1941 .CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· SENATE 3477 and the national-defense program: to the tery purposes," approved April ·28, 1906, Security Administrator to accept gifts for Committee on the Judiciary. in which it requested the concurrence of St. Elizabeths Hospital and to provide for the 936. Also, petition of the Daughters of the administration of such gifts (with an accom :American Revolution, Washington, D. C., the Senat~. panying paper); to the Committee on the petitioning consideration of their resolution INTER-AMERICAN mGHWAY THROUGH District of Columbia. with reference to education; to the Commit CENTRAL AMERICAN REPUBLICS (H. PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS tee on Education. DOC. NO. 197) Petitions, etc., were laid before the The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate by the Vice President, or present Senate the following message from the ed by Senators, and referred as indicated: President of the United States, which SENATE By the VICE PRESIDENT: was read, and, with the accompanying A resolution of the City Council of Gard· THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1941 papers, referred to the Committee on ner, Mass., approved by the mayor, favor J;"oreign Relations. ing amendment of existing law providing a The Chaplain, Rev. Z~Barney T. Phil 30-day lay..:Off period after 18 months of lips, D. D., offered the following prayer: To the Congress of the United States ot employment under theW. P. A.; to ·the Com America: mittee on Appropriations. · 0 God, our Maker and Defender, from I commend to the favorable considera A resolution adopted by 45 Rotary Clubs of whom cometh every good and perfect gift, tion of the Congress the enclosed report the one hundred thirty-ninth district assem and with whom is the ordering of our from the Secretary of State and the ac bled in the State of Louisiana, protesting creaturely existence: We beseech Thee to companying draft of proposed legislation against delay in the national-defense pro bless our country with Thy patient teach to enable the United States to cooperate gram caused by strikes and shut-down of · plants which have contracts for airplanes ing, that it may be cleansed from the with the governments of the American and for the Army and Navy, and requesting stain of every lingering corruption, to the republics in Central America in the sur that the Federal Government deal most gradual evolving of a truer and purer vey and c_onstruction of the proposed in severely with those responsible for such social order, and the training of the ter-American highway within the bor strikes in defense industries; to the Com hearts of all our citizens in Thy faith, ders of those republics. mittee on Education and Labor. fear, and love, the fear of naught but FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. Resolutions of the Building and Construc consenting to iniquity and the love that THE WHITE HOUSE, May 1,1941. tion Trades Council, of Alton, Dl., and desires and seeks the good of all. Painters Local, No. 487, both of the American Give us greater skiJl in the art of self £Enclosures: 1. Report of the Secre Federation of Labor, of Sacramento, Calif., tary of Sta~. 2. Draft of proposed bill.] pledging that there will be no stoppage of discipline, so essential in these troublous work because of jurisdictional disputes be times. Grant us light to see and grace EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS tween any of the building and construction to follow the paths wherein we shoUld The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the trades on any building or construction proj walk, for, though vaguely perplexed, we Senate the following letters, which were ect essential to the speedy and successful are anxious above all else to do our duty completion of the national-defense program; unto our God, our country, and our fel referred as indicated: to the Committee on Education and Labor. AWARDS OF CONTRACTS FOR THE ARMY A resolution of Painters Local No. 487, low men. · American Federation bf Labor, of Sacramento, Finally, we ask for the bestowal of A letter from the Secretary of War, re Calif., stating that, under employers who are that spirit, at once tender and strong, porting, pursuant to law, relative to divisions recognized as being fair to organized labor, which makes all things ours and makes of awards of certain quantity contracts for when any or all of the building- and con us of some benediction to others, even-the aircraft, aircraft parts, anC: accessories there struction-trades organizations are unable to spirit of Him who lived abundantly and tor entered inter with more than one bidder supply a full force of building-trades men to under authority of law; to the Committee on man defense projects, every organization affili lived withal to heal and bless, Jesus M111tary Affairs. Christ, Thy Son our Lord. Amen. ated with such labor organizations agrees that READING MATI'ER FOR THE BLIND a union employer shall be privileged to em THE JOURNAL ploy others than members of the building A letter· from the Acting Postmaster Gen and construction trades affiliated with such On request of Mr. BARKLEY, and by eral transmitting a draft of proposed legisla unanimous consent, the reading of the labor unions until such time as the labor tion to further amend the acts for promoting organizations so affiliated can replace non Journal of the proceedings of Tuesday, the circulation of reading matter among the union men with members of their organiza April 29, 1941, was dispensed with, and blind (with an accompanying paper); to the tions, or until such nonunion men are re the Journal was approved. - Commit~e on Post Oftlces and Post Roads. quested to become members of the respective MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT REPORTS OF THE SECRETARY OF THE unions; to the Committee on Education and APPROVAL OF A ·BILL NAVY Labor. A resolution of the Common Council of the Messages in writing from the President A letter from the Secretary of the Navy, City of Yonkers, N. Y., protesting against the of the United States were communicated transmitting, pursuant to law; a supplemental enactment of legislation which would reduce to the Senate by Mr. Latta, one of his report for the quarter ended March 31, 1941, the quantity of tropical' raw sugar now 1m secretaries, who also announced that on on contracts entered into for buildings, facill ported into the United States for refining ties, etc., in accordance with law (with an and distribution; to the Committee on April 29, 1941, the President had ap accompanying report) ; and Finance. proved and signed the following act: A letter from the Secretary of the Navy, House Resolution No. 149, agreed to by the S.1059. An act to expedite the national de transmitting, pursuant to law, reports of ne House of Assembly of the State of California, fense by clarifying the application of the gotiated contracts entered into by the Navy memorializing Congress to enact legislation act of August 24, 1935 ( 49 Stat. 793), as to the Department during the quarter ended March to prevent profiteering In foods and other requirement of mandatory performance and 31, 1941, in accordance with the provisions of necessities of life during continuance of the payment bonds in connection with supply section 2 (a) of Publlc Act No. 671, Seventy national-defense emergency; to the Commit contracts. sixth Congress (with accompanying reports); tee on the Judiciary. to the Committee on Naval A1fairs. Resolutions unanimously adopted by the MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE Supreme Lodge of the Order of Ahepa, as A message from the House of Repre RECLAMATION REPORT ON THE BULLS- sembled at Washington, D. C., favoring the . . ~ HEAD DAM PROJECT Mr. enactment of legislation providing universal sentatives, by Megill, one of its clerks, mil1tary service for all young men in America announced that the House had passed the A letter from the Acting Secretary of the between the ages of 20 and 22; repeal of the joint resolution (S. J. Res. 60) relating to Interior, transmitting the Reclamation report Neutrality Act; the designation of an area corn and wheat marketing quotas under on the Bullshead Dam project on the Colorado within the territorial limits of the United the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, River where that stream forms the States where the youth of all nations may as amended, with an amendment, in boundary between Arizona and Nevada (with receive appropriate muttary training, etc.; accompanying papers); to the Committee on the establishment of an American Council of which it requested the concurrence of the Irrigation and Reclamation. Senate. Nationalities for defense of democracy; re 'l11e message also announced that the ACCEPTANCE OF GIFTS FOR ST. ELIZA version to the principles of International law BETHS HOSPITAL tn force prior to enactment of the existing House had passed a bill 3482 .CONGRESSIONAL RECORD~SENATE MAY 1 the development of farm units on public S. 1440 (by request). A bill for the relief liabilities reported in such statement show lands under Federal reclamation projects; of the Snoqualmie Tribe of Indians and all ing whether the same be indebtedness on without amendment (Rept. No. 255) .. bands of said tribe in the State of Wash open account or represented by bonds, notes, ington; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. debentures, or other evidence of indebted BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTION By Mr. LUCAS: · ness. , INTRODUCED S. J. Res. 72. Joint resolution proposing an (5) A statement setting forth, from its Bills and a joint resolution were intro amendment to the Constitution of the organization through the end of the fiscal United States relative to sex disqualification year for which such statement is made duced, read the first time, and, by unani removal; to the Committee on the Judiciary. (a) The aggregate principal amount o! mous consent, the second time, and re loans, if any, made; ferred as follows: . FINANCIAL CONDITION OF CERTAIN (b) The aggregate principal amount of any By Mr. THOMAS of Utall: GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES AND COR such loans outstanding at the end of such S. 1422. A bill to constitute an Army Chap PORATIONs-JOINT RESOLUTION IN fiscal year; classified as to original loans, lains' Corps with a brigadier general as cllief; TRODUCED renewals, or ext ensions, uncollected accrued to the Committee on Military Affairs. interest, or other assessments; By Mr. REYNOLDS: Mr. BYRD. I introduce a joint reso (c) The aggregate principal amount of re S.1423. A bill to provide for the admission lution to provide for reports to the Secre payments made with respect to such loans: to St. Elizabeths Hospital of insane persons tary o.f the Treasury in regard to the (d) The aggregate principal amount and belonging to the Foreign service of the United financial condition of certain agencies the number of its loans which were in default States; to the Committee on the District of and corporations of the Government, and at the end of such fiscal year, classified to Columbia. ask that it be printed in the RECORD and show principal or interest and the probable By Mr. BUTLER: lie on the table. . value thereof, with a statement as to the s: 1424. A b111 for the relief of Mary J. method of evaluation; _ Crabtree; to the Committee on Claims. The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob (e) The aggregate principal amount and By Mr. BULOW: jection, it is so ordered. the number of its loans or other assets which 8. 1425. A bill for the relief of Edward J. The joint resolution (S. J. Res. 73) to have been written ofi', in whole or in part, Gebhart; to the Committee on Claims. provide for reports to the Secretary of including assets which have been appraised By Mr. KILGORE: the Treasury showing the financial con at less-than-cost value; and S.1426. A bill for the relief of Otis Thomp dition of certain agencies and corpora (f) The aggregate principal amount of loans son; to the Committee on Claims. the property securing which, as a result of a By Mr. LA FOLLETTE: tions of the Government was read twice default, was acquired by it or sold, at fore S. 1427; A bill for the relief of Mrs. Della by its title and ordered to lie on the closure or otherwise; the- aggregate appraised Thompson; to the Committee on Claims. table, as follows: value as of the date the loans were made of By Mr. McNARY: Resolved, etc., That the Secretary of the all such property; expenses incurred and cap S. 1428. A bill for the rellef of Walter M. Treasury is authorized and directed to re italized in connection with the custody and Anderson; quire, as soon as practicable after the close disposition of such property; and the amount S. 1429. A bill for the relief of William of each fiscal year, a complete financial state realized on ~roperty sold or disposed of other.;, Corder; and ment from each of the following agencies and wise. s. 1430. A bill for the relief of Ivan Richard corporations: Reconstruction Finance Cor (6) A statement setting forth the author Witcher and Nel11e Witcher; to the Committee poration; Commodity Credit Corporation; tty of law pursuant to which its liabilities on Claims. Export-Import Bank of Washington; Federal have been or may be incurred and the limit 8.1431. A b111 to provide for the purchase of Crop Insurance Corporation; F.e~eral Deposit or limits: if any, upon its power to incur the old post-ofilce building at Eugene, Oreg.; Insurance Corporation; . Tennessee Valley obligations. Such statem·ent shali contain a to the Committee on Public Buildings and Authority; Public Works Administration; 'report on the character and amount of any Grounds. United States Maritime Commission; Rural notes, bonds, debentures, or other such obli By Mr. DOWNEY: Electrification Administration; Home Owners• gations issued by it and its capital stock and S. 1432. A bill to establish a system of auto• Loan Corporation; Federal Savings and Loan other participating· interests or rights, the matic salary increases within the Federal Insurance Corporation; Federal savings and extent to which and the authoriy of law service; to the Committee on Civil Service. loan associations; Federal home loan banks; under whch the United States, or any cor By Mr. WALLGREN: Federal Housing Administration; United porate or other agency or instrumentality S. 1433. A bill to regulate the interstate States Housing Authority; Farm Credit Ad thereof, is or may become liable as guaranto~ transportation of black bass, and for other ministration; Federal Farm Mortgage Corpo. or otherwise with respect to any of its lia purposes; to the Committee on Interstate ration; Federal intermediate credit banks; bilities, now existing or which may be in Commerce. banks for cooperatives; production credit curred, or with respect to any securities is By Mr. LANGER: corporations; regional agricultural credit sued or which may be issued by it, and in S. 1434. A bill to require parity prices to corporations; Disaster Loan Corporation; clude list of its creditors and of the owners be paid for agricultural commOdities for the Electric Home and Farm Authority; Farm or holders of its securities • (including its use of the United States; to the Committee Security Administration; Federal National capital stock and other participating inter on Agriculture and Forestry. Mortgage Association; Inland Waterways ests or rights) so far as reasonably ascer S. 1435. A bill to prohibit child labor and Corporation; Panama Rallroad Co.; Puerto tainable. provide minimum wages as a condition for Rican Reconstruction Administration; RFO SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Treasury is agricultural benefit payments; to the Com Mortgage Co.; and Tennessee Valley Associ further authorized· to require such additional mittee on Education and Labor. ated Cooperatives, Inc. data from such agencies and corporations to By Mr. LUCAS: SEc. 2. The said financial statement of each be included in such financial statements ·as S. 1436. A bill to facilltate the maintenance of the foregoing agencies and corporations he may deem necessary or desirable in the of communication between members of the shall include- public interest. Such financial statements armed forces mi active duty and their fami (!) A statement of its assets (including shall, upon request, be made available to any Member of Congress or any committee thereof. lies by providing for the free transtni~:sion outstanding loans) and liabllities for each in the mails of letters and post cards written fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year HOUSE BILL REFERRED by such members; to the Committee on Post ending June 30, 1941. Ofilces and Post Roads. (2) A statement in reasonable detail of the The bill . ELIZABETH, ·N. J., April 21, 1941. SALEM, OREG., April 17, 1941. WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE The Honorable CHARLES WILLIAM TOBEY, Senator ToBEY, FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. Washington, D._c . . Philadelphia, April 21, 1941. MY DEAR ~EN ATOR: Sincerest thanks for your DEAR SENATOR ·TOBEY: We heard your radio 1 Senator c. w. ToEEY, anticonvoy resolution. address and are very hopeful that we can S_enate Office Building, · The preservation of our strength bodily and keep this .country out of war by adopting · Washington, D. C. in all other ways seems to us the foremost your resolution, and have written our Sen DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: _ I am unanimously patriotic duty. If we do it, we shall be ators and Representative to support you in instructed by the board of the Pennsylvania victorious. your noble effort. . . ' - branch, Women's International League for· If we do it before disaster befalls the Na · Wishing you much success · and hoping· Peace and Freedom, to express to you the: tion, we will owe it to men like you. · that you will have the strength to carry' c;leep indebtedness of all of our members, Forwaid, ·then, with our blessings! f on your good work ' . who believe that the United States should. Respectfully yours, . Yours respectfully, . remain at peace, for your introduction of HELEN YOUNG, M. D. Mrs. NiCK CASPAR AND FAMILY • . Senate Resolution . 62, prohibiting convoys. In the opinion of this organization, the passage of your resolution would bring to· DARLINGTON, PA., April 18, 1941. PoRTLAND, OREG., April 17, 1941. our country the most urgent and effective de Senator ToBEY, Senator CHARLES W. ToBEY, · fense-defense against war itself. · Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C. We assure you of the wholehearted sup - HoNORABLE SIR: I wish to congratulate you MY DEAR SENATOR: As one of the 83 per port of the Women's International League. on your effort to prevent the use of convoys cent who are opposed to our involvement in We should appreciate it very much if you . by the armed- naval forces of the United foreign wars, I wish to register my disap- . would inform us .if there is any action which might be of service in securing the success . Stat~s. Such action would mean war. No_ proval of the convoying of ships, because I · boys to Europe to fight England's'battles this. believe that' is the surest way to get the of your measure. time. Eighty-three percent of the people are United States into war. With most sincere thanks. determined to stay out of any foreign war. · I think our President is gradually trying_ SOPHIA H. DULLES, Yours very truly, to involve us and that the people should ·cochairman, Legislation. B. c. SAWYER, M. D. take some steps to prevent this. Surely we have some rights left. If there is -to be any BROOKLYN, N. Y., April 19, .1.941. democracy anywhere, it should be pre Senator CHARLES ToBEY, BUFFALO, N. Y., 1941. served here in America. Washington, D. C. Honorable Senator ToBEY. The people who do the fighting should DEAR SIR: I wish to urge you to do all in DEAR SIR: Allow me to take this means to have a right to decide whether or not we your power to bring the question of convoys · commend the courageous stand you are go to war. There is so much pressure being to a full discussion on the floor of the Sen-: making to keep our boys at home. put on the Senators from the Executive that ate. If we are to decide to have convoys, let · I am the mother of two boys and I am de they no longer represent the will of the the Senate vote so; but let it be done demo- · termined that they wm not be sent in to majority. cratically after an honest debate. Let me · foreign lands to fight. May God bless you I have no objection to aiding the democ repeat, do all possible to bring about an and give you the fortitude to carry on. racies, providing they reimburse us 'in some · honest discussion on this vital matter. Very respectfully yours, way and that we do not convoy. Our-help Sincerely yours, Mrs. MICHAEL MCANDREA. may only proleng -the war, but· I do think 8. E. JANIS. 3490 :cONGRESSIONAL RECORD_~SENATE MAY 1 ALLENTOWN, PA., APTiZ 21, 1941. SUNDAY, APRIL 20. vent this fatal result-for humanity and the Hon. CHARLES WILLIAM ToBEY, Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, people of our country, I remain, Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C. Yours very truly, Washington, D. C. DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: Your vigorous and ------, MY DEAR SENATOR: I heard your recent thoughtful radio speech of last Wednesday President, Peace League of Nevada broadcasts pertaining to the bill proposed evening was a great pleasure to me. and Chairman, Peace Conference by you to prevent naval convoying of ships This question of convoys must be stopped of Reno and Sparks. to the belligerent countries, and I wish to immediately, as must the subterfuge with state that I am in full agreement with your which the administration is rapidly getting LAPLATA, N.MEx., Ap7'iZ 17, 1941. objective. In this instance I agree with the this country into the war. Senator ToBEY, President when he said, "Convoys mean I wm consider every Congressman who Washington, D. C. shooting and shooting means war." I can votes for convoys by our ships as voting for DEAR SIR: I heard your broadcast on con not accept the thesis of the in~rventionists our complete entry into the European war. voying the English ships by our· Navy. I that this is our war and I am utterly op It has been gratifying lately to see that know all of the people in my voting precinct posed to our entry into the war as an active some of the local editors are beginning to and all of them said that the reason they belligerent. realize that the administration is saying one voted for President Roosevelt was because he We entered the last World War to make thing and doing another. promised to keep the United States boys out the world safe for democracy and, it seems to Please continue your fight againSt our in• of foreign wars; he said he would say it over_ me, that time has proven our efiorts and sac volvement in Europe's war, and also intro and over that he wouldn't send the boys out rifices were in vain. In my humble judg duce a bill against trade with Japan. of the United States. I think we have got ment the Allies made poor use of victory and Very truly yours, enough to do by staying out of the convoying peace and also the prevailing Lsms in the F. H. JENNINGS. of ships to England. I voted for _Roosevelt world' today are the direct fruits of the last three times. The third time was all on his war. In my opinion the fundamental causes THE FISHER C. BAILY Co., promise to keep the boys out of Europe's of war are, misrule, greed, and commercial Reno, Nev., Ap7'iZ 18, 1941. wars. If you look it up you will see that ism, plus human misery, hatred, and a dy Senator CHARLES w. ToBEY, the men that advocate convoys or sending namic leader. The Dodge, Washington, D. C. the boys to Europe to fight have got no boys_ I enclose an editorial ·which appeared in DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: This iS simply tore in the draft age. I and 50 of my neig~bors the New York Herald Tribune, April 27, The cord that all the members of the associations are strictly against convoying or sending the Crisis in the Atlantic, which. is an excel mentioned below so far as we have been able boys out of the United States to fight, and lent article in favor of our entry into the to consult them, are strongly in favor of want all of you Senators and Congressmen to war. It appears that the editor is better your resolution against convoys, and that do all you can to prevent it; let them come informed than the Members of Congress and, they will do everything possible to support here and all of us, old and young, will fight I think, this is a bold assumption. you. We are today writing the President, as them alike. I appreciate your nerve and stay I also enclose a clipping referring to Colo per copy enclosed, and