946 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE DECEMBER 23 SENATE There being no objection, the petition was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1932. in the RECORD, as follows: PETITION TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES The Chaplain, Rev. Z~Barney T. Phillips, D. D., offered the following prayer: (Unanimously adopted by the Baptist General Convention of Texas, November 17, 1932) Almighty God, bestower of every blessing, make us glad At its meeting in Abilene, Tex., November 17, 1932, more than with the remembrance of Thy choicest gift in the birth of 2,000 delegates present and hundreds of visitors also approving. Names of delegates and visitors are given herein, many of whom Thy dear Son, and renew the earth grown old with its burden signed individual petitions also. of care, as again the voice of the Christ Child rings out with This convention has a constituency of 537,388 members and delight its message that we are all the children of God. 2,000,000 adherents in Texas, and joins with a host of others in Remove from the portal of each heart the barrier of doubt this petition. We, the members of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, that love may enter there and be our dearest guest. Con­ are opposed to the repeal of the eighteenth amendment or the secrate to all anew the sanctities of home, the love and modification of the Volstead Act so as to admit wine and beer, laughter of children, the sacrament of friendship, the joy or any other intoxicating beverage, but we are in favor of strict enforcement of the same; and we hereby petition and urge our and privilege of service, that each may share the other's Senators and Members of the lower House of Congress from Texas gift and the whole world give back the song of "Peace on to vote against any measure looking toward any such modification the earth, good will towards men," by which heaven's starry and repeal. cloisteJ.-s were made ware of that first Christmas Day. Amen. And we also petition and urge the members of the Legislature of Texas to oppose any repeal or lessening of the force of our THE JOURNAL existing State prohibition laws, and would appreciate such action on their part. The Chief Clerk proceeded to read the Journal of the pro­ This petition has no partisan political significance whatever, ceedings of the calendar days of ~Nednesday, December 21, but is joined in by voters of all political faiths and parties. and Thursday, December 22, 1932, when, on request of Mr. J. C. HARDY, President of the Convention. FESs and by unanimous consent, the further reading was J. L. TRUETT, dispensed with and the Journal was approved. D. B. SOUTH, MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT-APPROVAL OF BILLS Secretaries. PAYMENTS TO VETERANS Messages in writing from the President of the United States were communicated to the Senate by Mr. Latta, one Mr. ROBINSON of Indiana presented resolutions adopted of his secretaries, who also announced that the President by Fountain County Old Guard Post, No. 2395, Veterans of approved and signed the following acts: Foreign Wars, and Wilbur Fulton Post, No. 291, the American Legion, both of Covington, Ind., which were referred to the On December 19, 1932: Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed in the S. 4023. An act providing for the closing of barber shops REcoRD, as follows: one day in every seven in the District of Columbia; and Whereas the United States Chamber of Commerce and the Na­ S. 4123. An act to amend the District of Columbia traffic tional Economy League have heretofore and are now spreading acts, as amended. propaganda against the patriots who bore arms in defense of our On December 22, 1932: United States; and Whereas these two organizations are sponsoring the slashing S. 1863. An act to authorize and direct the transfer of of pension payments of Spanish-American War veterans, their Widow's Island, Me:, by the Secretary of the Navy to the widows and orphans: and Secretary of Agriculture for administration as a migratory­ Whereas the two organizations are desirous of separating the classes from the masses in a proposed cut in appropriations for bird refuge. World War soldiers, their widows and orphans; and MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE Whereas no provision is made as to retired officers by reduc­ tions in their pay: Therefore be it A message from the House of Representatives by Mr. Hal­ Resolved, That Fountain County Old Guard Post, No. 2395, tigan, one of its clerks, announced that the House had passed Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Wilbur Fulton Post, No. 291, the American Legion, go on record as opposed to the passage of any a joint resolution Adjutant. Mr. FESS presented petitions, numerously signed, of sun­ dry citizens of the State of Ohio, praying for the passage BRANCH BANKING of legislation known as the Capper-Kelly fair trade bill, Mr. KING. Mr. President, I have received a letter in the which were ordered to lie on the table. nature of a memorial or protest from the Southern Utah Mr. CAPPER presented memorials of the ladies of the Bankers Association of my State in which they oppose the Friendly Class, West Side Presbyterian Church, of Wichita, provision of the banking bill permitting state-wide branch and sundry citizens of Udall, in the State of Kansas, remon­ banking by national banks, particularly in those States strating against the repeal of the eighteenth amendment of where branch banking is not permitted under the State the Constitution or the modification of the national prohi­ laws. I ask that the letter may be published in the REcoRD bition law, which were referred to the Committee on the and referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency. Judiciary. There being no objection, the letter was referred to the PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed in the REcORD, as follows: Mr. SHEPPARD. I present a petition to the Congress of SOUTHERN UTAH BANKERS ASSOCIATION, the United States from the Baptist General Convention of Richfield, Utah, December 13, 1932. Texas, relating to the eighteenth amendment and the Vol­ Han. WILLIAM H. KING, United States Senator, Washington, D. C. stead Act, and ask that it may be set out in the RECORD and DEAR SENATOR KING: At a meeting of the Southern Utah Bank­ appropriately referred. ers Association, held at Ephraim, Utah, December 10, 1932, it 1932 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 947 was resolved that the Southern Utah Bankers Association, in Resolved, That we recognize the right of all groups to or­ convention assembled, hereby expresses its opposition to sec­ ganize for mutual benefit and offer no objection to said enter­ tion 19 of the Glass bill which would grant state-wide branch­ prises on this score; but we i.nsist that all competitive ventures banking power to national banks in all States regardless of shall be on the same basis. restrictions as to branch banking on State banks by State laws. SILVER That Utah's Congressmen be notified and requested to do what­ It is now manifest that the maintenance of the gold standard soever be necessary to defeat said proposed legislation. is dependent upon lncreasing the monetary metal reserves of the Your cooperation is kindly requested. world; and Very truly yours, The present reserve of monetary gold and the prospect for SoUTHERN UTAH BANKERS AssoCIATION, future gold production afford no hope that gold will continue to By D. P. JENSEN, Secretary. serve unaided as a suffi.cient and satisfactory monetary and credit P. S.-All banks of San Pete, Sevier, and Wayne Counties are base; and members of the above association. The present level of commodity prices and the interchange of commodities are rapidly approaching a point where productive HOSPITALIZATION OF VETERANS industry is becoming unprofitable, and the payment of taxes and Mr. KING. Mr. President, I have received a number of other debts is becoming impossible, a condition which will inevi­ tably result in repudiation; and communications and resolutions from various sources pro­ The use of silver metal as a supplement to gold and as an aid testing against rendering service to veterans for anything to the gold standard is entirely feasible and practical, and in our other than service-connected disability. These protests ex­ judgment indispensable to adequate and permanent recovery; tend to other matters. I will send one to the desk and have The Intermountain Economic Conference meeting in Colorado Springs, September 1, 2, and 3, 1932, urges upon Congress and the it referred to the committee which is considering veterans' President the acceptance of the views herein expressed. legislation. I also ask that it may be published in the Furthermore, this conference urges upon the President the ap­ RECORD. pointment as members of the delegation to represent the United States at the forthcoming economic and monetary conference in There being no objection, the letter in the nature of a London, at least two members conversant with and sympathetic memorial was referred to the Committee on Finance and toward the point of view herein expressed. ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: CREDIT RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE STAFF OF THE THOMAS D. DEE :MEMORIAL Resolved, That, as an aid to more rapid business recovery, banks HOSPITAL in the Intermountain States be urged to anticipate requirements OGDEN, UTAH, December 10, 1932. of their customers in good credit standing, for aid in their legiti­ Senator WILLIAM H. KING, mate businesses, and should it seem desirable that additional Washington, D. C. funds be made available for the purpose, banks are urged to make DEAR SENATOR KING: Because of the many and varied abuses full use of the facilities of the Federal reserve bank and the Re­ made in the administration of the Veterans• Bureau, we submit construction Finance Corporation; and that the President of the the following resolutions: Be it United States be requested to exercise his influence to speed up Resolved: the granting of such credits. This resolution is adopted in the First. That we protest against rendering service to veterans for belief that prompter recognition of business needs and greater co­ anything other than service-connected disab111ty. operation between banks and their customers and the above­ Second. We protest against hospitalization of veterans for any­ mentioned Federal agencies, will greatly speed business recovery. thing other than service-connected disability. GOVERNMENT COMPETITION Third. We protest against the rendering of medical services to Whereas the development of this Nation to the leadership of families of veterans other than those of men killed in action or the world in industry has been attained through private initiative rendered totally disabled from service-connected disability. and private capital; and Fourth. We are against increasing beds in veterans' hospitals, Whereas the Government has encroached upon this principle and believe in the greater use of private hospitals for veterans' and is now engaged in various projects and enterprises directly or care, contending that hospitalization can be rendered for less indirectly competing with already established private business expense in private hospitals. agencies; and As taxpayers we recommend these as expedient economy meas­ Whereas the Government threatens even further encroachment ures, and contend that the present veterans' law is unfair com­ in the field of private capital and enterprise: Now, therefore, be it petition to the medical profession and hospitals and an lnjustice Resolved, That it is the sense of this conference that Govern­ to the American taxpayer. ment should refrain from any further encroachments on and Respectfully, cease present competition with private capital and enterprise; HENRY W. NELSON, and be ! t further President, Staff of Dee Memarial Hospital. Resolved, That where the welfare of its citizens justifies a RESOLUTIONS OF INTERMOUNTAIN ECONOMIC CONFERENCE Government enterprise whereby by-products result, the disposi­ tion of which enters the competitive field with private enterprise, Mr. KING. Mr. President, I submit a series of resolutions that said by-products be first offered for disposition and distri­ adopted by the Intermountain Economic Conference, con­ bution through the then-existent private channels for said com­ sisting of representatives of the business interests of the modities or services. States of Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Ari­ TRANSPORTATION zona, and New Mexico, and, without taking the time of the Resolved, That the competing forms of transportation shall not be subsidized in any preferential manner one as against the other Senate, I should like to have inserted in the RECORD several by the use of taxpayers' money through the Federal and State of the most important resolutions. Governments. That common carriers or competing forms of The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, the resolu· transportation operating for hire or profit when using inland waterways, highways, or other projects developed by governmental tions will be referred to the Committee on Finance, and the use of taxpayers' money, shall pay a charge which will include portions indicated by the Senator from Utah [Mr. KING] items for interest, obsolescence, and maintenance on such proj­ will be printed in the RECORD. ects. That the Federal Government, at the earliest possible The matter referred to is as follows: moment, shall discontinue their operation of competing forms of transportation. That the Intermountain Economic Conference RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY INTERMOUNTAIN ECONOMIC CONFERENCE held in Colorado Springs, September 1, 2, and 3, 1932, call upon SEPTEMBER 1, 2, AND 3, 1932 the President of the United States, upon the Members of Con­ GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS gress, upon the chamber of commerce, and others of the interior Whereas durlng the past several years there has been a steadily mountain section to actively support the purpose of this resolu­ increasing lnjection of Government functions into business which tion. is clearly outside of the intent and purpose of the Constitution, UNREGULATED FORMS OP TRANSPORTATION and Resolved, That unregulated competition with regulated forms Whereas this has reached a polnt where Government funds in of transportation is unfair, contrary to the public interest in the large sums have been advanced to finance cooperative enterprises losses which are caused, and inequitable to shippers whose interest in the manufacture and distribution of food products in direct is 1.n dependable service and conditions; that intercoastal and competition with long-estabUshed and successful concerns and other forms of unregulated competing transportation should be said advances ·are made at rates of lnterest substantially below regulated at the earliest possible moment in the same manner and prevailing commercial rates; and to the same extent as regulated forms of transportation. Whereas these subsidized enterprises enjoy further concessions and immunities in regard to income taxes, restraint of trade, etc.: FOREIGN EC'NDS HELD IN THE UNITED STATES Now be it Resolved by the Intermountain Economic Conference, That in Mr. KING. Mr. President, an organization of foreign our opinion this gross misuse of Government power and authority bondholders exists in New York, and it has been engaged is an unfair and unwarranted function which, in our opinion, has for some time, as I am advised, in tryi:1g to protect the been a factor in bringing about the present period of depression and is seriously interfering with the efforts of business to readjust holders of bonds which have been sold to the people of the itself to the present situation; and be it further United States by foreign countries. This organization has 948 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE DECEMBER 23 prepared a statement dealing with the nations of South The inter:aational bankers, holding the golden mace aloft in sullied hands, have dictated the ruin of the world the past three America and Europe, some of whose bonds are held by years and their victim lies prostrate. stockholders of this organization. I ask unanimous consent "You shall not crucify mankind upon this cross of gold." The that the statement may be incorporated in the RECORD and crucifixion has taken place. But the day of reckoning is at hand. referred to the Committee on Finance. NEW DEAL HAILED There being no objection, the statement was ordered to America has overwhelmingly voted a new deal. That mandate shall not be nullified. be printed in the RECORD and referred to the Committee on Nation-wide cooperation of bondholders is invited, and a favor­ Finance, as follows: able response is confidently counted upon. FOREIGN BONDHOLDERS NATIONAL COMMITI'EE (INC.), FOREIGN BONDHOLDERS NATIONAL COMMITTEE (INC.). 