1927 CONGRESSION .A.L . REOORD~SEN ATE 1635 ernment and the public from shortage of coal ; to the Committee the passage of any legislation amending the so-called J"ohuson on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Immigration Act, which were refen-ed to the Committee on 4920. By M:r. VAILE : Petition of sundry citizens of Denver, Immigration. · Colo., favoring increase of pension to Civil War veterans, their He also presented a petition numerously signed by nath·es of widows, and dependents ; to the Committee on Invalid Pen- the Virgin Islands who ha:ve migrated to the mainland of the sions. · United States since the transfer of the islands from Danish to 4930. By 1\Ir. VINSON of Kentucky: Petition signed by vari­ American sovereignty, praying. that the United States "free ous residents of his district (ninth Kentucky), urging passage us from this anomalous position of being men without a country of legislation for the relief of Civil War veterans and their and enable us to assume those reciprocal relations with the widows ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. American Commonwealth which inhere in the status of citizen­ 4931. By Mr. WARREN: Petition of mechanics of Elizabeth ship"; and also that the United States establish a permanent City, N. C., protesting the passage of Senate bill 4688, intro­ form of government for the Virgin Islands in keeping with duced by Senator Wadsworth; to the Committee on Immigra­ American democratic ideals, which was referred to the Com­ tion and Naturalization. mittee on Territories and Insular Pos::;essions. 4932. By Mr. ZIHLl\lAN: Petition of citizens of Rockville, JUr. TYSON. I desire to have inserted in the RECORD three Md., urging immediate action anmergenry Army officers, hereby Wyo., praying for the prompt passage of the so-called White petitions Senate that such bill be made special-oruer business of radio bill without amendment, which was ordered to lie on the Senate immediately after disposition of ma_ternity and infancy oill. ~w~ . By direction. He also presented a resolution adopted by a convention of the WILLIAM A. KNOST, Oommandet·.

coal operators of Wyoming, at Rock Springs, Wyo., protesting M.ATER~ITY A.ND INFAJS"T HYGIENE against the passage of legislation providing for Government regulation of the bituminous-coal industry, which was referred l\Ir. SHEPPARD presented a letter in the nature of a peti­ to the Committee on Interstate Commerce: tion from Chester II. Gray, Wa ~ hington rcpresentatiYe of the Mr. CAPPER presented a petition of sundry citizens of American Farm Bureau Federation, ' :hich was ordered to be Burlingame, Kans., praying for the prompt passage of the so­ printed in the RECORD, as follows : called White radio bill without amendment, which was ordered AliiERICAX FARM B UREAU FxDERATIO:S, to lie on the table. ' Waahington, D. a., January 13, 1927. Mr. WILLIS presented a petition of sundry citizens of Geneva Ron. ~!ORRIS SHEPPARD, and vicinity, in the State of Ohio, praying for the prompt pas­ Uuitecl States Senate, Washington, D. a. sage of legislation granting increased pensions to Civil War MY DFJAR SE:SATOR : I desire to ad>ise rou of tbe interest of the veterans and their widows, which was referred to the Com­ American Farm Bureau Federation in II. n. 755u, authorizing appro­ mittee on Pensions. priations for the fiscal years eners of the national borne mittee on Foreign Relations. and community committee of the AmE.>rican Farm Bureau Federation, He also presented memorials of sundJ.·y citizens of Cam­ and it hns their approval. I am also authorized by the legislative bridge, Senacaville, Lore City, Derwent, Buffalo, Byesville, and committee of tbe American Farm BurE.>au Federation to support this Pleasant City, ull in the State of Ohio, remonstrating against meusure. 11636 CONGRESSIONAL. . RECORD-SENATE. JANUARY 14 Inasmuch as the bill has already passed the llouse and Is now I Because of the weakening, to a greater or less extent, of confidence before the Senate for consideration, I wish to convey to you at this in Florida's institutions a deflation period set in, which did not end time the hope that it may receive early and favorable action by the until July, At that time there were published the statements of the Senate. banks of the country, as called for by the Comph·oller of the Currency, Yery respectfully, and the statements of Florida banks showed them to be in sounder AMERICAN FARU BUREAU FEDERATlO!'<, and more liquid condition, having more cash as against total resources CnESTER H. GRAY, and more cash as against total deposits, than the banks of any State Washington Representati-ve. in the Union. So proud were the Florida banks of their condition that PROHmmoN ENFORCEMENT many of them had their statements published in New York. STATE'S RESOURCES RISE Mr. SHEPPARD presented a resolution adopted on tl1e 9th instant by a mass meeting of citizens of Houston, Tex., which And now,- although Florida bas gone through this deflation period was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows : plus a terrific hurricane, its banks have total deposits of $750,000,000, more than three times the amount of deposits of the entire 16 South­ Resolution to defend the Constitution of the United States against its ern States in all of their banks and trust companies in 1881 ; the enemies adopted by mass m"etin:; of citizens of Houston, Tex., on State does not owe a dollar, does not have one penny of outstanding January 9, 1927 indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, and has, as of this writing (Novem­ Whereas the,. Constitution of the United States and every part of it ber 19), $14,000,000 of iration tax, no corporation stock trausfer That we call on all citizens to respect the eighteenth amendment and tax, no franchise tax, and no tax on intangibles, raising all revenue on all officers to enforce it and the laws passed to uphold it; for the expenses by an oc.cupational tax, a gasoline tax, and an ad That we will repudiate any candidate for public office--local, State, valorem tax on real and personal property. or National-regardless of his religious, political, or other affiliations, I doubt whether any other State could have as successfully, in the who is gullty of giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the Constitu­ face of false reports atfecting Its solvency, gone through with the situa­ tion of the United States. tion as Florida has. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES FLORIDA'S REAL MERIT The reason for it is that Florida has real merit. It lias had con­ Mr. SMITH. From the Committee on Agriculture and For­ stant and continuous development for many years. The hectic real­ estry I report back with amendments the bill (S. 4009) authoriz­ estate gambling was simply an incident to our · extraordinary and ing the Director of the Census to take a census of baled cotton, sound commercial development; and, contrary to the general opinion known as the "carry over," on hand on August 1, 1927, and throughout the United States, ll'lorida, as a whole, bas done this year to make and publish a report thereof. I will submit later a the greatest amount of business in its history. report to accompany the bill. By reason of its incomparable climate and the productivity and vari­ Mr. McNARY, from the Committee on Agriculture and For­ ability of its soil it raises 2GO varieties of field crops, fruits, and estry, to which was referred the uill ( S. 4943) for the relief vegetables; supports its people; probably the same number of tourists ; of George H. Cecil, reported it without amendment and sub­ and ships 100,000 carloads of perishable commodities annually. mitted a report (No. 1244) thereon. It receives millions of dollars annually from its sponge industry, 1\Ir. CAPPER, from the Committee on the District of Co­ fish and sea-food industry, naval stores, lumber, phosphat~, and cattle lumbia, to which were refer·red the following bills, reported industries, and from the hundreds of thousands of tourists who come them severally without amendment and submitted reports to Florida; and the value of its manufactured products now amounts to thereon: an excess of $300,000,000 a year. It produces more per acre per A Uill (H. R. 12109) to amend section lluu of subchapter capita in dollars and cents than any other State. It could easily build 3 of chapter 1 of the District of Columbia Code (Rept. No. a wall around itself and support itself without intercourse with the 1245) ; outside world. A bill (H. R. 12110) to amend section 1135, chapter 31, of the District of Columbia Code (Rept. No. 1246) ; EVIDENCE OF RECOVERY A bill (II. R. 12217) relating to the appointment of trustees As an evidence of the great increase of business this year over the ~nd committees (Rept. No. 1247) ; and same period last year, I might cite that for the first nine months of A bill (II. R. 12218) amending sections 1125 and 1127, chapter 1920, 961,000 automobiles crossed the Gandy Bridge, a link in the main 31, of the District of Columbia Code (Rept. No. 1248). highway of the west coast, as against 630,000 for the same period of Mr. WADSWORTH, from the Committee on Military Affairs, 1925 ; l.i'lorida showed an increase of 130 pet· cent in sales of ordinary to which was referred the bill ( S. 4941) to authorize appro­ life insurance for tbe first nine months of this year, compared with priations for construction at military posts, and for other the same period of last year,· the largest increase of any State in the purposes, reported it without amendment and submitted a Union ; the increase in registration of automobiles in Florida for 1926 report (No. 1249) thereon. over 1925 was 76 per cent, leading the Nation; expenditures l.Jy public utilities, railroads, and l.Juilding operations generally were 30 per cent INDUSTRIAL CONDITIO~S IN FLORIDA more for the first nine months of 1926, as compared with the same 1\lr. TRAl\UIELL. Mr. President, I desire to have printed period of last year; the consumption of cement up to the present time in the RECORD an article appearing in the New York Evening has shown an increase of almost 50 per cent over the same period of Post relative to industrial conditions in the South. There has last year. been more or less published in the RECORD along that line in Collections from the gasoline tax for the first nine months of 1026 the last few days, and I desire to have this article likewise amounted to $8,863,000, against $4,477,000 for the same period in 1925. printed in the RECORD. Gross receipts from the gasoline tax for the first nine months exceeded . The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, it is so ordered. the entire year of 1925. The article is as follows: LEAD IN INCOME TAXES FLORIDA'S RECOVERY FROM DEFLATION AMAZES HER BOOSTERS-E~D OF It will no doubt surprise the Nation that Florida this year heads the GAMBLING IN REAL ESTATE lliRKED BEGINNI~O OF INDUS'rRIAL DE­ list of States in the percentage of Federal income-tax payments; that VELOPMENT-FINANCIAL IMPROVEMENT SPECTACULAR IN ITS SWIFT­ it is ninth in point of size In payments; that it will pay $50,000,000 NESS, AND, . DESPITE HURRICANE LOSSES, STATE PILES UP IIUGE in income taxes this year, against $15,000,000 for last year; that, SURPLUS AS llANKS REGAIN PRESTIGE although the smallest State in the South in population, it will pay more By Peter 0. Knight (Knight, Thompson & Turner, of Tumpa) income taxes than the States of North Carolina and Texas combined, Because of the wide publicity given to hectic real-estate speculation, more than the States of Virginia and Texas combined, more than the with which Florida was affi.icted in 1925, persons outside Florida States of Maryland, the District of Columbia, South Carolina, and became obsessed with the idea the chief business of Florida was real­ :Mississippi combined, and more than the States of Georgia, Alabama, estate speculation. Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, and South Carolina combined. When gambling in real estate ceased last December these same people During the deflation period, when it appeared banks of Florida would became satisfied "'ith business in Florida and its progress had ceased, be unable to stand the strain, officers of the Federal reserve bank o.f and thereupon this State was atllicted with such a series of misrepre­ this district concluded Florida would need at least $100,000,000, and sentations affecting its solvency nnd credit and the solvency and they were prepared to extend that assistance. There never was a time credit of its banks and institutions as no State in history ever had to during the entire period when the borrowings of all the banks in con tend with. Florida combined amounted to $7,000,000. And to-day, at the end of -1927 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENA.TE ·1"631

it all, totnl borrowings of the Flo.rida banks from the Federal reserve. Mr. WATSON. None1 except to approve our report. I will bank of this district arru>nnted to onl.y $5,000,000; and our banks have say to the Senator that we appointed a subcommittee-- on deposit with the Federal reserve bank at this writing in excess -of :1\fr. NORRIS. When does the Senator expect to ask for $18,000,000, which, with the season ahead of us, will be rapidly in­ action? creased, and borrowings will surely disappear. Mr. WATSON. I expected that it would be taken right away, In aile accompanying papers) ; to the Committee on Pensions. a great saving to the Government if we cash these certificates By Mr. H.A. 'VES : on the adjusted-service basis wifu 4 per cent interest to the A bill ( S. 5266) to regulate the sale of black bass in the date of surrender. It would solve a situation that is eau.-;ing District of Columbia; to the Committee on the District of almost untold trouble throughout the country. It would save Columbia. the Government millions of dollars, because a great many vet­ By ~Ir. KENDRICK: erans would rather have a small amount now than to take A bill ( S. 5267) to amend the packers and stockyards act, chances of living long enough to get the total amount. 1021 ; to the Committee on .Agriculture and Forestry. · The bill ( S. 5268) to provide for the immediate pnymen t to By Mr. BRUCE: veterans of fue amount of their adjul-3ted service credit, was read A bill ( s. u26!J) to cxten(l tlle beuefitR or tlte l'lll}lluyccs' lia­ twice by its title and referred to the Committee on Finance. bility act .of September 7, 1916, to OtiS Gee, a former employee PERMANENT GOVERNMENT FOR THE VInOIN ISL.A~DS of the Chemical Warfare Se ryic;e, Edgcwootl Ar:-.: erwl, )Hl.; tu l\Ir. BINGH.A~i submitted an amendment intended to be pro­ the Committee on Claims. posed by him to the bilr(S. 45u0) to provide a permanent gov ~ By Mr. STEWART: ernment for the Virgin Islands of the United States, anll for A hill ( S. 5270) gra.ntiug a pension to Catherine Haffey; to other purposes, which was referred to the Committee on Ter.. tl1e Committee on Pensions. · ritories and In::;ular Possessions and ordered to be printed. 1640_ CONGRESS!ON AL R.ECORD-SENATE JANUARY 1~

