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1937 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 379 man from New York had 2 or 3 minutes to address the House CALL OF THE ROLL he would make a nonpartisan speech, but it seems that is Mr. BARKLEY. I suggest the absence of a quorum. not to be expected. The VICE PRESIDENT. The.clerk will call the roll. We are here today by grace of the gentleman from Dlinois The Chief Clerk called the roll, and the following Senators [Mr. CHURCH]. answered to their names: Mr. CHURCH. Will the gentleman yield? Adall).S Davis Lee Pope Mr. RAYBURN. Not just now. Ashurst Dieterich Lewis Russell We would have adjourned over from yesterday untn to Austin Duffy Logan Schwartz Bankheacl Ellender Lonergan Schwellenbach morrow if it had not been for the objection of the gentleman Barkley Frazier Lundeen Sheppard from Illinois [Mr. CHURCH]. I did not renew the request Bilbo George McAdoo Shipstead Borah Gibson McCarran Smith late yesterday afternoon because it would have been impos Bridges Gillette McGill Steiwer sible to have adjourned over from that time until Monday, Brown, N.H. Graves McKellar Thomas, Okla. even though we did not have any work to do. Bulkley Green McNary Thomas, Utah Bulow Gulfey Miller Townsend Today I shall ask unanimous consent that when the Burke Hale Minton Truman House adjourns, it adjourn to meet on Monday next, be Byrd Harrison Murray Tydings Byrnes Hatch Neely Vandenberg cause we have no business for tomorrow or Saturday and it Capper Hayden Norris VanNuys is not necessary for the Members to come back. Caraway Herring Nye Wagner Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that when the Chavez · Hitchcock O'Mahoney Wheeler Clark Johnson, Calt!. Overton White House adjourns today it adjourn to meet on Monday next. co:i:mally johnson, Colo. Pepper The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the Copeland King Pittman gentleman from Texas? Mr. MINTON. I announce that the Senator from West Mr. CHURCH. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object. Virginia [Mr. HoLT], the Senator from Delaware rMr. The regular order w~s demanded. HuGHES], and the Senator from North Carolina [Mr. REY The SPEAKER. The regular order has been demanded. NOLDS] are absent because of illness. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from The junior Senator from New Jersey [Mr. SMATHERS] 1s · Texas? detained because of illness in his family. Mr. CHURCH. Mr~ Speaker, I respectfully object. The Senator from Florida LMr. ANDREWS], the Senator LEAVE OF ABSENCE from North Carolina [Mr. BAILEY], the Senator from Ten By unan.ilnous consent leave of absence was granted to nessee [Mr. BERRY], the Senator from Washington [Mr. Mr. MosER of Pennsylvania, for 3 days, on account of death BoNE], the Senator from Michigan [Mr. BROWN], the Sen of mother. ator from Ohio [Mr. DoNAHEY], the Senator from Virginia RECESS [Mr. GLASs], the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. MALoNEY], the senior Senator from New Jersey [Mr. MooRE], the Sen Mr. RAYBURN. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House ator from Maryland [Mr. RADCLIFFE], and the Senator from recess until next Monday at 12 o'clock. Massachusetts [Mr. WALSH] are unavoidably detained. The motion was agreed to. :Mr. DUFFY. I announce that my colleague the senior Accordingly <at 12 o'clock and 15 minutes p. m.> the Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. LA FoLLETTE] will be absent House recessed until Monday, November 29, 1937, at 12 from the Senate today due to a slight illness. o'clock noon. The VICE PRESIDENT. Seventy-eight Senators have an swered to their names. A quorum is present. PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ELIXIR OF SULFANILAMIDE (S. DOC. NO. 124) Under clause 3 of rule XXII, public bills and resolutions were introduced and severally referred as follows: The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter By Mr. HARTLEY: A bill (H. R. 8519) to assist and encour from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting, in response age the States in establishing fair labor standards, and for to Senate Resolution 194 (submitted by Mr. CoPELAND and other purposes; to the Committee on Labor. agreed to on the 16th instant), a report of the facts con By Mr. DICKSTEIN: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 519) to cerning deaths occasioned by the administration of Elixir declare certain papers, pamphlets, books, pictures, and writ of Sulfanilamide Massengill, which, with the accompanying ings nonmailable, to provide a penalty for mailing same, and papers, was referred to the Committee on Commerce and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Post O:fiice and ordered to be printed without the illustrations. Post Roads. PETITIONS The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate resolutions PETITIONS, ETC. adopted by Local No. 35, United Bag Workers and Allied Trades of America, of Philadelphia, Pa., favoring the enact Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, ment