we are also writing with them. I wouldn't think that Mr. Roose .. nel Lindbergh's address before a rally in ·our two Senators and our Representative. velt would promise the people what he did Chicago sponsored by the America First Com We feel sure our good Senator PAT McCARRAN about keeping the United States out of war, mittee. I have every respect for his opinion can be depended upon to vote for your reso then turn around after he was elected and and I do not doubt the sincerity of his con lution, as well as for Senate Concurrent Res try to convoy to England so we can get into victions, and I predict that history will olution 7, which we presume yo11 are also It too and send our boys over to be killed. I record that his judgment was correct. He supporting. hope you Senators will not let it pass, let us 1s a real American and I admire his fear Hoping you will let us know regarding any. stay at home, for I don't think that war is lessness for following the dictate of his con- thing that we can do to help you, and hoping ours. science. . you will be successful in passing said resolu TOM DOSHER. I read in the paper yesterday, see clipping tion, we remain, with highest admiration enclosed, of the formation of a new national and regards. SANTA ANA, CALIF. organization known as the Fight For Free Yours very truly, Senator ToBEY, dom Committee, beaded by the Right Rever FISHER C. BAILY, Washington, D. C. end Henry W. Hobson. It seems to be some President, Peace League of Nevada DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: I am rewriting a letter what of a tragedy that so many of our citizens and Chairman, Peace Conference to you which I sent to Mr. Roosevelt. The appear to be more interested in the wel of Reno and Sparks. following is the letter: fare of foreign countries than they are in "Mr. FRANKLIN D. RooSEVELT, the United States of America. APRIL 18, 1941. "Washington, D. C. My sympathies are entirely with England President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, "DEAR Sm: I am ardressing you as one The White House, Washington, D. C. and her Allies and I desire them to win the American citizen to another, and in doing so war. I am · opposed to dictators of every DEAR PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT: Undoubtedly I am asking you to stand by what you said species. I favor giving England and her Al you are watching results in the Balkans, in the preelection days, that our young men lies all reasonable aid short of war, but I North Africa,. the battle of the Atlantic, and would not have to go to war if you were am opposed to giving away those implements the blitzkrieg on London, etc. elected. And now I am asking you to keep of war which are needed for our own de We hope you have also read Colonel Lind your faith with .the American people. fense. It seems to me that America's first bergh's letter to the people in Collier's and "Mrs. Roosevelt talked peace in the pre obligation is to make her strong and able to his speech of last night regarding prospects election days. Where has it gone? defend herself 1f and when attacked. In !or the British Empire._ · "The statement that things have changed short, I am for America first and always. It does not seem to us that the way to since election is not the a-nswer. Peace never Our aim must be full protection for America, defend America is to try to defend some other changes. otherwise we may lose our democratic form country 3,000 miles away and its widespread "No convoys, that's a subtle way ta get of government while we are endeavoring to empire, mostly even farther away. America fnto an undeclared war. Declared defend it abroad. If the Tobey resolution and the Senate or undeclared war is still what General Sher It appears that many of our citizens are Concurrent Resolution 7 for a referendum man said, 'Hell.' Pilate sentenced the inno being stung by a variety ot hyper-fertile in on the war matter are passed, you would cent Jesus to an undeclared death, then ternational bug. Permit me to suggest that have a good "out"-if by any chance you washed his hands in a basin of water as a you request the Bureau of Entomology to have made representations of aid to any for bluti that he didn't have anything to do make a careful investigation and to take the eign country. with it. necessary steps to protect the Nation from Can you see any possibility of successfully "War is a crime against our innocent young the ravishes of the bugs. I further suggest Invading Europe and capturing Berlin; at men, and all the water in the two oceans that in case the bug is of a new order that this time, instead of having them with us, won't wash our hands clean." it be named in honor of either Dorothy we no longer have the assistance of France, (The end of the letter except that I asked Thomp~on or H. V. Kaltenborn, whom Ire Italy, Russia, Belgium, Serbia, and other for a reply.) - gard as the two most foremost students of Balkan nations. I fear our entrance into war internationalism. Thank you, Senator ToBEY, for giving me could only end In 5 to 20 or more years of the inspiration in your broadcast to write You are doing a great service to the Na warfare with an army of 20,000,000 or more, the letter. tion and you deserve the praise and thanks of with casualties of 5,000,000 or more, a debt of ~incerely yours, all genuine Americans. America needs more two hundred billions or more, and even with men of your kind who are unafraid to speak all this, the success of our efiorts might be (Mrs.) MARTHA EDWARDS. boldly in its defense. I strongly urge you doubtful. All would end in such world-wide to do all in your power to keep America out destruction that the people would rise and CoNCORDIA MoTOR Co., of this war, because I do not see the justice throw out their rulers in most countries of Concordia, Kans., April 20, 1941; of having our youth again sacrificed upon the world, including possibly the United Hon. CHARLES TOBEY, foreign soil. States. Washington, D. C. Sincerely yours, Hoping that you will keep your campaign DEAR SIR: I heard your address over the A. J. KoPP, pledges ~nd do ~verythlng possible to pre- radio against convoying supplies to Britain, 1941 ·coNGRESSIONAL RECORD.=-SENATE .3491 "• Keep up the fight; we should not get involved ~ do everything short of war. It looks to me , The final move has just been started. At in this war. now as if we will be doing everything short this moment the papers on the stands say I am also in favor of a war-referendum bill. of winning the war. How in the world any in large letters, "Stimson Says Train Our Those who want war either are too old to sane person thinks we can blast Germany out Soldiers to Fight on Foreign Soil." This fight or have no boys that they would give. of the entire European country is beyond was undoubtedly inspired by his Chief, who reason. Everyone would like to see England is preparing to duck out of washington, as • • win, but she lost this war before she even be always does, until the first blasts blow Joseph Kennedy spoke the truth when he started. She was about as badly prepared over. Then will come a pitiful wail from said "Win, lose, or draw, if we get into this as we are at the present moment. What we some high official in England, and Mr. Roose war, it will be the end of civilization and should be doing now is working to ma}te velt will rush back from Warm Springs and the whole world will be bankrupt." peace and not making every effort to enter probably ask for a declaration of war. Let those who vote to go to war be the the war. There we must all show the red blood of our tlrst to go across. Keep up the fight, we are Hoping you and your colleagues wm keep forefathers if we want to save our Nation with you. up your fight, I am, from destruction. Respectfully, Sincerely, I maintain that if England cannot defeat Mrs. R. R. BEA.'\DMORE. FREDERICK A. LANDIS. Hitler it would be futile for us to try to send enough men over there to drive the Ger mans out of all of Europe, Asia, and Africa ELECTRIC VALVE MANUFACTURING Co., INC., ST. ALBANS, N.Y., April15, 1941. New York, N. Y., April 21, 1941. and that we had better conserve our Senator ToBEY, strength and resources and prepare to de Hon. CHARLES W. ToBEY, United States Senate, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. fend ourselves on this continent if we ever Washington, D. C. have to do it. HONORABLE SIR: Attached please find an MY DEAR SENATOR: A few days ago I heard article in the New York World-Telegram Very respectfully yours, your arguments against convoying ships to J. W. HOUGH, under date of April 19. England; also the tremendous facts of how The writer is of the opinion that you are this country has been getting gradual doses doing a very worthwhile piece of work in of opium from the President and his admin Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY. Washington. Keep it up, as over 90 percent istration, to soothe the thinking process of . DEAR Sm: I am writing. you as a mother of of the citizens of the United States are in the people, so that when t.he President de two sons, and to let you know I am very back of you~ We are just plain Americans clares war no one will ask how and why. much opposed to having American ships con- and while most of us would like to see a. May I congratulate you upon your Amer voyed with American boys. . stalemate in Europe, we. would not care to ican stand and may Divine Providence guide I feel I am expressing also the opinions of have our country enter the war, as it would you in your wholehearted fight to think of tpousands of mothers everywhere. be a very expensive process and would bur America's home troub~es and not to waste Trusting and praying that this wlll never den us down with taxation. We are big and effort over a foreign land. be done. · powerful enough to take care ot ourselves. It is lamentable that so many of your I am, sincerely, Let Europe keep on fighting as they have Congressmen think so little of America and Mrs. J; E. PRITCHARD, been doing for over 2,000 years, but let Amer so terribly much of England to the extent AURORA, ILL, ica take care of America only. · that they would willingly see this country in . Enclosed you wm find a copy of a letter actual war for her sake; to see the sorrow of CoLUMBUS, OHIO, April 15, 1941. that was sent by me today to Hon. F. D. parents for their sons; the want and priva Senator CHARLES w. ToBEY, Roosevelt. tions of the people; the depressions that wlll Senate Chamber, Washington, D. C. I hope that you and the other Senators bring so much misery and unhappiness to DEAR SENATOR TOBEY! Having beard a por wm use all the influence possible to keep · all. How could these Senators be true and tion of the broadcast Saturday evening when the administration in Washington from forc honest Americans? They are not Americans you appeared on the Peoples Platform, I wish ing the United States into an unwanted and but rather traitors. They are the "fifth col to express my hearty approval of your pres unpopular war. umnists." It is they that should be ferreted entation: of the subject which was being With best wishes for your success, I am o.ut and put on trial. discussed. Respectfully yours, I . · Yours is a deep consolation, Senator, in I feel that everything you said relative to ELECTRIC VALVE MFG. Co., INc., knowing that millions of true Americans are the administration's attitude of repudiating W, J. CORCORAN, behind you and your effort to keep America all pledges concerning keeping us out of war President. safe from, and out of, war-and know, too, was very clearly and accurately stated. I feel that many are the prayers for your success that you are right in assuming that the great from all denominations. majority of people in this country are st1Il ELECTRIC VALVE MANUFACTURING Co., INC., Respectfully yours, New York, N. Y., April 21, 1941. desirous of keeping out of the war and build· ANTHONY KOZUMPLIK, ing a strong, influential democracy here at Han. FRANKLIN D. RoosEVELT, home. White House, Washington, D. C. These views are from one who was not only HoNORABLE Sm: Now that the question of WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16, 1941. , ln the last war but served overseas. convoying ships to England is coming up I DEAR SENATOR TOBEY! I started this letter Very truly yours, wish to state that this is an absolute and to you immediately after your broadcast but W. F. GUARD, positive step toward our entry into the didn't get it off. European war. I just want to say that we think you are If you will carefully canvass the country doing America a magnificent service in your FRED J. CRISP, INC., you w111 easily ascertain that at least 90 grand fight against convoys, and I hope with. Akron, Ohio, April 15, 1941. percent of the citizens are against taking all my heart that you can force your resolu Hon. CHARLES W. TOBEY, . part in this unfortunate and unpopular war. tion out of committee. United States Senate, Washington, D. C. After all we are real Americans and believe There are many encouraging signs, and I SENATOR: I heard your debate With Col. with Washington, Jefferson, Madison, etc., believe if we all stand together we can Breckenridge Saturday evening over the radio in staying out of these European wars that come through this mess a whole, sane, and. and it seemed to be the general topic of con have occurred in times past and will again wide-awake Nation. versation at the country club and two other occur in the future. We are with you. places at which I happened to call. From the Will you kindly endeavor to bring up in Sincerely yours, general expression, there was no dissension the Senate Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY'S res BESSIE SIMON. against your opinion. olution to prohibit convoying and use your United States should be proud of men · of your caliber who have the courage to speak influence to have this resolution adopted and CHICAGO, ILL., April 15, 1941. thereby greatly oblige over 90 percent of the the truth and stand for what they think is The Hon. CHARLES W. ToBEY, right. The truth, of course, always hurts citizens of the United States? United States Senator, Washington, D. C. Respectfully yours, and your statement about our being suckers · HoNORABLE SIR: I am just in receipt of in the last war is something the general public ELECTRIC VALVE MFG. Co., INc.• yours of 14th inst., enclosing copy of your ------, President. should know if they don't. They even resolution, for which I thank you. ignored and refused to pay their just obliga The only way we can avoid another A. E. F. tion, or, in other words, they fed us a nice RIDGEWOOD, N. J., April 21, 1941. is for the 4,000,000 conscripts, who were kept big bowl of hot soup and now they want. to Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, out of the last war until the votes were feed us another, only bigger and hotter. Washington, D. C. counted and whose sons are being conscripted I naturally subscribe to helping England MY DEAR SENATOR! I Wish to compliment for this one, to take a firm stand against in every way as I dislike to have Europe domi you on the stand you are taking regarding sending their sons to the slaughter fields of nated by Hitler. I am an American, born of convoys. Every thinking American knows Europe, and all the rest of us unite solidly English parents, but I could not subscribe to that we are being slowly, but surely, being behind them, and neither wlll the Presi our going into the last war and I have not put into this war. For the past year both dent dare ask or the Congress dare vote a changed my opinion about this. This seems Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Willkie said we would declaration Q! war. ~ be the general expression of over 90 percen~ 3492. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE MAY ·l · of the people I have talked to in the past The lady was al;>solutely correct when she to be packed up and shipped off to England 6 months. stated (in your round-table talk) that !rom . by the Bundles for Britain organization, May God give you health and strength to the amount of men who are unable to pass Canadian stores feature sox and sweaters fight on. the draft test was proof we have business which are the product of British looms, ap Very truly yours. here at home to do. parently still turning out and delivering the FRED J. CRISP. Yes; I have advocated !or some time also goods despite Hitler and threatened invasion. that if our Government heads would try to Last year Bundles !or Britain, Inc., with PEEKsKILL, N. y. solve the many problems here at home they . a staff of 650,000 volunteer workers in the MY DEAR SENATOR ToBEY: They couldn't would not find time then to meddle in Eu- United States, received and spent $1,654,035 answer you on Saturday for you spoke the . rope's everlasting wars. for aid to Britain in the form of goods or truth. Last election night I drove up to Our President promised the people of Amer cash. Hyde Park to cheer the President, for I had ica that if we would elect him for a third There is no Bundles for Britain in Canada. voted for him again, believing him and his term he then would keep us out of war. Here the population is asked to "buy British" mouthpiece Joseph Kennedy. Don't let him : From the way this whole mess looks to Jne rather than to donate anything and the range betray that confidence. This time he has a now, Mr. F. D. R. is letting the American of products offered for sale is amazing con mandate-to keep us out of Britain's war. To · people down more and more each day. sidering that they come from a country at send convoys is to send American boys into There are some at the head of our Govern war. the paths of torpedoes. We, the people, say ment who should go back to their father's METAL PILED HIGH no convoys. farms or ·harness shops driving mules instead In the United States, at peace, citizens are Keep up the fight--we'll pray and talk for of trying to force and drive the American urged to save their old automobile registra you everywhere we go. Ninety-six million of people into bloody wars. tion plates and tur-n them in for scrap metal. us want peace. All help short of war is 0. K .• Sincerely, Canada, at war, receives from Britain, at war, but not a smidgen more. Don't let Anglo Mrs. C. R. JACKS, 5-pound tins of toffee.. One Montreal store philes and others with their fish to fry get window ls piled high with the metal con- us into it. I have five sons. tainers. . ISABELLA BEACH. MOTHERS 'OF THE Simpson's, one of Montreal's big depart (Mrs. Harry A.) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ment stores, displays heavy boxes stamped Detroit, Mich. "Britain delivers the goods" in its windows. APRIL 12, 1941. The following resolution was unanimously In some boxes are hundreds of sweaters of DEAR SENATOR: We listened in on the adopted at a regular meeting of the Mothers all colors and sizes, neatly wrapped and pack People's Platform Saturday night and we sure_ of the United States of America, which was aged. are glad to hear that we have a Senator that held fn Detroit, Mich., April 14, 1941: Britain is delivering luxuries as well as feels as the working people do toward war. "Whereas· we, the Mothers of 'the United staple merchandise. We are working people and we surely do _ States of America, are organized for the pur A huge packing case in Eaton's window is talk war and I'm sure you said just about pose of keeping this country out of foreign stamped "Convoyed by the British Navy." what we feel. wars; and · DAINTY F-IGURINES The working people do not want ~ar, that's "Whereas President Franklin Delano Roose certain. · velt himself has repeatedly said that the act It is filled with service plates and dainty Congratulations on your speech. of convoying ships means war; and figurines from Britain's famous china mak (Signed) Mr. and Mrs. LEo MARISSEAU, "Whereas it is h ~ s duty to fulfill l1is solemn ers. Five-and-ten-cent stores feature Brit HAVERHILL, MAss. promise made to the people, 1. e., 'Your boys ish lacework with a good-sized table scarf are ,not going to be sent into any foreign available for 63 cents. CINCINNATI, OHIO, April 12, 1941. wars'; and · Tip Top Tailors, a tailoring chain, has Bon. SENATOR ToBEY. "Whereas, notwithstanding his duty, his brought ·in approximately $4,000,000 worth of DEAR Sm: I want to add my mite of en promise, and his admissions that such step suiting materials·, indicating that British couragement to you in your efforts to save means war, he is said to be arranging to con looms are functioning smoothly. In the first we Americans from the disaster of another voy ships, to commit the final act leading to 16 months of the war, only about one-seventh foreign war. The bulk of the American war, under the guise of 'neutrality patrol': of the material ordered was lost at sea, inqi people are behind you in your efforts. Therefore be it cating that the British convoy 1s also working Here is a suggestion. The next time some "Reso~ved, We, the Mothers of the United smoothly. one makes the statement that we have been States of America, most seriously protest. Furniture turned out in Britain's famous biding behind the British Navy for 100 years against such breach of promise and breaking William Birch plant at High Wycombe and. ask them it the British. Navy protected. the of faith by the misuse of power. We hereby· Frederick Tibbenham. plant at Ipswich con Government of the United States during the urgently demand that the constitutional· tinues to arrive in Canada, and the Eaton Co. Civil War. Unless my history is cockeyed. power of our representatives be used to pre notes: ·· the British Navy did all it could to hamstring vent such acts of war, and thereby save the· "Even the threat of raids, the crash of the blockade of the Southern States. If the United States of America from becoming in bursting boll)ps can ~either hurry nor delay British Navy was protecting us for the past volved in a repetition of the senseless tragedy the painstaking carvin~ and creating of beau-. 100 years where was it when the French expe- . of 1917, 1. e., a foreigu war which is not our tiful furniture.'•. · · dition set Maximilian upon the throne of war; be it further To citizens of the United States who think Mexico? · "Resolved, That copies of this resolution be of all-out war in terms of complete ·abandon May you and those who are making the duly certified and sent to the President and· ment of luxuries, and of war transportation· fight with you be successful in saving the to each Member of both Houses of the Con in terms of troop movements, the manufac American people from the folly of another gress of the United States of America." ture arid shipping under convoy of furni foreign war. We request that you support the Tobey ture, Wedgewood plates, and toffee seems Sincerely, resolution prohibiting the use of convoys. strange, but Canadians think It not unusual. ALBERT HUENEFELD. CINCINNATI, OHIO. [From the Detroit Times of February 23, 1941} [From the Detroit News of March 31, 1941] ANTICONVOY MOVE IS MADE IN SENATE BUFFALO, N. Y., April 15, 1941. EMPIRE BusiNESS "As trsuAL"-ENGLISH SEND Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, LUXURIES TO CANADA BY CONVOY-AMERICA WASHINGTON, March 31.-Senator CHARLEs Washington, D. C. SENDS BUNDLES FOR BRITAIN WHILE BUNDLES W. ToBEY (aepublican, New Hampshire) in DEAR SENATOR: Please keep up your fight to FROM BRITAIN FLOW BACK ACROSS ATLANTIC troduced a joint resolution today to prohibit ·forbid armed convoy for foreign destination, convoying of merchant vessels by United Which surely means war. (By Walter Kiernan) States warships. I am a World War veteran, and I know this MoNTREAL, February 22.