n.LITERACY I~ !'IORTH DAKOTA 1 agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective 1\Ir. FRAZIER. . Mr. President, there is an editorial in the Houses as follows: . . . 'Vashington Post of this morning in regard to illiteraer the qnes­ action, having first definitely decided to disagree to the Senate tiou as to which of the two ranks higher in the matter of literacy. amendments, and then, without reconsideration, back-tracked They will have to tal•e North Dakota into the quarrel or remain in and agreed to the Senate amendments, therefore it would not the background, for it is doubtful if there is another State, no mat­ be necessary to bring up tlte matter in the Senate. I under­ ter how SIIUlll its population, able to show fewer than 2,000 white stood that the Senator from Washington entertained that view; illiterates within its borders. but I am glad to note that he has modified that view, and CALL OF THE ROLL now brings the matter before the Senate. Mr. JONES of Washington. I intend to present a con­ The report is, of course, debatable. I shall not take up the ference report and ask for its consideration. It is ratlter an time of the Senate, however, because at some length I have important matter, and so I suggest the absence of a quorum. expressed my entire disagreement with the bill in its present The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will call the roll. form. As the bill came from the House of Representatives it in­ The legislative clerk called tlte roll, and the following Sena­ volved an expenditure of some $35,000,000. As it now stands, tors answered to their names : the expenditure is more titan double that amount ; and if Ashurst George McKellar Schall Bnyard Gerry McLean Sheppard we are to take into consideration the expenditure involved in Hlngl!am Gillett McMastet• · ~hipstead the future in projects herein ' adopted, it will run into the Blease Glass McNary Shortridge hundreds of millions. _ 'Borah Golf Mayfield Smith Bratton Gooding Metcalf Bruoot As I said, when the bill was before the Senate formerly Bl'llce Gonld l\losps Steck I expressed my dissent to it. I content myself now by saying Cameron Hale Neely Stephens Capper Ilarri:; Norbeck Stewart that so far as I am concerned I find myself unable to vote Caraway Harrison Norris Swanson for the conference report ; but I am delighted to know that Couzen~:~ Hawes Nye Trammell the Senator from Washington has been examining the rul<'s, Curtis Heflin Oddie Tyson Dale Howell Overman Walsh, Mass. and has modified his position touching the necessity for action Deneen J' ohnson Pepper Walsh, l\lont. by the Senate. Dlll .Tom's, N. Uex. Phipps Warren ~fr. JONES of Washington. I simply desire to say that I Edge Jones, Wash. Pine Watson Emst Kendrick Ransdell WbP.eler have not modified my opinion, but I do not think we will have Ferris Keyes Reed, Mo. W1llis any trouble with this report. ll'ess King Reec:f, l'a. Fletcher La Follette Robinson, A.rk. Mr. KING. Mr. President, the rivers and harbors bill which Frazier Lenroot Sackett passed the Senate a few days ago I regard, I was about to say, - Mr. STEPHENS. I desire to announce the unavoidable ab­ as one of the most wicked bills of that character that have sence of the junior Senator from New Jersey [1\lr. EDWARDS]. ever been passed. I assent to what the able Senator from Mr. SHEPPARD. I desire to state that the Senator from Ohio has just stated as to the burdens which it will impose New York [Mr. W AnswonTH] and the Senator from Vermont upon the Government of the United States. That bill, in my [Mt·. GREENE] are engaged in the Committee on Military Af­ opinion, will cost the Government of the United States at fairs. least $250,000,000. . A large part of that will be expended in - The VICE PRESIDENT. Eighty-one Senators having an­ the coming fiscal year and the one following. swered to their names, a quorum is present. I was amazed at the number of new projects that were authorized to be investigated; but it seems, us we are advised RIVER .AJ.~D HARBOR BILL--CONFERENCE REPORT by the chairman, that each one of those projects-without due 1\lr. JONES of Washington. :Mr. President, I submit a con­ consideration, I am afraid-was accepted, so tllat we do not ference report, and move that the Senate proceed to its im­ know what the ultimate charge upon tlte Treasury will be. mediate consideration. That it will be hundreds of millions of dollars, I think, can not The VICE PRESIDENT. The report will be read. be successfully disputed. The Chief Clerk read the report, as follows: Mr. WILLIS. Mr. President--­ Mr. KING. I yield. The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the Mr. ·wiLLIS. 'Vill tlte Senator permit me to remind him two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill just there, since lie is speaking of these projects, that some of (H. R. 11616) authorizing the construction, repair, and preser­ the projects that were adopted in these amendments were vation of certain public works on riY"ers and harbors, and for adopted in the face of the recommendations of the Army engi­ other purposes, having met, after full and free conference have neers. Project:-; are in this bill that have been abandoned by 1927 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE' 1{)41 action of Oongres::; after tremendous expenditures upon them; S. 4740. An act granting tbe conseut .of Congress to the St. and yet here tlley are in this bill, and they are to be put Louis-San Francisco Railwa:r Co. ,to construct, maintain, and through, and the burden placed upon the people. Whether it operate a railroad bridge across. the Warrior River; ~hall be .$250,000,000 or twice that, .nobody knows. I am -call­ S. 4813. An act gran~ing the consent of Congi·ess to the :Min­ ing attention to the fact that under tho present method of neapolis, Northfield & Sout:l;lern Railway to construct, maintuiu, com;tructing river and harbor bills the reports of the men and operate a 1;ailroad bridge across the Minnesota River ; who nr.e supposed to kllow the virtues of these projects are S. 4$3+. An act granting the consent of Congress to the high­ d.Lsregardcd, and projects are adopted merely because some­ way department of Davidson County, of the State of Tennes~ce. body wants them adopted. to construct a bridge across Cumberland River at a point nenr Mr. KIKG. I agree with what the Senator -states; and in Andersons Bluff, conne

witlwut amendment the following bills of the Senate: J 1)lem to have. We can only d·efend our position there on the S. 4702. An act to extend the time for. tbe constl·uction of. a ground that we want to protect our own cittzens and their. bridge across the Kanawl!a Rive1· at Kanawba Falls, Fayette Pt:<:>pcrty, n.nd at the same. time permit the Nicar~gunn people County, W. V'a.; · to have a Government according to the will of the majority. 1642 OONGRESSION .A.L RECORD-SENATE JA..NUARY 14· The policy which has been pursued for the past few years ought to use every precaution possible to prevent war. Ours is now given as the reason for the present policy. If our is the only Nation in all the earth whose highest judicial present policy is wrong, that is no defense. Precedent is not authority has declared it to be a Christian Nation. Therefore a defense for wrong actions on the part of an individual, much this Government, above all others, should use its great influence less of a nation. To follow a wrong precedent makes that to promote peace and prevent war. precedent even more powerful for wrong policies in the future. 1.'his Government owes it to itself and to tlle people who love, When shall we come to the standard as a Nation that we support, and sustain it, to exhaust every means at its command will stop talking about precedents but will talk about justice to prevent war before it employs military force against any and fair play in the dealings of a great, powerful Nation with country. a little, helpless country like Nicaragua? 1\Ir. President, I recall that in 1916 there were certain in­ Mr. W .ARREN. I ask tbe Senator if he will not permit me to fluences in this country-and I am going to talk very plainly, have a message from the House laid before the Senate that because I think the people are entitled· to know the truth­ conferees may be appointed on an appropriation till. there were certain religious influences that sought to drive :Mr. DILL. I may say to the Senator that I have only a few President Wilson into war with Mexico. He was a candidate words more to say. I will not take much time. for reelection. Just a few days before the election, when his :Mr. WARREN. Very well. election seemed certain by an overwhelming vote, I am told that J\fr. DILL. However, I may say to the Senator that other he was approached by certain Catholics aud urged to go to war Senators have taken several hours to discu ~s this subject, and with Mexico. The President, it is said, stated that he wanted . I feel at literty to say wlmt I have in mind to say. to look into the matter and find out just what the facts were, The people of the United States, as a people, have no sym­ and so forth. But he was pressed for an immediate answer. pathy with a policy that proposes to say to the peoples of The election was only a few days off, aud the representatives Central America aud 1\Iexico, "You must have governments of the Catholic Church were taking advantage of that situation satisfactory to us." No such meaning can be read into the and were seeking to influence the President at that particular l\1onroe doctrine or no such meaning can be defended if anyone time to pledge himself to adopt their program for war with tries to make such an interpretation. 1\Iexico. But., thank God, President Wilson, au upstanding, full­ 1\Ir. l\IcKELLAR. 1\Ir. President, does the Senator think grown ..c\merican, refused to comply with their request. But there is any justification or excuse for the policy of our repre­ what happened to him? The political situation commenced to sentatives intriguing with certain factions in a foreign country change immediately in a number of States. Certain Wil~on like Nicaragua? supporters 'vent over to Hughes. But Wilson stood firm anu Mr. DILL. I think it is iniet philosophy controls the military powet·s of Mexico- 1\lr.' DILL. Of course, there is no defense for it, and we act as we do in Nicaragua because that is a small, helpless coun­ And so forth. try. We take the privilege of lanf the District of Columbia where except in Washington, and it had been shown that the holding a Probate C<>urt (Administration No. 30781) show that an officer whose duty it was to hold an inquest never · held an exemplified copy of the will of Jess W. Smith, dated May 11, 1922, was inquest, but simply stated that he thought Jess Smith had filed in said court on June 20, 1023 ; that the executors named therein killed himself, what would law-abiding, honest people have were Harry JU. Daugherty and M. S. Daugherty; that ancillary letters thought about that? .Yet that is the situation we have here. testamentary were issued in this jurisdiction to M. S. Daugherty, <>ne Among correspondents are people in New York, and some of the exe.cutors, June 20, 1923, wh<>, in his petition for such letters, of their letters would open the eyes of the Nation if they could stated that Harry M. Daugherty, the other executor named in the be read by the public. One of them states that John T. King, will, had failed to qualify as such. who was jointly indicted with Daugherty in the conspiracy The will, among a great many other items, bequeathed $2u,OOO to case, passed away under mysterious circumstances. Another H. M. Daugherty, and the first and final account of the ancillary execu­ one states that he killed himself, but that the doctor said he U>r was approved and passed June 20, 1924 ; but as to whether the died from pneumonia. . estate has been fully settlcdln the courts of Ohio I am unable to advise As to Cramer, who was killed in Washington, or killed him­ you. self, as some newspapers said, I have had it suggested to me Very truly yours, since that he, too, was mixed up with Jeff Smith and Daugh­ PEYTON GORDON, erty, and it is doubted that he killed himself. United States .A.ttorne11. Mr. President, have we reached the time when public men in this body and in the other body dare not stand up here and THE SECRETARY O.Ji' THE INTEIUOI1 1 tell the country about the things going on at the Capital? Washington. What will we come to in a few years more if Republicans Ilon. J. THOMAS HEFLIN, remain in power? A man dare not stand here and speak his Urnted States Senate, Washitlgton., D. a. convictions; he dare not tell the country what he believes; he MY DEAR SENATOR HEFLIN : In reply to y<>ur letter of the 7th instant, dare not warn the people of the dangers that threaten free relative to the disposition of certain Jacobian oak furniture U> former institutions in America; he dare not attack the program of the Secretary of the Interior Fall, you will find inclosed copy of a letter pre-datory interests of the Nation. from this department, under date of March 18, 1924, to lion. Lours C. 1927 CONG~ESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 1645 CRAMTON, Honse of nepresentatives, on the subject which covers this The Philadelphia Public Ledger of Thursday morning carries transaction· quite fu11y. a seven-column head: In a letter· from the chief clerk of the department dated March 24, · Mexico is center of Bolshevist plot against the United States; object 1024, to Ron. C. C. DILL, United States Senate, on this subject, he is world .revolution, K~llogg declares. states in part as follows as to the rug: "• • • The files of the department show that on July 25, 1017, Let us remember further that a great majority of the people an order was placed with W. B. Moses & Sons for three rugs, including of the United States are what might be termed headline. readers. • 1 Chinese rug, 10 feet 6 inches by 14 feet, at $73{).' · Copies of the I venture the assertion that a large percentage of the readers order and invoice are herewith inclosed, marked ' Exhibits F and G.' of the Philadelphia Public Ledger are to-day convinced that It is believed that this is the rug in question. It was purchased . for Secretary Kellogg produced before the Senate Foreign Rela­ the Secretary's room and used there until Secretary Fall came to the tions Committee evidence proving that l\1exico was the center department, some time after which it was removed and placed in the -of a Bolshevistic plot against tho Go-rernment of the United storeroom. Later it was placed on the floor of room 6127, occupied by States. employees of the Alaskan Engineering Commission. As shown by one The New York Herald-Tribune of the. same date .says: of the foregoing memorandums, the rug was removed from this room Mexico base of red war on United States, Kellogg charges. in July, 1922, and taken to Secretary Fall's apartment in the Wardman Park Hotel by direction of C. W. Nestler, mentioned abo-ve. There ts no Some of the newspapers have editorially drawn the same record of the return of this rug to the . department, but I have been inference. I desire to read only a sentence from the editorial Informed by Myers Reynolds, the carpenter who crated the furniture, of the Washington Star of last evening. Says the Star-and I that a rug such as the one above described was packed by him and quote only a portion of the editorial- included in the shipment." Under the banner of an " all-America antllmperialist league " C. W. Nestler was formerly assistant to the Secretary and administra­ the radical forces directed from Moscow are at work to break down tive assistant in Secretary Fall's office, but is not now connected with American influence in Latin-American affairs. A close association the department. between this league and the government at Mexico City is indicated. Sincerely yours, Mr. President, I do not know how many Senators in this Ht.:DERT WORK. Chamber have read the document made public by Secretary CALL OF THE ROLL Kellogg following his appearance before the Senate Foreign :P,Ir. KING. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a Relations Committee; but I venture the assertion that of those quorum. Senators who have read it there is not one who believes that The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. AsHURST in tlle chair). any such· inference is to be drawn from this document, or that The clerk will call the roll. any such charges are proven by it. 1\Ir. President, this document is the flimsiest sort of propa­ The legislative clerk call~d. the roll, and the following Sena­ tors answered to their names : ganda. If it had emanated from any other source than that Ashurst Frazier La Follette Sackett of the Secretary of State of the United States, there is not Bayard George Lenroot Schall a reputable newspaper editor in the United States who would Hingham Gerry McKellar Sheppard have authorized its publication in the columns of his news­ nicase Gillett McMaster Shipstead It Borah · Glass McNary Shortridge paper. would ha-re gone not to the composing room but to Bratton Goff Means Smith the wastebasket as a piece of sheer propaganda, unsupported Bruce Gooding Metcalf Smoot by evidence of any kind or character. Cameron Greene Neely Steck Mr. EDGE. 1\ir. President, will the Senator yield? Capper Hale Norbeck Stephens Caraway Harris Norris Stewart The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from "~is­ Couzens Harrison Nye Swanson cousin yield to the Senator from New Jersey? Curtis Hawes Oddie Trammell 1\fr. LA FOLLETTE. Yes, l\fr. President; I yield. Dale Heflin Overman Tyson Deneen Howell Pepper Wadsworth Mr. EDGE. The Senator, I think, has already stated, but Dill Johnson Phipps Walsll, Mass. I was not quite positive, that the Secretary of State, in pre­ I•~flge Jones, N.Mex. I'ine Walsh, Mont. senting that memorandum, in no way asserted, so far as its F.rnst Jones,.-Wash. Pittman Warren Ferris Kendrick Reed, Mo. Watson accuracy was concerned, anything· beyond the fact that it hnd lfess Keyes ll.eed, Pa. Wheeler been collected from reports and turned in to the department by }<'letcher King Hobinson, .Ark. Willis represcntati es of the department ; and he presented it for The PRESIDING OFFICER. Eighty Senators having an­ what it was worth, somewhat in the nature of a warning, I swered to their names, a quorum of the Senate is present. suppose. The question is on concurring_ in the amendment made as in ~Ir. LA FOLLETTE. A warning of what, l\1r. President? Committee of the Whole to House bill 11768. JHr; EDGE. A warning of possibilities of Bolshevistic up­ turnings. THE SITUATION IN MEXICO A~D NICARAGUA · · Mr. LA FOLLETTE. By whom? Mr. LA FOLLETTE. Mr. President, I do not intend at this l\1r. EDGE. By those who were mentioned in five or six or time to discnss the situation existing in Nicaragua further than seyen typewritten sheets of their activities. I have not a copy to say that I believe the action of our Government is unjusti­ of it before me, but I am one of the Senators who read it; and fied and unconscionable. At a later date I shall avail myself I do recall name after name of men who had been sent to of an opportunity of discussing the Nicaraguan situation fully. Mexico or points in Latin America for the purpose of develop­ I rise now to voice my protest and to 25, PresiUent Calles, of Mexico, replying to the Our own ambassador in Mexico commended in his statement statement of Chicherin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Soviet to the newspapers the answer of President Calles to Secretary Russia, said: of Foreign .A.ffah·s Chichelin's -statement, and yet PI·esident Mt·. George Chicherin, the public official who is in charge of foreign Calles's reply is conspicuously absent from the document spon­ relntiom; of Soviet Russia, in an official statement has declared: sored by Secretary of State Kellogg in his appearance before " In America we confront an interrogation mark. But with a the Committee on Foreign Relations. nei~hbor of the United States, namely, Mexico, we have succeeded in :bU.rthermore, the only oilier reference in this document to reestablishing diplomatic relations, and this gives us a very useful Mexico or to the activity of 1\lex.tcans is a statement in the political I.Jase for the development of our relations in the New World." l\Iexican Chamber of Deputies, in which a labor deputy 11ro­ tested against tbe activities of the Russian minister to l\lexico,. Tllat is the same paragraph which appeared in Secretary and a second statement from the' l\Iexican l!'ederation of Labor .Kellogg's statement. I now proceed to quote further from to the same effect. President Calles's official note in answer to the statement made So again I state that ·the only evidence in this document concerning this declaratio~ of Chicherin. Said Calles : sponsored by Secretary of State Kellogg which tends to show As the views thus expressed may lend themselves to erron~us and what the l\lexican Government is doing sllows that tbat Gov­ unjustified Interpretation in regard to our country, I, speaking as its ernment and those who support it are as unsympathetic with executive, ueem it pertinent to declare that at the time we decided to the principles of the Russian Government as is Secretary of renew uiplomatic relations with the Government of Soviet Russia the State Kellogg himself. Mexican Government was imbued fundamentally with the basic prin­ 1\Ir. President, if I may trespass upon tile time of the Senate ciple of international law, strictly to re:=, 1925, appearing in the to read the opening paragraph of the editorial, as follows : New York Times, as follows: It is dii!lcult to write moderately of the formal statement made M EXICO CJTY .-The American ambasRador, James ,Jl. Sheffield, de­ before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations by Secretary of clared at his regular conference with the newspaper men to-day that State Kellogg. For we doubt seriously that ever· before in the history tbe relations between Mexico and the United States have been improved of this Nation has the hE'ad of the State Department appeared in ~Y the recent ~tatemerit . of President Calles with_ respect to a speech public !n a state of such utterly indecent intellectual exposure. Such 1~27 CONGRESSIONAL. RE_CORD-SEN.ATE 1649 drivel offered IJy the Cabinet officer in charge of foreign-relations to the criticized for not displaying sufficient energy in this sphere. Very Senate committee in charge of foreign relations is, we believe, without specific instructions in this regard were issued to the communists In previous example in the· history of this country, from the administration the United States in the "resolution of the American question" adopteement for independence) .is assum­ Mr. LA fOLLETTE. I also ask unanimous consent to have ing in the countries of South America. There . is·. no: ·. doubt that printed i.n the RECORD in full at the conclusion of my remarks in the future struggle for the overthrow of the yoke of the bour­ an editorial entitled "Moscow and Nicaragua," from the New geoJsie of the United S_tates the working class and the·· peasantry of York Evening Post of Tllur. ·clay, January 13, 1927. Latin America will play a tremenuous rOle. The American Com­ The PR£SIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so munist Party must not be a party of self-centered interests, but must ordered. b~come a party which understands bow to raise the question of the [See Exhibit F.] hegemony of the proletariat in the whole movement for freedom Mr. LA -FOLLETTE. In closing, Mr. President, let nie say which is directed against the imperialists of the United States. More­ that I believe the Senate of the United States or the Foreign over, it is necessary that the Workers' (Communist) Party maintain Relations Committee ought to take action to right the wrong the closest contact with the labor movement in the colonies of Cuba done to a friendly Government by the Secretary of State in the Philippines, etc., and support them in their fight against Ameri~ authorizing the publication of this vicious piece of propaganda can imperialism. against a Government with which we have, or witll which we In view of this the executive committee or the Communist Inter­ should have, friendly relations. national instructs the central committee of the American Communist Party to devote the most serious attention to the tasks cited, and, Elx:IIIBIT A above all, to appoint ah earnest group of party workers to partici­ [From the Sun, Baltimore, Thursday morning, January 13, 19!!i] pate in the current work in Latin America in agreement with the TEXT OF SECRETARY KELLOGG'S STATEMENT ON "BOLSIIEVIK AIMS " IN presidium of the executive committee of the Communist International. MEXICO AMERICAN CO!IIMUNISTS ORGANIZE TO ACT By the Associated · Press In accordance with Moscow's instructions, the American com­ W ASHI~GTON, January 12.-Secretary Kellogg's statement to the munists during the last two years have been placing special emphasis Senate Foreign Relations Committee to-day was captioned " Bolshevik on their anti-American work in Mexico and Latin America. Consider­ aims and policies in Mexico and Latin America" and was as follows: able attention was given to this matter at the fourth convention or The Bolshevik lenders have had very definite ideas with respect to the Workers' (Communist) Party in Chicago, August 21-30, 1925. A the role which Mexico and Latin America are to play in their general special organization known as the All-Ametiea Anti-Imperialist League, program of world revolution. has been created by the American communists to carry out tile in­ They have set up as one of their fundamental tasks the destruction structions of Moscow in the matter of organizing Latin America of what they term American imperialism as a necessary prerequisite against the United States. Tile following is taken from a report on . to the successful development of the international revolutionary move· '' anti-imperialist work " delivered at the fourth national convention ment in the New World. The propagation of communist ideas and referred to above: prin<:iples in the various countries of Latin America is considered sec­ • • "The outstanding feature of our work against American ondary to the carrying on of propaganda against the aims and policies imperalism is that it has entered the field of active practical coopera­ of the United States. '.rhus, Latin America and Mexico are conceived tion with the oppressed peoples of American imperialism, the most as a base for activity against the United Stated. important step in this connection being the successful organization of the All-American Anti-Imperialist League. 90M.MUNISTS IN UNITED STATES GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS " In Januat·y of this year (1925) a subcommittee was elected by the Communists in the United States have been repeatedly ir{structed to central executive committee, which assumed charge of all the anti­ devote special attention to the struggle against "American imperialism " imperialist activities of the party. This committee prepared material in Latin America and to the organization of resistance to the United for campaigns, furnished articles on imperialism for the party press, States. Bolshevik aims in this respect were succinctly set forth in a drew up manifestoes and leaflets, and was the medium through which resolution of the Third Congress of the Red International of Trade the party cooperated with anti-imperialist organizations in Latin Unions, July ~22, 1924, as follows. It was resolved : America. Manifestos were issued to the Cuban Labor Congress, held • • • • • • • at Habana, to the International Marine Transport Workers' Convention, "4. To unite the national struggle against American imperialism in held at New Orleans, several manifestoes to the Mexican workers and individual countries in a general mo>ement on a scale of the whole to the Filipinos, a special l\lay Day manifesto to the workers of Latin American continent, embracing the workers of all countries of Ladn America, a manifesto in connection with the , Tacna-Arica affair, and America and tlle revolutionary forces of the United· States. Mexico is other manifestoes and leaflets which will be refet·red to later on. a natural connecting link between the movement of the United States " Direct contact with Mexico was maintained throughout the period of North America and Latin America; therefore, Mexico must be the through the visits of Comrades Johnstone, Gomez, and Lovestone to center of union. Mexico, and through steady cort·espondence. Comrade Wegenknecht • • • • • • • visited the Philippines and established connections there. Correspond· "7. In the name of the Trade Unton Educational League of the ence connections were also established, with greater or less success United States, to appeal to the toilers of Latin America with a call to with practically every country in Latin America, as well as with create a united front against American imperialism." • • • Hawaii and the Philippines. Through our activities five Filipino dele­ gates were secured for the international transport conference in FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIALISM MOST IMPORTANT TASK Canton, lor which our party was commended by the Communist Similarly, a representative of the American Communi~t Party speak­ International. ing at the sixth session of the enlarged executive committee of the CAMPAIG~ AOAJNST LABOR IMPERIALISM Communist International on February 4, 1926, declared: " Our party has carried on a consistent campaign, both in this coun­ "The last and most important task of our party is the fight against try and in Latin America, against the 'labor imperialism ' of the so­ imperialism. The Communist Party of America must become the de­ called Pan-American Federation of Labor. Comrade Johnstone attended fender of the oppressed peoples of Latin America. The time is not the convention of the Pan-American Federation of Labor at Mexico long distant when Latin America will become the China of the Far City, in November of last year (1924), and cooperated with the Mexi­ West and Mexico the Canton of Latin America." can party in its strategy in connection with this convention. In the theses approved at the sixth session of the enlat•ged executive "Comrade Gomez was sent to Mexico in April of this year (192G) committee of the Communist International it is stated with respect to and attended the convention of the communist party of .Mexico as Latin America : fraternal delegate from our party. During his visit plans for joint " Latin America also can and must become a basis of support of the action of the Mexican, Central American, and United States parties 1Jberation movement against imperialism (against the imperialism of against imperialistic policies of the ran-American Federation of Labor the United States). In the present state of things the nations living were auopted. · in Latin America are as a majority oppressed nations which soon or "Our party was largely instrumental