republicans, and that out of clerks on the railroads MY DEAR SENATOR WORKS : May I add a few words to the letter are Republicans. which I sent you in regard to the sugar tariff? Mr. Roosevelt said to Mr. GALLINGER. Mr. President, that seems inconceivable, me in Washington in 1903, "I am absolutely opposed to orientalizing and yet the Railway Mail Service is a very small division of the any American territory." I .replied, "Mr. President, Hawaii was orien talized before it became American territory. You must remember that public service. in dealing with the islands. I want to call the Senator's attention to the fact that for a We have in Hawaii some 80,000 Japanese, and large numbers of great many years the Civil Service Commission has been a these are married and mean to stay here. If the sugar industry here is ruined by the serious reduction or abolition of the tar·iff, these Democratic commission-two militant Democrats and one -very islands will be given over to the Japanese. With a Japanese manager mild Republican constituting it. It seems to me extraordinary, on a ugar plantation instead of a white man, with Japanese engineers, blacksmiths, sugar boilers, overseers, etc., and by cutting the wages in view of that fact, that the service can be packed with Re of workers in two, sugar might be grown on certain plantations at a publicans to the . exclusion of Democrats. I can not under small profit. But the white people would have to go elsewhere. The stand it. United States Government bas insisted that the island policy should be to get Europeans. The planters have spent enormous sums to carry 1\fr. STONE. Who are the militant Democrat ? out this poUcy; free sugar would drive nine-tenths of the white popula Mr. GALLINGER. I think the Senator from Missouri knows tion other than United States troops from the Islands. Many Ameri them. One is from Louisiana-Mr. Mcllhenny-and the other canized Hawaiians and Part-Hawaiians would have to leave. Anyone who knows will t ell you that I am not exaggerating when I write this. is from Illinois-a well-known Democrat, who has held office Hawaii pays into the United States Treasury over and above what is pretty much dnring his lifetime as a Democrat. spent on it (of course not counting the Army and Navy, etc.), some Mr. OVERMAN. 1\1r. President, I want to say that I will $1 200 000 a year in duties collected. Of course in former times these duties' belonged to Hawaii. The islands have well paid the United show the Senator from New Hampshire how the civil-ser"dce States Government as an investment. The planters have honestly law has been ad.ministered, and I have no doubt it will be as tried to bring white labor here; the Government threatens to destroy its own policy and hand over the islands to orientals. tonishing to him. I stated on the floor here the other day that Respectfully, yours. it had been charged-I did not charge it-that the law as HENRY B. RESTARICK, to-day ad.ministered was a fraud. I do not charge that now, Bishop of Honolulit. but I do charge that its admini tration has been a deception; REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. that Congress has been fooled; that the people of this country .l\.fr. SMOOT, from the Committee on Public Lands, to which have been fooled. They ask for an investigatfon, and I ask was referred the bill ( S. 540) for the relief of Joseph Hodges, the Senator from Ohio [Mr. PoMERENE] to make an investi reported it without amendment and submitted a report (No. gation. I say that his committee can do no better thing for this country and for the people of this counh·y than to make nn 27) thereon. Mr. WORKS. from the Committee on Public Lands, to which investigation of the civil service. was referred the bill (S. 488) to authorize the sale and issuance The President of the United States, through his Economy o:f patent for ce ·tain land to H. W. O'Melveny, reported it Commission :has made an ill\estigntion. I have tried to get without amendment and submitted a report (No. 28) thereon. their report: and I shall ha ye the report. I only ha \e a partial ·- 1913. - CONGRESSIONAL 'RECORD-SENATE. 87J report to-day, l\Ir. President, but I ask Senators to listen to was an associate of President Roosevelt, one of his intimates, this report as I read it, which shows that the civil service is a and that he was appointed on that account, and not because he cloak for the spoils system. We had better have a spoils sys was a D.emocrat. tem than to ha~e what is known as a civil-service system not l\1r. OVERMAN. I think the Senator from New Hampshire carried out upon the principles of the law as enacted, but in . will agree with me that sometimes when a Republican Presi order to put certain favorites upon the rolls. dent appoints a Democrat, or vice versa, when a Democratic Why, l\Ir~ President, I am told that in one city they have at President appoints a Republican to office, the appointee be election times put 250 roundsmen, ward heelers, on the laborers' comes the meanest kind of a partisan. list, and in a few months promoted them over efficient clerks, Mr. GALLINGER. I do not think that can be so. I do not one man having been given a $3,000 salary, another man eight think gentlemen of standing, as these men are, change their een hundred dollars, and another twelve hundred dollars. politics because a Republican President chances to appoint them Mr. GALLINGER. Mr. President, I will ask the Senator to office. I have too good an opinion of Democrats to believe whether they were Republican or Democratic cities where this that. was done? Mr. OVERMAN. Let us see what a board appointed by a l\Ir. OVERMAN. They were Ilepublicans, I understand, who ReI?ublican President says about that. I ask Senators to listen. were put in. I want to get the full report, and I expect to have it. This is l\Ir. GALLINGER. Appointed by Democratic mayors and only a partial report. other officials? Mr. LODGE. Mr. President, before the Senator begins with Mr. OVERMAN. Oh, no; they were put in by Republican that, of course the Senator is aware that under the law it is customhou e officers. Now, if the Senator will listen to this provided that not more than two members of the commission report made to President Taft by his own Economy Commission, shall be of the same p9litical party. I think he will be astonished, as I am, as to the manner in l\Ir. OVER~IAN. Yes; that is true. Here is what the Econ- which the law has been administered. omy Commission says : · Mr. GALLINGER. The Senator knows, l\Ir. President, that After an exhaustive study of the records of the Civil Service Com· I am not infatuated with the civil service-- mi,ssion-- . . 1\Ir. OVERMAN. I know the Senator's views as ~o that. Mr. THO~lAS. Will not the Senator give the date of that ·l\lr. G.A.LLINGER. And I certainly shall welcome a careful report? and impartial investigation of the whole matter. I have no disposition to obstruct the proposed investigation in the least; Mr. OVERMAN. This is a report made to President Taft just before he went out of office. I presume it is not oyer three and yet some statements have been made to-day that have struck me as being inconceivable; for instance, that so large a propor months old. I do not know exactly when it was made, the date not being given here, but it was a short time ago. It was made, tion of Republicans can be in office under the civil-service law as as I have stated, by what is known as the Taft Economy Com compared with Democrats. I know . that the appointments in mission; my own State, not very numerous it is true, have been absolutely without reference to political considerations. . After an exhaustive study of the records of the Civil Service Com mission and of the evidence which was obtained from the departments l\Ir. OVERl\IAN. l\Ir. President, the Senator says the men (the results of which are shown in the pages that follow), the Presi who preside .over the Civil Service Commission are Democrats. dent's commission has come to the conclusion that the interpretation I do not know their politics, but if they haye administered which has been given to the act by the Civil Service Commission has been such as practically to defeat its primary purpose; that instead of the law as this board says they have, whether they are Demo giving to applicants the benefit of competitive examinations, and instead crats or Bull 1\Joosers or Republicans, they ought to go. of giving to the service the benefit of rules adopted for " testing the Mr. GALLINGER. Mr. President, the Senator says he does fitness of applicants," instead of making available to the Government persons who had by the rules established been given a rating of superior not know the politics of the members of the commission. The merit, every "condition of good administration" has been made sub Senator knows the politics of Ge11. J_obn C. Black, and smely ordinate and subservient to demands that can find no explanation except the Senator knows the politics of Mr. hlcilhenny, the commis a desire to continue a system which tile law was designed to supplant. sioner appointed from Louisiana. The spoils system-- l\Ir. STONE. I know that Gen. John C. Black voted the Mr. GALLINGER. Now, if the Senator will permit me- Republican ticket. 1\lr. OVERMAN. Yes, sir. l\Ir. GALLINGER. Well, I neYer heard of that, but I hope l\Ir. GALLINGER. I think I can see the reason for that find he was wise enough to do so on occasions. ing on the part of the commission. The law provides that civil Mr. STONE. I understand that he did. service appointments shall be equitably apportioned among the l\Ir. KERN. Mr. President-- • States. I never believed in that pl'inciple; and the fact is that The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from North Caro- in many instances men and women making the highest rating, lina yield to the Senator from Indiana? the hlghest percentage, are denied appointments for the reason l\Ir. KEHN. I desire to ask a question of the Senator :from that the quota, as they say, of the States from which they come New Hampshire. fs foll. I think very likely there have been instances of that Mr. OVERMAN. I will yield for a question. kind, but the Civil Service Commission has been compelled by l\Ir. KERN. I desire to ask the Senator from New Hamp statute law to make such appointments. I can not belieYe, I shire whether the Democrats who are on the Civil Service Com repeat, that the Civil Service Commission, a Democratic com mission are Democrats who voted the Democratic ticket? mission, has deliberately done anything to exclude Democrats l\Ir. GALLINGER. Well, Mr. President, I am not going to from getting office when they haye passed satisfactory examina try to distinguish between the various shades of D~mocmts tions. any more than I would of Republicans. It has always been Mr. OVERMAN. This is a Republican commission that has understood that Gen. Black was a Democrat of Democrats, and reported on a Democratic commission-have it that way, then. the gentleman appointed from Loui iana, the proprietor of a l\fr. GALLINGER. Haye it that way, then; but I do not see noted condiment, has always been known as a Democrat, and that the Economy Commission, as quoted by the Senator, has was confirmed by the Senate with the understanding that he anything to say about politics, has it? _ was a Democrat. Mr. OVERMAl~. There is no politics in it. They are trying