-Bundles for Brit He said his resolution would give the Na 1s not our war. We wa-nt n9 part in it, either tion "an opportunity to see whether the ad ain flow from more than 700 cities in the 1n Europe or Asia, and we should not be com United States across the. Atlantic today, while ministration and the Members of the Senate pelled to go over there every 20 years or so to bundles from Britain flow in a never-ending mean business w4en they say they are op settle their quarrels. We had no business over stream back across the Atlantic to Canada. posed to our entering the war." there the last time and much less now. God Ships that carry socks and sweaters as a ToBEY, who voted against the British-aid forbid .our entry into 1t. Preserve our own tree-wm ofi'ering from people of the United bill, said that his resolution would enable country, keep out of war and bankruptcy. States to Britain are passing ships that carry President Roosevelt and the Senate to "trans Most _respectfully yours, socks and sweaters from British manufac late their public statements into specific GEORGE W. BASHER, turers to the retailers of Canada. legislation to keep the country from taking a This is one of the most paradoxical situa step into war." HOUSTON, TEx., April 14, 1941, tions in any comparison of the United States Senator C. W. ToBEY, · · at peace and Canada at war. ROCHESTER, N. Y., April 22, 1941. Washington, D. c. CUCKING NEEDLES Han. CHARLES W. TOBEY, DEAR MR. ToBEY: Your radio speech and United State,s Senate, Washington, D. C. also the round-table discussion was lndeed While women in the United States click DEAR SENATOR: Congratulations. Keep up SOOd. their needles turning o-qt sweaters and BOX the good work. 1941 " .CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 3493 I am opposed to our country's entering the favor of war. If I remember correctly, It was has been maneuvered into such a bog of men war and I know that the use of American this very thing that started us on the road tal contusion that it doesn't know how to get naval vessels as convoys will be the last step to war. what it wants. we take. War is inevitable if we use convoys. I would not like to see the United States Yours sincerely, Please, for your country's sake, don't give in another war, for I have had the experience ALFRED S. O'BRIEN, up or waver a bit. I am behind you and I of going through one. I would not like to Editor, the Stratford News. know a majority of the American people are. see my son, who is of military age, to get I have written letters to newspapers oppos tangled up in the bloody mess going on in KEARNY, N. J. Ing convoys, and if you have any information Europe. I'm sure that if you keep the good .Hon. CHARLES · W. TOBEY, on this subject you can send me, I will use work up, many citizens will realize what Senate Office Building, it at once. your objective is and will rally around. Washington, D. C. Sincerely, Thank you again for the good work which DEAR Sm: At the April meeting of the RICHARD M. KEENAN. you are doing, and I hope that you may soon union of which I am a member, I personally have a loyal following in the Senate, large polled 80 members on the questions: One. enou·gh to defeat the measure. · Shall we go t.o war. Two. Shall we convoy APRIL 21, 1941. Very truly yours, Hon. CHARLES W. TOBEY, STEPHEN RIPPER, ships to belligerent nations; and the result · United States Senate Building, was this: On No. 1, 11 yes, 69 no; on No. 2,. Washington, D. C. 15 yes, 65 no. MY DEAR SENATOR! Please keep up your BROOKLYN, N.Y., April 23, 1941. Senator, I believe that 1f this was done in· DEAR Sm: As far as the convoy question is ~aliant fight against those who want to drag every union the results would be approxi this country into the European. holocaust. concerned, everyone I have spoken to is con- . mately. the same, that is, that the rank and Let us stick to the Monroe Doctrine, as did vinced that the United States' sanctioning file are oppos~d to war and all so-called steps our forefathers, and keep out of Europe. It is convoys wm lead us irrevocably into the s_hort .of w~r. · .. _ · none of our business. bloody conflict abroad. Keep battling. I am .sure that. the ma Yours very truly, We don't want our boys to be concerned jority of the people are with you in your fight JAMES J. DUGAN, with the deadly but useless struggle going on· to keep this Nation of ours out of-this war. Veteran of Foreign War. between the various countries. · Sincerely, .JEAN DUGAN, By 'all:means quash the con\'oy system .. FRANCIS D. KELLY.' War wm:k(ng during last war. EVELYN DALY. We know. NEW BRAUNFELS, TEX., April 19, 1941. YONKERS, N.Y., April 22, 1941. Senator ·CHAS. W.-ToBEY,. Senator TOBEY, NEW YORK, N. Y., April 16, 1941. Washington, D. C. ·United States Senate, Washingto!J., D. C. : _DEAR SENAToR: r ·want to congratulate you Senator CHARLES ToBEY, DEAR SENATOR. TOBEY: We ·are· alL against Senate Office Building, on your fight to keep tlie· Unite-d States· from ' convoys and want to stay out 'of war. We convoying ships. · Washington, D. C.: elEicted President Roosevelt on the promise Congratulations on a mighty fine speech. I served- with the A. E. F. in France tn :Qe would keep us ou~ of war, and I hope he . We appreciate the great fight you and a few 1918 and know what war. is. Keep up yoUr. does not betray our trust. May God bless you good fight and help .us to stay out of war. of your colleagues are making in the · Senate for your good work. · on behalf of the great majority of Americans. · Thank you and good luck. Very truly yours, Yours very truly, We will never forget the real men in Congress MRS. CATHERINE FERGUSON: fighting for the preservation of democracy FRANK KNEUPPER. here at home. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 22, 1941. FREDERICK W. HORNER COLLEGE MEN Senator CHARLES W. ToBEY, · TACOMA, WASH., April 12, 1941. FOR DEFENSE FmST. United States Senate, Washington, D. C. Hon. C. W. ToBEY. Sm: I want to congratulate you on your one United States Senator,. WEST ENGLEWOOD, N. J., April 16, 1941. man struggle against the underhand tactics . ·Washington, D. C. United States Senator CHARLES TOBEY, of the administration. The American people DEAR SIR: Words alone cannot express my Washington, D. C.: are practically unanimous in their desire to deepest appreciation of your valiant stand in Congratulations on your stand and fine stay out of the European war and In their behalf of America, our youth, and the wel explanation of convoy situation. Keep up opposition to the use of American. convoys. fare of our Nation. Undoubtedly, the great good work. Friends, neighbors expressed sim . The man on the street is deeply indebted to majority of loyal and true Americans who ilar sentiments to those contained your able you for your bold and forceful expression heard you speak during the deQate upon the speech. against clandestine efforts to drive us into People's Platform will thank God that we DAVID A. ROHN. war. Take added courage in the fact that the still have Americans such as you in our Con American people are behind you en masse. gress. Statesmen such as you, sir, have not fought SPRINGFIELD, MASS., April 12, 1941. There will be national unity and fresh mc;>rale in the Nation only when the admin- in vain; patriots such as you conceived our Hon. CHARLES W. ToBE"Y, Nation; the spirit of the founders and the United State Senate, Washington, D. C. ' istration ceases its warmongering, concen trates its defense activities for the sole pur fathers of our glorious country dwells within DEAR Sm: I am Uloroughly in accord with you. Some 'day. we shall awake from the your ·resolution against.. the u~e of our ships pose of defending the Western Hemisphere, and puts its house in order-that is, endeavors present trance in which our noble country as convoys, and I can spe_ak for ev_eryone was placed by servants of the king and the I have talked with. I have met but two per to eliminate poverty. Very truly yours, committee of "Aiding the Aiaes by Robbing sons who believed in sending men abroad. America." All others were opposed. HERBERT MOORE, A Young Man of Fighting Age. I, too, still suffer from the wounds of Very truly yours, battle-!, too, am a slave of the war that NORA M. O'BRIEN. CHICAGO, ILL., April 19, 1941. : was to end all wars. My very soul cries Senator TOBEY of New Hampshire. out against a repetition· of '17-18-not be MUNHALL, PA., April 19, 1941. cause of untold suffering and wounds, but Han. CHARLEs W. ToBEY, SIR: Many of us here in Illinois are grateful to you for your anticonvoy bill. I heard an because America has nothing to show for our United States Senator, audience of more than 8,000 people last night victories; no gain whatever for America or Washington, D. C. cheer when your name was mentioned. Please . the world in general. We defeated the armies SENATOR TOBEY: I am just one of the many accept my thanks for your stand. · of the Kaiser but brought Hitler into being. millions of Americans who, like yourself, be Mrs. MINA S. RoGERS. We may defeat "Hitler, but we shall establish· lieve that the use of American convoys can Stalin as the· ruler of Europe, including Eng lead but to one end which is war. Please land. Just as Christ died upon the cress, so continue the good fight which· you are -put- · THE STRATFORD NEWS, died the sons of· America· upon the barbed ting up against this warlike measure which Stratford Center, Conn., April 19, 1!>41. wire entanglements, hanging limply, arms has been brought up before the Senate. I Sena tor CHARLES W. TOBEY, asunder, just lilre Christ in his ordeal. Wlll h~ve written other Senators to help defeat Washington, D. C. America send its sons to Europe again? May t~e measure and am doing my best to get DEAR SENATOR: Just a word to let you know God not let this come to pass. my friends and neighbors to do so, too. that there are many people in this section Foreign slackers and cowards who tied their Convoying ships is perhaps one of the sur who applaud your stand on the convoy countries instead of fighting are now de est ways we can find of getting into the war. question. manding that we reestablish them in their It is quite inconceivable that Germany Your telegram to the President, as reported business or regain their lost enterprises in would not sink these ships. In order to do in the New York Times of Friday, certainly Europe by waging a . never-ending war-by so, she must use gunfire, and, as you say, spoke the feelings of many people with whom saving foreign empires, kings, and dictators. gunfire means war. Many of my friends ex I come in contact. I believe they are the sen Americans who fought and bled for America press the opinion that sinking American timents of a majority in this country. But upon the battlefields in Europe are now ships will not swing the public's opinion in for once in our national history the majority ·branded by· them as masked appeasers, "fifth 3494 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE MAY 1 columnists," Nazis, etc. These foreign devils the overwhelming opinion is decidedly against am willing to go. We should all tighten up tell us to go to war and sacrifice our glorious convoys and war. . our belts together. country, our sons, our wealth, our liberty Yours sincerly, At this time I am not receptive to the idea and freedom, in order that they may continue JAMES. RYAN, that we should send our men to Europe either to live in splendor. for convoys or as an invading arn1y on the Wealth, greed, and power will crumble into WoRLD WAR MoTHERS OF basis that it will prevent Hitler from invading dust, but Americans such as you, sir, will NEW ENGLAND, INC., the Americas later. If we establish this prin become our immortal great-will live upon Winchester, Mass., April 16, 1941. ciple, we are committing ourselves to fight in the pages of American history. The catch Senator CHARLES W. ToBEY, all wars- in the future as a protector of the phrases and slogans as used by the war Washington, D. C. whole world. I am wllilng to give England mongers and servants of the king today are DEAR SEJ..._.ATOR TOBEY: The New England all the boats we can and strain our utmost naught but the tools of dictators. Barnum Chapter, World War Mothers of New England, resources to replace them. I am willing to was right in his day, but Barnum is dead. Inc., in convention assembled at Hotel Bruns cooperate with South American countries on Enclosed please find my poem, Requiem. wick, Boston, April 9, 1941, went on record to total hemisphere defense but I am not will Very respectfully, say that the World War Mothers of New ing for the United States of America to as J. H. ZEGENDER. England are united against our United States sume responsibility for compelling American (Served with One Hundred and Forty-fifth Government sending convoys to Europe, and men to fight in Europe or in convoys to Eu Infantry, A. E. F.; wounded September 26, that we are with you-wholeheartedly on your rope. Loyal Americans of European parent 1918.) campaign against convoys. · age who fled the continuance warfare and REQUIEM! We also went on record against sending any social and national conflicts of Europe should not be forced to give their lives fighting in (By J. H. Zegender) of our American boys to fight on foreign soil. A letter has been sent to each of our Senators such a conflict. If our furnishing of resources America, thou noble Nation, from Massachusetts and other New England does not stop Hitler then we should all suffer Conceived of suffering, blood and toil States. together in any economic results, or in loss Endowed with liberty and freedom, We gave our sons in 1917 to save democ of economic power. If we continue to build Upon thy ever sacred soil. racy, and now most of us have grandsons in defense facilities to the maximum I cannot The gains of hundred years and fifty, camps, either through draft or enlistment. sincerely believe there is danger of militacy So richly blest by hand of God, Must we always fight England's battles? occupancy of this country. Have finally now been all surrendered Gratefully yours, , GRACE J. AVERILL. To lie beneath the foreign sodl .MAllY E. GILBODY, George Washington's heroic army, Chairman, Legislation. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., April17, 1941. So valiant once at Valley Forge Hon. Senator TOBEY, Gave us the· burning torch of freedom NEW YoRK CITY, April19, 1941. Washington, D. c. And the defeat of Old King George. Hon. CHARLES w. ToBEY, DEAR SENATOR: Mter listening to your stir Again a drama now unfolding, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. ring radio speech last night on the convoy Just after hundred-fifty years MY DEAR Sm: The attached represents the question, I want you to know that I have just When Congress freely abdicated viewpoint of one American citizen who is con written to Senators WAGNER and MEAD de In favor of the British peers! cerned with the current influences trying to manding that they support you in the mag Perhaps we all will owe allegiance force us into the use of convoys by naval ves- nificent fight you are making against this To His Majesty, the British King . sels before I believe the cltizens·of this·coun last and final effort to plunge us into this And bend our knees as loyal subjects try are ready for it. war. I also wrote to President Roosevelt, To every royal hfreliilg. By will1ngness to risk war 'in aiding Britain, letting him know my views. I have watched How long until our cherished laddies I believe many Americans mean, if it is forced your career in the Senate, and may God bless Wlll sail across the foaming sea upon us in granting aid in equipment but you, Senator, is all that I can say. I, with To fight the battles of the ages not that we should force American boys Into members of my family and friends, would And save His British Majesty? the war in this direct act. like nothing better than to some day have GRACE J. AVERILL. the opportunity· of voting for you for Presi dent of the United States. LITTLEToN, N. H., April17, 1941. NEW YoRK, N.Y., Aprtl11, 1941. Yours very sincerely, DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: Congratulations on To Commtttee to Defend America by Aiding JOSEPH REIDY, your speech of Wednesday night, on the Allies: A. E. F. Veteran. radio, against convoying. God bless and sus I gave toward this fund previously because tain you in your efforts. I am absolutely ( 1) I believed England needed funds to de against convoying. NEW YORK CITY, April17, 1.941. fend herself rather than funds in form of Hon. CHARLES W. TOBEY. REV. F. P. FRYE. food .or relief as restricted by other organi Written from New Hampshire Methodist MY DEAR SENATOR: I only wish I could annual conference, at Nashua, N. H. zations, and also because (2) I believed all grasp your hand to congratulate you on your Americans should give of their resources fine speech over the radio Wednesday night. rather tban send our boys as has been done Thank God we have some true Americans CLEVELAND, OHIO, April 23, 1941. b~fore. like you in our United States Senate. United States Senator ToBEY, I am in sympathy with the lend-lease bill I am now writing also to my two Senators Senate Office Buildi ng, as implementing this idea of joint support in from New York, MEAD and WAGNER, urging Washington, D. C.: resources, but your publicity has destroyed them to vote for your resolution against con Your splendid telegram to the President all confidence in your honesty of statement, voying. of these United States was read .to us to because as soon as we passed the lease-lend May God give you health and strength to night from the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. bill your organization immediately came out carry on your glorious fight. We stand back of you 101 percent, and are for naval convoys although at the time the My son is now in the United States Army, most grateful for your brave efforts to pre bill was being discussed, the question of con and I want to tell you that he is dearer to vent our boys from being sent into this war. voys was "soft pedaled." me than anything in this world. Keep up the good work. All of this supports the feeling many Hoping to hear· from you soon again, and UNITED MOTHER!? OF AMERICA. Americans have that we are being subjected hoping your resolution passes overwhelmingly, to a careful build-up of propaganda to take I remain, us step-by-step into war, going as rapidly as Respectfully, DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: May a New Deal Dem American public opinion can be swung. Con .)crat congratulate you on your fight to bring fidence in our democratic processes is im THEODORE HILGEMAN . the convoy question out·in the open. Con paired when we sense such a prejudiced in tinue the good work. fiuence. We begin to feel that we can't be BROOKLYN, N. Y., April 16, 1941. RoBERT N. GILMORE, Jr. lieve anything as being a sincere statement Hon. CHARLES W. TOBEY, BROOKLYN, N. Y. of facts or of purpose when such statements Senate Office Building, apparently are made only at the psychologi Washington, D. c. GARY, IND., April 21, 1941, cal time to achieve a deliberate effect. DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: Permit me to con Hon. CHARLES ToBEY, I am opposed to invo~ving the lives of any gratulate you for your fearlessness in dar · · Washington, D. C. American men against their own free will in ing to bring to the attention of the American · DEAR Sm: I apprec~ate your courageous this European conflict and especially men in people the moral aspect of the convoy-and opposition to convoys. Your radio broadcast our own military services. I am in favor of war issue now confronting them. It is en last week was certainly to the point. Con going the limit in taxing income and re couraging to ~ow that in the midst of all voys mean war. sources and in taking over businesses where the hypocritical appeals for a spiritual My business brings me into contact with it will speed our help in furnishing equip awakening there is at least one Senator who .hundreds of people each week, mostly in ment and I am in favor of some compulsion has the fortitude to bring the name of Jesus their ·homes, and I want to assure you that 1n settling of strikes, but that is as far as I Christ into the picture. 1941 CONGRES-8IONAL RECORD~SENATE 3495 When the debate begins on the 30th of real Americans and particularly of Christians my letters. More so, however, do I regret this month, I loa~ forward to your unyielding who are sick of this widespread campaign to the fact that you seem to have disregarded spirit to put that sacred name also into chastize Hitler for the excesses reported to what I know to be the will of the sovereign the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. Your reference have been committed against non-Christians people. You have gone down the line with to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, during resident within the territory of the Third the administration, apparently careless of your radio address tonight reminded me of Reich. That opportunity is related to Senate the views of your constituents on the things the significant fact, that it was on Good Joint Resolution No. 62, introduced by Sena that affected them even more than they af Friday of 1917 that the Senate of the United tor CHARLES W. TOBEY, prohibiting the USe Of fected you. States were voting to put our Nation into convoys by the Government of the United Now 1s the time to redeem yourself. We the throes of the first World War. States. I am against convoys because they are confronted as a Nation with the great I have every confidence that our participa are the last step before open participation issue of peace or war. We, the people, want tion in the current orgy can be prevented if by our Nation in this war. I trust you will peace. The administration seems to want your colleagues are awakened to the awful have the courage to vote for the resolution, war. But it will be we, the people, who truth that the Prince of Peace is appealing remembering that Almighty God is greater will have to fight the war, not the adminis to them to keep America sane and free. I than President Roosevelt, and will hold you tration. Is it not high time that you took can never understand why Christian gentle to an accounting long after the President will official recognition of this important fact? men seem to lose all semblance of moral have passed to his eternal reward. Think it I appeal to you, Mr. Congressman, to look responsibility as soon as they don the robes over, Senator MEAD. It is more important to at the picture from an angle other than pol of their official positions. America can well your eternity than it is to mine. itics. Look at it from the standpoint of a be proud of you and rightly grateful, that Respectfully yours, citizen of this free Republic and also as ·a in this age of world-wide insanity, there are JOHN H. CASSIDY. creature of God. Long after you will have men like you in the Senate, who are daunt- passed the pale of such things as politics and less in their determination to follow the _ BRooKLYN, N.Y., April16, 1941. duty to the party, you will still be reckoning advice of the Father of our Country-to keep · Han.- RoBERT F. WAGNER; with the greater force ·that existed before aloof from entanglements with foreign · · Senate Office Building, · government was even conceived and will nations. · Washington, D ..C. . continue to exist after the last government There are few in this country of ours who . DEAR SENATOR WAGNER: At this. critical pe- -will have vanished from the face of. the would be unwilling to offer their lives in de- riod in the life of our Republic, tt·is most un- earth. Think of· eternity, and you will act fense of it, whether the necessity arose from fortunate. that you have been stricken with . .for. peace. Remember the words of Christ: a fear either of invasion or of insurrection, · · an attack; on yo'!lr health . . I am not un "He who lives by .the sword will die by the but at-the same time there are few who.are ' mindful of the probability, that.it has been sword." - · - · wllling to offer their lives to protect the ·in- : · occasioned· .by· the ar(luous tasks in which . I am not -att_empting to confuse the issue · terests of another.nation by fighting a for- · you have engaged as- a Senator from our · with sentimentalism. I am trying: to be eign war. I, for one, am not wiHing to do · great State . of New York. In- tbanksgiving ' practical. Very soon you will be called 0.."1. so: Thus, I urge you, Senator TOBEY, to keep · for the many noble efforts you · have made to vote on Senate Joint-Resolution No. 62, up the crusade for the welfare of America · on behalf of the. people, the least we can do : to :gro}llbit _, the . use_ pf American convoys, first, and take comfort in the admonition of is to pray fer_your. speedy recovery. which the President . has admitted ·means the Christian truth, that you will find a real I am conftdent that. in this crisis you will shooting and which he has stretched to reward for having fought a good fight, for be spared to carry on your crusade for· the mean war. As. one of your constituents I . having ._ kept the .faith. Gpd }:>less you. · ·_good of the humanity and particularly for the call upon .you _in .the .name_ of. Christ, the Most respectfully yours, ~ welfare of the citizens of the .United States. _Prjnce of Peace . and. the E:ing of Kings, to · JoHN F. CASSIDY. : ·.All that they desire ·in th1s -war-torn world vote aga~nst convoys apd ther~bY' .v.ote (Qr · is to live tn peace with' their fellowmen. It · peace.