in the establishment of the late will be drawn into the struggle against the imperialism of the All-America Anti-Imperialistic League. • • The league is a non­ United States." * partisan international organization, admitting to affiliation all groups ANTI-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES CLAI!Il ATTENTION in the Americas willing to take up the fight against American imperial­ Dnrlng the past few years the Bolshevik leaders have been giving ism. It aims to give driving force and centralized expression to the more and more attention, to anti-American activities in Mexico and nl,ltional liberation movements in Latin America, Hawaii, the Philip­ Latin America. The communists in the United States have been pine Islands, etc., in alliance with the movement of this couP.try. 1650- CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE - JANUARY 14 "The All-America Anti-Imperialistic League has a special secretariat "(i) Support the proposed plan of the All-American Anti-Imperialist located in 1\.lexico City, under whose supervision the monthly Spanish League for an all-American conference against imperialism. language organ of the league, which has now published five issues, "(j) The Machete, organ of the Mexican Communist ·Party, and El­ is edited, as well as special manifestoes, leaflets, etc; Our party has Libertador, organ of the Anti-Imperialist League (published in Mexico), contributed toward defraying the expenses of the monthly magazine, should be circulated among the Spanish-speaking workers of the United El Libcrtador, and toward other expenses of the Mexico City secre­ States." tariat, but lack '-of funds has made it impossible to give adequate support RES.OLUTION DIVULGES .ACTIVITIES .AND PLANS in this respect. -- · The activities and plans of the American communists ~s regards "A· regular :~~tlon of the ·All-America Antl-Imperallst League has the organization of opposition to the United States in Mexico and beerl formed in ' Cuba, with Julio Antonio Mella as secretary, and is Latin America are summed up admirably in a resolution passed by the eXtremely active, holding mass meetings, lectures; etc. Labor, peasant, central executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party on and student organizations in Costa Rica, Panama, Salvador, and Peru November 12, 1926. This resolution reads as follows: have affiliated with the league, but no regular sections have been formed "The tasks of our party at the present time, as set forth in the in those countries as yet. Contacts have been established With some resolution of the political committee, are those presented by the con­ of the foremost intellectuals of Latin America, who are supporting the ditions of imperialism. · American imperialism is able to win over league and writing for its monthly organ. • • • Tentative plans large sections of the American workers by sharing with them a small are. already being laid, also at the suggestion of our party, for an All­ part of superprofits and continues to extend its hegemony in foreign America Anti-Im·perialist Congress to be held at Buenos Aires some time fields. However, the steady expansion of American capitalism upon next year." an imperialist basis is accompanied by the enormous extension of the TO DEMAl\1> UNITED STATES WITHDRAW ITS ARMED FORCES vulnerable surface which it presents to attack. Uecent months have The fourth convention listed among the concrete tasks of the party : furnished striking evidence of the widespread movement for Latin­ " To carry on a systematic and active agitation against American American unity against Wall Street. We cite particularly the present imperalism, particularly in Latin America. To demand the withdrawal attitude of the Calles Government in Mexico--its general Latin of American armed forces from foreign lands. • • • Americanism, its policy in Central America, its tendency· toward co­ "To give active support to the activities of the All-America Anti­ operation with the All-American Anti-Imperialist League and the de­ Imperialist League." cision of President Calles to send a personal representative to the The same convention adopted a lengthy resolution with respect to the Brussels World Conference aga~nst imperialism. struggle against American imperalism. This resolution pointed out that "The committee has repeatedly indicated that a basic task of any " there is sufficient homogeneity to permit the building of a powerful pal'ty situated in an imperialist country is to stimulate and give aid continental movement of workers ·and farmers against American im­ to the nationalist and national revolutionary movements in the colonial perialism, and sufficient resentment doe to the occupation of the Central and semicolonial countries under the heel of imperialism. This, to­ American and Caribbean countries, the sustaining of autocracies, such gether with the work among the American masses, forms the basis as those of Venezuela and Peru, by United States aid, the interference of our party work. While our party has made considerable progress in the internal affairs of all of the countries, t~e system of financial in anti-imperialist work, it is still far from a proper realization of and military a2G, at the seventh annual con­ aimed either to save Mr. Kellogg's face in the Nicaraguan mess, or as V('ntion of the l\fexican Federation of Labor: pat·t of a concerted effort on the part of the State Department to mis­ " ' • • • 3. That a courteous invitation be extended by the cen­ lead and inflame American opinion as the prelude to a diplomatic rup­ tral committee to the diplomatic representative of Russia accredited to ture and an armed intervention. The incident of last November when Mexico, so that his office may abstain from lending moral and economic the State Department made the same charge of Bolshevism anonymously support to the so-called radical group, enemies of the Mexican Federation through the Associated Press seems to point to the conclusion that a of Labor and of the Government.'" policy of deliberate incitement llas been adopted. The concentration of armed forces which "are much larger than any which could con­ ceivably be employetl in Nicaragua may have some bearing on the pur­ EXHIBIT B poses of the administration. [From the New York Times of January 13, 10!!7] If the American people want peace, they cnn not atrord to wait until they have become entangled in Mexico, as they are already en­ TOO EASILY SCARED tangled in Nicaragua. They must act now before the fatal decisions No one need question the sincerity of Secretary Kellogg in confessing are taken, before the war psychology is arouseu anJ men cease to be that the Washington administration is frightened by Bolshevist activi­ reasonable. The situation is so delicate, the forces pressing for inter­ ties and threats jn Mexico and Central America. No doubt he is able vention are so powerful, the opposition is as yet so disorganized and to quote chapter and verse from resolutions of the Third International unaroused that there is no telling what might happen if a blood­ declaring a ferocious purpose to provoke revolution ln those regions. curdling incident were to occur in l\fexican territory. But this- is only one of their glittering though fulile plans of cam­ The stnge is set for very serious things, and if the American people paign. They have announced and undertaken to carry out similar want peace Ui e.y wm have to begin to tight for it now. They can not ~andiose projects in India and China, in England and Germany, as trust either to the good intentions or to the wisrlom of the State De­ also in France. With what result? Ignominious failure all along the partment, for the State Department is clearly and unmistakably line. We know what they tried to do in this country, and what a looking for trouble, wretched fiasco was the issue of all their plotting and mouthing and pouring out of money. They are, in fact, everywhere to-m worthy of the trauitlons of the Department of State to allege tors who would, if they were loyal to their convictions and had the that onr real actuating motive has been an ignoble fear of Russian courage of them, be standing openly for peace :.:.nd conciliation. revolutionists whose long reeord of blundering and disaster shows that The Kellogg memorandum on Bolshevism was written by a man who they are not really to be f<>.a.red. They certainly arc not to be feared set out deliberately to poison the mind of the American people. by tlle United States. Assuming that the American people are incapable of seeing thro.ugb a Going back to the essentials of the Nicaraguan complication and the tissue of misrrpresentation, assuming that the American press is edited Mexican difficulty, no reason bas yet appeared why hope of a just by men witbQut a sense of responsillility, the official author of this Rettlement through conciliation or, if necessary, arbitration should be document set out to make the American people think that the l\Iexican abandoneu. The note of the l\lexican fore·ign minister pointed out how Government h; directed from Moscow. Their theory is that if once the " inexplicable " it would be if the United States, with its long cham­ American people can be made to belie>e tllis there will be universal pioning of peaceful settlements, should now refuse to listen to any approval for the hostile measures that are contemplated. arguments but those of force. Especially bas It been the boast of Contemptible as the document is in its spirit, its purpose, its sub­ our Government in these recent year11 that it was not necessary to stance, and its reasoning, it is nece!';sary to pause over it and analyze belong to the League of Nations in order to be an ardent lover of the character of the evidence on which the Secretary of State has put pees us thus a very spasmodic threats against Mexico. Let us see, from Mr. Kellogg's own convenient political uase for the development o our further ties.'" statement, how grave are these specific "Bolshevik aims." · Thus far Mr. Kellogg bas not cited one single Mexican document, We learn, in the first place, that the plots to combat and overthrow official or otherwise. .All this evidence consists Rimply in the state­ American imperalism, particularly_ in Latin America, are formulated ments by RuFoke 'an international conflict' with the Party. More, it is a forlorn thing, despised alike of capital and labor, United States. and dependent almost entirely upon si1ly official attention for public "B. Communication addressed to the so>Jet minister by the central notice of any charncter. Yet more, its feeble thought has been chiefly committee of the Mexican Federation of Labor by direction of the sev­ fixed upon domestic affairs. Mr. Kellogg's own statement records a enth congress of that organization. It tells him to keep his hands off rebuke to it on that account from Moscow, and also records a statement Mexico, because ' no nation bas the right to impose nor to lay down made by the Workers' Party itself, no later than last Novemher, that tor another the doctrine which must control its activities.' its " antl-imperalist work has been greatly hampered by lack of suffi­ " C. Resolution adopted March 6, 1926, at the seventh annual con­ cient comrades." vention of the Mexican Federation of Labor asking tbe diplomatic rep­ What of ·the results of this organization's work in Latin .America? resentative Qf Russia to • abstain from lending moral and economic sup­ It starts, of courRC, With capital against it, and must find its strength port to the so-called radical group, enemies of the Mexican Federation in the ranks of labor. On the question of the measure of strength it of Labor and of the Go>ernment.'" has acquired let Mr. Kellogg himself speak again. Repeatedly his own · On analysis, Secretary Kellogg•s charges agn.inRt Mexico collapse quotations from the Workers' Party's manifestoes reveal antngoni~;m to ignominiously. llis own citations prove, first, that he has no evidence that party from the Pan American Federation of Labor. And the fifth connecting the Mexican Government with the. Communist International item ot the Workers' Party program, as given by Mr. Kellogg, l)(•gins, at Moscow and, second, that even Mexican labor bas openly resisted " Expose and struggle against the so-called Pan American Federation communiRt activity. of Labor." Indeed, the very last paragraph of Mr. Kellogg's statement · reveals opposition by labor to the communists. It is a quotation from What can be the mentality of a Sec~:etary of State who will sponsor a protest by the Mexican Federation of Labor to the Russian Ambassa­ such balderdash as this memorandum? llere we are in the midst of dor against bis giving moral and economic support to the radical the most delicate international crisis that has al"isen since the war, group-" enemies of the Mexican Federation of Labor and of the and we find the Secretary of State engaged in slanderous insinuation Government." against a friendly Government. Could anything- be meaner, wickeder, But let us turn now from these " Bolshe>ik aims" to the impli(·ations and more clearly in violation of all fair play and decency than a per­ or Mr. Kellogg's argument. H e makes no defense in this statement formance like this? What crime can an official commit that is worse of our course. He simply says thut the Bolsi.Jeviks nrc oppo,.; cd io · than to ~read malicious propaganda when peace between neighboring American imperialism. :Must we, then, ride rough shod over Latin nations is at stake? There are inexcusable acts. This is an inexcus­ .America because a handful of Bolsllcviks preach opposition in Latin able net. This is a crime against the peace of the world. This America to our imperialism? That question ough t to arrest Americans is a crime against the honor of the United States. who care 'for principles of justice. For those Americans who may care The present dlfficnltics with Mexico can not be peaceably composed un­ only for protection of doUars there is another question. Is it con­ less the administration d esires peace. There are grounds of legitimate ceivable that this pitiable Workers' Party and its vague masters in dispute between the two Go>ernmcnts. The rights and the wrongs are Moscow, have made in the whole of their efforts one-hundredth part not wholly on either side. But there is no question at issue between of the enmity for the United States that lli. Kellogg, hysterical and Mexico and the United States which is not susceptible ultimately of irascible, has made in two months? pacific settlement by men who are determined to maintain the peace. Elaborate parade of danger that would not scare a toothless old 'l'h~ resources of civilized dealing are not exhausted. They have not woman, and false policy even from the absurd and ludicrous stanu­ ~;>ven been used. All that we have had so far is a debate at arm's point that the danger is a reality-that is the sum total of Secretary !Pngth between smart and suspicious bureaucrats. We have not yet Kellogg·s statement. The only possil.lle theory on w..bicb Mr. Kellogg had an Ame.rican ambassador in Mexico City who desired seriously to can be acquitted of foolishness beyond words is that he is deliberately come to a direct personal understanding with officials who are beset raising a vast bugaboo to cover State Department manipulations in on every side by the tremendous problems and the resultant hysteria Latin America for oil and other exploiting interests. And that woultl of a social revolution and a religious reformation. We have not yet be a miserable means Qf defending his intelligence. had an attempt by the President of the United States to step over and })(>yond the red tape and the confusion of the diplomats in order to come to some understanding for the orderly adjustment of the controversy. ElxnrBr.r F We have not yet invoked our treaty with Mexico, or The Hague Court, [From the New York l<:vening Post of "January 13, 1!127] or any other body designed by civilized men fot· just such disputes as 'MOSCOW .AND 'NICARAGUA this. It communistic activity in Central .Ame1·ica is to be cited in justifi­ We cnn not go further along the pat!:~ the State Department Is now cation of our course in Nlraragua a closer connection must be shown tafing if our purpose is to protect our honor and to be true to the between this activit;v an d the Sacasa movement than has yet been 1927 OONGRESSION AL RECOR.D-SENATE 1653 exhibited. Secretary Kellogg can not Reriously argue that a general diplomacy and arbitration fail, we feel that the people of the V'nited intention on · the _part of the Bolshevist leaders to win the United States should realize that the total estimated investment of the entire States some time, somehow, warrants our intervening in a specific .American petroleum interests in Mexico is . only about five times as difficulty in a Central American country in which the issue of Bolsbe· much as the cost of the Pershing punitive expedition to l\Iexico in vism i ::; not concerned. 