1932 Congressional Recor~H.Ouse

1932 CONGRESSIONAL RECOR~H.OUSE 1.3387 There being no objection, the articles were referred to the NOMINATIONS Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed Executive twminatiom received. by t1te Senate June 18 in the RECORD, as follows: <legislative day of June 15), 1932 [From Washington Times of June 18, 1932} · PROMOTIONS IN THE REGULAR ARMY FRENCH PRAISE HERRIOT STAND AT LAUSANNE-<>PPOSITION TO CANCEL To be colonel LATION OF GERMAN DEBT HELD VITAL ATTITUDE Lieut. Col. Otis Robert Cole, Infantry, from June 8, 1932. PARIS, June 18.-Premier Herriot, returntng from Lausanne to-day to preside over a session of the French cabinet, finds To be lieutenant colonel almost universal approval here for the stand he took at the repa rations conference yesterday against 1mmediate cancellation of MaJ. Emile Victor Cutrer, Infantry, from June 8, 1932. Germany's war-debt obligations. To be major He will return to Lausanne Monday for resumption of the dis cussions with representatives of Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Capt. Henry John Schroeder; Signal Corps, from June Germany. ·and Japan, carrying the complete confidence of his min 8, 1932. isters and the majority of the chamber of deputies. To be captain It was Herriot's first encounter with spokesmen for the other great powers. Even his opponents of the extreme right conceded First Lieut. John Augustus Barksdale, Quartermaster he had acquitted himself well in upholding the French thesis that Corps, from June 8, 1932. complete cancellation of German reparation payments at this time, without a corresponding concession on the part of the United To be first lieutenant States, would shortly put Germany in economic leadership of the Second Lieut. George John Zimmerman. Corps of En powers of Europe. gineers, from June 8, 1932. Despite reiterated statements :from· Washington to the contrary, the French press still cl.1ngs to the belief that the United States MEDICAL CORPS Government is preparing to make a grand debt-cancellation ges ture in the near future. To be captain First Lieut. Clarence Woodson Hardy, Medical Corps, BERLIN, June 18.-Vlrtually ignoring the new "indete~te from June 15, 1932. moratorium " granted Germany on all reparation payn:ients by the "big five" of the Lausanne conference yesterday, the Ger man press to-day almost unanimously attacked Premier Herriot, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of France, for blocking the Reich's demands for complete can cellation. SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1932 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. [From the Washington Herald of June 17, 1932] The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., DEBT DELEGATES AGREE ON EXTENSION FOR REICH offered the following prayer: LAUSANNE, June 16.-A majority of the delegates to the Lausanne 0 in conference were understood to-night to have agreed to offer· a Thou in whom are the sources of universal power and project for suspension of the next reparations payment by whom there is compassion forever, hear us as we pray and Germany. forgive our sins. We thank Thee that Thy providence never The project will be in the form of a resolution to be presented grows weary. Open Thou, blessed Father, the secrets of to-morrow at a private session of the conference, which Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald opened to-day with a warning Thy nature and teach us how to live in the light of the very that speed is necessary to avert a catastrophe. best intelligence. Gather us all together m the bonds of The· delegates were said to have initialed the agreement to pre sympathy and common desire, that we may labor conscien sent the suspension project, which does not set a specific date for tiously for the good and the honor of our country. Take it the termination of the period of suspension. The resolution will provide for suspension until the conference into Thy care and under Thy direction; lift up the lowly, has reached a decision affecting future payments. The next rep cleanse the impure, and enlighten the ignorant. Unto all arations transfer to the Bank for International Settlements 1s who find the yoke heaVY, lighten the burden; may even dull due July 15, after the expiration of the Hoover moratorium year. realities be a blessing to us. Let Thy guidance to-day be a token of Thy goodness and as an evidence of our worthiness. LAUSANNE, June 16.