Mr. OVERMAN. He was a Rough Rider. to find the truth, and they giye the truth in this report. Mr. GALLINGER Ile was a Rough Rider and a Democrat ; Mr. GALLINGER. But the point that was made which at nobody questions it; and nobody has eyer heretofore, to my tracted my attention-I should not have said a word had it not knowledge, questioned that the Civil Senice Commission., or a been made--was that 95 per cent of the employees in many of majority of the members of that commission, have been Demo the departments are Republicans. I do not see that the Econ crats for a great many years. I have never found any fault omy Commission, whether it has made a good showing or a bad with that.. showing in other directions, has had anything yet to say about Mr. KERN. I submit that it has been known th1:oughout the politics. counh'Y for years that the Civil Service Commission. is made Mr. OVERMAN. There is not a word here about politics, ex up of men who are not Democrats, but who were appointed to cept they say the effect of the administration of the civil-service office by Republican Presidents as a reward for their infidelity law has been to bring back to us by this means, cloaking decep to the Democratic Party. tion and deceit, the spoils system. The "spoils system" menns Mr. GALLINGER That is n serious charge. The Senator putting into office men that belong to the party in 110wer. Tbut, surely does not make that charge against the member of the reading between the lines, is really what this report finds. commission from Loui ·iana, does he? If not, it must be aimed hlr. GALLINGER. If the Senato·r will permit just a won1 . I at Gen. John C. Black, the brn ve olu Democratic soldier. f6r one will await with a great deal of interest and some 0.eg re~ .Mr. KERN. I haYe not the honor of the acquaintance of of anxiety the report of the committee of \Yhicll the distin the commissioner · from Loui iana; but I understand that he guished Senator from Ohio [Mr. PoMERENE] is tlle chairman on 874 OONGRESSION AL RECORD-SENATE . 1\iAY 1, all phases of the ch·il-8ernce law. I a~ust particular attention with regard to promotions in the service~ But this is the first will l)e given fo tha.t question, because the Senator made the time I have eTeI:" heard that the Civil Service Commission charge on the authority of somebody as to the political com fraudulently aclmitted n1en or women to the service contrary to plexion of cjvil-service uppointees. It bas been represented to the provisions of the law. me over and over aaain that Ilepnblica.ns have not been getting l\lr. OVEilJIA.L T. Before I finish rea ding this document the a fair show in the department , even under Republican adminis- Senator will see that the Economy Commission, before they trations. · made their report, brought to the attention of the Civil Sernce l\Ir. OVERMAN. Why, Mr. Pre ident, I have letter after let Commis ~ ion the facts that are stated here, and the Civil Service ter sriying that the fact is jnst the other way. I do not know Commission did not deny them; but evaded the Yery issue that whether the statemen s they contain ure· true or not, but this is raised here-that they were administering the law in such a ir.formation has come to me b-ecause I have introduced the way as to- bring back the spoils system. · :resolution. I have not: been seeking information. I have letter Ur. CUMMINS. That, however. is a mere conclu ion of the after letter stating that in every department. of the Government Senato1~ from North Carolina, possibly gathered from the report th1·ee-fourths of the employees are Republica.Bs. I have not of the Economy Commis ion. made any· partisan fight about this matter. I want to get at Mr. OVERMAN. Let us see whether it is or not. the truth. 1\Ir. CUl\IlHNS. I should like to know the facts. If the Mr. GALLINGER. About nine-tenths of them have not any Senat~r from North Carolina alleges that the Civil 'Service Com politics. They da not go home to the States to vote as they mission, in holding examinations, has given fal e ratings to appli o ed to do before the eiru-service law was enacted. cants and has thus introduced into the civil service men who Mr. OVERl\IAN. That is true. were not entitled to enter the chil service under the law, I JI.Ir. GALLINGER. They are political somethings-I do not sh(}uld like to know it and I should be the first to condemn it. know what. I wa s going to use a ward that I will not use. M1-. OVER~IAN . I knew the Senator would; and I knew, [Laughter.] as I ha·rn said, that he would be astornshed when he heard this Mr. BRISTOW. Mr. President-- i·eport froll!: the President1s own commi sion. The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from No1·th Caro l\Ir. CUMMINS. But the particular complaint made by the lina yield to the Sena tor from Kansas? President's own commission, as I unde1·stand-I bave not read l'llr. OVERMAN. I yield to the Senator from Kansas. it all, but I have talked with some who helped prepare the ' Mr. BRISTOW. I would suggest, to settle this controversy, report-is as to a want of cla stfication in the service, supple that the Senator station tellers at the entrances of the depart~ mented by the total absence of a; system of promotion upon ments, and ask every clerk who enters whether he is a Repub merit. I believe a great ma.ny people have been promoted in lican or a Democrat. the service against merit; b-ut that is not the fault of the Civil l\Ir. OVEIL.'\IAN. I do not think that would do any good, for Service Commission. the reason that a good many would say they are Democrats l\lr. OVERMAN. The .Economy Oommission sny that the who never have been Democrats. interp1·etation that ha been p-nt upon rhe law by the Civil Serv· 1\Ir. SUOOT. Perhaps they said before that they were Re ice Commission has been SllCb as t<> ..defeat the primary purpose publicans when t hey were really Democrats. uf the law." Then, they go on to make other statements. I Mr. OVERMAN. Perhaps they did; but I am sorry thls mat said that I had onJy part of the report, but thnt I would get it ter is taking a partisan. turn. Let me continue reading this alL I am reading the snmmary of the report of the commission. report. · Mr. CU1U::\lINS. Very well; bnt I hope the Senator fi·om Mr. JOHNSTON of Alabama. :!\Ir. President-- North Carolina will not lend the great weight of his influence to The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from North Caro a eharge of frand against the Civil Service Commi sion, with linn yield to the Senator from Alabmna? regard to entrance into the senice, until he has carefully exam- 1\Ir. OVERMAN. Certa inly. ined the whole subject: · Mr. JOHNSTON of Alabama. I will say for the b-enefit of l\Jr. OVERMAN. I said I made no charge of fraud. I said my Republican friends that during the past six yeru:s I found there were charges of fraud which 1 did not make. This report tllat the great body of the men in the departments with whom I says that the law is administeTed contrary to its proYisions and ca me in touch were Republicans, but since the election they are its true interpretation, and is deceitful and a sham. nearly 11 Democrats. [Laughter.] There would be yery little Mr. CUlUl\1INS. There are a great many people who help to satisfaction derived from putting tellers at the doors, because administer the civil-serYice law. The members of the Civil they ha. ve all changed their politics. Service Commission are not the only administrators of the civil Mr. WARREN. And a great many of them, when they went service law. I do not believe the Economy Commission intended into the s.er•tcer went in as Demoerats,. changed their politics to charge that the Civil Service Commi sion had been negligent with the change of admlnistTaticm, and will do so again in the in the performance of its work or had intentionally either vio future. lated er evaded the law. Mr. OVEIUIAN. There may be-a few who lune done that. I Mr. OYTi'R:\IAN. The Senator from Iowa may not put the will oot make any wholesale charge against the clerks in the same i~1tervre tation upon this report that I do. I am rending it departments. in order tbut the Senate may put its own interpretation upon it. lli. CUMMINS. J\fr. President-- . Mr. LODGE. l\Ir. President, I iise to a parliamentary in The VJCE PRESIDE.L -T. Does the Senator from North Ca:ro quiry. _ What has become of the morning business? lina yield to the Senator from Iowa? Mr. OVERMAN. Mr. President, I renlize that this report is Mr. OVERMAN. I yield to the Senator from Iowa. not veTy pleasant reading for the other side of the Chamber. Ur. CUMlU INS. I do not care whether they are Republicans l\Ir. LODGE. I have no obJeetion to- the Senator's reading or Democrats. I do care, however, to know whether the Civil it, but I should like to intro-duce the' bills that I haye been Service Commission is viola ting the law. I should like the waiting to introduce. The Senator can read the rePort or any Senator from North Carolina to read aguin the part of the thing else he wan.ts to read afterwards. report which alleges a violation of the law,. and interpret it~ and Mr. O)'"ERMAN. The Senator can introduce the bills in my adrtse the Senate in just what Eespect the Civil Service Com time, if he wishes to do so. mis ion, headed by the distinguished general, John C. Black,. is If ,-iolating the luw of the land. Mr. LODGE. the morning busines is finished, o:f cour e I have not anything to say. but I rod not know that such was the :Mr. OVEill\1AJ.~. Mr. Pre ident~ I have not finished reading the report. I will read again what I had read when I was case. interrupted and will read further. I . am glad to furnish the Mr. OVE.Il.M.AJ.'{. It is not fillished; but if the Senator ri es inf rmation. I wish to say to- the Senator from Iowa that I to make tl~at point,. I suppose I can get time later during the ha rn not the full report. I expect to get ft soon. I am only morning hour in which to read this paper. quoting now the statement made by the President's Economy Mr. LODGE. Certainly; there is not the least objection to Commission. They say here that they give later the facts apon that. which they base the sta tement. Mr. . OVERMAN. I will yi€1d: to the Senator from lUnssacbu 1\Ir. CUl\.H:fINS. I know something of the. work of the Econ setts now to enable him to introduce his bills. omy Commission. I have collaborated a little with that com Mr. LODGE. I do not think the Senator has it in his power mi ·ion in certain pha es of th€ cin!-service administration. to yield. I can take him off the floor by a demand for the I '\Yas not aware thnt tbe Economy Commission charged that the regular order, -but I do not wish to make it. ivil Seniee Commission was Tiolating the law. I was per :Mr. OVERMAN. Certainly, the Senator can. :fectly aw. re thfl t the Ecouomy C€?mmissfon was of tile opinion 1\Ir. LODGE. I only thought it would be better if we could tha t lhe ch·n-~ni e la w is inadequ ate, a everybody who has get -rid of the morning business, which mnny Senators are ue ir read or studie I the law must aumit. It is very inadequate ous of transacting. 1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 875 Mr. OVERUAl~. I think this is more jmportant than some There was a time when he was a distinguished and valued and of the bills \Te are going to introduce to-day. important member of the Democratic Party; but we are all l\Ir. LODGE. 