501 Madison Avenue, New York City. BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTION INTRODUCED The nations of South America and Europe, whose bonds we hold, will pay if given any fair opportunity to do so. Bills and a joint resolution were introduced, read the first The very fact that bonds of the great states and cities of South time, and, by unanimous consent, the second time, and re­ America, which bonds we purchased a few years ago at par, and even above par, are now selling as low as 7 proves one thing ferred as follows: conclusively-that a world situation exists which is unnatural, By Mr. COHEN: abominable, and unnecessary, and which fairly shrieks for in­ A bill (S. 5280) granting a pension to Sarah Pool and telligent treatment and correction. Mary Pool Newsom; to the Committee on Pensions. THE SORE SPOT By Mr. DilL: "Gold appreciation," which ts but another name for the de­ A bill granting a pension to William A. Hone; pression, has been and is the sole dtfficulty. to the Committee on Pensions. By dint of hard thinking the business-world has at last identified and isolated "gold appreciation" as the mischief maker, and just A bill United States NaVY; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. CAUSE OF DEFAULTS By Mr. SMOOT: As measured 1n wheat, cotton, rubber, copper, silver, and per­ A bill major bear move­ With rising value of commodities, of stocks, bonds, lands, and ment ensued. The calling of these loans continued until over property, the courage and optimism of the people will be $10,500,000,000 were called by July, 1932, at which time listed and unlisted stocks and bonds had fallen in value under the mass stimulated and the spirit ·of the depression will pass away. psychology of fear about $100,000,000,000, and other forms of With the rise of commodity values, merchants w111 more readily property almost a like amount. buy and factories produce and those who have been waiting for a But the $200,000,000,000 of debts of the people of the United reaction of the stock market will soon begin buying stocks, and States-personal, corporate, and Government--remained due and you will find that stocks which are now far below their book payable with interest; and there was the demand for dollars to value wtll steadily rise. pay these debts, to pay the interest on them, to pay taxes, to As the value of commodities rises and as the value of property pay fixed charges and the cost of living, and to carry on the rises, the people will be stimulated to consume more and to gratify business of the country; so that the demand for dollars was very their needs and desires by buying, because they will realize and great while the available supply of dollars had decreased: anticipate the increasing value of their property. With increased (I) By contraction of bank loans $14,500,000,000; consumption will come increased production and employment. (2) By the hoarding of deposits which were not used any PRODUCTIVE POWER further than necessity compelled; The potential productive power of the people is as great now (3) By the calling, hoarding, or refusal of bank credits; as it was in 1929, when we had a production income of $90,000,- (4) By the withdrawal of bank deposits by $13,500,000,000; 000,000. We have the same valuable raw materials, the same fer­ (5) By the rigid hoarding of nearly all the money in the tile fields, forests, mines, transportation and distributing facilities, pockets of the people. the same magnificently equipped factories with their powers of As a consequence commodity values fell to 64 per cent of what mass production. We have the same intelligent, trained people, they had been before and individual stock values fell to one­ willing, anxious, and even begging to work. When we stabilize fourth or one-tenth or one-twentieth of what they had been. the purchasing power of money and restore commodity and prop­ Stock values fell far more than commodities, for the reason that erty values and confidence based thereo~. the energy of the Amer­ commodities as a whole were not overproduced-they were actually ican people will again produce as they did in 1927, 1928, and 1929, of much less volume. Our national annual production income and with shorter working hours unemployment should cease. fell from $90,000,000,000 to $42,000,000,000; but stocks had been SOME OTHER EFFECTS OF CONTROLLED EXPANSION expanded in volume approximately from 220,000,000 shares in 1922 to about 1,290,000,000 shares in 1930, and therefore when the It will balance the Budget permanently by restoring income and stock-market crash took place there was a great oversupply of taxable values and the means by which to pay taxes. You can stocks and an undersupply of money and credit with which to not balance the Budget by taxing a vacuum. Men with common buy them. sense should realize this. Moreover, when the colossal losses above cited took place In You can not liquidate labor and the debts of the world on the stock and bond values, they were distributed among 20,000.000 present increased purchasing power of money and decreased value shareholders, and the loss in value of other forms of property of commodities and property without universal bankruptcy. The was distributed among 120,000,000 people. As a consequence, all debts of Europe and America amount to $500,000,000,000; and an the people began to economize rigidly. During the fall of 1929 increase of 56 per cent in the purchasing power of money and gold consumption, production, and employment immediately fell 25 per means an increase of over e250,000,000,000 in these debts measured cent--and the less employment, the less consumption, production, in commodity values and labor. and employment--until we reached the point where we have now Bringing the purchasing power of money back to normal will less than half our previous consumption and production and raise the commodity values in Europe and will enable them to liquidate their debts to us in commodities and services and labor probably 12,000,000 persons unemployed and 30,000,000 on ~art time, cut wages, or at labor which is receiving no compensation. without paying a penalty of 56 per cent--of which they might justly complain. THE REMEDY SOUND MONEY There is but one way of promptly beginning the restoration of The Democratic platform stands for sound. money, and · with consumption, production, and employment, and to cut down the that principle we all are in vigorous accord. We all believe in enormous burden on the people being compelled to pay debts, in­ an honest, sound dollar-but the present dollar is not an honest terest, taxes, etc., in such costly dollars; and that is to raise the dollar. It is not a sound dollar. It is a dollar buying 56 per value of property by controlled expansion of money-the basis of cent more in commodities and 500 per cent more in stocks and all credit and of all values measured by money-and thus restore other forms of property than normal. It is a thief stealing the confidence. property of the debtor under the color and protection of law; It is futile to say that there is plenty of money and credit, when it is stealing the savings of a lifetime from innocent people who the money is congealed and credit is frozen. are the victims of a national financial mismanagement or worse. Your bill provides this remedy, and it wisely provides at the same time for both controlled expansion and controlled contrac­ OTHER METHODS HAVE PROVED UNAVAILING tion, by an agency of the Government alone. When money is ex­ Other methods have been tried by the administration and panded it will immediately have an effect on commodities, and as have failed. We have authorized the public credit to be used commodities rise the value of all forms of property will rise. With through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to the extent the expansion of money, credit will be relaxed and hoarded money of $3,800,000,000. This has been no expansion of credit. w111 begin to flow. For that reason the law must provide, as you It has been merely a substitution of public credit for the have proposed, for controlling expansion and preventing its going benefit of the private creditor, under the color or need of saving too far. the private debtor from bankruptcy threatened by private credi­ OBJECTIONS tors. The debts still have to be paid with interest--with dollars You will be opposed with the cry of " inflation." But inflation as di.fil.cult to get; and the private creditor has his funds released means an unjustified expansion, and you are not infiating-you at a most opportune time when he can buy at bargain prices. are expanding because of a great national exigency, and you are We have substituted the public credit for private credit. controlling the expansion by automatic contraction so that it The administration-after three years of waging an uproari­ shall not go too far. ous "battle on a thousand fronts" against depression and making You will be met with the charge of "fiat" money. But fiat a great physical effort--has had not