- It ·is yo1,1rs to choose between the is. within your power to help them find that war~ongers and the people, between Satan _ BROOKLYN, N. Y., April16, 1941. · peace by striving to keep America out of war. aug Chl,'ist.' I pray pod .tq· give you the cour Han. JAMEs MEAD; On .the ~Oth of this month of April, you age to forget politics and 'j;o vote for the will Senate Office Building, . w111 be _called upon to vote on Senate Joint _of· the sovereign people . Washington, D. C. . Resolu~ion No. 62, prohibiting . the use of Respectfully yours,_ DEAR SENATOR ·MEAD: As one Of :your COil• .American . convoys, which · the P:resident has . JOHN 'F. CA~SIDY. ~ . stituents who has' 'never failed to let you · declared wll.l mean war: As {;>ne of your con ~ know where he 'stood on critical issues before : ·.stittients; I -am . opp9s~d to war·:and . to any · -the Senate oi the United States, 1 Witte ypu ' ' step ·that might'lead·· to war. Thus, it is my : ·. DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: t have· just listene on Europeap battleflelds (if not drowned in better now than It was then? I bring this 1 ning. I'm for my Nation 100 percent. I the Atlantic en route), Is there any reason point out to prove that editorial policy in this! · surely am not in favor of convoying to Eu to suppose that our ships would not be sunk country and - ~rackpot columnists are leaving i rope, but I am in favor of defense for United in the Atlantic Ocean as the British ships nothing undone in their efforts to deliver the 1 States first of all. have been? Is there any reason to suppose mothers' sons of America up to mass murder, 1 I think our leaders should' make their that our boys would ·not be slaUghtered and· while they sit back in their luxuriously fur- i vows true to the people of Americ!l. defeated on European battlefields as allled nished air-conditioned offices reaping a har- ; My support. boys have been? : vest in a monetary sense. : Yours sincerely, We have a right to. expect you to keep our If I were of the mind that you and so many! W. A. METCALF. boys in American possessions. of our columnists in this country are I cer- ; Sincerely, tainly would be honorable enough to pack my l LONG'S, Erie, Pa. GRACE S. GAULT (Mrs, P. F.). bag and huiTy to the battle line over there, I Senator CHAS. W. ToBEY, instead of foisting propaganda tipon an inno- · New Hampshire. GREENFIELD, MAss, April 22, 1941. . cent people; I certainly would not ·be trait- ' • DEAR SIR: Please vote against sending our Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, erous enough to hide behind the skirts of the ' boys overseas and against sending convoy Senate Chamber, Washington, D. C. Constitution of the United States of America, · ships. Do not let them drag us into this DEAR SIR: I heartily endorse your resolu sitting in luxury, and advocate the slaughter· European mess. tion aimed at the sending of convoys across of those who are unfortunate enough to ; Yours very truly, the way and believe that to do this is an declare· themselves against being led to such ; I W. R. LONG, · open invitation to active p~tlcipation in a slaughter. ! 1 war which is not of our making or concern. ' You and your ilk dishonor the name of the ; ·' FIRsT CoNGREGATIONAL CHURCH, For the Keene (N. H;) Sentinel I am pre Father of our Country, his ideals, and his · : Wopurn, Mass., April 23, 1941. paring a statement of my views on this sub- ; deeds. You and your ilk dishonor American . Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, ject and hope that it reaches your attention.· patriots so great as George Washington, l washington, D. c . 1 If at some time in the near future you are . Nathan Hale, and others who believed in ~ DEAR SENATOR: W~ who remember you well to be ·in · this vicinity and would require ' America first, last, and all the time. You and i and happ~ly from the temple days are proud assistance in arranging a meeting in Green- : your ilk join the side of Benedict Arnold. of the stand which. you have maintained on field which through facillties of radio station i You and your ilk cause the pages· of history to 1 foreign policy. While the administration has WHAI would enable coverage in southern; cry out, "Reverse me. ·Benedict Arnold was I been backing a reluctant country into war right; George Washington, Nathan Hale, Paul · over a bridge 6f untruth and violated prom• Ve:a:mont and New Hampshire and also is 1 · within reasonable distance I would be glad. . Revere, and others who fought for the same ises it has been heartening to hear your to do this in the interests of America first. ' ideals were traitors." You and your ilk-dis-I forthright talks over the radio. The people Respectfully yours~ honor the patriotism of those who gave to this ' of this Nation owe you their thanks. I want . RAYMOND L. BICKFORD. . generation the greatest Nation on earth. ; to express mine. · Formerly with headquarters, second divi President Franklin D. Roosevelt stands I hope CongresS can recover ·enough of its sion, A. E. F. pledged to the American people to keep the·' abdicated powers to prevent convoys and the American people out of war. "We will not 1 sending of our men abroad . . UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, participate in foreign wars, and we will not I do not believe Britain can-win in Europe. New York, April 24, 1941. send our Army, naval, or air forces to fight in: If she loses and the invasion of this continent foreign lands outside the Americas, except in: which our war party professes to fear becomes Senato~ CHARLES W. TOBEY, · The Capitol, Washington, D. C. case of attack." "Convoys mean shooting, ! an actuality, how shall Congress explain the DEAR SIR: Keep up the good :Q.ght against and shooting means war." The American ; giving away of our defenses? If a defeated people hol4 Presi<;lent, Roosevelt . to these empire gives up her navy, planes, and tanks convoys. The large majority ot Americans 1 are · against war, and con"oys are an act of1 pledges. During the debate on the lend-lease won't.it be just flne ,for us to have to defen.d . bill the convoy question was brought up. 1' ourselves against our own equipment which w~ ! We want no American armed forces sent' The assurance to the American people was will have fallen into German hands. that there would be no convoy. It was dur The people of this country do not want into war zones· under any pretext. 1 Our moot serious and vital need is to build; ing this debate that the question arose ae to war. up our own defenses at once. We must stop ! the unlimited power being handed over to the' Kindest regards to yourself and your President and was answered in terms that, I family. stripping our Navy or air force for any! · Cordially, · foreign government. · I should he abuse the power, Congress still had' the power of impeachment. Should Presi-1 ROBERT N. GREY, . We should only ship abroad armament that j dent Franklin D. Roosevelt move to repudiatei we do not need ourselves. · l these pledges to the American people, I call: GENEVA, N.Y., April 23, 1941. America must become powerful enough tol 1 upon-my Representative and two Senators in Bon. CHARLES w. ToBEY, fear no one, to keep out of foreign wars that I Congress to move for his impeachment so as· are not our own, and to never expect any United States Senate, 1 to justify the. American people's belief 1n Washington, D. 0. other country to fight our wars. · pledges made by their President. Very truly yours, DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: In a letter from my E. RoY . UNDERWOOD, If I were of the mind that you and your ilk son, now at Fort Bragg, N. C., was the sug are, I would, because of my dishonoring the gestion that surely Senator TOBEY should names, the deeds, and the ideals of great men have a friendly and thankful word.of 'appre APRIL 24; 1941, who gave to the world this great Nation, em ciation for his courageous opposition to THE EDITOR, NEW YORK HERALD TRmUNE, bark from the shores of a country with which convoys. . New York, N. Y. , I could not at least be honest. That gratitude is herewith expressed, Sen· DEAR EDITOR: Your e_ditorial, "Resolution of 1 Yours '\'ery truly, ator TOBEY. Y!K L. ROGLES, Senator TOBEY, that Hitler was not blu1Hng. Time has proven Chairrrran. Senate Office BuiZcting, that Dorothy Thompson was -just releasing _ Washington, D. 0. · claptrap to the world, while Col. Charles A. . SONOMA, CALIF., _April 21, 1941.. l DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: This is an expression Lindbergh actually knew what he was talking DEAR SENATOR: I was born in America 63. of my appreciation and support of your anti· about. Is Dorothy Thompson's judgment any years ago. I heard your broadcast last en• · convoy resolution and the hope that when 1• .3498 CONGRESSIONAL .RECORD-SENATE MAY 1 is ~eported to the Senate you will fight it can Peace Mobilization presen·t himself at the which gradually brought down the price of through to a successful issue. It is increas bearings of your committee. American-made articles-electric bulbs for ingly clear that in this matter of keeping out Sincerely yours, instance. And what has happened to the of European entanglements the Senate is our FREDERICK V. FIELD~ solemn promises a~out no army outside the last and perhaps our only safeguard. Executive Secretary. Western Hemisphere-already our Secretary Mpst sincerely yours, of War is mentioning "other places." To my B. WARREN BROWN, BEVERLY, MAss., April 2, 1941. mind the American voter is being made the Senator CHARLEs W. TOBEY, laughing stock of the world if. the present CINCINNATI, OHIO, April 24, 1941. . Washington, D. C. trend of edging us into war against our Han. CHARLES W. TOBEY, DEAR SENATOR TOBEY! I feel that you have wishes continues. United States Senate Office Building, correctly judged the desires of the American Sincerely, Washington, D. C. people when you state that they are anxious s. J. KANE. Sm: I am bitterly opposed to this counttY to avoid war, especially a war which seems to Copy to Hon. B. H. WHEELER. participating in the present European war the average American not to be his own. I _. Copy to Han. R. F. WAGNER. to save the British Empire. This is not our personally am convinced that we must give war. I fought in France in the World War England all possible material aid in order to APaiL 24, 1941. to save democracy-and I know what war is. assist her to win, but I do feel that we should DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: Thank God for your I am ready to defend this country, in which not draw our forces into the conflict. wonderful broadcast a few days ago. I . have I was born, if it is attacked, but I am not During t:t.. e last war I felt that it was my joined "America first," for not one boy of willing to defend special interests on Euro duty to enlist in the United States Army in ours must shed his blood again for any for pean soil. Why don't all those who are yelling order to "save the world for democracy," and eign land-it would not be just or fair. We we must save the British Empire join the was sent to Europe, where I served with a ·did it one, we must not' go back for more. Canadian forces? combat division until the end of the war, and Tl).e fear of our people of the Government No convoys-no war. · after that period was in the Army of Occu is most amazing. (Enclosed article is true.) Very respectfully, pation in Germany. I cannot, as an ex I see it on every hand. I myself am a A. J. CoLE. service man, feel that we should ask young daughter of the American Revolution; a char American manhood to again undertake a ter member of Minute Women, charter mem AMERICAN PEACE MOBILIZATION, task which proved. to be practically without ber and State offtcer of Red Cross, and a State New York, N.Y., April 17, 1941. benefit to the American people. It is difft regent for "restoration of George Washing Senator CHARLES W. ToBEY, cult for the average .American with whom I ton's birthplace." My grandfather was a lieu Senate Office Building, have talked to understand why the adminis tenant colonel on Gov. DeWitt Clinton's staft' Washington, D. C. tration seems so clearly determined to follow (1820}; my father a picked sharpshooter of DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: I am enclosing a copy the trend of 1914, and I find an increasing a famous New York regiment, the Ellsworth of a letter which I am sending to Senator number of people who are becoming alarmed Avengers; my son of 18 a World War volun GEORGE requesting that a representative of at our near approach to the conflict. teer, served for the full . duration, is living the American Peace Mobilization be heard at The Associated Press reported your bill to but may not last 2 years-my only boy. We the forthco~ing Senate Foreign Relations ban convoys. I think this shows very clearly are all natives of New York State, and back Committee hearings on your resolution to your desire to avoid any complications which of that Old Lynne, Conn., 1632. My Revolu forbid the use of United States naval vessels would lead us directly to war. If it is deter tionary ancestor was a minuteman under for the protection of convoys bound for a mined that we should give ships to the British General Washington. I have three bars-my belligerent nation. Governmen~. I feel these should be manned D. A. R. pin-have lived in all parts of this Your resolution has the full support of the by their own sailors. It would be far better Nation, nearly, am "East and West" (the large organization which I have the honor to for us to pay the huge debt now involved twain does meet sometimes}. I have found represent. We shall appreciate any eft'ort than to spend the lives of our young men. 1 but two women who are for convoy. They which it is possible for you to make to insure make this statement with a full knowledge were British, but living in this country. My the fullest possible expression of the views of of what a modern war involves, and 1 some right arm is lame from writing to United our organization at the committee hearings. times wonder if those individuals who are so States Senators who are for active participa Sincerely yours, anxious to see us enter the war would be tion in this world fight. I have lived in Ger- FREDERICK V. FIELD, willing to volunteer themselves. . many also, for .the education of my children, Very truly yours, Exec~tiv~ Secretary. and know the cruel Hun heart. ELLIS M. PuRINTON, Give all we have to spare for those in an APRIL 17, 1941. guish across the sea, but not one drop of Senator WALTER F. GEORGE, APRIL 17, 1941. American blood again. It will be revolution Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations DEAR SENATOR TOBEY; Your speech against here, Senator Tobey. I speak whereof I know. Committee, Senate Office Building, convoys was splendid. Your resolution has Very sincerely, washington, D. a. the blessing of more Americans than you know. America wants peace. Its eft'orts now (Pen name) E. HUNTINGTON. DEAR SENATOR GEORGE: I am Writing tore P. S.-1 have not one drop of German blood, quest that a representative of the American are misguided. It has given England its aid. but let us retain our life, our country. nor any of my ancestors. We are all English · Peace Mobilization be permitted to express and Scottish. . our views at the forthcoming hearings to be Sincerely yours, held by your committee on Senator TOBEY's NICHOLAS T. LANSSEN. resolution prohibiting the use of United WASHINGTON PEACE MOBILIZATION, States naval vessels for protecting convoys BOULDER, CoLo., April 16, 1941. Washington, D. C., April 25, 1941. bound for belligerent nations. Mr. CHARLEs w. ToBEY, The Washington Peace Mobilization urges On April 5 and 6, at the American People's . Washington, D. C. immediate passage of the resolution, ·to pre Meeting, which was held under our auspices, DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: Please do not allow vent convoys, of Senator CHARLES W. ToBEY. over 5,000 delegates from 385 cities and towns American convoys to be used in any shape The American people have never wavered in and 40 States in this country unanimously Qr form, as we do not want war, so help . their demands that the United States remain passed a resolution against the ·use of con you God. at peace. The sending of convoys into the voys. These delegates, representing many Sincerely, war zones is the last step leading to full par ticipation in the war now raging in Europe. million Americans organized in trade-unions, MRs. J. F. JEAGER. churches, community grrups, and in organi There is grave danger that the wishes of zations of farmers, youth, and Negroes, hold the people for peace will be ignored by a war the view that convoys will inevitably and NEW YoRK, Apri~ 18, 1941. minded administration and those who profit speedily lead to full United States participa Senator. ToBEY, Esq., .from war, without Congress even debating the tion in the European war. They are strongly Washington, D. C. question. Only Congress, as the elected rep opposed to our entrance into the war and DEAR SENATOR: I wish to oft'er my sincerest resentatives of the people, can declare war.' consequently to the use of convoys. congratulations on your proposed ban on It is, therefore, of vital importance to the The American Peace Mobilization is the convoys and also your statements recently very existence of our democracy that hear largest antiwar organization in this country in a. radio debate, and hope the convoy issue ings on tbe question of convoys be held at and has branches in virtually every important can be voted on and convoys blocked as we once and that this issue of war or peace be community in the United States. The im.. all know it is war, and for what? I fail to voted on by and discussed by the people of portance of our organization and the impor see where the loss of some foreign rr.arkets this country and their democratically elected tance of the issue which is now to be debated would be cause to go to war-and indeed, represen tati ves. before your committee justifies us in request if we build a· better mousetrap I don't see Because the question of war or peace is of ing that our point of view be given full and that even loss of trade would be a reality. paramount importance to every citizen, the complete expression before your committee. As for competing against so-called slave Washington Peace Mobilization, representing I shall appreciate hearing from you at what labor, I seem to recall some very cheap thousands of Americans, insists that the full time you wish to have an officer of the Amer1- :foreign-made articles on sale here for years, right to be heard be given the people's organ- 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 3499 1zation before the Congress acts on an issue SAN MATEO, CALIF., April 22, 1941. While there is no objection on the part of of such grave Importance to our Nation. United States Senator CHARLES W. ToBEY, the American people to give all-out aid to Washington, D. C . England, we cannot see why our good inten NEUTRAL MOTHERS OF AMERICA, DEAR Sm: We heartily appreciated your tions should be turned against us by our Flint, Mich. splendid radio address of last Sunday and President and made to appear that we want The following is a copy of a resolution that wish to thank you for the determined stand war as well. Convoying ships will mean just was unanimously adopted at a meeting of you are taking against the convoying of ships that. the Neutral Mothers of America which was by our Navy. We have each written letters to I want to thank you for the courageous held In Flint, Mich., April 8, 1941. our Senators and Congressmen from Cali fight you are making to keep us out of "Whereas we, the Neutral Mothers of fornia urging that they support the Tobey Europe's war. More power to you and your America, are organized to oppose the sacriflce amendment. colleagues in the Senate. of the sons of America in this or any other We feel that nothing that we may have to Sincerely, foreign war; and face In the future could possibly be as disas JOHN HIRSCHLER, "Whereas President Franklin Delano Roose trous as involvement in England's war. We (Copy to WAGNER.) velt himself has repeatedly said that the act feel confident that our manpower and .re of convoying ships means war; and sources are adequate to protect our own LANSING, MICH. "Whereas it is his duty and his solemn country and that it would be madness to Hon. CHARLES WILLIAM TOBEY: promise to keep us out of foreign wars, and waste our strength fighting for the British Thanks a m1llion for your support and "Whereas notwithstanding his duty, his Empire all over the world, which we would efforts to keep us at peace. promise, and his admissions that such step no doubt be expected to do 1f we allow our Only those too old to fight, or safe them means war, he is said to be arranging to con selves to become involved. selves, are trying to push us into this war. voy ships: Therefore be it Yours respectfully, Their speeches are very nauseating to us. "Resolved, We, the Neutral Mothers of CAROLYN R. THOMSON, If ever we boys needed a friend it is now, and America, most seriously protest against such MABEL A. THOMSON, you are proving to be that friend. breach of promise and breaking of faith by JOHN THOMSON. Thanks again for your help. the misuse of power and we hereby urgently Very truly yours, demand that the constitutional power of our WM. L. AUSTIN, Jr. Representatives be used to prevent such acts SYRACUSE, N.Y., April 23, 1941. of war and thereby save the sons of America MY DEAR SENATOR ToBEY: I am writing to from being sacrificed In this foreign war; and request a hearing on your bill opposing con SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, April 25, 1941, be It further voys and have also written to the President. Senator CHARLES W. ToBEY, "Resolved, That copies of this resolution be I shall be glad to do anything to further the Senate Office Building, duly certified and sent to the President and passage of this bill. Washington, D. C. to each Member of both Houses of Congress Very gratefully, DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: A great many of US of the United States of America." ·F. V. FOWLER. here at Swarthmore are convinced that to KATHERINE M. SUTTER, convoy foreign ships through combat zones is Secretary. to declare ourselves belligerent. It would be BROOKLYN, N.Y., April 24, 1941. the last in a series of steps directed toward Senator ToBEY, SONOMA, CALIF., April 20, 1941. entrance of the war. (The "short of war" DEAR SENATOR: I was very much impressed Washington, D. C. phrase seems to have been the sugar coating with your broadcast last evening. I am an DEAR Sm: You are to be congratulated on on the bitter pill, and it is all worn off.) ex-service man, and you can rest assured that your brave efforts to protect this country from I cannot be sympathetic with the interven not only do I agree with you on this anticon involvement in an unwise foreign adventure tionist position; I do not want the United voy bill but 90 percent of the American which can risk much and gain nothing for States to go to war. For these reasons I find people I contact daily-and that Is quite a this Nation. myself in strong support of your resolution. number-are In full agreement with your real Please be assured that your anticonvoy res In order that the American people understand American cause. We shall back you 100 per olution has stirred general support from all that the use of convoys is simply a means for cent for not selling us down the river. people except that small group which is more easing us into the war the hearings of the Your ardent supporters, interested in Europe than in America, and Foreign Relations Committee should be made ARTHUR METcALF AND FAMILY. these interventionists are afraid of you and public. Eighty-three percent of the people, your resolution. in answer to the Gallup poll, declared them Please force your proposal to a vote so that selves to be against direct involvement; they LoNG BEACH, CALD'., April 22, 1941. we may know for the record which men in should be fully aware of the meaning of DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: Out here on the West Congress are abetting these foreign interests. convoys. coast, where there are tens of thousands from God speed your efforts. New England States-in fact, every State in The Government, as the representative of Sincerely yours, the people, must make the people's intense the United States-you might talk to 50 men J. W. McGOVERN. and women; 49 out of 50 stand for your wish their first consideration. The hypothet bill to keep the American flag, ships, and our (Mrs.) lRENE M. McGoVERN. ical "honor of the country" is not at stake. boys out of the war zones. The warmongers Yours sincerely, BARBARA BOWMAI'i. tn Washington ought to get out and mix BROOKLYN, N. Y., April 21, 1941. with the great mass of the common people. Senator CHARLES W. ToBEY, H. B. WHITE. Washington, D . c. DURO PRODUCTS, DEAR SENATOR: At the risk of being a BENTON HARBOR, MICH., April23, 1941. NEW YORK, April 25, 1941. traitor, a dupe, or a liar, I am glad to see Senator TOBEY, DEAR SENATOR ToBEY: Here is the whole you willing to secure certain Information for Washington, D. C. thing in a nutshell: Convoys, dead'boys. the public relative to convoying our ships DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: While We are