'Ihen, l\Ir. President, I ask for the regular familiar with the fact that in the not distant past he abandoned order. his party organization. and supported the Republican ticket. If The VICE PRESIDE:XT. The regular order is reports of he has reallied himself with the Democratic Party since then, committees. he has not given public notice of the fact. l\1r. CU:\DIINS. l\Ir. ·President, I desire to ask the Senator Mr. l\IcCU~IBER. l\Ir. President, I rise to a point of order. from North Carolina a question upon the regular order. He I ask the Chair what is to be the effect of a demand by any rose original1y to submit a report of the Committee on Rules. Senator for the regular order. The Senator from Mas ·achm:etts I should like to ask him when the committee had a meeting. I [l\Ir. LoDGE] demanded the regular order, and still we are going was not aware that the committee had met, or had disposed of. right on with the discussion of a matter which may be im the subject concerning which the report is made. · portant to the Senators who are discussing it. There are a .l\Ir. OVERl\IA1'!. The committee met and instructed me to great many of us, howe\er, who do not care a continental report a certain resolution introduced by the Senator from whether Gen. Black is a Republican or a Democrat, but who Nevada [Mr. NEWLANDS]. After the suggestions and agreement would like to introduce our bills and get through with the between him and the Senator from Wyoming [l\Ir. CLARK], I morning business, and then allow anyone who desires to do so to made the report that the committee authorized me to make, with discuss this subject at length. the exception that a certain matter was referred to the Com l\Ir. STONE. l\1r. President, in deference to the very courteous mittee on Commerce instead of the Committee on Inter tate suggestion of my pious friend from North Dakota, I will yield Commerce, which I thought would be agreeable to the committee. the floor to his demand for the regular order. I hope the l\Ir. CUMMINS. I ha\e no complaint to make of the Sen Senator will take his seat now, as I do. ator from North Carolina. He very naturally came to that :Mr. lUcCUl\fBER. I am gratified to know that the Senator conclusion, but some members of the committee desired to be will do so. A Senator generally takes his seat at his own voli heard before any change was made. tion, or upon the ·direction of the Chair, and not that of any l\Ir. OVER.::\IAN. Then, ~r. President, I desire to recall the other Senator. report. It was my mistake. l\Ir. STONE. I take it, now, upon the direction of the Sena l\Ir. CUM::\HNS. No; I do not ask that. I rise simply to tor from North Dakota. say that when the report comes before the Senate for adoption l\Ir. GALLINGER and others. Regular order! I shall feel at liberty to make such suggestions as may seem Mr. OVER~AN. I wish to give notice that there will be some best to me in regard to it. other calls for the regular order during the present session. Mr. OVER:\lA.N. Of course. We had a unanimous agree l\Ir. l\IcCUMBER. l\Ir. President, I ask for the regular order. ment in the committee as to what the report should be. There The VICE PRESIDENT. The report has been withdrawn by was a division of sentiment on the floor of the Senate as to unanimous consent. Reports of committees are still in order. two things. One was as to waterways, and the other was as to the matter of conservation. In making the report on behalf RETIRED OFFICERS OF THE ARMY. of the committee I referred one of those items, as suggested by Mr. JOHNSTON of Alabama. From the Committee on .:mu the Senator, and as I thought I was fu1ly authorized to do by tary Affairs, I report back with amendments Senate resolution the committee, to ·the Committee on Commerce, and the other 35, submfrted by the Senator from Delaware [Mr. DU PoNTl on to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. One subject was re April 9, and I submit a report (No. 30) thereon. I ask tmani ferred to the Committee on Conservation of Natural Resources mous consent for the consideration of the resolution. It is a and another to the Committee on the Territories. · mere matter of inquiry. l\Ir. CUMMINS. The committee has never had under con The VICJ31 PRESIDENT. The Senator from Alabama ask.8 sideration, and has never decided, what part of the resolution unanimous consent for the present consideration of the resolu should be referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce tion. If there be no objection-- and what part should be referred to the Committee on Com Mr. GALLINGER and Mr. PE~ROSE. Let it be read. merce. l\lr. LODGE. Let if be read. I reserve the right to object. l\Ir. OVERMAN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to The Secretary read the resolution submitted by Mr. DU PONT withdraw the report. April 9, 1913, as follows : .Mr. CUMMINS. I do not ask that, but I want to ha\e it Resolved, That the Secretary of War be requested to transmit to the perfectly clear that I had nothing to do with making the Senate of the United States, as early as possible, the following infor report. mation: (1) The nature and character of the duties. that retired officers of l\Ir. OVERMAN. I ask unanimous consent to withdraw the the United States Army may be detailed to perform under existing laws, report. · regulations, and orders; The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from North Carolina (2) The laws, regulations, and orders, if any, that define whnt is known as active duty on the retired list, and whether such laws, regu ask unanimous consent to withdraw the report. If there be lations, and orders permit officers on the retired list to apply_ for no objection, consent is given. such duty; and l\Ir. STONE. 1\Ir. President, before anything is withdra wu (3) The number of retired officers of the Army who have applied for active duty on the retired list since January 1, 1908, and the percent and the subject is disposed of, I desire to say just a few words. age of those applying who have been detailed on active duty on the I agree with the Senator from Iowa [l\Ir. CUMMINS] that we retired list during this period. are more interested in the proper and honest administration of the law than we are in the personnel of the commission. That The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the consider should go without the saying. But as to the personnel, I de ation of the resolution? sire to make a remark, somewhat in the nature of a further There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider reply to the observations of the Senator from New Hampshire the resolution. [l\Ir. GALLINGER]. He said that the Civil Service Commission The first amendment was, on page 1, line 10, after the word was universally understood to be a Democratic commission. He "duty" and the semicolon, to strike out the word "and.'' said, in substance, that be had not supposed there was any The amendment was agreed to. question about that. I, for one, question it. I think there are The next amendment was, on page 1, line 15, after the word a great many other people who question it. . " period," to insert a semicolon and the word " and," and add It may not be important, l\Ir. President, and I do not think the following paragraph : it is of particular importance, .whether a majority of the mem (4) The number, rank, and pay of officers now on the retired list, bers of the commission are Democrats or Republicans. Still, and the avocations in civil life in which they are now engaged. - since the question has been brought before the Senate, the real The amendment was agreed to. facts ought to be known; and I can not permit the statement of The resolution as amended was agreed to. the Senator from New Hampshire to go unchallenged. I do not know anything about the commissioner from Louis BILLS INTRODUCED. iana beyond what has been said here to-day-that he was one Bills were introduced, read the first time, and, by unanimous of Col. Roosevelt's Rough Riders, a close personal friend of consent, the second time, and referred as follows : his, appointed by him in furtherance of the general policy of By l\fr. GALLINGER: that distinguished President to recognize the valuable services A bill ( S. 1690) to provide for the purchase of a site and the of his Rough Riders. erection of a public building thereon at Exeter, in the State of As to Gen. Black, the chairman of the commission, I have not New Hampshire; regarded him, and I do not believe Senators on this side or A bill ( S. 1691) to provide for the purchase of a site and Democrats generally throughout the United States for some the erection of a public building thereon at Lebanon, in the years have regarded him, as a member of the Democratic Party. State of New Hampshire; 876 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SE:NATE. )LiY 1, A bill ( S. 1GD2) to proYide for the purchase of a site and tlie By l\1r. C ~11\UNS : erection of a public building thereon at Littleton, in the State A biIJ ( S. 1730) to create a trade commis ion, and for otller of Kew Hampshire; and purposes; to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. A bill ( S. 1GU3) to proviUe for the purchase of a site and the By Mr. BRISTOW : erection of a public building thereon at Claremont, in the State A l>ill ( S. 1731) granting an incrense of pension to Martin of New Hampshire; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Parker; to the Committee on Pensions. Grounds. By l\Ir. LODGE: · By Ur. SHIVELY: A bill (S. 1732) proYiding for the estab1ishrnent of a hospital A. bill (S. 1604) granting an increase of pension to Lot H . ship in connection with the American fisl::.eries (with accom Fleming; panying papers); to the Committee on Fi"heries. A. bill (S. 1G95) granting a pension to Edward G. Goodbub; A bill ( S. 1733) for the erection of a memoria 1 to Col. A bill ( S. 1G9G) granting an increase of pension to Joel Edward Dickinson Baker at Balls Bluff, Va. ; to the Committee Yeager; on the Library. · A bill ( S. 1G97) granting an increase of pension to George S. A bill (S. 1734) granting an increase of pension to William Kendall (with accompanying papers) ; Box; A bill ( S. 1698) granting an increase of pension to John A bill ( S. 1735) granting an increase of pension to Cordelia H. lUarsh (with accompanying papers); and Bragg; and A bill ( S. 169!)) granting an increase of pension to George A bill (S. 1736) grnnting an increase of pension to Uary J. W . North (with accompanying papers); to the Committee on Bates: to the Committee on Pensions. Pensions. Ily l\fr. STERLL JG (for Mr. CR WFORD) : A bill ( S. 1737) granting an increase of pension to William By Mr. FLETCHER: W. Pinkerton (with accompanying paper) ; to the Committee A bill ( S. 1700) for the relief of the heirs of Salvador Costa on Pensions. '(with accompanying papers) ; to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. NELSON : - By Mr. PE1'i~OSE: A bill ( S. 1738) granting an increase of pension to Amelia A bill (S. 1702) to change.the name of oleomargarine to mar Hubbard; to the Committee on Pensions. garin; to change the rate of tax on margarin; to make mar By Mr. BORAH : garin and other substitutes for dairy products subject to the A bill ( S. 1739) to reserve certain lands and incorporate the laws of any State or Territory into which they may be trans same and make them a part of the Caribou National Forest ported; to afford the Internal-Reyenue Bureau means for the Resene; to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. more efficient detection of fraud and for the collection of reve By l\fr. OVERMAN : nues; to repeal nn act defining butter and imposing a tax upon A. bill (S. 1740) to apply a part of the proceeds from the sale and reguln ting the manufacture, sale, importation, and exporta of public lands to the support and maintenance of farm-life tion of oleomargarine, approYed August 2, 1886, with amend schools for the benefit of agriculture and to increase the knowl ments thereto; to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. edge of farming; to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. A bill ( S. 1703) for the relief of George P. Chandler; A bill ( S. 1741) for the relief of the estate of Henry Kizer, A bill ( S. 1704) for the relief of Edgar B. Strang ; .and deceased; and A bill ( S. 17-05) to correct the military record of Robert D. A bill A bill (S. 1758) for the relief of Warren El Day; to the Com the further consideration of the bill, and it will be referred to mittee on Indian Affairs. the Committee on Claims. The Chair hears none. LEGISLATIVE JOURNALS IN THE MAILS. STENOGRAPHER TO JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING. By Mr. BRYA.i.