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568 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 23 -IOWA EXTENSION OF REMARKS William S. Richard, Corydon. Mrs. O'DAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to William H. Metzinger, Montrose. extend my remarks and to include therein a letter written OKLAHOMA to the Federation of Women's Clubs. Silas E. West, Disney. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the Thomas R. Johnson, Elk City. gentlewoman from New York? Roy Rine, Nash. There was no objection. Shelby T. McNutt, Ringwood. PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE RHODE ISLAND Mr. DICKSTEIN. Mr. Speaker:, I ask unanimous consent Nicholas Ball, Block Island. to address the House on tomorrow for · 20 minutes after dis- . Millard F. Phelan, Conimicut. position of the matters on the Speaker's table and the legis lative program of the day. WYOMING Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, reserving John L. Downs, Douglas. the right to object, I wonder if we know now what the pro Alfred B. Mills, Lusk. gram is going to be tomorrow. If we are going to have Lowell 0. Stephens, Powell. general debate following any Calendar Wednesday business, John Barwick, Superior. I wonder if the request would be necessary. Robert W. Hale, Thermopolis. Mr. RAYBURN. Mr. Speaker, the resolution coming up David J. Nolan, Upton. today will probably take 2 or 3 hours, and in all probability it Percival F. McClure, Worland. will be 3 or 3:30 o'clock before we get to a vote. It was our thought that the Treasury and Post Office bill might go over until tomorrow, but the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES LUDLOW] has his statement on the bill ready and would like TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1940 to get it in the RECORD tonight. So after the so-called ex tension of the Dies committee resolution is disposed of, it is The House met at 12 o'clock noon. the purpose of the gentleman from Indiana to move that The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., offered the House go into the Committee of the Whole House on the the following prayer: state of the Union and, at least, to make his statement today. Almighty and everliving God, unto us as children of Thy Tomorrow is Calendar Wednesday, and the call rests With jealous care, Thy benedictions are like streams of water in a the Committee on Naval Affairs. I do not believe that com dry and thirsty land: Thus to Thee we offer our hearts of mittee wants to use the day because it is not ready to proceed, praise and gratitude. We pray that the memory of our sins but I think we should begin calling the calendar on Wednes and failures may be grievous unto us. By every temptation day for at least one committee. After the call of the com overcome may we be made wiser and stronger. 0 kind ~ e mittee, it is the intention to go on with general debate ·on in our hearts those visions which never fade and open for our the Post Office and Treasury Departments bill. waiting feet the ways of purity, peace, and power, and may we Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. The purpose, then, is to never falter. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, call one committee on tomorrow, which will be the Com whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, mittee on Naval Affairs, and then continue With general whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, debate on the appropriation bill? whatsoever th:ngs are of good report, if there be any virtue Mr. RAYBURN. Yes. and if there be any praise, think on these things. Through Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. The only thought I had Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. in mind was that the gentleman from New York could proba bly get time under general debate instead of a special order. The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the approved. gentleman from New York? BOULDER DAM There was no objection. Mr. BLOOM. Mr. Speaker, I present a privileged report EMBARGO ON AMERICAN TOBACCO from the Committee on Foreign Affairs on House Resolution Mr. SASSCER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous cons~nt 356. to address the House for 1 minute. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the House Resolution 356 gentleman from Maryland? Resolved, That the Secretary of State is directed to answer to the There was no objection. House the following inquiries: . 1. When and in what foreign capital was the conspiracy entered Mr. SASSCER. Mr. Speaker, the agricultural sections of . into to destroy, by the use of explosives, the power and reclamation this country, particularly those producing tobacco, were projects of the United States at Boulder Dam? shocked when they learned that the British Government had 2. When did the State Department first learn of this conspiracy? 3. What had been done by the conspirators and the details of placed an embargo on the importation of American tobacco their scheme up to the time the State Department first obtained to the United Kingdom. It is reported that the Empire ex information of the plot? pects to purchase from Turkey the tobacco heretofore bought 4. What are the names of the conspirators? in America. I suppose that the purpose is to incur favor 5. What were their political and national affiliations during the existence of the conspiracy? with Turkey in connection with the Dardanelles. Favor may 6. Have any of them been questioned by oflicials or agents of be incurred with Turkey by this action, but the embargo on the State Department or any other department of the United States? American tobacco strikes a stinging blow at vast agricultural 7. Have any of the conspirators or other persons been arrested or held as a result of said plot? sections of this country and incurs disfavor and resentment. 8. Are any of the conspirators Communists or did any of them As the reduction in our foreign markets will further depress act in furtherance of the designs of any communistic group? a price level-upon which the farmers are hardly existing 9. What other information is in the possession of the State De now-it is vital for us from the States or sections depending partment concerning said plot? upon tobacco production to cooperate to the fullest degree to Mr. BLOOM. Mr. Speaker, I move that the resolution be effect a removal of this embargo. I note with pleasure that laid on the table. my colleagues, the gentlemen from North Carolina, Repre The motion was agreed to. sentative CooLEY and Representative WARREN, have protested A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. to the Agriculture Department on behalf of their constituents. 1940 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 569 This embargo on an agricultural product is so far-reaching inquiry into. the charges against 17 Christian Front members in policy and effect, I arise to suggest that all of us from of sedition and plotting the Government's overthrow. tobacco sections cooperate immediately and pool our energies I applaud that order. • in exerting every honorable in:ft.uence for the removal of this Let the chips :fly where they may. restriction. The British Government may feel justified in Especially let the investigation include those who (1) using this means to strengthen its economic and political directed, (2) abetted, (3) financed, and (4) incited-particu policies with Turkey. They must, however, realize that the larly incited-these fifteen-or-so foolish youths who allowed matter is sufficiently vital in its effect on the economic life themselves to be hoodwinked by their leaders, Cassidy and of the agricultural sections of America affected by the restric the Nazi with the long criminal record-his name escapes tions to fully justify us as a last resort to advocate trade me at the moment. Their scheme was fantastic, yet it reprisals within our influences for the removal of this em betokens serious warnings and tendencies. bargo. [Applause.] Fourteen Members of Congress were to be assassinated. I DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL was No. 2 on the list. Our colleagues from our metropolitan area who voted to lift the embargo were also slated to go. Mr. WOODRUM of Virginia, from the Committee on Ap Such a scheme is fantastic, yet it is also tragic. propriations, reported the bill (H. R. 8067, Rept. No. 1525) Let the inquiry reach out into Detroit. Let Father Cough making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in cer lin explain his avowed contacts with, encouragement, and tain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, praise of, the Christian Front, and particularly its leader, and for other purposes, which was read a first and second Cassidy, and his comradeship with him. time, and, with the accompanying papers, referred to the This man Cassidy created much mischief in Brooklyn with Committee of the ·whole House on the state of the Union and his rowdy cohorts. For many months he and his band abetted ordered printed. by editorials in Social Justice, edited by Father Coughlin, in Mr. TABER reserved all points of order on the bill. timidated peaceful citizens in Brooklyn because of their re EXTENSION OF REMARKS ligion, outraged the feelings of the decent people of our Mr. LEAVY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to borough, and made of themselves nuisances bordering on extend my own remarks and include therein the address criminality. Now, thank goodness, the law has caught up delivered by the President of the United States on last Friday with them.