from Go to town with it. Yell it at "Stained" to Britain. Machiavelll must turn in his Michigan, we appreciate your fight in the Sen GLASS. You will have milllons of true Amer grave to see how this present administration ate on the pledges given by both parties, also Icans echoing you. is putting him to shame. We must use every the President, against war. Thanks for your true Americanism. My means at our disposal to drive the warmon We are proud of our Senator VANDENBERG great-great-grandfather, Robt. Harper, was in gers out in the open and make them fight and can trust his judgment. Second and Third Congresses. like men. Senator BROWN has been so tied up to the Cordially, Mr. Roosevelt opened the week end tell1ng administration that he has not always voted CoRNELL GRERNINO. the American people they were ,slow to recog as the people back home wanted. We are told nize what 1s · happening in Europe. Is he that he has had so many letters from people OGUNQUIT, MAINE, April 24, 1941. trying to keep us from seeing what is hap that are against convoys and war that he sees Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, pening in this country? After almost 3 he will have to do better. In a letter recently Senate Office Building, years of the war he himself is not able to he said that he w111 vote for your bill, should it Washington, D. C. render effective aid to the small democracies, be brought up. DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: I join those Citizens even after he pushes some of them into a Yours truly, who desire a public hearing on the Tobey hopeless war. A friend of mine who has a lRVEN SPENCER. anticonvoy resolution. brother in the air-training program at Pensa As a citizen who has with mortiflcation cola tells me that they are using eight men watched every step that our country has to a training plane this year where they used MILFORD, CONN., April 24, 1941. taken toward entry into the foreign war, I only four last year. Are we sending all our Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, urge that this anticonvoy resolution be training planes to other countries and thereby Senate Office Building, passed, so that we may at least avoid further neglecting our own defenses? If all this wild Washington, D. C. advance into the war. bellicose talk from Washington should get us DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: Recently I listened Very truly yours, into war we may find ourselves as unpre~ to your radio address, Anti-Convoy Resolu (Miss) LAURA SPEYERS, pared as France was. tion, which wlll come up before Congress. LXXXVII--221 3500 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE MAY 1 I am in hearty accord with all you said in yourself, who would have the interest of this HAMBURG, N. Y., April 21, 1941. Jour broadcast, and I have written to the country at heart rather than a misguided Han. CHARLES W. TOBEY. following to vote for the passage of your bill: "loyalty". to others. MY DEAR Sm: After listening to your broad Senator JOHN A. DANAHER, of Connecticut. There is no good reason for us to enter cast of April 16 I went to bed and slept for Senator FRANCIS MALoNEY, of Connecticut. this European war and our last experience the :first time in nights. You have by your Representative SoL BLOOM, of New York. should have taught us enough. All this con determination to keep our country from Representative JAMES A. SHANLEY, of Con- troversy shouldn't have been necessary if our taking the :final plunge that would involve necticut. President and most of our present leaders us in war given me a new hope of which I As I said in my letter to each one, that I had been faithful to their campaign prom had almost despaired. thank God that America can boast of another ise to keep us out of any European war. Sincerely yours, daring, patriotic Senator. : But evidently that promise was soon for ANTHONY· A. O'DONNELL. I am a native-born American citizen, Sen gotten. NOTE.-'-For your information, John C. ator ToBEY, and my beloved America and her . It is my opinion that if we do go into this Butler (Republican) was elected ·to House of people come first, last, and always in my war, we would only get what we would be Representatives yesterday, April 22, to :fill heart. going over there to defeat-dictatorship, vacancy in New York Forty-second Congres• My father fought in the Civil War to pre However, I do believe . that we should pre~ sional District, defeating his Democratic op, serve this Union, and I am concerned about pare for emergency. If we are fully pre ponent Mrs. Hattie Schwert, .widow of the the future of our America and her institu pared there will be no emergency. late Congressman Pius L. Schwert. ~ tions. RespectfuJ_ly, JIM MEAD left his post at Washington and It is abo.ut _time that we began straighten JOHN J. DOHERTY, came home to campaign for Mrs. Schwert:; ing _out our own domestic affairs instead of This is s ·enator MEAD's own district. . Mr. trying to police and clean up the rest of VETERANS OF THE ABRAHAM Butler is opposed · to·' convoys, while JIM the world. No American convoys for me, and -. LINCOLN BRIGADE, MEAD's rubber-stamp plea is "Uphold the no American sailors or soldiers to be sent to New York, N.Y., April 25, 1941. President." European soil. Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, [From the Buffalo Evening News of April 23, God bless you in your efforts in behalf of Washington, D. C. 1941) the American people. DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: In spite of every Cordially yours, Presidential assurance that our country will FORTY-SECOND DISTRICT GOES REPUBLICAN (Mfss) AUGUSTA WILL, be kept out of war, one measure after an In the election of JoHN C. BUTLER the other is adopted by Congress inexorably dtag · -Porty;..second Congressional District returns ging us into it. . at long last to the Republican column. The RosLIND4E, MAss., April 24, ·194i. If ever the security of our country and the grip-of Senator JAMES M. MEAD on it is broken. Hon. CHARLES ToBEY, lives and property of our citizens has been Although a.filliations in the bailiwick showed ·washington, D . . C. threatened it is in the latest movement tQ Republicans in the majority up to 1940, Mr. DEAR Sm: We listened to both your broad supply naval protection to convoys bound for MEAD had represented it for 20 years. -When casts, Wednesday and Saturday, April 12 and belligerent countries~ the opportunity- came to him to enter the 16, and enjoyed them very much, indeed. We Obviously these convoys will be attacked. Senate, the Democratic organization let him thought Mt. Breckinridge a terrible war Just as clearly we shall then have to wage select the party candidate for the Forty monger, and too insulting. We are_ glad war to protect them. second District; and he :fixed on the late Pius you're against convoys and hope many more. The Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Bri L. S.chwert, a popular figure in his own right. good Senators -will :fight ~gainst them·.- It gade determinedly oppose every such war Mr. Schwert's election was taken as evidence ~eems Mr. Roosevelt is trying hard to send making measure. We are convinced of the that the distrlct st111 was loyal to Mr. MEAD. them, as the Amertcan people do not want vital importance of the passage of the Tobey For the special election caused by the death war, and he knows it. Seems to me every resolution and urge that the Senate Foreign of Mr. Schwert the Senator dictated nomi thing England wants they get, and here in Relations Committee recommend its adop nation of the Representative's widow, Mrs. America are people who need help but do tion by the Senate. Hattie E. Schwert, an altogether estimable not get it, as everything is for Great Britain, We further urge your committee to grant person. Mr. MEAD did all the campaigning, and we should do all we can for America the opportunity to spokesmen for the Amer and the outcome must be accepted as a sharp only as there is too much propaganda here. ican Peace Mobillzation for testifying on the reverse for him. The Senators who vote against convoys ·Tebey resolution. This organization repre .Mr. BUTLER conducted a vigorous and in should have the best of luck. sents millions of American citizens and has a telligent campaign, .ably backed by the Re . Hoping you w1ll broadcast again. clear-cut program for peace. publican ·organization. At the outset his Yours truly, Yours truly, chances were regarded as slim because of the Mrs. GEORGE RAUH, IRVING GOFF, intensity of Mr. MEAD's efforts. The Senator .National Executive Secretary. told the people of the district that the eyes of PHILADELPHIA HARDWARE & the President were on them; he urged them MALLEABLE . IRON WORKS, NEW YORK CITY, April 25, 1941. with all his eloquence to give the '\dminis PHILADELPHIA, Senator WALTER F. GEORGE, tration a vote of confidence to bolster it in Hon. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Chairman, Foreign Relations Com the national emergency. On that score, then, President of the United States, mittee, Senate Office Building, the outcome is the more impressive. It indi Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C. cates an independent spirit among the voters DEAR MR. PaEsmENT: I am one of your MY DEAR SENATOR: I am writing this let of the Forty-second District. The people strong supporters and a good friend. Be ter to urge you that open public hearings be there clearly want a Representative who is careful about the convoy proposition. You heard by your committee in order that the no.t under orders, who feels free to vote on stated many times you wanted to keep this people may send representatives to be heard the momentous issues ahead as his own con country out of war, convoy may lead us into in support of Senator ToBEY's resolution pro science dictates. Now that the grip of Mr. war. Many people have this same opinion. hibiting the use of the armed forces of· the M~ on the district is broken, there is rea Lend them ships to be manned by British United States and American vessels and air sonable expectation that it will continue in sailors but not to be convoyed by American craft from transporting, delivering, or con ·the Republican column. seamen. voying any type of materials to bel11gerent I do not like to see you criticized by both countries. HAMBURG, N. Y., April 23, 1941. Democrats and Republicans. I trust that my request will have your Hon. JAMES M. MEAD, With kind regards, I remain serious consideration, as I am convinced that Hon. RoBERT WAGNER, Very truly yours, the vast majority of the American people are Hon. JoHN C. BUTLER. PHILADELPHIA HARDWARE & opposed to our doing any convoying. MALLEABLE IRON WORKS, INC., MY DEAR Sms: To convoy vessels would Yours very truly, mean shooting, shooting would mean war, WILLIAM J. DEVLIN, President. FRANK A. HARDEN, (Sent to all United States Senators.) and war would mean sending our boys abroad to die for something that they or NEW YoRK, N. Y. ourselves had nothing to do with, and from NEW YoRK CITY, April 21, 1941, DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: The women of our whence there would not, there could not, be Senator ToBEY, - organizations, the Silver Star Mothers of any return. It would be a one-way trip. United States Senate, America and the Daughters of the Constitu Our boys would not know for what purpose Washington, D. C. tion, are supporting your great fight against or to what end they would be fighting. DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: I wish to compll• convoys. The President owes the citizens an Our forefather-s left Europe, for there was ment you on your fine stand on this serious honest statement of his intention. God bless no peace or liberty in Europe. They came situation into which our Government seems you. to America. They fought and died that we to be involving us. You gave a :fine talk on Yours peacefully for not a man to might have peace and liberty here in America. the convoying of United States ships and I Europe, Are we to abandon the Constitution estab· thoroughly agree with your viewpoint. I . MARIA LIVINGSTON MILLS, lished by ~he Founding Fathers? Are we, only wish we had many more Senators like Chairman, Pan American Co~m_ittee. the people, willing to permit Congress, who 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 3501 has been elected by the people, to abdicate which the advocates of war are planning tor breath against going down the road any fur in favor of the President? No. We, the our country's involvment. ther to war. I am In contact dally with parents of those American boys, are not will "May I trust that you will support the many people, and I can tell you now that the ing that those boys be sent abroad to fight Tobey anticonvoy resolution and urge imme masses o! Americans are against getting in and die in foreign wars. diate public hearings on this resolution." volved in this foreign conflict, contrary to the I am not a member of any organization Hoping that you will have the gratification fact that certain people are claiming that movement. I am just a father who has one of seeing your resolution enacted into law, the people of the United States are demand son in the United States Army, another son and that the present crisis may be overcome ing convoys. This is not so-the majority in the United States Navy, and r.nother son without plunging us into the inferno, I am, are against it. awaiting the induction call. These br>ys will Very sincerely yours, Once more may I urge you never to give give all they have for America. CHRISTIANE WALTER. up the fight against involvement. Sirs, I beg of you, as I pray to Almighty P. S.-I shall write to more Senators, par Sincerely, God, do not permit the youth of America, ticularly to such who are of the opposite GEORGE MAINES. that love America, to be sent abroad to be opinion. slaughtered for a lost cause in Europe. (Copy to Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY.) Do not, I beg of you, sirs, permit convoys. SWARTHMORE CoLLEGE, BRIDGEPORT, CONN., April 25, 1941. May Almighty God fortify you with wisdom Swarthmore, Pa., April 25, 1941. Senator WALTER F. GEORGE, and may the Prince of Peace be good to us all. Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, Chairman, Senate Foreign Yours, Senate Office Building, Relations Committee, ANTHONY A. O'DoNNELL. Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C. Cosigners: DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: Your anti convoy DEAR SENATOR GEORGE: At a recent rally, George J. Muir, Mrs. George Muir, Mrs. resolution is an indication that you clearly the Bridgeport Council of the American Harry B. Errington, Patricia M. realize that the convoying of ships is a step Peace Mobilization passed unanimously a O'Donnell, Margaret C. Hopkins, leading directly to our full Involvement in .motion to support the Tobey no-convoy John Knaak, Mina Knaak, May U. the European war. Eighty-three percent of resolution. Hipp, Francis W. Twohey, Mary the people, in a recent Gallup poll, replied Great alarm was expressed, especially by A. O'Donnell, Ruth M. Knaak, that they definitely opposed direct entrance the mothers present, that American naval Anna Tillner, Albert Tillner, Ray into the war; but not all of these people vessels would be used as convoys for vessels mond Truxes, Noreen R. Twohey, realize that their support of the use of con carrying war materials to belligerent nations. Margaret Truxes, George W. Hipp. voys may mean just this. I urge, therefore, One mother testified that her son had that you do all in your power to see that joined the Navy (he is only 18) In response CLEVELAND, OHIO, April 25, 1941. public committee hearings on your resolu to the call for young men to train as me Senator ToBEY, tion are held Immediately, that all the issues chanics. But no sooner was he in than, Washington, D. C. may be clearly put before the people of this instead of going _into training in the shops, DEAR Sm: I am 1n a position to hear the last remaining free democracy. Before people he. and many other boys like him were views of prominent American citizens, and in this country declare themselves for or rushed to Virginia to form the crew of a the feeling is strong that your anticonvoy against our convoying ships, they should destroyer now being prepared for convoy bill will pass. realize that it Is simply a means of easing us service. This unhappy youth wrote his Copies of my letters to Senator GEORGE and quietly into the conflict. mother that the only trained men in the the President are herewith enclosed. Know that many here at Swarthmore, even whole crew that will man this destroyer are Sincerely, many who supported the lend-lease bill, are the officers. The others are all boys from 18 WM. T. CORLETT. opposed to using American ships for convoy to 21. The mothers of these boys right.Jy Ing through the war zones. Like-minded feel that their sons will be sent to almost persons throughout the country would give certain death in order to save trained Navy CLEVELAND, OHIO, April 25, 1941. wide support to your resolution it hearings men for less risky service. Senator GEORGE, were made public. The patriotism of these mothers and their Washington, D. C. Sincerely yours, sons is not in question. We are bound to DEAR Sm: Many American well-wishers sin JEANNE CuRTIS. be loyal to our country and Its people, not cerely hope that the Tobey anticonvoy bill . to politicians who, by deceit and trickery, will pass. If not, it means war, which we do DORCHESTER, MASS., April 24, 1941. are taking the Nation into a disastrous for- not want. One experience within a quarter of eign adventure. · a century of our participation in a Euro Senator CHARLES W. ToBEY, Senate Building, Washington, D. c. We, almost a hundred citizens of Bridge pean war, with which we had no concern-as port, representing thousands of trade union in the present war-should be enough. So DEAR Sm: As one American citizen, I am using this means to let you know that there ists, churches, and youth organizations, hope think many American citizens, to which I that your committee will report favorably on subscribe. are people who do not want to get Into the European conflagration, and view convoys as the Tobey resolution. We trust the convoy bill will not pass. a definite step in that direction. That 1s Respectfully yours, Sincerely, (Mrs.) RUTH E. KENNELL, WM. T. CORLETT. why I favor very strongly your resolution on convoys. I hope you will: use the present· Executive Secretary, Bridgeport opportunity to press for public hearings on Council, A. P.M. APRIL 25, 1941. this resolution. The Honorable F'aANKLIN DELANO RoosEVELT, Respectfully yours, President of the United States, AKRON, OHIO, April 25, 1941. IRVING PHILLIPS. Washington, D. C. To the Honorable SENATOR TOBEY, DEAR Sm: Members of your Cabinet may United States Senator, think this is our war, but many with whom YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, United States Senate Office Building, • I come in contact think that we have noth Reading, Pa. Washington, D. C. ing to do with England's wars unless they Senator C. W. TOBEY, DEAR Sm: I have been reading a great deal conflict with our well-being, as they have Washington, D. C. about the b1ll you introduced before Con during our history. MY DEAR MR. TOBEY: As a member of an gress against convoying ships to Europe, and I, with many American citizens, hope you organization that wishes to avoid war, we I am heartily In your favor, and sincerely will not send convoys to the war zones of are very much in favor of your resolution hope you get same passed. Europe. It means our entering the Euro against the convoy. We urge you to make Won't you please continue trying to keep pean war, which we do not want to do. Some every effort to have public hearings on the America out of war. I don't believe we twenty-odd years ago your predecessor, bill as soon as possible. We are urging others should be involved in another European war Woodrow Wilson, entered a like war and died to write to the committee. after keeping out of Europe's troubles since of a broken heart. I hope you do not repeat We sincerely hope this blll w1ll be passed. the last war. this now by sending convoys to Europe. Very truly yours, Yours with kindest regards, Sincerely, LOUELLA MULLIN, W. R. Cox, D. D. B. WM. T. CORLETT. Business and Industrial Secretary. w. M. JOHNSTON, M.D. HOBOKEN, N. J., April 24, 1941. MILLVILLE, N.J., April 25, 1941. JOHNSON & FAULKNER, INC., Bon. Senator CHARLES W. ToBEY, Hon. CHARLES W. TOBEY, New York, April 25, 1941. Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C. The Honorable CHARLES Wn.LIAM ToBEY, DEAR SENATOR: Upon receipt of your card, DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: It is Useless to write United States Senate, I have just written to Senator GEORGE and to Representatives of my own State, so I am Washington, D. C. to President Roosevelt. writing to you to give you encouragement DEAR SENATOR ToBEY: I extend to you my . My letter to Senator GEORGE was as follows: in your fight against convoys. heartiest congratulations on your fight for "Every individual American life is too I think it -is now time to think of America the anticonvoy legislation. sacred to be sacrificed in 'the interest of any first, and build up our defenses here, and More power to you l foreign power or to save our foreign trade. not somewhere else in a foreign country. I Sincerely, May I trust that you will oppose every snare urge you to continue your fight to the last DAVID S. HEMINGWAY, 3502 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE MAY l DENVER, COLO., April 22, 1941. camps there is bound to be a bad moral in CHICAGO, ILL., April 26, 1941. Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, of New Hampshire, tluence. I know the condition or some camps Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, . United States Senate, where we were stationed before my husband . UTJ,ited States Senate, Washington,·D. C. · Washington, D. C. sailed-Camp Lee, Va., was one. Instead of HeN. MR. ToBEY: I earnestly urge you to · DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: The following ts a lowering the age limit, if necessary, raise it, use your influence to have public hearings copy of the letter I sent to the Senators and as there are plenty of old bachelors who could on the Tobey anticonvoy resolution. Representatives from Colorado: go. That would not ruin the education of the We must keep this country from war and "As one of the 83 percent of the American · American youth and put our young boys into convoys mean war. people, I am writing to you to protest against moral temptations before they are old enough Sincerely, convoys, for convoys mean war, and I am to stand firmly on their own feet. CLARA G. NELSON. against the· United States taking an active "Thank God we still have a Government 1n part in this European conflict. I think it this country of the people and for the people, CHICAGO, ILL., April 26, 1941. would be well for the Government of the and let us pray to God that we may keep it, Hon. CHARLES W. TOBEY, United States to listen to the voice of the and that the Government will Usten to the Washington, D. C. American people protesting against active majority of the people and live up to their participation in this war instead of the war election pledges to keep us out of this war." . DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: I am sending to mongers in the United States and to all the I am for you 100 percent, and may God Senator GEORGE the following letter: British propaganda tlooding this country. grant that you win in your tight against "I am writing _to urge most earnestly the "I would think that the United States convoys, and so against war. holding of immediate public hearings. on the would have learned a severe enough lesson in . Yours very truly, robey anticonvoy resolution (S. J. Res. 62). the World War to stay out of the present con HELEN B. HUBBARD. "I am for no convoys and no war, as I tlict. Look at the money we spent; but, of (Mrs. Ralph B. Hubbard.) believe are the majority of true Americans." course, that is a mere drop in the bucket com Sincerely yours, Mrs. MARCIA J. LYTTLE. pared with the debt of billions we are in TAFT, TEx., April 11, 1941. curring today. Then when the war ended the Hon. CHARLES W. TOBEY, debtor nations soon repudiated the payment Washington, D. C. LAKE FOREST, ILL., April 25, 1941. of their debts to the United States and called DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: I read in the papers DEAR SENATOR GEORGE: I am very strongly us Shylocks. Of course, Finland stands as the that the subject of convoying shipments of anticonvoy and I hope you will do all that one foreign nation with honor as she always materials to Britain is being much discussed you possibly can to keep this country out of met her obligation and even wanted to in her tn Washington. Permit me, as a Texas cot war. time of stress during her tight with Russia. ton farmer, to urge you to take a firm stand The convoying of ships would certainly The money we spent in the World War is against convoying. Our Nation must make lead this country straight into the war, and n·othing in comparison with the American great sacrifices to help Britain save herself, that must not happen. boys who gave their all and never came back but we must not become an active partici Yours sincerely, from foreign countries. And look at the hos pant in the European struggle. Therefore, DEBORAH s. FERRY. pitals tilled with invalids, some far worse off let us not expose our own ships and men to than those who made the supreme sacrifice, the German naval and air force$. living, suffering examples of the awfulness LAKE. FOREST, ILL., April 25, 1941. of war. · · · Sincerely yours, President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, FRED B. JONES. "And yet some in the United States dare Washington, D. C. talk of convoys, not thinking nor heeding the DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: This COUntry must not terrible sacrifice it will intlict upon the flower (Copy for Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY.) become involved in the European war, and if of American youth. · Those that consider con NEW- ORLEANS, LA., April 25, 1941. we convoy ships that is what will certainly Hon. WALTER' GEORGE, h~ppen. I trust that you will keep us out voys probably are too old to be actual partici of war. pants when the holocaust breaks, and who, if Chairman, Senate Foreign they have sons, have, no doubt, seen to it that Relations Committee, Sincerely yours, they are in safe jobs not subject to dangerous Washington, D. C. DEBORAH S. FERRY. active duty. MY DEAR SENATOR: I want to join with all "I can speak from actual experience, for my true Americans in urging the holding of im CINCINNATI, OHIO, April 26, 1941. husband saw active service in the World War; mediate public hearings on the Tobey anti Senator ToBEY, - was over there a year, is a member of the Vet convoy resolution .. Senate Office Building, erans of Foreign Wars and the American Convoys mean war-no convoys, no war. Washington, D. C. Legion. · We were married 8'12 months (I was The Tobey resolution must be passed. DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: This is 'just to ex no "war bride") when he sailed with the Six American young men must not be sacri press our most heartfelt approval of your Hundred and Third Engineers. He was in the ficed by fighting somebody else's war. We do fight against convoys. When the subject of Meuse-Argonne drive, and I did not know for not desire our boys to die on foreign soU convoys_was first brought to the attention a month after the armistice was signed ·and be-plowed under in foreign lands. Nor of the public we wrote at once to alL our whether he was dead or alive-and then his do we desire hundreds of thousands of our Senators and Representatives, expressing first letter came saying he was safe. God was young men returned to us maimed and crip emphatic disapproval concerning such a good to us, and brought him back safe and pled for life, hopeless physical wrecks. move• . and we have recently sent letters in sound. - What we desire is that America build a the same vein to President Roosevelt and ."Now we have two sons, one 19 and one who strong navy and the greatest airplane. tleet Senator GEORGE. As citizens who iove will be 17 .this summer. I did not give birth in the world to protect ·this continent, but th~s country and give it our undivided al to those two boys to ever have them tight on keep out of other nations' business. legiance, we sincerely believe that, under • foreign soil. War is hell, and I am not willing My forefathers fought in the Revolution present circumstances, involvement in ac that our sons be sent to tight for England or ary War to make this Nation a land of free tual warfare would be a far more terrible any other foreign country on the face of the dom and individual liberty. We have al and costly tragedy for the United States globe. ready gone too far in sacrificing the rights of than the defeat of the British Empire. "How do the Representatives in the Gov individual citizens. To go further would be Therefore, even if withholding convoys ernment dare not listen to the voice of the disastrous. Danger to the ruin of this Re· should mean such an outcome in Europe. people who had an active part in the World public lies within even more than from with we are against convoys. We feel that it is War, to the voice of the Legionnaires, and out. more than high time that the welfare of even more to the voice of the Veterans of For Let the people speak and give them a this country should be considered first. We eign Wars, who actually know more about the chance to speak without all of this foolish, deplore many of the steps already taken to horrors of foreign wars than the stool pigeons silly, misleading propaganda that is intended ward involvement in the European con tn this country? to intlame and to raise hatred. tlict, and we are, regardless of what hap "Another issue that soon may be considered, I hope this time you will stand by America pens overseas, unalterably opposed to any to which I wish to protest, is the lowering of to protect our sons even if you would not steps which could lead to actual entrance the age for conscription. If it is lowered to protect them under the lease-lend bill. into war. We do not want convoys, and we 18, it wlll destroy many a fine boy's college Senator GEORGE, I am 63 years of age. I do not want war. education. For, if he has to stay out of school want to see America preserved for my chil Sincerely, for a year, granting that it is only 1 year, and dren and my children's children. The pres MARIE WILLISON. no active service-a thing I cannot conceive ervation of America lies in our Senators and ROBERT D. WILLISON. possible unless the Government listens to the our Members of Congress. They should not dictates of the American people-how many give up their authority, guardianship and CENTERBROOK, CONN., April 26, 1941. youths will go back to study? Then, too, the power to the Executive Department, nor Hon. WALTER F. GEoRGE, average boy of 18 is not versed in the ways of should we be more British than American. Washington, D. C. the world and many a youth will have his life Very truly yours, MY DEAR MR. SENATOR: When Senator To ruined morally-for where there are army F. W. SINCLAIR. BEY'S anticonvoy resolution comes up for 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 3503· business on April 80, Will you please allow KENT, OHIO, April 25, 1941. ToBEY's resolution. Wlll you kindly do all tn hearings on it. Hon. WALTER GEORGE, your power ·to insure these hearings be held? Yours truly, . Chairman, Senate Foreign Sincerely, · Mrs. MARTIN W. WRIGHT. Relation!~ Committee, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. BRADFORD. Senate Office Building, CENTERBROOK, CONN., April 26, 1941. Washington, D . C. Hon. FRANKLIN D. RoosEVELT, ' Sm: In these trying times, with war so SPOKANE, WASH., April 27, 1941. Washington, D. C. near, people ·in positions such as yours, find President FRANKLIN D. RoOSEVELT, MY DEAR MR. PREsmENT: Will you please it very difficult . to discover exactly what the Washington, D. C. favor hearings on Senator ToBEY's anttcon American people want you to do. DEAR MR. PREsiDENT: You gave your solemn voy resolution when it comes up for bust That is why I am writing you this letter. pledge to keep us out of war unless invaded, ness on April 30. I want to express to you my beliefs on the and we are trusting you to keep that promise. Very truly yours, Tobey Anti-Convoy Resolution. This reso Convoys mean a shooting war, as you your Mrs. MARTIN W. WRIGHT. lution is. one that wlll help protect democ self said; therefore we expect you not to use racy and keep America out of war. This convoys. We are . anxiously awaiting the hearings on Senator ToBEY's resolution. ~TONEHAM; MAss., April 25, 1941. resolution should come up for publtc hear DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: The enclosed is a let ings in your committee immediately. Sincerely, ter I have sent to the President, Han. Cordell The people of America do not want war. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. BRADFORD. Hull, Mr. Stimson, Mr. Knox, and Senator Our President has given his solemn pledge GEORGE. I thought you might be interested in to keep us out of war. The Anticonvoy HuRD-MosT SASH & DooR Co., it not because it contains my views only, but, Resolution w1ll help him to keep that Dubuque, Iowa, April 26, 1941. I am assured, the views of most Stoneham pledge. Will you exert your influence to Hon. F. D. RoosEVELT, people, particularly the so-called inarticulate bring the Tobey resolution before your com President of the United States, group. One such person when asked· about mittee for immediate public hearings? In Washington, D. ·c. writing to our Representatives at Washington doing so you will be giving the American HoNoRABLE SIR: From the standpoint of replied: "You are called a 'red' if you do;" an people _that opportunity to tell you how sentiment, most Americans hope for a British other, asked to sign a peace or war petition, they feel about war. victory. According to the various polls, about tremblingly said, "I hope the President doesn't I am just 21 years old. I have my entire the same percentage of the people insist on deport me for it." This from an American life before me. I certainly have no desire America remaining at peace. citizen. What a mess and what a deluge of to be buried in a short while on a distant As democracy is government directly by the !ec.r has descended upon our people. Even foreign battlefield. The Tobey Anticonvoy people, our chances of remaining at peace the articulate seldom dare. Your loyalty is Resolution must be passed. should be approximately 9 to 1. our bulwark in this dark hour. Very truly yours, The polls also indicate that the people Oratefully yours, JosEPH BLAIR, Jr. oppose convoys, and our political leaders (Mrs. H. S.) GRACE TAYLOR. Copy to Han. CHARLES ToBEY. should at once patriotically refrain from suggesting convoys ·or any other measures STONEHAM, MASS., April 25, 1941. THE SPRINGVILLE-DIMOCK CHARGE, tending to bring us closer to war. To do DEAR ---: I would like to remind you THE METHODIST CHURCH, otherwise would destroy the principle of that this is my country as well as yours and Springville, Pa., April 28, 1941. democracy treasured by all of our people. that it is the country of the American people The Honorable WALTER GEORGE, In your Boston speech of October 30 last who are overwhelmingly opposed to war and Chairman, Senate Foreign you stated as follows: to the use of American convoys to get us into Relations Committee, "Fathers and mothers, I give you one more war. That is de:flilitely my opposition, too. Washington, D. C. assurance. I have satd·this before, but I shall You can have your pro's and your anti's, and DEAR Sm: In the name of humanity and say it again and again and again. Your boys American citizens are entitled to theirs, what the best interests of our Nation' and of the are not going to be sent into any foreign ever they be, but no private citizen and no cause of Christ, I urge you to do all in wars." public ofticial has the right to ask American your power to secure immediate public Naturally, the fathers and mothers of boys to fight and die in a war that 1s not hearings on the Tobey Anticonvoy Resolu America confidently expect this solemn pledge theirs--as this European conflict certainly is tion. to be fulfilled. not. The pages of hist9ry wlll tell us what's American democracy must survive and Respectfully yours, what in the future, as they have in the past, grow, but it cannot do so if it adopts the GEORGE H. MosT. and it's up to us to pass by propaganda until methods of . the totalitarian states. The means are never justified by the ends, ex Same letter addressed to Hull, Knox, Stim· we can verify it with fact. History has opened son, and my Senators and Representatives. our eyes to the lies of the World War, and it cept as the two are in harmony. If we has yet to disclose one single instance when take the sword, we, or 9ur country as we the British Government was ever a friend to now know and love it, shall surely perish ALBANY, N. Y., April 28, 1941. us· (or to anyone else) and not an interfering by the ·sword. The convoying of shipments Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, greedy grab-it-all. Now that the American to Britain or elsewhere cannot but mean the Senate Office Building, people must impoverish themselves to pay for taking of the sword. Washington, D. C. the lend-lease bill, it's up to Britain (and But above all, let the American people DEAR SIR: It seems to me to be of extreme Britain only) to get the goods and to forbear speak. To fall to hold a hearing on this importance that public hearings on your reaching out with her clutching hand for the resolution is to move further along the way anticonvoy resolution be held immediately, llves of American boys. There are too many to fascism. with representative American citizens invited· British-born "paytrlots'' (and some that are Very sincerely yours, to testify. not) over here for her benefit, not ours. How PHILIP N. PITCHER, Minister. Sincerely, about the Dies committee getting after this Copies to: Miss PHEBE C. BRowN. union now and federal union business, a President Franklin D. Roosevelt, White project of Britain and an attempt to put House, Washington, D. C. America back into those very clutches from The Honorable CHARLES W. TOBEY, Senate CHICAGO, ILL., April 27, 1941. which the Revolutionary War rescued her? Office Building, Washington, D. C. To Han. WALTER GEORGE, The Spirit of 1776 lives on and the blood that Chairman, Foreign Relations reddened the snow at Valley Forge has sunk Committee, Washington, D. 0. SPOKANE, WASH., April 27,·1941. Sm: I am expressing the views of many of into the soil to nourish forever the American Senator CHAS. W. TOBEY, people in their determination to make good, my friends who are not taking the time to Washington, D. C. write you when I ask that you do all you can for all time, separation from Britain. It is DEAR SENATOR: We heartily endorse your blessed to mind one's own business a·nd God to see that public hearings on the Tobey fight against couvoys and hope you succeed anticonvoy resolution are held immediately. given to set a good example. And that ex in getting hearings on your resolution. ample should be peace and prosperity. There I am also expressing the general sentiments Enclosed find copies of letters sent the of most of those with whom I have had occa is only one word for convoys--that ugly word, President and Senator GEORGE. murder-murder of fine young men, the salt sion to discuss the matter when I say that Sincerely, at all costs the ·Tobey anticonvoy resolution of the earth, the hope of America, young men Mr. and Mrs. L. C. BRADFORD. who have wronged no nation (nor been must be passed. We should stop encouraging wronged by any) and who possess, inalienably, the carnage in Europe. Let them solve their the right to have their youth and to live. SPOKANE, WASH., April 27, 1941. own problems; they have a lot to do to keep The respons1b111ty for their safety lies at Senator WALTER F. GEORGE, them busy for several years at least. In the Washington. I urge-and urge most em Washington, D. C. meantime we can work on perfecting our own phatically-that public hearings on the Tobey DEAR SENATOR: We are definitely opposed social order and solving our own problems anticonvoy resolution be held immediately. to the .convoying of British· war materials. of unemployment, credit, etc., so that we may (Mrs. H. S.) GRACE TAYLOR. We favor the holding of hearings on Senator have something more constructive to oUer . 3504 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE MAY 1 Europe than instruments of destruction, Presidr;mt of these United States urging im be immediate public hearings on it. I sin which only prolong their torture. mediate hearings to be held publicly in re cerely hope that the Tobey resolution w111 pe Yours sincerely, gard to your most excellent measure, or reso passed, for it seems to me that the use of Ln.LIAN L. HAYMAN, lution against convoys to. foreign countries. copvoys is .Il1ore likely to lead us into war. Registered Voter, We want no war, therefore no convoys. Therefore, I am opposed to convoys and Third Congressional District, Respectfully yours, wquld not want to see them used. Copies to Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, Sena (Mrs.) ILU SUTTON CAMWAY, As an American history teacher, I can see tor C. WAYLAND BROOKS. no possible good that could come from our TROY, PA., April 25, 1941. entrance into war. Certf\inly World War I showed that fighting could not make the CHICAGO, ILL., April 26, 1941. Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, Senate Office Building, world safe for democracy. I firmly believe Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, that evil cannot be overcome with evil. Senate Office Building, washington, D. C. DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: Your very wise and Sincerely yours, Washington, D. C. EvALYN L. FIELDS. DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: I have written today timely resolution against the use of convoys to Senator WALTER F. GEORGE urging support deserves the support of every honest citizen. for the Tobey no-convoy resolution, and I I urge that public hearings should at once be FALLS CHURCH, VA., April 26, 1941, sincerely hope that it receives favorable action held on this very necessary measure. Hon. CHARLES W. TOBEY, in Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Sincerely yours, Senate Office Building, Very truly yours, THEODORA L. PAINE, Washington, D. C. GLADYS M. PAGE, DEAR SIR: Just to thank you for the heroic Registered Voter, Precinct 14, Ward 2. SANTA RosA, CALIF., April 22, 1941. effort you are making to keep us out of war Senator CHARLES W. ToBEY, and to advise that we have each written Washington, D. C. separately to Senator GEORGE to ask that THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, MY DEAR SENATOR: I am very much inter public hearings be held at once on your Farmington, Maine, April 26, 1941. ested in the passing of the Anticonvoy Act Han. WALTER F. GEORGE, anticonvoy resolution. for I feel so convinced that if we once start Respectfully, Chairman, Senate Fareign Relations convoying ships to Great Britain we wlll find Committee, Washington, D. C. MRS. ROGER H. BLAKB, ourselves in war, and we cannot afford to get OLIVE BLAKE, MY DEAR SENATOR GEORGE: I am writing to into war or any more entanglements than we express the hope that hearings may be held are now insofar as the European countries immediately on the Tobey anticonvoy reso are concerned. CAMBRIDGE, MASS., April 25, 1941. lution. I appreciate very much your efforts di Hon. CHARLES W. TOBEY, Yours sincerely, rected toward keeping us out of war. Washington, D. C. HARDING W. GAYLORD, I might state I have conversed with many DEAR SENATOR TOBY: I am extremely. Copies to Senator ToBEY and President people concerning the Anticonvoy Act and pleased with the magnificent effort you are Roosevelt. find at least 90 percent of all those I talked making to prevent convoys and other warlike with in favor of the act and against any en acts on the part of the administration. With the speeches of Hull and Stimson and Kriox THE STRATFORD BAPTIST CHURCH, tanglement whatsoever with the foreign coun tries that might ultimately lead us into war. during the past week lt has become ap Stratjard, Conn., April 25, 1941. parent that the pressure for a shooting war Hon. CHARLES W. TOBEY, Sincerely yours, L. R. LAMBERT. is being turned on. I am doing my best to United States Senate Building, counteract these men in my own limited . Washington, D. C. TuCSON, ARIZ., April 26, 1941, way-writing and talking. I believe that the DEAR SIR: I am expressing a cross section fight for peace can st111 be won if enough of public opinion as I find it and my own Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, Senate Office Building, people will work for peace. In any case, I deep conviction when I say that we most know from my own contacts with men in the heartily endorse your proposal to. prohibit the Washington, D. c. DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: We are writing to Harvard Law School that your battles for use of convoys for aid to Britain. I, and peace in Washington are not going for countless others whom I know, earnestly hope you as representing many members of the Tucson chapter of the America First Com naught. Men are becoming interested 1n that your measure wm be given favorable the grave issues which you have called to consideration by the committee and will be mittee to urge you above all to see that Sena tor ToBEY's request for public hearings on the the attention of the American people, and come a law of our land, because we fear that I am proud that this contribution toward .the use of the United States Navy, ships or convoy question be granted in accordance with democratic principles. the preservation of American democracy 1s m~n. for purposes of convoying will mean being made by a Senator from New Hamp war. We the people as revealed in the most We sincerely believe that no convoys means no war. sl1tre. recent polls stand opposed to war by the over Sincerely, whelming percentage of 80 to 85 percent. Sincerely, We therefore support your stand against con CAPT. JAMES A. MCGUIRE, M. c., ALVAH. W. SULLIVAN. voying because we believe that would lead Acting Chairman of America First Committee, of Tucson. to a war to which we the people of America. HAMBURG, N, Y., April 22, 1941. are overwhelmingly opposed. NOTE.-A copy of this letter was s~nt to HONORABLE SENATOR, Keep up the good work for keeping us out President Roosevelt and Senator GEORGE. Washington, D. C. of war, and for keeping intact what is left of MY DEAR SJ!:NATOR ToBEY: In view of world democracy here in America. LAIDLAW BROTHERS, INC., events it Is only right that every citizen be Sincerely yours, Chicago, Ill., April 26, 1941. actively interested and willing to aid his own Rev. KENNETH L. MAxWELL. Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, country to the best of his ability. Despite Senate Office Building, c:tangers away from our own homes, each per Washington, D. C. FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, son seems anxious to retain pe.ace in his own DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: May I record my most land. What did we gain through the blood Pontiac, Mich., April 25, 1941. earnest approval of your anticonvoy resolu Hon. CHAS. W. ToBEY, shed during the World War, our institutions tion (S. J. Res. 62)? I am writing Senator filled with broken minds and bodies? United States Senate, Washington, D. c. GEORGE urging that it be given immediate SIR: ·rt seems important to me that your public hearings in the Foreign Relations Our boys question going into klll others 'resolution concerning anticonvoy measures Committee and I am asking my friends to against whom they bear no malice or re.:. should be placed before the people imme do the same thing. venge. · diately in public hearings that will give us an , I have enjoyed hearing your strong radio So as a mother of a young son and a sister opportunity of measuring its worth and presentations of this resolution. I also invite of those who went during the World War, I stressing its importance. Do you know of your support of the war-referendum resolu beg of you to continue your fight and use ways in which we could influence others in tion (S. Con. Res. 7) as a means of bringing every• bit of power at your command to save .favor of your resolution? to bear on Congress the vast antiwar senti- our boys from being sent overseas to fight,. I would appreciate receiving any material ment. · · or , our boys convoying ships across the . available on this matter. Yours cordially, Atlantic. Very truly yours, H. F. HANCOX, Editor. I believe in -aiding the British with food JAMES c. MEAD. and munitions; they have enough manpower CoNCORDIA, KANs., April 26, 1941. to man the ships. DEMAREST, N. J., April 26, 1941. Hon. CHARLES W. TOBEY, I sincerely hope you cari talk on the radio Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, United States Senator, again against convoying ships, you can reach Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C. so many more homes. May God aid you. HoNORABLE SIR: Have just sent a. letter to DEAR Ma. ToBEY: I am glad for your anti ' Yours sincerely, the Honorable WALTER GEORGE, and one to the convoy resolution and do hope there will MARY R. AsBURY. 