~: Mr. FLETCHER submitted the following concurrent resolu A bill ( S. 1701) to admit legislativ-e journals of State and tion (S. Con. Res. 2), which was referred to the Committee to Territorial legislatures to the mails as second-class mail matter; Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate: to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Resol1:ea by the Senate (tlze House of Representatives concurring), That the Joint Committee on Printing be, and hereby is, authorized to Ur. BRYAN. The bill is short, and I ask that it be printed employ a stenographer, compensation at the rate of $75 per montb, to in the RECORD. be paid one-half out of the contingent fund of the Senate and one-half There being no objection, the bill was ordered to be printed out of the contingent fund of the House until otherwise provided for. in the RECORD, as follows : THE TARIFF BILL. A bill (S. 1701) to admit legislative journals of State and Territorial 1\Ir. SMOOT. I submit a resolution and ask for its immediate legislatures to the mails as second-class mail matter. consideration. Be it enacted, etc., That legislative journals of the several State or Territorial legislatures, not exceeding 100 copies to each member of The resolution ( S. Res. 70) was read, as follows : any such legislature, when mailed from the State or Territorial Resolved, That there be printed 4,750 additional copies of H. R. 3321, ca pitals during legislative sessions, shall be accepted as second-class a bill to reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the Government, mail matter. and for other purposes, for the use of the Senate document room: · AMENDMENTS TO APPROPRIATION BILLS. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from Utah asks for Mr. GALLI:NGER submitted an amendment relative to the the immediate consideration of the resolution. Is there objec enforcement of the antitrust laws, etc., intended to be proposed tion? The Chair hears none. by him to the sundry civil appropriation bill, which was ordered Mr. OVERMAN. Mr. President, I suppose I can rise to dis to lie on the table und to be printed. cuss the resolution. I was about, before concluding my re .Mr. l\fcCUMBER submitted an amendment proposing to in marks, to read from the report of the Economy Commission. I crease the appropriation for the Glacier National Park, Mont., will just go on with my remarks on that matter. As the Senator from $100,000 to $250,000, intended to be proposed by him to from Iowa [l\Ir. CUMMINS] requested that I should read over the sundry dvil appropriation bill, which was ordered to lie what I had read, I will read the whole pa1·agraph of the on the table and to be printed. Economy Commission report-- He also submitted an amendment proposing to appropriate Mr. OLIVER. Mr. President, a parliamentary inquiry. $2,000 to print a report of the proceedings of the National The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from Pennsylvania Convention of State Railway Commissioners, etc., intended to will state his inquiry. be proposed by him to the sundry civil appropriation bill, Mr. OLIVER. I ask what is the subject before tbe Senate at which was ordered to lie on the table and to be printed. present? Mr. OWEN submitted an amendment proposing to appro The VICE PRESIDENT. The question before the Senate is priate 10,000 for settling land suits in eastern Oklahoma, etc., on agreeing to the resolution submitted by the Senator from intended to be proposed by him to the Indian appropriation bill, Utah [Mr. SMOOT]. which was referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and Mr. OLIVER. I submit that the Senator from North Caro ordered to be printed. lina is not talking to the subject. THE TARIFF. l\Ir. LODGE. .Mr. President, I think under paragraph 3 ·of Rule VII debate is not in order. The rule provides that- Mr. FLETCHER submitted an amendment intended to be Until the morning business shall have been concluded, and so an proposed by him to the bill (H. R. 3321) to reduce tariff duties nounced from the chair, or until the hour of 1 o'clock has arrived, no and to provide re'Venue for the Government, and for other pur motion to proceed to the consideration of any bill, resolution, report of po. cs, which was referred to the Committee on Finance and a committee, or other subject upon the calendar shall be entertamed by the presiding officer, unless by unanimous consent; and if such consent ordered to be printed. be given-- Mr. CUUMINS submitted two amendments intended to be Which has happened in this case- (H. R. proposed by him to the bill 3321) to reduce tariff duties the motion shall not be subject to amendment, and shall be decided and to provide re>enue for the Go>ernment, and for other pur without debate upon the merits of the subject proposed to be taken up. poses, which were referred to the Committee on Finn.nee and I make the point of order that debate is not in order under ordered to be printed. that rule. .Mr. STERLING submitted an amendment intended to be Mr. OVERMAN. Has unanimous consent been given for the proposed by him to the bill (H. R. 3321) to reduce tariff duties consideration of the resolution? and to pro>ide re'Venue for the Go>ernment, and for other pur The VICE PRESIDENT. It has. poses, which was referred to the Committee on Finance and l\fr. OVERMAN. It is then bef<>re the Senate, and is debat ordered to be printed. able. :Mr. BURTON submitted four amendments intended to be pro Mr. LODGE. At this stage of the proceedings debate is not po ed by him to the bill (H. R. 3321) to reduce tariff duties in order. It is open to the Senator to object, of course. and to provide re>enue for the Gov-ernment, and for other pur l\fr. OVERMAN. If it is before the Senate by unanimous pose , which were referred to the Committee on Finance and consent, then I have q right to debate it. ordered to be printed. Mr. PEJ\TROSE. Not under the rule. Mr. OLIVER submitted four amendments intended to be pro Mr. LODGE. Not under the rule I have read. proposed by him to the bill (H. R. 3321) to' reduce tariff duties Mr. OVERMAN. It seems that Senators do not want to hear and to provide revenue for the Government, and for other pur the truth. I will bring it out at another time. I give that po es which were referred to the Committee on Finance and notice. ordered to be printed. The VICE PRESIDENT. The point of order is well taken. Mr. SAULSBURY presented two amendments intended to be The question is on agreeing to the resolution submitted by the proposed by him to the bill (H. R. 3321) to reduce tariff duties Senator from Utah. and to provide revenue for the Go>ernment, and for other pur The resolution was agreed to. pose , which were referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. WORKS OF ART IN CAPITOL BUILDING. Mr. GALLINGER. I sand a resolution with the accompanying CLAIMS UNDER MARCUS P. NORTON'S PATENTS. papers to the desk and ask that it be read and that the resolu Ur. S~IITH of South Carolina. There was referred to the tion and the papers accompanying it may then be referred to Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads the bill (S. 1269) the Committee on Printing. for the adjudication and determination of the claims arising The resolution (S. Res. 74) was read and, with the accom under joint resolution of July 14, 1870, authorizing the Post panying papers, referred to the Committee on Printing, as master General to continue in use in the postal service l\Iarcas follows: · P. Norton's combined postmarking and stamp-canceling hand Resolved, That the document herewith submitted entitled "Works of stamp patents or otherwise, which both the author and the com Art in the United States Capitol Building. including biographies of the artists," compiled under the direction of the Superintendent ol the mit tee think properly belongs to the Committee on Claims. I United States Capitol Building and Grounds, by Charles E. Fairman. be therefore ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Post printcu as a Senate document. 0 Offices and Post Roads be discharged from the further consid ALLEGED SLAVERY IN THE PIDLIPPINE ISLANDS. eration of the bill and that it be referred to the Committee on Ur. BORAH. I offer a resolution and ask for its present con Claims. sideration. I also ask to have printed in the RECORD in con The VICE PRESIDENT. If there is no objection, the Com nection with the resolution a certain letter which is printed in mittee on Post Offices und Post Roads will be discharged from the National Humane Review for April, 1913. 878 OONGRESSION AL RECORD-· SEN ATE. J\IAY 1, The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from Idaho submits forcible detention, but in the large majority of cases this can not be proven, as the persons involuntarily beld are afraid to tell the truth. a resolution which will be read. The legislative counc11 of the Moro Province has passed an anti The Secretary read the resolution (S. Res. 71), as follows: slavery law of its own, but except in the Moro Province, the Mountain Resolved, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed Province, Nueva Vizcaya, and Agusan the sale, barter, and purchase of to end to the Senate any and all facts bearing directly or indirectly human beings is still lawful in the Philippine Islands. upon the truth of the charge, publicly made, that human slavery exists The Philippine Assembly excuses its conduct by the claim that slavery at this time in the Philippine Islands, and that human beings are does not exist in these islands. '£his is absurd. There are Negrito bought and sold in such islands as chattels. slaves held to-day in the city of Manila. DEAN C. WORCESTER, The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from Idaho asks for Secretary of the lflterior. the immediate consideration of the resolution. is there objec The VICE PRESIDENT. T·he question is on agreeing to the tion? The Chair hears none. The question is on agreeing to resolution submitted by the Senator from Idaho. the resolution. The resolution was agreed to. l\Ir. STOJ\TE. l\fr. President, my attention was diverted. I ASSISTANT CLERK TO COMMITTEE ON NAVAL AFFAIRS. will ask the Senator what he desires to do? What does the resolution call for? l\Ir. TILL~IA.N submitted the following resolution ( S. Iles. l\Ir. BORAH. Facts. 