the slightest effect in rais­ money is money not redeemable in gold, and the money you pro­ ing commodity values, which have gone steadily down, nor any pose is redeemable in gold and therefore is not fiat money and noteworthy effect in balancing the Budget nor in relieving the is not in:fiationary money. country of increasing distress. The remedies tried have proved You will be met with the charge that there 1s plenty of money. inadequate. This is obviously untrue, because the money is largely not func­ The contraction of credit and currency has been permitted tioning and, to that extent, might as well not exist. to proceed when it is perfectly well known that it is the contrac­ You will be met with the charge that there is plenty of credit. tion of credit and currency-as the Democratic platform pro­ ~his is not true, for the reason that the normal credit is not avail­ claims and the Republican platform confesses--which has caused able for normal purposes. these evils and created our distress. There is but one way to 952 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE DECEMBER 23 correct the evil consequences of contraction, and that is to re­ motors, and airplane parts and instruments who were formerly verse the process of contraction and expand the currency upon employed by the United States Post Office Department, giving which the credit structure rests, upon which it is compelled to the position each formerly h-e1d in the Post Office Department rest. and the compensation received while in the employ of the said THE CREDIT STRUCTURE department and the compensation they are now receiving in the The credit structure rests on currency. The colossal activities aviation industry; and (8) list of employees, officers, and directors of the American people using $600,000,000,000 during the last year of air mail transport lines and aviation holding companies and is cleared by checks drawn against deposits; and the security, companies manufacturing or distributing airplanes, airplane stability, and velocity of use of these deposits depends upon con­ motors, and airplane parts and instruments who are relatives of fidence that the banks can pay cash on demand. present employees or officials in the said Post Office Department. The banks, with $900,000,000 of cash in their vaults and $2,300,- all such listings to be as of December 20, 1932. 000,000 of cash in the res~rve banks, are carrying deposits of over $40,000,000,000, and in 1929 with the same cash were carrying over Mr. NYE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent for the $55,000,000,000 of deposits. The paralysis of credit and the con­ immediate consideration of the resolution. gealing and withdrawal of deposits and hoarding of cash is due to fear of not being able to get cash. The way to remove the The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the present fear is to issue cash in volume sufficient to accomplish that end: consideration of the resolution? and the way to prevent an overissue is by controlled automatic Mr. MOSES. I object. contraction. Hon. KENT KELLER introduced last session two dif­ ferent bills, both containing this principle, to which I call your The VICE PRESIDENT. Objection is made, and the attention. resolution will go over under the rule. I recall that the bill introduced by Congressman GoLDSBOROUGH declaring the same principle as a national policy received the TRANSFER OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE unanimous support, barring one vote, of the Committee on Bank­ Mr. CAREY submitted the following resolution t Connecticut. practicable date the :following information, to wit: (1) List of The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection? stocks held by aviation holding corporations; (2) list showing the various corporations o~ stock in air mail transport lines Mr. SMITH. Mr. President, a previous allocation of cot­ and the amount of stock held in each instance; (3) list show­ ton for this purpose has worked so admirably, and in view ing directors of aviation holding companies owning aviation of the abundance of the material we have and the suffering stocks in air mail transport lines and havinr; membership on the board of directors of such air transport companies; ( 4) list of the people and the dire necessity for clothing and food, showing airplane manufacturers, airplane-motor manufacturers, I believe no better disposition could be made of some of the and airplane parts and instrument manufacturers owning stock surplus clothing material than that in the bill the Senator in either aviation holding companies or air mail transport lines from Connecticut proposes to bring before the Senate. As and the amount so held in each instance; (5) list of officers and directors of aviation holding companies who through stock own­ ranking member of the Committee on Agriculture and ership are officers and directors of air mail transport lines and Forestry I am perfectly willing to indorse the action of the companies manufacturing or distributing airplanes, airplane chairman of that committee, the Senator from Oregon [Mr. motors, and airplane parts and instruments; (6) list showing McNARY] in approving the unanimous-consent request to employees of aviation holding companies who are also employees of air mail transport lines and companies manufacturing or dis­ have the committee discharged and the bill considered. tributing airplanes, airplane motors, and airplane parts and in­ Mr. McKELLAR. Mr. President, will the Senator from struments, and the compensation, if any, received in each in­ Connecticut state whether the wording of the bill follows stance; (7) list of employees, officers, and directors now in the employ of air mail transport lines or aviation holding companies the wording of the act of the last session? It will be or companies manufacturing or distributing airplanes, airplane remembered there was quite a controversy about that meas- 1932 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 953 ure, and my only purpose is that the Senator in this bill MISSISSIPPI RIVER BRIDGES, MISSISSIPPI shall follow the exact wording of the previous act. Mr. VANDENBERG. Mr. President, from the Committee Mr. BINGHAM. This is not my bill. It is a bill intro­ on Commerce I report back favorably without amendment duced in the House of Representatives by Representative the bill (S. 5260) granting the consent of Congress to the JoNEs, of Texas. It was debated in the House, as shown in Board of Supervisors of Marion County, Miss., to construct a the RECORD, at page 711, of December 19. At the hearings bridge across Pearl River, and I submit a report OFFICER (Mr. FEss in the chair) , Does Mr. BINGHAM. These matters have been before the Sen­ the Senator from Connecticut yield to the Senator from ate Committee on the Judiciary for years, and certain hear­ Massachusetts? ings were held on them last April. It would have been per­ Mr. BINGHAM. In just a moment. The House has acted fectly possible for them to have carried out the mandate of with extraordinary rapidity and promptness, and it is very the people of the United States by promptly reporting out unusual to get an important matter through in December at least one of the repeal measures within a week or two of a short session. I am pressing the pending motion only after the opening of this session of Congress; but there has 958 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE DECEMBER 23