of wages and hours of labor legislation and protesting 3437. By Mr. LUTHER A. JOHNSON: Petition of Mr. against the lay-off of workers in the Philadelphia area, which Geo. G. Chance, president, Mr. D. L. Wilson, secretary, was ordered to lie on the table. Bryan and Brazos County Chamber of Commerce, Bryan, Mr. COPELAND presented the petition of Enterprise Tex., and Mr. Sidney J. Files, Itasca, Tex., and Hillsboro Grange No. 597, Patrons of Husbandry, of Oaks Corners, N.Y.. Cotton Mills, Hillsboro, Tex., opposing the wage and hour praying for the adoption of "the proposed twenty-second bill; to the Committee on Labor. amendment to the Constitution," which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. He also presented the petition of Local No. 10, National SENATE Federation of Post O:fiice Clerks, New York City, N. Y., favor FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1937 ing the enactment of the so-called Wagner-Van Nuys anti . lynching bill, which was ordered to lie on the table. (Legislative day of Tuesday, November 16, 1937> AGRICULTUP.AL RELIEF-DAIRYING The Senate met at 11 o'clock a. m., on the expiration of Mr. DUFFY. Mr. President, I have received a telegram the recess. from Mr. J. W. Schwartz, president of the Wisconsin Farm THE JOURNAL Bureau Federation, in which he comments upon the pending · On request of Mr. BARKLEY, and by unanimous consent, agricultural relief bill, and especially as it refers to the· the reading of the Journal of the proceedings of the calen dairying interests. I ask unanimous consent that the tele dar day Wednesday, November 24, 1937, was dispensed with, gram may lie on the table and be printed in. the RECORD as and the Journal was approved. a part of my remarks. 380 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE NOVEMBER 26 There being no objection, the telegram was ordered to governmental control could be successfully administered, was de be RECORD, veloped and the finished pictme displayed in the fall of 1931 by lie on the table and to printed in the as follows: statisticians and cotton specialists representing the United States MADISON, WIS., November 23, 1937. Department of Agriculture at meetings held in South Carolina. Bon. F. RYAN DUFFY, In this picture the representatives of the Department of Agriculture Member of the United. States Congress, pointed out to cotton producers the effect on American cotton as a; Office Building, Washington, D. C.: result of the operations of the Federal Farm Board beginning in Whereas we believe that the Pope-McGill bill will benefit the 1929-30. By charts and otherwise they showed that while Ameri dairy farmer by enlarging ,his markets, stabillz1ng feed prices, can cotton was going into storage on 16-cent Government loans, limiting the supply of oils for substitutes, and restricting the foreign cotton was going into consumption at the good prices expansion of dairying in other regions; and · prevailing at that time--16 cents and better. Whereas we know that the dlsa.ster of low prices to producers of A study of the effect on American cotton as a result of the basic commodities directly results in disaster to the dairymen, as Federal Farm Board's efforts and later efforts to control the price of 1t did in 1933, and as it will most certainly reoccur in the future. American cotton under A. A. A. convinces us that though un Therefore we, the members of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Fed doubtedly well intended, they have, nevertheless, ended 1n failure eration, assembled in Ma.cU.son in the eighteenth annual convention. for the plan and disaster for the American cotton producers. We ask your support of a farm bill which embodies soil conservation, therefore believe that the policy of control heretofore practiced in commodity loans, and ever-normal granary, with a regulation on various forms has operated, and if renewed in any form w111 con production that at such time as surpluses of any basic commodity tinue to operate, against the very objectives that all are agreed reach a point that a majority of producers believe voluntary control upon and are striving earnestly to attain. 1n.su1ficient, then it shall further provide the necessary means to OUr study shows further that any continued pollcy of com prevent the defeat of purpose in the act. pulsory control of acreage or lint yield will ultimately, and at no J. W. ScHWARTZ, distant date, so stimulate foreign production that we shall very President, Wi.!conrin. Farm Bureau Federation. soon be confined to a total cotton production in America equal" only to our domestic needs; that when this point is reached-and AGRICULTURAL RELIEF--COTTON-PRODUCTION CONTROL it will be reached while the present generation is in authority, per Mr. BORAH. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to haps not more than 2 or 3 years--unless we conserve our foreign markets, it will dJslocate 40 percent of the cotton producers of have inserted in the body of the REcoRD as a part of my re this country and impoverish all American cotton producers.