73), which was read, and, with the accompanying paper, referred · l\Ir. STONE. From whom? to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses l\Ir. BORAH. The Secretary of War. of the Senate: l\Ir. Resolved, That the Committee on Naval Affairs be, and it is herebr, WARREN. Is there a letter accompanying the resolu authorized to employ an assistant clerk, at $1,440 per annum to be paid tion which the Senator wishes to ha ye read? from "miscellaneous items" of the contingent fund of the Senate until l\Ir. BORAH. There is a letter to be printed in the RECORD, otherwise provided by law. signed by the secretary of the interior of the Philippine Islands, NEGROES IN CIVIL SERVICE. alleging the existence of slavery in those islands to. be a fact. :Mr. STONE. I submit a resolution for reference to the Com l\Ir. W ARilEN. I should like to have it read if it is from mittee on Civil Service and Retrenchment. I ask that the reso the Secretary of the Interior, who has charge of the islands. lution be read. l\Ir. BORAH. It is from the secretary of the interior of the The VICE PRESIDTu°"'T. The resolution submitted by the Philippine Islands. Senator from l\Iissouri will be read. l\Ir. WARREN. Oh! The Secretary read the resolution ( S. Res. 72), as follows: l\Ir. ROOT. I should like to have the letter read. Resolvedl That the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will read as re shall inquire into and report as to the number of negroes em que ted. ployed in the classified civll service, showing the number employed in each department or othe1· governmental establishment in the District of The Secretary proceeded to read, and read as follows : Columbia and at other places, giving aggregate salaries paid, and as The PhHippine Legislature has ample power to pass such humane far as possible showin~ the kind of service in which such employees are legislation as it sees fit-- engaged, so that the Senate may be fully informed as to the premises. Mr. ROOT. Is the Secretal'y reading a letter which is ad Mr. STONE. Mr. President, I hold in my hand a clipping dressed to anyone written by anyone? He seems to be reading from yesterday morning's Washington Post setting forth an ac from a newspaper. count of a meeting held in this city the night before by what is l\lr. BORAH. It is a letter printed in a newspaper. known as the National Democratic .Fair-Play Association. I Mr. ROOT. Is it addressed to anyone? know nothing about the association, but there are some \ery l\Ir. BORA.II. It is addressed to some one, and it is also interesting things stated in this report. Among other things signed by the secretary of the interior. the report shows that there are U26 negroes employed in the l\Ir. ROOT. I merely want to have· the whole letter read. I Treasury Department, 593 in the Interior Department, and so do not know what it is. on. I ask that the paper be referred to the committee along . l\lr. BORAH. That is precisely what has been requested. with the resolution I have offered. The part preceding the letter is simply a comment of the paper. The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, the resolution, That which the Secretary is now proceeding to read is the together with the accompanying paper, will be referred to the letter itself. I assume that is what the Senator wanted. Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment. l\Ir. ROOT. That is what I wanted, but the Secretary evi THE CIVIL SERVICE. dently did not begin at the beginning of the letter. Mr. OVERMAN. 1\Ir. President, in connection with the reso The Secretary read as follows : lution heretofore submitted by me, I ask the Secretary to read, In a letter from the Hon. Dean C. Worcester, secretary of the inte rior of the United States Government of the Philippine Islands, written for the information of the Senate, a marked paragraph in the in .Manila recently, and addressed to Dr. WiJliam 0. Stillman, president paper which I send to the desk, and which I had intended to of the American Humane Association, the following remarkable state- read myself. After it has been read I ask that it may be ment of fact appears: • referred to the committee, together with the resolution. • * • • * • • The VICE PRESIDENT. In the absence of objection, the A porti~n of Dean Worcester's letter is here quoted, as follows: Secretary will read as requested. * * * * * * * The Philippine Legislature has ample power to pass such humane leg- The Secretary read as follows : islation as it sees fit for the regularly organized provinces. The Phil After an exhaustive study of the records of the Civil Service Com ippine Commission has the same authority with reference to the so mission and of the evidence which was obtained from the departments called special government provinces. So that there is no lack of ade tbe results of which are shown in the pages that follow-the Presi quate authority to pass humane legislation covering the entire Philip dent's commission has come to the conclusion that the interpretation pine Archipelago. which has been given to the act by the Civil Service Commission has So far as I am aware, the only laws thus far passed by the commis: been such as practically to defeat its primary purpose; that instead of sion or the legislature which can properly fall under this head are the giving to applicants the benefit of competitive examinations, and in "Act for the prevention of cruelty to animals" and the "Act prohibiting stead of giving to the service the benefit- of rules adopted for " testing slavery, involuntary servitude, peonage, and the sale . and purchase of the fitness of applicants"; instead of making available to the Govern human beings in the Mountain Prnvince and the i;>rovince of Jueva ment persons who had by the rules established been given a rating of Vizcaya and Agusan and providing punishment therefor." This act superior merit, every " condition of good administration " has been pa sed by the PhilipJ?ine Commission under its authority as the exclu made subordinate and subservient to demands that can find no explana sive legislative body for the territory inhabited by Moros and other non tion except a desire to continue a system which the law was designed Christian tribes is of course applicable only to that territory. Acts to supplant. Practically the only effect of the law as interpreted has similar to or identical with this act have been passed by the upper been to eliminate from the possibility of appointment to positions in house and sent to the Philippine Assembly for three consecutive years, the classlfied service such persons as had entirely failed to obtain any and, indeed, are now pending there. Up to . the present time the assem standing whatever; i. e., to obtain an average above tbe passing mark. bly has always refused to pass such an act. This conclusion-that the result has been to defeat the operation of the The organic act passed by Congre:;:.s on July 1, 1012, provides " that purposes of the act-is amply supported by the facts which are shown neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for in detail below. (Report submitted as a statement of fact.) crime.. whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist in In submitting this report the thought has been that its chief value sa.id islands." Unfortunately, however, Congress provided no penalty will lie in s ' :1t ements of fact. In order that controversy might be con for the violation of this provision, and the supreme court of these fined entirely to critical comment and constructive recommendation islands held, prior to the adoption of the act hereinbefore mentioned, the statemen'ts of fact are entirely separated in the text from that part that- · which is purely descriptive. To the end that all controversy might be "'There is at present no law punishing slave holding as a crime. eliminated from the descriptive statement this portion of the report "The constitutional provision of the Philippine bill 'that neither was prepared and submitted to the Civil Service Commission on ---, slavery nor involuntar·y servitude shall exist in these islands,' while 1912, with the request that it be reviewed and corrected or enlarged opera tin!!' to nullify any agreement in contravention of it, requires sup upon, if need be, in order that it might be accepted without question plementa1·y legislation to give it effect cdminally." or cavil as a basis for discussion. This descriptive text having been re We at·e dealing not with a civil remedy but with a criminal charge turned, after making such modifications a,'3 would eliminate every in nlation ro which the bill of rights defines no crime and provides no recital concerning which question had been raised, critical comment puni bment. Its effects can not be carried into the realm of criminal and constructive recommendations were submitted January 28, 1913. law without an act of the legislature. On ---, ·1913, the comment of the Civil Service Commission, as an 'l'be situation then, so far as concerns legislation prohibiting slavery, answer to the critical statements and constructive recommendations, peonage, and involuntary servitude, is that there exists ample authority, was returned (Exhibit -), together with a proposed change in the but that the lower house declines . to use its authority in- this regard. rules (Exhiblt -). To this answer the President's commission filed We have, of course, the provisions of the old Spanish Penal Code against ·a reply (Exhibit -) which, in brief, calls attention to the fact that 1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE . 879. the answer or comment of the Civil Service Commission avoided the NOMINATIONS. issues which had been raised and that the proposed memorandum, while it was in the nature tif an admission of past interpretation and Executive nominations reccii;ed by the Senate May 1, 1913. practice j:hat have been adverse to "good administration," does not reach nor correct the evil results tbn.t are clearly written on the face of the COLLECTOR OF CUSTO~S. record as a matter of experience. (Recommendations of the Presi dent's commission.) John W. Martin, of Florida, to be collector of customs for the Mr. OVER.ll.A.N. l\1r. Pl'esident, in tlle same connection I district of Jacksonville, in the State of Florida, in place of wish to ha rn read a paragraph from a letter which I have re William H. Lucas, supersedecl. cei\ed, desiring that it also go into the RECORD and be referred SURVEYORS OF CUSTOMS. to tlle committee with the resolution. The VICE PRESIDE:i\TT. Without objection the Secretary Warner S. Kinkead, of Kentucky, to be surveyor of customs will read as requested. for the port of Louisville, in the State of Kentucky, in place of The Secretary read as follows: J. Frank Taylor, whose term of office expired by limitation Now, sir, I happen to be a Federal employee at the New York custom January 17, 1913. house for the past year and three months, and if you bad but a faint Charles R. Kurtz, of Pennsylvania, to be survey.or of customs idea of how favoritism and "pull" are worked here yon would n~t in the district of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvarua, ask for an appropriation to conduct an inquiry, but simply demand it in the interest of common decency. in place of Perry M. Lytle, resigned. In the division in which I am employed and to which I was ap COMMISSIONER OF 0oRPORATIONS. pointed from a civil-service list there are three grades of pay-$840, $9GO, and $1,095 per annum. You are instructed on your appoint Joseph E. Davies, of Wisconsin, to be Commissioner of Cor ment that you are advanced from one grade to the higher on your porations, in the Department of Commerce, vice Luther efficie,ncy. After a few months in the service I learned the efficit?ncy meant "pull," and from my acquaintance in the division it looked to Conant, jr. me as if illiteracy was a qualification for advancement. Mr. Loeb in ASSISTANT COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY. 1909 abolished the night inspectors and former customs watchmen, later called customs guards. He demoted day and night inspectors by Walter W. Warwick, of Ohio, to be Assistant Comptroller of the wholesale, the majority of whom were Civil Wur veterans. He had the Treasury, in place of Leander P. 1\litchell, deceased. 