_ been no evidence that one is ~oming out in the near future, Mr. HARRISON. I desire to state that my colleague the although we hear that one is likely to come out. junior Senator from Mississippi [Mr. STEPHENS] is neces­ Mr. President, while I would like to see a repeal measure sarily detained at his home by illness. passed first and gotten out of the way, there is no repeal Mr. HASTINGS. I desire to announce that the junior resolution on the calendar. There is a bill on the calendar Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. HEBERT] has a pair with for the modification of the Volstead Act, on which long hear­ the senior Senator from Florida [Mr. FLETCHER]. If the ings have been held. I do not believe there is anyone in Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. HEBERT] were present, he this Chamber who does not know to-day whether he is go­ would vote " yea." ing to vote for 3.2 per cent beer or against it. Hearings Mr. ROBINSON of Arkansas (after having voted in the and delay will not get us anywhere. I want an opportu­ negative). I have a pair with the senior Senator from nity to get prompt action. If we send the matter to the Pennsylvania [Mr. REEDJ. I transfer that pair to the junior Committee on the Judiciary, there will be long delay if they Senator from Mississippi [Mr. STEPHENS], and allow my hold hearings, and there is nothing to prevent them doing vote to stand. so, the chairman of the committee, in an interview given Mrs. CARAWAY. I have a pair with the junior Senator out yesterday, saying it was the custom of the committee to from New Jersey [Mr. BARBOUR], which I transfer to the hold hearings whenever they were requested. senior Senator from Nevada [Mr. PITTMAN], and vote" nay." The Senator from Massachusetts, who is entirely sympa­ I understand that if the junior Senator from New Jersey thetic with me in this matter, and with whose position I am were present, he would vote " yea.'' sympathetic, knows that the drys are determined that this Mr. COSTIGAN. The junior Senator from West Virginia bill shall not pass. He knows that the drys have announced [Mr. NEELY] is unavoidably absent. He has authorized me they are going to do everything they can to prevent the will to state that if present he would vote "nay." of the people as expressed in the November election being Mr. LA FOLLETTE. I desire to announce that the senior carried out. He knows there are in this body certain very Senator from Iowa [Mr. BROOKHART] is absent on account eminent Senators who are earnestly for the dry cause, con­ of illness. trary to his belief and to my belief, and it is to be expected The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. FEss). I am advised that they will use every means within their power, natu­ that a special pair has been arranged on this question be­ rally, in accordance with their position and their belief, to tween the Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. M.ETCALF J and postpone such consideration. Therefore I hope the pending the Senator from West Virginia [Mr. HATFIELD]. If present, motion may prevail. the Senator from West Virginia [Mr. HATFIELD] would vote The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the mo­ "nay," and the Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. METCALF] tion of the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. BINGHAM] that would vote " yea.'' the Senate proceed to the consideration of the bill serve. Mr. WATSON. Mr. President-- First Lieut. Leonard Frank Wilson, Medical Corps Reserve. Mr. ASHURST. Mr. President, I did not hear what the First Lieut. Major Samuel White, Medical Corps Reserve. Senator from Connecticut said, but by the peculiar snarl First Lieut. Fred Campbell Turley, Medical Corps Reserve. and the sneer which seemed to accompany what he said, I First Lieut. Robert James Wilson, Medical Corps Reserve. assume that the remarks he made were not complimentary. First Lieut. Clifford Hayes Mack, Medical Corps Reserve. Will the Senator please repeat what he said~ To be first lieutenants with rank from September 1, 1932 Mr. WATSON. I object. First Lieut. Llewellyn Lancelot Barrow, Medical Corps Re­ Mr. ASHURST. I have not yielded the floor. serve. Mr. WATSON. I have the floor. What the Senator from First Lieut. Leonard Theodore Peterson, Medical Corps Connecticut said was to me personally, sotto voce. Reserve. · Mr. ASHURST. Mr. President, my personal relations with First Lieut. George Prazak, Medical Corps Reserve. the Senator from Connecticut are friendly in the extreme. To be first lieutenants with rank from September 10, 1932 I admire his scholarship, I admire him as a man. The great First Lieut. Fred Rueb, jr., Medical Corps Reserve. fault with him, the grand defect of his political career is that he judges other men's motives by his own. The Senate First Lieut. Alfred Henry Brauer, Medical Corps Reserve. knows me, the country knows the Senator from Connecticut, DENTAL CORPS and I am content. To be first lieutenants with rank from July 1, 1932 Mr. WATSON. Mr. President, I will yield now to the First Lieut. John Kenneth Sitzman, Dental Corps Reserve. Senator-- First Lieut. Howard Newton Burgin, Dental Corps Reserve. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair will hold that if the First Lieut. Robert Earl Hammersberg, Dental Corps Re- Senator continues yielding he will lose the floor. serve. ADJOURNMENT TO TUESDAY VETERINARY CORPS Mr. WATSON. I move that the Senate now adjourn until To be second lieutenants with rank from July 1, 1932 next Tuesday at 12 o'clock. The motion was agreed to; and the Senate (at 1 o'clock Second Lieut. Russell McNellis, Veterinary Corps Reserve. and 55 minutes p. m.) adjourned until Tuesday, December Second Lieut. Richard George Yule, Veterinary Corps 27, 1932, at 12 o'clock meridian. Reserve. MEDICAL ADMINISTRATIVE CORPS NOMINATIONS To be second lieutenant Executive nominations received by the Senate December Sergt. James Coney Bower, Medical Department, with 7, 1932 rank from July 1, 1932. CHAPLAIN MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF MEDIATION G. Wallace W. Hanger, of the District of Columbia, to be To be chaplain with the rank of first lieutenant a member of the Board of Mediation for a term expiring First Lieut. Vernon Paul Jaeger, Chaplain Reserve, with five years after January 1, 1933. colonel Second Lieut. Burton Murdock Hovey, jr., Air Corps, from November 1, 1932. . Lieut. Col. Robert Cessna Musser, Veterinary Corps, from Second Lieut. Richard Eastman Cobb, Air Corps, from July 24, 1932. November 1, 1932. To be majors Second Lieut. Dale Davis Fisher, Air Corps, from Novem­ Capt. Henry Lawrence Watson, Veterinary Corps, from ber 1, 1932. July 18, 1932. Second Lieut. Henry Weisbrod Dorr, Air Corps, from Capt. James Earl Noonan. Veterinary Corps, from August November 1, 1932. 6, 1932. Second Lieut. Irvin Alberta Woodring, Air Corps, from Capt. Gardiner Bouton Jones, Veterinary Corps, from Au­ November 1, 1932. gust 11, 1932. Second Lieut. Carlisle Iverson Ferris, Air Corps, from Capt. John Richard Ludwigs, Veterinary Corps, from November 1, 1932. September 26, 1932. Second Lieut. Elwood Richard Quesada, Air Corps, from Capt. Nathan Menzo Neate, Veterinary Corps, from November 1, 1932. November 24, 1932. Second Lieut. Willard Roland Wolfinbarger, Air Corps, from November 1, 1932. To be capt~ins Second Lieut. Hans William Holmer, Corps of Engineers, First Lieut. Harry Raymond Leighton, Veterinary Corps, from November 1, 1932. from August 4, 1932. Second Lieut. Harold Albert Kurstedt, Corps of Engineers, First Lieut. Verne Clifford Hill, Veterinary Corps, from from November 1, 1932. August 19, 1932. Second Lieut. Edward Grow Daly, Corps of Engineers, from First Lieut. Elmer William Young, Veterinary Corps, from November 8, 1932. August 19, 1932. 1932 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 971

~ICAL AD~TRATIVE CORPS Commander Guy E. Davis to be a captain in the NaVY from To be first lieutenant the 30th day of June, 1932. Commander William C. Barker, jr.• to be a captain in the Second Lieut. Charles Lawrence Driscoll, Medical Admin­ Navy from the 1st day of July, 1932. istrative Corps, from December 3, 1932. Commander Lemuel M. Stevens to be a captain in the CHAPLAINS Navy from the 1st day of August, 1932. To be chaplain with the rank of lieutenant colonel The following-named commanders to be captains in the Chaplain Wallace Hubbard Watts (major), United States Navy from the 1st day of September, 1932: Army, from September 23, 1932. JosephS. Evans, an additional number in grade. To be chaplains with the rank of major Chester H. J. Keppler. The following-named commanders to be captains in the Chaplain Mariano Vassallo