1941 'CONGRESSIONA:r..; :RECORD--SENATE 3505 COOKE VALLEY FARMS, majority in the great Middle West are for We are not yet prepared for war and probably Eldred, Ill., April 25, 1941. "America FirSt Keep on Fighting Senator" won't be ready or prepared until 1944. We Senator WALTER F. GEORGE, TOEIEY. are at present seeing Germany winning this United States Senate, Sincerely, war because she was well prepared after a Washington, D. C. H. A. Wn.LIAMS. 10-year effort and we are also seeing England DEAR SENATOR: We farmers of the Middle M. A. FRANz. losing this war because she ·is scarcely pre West are strong for preparedness, but we want Four of our direct ancestors fought in the pared for war at all. Thus we are not pre no part of this European war. American Revolution. pared to take further risks as we are less ready Give us a fair break in this great crisis. than England; Sincerely yours, We have embarked on a policy of aid short L. L. COOKE. LAMBUTH CoLLEGE, of war which is backed by the people but Jackson, Tenn., April 27, 1941. convoys are a war program which is not Senator ToBEY, backed by the people---83 percent of the CooKE VALLEY FARMS, Washington, D. C. Eldred, Ill., April 25, 1941. people are opposed to our entry into war at DEAR SENATOR ToBEY: I am wishing very this time. Such a war program, when the President FRANKLIN D. RoosEVELT, much that there may be Senate committee Washington, D. C. great majority of the people are against war, hearings on your resolution against use of would cause great disunity when unity is DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: We farmers of the convoys. I have written to Senator GEORGE. Middle West are strong for your program of imperative. Yours sincerely, Very truly yours, preparedness, but we do not want to get mixed J. R. WALKER. up in this European struggle in any way. LIVINGSTON LANSING. We are depending on you to keep us out of it. NEW YoRK, N. Y., April 28, 1941. Bon. WALTER GEoRGE, SOUTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Sincerely yours, Buffalo, N. Y., April 28, 1941. L. L. COOKE. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Washington, D. C. The Honorable Mr. ToBEY, DEAR Sm: :tam writing you to urge you to Senator, Washington, D. C. COOKE VALLEY FARMS, hold public hearings immediately on the MY DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: Please take deep Eldred, IU., April 25, 1941. Tobey anticonvoy resolution. I am very reassurance in your work against authoriza Hon. ScOTT W. LUCAS, much opposed to the use of convoys and tion of convoys from your knowledge that United States Senate, think the whole question shoUld be ade you are expressing the will and mind of the Washington, D. C. quately publicized. great mass of American people, and partic DEAR SENATOR: We farmers of the Middle ularly the mind of the more intelligent. The people of the United States do not There is widE'.spread and increasingly bitter West are strong for preparedness, but we want want to get into the war. The use of convoys no part of this European war. resentment against the policy of the President is another long step which may make war 1n bludgeoning this Nation toward the brink Give us a fair break in this great crisis. inevitable. Sincerely yours, Respectfully yours, of open war. Do all you can to reverse the L. L. CooKE. trend. And be assured of the undying grat (Miss) MARION F'RENYEAR •. itude of the people. Copies sent to Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY CooKE VALLEY FARMS, Very sincerely yours, and President Roosevelt. LEO ALVIN GATES. Eldred, IZZ., April 25, 1941. Hon. c. WAYLAND BRooKS, United States Senate, BERKELEY, CALIF., April 23, 1941. !DANA, KANS., April 28, 1941. Washington, D. C. At a meeting held under the auspices of Senator TOBEY, DEAR SENATOR: We farmers of the Middle the American Friends Service Committee, the United States Senator from West are strong for preparedness, but we want Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Women's New Hampshire, no part of ·this European war. International League for Peace and Freedom, Washington, D. C. Give us a fair break in this great crisis. the National Council for the Prevention DEAR SENAToR: Over my radio I hear that ~incerely yours, of War, in the First Congregational Church the anticonvoy resolution wm be debated in L. L. CooKE. in Berkeley, Callf., on the evening of April the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 22, attended by approximately 1,000 citizens, Wednesday of this week. I hasten to write the enclosed resolutions were adopted: Los ANGELES, CALIF., April 30, 1941. you this note, giving the sentiment of people Senator ToBEY, "RESOLUTION ON CONVOYS in my area of the State of Kansas. I am a Presbyterian minister, serving a - United States Senator, "Inasmuch as we agree with the President Washington, D. C.: congregation of 140 members. Of course, the when he said that convoys mean shooting constituency of the Church far exceeds its Irene Smith Forum today adopted motion, and shooting is war, we wish to express our without dissenting voice, endorsing your membership. I know from contact with the confidence that the President intends to keep people that the great majority of them are resolution agaitJ.st use of convoys under any his sacred pledge given to the voters of this circumstances. Three hundred attended not only opposed to convoying vessels to country in Washington when he said: Great Britain, but are alarmed, and in many meeting. " 'We wm not send our Army, naval, or air F. A. HIGH, cases indignant, over the pol1cy of the ad forces to fight in foreign lands outside of the ministration to take the country into the FRANK WINK COMMITTEE. Americas, except in case of attack.' war by continually paring down the narrow "We also wish to express our firm opposi margin which now separates the country EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT OF AKRONITES VOTING IN tion to the adoption of any policy of convoy trom war. I have never known criticism of FORUM ARE AGAINST THE CONVOYING OF WAR ing under any circumstances." the administration to be expressed in such MATERIALS "RESOLUTION ON ADVISORY REFERENDUM drastic terms as are now being used by thinking people in the community. Confi With the heaviest response from readers in "Since we believe that the American people weeks, Akronites voted 85 percent against the dence in the Government, and in the prom have a fundamental right to express their ises of the Government, .seems to be steadily convoying of war materials to England. The opinion on the vital subject of participation dwindiing. The boys were told, when the~ question was asked in last Sunday's American in war, and to indicate to Congress their col forum on this page. Ernest · W. Gibson, were conscripted and sent to camp, that they lective wlll: Therefore be it would receive a year's training, then set tree chairman of the Committee to Defend Amer "Resolved, That we, citizens of Berkeley, ica by Aiding the Allies, presented the affirm tor civ111an 11fe. Now there is talk of hold assembled at the First Congregational Church ing them in the Army for an indefinite pe ative side of the question, while Gen. Robert on April 22, 1941, endorse the advisory refer E. Wood, acting chairman of the America riod of time. The people are saying, "Some endum resolution No. 7, introduced in the group somewhere is using us to further Its First Committee, presented the negative United States Senate by Senators GERALD P. argument. own ends. We have no voice in important NYE, CAPPER, SHIPSTEAD, WHEELER, LA FoL decisions." In the preceding Sunday's American forum LETTE, and CLARK of Idaho." Certainly it is true that the administration 92 percent of those Akronites who cast ballots voted in favor of Senator CAPPER's argument is following a policy which is not in keeping SKANEATELES, N.Y., April 24, 1941. with the sentiments and wishes of the people that the United States shoUld require a refer Senator TOBEY, . in this part of the country. The critics of er!dum to declare war. Senator HILL of Senate 0 lfice Building, the administration are not pro-Nazis (for Alabama presented the aftirmative argument. Washington, D. C. such simply do not exist here) but are good DEAR SENATOR: I ha,ve just finished writing Americans whose sympathies are with Brit Honorable Senator ToBEY. letters to President Roosevelt, Senators ain, but who feel this is not our war. I have MY DEAR SENATOR: Akron iS With YOU in GEORGE, MEAD, WAGNER, and Congressman been surprised to hear one person after an your fight to keep the United States out of HANcocK opposing convoys. As I roughly other whose sympathy is openly with Britain Europe's war. We don't want war. We stated in letters to them I was opposed to say "Lindbergh may yet. prove to be one of resent bitterly the President's insult to that convoys because convoys mean war-1 be the sanest and safest leaders in the country. great American, Colonel Lindbergh. The lieve everyone agrees with that statement. He may emerge :trom this crisis as the man 3506 ·coNGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE MAY 1 who gave America its best advice. He knew Britain. Surely no one contends that Adams George Nye what he was talking about when he coun· A,ndrew1 Gerry o:Mahoney the American Navy can convoy British Austin Gillette Overton selled the statesmen of Britain and France, ships through the war zone to Great Bailey Glass Radcl11fe and he may know what he is talking about Britain. Whatever else the lease-lend Ball Green Reed now." Bankhead Gutfey Reynolds This note is written to give you an indica policy provided, it did not provide for Barkley Gurney Russell tion of public sentiment in my community convoys. BilbO Hatch Schwartz Bone Hayden Shipstead in north central Kansas. Wishing you suc· I have heard the argume:1t, "What is Brewster Herring Smathers cess in the patriotic effort to keep our coun• the use of making munitions and other Brooks Hill Smith try out of war. materials and giving them to England if Brown Holman Spencer Sincerely yours, Bulow Hughes Stewart we do not deliver them?" But the lease Johnson, Calif. Taft Rev. JOHN V. WRIGHT. Bunker lend policy was not to provide for de Burton Johnson, Colo. Thomas, Idaho livery, and it was so stated on the floor of Butrer Kilgore Thomas, Okla. Mr. NYE. Mr. President, will the Sen·· Byrd La Follette Thomas, Utah . ator yield? the Senate. If the argument were valid, Byrnes Langer Tobey Mr. TOBEY. I yield. it should include the sending of Ameri Capper Lee Truman can boys to Europe; for what is the use Caraway _ Lodge Tunnell Mr. NYE. I should like to add to the of delivering the material in England if Chandler Lucas Tydings record which the Senator haS made to Chavez Mccarran Vandenberg the British do not have the men who are Clark, Idaho McFarland Van Nuys day respecting the meeting of the For necessary to make - it effective? The Clark, Mo. McNary Wallgren eign Relations Committee yesterday. same argument means sending American ·Connally Maloney Walsh Following the disposition of the so Danaher Mead White boys to Europe, and that argument Davis Murdock Wiley called Tobey resolution, there was in means war. Downey Murray Wlllis sistence upon action on Senate Resolu I hope that when the Tpbey amend Ellender Norris tion 71, which I submitted some time ago. ment comes up on the floor we shall have Mr. BARKLEY. I announce that the I asked that consideration of that resolu a full discussion of it, and that the ad Senator from Mississippi [Mr. HARRISON], tion, going to the convoy issue, be de ministration forces will freely and the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. Mc layed until the next meeting of the com frankly discuss where the policy of the KELLAR], and the Senator from New York mittee, at which time an invitation should administration is leading us. '· [Mr. WAGNER] are absent from the Sen be extended to a representative of the This is a matter which involves the ate because of illness. State Department, a representative of The Senator from Montana [Mr. the Navy Department, and a representa question of war. and only Congress can W~EELER] is necessarily absent. tive of the Office of Production Manage declare war. That question should be settled. It should have been submitted to , Mr. AUSTIN. I announce that the ment to be heard upon the question of Senator from Vermont lMr. AIKEN] and the losses being suffered in the under tpis body by the Foreign Relations Com mittee. following its meeting yesterday; the Senator from New Jersey [Mr. BAR· taking to make delivery of production BOUR] are detained on official business. under the lend-lease bill. The commit but, whether or n.ot the committee acts, tee voted against being afforded that in it can be submitted and it can be argued . The VICE PRESIDENT. Eighty-si" formation, and then, pressing the issue, here on an a~endment to the foreign..:. Senators have answered to their names. voted, by a vote of 13 to 10, against re-.. · ship bill. I propose to discuss, -and I A quorum is present. The clerk · will porting Senate Resolution No. 71. think every other Senator interested in proceed to state the bills on the calendar. that policy should discuss, on this floor RESOLUTION AND BILLS PASSED OVER Mr. TOBEY. I thank the Senator. It on that amendment the question whether Js an amaZing situation when a duly con 1 The resolution (S. Res. 30) amending -stituted committee of this body-:-perhaps . the United States is now prepared to go rule VITI so as to. prohibit action by its most outstanding and impoFtant com- to war outside its boundaries, in the unanimous consent· on bills in cases . mittee; in these times.- especially-refuses :absence. o~ at~ack,' in order · to carry· out where a Senator has_given written notice . the policy of the adtjtinistra;uon, which o~ - hi~ qbjectiqn to their consideration to a member of that coiiunittee the right · has not been approved by Congress. to have the gentlemen. referred· to, who was announced as first ln.- order. c • :iri the last analysis. are servants of the MESSAGE FROM TilE HOUSE Mr. McNARY~ Let· the resolution go :cop.gress, <,:Oille pefore the committee and A message from the House of ·Repre over. · .:explaiq these matters with 'a· view· to the ·· The VICE PRESIDENT. The ·resolu- _sentatives, by Mr. CaJloway, one of its I debate which is· to follow. reading clerks, communicated to the Sen .tion will be passed civer. · · The .bill adJust the account between the United certain of her ~xpe~ditur_es _ill enroll1ng, sub Stat. 229) ,_the co~putation would appear as States and the State of Vermont was sisting, clothing, supplying, arming, equip follows: · considered, ordered to be engrossed for ping, paying, and transporting volunteers and Lo~n date~ Jan. 1, 1817------· $4,130.00 a third reading, read the third time, and militia called into the serytce of the United lnterest thereon at 6 percent per passed, as follows: States in pursuance of the requisition of the annum t_o Mar. 30, 1820, 3 years, President of the United States during the 2 months, 29 qays--.. ---·-···-·· 804. 66 .Resolved, etc., Tbat the Comptroller Gen War of 1812-15 . Loan dateq Jan~ 1, 1818--~-·------6, 000. 00 eral of the United States be, and be is hereby, (3) Copy of act of the General Assembly Interest tl}ereon at 6 percent per authorized and directed to audit the claim of ·of VermonJ; of November 9, 1812, appropriat annum to Mar. 30, 1820, 2 years, the State of Vermont with respect to advances ing $1,188.80 to selectmen of various towns 2 months, 29 days...... 809.00 and expenditures made by such State tor in Vermont to reimburse them for payments m111tary purposes during tbe War of 1812- made by them for the services a.nd subsistence Total interest and principaL 11,743.66 15, with Great Britain,_and after applying of volunte~rs and militia. stationed at Troy Payment by United States to the the rules of evidence and settlement to this and other towns on the northern frontier in State of Vermont "for payments class of claims, provided for in resolution of the summer of 1812. made to selectmen of sundry May 14, 1836 (5 Stat. L. 132), and in section This total amount of $1,1_88.80, you will towns in said State for subsist 12 of the act approved March 3, 1857 (11 note, is fo~nd on page 9 of the Comptroller ence, camp equipage, ammuni Stat. L. 229), to submit to the Senate a report General's audit. tion, and transportation of bag containing the results of an audit of such (4) -Short bibliography on Vermont and the gage, etc., furnished by them for claim, in conformity with said rules, and to War of 1812. The first three works will be detachment of m111t1a called in• certify to Congress tor an appropriation the interesting, and also the one by Crocket en to the service of the United balance found due the State of Vermont. titled "Vermont, the Green Mountain State," States in the summer of 1812" -- · 4:, 421. 18 Mr. AUSTIN. Mr. Presidept, I ask might be helpful. These can be secured !rom the Congressional New principal------7, 322. 48 unanimous consent to have printed at Library. Interest on new principal at 6 per this place. in the RECORD a memorandum cent per annum from Mar. 30, relating to the joint resolution which has [S. Doc, No, 23, 74th Cong., 1st sess.J 1820, to Feb. 28, 1935, 114 years, 11 months ______50, 488. 64' just been passed. OLAIM OF THE STATE OF VERMONT FOR EXPENDI• The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob TURES MADE DURING THE WAR OF 1812-15 jection, it is so ordered. [Letter from the Comptroller General of the Total------57,811.12 The memorandum is as follows: United States, transmitting, in response to There is included also in the report of tlie Memorandum reganUng expenditures of the S. Res. No. 224, 73d Cong., certain infor adjutant general of the State of Vermont, State of Vermont and the service of troops mation relative to the claim of the State of the omcer having custody of the records Vermont with respect to advances and showing the m111tary expenditures incurred thereof on behalt ot tbe Federal Govern expenditures made for m111tary purposes ment dtU"ing the War ot 1812-15 by the State, a list ot various expenditures during the War of 1812-15, with Great in the total amount of $39,478.96, as follows: Attached are the following, which are sub Britain] Curtis & Coolidge ______mitted in support of the claim of the State $266.88 GENERAL ACCOUNTING 0FFIC:t, Richard F.layes ______of Vermont on the question of its right to Caleb F.lill ______.. 89.50 Washtngton, Februarv 19, 1935. 61.4:4 be reimbursed for expenditures found by the The PREsmENT, · StephenPettes______Comptroller General of the United States to 46.08 United States Senate. Edmund Graves------ 8.13 have been made by the State on behalf of MY DEAR MR. PaESmENT: The Secretary of the Federal Government during the War of William Baxter------ 19.71 the United States Senate has transmitted to Edmund Graves•------19.03 1812-15: this omce for action Senate Resolution 224, Gaius Kibbe ______(1) Audit of the Comptroller General of 8.46 Seventy-third Congress, second session of WilUam Baxter------63.24 the United States: You will recall that this April 26, 1934, providing: was printed in full in previous reports of the 8.68 "That the Comptroller General of the JosephlDO------Howes------19.16 Senate committee, but tt was omitted 1n the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized last Congress because of its length. Ezra Ch11d------40.96 and directed to audit the claim by the State 20.48 Note therein statement of the Comptroller of Vermont with respect to advances and ex Abner Oo------General as to the issuance by Vermont of Saxnuel Wr~ht------53.12 penditures made by such State for military Galon Bliss------20.59 ''treasury notes in the amount of $10,180 for purposes during the War of 1812-15, with 9.58 the use and benefit of the United States for John GoodelL------ Great Britain, and after applying the. rules of John Knights------16.26 the expenses of the War of 181~15." Also his evidence and settlement to this class of Elihu Atherton ______,. __ _ 16.26 statement on page 2, -"Under date of March 80, clatnis, provided tor in resolution of Mp.y 14, LukeJ. B. EmersonWallis------______16.26 1820, it appears the United States reimbursed 1936 (5 Stat. L. 132), and in section 12 of 20.59 the State of Vermont on account of the ex- the act approved March 3, 1857 (11 Stat. L. Joseph Sleeper------ 16.92 . penditures made in the amount of $4,421.18.'' 229); to submit to the Senate a report con 9.58 Thus, the reimbursement made to Vermont Joseph Homes------taining the results of an audit of such claim, AlpheusAndrew Hall------·------·-Dodge ______fi7.88 by the United States of this-small item is cer in conformity with said rules." · 20.59 tainly omcial recognition by the United States Complying therewith I have the honor to Samuel Wright• ------ 98.37 that the expenditures incurred by Vermont report as follo_ws: William Montgomery•------15.26 during the War of 1812-15 were for the bene It appears that during the years 1817 and 17.26 fit of the United States. Thomas wens• ------ 1818 the treasurer of the State of Vermont, NathanielThomas Howe Chamberlain ______• ------_ 44.63 Pinally, in this report is contained a list pursuant to the· acts of the State legislature l)o______20.37 ot the various principal expenditures, total- dated November 4, 1816, and October 24, 1817, l)o______,. ______20.37 1ng $39,478.96, which were made by Vermont. isSued treasury notes 1n the amount of 11.58 Mainly these are payments to individuals who $10,130 for the use and benefit of the United 27.77 served as volunteers and in the m111tia of Ver Do .• ------States for the expenses of the War of 1812-15. 0. Jewett• ------36.04 mont and who were called 1nto the service The exact dates on which the notes were John Barrett______85.91 of the United States during the War of 1812- iSsued do not appear to be available, as the Galus Kibbe• ------12.91 15. Some of these payments also are to treasurer's records showing such dates are Asa Tenny•------53.50 selectmen, to reimburse them for payments reported as among those destroyed in the Oalvin Putnam------20.59 made by them to such volunteers and m111t1a. burning of the statehouse at Montpelier, Vt., Amos Rice• ------19.21 (2) Copy of act of the United States Con on January 6, 1857. · In view of the circum Mills D. Forest• ------ 12.86 gress of March 3, 1817 (5 Stat. L. 378), which stances, it has been assumed for the purposes Nathaniel Sawyer------18.92 was the original act passed by the Congress David Harrington ______of this report that the treasury notes issued Reuben Perkins ______16.26 making appropriations to various States and pursuant to the act of November 4, 1816, in 16.26 to United States Government departmente. the amount of $4,130 were issued on January Reuben Hawks, Jr______16.26 This act is ·entitled "An act making-additional 1, 1817, and the notes issued pursuant to the George Reich------ 28.39 appropriations to· defray the expenses of the act of October 24, 1817, in the· amount of Nathaniel Chamberlain• ------25.87 ~os Robinson ______Army and · militia. during the late war with $6,000 were issued on January 1, 1818. · 9.36 Great Britain." Note therein provision "for Under date of March SO, 1820, it appears E.Lyrnan Ransom•------EJdder ______32.24 the payment of balances due to certain States the United States reimbursed- the State of 9.00 on account of disbursements for m11it1a em Vermont on account of the expenditures Josiah Wright ______. 16.26 ployed in ·the service of the United States made in the amount of $4,421.18. Applying Elisha Ferguson------ 16.70 during the late war, $717,000." the rules approved in the settlement of a Nath'l Kidder ------· 17.58 As indicated, it was pursuant to this pro simtlar account between the United States Samuel ~ith------ 20.37 vision that Vermont was partially rei:r:nbursed, and the State of Maryland authorized by Nathan Olafl.in ------· 16.26 on March so, 1820, the sum of $4,421.18 to~ ~ction ~- 2 of the act of March 8, 185'{ .(11, Nath'l Niles------·- 'l.Ol 3508 ·coNGRESSIONAU RECORD--SENATE MAY 1 $161.68 . Elijah Meacham ______$9.00 Azarias Williams-----~------~- ..- $160. 74 LemuelDo______Bost~ick ...... ______.._ Luther Hutchinson ______JUldre~ Dodge------~-----· 80.71 237.07 45.63 Alpheus Hall------· 15. 47 J)o______~ 124.30 FtufusMyron FUrbush,Po~e11------Jr______14.12 Asa Lyon------· 125.14 I>o------269.29 8.13 Daniel Clark______26. 71 Elijah Backus...... 9.00 Jeremiah CrosbY------ 8.13 Lemuel Bost~ick ______Sarimel Cook------24. 37 I)o______15.93 lJaniel Morgan------ 10.90 Benjamin Bin------.;...; 16. 26 147.79 ·Frederick Barro~s------120.04 Gideon Wheelock------· 39. 75 no ______121.71 JonaJoseph Atherton Reed------______9.00 Saml. Elliot • ------7. 