250 laborers off the scales sworn in as watchmen, ranging in salaries from $840 to lj)l,09:5 per annum, placing at their head a deputy sur CoLLECTOR OF INTERN.AL REVENUE. veyor who had been an inspector for a few months (by Executive order) at $3,000 per annum. Kone of these laborers ever passed a civil Louis W. l\Iurphy, of Iowa, to be collector of internal revenue service examination of any kind, but they were all more or less active Republicans, the maj-0rity being district captains. All this time an for the third district of Iowa, in pl:lce of .Michael J. Tobin, eligible list for night inspector was in existence, but none were taken superseded.. from it until all these henchmen were well provided for, a good number being appointed roundsmen at $1,200 per annum. CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS. ·With a few exceptions, all of these laborers have been advanced in salary notwithstanding the fact that some of them have had several Edward K. Campbell, of .Alabama, to be chlef justice of the charges of a more or less serious nature prefe1-red against them. Some Court of Claims, vice Stanton J. Peelle, resigned. of -them are good ~. but there are others who are simply a disgrace U S M to the customs uniform. Yet they go ahead, while the civil-service man NITED TATES ARSHAL. remains stationary. Andrew H. Hudspeth, of New .Mexico, to be United States The VICE PRESIDE~"'T. The papers will be referred as marshal, district of New .Mexico, vice Secundino Romero, re- requested. signed. Mr. ROOT. Was the signature to the letter read? RECEIVER OF PUBLIC MONEYS . .Mr. OVERll.AN. If the Senator insists on it, I will have it Mrs. Annie G. Rogers, of Leadville, Colo., to be receiver of read. public moneys at Leadville, Colo., vice Andrew P. Adolphson, l\fr. ROOT.. I wish the signature read, of course. term expired. Mr. OVERMAN. Of course you will have the writer turned out. SURVEYOR GENERAL OF WASHINGTON. The VICE PRESIDEl\i"'T. The Secretary will read as re- Richard Iloediger, of Tacoma, Wash., to be surveyor general quested. of Washington, vice Edward P. Kingsbl¥'Y, resigned. ' The Secretary read as follows: PROYO'rIONS IN THE ARMY. Thomas O'Hara, Customs Guard, Room 133, Customhouse, New York. INFANTRY ARM. Mr. BACON. Has morning business closed, l\fr. President? The VICE PRESIDENT. Morning business h:;is closed. Lieut. Col. Frank B. McCoy, Twenty-fourth Infantry, to be colonel from April 28, 1913, vice Col. John S. Parke, Infantry, EXECUTIVE SESSION. unassigned, detached from his proper command. JI.Ir. BACON. If there be nothing further to be presented to Lieut. Col. Richard M. Blatchford, Infantry, unassigned, to be the Senate, I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration colonel from April 30, 1913, vice Col. Arthur Williams, Eleventh of executive business. Infantry, retired from active service April 29, 1913. The motion was agreed to, and the Senate proceeded to the 1\Iaj. John P. Finley, Infantry, unassigned, to be lieutenant consideration of executirn business. After 2 hours and 30 min colonel from April 28, 1913, vice Lieut. Col. Frank B. McCoy, utes spent in executiv-e session the doors were reopened. •rwenty-fonrth Infantry, promoted. SPECIAL FISCAL AGENTS. Maj. Fr-ederick R. Day, Thirtieth Infantry, to be lieutenant colonel from April 30, 1913, Yice Lieut. Col. Richard M. Blatch 1\lr. Sil\illONS. I am directed by the Committee on Finance ford, unassigned, promoted. to report the resolution (S. Iles. 75) which I send to the desk. Capt. Benjamin F . Hardaway, Seventeenth Infantry, to be I ask unanimous consent for its present consideration. major from April 30, 1913, vice l\Iaj. Frederick R. Day, Thirtieth The resolution was read, considered by unanimous consent, Infantry, promoted. and agreed to, as follows : First Lieut. Russell C. Hand, Thirteenth Infantry, to be cap Resolved, That the Senate approve the appointment of the Right Hon. Sir Edgar Speyer, Bart., P. C., and the Messrs. Henry Oppen tain from April 30, 1913, vice Capt. Benjamin F. Hardaway, heimer, Henry William Brown, Henry Gordon Leith, James Speyer, and Seventeenth Infantry, promoted. Edunrd Bcit von Speyer, trading under the name, style, and firm of Speyer Bros., at London, England, to be special fiscal agents of the PROMOTIONS AND .Al>POINTMEN.TS IN THE NAVY. Kavy Department at that place, agreeably to the nomination. Capt. Robert S. Griffin to be engineer in chief and Chlef of the ADJOURNMENT TO MONDAY. Bureau of Steam Engineering in the Department of the Navy, l\Ir. KERN. I move that when the Senate adjourns to-day with the rank of rear admiral, for a period of four years from it adjourn to meet on l\Ionday next. the 18th day of .May, 1913. The motion was agreed to. Commander Victor Blue to be Chief of the Bureau of Naviga tion in the Department of the Navy, with the rank of rear ad AMENDMENT OF THE RULES. miral, for a term of four years, vice Commander Philip Andrews, l\Ir. CL.A.IlKE of Arkansas. I enter a motion to reconsider resigned. the vote by which the Senate on tw 28th ultimo agr€ed to the Paymaster John H. Merriam to be a pay inspector in the Navy amendment of the standing rule of the Senate numbered 12, from the 21st day of February, 1913. relating to the calling of the yeas and nays. Boatswain William Fremgen to be a chief boatswain in tJie The VICE PilESIDENT. Notice of the motion will be en- Navy from the 31st day of January, 1913. tered. · · Lieut. Charles P. Hufl' to be a lieutenant commander in the 1\Ir. OVER.:UAN. I move that the Senate adjourn. Navy from the 13th day of February, 1913. The motion was agreed to; and (at 4 o'clock and 5 minutes Lloyd Noland, a citizen of Virginia, to be an assistant surgeon p, m.) the Sennte adjourned until Monday, May 5, 1913, at 12 in the Medical Reserve Corps of the Nacy from the 16th day of o'clock m. April, 1913. 880 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENA'IE. MAY 1, ~rb.e following-named carpenters to be chief carpenters in the Samuel R Lewis to be postmaster at Fayetteville, Ga. Office N~n-y from the 19th day of April, 1913: became presidential January 1. 1912. Robert Morgan, Henry l\f. 1\IiUer to be postmaster at Colquitt, Ga., in place of James P. Shovlin, Henry M:. Miller. Incumbent's commission expired January 27, John A. Price, 1013. Alfred R. Hughes, and ILLINOIS. James L. Jones. . Clifford W. Brewer to- be postmaster at KnoxYille, Ill., in place 1'.\lilton J. Ilosenau, a citizen of :Massachusetts, to be an assist of Orange L. Campbell. Incumbent's commi sion expired De- ant surgeon in the Medical Reserve Corps of the Navy from cember 14, rn12. . the 28th day of March, 1913, in accordance with a provision Marshall E. Daniel to be postmaster at McLeansboro, Ill., contained in an act of Congress approved August 22, 1912. in place of Frank J. Chapm:lll. Incumbent's commission ex George A. Stowell, a citizen of Oregon, to be a second lieu pired December 14, 1912. tenant in the :Marine Corps from the 4th day of April, 1913, to Katherine 1\I. l\fcClements to be postmaster at Park Ridge, Ill., fill a vacancy. in place of William S. Chlttenden, re igned. POSTMASTERS. Thomas Moyer to be postmaster at Pari , Ill., in place of Paul P. Shutt. Incumbent's commission expired December 14, ALABAMA.. 1912. . Robert Boyd to be postmaster at Dothan, Ala., in place of Benjamin F. Neal to be postmaster at Toledo, Ill., in place of Byron Trammell, removed. John F. Ashwill. Incnmbent's commission expireu December Ed. G. Caldwell to be postmaster at Jacksonville, Ala.. in 14, 1912. place of Dora Crook. Incumbent's commission expired Feb John Odum to be po trnaster at Harrisburg, Ill., in place of ruary 28, 1909. Thomas S. Reyaolds, resigned. · W. L. Crew to be postmaster at Good Water, Ala., in place of INDIANA. Cicero A. Ross, deceased. J ames E. Burke to be postmaster at Jeffers<:>nville, Ind., in David M. Scott to be postmaster at Selma, Ala., in place of place of Albert L. Anderson, removed. David l\I. Scott. Incumbent's commission expired January 5, Charles B. Donovan, jr., to be postmaster at East Chicago, 1913. Ind., in place of Mo es Specter. Incumbent's commission ex · J. L. Thornton to be postmaster at Alexander City, Ala .. in pired December 17, 1912. ~lace of Henry C. Willis. Incumbent's commission expired Daniel Ganz to be postmaster at Odon, Ind., in place of Harry IG'ebruary 20, 1913. H. Crooke, resigned. ARKANSAS. Charles L. Haslet to be postmaster at Chesterton, Ind., in Louis K. Buerkle to be postmaster at Stuttgart, Ark., in place place of Charles E. Hillstrom. 1ncurnbent's commission expired ')f Edward Hall, deceased. · December 17, 1912. • William A. Bushmiaer to be postmaster at A.Ima, Ark., in Charles L. Wood to be postmaster ~t Albany, Ind., in place place of Thomas B. Murphy. Incumbent's commission expired of William A. Hayes, deceased. !.prll 28, 1912. IOWA.. G. G. Dandridge to be postmaster at Paris, Ark., in place of W. H. Carmody, sr., to be postmaster at Valley Junction, W. M. Howard. Incumbent's commission expired January 22, Iowa, in place of Albert S. Burnett, resigned. 1913. Harry F. Chance to be postmaster at Redfield, Iowa, in place Ernest J. Patton to be postmaster at Cabot, Ark., in place of of Edgar 0. Winter. Incumbent's commission expired January Samuel P. Beck, resigned. 14. 1913. CALIFORNIA. Charles B. Clark to be postmaster at Ogden, Iowa, in place of Clinton L. Zollinger, resigned. C. W. Collins to be postmaster at El Centro, Cal., in place of Ora L. Miller. IncumbeU's commission expired March 29, 1913. Lloyd Crow to be po truaster at l\fapleton, Iowa, in place of Ellis T. Tanner to be postmaster at San Jacinto Cal., in place S. H. Carhart. Incumbent's commission expired April 23, 1913. of George B. Hannahs. Incumbent's commission expired Febru B. W. De Vine to be po tmaster at Livermore, Iowa, in place ary 20, 1913. of Joseph C. Bergen. Incumbent's commission expired May 26, CONNECTICUT. 