First Lieut. Gerald C. Thomas to be a captain in the MEDICAL ADMINISTRATIVE CORPS Marine Corps from November 1, 1932. To be second lieutenant, with rank from July 1, 1932 First Lieut. John W. Cunningham to be a captain in the James Coney Bower. Marine Corps from November 1, 1932. Second Lieut. John R. Lanigan to be a first lieutenant in CHAPLAIN the Marine Corps from July 27, 1932. To be chaplain with the rank of first lieutenant Second Lieut. Raymond E. Hopper to be a first lieutenant Vernon Paul Jaeger. in the Marine Corps from August 1, 1932. APPOINTMENTS BY TRANSFER IN THE REGULAR ARMY Second Lieut. Francis B. Loomis, jr., to be a first lieu­ TO ADJUTANT GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT tenant in the Marine Corps from August 1, 1932. Second Lieut. John H. Coffman to be a first lieutenant in Lieut. Col. Elmer Cuthbert Desobry. the Marine Corps from August 11, 1932. Capt. Charles Allen Easterbrook. Second Lieut. Robert H. McDowell to be a first lieutenant Capt. Harold Napoleon Gilbert. in the Marine Corps from September 1, 1932. TO QUARTERMASTER CORPS Second Lieut. Charles E. Chapel to be a first lieutenant in Lieut. Col. Olan Cecil Aleshire. the Marine Corps from September 21, 1932. Maj. Otho Wilder Humphries. Second Lieut. Thomas D. Marks to be first lieutenant in ·Capt. Wallace James Redner. the Marine Corps from October 26, 1932. Capt. Edward Marple Daniels. Second Lieut. Wallace 0. Thompson to be a first lieutenant Capt. Thomas Willis Jones. in the Marine Corps from November 1, 1932. First Lieut. Lewis Edward Weston Lepper. Second Lieut. John H. Griebel to be a first lieutenant in TO · FINANCE DEPARTMENT the Marine Corps from November 1, 1932. Second Lieut. Peter P. Schrider to be a first lieutenant in First Lieut. Clarence Archibald Frank. the Marine Corps from November 1, 1932. TO ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT Second Lieut. James F. Shaw, jr., to be a first lieutenant First Lieut. Albert Smith Rice. in the Marine Corps from December 1, 1932. TO CAVALRY Quartermaster Clerk Fletcher B. Crugar to be a chief Capt. Holmes Gill Paullin. quartermaster clerk in the Marine Corps, to rank with but after second lieutenant, from July 1, 1932. TO INFANTRY Pay Clerk Timothy E. Murphy to be a chief pay clerk in Capt. Perry Cole Ragan. the Marine Corps, to rank with but after second lieutenant, TO FIELD ARTILLERY from August 2, 1932. First Lieut. Irving Arthur Duffy. CONFIRMATIONS TO AIR CORPS Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate December Second Lieut. William Tell Hefley, jr. 23, 1932 Second Lieut. Charles Theodore Arnett. APPOINTMENTS IN THE REGULAR ARMY Second Lieut. Daniel Francis Callahan, jr. MEDICAL CORPS Second Lieut. Marcellus Duffy. Second Lieut. Robert Alan Stunkard. To be first lieutenants with rank from July 1, 1932 Second Lieut. Gordon Aylesworth Blake. Edward Miller Sager. Paul Edmond Keller. Second Lieut. Joseph Francis Carroll. Allan Brodie Ramsay. Albert Henry Robinson. Second Lieut. A. J. McVea. Achilles Lacy Tynes. John Frederick Blat.t. Second Lieut. Donald Norton Yates. Robert Barrett Skinner. John Randolph Copen- Second Lieut. Hoyt Daniel Williams. Dwight Lawson. haver. Second Lieut. Paul Gordon Miller. Joseph Pease Russell. Cyril Edward McEnany. Second Lieut. William John Bell. James Little Murchison. Frank Yearsley Leaver. Second Lieut. Ernest Moore. Norman Webb White. Joe Harrell. Second Lieut. Royden Eugene Beebe. William Clarence Knott. John Ellsworth Roberts. Second Lieut. Earle William Hockenberry. To be first lieutenants with rank from August 2, 1932 Second Lieut. Louis Augustine Guenther. Leonard Neil Swanson. George Darsie McGrew. Second Lieut. Milton Wylie Arnold. Francis Patrick Kintz. Leonard Frank Wilson. Second Lieut. David Northup Motherwell Albert Russel Dreisbach. Major Samuel White. Second Lieut. Millard Chester Young. William Weaver Nichol. Fred Campbell Turley. Second Lieut. Henry Keppler Mooney. Richard Paul Johnson. Robert James Wilson. Second Lieut. Robert Merrill Lee. Joseph Upton Weaver. Clifford Hayes Mack. Second Lieut. Robert Freeman Fulton. To be first lieutenants, with rank from September 1, 1932 Second Lieut. Dean Coldwell Strother. Second Lieut. George Frederick Hartman. Llewellyn Lancelot Barrow. Second Lieut. Carl Wilbert Carlmark. Leonard Theodore Peterson. Second Lieut. Richard Hungerford Wise. George Prazak. Second Lieut. Charles Francis Densford. To be first lieutenants, with rank from September 10, 1932 Second Lieut. John Robert Skeldon. Fred Rueb, jr. Second Lieut. Jacob Ed:ward Smart. Alfred Henry Brauer. Second Lieut. Lester LeRoy Hilman Kunish. Second Lieut. Robert Edward Lee Eaton. DENTAL CORPS Second Lieut. Carl Fillmore Damberg. To be first lieutenants, with rank from July 1, 1932 Second Lieut. Wendell Washington Bowman. John Kenneth Sitzman. Second Lieut. Hilbert Fred Muenter. Howard Newton Burgin. Second Lieut. John Autrey Feagin. Robert Earl Hammersberg. Second Lieut. Raymond Taylor Lester. VETERINARY CORPS Second Lieut. John Clarence Gordon. Second Lieut. Arthur Raphael Kerwin, jr. To be second lieutenants, with rank from July 1, 1932 Second Lieut. Charles Bowman Dougher. Russell McNellis. Second Lieut. David William Hutchison. Richard George Yule. Second Lieut. Gerald Evan Williams. 976 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE DECEMBER 23 Second Lieut. Edward Julius Timberlake, jr. Joseph Lawton Collins, Infantry. Second Lieut. John Tazewell Helms. Walter Francis Vander Hyden, Ordnance Department. Second Lieut. Russell Hunter Griffith. James Oscar Green, jr., Infantry. PROMOTIONS IN THE REGULAR ARMY Ira Adam Crump, Ordnance Department. To be colonels Elbert Louis Ford, jr., Ordnance Department. James Lord Hayden, Coast Artillery Corps. Arthur George Fisher, Air Corps. Scott Brewer Ritchie, Ordnance Department. Edwin Oliver Saunders, Judge Advocate General's Depart- John Tupper Cole, Cavalry. ment. George Sampson Beurket, Field Artillery. Walter Krueger, Infantry. Stephen Hunting Sherrill, Signal Corps. Asa Leon Singleton, Infantry. Charles Hunter Gerhardt. Cavalry. George Grunert, Cavalry. Lincoln Ferris Daniels, Infantry. William Rivers Pope, Cavalry. Frederick Augustus Irving, Infantry. Staley Alfred Campbell, Infantry. Burnett Ralph Olmsted, Ordnance Department. John Rowe Brewer, Infantry. Herbert Charles Holdridge, Adjutant General's Depart- John Pope McAdams, Infantry. ment. Richard Wetherill, Infantry. Matthew Bunker Ridgway, Infantry. Hartman Lewis Butler, Coast Artillery Corps. Albert Cowper Smith, Cavalry. Harry Arthur Wells, Infantry. Richard Mars Wightman, Field Artillery. Ralph Middleton Parker, Cavalry. Percy Gamble Black, Field Artillery. George Warren Harris, Infantry. Charles Walter Yuill, Infantry. Pat M. Stevens, Infantry. William Willis Eagles, Infantry. William Holt Peek, Field Artillery. Joel Grant Holmes, Ordnance Department. John Hastings Howard, Air Corps. Albert Charles Stanford, Field Artillery. John Joshua Fulmer, Infantry. James Arthur Code, jr., Signal Corps. Joseph Irving McMullen, Judge Advocate General's De- William Sackville, Coast Artillery Corps. partment. Louis LeRoy Martin, Cavalry. Matt Combes Bristol, Finance Department. John Allen Stewart, Field Artillery. Francis Cassius Endicott, Infantry. William Kelly Harrison, jr., Cavalry. Thomas Pitcher Bernard, Field Artillery. Leroy Henry Lohmann, Coast Artillery Corps. Daniel D. Tompkins, Cavalry. Ernest Nason Harmon, Cavah·y. Clarence Anderson Dougherty, Cavalry. Francis Graves Bonham, Infantry. Henry Hossfeld, Infantry. Norman Daniel Cota, Infantry. To be lieutenant colonels Christian Gingrich Foltz, Coast Artillery Corps. Charles Dudley Hartman, Quartermaster Corps. Joseph Scranton Tate, Field Artillery. Edgar Simpson Miller, Infantry. Robert Bundy Ransom, Infantry. Albert Lee Sneed, Air Corps. Arthur McKinley Harper, Field Artillery. Lester David Baker, Infantry. .Carleton Coulter, jr., Infantry. Walter Reed Weaver, Air Corps. Aaron Bradshaw, jr., Coast Artillery Corps. Raymond Hope Fenner, Coast Artillery Corps. Robert Newton Kunz, Signal Corps. William Whinery Hicks, Coast Artillery Corps. Charles Solomon Kilburn, Cavalry. Richard Herbert Somers, Ordnance Department. Willis Richardson Slaughter, Ordnance Department. Eugene Bonfils Walker, Coast Artillery Corps. George Hatton Weems, Infantry. Frederick Colwell Phelps, Infantry. Roy Lindsay Bowlin, Ordnance Department. John Burges Johnson, Cavalry. Charles Radcliffe Johnson, jr., Cavalry. Edmund Russell Andrews, Infantry. To be captains Joseph Albert Rogers, Field Artillery. Max Robert Wainer, Quartermaster Corps. George Clement McDonald, Air Corps. Karl Ferguson Baldwin, Coast Artillery Corps. Thomas Judson Weed, Quartermaster Corps. Charles Kleber Wing, Coast Artillery Corps. Peter Emanuel Skanse, Air Corps. Charles Elting Coates, Infantry. Alfred Evans Waller, Air Corps. Austin Henry Brown, Finance Department. Harold Amos Moore, Air Corps. Arthur Hamilton MacKie, Infantry. Malcolm Nebeker Stewart, Air Corps. Samuel Roland Dishman, Quartermaster Corps. John George Shannonhouse, Chemical Warfare Service. Charles Henry McDonald, Judge Advocate General's De­ James Austin Gilruth, Infantry. partment. Odas Moon, Air Corps. Arthur George Liggett, Air Corps. Charles Redding Williams, Judge Advocate General's De- partment. Westside Torkel Larson, Air Corps. Edward Postell King, jr., Field Artillery. Andrew Daniel Hopping, Infantl·y. Martin Conrad Shallenberger, Infantry. Edward Herendeen, Field Artillery. John Henry Pirie, Air Corps. Newton Longfellow, Air Corps. Lloyd Barnett, Air Corps. Kenneth Sheild Perkins, Field Artillery. John Arthur Laird, jr., Air Corps. Eugene Reybold, Corps of Engineers. Bushrod Hoppin, Air Corps. Robert George Kirkwood, Field Artillery. Charles William Steinmetz, Air Corps. Harold Everett Marr, Field Artillery. John Myrddin Davies; Air Corps. Hugo Ernest Pitz, Coast Artillery Corps. William Norris White, Field Artillery. Thomas Clair Cook, Coast ArtiHery Corps. Walter Thomas Meyer, Air Corps. Olin Harrington Longino, Coast Artillery Corps. Reuben Dallam Biggs, Air Corps. Peter Hill Ottosen, Coast Artillery Corps. Wendell Brown McCoy, Air Corps. Edgar Hall Thompson, Coast Artillery Corps. James Edward Duke, jr., Air Corps. Frank Keet Ross, Field Artillery. Martinus Stenseth, Air Corps. To be majors Rex Kirkland Stoner, Air Corps. Warfield Monroe Lewis, Infantry. James Bernard Carroll, Air Corps. Walter Wilton Warner, O:,:dnance Department. Harold Franklyn Rouse, Air Corps. William Ormon Butler, Air Corps. Thomas Lonnie Gilbert, Air Corps. Rex Webb Beasley, Field Artillery. James Douglas Givens, Air Corps. 