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492 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 16 John R. Goodson, Newman. TENNESSEB Amiel J. Toelle, Orland Park. Mattie B. Goodner. Alexandria. William D. Steward, Plano. Joe C. Hamlett, Ardmore. Hallie Weir, Pleasant Hill. Lily D. Seay, Bethpage. Glenn G. Watson, Roseville. Henry S. Dupree, Brownsville. Floyd E. Denhart, St. Joseph. Timmie M. Bryant, Charleston. Burleigh A. Murray, Sesser. James R. King, Clarksville. William J. Woodard, Sidney. Bert Poe, Daisy. Paul H. Rauhoff, Tinley Park. Albert D. Ward, Decatur. William Connell, Tremont. Ethelbert J. Shannon, Halls. Robert K. Collinson, Victoria. Henry C. Johnson, Lafayette. Joseph P. Daly, Waukegan. Robert L. Wagstaff, Lynnville. Arthur E. Swan, Waynesville. John W. Fuqua, McEwen. E. Donoven Stover, Western Springs. James H. Smith, Martin. Fred C. Shetler, Woodhull. James J. Darnell, Morrison. mcmGAN . Isaac S. Davidson, Petersburg. Roy Winegarden, Boyne City. E. French Fugate, Rutledge. Jettena Watson, Wolverine. Flossie Gardner, Tellico Plains. Nell I. Griffith, Vonore. NEW HAMPSHIRE John L. Vann, Watertown. Martin A. Lynch, Alton Bay. Morris L. Collier, Waynesboro. Edith L. Stillings, Bartlett. Gaston H. Rhodes, Whiteville. Edwin L. Batchelder, Hampton. WASHINGTON Berl E. Tilton, New Hampton. Andrew F. Farris, Cashmere. William T. Whenal, North Hampton. Alfred K. Filson, Centralia. Gordon A. Russell, North Weare. Hubert S. Storms, Chewelah. Harold A. Aher, West Lebanon. Harold W. Kreidel, Cle Elum. NEW YORK Harry E. Robbins, Coulee Dam. Daniel A. Driscoll, Buffalo. Elizabeth s. Garland, Endicott. Albert Goldman, New York. Morgan J. McNair, Farmington. Fred E. Olmstead, Grandview. · NORTH CAROLINA Emmett A. Phillips, Harrington. Laucy E. Johnson, Angier. Oscar E. Foster, Hoquiam. Jesse T. Morgan, Benson. Frank H. Lincoln, Kennewick. Howard A. Kerlee, Black Mountain. George A. Hauber, Leavenworth. Wade C. Hill, Canton. Charles E. Schutz, Lind. Pat D. Gray, Cary. Harry C. Smyth, Mabton. Estelle I. Baldwin, Chadbourn. Charles J. Fredricks, Moxee City. Robert A. Eubanks, Chapel Hill. Moses S. Brinkerhoff, Okanogan. John W. Mosteller, Cherryville. Emugene W. Jones, Poulsbo. Lemuel A. Smith, Clarkton. John C. Cody, Republic. Paul A. Williams, Clayton. Cecilia Allen, Zillah. R. Andrew Love, Jr., Cliff side. Lillington Hendrix, Cooleemee. Matt A. Elmore, Dover. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES John K. ClaTk, Elizabethtown. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1935 Russell A. Crowell, Enka. Alexander E. Waller, Fair Blu.tr. The House met at 12 o'clock noon. Willie B. Jennings, Fairmont. The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., Marvin T. George, Four Oaks. offered the following prayer: Thomas W. Porter, Franklin. Almighty God, we praise Thee that Thou art a Being Victor 0. Tilley, Fuquay Springs. clothed with infinite power, succoring the weak, the igno Alger R. Henderson, Graham. rant, and the sinful. Blessed Lord, Thou art the inspiration Irene I. Morphew, Jefferson. that lifts man from forbidding conditions and makes him James C. Wright, Landis. superior to circumstances which deteriorate character. James T. Martin, Liberty. Heavenly Father, do Thou restrain and shape our desires and Merrimon D. Lanier, Lillington. fit us for the image of true and divine manhood. May our B. Franklin McMillan, Jr., Lumberton. heart throbs be true to Thee and our fellow men. Preserve Charles R. Evans, Mantee. our Speaker and the Members of this Congress in the fresh Euna B. McBride, Marshville. ness of joy and hope and in the promise of life. Inspire Clarkie Belle Williams, Maxton. every cherished impulse, every true feeling, every right ideal, Gillam Craig, Monroe. and every high conception. In the name of our Lord and John M. Kennette, Mooresville. Master. Amen. Clarence A. Pennington, Oteen. The Journal of the proceedings of Monday, January 14, Sallie F. Matthews, Randleman. Robert N. Stansill, Rockingham. was read and approved. William J. Butler, St. Pauls. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE Ernest B. Satterwhite, Sanatorium. A message from the Senate, by Mr. Horne, its enrolling P. Frank Bushari, Southern Pines. clerk, announced that the Senate had passed the following Ally N. Fuller, Spruce Pine. resolution: Bonnie B. Shingleton, Stantonsburg. Senate Resolution 54 Charles M. Price, Sylva. Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the John A. Davis, Waxhaw. announcement of the death of Hon. ANTHONY J. GRIFFIN, late a Milton J. Sexton, Zebulon. Representative from the State of New York. 1935 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 493 Resolved, That a committee of two Senators be appointed by the failed because it ran counter to every economic law, to every tradi Vice President to join the committee appointed on the part of the tion of the American people, to common sense and human nature. House of Representatives to attend the funeral of the deceased The administration has preached recovery but practiced destruc Representative. tion. It urged private industry to go ahead and take up the slack Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to