1912. S. A. Douglas to be postmaster at Adel, Iowa, in plnce of Edward Perkins to be postmaster at Suffield, Conn., in place Albert C. Hotchkiss. Incumbent's commission expired January of Edmund Halladay. Incumbent's commission expired Decem 11, 1913. ber 11, 1911. W. H. Dudley to be postmaster at Earlham, Iowa, in place of FLORIDA.. Eugene i\f. Crosswait. Incumbent's commi ion expired Feb Bessie Bryan Simpson to be postmaster at Kissimmee, Fla., ruary 9, 1913. in place of Frank Vans Agnew. Incumbent's commission ex Kaspar Faltinson to be postmaster at Armstrong, Iowa. in pired December 10, 1912. place of William Stuart. Incumbent's cornmis ion expired Crawford I. Henry to be postmaster at Apalachicola, Fla., in l\Iarch 29, 1913. place of J. F. ·warren, resigned. F. M. Finnell to be postmaster at Algona, Iowa, in place of l\I. P. Weaver. Incumbent's commission expired January 11, William Jackson to be postmaster at Daytona, Fla., in place 1913. . of William C. Smith. Incumbent's commission expired January Thomas l\I. Fitzgerald to be postmaster at Charles City, Iowa, 13, 1913. in place of Lyman H. Hem·y, removed. B. P. Morris to be postmaster at De Funiak Springs, Fla., in Milton :trunk to be postmaster at Lewis, Iowa. Office became place of William C. Eddy. Incumbent's commission expired presidential January 1, 1913. February 9, 1913. Reuben M. Gable to be postmaster at Lost Nation, Iowa, in J. A. Williams to be postmaster at Alachua, Fla., in place of place of Robert M. Willard. Incumbent's commission expired Simeon C. Dell, resigned. April 9, 1912. GEORGIA.. J. S. Guynn _to be postmaster at Traer, Iowa, in place of B. F. Thomas, deceased. B. F. Baker to be postmaster at Woodbury, Ga., in place of Edwin L. Helmer to be postmaster at Sanborn, Iowa, in place Mary E. Hinton. Incumbent's commission expired February 27, of Richard l\f. Boyd. Incumbent's commission expired January 1912. 11, 1913. W. F. Brown to be postmaster at Carrollton, Ga., in place of A. D. Hix to be postmaster at Zearing, Iowa. Office became Claude lli. Smith. Incumbent's commission expired J anuary 26, presidential January 1, 1913. 1913. Anton Huebach to be postmaster at McGregor, Iowa, in Charles V. Clark to be postmaster at Louisville, Ga., in place place of Louis N. Kramer. Incu.mbent's commission expired of Lewi£ R. Farmer. Incumbent's commission expired January December 14, 1912. 27, 1913. Peter Jungers to be postmaster at Hospers, Iowa. Office be Mattie E. Gunter to be postmaster at Social Circle, Ga., in came presidential January 1, 1913. place of l\Iattie E. Gunter. Incumbent's commission expired A. W. Lee to be postmaster at Britt, Iowa, in place of W. A. February 27, 1!)12. Simpldns. Incumbent's commission expired February 20, 1913. Andrew J. Irwin to be postmaster at Sandersville, Ga., in Ed. McConaughey to be postmaster at Allerton, Iowa, in place place of Samuel B. Robison. Incumbent's commission expired of John C. Meredith. Incumbent's commission expired Decem- April 21, 1!)1.2. ber 14, 1912. - · · 1913. QQNGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE~ 881 P. A. 1\IcCray to be postn;iaster at Rolfe, Iowa, in place of 'S. H. F~st to be postmaster ·at Pittsfield, Me., in place of 1\Iarion Bruce. Incumbent's commission expired January 10, Charles B. Haskell. Incumbe~t's commission expired December 1910. 14, 1912. • Frank W. l\Iiller to be postmaster at Olin, Iowa, in place of MASSACHUSETTS. Dennis Bittner, resigned.· · Benjamin R. Gifford to be postmaster at Woods Hole, l\Iass., , Walter Rae to be postmaster at Massena, Iowa, in place of in place of George c.-Look, resigned. ' · :William C. l\.IcCurdy, resigi;ied. William J. O'Brien to be postmaster at Kingston, Mass., in C. W. Remore to be postmaster at Northwood, Iowa, in place place of Samuel Atwell. Incumbent's commission expired De of Frank Scammon. Incumbent's commission expired Decem cember 14, 1912 ber D, 1911. . John H. Schulte to be postmaster at Breda, Iowa. Office be MICHIGAN. came presidential January 1, 1913. Carl L. Farwell to be postmaster at Barryton, l\Iich., in place William D. Schulte to be postmaster at West Point, Iowa, in of Jame~ L. Campbell, removed. place of Robert A. Gardner. Incumbent's commission expired John 0. Hoopingarner to be postmaster at Berrien Springs, 'January 26, 1913. . Mich., in pluce of Guy C. :Mars. Incumbent's commission ex E. H. Vary to be postmaster at :Mechanicsville, Iowa, in place pired February 9, 1913. of William L. Comstock. Incumbent's commission expired De Berend Kamps to be postmaster at Zeeland, Mich., in place ' cember 14, 1912. o'f William Glerum, resigned. KANSAS. Ray Maker to be postmaster at Bear Lake, 1\Iich., in place of A. F. Achenbach to be postmaster at Soldier, Kans., in place Charles W. Glover. Incumbent's commission expired December 'of Benson L. Mickel. Incumbent's commission expired January 14, 1912. 28, 1913. . . Leonard J. Patterson to be postmaster at Tawas City, Mich., Gus Charles Buche to be postmaster at Miltonvale, Kans~, 1n in place of William B. Kelly, deceased. . place of James Hall, jr. Incumbent's commission expired Janu Mortimer D. Snow to be postmaster at Standish, Mich., in ary 12, 1913. place of Louis H. Tovatt. Incumbent's commission expired T. J. Doyle to be postmaster at Englewood, Kans., in place of January 11, 1913. Etta 1\f. Townsend. Incumbent's commission expired January MISSISSIPPL 28, 1913. EJ. S. Chapman to be postmaster at Utica, Miss., in place of A. Ellingson to be postmaster at Scandia, Kans., in place of Alexander Yates. Incumbent's commission expired January 11, Charles C. Wilson. Incumbent's commission expired January 1913. 11, 1913. Ollie 0. Conerly to be postmaster at Gloster, Miss., in place ·E. P. Epperson to be postmaster at Scott City (late Scott), of Jennie D. Ligon. Incumbent's commission expired :March 1, Kans., in place of James B. :Morris, to change name of office. 1913. EJ. C. Gresham to be postmaster at Bucklin, Kans., in place C. S. Summers to be postmaster at Charleston, Miss., in place of Raymond S. Frazier. Incumbent's commission expired Janu of William Quarles; jr., resigned. ary 11, 1913. R. Parrish Taylor to be postmaster at Oakland, Miss. Office Charles Hewitt to be postmaster at Wakefield, Kans., in place became presidential January 1, 1913. of H enry Avery, resigned. Dora E. Tate to be postmaster at Picayune, Miss. Office be J. R. Lovitt to be postmaster at McCracken, Kans., in place came presidential July 1, 1912. of Clarence P. Dutton. Incumbent's commission expired Janu ary 14, 1913. MISSOURI. C. C. McKenzie to be postmaster at Morrill, Kans., in place Charles C. Crickette to be postmaster at Queen City, Mo., in of Ulysses S. Davis. Incumbent's commission expired January place of William H. Funk. Incumbent's commission expired 12, 1913. February 9, 1913. J. W. Niehaus to be postmaster at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., Abel F. Daily to be postmaster at South St. Joseph, Mo. in place of G!JY A. Swallow. Incumbent's commission expired Office became presidential January 1, 1913. Jr..nuary 14, 1913. 1\f. W. Daugherty to be postmaster at Ironton, Mo., in place Claude Rowland to be postmaster at Protection, Kans., in of Adrian Steel. Incumbent's commission expired :March 10, place of W. C. l\Ionticue, removed. 1912. Leonard Shamleffer to be postmaster at Douglass, Kans., in Edward T. Duval to be postmaster at Skidmore, Mo., in place place of George W. Hill. Incumbent's commission expired of George Stoolfer. Incumbent's commission expired December April 30, ln12. 14, 1912; A. B. Smith to be postmaster at Robinson, Kans., in place of Patrick C. Gibbons to be postmaster at Edina, Mo., in place H arry 1\1. Leslie, resigned. of Edwin S. Brown. Incumbent's commission expired January J. H. Stanberry to be postmaster at Attica, Kans., in place of 12, 1913. - Elm B. Hilton. Incumbent's commission expired March 29, T. B. Hardaway to be postmaster at Jasper, Mo., in place of 1913. George B. Wade. Incumbent's commission expired January 11, J. H. Weltmer to be postmaster at Claflin, Kans., in place of 1913. Bert Fancher. Incumbent's commission expired January 12, Hugh B. Ingler to be postmaster at Republic, Mo., in place ot 1913. Martin L. Howard. Incumbent's commission expired March 20, KENTUCKY. 1912. Cleo W. Brown to be postmaster at Mount Vernon, Ky. Office J. Lee Johnson to be postmaster at Flat River, 1\fo., in place became presidential January 1, 1913. of John A. Knowles. Incumbent's commission expired January Charles l\I. Griffith to be postmaster at Russellville, Ky., in 11, 1913. place of Jacob B. Coffman, deceased. Meredith B. Lane to be postmaster at Sullivan, Mo., in place Orrin Derby Todd to be postmaster at Shelbyville, Ky., in of John H. Fisher. Incumbent's commission expired February place of Mike Hughes. Incumbent's commission expired March 20, 1913. 29, 1913. Harvey Morrow to be postmaster at Buffalo, Mo., in place LOUISIANA. of Robert A. Booth, resigned. De Witt Wagner to· be postmaster at Memphis, 1\fo., in place Cary E. Blanchard to be postmaster at Boyce, La. Office of Robert D. Cramer. Incumbent's comfnission expired April became presidential October 1, 1912. 13, 1910. Mary Hunter to be postmaster at Pineville, La. Office became William Warmack to be postmaster at Greenville, Mo., in presidential January 1, 1913. place of Abner Barrow. Incumbent's commission expired April Adah Rous to be PO§tmaster at Lake Providence, La., in place 8, 1913. of Adah Rous. Incumbent's commission expired January 29, MONTANA. 1913. Will A. Steidley to be postmaster at Kinder, La. OtD.ce be Alice Hensley, to be postmaster at Moore, Mont., in place of came presidential October 1, 1912. Patrick H. Tooley, deceased. Theodore Tate to be postmaster at Eunice, La., In place of Charles Lepley to be postmaster at Fort Benton, Mont., in Hiram Fuselier. Incumbent's commission expired May 23, 1912. place of George W. Crane. Incumbent's commission expired February 10, 1913. MAINE. George S. Miller to be postmaster at Deer Lodge, Mont., in Frank T. Clarkson to be postmaster at Kittery Point, l\le., in place of Ithel S. Eldred. Incumbent's commission expired ~anu- place of Horace Mitchell, resigned. ary 11, 1913. L--56 882 CONGRESSIONJ-\..L RECORD-SENATE. . MAY l~ T. A. Rigney to be postmaster at Laurel, Mont., in place of· TEXAS. I Edward L. Fenton. Incmnbent's commission expired January Mina Daughtry to be postmaster at Chilli.cothe, Tex., in place 26, 1913. of John W . Hedley, resigned. NEW JERSEY. James W. Davis to be postmaster at Alvord, Tex., in place of Patrick J. Ryan to be postmaster at Elizabeth, N. J., in place Remy L. Sands, deceased. of Palmer H. Charlock. Incumbent's commission expired April T. A. Fuller to be postmaster at New Boston, Tex., in place 5; 1913. of Richard R Harrison. Incumbent's commission expired May; William J. Wolfe to be postmaster at Chatham, N. J., in 28, 1910. place of Ezra F. Ferris. Incumbent's commission expired Jan L. E. Haskett to be postmaster at Childress, Tex., in place of uary 26, 1913. U. S. Weddington, removed. NEW YORK. Frank W. Kirkland to be postmaster at Mount Calm, Tex., in Harry A. Inglee to be postmaster at Amityville, N. Y., in place of Lucius C. Guin. Incumbent's. commission expired April place of Frederick B. Powell. Incumbent's commission expired 28, 1912. December 16, 1912. T. E. Van Landingham to be postmaster at Lone Oak, Tex., in Alfred J. Kennedy to be postmaster at Flushing, N. Y., in place of George L. Johnson, deceased. place of Thomas B. Lowerre. -Incumbent's commis,sion expired VIBGINIA. March 1, 1913. Hoge M. Brown to be postmaster at Radford, Va., in place of William F. O'Connell to be postmaster at Andover, N. Y., in Warner J. Kenderdine. Inc.u.mb-ent's commission expired March' place of Arthur B. Burrows, deceased. 