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3108 CONGRESS! ON AL RECORD-SENATE. FE~RUARY" 19, 1660. By 1\fr. WINSLO'V: Petition of 23 citizens of Worcester, 1682. Also, petition of Paul Schulze Baking Co., Chicago, ill., 1\Iass., .fo:r the support of House bill No. 1112; to the Committee urging the passage of the Gronna bill, terminating the wheat on the Judiciar~. guaranty period; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 1661. By Mr. YATES : Petition of J. 1\1. Ocheltree and others of 1683. Also, petition of Tonk Manufacturing Co., urging the / Homer, Ill., urging universal military training; to the Com passage of House bill 10650, and opposing House bill 10615, be Dlittee on Military Affairs. lieving it would be unfair to establish furniture factories in ~662. Also petition of furniture and casket manufacturers of Federal prisons; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Chicago protesting against House bill 10615 ; to the Committee 1684. Also, petition of the Moline Branch National AS O· on the Judiciary. elation for the Advancement of the Colored People. r pre 1663. Also, petition of C. F. Wolff & Son. of Chicago, protesting sentillg 250 citizens of Rock Island, urging the passage of the against legislation favoring labor organizations; to the Com Dyer bill, or some legislation on lynchings; to the Committee mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. .on the Judiciary. 1664. Also, petition of Belden l\lanufacturin_g Co., of Chicago, Ill., urging legislation preventing strikes, in the present railroad bill; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. SENATE. 1665. Also., petition of l\Ianz Engraving Co., by F. D. Mont gomery, secretary, urging the inclusion of the antistrike clause in THURSDAY, February 19, 19~0. the Cummins bill; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. (Legislative day of Wednesday, Februa'ry 18, 1920.) 1666. Also, petition of Baltimore Board of Trade, Baltimore, The Senate met at 12 o'clock noon, on the expiration of the 1\Id., urging a fixed rate of return to the railroads of 5! per cent recess. ~s provided by section 6 of the Cummins bill; to the Committee Mr. SMOOT. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. quorum. 1667. Also, petition of Cole Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IlL, The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will can the roll. urging the passnge of the antistrike provision in the railroad The roll was called, and the following Senators answered bill; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. to their names : · 1668. Also, petition of Stewart Warner Speedometer Corpora Ashurst Gay Knox Pomerene tion, Chicago, Ill., urging the return of the railroads to their Ball ~re . Lenroot Ran dell owne1·s; also favor the antistrike provisions in the railroad bill; Beckham Gronna Lodge Sheppard to the Committee on Interstate "8lld Foreign Commerce. Brandegee Hale McKellar Sherman • Capper Harris McLean Smith, Ga. 1669. Also, petition of George D. Roper Corporation, Rockford, Chamberlain Harrison McNary Smith, Md. TIL, protesting against Hou e bill 10543, but approve tl].e adop Colt Henderson Moses Smoot Culberson Hitchcock Nelson Spencer tion of certain changes set forth by the National Associaqon of Cummins · Johnson, Calif. New Sterling Railway and Utilities Commissioners; to the Committee on In Curtis Jones, N.Mex. Norris Sutherland terstate and Foreign Commerce. Dial Jones, Wash. Nugent Thomas 1670. Also, petition of Interstate Iron & Steel Co., Chicago, Dillingham Kellogg Overman Trammell Elkins Kendrick Page Walsh, Mont. Ill., urging the restoration of carriers to private control; to the Fernald Kenyon Phelan Warren Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Fletcher Keyes Phipps Williams 1~7t. Also, petition of David 1\I. Yates, 121 North State France King Pittman Wolcott . Street, Chicago, ru.L urging the passage of the antistrike pro Frelinghuysen Kirby Poindexter visions contained in the railroad bill; to the Committee on In 1\fr. DIAL. I desire to announce that the Senator from South terstate and Foreign Commerce. Carolina [Mr. SMITH] is detained by illness. I ask that this 1672. Also, petition of the Heppes Nelson Roofing Co., 4500 noti~e may continue during the day. Fillmore Street, Chicago, TIL, urging the return of the railroads Mr. GRONNA. I wish to announce that the Senator from to their owners by March 1 ; to the Committee on Interstate and Wisconsin [Mr. LA FoLLETTE] is absent, due to illness. I ask Forclgn Commerce. that this announcement may stand for the day. 1673. Also, petition of Altorfer Bros. Oo., Peoria, Ill., protest . Mr. McKELLAR. The Senator from Virginia [Mr. SwANSON] ~ ing against House billl-0453 ; also against the creation of a trans is detained by illness in his family. portation board; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign The Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. GEBBY] is detaineu at Commerce. home by illness. · . 