1916-17, sent for the purpose of capturing one bandit, the infamous Tlle struggle uctwcen Diaz and Sacasn. bas not been depicted as a Pancho Villa, but in vain. At that time there was only one short cia. 11 between capitalism anu communism. It bas seemed to be simply casualty list; if, however, we go into Mexico now to fight the myth one of tho~e old-fashioned political rivalrirs which formerly threw a of Bolshevism, which our GoYernment seeks to create, or for the crass good many of the Central and South American countrie::; into periodical materialistic purpose of defending title to American petroleum rigilts COnYUlsiOD!~. representing an investment of less than $700,000,000, the American We have exerted our- influence to put an end to this sort of "popular people ought to know that we are embarking on a war which will goYcrnment" -in the few places in which it still flourishes, our most cost them many times the value of the property in question, which imiJortant step toward tllis ~oal l.Jeing tile sponsoring of the treaties will cost the lives of many of our American youth, which will bring which proYide thB;t rc<:.06'1lition shall be denieu to a government which upon us the hatred of all of Latin-America and tlle scorn of the comcs into power ·through a coup d'etat or reYolution, and that the civili7.1'd worlu. The United States is too big and powerful not to be leaders of such an upheaval shall be disqualified from assuming the williu~ to arbitrate its rti spute with weaker Mexico. 'l'he United States pre ~i d e ncy or the vice presidency of the nation concerned. should be too proud to hide ueh ind a smoke screen of Bolshevism ; our Solill considerations likl' thos<' which inspired these treaties-con· Congress shonld be too statesmanlike to look upon this grave matter siderations rrlating to the safety of life and property, both native and as simply a partisan iRsue. We beliPve that future history will record foreign. 8]1(] tlle fundumental welfare of Central America-are the that you, more than any other man in the Uuited States, stood in 19:!7 · only justification for interference from us. If Bolshevism is to be in the po ition to thwart a great miscarriage of justice and to save added to the re:isons for our action, it must be definitely connected onr Government from the future accusation of having acted with an witll the particular situation which im11els lls to mo1e. If the State ulterior and materialistic motive against the rigllts of small but inde· Dt>partment has ground for believing that Sacasa is being aided and pendent nations like Mexico aud Nicaragua. We believe tllat the abetted by Bolshevist money, then Bolshevism may properly be cited pres«>.nt calls upon you to take tlle lead in restoring the deplorable and as one of the hostile elements in the il.fi'air. But a mere general alarming loss of confidence tht·oughout the world which our Govern­ charge tliat lfoRcow is aiming at us through Mexico and Central ment is experiencing as a rE'sult of unwarranted intervention in 1'\ica· America is not only irrelevant; it ~;:uggests that we haven't any specific rngua and threats against Mexico. • • justification for our course. Chas. W. Ramsdell, professor of American history; W. E. Gettys, President Coolidge's !'pecial message put the matter about as well professor of sociology; E. T. Mil1er, professor of economics; as it can be put. We arc intcrYening in Nicaragua on recognizeu C. Perry Patterson, professor of government; J. Lloyd auu perfectly definite grounds. There our case should I.Je allowed to Mecham, associate professor or government ; Frederic Dun· rest. calf, profcssot· of medieval hiRtory; M. S. Handman, pro.­ One point that has promptly I.Jcen cleared np is that made in the fessor of economics ; C. W. Bucket t, professor of Latin· American history; George W. Stocking, professor of eco­ accn~ation that the arms with which the forces of Sacasa are fighting Diaz were shipped from New Orleans under special licenses granted by nomics; C. 'l'. Gray, professor of Education; T. W. Riker, our State Department. On its face it was incredii.Jle, but that fact professor of modern European history ; J. E. Pearce, pro· diu not nullify the need for a plain statement from Washington. The fessor of anthropology; Robert A. Law, professor of En~;· State Departm·ent's denial thnt any such licenses have been granted lish; C. A. Wiley, associate IJrofessor of economics. gives the canard it~; quietus. · E.'XECU'l'.I.VE SESSION Mr. BORAH. l\lr. President, I desire hefore moving an Mr. BORAH. I move that tlle Senate proceed to the <:on­ executi•e session to ask unanimom; con~ent to have inserted !:liueration of executive business. in the RECORD a telegram from the faculty, or a portion of the The motion was agreed to, and tlle Senate proceeded to the faculty, of tile University of Texas upon the Mexican situation. consWeration of executive business. After two hours and thirty­ I ask to ha•e it all printed except the la!:lt three lines, which five minutes spent in executive session the doors were reopeneu, are merely personal. and (at 4 o'clock and 55 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the re­ until to-morrow, Saturday, January 15, 1927, at 12 o'clock quest of the Senator from Idaho? 'l'he Chair hearl!l none, anu mel'idian. it ig so ordered. The telegram referred to is, as follows : NOMINATIONS .AUSTI:'i, 'l'Ex., Jan11at"Y 1.'l, 1927. E~ccutive rwmina.tions 1·ecc ived 1Jy the Sena.te J(uwary 1", 1921 Senator \VILLLUI E. BORAH, Ghai-1-man Foreign Helatious Committee, MRMBERS oF 1-'H~ PUBLIC UTILI'l'JES oF THE DISTRW'l' oF CoLUMBIA United ~tate8 Senate, Washington, D. 0 • . Benjamin F. Adams to be a member of the Public Utilities Sm: No people in the history of western civilization has ever needed Commh;sion of the District of Columbia for a term of two years, a pro~rnm for their social nnd economic uplift more than do the commencing July 1, 1926. Mexicnn people to-day. It is the belief of the undersigned members John W. Childress to be a member of the Public Utilities of the fucnlty of the university of Texas that the Government of Commission of the District of Columbia for a· term of three Mexico is honestly endeavoring to bring about the social and economic years, commencing July 1, 1926. regeneration of its people, and that it is the plain duty of the United Blaine l\fallan to be additional counsel of the Public Utiliti{'S States to refrain from interference with this program, if it is not its Commission of the District of Columbia, to be known ns the positive duty, to assist in promoting it. Such a program as that of peoples' counsel. the Mexican Government can not, in our opinion, by the wildest stretch of the imagination be classeu as llolsbevist. C rtainly it will take CoMMISSIONER o:::;o IMMIGRATIO~ more evidence to convince us that 1\Iexico is llolshevist than bas been Anna C. M. Tillinghast. of Cambriuge, 1\lass., to be com­ pointed out up to the pre:;eut in the official statements that have been mh;sioner of immigration at the port of Boston, Mass. made public by the citing of a speech by one radicnl member of the PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE Mexican Congress as proof tllut the Mexican GoYernment is llolshevist is absolutely contrary to the simplest rules of evidence. The mere Dr. Albert T. Morrison to be an assistant surgeon in the fact that Bolshevists in Moscow and the United States hope to estab· Pul•lic Health Service, to take effect from date of oath. lish ilieir iueas in :Mexico and the other Latin-American States does (Tllis doctor has pas~ed the examination pre!;cribed · by law not otter any proof that the Governments of these Strltes or their and the regulations of the service.) citizens are inclineu to indorRe Bolshevism, and up to the present no REGISTER OF THE LAND OFFICE ()fficial information to that effect bas been ronde pui.Jlic in considering Jame Uoss 'Vaters, of Minnesota, to be register of the land the Mexicnn problem. ·One should take into account whether or not oflice at Ca s Lake, 1\Iinn., vice Peter l\Iichael Larson, term the :Mexicans are entitled to acquire for themseh·es in 1927 what our expit·ed. English ancestors have acquired for themsel>es since 1\Iagna Charta. UNITED STATES ATTORNEY Should the threats which we regal"d as more imaginary than real to .American property rights in l\I<.'xico, many of which were acquired Amos W. W. ·woodcock, of Maryland, to be Uniteu States from the dictorlnl government of Diaz nnu in a manner not free from attorney, district of Maryland. A reappointment, his term suspicion-should these threats blind us to the lluman elertlent of lla•ing expired. the Mexican problem? The dil'lpute between the United States and UNITED STATES MARSHALS Mexico over theRe property rJgb ts if it can not be settled by diplomacy James H. Ilammons, of Kentncky, to be United States mar­ sl'louhl be arbitrntecl and no resort ue made to armed aggression, an shal, eastern clistl'ict of Kentucky, vice Edwin W. Pieper, ap-· aggrel:'Rion justified •largely by the alarmist cry of Bolshevist. If pointed by court. 1654 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-S}}NATE JAJ.~U.ARY 14 Harry S. Hubbard, of Porto Rico, to be United States mar­ Emerson B. Herrick to be postmaster at Lodi, Calif., in place shal, district of Porto Rico. A reappointment, his term hav~ of E. B. Herrick. Incumbent's commission expires January ing expired. 31, 1927. Bert W. Miller to be postmnster at Hilts, Calif., in place APPGI~TME:XT, BY TRANSFER, IN THE REGULAR ARMY of B. W. l\liller. Incumbent's commission expires January FIELD .ARTILLERY 31, 1927. Second Lieut. Charles Owen Wiselogel, Air Corps, wi~ r:ank Henry Metzler to be postmaster at Fowler, Calif., in place from June 30, 1926. of Henry Metzler. Incumbent's commission expired Janu­ ary 13, 1927. PROMOO'IO~S IN THE REGULAR ARMY Edna J. l\!cGowan to be postmaster at Belmont, Calif., in VEITERIN .ARY CORPS place of E. J. 1\IcGowan. Incumbent's commission expired To be colonel December 21, 1926. Lieut. Col. Eugene John Cramer, Veterinary Corps, from COLORADO January 8, 1927. Fred E. 1\-Iaker to be postmaster at Grandlake, Colo. Office To be first licutenan.ts became presidential July 1, 1926. Second Lieut. Clayton Huddle Studebaker, F~eld Art.1llery, Jessie L. Thurston to be postmaster at Carbondale, Colo., . in from January 6, 1927. place of H. J. Schwarze!, resigned. Second Lieut. Aluert James Wick, Coast Artillery Corps, from Frank D. Aldridge to be postmaster at Wellington, Colo., January 7, 1927. in place of F. D. Aldridge. Incumbent's commission expires January 30, 1927. . PlWMOTIO:'i IN THE PHILIPPINE SCOCTB Dixon D. Pennington to be postmaster at Victor, Colo., in To be captain place of D. D. Pennington. Incumbent's commission expires First Lieut. Salvador Formoso Reyes, Philippine Scouts, from January 26, 1927. January 6, 1927. , 'Villiam D. Asbury to be postmaster at Montrose, Colo., in POSTMASTERS place of W. D. Asbury. Incumbent's commission expired .AL.AB.A MA January 4, 1927. Fred D. Perkins to be postmaster at Wetumpka, Ala., in 'ralitha B. Utterback to be postmaster at Mesa, Colo., in place of F. D. Perkins. Incumbent's commission expires Janu­ place of T. B. UtteriJack. Incumbent's commission expired ary 29, 1927. August 26, 1926. Addie M. Cannon to be postmaster at l\!ount Vernon, .Ala., in Gerald H. Denio to be postmaster at Eaton, Colo., in place place of A. l\1. Cannon. Incumbent's commission expired of G. H. Denio. Incumbent's commission expires January August 29, 1926. 30, 1927. Warren L. Hollingsworth to be postmaster at Lincoln, Ala., Earl E. Ewing to 1Je postmaster at Colorado Springs, Colo., in place of W. L. Hollingsworth. Incumbent's commission ex­ in place of E. E. Ewing. Incumbent's commission expired pires January 29, 1927. Januax·y 4, 1927. John M. Stapleton to be postmaster at Foley, Ala., in place Agnes l\f. Ward to be postmaster at Bennett, Colo., in place of J. M. Stapleton. Incumbent's commission expires January of A. l\f. Ward. IncumlJent's commission expires January 30, 29, 1927. 1927. William L. rower to be postmaster at Blountsville, Ala., in CONNEOTWUT place of W. L. Power. Incumbent's commission expires Janu­ William G. Mock to be postmaster at New l\Iil!ord, Conn., in ary 29, 1927. plate of K. l\1. Spencer, deceased. John L. Miller to be postmaster at Berry, Ala., in place of W. Gardiner Davis to be postmaster at Pomfret Center, Conn., .J. L. Miller. Incumbent's commission expires January 29, in place of W. G. Davis. Incwnbent's commission expired 1927. December 4, 1926. Margaret El. Stephens to be postmaster at Attalla, Ala., in DELAWARE place of M. E. Stephens. Incumbent's commission expires Janu­ LeRoy W. Hickman to be postmaster at ·wilmington, Del., in ary 29, 1927. place of L. W. Hickman. Incumbent's commission expires Jan­ Fred M. Fitts to be postmaster at Alabama City, .Ala., in place uary 30, 1927. of F. l\1. Fitts. Incumbent's commission expires January 20, FLORIDA 1927. Lillie C. Hnys to be postmaster at Abbeville, Ala., in place Elizabeth D. Barnard to be postmaster at Tampa, Fla .. in of L. C. Hays. Incumbent's commission expires January 31, place of E. D. Barnard. IncumlJent's commission expires Jan­ 1927. uary 26, 1927. OEORGI.A .ARIZONA pot~tmaster J('rome B. Roberts to be postmaster at Park~r, Ariz., in place Joseph C. Thames to be at Crumps Park, Gn., in of l\f. E. Brown. Incumbent's commission expired April 4, 1926. place of L.A. Jenkins, removed. 'Villiam V. Cobb to be postmaster at Smyrna, Ga., in place of .A.RKANSAS W. V. Cobb. Incumbent's commission expired April 17, 1926. Hiram S. Irwin to be postmaster at Clarendon, Ark., in place Clifton 0. Lloyd to be postmaster at Lindale, Ga., in place of of II. S. Invin. Incumbent's commission expires January 16, 0. 0. Lloyd. Incumbent's commis::;ion expired December 20, 1927. 192G. Leon E. Tennyson to be postmaster at Arkadelphia, Ark., in .Albert S. Hardy to be postmaster at Gainesville, Ga., in place place of L. E. Tennyson. Incumbent's commission expires Jan­ of A.. S. Hardy. Incumbent's commission expires March 3, 1927. uary 16, 1927. William C. Cl1am1Jers to be postmaster at Fort Gaines, Ga., :Monroe J. Gogue to be postma::;ter at Rector, Ark., in place in place of W. C. Chambers. Incumbent's commission expire.s <>f M. J. Goguc. IncumiJent's commission expires January 16, January 29, 1927. 1927. James A. Griffin to be postmaster at Cordele, Ga., in place of 0. John Harkey, jr., to ue postmaster at Ola, .Ark., in place J. A. Griftln. Incumbent's collllllission expired Septemher 7, of 0. J. Harkey, jr. Incumbent's commission expires January 1926. 1G. 1927. . Robert H. Ridgway to be postmaster at Canon, Ga., in plnce Dennis M. Townsend to be postmaster at l\Iena, Ark., in place of R. H. Ri