3, 1913. Frank D. Wade to be postmaster at Addison, N. Y., in place George V. Cameron to be postmaster at J...ouisa, Va., in place of Charles L. Crane, resigned. of Codrlngton D. Flanagan, resigned. , , NORTH CAROLINA. Charles E. Clinedinst to be postmaster at New Market, Va., in L. B. Hale to be postmaster at Fayettevllle, N. 0., in place of place of Charles W. Wickes. Incumbent's commission expired Alexander L. l\IcOash'ill. Incumbent's commission expired June May 13, 1912. 7, 1910. El L. Wade to be postmaster at Vinton, Va. Office became Russell A. Strickland to be postmaster at Elm City, N. C., in presidential July l, 1912. place of Jesse D. Sharp. Incumbent's commission expired Feb J. R. Williams to be postmaster at Brooknea1, Va., in place o.f ruary 12, 1912. Bezer Snell. Incumbent's commission expired May 20, 1912. NORTH DAKOTA. Nicholas Johnston to be postmaster at Aneta, N. Dak., in CONFIRMATIONS. place of William T. Cameron. Incumbent's commission expired Executive nominations confirmed by tlie Senate May 1, 1913. February 20, 1913. 8:ECBETABY OF LEGATION. OHIO. Alexander R. Magrude1· to be secretary of Legation at Copen~ David H. Heiby to be postmaster at Ohio City, Ohio1 in :place hagen, Denmark. · of Sidney J. Winney, resigned. 0oMMISSIONEB OF FISH .A.ND FmHEBIES. OKLAHOMA. H. M. Smith to be Commi,s.sioner of Fish and Fisheries, T. H. Hubbard to be postmaster at Cordell, OklaL, in place of GoVEBNOB OF ALASKA. Carlos O. Curtis, :-esigned. W. P. Madden to be postmaster at Cheyenne, Okla., in place J. F. A. Strong to be governor of Alaska. of Maud A. Falconer. Incumbent's commission expired Febru CoMMISSIONEB OF LA.BOB STATISTICS. ary 11. 1913. C. P. Neill to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics W. F. Parker to be postmaster at Davis, Okla., in place of Charles B. Ramsey, resigned. · POSTMASTERS. Samuel R. Staton to be postmaster at Cushing, Okla., in place ABK.AN SA~ of A. H. Holland, resigned. Pearl Berkheimer, Augusta. OREGON. T. G. Robinson, Marvell. COLOR.ADO. August Huckestein to be postmaster at Salem, Oreg., in Thomas Ryan, Salida. place of Squire Farrar. Incumbent's commission expired April Eva B. Hamilton, Stratton. 12, 1910. Harry 1\L Stewart to be postmaster at Springfield, Oreg.,. in .GEORGIA. place of Byron A. Washburne. Incumbent's commission expired D. P. Philips, Lithonia. W. B. l\IcCants, Winder. March 20, 1913. ILLINOIS. FENN SYLVANIA. . W. H. Chapman, Clifton.. Allen A. Orr to be postmaster at Lewistown, Pa., in place of William Twohig, Galesburg. ,William F. Eckbert, jr., resigned. G. A. Griffith, sr., Rankin. J. Frank Patterson to be postmaster at Mifflintown, Pa., in KANSAS, place of Andrew O. Allison. Incumbent's commission expired L. D. Cassler, Canton. . February 9, 1913. J. 0. Ferguson, Independence. George B. Richardson to be postmaster at Knox, Pa., in place F~ 1\.1. Cook, Jamestown. of Joseph M. Brothers, deceased. G. W. Barker, Minneapolis. C. J. D. Strohecker to be postmaster at Zelienople, Pa., in J. J. Wilson, Moran. place of Clarence L. Dindinger. Incumbent's commission ex Agnes H. Gallagher, Summerfield. pired March 1, 1913. L. G. Wagner, Sylvia. RHODE ISLAND. LOUISIANA, Thomas H. Galvin to be postmaster at East Greenwich, R. I., Overton Gauthier, Jennings. In place of Nathaniel H. Brown. Incmnbent's commission ex Mattie D. Boatner, Vidalia. pired December 14, 1912. MICHIGAN. SOUTH OABOLINA. Theophilus ~elanger, River Rouge, 1 George M. Anderson to be postmaster at Ninety Six, S. C., in MISSISSll'l'to place of J ulis E. Deloach ; name changed by marriage. Henrietta Welch, Carrollton. TENNESSEE. J. 0. Jourdan, Iuka. William Brewer be postmaster at Woodbury, Tenn., in W. Id. Noah, Kosciusko, to Lillie W. Nugent, Rosedale, place of Andrew N. Brown. Incumbent's commission expired Truman Gray, Waynesboro • .April 28, 1913. _ Clarence W . Moore to be postmaster at Smithville, Tenn.~ in :r..nsso~-. . place of James H. Christian. Incumbent's· commission expired A. L. Galloway, Cassville, · • ,March 3, 1913. . . · J. S. Fowler, Cole Camp, Charles E ., Rodes to be postmaster at Manchester, Tenn.., in A. P. Beazley, Eldon. place of Finis R. Sharp. - Incumbent's commission expired'. Janu R. J. Ball, Gallatin. ary 31, 1912. John Hetrick, Laclede, 1913. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 883 C. B. Bacon, :Marshall. ing paragraph and all amendemnts thereto be closed in 15 T. A. Dodge, Milan. minutes. A. H. Martin, Perry. l\Ir. MANN. Will the gentleman state how that time is to be MONTANA. divided? n. M. Corley, Stevensvllle. l\Ir. UNDERWOOD. I want 5 minutes for this side. I am willing that gentlemen on that side may have the remaining NEW HAMPSHIRE, time. D. V. Cahalane, Charlestown. Mr. GREEN of Iowa. Mr. · Chairman, a parliamentary in- NEW JERSEY, quiry? A. L. Williams, Vineland. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will state it. Mr. GREEN of Iowa. Which section is referred to? NEW YORK. 1\fr. MANN. Paragraph 169. John Soemann, Lancaster. The CHAIRMAN. The last paragraph under the metal P. M. Giles, Le Roy. schedule. NORTH DAKOTA. 1\Ir. GREEN of Iowa. I should like 5 minutes under that. John Galyen, Belfield. Mr. UNDERWOOD. Does the gentleman desire to offer an A. L. l\lenard, Welton. amendment? OKLAHOMA.. Mr. l\fOOREl. This being the basket clause, there ought to be Sam Flourney, Elk City. more discussion than 15 ~utes. D. M. Hamlin, Newkirk. l\Ir. U1\1DERWOOD. I will say that unless amendments are OREGON. offered I shall have to try to limit debate. I am willing that gentlemen who have amendments may discuss them. L. F. Reizenstein, Roseburg. Mr. l\fANN. Of course there are a great many things covered R. El Williams, The Dalles. by the basket clause. Gentlemen wish to discuss the provisions PENNSYLVANIA. of the bill. T. H. McKenzie, Barnesboro. 1\Ir. McKENZIE. I would like 5 minutes. Hugh Gilmore, Williamsport. Mr. U1'1DERWOOD. I will make it 20 minutes. · TEXAS. l\lr, MANN. Let us get it by unanimous consent, and see how the time is to be divided. J. R. De Witt, Brackettville. Mr. UNDERWOOD. I° will let the Chair diYide the time. I S. D. Seale, Floresville. want 5 minutes on this side. J. B. Phillips, Howe. Mr. MOORE. I shollld like to haye 5 minutes. N. A. Burton, McKinney. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Alabama asks unani J. W. White, Urnlde. mous consent that debate on the paragraph and all amendments VIRGINIA. thereto close in 20 minutes. A. W. Sinclair, Manassas. Mr. MANN. I hope the gentleman will make it 25. J. El. Rogers, Strasburg. Mr. UNDERWOOD. Well, l\!r, Chairman, I will let the de WEST VIRGINIA. bate run, but I give notice that I intend to close it in a few J. W. Dingess, Huntington. minutes. T. H. Buchanan, Wellsburg. The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman withdraw his request? Mr. UNDERWOOD. If there is. objection. l\Ir. l\IANN. Make it 25. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. UNDERWOOD. l\lr. Chairman, I consent this time, but I intend to push the consideration of this bill. THURSDAY; May 1, 1913. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Alabama asks unani mous consent that the debate on the paragraph and· all amend The House met at 11 o'clock a. m. ments thereto close in 25 minutes. Is there objection? The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the fol There was no objection. lowing prayer: THE METAL SCHEDULE. Infinite and eternal Spirit, God over all, we come to Thee in prayer because spirit can meet spirit, be exalted, strengthened, Mr. BARTLETT. Mr. Chairman, this is the end of the purified, ennobled by the- contact. metal-the iron and steel-schedule, which provides for the " Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear rates of duty upon more articles that enter into consumption in my voice and open the door I will come in to him and will sup the life of the Republic than any other. I am glad to see that with him and he with Me." Happy is the man who shall open this committee has so materially reduced the tariff rates in this the door of his heart that the King of Glory may come and be particular schedule, because it is shown by the testimony of his guest and partake with him of the bread of life. Help us those who are mainly engaged in the production of the articles to open our hearts to that Spirit that we may be the better covered by this schedule this manufacturing business requires fitted for the duties of this new day, and all praise we shall less protection than any other in the bill. The officers and men gtve to Thee. Amen. connected with the United States Steel Corporation so testified The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and in the investigation carried on for a year by a committee of this House, and the man who is said to have had more infor approved. mation on that subject than any other man in America, or prob THE TARIFF. ably in the world-Mr. Schwab-testified that this industry did Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House not need the tariff. resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the We have her.e a schedule on the basis of which rests in a state of the Union for the further consideration of H. R. 3321- great measure the prosperity of the country, and we are dealing the tariff bill. with a subject the product and sale of which have made those The motion was agreed to. engaged in it the most prosperous people in the country. They Accordingly the House resolved itself into Committee of the are the people of all others who do not need, who are not en Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consid titled by reason of such need, to one particle of protection. I eration of the bill (H. R. 3321) to reduce. tariff duties and to do not say this 1 at mere random. I do not say th.at we have provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes, gone beyond the principle of enacting a tariff which will pro with 1\fr. GARRETT of Tennessee in the chair. vide for the difference in the cost of production at home and The CHAill.MAN. At the time of the adjournment yesterday abroad. there was under discussion the amendment of the gentleman I do not, as a Democrat, concede the right of the American from Massachusetts [1\Ir. GREENE]. If there be no objection, manufacturer to have any such thing in his favor. I stand here the amendment will be again reported. as n Democrat in favor of a tariff in preference to direct taxa The Clerk read as follows : tion but when that tariff is levied, I want to see it levied for Amend, paragraph 169, on page 45, line 20, by striking out the figures the 'purposes of revenue, and I never shall vote for a tariff " 25 " and inserting the figures " 45." that is levied for the protection of an industry beyond the Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent point where it will raise the necessary revenue o:C this Govern that all debate on the pending paragraph and all amendments ment when economically administered. That has been the faith thereto be closed in 15 minutes. in which I was born, the faith in which I was reared, the faith The CHAIRl\IAN. The gentleman from· Alabama [1\Ir. UN in which I have lived in public life, and it is the faith in which DERWOOD] asks unanimous consent that all debate on the pend- I propose to conduct myself as a l\Iember of Congress.