83 Do------171.68 8.13 Amos Robinson •------• 19.21 267.33 -Moses Richardson ______.;. ___ · 8.13 Ainos ~ttle______69.55 Do------164. -10 Nathaniel Perkins:______.; ______· 16.26 lJo______~------Robert Heath ______:;. ____ ·.;.. Alfred Bridges ____ .;. ___ ._-_.;,______20. 37 DUdley Bryant------· 20.04 9.00 Rodolphus Sprague _.; ______-8.13 Chapin Keith ------40. 74 Nathan Robinson, Jr. • ------· 15.35 ·Asahel White ______-____ ..; ___ _ James Henderson • -·------21. 62 lJO------46.54 - 7,68 Joseph CUrine______20. 37 John Griswold, Jr______:.;_;..;. ____ _ 64.16 ~ysander Raymond------9.00 -lJaniel Dana______Joseph Starlin ____ .;._.:. ______,. 18; 72 181.03 12.24 Thad's White------· -Woodbury Massey, Jun ____ .:. ____ _ Lemuel Bost~ick ------· 232. 80 John Bridge• ___ ;. ______-____ ,;. __ ,. - 51.55 9 ..00 James Tarbon ______..: ______John Lock __ ..;_.:._..: ______;. ____ _ 207.36 Charles -Rice______6.12 PeterDo------Kendall______68.1216.70 9 . .00 IsaaoHarry WhiteBingham------______.;. __ 7.68 Henry- Farwell ______-_ Benj. S~an------135. 95 9.00 9.00 Luke Wallfs ____ .;,______· 130. 08 Wm. Farns~orth ______.:. __ _ 20.04 J'oseph Sterlin______.; 13; 47 310.30 Ruel -Cobb.--.. ·----... ------Benj. S~an ______.;. __ ,:. ... ____ _ 128.52 Chester Carpenter------60; 32 Zephaniah English------66. 34 JamesJohn WeedKelly------______8.13 SmithEtl+eny WhitmanMlller ------______7.68 James Washburn ------· 80. 16 173.06 8.13 Amos Galusha______Frederick Converse ______Jonathan Gleason------207. 4~ 132.70 J. Congden ______20.04 u. Holt------20. 04 Noah Chittenden __ ..; ___ ;. ______175.87 8.24 James Nepf ______..;·------40. 08 Leonard D. Fargo______5.00 Allen Palmer------8.24 Le~ell Benj. S~an ______- Read ______· ·suvanus Bates------48. 86 107.5..5 15.47 Noah Chittenden------229. 25 16.26 John E. Stearn~------·---· 7.34 ltobert Baker______9.00 ' Paul Mason------.. ------ Thad's White______:. .. · Eban'rB; . Eastman- Holmes ------______. 8.-13 lJo ____ ;._..;-__ _-______- -69.48 WatsonGeorge :ij.ichJones------______;. ___ _:_____ · -19.9.00 16 Noah- Benson ______9.00 19,71 9.00 Jonathan White ______VVm. S. Ashley•-----~----..;-·----· 55.55 Collins Pratt-. -:---:-·---:------~ 9. 00 8,13 Le~is Rogers ______:______.:;..: • .:. ... - 124.59 Gustavi'!ls Meraim ------· 6. 13 Marcus Peake ------ .8;13 Martin Ro~------9.-00 Cyril ...... · 86·. Benj. Call------~-:..swan __ : ______-____ . _____~--- 221 : 8S72 .Ebenezerwarren _Blanchard------Gove-. • .: ______8.13 Levi Rodgers------:..~ 800.98 12.00 Polly Wetherbee . ______:_ __ _ 9; 00 Lemuel· Bost~ick ____ ,;.______i20. 55 Nat Richmond ______5.-00 Asa· B .. Briggs___ ;..;. ______.; ___ ;...; 9-.oo Do---~------86. 08 Amasa Piper•• _------165.24 Sam'l Bryan-t_·____ ;._.:,_;. __ -;.._-____ _ 9.-00 Do~ing ~sden______9.00 - Do .• ;..·.:.: ...... ;.;..;. ______Morey Shippy ____ .____ ...; ___ ;.;._.,___ _ 7.80 8.13 Davi'd Hodgman------_ 9. 00 Oliver ·Bugbee ..:...:..:. .. ..:.·------:.. ... :...... :.. .. - 6.13 . 19.71 Lemuel Bost~iclt ___ :::, ______:., ~ 1, 042. 32 WilliamWm; Spear Jones_..;_,.___ ·------______------_ Ira Elmer------10.90 17. 13 Thos. van ______.;, __. _____ :______~ James Millman.• ------43. 26 5. 00 1'4oses ])avis, Jr_____ .;. __ ·------•- ·5.12 Do---~------44. 99 RobertlJavid Mason------Baker______16.70 B.enj. S~an------ 144.95 Walcto ~cker ------19. 82 Isaac LulL ___ .;, ______.;. ___ _ 7.68 John Nutt------5.12 W. Marcy------18. 00 8.13 Rob't R. WandalL------2.00 Elijah Knight ------8. 13 Pamerson T. Platt------·--- 7.34 ~alph Ellen~ood ______Syloanus Clatlin______9. 00 Asahel Raymond __ .,;, ______82.08 62.34 Oliver . ~cker ______Robert Baker_ ... ____ ;. ______,..;. ___ _ 7·. 68 Jared Rickard------9. 00 Nathaniel· Clark __ --;..; .... ;...... : ....· ...... · . 9.00 -' 9.00 JUldre~ Gilman______60. 10 John Berry_..; ______--;. ______Do ___ .;. ______..; __ _ 9.00 7.68 Benj. s~an------·23. 04: Crom~ell Leonard .. ;...... ~----·· 8. _13 CJreen · Plumo _____ ;______~ __ .;:. __ Solomon Pinney______.;. ___ -___ _. __ 15.25 Laban WebSt~r ------_ 8. 13 Ephraim Griggs __ _:_._._--;.. __ _-_.;._.;....;_;;. - 5.00 8.13 Calvin WhitneY------8. 13 cmm·and Brooks...... 15.36 ·Amial Pinney------8.13 David Mason------116. 79 .Gurden Linkon______47.04 Luther Taylor__ .;. ______.______Benj. lJo~ning ______..; __ 8.13 -s. Simpson------.::.. 9. 00 11.24 Noah Chittenden______;:; ..;.:...... P. Barrett------16.92. Bebee Booth ___ -_____ .;_.;:. ____ ..;_..; __ _ 65.04 20.04 Seth To~n------~------48.32 H. Whiting------9. 00 8.13 Wm. Tilestom______Zonas Web_ster•• -~.:... ___ .:, ____ _-_____ 9. 00 Addna Eaton------800.00 N. Brooks ______:______86.79 Cyrus H. Clement------20.04 John Heath ______;. __ 128.44 Elisha lJyer______.:, _____ ... ______~;rastus 38.04 · CalL __--_ ____ ,:. ______.; ___ _ 9.00 Josiah Ket:dull ------69. 98 Seth Tomson ______:__. ______Joseph Wood, Jr______.:,·______9. 00. Joseph F.loyt•------21.80 85.29 9.00 9.00 Benj: S~an------· 121. 55 Calvin Chapin------LutherEbenezer FaY------Goss ______14.00 9.00 John WhitneY------8.13 Ira BishOP------ Benj. S~an ______9.00 163.62 D. Bro~nell ------8. 13 Wm.Alexr. Ashley------Hutchinson• ______.:, ______T. CampbelL------8. 13 17.85 Eli Austin • ------ 48.54 H. BesseY------9. 00 Lemuel Bost~ick ------16.26 John vveed•------55.08 Aaron Simmons------· 9. 00 Benjm. S~an ------90.39 Levi GrandY------ 8.13 Ros~ell Jepherson______8.90 Benj. S~an------_ 182. 36 9.36 Oliver Perry------ Samuel Weeding______9. 00 Ebenezer Sparha~k ------· 9.00 EberSilas RobinsonThomas--- ______~------~-~------_ 9.00 J. Briggs------9.00 John Buii------20.70 ~ohn vveed ______11.69 Meshack Wiggin ______..; ______20.04 222.48 Erastus CadY------9. 00 Frederick Gris~old ______Samuel Healy------9. 00 143.86 SalahJohn G.Smith 'Knight • ------·______13.70 no ______20.04 48.78 Robert Baker------9, 00 Do------Barnabas Delano------49. 42 9. 00 MosesNathaniel VV.arner Fisk------______20.04 William Morrison______.· 9. 00 lJO------9. 00 9.00 8.13 Marvin Blood--~------9.00 Ezekiel French------8.13 CyrusAsa Raymond Sno~------______John Heath------119. 87 William Jennings.... ,. .. .______24.39 I>o.• ______; ______16.26 20.13 Do. • --... ------20. 26 Calvin Fairbanks------ 9.00 Aaron Sm~lL------.------8. 13 John Cummings------9.00 John C. Bald~in------7.45 Earle Ne~ton ______Sam'l Briggs------8. 13 9.00 Harry Hale------21.27 Joshua Sa~yer ______David White______8. 13 Ira Bro~n------8 . 13 8.13 Luther Hutchinson ______VV1llard Holuen ______8.13 ~os Mathe~s------33.40 8.13 Joseph lJavison ______8.13 8.13 S. Wood~ard ------16. 26 :H;arry Page------Samuel G. Stevens ______Nathaniel Le~is------38. 04 Harry Boyce• ------45.40 Thor.nas Turner ______8.13 Alex•r Hutchinson______33. 00 Ezekiel Parsons ______9.00 Job Lyman ______9.00 8.13 Levi Hall------8. 13 John VVeed------ 93.65 James G. Parsons ______Alex'r Hutchinson______8 . 68 Abisha1 Hoisington• ------ 75.37 24.83 Samuel Blood------9. oo Joshua Bayley------172.27 James CoX------16.04 John S. Willard______9. 00 Ira Butler----·------243.25 Thos.- Richard:..------ 9.00 Samuel Healy, Jr______;_____ -8. 13 Silas Millet .. ::....: ______4.11 James Pollard------..: 8.13 Levi Bean------106. 52 Joshua Lumbard ______..;_ .. ..;-____ .__ .. 9.00 Stephens-. Wright.... .:. •• .:. ••• .:...... 7.3'4 David Moody ______;.______· .7. 6~ Dan Grout .... ;...... -c 14.9Q. ~obert Grandy------• _16. 70 1911 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD·-~ SENATE 3509. Dyer Waterman ______Samuel W. Morris______t15.93 Abial Hibbard ______t15.93 $28.50 Thos. Hazeltine ______------75.79 23.29 21.66 Calvinllobert !4orse------Robinson ______Elisha Buscom • ------ Benj. Pease• ------ 15.96 8.13 JacobPierce SmithE:urton • ------______41.46 ReubenSimon Cummins Chandler• ______------_ 42.92 Jeremiah Pratt------ 9.00 8.13 20.59 7.68 10.34 IsaacBenjamin N. P-artridge ClaPP------______Ebenezer Miller------ JosephSamuel ScottAlford------______15.93 . 55 John Holten • ------ 56.04 252.72 Elijah Read------108.40 Rhodolphus Clark------48.78 Samuel Gregory------61.15 36.81 24. 53 George W. Denison ______ZerahDo------Pulsipher______Danfel Cloud • ------ 78.80 8. 24 Wm. Whitford • ------37.98 Luther H. Sabin ______20.04 Robert KimbalL;. ______20.04 148.87 Thos. Gilman ______John Fuller ______Do ------Jona. vr.hitaker ______29.04 8.13 Mosely Hall------ 22. 06 9.00 William Spencer ______28. 39 6.35 Calvin Burnap ______Richard Stevens______Urban Lathrop ------ Alex'r White ______8.13 4.56 Nomlas Cobb------8.13 8.24 Nathan Stone• ------30.38 Goodwin Lincoln ______186.66 Rufus Guild ______19.82 Daniel Brown ______97.06 71.73 Israel P. Richardson ______NathanielDo. • ------F. Stone ______Wm. Kllbourn ______45. 22 William Spencer• ------ 45.67 23.72 20. 04 9.00 John Fillmore ______JesseThom Crockeras Turner------______Moses Pollard • ------ 54.68 74.58 5.00 20.33 Willard Ainsworth ______Zadock Wheeler• ------Do. • ------49.74 32.08 I>o ______~------232.15 Amos Richardson ______Edward Preston ______9.00 Harry Bingham ______Oel B1llings ______8. 13 Warham Brown ______46.41 9.00 140. 96 Benjamin Swan ______12.48 Richard Smith, Jr ______76.65 22. 72 Champion Smith______16. 70 StephenDo. • ------Holden ______~a Fisher------~------ 20. 37 24. 81 Lowell Read ______68.98 10.21 John W. Fellows ______20. 48 Daniel Drake ______8.13 Richard Smith, Jr------Phineas F. Wales ______· Do. • ------8.75 44.04 VV. Roberts*------80.47 Lemuel Bostwick ______Levi Bigelow ______14.68 John Blanden, Jr______29.29 Abner Waldo______Elias Keyes ______66.85 Kendall BoutwelL------9.36 18.00 47.04 . Israel P. Dana ______Archelaus ·Jones ______24.72 Hiram Harwood ______130.55 Luther Baker ______16.4.8 16.04 Jeffrey Watson ______16.04 JonathanIsrael P. Dana Ware------______8.13 John Thomas ______John Spear ______426.59 I>aniel Morse ______128. 73 Do ______293.86 Elijah Chandler ______156.94 185.86 Uriah Thayer______8.13 Joseph Patterson ______24. 39 29. 80 47.04 Stephen Brown ______EliasLem'l lreyes------Bostwick ______Abel CamP------4.79 John Weed ______102.40 52. 54 163.23 Elias Thomas______Susanna Sweetser------ 9.00 Sanauel !4attocks______44.21 Allen Richmond------8.13 Stephen Brown*------ 29.87 82.84 Dudley 'Illomas______James Taylor------16.04 Joseph Lunabarce ______18.91 8.13 ~a Hedge ______Elisha Allis, Jr______.:_ 16.70 15.93 J. & T. N. Morse ______21.05 James Trowbridge ______8.13 John Brown______Elisha Allis, Jr. • ------ 19. 00 Samuel Howe ______17.36 Willard Caryl 17.13 Elias Thomas ______7.68 22.96 Lem'l Richmond&c------______32.85 SanauelDo .• Crawford------______Stephen VVilliams ______16.26 Rufus Root, Jr ______Elisha Tilden ______44. 04 20.48 9.00 16.26 Noah Crooker, Jr ______9.00 J. Williams ______Lowell Read------~------74.19 Norman Wllliams ______83.20 Luther CoX------ 16.04 16.15 Stephen Pettes ______106.75 Wm. PriV------29.04 Eldad French------ 1.67 Alexander Hutchinson______51.74 Cyrus Perkins------19.71 Joseph Lillie------7.68 Thomas Little*------86.41 Joseph Davis______Samuel R. Dudley ______16.26 Thomas Little ______7.84 Zebulon Delano ______7.34 Elisha A. Fowler ______23.04 Ephraim Keyes• ------ 21.18 8.13 Norman Webber*------ 24.24 Josiah Kendall ------ 16.04 Gideon G. RusseL------ 6.24 PaulParley Sawyer Davis------______20.37 Walter Parmeter------ 58.08 John Hallock------218.09 24.39 John Sleeper------48.43 Linus Cramton ______12.35 Martin Parmlter______20.04 AndrewArdgrY------ 19.71 EphriamJohn Spear Matt• ______------_ 30.27 Theodore Foster ------15.36 Thomas Clark------1. 78 247.68 Benj. Swan ______20.38 Nathan Niles ______.:._ 170.26 Breakenridge & Pengree ______16.48 Eldridge Brigham______28.74 Do.*------8.48 Anaos. Huntington, Jr______16.48 Edward Simons ______133.75 John Space ______JosiahAzarias KendalL------Williams______.______38.04 367.36 74.03 Do.*------ 33.30 Amos Huntington, Jr. • ------78.90 Benjamin Swan ______Frederic Ladd------ 7.68 Do.• ------25.72 119. 21 37.52 16.48 16. 59 EbenezerJ. Wetherbee Dyer•------______John Robbins------AbelSimon Gilson, Guilford------Jr ______8.13 DO------293.15 8.13 11.65 49.86 Benjanain Moulton, Jr______9. 00 Ralph Parker•Parker______------_ Isaac Martin------Phinehas Strong ______207.54 Do.*------47.25 25.37 Daniel RamsaY------56.89 Bradford Kinne______28.39 Abel BishOP------32.96 Sol. W. Bush ______5.12 18.80 10.49 Do.*------~------RichardDo.* Stratton------______Alexander Hutchinson ______26.39 Ed. C. Taber*------14.16 51. 10· L. Bostwick______61.34 17.14 8.24 Do ------RichardJohn K. Snaith------Chase ______Jonathan Smith------ 29.73 14.02 14. 68 AbnerCharles Bayley------Johnson ______Abel Jewett------15.93 8.24 Arch Jones•------35.76 80.00 8.24 Do------24.50 John Weed*------Levi Barker ------ Ebenezer sa.underson ______Daniel Stearns• ------46.85 George Green------16.04 16.04 Simeon Chase______9.00 23.13 Ainos Lane------8.13 StuartOrange BrownHeaton • ------______.Levi Wright------9. 58 Timothy BulL------48.67 72. 41- Archelaus Putnam ______9.00 54. 02 John Weed------261.57 JohnDo Maynard. • ------______Barzillai Burgess------58.72 Nath'l Kendall------ 8.24 16.04 Ira Butler______24.24 Joshua Parsons ______.: ______8.13 65.70 John Wood------ Erastus Herman ______Elihu Lyman ______4.22 Amasa Piper------ 26.94 198.22 Joseph Chapman ______9.00 11.75 60.12 Fullam PerrY------AmosErastus Partridge, Sherman Jr. ______• ------_ · W1lliam Danforth ______15.93 J . P. Buckingham______45.00 .314.01 Samuel Havland ______20.37 Ephraim C. Ellis------20.04 Amos Partridge, Jr.• ------19.51 Ara B. Rice ______Lyman Kidder• ------16.00 9.00 Do. • ------ 24: 31 Noah White______Solomon Lumbard ______8.13 16.04 20.37 RobertDO------\Vhitelaw______R. stewart------19.93 Gardner Spooner------ 9.00 19.94 Thomas Gould------ 77.35 John P. W1lliams• ------ 53.05 Amos Partridge, Jr. • ------15.09 Levi Barnard------19.49 Urlel C. Hatch------ 7.45 Do------238. 23 Samuel Snow, Jr______9.00 Elijah Knight------ 80.15 Almad Shur ------213.59 205.34 Giles Taylor------48.12 ThomasSamuel WaldO------Martin______32.50 JohnDo------Roberts, Jr______Willard Ainsworth------28.74 15.93 liezekiah !4oor______8. 13 Asa Brewster, Jr______31.18 A. Denison------ 12.57 8.13 William Whitney______8. 13 Asa Tilden------1.00 Daniel Calkins------ 8.02 32.08 Neh'h Noble------'7.68 Stephen Davis------8.13 Isaac B. Davis------8.13 Sheldon· Bartholomew______8.13 Do. • ------29.60 Joseph Ross------3510 ~CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE MAY 1 Clark Cutting ______.;. ___ _ Levi Rogers ______:__ $6.35 ThoDlas ~oster~------ $11.02 $1.10 29.77 Jonas NewelL ______:. __ _ . 11. 02 RalphSelectmen Turner of ______Guilford • ------_ 61.72 James RoQerts•---~------ Simon Lawrence ______16. 26 Nathan Canfield------ 8.13 8.24 Abijah Towsley------ 28.96 Caleb- Sheldon------16.04 AdamJames BarkerTaylor------______8.13 Jason Sprague------ 22.81 A. Drury•------26.27 8.13 .18.48 45.50 Dan'l Brown ______:_·_ 7.45 LeviElias Stevens•------Randall ______Aaron Mosher• ------ 9.00 Nathan Canfield • ------ 69. 84 Comfort Thrasher------22.oa 14.68 19.65 Stephen Spaulding______8.24 JoelAbel LyonHoughton------______CalebJoseph RoyceW. Ingalls• ______------_ 9.00 6. 04 .Silas Davison------11.80 Simeon Reed------ 7.34 Jed H. Harris• ------ 59.45 Wm. Williams ______7.45 Saml. Kendrick------8.24 SamuI. P. .Danael Fay• ______------_ 34.05 Enoch Emerson • ------4.20 Isaac Pratt ------16.26 8.68 Amos CarY------1.45 Daniel Marsh • ------44.04 Benj. Udn~Y------123.75 Barnabas Myrick ______12.59 Daniel Ingraham ______67. 59 Thos. Smith • ------12. 84 James WitherelL------15.25 Abijah Eaton ______10.84 Jona. Brush ______16.26 PeterAzarias Dudley• Williams ------______16.04 Joseph Chaffe------8.24 11.02 Charles Johnson ______30.93 Alvan Foot------5.91 Asa Sprout_~------9.36 . 8.47 Gaius Perkins ______9. 00 Wm.Samuel Weaton Clark • ______------_ Charles Stevens• ------18. 73 Jonathan Smith______8. is Charles Wallbridge ______17.13 7.34 Linus Cramton ______2.44 22.68 Marshall whitaker------8.13 EzraDavid Child*------Stre_eter______Charles Johnson ______Isaac J. Va11------8. 13 13.14 92.11 8.13 39. 97 Jona. Draper------Shubel Converse• ------ 35.78 Dantel Benson • ------Charles W. Soule------~---- 7.45 2. 57 I Phinehas Strong______.:______Joseph Marsh------~------7.34 Wm. D. Smith------8.24 9.00 Simon Guilford • ------ 4. 00 22.24 Syrel King.,.------41 . 44 I.James Williams------Haskins ______Daniel Dance• ------ 12.10 Lem'l Riclimond • ------ 11.24 9.00 Phinehas Strong• ------44.00 8.13 JohnAlexander Moore, Milliken Jr------______9.35 Martin Tribon_,..------~ 8. 13 DO------ John B. Catlin • ------47.14 Elisha Hutchinson ______.1. 89 John Hatch------· 4.67 John Stanley • _____ ,:. ______28.82 8.13 David Oakes------ 7.45 Edward Kibbe ------ 41.00 Wm. Cahoon • ------23.00 Gurdon RandalL------20. 04 Wm.Uriel c.Williams Hatch •______------_ David Lewis------3.67 16.26 7.45 David Johnson ______Jona. Barron ------John P. Williams ______7.45 20.04 30.13 Benj. Norris------20.37 Do. • ------ Alden Toby------15. 47 Amos W. Barnum______Do. • ------.------ 89. 54 R. Temple.:. ______8.24 2,653.17 Do.•------48.84 12.99 Smith------41.34 8.13 Do .• ------ Rich. Stevens ______JohnJacob McCollumSargeant------______23.00 11.01 8.13 Do. • ------Q . . 26.04 Benj. Swan_:..------16. 70 James ~cFarland--~------Wm. D. Smith------47.55 Andrew Farnsworth ______..; ____ _ 225.73 Do. • ------19.48 Alex'r Hu,tchinson ______JohnEbenr. Ancy Fisk ------______20.04 Archelaus Jones ______8.13 19.77 7.45 John Wood ____ .______: ____ _ 4.90 8. 58 16. 26 1DO------~----- 3.32 Isaiah Hun:t;ly ------ John H. Burnam • ------ 22.24 AndrewDO------Farnsworth ______Samuel Damon•------• 27. 99 8.,13 208.91 James Brink, Jr------Timothy Foster______~ : ----~-- Mart.in Guilford ------ 23.60 Simon Baldwin ______8.13 21.18 Nathan Whitner------4.56 Andrew Farnsworth ______..; __ 29.96 Phinehas Page ______· ·David Wb1tney ------ 5.12 7.79 PeterBenj. HenryMartin------~______94.98 8. 68 Nat. P. Sawyer• ------ 9.25 JohnMoses Hoffman------Holden ______10.39 Benj. Swan ______7.23 16. 04 Abel Smith • ------ 21.18 James Q. McFarland------8.24 Daniel Moor------ 7.45 Allen Goodrich ______8.24 Do ______,:. __ 52.41 Arthur Bennett• ------47: 27 I>O------7.06 Freeman Chamberlin ______Do. • ------23. 84 Abram Gage ______6.24 Ch's K. Williams ______17.65 7.34 9.00 Richard1DO------Smith, Jr______Seth Carver______Abiel RicHardson • ___ _: ______33.99 Samuel Heale ______3.53 7. 68 . no ______3.53 16.37 M. D. Follet ______:., ______John Hall------ 16. 26 8.50 Janaes Mason ______17.65 John Slafter, Jr.• ------42. 85 Joshua Johnson • ------ 3.53 John V. Allen ______.:______39 . 39 Ezra Livermore• ------22.02 Benj. Swan ______Ezra Livermore ______11.29 258.29 J. Williams------44.50 Caleb Sheldon ______no ______3.53 John Robbins ______~ __ .;. ______30.51 16.04 1DO------Paul Bickford ______10.67 Heman Allen ______2.73 8.68 DariusEleazar Mathews•Packer______------..: ___ -_ 6.95 Noah Holt ______9.12 8.68 D. Richardson ______24.64 3. 00 ' Do ______Daniel Bayley------1. 67 Harry Hale*------ 12.59 Nathaniel Whitcomb ______..; __ _ 9. 00 David Brown • ------ 2.25 10.31 18.31 Alex'r Hutchinson------~-- Sam'l Martin------~ .: · 15.58 Rich'd Graves• ------ James ·B. Gilmore ___ ,:.------~--:. . 12.12 Calvin Sollace______24. 72 Daniel Kimball• ------ 33.30 Thos. Waterman______: ____ ..;~;.. __ _ 7.06 16.66 Elijah Bush ______Do. • ------29.00 Peleg Stiles• ------ 3.53 Benj. Baldwin ______Sam'l Jewett• ------8.34 Andrew Farnsworth ______Ira Phelps ______8.13 Joseph Olds ______43.28 14. 68 14.68 Samuel B. Young ______799.13 Benj. Holmes ______16.04 Jonathan Orms ______Asahel Smith • ------ 46.72 39.60 40.62 Joseph Olds* ------70 . 00 Jonas Galp.sha ______31.50 Nath'lCyrus WashburnKilborn ______• ------_ David Barber______:. ______8.24 William Cahoon ______,:. ____ • Iram Wilcox ______8.13 15.00 7.34 Asa Wheelock• ------ 21.02 John Mattocks------· 49.00 Erastus Mott•------9. 60 Jona. Brigham• ------5.50 John M. Foster------· 817.00 .wm. Howe ______20.15 EliasJonas Buel•Clark ------______8. 92 Hugh Laughlin------· 10.40 8. 24 Abel Knapp• ------16. 98 Lyman Lamphear------· . 10.00 Sam'l Huntington ______Dyer Leffingwill ______8.24 Edmund Groves ______9.58 Levi Ellis------10. 00 24: . 39 Caleb Sheldon • ------ 16.34 36.38 Salmon Green ______17.50 William Howe ( et al.) ------ 16. 04 JamesZadock Smalley•Wbeeler ______------_ Simon Briggs (et al.) ------,..--- 205.96 Shadrack Hatheway• ------ 22 . 08 S. Haighte, Jr ______66.50 Thomas Ward (et al.) ------731.10 20.69 16.59 John ~attacks ______Frederic Hopkins• ------ Joshua ~organ ______57.61 Joab Smith • ------ 14. 40 53.00 Selectmen of ~oretown, etc ______174.82 Stephen Pettes------27.27 SamDavi'dl WrKellogg•ight ______------_ 15. 57 -Joseph Sc~tt (et al.) ------ 64.78 24. 72 Wm. Howe•------10.15 Stedman Martin ( et al.) ------ 590.20 21.23 Thos.Noble MiddlMunsonebrook• ______------_ 13.91 SylvesterRoyal Corbin Hall*------______Samuel Britton (et al.) ------ 143. 09 12.81 5.30 Joshua Buzzell ------ 38.00 Wm. B. Marsh*------16.26 Ellis Cobb*------ 13.14 40. 00 96. 03 8.22 Baruck Bolster ------ SamuelDo ______Fay•------_ Wm. Baxter•------Thomas Foster------45.14 9.00 Dan Carpenter• ------ 25.70 IIampton Lovegroove ______68.04 Dan'l G. Savage•------• 11.00 75.00 Do . • ------William Richardson ______84.09 Seba French*------~----- 12.72 FredericJos'h Warner Hopkins------·------______16.04 Timothy Bliss• ------ 16.61 8.24 John Willson_------37.40 Noble Munson • ------21.22 Alex•r Gilchrist• ------41.65 Amarziah Woodward ------ 5.00 DO------29.95 Robert Rand------8.13 Samuel Scovel ( et al.) ------160.08 1941 · CONGRmSSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 3511 Selectmen of Barnet' (et al.) ------$1, 188.80 Por ·paying the expenses incurred 1n ascer-· [The Library of Congress} · John 'Benson ------15. 93 taining · and surveying the boundary · lines SELECTED IUI:i'DENCES PERTAINING TO VERMONT Adam Hurlbut______16. 04 established by. the treaty lately made with IN THE WAR 01' 1812 the Creek Indians, $15,000. · Clark, Byron N., editor, A List of Pen ~otal------89,478.96 SEC. 2. And. be it further enacted, That ·the sioners of the War of 1812. (Burllngton, Bos- It is cert11led by the adjutant general, State several .sums, hereby appropriated, be paid ton, 1904.) (E359.4.C62.) - - of Vermont, that this 11st is taken from the out of any money in the Treasury not other Vermont, Adjutant and .Inspector General's r~cord book of the State and is supported by wise appropriated. Office, Roster of Soldiers in the War of 1812- a copy of a certificate executed by the secre Approved March 3, 1817 (5 Stat. L. 878). 14. (St. Albans, 1933.) (E359.5.V3V32.) tary of state November 7, 1856, at the time Vermont, Records of the Governor and the list of vouchers was copied in the record An act making compensation to the volun Council of the State of Vermont, volume 6, book to the effect that the list was a true teers of Troy and other places on the part E. (Montpelier, 1873-80.) (F49.V152.) copy, in dates and amounts, of the original northern frontier Carter, Robert M., Studies in Vermont His vouchers for payments made for services in It is hereby enacted by the General As tory. (St. Johnsbury, Vt., 1937.) (F49.C34.) the War of 1812. sembly of the Etate of Vermont that the Collins, Edward Day, A History of Vermont. Included in the above list, and indicated by treasurer be, and he is hereby, directed to pay (Boston, New York, 1916.) (F49.C715.) the asterisk, are the items included in the to the several towns and persons hereinafter Crockett, Walter Hill, Vermont, the Green claim allowed on March 30, 1820, in the named the following sums, out of any money Mountain State.2 (New York, 1921.) amount of $4,421.18. The other expenditures in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, (F49.C9.) are not supported by vouchers, it being stated as compensation for the services and subsist Lamb, Wallace E., The Lake Champlain that the original vouchers on which the pay ence of the volunteers and milltia stationed and Lake George Valleys. (New York, 1940.) ments were made were destroyed in the at Troy and in other towns on the northern (F127 .C6L3.) burning of the statehouse on January 6, 1857, frontier the summer past, to wit: Slocum, Harold W., The Story of Vermont. and there is cited as authority for accepting ·To the selectmPn of the town of (New York, Chicago, 1926.) (F49.S63.). the showing presented as evidence of the pay Craftsbury, the sum of. ••:. ______$85.17 ments made the joint resolution of Congress INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF To the selectmen of Hardwick, the STOLEN CATTLE in May 14, 1836 (5 Stat. 132), for the charac sum of______88.60 ter of evidence to be accepted in settling To the selectmen of Greensboro, the The Senate proceeded to consider the claims of States against the United States sum-of------56.00 bill
SENATE 3477 and the National-Defense Program: to the Tery Purposes," Approved April ·28, 1906, Security Administrator to Accept Gifts for Committee on the Judiciary