ILLINOIS John F. Schoof to be postmaster nt Denver, Iowa, in place o:t Vernon G. Keplinger to be postmaster at Waverly; Ill., in J. F . Schoof. - Incumbent's commission expired December 28, place of V. G. Keplinger. Incumbent's commission expired 1926. . January 10, 1927. Jesse A. Barnes to be postmaster at Brooklyn, Iowa, in William F. Hemenway to be postmaster at Sycamore, Ill., in place of J. A. Barnes. Incumbent's commission expires Janu- place of W. F. Hemenway. Incumbent's commission expires ary 17, 1927. · · January 30, 1027. KANSAS Charles L. Tanner to be postmaster at Saunemin, Ill., in place Everett H. Cutbirth to be postmaster at Silver Lake, Kans., of C. L. Tanner. Incumbent's commission expires January 22, in place of C. 0. Cutbirth, deceased. 1927. Nettie M. Cox to be p~tmaster at Wellington, Kans., in Harold J. Henderson to be postmaster at Raymond, Ill., in place of N. M. Cox. Incumbent's commission expires January place of II. J. Henderson. Incumbent's commission expired 29, 1927. January 30, 1926. Rollie B. Terrill to be postmaster at Robinson, Kans., in John Lawrence, jr., to be postmaster at O'Fallon, Ill., in place place of ll. S. Bearg. Incumbent's commission expired January of John Lawrence, jr. Incumb€nt's commission expires Janu­ 23, 1924. ary 30, 1927. James M. Kersey to be postmaster at Parsons, Kans., in place Benjamin S. Price to be postmaster at Mount Morris, Ill., in of J. M. Kersey. Incumbent's commission expired December 4, place of B. S. Price. Incumbent's commission expires January 1926. 30, 1927. Frank H. Dieter to be postmaster at Oakhill, Kans., in place Margaret B. Heider to be postmaster at 1\finok, Ill., in place of F. H. Dieter. Incumbent's commission expires January 29, of l\L B. Heider. Incumbent's commission expires January 30, 1927. 1927. Elam Shaffstall to be postmaster at Luray, Kans., in place of John A. Dausmann to be postmaster at Lebanon, Ill., in place Elam Shaffstall. Incumbent's commission expired December 19, of J. A. Dausmann. Incumbent's commission expires January 1926. 30, 1!)27. Carl 0. Lincoln to be postmaster at Lindsborg, Kans., in place Roy F. Dusenbury to be postmaster at Kankakee, Ill., in place of C. 0. Lincoln. Incumbent's commission expires January 16, of R. F. Dusenbury. Incumbent's commission expired January 1927. 10, 1927. Gordon K. Logan to be postmaster at Kirwin, Kans., in Peter H. Conzet to be postmaster at Greenup, Ill., in place of place of G. K. Logan. Incumbent's commission expired Decem­ · P. H. Conzet. Incumbent's commission expires January 30, ber 8, 1926. 1927. Charles H. Browne to be postmaster at Horton, Kans., in John J. Stowe to be postmaster at Girard, Ill., in place of J. J. place of C. H. Browne. Incumbent's commission expires Stowe. Incumbent's commission expired January 9, 1027. January 16, 1927. George J. Rohweder to be postmaster at Geneseo, Ill., in place William R. Waring to be postmaster at Hope, Kans., in place of G. J. Rohweder. Incumbent's commission expired January of W. R. Waring. Incumbent's commission expires January 13, 1927. 20, 1927. John J. Lord to be postmaster at Galva, Ill., in place of J. J. Albert H. Herman to be postmaster at Hiawatha, Kans., in Lord. Incumbent's commission expires January 22, 1927. place of A. H. Herman. Incumbent's commission expired Harry S. Farmer to be postmaster at Farmer City, Ill., in December 12, 1926. . place of H. S. Farmer. Incumbent's commission expires Jan­ Frank H. Hanson to be postmaster at Haddam, Kans., in uary 30, 1927. place of .F. H. Hanson. Incumbent's commission expires Evelyn E. O'Brien to be postmaster at Amboy, Ill., in place of January 29, 1927. E. E. O'Brien. Incumbent's commission expires January 22, Delle Duncan to be postmaster at Esbon, Kans., in place 1927. of Delle Duncan. Incumbent's commission expired December INDIANA 8,-1!)26. Earl R. Hoyt to be postmaster at Pekin, Ind.; in place of H. C. Norman W. Nixon to be postmaster at Downs, Kans., in Littell, resigned. · place of N. W. Nixon. Incumbent's commission expired De­ Louis Pfefferle, jr., to be postmaster at National Military cember 8, 1926. Home, Ind., in place of J. R. Kelley, removed. William D. Hale to be postmaster at Dexter, Kans., in Orville B. Kilmer to be postmaster at Warsaw, Ind., in place place of W. D. Hale. Incumbent's commission expires · Jan­ of 0. B. Kilmer. Incumbent's commission expires January 30, uary 2!), 1927. 1927. Hester Goldsmith to be postmaster at Cheney, Kans., in George E. Jones to be postmaster at Peru, Ind., in place of place of Hester . Goldsmith. Incumbent's commission expires G. E. Jones. Incumbent's commission expires January 30, 1927. January 20, 1927. · Ralph W. Gaylor to be postmaster at Mishawaka, Ind., in Lewis Thomas to be postmaster nt Argonia, Kans., in place place of R. W. Gaylor. Incumbent's commission · expires Jan­ of Lewis Thomas. Incumbent's commission expires January uary 30, 1927. 29, 1927. Jesse E. Harvey to be postmaster at Markle, Ind., in place of Clark L. Porter to be postmaster at Blue Mound, Kans., in J. E. Harvey. Incumbent's commission expires January 31, place of C. L. Porter. Incumbent's commission expires Jan­ 1927. uary 29, 1927. Garrett ,V. Gossard to be postmaster at Kempton, Ind., in KENTUCKY place of G. W. Gossard. Incumbent's commission expired June Walter Creech to be postmaster at Cumberland, Ky., in 24, 1926. place of G. H. Lawrence, removed. Hattie M. Craw to be postmaster at Jonesboro, Ind., in place of H. 1\:1. Craw. Incumbent's commission expires January 30, LOUISIANA 1927. ' Noah Wise to be postmaster at Woodworth, La., in place Morton Hefner to be postmaster at Delphi, Ind., in place of of N. M. Landrum, resigned. Morton Hefner. Incumbent's commission expired September Alexander E. Harding to be postmaster at Slidell, .La., in 22, 1926. place of A. E. Harding. Incumbent's commission expires Jan­ Frank Lyon to be postmaster at Arcadia, Ind., in place of uary 15, 1927. Frank Lyon. Incumbent's commission expires January 30, Joe M. Henley to be postmaster at Selma, La., in place of 1927. \- S. 1\f. McCarty. Incumbent's commission expired July 1, 1926. IOWA Irma M. Perret to be p<)stmaster at Edgard, La., in place Gabriel L. Archer to be postmaster at St. Charles, Iowa, in of B. J. Jacob. Incumbent's commission expired l\larch H, place of G. L. Archer. Incumbent's commission expired Decem­ 1926. ber 30, 1926. Edward K. Pitman to be postmaster at Northwood, Iowa, in MAINE place of Iver Iverson. Incumbent's commission expired 1\larch Cecil E. Sadler to be postmaster at Limerick, 1\ie., in place 24, 1926. of A. A. Swasey, removed. Henry H. Gilbertson to be postmaster at Lansing," Iowa, in Michael J. Kennedy to be postmaster at Woodland, 1\Ie., in place of H. H. Gilbertson. Incumbent's commission expires place of l\1. J. Kennedy. Incumbent's commission expires Jan­ January 30, 1927. uary 30, 1927. Lorenzo D. Howorth to be postmaster at Dunlap, Iowa, in Jesse B. Crosby to be postmaster at Dennysville, 1\Ie., ·-in place of L. D. Howorth. Incumbent's commission expt,:es place of J. B. Crosby. Incumbent's commission expired Decem­ January 17, 1927. ber 4, 1926.

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MARYLAND Charles J. Kappler to be postmaster at Port Austin, Mich., Hobart B. Noll to be postmaster at Woodstock, Md., tn In place of C. J. Kappler. Incumbent's commission expires place of H. B. Noll. Incumbent's commission expires January January 30, 1927. 10, '1927. . Arthur Locke to be postmaster at Middleton, :Mich., in place E'rnest ,V. Pickett to be postmaster ·at Woodbine, Md., 1n of Arthur Locke. Incumbent's commission expired Decembel"l place of E. W. Pickett. Incumbent's commission expired De­ 4, 1920. . . cember 14, 1926. Carl A. Anderson to be postmaster at Menominee, Mich., in Elias N. McAlli:::;ter _to be postmaster at Vienna, Md., in place of C. A. Anderson. Incumbent's commission expil·es place of E. N. McAllister. Incumbent's c<>mmission expired January 17, 1927. December 14, 1926. Ira J. Stephens to be postmaster at 1\fendon, l\1ich., in place o~ Harry L. Feeser to be p<)Stmaster at Taneytown, 1\fd., in I. J. Stephens. Incumbent's commissiQn expires January 30, place of H. L. Feeser. Incumbent's commission expired Decem­ 1927. ber 14, 1926. Ernest A. Densmore to be postmaster at Mason, Mich., 1n William Melville to be postmaster at Sykesville, Md., in place of E. A. Densmore. Incumbent's commission expires place of William Melville. Incumbent's commission expired January 30, 1927. Decem her 14, 1926. Herbert E. Ward to be postmaster at Bangor, Mich., in place Milton D. Reid to be postmaster at New ·windsor, l\ld., in of H. E. Ward. Incumbent's commission expires January 30, 1927. place of M. D. Reid. Incumbent's commission e~pired December 14, 1926. MINNESOTA FJlwood L. 1\fUITay to be postmaster at Hampstead, M:d., in Gustav 0. Schlick to be postmaster at Lucan, 1\Iinn., in place place of E. L. Murray. Incumbent's commission expired De­ of Ida Dickerson, resigned. cember 14, 1926. Edward Odberg to be postmaster at Kettle River, Minn. George 1\1. Evans to be postmaster at Elkton, 1\Id., in place of Office became presidential July 1, 1926. G. 1\1. Evans. Incumbent's commission expired January 8, 1927. Wilson W. Wright to be postmaster at Cromwell, Minn. Thoi:nas B. Griffith to be postmaster at Cockeysville, Md., in Office became presidential July 1, 1926. place of T. B. Griffith. Incumbent's commission expires Janu­ Frank H. Wherland to be postmaster at Welcome, Minn., in ary 16, 1927. place of F. II. Wherland. Incumbent's commission expires H. Vincent Flook to be postmaster nt Boonsboro, Md., in place January 29, 1927. ·of H. V. Flook. Incumbent's commission expired January 4. Almer B. Nelson to be postmaster at Warren, Minn., in place 1927. of A. n. Nelson. Incumbent's commission expired December MASSACHUSETTS 4, 1026. George H. Lachman to be postmaster at Winchester, Mass., John P. Paulson to be postmaster at Two Harbors, Minn., in ,in place of G. H. Lochman. Incumbent's commission expires • place of J. P. Paulson. Incumbent's commission expired Feb- January 31, 1927. ruary 7, 1926. William K. Kaynor to be postmaster at Springfield, Mass., in 1\Iae A. Lovestrom to be postmaster at Stephen, Minn., in place of ,V. K. Kaynor. Incumbent's commission expires Janu- place of ;M. A. J;;ovestrom. Incumbent's commission expired ary 31, 1927. December 16, 1926. Robert H. Howes to be postmaster at Sonthboro Mass. in John Schmelz to be postmaster at Springfield, Minn., in place place of R. II. Howes. Incumbent's commission expires J~nu- of John Schmelz. Incumbent's commission expires January 25, ary 31, 1927. 1927. Albert P~erce to be postmaster at Salem, Mass., in place of George L. Chesley to be postmaster· at Pipestone, Minn., in Albort Pierce. Incumbent's commission expires January 31, place of G. L. Chesley. Incumbent's commission expires Jan- 1927. uary 15, 1027. . Thomas Smith to be postmaster at North Grafton Mass. 1n Kate M. Slmbert to be postmaster at Hastings, Minn., in place of Tllomas Smith. Incumbent's commission expires J~riu- place of K. l\f. Shubert. Incumbent's commission expires Jan- ary 16, 1927. uary 25, 1927. · John H. Baker to be postmaster at Marlboro, Mass. in place Edwin Mattson to be postmaster at Breckenridge, Minn., in of J. H. Baker. Incumbent's commission expires Ja~uary 16, :Place of Edwin Mattson. Incumbent's commission expired De- 1927. cember 27, 1920. Edmuml Spencer to be postmaster at Lenox, Mass., in place Henry H. Lukken to be po~tmaster. a~ Boyd, Minn., in place of Edmund Spencer. Incumbent's commission expires January of II. II. Lukken. Incumbents commlSSlon expires January 25, 24, 1927. 1027. Charles E. Goodhue to be postmaster at Ipswich, 1\Iass., in MISSISSIPPI place of C. E. Goodhue. Incumbent's commission expires Jan- Nettie Ditsworth to be postmaste~ at Lucedale, 1\Iiss., in place ua.ry 31, 1027. · of J. A. DeMonbrun, removed. Carl D. Thatcher to be postmaster at Housatonic, Mass., in place of C. D. Thatcher. Incumbent's commission expires Jan­ MISSOURI uary 16, 1927. Harris L. Fox to be postmaster at Willaru, Mo. Office "be- Augustus J. Formhals to be postmaster at Erving, Mass., in came presidential July 1, 1926. · · place of A. J. Formllals. Incumbent's commission expired De­ Prentiss H. Percifull to be postmaster at Cowgill, Mo., in cember 4, 1926. place of I. N. Parrish, resigned. - Joseph E. Herrick to be postmaster at Beverly, Mass., in FeHx J. Boesche to be postmaster at Unionville, Mo., in place· place of J. E. Herrick. Incumbent's commission e:xph·es Jan- of L. l\1. Robbins. Incumbent's commission expired I!'ebruary . nary 31, 1027. 2, 1926. . Clarence E. Deane to be postmaster at Athol, Mass., in place Harvey H. Fluhart to be postmaster a,t Stewartsville, 1\.lo., in ·of C. E. Denne. Incumbent's commission expires January 31, place of H. H. Jfluhart. Incumbent's commiss~on expired Sep­ 1027. tember 12, 1926. MIOHIGAN Clara S. Beck to be postmaster at Norborne, Mo., in place of William J. Putnam to be postmaster at Goodrich, Mich. C. S. Beck. Incumbent's commission expired December 8, 1926. Office became presidential July 1, 1920. Heury C. Brantley to be postmaste~ at Newtown, :\Io., in Homer L. Allard to be postmaster at Sturgis, Mich., in place place of H. C. Brantley. Incumbent's commission expireu -of H. L. Allard. Incumbent's commission expires January 30, September 2, 1926. 1927. Robert F. Stalling to be postmaster at Lexington, Mo., in Charles A . .Jordan to be postmaster at Saline, Mich., in place place of R. F. Stalling. Incumbent's commission expired Janu- of C. A. Jordan. Incumbent's commission expires January 30, ary 4, 1927. . 1927. Floyd 0. King to be postmaster at Leasburg, Mo., in plnce of . Frank B. Honsel to be postmaster at St. Louis, Mich., in F. 0. .King. Incumbent's commission expired September 22, place of ·F. B. Housel. Incumbent's commission expires Jan­ 1926. unry 22, 1927. Walter C. Haferkamp to be postmaster at Augusta, 1\Io., in : · Chnrles H. Dodge to be postmaster ·at Romeo, Mich., in place place of W. C. Haferl\:amp. Incumbent's commissi9n expired of C. II. Dodge. Incumbent's commission expires January 30, 1927. . . March 8, 1926, Dorr A. Rosencrans ·to be postmaster at Reed Clty, Mich., MONT.ANA. in place of D. A. Rosencrans. Incumbent's commission expires John B. Goodman to be postmaster at Gildford, Mont~ Office January 30, 1927. became presidenti~l July 1, 1926.