1674. Also, I>etition of Chamber of .Commerce, Danville, Ill., The Senator from Virginta [Mr. ·GLAss], the Senator from urging the ratification of the peace treaty at once, with such res Arkansas [Mr. RoBINSON], the ::;enator from North Carolina ervations as will fully safeguard every fundamental principle of [Mr. SIMMONS], the Senator from Kentucky [Mr. STANLEY], and. the Government of the United States; to the Committee on For· the Senator- from Massachusetts [Mr. WALSH] are absent on eign Affairs. official business. ' 1675. Also, petition of 40 Spanish War Veterans. of the Sol The VICE PRESIDENT. Sixty-seven Senators have answered Uiers' Home, Tenn., urging the pensioning of Spanish War vet to the roll call. There is a quorum present. The Senate re erans suffering from tuberculosis, making the rate $80, the same sumes the consideration of House bill12046, the deficiency appro· as given the 'Vorld War veterans for tuberculosis; to the Com priation bill, and the Senator from Illinois [Mr. SHERMAN] is mittee on Pensions. entitled to the floor. 1676. Also, petition of Chicago, Mihvaukee & St. Paul Rail 1\fr. 'VARREN. 'Vill the Senator from Illinois yield to me road urging the passage of Senate bill 2232 and House bill 6649, for a moment until I present a matter? providing a national public works department; to the Committee 1\fr. SHERMAN. Certainly. on Expenditures in the Interior Department. ENFORCEMENT OF PROHIBITION, 1677. Also, petition of Rotary Club of Canton, ill., urging the Mr. WARREN. Mr. President, as the committee was about to passage of universal training bill; to the Committee on Military close its labors upon the pending deficiency appropriation bill, Affairs. and after we had agreed to a proposed appropriation of $1,000,000 1678. Also, petition of Lieut. Reed G. Landis, aviator, New placed in the bill by the Hous~ to guard the 59,000,000 gallons York, urging separate air service, headed by Cabinet officer, con and more of whisky that ru·e held in the possession of the trolling all governmental and regulating .safety of civilian avia manufacturers, and we had also added a new item of $1,000 , ~ tion, maintenance of large merchant air marines as "Qest possible for the Customs Service, to protect the borders of our count_ri1 preparedness for defense; to the Committee on Military .Affail·s. against incon;t~g whisky, tflere came an estimate with a pro· 1679. ·Also, petition of Cairo Retail Merchants' Association, posed amendment from the Secretary of the Treasury which, of Cairo, Ill., urging the passage of the Dia~-Madden bills; also while it covered the appropriation of $1,000,000 already included opposing the efforts of magazine publishers to secure repeal of in the bill, was not a real esti~at~ for f:tO item of appropliation,_ zone-system law; to the· Committee on the Post Office and Post but;, a matter of legislation covering a large number of pages. RM~ . It starts in and provides for the handling and disposition of the 168!). Also, petition of Clinton Commercial Club, Clinton, Ill., whisky. It provides for the buying of land an(l the building urgirig the defeat of the .efforts o.f publishers to repeal the. zone of storehouses. It provides for guarding the pre ent storehouses system bill; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. where· the whisky is held in bond. It provides for the collec 1681. Also, petition of Col. J. R. Lindsay, Forty-seco~d In tiQD of "the ~ustoms whe~ the whisky is taken out for sale. It fantry, Camp Upton, N. Y., urging .the passage of tb.e bill giv provides how it shall be sold and it carries penalties up to 5 or ing inc~~ase of pay to officers and privates of the Army, Navy, 10 years~ i~prisonment, and so forth. It provides for bottling and_Marin ,e Corps; to the Committee on NavaLA:ffairs.. plants at the various places so that it can be bottled and sold. .: 1920. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 3109 So the committee did not insert the matter in the pending ap system of espionage that is scarcely worth~· of the Federal Gov propriation bill, but I haye puf it in the form of a bill for ernment. I know that im appropriation was made heretofore for regular legislation, lealing out the appropriation feature. I now the enforcement of the act, and I can not understand the neces introduce the bill .and ask that it may go to the Committee on sity of these extensive appropriations. Finance, which has handled all matters of internal reyenue with Mr. WARREN. Two million dollars was -appropriated in the relation to whisky. I ask that committee and the members original act, but when we undertake to carry out this laudable present that the bill may har-e early attention. purpose and make this country a prohibition country, which I The bill ( S.