1932 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 977 Oliver Williams De Gruchy, Finance Department. Walter Byron Larew, Signal Corps. Harold De Lancey Stetson, Quartermaster Corps. Edward James Doyle, Cavalry. William Cushman Farnum, Air Corps. William Orsen Van Giesen, Corps of Engineers. Charles Milton Cummings, Air Corps. Ward Jackson Davies, Air Corps. William Turnbull, Air Corps. Frank Coffin Holbrook, Field Artillery. Joseph Williams Benson, · Air Corps. Yantis Halbert Taylor, Air Corps. Frederick Dan Lynch, Air Corps. Newell Edward Watts, Infantry. James Atwater Woodruff, Air Corps George Leroy Murray, Air Corps. Robert Wallace Burke, Infantry. Claire Stroh, Air Corps. Lester James Maitland, Air Corps. Charles William Stratton, Field Artillery. William Warren Welsh, Air Corps. Charles Albert Sheldon, Cavalry. Arthur Ignatius Ennis, Air Corps. Francis Edgar Cheatle, Air Corps. Caleb Vance Haynes, Air Corps. Stewart Frederic Yeo, Field Artillery. Jean Edens, Infantry. Robert Jones Moulton, Coast Artillery Corps. Emil Frederick Kollmer, Field Artillery. James Trimble Brown, Infantry. LeRoy William Yarborough, Infantry. Charles Weller McCarthy, Infantl·y. Richard Francis Stone, Infantry. Benjamin Branche Talley, Corps of Engineers. James Norwood Ancrum, Infantry. John Gibson Van Houten, Infantry. William Wallace Brier, jr., Infantry. Kenneth Holmes Kinsler, Infantry. John Brandon Franks, Quartermaster Corps. Edgar Albert Gans, Infantry. John Joseph Turner, Field Artillery. Howard Ravenscroft Johnson, Infantry. Orville Ervin Davis, Quartermaster Corps. Albert Samuel Baron, Coast Artillery Corps. John Thomas 1\fcKay, Quartermaster Corps. George Edwin Steinmeyer, jr., Infantry. Percival Adams Wakeman, Signal Corps. Herbert Charles Lichtenberger, Air Corps. John Leon McElroy, Infantry. Arthur Joseph Lehman, Air Corps. Herman Jackson Crigger, Field Artillery. Oscar Frederick Carlson, Air Corps. Floyd Thomas Gillespie, Signal Corps. George Edley Henry, Air Corps. Hal C. Bush, Infantry. Richard Dodge Reeve, Air Corps. Charles Homer Martin, Cavalry. Henry Louis Luongo, Infantry. William Henry Speidel, Infantry. Herbert Butler Powell, Infantry. Herbert Linus Berry, Field Artillery. Signa Allen Gilkey, Air Corps. Robert Owen Montgomery, Field Artillery, Edward Francis Merchant, Infantry. Martin Owen Cahill, Quartermaster Corps. Layton Allen Zimmer, Coast Artillery Corps. Horace Napoleon Gibson, Infantry. Jay B. Lovless, Infantry. James Leonard Hogan, Coast Artillery Corps. Clinton ·william Davies, Air Corps. Sidney Frank Wharton, Infantry. James Byron Colson, Infantry. Stephen Eugene Bullock, Field Artillery. William Hans Brunke, Infantry. Dayton Locke Robinson, Infantry. Thomas Beverley Harper, Infantry. Homer Banister Pettit, Corps of Engineers. Paul August Jaccard, Coast Artillery Corps. James Yancey Le Gette, Field Artillery. James David O'Brien, Infantry. Sherman Edgar Willard, Coast Artillery Corps. Reuben Kyle, jr., Air Corps. Howard Samuel Paddock, Signal Corps. Paul Burnham· Nelson, Coast Artillery Corps. Harold Arthur Bartron, Air Corps. Harvey Flynn Dyer, Air Corps. John Spalding Miller, Infantry. Robert Bartlett McCleave, Infantry. Joseph Albert Sullivan, Field Artillery. John Edwin Mortimer, Coast Artillery Corps. James Bryan McDavid, Infantry. Earl Clinton Robbins, Air Corps. Lloyd Henry Gibbons, Infantry. Andrew Joseph Kerwin Malone, Air Corps. Henry Elmer Sowell, Field Artillery. Russell K-eillor, Air Corps. William Stilwell Conrow, Cavalry. Mark Darrow Stephan Steensen, Air Corps. James Webb Newberry, Infantry. Ernest Harold Lawson, Air Corps. John Frederick Whiteley, Air Corps. John Edward Bodle, Air Corps. Edward Clay Johnson, Infantry. William Harold Doolittle, Air Corps. To be first lieutenants • Russell Scott, Air Corps. Claude Augustus Billingsley, Field Artillery. Burton Murdock Hovey, jr., Air Corps. Gerald Geoffrey Johnston, Air Corps. Richard Eastman Cobb, Air Corps. Elmer Joseph Rogers, jr., Air Corps. Dale Davis Fisher, Air Corps. John Francis Fiske, Field Artillery. Henry Weisbrod Dorr, Air Corps. Malcolm Faulhaber, Field Artillery. Irvin Alberta Woodring, Air Corps. Horace Whitfield Johnson, Infantry. Carlisle Iverson Ferris, Air Corps. Ross Drum Lustenberger, Corps of Engineers. Elwood Richard Quesada, Air Corps. John Caswell Crosthwaite, Air Corps. Willard Roland Wolfinbarger, Air Corps. John Dean Hawkins, Infantry. Hans William Holmer, Corps of Engineers. Clarence Shortridge Irvine, Air Corps. Harold Albert Kurstedt, Corps of Engineers. Gregg Miller Lindsay, Field Artillery. Edward Grow Daly, Corps of Engineers. Mason Harley Lucas, Field Artillery. Donald Chamberlin Hawkins, Corps of Engineers. Ralph Emerson Holmes, Air Corps. Theodore Addison Weyher. Corps of Engineers. John Francis Mathew Kohler, Cavalry. Robert Hammiell Naylor, Corps of Engineers. Darr Hayes Alkire, Air Corps. Paul Dunn Charles Berrigan, Corps of Engineers. Francis Albert Rudolph, Infantry. Henry Gordon Douglas, Corps of Engineers. Thurston H. Baxter, Air Corps. Joseph Winston Cox, jr., Corps of Engineers. Albert Gallatin Franklin, jr., Coast Artillery Corps. George Townsend Derby, Corps of Engineers. Chester Erwin Margrave, Field Artillery. Max Sherred Johnson, Corps of Engineers. John Albert Tarro, Air Corps. Lee Bird Washbourne, Corps of Engineers. John Titcomb Sprague, Air Corps. John Robert Crume, jr., Corps of Engineers. Frederick August Bacher, jr., Air Corps. George WoQdburne McGregor, Air Corps. LXXVI-62 978 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE DECEl\IBER 23 John Leonard Hines, jr., Cavalry. Homer C. Wick. George H. Fort. Charles Albert Harrington, Air Corps. Robert A. Lavender. Lunsford L. Hunter. Charles H. McNutt, Corps of Engineers. Robert S. Haggart. Ernest W. Broadbent. MEDICAL CORPS Raymond E. Kerr. Forrest U. Lake. To be captains To be lieutenant c.ommanders Herbert Theodore Berwald. Willis Hinton Drum- Robert R. Ferguson. Frank A. Saunders. Robert Reeve Estill. mond. Thomas J. Haffey. Will F. Roseman. Charles Laurn Leedham. Charles Chute Gill. Clarence R. Johnson. Jesse G. McFarland. Walker P. Rodman. John P. Dix. DENTAL CORPS Harold J. Brow. Robert E. Davenport. To be lieutenant colonels Lyman C. Avery. William Wakefield. Herman Stanton Rush. George L. Compo. Harry L. Dodson. Lester Caris Ogg. William J. Graham. Duane L. Taylor. To be ~aptain Orie H. Small. Rex L. Hicks. Henry Richard Sydenham. Elmer B. Robinson. Matthias B. Gardner. Elijah E. Tompkins. Howard W. Fitch. VETERINARY CORPS Homer E. Curlee. Winfield A. Brooks. To be colonel Ratcliffe C. Welles. Ernest E. Herrmann. Robert Cessna Musser. Homer B. Davis. William E. Hilbert. To be majors James M. Connally. Hugh W. Olds. Harry Lawrence Watson. John Richard Ludwigs. Arthur E. Bartlett. Maurice H. Stein. James Earl Noonan. Nathan Menzo Neate. Harold J. Wright. Hobart A. Sailor. Gardiner Bouton Jones. Alfred J. Byrholdt. William M. Callaghan. Carl Hupp. Harold L. Challenger. To be captains Charles A. Goebel. Thomas P. Jeter. Harry Raymond Leigh- Verne Clifford Hill. Stonewall B. Stadtler. Adolph 0. Geiselmann. ton. Elmer William Young. Stephen E. Haddon. Jeffrey C. Metze!. MEDICAL ADMINISTRATIVE CORPS Edward H. Smith. Festus F. Foster. To be first lieutenant William E. McClendon. Russell M. Ihrig. Henry Flanagan. Charles Lawrence Driscoll. c. To be lieutenants CHAPLAINS Edwin R. Duncan. William M. Cole. To be chaplain with the rank of lieutenant colonel Daniel N. Cone, jr. Clliford A. Fines. Wallace Hubbard Watts. Charles A. Parker. Edward W. Rawlins. To be chaplains with the rank of major John R. McKinney. Edward F. Crowe. Mariano Vassallo. Hal Coleman Head. John A. Morrow. El.me1· E. Berthold. Benjamin Joseph Tarskey. Walter John Donoghue. Horatio Ridout. William G. Michelet. John Francis Monahan. Oscar Whitefield Reynolds. Victor B. Tate. Francis J. Grandfield. Luther Deck Miller. John MacWilliams. Henry F. Agnew. Wallace M. Beakley. William Donoghue