• 1927 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 1657 Arthur C. Baker to· be postmaster at Hamilton, Mont., in Sister l\1ary M. McCue to be postmaster at Gabriels, N. Y., place of A. C. Baker. Incumbent's commission expires January in place of Sister 1\I. l\1. McCue. Incumbent's commission ex­ 30, 1927. pires January 25, 1927. John M. Bever to be postmaster at Bridger, Mont., in place of Wade E. Gayer to be postmaster at Fulton, N. Y., in place J. 1\1. Bever. Incumbent's commission expires January 30, 1927. , of W. E. Gayer. Incumbent's commission expires January 24, NEBRASKA 1027. Otto Dau to be postmaster at Yutan, Nebr, in place of Otto · Max J. Lahr to be postmaster at Fillmore, N. Y., in place of Dau. Incumbent's commission expires January 17, 1927. M. J. Lahr. Incumbent's conimi:ssion expires January 31, 1927. Herbert C. Wilkinson to be postmaster at 'Veeping Wa~er, NORTH CAROLINA Nebr., in place of H. C. Wilkinson. Incumbent's commissiOn Lucy B. Hofler to be postmaster at Sunbury, N. C., in place expires January 31, 1927. of J. E. Corbitt, removed. Ross L. Douglas to be postmaster at Litchfield, Nebr., in R. Jennings White to be postmaster at Conway, N. C. Office place of H. E. Mallory. Incumbent's commission expired July became presidential July 1, 1926. 18, 1926. . Anna M. Gibson to be postmaster at Gibson, N. C., in place of Elmer E . Gockley to be postmaster at Edison, Nebr., m place W. Z. Gibson. Incumbent's commission expired September 22, of E. E. Gockley. Incumbent's commission expires January 31, 1926. 1927. Joseph K. 1\lason to be postmaster at Durham, N. 0., in place Sturley T. Stevens to be postmaster at Comstock, Nebr., of J. K. Mason. Incumbent's commission expires January 25, in place of S. T. Stevens. Incumbent's commission expired De· 1927. cember 22, 1926. William R. Freshwater to be postmaster at Burlington, N. C., NEW HAMPSHIRE in pla'Ce of J. G. King. Incumbent's commission expired James R. Kill Kelley to be postmaster at Wil~on, N. H., in December 21, 1926. place of J. R. Kill Kelley. Incumbent's commission expires NORTH DAKOTA January 30, 1927. Harlie A. Cole to be postmaster at Groveton, N. H., in place _ Hazel Marking to be postmaster at Scranton, N. Dak., in of H. A. Cole. Incumbent's commission expires January 30, place of S. B. 1\Iarking, deceased. Gus W. Hokanson to be postmaster at Fort Yates, N. Dak. 1927. . Josie L. Pascoe to be postmaster at Chocorua, N. H., m place Office became presidential July 1, 192G. of J. L. Pascoe. Incumbent's commission expired March 20, Odin Stompro to be postmaster at Columbus, N.Dak., in place ofT. G. Peterson, removed. 1926. NEW JERSEY Fred E. Ackermann to be postmaster at Wishek, N. Dak., in place of F. E. Acl.:ermann. Incumbent's commission expires Richard w. Rosenbaum to be postmaster at Sea Isle City, January 25, 1927. N. J., in place of J. T. Chapman, deceased. . -. Josephine l\1. Lierboe to be postmaster at Turtle Lake, N. William R. l\iayer to be postmaster at Cresskill, N. J., m Dak., in place of A. T. Anderson. Incumbent's commi~sion place of Mary llanfmann, failed to qualify. expired November 22, 1925. Hillis K. Colkitt to be postmaster at Vincentown, N. J., in Flora Bangasser to be postmaster at Norma, N. Dak., in place of H. K. Colkitt. Incumbent's commission expired place of Flora Bangasser. Incumbent's commission expired March 13, 1926. September 22, 192G. Thomas F. Zettlemoyer to be postmaster at Sewaren, N. J., Martin H. Weber to be postmaster at New Leipzig, N. Dak., in place of T. F. Zettlemoyer. Incumbent's commission expired in place of M. H. Weber. Incumbent's commission expired December 28, 1926. May 4, 1926. Geor"'e I. Harvey to be postmaster at Palmyra, N.J., in place Marion C. Houser to be postmaster at Napoleon, N. Dak., of G. t Harvey. Incumbent's commission expires January 15, in place of 1\1. C. Houser. Incumbent's commission expires un . January 29, 1927. John Rotherham to be postmaster at Jersey City, N. J., m Burt E. Stewart to be postmaster at Minot, N. Dak., in place of John Rotherham. Incumbent's commission eXI>ires place of B. E. Stewart. Incumbent's commission expired March 2, 1927. Decem bcr 22, 1926. NEW MEXICO Helen J. Beaty to lJe postmaster at Manning, N. Dak, in Pearl B. Grady to lJe postmaster at Texico, N. 1\Iex., in place place of H. J. Beaty. Incumbent's commission expired Janu- of H. H. De Lozier. Incumbent's commission expired June 3, ary 20, 1926. . 1926. George Hummel to be postmaster at Gackle, N. Dak., in NEW YORK '[llace of George Hummel. Incumbent's commission expired William S. Finney to be postmaster at Cayuga, N. Y. OffiC!e September 22, 192G. became presidential July 1, 1926. Charles E. 'Vatkins to be postmaster at Dunseith, N. Dak., Sarah M. Todd to be postmaster at Castle Point, N. Y. Office in place of W. E. Wright. Incumbent's commission expired became presidential July 1, 1926. January 20, 1026. Henry Neddo to be postmaster at Whitehall, N. Y., in place OHIO of Henry Neddo. Incumbent's commission expires January 31, Walter W. Wiant to be postmaster at St. Paris, Ohio, 1927. in place of W. W. Wiant. Incumbent's commission expires William H. Young to be postmaster at Voorheesville, N. Y., January 29, 1927. in place of W. H. Young. Incumbent's commission expired William II. Harsha to be postmaster at Portsmouth, Ohio, in August 12, 1926. place of ,V. H. Harsha. Incumbent's commission expired Janu­ Thomas S. Spear to be postmaster at Sinclairville, N. Y., in ary 12, 1927. place ofT. S. Spear. Incumbent's commission expires january Allen E. Young to be postmaster at Medina, Ohio, in place of 31, 1927. . . A. E. Young. Ineumbent's commission expired December 22, . F. Wallace Doying to be postmaster at Scarboro, N. Y., m 192G. place of H. L. Parker. Incumbent's commission expired June William H. Hunt to be postmaster at Mechanicsburg, Ohio, in 17, 1926. place of W. H. Hunt. IneurnbE:mt's commission expired J..anu- Stuart W. Smyth to be postmaster at Owego, N. Y., in place ary 10, 1927. . of S. ,V. Smyth. Incumbent's commission expired January 12, Mary E. Ross to be postmaster at Lebanon, Ohio, in place of 1927. M. E. Ross. Incumbent's commission expires January 29, 1927. Chnrles A. Gaylord to be postmaster at North Tonawanda, John W. McCoy to be postmaster at Barberton, Ohio, in N. Y., in place of C. A. Gaylord. Incumbent's commission ex­ place of J. W. McCoy. Incumbent's commission expired De­ pires January 31, 1927. cember 4, 192G. Henry S. Whitney to be postmaster at Manlius, N. Y., in place of H. S. Whitney. Incumbent's commission expires Janu­ OKLAHOMA ary 31, 1927. Estella Sahland to be postmaster at Locust Grove, Okla., in George F. Yaple to be postmaster at Loch Sheldrake, N. Y., place of J. T. Webb, resigned. in place of G. F. Yaple. Incumbent's commission expires Janu­ Murray 1\I. Adams to be postmaster at Denoya, Okla., in ary 31, 1927. place of Earl Leeper, removed. George W. Van Hyning to be postmaster at Hoosick Falls, George Logsdon to be postmaster at Taloga, Okla., in place N. Y., in place of G. W. Van Hyning. Incumbent's commission of George Logsdon. Incumbent's commission expires January expired December 28, 192G. 31, 1927. 1658. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-_ S]JN~~E JANUARY 14

Thomas W. Kelly to be postmaster at Stillwater, Okla., in TEXAS place of T. W. Kelly. Incumbent's commission expireS Janu­ Albert E. Newman to be postmaster at Texas City, Tex., in ary 31, 1927. place of A. E. Newman. Incumbent's commission expires Janu­ William A. Peters to be postmaster at Sallisaw, Okla., in ary 25, 1927. place of W. A. Peters. Incumbent's commission expired Febru­ Edward N. Mulkey to be postmaster at Sherman, Tex., in ary 21, 1926. place of E. N. Mulkey. Incumbent's commission expires Janu­ Hubbard A. Babb to be postmaster at Hugo, Okla., in place ary 17, 1927. of H. A. Babb. Incumbent's commission expires January 31, Nathaniel B. Spearman to be postmaster at Mount Pleasant, 1927. Tex., in place of N. B. Spearman. Incumbent's commission Effie J. Malone to be postmaster at Harrah, Okla., in place expires January 29, 1927. of E. J. l\falone. Incumbent's commission expired December Jackson E . Brannen to be postmaster at Littlefield, Tex., in 12, 1926. place of W. J. Wade. Incumbent's commission expired March Ward Guffy to be postmaster at Cleveland, Okla., in place 23, 1926. - of Ward Guffy. Incumbent's commission expired December 20, Rufus H. Windham to be postmaster at Kirbyville, Tex., in 1926. . place of R. H . Windham. Incumbent's commission expires FENNSYLVA.NIA January 29, 1927. Maude McCracken to be postmaster at Volant, Pa., in place Adah L. Ridenhower to be postmaster at Hico, Tex., in place of J. l\f. Graham, resigned. of A. L. Ridenhower. Incumbent's commission expires Janu­ Floyd A. Hellyer to be postmaster at CranesvHle, Pa. Office ary 25, 1927. became presidential July 1, 1926. Stanley F. Labus to be postmaster at Falls City, Tex., in Bess L. Thomas to be postmaster at New Bethlehem, Pa., in place of S. F. Labus. Incumbent's commission expired Decem­ place of B. L. Thomas. Incumbent's commission expires Janu­ ber 22, 1926. ary 22, 1927. John A. Weyand to be postmaster at Carmine, Tex., in place Thomas J. Morgan to be postmaster at Nanticoke, Pa., in of J. A. Weyand. Incumbent's commission expired January place ofT. J. Morgan. Incumbent's commission expired Decem­ 12, 1927; ber 4, 1926. UTAH. William H. Young to be postmaster at McDooald, Pa., i~ Joseph B. 'Vright to be postmaster at Midvale, Utah, in place. place of. ,V. H. Young. Incumbent's commission expires Janu­ of J. B. Wright. Incumbent's commission expires January ary 22, 1927. 25, 1927. Daniel 1\I. Saul to be postmaster at· Kutztown, Pa., in place John A. Call to be postmaster at Bountiful, Utah, in place of D. M. Saul. Incumbent's commission expires January 22, of J. A. Oall. Incumbent's commission expires January 30, 1927. 