-Prim.e Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald, of Amen. Great Britain. opening the Lausanne reparations conference as president, to-day deftly deposited Europe's economic troubles The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and in Washington's lap and arranged a compromise likely to stave approved. of! Germany's demand for complete cancellation of reparations. The compromise, acceptable to Premier Edouard Herrtot, of SENATE ENROLLED BILL SIGNED , France, proposes that Germany will hereafter not be forced to The SPEAKER pro tempore announced his signature to continue payments on the "nonpostponable" portion of annui an enrolled bill of the Senate of the following title: ties to the Bank for International Settlements, which payments have been reloaned to the Reich. s. 1525. An act forbidding the transportation of any per Britain's Premier is expected to offer the proposal at to-morrow's son in interstate or foreign commerce, kidnaped or other secret meeting of the "Big Six," when Chancellor von Papen 1s wise unlawfully detained, and making such act a felony. expected to demand cancellation. · MacDonald, at the opening session to-day, bluntly lmplled WAR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION BILL Europe can not settle her troubles without aid from Washington. Mr. COLLINS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE take from the Speaker's table the bill (H. R. 11897) making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of A message from the House of Representatives by Mr. the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, Haltigan, one of its clerks, announced that the Ho~ had 1933, and for other purposes, with Senate amendments disagreed to the amendments of the Senate to the bill thereto. disagree to the Senate amendments, and ask for a <H. R. 11452) making appropriations for the Navy Depart conference. · ment and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Mis 30, 1933, and for other purposes; requested a conference with sissippi asks unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's the Senate on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses table the War Department appropriation bill, disagree to all thereon. and that Mr. AYRES, Mr. OLIVER Of Alabama, Mr. of the Senate amendments, and ask for a conference. 1s DOUGLAS of Arizona, Mr. FRENCH, and Mr. TABER were ap there objection? pointed managers on the part of the House at the conference. There was no objection. RECESS The Chair appointed the following conferees: Mr. ·coLLINS, Mr. VANDENBERG. r · move that the Senate take a Mr. WRIGHT, Mr. PARKS, Mr. BARBOUR, and Mr. CLAGUE. recess until 11 o'clock Monday morning. POSTAL EXPENDITURES The motion was agreed to; and <at 5 o'clock and 25 Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con- minutes p. m.) the Senate took a recess until Monday, sent to extend my remarks in the RECORD and to insert June 20, 1932, at 11 o'clock a. m. therein a brief letter from the Post Office Department. 13388 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 18 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection? CUrrency. I refer to the second proviso, beginning in line There was no objection. _ 16 on page 2 of the bill: Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. Speaker, under leave to extend Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall glve my remarks in the REcoRD, I include the following letter: preference in making such loans or advances to farmers who suf fered from crop failures in 1931. OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL, Washington, D. C., June 16, 1932. I think that language should be stricken out because the Hon. JosEPH J. MANSFIELD, measure as broadened covers more than crop production, and House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. MY DEAR MR. MANsFIELD: The Postmaster General has asked me besides that, there have been some crop failures in 1932. I to acknowledge receipt of your letter of June 13, and to supply you can see no good purpose in that language, and, at the proper the desired infermation as to certain postal expenditures. time, I shall offer an amendment to take it out. I take this Ascertained data for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1931, indi time -so that the committee might have a chance to consider cates the cost of performing ~he several services mentioned by you to be as follows: my suggestion. Computed cost of carrying mall under congres- Mr. O'CONNOR. Mr. Speaker, I yield five minutes to the sional frank-senators and Members of the gentleman from lllinois [Mr. SABATH]. Flouse------------------------------------------- $530,298.50 Mr. SABA TH. Mr. Speaker, I will support this rule Computed cost of carrying all official mall of the executive departments and other branches of · but I shall endeavor to secure an amendment to the resolu Governcrnent· service-----------------~---------- 8,643,300.46 tion under the 5-minute rule. I hope that the gentlemen Computed cost of handling second-class mail in excess of the postage received ___________________ 96,674,617.93 who are interested in the resolution and in this relief will Subsidies paid to shipping concerns under contracts also recognize that some relief is needed by the municipal for carrying foreign mails----------------------- 18,911,474.60 ities and by the people in large centers. I am willing to Computed cost of carrying airplane mail to other give additional power to the Reconstruction Finance Corpo countries of the Western Flemisphere in excess ration.

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