of unemployment. It then made such revival impossible, first by the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the putting the Federal Government in competition with private indus family of the deceased. try, and, second, by taking from private industry all voice in the Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of management of its affairs through various instruments of Federal the deceased Representative, the Senate do now adjourn. regimentation. It deliberately, and without cause, abandoned the gold standard, The message also announced that in compliance with the debased our cttrrency, and started tinkering with our monetary sys foregoing resolution the Vice President had appointed as tem, making it impossible to tell what the value of the dollar will be next month or in 6 months. said committee Mr. COPELAND and Mr. WAGNER. It has persisted in a program of wild expenditures, uncontrolled The message also announced that the Senate had passed a and nonaudited, until, according to President Roosevelt's own concurrent resolution of the following title, in which the con definition prior to election, the credit of our Nation is threatened and economic recovery made Impossible. currence of the House is requested: By reason of these expenditures, plus its filrtation with fiat S. Con. Res. 4. Concurrent resolution providing :for the ac money advocates in order to gain votes, the administration has ceptance by the United States of the statutes of Caesar Rod pushed the Government to the very door of wild infiation-which ney and John M. Clayton, and extending the thanks of would wreck our entire economic structure and render all invest ments valueless. Congress to the State of Delaware for the contribution of such Under such circumstances, prudent men do not make long-time statues. investments or plan new expenditures. Industry dares not ex MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT pand. It dares not tie up too much money in raw material. Busi ness dares not carry large inventories. It must live from hand to Sundry messages in writing from the President of the mouth. Capital goes into hiding. Those with savings must hus United States were communicated to the House by Mr. Latta, band their every resource. In other words, our entire economic one of his secretaries. system has been paralyzed by the experimental policies of the new deal. SWEARING IN OF MEl\tBER The thing which more vitally concerns business and industry Mrs. GREENWAY appeared at the bar of the House and took today is the refusal of the Roosevelt administration to profit by its mistakes--indeed, its refusal to admit it has made mistakes or that the oath of office. its 2-year experimental program is a near failure. CALENDAR VVEDNESDAY Another shock to business is that the administration has even abandoned the hope it entertained a year ago of eventually bal Mr. TAYLOR of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous ancing our Budget. Apparently it has also abandoned any real consent that business in order today, Calendar Wednesday, desire to do so, for tt possesses both the power and the machinery be dispensed with. to accomplish that purpose if it so willed. Yet, in the face of this record. the administration is asking Con The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gress for the additional colossal sum of $4,000,000,000 purely for gentleman from Colorado? further experiments, without any known, definite plan, insofar as There was no objection. the public or Congress is aware, for its expenditure. The administration is asking that the President be permitted this FAILURE OF THE RECOVERY PROGRAM sum of money without any restrictions being imposed upon the Mr. SNEIL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex purposes or methods of its expenditure. Buch a request is contrary not only to all precedents, regardless of whether the Republicans tend my own remarks in the RECORD by inserting a speech, or Democrats control Congress, but it is contrary to the entire somewhat political, that I made over the radio last evening. theory of our Government, which places the control of the raising The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the and expenditure of public funds in the hands of the legislative gentleman from New York? branch of the Government. Before Congress appropriates any such sum, it should be fur There was no objection. nished a fairly definite program as to the objects upon which the Mr. SNEIL. Mr. Speaker, under the leave to extend my money is to be spent. Surely the administration must have remarks in the RECORD, I include the following radio address such a program to have arrived at that sum. Certainly the Con delivered by me on January 15 over the National Broadcast gress and the people are entitled to be informed of that program. If, on the at.her hand, the administration has no definite plans ing System: for the expenditure of an additional $4,000,000,000 for so-called Nothing could more accurately define the situation today than "emergency purposes" after nearly 2 years of planning, then it the old Latin proverb," Lack of confidence is not the result of d.1! should not be granted such a sum of money.