1927. . Edward A. P. Christley to be postmaster at Ellwood City, John E. Chadwick to be postmaster at American Fork, Utah, Pa., in place of E. A. P. Christley. Incumbent's commission in place of J . E. Chadwick. Incumbent's commission expired expires January 30, 1927. December 16, 1926. Ida M. Mingle to be postmaster at Birmingham, Pa., in place Herschel E. Calderwood to be postmaster at Coalville, Utah, of I. M. Mingle. Incumbent's commission expired January 8, in place of H. E. Calderwood. Incumbent's commission expired 1927. December 16, 1926. SOUTH DAKOTA VIBGINI.A Frank E. Stephan to be postmaster at Tolstoy, S. Dak., in Eugene 0. Geary to be postmaster at Woodstock, Va., in place of P. H. Bitzer, removed. place of E. C. Geary. Incumbent's commission expires Jan­ Clarence I. Hougen to be postmaster at Wilmot, S. Dak., in uary 22, 1927. place of C. I. Hougen. Incumbent's commission expired Jan­ Campbell Slemp to be postmaster· at Wise, Va., in place of nary 9, 1927. Campbell Slemp. Incumbent's commission expired December Mathias D. Eide to be postmaster at Howard, S. Dak., in 19, 1926. place of M.. D. Eide. · Incumbent's commission expired Septem­ Jacob H. Furr to be postmaster at Waynesboro, Va., in place ber 22, 1926. of J. H . Furr. Incumbent's commission expired December 19, Frank Den Beste to be postmaster at Corsica, S. Dak., in 1926. place of Frank Den Beste. Incumbent's comm.ission expires Everett l\1. Berrey to be DOstmaster at Luray, Va., in place of January 29, 1927. E. M. Berrey. Incumbent's commission expires January 22, George E . Conrick to be postmaster at Chamberlain, S. Dak., 1927. in place of G. E . Conrick. Incumbent's commission expires· Gatewood L. Schumaker to be postmaster at Covington, Va., January 29, 1927. in place of G~ L. Schumaker. Incumbent's commission expires Evert D. Law to be postmaster at Bonestell, S. Dak., in place January 25, 1927. of E. D. Law. Incumbent's commission. expires January 29, John R. Yates to be postmaster at Brookneal, Va., in place 1927. of J. R. Yates. I!J.cumbent's commission expires Ja!luary 26, TENNESSEE 1927. Mrs. Reece E. Rogers to be postmaster at Pressmen's Home, James C. Beatty to be postmaster at Bluemont, Va., in place of J. E. Lewis,· Incumbent's commission expired February 14, Tenn., in place of W. 1\1. Rogers, de~eased . l\fichel K. Freeman to be postmaster at Westmoreland, Tenn., 1924. in place of M.. K. Freeman. Incumbent's commission expires W ASHINOTON January 30, 1927. Orien L. Renn to be postmaster at Touchet, Wash., in place Robert 0. Greene to be postmaster at Troy, Tenn., in place of of 0. L. Renn. Incumbent's commission expired September 20, R. 0 . Greene. Incumbent's commission expires January 16, 1926. 1927. WEST VIRGINIA ._ Simon C. Dodson to be postmaster at Sparta, Tenn., in place Curtis K. Stem to be postmaster at Weirton, W. Va., in place of S. C. Dodson. Incumbent's commission expires January 30, of C. K. Stem. Incumbent's commission expired January 9, 1927. 1927. . Charles K. Metcalf to be postmaster at National Sanatorium, Nell Bennett to be postmaster at Pickens, W. Va., m place of Tenn., in place of C. K. Metcalf. Incumbent's commission ex- A. w. Ewing. Incumbent's commission expired March ~4, 1926. pires January 16, 1927. _ Thomas C. Scott to be postmaster at Philippi, W. Va., m place John H. Wilson to be postmaster at Kingston, Tenn.:, in place of T. Sco~t. Incumbent's comm~ssion expired January 13, of J . .H. Wilson. Incumbent's commission expires January 16, c. 27 1927. b 11 i 19Claude· W. Harris to be postmaster at K1m. a , w~ Va., n Alvin M. Stout to be postmaster at Greenfield, Tenn., in place place of C. W. Harris. Incumbent's commission expired August 16, of A. M. Stout. Incumbent's commission expires January 10, 1926. . 1927. E Chase Bare to be postmaster at Alderson, W . Va., m Norman Massa to be postmaster at Cookevllle, Tenn.• in place plac'e of E. C. Bare. Incumbent's commission expires January of Norman Massa. Incumbent's commission expires January 20, 1927. 16, 1927. WISCONSIN Douglas B. Hill to be postmaster at Collierville, Tenn., in place of R. D. Wil~on. Incumbent's commission expired March LeRoy Winters to be postmaster at Twin Lakes, Wis. Office 24, 1926. became presidential July 1, 1926. 1927 CONGR.ESSION. AL RJDCORD-HOUSE. 11659 Charles R. noskie to be postmaster at Montello, Wis., in CONFIRMATIONS place of Charles Brown, deceased. Hil!coutive nomi,nat-ions 001l·fl·rmed by the Senate Jan-uary1J,, 1931 Lester C. Porter to lJe postmaster at Fontana, Wis. Office lJecnme presidential July 1, 1926. UNITED STATES ATTORNEY 1\lnthias ll~. Adler to be postmaster at 'Vaunakee, Wis., in Thomas J. Sparks to be United States attorney for the west­ place of l\I. F. Adler. Incumbent's commission expired Sep­ ern district of Kentucky. tember 22, 1926. REGISTER OF THI!: LAND OFFICE Oscar C. 'Vertheimer to be postmaster at Watertown, Wis., Albert G. Stubblefield to be register of the land office at in place of 0. C. "rertheimer. Incumbent's commission ex- Pueulo, Colo. pires 1\Iarch 2, 1927. · POSTMASTERS Benjamin Y. Hallock to be postmaster at Verona, Wis., in ILLI TOIS placE.' of J. P. l\Iatts. Incumbent's commission expired l\farch Jesse E. l\-liller, Cairo. 7, 1!)26. Orville L. Davis, Champaign. John l\1. Albers to lJe postmaster at Thiensville, Wis., in Henry ,V. Rchwartz, Dupo. place of J. l\1. AllJers. IncumlJent's commission expired Sep­ Hf.'nry E. Farnam, Pa wuee. temlJe.r 12, 1926. Hilary L. llae::;sly to be postmaster at Theresa, Wis., in Hobert H. Christen, Pecatonica. place of H. L. Haes::lly. Incumbent's commission expired Au­ MIOIIIGAN g·ust 12, 1926. Leroy l\I. Guinniss, Algonac. Alice "' fl. Clinton to lJe postmaster at Sulliv-an, Wis., in place .John J. Ellis, jr., Calumet. of A. l.\1. Clinton. Incumbent's commil:lsion expired August 12, Ida L. Sherman, Pullman. 1926. MIS~OURI Margaret E. Glassow to lJe postmaster at Schofield, Wis., in Emanuel S. LawlJaugh, St. Marys. place of l\1. E. Glassow. Incumbent's commission expired Sep- tember 22, 1!)26. . SOUTH DAKOTA Clytie Gei~er to be postmaster at Rothschild, Wis., in place Solomon Hoy, Fort Pierre. of Clytie Geiger. IncumlJent's commission expired August 12, Gunnell l\1. Gorder, Frederick. 1!)26. Benjamin R. Stone, Lead. Emile Kientz to be postmaster at Reeserille, Wis., in place of Clarence A. Carlson, Philip. Emile Kientz. IncumlJent's commis~ion expired August 14, l\fntt Flavin, Sturgis. 1926. TE~NESSEE Allen W. "Wiggin to lJe postmaster at Plymouth, Wis., in Gordon P. Hyatt, Ducktown. place of A. W. 'Viggin. IncumlJent's commission expired August Gertrude Jamison, Millington. 12, 1926. Josf.'ph l\1. Patterson, Wntertown. Alice E. Ford to lJe postmaster at Pelican Lake, Wis., in place WISCONSIN of A. E, Ford. Incumbent's commission expired August 24. Lyle H. Nolop, Alma Center. 1925. Ora C. Thompson, Argyle. Orris 0. Smith to be postmaster at Pardeeville, Wis., in place Peter E. Korb, Boyd. of 0. 0. Smith. Incumbent's commission expired August 12, Otto C. Nienas, Camp Douglas. 1!)26. Imogene Croghan, Cascade. George W. Taft to ue postmaster at Necedah, Wis., in place Edwin H. Jost, Cleveland. of G. W. Taft. Incumbent's commission expired September 22. Pnul l\Ilodzik, Cudahy. 1926. Joseph W. Jacobson, Dane. l\larinus Jensen to lJe postmaster at l\fountain, Wis., in place Annie E. Nelson, Dresser Junction. of l.\Iarinus Jensen. Incumbent's commission expired December Anna J. J ohmwn, Fairwater. 19, 1926. Gerrit J. Yredeveld, Frie::;lnnd. Earle R. Schilling to lJe postmaster at l\llnocqua, Wis., in William Kotv-i~, Hillsboro. place of E. R. Schilling. Incumbent's commis~ion expired Sep­ Olarence J. Fieweger, Kimberly. tember 22, 1!)26. Ethel F. Pilgrim, Menomonee Falls. 'Vinford Suits to l>e postmaster at l\ledford, ·wis., in place Edward Y. Snider, l\losinee. of Winford Suits. Incumbent's commission expired September Charles S. Brent, Oconomowoc. 15, 1926. Herman Graskamp, Oostburg. GillJert J. Grell to be postmaster at Johnson Creek, 'Vis., in Henry F. Delles, Port Washington. place of G. J. Grell. Incumbent's commission expired Aug:ust Otto A.. Olson, Star Prairie. .. 12, 1926. Louis C. Currier, Stoughton. Lewis l\f.. Smith to l>e postmaster at Jeffer~on, Wis .. in place Hall L. Brook~, Tomahawk. of L. M. Smith. IncumlJent's commi~sion expired August 12, 1926. . Andrew J. Bosch to lJe postmaster at Gratiot, Wis., in plnce WITHDRAWAL of A. J. Bosch. IncumlJent's commission expired April 7, 1926. E~Cooutive nominaf'ion wi-thd1·a-wn from the Senate January 1!,, Elsie 0. Barnes to lJe postma~ter at Frienuship, Wis., in 19Bi Illace of E. 0. Bnrnes. Incuml>f.'nt·s commission expired Sep­ POSTMASTER t ember 12, 1!)26. George A. Potter to he postmaster at Fort Atkinson, Wis., in WEST \IRGINIA place of G. A. Potter. Incumbent's commission expired August Hobert Paruell to l>e postmnstf.'r at Stirrat, in the State of 12, 1!)26. We~t YirginiR. Clara M. Johnson to l>e postmaster at Ettrick, Wi~ .• in place of C. l\1. Johnson. Incumbent··s commis··ion ex}lired Decemucr HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 19. 1926. Grace E. Skinner to be po~tmnster at Endeavor, \\.. is., in place FRIDAY, Jan'l.lary 14, 19'27 of Ella Gothompson. IncumlJent's commission expired l\lny 3, The Hou. e met at 12 o'elock noon, and was c.:alled to order 1!)26. lJy the Rpeaker. Grant E. Denison to be postmaster at Carrollville, Wis., in The Chaplain, nev-. James ~hera Montgomery, D. D., offered pla<:e of G. E. Denison. Incumbent's commis~ion expired July the following prayer: 26, 1926. Clarence B. Jensen to lJe postmaster at. Cambridge, 'Vis., in Father in heaven, for the lJirth of eYery day we bless Thee; place of C. B. Jensen. IncumlJenfs commission expired Decem- for every hope that makes life worth while we praise Thee. uer 19 1926. '.rl'Uly, in Thee we find our re ~'t and full security. Thy provi- Jos~ph R. Fro.-t to be postmaster at Avoca, Wis., in place le. of J. R. Frost. Inemnbent's commission expired July 26, 1926. 0~, ma;r It nev-er I;>e ov-erlo?ke~ or underv!llued. FI~l our liyes John S. Farrell to ue postmaster at Green Bay, Wis., in place w1th ~Ighty meamng and msptre .them with a pulsmg passwn of J. S. Farrell. Incumbent's commission expired January 3 to realize it. The Lord most graciously look upon our country 1927. · ' Ivdth great fav-or. BlesR all institutions that help men and that William w. Wiuche~ter to he postmaster at Amery, Wis., in make him worthier as Thy child. Amen. place of W. W. 'Vinchester. Incumbent's commission expires The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was rend nnd January 29, 1927. approved.