Cleary. Reuben Earl Boyd. Dominic J. Torterich, jr. Hallsted L. Hopping. Edmund Charles Sliney. Roy Hartford Parker. Ralph W. D. Woods. Stephen G. Barchet. Harlan Judson Ballentine. John D. Shaw. William P. Tammany. Harry E. Morgan. Shirley Y. Cutler. APPOINTM.ENT, BY TRANSFER, IN THE REGULAR ARMY Edward S. Mulheron. Rae E. Arison. To Field Artillery William A. Graham. Bob 0. Mathews. Second Lieut. James Knox Wilson, jr. Henry F. Mulloy. Ephraim R. McLean, jr. APPOINTMENTS IN THE OFFICERS' RESERVE CORPS OF THE ARMY George W. Allen. Walter V. R. Vieweg. Irving T. Duke. Richard F. Stout. GENERAL OFFICERS Chester C. Wood. Willford M. Hyman. To be major general. reserve Frederick A. L. Dartach. Bernard L. Austin. Henry Dozier Russell. Edward L. Woodyard. Joseph M. P. Wright. To be brigadier general, reserve William G. Fisher. Albert Handly. Amos Thomas. John A. Hayes. • Norman W. Ellis. Orville F. Gregor. James R. Pahl. REAPPOINTMENT IN THE OFFICERS' RESERVE CORPS OF THE George C. Towner. William J. Longfellow. ARMY William A. Hickey. George W. Patterson. To be brigadier general, reserve Ralph E. Wilson. Joseph A. Callaghan. Albert Lyman Cox. Louis W. Nuesse. Howard L. Collins. PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY Merle A. Sawyer. James S. Laidlaw. Leo A. Bachman. Adria~ M. Hurst. To be rear admirals To be lieutenants (junior grade) Henry E. Lackey. Adolphus E. Watson. . Cyrus W. Cole. Harry L. Brinser. Knight Pryor. Herman L. Ray. Charles E. Courtney {an Edgar B. Larimer. Earl A. Junghans. Edward J. O'Donnell. additional number in grade). Clair LeM. Miller. Arthur S. Hill. Leonard 0. Fox. WarnerS. Rodimon. To be captains Baron J. Mullaney. Frank B. Stephens. Alfred W. Brown. William C. Barker, jr. John W. Davison. Benjamin Coe. Guy E. Davis. Lemuel M. Stevens. William L. Kabler. Roy S. Benson. To be commanders Elliott W. Parish, jr. Howard C. Bernet. Joseph s. Evans

MARINE CORPS Mr. BANKHEAD. I did not fully understand the gentle­ To be colonel man's request. Does the gentleman propose to ask the William P. Upshur. Speaker to have the Journal corrected? Mr. MAPES. Yes; the Journal and the RECORD. As I was To be lieutenant colonels saying, when I noticed the omission of the roll call in the Sidney S. Lee. Ross E. Rowell. RECORD, I assu.rried the omission was an oversight, but a To be majors short time ago I took occasion to call the Parliamentarian Leo D. Hermie. Charles I. Murray. and was assured by him that its omission was not an over­ Lemuel C. Shepherd, jr. Percy D. Cornell. sight. I have not had time to investigate the matter and to Roswell Winans. Samuel C. Cumming. look up the precedents as much as I would like to do, but I Robert Blake. do not want the Journal to be approved without calling the To be captains attention of the Speaker and of the House to the omission. It seems to me that failure to record the roll call in the George D. Hamilton. Alexander Galt. Journal and the RECORD is such a wide departure from the Lemuel A. Haslup. William D. Bassett. practice and from what I conceive to be the correct practice, Norman E. True. Raymond T. Presnell. that it ought to be called to the attention of the Speaker and Robel't S. Pendleton. Edward F. O'Day. the membership of the House generally before the Journal George L. Maynard. James D. Waller. is approved. Carl W. Meigs. Clifford Prichard. Mr. Speaker, the Constitution provides-and to be accurate Floyd W. Bennett. Cyril W. Martyr. I will read the provision of the Constitution: Harry E. Leland. FrankS. Gilman. That each House shall keep a Journal of its proceedings and · Brady L. Vogt. Melvin E. Fuller. from time to time publish the same, except such parts as may in Irving E. Odgers. Francis I. Fenton. their judgment require secrecy. William E. Quaster. Ralph W. Luce. The Journal is supposed to be a correct transcript of the Francis Kane. Willard R. Enk. proceedings of the House and I submit, Mr. Speaker, it is not Clinton W. McLeod. Gerald C. Thomas. such a correct transcript if as important a matter as a roll Paul A. Lesser. John W. CUnningham. call can be omitted from the proceedings, and I do not be­ To be first lieutenants lieve that it is a compliance even with the provision of the John R. Lanigan. Thomas D. Marks. Constitution if it is omitted. Raymond E. Hopper. Wallace 0. Thompson. I am told by the Parliamentarian that the basis for the Francis B. Loomis, jr. John H. Griebel. omission is contained in the last sentence of Rule XV, sub­ John H. Coffman. Peter P. Schrider. section 4, which says that when a situation is developed such Robert H. McDowell. James F. Shaw. as was developed yesterday that all proceedings under this Charles E. Chapel. section shall be vacated. I will read the entil'e sentence: To be chief quartermaster clerk At any time after the roll call has been completed, the Speaker may entertain a motion to adjourn, if seconded by a majority of Fletcher B. Crugar. those present, to be ascertained by actual count by the Speaker; To be chief pay clerk and if the House adjourns, all proceedings under this section shall be vacated. Timothy E. Murphy. What the proper construction of the last clause in that sentence is may be open to some argument, but to me it is HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a violent construction of it to construe it to mean that an actual roll call in the House of Representatives shall not be FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1932 recorded in the Journal. The House met at 12 o'clock noon. I am calling the matter to the Speaker's attention so that The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., it may not be passed over lightly and in order that we may offered the following prayer: · have a definite ruling on the question. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. I venture to say that in the entire experience of the Speaker in this House, covering 30 years, this has never Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is occurred before. I do not recall its having occurred in the in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive years I have been here. us our trespasses as we forgive them who trespass against 20 us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from My recollection this morning went back to the procedure evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glary, in the first session of the Sixty-third Congress, during the summer of 1913, and I recalled that the minority leader forever. Amen. at that time, Mr. Mann, demanded a roll call on the ad- THE JOURNAL journment of the House of Representatives from day to day The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read. as it was transacting no particular business; but in looking The SPEAKER. Without objection, the Journal will stand up that record I found that the roll call was on the actual approved. motion to adjourn. Mr. Mann and his followers forced a Mr. MAPES. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, roll call each day on the motion to adjourn to show there I would like to ask the Speaker if the Journal shows a record was not a quorum. That is not a parallel case with this of the roll call on the motion to recommit when the point as I thought it might be before I reviewed the record. I of no quorum was developed immediately before the ad- remember also that the majority leader at that time, Mr. journment of the House yesterday. The RECORD does not. · Underwood, in order to keep Members of Congress in Wash- The SPEAKER. The Journal does not show the roll call ington and on the job, and particularly the members of his on the motion to recommit. own party, introduced and had passed in the House of Mr. MAPES. Then, Mr. Speaker, I desire to call the Representatives a resolution providing that the Members Speaker's attention and the attention of the House to the who were absent could not draw their salary. That resolu­ Journal and the RECORD and to ask for a correction of both. tion continued in effect until the close of the session, when Mr. Speaker, in this connection, I desire to say that in it was repealed. looking over the RECORD this morning I saw that the roll _ But, Mr. Speaker, if an actual roll call of the House is call was not in the RECORD, and I assumed that its omission not recorded in the Journal, then no one knows who is was merely an oversight. actually present and who is not, and no one could tell, under Mr. BANKHEAD. Would it interrupt the gentleman to a resolution such as Mr. Underwood fathered at that time, -answer a question before he proceeds further? by the RECORD, whether a Member of the House was en- Mr. MAPES. No. titled to draw his salary or not. Take the present situation: